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This is Business Live from BBC News with Susannah | :00:00. | :00:07. | |
Latest growth figures from the world's second biggest | :00:08. | :00:14. | |
Live from London, that's our top story | :00:15. | :00:20. | |
China grows faster than expected - but will measures to rein in debt | :00:21. | :00:40. | |
put the brakes on the world's second biggest economy. | :00:41. | :00:44. | |
The UK's Brexit secretary urges for both sides | :00:45. | :00:49. | |
to get down to business - as the second round of formal talks | :00:50. | :00:52. | |
This is how the European markets have been faring so far, the FTSE | :00:53. | :01:05. | |
100 in positive territory following on from a record close on Wall | :01:06. | :01:06. | |
Street on Friday. And the transformation | :01:07. | :01:07. | |
from sugary sodas - to sparkling water - | :01:08. | :01:09. | |
we'll be talking to And Game of Thrones - | :01:10. | :01:11. | |
the penultimate series of the blockbuster tv series | :01:12. | :01:16. | |
is kicking off. It's reportedly worth | :01:17. | :01:18. | |
a billion dollars a year. We want to know, are | :01:19. | :01:21. | |
you still gripped and why? China's economy is the focus | :01:22. | :01:24. | |
of attention today. It has grown more than | :01:25. | :01:44. | |
expected in the second quarter of this year - | :01:45. | :01:46. | |
by 6.9% - this matters because the country is regarded | :01:47. | :01:49. | |
as the world's factory. It's also the world's | :01:50. | :01:52. | |
second biggest economy. As you can see here, it's a far cry | :01:53. | :01:56. | |
from how things used to be - this shows how for much of the last | :01:57. | :02:00. | |
25 years, China has been One of the big worries | :02:01. | :02:03. | |
is this number. 258% is the size of China's debts | :02:04. | :02:12. | |
compared to its economy. That means it owes more | :02:13. | :02:14. | |
than two and a half time Much of the debt is linked | :02:15. | :02:17. | |
to the red hot property market which the government | :02:18. | :02:21. | |
is trying to cool. The cost of new housing in major | :02:22. | :02:23. | |
cities rose 10.4% in May. The government also looks | :02:24. | :02:26. | |
likes it is succeeding This year Chinese firms have spent | :02:27. | :02:28. | |
$75.2bn on foreign merger and acquisitions which is down | :02:29. | :02:34. | |
almost half on the same Financial regulation has | :02:35. | :02:36. | |
become a top priority This weekend he's been at a meeting | :02:37. | :02:41. | |
of regulators in Beijing where he called for the country's | :02:42. | :02:46. | |
central bank to take a bigger role Stephen McDonnell is our | :02:47. | :02:49. | |
Beijing Correspondent. We just heard a run through the | :02:50. | :03:04. | |
numbers, the second-quarter figures coming in slightly ahead of | :03:05. | :03:07. | |
expectations but to what degree can we trust the numbers? That's a very | :03:08. | :03:14. | |
good question. I was going to save the government will be very happy | :03:15. | :03:17. | |
with these figures, better than expected at you have to take into | :03:18. | :03:22. | |
account that some analysts don't trust the GDP figures in China. | :03:23. | :03:28. | |
That's because some provinces inflate their own performance to | :03:29. | :03:30. | |
appear better than they have been and others play it down because they | :03:31. | :03:35. | |
want to attract top from central government and there's been all | :03:36. | :03:38. | |
sorts of problems in recent times, getting the problems is to tell the | :03:39. | :03:43. | |
truth about GDP figures. Nevertheless I think the trajectory | :03:44. | :03:47. | |
is probably right, it's down on what it was in years gone by that people | :03:48. | :03:52. | |
should also keep in mind it's coming off a much bigger base. Imagine, six | :03:53. | :03:57. | |
and a half percent growth now is probably better than 8% growth some | :03:58. | :04:03. | |
years ago because it's coming off so much more and really, economists | :04:04. | :04:08. | |
have been saying China was growing too fast anyway, that was part of | :04:09. | :04:13. | |
the problem. We heard before the problems of debt, housing prices, | :04:14. | :04:18. | |
problems with pollution, all to do with breakneck growth, they've got | :04:19. | :04:22. | |
to slow it down and the country is dry to do that, the government dry | :04:23. | :04:27. | |
to Tay Bridge so the economy doesn't collapse, it can slow down to a | :04:28. | :04:30. | |
manageable level and keep going at something more like, 4% or less. | :04:31. | :04:35. | |
There are still concerns the amount of money being put into zombie | :04:36. | :04:40. | |
companies, those which aren't creating much, what is planned as | :04:41. | :04:46. | |
far as the government is concerned to try and crack down on these and | :04:47. | :04:51. | |
limit them? One of the indications that worried people is capital | :04:52. | :05:00. | |
flight for example, seem as a big food of no confidence in the Chinese | :05:01. | :05:04. | |
economy. Look how many companies and individuals are dry to get money out | :05:05. | :05:08. | |
of the country, the government is dry to calm down the horses. They | :05:09. | :05:12. | |
are worried about overpriced housing, the value of the local | :05:13. | :05:19. | |
currency, dead is a huge problem. I know I keep saying one thing and | :05:20. | :05:24. | |
then another but the thing with debt here is that it's a bit different, | :05:25. | :05:29. | |
it's old within the Communist Party if you like. Some would say it's not | :05:30. | :05:34. | |
as big a problem as others would think because it's kind of like the | :05:35. | :05:37. | |
Catholic Church, one part of it going the other arm of the Catholic | :05:38. | :05:41. | |
Church monies so if they really want to sort it out in the end, they can. | :05:42. | :05:47. | |
But we have to see to what extent this country can maintain its growth | :05:48. | :05:52. | |
and in the long run, shift from relying so much on exports and keep | :05:53. | :05:56. | |
building up the middle class here and pushing for more of a domestic | :05:57. | :06:02. | |
consumption driven model. The Chinese economy going through this | :06:03. | :06:04. | |
big period of adjustment, Stephen, thank you. | :06:05. | :06:11. | |
Let's take a look at some of the other stories making the news... | :06:12. | :06:14. | |
Brexit Secretary David Davis has called on both sides | :06:15. | :06:16. | |
in the negotiations on the UK's departure from the European Union | :06:17. | :06:19. | |
Mr Davis is in Brussels for a second round of formal talks on Brexit. | :06:20. | :06:23. | |
He said his priority was to "lift the uncertainty" for EU citizens | :06:24. | :06:26. | |
living in the UK and Britons living in the EU. | :06:27. | :06:31. | |
A major cyber attack could cost the global economy around | :06:32. | :06:35. | |
$53 billion dollars - according to research | :06:36. | :06:37. | |
That's roughly the same cost as Superstorm Sandy, | :06:38. | :06:48. | |
the hurricane that hit the east coast of the United States in 2012. | :06:49. | :06:58. | |
Sony is in the final stages of buying believed digital according to | :06:59. | :07:03. | |
Japanese media. Sony will get a majority stake and the transaction | :07:04. | :07:08. | |
is expected to come to a close later this year. Lots of stories catching | :07:09. | :07:14. | |
our attention on the business website. This one in particular. The | :07:15. | :07:26. | |
city envoy saying France wants a disruptive Brexit, hoping to disrupt | :07:27. | :07:33. | |
London's role. This is according to the City of London envoy to the EU. | :07:34. | :07:37. | |
Jeremy Browne saying venture parodies seeking destruction, in | :07:38. | :07:42. | |
favour of the hardest Brexit to take opportunity to win business for | :07:43. | :07:48. | |
Paris. And much more on the business life page, we'll be bringing you | :07:49. | :07:51. | |
some other highlights throughout the programme. | :07:52. | :07:52. | |
South Korea has announced the biggest rise in | :07:53. | :07:54. | |
Leisha Santorini is in Singapore - why such a big raise now? | :07:55. | :08:06. | |
In short it's because South Korea's new President is trying to get | :08:07. | :08:12. | |
people to spend more in order to reduce the economy's reliance on | :08:13. | :08:15. | |
exports and that's why they are raising the minimum rate wage next | :08:16. | :08:22. | |
year by 16% to $6.60 per hour, the biggest jump since 2001. The | :08:23. | :08:27. | |
President wants to increase it further in the coming years to about | :08:28. | :08:33. | |
$8 80 by 2020. The decision to increase wages wasn't easy, it took | :08:34. | :08:38. | |
more than a month of negotiations between business and labour groups, | :08:39. | :08:44. | |
businesses oppose a large increase to wages because they say it will | :08:45. | :08:47. | |
hurt profitability and it will be to job losses. The trade unions say | :08:48. | :08:55. | |
higher wages are needed to ensure families have a minimum level of | :08:56. | :08:59. | |
dignity, both sides coming to a compromise and part of that entails | :09:00. | :09:02. | |
giving small-business owners financial aid in order to help | :09:03. | :09:07. | |
offset the wage increase and that's going to be paid for by the | :09:08. | :09:12. | |
government as well. Thank you. Let's check in with the rest of the | :09:13. | :09:13. | |
financial markets. The Nikkei is closed | :09:14. | :09:16. | |
for a public holiday today. It will be interesting to see how | :09:17. | :09:18. | |
investors will react to the news that Sony is in the final stages | :09:19. | :09:21. | |
of talks to acquire French music distribution | :09:22. | :09:24. | |
providing Believe Digital. Other indices have mainly risen | :09:25. | :09:25. | |
in Asia following another record However, Shanghai stocks fell | :09:26. | :09:27. | |
after the data came through showing China's economy grew more | :09:28. | :09:34. | |
than expected in the second quarter. It's because, as we were discussing | :09:35. | :09:36. | |
earlier, about those ongoing concerns about China's debt burden | :09:37. | :09:38. | |
and the lack of reforms many This is what it's | :09:39. | :09:41. | |
looking like in Europe. EasyJet's share price | :09:42. | :09:50. | |
has fallen after news its Chief Executive Carolyn McCall | :09:51. | :09:53. | |
is to head up the UK broadcaster ITV and its shares | :09:54. | :09:55. | |
have risen as a result. We'll talk more about that in a | :09:56. | :10:05. | |
moment. After that record close for both | :10:06. | :10:07. | |
the Dow and the S 500 on Friday, Michelle Fleury has the details | :10:08. | :10:10. | |
about what's ahead From banking to consumer goods to | :10:11. | :10:21. | |
the tech sector, we learn a lot more about the help of corporate America | :10:22. | :10:24. | |
this week as firms continue to report quarterly profits. This | :10:25. | :10:27. | |
Monday the world's largest money manager Blackrock leases its | :10:28. | :10:31. | |
second-quarter profits, at the end of the previous quarter it had by | :10:32. | :10:37. | |
$.4 trillion worth of assets under management. Netflix is piling up any | :10:38. | :10:42. | |
nominations, investors in the streaming service hope its strong | :10:43. | :10:45. | |
content will lead to more than just critical accolades when it reported | :10:46. | :10:50. | |
quarterly profits this Monday. It shows like 13 reasons why and | :10:51. | :10:57. | |
stranger things, Wall Street expects Netflix to report substantial growth | :10:58. | :10:59. | |
in the number of viewers signing up for its servers. The company is | :11:00. | :11:05. | |
projected to have added 600 and the 1000 subscribers in the US during | :11:06. | :11:06. | |
the quarter. Thank you. Joining us now is David Buik | :11:07. | :11:09. | |
from Panmure Gordon. Good morning. Ladies, what a joy. | :11:10. | :11:19. | |
Let's talk about what's happening on the markets. Trading in the narrow | :11:20. | :11:24. | |
band but lots going on. There is a lot of business going on, it's | :11:25. | :11:29. | |
interesting, a feeling which Michelle referred to, that the | :11:30. | :11:34. | |
quarter earnings in the United States will be quite good. We had | :11:35. | :11:38. | |
three large banks on Friday all beating expectation, whose one | :11:39. | :11:44. | |
junior members club that people didn't like, the fact trading | :11:45. | :11:51. | |
revenues in the large banks, down 19%, JP Morgan down 6%, Citigroup, | :11:52. | :11:57. | |
but the real bread and butter and King was in grade order and the | :11:58. | :11:59. | |
prospect of higher interest rates in the United States looks good but | :12:00. | :12:05. | |
these shares have rallied between 23-35% since the 8th of November | :12:06. | :12:08. | |
last year. It is interesting given the fact tax cuts promised are still | :12:09. | :12:13. | |
some way off, even so... Infrastructure spending still miles | :12:14. | :12:20. | |
off. The expectation is there because Janet Yellen and said she | :12:21. | :12:24. | |
hopes to raise interest rates slowly and stop quantitative easing, not | :12:25. | :12:30. | |
stop it but Tay Bridge as far as she can. Do you think the Brits we | :12:31. | :12:35. | |
should keep an eye on going forward, as far as US stocks are concerned? | :12:36. | :12:41. | |
Obviously Netflix today, a lot of other companies like Johnson and | :12:42. | :12:44. | |
Johnson, I want to see how they are getting on, what we want by the end | :12:45. | :12:50. | |
of this week as a prop church of exactly how all the sectors have. | :12:51. | :12:54. | |
We've heard about financial, some of the consumers will say Johnson and | :12:55. | :12:58. | |
Johnson, we need to know about groups like smaller companies. I | :12:59. | :13:05. | |
want to ask you about smaller stock, the sale of food group to Unilever. | :13:06. | :13:15. | |
What the company has had to do in the same way as Unilever did was | :13:16. | :13:18. | |
focus on key businesses. They are about to pay 18 billion dollars for | :13:19. | :13:23. | |
a main food operator, they have got to make room for that, cut back as | :13:24. | :13:29. | |
much as they can, hopefully selling things like Coremans mustered, | :13:30. | :13:31. | |
Unilever is the favourite but cannot be ruled out, wholemeal foods that | :13:32. | :13:37. | |
make spam, I don't think and I didn't think people make that any | :13:38. | :13:43. | |
more. Keep an eye on the spam! Thank you so much. You're going to stick | :13:44. | :13:48. | |
around and take us through some of the other stories, David, great to | :13:49. | :13:49. | |
have you here. The transformation from sugary | :13:50. | :13:51. | |
sodas to sparkling water. We'll be talking to | :13:52. | :13:54. | |
the head of Soda Stream. You're with business | :13:55. | :13:56. | |
live from the BBC News. The final route for HS2 be announced | :13:57. | :14:23. | |
later. Carillion is amongst the companies awarded the contract ?7 | :14:24. | :14:30. | |
billion, information on around 16,000 jobs. Joe Lynam has much | :14:31. | :14:32. | |
more. It's Britain's biggest investment | :14:33. | :14:49. | |
ever in public transport. HighSpeed2 is designed to cut | :14:50. | :14:51. | |
journey times and increase the number of passenger | :14:52. | :14:53. | |
seats between London It's been six years | :14:54. | :14:55. | |
in the planning but now the first construction contracts have been | :14:56. | :14:58. | |
signed, and they're worth ?6.6 billion, which the government says | :14:59. | :15:01. | |
will support 16,000 jobs The first trains aren't | :15:02. | :15:03. | |
expected to run, though, until 2026, by which time they hope | :15:04. | :15:06. | |
to carry 300,000 passengers per day. ?50 billion on a track | :15:07. | :15:09. | |
of this nature... The Stop HS2 Campaign | :15:10. | :15:11. | |
in the Chiltern says it will only benefit the richest in society | :15:12. | :15:17. | |
and the corporations who build it. And reports on the weekend said HS2 | :15:18. | :15:22. | |
could end up as the most expensive Even so, the muddy work of spades | :15:23. | :15:25. | |
in the ground begins next year for what the government | :15:26. | :15:30. | |
calls "The backbone Let's check in with | :15:31. | :15:32. | |
the financial markets. We have an update on the BBC Online | :15:33. | :15:52. | |
website, ITV naming easyJet's Carolyn McCall as the new Chief | :15:53. | :15:55. | |
Executive. As we were saying earlier, on the back of this story | :15:56. | :16:01. | |
we saw that ITV shares have rallied whilst easyJet's have taken a slump. | :16:02. | :16:06. | |
Carolyn McCall appointed adds the new Chief Executive of the | :16:07. | :16:10. | |
broadcaster ITV, having formerly been at the budget airline easyJet. | :16:11. | :16:15. | |
There's been a lot of speculation on this move already affecting the | :16:16. | :16:18. | |
share prices of both the companies. Now we have that story confirmed. | :16:19. | :16:24. | |
Much more on the BBC website for you, including the Biz live page. | :16:25. | :16:30. | |
Overseas landlords shun the UK as tax changes bite. | :16:31. | :16:44. | |
China's economy grew at 6.9%, higher than many forecast. It's trying to | :16:45. | :17:04. | |
rein in debt. Let's check in with | :17:05. | :17:06. | |
the financial markets. The Nikkei is closed | :17:07. | :17:10. | |
for a public holiday today. A quick look at how | :17:11. | :17:34. | |
the markets are faring. Today we are going to get busy | :17:35. | :17:37. | |
with a fizzy, a slogan that was made to sell sugary sodas, | :17:38. | :17:43. | |
which is now being used to persuade consumers to switch | :17:44. | :17:45. | |
to sparkling water instead. Soda Stream originated in 1903 | :17:46. | :17:48. | |
with the first apparatus that It reached maximum popularity | :17:49. | :17:50. | |
in the 60s and 70s, aided by the tag line that we mentioned, | :17:51. | :17:54. | |
as bottle shops became hangout In 1991, the drinks-maker | :17:55. | :17:57. | |
was purchased from Cadbury-Schweppes In 2014, the company switched focus | :17:58. | :18:00. | |
from the overcrowded flavoured drinks market to sparkling water | :18:01. | :18:05. | |
with an environmental plastic-free emphasis, | :18:06. | :18:08. | |
a shift that saw a quadrupling We are joined by Daniel Birnbaum, | :18:09. | :18:10. | |
CEO of Soda Stream. Thank you for coming in and bringing | :18:11. | :18:25. | |
some freshly carbonated water for us. We have been mentioning how long | :18:26. | :18:30. | |
soda stream has been around, 100 years, but there's been a see | :18:31. | :18:36. | |
change. You were known for sparkly, fizzy sweet unhealthy drinks but now | :18:37. | :18:39. | |
you are making the shift into healthy sparkling water. How are you | :18:40. | :18:43. | |
managing to get that message across? That's right. Soda stream is a brand | :18:44. | :18:48. | |
in transition and we used to be a fizzy drinks maker. Then in 2014 we | :18:49. | :18:53. | |
announced a strategy to focus on sparkling water. Today we are the | :18:54. | :18:57. | |
largest sparkling water brand in the world, three times the size of San | :18:58. | :19:04. | |
Pellegrino. We are one of the fastest growing brands in the world | :19:05. | :19:08. | |
so something is work, here. It's about the consumer, voting against | :19:09. | :19:12. | |
sugar and disposable plastic bottles. This bottle can make 30,000 | :19:13. | :19:21. | |
litres of sparkling water, 3,000! In a world where we are creating so | :19:22. | :19:27. | |
much trash, it's a billion and a half disposable bottles every single | :19:28. | :19:31. | |
day are manufacturered and used, which is incredible. This waste is | :19:32. | :19:35. | |
going nowhere. All the plastic that's ever been created in the | :19:36. | :19:39. | |
world still exists. In the garages up and down this country, there'll | :19:40. | :19:45. | |
be lots of redundant soda streams. I have one in our house because I had | :19:46. | :19:52. | |
one when I was growing up and there is a sticky residue in the | :19:53. | :19:55. | |
cupboards. What is the market now, not children any more? There are | :19:56. | :20:03. | |
millions of soda streams in homes because everyone used to have one. | :20:04. | :20:13. | |
It's easy and convenient, you save money, you are healthy. Or just | :20:14. | :20:17. | |
drink tap water? Exactly. It's cheap and safe. While we have the | :20:18. | :20:22. | |
companies out there, the bottled brands led by Coca-Cola and Nestle | :20:23. | :20:27. | |
that are seducing customers into believing tap water is unsafe and | :20:28. | :20:32. | |
they should pay money for the bottled waters, at soda stream, we | :20:33. | :20:35. | |
are saying drink tap water. If you want the bubbles, we have a device | :20:36. | :20:38. | |
to help you do that cheap and easy. There are a lot of markets that you | :20:39. | :20:42. | |
are not going into because you are dubious about the quality of the tap | :20:43. | :20:46. | |
water? Well, no, we are already in 45 countries in the world, the | :20:47. | :20:50. | |
fastest growing... You are not in China or Brazil? We are in Brazil. | :20:51. | :20:55. | |
In China we are waiting because we have so much growth potential where | :20:56. | :21:00. | |
we are. 60% of our revenue comes from Europe, the largest market is | :21:01. | :21:04. | |
Germany. We expect the UK to vote against plastic waste and drink tap | :21:05. | :21:08. | |
water and if they want bubbles use soda stream and bring in their old | :21:09. | :21:11. | |
machines, we'll give a heavy discount on a new device. I want to | :21:12. | :21:17. | |
ask you about controversy that's surrounded the firm and it's also | :21:18. | :21:22. | |
the track fill which was located, there was a boycott at one point. | :21:23. | :21:25. | |
What have you done to try to tackle that issue? That is true. We used to | :21:26. | :21:30. | |
have a factory in the West Bank in Israel. We shifted that factory | :21:31. | :21:35. | |
because we grew so much, we needed to relocate. What we do is, we do | :21:36. | :21:40. | |
the economy of peace. We reach out to people from both sides of the | :21:41. | :21:44. | |
conflict, Palestinians and Israelis. We employ 2,000 people in Israel and | :21:45. | :21:48. | |
get people to know each other and live together and respect each other | :21:49. | :21:54. | |
and celebrate coexistence. I invite you to come and visit the factory | :21:55. | :21:58. | |
and you will see what peace looks like and we are proud of that. It's | :21:59. | :22:04. | |
a big claim. It is. Thank you very much for coming in. Thanks for | :22:05. | :22:06. | |
having me. Online shaving subscriptions are out | :22:07. | :22:28. | |
there now. Products like shaving foam and gel can be delivered to | :22:29. | :22:35. | |
your home. The CEO secret team have been | :22:36. | :22:42. | |
talking to the man who has been behind this. Focus on your | :22:43. | :22:44. | |
priorities. My days can be really busy, filled | :22:45. | :23:00. | |
with meetings, runs around from place-to-place, I wake up, I'm on my | :23:01. | :23:03. | |
phone seeing what happened overnight. My daughter comes in and | :23:04. | :23:07. | |
joins me, grabs my phone and starts to try to eat it which is usually a | :23:08. | :23:13. | |
good reminder, I try to schedule blocks of time, one or two hours of | :23:14. | :23:16. | |
uninterrupted time, pretend like it's a meeting. It's hard to get ten | :23:17. | :23:21. | |
things done when you are trying to juggle all ten done at once. It's | :23:22. | :23:25. | |
easier to get two or three things done if you can create time and | :23:26. | :23:28. | |
space to focus on the two or three things. | :23:29. | :23:40. | |
Let's see what other stories are being talked | :23:41. | :23:43. | |
Joining us again is David Buik from Panmure Gordon. | :23:44. | :23:50. | |
Lloyds says cyber attack comed cost $120 billion, the same as Hurricane | :23:51. | :23:56. | |
Katrina, but there is a caveat. It says it's very difficult to try and | :23:57. | :24:01. | |
assess the costs really? It's impossible, but what I'm really | :24:02. | :24:05. | |
pleased about is the Chief Executive of Lloyds of London has thrown not a | :24:06. | :24:09. | |
pebble in the water but a bolder, saying Guys and Dolls, if you don't | :24:10. | :24:12. | |
watch out, this is what can happen. So you cannot do enough in terms of | :24:13. | :24:21. | |
security. Hurricane Katrina in 2005 cost about $105 billion and there | :24:22. | :24:30. | |
was a more recent one in 2012 which cost about $50-$60 billion. There | :24:31. | :24:34. | |
are two areas where we need to be careful. One is the business of the | :24:35. | :24:42. | |
cloud. That could cost $53. The figure varies between 15 and 120 | :24:43. | :24:46. | |
billion dollars, the second most likely is computer operating systems | :24:47. | :24:50. | |
where they think the loss could be as much as 28.7. We had the national | :24:51. | :24:55. | |
health system hijacked last time and we got away with murder thanks to | :24:56. | :25:00. | |
the young fellow coming out of the clouds from nowhere. It was | :25:01. | :25:04. | |
extraordinary. Lucky. It won't be as lucky as that next time. Is it | :25:05. | :25:11. | |
Governments that need to act or... And corporate people and the | :25:12. | :25:14. | |
computer companies. It's a full-on job. I want to ask you about what we | :25:15. | :25:18. | |
have all been talking about, the fact that here in the UK tonight we | :25:19. | :25:23. | |
can watch the first series of Graham of Thrones, we asked our viewers if | :25:24. | :25:29. | |
they were excited. Nicholas says too much gratuitous sex and violence, | :25:30. | :25:34. | |
not seen any of it. Derek says I wish the books stayed ahead of the | :25:35. | :25:40. | |
series. And Trevor says the greatest TV series of all-time. It's a | :25:41. | :25:44. | |
money-spinner if nothing else? There are 30 million people that disagree, | :25:45. | :25:49. | |
of course, you know! 8.9 million watched the last episode and this is | :25:50. | :25:55. | |
the seventh series. Keeps running. Never beat Sopranos in a million | :25:56. | :25:59. | |
years. There you've got it. Thanks for coming in. | :26:00. | :26:00. | |
There'll be more business news throughout the day on the BBC live | :26:01. | :26:05. | |
web page and on ward business news report. | :26:06. | :26:07. | |
Some warm, even hot temperatures in the first part of the week. The risk | :26:08. | :26:17. | |
of a thunder storm | :26:18. | :26:18. |