03/07/2011 BBC Weekend News


03/07/2011

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Good afternoon. The Prime Minister's office has

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played down claims that up to 40,000 people could be made

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homeless if plans for a �500 a week benefits cap come into force. The

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warning came in a letter written by a senior civil servant at the

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Department for Communities and Local Government. Downing Street

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has dismissed the letter as old, as Robin Brandt reports.

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Eric Pickles is one of the Government's most vociferous

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supporters of welfare reform, but it seems even his department is

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worried about cuts to Housing Benefit and a new cap of �500 a

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week. A leaked letter from a senior

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adviser questions the calculation the cuts could save �270 million a

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year. The private letter also suggests

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there could be a serious knock-on, 40,000 people forced out of their

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homes and maybe 23,000 fewer new homes because of a drop in demand.

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What will happen is people tend to initially try and keep it together.

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Unfortunately, they may get into debt, then there can be a spiral

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down. Even if we manage to catch people, they'll still be moving

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from their homes and communities. If they end up homeless, the worse

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thing is that it will cost more than it will save. The Housing

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Benefit bill is vast, around �21 billion a year. This letter

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suggests the cuts might not mean savings there, but actually more

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money being spent because evicted people could turn to the taxpayer

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for help. Sources close to Eric Pickles say

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the Cabinet Minister completely supports the cuts and pointed out

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the letter is six months old and he didn't write it. But he's likely to

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face further questions about concern at the top of Government

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over the fallout from tackling the Housing Benefit bill.

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It's claimed tens of thousands of overweight children are potentially

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at risk of life-threatening liver disease. Professor Martin Lombard

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says a culture of overeating, fast- food and little exercise means

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under 15s could have too much fat in their liver. Dominic Hughes has

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this. A few decades ago, childhood co-beesty was rare, now it's a

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serious issue. Experts believe that fatty liver disease, once most

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common among heavy drinkers, now threatens around 60,000 ten-year-

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olds. The symptoms can be hard to spot.

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The unfort nalt problem about most liver disease is you don't get any

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symptoms at all until it's advanced, cirrhosis first, then complications

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that can arise from this which can be very serious. So it's not until

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that late stage that you get symptoms at all. Fatty liver

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disease is linked to obesity and too much fat in the liver cells,

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the disease increases the risk of heart attacks, stroke and diabetes

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later in life and whilst cirrhosis is normally linked to alcohol abuse,

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it too can be caused by fatty liver disease.

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The big concern is that Government figures show a third of 11-year-

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olds are now obese or overweight What is important, and is one of

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the things that my colleagues are highlighting just now, is that

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people may not realise the nature of the risks that people run if

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children in particular become seriously overweight.

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So this is what it looks like to have your liver scanned, I'm having

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mine scanned at the moment, I'm told thankfully it looks all right,

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but the big fear is that tens of thousands of children in this

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country will have fatty liver disease and may not know it.

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The chairman of the BBC Trust, Lord Patten, says the Corporation faces

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a crockdown on executive pay as it looks to make cuts in its budget of

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up to 20%. Speaking on the Andrew Marr programme, Lord Patten, whose

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job it is to represent the licence fee paysers says he'd like the BBC

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to limit top pay to no more than 20 times the amount earned by staff in

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the middle of the salary range. It's the men's final day at

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Wimbledon. The weather is gorgeous, the world number one, Novak

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Djokovic, is taking on Rafael Nadal. Let's go the James Pearce who joins

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us there now. Evenly matched? It has the potential to be a

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Wimbledon classic, the number one seed against the number two seed.

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The number one against the number two in the world. Whatever happens,

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the number one and number two are going to swap over, because Nadal

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will have to concede the number one ranking to Djokovic. But it's not

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the rankings that matters today, it's the Wimbledon trophy. The two

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men have played each other four times already this year and Nadal's

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been beaten on every occasion and Djokovic's only lost once this year,

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but this is different, it's Wimbledon and it's a final.

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