16/07/2011 BBC Weekend News


16/07/2011

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Good afternoon. Rupert Murdoch has made a public

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apology for the phone-hacking scandal, taking out prominent

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advertisements in today's newspapers. It comes after a second

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of his most senior executives resigned. Les Hinton, chief

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executive of the media group's Dow Jones, was chairman of News

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International at the time Milly Dowler's phone was hacked. This

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report contains flash photography. The full-page apology is carried in

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many papers. Even fierce competitors such as the Guardian,

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which campaign to expose phone hacking. "we are sorry". It goes on

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This was Rupert Murdoch with some of his most trusted executive six

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years ago. He is still in his job but they have all lost theirs. Andy

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Coulson resigned in 2007, saying phone hacking had happened on his

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watch. Rebekah Brooks, the chief executive in the UK stepped down

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yesterday. She said she felt a deep responsibility towards the people

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who have been heard. Les Hinton resigned yesterday and was chief

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executive at the time hacking happened at the News of the World.

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Mr Murdoch is looking increasingly isolated. This was Les Hinton in

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New York recently. In a statement he said he had been increments of

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what had apparently happened at the News of the World. -- ignorant. Mr

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Murdoch met the family of Milly Dowler yesterday. His journalists

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are thought to have hacked into her messages and even deleted some. It

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was heard he held his head in his hands as he apologised. He then

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came out to make a brief statement. I was appalled to find out what had

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happened. I have apologised and I have nothing further to say. I made

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personal level, Rupert Murdoch looked very shook up and upset

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about what had happened. I think this was a personal apology. A new

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front is now opening against Mr Murdoch. Jude Law says another of

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his papers, the Sun newspaper hack into his voicemail messages. News

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International say the accusations are cynical and deliberately missed

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you devious. -- must devious. The BBC has learned that the

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Government is preparing to make further cuts to the size of the

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army to help pay for greater investment in reserve forces such

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as the Territorial Army. The army is already losing thousands of

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posts over the next four years. Our political correspondent, Norman

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Smith, has more. Britain relies less on volunteer

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reservists to fight alongside regular soldiers find countries

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like America or Australia. The Territorial Army has been in

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apparent decline. Now, ministers are considering boosting the ranks

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of Britain's 36,000 strong part- time soldiers. An independent

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report is expected to call for a major recruitment drive, offering

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better pay, training and responsibility. It is understood

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this will be paid for by further cuts in the size of the regular

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Army wants British combat troops were drawn from Afghanistan. This

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will be on top of cuts previously announced, with the Army already

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due to lose around 7,000 soldiers. The MoD has declined to comment but

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said details will be unveiled in Parliament next week.

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Police have been attacked during a riot last night in Portadown in

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Country Armagh. Petrol bombs, bricks and fireworks were among the

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missiles thrown at officers during the disturbances. Police responded

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by firing baton rounds. That is it, there will be more at

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5:15pm. Now the news where you are. Good afternoon, I'm Asad Ahmad.

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Two people have died after becoming trapped in a slurry pit on a farm

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in Essex. Fire fighters needed to drain over 100,000 litres of slurry

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as they rescued two other people A policeman has been shot and

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wounded while chasing three men in South London last night. He was hit

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in the arm when a suspect opened fire on officers, who were pursuing

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him on foot in Croydon. The policeman's injuries are not

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thought to be life threatening and three men have been arrested.

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One of the largest ever seizures of child pornography has been found at

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a home in East London. Around a million indecent images were

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discovered by the Metropolitan Police Paedophile Unit, some of

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which are categorised as level five - the most serious. 57 year old

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Robert Barrow, from Plaistow, pleaded guilty to making indecent

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images of children. He'll be sentenced in September.

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A new way of instantly reporting rubbish, graffiti or dog mess has

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been developed by a council in South East London. A special app

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has been created for residents in the Borough of Lewisham to use on

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their mobile phones, which instantly connects you to the right

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department to deal with the problem you want to report.

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Rubbish, graffiti and fly-tipping. The unsightly consequences of anti-

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social behaviour. Now there is a high-tech way for good citizens to

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fight back. A smartphone application that report problems

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with just a touch. The device catch as the location and with a text it

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is easy to post it to a public website. We can see what the

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problem is and send someone to do with it. The application, pioneered

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in Lewisham works with any smartphone. The user is prompted to

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take a photograph, categorise it from anything to dog fouling to pot

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holes and then it is automatically sent to the department to tackle it.

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They have reduced graffiti in Lewisham's by 73% and they have

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speeded up their response times. In 2003 used to take them 2.5 days to

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clear up graffiti. It has now been reduced to half a day.

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Now the weather: The rain - which has been heavy at times in London,

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will mainly clear this afternoon. But there will still be the

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