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