:00:09. > :00:13.Tonight at 10. A controversial tax cut for the
:00:13. > :00:17.highest earners in the coalition's Budget. But all the measures in the
:00:17. > :00:21.red box, says the Chancellor, will see the richest paying more tax
:00:21. > :00:26.while the rest pay less. Together the British people will share in
:00:26. > :00:33.the effort and share the rewards. This country borrowed its way into
:00:33. > :00:37.trouble. Now we will earn our way out. It is a millionaire's Budget
:00:37. > :00:42.that squeezes the middle. Wrong choices come up wrong priorities
:00:42. > :00:46.come up wrong values, out of touch, same old Tories.
:00:46. > :00:51.Pensioners' groups react with anger to unexpected changes in their
:00:51. > :00:55.special tax allowances. We don't think it is fair. Pensioners have
:00:55. > :00:59.paid all their lives into the tax system and they seem to get
:00:59. > :01:04.penalised and left behind. We will have the details, the reaction and
:01:04. > :01:09.analysis. A British woman held in Somalia for
:01:09. > :01:15.six months is freed thanks mainly to the efforts of her son. I don't
:01:15. > :01:20.know how he secured my release, but he did and I'm really happy. I
:01:20. > :01:24.can't wait to see him. In Toulouse, armed police corner a
:01:24. > :01:27.man suspected of the recent gun attacks.
:01:27. > :01:33.And the latest evidence that aspirin could be a powerful weapon
:01:33. > :01:39.against cancer. Coming up in sport, Carlos makes
:01:39. > :01:49.his comeback. After six months in exile, Carlos Tevez is amongst the
:01:49. > :02:00.
:02:00. > :02:05.substitutes for Manchester City in Good evening.
:02:05. > :02:09.George Osborne's third Budget is already proving to be his most
:02:09. > :02:12.controversial with a cut in the top rate of income tax and changes to
:02:12. > :02:16.allowances affecting millions of pensioners. The Chancellor insisted
:02:16. > :02:22.his Budget would back working families. Let's look at the main
:02:23. > :02:25.measures. A reduction in the 50p rate of tax to 45p from next year.
:02:25. > :02:29.The biggest ever increase in the tax-free allowance which will
:02:29. > :02:32.benefit millions of people. Pensioners will be affected by the
:02:32. > :02:37.freezing of their special tax allowance and fewer households will
:02:37. > :02:47.now be losing their child benefit payments. First tonight, Nick
:02:47. > :02:51.He had nothing to spend, he had no new economic policy, he had few
:02:51. > :02:56.secrets left in his Chancellor's red box. Yet today George Osborne
:02:56. > :02:59.delivered a Budget that may well be talked about for a very long time.
:02:59. > :03:03.Are the rich going to pay their fair share? He knows people's
:03:03. > :03:08.judgement about whether today's announcements were fair will decide
:03:08. > :03:14.if today comes to be seen as a Budget for millionaires or, as he
:03:14. > :03:19.hopes, a Budget for millions. Budget rewards work. Britain is
:03:19. > :03:24.going to earn its weight in the world. There is no other road to
:03:24. > :03:30.recovery. The highest earners, on more than �150,000 the year, will
:03:30. > :03:38.get to keep more of what they earn as the top tax rate is cut from 50%
:03:38. > :03:45.to 45%. From April next year, the top rate of tax will be 45% -- 45p.
:03:45. > :03:48.No Chancellor... No Chancellor... Shane, shouted some Labour MPs. The
:03:48. > :03:55.Chancellor's answer was it was a tax that was doing more harm than
:03:55. > :03:59.good. No Chancellor can justify attacks rate that damages our
:03:59. > :04:02.economy and raised his next to nothing. It is as simple as that.
:04:02. > :04:07.These are the official documents which he is using to back his claim
:04:07. > :04:11.that cutting taxes at the top costs very little. These are the sorts of
:04:11. > :04:15.houses which will generate the extra tax he is promising. Not a
:04:15. > :04:21.new tax for the owners of mansions, but a higher tax on buying them and
:04:21. > :04:28.the closing of loopholes and the capping of tax relief. I regard tax
:04:28. > :04:32.evasion and indeed aggressive tax avoidance as morally repugnant.
:04:32. > :04:36.Dem MPs a light that and they cheered this, a promise of a tax
:04:36. > :04:41.cut for 23 million people. Every working person on low or middle
:04:41. > :04:45.incomes will benefit. People will be able to earn up to �9,205 before
:04:45. > :04:53.they have to pay any tax. That rise in the personal tax allowance will
:04:53. > :04:57.take 800,000 people out of paying any tax at all. Outside, they
:04:57. > :05:02.called for higher taxes on businesses. Inside, the Chancellor
:05:02. > :05:05.announced a cut in corporation tax of 1% more than already planned.
:05:05. > :05:10.This is the biggest sustained reduction in business tax rates for
:05:10. > :05:15.a generation. A headline rate that is not just lower than our
:05:15. > :05:18.competitors, but dramatically lower. Families saw no reversal of cuts to
:05:18. > :05:22.tax credit and no help with fuel duty, but there was better news for
:05:23. > :05:27.those expecting to lose their child benefit. The plan had been to cut
:05:27. > :05:32.child benefit for any family where one partner earned over 42,000 a
:05:32. > :05:36.year. Today, that changed so you will lose some if you were an over
:05:36. > :05:41.50,000, and all of your child benefit when your earnings are more
:05:41. > :05:46.than 60,000. So who would pay for this generosity? Part of the answer
:05:46. > :05:50.to that is pensioner's who took up paying tax. I will freeze the cash
:05:50. > :05:53.value of the allowance for existing pensioners until it aligns with the
:05:53. > :05:59.personal allowance. When Chancellors lower their voice and
:05:59. > :06:02.sound technical, it is time to watch out for your wallet. It is a
:06:02. > :06:08.major simplification, it saves money and no pensioner will lose in
:06:08. > :06:13.cash terms. Maybe, but he will save over �3 billion over three years by
:06:13. > :06:18.freezing those allowances and the average pensioner will lose �83 a
:06:18. > :06:22.year. He has pencilled in more significant savings, resulting from
:06:22. > :06:27.the decision to start bringing troops home from Afghanistan,
:06:27. > :06:31.starting next year. It was a Budget with no net giveaway, but it ended
:06:31. > :06:37.with a mighty big plane. Together, the British people will share in
:06:37. > :06:43.the effort and share the rewards. This country borrowed its way into
:06:43. > :06:47.trouble, now we will burn away out. -- earn our way out. For Labour
:06:47. > :06:52.there was and is just a single question. Why give the rich to give
:06:52. > :06:58.away now? Are the Chancellor spoke for an hour, but one of his phrases
:06:58. > :07:03.was missing. There was one thing he did not say. Today marks the end of
:07:03. > :07:10.we are all in it together. Hands up in the Cabinet if you will benefit
:07:10. > :07:15.from the income tax cut. Come on! Labour claimed the cost is �3
:07:15. > :07:20.billion, not the 100 million in the official figures. Tax credit card,
:07:20. > :07:25.child benefit taken away, fuel duty rising and what has he chosen to
:07:25. > :07:31.make his priority? For Britain's millionaires, a massive income tax
:07:31. > :07:35.cut each and every year. Joining Labour on that political
:07:35. > :07:39.battleground, not just these protesters, but the Scottish and
:07:39. > :07:43.Welsh nationalists. It has failed to deliver on growth and on
:07:43. > :07:46.fairness. The millionaires are being treated best, the poorest,
:07:46. > :07:50.pensioners, middle earners are being squeezed the most.
:07:50. > :07:54.biggest concern for Welsh people is there's a clear framework for
:07:54. > :08:00.introducing regional pay. That will institutionalise Wales and the
:08:00. > :08:05.North of England. George Osborne knows cutting the 50p rate of tax
:08:05. > :08:08.will not be popular. He knows some will claim pensioners and the poor
:08:08. > :08:18.are paying for it. But his gamble is that whatever the politics,
:08:18. > :08:21.getting rid of the 50p rate will More reaction in a moment, but
:08:21. > :08:27.first let's take a look at some of the other measures in today's
:08:27. > :08:31.Budget. Duty is up significantly on all tobacco products, adding 37p to
:08:31. > :08:35.a packet of cigarettes. There's no additional rise in alcohol to the
:08:35. > :08:40.plans they have already announced. There is no new changed to fuel
:08:40. > :08:44.duty, that is still meant a rise by 3p a litre in August. For business
:08:44. > :08:47.and industry, more enterprise zones will be created to try to boost
:08:47. > :08:53.business growth. And in public sector, the Chancellor has
:08:53. > :08:57.confirmed plans to explore regional pay rates for civil servants.
:08:57. > :09:00.Pensioners' groups have reacted with anger to the unexpected
:09:00. > :09:03.changes to the age-related tax allowance. Current allowances will
:09:03. > :09:07.be frozen for existing pensioners and abolish the those people who
:09:07. > :09:16.retire after next April. For reaction to that and others, Danny
:09:16. > :09:22.For many pensioners, the news that their tax-free allowance was to be
:09:22. > :09:26.frozen was greeted with surprise and dismay today. Cliff and Edna
:09:26. > :09:30.are just two of millions of pensioners who will be worse off
:09:30. > :09:34.because of what has been dubbed by some as the granny tax. I don't
:09:34. > :09:38.think it is fair, really. Pensioners have paid all of their
:09:38. > :09:46.lives into the tax system and they seem to get penalised and left
:09:46. > :09:50.behind. I don't think we should pay tax, to be honest. But the
:09:50. > :09:56.government says it is not a tax rise and stressed that older people
:09:56. > :09:59.will benefit from a �5.30 a week increase in their state pension,
:09:59. > :10:03.making them significantly better off. And not everyone feels
:10:03. > :10:11.aggrieved about today's announcement. I'm not unduly
:10:11. > :10:16.worried at the moment. Financial circumstances, OK, we can manage.
:10:16. > :10:22.He Wells was affected? The personal tax allowance for 24 million people
:10:23. > :10:27.is going up, meaning they can earn more before paying any tax. They
:10:27. > :10:31.include 23-year-old Sophie. She works part-time in shops in
:10:31. > :10:35.Northallerton, earns less than �10,000 a year and could find
:10:35. > :10:41.herself lifted out of the tax system altogether. Extra money is
:10:41. > :10:45.always good. It allows me to work a couple more hours without worrying
:10:45. > :10:51.about income tax. I can put money towards things I really want. Pay
:10:51. > :10:55.off my debts. What about the other end of the scale? Charles is in the
:10:55. > :11:01.50% tax rate bracket. The managing director of the town's department
:11:01. > :11:07.store, he says cutting the top rate of tax was not a priority for him.
:11:07. > :11:11.What is much more important is that the lower threshold is raised. That
:11:11. > :11:16.will put more money into people's pockets. It will be more people
:11:16. > :11:20.through the doors with more money to spend. Changes to child benefit
:11:20. > :11:25.was another big issue today. Mother of one Lisa was facing losing all
:11:26. > :11:30.of her allowance under recent proposals, but after this Budget,
:11:30. > :11:36.the 40% tax rate payer will now hold on to some of it, but she is
:11:36. > :11:42.still not happy. I don't think it is fair that my neighbours, with a
:11:42. > :11:46.joint income of �90,000, can still bring in the full child benefit
:11:46. > :11:54.whereas me, as one earner earning above the threshold will be
:11:54. > :11:59.penalised. I think it is a really unjust system. So which side of the
:11:59. > :12:08.Chancellor have you seen today? That, of course, depends on your
:12:08. > :12:11.As we heard earlier, the Chancellor says it is a Budget for working
:12:11. > :12:16.people with millions benefiting from tax cuts and the rich paying
:12:16. > :12:21.more. Labour says more cash should have gone to the poorest groups.
:12:21. > :12:25.Stephanie Flanders is here to explain who is bearing the heaviest
:12:25. > :12:28.burden. A big picture on the economy and the public finances has
:12:29. > :12:32.changed hardly at all in this Budget. What the Chancellor gave
:12:32. > :12:37.with one hand, he took away with the other. As we have heard, the
:12:37. > :12:44.hot issue was how much he had given or taken from the very rich. Mr
:12:44. > :12:49.Osborne said new taxes would have them paying another �780 million a
:12:49. > :12:53.year by 2014. For example that is through a higher stamp duty on �2
:12:53. > :12:59.million plus homes, but there was a cut in the top rate of income tax
:12:59. > :13:04.from 50% to 45% for anyone earning more than �150,000 a year. High
:13:04. > :13:10.earners don't react to this change at all, it will cost the Treasury
:13:10. > :13:15.�3 billion. But that top 1% have taken such efforts to avoid the new
:13:15. > :13:20.tax, the Revenue says the actual cost will be �100 million, if that.
:13:20. > :13:24.A lot of money will come back into the tax system. The Office for
:13:24. > :13:27.Budget Responsibility say that is reasonable, but usually uncertain.
:13:27. > :13:32.There's a gamble in play because they are banking on people paying
:13:32. > :13:36.more tax overall. The difficulty they will have his around people's
:13:36. > :13:40.behaviour. Will they bring in the revenue based on some assumptions
:13:40. > :13:43.that are not guaranteed come through? It is a brave move, but
:13:43. > :13:49.they think there's a possibility of the revenue coming through. We know
:13:49. > :13:56.they can do it. Top earners moved more than �16 billion worth of
:13:56. > :14:00.taxable income into 2009 solely to avoid the 50p rate. But experts,
:14:00. > :14:04.including the OBR, say there's no guarantee the money lost will come
:14:04. > :14:08.back. You can say for sure that most middle and low-income
:14:08. > :14:13.households will gain from this Budget. That rise in the personal
:14:13. > :14:17.allowance cost the Chancellor �3.5 billion in the last year of the
:14:17. > :14:22.parliament and will lift 800,000 people out of tax altogether. After
:14:22. > :14:27.inflation, that means on average a �170 a year game for basic-rate
:14:27. > :14:31.taxpayers. There's also the change to child benefit which will cost
:14:31. > :14:37.630 million and help households on 40 to �50,000 a year keep their
:14:37. > :14:42.benefit. But he is partly paying for this by freezing the allowances
:14:42. > :14:46.for pensioners, in effect a tax rise for them worth nearly �700
:14:46. > :14:50.million in 2014, and a billion after that. None of these changes
:14:51. > :15:00.will affect the many who don't pay tax now. That includes the poorest
:15:01. > :15:05.
:15:05. > :15:08.The Budget is giving some money to lower rate taxpayers, and for those
:15:08. > :15:13.earning over �150,000 they are giving more, but the truth is that
:15:13. > :15:17.not much of any great significance has changed. One big thing that has
:15:17. > :15:22.not changed is the seven new squeeze on public finances that we
:15:22. > :15:26.are not even halfway through. Today the Chancellor said it could mean
:15:26. > :15:33.further cuts in the welfare Budget of 10 million a year, three times
:15:33. > :15:39.what he has just spent on the personal allowance. The picture for
:15:39. > :15:44.the Budget and the economy is still pretty bleak. Thank you. What does
:15:44. > :15:49.the business community make of these changes? What is the
:15:49. > :15:53.political verdict tonight? Nick Robinson in Downing Street for us
:15:53. > :15:59.and Robert Peston is in the studio. Robert, what other business people
:15:59. > :16:05.telling you? I have got to tell you, I don't remember a more positive
:16:05. > :16:12.reaction to a Budget for many many years. That is not altogether
:16:12. > :16:19.surprising. The Chancellor cut the rate of corporation tax by 1% above
:16:19. > :16:25.what they had been expecting. That is �800 million a year into company
:16:25. > :16:30.coffers. That takes the rate of corporation tax to 24%, it will be
:16:30. > :16:35.22% on the Chancellor's plans by 2014, and he made a strong signal
:16:35. > :16:41.that he wants to see it reduced to 20%, which would be the lowest rate
:16:41. > :16:45.of any of the major developed economies. And then, business
:16:45. > :16:50.leaders have been arguing very strongly for a cut in the top rate
:16:50. > :16:54.of income tax. That is partly because they say it is very hard to
:16:54. > :17:03.keep internationally mobile business talent if the rate of
:17:03. > :17:07.income tax is higher than in other countries. That is fantastically
:17:07. > :17:12.beneficial if you are a business. For every million pounds of salary
:17:12. > :17:17.you earn, you get an extra �50,000 from that 5% cut in the top rate of
:17:17. > :17:21.income tax. So they got perhaps more than they wanted. The
:17:21. > :17:25.Chancellor now wants them to deliver on their end of the bargain.
:17:25. > :17:29.A rather shocking disclosures from the Office for Budget
:17:29. > :17:33.Responsibility, the assessment of the economy. They think business
:17:33. > :17:37.investment will remain flat for some time to come. The Chancellor
:17:37. > :17:40.wants them to reward him and the economy by beginning to invest more
:17:40. > :17:47.and to hire more so that what he has given them can be given back to
:17:47. > :17:51.all of us. Thank you. That is a big tick from business. What about the
:17:51. > :17:55.political fall-out? That is precisely why the Chancellor has
:17:55. > :18:00.done what he has done. George Osborne was the architect of the
:18:00. > :18:05.phrase "we are all in it together at", so why did he said casually
:18:05. > :18:11.ripped it up? Why did he give the opposition the many lines that Ed
:18:11. > :18:15.Miliband deployed today? It is for economic reasons. The Chancellor is
:18:15. > :18:20.a sceptic about the idea that he can get the economy moving with a
:18:20. > :18:26.scheme or two. He has rejected Labour's advice that he should
:18:26. > :18:29.spend more now. There are long-term reforms, we heard this week about
:18:29. > :18:33.getting cash to small businesses and building new roads and
:18:33. > :18:38.infrastructure, but the big thing he thinks that he can do is but a
:18:38. > :18:41.great big signpost over Britain saying "open for business" and he
:18:41. > :18:45.things you do that by doing things that are potentially unpopular with
:18:45. > :18:51.everything else, saying you will cut taxes for rich businessmen and
:18:51. > :18:55.for businesses and business women. That is his gamble. Labour's gamble
:18:55. > :18:59.is that that will be so unpopular that if people look at the detail
:18:59. > :19:04.and complain may be about what some are calling a granny tax, they will
:19:04. > :19:07.see an unfairness and think it is not right. There is a long time
:19:07. > :19:12.between now and the general election. Labour are not saying
:19:12. > :19:15.they would reverse this cut in the top rate of tax. Alastair Darling
:19:15. > :19:20.in the last government suggested that 50 pence rate itself would be
:19:20. > :19:24.temporary. But the gamble that is now been taking his will George
:19:24. > :19:27.Osborne be proved right about the economics and will that trod the
:19:27. > :19:35.politics of people saying, millionairess get the money,
:19:35. > :19:38.millions pay for it? For everything you need to know about the Budget,
:19:39. > :19:48.including our Budget calculator which can help you work out what
:19:49. > :19:51.has changed for you, you can go to Coming up on tonight's programme:
:19:51. > :20:01.Across France, people pause to remember the victims of the
:20:01. > :20:02.
:20:02. > :20:07.A British woman who has been held hostage in Somalia for the past six
:20:07. > :20:10.months has been freed. Judith Tebbutt was released with the help
:20:10. > :20:15.of a private security firm which negotiated a ransom, paid by her
:20:15. > :20:18.family. Mrs Tebbutt's husband, David, was killed during the
:20:18. > :20:26.kidnapping, which happened at a beach resort in Kenya. Frank
:20:26. > :20:30.Gardner has the story. The final steps to freedom, then a
:20:30. > :20:35.rush to the plane that would fly her out of Somalia. Judith Tebbutt
:20:35. > :20:41.this morning, escorted by a private security contractor. Minutes
:20:41. > :20:51.earlier, she spoke of her husband, murdered by pirates. I did not know
:20:51. > :20:58.
:20:58. > :21:06.he had died. Dot -- until about two weeks from... My capture. I just
:21:06. > :21:13.assumed he was alive but then my son told me that he had died.
:21:13. > :21:18.ordeal began here, in Miss hut, six months ago. A secluded Kenyan beach
:21:18. > :21:22.resort where she and her husband were the only guests. Somebody
:21:22. > :21:28.tipped off Somali kidnappers and shortly after midnight, gunmen came
:21:28. > :21:31.to get them. Judith's husband David was shot dead. She was carried off
:21:32. > :21:37.to a waiting speedboat. Kenyan police searched for Judith but she
:21:37. > :21:47.was already in Somalia. This was in effect an international kidnapping.
:21:47. > :21:49.
:21:49. > :21:52.Judith Tebbutt was seized in northern Kenya on September 11th.
:21:52. > :21:58.The pirates moved her to different locations, before she was finally
:21:58. > :22:03.flown out to Nairobi today. She spoke earlier to her son who had
:22:04. > :22:07.arranged her release. I am so excited! There were some tense
:22:07. > :22:12.moments this morning on a Somali airstrip when her release looked
:22:12. > :22:18.like being delayed but then she was off, whisked to safety in Kenya.
:22:18. > :22:22.Two former hostages know the feeling. The process of release is
:22:22. > :22:28.perhaps 30 hours of travelling towards freedom. You really get on
:22:28. > :22:32.an adrenalin high, it is absolutely fantastic to realise you are free.
:22:32. > :22:35.Judith Tebbutt arrived in Nairobi this afternoon in the care of the
:22:35. > :22:39.British High Commission. The British Government says it did not
:22:39. > :22:44.pay a ransom for her release. A family friend says the money was
:22:44. > :22:47.raised privately and that it was substantial.
:22:47. > :22:49.The Ministry of Defence has announced that a soldier from the
:22:49. > :22:53.Second Battalion, The Mercian Regiment has been killed in
:22:53. > :22:59.Afghanistan. The soldier died in an explosion in the Nahr-e Saraj
:22:59. > :23:02.district of Helmand Province. His family has been informed.
:23:02. > :23:04.Police in France say the man suspected of shooting dead seven
:23:04. > :23:09.people, including three Jewish children, had been planning another
:23:09. > :23:13.attack. Muhammed Merah, who is of Algerian origin, has been
:23:13. > :23:19.surrounded in an apartment block in Toulouse since early this morning.
:23:20. > :23:24.Christian Fraser has been following the day's events.
:23:24. > :23:28.Police commanders are on site. The street lights next to his apartment
:23:28. > :23:35.has been turned off. And it is a waiting game. But patience is
:23:35. > :23:40.wearing thin. He is 23-year-old Mohammed Merah, a French citizen of
:23:41. > :23:48.large European origin who said he killed on the orders of Al-Qaeda. -
:23:48. > :23:54.- Algerian origin. The he later escaped in 2007 from Afghanistan in
:23:54. > :23:58.a jail break, orchestrated by the Taliban. The siege is entering its
:23:58. > :24:03.19th hour. Police said the gunman is stubborn and determined. Twice
:24:03. > :24:06.he has indicated he will surrender, but they still wait. The main
:24:06. > :24:11.concern for police is that he might try to take some of them with him
:24:11. > :24:16.and they cannot be absolutely sure what weapons and explosives he has
:24:16. > :24:20.been his flat. As teams tried to force their way into his flat this
:24:20. > :24:25.morning, there was an exchange of fire in which two policemen were
:24:25. > :24:29.shot. We have now spoken to the man who yesterday afternoon handed to
:24:29. > :24:33.police their key piece of information. 10 days ago, Mohammed
:24:33. > :24:36.Merah came to this Yamaha dealership in Toulouse to find out
:24:36. > :24:43.how to disable the tracking device on his scooter and how he might
:24:43. > :24:48.dismantle it. This man has known the killer since he was a teenager.
:24:48. > :24:52.TRANSLATION: He seemed a normal kid, a bit more unruly than others, and
:24:52. > :24:57.he did have a criminal record, but there was nothing that made me
:24:57. > :25:03.think he was capable of such atrocious acts. At least, not until
:25:03. > :25:08.Monday's attack on a Jewish school. A description of the bike scene at
:25:08. > :25:12.the scene reminded this garage owner of the Mohammed Merah's
:25:12. > :25:19.conversation. Police believe they have stopped a further attack
:25:19. > :25:23.planned for today. Meanwhile, Mr Sarkozy paid tribute to the
:25:23. > :25:28.sacrifice of the soldiers shot dead. A French soldier understands the
:25:28. > :25:31.meaning of duty and knows death, he said, but a paratrooper does not
:25:31. > :25:36.expect to be executed in his own country by one of his own
:25:36. > :25:43.countrymen, and there will be anger tonight that a known fundamentalist,
:25:43. > :25:44.years under surveillance, was allowed to kill seven times.
:25:44. > :25:49.Doctors treating the Bolton Wanderers footballer, Fabrice
:25:49. > :25:53.Muamba, say he is continuing to show signs of recovery. They have
:25:53. > :25:56.told the BBC he was effectively dead for more than an hour after he
:25:56. > :26:00.suffered a cardiac arrest during the game against Spurs on Saturday.
:26:00. > :26:04.A cardiologist, who was at the game and came to help the player,
:26:04. > :26:07.described his recovery as miraculous.
:26:07. > :26:11.Taking a daily dose of aspirin from middle age may well protect people
:26:11. > :26:14.against cancer. The latest evidence, based on new research, suggests
:26:14. > :26:19.that a daily dose would not only cut the risk of developing the
:26:19. > :26:21.disease but also reduces the chance of it spreading to other organs.
:26:21. > :26:30.Cancer Research UK says the findings are exciting, as Fergus
:26:30. > :26:34.Walsh explains. A new weapon against cancer? This
:26:34. > :26:39.research suggests that in daily low dose of aspirin not only reduces
:26:39. > :26:44.the risk of contracting cancer, but also of the disease spreading,
:26:44. > :26:48.which is one of the main threats to survival. Aspirin prevented the
:26:48. > :26:53.spread of existing cancer, so people in the trials who were
:26:53. > :26:56.taking aspirin were about a third less likely to have spread of their
:26:56. > :27:02.cancer when they were diagnosed and only half as likely for the cancer
:27:02. > :27:05.to spread subsequently after the diagnosis. Aspirin is one of the
:27:05. > :27:10.cheapest drugs on the market and is already used to prevent heart
:27:10. > :27:14.disease and stroke among high risk patients. But it carries with it
:27:14. > :27:21.the risk of internal bleeding in the stomach, intestines and brain,
:27:21. > :27:26.and doctors say these risks should not be underestimated. We know that
:27:26. > :27:30.even more patience, perhaps as many as 10 or 20%, will have serious
:27:30. > :27:35.adverse reaction to aspirin and that could be serious gastro-
:27:35. > :27:38.intestinal bleeding, and that is much more serious in too late
:27:38. > :27:42.middle-age and 75 and above. What middle-aged people meet his
:27:42. > :27:47.guidance as to whether they should be taking a small daily dose of
:27:47. > :27:50.aspirin -- people need. But although this research is
:27:50. > :27:55.compelling, it is not definitive and more studies are needed before