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Tonight at 10pm: Turmoil for rail companies, and the government | :00:10. | :00:13. | |
accepts responsibility. The decision to deprive Virgin of | :00:13. | :00:16. | |
the West Coast franchise is cancelled, as ministers blame civil | :00:16. | :00:23. | |
servants for mishandling the bid. What has happened is unacceptable, | :00:23. | :00:26. | |
deeply regrettable and of course I apologise. We have made a big | :00:26. | :00:30. | |
mistake. The mistake could cost the tax | :00:30. | :00:33. | |
payer �40 million but rail experts say it's the entire system that's | :00:33. | :00:37. | |
wrong. I think this is a disgraceful shambles and it is not | :00:37. | :00:40. | |
the officials fought, it is the fault of the... | :00:41. | :00:43. | |
We'll be asking what impact this might have on the government's own | :00:44. | :00:47. | |
reputation. Also tonight: Police extend their | :00:47. | :00:49. | |
search for a missing five-year-old in Mid-Wales. April Jones | :00:49. | :00:59. | |
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disappeared on Monday evening. Her mother made this appeal. There must | :01:01. | :01:04. | |
be someone out there who knows where she is and can help the | :01:04. | :01:08. | |
police find her. A Syrian attack on a Turkish town | :01:08. | :01:14. | |
brings retaliation and an emergency In Manchester, thousands attend the | :01:14. | :01:18. | |
funeral of one of the police officers killed in a gun attack. | :01:18. | :01:21. | |
And back in the fold, but Kevin Petersen apologises for those | :01:21. | :01:31. | |
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Coming up in Sportsday on the BBC News Channel: Arsenal and | :01:32. | :01:42. | |
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Manchester City are both at home in Good evening. The future of the | :01:58. | :02:01. | |
West Coast rail franchise has been thrown into crisis because of a | :02:01. | :02:07. | |
series of embarrassing mistakes by the Department for Transport. The | :02:07. | :02:11. | |
decision to take the franchise away from Virgin Rail and award it to | :02:11. | :02:13. | |
FirstGroup has now been cancelled, and ministers say the bids were | :02:13. | :02:23. | |
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handled incorrectly. Three civil servants have been suspended. | :02:23. | :02:29. | |
At stake, a 5 billion pound contract to run one of Britain's | :02:29. | :02:34. | |
busiest and most lucrative rail lines, the West Coast. Virgin have | :02:34. | :02:40. | |
run the service for 15 years. Two of months ago, they were told | :02:40. | :02:46. | |
FirstGroup would be taking over. Virgin cried foul. The brand new | :02:47. | :02:52. | |
Transport Secretary stuck by the decision. I am satisfied that due | :02:52. | :02:55. | |
diligence was taken by the Department and therefore the | :02:55. | :03:01. | |
intention is to go ahead. It was about to go to court. Then, a | :03:01. | :03:04. | |
remarkable confession. The government had got its sums wrong. | :03:04. | :03:10. | |
What has happened is an acceptable, deeply regrettable and I apologise. | :03:10. | :03:16. | |
We have made a big mistake. So what exactly went wrong? It seems | :03:16. | :03:19. | |
incredible but government experts made basic mistakes in their | :03:19. | :03:24. | |
calculations. They forgot to include inflation and failed to | :03:24. | :03:29. | |
count passenger numbers properly. Areas that will cost the taxpayer | :03:29. | :03:35. | |
�40 million to put right. -- errors. For Richard Branson, it means that | :03:35. | :03:40. | |
Charles de bid again. Everybody at Virgin Trains are delighted. | :03:40. | :03:45. | |
Passengers are delighted as well. We did not want to have to go to | :03:45. | :03:51. | |
court. But his counterpart at FirstGroup saw 19% knocked from his | :03:51. | :03:55. | |
share price today. We were bitterly disappointed because the team had | :03:55. | :04:02. | |
worked so hard over so many mums and put together a great bid. -- | :04:02. | :04:05. | |
many months. The government is pointing the finger at civil | :04:05. | :04:11. | |
servants, three has been suspended, but questions will now be asked of | :04:11. | :04:15. | |
the last Transport Secretary, Justine Greening, who spent weeks | :04:15. | :04:21. | |
insisting that all was well. Labour went on the attack today. It is a | :04:21. | :04:25. | |
shambles Paul and �40 million of public money down the drain, and | :04:25. | :04:30. | |
until recently, the old and the new transport ministers were assuring | :04:30. | :04:34. | |
the public and parliament that this was a robust process. It has put | :04:34. | :04:39. | |
intense pressure on the system used for choosing rail contracts. | :04:40. | :04:43. | |
Politicians are deciding to do something which is basically | :04:43. | :04:48. | |
impossible. They are trying to get a 15 year franchise on a fixed | :04:48. | :04:53. | |
price revenue risk basis and it cannot be done. There is no chance | :04:53. | :04:57. | |
this mess will be cleaned up by that time Virgin's contract runs | :04:57. | :05:00. | |
out in December so the big question for customers: Who will keep the | :05:00. | :05:05. | |
trains running with the busy Christmas period and beyond, until | :05:05. | :05:10. | |
this sort this out? Minister's promise that services will not | :05:10. | :05:15. | |
suffer, but they are left with a hard choice. Take the line back | :05:15. | :05:19. | |
into public hands or make the embarrassing phone call to Sir | :05:20. | :05:27. | |
Richard Branson, asking for help. Our deputy political editor is at | :05:27. | :05:30. | |
the Labour Party conference in Manchester. What are your thoughts, | :05:30. | :05:34. | |
James, or the potential impact of this mess on the government's | :05:34. | :05:39. | |
reputation? It is clearly awful timing for the | :05:39. | :05:43. | |
government. Only this year, the government got into trouble at the | :05:43. | :05:49. | |
budget, confusion over tax changes, that prompted accusations of | :05:49. | :05:55. | |
incompetence. Along comes this mistake and it allows Labour in | :05:55. | :05:58. | |
Manchester to reopen that whole question of the government's | :05:58. | :06:02. | |
competence, when the government spent so much time trying to move | :06:02. | :06:07. | |
on from that. This is the last thing David Cameron wanted. He | :06:07. | :06:10. | |
asked for the franchise to be handled properly but it was not | :06:10. | :06:15. | |
done. But the wider question is is this a case of a few civil servants | :06:15. | :06:20. | |
getting their sums wrong or or is this another illustration of white | :06:20. | :06:24. | |
or getting into difficulties whenever it tries to spend large | :06:24. | :06:29. | |
amounts of taxpayers' money on big, private sector projects? Whether it | :06:29. | :06:34. | |
is NHS hospitals, transport, defence procurement and computer | :06:34. | :06:40. | |
systems. We do not know the odds are to that question. Either way, | :06:40. | :06:45. | |
the events of today damage business confidence, particularly in the way | :06:45. | :06:51. | |
they deal with government, and that can only damage the economy. | :06:51. | :06:54. | |
Police in Mid-Wales are extending their search for the missing five- | :06:54. | :06:58. | |
year-old April Jones, who has not been seen since Monday evening. Her | :06:58. | :07:01. | |
mother has appealed for her daughter's safe return and asked | :07:01. | :07:05. | |
the public to help in any way they can. Police are still questioning a | :07:05. | :07:09. | |
local man but insist there are other lines of inquiry. Our | :07:09. | :07:14. | |
correspondent is in Machynlleth with the latest. | :07:14. | :07:20. | |
People are still coming year to volunteer to help, but no longer | :07:20. | :07:24. | |
are members of the public searching the area. That work is being done | :07:24. | :07:28. | |
by specialist teams, the police, the Coastguard and mountain rescue | :07:28. | :07:32. | |
us. It has been revealed tonight that April has cerebral palsy, | :07:32. | :07:37. | |
adding yet more urgency to find her. This report contains flash | :07:37. | :07:41. | |
photography. Across acres of land, the search | :07:41. | :07:47. | |
goes on. Scouring fields and rivers for any sign of April. The five- | :07:47. | :07:52. | |
year-old has now been missing but two days and two nights, and as | :07:52. | :07:56. | |
time goes on, April's family are becoming more and more desperate | :07:56. | :08:03. | |
for any details of where she could be forced stop It's been 36 hours | :08:03. | :08:06. | |
since April was taken from us and there must be someone out there who | :08:06. | :08:13. | |
knows where she is and can help the police find her. We are desperate | :08:13. | :08:20. | |
for any news. April is only five years old. Please, please help find | :08:20. | :08:30. | |
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That plea feels ever more urgent as every hour passes. The police are | :08:39. | :08:43. | |
continuing to question Mark Bridger, arrested yesterday on suspicion of | :08:43. | :08:47. | |
April's abduction, and they have released a picture of his Land | :08:47. | :08:52. | |
Rover Discovery. Please, even if you have the smallest information, | :08:52. | :08:59. | |
it could be crucial to this investigation. Mark Bridger had | :08:59. | :09:02. | |
lived in Machynlleth but a couple of months ago, he moved to this | :09:02. | :09:11. | |
small village a few miles further up the River Dyfi. Detectives have | :09:11. | :09:16. | |
been searching his home. The guy was down there. We did not talk to | :09:16. | :09:21. | |
him much. He did not mix with the rest of the village. It is a very | :09:21. | :09:26. | |
close community here. At the moment, all we can do is think about the | :09:26. | :09:31. | |
little girl and try to find her. Child abductions are extremely rare | :09:31. | :09:37. | |
but in such cases, police now have the power to launch a child rescue | :09:37. | :09:46. | |
alert, which insures other people are warned and the case is given | :09:46. | :09:49. | |
huge publicity, with a single national the telephone number | :09:49. | :09:54. | |
issued. Focusing on this fast- moving river now just on the edge | :09:54. | :10:02. | |
of the town. There is also much dense woodland, and any part of | :10:02. | :10:11. | |
this could be a clue for people's whereabouts. Every time we think | :10:11. | :10:17. | |
about it, along comes to my throat. I just want to cry. In the town | :10:17. | :10:22. | |
this evening, there was a vigil for April. The constant sound of | :10:22. | :10:26. | |
helicopters audible even in the Church are a reminder of the surge | :10:26. | :10:31. | |
still going on. All thoughts of the girl with cerebral palsy missing, | :10:31. | :10:35. | |
with a family desperate for her to be found. | :10:35. | :10:40. | |
There is definitely a different mood in this town today. There is | :10:40. | :10:44. | |
almost an uneasy anxiety. But people are holding on to the hope | :10:44. | :10:49. | |
that people can be found safe and well. It is why so many people are | :10:49. | :10:52. | |
still getting involved in the search. Police today have been | :10:52. | :10:59. | |
given more time to question Mark Bridger. | :10:59. | :11:01. | |
NATO ambassadors will hold an emergency meeting tonight to | :11:01. | :11:06. | |
discuss the growing tension between Syria and Turkey. Earlier this | :11:06. | :11:09. | |
evening, Turkey fired shells into Syria in retaliation for a mortar | :11:09. | :11:15. | |
attack from Syrian territory, which killed five people. Earlier in the | :11:15. | :11:18. | |
day, dozens of people were killed in Syria when a series of car bombs | :11:18. | :11:27. | |
exploded in the city of Aleppo. James Robbins reports. | :11:27. | :11:33. | |
Syrian shells fallen civilians, but this is Turkey, in a town near the | :11:33. | :11:39. | |
border. Five people are reported killed, including a woman and her | :11:39. | :11:44. | |
three children. Tonight Turkey announced it had already fired back. | :11:44. | :11:48. | |
The Turkish government, deeply hostile to President Assad, says | :11:48. | :11:54. | |
Syria must be held to account and it is edging NATO allies to help. | :11:54. | :11:59. | |
It is a very, very dangerous situation and all responsible | :11:59. | :12:05. | |
nations need to band together to persuade the Assad regime to have a | :12:05. | :12:11. | |
ceasefire. This is exactly what many people feared. Syria's | :12:11. | :12:15. | |
conflict spreading, inflaming an already divided region. Turkey | :12:15. | :12:22. | |
backs the rebels, lightly armed but without clear leadership. They have | :12:22. | :12:27. | |
taken the ground from a substantial Syrian army, backed by Iran in | :12:27. | :12:30. | |
particular. Assad no longer controls his country but equally, | :12:30. | :12:35. | |
he has not lost it. The longer the Syrian debt lot, the greater the | :12:35. | :12:39. | |
risk that its neighbours and that region will get sucked into | :12:39. | :12:45. | |
confrontation -- the longer the Syrian deadlocked. You would see | :12:45. | :12:50. | |
that proxy tension boiling over. We need the international momentum to | :12:50. | :12:57. | |
form a consensus that can shift the ground away from conflict. But no | :12:57. | :13:02. | |
end to conflict is in sight. Syrian state TV said this was the result | :13:02. | :13:08. | |
of rebel bombings in Aleppo today. After months of fighting, much of | :13:08. | :13:12. | |
the city is already in ruins but Syria has rarely seen suicide | :13:12. | :13:17. | |
attacks on this scale. Most of the over-thirties dead were apparently | :13:17. | :13:23. | |
soldiers in a government controlled district -- over 30. Neither side | :13:23. | :13:28. | |
can defeat the other, and Syria's neighbours are increasingly at risk. | :13:28. | :13:32. | |
In Iran, tear gas has been used by riot police as they clashed with | :13:32. | :13:35. | |
protesters in Tehran, unhappy about the sharp fall in the national | :13:35. | :13:38. | |
currency. The rial has lost around 40% of its value against the dollar | :13:38. | :13:41. | |
in the past week. President Ahmadinejad blamed Western | :13:41. | :13:51. | |
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sanctions but his rivals say his Police officers and members of the | :13:55. | :13:58. | |
public have turned out in their thousands in Manchester for the | :13:58. | :14:01. | |
funeral of Nicola Hughes, one of two police officers killed last | :14:01. | :14:04. | |
month in a gun and grenade attack. The funeral for PC Fiona Bone will | :14:04. | :14:12. | |
be held tomorrow. Our home editor Mark Easton reports. This lunch | :14:12. | :14:17. | |
time the normally bustling city of Manchester pauseed to pay tribute. | :14:17. | :14:21. | |
Hundreds of police officers from every rank and branch filed | :14:21. | :14:25. | |
solemnly into the cathedral as thousands more lined the streets, | :14:25. | :14:30. | |
silver badges and service medals shining in the autumn sun. | :14:30. | :14:34. | |
started with Nicola here. I know her family as well, yes. A really | :14:34. | :14:37. | |
tough day for you? Yeah, for everyone, really, regardless of | :14:37. | :14:41. | |
whether they knew her. I think everyone is feeling the same and | :14:41. | :14:45. | |
everyone wants to do her proud today, really. I think they are. | :14:46. | :14:52. | |
think so, yeah, we're trying. you very much. | :14:52. | :14:56. | |
Among the many Mancunians who stopped to pay their respects, few | :14:56. | :15:01. | |
knew Nicola Hughes, but they know what she stood for, the values she | :15:01. | :15:09. | |
lived for, the values she died for. Nicola was one of two unarmed PCs | :15:09. | :15:13. | |
hurrying to answer a routine call. Along with her colleague, Fiona | :15:13. | :15:18. | |
Bone, the pair died in a hail of bullets. Paying tribute to nick | :15:18. | :15:22. | |
larks the Chief Constable said arming police would not be true to | :15:22. | :15:27. | |
the values of the young constable. -- paying tribute to Nicola. | :15:27. | :15:31. | |
understood it is central to our commitment to the minimum use of | :15:31. | :15:35. | |
force to our relationship with the public and to serving citizens | :15:35. | :15:39. | |
rather than controlling them as some arm of the state. Funerals are | :15:39. | :15:43. | |
occasions to mourn what we've lost but also to remind ourselves what | :15:43. | :15:48. | |
we still have. Today the police were paying their respects to a | :15:48. | :15:54. | |
colleague greatly missed. But the public was also paying tribute to | :15:54. | :16:04. | |
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those who continue to protect, those who continue to serve. | :16:05. | :16:08. | |
Just a few hours to go before Barack Obama and his Republican | :16:08. | :16:10. | |
challenger, Mitt Romney, engage in the first of three televised | :16:11. | :16:15. | |
debates ahead of the presidential election. The first will be held in | :16:15. | :16:18. | |
the battleground state of Colorado and will focus on the economy and | :16:18. | :16:20. | |
healthcare. Our North America editor, Mark Mardell, has been | :16:20. | :16:26. | |
there to gauge support among the growing number of Latino voters. | :16:26. | :16:29. | |
When the candidates take to the stage tonight we'll want to | :16:29. | :16:32. | |
convince people they speak their language. Sometimes that's more of | :16:32. | :16:42. | |
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a stretch. OBVIOUSLY THEY WON'T BE SPEAKING | :16:44. | :16:49. | |
SPANISH SKAPGS TONIGHT BUT WOOING AMERICA'S FASTEST-GROWING ETHNIC | :16:49. | :16:52. | |
GROUP IN THEIR OWN LANG WOODGE COULD BE CRITICAL IN THE ELECTION | :16:52. | :16:55. | |
AND IT IS GOING TO BECOME MORE IMPORTANT IN THE FUTURE. ONE- | :16:55. | :17:01. | |
QUARTER OF AMERICANS UNDER 18 ARE LATINO Canvassing in Colorado a | :17:01. | :17:06. | |
swing state where the Latino vote is hugely important. 60% went for | :17:06. | :17:11. | |
Obama four years ago. Now some are disappointed that he hasn't done | :17:11. | :17:16. | |
more to help the millions of illegal immigrants who have come | :17:16. | :17:21. | |
across the border but Caroline says few find this election a hard | :17:21. | :17:25. | |
choice? We know between the candidates there is only one | :17:25. | :17:29. | |
candidate that supports any kind of immigration reform that is of any | :17:29. | :17:33. | |
value. That's Bam BA Romney would turn back whatever progress we have | :17:34. | :17:40. | |
made. -- that's Obama. So what has are gone wrong? When | :17:40. | :17:47. | |
Ronald Reagan says la teen yos were naturally rer Republicans. He meant | :17:47. | :17:51. | |
they were aspirational and conservative but Mitt Romney seemed | :17:51. | :17:57. | |
to turn Latinos off. He backed a controversial law in Arizona which | :17:57. | :18:03. | |
some said was racial processing. The answer is self-deportation, | :18:03. | :18:07. | |
which is people decide that they can do better by going home bus | :18:07. | :18:10. | |
they can't find work here because they don't have legal documentation | :18:10. | :18:14. | |
to allow them to work here. But in the last couple of months the | :18:14. | :18:18. | |
Romney campaign has really put on a burst of speed, intensely targeting | :18:18. | :18:24. | |
Latinos, especially in swing states like Colorado. No wonder the latest | :18:24. | :18:29. | |
poll gives Obama 70% of the Hispanic vote. Romney has | :18:29. | :18:33. | |
backpedalled and rewriten policy with a much softer focus on illegal | :18:33. | :18:37. | |
immigration. Some say this debate is a chance to punch home the new | :18:37. | :18:40. | |
message. Throw away the rhetoric, throw away the language that turns | :18:40. | :18:45. | |
people off and talk about it to the people in a real leadership way. | :18:45. | :18:48. | |
night fews over Denver, the candidates' intense preparations | :18:48. | :18:53. | |
are at an end. They will soon face each other for a debate which some | :18:53. | :18:59. | |
say could shake-up the race for the White House. | :18:59. | :19:02. | |
Sussex Police are the latest force to reveal a complaint of indecent | :19:02. | :19:06. | |
assault against the late Sir Jimmy Savile. They say they were | :19:06. | :19:09. | |
approached by a woman in 2008 but were unable to pursue the | :19:09. | :19:12. | |
investigation because she wouldn't take the matter further. Our | :19:12. | :19:14. | |
correspondent, David Sillito, has spoken to another woman who came | :19:14. | :19:19. | |
forward this week with her own allegations. Jimmy Savile, there | :19:20. | :19:24. | |
were rumours for years but now finally the stories are being told. | :19:24. | :19:30. | |
They have the transcripts from all the other women. I spoke to Katrina. | :19:30. | :19:34. | |
In 1975 she was just 14. The DJ said he would show her his studio | :19:34. | :19:40. | |
and then on the way back, he took her into his flat. I froze. I just | :19:40. | :19:45. | |
didn't know what to do. I did not know what was happening. I was | :19:45. | :19:52. | |
quite a naive 14-year-old. The worst thing I will never get out of | :19:52. | :19:55. | |
my head is the taste of his cigar breath. | :19:55. | :20:02. | |
He was a star at the height of his fame and it took nearly 20 years | :20:02. | :20:06. | |
for her to pluck up the courage to speak publicly. Then at the last | :20:06. | :20:12. | |
minute her nerve failed. I don't think I'll ever stop beating myself | :20:12. | :20:17. | |
up with not having the courage to speak up and get it out in the open | :20:17. | :20:20. | |
while he was still alive. Now so much has changed in a week. The | :20:20. | :20:25. | |
women that have spoken to ITV. Sussex Police saying an allegation | :20:25. | :20:29. | |
was made in 2008, the BBC's offer it help any police inquiry. There | :20:29. | :20:33. | |
has to be a full investigation. People had to have known something | :20:33. | :20:38. | |
was not right. They might not have realised the extent of it. They | :20:38. | :20:43. | |
might not have realised that there were girls out there being raped, | :20:43. | :20:49. | |
but they had to have known that this man liked young girls just a | :20:49. | :20:56. | |
bit too much. A BBC star a charity fund raiser | :20:56. | :20:59. | |
but for Katrina Rose and others, claims that there was a very | :20:59. | :21:05. | |
different side to Jimmy Savile. A day after unveiling Labour's new | :21:05. | :21:07. | |
slogan, Ed Miliband has been explaining how he plans to | :21:07. | :21:11. | |
translate his One Nation vision into electoral success. Mr Miliband | :21:11. | :21:14. | |
said he planned to unite Britain but admitted there would be "tough | :21:14. | :21:17. | |
times ahead" and he wouldn't be able to "turn the spending taps on", | :21:17. | :21:22. | |
even if he won the next election. He's been talking to our political | :21:22. | :21:27. | |
editor, Nick Robinson. Down the years Labour has had many rallying | :21:27. | :21:32. | |
cries. Slogans meant to cap tuert party's appeal. They line the walls | :21:32. | :21:35. | |
of this museum in Manchester, down the road from where their current | :21:36. | :21:42. | |
leader has unveiled no, wun nation. Today I asked -- unveiled another, | :21:42. | :21:46. | |
One Nation. I asked him how it was different from the party's past. | :21:46. | :21:50. | |
There is no return to old Labour. It was a party of sectional | :21:50. | :21:53. | |
interest and didn't spend money wisely. New Labour had great | :21:53. | :21:57. | |
achievements but in my view was too silent about the responsibility of | :21:57. | :22:02. | |
those at the top of society and too timid about the powerful influence | :22:02. | :22:06. | |
like the banks. New Labour was Tim bid how to reverse the | :22:07. | :22:10. | |
privatisation of the railways. After today's chaos talk of public | :22:10. | :22:16. | |
ownership is back in fashion. course we need to look at it open | :22:16. | :22:22. | |
mindedly, neither ideologically, about the public private or sectors. | :22:23. | :22:28. | |
It could be private, public or not for profit franchises. In a series | :22:28. | :22:32. | |
of interviews today Mr Millband has been quizzed as his aides listened | :22:32. | :22:36. | |
in intently about what yesterday's barm storming rhetoric really meant. | :22:36. | :22:38. | |
You say you want to be different from other politicians. I think | :22:38. | :22:42. | |
that means telling the truth, saying the next Labour Government | :22:42. | :22:45. | |
will almost certainly have to cut things you like. I think that there | :22:45. | :22:49. | |
will be many people who want to us do things that we are not able to | :22:49. | :22:53. | |
do but, look, I'm going to... cut things you are currently doing | :22:53. | :22:56. | |
But I'm going to be clear. Look I'm going to be clear about the | :22:56. | :22:58. | |
decisions the next Labour Government will make when we see | :22:59. | :23:02. | |
the financial circumstances that we face but I couldn't be sending a | :23:02. | :23:05. | |
clearer message, Nick. I'm sending a very clear message that there | :23:05. | :23:08. | |
will be tough times even under a Labour Government. The spending | :23:08. | :23:12. | |
taps won't able to be turned on. Scarcely mentioned at this | :23:13. | :23:17. | |
conference have been the great figures of Labour's past, the | :23:17. | :23:21. | |
former leaders who shaped the party. One name in particular has been | :23:21. | :23:25. | |
notable by its absence. You talked about a lot of influences on you, | :23:25. | :23:29. | |
yesterday. You didn't talk about your political influences. The man | :23:29. | :23:36. | |
who really gave you your job. Gordon? | :23:36. | :23:41. | |
Yeah, look, I have been influenced by him, I have been influenced by | :23:41. | :23:45. | |
lots of people. What did you learn about why it didn't go right for | :23:45. | :23:49. | |
him that is useful for you? I think the most important lesson I learned | :23:49. | :23:54. | |
is that you need a very, very clear sense of where you want to take the | :23:54. | :23:58. | |
country. I think after ten years of a New Labour Government, it was | :23:58. | :24:01. | |
less clear than it should have been and that's what I have tried to set | :24:01. | :24:07. | |
out with One Nation. A clear sense where Britain would go with Ed | :24:07. | :24:10. | |
Miliband has Prime Minister. Miliband has given Labour a new | :24:10. | :24:16. | |
slogan to stitch on to baerns a new tune to hum, a new band to replace | :24:16. | :24:20. | |
New Labour. The test of One Nation will be what on earth it means in | :24:21. | :24:30. | |
practise. Kevin Pietersen who was depropd | :24:30. | :24:35. | |
England cricket team for sending provocative text messages about his | :24:35. | :24:40. | |
team-mates has been given a new contract but the England and Wales | :24:40. | :24:44. | |
Cricket Board says he will have to undergo a reintegration programme. | :24:44. | :24:48. | |
In Columbo the man who leads English cricket, the ECB chairman | :24:48. | :24:52. | |
and the man who is toing the line. Kevin Pietersen, officially he is | :24:52. | :24:57. | |
now in the process of reintegration and that began with a public apoll | :24:57. | :25:01. | |
ji. I would like it take this opportunity to apologise to my | :25:01. | :25:05. | |
team-mates, all England supporters and the ECB for the situation that | :25:05. | :25:09. | |
has arisen over the last couple of months but thankfully we have drawn | :25:09. | :25:12. | |
a line under it and it is time to move forward. In August Kevin | :25:13. | :25:16. | |
Pietersen was dropped over text messages sent to South African | :25:16. | :25:20. | |
players. He admits they were provocative but he cannot recollect | :25:20. | :25:23. | |
being derogatory about England colleagues. Last month he was left | :25:23. | :25:27. | |
out of England's squad to tour India later this year. Today he | :25:27. | :25:31. | |
signed a short-term dee. He will get a full contract if he | :25:31. | :25:35. | |
reintegrates. -- short-term deal. In essence he is on trial. Coach | :25:35. | :25:38. | |
Andy Flower will decide if Pietersen is disrupting team spirit. | :25:38. | :25:43. | |
Some feel he has done that throughout his career. We were told | :25:43. | :25:47. | |
Pietersen's England team-mates want to make up. I know that major | :25:47. | :25:50. | |
players have contacted us and said they are keen to do so. The senior | :25:50. | :25:55. | |
players have themselves taken that initiative. I'm very encouraged by | :25:55. | :26:00. | |
that. In Columbo the world at Twenty20 continues, there is huge | :26:00. | :26:05. | |
excitement about Sri Lanka's chances. England have gone home, | :26:05. | :26:09. | |
knocked out, admitting they missed Pietersen or at least his batting. | :26:09. | :26:16. | |
Kevin Pietersen has made no secret of his desire to play for more the | :26:16. | :26:20. | |
Delhi Daredevils in the Indian Premier League. England now say he | :26:20. | :26:26. |