:00:24. > :00:27.Good afternoon. The Prime Minister's office has
:00:27. > :00:31.played down claims that up to 40,000 people could be made
:00:31. > :00:35.homeless if plans for a �500 a week benefits cap come into force. The
:00:35. > :00:37.warning came in a letter written by a senior civil servant at the
:00:37. > :00:42.Department for Communities and Local Government. Downing Street
:00:42. > :00:46.has dismissed the letter as old, as Robin Brandt reports.
:00:46. > :00:50.Eric Pickles is one of the Government's most vociferous
:00:50. > :00:53.supporters of welfare reform, but it seems even his department is
:00:53. > :00:57.worried about cuts to Housing Benefit and a new cap of �500 a
:00:57. > :01:00.week. A leaked letter from a senior
:01:01. > :01:03.adviser questions the calculation the cuts could save �270 million a
:01:03. > :01:08.year. The private letter also suggests
:01:08. > :01:12.there could be a serious knock-on, 40,000 people forced out of their
:01:12. > :01:16.homes and maybe 23,000 fewer new homes because of a drop in demand.
:01:17. > :01:20.What will happen is people tend to initially try and keep it together.
:01:20. > :01:23.Unfortunately, they may get into debt, then there can be a spiral
:01:23. > :01:28.down. Even if we manage to catch people, they'll still be moving
:01:28. > :01:31.from their homes and communities. If they end up homeless, the worse
:01:31. > :01:35.thing is that it will cost more than it will save. The Housing
:01:35. > :01:39.Benefit bill is vast, around �21 billion a year. This letter
:01:39. > :01:42.suggests the cuts might not mean savings there, but actually more
:01:42. > :01:48.money being spent because evicted people could turn to the taxpayer
:01:48. > :01:50.for help. Sources close to Eric Pickles say
:01:50. > :01:54.the Cabinet Minister completely supports the cuts and pointed out
:01:54. > :01:56.the letter is six months old and he didn't write it. But he's likely to
:01:56. > :02:03.face further questions about concern at the top of Government
:02:03. > :02:06.over the fallout from tackling the Housing Benefit bill.
:02:06. > :02:12.It's claimed tens of thousands of overweight children are potentially
:02:12. > :02:18.at risk of life-threatening liver disease. Professor Martin Lombard
:02:18. > :02:22.says a culture of overeating, fast- food and little exercise means
:02:22. > :02:28.under 15s could have too much fat in their liver. Dominic Hughes has
:02:28. > :02:31.this. A few decades ago, childhood co-beesty was rare, now it's a
:02:31. > :02:36.serious issue. Experts believe that fatty liver disease, once most
:02:36. > :02:40.common among heavy drinkers, now threatens around 60,000 ten-year-
:02:40. > :02:46.olds. The symptoms can be hard to spot.
:02:46. > :02:51.The unfort nalt problem about most liver disease is you don't get any
:02:51. > :02:55.symptoms at all until it's advanced, cirrhosis first, then complications
:02:55. > :02:59.that can arise from this which can be very serious. So it's not until
:02:59. > :03:02.that late stage that you get symptoms at all. Fatty liver
:03:03. > :03:07.disease is linked to obesity and too much fat in the liver cells,
:03:07. > :03:10.the disease increases the risk of heart attacks, stroke and diabetes
:03:10. > :03:13.later in life and whilst cirrhosis is normally linked to alcohol abuse,
:03:14. > :03:18.it too can be caused by fatty liver disease.
:03:18. > :03:22.The big concern is that Government figures show a third of 11-year-
:03:22. > :03:26.olds are now obese or overweight What is important, and is one of
:03:26. > :03:31.the things that my colleagues are highlighting just now, is that
:03:31. > :03:33.people may not realise the nature of the risks that people run if
:03:33. > :03:37.children in particular become seriously overweight.
:03:37. > :03:41.So this is what it looks like to have your liver scanned, I'm having
:03:41. > :03:44.mine scanned at the moment, I'm told thankfully it looks all right,
:03:44. > :03:50.but the big fear is that tens of thousands of children in this
:03:50. > :03:54.country will have fatty liver disease and may not know it.
:03:54. > :03:58.The chairman of the BBC Trust, Lord Patten, says the Corporation faces
:03:58. > :04:03.a crockdown on executive pay as it looks to make cuts in its budget of
:04:03. > :04:07.up to 20%. Speaking on the Andrew Marr programme, Lord Patten, whose
:04:07. > :04:11.job it is to represent the licence fee paysers says he'd like the BBC
:04:12. > :04:16.to limit top pay to no more than 20 times the amount earned by staff in
:04:16. > :04:19.the middle of the salary range. It's the men's final day at
:04:19. > :04:23.Wimbledon. The weather is gorgeous, the world number one, Novak
:04:23. > :04:28.Djokovic, is taking on Rafael Nadal. Let's go the James Pearce who joins
:04:28. > :04:31.us there now. Evenly matched? It has the potential to be a
:04:31. > :04:35.Wimbledon classic, the number one seed against the number two seed.
:04:35. > :04:39.The number one against the number two in the world. Whatever happens,
:04:39. > :04:43.the number one and number two are going to swap over, because Nadal
:04:43. > :04:46.will have to concede the number one ranking to Djokovic. But it's not
:04:46. > :04:51.the rankings that matters today, it's the Wimbledon trophy. The two
:04:51. > :04:55.men have played each other four times already this year and Nadal's
:04:55. > :04:58.been beaten on every occasion and Djokovic's only lost once this year,
:04:58. > :05:02.but this is different, it's Wimbledon and it's a final.