22/09/2012 BBC Weekend News

The �10,000 tax allowance for Grindale, restoring the link

between pensions and earnings. have a record of action and

delivery in government. The Lib Dems say they want to do more, but

with more cuts on the horizon, there is anxiety about where the

axe would fall. We should be there to make sure that we protect those

people, meaning that the rich will pay more. Nick Clegg's challenge is

to convince his party that they are wielding influence. He needs to

convince the Government that coalition politics is good for them,

too. Nick Clegg seems to be at pains to

tell it like it is. He is telling his party that they are in the

minority in the Cabinet and that limits what they can do. How will

that go down with the ones who were not happy about the situation?

think they have a dilemma here. The Lib Dems have talked about

differentiation, keeping their individuality, showing the voters

they have different ideas. They want to have a stable government

and show that coalition government works. Later this evening, Nick

Clegg will tell the party that we need to have more discipline and

less squabbling with the Tories. That will be to -- pretty difficult

when it comes to the Spending Review. The Lib Dems have agreed to

sign up to one more year of joint spending plans, running from 2015

to 2016. They have made clear that if the Conservatives want more cuts,

the wealthy will have to pay more. Thank you very much.

The former Justice Secretary, Ken Clarke has offered his support to

Andrew Mitchell, saying that he is a perfectly reasonable man who had

a flair of bad temper. He is resisting calls to stand down after

claims that he swore at Downing Street police officers. The Chief

Whip denies losing -- using the word player but but has apologised

for his behaviour. -- pleb. The chief inspector of

schools in England has infuriated teachers unions by suggesting that

teachers should work longer hours to get a pay rise. His comments

come as around 500,000 staff prepare to stage a work to rule

over pay and conditions. Schools are being told to do better.

Overall, 40% of lessons were not good enough according to Ofsted's

last full report. Now the chief inspector has warned teachers that

there will be -- they will be marked down if they are not seen to

be going the extra mile, that schools will be marked down if they

reward staff who underperform. In a reward staff who underperform. In a

I think we need to look at these comments carefully. He is talking

about teachers' working longer to get extra pay when all the surveys

say that teachers are working more than 50 hours a week. Do you know

that 50% of newly qualified teachers leave the job within the

first five years because of the long working hours? Ofsted says

going the extra mile is not just about working longer hours by

undertaking breakfast and after- school clubs, but also about

improving lessons. The Chief Inspector's comments have come at a

particularly sensitive time. Teachers have had their pay frozen,

and in the past year, they have taken part in walkout and protests

here at Westminster, about changes to their pensions. Now, been told

that they have to work harder is not going down well. -- being told.

The NUT says that more than 80% of its members have voted in favour of

walkouts like this one in May. Next week, thousands of teachers will

begin a programme of industrial action which is just short of a

strike. Today's Row will not be the last clash over the future of our

schools. An Islamist militia which was

accused of killing the American ambassador to Libya earlier this

month has been driven out of the City of Benghazi. At least 10

people were killed when protesters and police stormed the headquarters

of the group following mass demonstrations.

Angry, frustrated Libyans taking justice into their own hands.

Overrunning and burning militia bases in Benghazi, including the

headquarters of an Shad a Sharia, the brigade clues -- accused by

some of being involved in the death Earlier this week, I met the

hardline Islamists at the same base which was torched last night. The

twin system bolls of the Koran and a Kalashnikov for a small defiant

brigade which rejects democracy. In his only interview with a

Western broadcaster, their leader told me why they'd never give up

their guns, because the fight for Libya wasn't over.

TRANSLATION: We believe that Gaddafi's system is still here. And

we also believe the new Government has been imported from outside.

Democracy is nothing compared to Islam and doesn't belong to Islam.

That view isn't shared by a majority of Libyans. They support

the democratic project and tens of thousands took to the streets of

Benghazi last night calling for an end to the power wielded by the

armed militias. Popular not Government pressure

forced the hardliners to retreat last night. But at least ten people

were killed in a country still awash with guns and in desperate

need of direction if lib tkwra is to avoid a second Civil War --

Libya. The leader of the English Democrats,

Robin Tilbrook, has said voters in England are getting a raw deal

compared to other parts of the UK. At the annual conference in St

Albans, he emphasised the need for an English Parliament and tougher

rules on immigration. We are simply not a big enough

country to have mass immigration. What we want is a system similar to

Canada or Australia, in other words it starts from what's in the

interests of the country, rather than necessarily what's in the

interests of a prospective immigrant.

Sport and Lewis Hamilton's good run of form continues in the Formula

One World Championship. Having won two of the last three Grand Prix

races, the McLaren driver's secured poll position for the race tomorrow

in Singapore. Seb Vettel starts on the second row.

And tennis and law Robson has narrowly missed out on becoming the

first British woman to win a singles title on a tennis tour in

24 years. She lost in three sets in the Guangzhou Open. 18-year-old

Laura Robson's taken inspiration from her mixed doubles partner and

you Murray this summer. She appeared in her first WTA final.

Her opponent is ranked 21 places higher at 53 in the world, Robson

started strongly breaking her serve. But the opening set was taken by

her opponent. The new British number one found herself 5-3 down

in the second set, remarkably she fought off five Championship points

and reeled off four games in a row to take it 7-5.

Bidding to become the first British woman since 1988 to win a tour

singles title was added pressure. Robson though responded with a

three love start to the deciding set. Her opponent's experience told

in the end as she took five games in the row and won the final set 6-

4. After almost three hours in the stifling heat, Robson's

disappointment bubbled over but it shouldn't be long before she's

lifting a trophy herself. Let's hope so. Now, if you happened

to look up at the stars last night, you may have witnessed a bright

object racing across the sky. It was spotted by thousands of people

across the UK and many assumed it was a meteor shower. But,

astronomers say it may have had more earthly origins. Simon

Cleminson reports. Scorching the night sky, not a view from a

telescope, just a close reminder that we sit on a planet in a

universe. Suddenly aware of bright colours.

Initially it was like large fireworks and it was something

pretty large breaking up. There was hardly a corner to have country

where someone didn't look up and catch a glimpse. It was like

Independence Day, ten or 15 huge pieces. Thought it was a plane at

worse. Moving slower than a shooting star. It was amazing.

There is a chance this is space rock, but experts say its speed

suggests a different explanation, it could in fact have started life

here on earth. A piece of man-made space debris making a return

journey. If it's a chunk of something this size, it comes in at

18,000 miles an hour, there's a huge amount of energy, crashes into

the atmosphere, starts to fall apart, burn up and leave this is