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Tonight at Ten - David Cameron offends the Nigerians with unguarded | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
comments about the country's corruption levels. | :00:07. | :00:10. | |
The remarks were overheard at Buckingham Palace two days ahead | :00:11. | :00:13. | |
of a major anti-corruption summit being hosted by Mr Cameron. | :00:14. | :00:17. | |
Actually, we've got some leaders of some fantastically corrupt | :00:18. | :00:22. | |
Nigeria and Afghanistan, possibly the two most corrupt | :00:23. | :00:28. | |
We'll have details and reaction, as well as other overheard remarks | :00:29. | :00:32. | |
about Britain's tricky relationship with China. | :00:33. | :00:36. | |
The former Conservative leader, Iain Duncan Smith, accuses | :00:37. | :00:43. | |
the European Union of being a "force for social injustice" which lets | :00:44. | :00:44. | |
NASA announces the discovery of nearly 1,300 new planets | :00:45. | :00:49. | |
SATs in England are being sabotaged by opponents of education reform, | :00:50. | :00:55. | |
according to ministers, after a test paper was leaked. | :00:56. | :01:03. | |
And Manchester United's bus was pelted with objects as it | :01:04. | :01:06. | |
arrives for West Ham's last-ever match at Upton Park tonight. | :01:07. | :01:12. | |
Coming up in Sportsday on BBC News: England manager Roy Hodgson pushes | :01:13. | :01:16. | |
back the announcement of the squad for the European Championship | :01:17. | :01:19. | |
The president of Nigeria said tonight his government was "shocked | :01:20. | :01:47. | |
and embarrassed" by comments made by David Cameron at an event held | :01:48. | :01:51. | |
The Prime Minister was overheard telling the Queen that Nigeria | :01:52. | :01:55. | |
and Afghanistan were "fantastically corrupt" countries. | :01:56. | :01:59. | |
Mr Cameron is due to host a major anti-corruption summit | :02:00. | :02:02. | |
Downing Street insisted that Britain stood "shoulder to shoulder" | :02:03. | :02:07. | |
with the leaders of both countries, as our diplomatic correspondent, | :02:08. | :02:09. | |
The Prime Minister was among leading figures from both Housing of | :02:10. | :02:22. | |
Parliament marking the Queen's 90th birthday at Buckingham Palace. The | :02:23. | :02:28. | |
Palace cameraman captures the moment when Mr Cameron flanked by the | :02:29. | :02:32. | |
Archbishop of Canterbury and the Leader of the House is joined by the | :02:33. | :02:35. | |
Queen and the Speaker of the Commons. | :02:36. | :03:09. | |
Was that simply the unvarnished truth or a diplomatic gaffe? David | :03:10. | :03:17. | |
Cameron knows Nigeria's President well, they apparently agree on the | :03:18. | :03:21. | |
need to tackle corruption but the President's spokesman said he was | :03:22. | :03:24. | |
shocked and embarrassed and the remarks were out-of-date. | :03:25. | :03:29. | |
TRANSLATION: It is disturbing that despite all the efforts made by | :03:30. | :03:34. | |
President Buhari in fighting corruption in Nigeria, his efforts | :03:35. | :03:40. | |
have gone unnoticed. It is possible that the Prime Minister was caught | :03:41. | :03:43. | |
unawares or he was referring to how thing were done in the past without | :03:44. | :03:48. | |
considering what has been done now. The Prime Minister's remarks have | :03:49. | :03:51. | |
prompted a stream of reaction. A leading organisation in the fight | :03:52. | :03:55. | |
against corruption still hopes the summit will expose abuse wherever it | :03:56. | :04:01. | |
exists. Historically, it is true that Nigeria and Afghanistan have | :04:02. | :04:05. | |
had major corruption problems and they continue to have them. At the | :04:06. | :04:11. | |
same time, we have leaders in those countries that have sent strong | :04:12. | :04:14. | |
signals that they want to change that. And let's remember, this is | :04:15. | :04:22. | |
also important for the UK because the UK continues to provide a safe | :04:23. | :04:28. | |
haven for corrupt money, both here and in its overseas territories. We | :04:29. | :04:32. | |
know those countries that are at this summit are keen to tackle | :04:33. | :04:38. | |
corruption and that is why it is so crass and counter-productive, | :04:39. | :04:41. | |
complete diplomatic gaffe for the Prime Minister to slag them off as | :04:42. | :04:44. | |
corrupt when we should be trying to work alongside them. Mr Cameron | :04:45. | :04:48. | |
highlighting corruption in Afghanistan may also renew public | :04:49. | :04:53. | |
doubt about the sacrifice of over 450 British lives there. One Tory | :04:54. | :04:57. | |
back bencher tonight renewed pressure for global cuts in British | :04:58. | :05:01. | |
aid. I think the two issues are different, overseas aid and | :05:02. | :05:04. | |
corruption in foreign countries. I happen to think our overseas aid | :05:05. | :05:11. | |
money is well-used when it is looking after refugees near to | :05:12. | :05:15. | |
Syria. But badly used when it is going to corrupt countries for | :05:16. | :05:19. | |
potential investment keeps where a lot is siphoned off. It's been a day | :05:20. | :05:24. | |
of remarkable candour at Buckingham Palace. Last autumn's controversial | :05:25. | :05:32. | |
Chinese state visit was subject of conversation by the Queen today when | :05:33. | :05:36. | |
she was told about rows between Chinese officials on one side and | :05:37. | :05:40. | |
the Metropolitan Police on the other. An official accompanies the | :05:41. | :05:45. | |
Queen to meet police commander in charge during those difficult days | :05:46. | :05:47. | |
at a Buckingham Palace garden party. It is highly unusual for two | :05:48. | :06:37. | |
conversations like these to emerge from Buckingham Palace, particularly | :06:38. | :06:39. | |
in a single day. Let's start with the comments about | :06:40. | :06:49. | |
Nigeria and Afghanistan. The Nigerians are upset by the substance | :06:50. | :06:53. | |
for the way in which he said it? They are upset by the substance and | :06:54. | :06:56. | |
the way in which the Prime Minister put it. Using that phrase | :06:57. | :06:59. | |
"fantastically corrupt" and leaving it to the Archbishop of Canterbury | :07:00. | :07:04. | |
to interject that President Buhari is trying to tackle corruption and | :07:05. | :07:08. | |
that he is making an effort. It is both the fact that the Prime | :07:09. | :07:12. | |
Minister didn't acknowledge what was being done now, and the fact that he | :07:13. | :07:18. | |
seemed to be quite content to sit on this phrase, "one of the most | :07:19. | :07:22. | |
corrupt countries in the world". Having said that, Downing Street | :07:23. | :07:25. | |
makes very clear its view that the Prime Minister and the President are | :07:26. | :07:29. | |
on the same page, that President Buhari acknowledges the scale of the | :07:30. | :07:34. | |
problem with his country and that he and President Ghani of Afghanistan | :07:35. | :07:37. | |
have written in text for a book which will appear in parallel with | :07:38. | :07:40. | |
this summit that they acknowledge they have a very great deal of work | :07:41. | :07:46. | |
to do. As we have just seen there, not the only overheard comment from | :07:47. | :07:52. | |
the Palace today? We heard the Queen in that remarkable conversation | :07:53. | :07:57. | |
acknowledging I think the rudeness of the Chinese, she was very aware | :07:58. | :08:02. | |
and she made that clear of the rows that had been going on leading up to | :08:03. | :08:06. | |
and during the visit. It is something that during her lifetime | :08:07. | :08:10. | |
she's almost never done, to enter into politics or international | :08:11. | :08:14. | |
affairs. But we should remember that her son, the Prince of Wales, | :08:15. | :08:21. | |
pointedly stayed away from the state banquet, this is a family that has | :08:22. | :08:26. | |
strong feelings and some of that we heard today. James Robbins, thank | :08:27. | :08:27. | |
you very much. The European Union is a "force | :08:28. | :08:31. | |
for social injustice" according to the former Conservative leader, | :08:32. | :08:32. | |
Iain Duncan Smith. Making his case for Britain to leave | :08:33. | :08:35. | |
the EU, he blamed immigration for driving down wages and putting | :08:36. | :08:38. | |
pressure on public services. But Labour's Jeremy Corbyn, | :08:39. | :08:42. | |
launching Labour's referendum battlebus, insisted | :08:43. | :08:44. | |
that EU membership had Our political editor, | :08:45. | :08:47. | |
Laura Kuenssberg, has the latest. For richer, for poorer, | :08:48. | :08:52. | |
has EU immigration made life better A squeeze on public services, | :08:53. | :08:57. | |
a squeeze on jobs. The EU, despite its grand, | :08:58. | :09:03. | |
early intentions, has become, I believe, a friend of the haves, | :09:04. | :09:09. | |
rather than a friend If we are not careful, | :09:10. | :09:12. | |
we are going to see a huge rise, We're going to see increasing | :09:13. | :09:18. | |
divides between people who have a home of their own and those, | :09:19. | :09:23. | |
to coin a phrase used rather recently, who are at | :09:24. | :09:27. | |
the back of the queue. For many of us, Eastern Europeans | :09:28. | :09:30. | |
who have come to live and work here have been the human face | :09:31. | :09:32. | |
of our EU membership. Mr Duncan Smith claim in too many | :09:33. | :09:36. | |
places, even the Olympic Park, Britons have lost work to them | :09:37. | :09:39. | |
because they will I found skilled workers there saying | :09:40. | :09:43. | |
they couldn't get jobs there because they were outbid | :09:44. | :09:48. | |
by migrant workers coming in and staying in bedsits | :09:49. | :09:51. | |
and that was borne out by the fact that over 50% of the jobs were taken | :09:52. | :09:55. | |
by foreign workers. Not only were you in | :09:56. | :09:59. | |
the Cabinet for six years, while the Government's policies | :10:00. | :10:02. | |
on all of this were agreed, which you agreed with, | :10:03. | :10:04. | |
but you were also in charge of the Department for Work | :10:05. | :10:06. | |
and Pensions where significant cuts were made to the kind of payments | :10:07. | :10:09. | |
that go exactly to the kind of people that today you say | :10:10. | :10:12. | |
you are concerned about? If we have an open border - and this | :10:13. | :10:15. | |
is the point I keep making - you cannot control that competition | :10:16. | :10:18. | |
at the bottom end which has become very fierce | :10:19. | :10:20. | |
and comes as a detriment to those who have base costs | :10:21. | :10:23. | |
which cannot change. There is some evidence immigration's | :10:24. | :10:26. | |
pushed some wages down a little. But the possible economic turbulence | :10:27. | :10:31. | |
if we left the EU could dwarf Yet, in pockets of the country, | :10:32. | :10:35. | |
new arrivals have put more And could that change how we vote | :10:36. | :10:40. | |
in the referendum? This choice is about | :10:41. | :10:48. | |
all of our futures. Weighing up pressure on schools | :10:49. | :10:51. | |
and the NHS might be part of these There aren't an unlimited number | :10:52. | :10:54. | |
of spaces for school places and hospital beds, | :10:55. | :11:00. | |
so I definitely think there should It is a big challenge | :11:01. | :11:05. | |
as they get older, they speak lots about what school | :11:06. | :11:13. | |
they are going to get into, not having enough space | :11:14. | :11:15. | |
and all the rest of it! Labour's campaigners might not have | :11:16. | :11:17. | |
been strong in number but they were brave enough | :11:18. | :11:20. | |
for the drizzle at their official launch, rejecting Iain | :11:21. | :11:22. | |
Duncan Smith's argument, accusing the Outers | :11:23. | :11:26. | |
of even being extreme. If we left the European Union, | :11:27. | :11:29. | |
the exploitation would be worse, we would have no protection | :11:30. | :11:32. | |
of the agency workers' directive, no protection of part-timers getting | :11:33. | :11:34. | |
the same pay as full-timers, no protection for temporary workers, | :11:35. | :11:38. | |
no protection on maternity leave Outers aren't just making this case | :11:39. | :11:41. | |
because it's what they believe, but because it might be their best | :11:42. | :11:46. | |
bet at winning the referendum. And private polling I have | :11:47. | :11:50. | |
seen suggests, plainly, the left well off you are the more | :11:51. | :11:53. | |
likely you are to Maybe this is an argument | :11:54. | :11:55. | |
between the haves and have-nots. Politicians have often been | :11:56. | :12:03. | |
squeamish over talking immigration. But in this campaign, | :12:04. | :12:06. | |
it might decide how we choose Laura Kuenssberg, BBC | :12:07. | :12:09. | |
News, Westminster. As we've heard, Iain Duncan Smith | :12:10. | :12:15. | |
said the EU had become "a friend of the haves, | :12:16. | :12:17. | |
rather than the have-nots". He said lower-paid, lower-skilled | :12:18. | :12:21. | |
British workers were losing out - and insisted immigration was a major | :12:22. | :12:24. | |
factor in the pressure Our political correspondent, | :12:25. | :12:27. | |
Alex Forysth, is with me to assess Huw, Iain Duncan Smith used a lot | :12:28. | :12:32. | |
of facts and figures to make his case that uncontrolled | :12:33. | :12:38. | |
immigration from the EU will put unsustainable strain | :12:39. | :12:41. | |
on jobs and services. Let's take a look at | :12:42. | :12:45. | |
some of his claims. He said that for every 100 migrants | :12:46. | :12:48. | |
employed, 23 UK workers This comes from a report | :12:49. | :12:52. | |
by Government's Migration But there's an important caveat - | :12:53. | :12:57. | |
when you look at that report that statistic is only referring | :12:58. | :13:02. | |
to migrants from outside the EU. When it comes to wages, | :13:03. | :13:08. | |
Mr Duncan Smith says they'll be pushed down if borders remain | :13:09. | :13:11. | |
open due to a continued He cited a Bank of England report | :13:12. | :13:14. | |
which found immigration can affect salaries, | :13:15. | :13:19. | |
particularly in semi or unskilled jobs in the services sector | :13:20. | :13:23. | |
but the impact is fairly small - The impact on jobs and wages has | :13:24. | :13:27. | |
to be taken in broader context, weighing up the benefits | :13:28. | :13:35. | |
of immigration to the economy, There is some evidence that | :13:36. | :13:38. | |
immigration can have a negative impact on low-wage workers | :13:39. | :13:44. | |
in the UK, but those impacts appear to be relatively small, | :13:45. | :13:47. | |
and immigration does not seem to be a major factor driving the outcomes | :13:48. | :13:50. | |
of low-wage people here. In the context of leaving the EU, | :13:51. | :13:55. | |
this suggests the effect on low-wage workers as a result of immigration | :13:56. | :13:57. | |
could actually be smaller than the broader economic effects | :13:58. | :14:02. | |
of leaving the EU overall, whether they are positive | :14:03. | :14:07. | |
or negative. A less controversial claim | :14:08. | :14:10. | |
is the fact immigration does put Iain Duncan Smith says 240 houses | :14:11. | :14:13. | |
would have to be built every day And he says in schools, | :14:14. | :14:19. | |
the demand for pupil places as a result of immigration | :14:20. | :14:26. | |
is equivalent to the need for 100 Those figures are in line | :14:27. | :14:29. | |
with predicted migration flows, but those who want the UK to remain | :14:30. | :14:36. | |
in the EU point out that the taxes paid by migrants help | :14:37. | :14:39. | |
fund public services. EU membership does have an impact | :14:40. | :14:44. | |
on wages, jobs and services, but whether that impact is good | :14:45. | :14:47. | |
or bad for the UK is one of the most hotly-contested aspects | :14:48. | :14:51. | |
of this referendum. A new survey suggests the gap | :14:52. | :14:58. | |
between those business people wanting to remain in the EU | :14:59. | :15:01. | |
and those who want to The British Chambers of Commerce | :15:02. | :15:04. | |
says 54% of its members surveyed in April said they'd vote Remain, | :15:05. | :15:09. | |
down from 60% in February's survey. 37% say they'd vote | :15:10. | :15:14. | |
to Leave, up from 30%. Less than 10% say they don't know, | :15:15. | :15:19. | |
or probably won't vote at all. Our economics editor, Kamal Ahmed, | :15:20. | :15:24. | |
has been hearing both sides Two businesses from the same county | :15:25. | :15:27. | |
and separated by just a few miles, but when it comes to whether it | :15:28. | :15:36. | |
would be better to leave or remain in the EU, | :15:37. | :15:39. | |
their opinions couldn't Teresa Auciello is sales director | :15:40. | :15:42. | |
at a wind turbine company in Corby. It's important for us to stay | :15:43. | :15:49. | |
in the EU so we can actually be influencing and shaping the future | :15:50. | :15:55. | |
of Europe rather than sitting on the outside, because we will be | :15:56. | :15:58. | |
working at the behest and having to trade at the behest of other | :15:59. | :16:01. | |
people's regulations. Other businesses, of course, | :16:02. | :16:08. | |
have different views. I'm on my way to another business | :16:09. | :16:13. | |
about 15 miles away. I suppose the thought in some | :16:14. | :16:15. | |
people's minds might be why does the opinion of business leaders | :16:16. | :16:19. | |
matter any more than the opinion I suppose that comes down for both | :16:20. | :16:22. | |
the Remain and Leave campaign to the fact that they believe that | :16:23. | :16:29. | |
businesses really speak to a vital issue in this referendum campaign, | :16:30. | :16:33. | |
that's the issue of jobs We export to every | :16:34. | :16:36. | |
country within Europe. Guy Schanschieff is the founder | :16:37. | :16:44. | |
of a reusable nappy company. Leaving the EU holds | :16:45. | :16:47. | |
no fears for him. He thinks it could open | :16:48. | :16:51. | |
up new markets. We're continually looking, | :16:52. | :16:54. | |
as a company that is growing We certainly see the new markets | :16:55. | :16:57. | |
that we want to go into to continue to grow in the US, in India | :16:58. | :17:03. | |
and South America and being out of the EU will give the Government | :17:04. | :17:06. | |
the opportunity to negotiate quicker, more efficient trade deals | :17:07. | :17:09. | |
that will help us grow and export. What this Brexit survey | :17:10. | :17:16. | |
of 2,000 businesses reveals is there is not one simple | :17:17. | :17:18. | |
picture for all firms. Of those that export to the EU 62% | :17:19. | :17:21. | |
support remaining in. For those that do not, | :17:22. | :17:24. | |
that support falls to 43%. For large businesses, | :17:25. | :17:31. | |
with over 250 employees, For smaller businesses, | :17:32. | :17:34. | |
with under 50 employees, Remain campaigners insist that | :17:35. | :17:41. | |
all reputable business polls show firm support for staying in the EU, | :17:42. | :17:47. | |
but opinions still clearly differ for this most important voice | :17:48. | :17:53. | |
in the referendum campaign. NASA has announced that it's | :17:54. | :17:57. | |
discovered nearly 1,300 new planets The bodies - known as exo-planets - | :17:58. | :18:04. | |
were found with the NASA says the discovery increases | :18:05. | :18:10. | |
the likelihood of one day finding another planet like Earth that | :18:11. | :18:16. | |
might support life. Our science editor, | :18:17. | :18:19. | |
David Shukman, has the story. The search for worlds | :18:20. | :18:22. | |
beyond our solar system has Tonight we know of far more planets | :18:23. | :18:24. | |
orbiting distant stars They have been detected | :18:25. | :18:30. | |
by the Kepler space telescope that, for the past few years, | :18:31. | :18:36. | |
has been opening up an entirely Today's announcement adds | :18:37. | :18:39. | |
dramatically to the number of confirmed planets confirmed | :18:40. | :18:44. | |
by the Kepler space telescope. By any standard this | :18:45. | :18:48. | |
is a spectacular achievement Until 25 years ago the only | :18:49. | :18:50. | |
planets we knew about were Now the Kepler telescope has just | :18:51. | :18:57. | |
discovered 1284 planets orbiting other stars, | :18:58. | :19:04. | |
doubling the previous total. 100 of these are thought to be | :19:05. | :19:08. | |
roughly the size of Earth. Of those, nine are in so-called | :19:09. | :19:12. | |
habitable zones, just the right distance from their stars for water | :19:13. | :19:16. | |
to exist at the surface. So, they could conceivably host life | :19:17. | :19:20. | |
and what is tantalising is that many more of these worlds are likely | :19:21. | :19:24. | |
to be discovered. It means that the galaxies | :19:25. | :19:27. | |
formed the planets. Kepler showed us that every star | :19:28. | :19:30. | |
you saw in the night sky is likely But in the process of showing it, | :19:31. | :19:35. | |
it is likely that each of those stars has several planets | :19:36. | :19:41. | |
going around it. So, there are lots of Earths out | :19:42. | :19:45. | |
there and there are lots of possible places that could have life | :19:46. | :19:48. | |
like our own Earth sitting out Of course there is no proof yet that | :19:49. | :19:51. | |
any of these worlds actually support life, but the search is intensifying | :19:52. | :19:56. | |
and in a couple of years this massive new telescope will be | :19:57. | :19:59. | |
launched into space and it As well as spotting planets, | :20:00. | :20:02. | |
the James Webb telescope will peer into the atmospheres and detect | :20:03. | :20:07. | |
the gases that could Yesterday we were treated | :20:08. | :20:10. | |
to the sight of Mercury This same technique of watching | :20:11. | :20:17. | |
for the tiny dimming in light as a planet passes has now revealed | :20:18. | :20:23. | |
hundreds of other ones A brief look at some | :20:24. | :20:26. | |
of the day's other news stories. Prosecutors have received a file | :20:27. | :20:35. | |
of evidence from police regarding an allegation | :20:36. | :20:39. | |
of historical sexual assault The Crown Prosecution Service said | :20:40. | :20:42. | |
it will now make a decision as to The singer has always | :20:43. | :20:48. | |
denied the claim. Police in Manchester have apologised | :20:49. | :20:55. | |
for racial stereotyping, -- for using the phrase "God | :20:56. | :21:05. | |
agreatest" in Arabic during a training exercise. | :21:06. | :21:09. | |
The words were shouted by a man dressed as a suicide bomber. The | :21:10. | :21:12. | |
force said on reflection, it had been unacceptable to use the phrase. | :21:13. | :21:16. | |
A man with a knife has killed a commuter and injured three others | :21:17. | :21:19. | |
The German man was reportedly heard to shout in Arabic | :21:20. | :21:23. | |
as he attacked people at Grafing station this morning. | :21:24. | :21:26. | |
Officials say there's no evidence he was an Islamist. | :21:27. | :21:29. | |
The man - who was arrested - is believed to suffer from | :21:30. | :21:32. | |
Ministers have suggested that SATs tests for primary school pupils | :21:33. | :21:39. | |
in England are being sabotaged by opponents of education reforms, | :21:40. | :21:43. | |
after a test paper was published online for the second time | :21:44. | :21:46. | |
The Department for Education blamed the leak on what it called a "rogue | :21:47. | :21:51. | |
Our education correspondent, Robert Pigott, has more details. | :21:52. | :22:02. | |
Oh, well... Done. After two SATs tests in two days, there was a sense | :22:03. | :22:13. | |
of relief at this primary school. This morning the mood was more | :22:14. | :22:17. | |
apprehensive. Some people have been quite nervous. Some people haven't | :22:18. | :22:21. | |
really been bothered too much. I was quite nervous, though. Quite a few | :22:22. | :22:25. | |
people were nervous. They think it will affect their secondary school. | :22:26. | :22:29. | |
The children, they start off and they're not that stressed, at first. | :22:30. | :22:36. | |
Then the parents, they just say little things that build up the | :22:37. | :22:40. | |
stress. The test might never have happened. Pearson, the company that | :22:41. | :22:45. | |
supplies the exams, mistakenly allowed the paper onto a secure | :22:46. | :22:50. | |
website. Then a marker leak today to a journalist. -- leaked it to a | :22:51. | :22:56. | |
journalist. In Ipswich tonight members of the National Union of | :22:57. | :23:00. | |
Teachers vented their frustration at the Government's rapid changes to | :23:01. | :23:05. | |
education. This esay chaos in administering exams led to the last | :23:06. | :23:08. | |
leak three weeks ago, when a primary school test had to be abandoned | :23:09. | :23:11. | |
after being mistakenly posted on the Government website. Ministers insist | :23:12. | :23:15. | |
that the latest breach was a deliberate attempt to sabotage the | :23:16. | :23:20. | |
test, even if it didn't work. It is essential that people in positions | :23:21. | :23:25. | |
of trust can be relied upon to act appropriately. Unfortunately, in | :23:26. | :23:32. | |
this case, it appears that one person did not and they leaked the | :23:33. | :23:36. | |
Key Stage 2 English grammar, punctuation and spelling test to a | :23:37. | :23:40. | |
journalist. The Government insists that its tough new curriculum and | :23:41. | :23:46. | |
rigorous exams used to test it are essential for raising standards. | :23:47. | :23:50. | |
Parents have complained that the new tests leave children stressed and | :23:51. | :23:53. | |
anxious and teachers say not only do they distort the curriculum, but the | :23:54. | :23:56. | |
new tests were introduced in a way that raz rushed and chaotic -- that | :23:57. | :24:02. | |
was rushed and chaotic. This year, because of the speed in which they | :24:03. | :24:07. | |
put them in, it's been a bit of a shambles. The children aren't | :24:08. | :24:12. | |
totally prepared because of the new curriculum. Supporters say it helps | :24:13. | :24:16. | |
ensure all children can read and write. The basics provide the | :24:17. | :24:20. | |
foundation for all their education. If there were shortcomings there, | :24:21. | :24:23. | |
they need to be addressed. That's another thing that the SATs can be | :24:24. | :24:28. | |
used for. It's a view echoed in Scotland, where similar testing for | :24:29. | :24:31. | |
primary school children is on the way back. | :24:32. | :24:34. | |
Over the past two years, we've been following the story | :24:35. | :24:37. | |
of Josh Wills from Cornwall, who's 15 and has learning | :24:38. | :24:39. | |
As part of his treatment, he was sent to a specialist | :24:40. | :24:44. | |
hospital in Birmingham, more than 250 miles away from home. | :24:45. | :24:47. | |
But after a long campaign by his family, Josh has returned | :24:48. | :24:49. | |
to Cornwall to a new home and a new life, as our social | :24:50. | :24:52. | |
affairs correspondent, Alison Holt, reports. | :24:53. | :24:57. | |
These are the sorts of precious moments that Josh Wills' family | :24:58. | :25:00. | |
This is the first time his father has been able to take him for a walk | :25:01. | :25:08. | |
with his step-mother, half-brother and half-sister. | :25:09. | :25:11. | |
For three years, I'd had three words on my mind and that was - | :25:12. | :25:14. | |
Josh has learning disabilities and autism. | :25:15. | :25:19. | |
He wears a head guard and his arms are tucked into his top | :25:20. | :25:22. | |
A lack of suitable care in Cornwall meant he was living | :25:23. | :25:28. | |
hundreds of miles away in a Birmingham hospital. | :25:29. | :25:31. | |
Finally, last November, he came home. | :25:32. | :25:34. | |
It was such a positive day in this one story that we'd worked | :25:35. | :25:37. | |
so hard with so many people to bring forward. | :25:38. | :25:42. | |
Have you had a lovely day, tell everyone. | :25:43. | :26:02. | |
He finally made the long journey home, after a campaign | :26:03. | :26:07. | |
in which nearly 250,000 people signed a petition demanding the care | :26:08. | :26:10. | |
It's now like our life's begun again really. | :26:11. | :26:15. | |
For Josh's mother Sarah and her family, it's a huge relief | :26:16. | :26:21. | |
For all of us, especially Josh, it wasn't a life. | :26:22. | :26:26. | |
He was, you know, medicated and I was just broken hearted. | :26:27. | :26:33. | |
The only way I survived was switching off | :26:34. | :26:36. | |
Josh's behaviour will always be challenging. | :26:37. | :26:43. | |
But now, rather than him being in an institution, | :26:44. | :26:46. | |
the authorities have built care around him, allowing family, | :26:47. | :26:50. | |
like his stepfather, to play a vital role. | :26:51. | :26:53. | |
His new home is designed to allow him to live | :26:54. | :26:57. | |
as full a life as possible, with the help of | :26:58. | :27:01. | |
It costs thousands of pounds a week, but so does a bed in | :27:02. | :27:08. | |
Robin Gunson heads the team providing care for Josh and others. | :27:09. | :27:13. | |
It should be a baseline expectation that everybody has, | :27:14. | :27:16. | |
a person-centred approach to enable them to be a citizen of society. | :27:17. | :27:20. | |
It's not the person that needs fixing generally, | :27:21. | :27:23. | |
it's the system and support around someone in the first place. | :27:24. | :27:32. | |
The Government has said it wants to see the sort of care that Josh | :27:33. | :27:36. | |
now gets available to many more people with challenging | :27:37. | :27:39. | |
behaviour who currently live in hospitals in England. | :27:40. | :27:43. | |
But on the ground, change has been slow to happen. | :27:44. | :27:46. | |
The most recent figures show there are still 165 children | :27:47. | :27:49. | |
with learning disabilities and autism in hospital assessment | :27:50. | :27:52. | |
and treatment units, many a long way from home. | :27:53. | :27:56. | |
Josh's family say the care he is getting now is | :27:57. | :27:59. | |
That is the main thing, seeing him happy, seeing him | :28:00. | :28:11. | |
independent, just seeing him have his little spark back. | :28:12. | :28:14. | |
West Ham's last ever mark at Upton Park, home to the club for over a | :28:15. | :28:29. | |
century, had to be delayed this evening because of violence outside | :28:30. | :28:32. | |
the ground. The bus carrying players from the visiting team, Manchester | :28:33. | :28:36. | |
United, was pelted with objects as it arrived. | :28:37. | :28:41. | |
Our correspondent, Joe Wilson, is there. | :28:42. | :28:44. | |
Thousands had lined the streets to say goodbye to their ground, Upton | :28:45. | :28:51. | |
Park. But in the middle of that the Manchester United bus. Close to the | :28:52. | :28:56. | |
scheduled kickoff time the coach was targeted directly. Bottles were | :28:57. | :28:59. | |
thrown. Inside the Manchester United players were clearly moving away | :29:00. | :29:04. | |
from the windows. And filming the occasion. It's not what the night | :29:05. | :29:11. | |
was supposed to be about. # We're forever blowing bubbles... # | :29:12. | :29:15. | |
Tradition is what West Ham wanted to mark. This ground, their world, | :29:16. | :29:22. | |
their song. This last match before the club moves grounds mattered for | :29:23. | :29:26. | |
more than just nostalgia. Both West Ham and Manchester United had | :29:27. | :29:29. | |
European qualification issues at stake. Here's what the home crowd | :29:30. | :29:38. | |
had wanted. Manchester United chasing Manchester City for a | :29:39. | :29:41. | |
Champions League place responded, five minutes gone in the second half | :29:42. | :29:46. | |
and the ball to Martial. That was 1-1. Martial wasn't finished. | :29:47. | :29:51. | |
Finding a gap which the goalkeeper may well have covered. Bubbles | :29:52. | :29:57. | |
bursting around the old ground. Just as well then that West Ham equalised | :29:58. | :30:03. | |
almost immediately. 80 minutes on the clock, and keep | :30:04. | :30:10. | |
track, the ball passed De Gea and West Ham led again. | :30:11. | :30:17. | |
There's a raucous feel around Upton Park right now. 3-2 was the final | :30:18. | :30:23. | |
score. The final whistle has only just blown. Some supporters, at | :30:24. | :30:28. | |
least, have left the ground. That result puts more pressure on | :30:29. | :30:31. | |
Manchester United's manager, Louis Van Gaal. That kind offent-to-end | :30:32. | :30:38. | |
football -- kind of end to end football is part of the great | :30:39. | :30:41. | |
tradition of Upton Park. What we saw before the game is an unpresidentant | :30:42. | :30:48. | |
reminder as well of -- unpresidentant reminder of more | :30:49. | :30:52. | |
troubled times. The next time we see them will be at the Olympic Stadium. | :30:53. | :30:56. | |
West Ham believe it's only they who can bring life to that arena. | :30:57. | :30:59. | |
Joe thanks very much. Here on BBC One, it's time | :31:00. | :31:12. | |
for the news where you are. | :31:13. | :31:14. |