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Tonight at 10 - there'll be no official inquiry into the most | :00:00. | :00:08. | |
violent episode of the miners' strike at Orgreave 32 years ago. | :00:09. | :00:18. | |
Campaigners insist that South Yorkshire Police lied | :00:19. | :00:20. | |
about the events at Orgreave, but the Home Secretary says | :00:21. | :00:22. | |
there's no justification for a public inquiry. | :00:23. | :00:25. | |
There were no miscarriages of justice, there were no deaths, | :00:26. | :00:29. | |
There was anger at Westminster among campaigners who'd been expecting | :00:30. | :00:37. | |
a very different outcome, and they promised to | :00:38. | :00:39. | |
Aren't we right in concluding that the establishment stitch-up | :00:40. | :00:46. | |
that she has just announced today, is nothing more | :00:47. | :00:48. | |
We'll have the detail and reaction as the campaigners insist | :00:49. | :00:55. | |
With eight days to polling day in America, signs that the race | :00:56. | :01:07. | |
is tightening in some of those key states. | :01:08. | :01:09. | |
A report from the outskirts of Mosul, as Iraqi special forces | :01:10. | :01:13. | |
advance on the stronghold of the Islamic State group. | :01:14. | :01:17. | |
Jail for 10 years for the lorry driver who killed a mother and three | :01:18. | :01:21. | |
children when he crashed while using a mobile phone. | :01:22. | :01:24. | |
Anyone using a mobile whilst driving is guilty of dangerous driving. | :01:25. | :01:31. | |
It only takes a second of distraction to kill someone. | :01:32. | :01:36. | |
Mark Carney says he'll stay as Governor | :01:37. | :01:40. | |
of the Bank of England until 2019, and not for the full term. | :01:41. | :01:44. | |
A glimpse at the private collection soon to be auctioned. | :01:45. | :01:52. | |
And coming up in Sportsday on BBC News, concern for jockeys | :01:53. | :01:56. | |
Jim Crowley and Freddy Tylicki, who suffer what are believed to be | :01:57. | :01:59. | |
serious injuries in a fall at Kempton Park this afternoon. | :02:00. | :02:21. | |
There will be no public inquiry into the violent clashes | :02:22. | :02:27. | |
between police and striking miners at Orgreave in 1984. | :02:28. | :02:35. | |
The decision, by the Home Secretary Amber Rudd, has provoked | :02:36. | :02:40. | |
a furious response from campaigners who say it's an "establishment | :02:41. | :02:42. | |
They have consistently accused South Yorkshire Police | :02:43. | :02:48. | |
of using excessive force at Orgreave and of telling lies. | :02:49. | :02:50. | |
Dozens of striking miners were put on trial but the cases collapsed. | :02:51. | :02:53. | |
The Home Secretary said she'd made the decision because there had been | :02:54. | :02:56. | |
no deaths or wrongful convictions - as our political editor | :02:57. | :02:59. | |
Horses, batons, beatings. Orgreave was a battle between thousands of | :03:00. | :03:20. | |
miers on strike and thousands of police, but there will be no | :03:21. | :03:24. | |
inquiry, Noel Hunt for more truth, no new explanation. -- miners on | :03:25. | :03:30. | |
strike. One of the miners there on that day just can't understand why. | :03:31. | :03:37. | |
The things I saw that day, I wake up sweating sometimes in the night, | :03:38. | :03:44. | |
when my mind wanders onto it... And that's why I joined this campaign, | :03:45. | :03:48. | |
to get justice and there's been no justice today. Why would an inquiry | :03:49. | :03:55. | |
make such a difference to you? Because we could say, we could say, | :03:56. | :04:00. | |
we told you so. What we told you happen that day did happen. 95 | :04:01. | :04:07. | |
miners were charged before their cases collapsed, amid suspicions of | :04:08. | :04:13. | |
brutality and cover up in the same police force at Hillsborough, | :04:14. | :04:16. | |
campaigners believed an inquiry was coming. Amber Rudd told all of you, | :04:17. | :04:22. | |
that there would be an inquiry, the only question was what kind. Her | :04:23. | :04:26. | |
exact words were she had to decide what format it would take. It wasn't | :04:27. | :04:30. | |
a question for us of whether or not it would happen, it would be in what | :04:31. | :04:34. | |
form it would take. She said the culture had changed down the light | :04:35. | :04:38. | |
needed to be shone. The Home Secretary denies any promise but her | :04:39. | :04:43. | |
decision met here. I have concluded that there is no case for either a | :04:44. | :04:47. | |
statutory inquiry or an independent review. In this situation, in | :04:48. | :04:55. | |
Orgreave, there were no miscarriages of justice, there were no deaths, | :04:56. | :05:00. | |
there were no convictions. The Right Honourable lady should be aware, | :05:01. | :05:05. | |
therefore it doesn't merit the same level of status as a public inquiry | :05:06. | :05:11. | |
as was required for Hillsborough. Aren't we right in concluding the | :05:12. | :05:15. | |
establishment stitch up that she has just announced today is nothing more | :05:16. | :05:21. | |
than a nakedly political act? This is an astonishing and frankly | :05:22. | :05:25. | |
shameful decision by the government. The government have read those | :05:26. | :05:28. | |
families up the garden path for the last two years. Whilst public | :05:29. | :05:33. | |
enquiries can be successful, too often they cost huge amounts of | :05:34. | :05:36. | |
money, take many years and don't even answer the questions | :05:37. | :05:41. | |
thereafter. But Labour has vowed to keep pushing and keep promising an | :05:42. | :05:46. | |
inquiry one day. I'm astonished, absolutely astonished. When Theresa | :05:47. | :05:49. | |
May with Home Secretary she encouraged the families to write for | :05:50. | :05:55. | |
an inquiry. They may have taken a view if they refuse to have it will | :05:56. | :05:58. | |
go away, but sadly for them it won't. Look at the Hillsborough | :05:59. | :06:03. | |
campaign, look at earlier campaigns in Birmingham and Guilford, the | :06:04. | :06:06. | |
determination of people to get justice never goes away. Yet it is a | :06:07. | :06:10. | |
straightforward game in politics to call for an inquiry. One minister | :06:11. | :06:14. | |
said the hard thing is saying no, but in this case the Home Office | :06:15. | :06:19. | |
concluded an inquiry with its possible costs and complications | :06:20. | :06:25. | |
just wasn't worthwhile. Enquiries don't erase memories. Those that | :06:26. | :06:31. | |
could hardly believe their eyes then and had to believe them now. | :06:32. | :06:34. | |
Our correspondent Dan Johnson is in Orgreave tonight. | :06:35. | :06:39. | |
We have heard already from some of the campaign at Westminster today. | :06:40. | :06:46. | |
What have the local community been saying to you there? | :06:47. | :06:49. | |
I have heard tonight from one of the campaigners here who said this is | :06:50. | :06:53. | |
not over. The campaigners will have a meeting tomorrow to decide what | :06:54. | :06:57. | |
their next move is. When the miners were chased up this field 32 years | :06:58. | :07:03. | |
ago by police on horseback with functions and dogs they felt they | :07:04. | :07:05. | |
were the victims of an abuse of state power. They claimed there was | :07:06. | :07:10. | |
brutality, wrongful arrests and an attempt to frame them for serious | :07:11. | :07:13. | |
offences. We've heard stories of retired police officers, all of them | :07:14. | :07:46. | |
retired of course, will be pleased with this decision today. But for | :07:47. | :07:48. | |
the miners, Orgreave and what happened here, this campaign became | :07:49. | :07:51. | |
symbolic of everything they lost. It was a turning point in their strike. | :07:52. | :07:53. | |
They lost it and thousands of jobs with it. Many would say trade union | :07:54. | :07:56. | |
power has never same the mining communities have been abandoned and | :07:57. | :07:58. | |
left behind. But one thing is for sure, the communities around here, | :07:59. | :08:01. | |
the many feel the mining communities have been abandoned and left behind. | :08:02. | :08:03. | |
But one thing is for sure, the communities former mining villages | :08:04. | :08:08. | |
will not forget the Battle of Orgreave. Thank you. | :08:09. | :08:14. | |
President Obama has let it be known that he does not | :08:15. | :08:17. | |
believe the FBI director, James Comey, | :08:18. | :08:18. | |
is trying to influence the outcome of the presidential election. | :08:19. | :08:21. | |
Democrats have strongly criticised Mr Comey, | :08:22. | :08:22. | |
after he announced the FBI was investigating more material | :08:23. | :08:24. | |
that might relate to Hillary Clinton's use of unofficial e-mails | :08:25. | :08:27. | |
But as our North America editor Jon Sopel reports, | :08:28. | :08:31. | |
the latest allegations seem to have given Donald Trump's campaign | :08:32. | :08:33. | |
a new energy, with just eight days to go. | :08:34. | :08:36. | |
Hillary Clinton was in Cleveland today trying to look relaxed in a | :08:37. | :08:42. | |
soul food cafe, but has is a troubled soul after the intervention | :08:43. | :08:47. | |
of the FBI last Friday, when the director announced his new | :08:48. | :08:49. | |
investigation. At a rally she gave vent to her frustration. Why in the | :08:50. | :08:55. | |
world the FBI would decide to jump into an Hillary Clinton was in | :08:56. | :08:57. | |
Cleveland today trying to look relaxed in a soul food cafe, but | :08:58. | :09:00. | |
hers is a troubled soul after the intervention of the FBI last Friday, | :09:01. | :09:02. | |
when the director announced his new investigation. At a rally she gave | :09:03. | :09:05. | |
vent to her frustration. Why in the world the FBI would decide to jump | :09:06. | :09:08. | |
into an election evidence of any wrongdoing, with just days I'm not | :09:09. | :09:10. | |
making excuses, and I regret it. Now they apparently want to look at it | :09:11. | :09:13. | |
was a mistake and I regret it. Now they apparently want to look did of | :09:14. | :09:16. | |
one of my staff. I'm sure they will reach the same conclusion they did | :09:17. | :09:21. | |
when change the mind of her staunch supporters lining up to see her but | :09:22. | :09:26. | |
it might affect independents. The White House wouldn't condemn what | :09:27. | :09:30. | |
the FBI did but isn't this very nuanced comment from the President's | :09:31. | :09:34. | |
spokesperson about how the Department of Justice should behave | :09:35. | :09:37. | |
this close to an election. It's important in the mind of the | :09:38. | :09:41. | |
president that those authorities are tempered by at my e-mails for the | :09:42. | :09:44. | |
last year, there is no case here. It won't change the mind of her staunch | :09:45. | :09:47. | |
supporters lining up to see her but it might affect independents. The | :09:48. | :09:49. | |
White House wouldn't condemn what the FBI did but isn't this very | :09:50. | :09:51. | |
nuanced comment from the President's spokesperson about how the | :09:52. | :09:53. | |
Department of Justice should behave this close to an election. It's | :09:54. | :09:56. | |
important in the mind of the President that those authorities are | :09:57. | :09:58. | |
tempered by an adherence to long-standing and the president and | :09:59. | :10:00. | |
the President believes it is guidelines to be followed. And why | :10:01. | :10:02. | |
would you stress that unless you think they might have breached | :10:03. | :10:04. | |
conventional norms? While in office Hillary Clinton relied on a private | :10:05. | :10:06. | |
e-mail account on her own server, sending thousands of messages both | :10:07. | :10:08. | |
personal and government related. The FBI said that was negligent but | :10:09. | :10:11. | |
didn't press charges. Now, in a separate case involving one of the | :10:12. | :10:16. | |
estranged husband of her close aide, more e-mails have come to light and | :10:17. | :10:19. | |
the FBI has reopened its investigation. But that in itself is | :10:20. | :10:23. | |
proving controversial. It's not normal for the FBI to comment on an | :10:24. | :10:27. | |
ongoing investigation and some Democrats now say the director James | :10:28. | :10:33. | |
Cornick dill me might have broken the law which prevents federal | :10:34. | :10:37. | |
enforcement officers seeking to influence the outcome of an | :10:38. | :10:41. | |
election. Tonight is the night of carved pumpkins as Americans are a | :10:42. | :10:46. | |
great Halloween but tonight Hillary Clinton feels she's been tricked, | :10:47. | :10:52. | |
while the FBI has given Donald Trump his biggest treat. The Trump | :10:53. | :10:57. | |
campaign has never been known for its calm or Serenity Douglas to the | :10:58. | :11:00. | |
raw nurse a sense of euphoria at the moment, because these people here | :11:01. | :11:05. | |
and the Trump campaign believes that the FBI's intervention could be a | :11:06. | :11:10. | |
game changer. I think more people will come on the Trump train. The | :11:11. | :11:17. | |
impact should be the independents. I think they go back and forth | :11:18. | :11:21. | |
depending on the scandal of the moment. Have to give the FBI credit, | :11:22. | :11:25. | |
that was so bad what happened originally, and it took guts for the | :11:26. | :11:32. | |
director to make the movie made in light of the opposition he had, | :11:33. | :11:36. | |
where they are trying to protect her from criminal prosecution. It's too | :11:37. | :11:42. | |
soon to say what the impact of the FBI intervention will be, but listen | :11:43. | :11:47. | |
to Donald Trump, all the talk last week of this being rigged election | :11:48. | :11:50. | |
has gone. He has fresh believe he can will win. It is a very noisy | :11:51. | :11:58. | |
hall here in Detroit where Donald Trump has just finished speaking. | :11:59. | :12:01. | |
The Department of Justice in the past few moments have issued a | :12:02. | :12:05. | |
statement to Congress saying they will work with the FBI as closely as | :12:06. | :12:12. | |
possible, that they will give all resources on workers judiciously as | :12:13. | :12:15. | |
possible. What we don't know is whether we will get any kind of | :12:16. | :12:20. | |
verdict before or after the election, but one very important | :12:21. | :12:24. | |
footnote to add is the Democrats are awaiting the next set of polls with | :12:25. | :12:29. | |
extreme anxiety, and just as the Trump camp are looking forward to | :12:30. | :12:31. | |
them. Back to you. Thank you very much. | :12:32. | :12:39. | |
Jon Sopel in Detroit with the latest on the campaign. | :12:40. | :12:41. | |
You can find out the latest in the race to the White House | :12:42. | :12:44. | |
There you will see Jon Sopel's material and the backgrounds to lots | :12:45. | :12:55. | |
of the key states and the state of the campaign. | :12:56. | :12:57. | |
Mark Carney has announced he will stay in post as governor | :12:58. | :13:01. | |
of the Bank of England until the end of June 2019. | :13:02. | :13:04. | |
Mr Carney - who met Theresa May today at Number Ten - | :13:05. | :13:08. | |
had been facing calls from prominent Conservatives for him to stand down, | :13:09. | :13:11. | |
following his warnings about the potential impact of Brexit. | :13:12. | :13:15. | |
Mr Carney's departure in 2019 is one year beyond his current term, | :13:16. | :13:21. | |
but means he will not stay on for a full eight-year term. | :13:22. | :13:25. | |
We can discuss this with Simon Jack. A word first of all about the | :13:26. | :13:31. | |
decision on the way it was made. The first important thing to say what it | :13:32. | :13:37. | |
was his decision. He arrived as a surprise superstar for signing in | :13:38. | :13:41. | |
football terms, that George Osborne appointed. At first everyone thought | :13:42. | :13:44. | |
he was great, he seemed to charm just about everyone to stop as the | :13:45. | :13:48. | |
referendum approached, which had been called when he was first tired, | :13:49. | :13:53. | |
he angered some. Some thought he was getting too political by half by | :13:54. | :13:59. | |
warnings of an economic shock that might happen. They thought he was | :14:00. | :14:01. | |
overstepping his brief. At that point people thought, he said the | :14:02. | :14:07. | |
pound would fall and he was right about that, he warned of an economic | :14:08. | :14:11. | |
shock that hasn't materialised yet, then he cut interest rates just | :14:12. | :14:16. | |
after the which Theresa May criticised in a conference speech, | :14:17. | :14:22. | |
saying that hurt savers. A lot of people thinking some testy exchanges | :14:23. | :14:25. | |
between some of the Brexiteers and him. He said he will see out his | :14:26. | :14:31. | |
term until 2019 and that's enough for him. The end of June 20 19. What | :14:32. | :14:37. | |
does that mean, in terms of that Brexit timetable? Crucially if we | :14:38. | :14:42. | |
trigger Article 50 by the end of March 2017, that takes us to march | :14:43. | :14:48. | |
2019, so it sees us through group. He will see it through to the end of | :14:49. | :14:52. | |
that particular process. If you like him or loathe him, most people think | :14:53. | :14:57. | |
losing your central bank chief in a process as immense as that is not | :14:58. | :15:01. | |
ideal. He's clearly decided that the UK need him for one more year. After | :15:02. | :15:05. | |
Theresa May backed him saying he was the right man for the job, he says | :15:06. | :15:09. | |
he will stay on. His family are still going back to Canada in 2018. | :15:10. | :15:13. | |
He says he has unfinished business here and will stick around until | :15:14. | :15:17. | |
2019. Thank you. Simon Jack, our business editor. | :15:18. | :15:21. | |
Iraqi Special Forces trying to drive so-called Islamic State | :15:22. | :15:23. | |
from its stronghold in the city of Mosul, have advanced | :15:24. | :15:26. | |
to the eastern outskirts of the city. | :15:27. | :15:27. | |
The campaign - now in its third week - involves hundreds of troops | :15:28. | :15:30. | |
in heavily-armoured vehicles all supported | :15:31. | :15:33. | |
Our international correspondent Ian Pannell and cameraman | :15:34. | :15:39. | |
Darren Conway are travelling with the Iraqi Special Forces | :15:40. | :15:41. | |
This battle isn't just for one city, but an entire nation. | :15:42. | :15:52. | |
Iraq is a country shattered and shocked by years of civil war. | :15:53. | :15:59. | |
Many expect of these troops to pause, to wait for other | :16:00. | :16:01. | |
fighters on other fronts, but that's not what happened today. | :16:02. | :16:07. | |
As we joined Iraqi counterterrorism forces, moving to the last town | :16:08. | :16:10. | |
between them and so-called Islamic State. | :16:11. | :16:15. | |
Well, the armoured column, as you can see, has now | :16:16. | :16:18. | |
moved out into desert, in what they call a flanking | :16:19. | :16:20. | |
manoeuvre, in other words just going round the town of Bazwaya, | :16:21. | :16:23. | |
We are in the lead vehicles here with | :16:24. | :16:27. | |
the commander of counterterrorism forces. | :16:28. | :16:32. | |
Over there is the town of Bazwaya where | :16:33. | :16:37. | |
they are going to try to get to, and if they manage to get | :16:38. | :16:41. | |
through that then they will manage to move on | :16:42. | :16:43. | |
even further towards their main target. | :16:44. | :16:44. | |
Over the weekend these men were attacked by the militants. | :16:45. | :16:47. | |
In the confusion of battle they lost more than a dozen of their comrades. | :16:48. | :16:51. | |
Taking the fight back to Isis, and the closer they get, | :16:52. | :17:02. | |
After more than two years it feels this conflict is moving | :17:03. | :17:17. | |
The counterterrorism unit have just advanced | :17:18. | :17:45. | |
They just opened attack on what they think are IS positions, | :17:46. | :17:48. | |
we've just been told to get back into the vehicles. | :17:49. | :17:51. | |
They have another unit coming from the other side of the town. | :17:52. | :17:54. | |
There is also a fighter jet overhead trying to give some cover, | :17:55. | :17:57. | |
as you would expect, it's a very confused | :17:58. | :17:58. | |
Many thought the town was abandoned to the fighters, | :17:59. | :18:06. | |
but from behind closed doors, on walls and along alleyways, dozens | :18:07. | :18:08. | |
They've been trapped between warring parties here for years, | :18:09. | :18:15. | |
We liberated the land and the people. | :18:16. | :18:29. | |
And finally, there on the horizon, less than a mile away, is | :18:30. | :18:32. | |
the heart of the self-declared caliphate of Islamic State. | :18:33. | :18:39. | |
TRANSLATION: We are very, very close to Mosul. | :18:40. | :18:41. | |
We have run out of time today but tomorrow | :18:42. | :18:44. | |
the Iraqi people and the world will celebrate its liberation. | :18:45. | :18:50. | |
The people who live here are Shebak, an ethnic group who have suffered | :18:51. | :18:53. | |
TRANSLATION: Thank God we survived Daesh. | :18:54. | :19:04. | |
Don't go out, or we will behead you." | :19:05. | :19:18. | |
They are also a reminder of the sectarian problems here. | :19:19. | :19:21. | |
If they are ever to live in peace, this campaign also needs a plan | :19:22. | :19:24. | |
As more families are made homeless, more lives lost, and still the real | :19:25. | :19:32. | |
Ian Pannell, BBC News, just outside Mosul. | :19:33. | :19:46. | |
A lorry driver has been jailed for 10 years for killing | :19:47. | :19:48. | |
a mother and three children, because he was looking | :19:49. | :19:51. | |
at his mobile phone while travelling at 50 miles an hour. | :19:52. | :19:54. | |
The judge said that Tomasz Kroker might as well have had | :19:55. | :19:56. | |
his eyes closed when he crashed into stationary traffic | :19:57. | :19:59. | |
The family said the 10-year sentence was insufficient for a crime | :20:00. | :20:04. | |
which - they said - had caused so much suffering and destruction, | :20:05. | :20:07. | |
as our correspondent Duncan Kennedy reports. | :20:08. | :20:21. | |
The precious moments of a family life which no longer exists. Here, | :20:22. | :20:29. | |
Ethan, Josh and their sister Aimee, the three children who died in the | :20:30. | :20:32. | |
crash. They died with their mother Tracey, at the end of what had been | :20:33. | :20:38. | |
a family holiday. They were killed by this man, Tomasz Kroker, seen | :20:39. | :20:43. | |
here on his mobile phone moments before the crash. Cameras in his | :20:44. | :20:46. | |
lorry show him scroll through his music for up to 45 seconds, before | :20:47. | :20:53. | |
he hit a queue of stationary traffic. Tomasz Kroker can be seen | :20:54. | :21:02. | |
in the hooded top moments after the crash. Tracy's Mark was in the Silva | :21:03. | :21:09. | |
estate which shunted the vehicle under the lorry. We pulled up behind | :21:10. | :21:16. | |
some lorries just crawling along. And then that was it. Bank. | :21:17. | :21:24. | |
I looked down at his car and I couldn't believe it. The crash | :21:25. | :21:37. | |
happened on the A34 in Berkshire. The judge said it was as if Tomasz | :21:38. | :21:42. | |
Kroker had been driving with his eyes closed. Aimee's birth mother | :21:43. | :21:50. | |
said driving with a mobile phone had tragic consequences. His use of a | :21:51. | :21:54. | |
mobile phone while driving turned the lorry into a lethal weapon. It | :21:55. | :21:59. | |
only takes a second of distraction to kill someone, destroying your | :22:00. | :22:03. | |
life, your family's lives and those of your victim and their family. The | :22:04. | :22:10. | |
law in this area is clear. It is illegal to use mobile phones while | :22:11. | :22:15. | |
driving are traffic lights or while queueing. But you can use them if | :22:16. | :22:21. | |
parked or making a 999 emergency call. Hands-free sets are also | :22:22. | :22:25. | |
allowed, but if police EU distracted, they can stop and | :22:26. | :22:32. | |
penalised you. The RAC said today mobile phones played a part in more | :22:33. | :22:35. | |
than 400 accidents last year, in which 22 people died. The government | :22:36. | :22:41. | |
has already announced it plans to double the penalties for using a | :22:42. | :22:45. | |
mobile phone. In future, motorists could face a ?200 fine and six | :22:46. | :22:52. | |
points on their licence. Tomasz Kroker was today jailed for a total | :22:53. | :22:56. | |
of ten years after he admitted dangerous driving. His victims' | :22:57. | :23:01. | |
family say their deaths could have been avoided and has left them | :23:02. | :23:03. | |
arrest. -- the rest. The jockeys Jim Crowley | :23:04. | :23:10. | |
and Freddy Tylicki have been taken to hospital with suspected spinal | :23:11. | :23:12. | |
injuries, after four horses fell The horses were not reported | :23:13. | :23:15. | |
to be seriously injured. Fellow riders Steve Drowne | :23:16. | :23:19. | |
and Ted Durcan also fell but were able to walk | :23:20. | :23:21. | |
off the course. The Labour MP Keith Vaz has been | :23:22. | :23:36. | |
elected to the labour Justice committee after he was forced to | :23:37. | :23:39. | |
step down from the home affairs select committee. Mr Vaz left his | :23:40. | :23:44. | |
position after newspaper allegations that he had paid for the | :23:45. | :23:49. | |
A man has been jailed for life for murdering a waiter 18 years ago | :23:50. | :23:52. | |
in North Lanarkshire, after standing trial | :23:53. | :23:54. | |
Ronnie Coulter was originally cleared of stabbing | :23:55. | :23:57. | |
Surjit Singh Chhokar, who was returning from work | :23:58. | :23:59. | |
But the Crown was given permission to bring a second prosecution | :24:00. | :24:04. | |
over his killing following changes to Scotland's | :24:05. | :24:06. | |
Officials in Glasgow have approved - in principle - a controversial plan | :24:07. | :24:17. | |
to set up the UK's first so-called "consumption rooms", | :24:18. | :24:21. | |
where drug addicts can inject heroin and also smoke the drug | :24:22. | :24:23. | |
The scheme aims to address the problems caused by | :24:24. | :24:28. | |
an estimated 500 users, who inject on the streets of Glasgow. | :24:29. | :24:31. | |
Our social affairs correspondent Michael Buchanan has the story. | :24:32. | :24:36. | |
We came to this wasteland to see the remnants | :24:37. | :24:38. | |
The necessary tools of an heroin addiction strewn far and wide. | :24:39. | :24:45. | |
Up to 500 people inject heroin in public in Glasgow. | :24:46. | :24:50. | |
Within minutes, we'd been joined by two of them. | :24:51. | :24:56. | |
They'd come for their first hit of the day. | :24:57. | :24:59. | |
Moments later I watched as the heroin kicked in. | :25:00. | :25:17. | |
With such problems, plans are afoot to open the UK's first consumption | :25:18. | :25:26. | |
centre, a clinic where addicts can safely take their drugs. | :25:27. | :25:28. | |
Safe injecting rooms would save a lot of lives. | :25:29. | :25:32. | |
Coming to places like this, as you can see, it's certainly | :25:33. | :25:34. | |
You come round here at night time, there's no guarantee you're | :25:35. | :25:40. | |
Drug-related deaths are at record levels across Britain, | :25:41. | :25:48. | |
and experts said a spike in new HIV infections in Glasgow last year | :25:49. | :25:53. | |
was mainly due to heroin users sharing needles. | :25:54. | :25:57. | |
But it's also an issue of public safety. | :25:58. | :26:03. | |
This neighbourhood has had to live with the dangers of used needles | :26:04. | :26:06. | |
She went to put her baby in the pram, and there | :26:07. | :26:12. | |
Not a needle, needles, in the kid's pram. | :26:13. | :26:22. | |
This is a safe consumption room in Denmark. | :26:23. | :26:27. | |
Needles are clean and kept on-site, protecting both users | :26:28. | :26:36. | |
Glasgow's drug services are highly regarded, | :26:37. | :26:42. | |
but officials believe more is needed to help street users. | :26:43. | :26:45. | |
One option would see addicts bring their own drugs to the clinic | :26:46. | :26:47. | |
and hopefully engage with other services. | :26:48. | :26:49. | |
We know that a lot of people that are in this situation are homeless, | :26:50. | :26:53. | |
have mental and physical health problems, so it's not just teaching | :26:54. | :26:57. | |
This pharmacy highlights the drug problem. | :26:58. | :27:03. | |
It has a separate entrance for users of methadone, | :27:04. | :27:06. | |
But opening consumption rooms will not reduce demand, | :27:07. | :27:11. | |
It's effectively legalising drugs and providing people with easier | :27:12. | :27:16. | |
It's promoted, I think, by people who in many instances have | :27:17. | :27:21. | |
given up on the idea of recovery, and their most convincing | :27:22. | :27:24. | |
and persuasive suggestion is to enable people to use illegal | :27:25. | :27:27. | |
That is not how Scotland should be tackling its drug problem. | :27:28. | :27:35. | |
Heroin addiction has ravaged the lives of many in Glasgow, | :27:36. | :27:37. | |
Dealing with that legacy has now put the city at the forefront | :27:38. | :27:42. | |
Michael Buchanan, BBC News, Glasgow. | :27:43. | :27:49. | |
Hundreds of works of art, from David Bowie's personal | :27:50. | :27:52. | |
collection, are to go on display at Sotheby's in London | :27:53. | :27:54. | |
from tomorrow, ahead of an auction in a few weeks' time. | :27:55. | :27:58. | |
Bowie was actively involved in art throughout his career, | :27:59. | :28:01. | |
as an artist himself, as a writer, | :28:02. | :28:03. | |
The exhibition includes work from some of the 20th century's | :28:04. | :28:08. | |
Our arts editor Will Gompertz has had an exclusive preview. | :28:09. | :28:21. | |
David Bowie made this painting with Damien Hirst, | :28:22. | :28:23. | |
who described the singer as "childish and childlike | :28:24. | :28:26. | |
One of the star attractions in the sale, which accounts for well | :28:27. | :28:38. | |
over 50% of the late pop star's entire collection of art. | :28:39. | :28:41. | |
I'm not a buyer of things, I think the only thing I buy | :28:42. | :28:44. | |
addictively and obsessively, probably, is art. | :28:45. | :28:49. | |
The sale is extensive in both content and style. | :28:50. | :28:58. | |
There's pop art, German Expressionism, British Modernism, | :28:59. | :29:03. | |
a Tintoretto, some Picasso pottery and a chess set | :29:04. | :29:06. | |
So Beth, 350 works, what do they tell us about the collector? | :29:07. | :29:13. | |
They tell us an awful lot about David's way of thinking, how | :29:14. | :29:16. | |
A very particular world, his recent history. | :29:17. | :29:22. | |
A lot of works in the collection are modern British, | :29:23. | :29:27. | |
painting and sculpture, and, of course, he was a | :29:28. | :29:29. | |
A lot of the art was made around that period, or the period | :29:30. | :29:35. | |
So David used the collection to understand his place | :29:36. | :29:40. | |
It is largely a mid-20th century take on British life, | :29:41. | :29:44. | |
of city living, landscapes and coastal scenes, | :29:45. | :29:48. | |
all of which might seem quite conservative for | :29:49. | :29:50. | |
a man with a reputation as an avant-garde performer. | :29:51. | :29:54. | |
He acquired much of it in the mid-90s, with the help | :29:55. | :29:57. | |
He was the most remarkable man to work with. | :29:58. | :30:05. | |
He was deeply invested in what he was doing. | :30:06. | :30:09. | |
His focus was exhausting and all encompassing, | :30:10. | :30:11. | |
and when he was on subject, on the subject of buying | :30:12. | :30:13. | |
modern British pictures, he was incredibly intense. | :30:14. | :30:18. | |
I think you see the intensity with some of the selections | :30:19. | :30:20. | |
OK, but which one of those on sale was his favourite? | :30:21. | :30:26. | |
He very famously talked about the Auerbach, and that's | :30:27. | :30:29. | |
David talked about how this work could change the way he felt | :30:30. | :30:36. | |
If he was feeling joyous that morning he said, hey, | :30:37. | :30:40. | |
yes, I want to sound like that painting looks. | :30:41. | :30:49. | |
Several of these poppy post modern pieces from Bowie's collection | :30:50. | :30:52. | |
are priced in the low hundreds of pounds, tantalising for some, | :30:53. | :30:56. | |
maybe, but then that's the auction estimate before the bidding starts. | :30:57. | :31:00. | |
There will be little more on the US elections coming up on Newsnight. | :31:01. | :31:17. | |
Whether it is Trump or Clinton that wins next week, they will be | :31:18. | :31:21. | |
president of a country that is divided and sometimes angry. We will | :31:22. | :31:25. | |
be hearing how hard it will be for either to put the United back into | :31:26. | :31:30. | |
the United States. Join me now on BBC Two, and that 11pm in Scotland. | :31:31. | :31:36. | |
Now it is time for the news where you are. Good night. | :31:37. | :31:39. |