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a vote of no-confidence in the Government's education policies. It | :00:12. | :00:19. | |
says staff have never had it so bad. Ministers say they will not stop | :00:19. | :00:23. | |
demanding higher standards. Downing Street denies newspaper reports that | :00:23. | :00:27. | |
anyone at Number Ten described party activists as mad, swivel-eyed | :00:27. | :00:31. | |
loons. The Nigerian military is continuing a major operation against | :00:31. | :00:36. | |
Islamist militants in the north of the country. And Joe Root shines for | :00:36. | :00:41. | |
England, but a late Kiwi fightback leaves the first Test hanging in the | :00:41. | :00:51. | |
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Secretary Michael Gove has been heckled and jeered while addressing | :01:05. | :01:10. | |
headteachers at their annual conference in Birmingham. Members of | :01:10. | :01:11. | |
the National Association of Head Teachers passed a vote of | :01:12. | :01:14. | |
no-confidence in the Government's education policies, but Mr Gove said | :01:14. | :01:20. | |
it would not stop him from demanding higher standards. Our education | :01:20. | :01:28. | |
correspondent Luke Walton explains. They are in charge of thousands of | :01:28. | :01:31. | |
schools and now the union which speaks the headteachers says they | :01:31. | :01:35. | |
have had enough. They accuse the Government of bombarding the | :01:35. | :01:39. | |
classroom with ill thought out changes. At its annual gathering in | :01:39. | :01:44. | |
Birmingham, it called on ministers to start listening. The morale of | :01:44. | :01:49. | |
the profession is at an all-time low. Heads feel beleaguered. They | :01:49. | :01:53. | |
are angry about what is happening to the education system. Many are | :01:53. | :01:58. | |
anxious and including the very good heads. They are taking early | :01:58. | :02:02. | |
retirement from a job they love, because the pressures are so great. | :02:02. | :02:06. | |
Among the points of dispute the changes to exams and the national | :02:06. | :02:10. | |
curriculum. The forced conversion of schools to independent academies. | :02:10. | :02:15. | |
And the toughening up of Ofsted inspections. That was one of the | :02:15. | :02:18. | |
grievances put the Secretary of State in question and answer | :02:18. | :02:23. | |
session. You ask why headteachers are going down stress. It is because | :02:23. | :02:28. | |
they spend Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, waiting for Ofsted. We | :02:28. | :02:30. | |
work in a culture of fear, not one of working together. | :02:31. | :02:40. | |
APPLAUSE If Ofsted is the cause of fear, | :02:40. | :02:48. | |
then... Then I am grateful for your candour but we are going to have to | :02:48. | :02:57. | |
part company. Because... APPLAUSE | :02:57. | :03:00. | |
We would not well what outstanding practice was across the country | :03:00. | :03:03. | |
unless it was thanks to gifted inspectors taking the trouble to | :03:03. | :03:08. | |
shine a light on what is good. Education Secretary did make one | :03:08. | :03:11. | |
concession today, when he signalled the Government was prepared to | :03:11. | :03:15. | |
rethink some of its plans for the national curriculum. But on the big | :03:15. | :03:19. | |
areas of education reform, it seems it is not for turning. That will | :03:19. | :03:25. | |
only add to the frustration that many headteachers here. | :03:25. | :03:30. | |
Downing Street has denied newspaper reports that anyone at Number Ten | :03:30. | :03:34. | |
described party activists as mad, swivel-eyed loons. In a separate | :03:34. | :03:37. | |
statement Lord Feldman, the Conservative Party's co-chairman and | :03:37. | :03:43. | |
a close ally of David Cameron, denied making the comments. Here is | :03:43. | :03:45. | |
our political correspondent, Iain Watson. | :03:46. | :03:49. | |
David Cameron was never really seen as one of us by some party | :03:49. | :03:54. | |
activists. So Downing Street was far from pleased when some newspapers | :03:54. | :03:58. | |
claimed that one of the Prime Minister's close allies had called | :03:58. | :04:02. | |
party members swivel-eyed loons. The newspapers did not name the alleged | :04:02. | :04:08. | |
ally, but said he was part of David Cameron's social circle. The | :04:08. | :04:11. | |
Conservative co-chairman, Lord Feldman, a long standing friend of | :04:11. | :04:14. | |
the Prime Minister, do swiftly denied it was him. I would like to | :04:14. | :04:19. | |
make it clear I did not nor have ever described our associations in | :04:19. | :04:24. | |
this way or anything similar manner, he said. Nor do these represent our | :04:24. | :04:28. | |
view of our activists. I know Andrew Feldman. He works closely with the | :04:29. | :04:33. | |
voluntary party. I believe him when he says he would not say something | :04:33. | :04:36. | |
like this about our fantastic volunteers, so I think it is right | :04:36. | :04:41. | |
to say it will not have been him. Tonight, Downing Street and some | :04:41. | :04:45. | |
sections of the Conservative supporting press are at | :04:45. | :04:49. | |
loggerheads. Number ten macro firmly denying that any senior | :04:49. | :04:53. | |
Conservative, not just Lord Feldman, has described party | :04:53. | :04:57. | |
activists as loons. The journalists say they are standing by the story | :04:57. | :05:01. | |
but Downing Street are particularly sensitive to any suggestion that | :05:01. | :05:05. | |
David Cameron's inner circle hold the party membership in contempt | :05:05. | :05:10. | |
because they know that could have serious political consequences. Most | :05:10. | :05:14. | |
immediately, Downing Street fear it could fuel an already big rebellion | :05:14. | :05:19. | |
over gay marriage plans, but the bigger worry is that activists and | :05:19. | :05:22. | |
their long-running relationship with the Conservatives and take up with | :05:22. | :05:25. | |
UKIP. Their leader told the Tory grassroots they were hated by their | :05:25. | :05:31. | |
own party and they should join his instead. Groves of previously loyal | :05:31. | :05:34. | |
Conservative Party members are leaving. They are disenchanted. They | :05:34. | :05:39. | |
don't feel they are listened to. They don't feel their views are | :05:39. | :05:41. | |
respected. They are leaving in droves, either resigning from their | :05:42. | :05:47. | |
membership of local associations, or sitting on their hands, or going to | :05:47. | :05:51. | |
UKIP. David Cameron tried to modernise his party. Some members | :05:51. | :05:56. | |
think he went too far. Others say he is not going far enough. He used to | :05:56. | :05:58. | |
modernise his party. Some members think he went too far. Others say he | :05:58. | :06:03. | |
is not going far enough. He is too dependent on an. Iain Watson joins | :06:03. | :06:08. | |
us now. There has been some interesting developments on Europe | :06:08. | :06:12. | |
and the Conservatives from a former cabinet minister? Yes, it doesn't go | :06:12. | :06:18. | |
away. Recently a former Conservative chairman, Lord Lawson was telling | :06:18. | :06:22. | |
David Cameron it was time to leave the EU. Tonight, he has got | :06:22. | :06:27. | |
conflicting advice from another former Chancellor, Geoffrey Howe. He | :06:27. | :06:31. | |
accuses David Cameron of following his own backbenchers. He says a deep | :06:31. | :06:36. | |
anti-Europeanism is affecting the soul of the party and he says David | :06:36. | :06:40. | |
Cameron himself" Dora is a by offering to renegotiate Britain's's | :06:40. | :06:44. | |
relationship with the EU -- Pandora's box. He says if Britain | :06:45. | :06:49. | |
leaves the EU it will have grave consequences for the country and a | :06:49. | :06:53. | |
loss of influence in Brussels and in Washington. You might remember 20 | :06:53. | :06:57. | |
odd years ago in 1990, when Lord Howell resigned from the Cabinet. | :06:57. | :07:01. | |
That led to a chain of events which led to Lady Thatcher's downfall. | :07:01. | :07:06. | |
David Cameron will be pleased that he is not calling for his | :07:06. | :07:11. | |
resignation. A five-year-old girl from south | :07:12. | :07:15. | |
London has drowned on a family holiday in Egypt's. Chloe Johnson, | :07:15. | :07:20. | |
from Forest Hill, was found dead in a hotel pool at the resort of Sharm | :07:20. | :07:24. | |
el-Sheikh. The holiday company First Choice says it is working with the | :07:24. | :07:27. | |
hotel to establish how the tragedy happened. | :07:28. | :07:33. | |
The Government's plans to get more people buying new homes has been | :07:33. | :07:36. | |
criticised by the Governor of the Bank of England. Sir Mervyn King, | :07:36. | :07:40. | |
who steps down at the end of the month, says the Help to Buy scheme | :07:40. | :07:44. | |
is too close to comfort to the state guaranteeing mortgages and has no | :07:44. | :07:48. | |
place in the long run. Joe Lynam reports. He has worked at the Bank | :07:48. | :07:52. | |
of England since 1991 and been in charge for a decade but with just | :07:52. | :07:56. | |
over a month left of that tenure, Mervyn King has publicly questioned | :07:56. | :08:02. | |
one of the Government's flagship policies. House-building has been | :08:02. | :08:05. | |
all but dormant since the financial crisis, so the Government announced | :08:05. | :08:10. | |
in last March's budget the Help to Buy scheme which will see the | :08:10. | :08:14. | |
Treasury standing over some types of mortgage lending, up to 15% of the | :08:14. | :08:18. | |
value of the home loan. But the Bank of England governor says that risks | :08:18. | :08:21. | |
turning the Government into permanent players in the property | :08:21. | :08:26. | |
market. I am sure there is no place in the wrong run for a scheme of | :08:26. | :08:31. | |
this kind. -- the long run. It is too close to comfort for a general | :08:31. | :08:36. | |
scheme to guarantee mortgages. We have a healthy mortgage market with | :08:36. | :08:38. | |
competing lenders attracting borrowers before the crisis and we | :08:38. | :08:43. | |
need to get back to that healthy mortgage market. The Treasury says | :08:43. | :08:49. | |
the scheme is temporary and designed to stoke up house consumption. It is | :08:49. | :08:51. | |
aimed at helping homebuyers get on or move up the housing ladder, | :08:51. | :08:54. | |
because hitherto they have only been able to get loans if they have large | :08:54. | :08:59. | |
mortgages. This scheme helps on that front. As for whether this mortgage | :08:59. | :09:03. | |
guarantee scheme will be continued in three years' time, that will be | :09:03. | :09:08. | |
decided by this man, Mark Carney. The Canadian was hand-picked by the | :09:08. | :09:10. | |
Chancellor to replace Mervyn King and he may have its own views on | :09:10. | :09:14. | |
what is best for UK economy when he takes charge of monetary policy at | :09:14. | :09:19. | |
the Bank of England. Who knows whether his views will underline or | :09:19. | :09:23. | |
undermine government policy in future. | :09:23. | :09:27. | |
A senior female politician with Imran Khan's Movement for Justice | :09:27. | :09:32. | |
party has been shot dead in Pakistan. Zahra Shahid Hussain, the | :09:32. | :09:36. | |
party's senior vice president, was gunned down outside her home in | :09:36. | :09:39. | |
Karachi. Her murder comes on the eve of a highly contested partial rerun | :09:39. | :09:45. | |
of the vote in the area following last Saturday's general election. | :09:46. | :09:49. | |
In Nigeria, huge military operation to drive Islamist militants from the | :09:49. | :09:53. | |
north-east of the country is continuing. Today, the authorities | :09:53. | :09:58. | |
say ten insurgents have been killed in the latest clashes. The military | :09:58. | :10:01. | |
offensive against the Islamist group Boko Haram began earlier this week, | :10:02. | :10:07. | |
when the government declared a state of emergency in three areas. Our | :10:07. | :10:10. | |
West Africa correspondent Will Ross has sent this report. Allen-macro | :10:10. | :10:16. | |
Islamist militants have been wreaking havoc in northern Nigeria. | :10:16. | :10:20. | |
The group known as Boko Haram with links to Al-Qaeda has been getting | :10:20. | :10:24. | |
stronger, even seizing territory. Now, the Nigerian government has | :10:24. | :10:31. | |
decided enough is enough. Thousands of Nigerian troops, seen here | :10:31. | :10:35. | |
recently and training, have been pouring into the already heavily | :10:35. | :10:39. | |
militarised north-east of the country. A state of emergency has | :10:39. | :10:42. | |
been declared. The Nigerian armed forces have attacked from both land | :10:42. | :10:49. | |
and air. Advancing troops of the special task force have been able to | :10:49. | :10:54. | |
destroy terrorist camps in the course of this, heavy weapons | :10:54. | :11:02. | |
including anti-tank guns, anti-aircraft guns, were destroyed. | :11:02. | :11:08. | |
Nigeria is the military powerhouse of West Africa. It has around 80,000 | :11:08. | :11:11. | |
troops and they are fairly well equipped. That does not guarantee | :11:11. | :11:15. | |
success against groups like Boko Haram. Their fighters live amongst | :11:15. | :11:20. | |
the civilian population and know the terrain extremely well. The Islamist | :11:20. | :11:28. | |
militants have deployed deadly tactics. This video, shot last year | :11:28. | :11:32. | |
by a Boko Haram member, shows a powerful car bomb targeting the | :11:32. | :11:38. | |
offices of a newspaper. Over the past three years, close to 2000 | :11:38. | :11:41. | |
people have been killed by the militants' bombs and bullets. But | :11:41. | :11:46. | |
civilians have also suffered from the Army's heavy-handed, sometimes | :11:46. | :11:53. | |
brutal response. The image of the military in the minds of the average | :11:53. | :11:59. | |
person in Nigeria is of a bully who comes about, killing and destroying | :11:59. | :12:06. | |
them the same way Boko Haram military does. Resentment of the | :12:06. | :12:10. | |
Army has even boosted the support for the Islamist militants. No | :12:10. | :12:13. | |
matter how many soldiers are sent to fight the jihadists it seems | :12:13. | :12:18. | |
unlikely that a military solution alone will secure lasting peace in | :12:18. | :12:24. | |
northern Nigeria. With all the sport here's Katie | :12:24. | :12:30. | |
Gornall at the BBC Sport Centre. The first Test between England and | :12:30. | :12:33. | |
New Zealand is finally poised after day three at Lord's. 22-year-old Joe | :12:33. | :12:37. | |
Root appeared to have put England in control with an impressive 71 in the | :12:37. | :12:41. | |
century stand with Johnathon Trott, but a dramatic late batting collapse | :12:41. | :12:47. | |
saw England close on 180 for six, a lead of 205 runs. Earlier, New | :12:47. | :12:54. | |
Zealand slumped to 207 out -- all out before lunch. Taking more than | :12:55. | :12:57. | |
300 test wickets makes you well qualified to offer rolling advice | :12:57. | :13:01. | |
and whatever Jimmy Anderson said to Stuart broad had some impact. In his | :13:01. | :13:05. | |
first over, broad macro had Brendon McCullum and the tone had been set | :13:05. | :13:08. | |
for the morning. Before long, Anderson was back amongst it bowling | :13:09. | :13:11. | |
at his ferocious best before finishing with five wickets. Steven | :13:11. | :13:15. | |
Finn picked up form. He got last month trend bolts. The innings | :13:15. | :13:20. | |
fittingly ended in Anderson's hands with New Zealand still 25 behind. | :13:20. | :13:25. | |
But where England's bowlers lead, New Zealand's could follow. Both the | :13:25. | :13:29. | |
home side openers went early to a mix of swing and the art of | :13:29. | :13:33. | |
surprise. England had no time for any more alarms so Johnathon Trott | :13:33. | :13:38. | |
and Joe Root took on the job of steadily building the lead. It was | :13:38. | :13:42. | |
it was not captivating initially, it soon would be. Root was starting to | :13:42. | :13:47. | |
Boston. He accelerated past 50, his first in a home Test. England were | :13:47. | :13:52. | |
in control. They were almost 200 head when he was finally uprooted. | :13:52. | :13:56. | |
But panic soon set in. Three batsmen came and went. Matt prior's duck was | :13:56. | :14:03. | |
his second of the game. An unexpected -- an unexpected failure | :14:03. | :14:06. | |
in an unexpected collapsed. It forced Ian Bell to the crease. He | :14:06. | :14:12. | |
and England got through but they have much work left to do. | :14:12. | :14:17. | |
It was a happy return to Wembley today for Bradford City. They are | :14:17. | :14:21. | |
celebrating promotion after beating Northampton Town 3-0 in the League | :14:21. | :14:26. | |
Two play-off final. After their historic appearance three months ago | :14:26. | :14:30. | |
Bradford ensured they came out on top this time around. They made a | :14:30. | :14:34. | |
dream start with Nicky Wells firing in the third goal after 20 minutes. | :14:34. | :14:38. | |
It is thus that third promotion since they reached the Premier | :14:38. | :14:41. | |
League 14 years ago. David Beckham said a tearful farewell to Paris | :14:41. | :14:44. | |
this evening in what could be the final match of his career before | :14:44. | :14:48. | |
heading into retirement. The former England captain was given the | :14:48. | :14:53. | |
armband for the night and was instrumental as the Leage One | :14:53. | :14:58. | |
champions went -- ran out 3-1 champions against Brest. The game | :14:58. | :15:04. | |
was briefly halted as Beckham was substituted to a tearful ovation | :15:04. | :15:10. | |
from the crowd. Ten years after winning the Rugby union World Cup | :15:10. | :15:12. | |
for England, Jonny Wilkinson has kicked his French club Toulon to | :15:12. | :15:18. | |
victory in the Heineken Cup. His side beat Clermont Auvergne 16-15 in | :15:18. | :15:21. | |
Dublin. With two long trailing in the second half it was Delon | :15:21. | :15:25. | |
Armitage who helped swing the game in their favour, and sprinkling the | :15:25. | :15:30. | |
chasing pack to score this side's only try. It handed Wilkinson the | :15:30. | :15:33. | |
chance to fire too long into the lead for the first time in the match | :15:33. | :15:37. | |
and he held his nerve, guiding to want to their first European title | :15:38. | :15:42. |