:00:07. > :00:12.Tonight at Ten: Hundreds of recommendations following one of
:00:12. > :00:14.the greatest scandals in the history of the NHS. A public
:00:14. > :00:23.inquiry into the failings at Stafford Hospital calls for
:00:23. > :00:28.profound changes to culture and management of the NHS. This is a
:00:28. > :00:33.story of appalling and unnecessary suffering of hundreds of people.
:00:33. > :00:37.They were failed by a system which ignored the warning signs and put
:00:37. > :00:39.corporate self interest and cost control ahead of patients and their
:00:39. > :00:43.safety. But the victims' families insist
:00:44. > :00:48.that individuals should be held accountable for the many failings.
:00:48. > :00:53.We are looking still for resignations. We've lost hundreds
:00:53. > :00:55.of lives. People have got to be held accountable within the NHS.
:00:56. > :00:59.And during the day, another five English hospital trusts were placed
:00:59. > :01:06.under investigation. Also tonight: A big fine for RBS
:01:06. > :01:09.for fixing a key interest rate, mostly paid by bankers' bonuses.
:01:09. > :01:14.More turmoil in Tunisia - a leading opposition figure is killed and a
:01:14. > :01:22.new government is formed. The practice of throwing away fish
:01:22. > :01:32.because of European quotas is to end under new reforms.
:01:32. > :01:58.
:01:58. > :02:01.And a rare victory over mighty Good evening. The public inquiry
:02:01. > :02:07.into failings at Stafford Hospital has called for profound changes to
:02:07. > :02:09.the culture and management of the NHS. The report makes almost 300
:02:09. > :02:14.recommendations, including a "zero tolerance" approach to poor
:02:14. > :02:17.standards of patient care. But the families of the victims say that
:02:17. > :02:27.today's report doesn't go far enough, as our health correspondent,
:02:27. > :02:31.Branwen Jeffreys, reports. In simple words this, report laid bare
:02:31. > :02:36.the shame of Stafford Hospital, where public trust was betrayed,
:02:36. > :02:40.appalling suffering was caused by a lack of care, compassion, humanity
:02:40. > :02:45.and leadership, and a callous tolerance of poor standards led
:02:45. > :02:50.patients to suffer. They were failed by a system which ignored
:02:50. > :02:55.the warning signs and put corporate self interest and cost control
:02:55. > :03:00.ahead of patients and their safety. So what went wrong at Stafford?
:03:00. > :03:05.These patients suffering happened over several years. Their families'
:03:05. > :03:09.anger and distress ignored by hospital managers. George Dalyell
:03:09. > :03:15.was grossly neglected after an operation. Not washed or fed
:03:15. > :03:21.properly, and most shocking of all given no proper pain relief.
:03:21. > :03:27.epidural had been sited in the wrong place. He was having swollen
:03:27. > :03:33.legs, swollen feet from it. Eventually the anaesthetist came up,
:03:33. > :03:38.took him off the epidural and was giving him paracetamol. So for the
:03:38. > :03:42.whole of the time he was in Stafford Hospital he didn't have
:03:42. > :03:47.any pain relief whatsoever. Some staff did try to sound the alarm,
:03:47. > :03:52.but too many just accepted poor standards. The board of the
:03:52. > :03:55.hospital was obsessed with money and targets, complaints were hardly
:03:55. > :04:00.ever discussed. And right to the top of the NHS, there was a failure
:04:00. > :04:05.to put the quality of care above all else. With terrible
:04:05. > :04:09.consequences in Stafford. There were patients so desperate for
:04:09. > :04:13.water that they were drinking from dirty flower vases. Many were given
:04:13. > :04:18.the wrong medication, treated roughly or left to wet themselves
:04:18. > :04:22.and then lie in urine for days. Relatives were ignored or even
:04:22. > :04:26.reapproached when pointing out the most basic things that could have
:04:26. > :04:30.saved their loved ones from horrific pain or even death. On
:04:30. > :04:35.behalf of the Government and indeed our country, I'm truly sorry.
:04:35. > :04:39.policy or Minister was singled out for criticism in the report, but
:04:39. > :04:44.the scandal at Stafford was while Labour was in power, and Ed
:04:44. > :04:48.Miliband said today they were truly sorry for what happened. The
:04:48. > :04:53.recommendations of the public inquiry are for significant changes.
:04:53. > :04:58.A legal duty of candour, so a hospital has to explain if mistakes
:04:58. > :05:03.are made. Criminal prosecutions if a failure to meet standards leads
:05:03. > :05:08.to patients dying. A healthcare assistant's register so no-one will
:05:09. > :05:14.care for you who isn't trained. And a single regulator for healthcare
:05:14. > :05:18.to make sure no failure goes unnoticed. So who is to blame? The
:05:18. > :05:22.families asked that today. The report says scapegoats are
:05:22. > :05:27.pointless, but campaigners want David Nicholson, the top manager in
:05:27. > :05:31.the NHS, to resign. Sadly the chief executive of the NHS, who is the
:05:31. > :05:37.leader at the moment, has failed badly. That will send a big signal
:05:37. > :05:40.if he continues in his role to the NHS - carry on the way we've been
:05:40. > :05:44.going all along that. Man can't change all of a sudden and become a
:05:44. > :05:49.caring man who looks after the front line and looks after our NHS.
:05:49. > :05:53.He's failed and he needs to resign. Sir David Nicholson led the NHS in
:05:53. > :05:58.the Midlands just as the problems at Stafford, one of ne'er hospitals,
:05:58. > :06:03.were developing. He went on the lead the drive on targets and
:06:03. > :06:09.finance. Today he apologised and insisted he can lead a changing
:06:09. > :06:15.culture. I think I can begin to hopeful understand what the impact
:06:15. > :06:19.of that was on their loved ones. And I at the time I apologised and
:06:19. > :06:22.in a sense I apologise again to the people of Stafford for what
:06:22. > :06:27.happened, but apologies are not enough. We need action. More
:06:27. > :06:32.experienced nurses and a stronger emphasis on care. Stafford Hospital
:06:32. > :06:37.says it has learnt its lessons, but as this report makes clear, the NHS
:06:37. > :06:44.across England needs to do the same. From nurses on the ward to those
:06:44. > :06:49.leading our biggest public service. Branwen joins me now. Let's talk
:06:49. > :06:52.about the recommendations, nearly 300 of them. What's your thought on
:06:52. > :06:56.implementation and when that might happen? The Government talked a lot
:06:56. > :07:01.today about the steps it is taking to try to put the quality of care
:07:01. > :07:04.above everything else. But we don't get its detailed response to this
:07:04. > :07:09.enormous 4,000-page report for another month. And only then will
:07:09. > :07:12.we find out whether they are going to go for some of the big ideas in
:07:13. > :07:16.this report. Damien Francis was really clear. He said what happened
:07:16. > :07:24.at Stafford wasn't rare, it wasn't unique and no-one should try to use
:07:24. > :07:29.that as an argument to say that significant a wasn't needed. He
:07:29. > :07:33.talked about the need to transform an NHS which sometimes has been
:07:33. > :07:38.secretive and defensive into a health system that can be open,
:07:38. > :07:44.transparent and can learn from its mistakes. Given that you are
:07:44. > :07:48.talking about restoring confidence, what do you make of the fact that
:07:48. > :07:51.foot another five hospitals were put under investigation today?
:07:51. > :07:56.these five hospital trusts there were slightly higher than average
:07:56. > :08:01.death rates. The trusts are Colchester Hospital, Tameside
:08:01. > :08:05.Hospital, Blackpool teaching hospitals trust, Basildon and
:08:05. > :08:09.Thurrock hospitals and east Lancashire hospitals. Just to be
:08:09. > :08:13.clear, experts describe death rates higher than average as a smoke
:08:13. > :08:17.alarm. It may not mean there's anything wrong at the hospital but
:08:17. > :08:21.it means they should be investigated, and that is going to
:08:21. > :08:31.happen. Branwen, thank you. And there's more coverage and
:08:31. > :08:35.
:08:35. > :08:37.background on the Stafford inquiry Royal Bank of Scotland has been
:08:37. > :08:43.fined nearly �400 million by British and American regulators for
:08:43. > :08:46.its part in rigging a key interest rate. The bank, which is 80% owned
:08:46. > :08:51.by the British taxpayer, says most of the staff implicated in the
:08:51. > :08:53.scandal have either left RBS or been sacked. Most of the fine will
:08:53. > :09:03.be paid from bankers' bonuses, as our chief economics correspondent,
:09:03. > :09:08.
:09:08. > :09:14.Hugh Pym, reports. Royal Bank of Scotland, it is majority owned by
:09:14. > :09:21.us, the taxpayers. It to was fined �390 manage. Much of that will be
:09:21. > :09:25.paid for by RBS staff through reduced bonuses. One wos has --
:09:25. > :09:28.boss has quit without the bonuses he was entitled to, though he
:09:29. > :09:33.wasn't involved in the scandal. What happened at RBS and other
:09:33. > :09:36.banks is totally unacceptable. At my insistence the bankers, not the
:09:36. > :09:42.taxpayers, will pick up the bit. Those people who did wrong will
:09:42. > :09:47.face the full force of the law. LIBOR is a key interest rate used
:09:47. > :09:51.as a benchmark for many consumer and business loans had. Traders at
:09:51. > :09:56.RBS and other banks tried to manipulate the information it was
:09:56. > :10:06.based on for profit. Today's ruling included details of messages passed
:10:06. > :10:18.
:10:18. > :10:22.Last year Barclays was fined �290 million over LIBOR issues and UBS
:10:22. > :10:27.more than three times that at nearly �1 billion. RBS says 21 of
:10:27. > :10:30.its staff were involved. They've either quit, been fired or have
:10:30. > :10:36.been disciplined. The wrong doers are the ones that we need to focus
:10:36. > :10:39.on, and the culture and controls and inheritance of RBS and of our
:10:40. > :10:44.whole industry need to be changed. We are changing them. The job's not
:10:44. > :10:48.done. Regulators have found that the misconduct relating to LIBOR
:10:48. > :10:52.continued until 2010. You came on board in late 2008. Have you
:10:52. > :10:56.considered your position? I think it is important that all of us at
:10:56. > :11:01.the top - the chairman, the board, me, other members of management -
:11:01. > :11:05.must be held accountable for the totality of what we do. If we are a
:11:05. > :11:11.wrongdoer an open and shut case. If we are not involved in something
:11:11. > :11:16.and it goes right or wrong on our watch, you look at the totality.
:11:16. > :11:22.Regulators said RBS was slow to react. Clearly a taxpayer-owned
:11:22. > :11:26.bank should be upholding the highest possible standards in
:11:26. > :11:30.integrity and clearly RBS has significantly failed in relation to
:11:30. > :11:34.this case. The LIBOR saga certainly doesn't end here at RBS.Self ral
:11:34. > :11:38.other leading international banks are still being investigated by
:11:38. > :11:44.regulators and there could be a string of legal cases mounted by
:11:44. > :11:46.customers of the banks who allege they lost out because of interest
:11:46. > :11:49.rate manipulation. With City of London Police having arrested three
:11:49. > :11:55.people last year, the possibility of criminal prosecutions is still
:11:55. > :11:58.hanging over the bank industry. Tunisia is again in political
:11:58. > :12:00.turmoil two years after the protests which marked the start of
:12:00. > :12:03.the Arab Spring. Thousands of people have taken to the streets
:12:03. > :12:06.following the murder of a senior opposition figure, Chokri Belaid, a
:12:06. > :12:08.prominent critic of the Islamist- led government. In Tunis, there
:12:08. > :12:11.have been more clashes between protesters and police, and tonight
:12:11. > :12:21.the country's Prime Minister has called for new elections, as our
:12:21. > :12:26.
:12:26. > :12:30.special correspondent, Allan Little, It is the country's first political
:12:30. > :12:33.assassination since the revolution and instantly it has exposed
:12:33. > :12:37.entrenched divisions and powerful distrust.
:12:37. > :12:42.Crowds of opposition supporters gathered at the Interior Ministry
:12:42. > :12:47.and tried to storm the building. They blaipltd Islamist-led
:12:47. > :12:51.government. -- they blamed. These are the streets which brought
:12:51. > :12:54.down the dictatorship only two years ago. Eye witnesses said when
:12:54. > :12:59.the police responded there was panic and chaos. All we could see
:12:59. > :13:03.was tear gas, people running all over the place. Police tried to
:13:03. > :13:08.absorb the anger of the demonstrators, but they just
:13:08. > :13:13.couldn't watch people throwing stones at them.
:13:13. > :13:16.Chokri Belaid was the leader of a small secular party and a fierce
:13:16. > :13:23.critic of the largest party in the governing coalition. He was shot
:13:23. > :13:28.dead by a man on meator bike as he left home this morning. Ennahda
:13:28. > :13:32.denied any involvement. It is unlikely to satisfy the dead
:13:32. > :13:39.man's supporters, who say he had he received repeated death threats,
:13:39. > :13:42.the last only yesterday. It is just over a year since Tunisia
:13:42. > :13:47.celebrated a genuinely open election. That election made
:13:47. > :13:52.Tunisia something of a beacon, the first functioning democracy to
:13:52. > :13:56.emerge from the Arab uprisings and n inspiration to the entire region.
:13:56. > :14:02.The Islamist Ennahda party emerged as the largest group, but without
:14:02. > :14:06.an overall majority but promised moderation and can he prison in a
:14:06. > :14:10.secular multi-party republic. It seemed Tunisia was finding a which
:14:10. > :14:13.to accommodate constitutional democracy with Islamic
:14:13. > :14:17.sensibilities. Will today's assassination derail the democracy?
:14:17. > :14:21.I don't think it is the end of the democratic dream. This is the most
:14:21. > :14:25.difficult process of the change. As the new political system is being
:14:25. > :14:30.put together, the new constitution, the divisions between where the
:14:30. > :14:34.country is going, who would hold political power, there is a lot of
:14:34. > :14:38.man overing between political parties but things are heading in
:14:38. > :14:44.the right direction. Even so this, would put fear into the heart of
:14:44. > :14:47.Tunisia's political life. Tonight the Prime Minister dissolved the
:14:47. > :14:51.country's coalition cabinet and called new elections. It is a
:14:51. > :14:56.sobering reminder that even this post most promising, most hopeful
:14:56. > :15:00.of Arab democracies, remains a work in progress. Police are
:15:00. > :15:05.investigating the death of an elderly woman who was left without
:15:05. > :15:08.care in her own home for nine days. Gloria Foster from Surrey died
:15:08. > :15:12.earlier this week after being found suffering from dehydration and
:15:12. > :15:18.starvation. Her care stopped when the provider was closed down in a
:15:18. > :15:21.raid by the UK Border Agency. Two men have been arrested in
:15:21. > :15:24.connection with allegations of child abuse at a guesthouse in
:15:24. > :15:29.south-west London during the early 1980s. Police are investigating
:15:29. > :15:33.claims made in Parliament last year that a paedophile group, involving
:15:33. > :15:37.politicians and other establishment figures, abused boys on the prep
:15:37. > :15:41.iss. Our Home Affairs correspondent, Matt Prodger has more details.
:15:41. > :15:44.It was here in St Leonards-on-Sea that police investigating
:15:44. > :15:51.allegation of an historic paedophile ring made their first
:15:52. > :15:58.arrest A7 0-year-old former children's homeworker, John
:15:58. > :16:02.Stingmore was taken away for questioning.
:16:02. > :16:05.A 66-year-old priest, father Tony McSweeney was arrested in Norfolk.
:16:05. > :16:11.A statement from the Diocese of East Anglia said he was helping
:16:11. > :16:14.police with his inquiries. It comes three months after a Labour MP
:16:14. > :16:17.stood newspaper Parliament to demand an investigation between
:16:17. > :16:21.allegations of links between politicians in the 1980s and a
:16:21. > :16:26.network of paedophiles. At the heart was this man, Peter Righton,
:16:26. > :16:32.now dead. He was a senior advisor to children's charities before
:16:32. > :16:35.being convicted of importing child pornography in the 1980 Since I
:16:35. > :16:39.asked a question about an historic allegation of child abuse in the
:16:39. > :16:42.House of Commons, I was inundated with people who raised further
:16:42. > :16:46.issues with me and this is one of the issues I passed over to the
:16:46. > :16:49.police some weeks ago. investigation is focusing on what
:16:49. > :16:53.happened in this south London street 30 years ago. It's claimed
:16:53. > :16:57.children from a care home were abused at a guesthouse here, until
:16:57. > :17:02.it was closed down following a police raid. The current residents
:17:02. > :17:09.are in no way implicated. The care home the children came from was run
:17:09. > :17:14.by Richmond Council and closed long ago, to be replaced by flats. John
:17:14. > :17:17.Stingmore, arrested today, helped run it. The election into Elm Guest
:17:17. > :17:21.House is still continuing. Detectives at Scotland Yard say
:17:21. > :17:27.they want to hear from more victims who may have information. They are
:17:27. > :17:36.asking them to contact the police or the NSPCC.
:17:36. > :17:39.Coming up: Gordon Strachan's rein as Scotland
:17:39. > :17:44.manager got off to a winning start tonight.
:17:44. > :17:48.-- reign. Government borrowing looks set to
:17:48. > :17:51.reach even higher levels and could be greater this year than it was
:17:51. > :17:56.last year according to the Institute for Fiscal Studies. In a
:17:56. > :18:00.rather bleak assessment of the UK's public finance, the IFS suggests
:18:00. > :18:04.after the next election, public service spending could fall by one-
:18:04. > :18:08.third, leading to the loss of more than 1 million public sector jobs.
:18:08. > :18:12.Stephanie Flanders has been looking at the figures. The economy and the
:18:12. > :18:17.deficit. The Chancellor's been trying to fix both since 2010 and
:18:17. > :18:22.neither's going according to plan. The weak state of the economy means
:18:22. > :18:25.the Chancellor's going to be borrowing �64 billion, nearly 4% of
:18:25. > :18:29.GDP, more in the last year of the Parliament than he originally
:18:29. > :18:32.thought. That's extra borrowing that the Institute for Fiscal
:18:32. > :18:36.Studies isn't expecting the Chancellor to do anything about in
:18:36. > :18:41.next month's budget, which might be wise in a flat economy, but the
:18:41. > :18:45.report says the decision to ease up on plan A will lead more tough
:18:45. > :18:51.choices for the winner of the next election. Over the last 30 years
:18:51. > :18:55.governments have put up taxes by �7.5 billion, on average, after
:18:55. > :18:59.elections. The IFS thinks tax rises at least that large and extra
:18:59. > :19:03.welfare cuts are more likely after 2015 an the spending cuts pence
:19:04. > :19:07.yild into current plans, which could see budge -- be penciled into
:19:07. > :19:11.current plans, which could see budgets in unprotected areas like
:19:11. > :19:15.transport or the police cut by 35% in real terms by 2017 or by more
:19:15. > :19:19.than one-third. If you follow- through on the planned cuts, the
:19:19. > :19:22.IFS director says you are looking at a very different kind of state.
:19:22. > :19:27.You become a state which is spending a very large proportion on
:19:27. > :19:31.a small set of things, a welfare state. Social Security, pensions,
:19:31. > :19:36.health and very little on policing, defence, local government and so on.
:19:36. > :19:40.That is changing quite rapidly in a way that I don't think has been
:19:41. > :19:44.sort of debated properly politically or more broadly. It'll
:19:44. > :19:49.also be a state with a will the fewer people working for it. The
:19:49. > :19:54.official forecast is for the public sector workforce to shrink by
:19:54. > :19:58.900,000 by 2017. The IFS thinks the fall in the number of Government
:19:59. > :20:02.jobs will be closer to 1.2 million. The 1.2 million people who are
:20:02. > :20:04.doing these jobs at the moment, they are paying their taxes. If
:20:04. > :20:08.they lose their jobs and there isn't the slack in the private
:20:08. > :20:13.sector at the moment, if they lose their jobs, they go on to benefit
:20:13. > :20:17.and become a cost to the economy. It doesn't make sense.
:20:17. > :20:22.So far new jobs in the private sector have more than made up for
:20:22. > :20:26.those public sector job losses. One reason, perhaps, why the
:20:26. > :20:31.international think-tank, the OECD said the Chancellor was doing the
:20:31. > :20:36.right thing. I think the policy response from the case of the UK
:20:36. > :20:41.has been the appropriate one and it is being recognised and it is being
:20:41. > :20:45.rewarded by the markets. If the recovery turns out to be
:20:45. > :20:52.stronger than expected, the IFS says some of that if you tour
:20:52. > :20:57.austerity won't be necessary, but there's little sign of that yet.
:20:57. > :20:59.In Egypt, a protester has been arrested for throwing a shoe at the
:20:59. > :21:03.Iranian President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. It happened during a
:21:03. > :21:06.visit to a moss income Cairo. The shoe didn't appear to hit the
:21:06. > :21:14.President but he was quickly led away by security guards. Officials
:21:14. > :21:15.say the protester is believed to be Syrian.
:21:15. > :21:18.Europe's highly-controversial Common Fisheries Policy is to be
:21:18. > :21:22.radically reformed, ending the practice of throwing away huge
:21:22. > :21:26.quantities of dead fish because of European quotas. The European
:21:26. > :21:31.Parliament voted overwhelmingly in favour of changes to restore stocks
:21:31. > :21:34.which have declined sharply over recent decades. Greenpeace has
:21:34. > :21:41.described the reforms as a momentous shift away from over-
:21:41. > :21:46.fishing. It's the busiest fishing port in
:21:46. > :21:50.Scotland. In decades past, trawlers lined up here, many deep. Not any
:21:50. > :21:54.more. You used to be able to walk right
:21:54. > :21:59.across the harbour here, you know, with boats. There are hardly any
:21:59. > :22:04.boats left now. Tough out there. It is tough, you know. There are so
:22:04. > :22:08.many rules and regulations now this it's really, it's very hard, you
:22:08. > :22:13.know. Now the European Parliament's laid the ground work for yet more
:22:13. > :22:16.legislation. But this, a crucial vote, signalling potentially
:22:16. > :22:22.radical reform, including the end to the dumping of dead fish, so-
:22:22. > :22:29.called discards, back into the sea. The deal that came out of the
:22:29. > :22:33.Parliament is a real change for sustainibility of the stocks, for
:22:33. > :22:38.ending discading, for having a better use for European tax payers'
:22:38. > :22:41.money. The EU quota system for governing catch size has led at
:22:41. > :22:46.times to the industrial scale dumping of fission often because
:22:46. > :22:50.they are the wrong species or wrong size.
:22:50. > :22:56.Celebrity chefs like Hugh fernly which theing be stall have led a
:22:56. > :23:01.public outcry over the policy. -- Hugh fernly whitg stall. The fact
:23:01. > :23:05.you can throw away fish allows you to put in the most valuable hold.
:23:05. > :23:08.Anything that gets in the way is thrown back into the sea. This is a
:23:08. > :23:12.culture that has it change. We have to motivated and incentivise
:23:12. > :23:17.fishermen to fish in a more sustainal and less wasteful way.
:23:17. > :23:20.Today's vote is a very big step to the path to that achievement.
:23:20. > :23:23.Scottish fishermen have already introduced conservation measures
:23:23. > :23:27.allow morgue catch to escape. They welcome the ban on discards but
:23:27. > :23:31.would like more details about how it would actually work. Fish
:23:31. > :23:35.discards are believed to make up almost one-quarter of total EU
:23:35. > :23:40.catches. The hope is that bringing to an end the policy of dumping
:23:40. > :23:44.dead fish back into the sea, it'll help an industry which has been
:23:44. > :23:47.much-reduced, not just to survive, but also to prosper.
:23:47. > :23:56.And help restore healthy fish stocks back into the waters around
:23:56. > :23:59.Europe. Right, tonight's football news and
:23:59. > :24:03.England secured a rare victory over brailz this evening, beating them
:24:03. > :24:09.2-1 in a brendly at Wembley. -- Brazil.
:24:09. > :24:12.In a friendly at Wembley. The first win over Brazil in almost 20 years.
:24:12. > :24:16.Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales have also been in action this
:24:16. > :24:19.evening. Andy Swiss is at Wembley. It is a chilly night here at
:24:19. > :24:24.Wembley but what a night for the England fans. Brazil, of course,
:24:25. > :24:33.one of the biggest names in foot bau. England hadn't beaten them for
:24:33. > :24:40.some 23 years, but tonight they pulled off a famous win.
:24:40. > :24:44.It is one of the glmor games of world football. Brazil bringing
:24:44. > :24:54.sunshine to cold Westminister bli. For Ashley Cole there was a 100th
:24:54. > :24:57.
:24:57. > :25:02.cap. His side was up against it. Jack
:25:02. > :25:07.Wilshere's gave away a penalty. Remember Ronaldinho. He missed a
:25:07. > :25:12.penalty. Then Rooney's gel seemed almost too good to be true as did
:25:12. > :25:18.this, anyway mar, the hottest Brazilian talent with not a the
:25:18. > :25:23.best finish. But Gary Cahill Daudled and Fred
:25:23. > :25:29.took advantage. Brazil levelled. Where England's hopes fading? Not a
:25:29. > :25:33.bit of it. This time, the ever- green Frank Lampard made them pay
:25:33. > :25:41.in exquisite style. Yes, it was only a friendly but with World Cup
:25:41. > :25:45.qualifiers to come, a real cause for English optimism.
:25:45. > :25:49.In Aberdeen, Gordan Strachan took charge with immediate results.
:25:49. > :25:55.Charlie Mulgrew firing them to a 1- 0 win over he is stonia. In Swansea
:25:55. > :26:01.it was a good night for Wales, too. Their star man, Gareth Bale putting
:26:01. > :26:06.them ahead against Austria. Come the second half, he set up the next
:26:06. > :26:08.goal for a 2-1 victory on a night when British football had plenty to
:26:08. > :26:13.celebrate. Northern Ireland were also in
:26:13. > :26:17.action tonight. They could only draw 0-0 with Malta, but even so,
:26:17. > :26:20.it has been a pretty encouraging evening for the home nations,
:26:20. > :26:24.particularly for the England fans at Wembley. They'll be hoping they