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Calls for an inquiry into this year's GCSEs after England's exam | :00:09. | :00:14. | |
watchdog admits there was a problem. The grading system did change | :00:14. | :00:18. | |
between January and June for some English papers. Students are being | :00:18. | :00:23. | |
offered a resit. That is not enough, say many head teachers. We will not | :00:23. | :00:27. | |
be fudging this matter. We are strident and clear in our view that | :00:27. | :00:31. | |
this needs to be sorted out. We will have reaction from students | :00:31. | :00:35. | |
and parents. Her also tonight: the battle of the | :00:36. | :00:38. | |
billionaires - Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich wins a legal marathon | :00:38. | :00:44. | |
against fellow Russian Boris Berezovsky. | :00:44. | :00:48. | |
Her delight and despair at the Paralympics - Mark Colbourne breaks | :00:48. | :00:52. | |
his own world record to win his individual pursuit. But a | :00:52. | :00:54. | |
devastated Jody Cundy is disqualified after a false start. | :00:54. | :00:59. | |
His family vent their frustration. This was the most important race of | :00:59. | :01:03. | |
his life. He spent four years training for this, and they have | :01:03. | :01:08. | |
taken it away. I can't believe they were doing to him. | :01:08. | :01:12. | |
And wildfires on the Costa del Sol. Hundreds of Britons are evacuated | :01:12. | :01:19. | |
near the holiday resort of Marbella. Coming up on the BBC News Channel, | :01:20. | :01:22. | |
where will Clint Dempsey end up? We will have the latest on the | :01:22. | :01:32. | |
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transfer deadline moves in a Good evening. The row over this | :01:46. | :01:51. | |
year's GCSE results has deepened tonight after a report by England's | :01:51. | :01:54. | |
exam watchdog. Ofqual has admitted there was a problem with the | :01:54. | :01:59. | |
grading system for some English exams. It's said papers set in | :01:59. | :02:01. | |
January were marked more generously than those in June. Some students | :02:02. | :02:06. | |
are being offered a retake, but not having their marks upgraded. | :02:06. | :02:11. | |
Tonight there have been calls for an inquiry from Labour. This is an | :02:11. | :02:14. | |
issue that has angered students and teachers alike. | :02:14. | :02:19. | |
A week ago, there were scenes of celebration. But it was a day of | :02:19. | :02:25. | |
despair for others, with claims that the results of a GCSE English | :02:25. | :02:28. | |
exam were not fair. Teachers said the grade boundaries had been moved | :02:28. | :02:32. | |
halfway through the school year, meaning pupils who would have got a | :02:32. | :02:36. | |
C if they sat the paper in January ended up with a D in June. Today | :02:36. | :02:40. | |
Ofqual said there was a problem, but with the January exam, which | :02:40. | :02:45. | |
had been marked too generously, and the lower grades stand. We have | :02:45. | :02:49. | |
looked closely at the June units. They were award correctly and the | :02:49. | :02:54. | |
standard is right. But we found that in January, a unique set of | :02:54. | :02:58. | |
circumstances made it difficult for even professional examiners to be | :02:58. | :03:02. | |
sure at the time that they were making the right judgments. On | :03:02. | :03:07. | |
reflection, they were generous. Many headteachers and union leaders | :03:07. | :03:11. | |
had spoken to Ofqual this week, but as they watched the regulator give | :03:11. | :03:15. | |
the results of their investigation into the controversy, many were | :03:15. | :03:21. | |
shocked and angry. It is the worst of both worlds as far as I am | :03:21. | :03:26. | |
concerned, because if there is an acceptance here that the system has | :03:26. | :03:31. | |
not worked properly, particularly for students who took that | :03:31. | :03:35. | |
examination with a curate at the end of year 11. It is particularly | :03:35. | :03:41. | |
bad news for students like Sheridan. Predict today C, he was awarded a D | :03:41. | :03:44. | |
after the exam, and now it looks like he will miss out on an | :03:44. | :03:49. | |
apprenticeship. I was meant to start next week on Monday. But that | :03:49. | :03:56. | |
will not happen now. How can they impact on somebody's life over | :03:56. | :04:00. | |
changing grades to fit figures? They obviously need people to fail, | :04:00. | :04:08. | |
for some reason. It is horrendous, what they have done. The regulator | :04:08. | :04:11. | |
says it recognises the strength of feeling, and it is working with | :04:11. | :04:15. | |
exam boards to offer early resits for those who missed out on the | :04:15. | :04:20. | |
grade they need. A C can be crucial for anyone who wants to continue | :04:20. | :04:23. | |
their education or get an apprenticeship, but there are | :04:23. | :04:26. | |
people deeply concerned that any delay will mean they will miss out | :04:26. | :04:33. | |
on a job or a place. The assemblies in Northern Ireland, where some | :04:33. | :04:37. | |
pupils also sat the GCSE, have ordered reviews into these results, | :04:37. | :04:41. | |
and many questions will be asked over the performance not of peoples, | :04:41. | :04:47. | |
but over the exam board at the centre of this marking controversy. | :04:48. | :04:51. | |
As our political correspondent joins us now from Westminster. So | :04:51. | :04:55. | |
Labour have called for an inquiry. This puts it squarely in the | :04:55. | :05:01. | |
political field? It certainly does. If the Education Secretary Michael | :05:01. | :05:05. | |
Gove felt this would prefer a report from Ofqual would end a row, | :05:05. | :05:12. | |
he has been taught a harsh lesson. Not only are Labour calling for an | :05:12. | :05:16. | |
inquiry, but he will be subjected to harsh questions when Parliament | :05:16. | :05:21. | |
resumes on Monday. In addition, a cross-party group of MPs may hold | :05:21. | :05:24. | |
an inquiry of their own when they meet next Wednesday. I suspect that | :05:24. | :05:28. | |
Michael Gove will be on the front foot, though, next week. He will | :05:28. | :05:32. | |
say firstly that he will talk to Ofqual before deciding on further | :05:32. | :05:36. | |
action, and secondly that the whole exam system in England needs to be | :05:36. | :05:40. | |
radically reformed. He will take comfort from the fact that this | :05:40. | :05:44. | |
report exonerates him of any political interference in the exam | :05:44. | :05:48. | |
rows. But I imagine tonight that most pupils are not interested in | :05:48. | :05:53. | |
the politics of this, they are more worried about their own futures. | :05:53. | :05:57. | |
It has been billed as the battle of the billionaires, with the owner of | :05:57. | :06:00. | |
Chelsea Football Club on one side and a fellow Russian businessman on | :06:00. | :06:06. | |
the other. Today Roman Abramovich won his legal row with Boris | :06:06. | :06:09. | |
Berezovsky when the High Court in London rejected claims that he had | :06:09. | :06:12. | |
blackmailed Mr Berezovsky over an oil deal. Bridget Kendall reports | :06:12. | :06:17. | |
on a case that has lifted the lid on the sometimes murky work -- | :06:17. | :06:21. | |
world of post Soviet business. A courtroom clash of Russian titans, | :06:21. | :06:26. | |
a tale of alleged betrayal, blackmail and secret deals. | :06:26. | :06:33. | |
Arriving for the ruling this morning, exiled Kremlin Boris | :06:33. | :06:37. | |
Berezovsky seemed confident of victory. He had claimed that Roman | :06:37. | :06:40. | |
Abramovich forced him to sell valuable assets cheap, cheating him | :06:40. | :06:45. | |
out of billions of pounds. But in court, the judge said it was up to | :06:45. | :06:49. | |
Mr Berezovsky to back up his allegations, and the bottom line | :06:49. | :06:55. | |
was that she didn't believe him. Scathing, the judge said she found | :06:55. | :06:59. | |
him an unimpressive and unreliable witness who regarded truth as a | :06:59. | :07:05. | |
flexible concept. Outside, and it stays warm of journalists, Mr | :07:05. | :07:10. | |
Berezovsky admitted that he was flabbergasted. I am absolutely | :07:10. | :07:14. | |
amazed with what happened today. I am surprised completely. Sometimes | :07:14. | :07:21. | |
I think putting himself a supporter this judge. Instead, it was the | :07:21. | :07:24. | |
owner of Chelsea Football Club, Roman Abramovich, who had cause to | :07:24. | :07:28. | |
cheer today. Thank you the judge, he said he felt comprehensively | :07:28. | :07:33. | |
vindicated. It is a far cry from 15 years ago, when back in Russia, | :07:33. | :07:37. | |
both Mr Abramovich and Mr Berezovsky were oligarchs, self- | :07:37. | :07:43. | |
made billionaires jointly profiting from Russia's Wild West capitalism, | :07:43. | :07:47. | |
both enjoying a jet-setting lifestyle. They fell out when Mr | :07:47. | :07:51. | |
Berezovsky lost favour with President Britain, and now they are | :07:51. | :07:54. | |
both in London and have brought their quarrels with them. This is | :07:54. | :07:58. | |
the spot in London's Sloane Street where Boris Berezovsky, who had | :07:58. | :08:02. | |
been shopping in one designer store, suddenly dimmed his rival at | :08:02. | :08:10. | |
another shop down the street. So he marched towards him and served a | :08:10. | :08:14. | |
writ to him, saying, here is a present for you. Arriving to give | :08:14. | :08:18. | |
evidence, the two would come face- to-face again during a trial which | :08:18. | :08:21. | |
experts think could be the most expensive legal case ever involving | :08:21. | :08:26. | |
individuals. There are a couple of cases I know about where you are | :08:27. | :08:31. | |
talking �1 million a day for trial costs. This case has run for 70 | :08:31. | :08:36. | |
days, so you are talking somewhere in the region of up to �150 million | :08:36. | :08:41. | |
for this case. It is still unclear what costs Mr Berezovsky might face. | :08:41. | :08:45. | |
They could cut deep. These days, his wealth is estimated at a mere | :08:45. | :08:49. | |
half a billion pounds, but it does not seem likely that this case will | :08:49. | :08:56. | |
stop the trend of Russian tycoons seeking justice in London. | :08:56. | :08:59. | |
There was triumph and despair for Great Britain's Paralympic team | :08:59. | :09:03. | |
today, with more gold, silver and bronze medal winners. But there was | :09:03. | :09:08. | |
also disappointment for the cyclist Jody Cundy, who was controversially | :09:08. | :09:11. | |
disqualified in the individual time-trial. Here is a round-up of | :09:11. | :09:15. | |
the day's action. In was almost as though he had won | :09:15. | :09:20. | |
already, but Mark Colbourne's Crace had not even started yet. Such had | :09:20. | :09:23. | |
been his dominance in qualifying for the final of the individual | :09:23. | :09:26. | |
pursuit at the Bush supporters were already sure they knew the outcome. | :09:26. | :09:30. | |
Three years ago, Mark Colbourne broke his back in a paragliding | :09:30. | :09:35. | |
accident. Yesterday, he won ParalympicsGB's first murder of the | :09:35. | :09:39. | |
Games, a silver. Here he was, cycling ruthlessly and relentlessly | :09:39. | :09:44. | |
towards a gold. He had broken his own world record in the process. | :09:44. | :09:50. | |
Britain had yet another champion of the velodrome. Jody Cundy's right | :09:50. | :09:53. | |
foot had been amputated when he was three. He won the kilometre time | :09:54. | :09:59. | |
trial in Beijing and was expected to do the same in London. But he | :09:59. | :10:03. | |
stumbled at the start, and then stopped, certain that under the | :10:03. | :10:08. | |
rules, he would be allowed a restart. The crowd and cyclists had | :10:08. | :10:12. | |
to wait impatiently while his coach spoke to the judges, and then a | :10:12. | :10:16. | |
verdict which didn't go down well. The decision had been taken that it | :10:16. | :10:25. | |
was wider, not technical error. And no second chance. Jody Cundy was | :10:25. | :10:28. | |
furious, swearing loudly, and at one stage had to be restrained. He | :10:28. | :10:32. | |
then started throwing his kit onto the floor. Outside, his parents | :10:32. | :10:35. | |
lambasted the judges, telling me their son would never get over what | :10:36. | :10:40. | |
happened. This was the most important race of his life. He | :10:40. | :10:44. | |
spent four years training for this and they took it away from him. I | :10:44. | :10:48. | |
can't believe they would do it to him. He is the most decent, honest | :10:48. | :10:54. | |
person living, and you have probably ruined his life. While | :10:54. | :10:58. | |
they then left the velodrome, consoling each other and clearly | :10:58. | :11:03. | |
distraught, their son reappeared to offer an apology. I said a few | :11:03. | :11:06. | |
things I maybe shouldn't have said, but in the heat of the moment, | :11:06. | :11:11. | |
having just seen my chance of defending my Paralympic title slip | :11:11. | :11:17. | |
out of my hands, I had a few choice words, and I apologised to anybody | :11:17. | :11:23. | |
that her bows. Hannah Cockcroft had already broken 21 world records | :11:23. | :11:27. | |
before these Games started, so it was no surprise to see her when | :11:27. | :11:30. | |
ParalympicsGB's first gold medal in the athletics stadium. The sitting | :11:30. | :11:35. | |
volleyball was notable for more than the result. For Martine Wright, | :11:35. | :11:37. | |
the number seven carries extra significance. She lost both legs in | :11:38. | :11:43. | |
the 7/7 bombings. Today she became a Paralympian. T come out today and | :11:43. | :11:49. | |
play for my country in front of my family, friends and the whole home | :11:49. | :11:52. | |
nation, has been one of the proudest moments I have ever had. | :11:52. | :11:56. | |
Tomorrow you will see more of this man. Jody Cundy has a second event. | :11:56. | :12:04. | |
The angry man could yet leave these games as a gold medallist. | :12:04. | :12:07. | |
The organisers of London 2012 say this will be the biggest and best | :12:07. | :12:10. | |
Paralympics ever, and that is not just about the athletes and the | :12:11. | :12:14. | |
number of spectators that have bought tickets. This year, the | :12:14. | :12:16. | |
Paralympics have attracted more commercial sponsorship than ever | :12:17. | :12:23. | |
before, but that is creating tensions. | :12:23. | :12:26. | |
The big names competing at the London Paralympics, this is | :12:26. | :12:30. | |
uncharted territory. Never before has a games attracted so much | :12:30. | :12:36. | |
commercial backing from so many household brands. And they don't | :12:36. | :12:41. | |
come bigger than the deal with Sainsbury's. In a first for the | :12:41. | :12:45. | |
Paralympics, the �20 million contract is not tied to the Olympic | :12:45. | :12:51. | |
Games. This is also the first time the TV rights have been sold in an | :12:51. | :12:55. | |
auction, Channel 4 pain around �9 million for the deal. Surely this | :12:56. | :13:00. | |
gold rush is good for the games? must ensure that we manage | :13:00. | :13:04. | |
ourselves well and ensure that our values are at the centre of what we | :13:04. | :13:08. | |
do. The London Games are a breakthrough for the Paralympic | :13:08. | :13:12. | |
movement, not only in terms of the ticket sales and the high levels of | :13:12. | :13:15. | |
public engagements and enthusiasm, but because of the added commercial | :13:16. | :13:19. | |
interest. But as with any big sports event these days, new | :13:19. | :13:25. | |
opportunities come attached with risks. Shame on you! He is a good | :13:25. | :13:29. | |
example. These protesters outside the Department for Work and | :13:29. | :13:33. | |
Pensions today are angry at one of the biggest Paralympics sponsors. | :13:33. | :13:37. | |
They are critical of the role they play for the Government in | :13:37. | :13:40. | |
assessing disabled people for welfare benefits, with some arguing | :13:40. | :13:45. | |
that there should be dropped from the Games altogether. Their role in | :13:45. | :13:48. | |
supporting the Paralympics, which for me as a former Paralympian, is | :13:48. | :13:53. | |
such an amazing opportunity to celebrate my life and my community, | :13:53. | :14:01. | |
to have a sponsor that is somehow appearing to take a very negative | :14:01. | :14:06. | |
perspective around disability, just doesn't feel like the right fit. | :14:06. | :14:09. | |
toss said it respected the campaigners' right to protest, but | :14:09. | :14:15. | |
added that the tests it conducted were professional and compassionate. | :14:15. | :14:18. | |
Visa are another big Paralympic backer, but the BBC has learnt that | :14:18. | :14:21. | |
they were threatened with legal action by a leading charity for | :14:21. | :14:25. | |
failing to deliver cash machines on the Olympic Park with audio | :14:25. | :14:30. | |
guidance. We don't do things like that lightly. We discussed it at | :14:30. | :14:39. | |
length, and we were very serious and we wanted change. Beazer said | :14:39. | :14:44. | |
it hadn't broken any equality laws, and in a statement added that a | :14:44. | :14:51. | |
change at short notice was not visible at a feasible, but all ATMs | :14:51. | :14:56. | |
are equipped with keypads. The unique nature of the | :14:56. | :14:59. | |
Paralympics is one of the reasons for the warm embrace they are | :14:59. | :15:03. | |
receiving in London. The challenge for the movement as it grows is not | :15:03. | :15:11. | |
to compromise the value of the After two days of competition, | :15:11. | :15:14. | |
let's see how the medals table looks. China are top with 13 golds, | :15:14. | :15:17. | |
and Australia in second place with seven golds. Paralympics GB lie | :15:17. | :15:27. | |
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fourth in the table with four golds and 20 medals in total. | :15:32. | :15:34. | |
The Republican candidate for the American Presidential election, | :15:34. | :15:37. | |
Mitt Romney, has accused Barack Obama of failing to deliver the | :15:37. | :15:39. | |
change he promised America. In his keynote speech at his party's | :15:40. | :15:42. | |
convention in Florida, Mr Romney promised to create 12 million jobs | :15:42. | :15:45. | |
and cut the national deficit. Our North America editor Mark Mardell | :15:45. | :15:52. | |
was there and has sent this report from Tampa. | :15:52. | :15:58. | |
The band played Gimme Some Loving, and the entire build-up was about | :15:58. | :16:01. | |
provoking passion in the crowd. In between the music they had been | :16:01. | :16:06. | |
told stories bringing alive Mitt, the man, a compassionate, loving | :16:06. | :16:09. | |
leader. His disappointment with the economy, with the president. Many | :16:10. | :16:13. | |
in his party feel a fury towards President Obama, but his tone was | :16:14. | :16:18. | |
more sorrow than anger. What happened, he asked, to all that | :16:18. | :16:21. | |
excitement four years ago? You know there's something wrong with the | :16:21. | :16:25. | |
kind of job he's done as president when the best feeling you had was | :16:25. | :16:30. | |
the day you voted for him. He said he'd wanted Obama to succeed | :16:30. | :16:33. | |
because he'd wanted America to succeed, but now it was time to | :16:33. | :16:36. | |
restore the promise of America. President Obama promised to begin | :16:36. | :16:41. | |
to slow the rise of the oceans. LAUGHTER | :16:41. | :16:45. | |
And to heal the planet. LAUGHTER | :16:45. | :16:47. | |
My promise is to help you and your family. | :16:47. | :16:57. | |
APPLAUSE Earlier, the evening's careful | :16:57. | :17:02. | |
choreography took a stumble with the star guest's bizarre rambling | :17:02. | :17:08. | |
contribution. Clint Eastwood pretended he was talking to an | :17:08. | :17:11. | |
invisible President Obama. What do you want me to tell Romney? I can't | :17:11. | :17:17. | |
tell a man to do that to himself. You're absolutely crazy. In the | :17:17. | :17:21. | |
eyes of his audience he redeemed himself with a catchphrase made to | :17:21. | :17:31. | |
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go with a magnum. I started it. You finish it. Go ahead... Make my day. | :17:31. | :17:35. | |
It hardly made Mitt Romney's day. He'd rather have the voters talking | :17:35. | :17:41. | |
about his word, places like Florida. It has huge economic problems, and | :17:41. | :17:45. | |
his central promise is to create 12 million new jobs in America. A | :17:45. | :17:47. | |
third of all voters in this state are independent, and his speech was | :17:48. | :17:50. | |
artfully designed to appeal to those in the centre ground. It was | :17:50. | :17:55. | |
focused on the economy, and there was little to alarm the undecided. | :17:55. | :18:01. | |
Are you hungry today? This hotel owner is one of those. She voted | :18:01. | :18:06. | |
for Obama last time and now thinks he's failed, but she's repulsed by | :18:06. | :18:11. | |
some Republican speeches. After the speech, she's warming to Mr Romney. | :18:11. | :18:15. | |
He does have a different approach, and I do think he seems to be | :18:15. | :18:18. | |
somebody who can maybe work collectively and solve a problem. | :18:18. | :18:21. | |
This is what I thought Obama would do, you know, pull everyone | :18:21. | :18:25. | |
together, but he never pulled anyone together. To win, Mitt | :18:25. | :18:29. | |
Romney needs Americans to at least like him, if not love him - a | :18:29. | :18:33. | |
little late. He has started telling his story. | :18:33. | :18:42. | |
Coming up on tonight's programme: The modern make-over that's | :18:42. | :18:49. | |
transformed historic Hadrian's Wall - a light show from end to end. | :18:50. | :18:52. | |
Thousands of people have been forced to flee from a huge wildfire | :18:53. | :18:56. | |
raging in southern Spain. Homes and hotels on the Costa Del Sol have | :18:56. | :18:58. | |
been evacuated, with many people, including hundreds of Britons, | :18:58. | :19:00. | |
taking shelter in temporary accommodation. From Marbella, Tom | :19:00. | :19:08. | |
Burridge reports. Fanned by hot winds, the fire moved | :19:08. | :19:11. | |
quickly through an area of countryside in the heart of Spain's | :19:11. | :19:18. | |
Costa del Sol. The flames destroyed homes, apartments and businesses | :19:18. | :19:25. | |
not far from the resort of Marbella. Dozens of aircraft and hundreds of | :19:25. | :19:29. | |
firefighters and military personnel were drafted in. At one point, | :19:29. | :19:34. | |
Spain's main coastal motorway was cut off by the flames. Some people | :19:34. | :19:38. | |
here have lost everything. The fire began overnight in the | :19:38. | :19:44. | |
hills north of Marbella. Thousands of people were forced to flee with | :19:44. | :19:49. | |
what they could. Some took their animals too. | :19:49. | :19:53. | |
One man died in his home. Some reports suggest he'd been evacuated, | :19:53. | :20:00. | |
but chose to return. Many people took refuge in emergency centres. | :20:00. | :20:05. | |
Around 300 British tourists and British ex-pats among them. Claire | :20:05. | :20:11. | |
Lloyd lives near Marbella. She was woken in the middle of the night. | :20:11. | :20:15. | |
They said, just get out in English and in Spanish, so we just | :20:15. | :20:18. | |
literally left. We didn't grab handbags or anything. We just left | :20:18. | :20:21. | |
because it was frightening. Tonight, helicopters were still fighting the | :20:21. | :20:28. | |
last of the flames. Up on the hillside here, there's a | :20:28. | :20:32. | |
burnt smell in the air. This is a town just north of Marbella. The | :20:32. | :20:36. | |
fire is now almost under control, but as you can see, there's a thick, | :20:36. | :20:41. | |
dark layer of smoke in the sky above these hills. | :20:41. | :20:47. | |
Tonight, Spain seems to be winning the battle, but at a great cost. In | :20:47. | :20:51. | |
a country that needs all the revenue it can get from its vital | :20:51. | :21:01. | |
Six months ago, a BBC News investigation unveiled scores of | :21:01. | :21:04. | |
illegal immigrants were living in sheds and outbuildings and forced | :21:04. | :21:08. | |
to pay high rents. Now Ministers say they want to clamp down on the | :21:08. | :21:14. | |
rogue landlords and clear out the so-called beds in sheds. Chris | :21:14. | :21:17. | |
Rogers has been given exclusive access to a police raid in West | :21:17. | :21:21. | |
London. This doorway leads to one of | :21:22. | :21:25. | |
Britain's modern-day slums in Southall, West London. Inside, | :21:25. | :21:29. | |
illegal immigrants cramped in rented rooms. Accommodation extends | :21:29. | :21:34. | |
to the garden in so-called sheds with beds. | :21:34. | :21:38. | |
These outer buildings are often constructed without planning | :21:38. | :21:41. | |
permission. They can be dangerous with exposed wiring and poor | :21:41. | :21:45. | |
sanitation. Get changed. Put some clothes on. | :21:45. | :21:50. | |
They're offered as a cheaper alternative to people struggling to | :21:50. | :21:54. | |
meet higher rents, mainly Indian and Pakistani illegal immigrants. | :21:54. | :21:59. | |
There is noes cape - even through the back doors that lead to | :21:59. | :22:02. | |
surrounding alleyways. So how many of you are living in | :22:02. | :22:07. | |
this shed? Five. Five of you? Three in there, two in there. It's | :22:07. | :22:12. | |
cramped, small. The message, the Ministers | :22:12. | :22:15. | |
responsible for housing and immigration want to get across, is | :22:15. | :22:20. | |
"We're dealing with it." Councils have been given more power and | :22:20. | :22:23. | |
money. This is a pretty sophisticated shed if I ever saw | :22:23. | :22:26. | |
one. Had that been stopped right at the early stage, we wouldn't be | :22:26. | :22:31. | |
ending up with streets of buildings like this with, you know, lots of | :22:31. | :22:34. | |
people shoved into small spaces, but this needs to be actually | :22:34. | :22:38. | |
tackled by the councils on a planning basis from the outset, and | :22:38. | :22:42. | |
they need to show an example by knocking some of these down. | :22:42. | :22:45. | |
there's thousands of them. Yes, and you have to start somewhere. | :22:45. | :22:48. | |
the focus of operations like this one, targeting six houses in one | :22:48. | :22:52. | |
street, is not to flush out illegal immigrants, but to prosecute the | :22:52. | :22:57. | |
landlords who exploit them. It's a national problem, but the | :22:58. | :23:02. | |
highest concentration is found in Southall. Hundreds of rogue | :23:02. | :23:06. | |
landlords are providing slum-like accommodation for a total of around | :23:06. | :23:13. | |
�800 a month. 22 illegal immigrants were found, including a child. 14 | :23:13. | :23:18. | |
were living in illegal sheds with beds. Their landlords now face | :23:18. | :23:22. | |
prosecution. We'll continue to work with other agency, but we do need | :23:22. | :23:27. | |
more powers. We need powers to actually enforce and take to court | :23:27. | :23:32. | |
immediately rather than just issue warnings. Just a mile from | :23:32. | :23:37. | |
Southall's slum, you find dozens of illegal immigrants sleeping rough | :23:37. | :23:41. | |
under motorway bridges like this one. Migrant welfare groups have | :23:41. | :23:45. | |
warned a crackdown on sheds with beds could force many more | :23:45. | :23:55. | |
:23:55. | :23:58. | ||
immigrants onto the streets. Tennis, and at the US Open Laura | :23:58. | :24:01. | |
Robson has become the first British woman to reach the fourth round of | :24:01. | :24:04. | |
a Grand Slam tournament for 14 years. The 18-year-old Olympic | :24:04. | :24:07. | |
silver medallist beat the ninth seed China's Li Na in three sets. | :24:07. | :24:17. | |
:24:17. | :24:19. | ||
Her next match will be against reigning champion Sam Stosur. | :24:19. | :24:22. | |
It's one of Britain's most famous historic sites, but right now | :24:22. | :24:27. | |
Hadrian's Wall is getting a rather modern make over. 400 colourful | :24:27. | :24:29. | |
balloons containing pulsating lights have been installed along | :24:29. | :24:32. | |
the entire length of the wall. Our arts correspondent David Sillito is | :24:32. | :24:38. | |
there. In the cold, damp darkness, a ribbon of colour. Two-year-old | :24:38. | :24:47. | |
Ethan was entranced. Blue! A 73- mile long line of 400 giant bobbing | :24:47. | :24:50. | |
balloons illuminating Hadrian's Wall. I describe myself as nerd | :24:50. | :24:59. | |
artist. A nerd artist? Yeah. A bit of technology, a bit of art. Mm-hmm. | :24:59. | :25:04. | |
500 people... Yeah. Putting up some balloons... Yeah. On an old Roman | :25:04. | :25:09. | |
wall. Yeah. It's mad. They glow. They blink. They shimmer. The | :25:09. | :25:14. | |
colours controlled by the watching crowds via smartphone, Hadrian's | :25:14. | :25:18. | |
Wall reimagined not as a barrier, but a place to meet, gaze and | :25:18. | :25:24. | |
wonder - what's it all about? is about exploring new | :25:24. | :25:29. | |
possibilities, new realities and also that artists are kind of the | :25:29. | :25:32. | |
R&D department for humanity, and this is our vision of a possible | :25:32. | :25:38. | |
future. And this is just one of what's been a series of outdoor | :25:38. | :25:43. | |
spectacles. Festival 2012 aimed to make culture part of our Olympic | :25:43. | :25:47. | |
moment. So have we noticed amidst this summer of sport? At the end of | :25:47. | :25:52. | |
July, we were ahead of target with 9.6 million free tickets already | :25:52. | :25:59. | |
taken up, and we'd said we'd get ten million for the whole Festival. | :25:59. | :26:03. | |
Whee! Hello. This is an amazing experience. I have never seen | :26:03. | :26:08. | |
Hadrian's Wall, and perhaps this is (Babbles) | :26:08. | :26:16. |