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Olympics. Jamie Nicholls stole the show as he booked his place in the | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
final of the slopestyle event. That is coming up in 15 minutes. | :00:00. | :00:18. | |
Hello, welcome. With me, the deputy editor of the Guardian, and the | :00:19. | :00:29. | |
former speech writer for Margaret Thatcher, now managing director at a | :00:30. | :00:35. | |
PR firm. Let's begin with the daily express, reading on the weather, it | :00:36. | :00:41. | |
says this weekend's storm is set to be even worse than the of October | :00:42. | :00:47. | |
1987. The news that William Roache has been cleared of all charges also | :00:48. | :00:52. | |
features on the front page. The Daily Telegraph reports that flood | :00:53. | :00:58. | |
defences which could have protected the Dawlish train line were delayed | :00:59. | :01:02. | |
so the Environment Agency could consider the impact of the work on | :01:03. | :01:07. | |
birds. William Roache is expect King to return to Coronation Street, that | :01:08. | :01:14. | |
is the lead here, it says the actor -- and the actor is also on the | :01:15. | :01:20. | |
front of the Independent. And, the FBI will investigate hacking by | :01:21. | :01:25. | |
blue-chip companies. Pressure on the Education Secretary to take more | :01:26. | :01:29. | |
action against the practice of female genital mutilation in | :01:30. | :01:31. | |
Britain, that is the Guardian's lead. And, David Cameron stepping | :01:32. | :01:37. | |
into the Scottish referendum debate, he has pleaded with the voters to | :01:38. | :01:41. | |
keep the UK together, says the Financial Times. | :01:42. | :01:47. | |
Let's begin, very nice to see you both. Let's start with the | :01:48. | :01:55. | |
Independent, the William Roache story, which is across several front | :01:56. | :01:59. | |
pages. It is on pretty much every front page, an extraordinary set of | :02:00. | :02:04. | |
circumstances, a clear verdict. The police and the prosecutors will be | :02:05. | :02:11. | |
criticised whichever way they drum. After Jimmy Savile, they would be | :02:12. | :02:16. | |
criticised if they did not prosecute, but now, are they being | :02:17. | :02:20. | |
too hard? But when you have allegations being made, they have to | :02:21. | :02:26. | |
be investigated. There is a difference between the level the CPS | :02:27. | :02:31. | |
have to satisfy themselves about, slightly more than 50% chance of | :02:32. | :02:35. | |
conviction, and what a jury has to do, which is beyond all reasonable | :02:36. | :02:40. | |
doubt, and clearly, some cases will result in acquittal. The problem is | :02:41. | :02:45. | |
the history of this, you are going back 50 or 60 years, no forensics or | :02:46. | :02:51. | |
DNA, it just comes down to who's word the jury believes. Historical | :02:52. | :02:55. | |
cases are notably difficult to prove, you had the element of | :02:56. | :03:00. | |
celebrity, that is a difficult combination. William Roache has gone | :03:01. | :03:06. | |
through an extraordinary ordeal, he was amazingly dignified, and that | :03:07. | :03:11. | |
phrase no winners will stick, but it is slightly predictable and | :03:12. | :03:16. | |
depressing, the criticism. The CPS says it has a duty to listen to the | :03:17. | :03:20. | |
allegations, and it has got a duty to press charges if they think there | :03:21. | :03:23. | |
is a reasonable chance of a conviction. What else are they to | :03:24. | :03:29. | |
do? William Roache cleared, but rape convictions are poor still, | :03:30. | :03:36. | |
historically. Yes, we have to be careful, though. We have to be | :03:37. | :03:40. | |
respectful of the court, because unlike any of us, and the faster | :03:41. | :03:43. | |
Daugherty of people watching this, we were not present in court, we did | :03:44. | :03:48. | |
not hear the evidence, the jury did, they reached the decision, have to | :03:49. | :03:59. | |
accept it. My point is, my company worked with Lord McAlpine, sometimes | :04:00. | :04:03. | |
there is a bit of a feeling that once something has been said about | :04:04. | :04:08. | |
something, it must be true. William Roache has got a very clear | :04:09. | :04:12. | |
decision, it is very important that everybody respect that, but even so, | :04:13. | :04:16. | |
we can agree that the police and prosecutors are in a difficult | :04:17. | :04:19. | |
position. Some test it, the anonymity debate has risen its head. | :04:20. | :04:27. | |
There was a CPS report, quite a detailed report from last year, but | :04:28. | :04:31. | |
concluded that falls allegations of rape were very rare indeed. Let's | :04:32. | :04:40. | |
have a look at the Metro. 81 years old, he looks extraordinary, the | :04:41. | :04:45. | |
longest serving member of a soap, but on the anonymity, because this | :04:46. | :04:52. | |
was part of the coalition agreement, where do you stand on something like | :04:53. | :05:01. | |
that? David Cameron... It would not have made much difference, because | :05:02. | :05:05. | |
William Roache is such a famous figure, there was going to be | :05:06. | :05:10. | |
publicity. It is a difficult balancing act, because on the one | :05:11. | :05:14. | |
hand, you want to Mitchell that people who have been subjected to a | :05:15. | :05:18. | |
terrible crime come forward, but on the other, you do not want an | :05:19. | :05:21. | |
allegation that can destroy somebody handing over their head at the stage | :05:22. | :05:28. | |
before a decision has been made to prosecute. On balance, it was the | :05:29. | :05:31. | |
right thing to put in the coalition agreement, but you will have people | :05:32. | :05:34. | |
of goodwill and intelligence on both sides. William Roache was suspended | :05:35. | :05:40. | |
from performing until the end of the case. Yes, this will not go away, | :05:41. | :05:47. | |
because we do have the combination, the toxic combination, of historical | :05:48. | :05:52. | |
and celebrity. We have several people who are awaiting trial, and | :05:53. | :05:56. | |
at least three or four people on bail, so this will run and run. | :05:57. | :06:01. | |
Let's move on to the Daily Telegraph, the flooding, the Prime | :06:02. | :06:07. | |
Minister taking control of Cobra, Owen Paterson on sick leave, but | :06:08. | :06:11. | |
this has become a political story now. Yes, the particular angle but | :06:12. | :06:18. | |
the telly -- that the Daily Telegraph goes on, some members of | :06:19. | :06:23. | |
the House of Lords said that the Environment Agency decided not to | :06:24. | :06:27. | |
reinforce the sea wall because they had to consider the invitations for | :06:28. | :06:32. | |
the local bird population. The paper's angle is unfair, because the | :06:33. | :06:37. | |
implication is that the Environment Agency decided to be obstructive. | :06:38. | :06:41. | |
The law says you cannot do anything without environmental impact | :06:42. | :06:43. | |
assessments, which takes into account the impact upon wildlife, | :06:44. | :06:49. | |
which is why it takes so long to build airports or doodling for | :06:50. | :06:54. | |
fracking. The fire at agency have promoted -- the Environment Agency | :06:55. | :07:00. | |
have rated this, but it is wrong to imply that some officials just | :07:01. | :07:03. | |
decided that they were going to be obstructive, but now it looks like | :07:04. | :07:08. | |
it would have made common sense. We have to review a lot of the laws, | :07:09. | :07:13. | |
and the clear that protecting people and their livelihoods and property | :07:14. | :07:15. | |
is more important than other considerations. Some might say it is | :07:16. | :07:19. | |
optimistic they will get that track up and running in six weeks. A great | :07:20. | :07:27. | |
cartoon here, what do you make of how the Prime Minister has waded | :07:28. | :07:35. | |
in? 's we saw a new front man, Eric Pickles, who levels into the fact | :07:36. | :07:42. | |
that it had been the wettest January since 1820, since George III was on | :07:43. | :07:45. | |
the throne. I do not know where that came from. There are no records past | :07:46. | :07:51. | |
1910, so where he checked that out from, I do not know, but it has | :07:52. | :07:56. | |
become political, there are demands for David Cameron to go down there. | :07:57. | :08:01. | |
He is thinking of his PR advice, just after Christmas, he was | :08:02. | :08:08. | |
harangued on TV, and nightmare PR pictures emerged, so the man who is | :08:09. | :08:11. | |
going down there tomorrow is Chris Smith, the boss of the Environment | :08:12. | :08:16. | |
Agency, and he will get a warm reception, one would imagine he is | :08:17. | :08:20. | |
equipped with a couple of bodyguards. He is a Labour peer. And | :08:21. | :08:28. | |
a former cabinet minister. He always struck me as a city dweller. He is a | :08:29. | :08:38. | |
very nice man. The wide issue, I was an MP in Cumbria during the foot and | :08:39. | :08:41. | |
mouth crisis, and it took them in a long time to react to something | :08:42. | :08:45. | |
which happened 300 miles away from London, and a lot of people in the | :08:46. | :08:50. | |
West Country are thinking, if this had happened in the Home Counties, | :08:51. | :08:55. | |
the reaction might have been faster. You said that the last time there | :08:56. | :08:58. | |
were floods in Oxfordshire, his constituency, he was in Rwanda. How | :08:59. | :09:05. | |
much damage did that do? It seems a long time ago, there was a short | :09:06. | :09:10. | |
honeymoon for Gordon Brown, a lot of people said that David Cameron was | :09:11. | :09:15. | |
in big trouble. He has had a problem with flooding fulsome time, it is | :09:16. | :09:19. | |
difficult for any government. It has taken them a long time, too long, | :09:20. | :09:25. | |
but UKIP are strong in the West Country, they will make a lot of hay | :09:26. | :09:29. | |
out of the fact that, again, the government have got billions to | :09:30. | :09:33. | |
spend on overseas aid but they did not have the millions that would | :09:34. | :09:37. | |
have made a difference. It is naked opportunism. I am not saying it is | :09:38. | :09:43. | |
not, but it is an odd given that will have traction. It made it, but | :09:44. | :09:47. | |
we should address some of the more central questions, why did we build | :09:48. | :09:53. | |
homes on areas judged to be at high risk of floods? That seems to be | :09:54. | :09:59. | |
pretty barmy. A great story for the daily express, it is chiming with | :10:00. | :10:07. | |
what is happening. Yes, . At they like to lead on the weather pretty | :10:08. | :10:10. | |
much every day, and today it is topical! Two of their most favourite | :10:11. | :10:16. | |
stories, house prices as well, but there is no royal story. They always | :10:17. | :10:25. | |
have weather stories, but they were saying it would be one of the worst | :10:26. | :10:30. | |
winters for years before Christmas. I think they do that before every | :10:31. | :10:35. | |
Christmas! If you predict enough, you are right eventually. Worse than | :10:36. | :10:42. | |
1987, we had better check that with one of our forecasters. Coronation | :10:43. | :10:45. | |
Street on the front as well, Bill Roache leaving, cleared of all | :10:46. | :10:52. | |
charges. Let's go to your paper, Paul, a great picture on the front, | :10:53. | :10:57. | |
the opening of the Sochi Olympics, one of the Russian dolls and a | :10:58. | :11:02. | |
snowboarder on top. Now, you want to go to the house price bubble, just | :11:03. | :11:09. | |
to the right hand side of the mutilation, FGM story. Yes, this is | :11:10. | :11:15. | |
an extremely interesting piece of well-developed reportage. The | :11:16. | :11:17. | |
headline is that Hackney has seen the largest growth, 11.6% | :11:18. | :11:22. | |
year-on-year growth in house prices, against a national average of 5.4%. | :11:23. | :11:28. | |
The reporter here has been out looking at first-time buyer flats | :11:29. | :11:37. | |
and came across one for ?300,000 in a state of disrepair, two bedrooms, | :11:38. | :11:40. | |
not with any windows, absolutely appalling. At the same time, rents | :11:41. | :11:46. | |
are going up as well, and the voices of people trying to get on the | :11:47. | :11:49. | |
property ladder are ones of utter despair. Actually, when you think | :11:50. | :11:54. | |
about it, ?300,000 for a starter flat in Hackney, the sort of deposit | :11:55. | :11:59. | |
you would need for that, even on the national average, is going to be | :12:00. | :12:04. | |
huge, isn't it? The Government was trying to address that with the help | :12:05. | :12:08. | |
to buy idea, but the underlying question that we have to ask is, I | :12:09. | :12:12. | |
am sure Hackney has developed an awful lot, but many people would say | :12:13. | :12:17. | |
who know London's history, it is not the area you would expect to be the | :12:18. | :12:20. | |
epicentre of a house price bubble, not regarded as the most attractive | :12:21. | :12:24. | |
part of London. Is this sustainable? Can we have dropped the prices in | :12:25. | :12:28. | |
the heart of the capital so completely out of line with average | :12:29. | :12:34. | |
earnings? Can at last? Something that was put to the Chancellor the | :12:35. | :12:38. | |
other day. So completely out of kilter with anyone outside of London | :12:39. | :12:42. | |
as well, the regions, the disparity is very difficult. We are running | :12:43. | :12:47. | |
out of time, another hit of these papers in an hour, one last story on | :12:48. | :12:51. | |
the Telegraph, which one were we going to go with? It was the smoking | :12:52. | :12:57. | |
ban, another good story about the pillow which stop snoring, we will | :12:58. | :13:03. | |
about that later! I think we will do that later. Let's do the smoke ban | :13:04. | :13:11. | |
in cars carrying children. That is quite fun, though, snoring! We have | :13:12. | :13:15. | |
not got the graphic, they are busy making it now! They are not going to | :13:16. | :13:19. | |
do it in 15 seconds. Tell us what this story is. At the time that | :13:20. | :13:25. | |
there is a Parliamentary vote coming up on a proposal that there should | :13:26. | :13:29. | |
be a ban on parents smoking in their own cars with children in the | :13:30. | :13:33. | |
back-seat, there are hundreds of health experts who have written to | :13:34. | :13:36. | |
the British medical in support of this idea. We know that the Health | :13:37. | :13:41. | |
Secretary, Jeremy Hunt, came out in support himself quite recently. | :13:42. | :13:51. | |
People are talking about civil liberties. I thought the pro-smoking | :13:52. | :13:57. | |
lobby was represented solely by David Hockney. Ken Clarke? Forest | :13:58. | :14:02. | |
have popped up here, saying they regard it as inconsiderate, but you | :14:03. | :14:09. | |
know, you have got to let people smoke in private places. I suppose | :14:10. | :14:12. | |
there is a difficulty about enforcing it. You cannot smoke in | :14:13. | :14:18. | |
company cars or vans. The precedents that people may be worried about is | :14:19. | :14:21. | |
that if you establish in law that it is an offence to smoke in the | :14:22. | :14:25. | |
presence of children in a car, doesn't it logically follow that it | :14:26. | :14:28. | |
should be an offence in your own home? Is that where we want the law | :14:29. | :14:32. | |
to go? Do we want inspectors knocking on the door saying you | :14:33. | :14:35. | |
appeared to have children present when you are smoking, that is an | :14:36. | :14:39. | |
offence? There are difficult balances to be struck here. We are | :14:40. | :14:43. | |
all clear it is a serious condition that needs to be looked at | :14:44. | :14:45. | |
particularly when shall not involved, but I don't think we want | :14:46. | :14:50. | |
to have too many people who have an excuse to interfere with people's | :14:51. | :14:55. | |
private lives. Libertarians versus... Maybe they can smoke | :14:56. | :14:59. | |
electronic ones, who knows? All right, thank you both very much | :15:00. | :15:03. | |
indeed, Paul Johnson and Dan Collyns. That is our first look at | :15:04. | :15:07. | |
the papers, we will be back at 11:34 a second look, we will try to get | :15:08. | :15:16. | |
the pillow story for you! -- 11:30 for a second look. At 11 o'clock, | :15:17. | :15:21. | |
the latest from Belfast, where a major incident has been declared for | :15:22. | :15:28. | |
the young people who have been affected by drugs and alcohol. | :15:29. | :15:31. | |
Coming up before that, time for the sports news in Sportsday. | :15:32. | :15:42. | |
Hello and welcome to Sportsday, I'm John Watson. On the way this | :15:43. | :15:48. | |
evening, the England and Wales Cricket Board refuse to explain the | :15:49. | :15:51. | |
reasons behind ending Kevin Pietersen's international career. | :15:52. | :15:56. | |
Jamie Nicholls steals the show for Team GB as the Winter Olympics | :15:57. | :15:57. |