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The terror threat level in the UK is raised from substantial to severe. | :00:00. | :00:10. | |
This means a terrorist attack is highly likely. But there is no | :00:11. | :00:18. | |
intelligence to suggest that an attack is imminent. | :00:19. | :00:22. | |
The Prime Minister says extremists fighting in the Middle East present | :00:23. | :00:25. | |
a greater threat to our security than ever before. | :00:26. | :00:27. | |
The ambition to create an extremist caliphate in the heart of Iraq and | :00:28. | :00:34. | |
Syria is a threat to our own security here in the UK. | :00:35. | :00:39. | |
We'll be reporting from Syria and the frontline against | :00:40. | :00:42. | |
Police warn time is running out for the seriously ill five-year-old, | :00:43. | :00:48. | |
who's been taken from hospital by his parents and is now missing. | :00:49. | :00:51. | |
The campaign trail in Scotland turns nasty, as tempers rise ahead | :00:52. | :00:55. | |
And unseen chapters of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory reveal | :00:56. | :01:03. | |
how Roal Dahl intended to include more children winning that lucky | :01:04. | :01:06. | |
Later on BBC London, the police raids to clamp down on Roma gypsies | :01:07. | :01:19. | |
begging and sleeping rough. And Heathrow bosses ask the mayor to | :01:20. | :01:22. | |
back expansion, if Boris Island is scrapped. | :01:23. | :01:38. | |
The UK's terror threat level has been raised today in response to | :01:39. | :01:51. | |
It means an attack is considered highly likely, but the Government | :01:52. | :02:06. | |
says there is no intelligence to suggest an attack is imminent. | :02:07. | :02:08. | |
The Prime Minister said Islamic State represents | :02:09. | :02:11. | |
a greater and deeper threat to our security than we have known before. | :02:12. | :02:15. | |
He promised new legislation to make it easier to take passports away | :02:16. | :02:19. | |
Our Political Editor, Nick Robinson, reports. | :02:20. | :02:25. | |
Standing guard against the threat of terrorism, a threat we were told | :02:26. | :02:30. | |
today got bigger, a threat which could see more armed police on the | :02:31. | :02:33. | |
streets of Britain. This afternoon, a sombre Home Secretary read out the | :02:34. | :02:39. | |
recommendations of the joint terrorism analysis centre. They have | :02:40. | :02:47. | |
today raised the threat level for the UK from international terrorism | :02:48. | :02:51. | |
from substantial to severe. That means that a terrorist attack is | :02:52. | :02:58. | |
highly likely. But there is no intelligence to suggest that an | :02:59. | :03:04. | |
attack is imminent. What's led to the change is the increased threat | :03:05. | :03:09. | |
posed by extremist jihadis, many home-grown, who claim to be fighting | :03:10. | :03:13. | |
to build what they call an Islamic state. It was they who beheaded the | :03:14. | :03:17. | |
American journalist James Foley last week before warning they'd go on to | :03:18. | :03:22. | |
kill other hostages. The Prime Minister said today they also pose a | :03:23. | :03:27. | |
threat to us here at home. It was clear evidence, not that any more | :03:28. | :03:32. | |
was needed, that this is not some foreign conflict, thousands of miles | :03:33. | :03:36. | |
from home, we can hope to ignore. The ambition to create an extremist | :03:37. | :03:39. | |
caliphate in the heart of Iraq and Syria is a threat to our own | :03:40. | :03:45. | |
security here in the UK. A week ago, David Cameron saided there be no -- | :03:46. | :03:53. | |
said there would be no knee-jerk reaction to Foley's death. But it is | :03:54. | :03:57. | |
clear that there are gaps in our armoury and we need to strengthen | :03:58. | :04:00. | |
them. We need to do more to stop people travelling, to stop those who | :04:01. | :04:05. | |
do go from returning and to deal decisively with those who are | :04:06. | :04:09. | |
already here. Ministers do have the power to remove passports from those | :04:10. | :04:13. | |
who fight abroad, but the Home Office say it can only be used | :04:14. | :04:17. | |
sparingly. The courts can reverse their decision, as a result just 23 | :04:18. | :04:23. | |
have been removed in the past year. There were lots of strong words | :04:24. | :04:25. | |
today but precious few details of what the Government is proposing to | :04:26. | :04:29. | |
do. Downing Street say the Prime Minister will explain that to MPs on | :04:30. | :04:34. | |
Monday. Before then, though, he needs to get Nick Clegg's agreement. | :04:35. | :04:37. | |
The Liberal Democrats say they will only agree to things that are | :04:38. | :04:41. | |
considered calmly, based on the evidence and don't undermine civil | :04:42. | :04:45. | |
liberties. In the past, the Commons has been split by proposals to limit | :04:46. | :04:50. | |
the movement of those who might pose a threat to the country or to | :04:51. | :04:54. | |
control where they can live. Labour say they want to help. We've said | :04:55. | :04:59. | |
that the prevent programme should be strengthened, but also they should | :05:00. | :05:02. | |
look again at issues like control orders. We have to have the strong | :05:03. | :05:05. | |
powers and the strong safeguards that we need in place to make sure | :05:06. | :05:09. | |
that we can keep the country safe. This is not the first time the | :05:10. | :05:13. | |
threat level's been raised to severe, one step behind critical. It | :05:14. | :05:17. | |
was raised to that level after a Jeep loaded with pro pain was driven | :05:18. | :05:21. | |
into Glasgow airport in 2007 and again four years ago, when there was | :05:22. | :05:27. | |
an attempt to blow up a transatlantic airliner. Today we're | :05:28. | :05:31. | |
told that the current fighting in Iraq and Syria will change our | :05:32. | :05:33. | |
lives. , whether we like it or not. So what exactly is the threat to | :05:34. | :05:42. | |
the UK Here's our Security Correspondent, | :05:43. | :05:45. | |
Frank Gardner. Just some of the estimated 500 plus | :05:46. | :05:57. | |
Britons who have gone to Syria many joining ISIS, now renamed Islamic | :05:58. | :06:03. | |
State. It's the job of MI5, here in London, to detect any plans to carry | :06:04. | :06:08. | |
out an attack in Britain. They're helped by communications intercepts | :06:09. | :06:14. | |
from GCHQ, the Government's listening centre. Their input is | :06:15. | :06:19. | |
assessed in this building by the joint terrorism Nanness centre. It | :06:20. | :06:25. | |
brings -- joint terrorist analysis centre. They advise the Government | :06:26. | :06:30. | |
then on what is the level of threat facing the public. There are five | :06:31. | :06:34. | |
threat levels in all. They used to be kept secret. Critical is the | :06:35. | :06:39. | |
highest, it last went to that in 2007. Today it was raised from | :06:40. | :06:45. | |
substantial to severe. The newly raised terror threat level is partly | :06:46. | :06:48. | |
a response to what you could call easy jihad. Because to join an | :06:49. | :06:53. | |
extremist group like Islamic State, British passport holders have just | :06:54. | :06:58. | |
hopped on a flight to Turkey, got a bus to the border and walking across | :06:59. | :07:02. | |
into Syria. Well over 200 of them have now returned to Britain. Some | :07:03. | :07:07. | |
are stopped and arrested, but many have witnessed extreme brutality. | :07:08. | :07:11. | |
This is also the age of social media jihad, with tweets and postings on | :07:12. | :07:15. | |
Facebook attracting a constant stream of recruits. And then there | :07:16. | :07:19. | |
are the gaps in the Government's response, despite some new measures, | :07:20. | :07:24. | |
put bluntly, there just aren't enough police and spies to watch | :07:25. | :07:27. | |
everybody around-the-clock who comes back from the Syrian battlefield. | :07:28. | :07:30. | |
You're dealing with a situation where you have groups fighting in | :07:31. | :07:34. | |
Syria and Iraq who have expressed a rhetoric of wanting to launch | :07:35. | :07:37. | |
attacks against the West. You have a body of foreigners in Britain in | :07:38. | :07:40. | |
particular who have been there to fight, some of whom have come back. | :07:41. | :07:45. | |
In Brussels this summer, a returning jihadist shot dead four people at | :07:46. | :07:48. | |
the Jewish museum. Here, the Government fears there'll be more | :07:49. | :07:54. | |
opportunistic attacks like this and last year's murder of Lee Rigby, | :07:55. | :07:59. | |
attacked by jihadists in Woolwich. The police and MI5 now work so | :08:00. | :08:03. | |
closely across the country, that it's difficult for terrorists to | :08:04. | :08:06. | |
plan a large-scale attack like the London bombings. Butt longer the | :08:07. | :08:10. | |
Syrian conflict continues, the greater the risk that some of those | :08:11. | :08:13. | |
who have taken part in it may be tempted to use their violent skills | :08:14. | :08:15. | |
over here. Our North America Editor, Jon Sopel, | :08:16. | :08:22. | |
is in Washington. When it comes to military action | :08:23. | :08:25. | |
to deal directly with the threat posed by Islamic State, there's | :08:26. | :08:29. | |
been no word today here from the government and President Obama took | :08:30. | :08:33. | |
some observers by surprise, when he Of all the phrases you don't expect | :08:34. | :08:44. | |
from a president or Prime Minister the admission that you don't have a | :08:45. | :08:47. | |
strategy yet, but that's exactly what President Obama has said when | :08:48. | :08:52. | |
it comes to attacking Islamic State in Syria. Perhaps that underscores | :08:53. | :08:56. | |
the division that's exist within the US administration over just how | :08:57. | :09:00. | |
hawkish to be. The statement shows that there are profound difficulties | :09:01. | :09:04. | |
in launching a military strategy. We had a Pentagon briefing, a few hours | :09:05. | :09:09. | |
back, where senior spokesmen said there were scepticism about whether | :09:10. | :09:13. | |
there woos a simple -- there was a simple military solution to the | :09:14. | :09:17. | |
problem of Islamic State in Iraq. Most importantly, it shows the | :09:18. | :09:24. | |
president's deep, deep wariness and scepticism about launching | :09:25. | :09:27. | |
unilateral military action. That's what he campaigned against doing | :09:28. | :09:31. | |
when he ran for office and he's been consistent to that to date. Perhaps | :09:32. | :09:35. | |
he was sending out another message. Perhaps he was saying to European | :09:36. | :09:39. | |
leaders like David Cameron, look, the United States can't be expected | :09:40. | :09:43. | |
to do all the heavy lifting by itself. It was interesting in David | :09:44. | :09:46. | |
Cameron's news conference today that he didn't rule that out and perhaps, | :09:47. | :09:51. | |
David Cameron was sending a signal back. When it comes to Islamic State | :09:52. | :09:58. | |
in Iraq, it seems that everyone recognises that they are dealing | :09:59. | :10:01. | |
with an imminent threat, it's just not the case that there's going to | :10:02. | :10:05. | |
be an imminent response. Thank you. | :10:06. | :10:11. | |
Police have warned that time may be running our | :10:12. | :10:15. | |
for a five-year-old boy with a brain tumour, who was taken from a | :10:16. | :10:19. | |
Southampton hospital by his parents, against the wishes of doctors. | :10:20. | :10:22. | |
Ashya King is now believed to be in France with his family. | :10:23. | :10:25. | |
Police say a device, which had been feeding him through a tube, has now | :10:26. | :10:29. | |
probably run out of batteries, putting his life in danger. | :10:30. | :10:32. | |
Our correspondent, Duncan Kennedy, is in Southampton. | :10:33. | :10:35. | |
Now police are searching on both sides of the Channel. | :10:36. | :10:39. | |
They are, Interpol, the British police and Belgian police are | :10:40. | :10:44. | |
coordinating. It's been more than 30 hours now since Asha was seen here | :10:45. | :10:49. | |
at the hospital. Tonight there's simply no word on where he is. As | :10:50. | :10:52. | |
you mention there, the police mentioned early this evening that | :10:53. | :10:58. | |
the machine he uses to drip feed him may now run out of batteries. That's | :10:59. | :11:02. | |
critical because he won't be able to get food from that machine. They've | :11:03. | :11:06. | |
appealed again tonight to his family to bring this little boy home. | :11:07. | :11:12. | |
Sitting in his buggy, this is the moment yesterday he was led from the | :11:13. | :11:16. | |
hospital by his father. The five-year-old has a brain tumour and | :11:17. | :11:20. | |
requires constant medical attention. His parents, including his mother, | :11:21. | :11:25. | |
have been constantly at his bedside. So too has his brother, who went on | :11:26. | :11:31. | |
YouTube to speak of the family's distress at his medical condition. | :11:32. | :11:35. | |
Haven't slept anything really. I've been awake all night worrying. So I | :11:36. | :11:39. | |
just want to say we love you so much. We are all here for you. | :11:40. | :11:45. | |
That's all I wanted to say reelly. It's confirmed both of his parents | :11:46. | :11:50. | |
are Jehovah's Witnesses. A spoke man for the organisation says there's no | :11:51. | :11:53. | |
indication their religious beliefs are behind their decision to remove | :11:54. | :11:59. | |
Ashya and travel to France. Events started around 2pm yesterday, when | :12:00. | :12:03. | |
he was taken from the hospital by his parents. At 4pm, his whole | :12:04. | :12:08. | |
family travelled to Portsmouth where they boarded a ferry. At 8pm, six | :12:09. | :12:13. | |
hours after they left hospital, the police were alerted. It's impossible | :12:14. | :12:19. | |
for us to know Ashya's parents motivation in taking him at this | :12:20. | :12:23. | |
time. It won't help us solve his whereabouts and that's what we need | :12:24. | :12:26. | |
to do. We need to get him the care he There's no needs. Indication that | :12:27. | :12:30. | |
his parents have broken any law. The hospital says they had the right to | :12:31. | :12:34. | |
escort him off the ward. And it says the alarm was raised as soon as it | :12:35. | :12:39. | |
was realised that Ashya was missing. Even though that was | :12:40. | :12:40. | |
was realised that Ashya was missing. Even though that some six hours | :12:41. | :12:45. | |
after he left. At Southampton he was being fed from a tube by a special | :12:46. | :12:49. | |
machine that's battery operated. Experts say the machine can't simply | :12:50. | :12:52. | |
be taken apart to change the batteries when they run out. If it | :12:53. | :13:01. | |
runs out you'll be running on either no fluid or nutrition going through | :13:02. | :13:07. | |
the pump or it may go wrong in terms of having a wrong setting. So, the | :13:08. | :13:14. | |
battery life is used for a temporary period when a child is transferring | :13:15. | :13:19. | |
from one place to another. The King family posted this video showing a | :13:20. | :13:22. | |
recent trip to Spain. It's believed they know people. There's no | :13:23. | :13:25. | |
indication tonight that's where they're heading. He's a very sick | :13:26. | :13:31. | |
little boy and the unexplained events of the past two days will | :13:32. | :13:32. | |
only be answered once he's found. The Chief Constable of South | :13:33. | :13:44. | |
Yorkshire Police has acknowledged that his force was heavily | :13:45. | :13:49. | |
criticised in a report published this week that revealed how fourteen | :13:50. | :13:52. | |
hundred children in Rotherham were sexually exploited over 16 years. | :13:53. | :13:54. | |
He said that any information that had been disregarded by | :13:55. | :13:57. | |
the police would now be acted on. Ed Thomas reports. | :13:58. | :14:03. | |
16 years of abuse. At least 1400 victims. So why weren't children | :14:04. | :14:11. | |
listened to? I have 100 men involved. There was physical abuse. | :14:12. | :14:15. | |
Rain. She were sold. This man approached the BBC to tell | :14:16. | :14:19. | |
his story. His granddaughter was groomed when she was 12. How do you | :14:20. | :14:23. | |
see the treatment by the police? Horrible. Found in a house with four | :14:24. | :14:31. | |
men. Arrested, charged with drunk and disorderly. | :14:32. | :14:36. | |
How old was she? 13. These were all adults. | :14:37. | :14:39. | |
Like so many others, the abusers have never been jailed. | :14:40. | :14:43. | |
The police and Social Services let us down. I will fight to get justice | :14:44. | :14:48. | |
for my granddaughter and others in Rotherham. | :14:49. | :14:52. | |
One facing allegations is the Chief Constable. Confirming they will | :14:53. | :14:55. | |
investigate any officer that failed victims. | :14:56. | :14:59. | |
It is clearly my duty to take forward arrangements to look into | :15:00. | :15:05. | |
the issues raised. That may well mean people being disciplined. | :15:06. | :15:08. | |
And questions for Rotherham Borough Council. Accused of ignoring | :15:09. | :15:14. | |
exploited children. They put the bed sheets tote and | :15:15. | :15:20. | |
went out the window. This care home worker revealed the | :15:21. | :15:24. | |
scale of the abuse. Phone calls from midnight. Coming | :15:25. | :15:28. | |
back returned by the police. Sometimes back by a taxi sanctioned | :15:29. | :15:32. | |
by ourselves. Then they were back out again in half an hour. An | :15:33. | :15:38. | |
inquiry said that most of the men that exploited the children were of | :15:39. | :15:43. | |
a Pakistani heritage. But this is the only grooming gang jailed in | :15:44. | :15:51. | |
Rotherham and Jahangir Akthar Rotherham's former Deputy Leader, | :15:52. | :15:56. | |
described the gang as a one-off. Why did you say it was a one off? It was | :15:57. | :16:01. | |
the first time that we had the report. | :16:02. | :16:04. | |
Do you accept that a wrong? Absolutely. | :16:05. | :16:08. | |
Do you think that the Pakistani community in this town has done | :16:09. | :16:12. | |
enough? No. It is imperative. Parents, they bear responsibility to | :16:13. | :16:16. | |
make sure that they know where their children are... You are talking | :16:17. | :16:21. | |
about the parents? Absolutely. And the call to do more is being | :16:22. | :16:25. | |
heard. Friday prayers here was used to send out a message. That all | :16:26. | :16:30. | |
parts of this community have to confront what went so wrong in this | :16:31. | :16:31. | |
town. Ed Thomas reports. | :16:32. | :16:39. | |
NATO has accused Russia of blatantly violating Ukraine's | :16:40. | :16:41. | |
sovereignty by sending troops and weapons over the border. | :16:42. | :16:44. | |
Russia's President, Vladimir Putin, denied it and blamed Ukraine | :16:45. | :16:46. | |
for the crisis, comparing its actions to those of | :16:47. | :16:49. | |
Nazi Germany during World War Two. Since fighting began in April - | :16:50. | :16:53. | |
more than 2,500 people have been Here's our Diplomatic Correspondent | :16:54. | :16:54. | |
Bridget Kendall. Ukraine's pro-Russian rebels are | :16:55. | :17:07. | |
staging a comeback. They are seizing back territory. The | :17:08. | :17:11. | |
rebels say that they are fighting on their own but the Ukraine says that | :17:12. | :17:16. | |
they are being reinforced by Russian troops and hardware. Ukraine now | :17:17. | :17:21. | |
needs NATO's help. It is clear that Naoto Kan not | :17:22. | :17:31. | |
support Ukraine's troops. We do not expect NATO Member States to do so. | :17:32. | :17:38. | |
We can protect ourselves but we need help to stop aggression. | :17:39. | :17:43. | |
Until a few days ago, the rebels in the eastern Ukraine seemed on the | :17:44. | :17:49. | |
back foot. Forced from their base in Sloviansk, the strongholds of | :17:50. | :17:55. | |
Donetsk and then reports of columns of Russian tanks and troops coming | :17:56. | :17:59. | |
over the border. Now the fighting has spread to the up south. | :18:00. | :18:08. | |
Novoazovsk under Russian control and Mariupol. But to involve NATO is | :18:09. | :18:13. | |
dangerous. Look at the Ukraine's border with Russia. If NATO helped | :18:14. | :18:20. | |
to agree to protect it, it could start an all-out war with Russia. A | :18:21. | :18:26. | |
nightmare scenario. As the EU foreign ministers | :18:27. | :18:32. | |
gathered, the tensions were rising. These are apples that Vladimir Putin | :18:33. | :18:38. | |
says are polish. And tonight, a Defence Minister | :18:39. | :18:42. | |
plane was barred from using Polish air space. The Germans warn that the | :18:43. | :18:46. | |
crisis is slipping out of control. There is talk of tougher sanctions. | :18:47. | :18:53. | |
It has not been ruled out Ukraine being allowed to join the alliance. | :18:54. | :18:59. | |
Ukraine has decided to pursue a so-called non-alliance policy. We | :19:00. | :19:05. | |
fully respect if the Ukrainian Parliament decides to change that | :19:06. | :19:15. | |
policy. Meanwhile, Vladimir Putin still denies Russian troops are | :19:16. | :19:19. | |
involved. Telling a Russian youth forum that the Ukraine was the | :19:20. | :19:24. | |
aggressor and reminded them of the Nazis. Saying it was unclear that | :19:25. | :19:30. | |
the sanctions do nothing, other than making him feel that they have | :19:31. | :19:34. | |
nothing to lose. More on the top story story and the | :19:35. | :19:39. | |
raising of the terror threat in the UK. | :19:40. | :19:45. | |
The fighting and the methods that have driven people from their homes | :19:46. | :19:51. | |
by the Islamache state. More than 3 million people have left the area. | :19:52. | :19:56. | |
Gabriel Gatehouse has sent this report. | :19:57. | :20:00. | |
At the now meaningless border between Syria and Iraq, we met the | :20:01. | :20:05. | |
Syrian Kurds Manning the new front line. They have been battling the | :20:06. | :20:11. | |
Islamic State for more than two years but are not intimidated by the | :20:12. | :20:17. | |
group's gruesome tactics or fearsome reputation. I am not happy that they | :20:18. | :20:22. | |
are beheading people. But it makes us want to fight back harder. | :20:23. | :20:28. | |
The fighters say that the ISIS have the more powerful weapons but at | :20:29. | :20:33. | |
close quarters, the Kurds beat them on the tactics. | :20:34. | :20:37. | |
You can see buildings a few honour dread metres from here where, the | :20:38. | :20:43. | |
ISIS fighters are based. These two sides are literally eyebrow to | :20:44. | :20:46. | |
eyebrow here. As we with watch the fighters spot | :20:47. | :20:52. | |
IS vehicles on the move through the mid-day heat. They fire off a few | :20:53. | :20:57. | |
shots to remind them that we are here. This man chuckles. The Islamic | :20:58. | :21:04. | |
State has released pictures showing men that they say are captured Iraqi | :21:05. | :21:09. | |
soldiers. The propaganda says that one man has been beheaded and warns | :21:10. | :21:15. | |
that others will meet the same fate. An hour's drive from the front line, | :21:16. | :21:18. | |
thousands of refugees have gathered in a camp. | :21:19. | :21:26. | |
These children are from the minority Uzive sect. | :21:27. | :21:34. | |
They fled Iraq, whether the Islamic state fighters came to their area, | :21:35. | :21:38. | |
killing their families. But now they are here alive and happy about that. | :21:39. | :21:42. | |
But for some self-preservation came at a huge cost. This policeman was | :21:43. | :21:50. | |
forced to make an almost impossible decision. With three infant children | :21:51. | :21:56. | |
to carry, he decided to leave his four-year-old disabled son, Aziz and | :21:57. | :22:02. | |
save the others. There was a hut by the side of the | :22:03. | :22:07. | |
road. We put him in there and left him. We could not carry him anymore. | :22:08. | :22:12. | |
He was too heavy. It must have been a very difficult decision to make. | :22:13. | :22:15. | |
To leave one of your children behind as you fled? Of course it was | :22:16. | :22:30. | |
difficult. We just could not cope. But Kurdish fighters later found | :22:31. | :22:35. | |
Aziz and brought him to a hospital inside Kurdish-controlled Syria. | :22:36. | :22:40. | |
Here the BBC found him, badly dehydrated and with his corneas | :22:41. | :22:47. | |
burnt by the punishing son. No-one knew his name. But the father was | :22:48. | :22:52. | |
found and made the journey to Syria, hoping to be reunited with his son. | :22:53. | :22:58. | |
But he arrived too late. Aziz died earlier that morning. One victim of | :22:59. | :23:02. | |
a violent group that now threatens the whole region and beyond. | :23:03. | :23:09. | |
Bridget Kendall. A senior Labour MP has suspended | :23:10. | :23:13. | |
his campaign for a NO vote in the Scottish referendum, because of what | :23:14. | :23:15. | |
he described as co-ordinated abuse by supporters of independence. | :23:16. | :23:18. | |
Jim Murphy had eggs thrown at him in Fife. | :23:19. | :23:20. | |
He said his recent meetings had been disrupted by what he called | :23:21. | :23:22. | |
"noisy nationalist mobs". Scotland's first minister Alex | :23:23. | :23:24. | |
Salmond condemned the incident. Our Scotland Correspondent, | :23:25. | :23:25. | |
Lorna Gordon, reports from Glasgow. Out on the stump, talking directly | :23:26. | :23:39. | |
to Scotland's voters. And the debate seems to be getting nasty. With the | :23:40. | :23:46. | |
Labour MP, Jim Murphy claiming in recent days he has been subjected to | :23:47. | :23:51. | |
increasing levels of sustained abuse. This he claims organised by | :23:52. | :23:56. | |
some local groups claiming independence. | :23:57. | :24:00. | |
I shall not be silent. He sites comments on social media as | :24:01. | :24:05. | |
evidence of what they are doing. This is no about the throwing eggs | :24:06. | :24:09. | |
at me. I am big enough to be hit by half a dozen eggs but it is | :24:10. | :24:14. | |
something more serious and sinister it is the "yes" Scotland tolerating | :24:15. | :24:18. | |
a degree of mob mentality and thinking. | :24:19. | :24:20. | |
Most of those campaigning in favour of a "yes" or a "no" vote have been | :24:21. | :24:26. | |
polite, even when passionate when making their case. | :24:27. | :24:30. | |
But there is a darker side to the referendum debate. It is obvious | :24:31. | :24:35. | |
online. A small minority of people from both sides are loudly, | :24:36. | :24:41. | |
sometimes aggressively, trying to drown out their opponents' points of | :24:42. | :24:48. | |
view. Today this man, Christopher Stevenson from Glasgow was convicted | :24:49. | :24:53. | |
of behaving in a threatening manner towards Alex Salmond. | :24:54. | :24:58. | |
There are mindless idiots on both sides not conducting themselves | :24:59. | :25:01. | |
appropriately. We call on them to stop that behaviour and let us have | :25:02. | :25:07. | |
the debate about Scotland's future. In three weeks' time Scotland's | :25:08. | :25:11. | |
fault will have been decided. Work then will begin on deciding what | :25:12. | :25:16. | |
increasingly feels loo I can a divided nation. | :25:17. | :25:18. | |
It's 50 years since Roald Dahl wrote the children's classic, Charlie | :25:19. | :25:22. | |
and the Chocolate Factory. The book's characters have | :25:23. | :25:24. | |
become household names. But it turns out they were only | :25:25. | :25:27. | |
part of the original story. The discovery of unpublished | :25:28. | :25:29. | |
chapters reveals Dahl had intended to include more children lucky | :25:30. | :25:32. | |
enough to win the Golden Ticket and meet Willy Wonka but dropped | :25:33. | :25:35. | |
them from the final version. Our Arts Editor Will | :25:36. | :25:36. | |
Gompertz has the story. Not sure I would do that. | :25:37. | :25:47. | |
Augustus Gloop, coming to a sticky end. | :25:48. | :25:53. | |
In Roald Dahl's 50-year-old story that continues to work its magic. | :25:54. | :26:00. | |
It is very imaginative. You see lots of things that happen in life that | :26:01. | :26:04. | |
happen in the books. He always manages to add a few surprises. | :26:05. | :26:09. | |
But they don't know the half of it. When Roald Dahl wrote the story | :26:10. | :26:14. | |
there were ten, not five children winning the golden tickets. I am | :26:15. | :26:20. | |
sitting in a recreation of Roald Dahl's writing hut and in front of | :26:21. | :26:25. | |
me is an early draft of what would become Charlie And The Chocolate | :26:26. | :26:28. | |
Factory. Full of edits and corrections. Even being called | :26:29. | :26:33. | |
Charlie's Chocolate Boy. Chapter five was cut by the author and we | :26:34. | :26:40. | |
saw the demise of Wimbledon Wimbledon Wimbledon and Tommy | :26:41. | :26:47. | |
Troutbeck. Both spoiled. They were discovered in the archive, impressed | :26:48. | :26:51. | |
by what she found. I admired him. You see the | :26:52. | :26:56. | |
invention, it is even more fertile. And you can see him learning his | :26:57. | :27:00. | |
craft. Charlie is only the second children's book he ever wrote. | :27:01. | :27:05. | |
The illustrator, Quentin Blake, worked with Roald Dahl and produced | :27:06. | :27:09. | |
many drawings for Charlie And The Chocolate Factory. | :27:10. | :27:14. | |
I knew that he re-wrote many times. For the last chapter about the | :27:15. | :27:18. | |
vanilla fudge mountain, he is leading a group of people not in the | :27:19. | :27:23. | |
final book. It is interesting to see something that at an earlier stage | :27:24. | :27:26. | |
knew what was happening in the cooking. That is fascinating. | :27:27. | :27:32. | |
So how does a writer feel when it comes to leaving a character on the | :27:33. | :27:36. | |
literary cutting room floor? It is sad but sometimes they don't do | :27:37. | :27:40. | |
anything to further the plot or bring as much as they should. You | :27:41. | :27:44. | |
feel that you are placing that on them a little bit. | :27:45. | :27:48. | |
The extra characters had to go because of the overcomplicated | :27:49. | :27:53. | |
story. But half a century later, they give a fascinating insight into | :27:54. | :27:58. | |
the creative process of one of the world's most imaginative authors. | :27:59. | :28:02. | |
Gompertz has the story. That's all from us tonight. Don't | :28:03. | :28:04. | |
forget Newsnight's | :28:05. | :28:05. |