:00:05. > :00:10.The row over cuts versus growth re- erupts. Labour wants emergency
:00:11. > :00:14.action to jump start the economy. Retail sales fell by twice as much
:00:14. > :00:23.as expected last month. The Shadow Chancellor says it's time for a VAT
:00:23. > :00:27.cut to get us spending again. putting more money directly into
:00:27. > :00:31.people's pockets, it would boost consumer spending for consumers
:00:31. > :00:39.feeling the squeeze from rising prices and taxes.
:00:39. > :00:42.David Cameron gave his answer straight to the public. Those who
:00:42. > :00:45.say you ought to slash taxes, spend money and do more Government
:00:45. > :00:49.Investment, all that you would be doing if you did that would be
:00:49. > :00:51.making the problem of your deficit, your overdraft, worse.
:00:51. > :00:54.We'll be looking at whether tax cuts are the answer.
:00:54. > :00:57.Also tonight: Bin Laden's number two becomes the
:00:57. > :00:59.new number one. Ayman Al-Zawahari says he'll continue Al-Qaeda's holy
:00:59. > :01:03.war. The footage that was probably faked
:01:03. > :01:08.- the BBC's Panorama is ordered to apologise after its programme on
:01:08. > :01:11.Primark and child labour. Thousands are waiting longer for
:01:11. > :01:17.hospital treatment - what the latest figures reveal about NHS
:01:17. > :01:27.performance. And still no British men's champion
:01:27. > :01:31.
:01:31. > :01:34.at Wimbledon - millions spent with Coming up in Sportsday on the BBC
:01:34. > :01:44.News Channel, a rain-affected day at the Rose Bowl, but England get
:01:44. > :01:55.
:01:55. > :01:58.Good evening. The central political argument over
:01:58. > :02:02.how best to inject growth into the economy was reignited today with
:02:02. > :02:07.Labour saying it's time for emergency action. Shadow Chancellor
:02:07. > :02:10.Ed Balls called for a cut in VAT. His comments come as new figures
:02:10. > :02:15.show that high street sales have fallen by more than expected, down
:02:15. > :02:18.by 1.4% last month. Mr Balls accuses the Chancellor, George
:02:18. > :02:23.Osborne, of taking a gamble with the economy. That's been dismissed
:02:23. > :02:33.by ministers who say Labour is proposing "a plan for bankruptcy".
:02:33. > :02:33.
:02:33. > :02:38.Stephanie Flanders reports. Not so long ago, the bunting was
:02:38. > :02:43.out for the royal wedding and so were consumers. But that was then
:02:43. > :02:50.and this is now. After a rise of 1.1% in April, today's figures
:02:50. > :02:53.showed retail sales falling last month by 1.4%. For this independent
:02:53. > :02:57.department store in York, business is better than it was in the
:02:57. > :03:02.recession but it is a challenging time. Since the winter sales
:03:02. > :03:07.finished, it has been aired and flower and it is very promotion led
:03:07. > :03:12.on the high street. That is certainly now, with prices
:03:12. > :03:15.increasing on essentials like food, it is biting into disposable income.
:03:15. > :03:19.In a sense, these numbers tell us something we already knew, that we
:03:19. > :03:23.are not having the kind of economic recovery we are used to or might
:03:23. > :03:26.have expected after such a deep recession. But today front and
:03:26. > :03:30.centre in Westminster there was also the political debate coming
:03:31. > :03:35.from those gloomy statistics. Is the Government contributing to this
:03:36. > :03:38.week recovery and is it time to change course? The Shadow
:03:38. > :03:44.Chancellor to days of the evidence was clear and offered some advice
:03:44. > :03:48.to his opposite number. But today he said the evidence was clear.
:03:48. > :03:52.While he will not agree to reverse is mistaken VAT rise permanently,
:03:52. > :03:55.he should now reverse it temporarily. It would boost
:03:55. > :03:59.consumer spending for consumers feeling the squeeze from rising
:04:00. > :04:03.prices and taxes, especially pensioners and those on low and
:04:03. > :04:09.fixed incomes. In Lincolnshire today, the Prime Minister made his
:04:09. > :04:13.view clear. Those who say you ought to go out and slash taxes, or spend
:04:13. > :04:16.more money, or do more Government investment, all that you would be
:04:16. > :04:21.doing if you did that would be making the problem of your deficit,
:04:21. > :04:26.your overdraft, worse. Funnily enough, the International Monetary
:04:26. > :04:30.Fund the other day said temporary tax cuts would be a decent plan B.
:04:30. > :04:36.But like most City economists, they think a lot of other things would
:04:36. > :04:40.have to go wrong first. Cutting VAT is expensive, it costs about 1% of
:04:40. > :04:44.the size of our economy, a significant amount of money. If you
:04:44. > :04:49.cut VAT, yes, it helps consumers but on the other hand it raises
:04:49. > :04:53.interest rates in the markets and interest rates faced for mortgage
:04:53. > :04:58.payments, which is not helpful. Consumer confidence rose last month
:04:58. > :05:02.but has fallen since last year. That could be linked to the rise in
:05:02. > :05:05.VAT and talk of budget cuts, but you cannot blame the Chancellor for
:05:05. > :05:11.rising food and energy prices, nor for the fact that the economy as a
:05:11. > :05:13.once in a century banking crisis to recover from. In his Mansion House
:05:13. > :05:17.speech yesterday, the Chancellor said the economy looked pretty good,
:05:17. > :05:21.if you took the financial sector out of the equation. Unfortunately,
:05:21. > :05:26.we cannot. Everyone can agree that the recovery is slower than we
:05:26. > :05:30.would like. The crucial question, for politicians and the country, is
:05:30. > :05:36.whether it is the best recovery on offer.
:05:36. > :05:41.John Pienaar is at Westminster. Stephanie has just looked at the
:05:41. > :05:45.economics, but politically, how important has Ed Balls' speech been
:05:45. > :05:50.today? Well, there has never been a popular tax increase, so this was
:05:50. > :05:54.always likely to grab headlines and the tension. Beneath that, Ed Balls
:05:54. > :05:58.has established himself as one of Labour's very few big political
:05:59. > :06:03.beasts. Certainly more qualified by experience and training than his
:06:03. > :06:07.predecessor, Alan Johnson. He does not lack self-belief. There was a
:06:07. > :06:10.moment when he was arguing that the independence of the Bank of England
:06:10. > :06:14.and Britain staying out of the Euro were evidence of his strength of
:06:14. > :06:17.character, which might come as a surprise to Gordon Brown and Tony
:06:17. > :06:21.Blair, none of which alters the fact that there is still a way to
:06:21. > :06:24.go for Labour and Ed Balls to win the argument in the country over
:06:24. > :06:28.economic competence. The hope is that the course of the economy and
:06:28. > :06:32.the effect of spending cuts, which have not cut in yet, will tip the
:06:32. > :06:36.argument their way. I would only add that Ed Balls will have to be
:06:36. > :06:40.wary going forward about appearing to enhance his authority at the
:06:40. > :06:42.expense of Ed Miliband, because the soap opera about Ed Miliband's
:06:42. > :06:48.leadership looks like growing through the autumn and into next
:06:48. > :06:53.year. So I nodded over the economy and plenty more on the Government's
:06:53. > :06:57.plate. -- an argument over the economy. The Government came in
:06:57. > :07:02.with the idea of going further and faster down the road of reform than
:07:02. > :07:07.Tony Blair did in his first term. Since then, they have run into a
:07:07. > :07:11.combination of issues. Wrangling in the coalition, spending and vested
:07:11. > :07:14.interests. They have had to slow down and think again. They have to
:07:15. > :07:19.decide whether they want to be remembered as revolutionary or
:07:19. > :07:23.pragmatic, picking fights they can win.
:07:23. > :07:28.The terror group Al-Qaeda has appointed a man Al-Zawahri, a long-
:07:28. > :07:31.time associate of Osama Bin Laden, as its new leader. He can -- he
:07:31. > :07:36.vowed to continue the Roly Walker against the United States, Israel
:07:36. > :07:39.and its allies. But tonight, the United States said Al-Zawahiri
:07:40. > :07:44.would be hunted down and killed, like his predecessor. Frank Gardner
:07:44. > :07:47.is here. Al-Qaeda's new leader is already a
:07:47. > :07:51.familiar figure. He worked hand-in- glove with Osama Bin Laden for many
:07:51. > :07:57.years and has given Al-Qaeda much of its strategic direction. He has
:07:57. > :08:01.long been its most visible spokesman. Here he is last week
:08:01. > :08:07.saying that the war with the West will go on. His appointment has
:08:07. > :08:10.been largely welcomed on extremist jihadi websites. Bin Laden and Al-
:08:10. > :08:15.Zawahiri collaborated closely. Both had been fugitives for years,
:08:15. > :08:19.hiding out in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Al-Zawahiri, the natural
:08:19. > :08:24.successor to Bin Laden, is now named the FBI's most wanted
:08:24. > :08:29.terrorist, the leader of Al-Qaeda. It is not a surprise from our
:08:29. > :08:35.perspective that he has moved into that position. He and his
:08:35. > :08:43.organisation still threaten us, as we did both seek to capture and
:08:43. > :08:48.kill and succeed in killing Bin Laden, we will certainly do the
:08:48. > :08:52.same thing with Al-Zawahiri. What do we know about Ayman Al-Zawahiri?
:08:52. > :08:57.Well, he is a lifelong Egyptian extremist who will be 60 this
:08:57. > :09:01.Sunday. He was the one who radicalised Osama Bin Laden back in
:09:02. > :09:06.the 1990s and got him to think global. He was the Operation Ore
:09:06. > :09:13.brains behind the 9/11 attacks, and the US has long had a bounty on his
:09:13. > :09:17.head. Al-Zawahiri was radicalise long ago, imprisoned by the
:09:17. > :09:21.Egyptian state after President Sadat's assassination. The extreme
:09:21. > :09:27.violence perpetrated by Al-Qaeda is often attributed to his strategic
:09:27. > :09:31.direction. His supporters want more such attacks. But, as Arab
:09:31. > :09:36.populations call for an end to dictatorship, Al-Qaeda's critics
:09:36. > :09:39.say he will struggle to prove it as anything constructive to offer.
:09:39. > :09:43.resources are drying up, operational spaces have been
:09:43. > :09:47.confined, the leadership is being picked off. Al-Zawahri has
:09:47. > :09:51.inherited an organisation that is struggling to carry out
:09:51. > :09:56.transnational attacks. And yet this Al-Qaeda operative killed last week
:09:56. > :10:01.in Somalia was carrying early plans for attacks on London's Ritz Hotel,
:10:01. > :10:05.and on the Eton College, David Cameron's old school. The plans
:10:05. > :10:09.were not advanced and it is not known if Al-Qaeda's new leader even
:10:09. > :10:14.knew anything about them. Al- Zawahri is taking over Al-Qaeda at
:10:14. > :10:18.a crucial time for the organisation. Critics say it is fragmenting and
:10:18. > :10:24.getting left behind in the Middle East. Others say that it is down
:10:24. > :10:28.but not out, still capable of lashing out against the West.
:10:28. > :10:33.The BBC's Panorama has been ordered to apologise after using footage
:10:33. > :10:36.that was probably faked as part of a report about child labour and the
:10:36. > :10:40.fashion store Primark. The BBC Trust, which governs the
:10:40. > :10:47.corporation on behalf of the public, says there was a serious breach of
:10:47. > :10:52.accuracy and fairness. A little deeper into the squalor
:10:52. > :10:55.and another rung down the ladder of exploitation. It was a key part of
:10:55. > :10:59.Panorama's investigation into claims that Primark's sub
:10:59. > :11:03.contractors employed child labour in India but today the BBC Trust
:11:03. > :11:07.concluded that these pictures of boys supposedly working on Primark
:11:08. > :11:11.garments in a Bangalore slum were probably faked. The Trust has said
:11:11. > :11:15.it had examined a substantial body of evidence, including Russia's
:11:15. > :11:18.from the programme, e-mails and witness evidence. It concluded that
:11:18. > :11:23.although it was not able to say beyond reasonable doubt it was more
:11:23. > :11:27.likely than not that the Bangalore put it was not genuine. BBC News
:11:27. > :11:32.today accepted the programme was flawed. Any time we make a big
:11:32. > :11:35.mistake it is very damaging but the BBC News brand and the Panorama
:11:35. > :11:39.brand are strong and robust. They are strong and robust because we
:11:39. > :11:44.know that when we make a mistake we owned up to it and we learn from it.
:11:44. > :11:48.That is why audiences trust us as much as they do. But the journalist
:11:48. > :11:52.responsible, Dan McDougall, rejected the findings. He is an
:11:52. > :11:56.award-winning reporter. In a statement, he said he had rarely
:11:56. > :12:01.seen a finding so unjust in outcome, Flordon process and deeply damaging
:12:01. > :12:08.to investigative journalism. BBC said Primark used these three
:12:08. > :12:12.boys to make these three tops. It was a lie, concocted by this man,
:12:12. > :12:17.producer Dan McDougall. Primark produced its own video in response
:12:17. > :12:21.today, detailing the company's investigation into Panorama's
:12:21. > :12:26.claims. It welcomed what it called the Trust's inescapable decision
:12:26. > :12:31.that the footage was faked. It said millions had been deceived by
:12:31. > :12:35.Panorama and viewers and shoppers have been fed a lie. Tonight, the
:12:35. > :12:39.BBC and Primark are at odds. The BBC Trust said the programme had
:12:39. > :12:44.evidence that work was out sourced from factories in India against
:12:44. > :12:47.Primark's ethical guidelines, something Primark accepts. And that
:12:47. > :12:51.the programme showed young children working on Primark clothing in a
:12:51. > :12:58.refugee camp. Primark absolutely rejects claims that it uses child
:12:58. > :13:01.labour. Greece's Prime Minister, George
:13:01. > :13:05.Papandreou, will tomorrow reshuffle his cabinet in the latest move to
:13:05. > :13:10.try to deal with the country's financial crisis. He is struggling
:13:10. > :13:13.to find support for spending cuts and tax rises amounting to �25
:13:13. > :13:22.billion. Greece has witnessed some of the most violent protests yet
:13:22. > :13:28.200 of England's worst-performing primary-school will be closed down
:13:28. > :13:31.and reopened as academies. Headteachers will have more power.
:13:31. > :13:39.The Education Secretary Michael Gove said he hoped the move would
:13:39. > :13:44.raise standards. Michael Gove once every English school to shine, and
:13:44. > :13:49.academies are his key to gold star success. They are independent of
:13:49. > :13:54.local authorities and they can set their own curriculum. Now Michael
:13:54. > :13:58.Gove wants academies to take over struggling primary schools. This
:13:58. > :14:02.one in south-east London used to be known as Merlin primary. The school
:14:02. > :14:07.was struggling and a successful local group which runs a chain of
:14:07. > :14:11.schools stepped into takeover. A new name, a new head and a new
:14:11. > :14:16.uniform have brought about an improvement in performance.
:14:16. > :14:20.quality of teaching is central, but you also have to transform minds.
:14:20. > :14:25.You have to transform the mindset of both the children, the parents,
:14:25. > :14:28.the whole school really. government will close down 200
:14:28. > :14:33.primaries and force them to become academies run by other schools next
:14:33. > :14:39.year, focusing on those which have failed consistency to meet targets
:14:40. > :14:44.for 11 year-olds. These are schools where young people are leaving
:14:44. > :14:46.without a secure foundation, so we want to make sure that those
:14:47. > :14:52.schools are taken over by organisations with a track record
:14:52. > :14:57.of success who can turn those schools around. Michael Gove is
:14:57. > :15:01.wanting to take on his critics who say his academies Policy is too
:15:01. > :15:05.focused on schools which are already successful, but getting
:15:05. > :15:09.good schools to takeover back want is a policy that was started under
:15:09. > :15:12.the last government and some are asking what is new here. Critics
:15:12. > :15:16.say Labour provided tens of millions of pounds of additional
:15:16. > :15:21.funding for its Academy programme, money which the coalition doesn't
:15:21. > :15:25.have. The notion that academy status is a silver bullet which
:15:25. > :15:29.will solve problems straight away it is a myth. It is about
:15:29. > :15:33.developing the school over a period of time and it takes time to work
:15:34. > :15:37.on the culture, on the teaching and learning. Labour have made much of
:15:37. > :15:43.news that an error has left many academies receiving too much money
:15:43. > :15:47.- in Hampshire by as much as �300 per pupil. The government and local
:15:47. > :15:53.authorities blame each other. The government is determined to use
:15:53. > :15:59.academies to drive reform but there are clearly glitches en route.
:15:59. > :16:06.Coming up: as we get ready for Wimbledon fortnight, is investment
:16:06. > :16:10.in the British game delivering the stars of tomorrow?
:16:10. > :16:14.The Defence Secretary Liam Fox says the progress NATO forces are making
:16:14. > :16:18.against the Taliban is far from irreversible. He was speaking
:16:18. > :16:28.during a visit to Afghanistan, where he has been meeting British
:16:28. > :16:32.
:16:32. > :16:38.This is what NATO commanders hope is the future. Afghan troops
:16:38. > :16:45.training Afghan troops. So that one day they can take on the Taliban
:16:45. > :16:53.for themselves. But the general running at this training base says
:16:53. > :16:56.he will still need NATO's help once troops have left in 2015.
:16:56. > :17:02.Afghanistan National Army and forces, they will still need the
:17:02. > :17:06.support of the coalition forces in Afghanistan to be helping them.
:17:06. > :17:10.Afghanistan in June, the poppy harvest is in and the fighting
:17:10. > :17:14.season has begun. NATO commanders say the number of Dan attacks is
:17:14. > :17:19.down, but as we travelled across Helmand province with the Defence
:17:19. > :17:23.Secretary, he was cautious, aware of how quickly things can change.
:17:23. > :17:28.There is no doubt we are making progress, no doubt the security
:17:28. > :17:31.situation is improving, and there are some hints that the Taliban
:17:31. > :17:38.might be losing the battle of hearts and minds. There are still a
:17:39. > :17:43.great deal to be done. He was shown the latest idea to improve security.
:17:43. > :17:46.Training part-time policeman to use their local knowledge to spot the
:17:46. > :17:52.Taliban and their drugs. This is where they really are coming into
:17:52. > :17:57.their own because they can spot an insurgent or someone who is out of
:17:57. > :18:02.area, and they are sick of having the Taliban fighters coming into
:18:02. > :18:05.their villages and using their homes and compounds. But for the
:18:05. > :18:09.signs of progress, commanders here worry that when the US begins
:18:09. > :18:14.cutting its troop numbers next month, ministers will be tempted to
:18:14. > :18:19.follow suit, sending home early some of the British forces here.
:18:19. > :18:27.Not this minister though. None of us want to have our troops in
:18:27. > :18:31.harm's way at day longer then necessary, but the point of the
:18:31. > :18:35.mission is to succeed. He would be wrong to leave a vacuum, he said,
:18:35. > :18:40.for the Taliban to fail. Troops should come home only when
:18:40. > :18:43.conditions allow. British commanders have told the Defence
:18:43. > :18:48.Secretary today that they are confident they are finally hitting
:18:48. > :18:53.the Taliban hard, but they also talk of the huge amount of work to
:18:53. > :18:58.be done, whether that is training forces or persuading people they
:18:58. > :19:06.will be OK in regions like this once the forces go home. One day
:19:06. > :19:09.these walls may come down, but not yet.
:19:09. > :19:12.New figures show the number of NHS trusts across England breaching
:19:12. > :19:15.waiting time limits has doubled in the last year. Earlier this month
:19:15. > :19:17.David Cameron promised to keep an 18-week limit on waiting for
:19:17. > :19:24.hospital treatment for most patients. Our health correspondent
:19:24. > :19:29.Branwen Jeffreys is here. I know you have been trying to break down
:19:29. > :19:32.these figures, what do they show? David Cameron was talking about the
:19:32. > :19:35.time between your GP deciding you need an operation and having your
:19:35. > :19:40.treatment in hospital. Patients in England have the right to expect
:19:40. > :19:49.that within 18 weeks. And if you look at the national picture, 90%
:19:49. > :19:52.of patients are seen within that limit. But look more closely at the
:19:52. > :19:57.detail and it's clear a growing number of areas are struggling to
:19:57. > :20:00.keep waiting times down. In April last year 25 out of 151 primary
:20:00. > :20:04.care trust areas failed to meet that waiting limit. By April this
:20:04. > :20:11.year that had gone up to 51, twice as many areas not treating most
:20:11. > :20:14.patients quickly. In April 2010, 29 out of 196 hospitals or other
:20:14. > :20:24.treating trusts failed the 18 week test. By April this year that had
:20:24. > :20:24.
:20:24. > :20:28.gone up to 49. A picture of more areas struggling to keep within the
:20:28. > :20:31.waiting times. The Government says it wants patients to be able to
:20:31. > :20:36.compare waiting times. That means they can choose hospitals offering
:20:36. > :20:39.quicker treatment. And of course that national figure for waiting is
:20:39. > :20:45.pretty stable, but that's only because some parts of the NHS in
:20:45. > :20:49.England are doing exceptionally well. This gives a picture of how
:20:49. > :20:53.difficult it is to keep waiting down when money is tight, and
:20:53. > :20:59.perhaps also the scale of ambition of David Cameron's promised in
:20:59. > :21:04.saying he will be able to do that. As public sector cuts begin to bite,
:21:04. > :21:08.more people need help but there is less money around and charities are
:21:08. > :21:13.having to step in. In Manchester, soup kitchens are feeding many more
:21:13. > :21:19.than they were this time last year. Richard Bilton report on how the
:21:19. > :21:27.city's poorest are coping. These are the desperate, looking for food.
:21:27. > :21:33.The soup kitchens of Manchester are busier than ever. Jason lost his
:21:33. > :21:37.home a month ago. If it wasn't for this centre found other ones, I
:21:37. > :21:44.would be starving and pinching, petty crime, because there is no
:21:44. > :21:54.alternative. This is a city where �110 million is being cut from
:21:54. > :21:56.
:21:56. > :22:00.council budgets. There is tension here, and a fight start. These
:22:00. > :22:04.people have nothing, and more and more are looking for help. Those
:22:04. > :22:09.who run this place say this year there has been a large rise in
:22:09. > :22:14.those who come to use it. The average used to be about 60 per
:22:14. > :22:19.night, and this year sometimes 90 people come every night because
:22:19. > :22:22.they have nowhere else to go for food. We are not opposed to the
:22:22. > :22:28.cuts, we understand they need to happen but they are happening far
:22:28. > :22:32.too quickly. We get people coming in who have not have their benefits,
:22:33. > :22:38.and starving. Across town, another sign that the very poor are
:22:38. > :22:43.struggling. This charity is being asked for more food parcels. It is
:22:43. > :22:48.a charity funded by donations, but they say the cuts are driving more
:22:48. > :22:54.and more people to their door. have had a sharp intake of people
:22:54. > :22:59.being referred to us. Can you handle that Spike? No, not at all.
:22:59. > :23:04.There are plenty of positives here. Janice is a single mother with five
:23:04. > :23:12.kids, all of her children are either working or in training.
:23:12. > :23:17.never give up. It was either that or the doll, so they had no choice
:23:17. > :23:23.but to keep looking. We heard it is a recession but I don't know. We
:23:23. > :23:28.tighten our belts anyway so I just carried on doing what we was doing.
:23:28. > :23:32.Across town, Jason prepares for the night. He hasn't got a hostel and
:23:32. > :23:39.will sleep in a bus shelter. He thinks life is getting harder for
:23:39. > :23:43.those on the street. They want to get everybody back into work but it
:23:43. > :23:48.is easier said than done. How can you get a job when you are scruffy
:23:48. > :23:55.and you smile. Jason is not here because of the cuts, but on the
:23:55. > :23:59.streets you can feel their impact. Tomorrow, in the last of his series,
:23:59. > :24:03.Richard looks at how middle Britain is coping in these tough economic
:24:03. > :24:07.times. We are days away from Wimbledon,
:24:07. > :24:12.but apart from Andy Murray there are no senior British players in
:24:12. > :24:17.contention. Within the sport, people are beginning to ask why.
:24:17. > :24:21.The sport's governing body has had �250 million to spend on
:24:21. > :24:25.development over the last five years. Our sports editor looks at
:24:25. > :24:29.where the cash has gone. The supplies are arriving, the weather
:24:29. > :24:34.has arrived, but despite the money it generates for British tennis,
:24:34. > :24:40.the long wait for a Wimbledon men's champion goes on. It is 75 years
:24:40. > :24:44.since Fred Perry last won of the most sought-after prize in sport,
:24:44. > :24:49.and as each year passes so the pressure builds on the governing
:24:49. > :24:52.body of the sport to find a new champion. The Lawn Tennis
:24:52. > :24:56.Association invests millions of pounds each year in centres like
:24:56. > :25:01.this one in Telford, but critics say far too much money has been
:25:01. > :25:06.wasted on helping elite players. The man in charge for the last five
:25:06. > :25:09.years insists his approach will pay off. You have only got to look at
:25:09. > :25:14.any sport to say you have got to have continuity and stick with your
:25:14. > :25:19.strategy, whether you are Alex Ferguson or Clive Woodward, you
:25:19. > :25:26.need time and you need to hold the long-term vision. The vision when
:25:26. > :25:32.he started in 2006 was to have five men or women in the top 100 within
:25:32. > :25:36.two years. But today, Britain has just three singles players in the
:25:36. > :25:42.top 100 and only Andy Murray challenging for Grand Slam titles,
:25:42. > :25:46.that is despite receiving more than �250 million in revenue. For all
:25:46. > :25:49.the money spent on developing the game, it is ultimately here on
:25:49. > :25:52.Centre Court where British tennis is judged. But the challenge in
:25:52. > :25:57.this country is to break free of the annual obsession with the
:25:57. > :26:02.Wimbledon fortnight, and instead focus on trying to change the image
:26:02. > :26:06.of a sport which is still seen as cosy and elitist. For the man who
:26:06. > :26:11.beat Andy Murray to this year's Australian Open, winning is about
:26:11. > :26:16.much more than financial support. It all comes down to mental
:26:16. > :26:21.strength and a desire to succeed, and hunger to become a professional
:26:21. > :26:26.tennis player. Many believe Andy Murray has that hunger, but even a