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A budget for working people - the Chancellor insists he plans to help | :00:04. | :00:07. | |
those on low and middle incomes. George Osborne says he'll also | :00:07. | :00:15. | |
crack down on the super rich who avoid paying stamp duty. We're | :00:15. | :00:20. | |
going to come down on that like a tonne of bricks. We are going to be | :00:20. | :00:25. | |
aggressive in dealing with it. Football's messages of support for | :00:25. | :00:27. | |
the Bolton midfielder, Fabrice Muamba, who remains critically ill | :00:27. | :00:32. | |
after suffering a cardiac arrest during an FA Cup tie. Open all | :00:32. | :00:34. | |
hours - how Sunday trading laws could be relaxed during this | :00:34. | :00:41. | |
summer's Olympic Games in a bid to boost the economy. And the girl | :00:41. | :00:43. | |
band of grandmothers - Russia's entry for this year's Eurovision | :00:43. | :00:53. | |
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Good evening. The Chancellor, George Osborne, says the priority | :01:05. | :01:08. | |
of next week's Budget is to help those on low and middle incomes. | :01:08. | :01:10. | |
That's despite expectations of a tax cut for Britain's highest | :01:10. | :01:13. | |
earners. Labour accused him of being out of touch with workers who | :01:13. | :01:16. | |
were struggling to pay their bills. There will also be separate | :01:16. | :01:19. | |
measures to tackle rich people who avoid paying stamp duty. Our Deputy | :01:19. | :01:27. | |
Political Editor, James Landale, reports. When George Osborne steps | :01:27. | :01:33. | |
out with his budget box on Wednesday, all eyes will be on what | :01:33. | :01:37. | |
it says about tax. Today he made clear who he want us to think he is | :01:37. | :01:42. | |
going to help. My priority is to help low and middle earners. That | :01:42. | :01:47. | |
is where the bulk of the effort will be. We want to see real | :01:47. | :01:52. | |
progress on lifting low income people out of tax. We have taken a | :01:52. | :01:56. | |
million low income people out of tax and helping working families, | :01:56. | :02:00. | |
the people who go out to work, provide for their family, the | :02:00. | :02:05. | |
people looking for jobs, those are our priorities. So what does that | :02:05. | :02:12. | |
mean? At the the moment no one pays income tax until they earn almost | :02:13. | :02:18. | |
�7,500. The Chancellor could promise to raise it to more than | :02:18. | :02:21. | |
�9,000. Somebody the Liberal Democrats have been demanding. He | :02:21. | :02:26. | |
hinted he may soften plans to cut child benefit for top rate | :02:26. | :02:34. | |
taxpayers. But all this would cost money and me promised to find some | :02:34. | :02:39. | |
with a crackdown on people who avoid tax. Rich people, often | :02:39. | :02:46. | |
foreigners who come to this country, and people from here, who put homes | :02:46. | :02:52. | |
into companies to avoid stamp duty, we're going to come down on that. | :02:52. | :02:56. | |
Behind the smiles, the Chancellor and his Labour shadow disagree not | :02:56. | :03:02. | |
just on the tax cuts, but how they should be paid for. George Osborne | :03:02. | :03:06. | |
would not confirm whether he would cut the top rate of tax. | :03:06. | :03:11. | |
families on middle and low incomes, seeing petrol prices up, fuel bills | :03:11. | :03:16. | |
ub, unemployment rising, the idea that George Osborne is saying that | :03:16. | :03:23. | |
the priority is to cut taxes for people on �150,000, it is out of | :03:23. | :03:28. | |
touch. What planet are they on? Some Conservatives agree and many | :03:28. | :03:33. | |
Liberal Democrats are nervous. But other Tories are putting pressure | :03:33. | :03:37. | |
on the Chancellor to cut the 50 pence rate. I want the rich to pay | :03:37. | :03:41. | |
more and the obvious way is to set a rate that will make them stay and | :03:41. | :03:46. | |
pay. The 50% tax rate is losing us money and we want the rich to make | :03:46. | :03:49. | |
a bigger contribution. The problem for the Chancellor, if he does | :03:50. | :03:54. | |
conclude that cutting the 50 pence rate is good for business, the man | :03:54. | :03:58. | |
next to him will say he is just out to then rich and that is some | :03:58. | :04:03. | |
political risk to take. James is at Downing Street for us now. A will | :04:03. | :04:09. | |
the of rumour, what is your understanding? There is a lot of | :04:09. | :04:14. | |
speculation, no one will confirm anything, was some -- but some | :04:14. | :04:19. | |
straws in the wind. George Osborne used his pre-judge interview to | :04:19. | :04:26. | |
highlight he will take a lot of low and Niddle -- middle income earners | :04:26. | :04:32. | |
out of tax and make rich people pay more tax. So what he has done is | :04:32. | :04:38. | |
given himself enough political space and cover to try and cut the | :04:38. | :04:41. | |
50 pence top rate if that is what he chooses to do. It would be a | :04:41. | :04:46. | |
risk and a lot of people will say that the Tories supporting the rich. | :04:46. | :04:51. | |
But he is giving himself the wriggle room to make that decision. | :04:51. | :04:57. | |
Thank you. BBC News understands that the Government is preparing a | :04:57. | :04:59. | |
move which could bring the privatisation of Royal Mail a step | :04:59. | :05:02. | |
closer. Ministers want to transfer all of Royal Mail's assets and | :05:02. | :05:09. | |
liabilities to the Government's books next month. That includes | :05:09. | :05:11. | |
multi-billion pound liabilities of the company's pension scheme. | :05:12. | :05:14. | |
Unions welcomed the move to protect workers' pensions, but said they | :05:14. | :05:16. | |
opposed privatisation. The Bolton Wanderers midfielder, Fabrice | :05:16. | :05:18. | |
Muamba, remains in a critical condition at a London hospital | :05:19. | :05:21. | |
after suddenly collapsing during his team's FA Cup tie against Spurs | :05:21. | :05:23. | |
yesterday. The 23-year-old suffered a cardiac arrest. Our Correspondent, | :05:24. | :05:33. | |
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Ed Thomas, has the latest. They left flowers, shirts and scarfs, | :05:34. | :05:39. | |
fans from all clubs came to show support for Fabrice Muamba. In | :05:39. | :05:44. | |
Bolton, they say he is the player who never gives up. He is always | :05:44. | :05:50. | |
battling and never stops running. That happens, it brings it home to | :05:50. | :05:57. | |
you. Why was it important for you to come here today? As a fan, it is | :05:57. | :06:04. | |
really just to show our support for him and his family and the team. | :06:04. | :06:13. | |
ground around the country there was applause today. This was Stamford | :06:13. | :06:19. | |
bridge where Chelsea's Gary Cahill had this message for his former | :06:19. | :06:23. | |
team mate. It is now 24 hours since he collapsed. But what happened | :06:23. | :06:31. | |
here has left many in disbelief. Fabrice Muamba is in intensive care | :06:31. | :06:35. | |
in hospital. His manager, Owen Coyle, said he is hoping for a | :06:35. | :06:38. | |
happy outcome. We can always continue with those prayers, we're | :06:38. | :06:44. | |
very, I don't want to get ahead of ourselves, if he could pull through | :06:44. | :06:47. | |
it would be marvellous. We know Fabrice Muamba suffered a cardiac | :06:48. | :06:57. | |
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arrest. In a statement the hospital Tonight there has been a message | :07:06. | :07:10. | |
from Fabrice Muamba's family to fans. It thanked them for their | :07:10. | :07:16. | |
support, not just here be but across the country. Those at Bolton | :07:16. | :07:25. | |
now have one hope that the player they call Fab will soon get better. | :07:25. | :07:29. | |
Our correspondent Sangita Myska is at the London Chest Hospital. What | :07:29. | :07:34. | |
can you tell us tonight about his condition? It has been an emotional | :07:34. | :07:36. | |
day here at the hospital. There have been a string of visitors | :07:36. | :07:43. | |
coming in and out. Among them Germaine Defoe of Spurs and Fabrice | :07:43. | :07:48. | |
Muamba's brother. Both came and left without saying anything. But | :07:48. | :07:51. | |
both were distraught. Phil Gartside the Bolton chairman was here and | :07:51. | :07:55. | |
made a statement to the cameras in which he thanked the fans for all | :07:56. | :08:02. | |
of their good wishes and said the family and the club had drawn great | :08:02. | :08:06. | |
strength from their words. He was vizibly upset. We know from the | :08:06. | :08:10. | |
hospital it took two hours to get Fabrice Muamba's heartbeating on | :08:10. | :08:17. | |
its own. We expect a further update tonight. Thank you. Sunday trading | :08:17. | :08:20. | |
restrictions in England and Wales could be relaxed during the Olympic | :08:20. | :08:22. | |
and Paralympic Games. The Government thinks it will boost the | :08:23. | :08:25. | |
economy and capitalise on the higher number of tourists expected | :08:25. | :08:28. | |
over the summer. But there's concern from some critics that it | :08:28. | :08:30. | |
may lead to a permanent change, as our Correspondent Philippa Thomas | :08:31. | :08:39. | |
reports. As the Olympics and Paralympics start, hundreds of | :08:39. | :08:45. | |
thousands of visitors are expected to flow through London. Shopping | :08:45. | :08:50. | |
centres like this opening its door last year near the Olympic park | :08:50. | :09:00. | |
will benefit from looser laws. Delighted with the announcement | :09:00. | :09:06. | |
that London businesss can benefit from these extra hours of trading, | :09:06. | :09:11. | |
an extra �1080 million boost. what is the current position on | :09:11. | :09:15. | |
Sunday trading? It was first allowed in England and Wales in | :09:15. | :09:22. | |
1994, today more than 50% of people do some shop on a Sunday. But shops | :09:22. | :09:28. | |
larger than 3,000 square feet are restricted to six hours of opening. | :09:28. | :09:35. | |
So do consumers want more time to shop? I work in a hospital and they | :09:35. | :09:39. | |
work 24/7 frplts as long as people aren't working too many hour. | :09:39. | :09:42. | |
you're working from Monday to Friday or Monday to Saturday, | :09:42. | :09:49. | |
Sunday you need a rest. It is good for the city and good for the UK. | :09:49. | :09:53. | |
If changes are introduced, smaller shops could face more competition. | :09:53. | :09:58. | |
And the shop workers union says further deregulation will have a | :09:58. | :10:02. | |
detrimental impact on millions of workers and they're families. The | :10:02. | :10:07. | |
Church of England is also concerned about happens after the Olympics. | :10:07. | :10:12. | |
We are in favour of the Olympics, if the Olympic torch was Pazing my | :10:12. | :10:17. | |
church, we would cancel services enable people to come out. But what | :10:17. | :10:22. | |
I'm concerned about is the potential it could lead to a longer | :10:22. | :10:25. | |
lasting change and families and communities wouldn't have Sundays | :10:25. | :10:29. | |
as a special time. That is the big question - whatever the intentions | :10:29. | :10:33. | |
of the Government, once we treat Sunday as another shopping day, | :10:33. | :10:40. | |
will that be the norm for the future? Now with the sport here's | :10:40. | :10:44. | |
Karthi Gnanasegaram. The new Formula One season started with a | :10:44. | :10:46. | |
British victory for Mclaren's Jenson Button at the Australian | :10:46. | :10:49. | |
Grand Prix with his team-mate, Lewis Hamilton finishing in third. | :10:49. | :10:52. | |
Button described it as an "amazing way to start the season". Tim | :10:52. | :11:02. | |
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Franks reports. Formula One's fear is of becoming too predictable. So | :11:03. | :11:09. | |
there was a measure of relief at the line up of the grid, with the | :11:09. | :11:14. | |
McLarens, not Red Bull, at the front. Come the first corner, | :11:14. | :11:21. | |
Jenson Button overtook Lewis Hamilton and that was that. Last | :11:21. | :11:26. | |
year's champion, Sebastian Vettel, had to make an unusual for him | :11:26. | :11:30. | |
journey through traffic. He showed he could. Sebastian Vettel was | :11:30. | :11:37. | |
helped by some hapless driving by Romain Grosjean. Broken the right | :11:37. | :11:42. | |
front. Then by the safety car which pootled out for some Sunday driving | :11:42. | :11:48. | |
on lap 37, allowing Sebastian Vettel to speak past Lewis Hamilton | :11:48. | :11:54. | |
into second. A frantic final lap followed. But Jenson Button | :11:54. | :11:59. | |
remained serene to claim the first win of the season. I did pinch | :11:59. | :12:03. | |
myself in the race to make sure it wasn't a dream. But a dream start | :12:03. | :12:07. | |
for us as a team. We haven't been here before, well not so strong at | :12:07. | :12:12. | |
the start of the season. This is important us to to get this one in | :12:12. | :12:16. | |
the bank. One thing stays changeless - the drivers remain | :12:16. | :12:22. | |
better at handling cars than drink! Manchester United are four points | :12:22. | :12:25. | |
clear of rivals Manchester City at the top of the Premier League after | :12:25. | :12:28. | |
thrashing 10-man Wolves 5-0. Javier Hernanez scored two second-half | :12:28. | :12:31. | |
goals as United extend their lead at the top. A woeful Wolves | :12:31. | :12:33. | |
performance means they are now bottom of the Premier League. In | :12:33. | :12:38. | |
today's other game Newcastle beat Norwich 1-0. To the FA Cup where | :12:38. | :12:41. | |
Fernando Torres scored his first goal in 152 days to help Chelsea to | :12:41. | :12:44. | |
a 5-2 quarter-final win over Leicester City. Torres scored twice | :12:44. | :12:48. | |
in the second half to bring to an end a goal drought that had lasted | :12:48. | :12:52. | |
for 24 games. So Chelsea are into the semi-finals for the fifth time | :12:52. | :12:57. | |
in seven years. Liverpool are also through after beating Stoke 2-1. | :12:57. | :12:59. | |
There was a big surprise in the Scottish Communities League Cup | :12:59. | :13:02. | |
Final with Kilmarnock beating SPL leaders Celtic 1-0 to lift a trophy | :13:02. | :13:06. | |
for the first time in 15 years. Dieter Van Tornhout scored the | :13:06. | :13:09. | |
winning goal in the 84th minute on his birthday, to deny Celtic the | :13:09. | :13:18. | |
treble, and give Kilmarnock their first ever League Cup. And in the | :13:18. | :13:20. | |
Edinburgh derby, Hearts beat Hibernian 2-0 to continue their | :13:20. | :13:22. | |
domination over their neighbours. Suso Santana sealed the win for | :13:22. | :13:26. | |
Hearts with an excellent solo effort in the 90th minute to add to | :13:26. | :13:33. | |
Craig Beattie's first half goal. That is all the sport for now. | :13:33. | :13:36. | |
Thank you. Englebert Humperdink will tomorrow reveal the song he | :13:36. | :13:39. | |
hopes will end Britain's 15 year drought in the Eurovision Song | :13:39. | :13:42. | |
Contest. At 75, you'd be forgiven for thinking he's the competition's | :13:42. | :13:45. | |
oldest contestant. But there is in fact a 76-year-old who's part of | :13:45. | :13:48. | |
Russia's entry - a girl band of six grandmothers. Our Moscow | :13:48. | :13:53. | |
correspondent Steve Rosenberg went to meet the Boranava Babushkas. | :13:53. | :13:57. | |
Russian villages, have normally havens of peace and tranquility. | :13:57. | :14:05. | |
But not this one. Presenting the Buranovo grannys, their entry for | :14:05. | :14:10. | |
the Eurovision Song Contest. At the village hall, they are rehearsing | :14:10. | :14:16. | |
their song, Party For Everybody. Most of them are in their mid 70s. | :14:16. | :14:20. | |
But they have plenty of boom bang- a-bang. These sing grannys are | :14:20. | :14:25. | |
already topping the leader board, not in terms of points, but | :14:25. | :14:32. | |
pensions, with a combined age of 403, they neighbouring UK entrants, | :14:32. | :14:38. | |
Engelbert Humperdinck, look like a spring chicken. We Dons. They are | :14:38. | :14:45. | |
strugwling the English -- they are struggling with the English. But | :14:45. | :14:50. | |
they say they're determined to prove some contests are not just | :14:50. | :14:57. | |
for young people. There is another reason. A more spiritual one. | :14:57. | :15:01. | |
Buranovo has no church. Stalin knocked it down 70 years ago. The | :15:01. | :15:05. | |
villagers have turned this shop into a prayer house, but they hope | :15:05. | :15:10. | |
the Eurovision Song Contest will help them build a new church. But | :15:10. | :15:16. | |
household chores don't leave too much time for preparations. I bet | :15:16. | :15:25. | |
Aba never had to worry about doing this every morning! At 76, Natasha | :15:25. | :15:30. | |
will be the oldest competitor, but she says her husband is not keen on | :15:30. | :15:35. | |
the idea. She says, if I'm away, who is going to mill it can cow? | :15:35. | :15:43. | |
How do they people -- milk the cow? How do they feel about being up | :15:43. | :15:47. | |
against the most famous Danny Alexander dad. Until recently they | :15:47. | :15:53. |