:00:00. > :00:09.Tonight at Ten: The go-ahead is given for Britain's
:00:10. > :00:13.first nuclear power station in a generation.
:00:14. > :00:17.The site is at Hinkley Point in Somerset and the project will be led
:00:18. > :00:25.by the French energy firm, EDF, with Chinese help. It will be up and
:00:26. > :00:27.running in a decade. Ministers reject claims that it's too risky
:00:28. > :00:30.and too expensive. Investing in nuclear power stations we increase
:00:31. > :00:33.the chance that bills will be lower than they would have been if they
:00:34. > :00:39.didn't invest in technologies like this.
:00:40. > :00:42.And this on the day that NPower became the latest supplier to
:00:43. > :00:44.announce a big rise in energy prices.
:00:45. > :00:47.Also tonight: A Ukrainian student pleads guilty to
:00:48. > :00:51.murdering an 82-year-old Muslim man in Birmingham.
:00:52. > :00:54.In Greece, a couple from a Roma community charged with abducting a
:00:55. > :00:57.young blonde haired girl. Australian firefighters say the
:00:58. > :01:04.bushfires in New South Wales have created an unparalleled emergency.
:01:05. > :01:11.And the food we waste. Tesco reports 30,000 tonnes in just six months.
:01:12. > :01:17.There were great goals in the Premier League tonight. Find out if
:01:18. > :01:19.this was enough to give Fulham victory in a bottom of the table
:01:20. > :01:42.clash with Crystal Palace? Good evening.
:01:43. > :01:47.The first nuclear power station to be built in the UK for 20 years will
:01:48. > :01:49.be at Hinkley Point in Somerset. David Cameron said that Hinkley C
:01:50. > :01:52.would kick-start Britain's nuclear industry, but critics say it is too
:01:53. > :01:58.risky, too expensive and will lead to higher energy bills. The Hinckley
:01:59. > :02:04.C project will be led by the French energy firm EDF and will take 10
:02:05. > :02:07.years to build. It is expected to generate 7% of the UK's electricity
:02:08. > :02:12.supply and it is set to create around 25,000 jobs during
:02:13. > :02:15.construction. In a moment, we'll be looking at Britain's urgent need for
:02:16. > :02:16.new energy sources, but first our industry correspondent, John Moylan,
:02:17. > :02:26.reports. Hinkley Point in Somerset. For
:02:27. > :02:29.almost 50 years it has been generating power for Britain. Now
:02:30. > :02:34.that's set to continue for decades to come. This expansive land will be
:02:35. > :02:39.the site of one of the biggest nuclear plants ever built. This is
:02:40. > :02:43.important because Hinkley Point B one day will have to close.
:02:44. > :02:47.To mark the occasion, the most powerful man in Britain came to one
:02:48. > :02:54.of the most powerful places on the planet, Hinkley's existing reactor
:02:55. > :02:57.to make the case for nuclear. By investing in nuclear power stations
:02:58. > :03:02.we increase the chance that bills would be lower if we didn't invest
:03:03. > :03:06.in technologies like this. EDF operates eight nuclear power
:03:07. > :03:12.plants in Britain. It will have the biggest stake in the pro he ject. --
:03:13. > :03:17.project. One potential investor, Centrica pulled out, paving the way
:03:18. > :03:22.for two Chinese firms to to come in. If it goes to plan, the new power
:03:23. > :03:25.station will be switched on in ten years time just as the existing
:03:26. > :03:30.reactor in the distance is switched off.
:03:31. > :03:36.This deal will see private firms and not taxpayers cover the huge ?16
:03:37. > :03:41.billion cost of construction. In return, the Government will pay 92.
:03:42. > :03:45.50 for each unit of electricity produced, that's around double the
:03:46. > :03:50.current price. The Government claims our energy bills to be ?77 lower
:03:51. > :03:56.than they would otherwise have been assuming a new fleet of plants are
:03:57. > :04:00.built. EDF and its partners will bear the risk with the costs spiral
:04:01. > :04:07.out of control, but the plant will add to our bills. So is it a good
:04:08. > :04:10.deal for consumers? It is an excellent deal for the British
:04:11. > :04:14.consumers. It will create thousands of jobs and at the same time it will
:04:15. > :04:20.deliver secure, low-carbon electricity at a price which would
:04:21. > :04:24.be more competitive than otherwise. Hinkley is for the future, but today
:04:25. > :04:29.NPower became the third big supplier to announce a price rise. The move
:04:30. > :04:36.will increase by 10.4% its average dual fuel bill. That will add ?137
:04:37. > :04:41.to household annual energy costs and hit 3.1 million of its customers.
:04:42. > :04:45.There is another day, another 10% price rise in energy and we have got
:04:46. > :04:49.a Prime Minister who is standing up for the energy companies, not
:04:50. > :04:54.hard-pressed families. That's why we need Labour's price freeze.
:04:55. > :04:58.The deal still requires EU approval, final contracts should be signed
:04:59. > :05:00.next year. Assuming that goes ahead, Britain will be entering a new
:05:01. > :05:12.nuclear age. The coalition says Hinkley C and
:05:13. > :05:15.others are needed to help fill the energy gap created by declining
:05:16. > :05:17.supplies of North Sea gas, the decommissioning of older power
:05:18. > :05:24.stations and rapidly escalating costs. So how far will today's
:05:25. > :05:27.announcement go to bridge that gap? Our science editor, David Shukman,
:05:28. > :05:30.is here to tell us more. A new nuclear power station at
:05:31. > :05:33.hardshipingly is part of an attempt to answer a triple challenge in
:05:34. > :05:37.British Energy. How to keep the lights on at a price people can
:05:38. > :05:43.afford while cutting greenhouse gases. Now, this is where nuclear
:05:44. > :05:49.fits in. Producing about a fifth of our electricity. Coal is the biggest
:05:50. > :05:53.provider, gas is second and renewables generate over a tenth,
:05:54. > :05:58.but that's meant to change. The first big challenge is that power
:05:59. > :06:01.stations that burn coal are being phased out because they could fail
:06:02. > :06:06.to meet new limits on pollution. That could create a gap between the
:06:07. > :06:12.power generated and the power needed which means that cities, homes and
:06:13. > :06:16.factories could face black outs and one leading engineer who chaired a
:06:17. > :06:20.study on this for the Prime Minister says the new nuclear station at
:06:21. > :06:23.Hinkley won't come online soon enough.
:06:24. > :06:30.Hinkley won't help in the short-term. Hinkley won't start
:06:31. > :06:33.generating until beyond 2020 when it will replace old nuclear power
:06:34. > :06:37.stations. The second challenge is cost.
:06:38. > :06:43.Consumers are hit by rising energy prices. Another of the big six hiked
:06:44. > :06:47.its charges today. Mainly because of surging global demand for gas. So
:06:48. > :06:52.having a stable supply from nuclear power is meant to help, but it will
:06:53. > :06:56.only make a difference in the long-term. The problem is that this
:06:57. > :07:00.each type of energy has pros and cons. Nuclear is steady and
:07:01. > :07:06.low-carbon, but it is relatively expensive. Wind is carbon-free, but
:07:07. > :07:11.intermittent and planting turbines out at sea is the most expensive
:07:12. > :07:15.option. Coal is the cheapest, but it is the most polluting which is why
:07:16. > :07:20.it is phased out. Gas is cleaner, but most of it has to be imported.
:07:21. > :07:24.Exploiting shale gas here is one solution, but it requires fracking
:07:25. > :07:28.and there is opposition to that. All of this comes as the British
:07:29. > :07:33.power system is meant to move away from fossil fuels. So nuclear which
:07:34. > :07:39.produces no greenhouse gases is one option. The Government has set tough
:07:40. > :07:42.targets for reducing carbon emissions, but some environmental
:07:43. > :07:46.groups say nuclear is the wrong way to go about meeting them. We do
:07:47. > :07:50.acknowledge that nuclear is a low-carbon power source, but there
:07:51. > :07:55.are a lot of disadvantages like nuclear waste. No one knows what to
:07:56. > :07:59.do with it and the idea that the Government can cap the costs seems
:08:00. > :08:02.to us non-sensical. Building one nuclear power station
:08:03. > :08:06.only goes part of the way to tackling contradictory pressures,
:08:07. > :08:09.the need to keep supplies going and cut energy costs and do something
:08:10. > :08:18.about climate change. There is a long way to go.
:08:19. > :08:21.How does today's announcement affect the political debate about energy
:08:22. > :08:25.and costs going into the future? Let's talk to James Landale at
:08:26. > :08:28.Westminster. James, how do you see this changing now?
:08:29. > :08:32.Well, Huw, it gives the Government something to talk about. Ministers
:08:33. > :08:35.spent all day saying that the Hinkley Point deal shows they are
:08:36. > :08:40.thinking seriously and long-term about the economy and energy unlike
:08:41. > :08:44.past Labour Governments the coalition has shown it is capable of
:08:45. > :08:48.making big investment decisions in nuclear and other projects,
:08:49. > :08:51.decisions which it claims if you flick a switch, the light will turn
:08:52. > :08:56.on and your bills reduce. I think the difficulty the Government faced
:08:57. > :08:59.today is while there has been broad political support for nuclear power
:09:00. > :09:03.stations, there have been searching questions. Is this, is the price
:09:04. > :09:08.right? How much of a gamble is it? Who is going to bear the risk here?
:09:09. > :09:14.How much of a subsidy is it? Will it meet EU State aid rules? Will the
:09:15. > :09:19.bills reduce? The Energy Secretary said he couldn't give guarantees and
:09:20. > :09:23.it would have to be a clairvoyant to know how much the project will cost
:09:24. > :09:26.in the long run. So I think today helps the Government reinforce its
:09:27. > :09:29.message that it is thinking about frying to fix the economy in the
:09:30. > :09:35.long-term. It doesn't help so much with the short-term political
:09:36. > :09:44.accusation that it I -- appears powerless in the face of rising
:09:45. > :09:47.energy bills. The Government is doing everything it can to reduce
:09:48. > :09:53.energy bills in the short-term now and not sometime in the future that
:09:54. > :10:00.may happen as a result of this nuclear deal.
:10:01. > :10:03.A student from Ukraine who told police that he hated non-whites has
:10:04. > :10:06.pleaded guilty to the murder of an elderly man in Birmingham. Mohammed
:10:07. > :10:09.Saleem was stabbed in the back as he walked home from a mosque in the
:10:10. > :10:12.Small Heath area. Pavlo Lapshyn also admitted terrorism offences and
:10:13. > :10:21.causing an explosion near a mosque in Tipton earlier this year. Sian
:10:22. > :10:27.Lloyd reports. Pavlo Lapshyn described by detectives as calm,
:10:28. > :10:30.calculated and committed. The 25-year-old Ukrainian was an award
:10:31. > :10:35.winning student. This picture taken in Kiev at the residence of the
:10:36. > :10:40.British ambassador shows him being presented with a prize for his PhD,
:10:41. > :10:45.a work placement at this software firm in Small Heath in the heart of
:10:46. > :10:53.Birmingham's Muslim community. But within five days of arriving here,
:10:54. > :10:57.he had committed murder. His victim was 82-year-old Mohammed Saleem who
:10:58. > :11:02.was walking home from his local mosque. It was in this quiet street
:11:03. > :11:07.that Pavlo Lapshyn stabbed Mohammed Saleem three times in the back. He
:11:08. > :11:12.told police he targeted the grandfather just because he wasn't
:11:13. > :11:18.white. His family were at the Old Bailey to hear Lapshyn plead guilty
:11:19. > :11:23.and admit causing explosions and preparing for acts of terrorism. He
:11:24. > :11:27.was targeted because of his faith, his beard and his clothing
:11:28. > :11:31.represented who he was. Pavlo Lapshyn chose to kill him that night
:11:32. > :11:36.with only that intention in mind. After the murder, he planned attacks
:11:37. > :11:41.on local mosques. The CCTV images show Lapshyn on his way there. He
:11:42. > :11:46.carried the explosive devices in a green bag. They were hidden inside a
:11:47. > :11:52.child's lunch box which police say looked similar to this one. In his
:11:53. > :11:55.flat, police found evidence of bomb-making equipment, officers said
:11:56. > :12:02.he had carefully planned his attacks. The first explosion was in
:12:03. > :12:06.Walsall in June. A week later, another device went off in
:12:07. > :12:12.Wolverhampton. The last a nail bomb, was timed to go off during Ramadan
:12:13. > :12:17.in Tipton. He is a dangerous and evil and ill informed man. And there
:12:18. > :12:22.is no justification for the crimes he committed or the intent he has.
:12:23. > :12:27.Lapshyn's father said today that he was shocked. His tutor spoke to the
:12:28. > :12:31.BBC. TRANSLATION: I didn't believe then
:12:32. > :12:34.and don't believe now that he can commit something like that in a
:12:35. > :12:40.premeditated way on his own. As a student, he had never voiced any
:12:41. > :12:44.nationalistic opinions. Police say Lapshyn insisted that he
:12:45. > :12:56.had acted alone. He will be sentenced on Friday. In Greece, a
:12:57. > :12:58.couple have appeared in court charged with that of being a blonde
:12:59. > :13:03.haired girl named Maria, who is thought to be around six years old.
:13:04. > :13:07.The child was found during a raid on a Roma community last week, and DNA
:13:08. > :13:12.tests revealed the child wasn't related to the couple. An appeal for
:13:13. > :13:19.the child's identity has resulted in more than 8000 calls. Loving
:13:20. > :13:24.adoptive parents or the abductors of Maria? The first images today of the
:13:25. > :13:31.couple suspected by police of kidnapping a little girl for unknown
:13:32. > :13:35.reasons. The 39-year-old male and his partner denied charges of
:13:36. > :13:40.abduction. They say Maria was given to them by her Bulgarian mother and
:13:41. > :13:45.-- who couldn't care for her. They were remanded in custody until the
:13:46. > :13:50.trial. Members of the Roma community rallied in their defence. New
:13:51. > :13:54.footage appears to show Maria dancing in the village in central
:13:55. > :13:58.Greece, where she lived. She was originally said to be four years
:13:59. > :14:02.old, but her birth certificate was falsified and medical tests now
:14:03. > :14:08.suggest she is five or six. The spot where she lived is near the town
:14:09. > :14:13.Farsala, a quiet, unassuming place. Today the house was locked up, no
:14:14. > :14:17.answer at the door, just signs of a child's life strewn across porch. A
:14:18. > :14:22.neighbour said the couple was taking care of her well. She was crying
:14:23. > :14:27.when the police took her, she said. So what if she is blonde, she was
:14:28. > :14:30.their child. But in the next-door shop, Costas told me he found her
:14:31. > :14:36.present is unusual. I simply don't know how she ended up here, he
:14:37. > :14:41.said. We just tried to film in the larger Roma community over there but
:14:42. > :14:44.we were attacked and chased away. They believe they are marginalised
:14:45. > :14:48.and that negative stereotypes of them will now only be reinforced.
:14:49. > :14:52.But many Greeks say it is the involvement of some Roma illegal
:14:53. > :14:56.activity that created that perception in the first place.
:14:57. > :15:01.Either way, the case of Maria has exposed the lack of social
:15:02. > :15:05.integration here. So what now for this mysterious case? The charity
:15:06. > :15:10.that is looking after Maria has had over 8000 calls from 23 countries.
:15:11. > :15:19.Greece's Prime Minister says the hunt is leading far and wide. We
:15:20. > :15:22.have sent her DNA to all the police and all the world, so they can make
:15:23. > :15:26.the procedure easy for anyone who thinks there is some possible
:15:27. > :15:32.relationship between the little girl and her parents. Widening their
:15:33. > :15:36.search into other Roma communities, after suspecting similar cases
:15:37. > :15:40.elsewhere. Several new arrests have been made. What secrets lie in these
:15:41. > :15:51.deprived areas, and do they hold the key to Maria? More than 60 bushfires
:15:52. > :15:55.raging in Australia tonight, threatening many homes and in some
:15:56. > :15:58.cases engulfing entire communities. They are burning across New South
:15:59. > :16:02.Wales, but the worst affected area is the Blue Mountains west of
:16:03. > :16:09.Sydney, where it is feared that two fires, one of them spanning 187
:16:10. > :16:14.miles, could merge. Temperatures of 37 Celsius have been reported and
:16:15. > :16:19.winds up to 50 mph are fanning the flames. A state of emergency has
:16:20. > :16:24.been declared. Our correspondent has just sent this report. Around the
:16:25. > :16:32.clock firefighters here are battling for control. But the task is
:16:33. > :16:37.massive. The biggest fire in the Blue Mountains has a perimeter
:16:38. > :16:46.stretching almost 200 miles. Some of the fight is being carried out from
:16:47. > :16:51.the air. And on the ground, thousands of firefighters, most of
:16:52. > :16:57.them volunteers. What they are doing is backburning, fighting fire with
:16:58. > :17:00.fire. Basically, controlled fires to burn off vegetation before the
:17:01. > :17:04.really dangerous fires can get here. What they are worried about is
:17:05. > :17:12.if several of these huge blazes merge into one massive fire later in
:17:13. > :17:16.the week. But the weather isn't helping. Temperatures today rose
:17:17. > :17:22.into the high 30s. And the real fear is the arrival of strong winds
:17:23. > :17:26.forecast for Wednesday. Many living here have been watching nervously to
:17:27. > :17:32.see if the fires can be held at bay. I've been anxious for them to burn,
:17:33. > :17:37.because then we can stop worrying about it. We've been watching from
:17:38. > :17:41.over there for two days, it is creeping this way. It was kind of
:17:42. > :17:46.the sooner they got here, the sooner we could get a nights sleep. And
:17:47. > :17:50.it's not just his home under threat. Nearby, firefighters
:17:51. > :17:55.discover a pet possum, injured but still alive. It is not known what
:17:56. > :18:00.damage the fires have wreaked on this country's unique wildlife.
:18:01. > :18:06.Hundreds of houses here have already been lost. Families left with
:18:07. > :18:12.nothing. Many more homes could go before this emergency is over. This
:18:13. > :18:16.is probably one of the biggest fire situations I've had around here in
:18:17. > :18:22.the 20 odd years I've been doing it. You don't have multiple fires,
:18:23. > :18:28.it's usually separate areas on fire. 50 miles away, Sydney, Australia's
:18:29. > :18:33.biggest city, is cloaked in smoke. It's feared these fires are
:18:34. > :18:43.uncomfortably close. And all this before summer has even started. The
:18:44. > :18:47.Co-op group has lost overall control of the cooperative bank in a deal to
:18:48. > :18:51.save the banking arm of the business. The group had hoped to
:18:52. > :18:57.retain control of the bank by using a stock market flotation, to plug
:18:58. > :19:01.its ?1.5 billion debt. Today, US investors secured majority
:19:02. > :19:04.ownership. The Co-op will keep 30%, the largest single stake. Bosses
:19:05. > :19:11.insisted the lender would retain ethical values. The US Secretary of
:19:12. > :19:14.State, John Kerry, says that America is reviewing the way it gathers
:19:15. > :19:17.intelligence, after France complained about the reported
:19:18. > :19:21.monitoring of millions of phone calls. The data, based on leaks from
:19:22. > :19:25.the former intelligence analyst Edward Snowden, suggest that French
:19:26. > :19:30.officials and French companies were monitored, as well as alleged terror
:19:31. > :19:34.suspects. Our correspondent is in Paris, that's where the remarks were
:19:35. > :19:38.made. When he talks about reviewing the way it gathers intelligence,
:19:39. > :19:42.does he say any more about that? It is never easy visiting one of your
:19:43. > :19:47.key allies on the date you are accused of spying on them. It's
:19:48. > :19:50.inevitable tonight that John Kerry would be asked a question about the
:19:51. > :19:55.latest revelations in this scandal. He said tonight it was a balance of
:19:56. > :19:59.protecting the security and the privacy of our citizens. But clearly
:20:00. > :20:02.that appertains us much to French citizens as it does to American
:20:03. > :20:07.citizens. What is particularly shocking about this Le Monde report
:20:08. > :20:13.today is the depth and scale of it. 17 million phone calls and text
:20:14. > :20:16.messages over a period of 30 days, from December to January this year.
:20:17. > :20:19.Intolerable, said the foreign minister, Laurent Fabius. I wonder
:20:20. > :20:24.how much of that is for public consumption. He will know, as we do
:20:25. > :20:27.by now, that the French foreign intelligence agencies are involved
:20:28. > :20:30.in similar activity. But the timing is interesting because the EU
:20:31. > :20:34.leaders go to a summit on the Digital economy on Thursday. The
:20:35. > :20:41.French are pushing for much tighter restrictions on data in
:20:42. > :20:44.telecommunications. In Italy, a memorial service has been held for
:20:45. > :20:48.hundreds of African migrants who died when their boat sank near the
:20:49. > :20:51.island of Lampedusa earlier this month. The UN estimates that more
:20:52. > :20:56.than 30,000 people have risked their lives so far this year, hoping for a
:20:57. > :20:59.better life in Europe. Many of the migrants come from Eritrea and
:21:00. > :21:03.Somalia, but now increasing numbers of refugees from Syria are making
:21:04. > :21:08.the journey to flee that country's Civil War. Many had four ports in
:21:09. > :21:15.Egypt, including Alexandria, from where our correspondent has sent
:21:16. > :21:23.this report. Rough seas lashed the shores in Alexandria. For many,
:21:24. > :21:27.fleeing warfare in Syria this is the gateway to Europe. Smugglers take
:21:28. > :21:34.them on a perilous voyage. Some pay with their lives. For others, the
:21:35. > :21:39.dream of escape has ended here in detention. Hundreds are being held
:21:40. > :21:45.at Egyptian police stations. We managed to film covertly in this
:21:46. > :21:49.one. Even infants have been detained, like this baby. He has
:21:50. > :21:58.already been trapped here for a month. This woman is stranded two, a
:21:59. > :22:02.prisoner of her grief. Wrapped in white, the bodies of three of her
:22:03. > :22:08.daughters. She wanted to take them to safety in Sweden, but they
:22:09. > :22:16.drowned ten days ago when a smuggler's vessel sank.
:22:17. > :22:20.TRANSLATION: I was kicking and kicking and trying to stay afloat. I
:22:21. > :22:28.looked over and saw my handicapped daughter was gone. She went under
:22:29. > :22:35.the water, goodbye, my child. My other daughter held onto my neck and
:22:36. > :22:40.said, where is my sister, did she drowned? I had to tell her she was
:22:41. > :22:45.saved. Suddenly water came on top of us. I saw three white lights. I
:22:46. > :22:54.didn't know then my third daughter was also gone. Egypt says Syrian
:22:55. > :23:00.refugees are being treated decently here, but that's not how it looks.
:23:01. > :23:07.They say they are being treated like convicts and are facing growing
:23:08. > :23:11.hostility. More and more Syrians are now fleeing these shores. They say
:23:12. > :23:14.they were welcomed here in the past under President Mohamed Morsi, but
:23:15. > :23:20.everything changed when he was ousted in July. Syrians are accused
:23:21. > :23:28.of backing the Muslim Brotherhood. Many say they have no choice but to
:23:29. > :23:32.go. This woman is one of them. We are concealing her identity because
:23:33. > :23:36.she still has family in Damascus. Having fled Syria are almost two
:23:37. > :23:44.years ago, now she's ready to flee Egypt's. I think the sea will be
:23:45. > :23:50.more merciful to us than the people here, she says. Once you get to
:23:51. > :23:55.Europe you become a human being. Now we are not human. She knows she
:23:56. > :24:01.could be cheated by the traffickers, arrested by the police
:24:02. > :24:12.or drowned at sea, but better death, she says, than life without dignity.
:24:13. > :24:16.For the first time, Tesco has published its figures on the food
:24:17. > :24:20.wastes, and the supermarket disposed of some 30,000 tonnes of food in the
:24:21. > :24:25.first six months of this year. They also discovered that half of all
:24:26. > :24:27.bakery items and more than two thirds of salads in barracks were
:24:28. > :24:32.discarded at some stage in the food process will stop Tesco is to change
:24:33. > :24:41.some of its displays and end some of its in-store promotions as a result.
:24:42. > :24:44.A mountain of rubbish, piles of household waste. Look more closely
:24:45. > :24:49.and you will see about a third biggest food. From not so fresh
:24:50. > :24:56.fruit and veg to the inevitable bags of salad. Tonnes of it, a never
:24:57. > :25:01.ending stream of recycling. Whether its potatoes, carrots, leftovers,
:25:02. > :25:06.gravy, it's all there. At the heart of the matter, the big supermarkets.
:25:07. > :25:09.Tesco today revealing that dashed back tens of thousands of tonnes of
:25:10. > :25:14.its food is given to charity and sent for animal food or used to
:25:15. > :25:17.generate energy. They are trying to make changes. We think we can do
:25:18. > :25:22.more to help customers to reduce waste, so more of what they buy is
:25:23. > :25:26.consumed in the home. And also we can help our suppliers. Is
:25:27. > :25:30.calculator that almost 15 million tonnes of food and drink are wasted
:25:31. > :25:37.each year by suppliers, retailers and household in the UK. In the
:25:38. > :25:40.first six months of this yet, Tesco wasted almost 30,000 tonnes. But
:25:41. > :25:47.households are throwing away less food. In 2011 we wasted 7.2 million
:25:48. > :25:54.tonnes. That is 13% less than in 2007. Carmen's fridge is typical of
:25:55. > :26:00.so many. She and her daughter checking out the sell by dates. Not
:26:01. > :26:05.good news. Two packets of corn on the cob, one from last week and one
:26:06. > :26:09.from the week before. Part of the problem is overwhelming choice in
:26:10. > :26:13.the supermarkets. I go shopping and generally tend to buy the same
:26:14. > :26:19.things each week, they often don't get used. Things like bags of salad,
:26:20. > :26:22.carrots, broccoli. A big part of this is consumer choice and consumer
:26:23. > :26:27.behaviour. Perhaps the most obvious way for us to reduce the mountain of
:26:28. > :26:32.food waste is for all of us to bring home less from the supermarket. But
:26:33. > :26:35.to seriously tackle the problem would demand changes not only of
:26:36. > :26:42.consumers but also of the food industry. That is all from us. A
:26:43. > :26:44.first look at the papers