21/09/2013 BBC Weekend News


21/09/2013

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Good afternoon. Labour's leader Ed Miliband has said

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his party will strengthen the minimum wage, improve access to

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childcare and abolish the so-called bedroom tax if it wins the next

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election. He was speaking in Brighton, where he was meeting

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delegates at members of the public ahead of his party conference.

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He is a leader looking for a lift from this year's party conference.

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Ed Miliband and family arrived in Brighton this morning. With Labour

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not leading in opinion polls, few in village rectory next summer. There

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were calls for Ed Miliband in the summer to grab initiative and

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produce policies. You do not just need a leader to fight for working

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people, you need a party for working people. He kicked off the cobwebs by

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standing on a box, explaining his vision to passing shoppers. We have

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to think of the forgotten wealth creators, the people who put in the

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eyes, who do the work, who do two jobs, who do the shifts. They are

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the people we should be supporting in this country, friends. It was,

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said Labour, a first, and attempt to connect the party to voters

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concerned about living standards. And as the conference starts, Labour

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has produced some policies. It says it will scrap the bedroom tax, the

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housing benefit cuts for people in it will scrap the bedroom tax, the

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social housing with spare bedrooms. Labour says people earning up to

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£60,000 a year do not feel particularly rich, and the party

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says it has no plans to raise taxes for people to that amount. Labour

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has also said it will guarantee parents of primary school children

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access to childcare from 8am to 6pm. This morning he said they would try

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and raise the minimum wage. We will strengthen the national minimum

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wage. We will make work pay for the workers of Britain. That is what I

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mean by a government that fights for you. High it would do that is not

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clear. The review will be carried out and Labour says it will work

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with business to try and increase salaries for the lowest paid, but

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apart from the housing benefit policies, these policies are not

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fully costed. And that will surely be the coalition's criticism of Ed

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Miliband's plans? They have already said Labour's promise to reverse the

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housing benefit cut proves Labour is a party of welfare. In Brighton, Ed

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Miliband is under pressure to prove he has policies for people beyond

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the party's core support. The phone maker Blackberry is to cut

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more than 4000 jobs worldwide, about 40% of its workforce, as it

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struggles to reduce huge losses. It is not clear how many staff will be

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affected at its British headquarters is not clear how many staff will be

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in Slough. Once a market leader, the comedy is expected to announce

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losses of more than £600 million next week. -- the company is

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expected. It used to beat the must have device

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for the trendy and famous. Even the world's most powerful man insisted

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on keeping his Blackberry when he became US president in 2008.

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Blackberry is now struggling. Demand for the phones has fallen off a

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cliff and so has the company's share price, down 96% since the launch of

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the Apple iPhone. Blackberry had hoped to reboot sales with its new

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phone, but they have been less than half the expected number. Now

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Blackberry says it is cutting its workforce by 40%, 4500 jobs

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worldwide, some of whom will almost certainly be at the European

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headquarters in Slough. The company warned of current losses of over

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£600 million in the quarter, or $1 billion. On the reason for its

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decline? They underestimated the power of swipe, the way the industry

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was transformed by touch-screen smartphones. Blackberry for people

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wanted the comfort of a touch keyboard and were dismissive of the

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smart phone when it arrived. They said, the iPhone poses a challenge

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to its users. Try typing a web key on a touch-screen, it is a

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challenge, they said. Blackberry still has great handset and

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technology but it's best hope might be getting bought out by someone

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else. That needs to happen quickly, while the brand is worth something.

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Conmen have opened fire and throwing grenades on an attack in an upmarket

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shopping centre in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi. There is reported

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to be a gun battle between police and the attackers. There are reports

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of injured people being brought out and the attackers. There are reports

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on stretchers. Four men arrested in connection with

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a theft of £1.3 million from Barclays bank are due to appear in

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court later today. The men were arrested yesterday and accused of

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installing a device on a computer in a north London branch of the bank

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that allowed them to transfer money. Searches have been carried

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that allowed them to transfer out across London and cash,

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jewellery, drugs and credit cards have been saved.

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-- ceased. Police in Birmingham have begun a murder investigation after

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an 18-year-old man was stabbed to death in Selly Oak last night. West

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Midlands Police has said the motive for the attack is unclear. Angela

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Merkel, Germany's Chancellor, has appeared to the -- appealed to the

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voters for another four-year term in office on the final day of

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campaigning ahead of the German parliamentary elections tomorrow.

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She is widely expected to win a third term at her party, the

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Christian Democratic Union. A poll has shown opposition parties gaining

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support. Our correspondent is brilliant. Adi Christian Democrats

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certain to retain power's -- aren't the Christian Democrats?

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certain to retain power's -- aren't Surgeon in some form. All

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indications are that she will be Chancellor. The question is, with

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whom will she make coalition government? It will either go on as

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currently a centre-right government with the existing coalition

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partners, but their support may be collapsing, in which case it will be

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a coalition across the divide with the SPD, but with her in charge. To

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sum up, they make her favourite to be Chancellor, but the composition

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of the government is still unclear. The next news on BBC

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