:00:06. > :00:09.teaching Awards. And we talk about a new documentary
:00:09. > :00:13.about Michael Jackson. David Cameron is promising to take
:00:13. > :00:18.tough action against local authorities in England that fail to
:00:18. > :00:23.deal swiftly with adoption cases. There are wide variations in how
:00:23. > :00:28.quickly councils find placements for children in their care. The
:00:28. > :00:32.Prime Minister says he will make it easier to adopt.
:00:32. > :00:36.Students should only apply for places at university after they
:00:36. > :00:41.have received their A-level results. That is a new proposal brought
:00:41. > :00:46.forward by UCAS. The changes would mean that children take their A
:00:46. > :00:52.levels earlier in the year, apply for university in summer and start
:00:52. > :00:55.their courses in October. Nine people have been killed in
:00:55. > :01:01.America and more than 3 million homes are without power after an
:01:01. > :01:06.early snow storm. One power company in New Jersey says it could be
:01:06. > :01:10.Wednesday and will supplies are restored. Passengers on a train in
:01:10. > :01:15.Massachusetts were trapped for 13 hours.
:01:15. > :01:21.A committee of MPs has criticised the government for refusing to
:01:21. > :01:25.reduce the number of ministers. There are currently 121 and many of
:01:25. > :01:27.them are expected to be loyal to the government during voting in the
:01:28. > :01:37.House of Commons. So I read tax against the
:01:37. > :01:43.government and industry have reached disturbing levels. -- cyber
:01:43. > :01:45.attacks. Tomorrow, the government is hosting a conference on the
:01:45. > :01:49.issue. A BBC investigation has found that
:01:49. > :01:53.hundreds of police officers accused of misconduct were able to leave
:01:53. > :02:00.the police force rather than face a disciplinary investigation.
:02:00. > :02:04.Panorama found that between 2008 and 2010, almost 500 offices in the
:02:04. > :02:11.UK accused of misconduct were allowed to leave their jobs.
:02:11. > :02:16.Qantas airline has its flights back in the air. It will take several
:02:16. > :02:22.days before the backlog of stranded passengers can be cleared. Nearly
:02:22. > :02:32.70,000 people were stranded around the world during a dispute between
:02:32. > :02:34.
:02:34. > :02:44.management and unions. And Tottenham did well yesterday,
:02:44. > :02:47.
:02:47. > :02:51.didn't they? Tottenham are up to fifth in the
:02:51. > :02:54.Premier League thanks to a 3-1 win over Queens Park Rangers at White
:02:54. > :02:57.Hart Lane. Harry Redknapp's side were dominant in the first half and
:02:57. > :03:01.deservedly took the lead in the 20th minute through Gareth Bale.
:03:01. > :03:05.They added a second just after the half hour as Rafael van de Vaart
:03:05. > :03:08.found himself unmarked in the box and drove the ball past QPR keeper
:03:08. > :03:12.Paddy Kenny. Despite being on top, they struggled to add to that score
:03:12. > :03:16.and with a little over an hour gone, Rangers' substitute Jay Bothroyd
:03:16. > :03:19.headed in from a corner. But Bale was to have the last word. This
:03:19. > :03:29.beautiful goal ensured Spurs extended their unbeaten run to
:03:29. > :03:32.
:03:32. > :03:37.seven games. We played a great football. We were a joy to watch.
:03:37. > :03:40.We have got some smashing players, do you know what I mean? World
:03:40. > :03:43.Champion Sebastian Vettel claimed victory in the first ever Indian
:03:43. > :03:47.Grand Prix yesterday. That was his 11th victory leaving him just two
:03:47. > :03:49.wins short of Michael Schumacher's record for most race wins in a
:03:49. > :03:52.season. Before the race, the drivers observed a minute's silence
:03:52. > :03:56.in memory of IndyCar's Dan Wheldon and MotoGP's Marco Simoncelli, who
:03:56. > :04:00.both died recently in accidents. When the race got under way it was
:04:00. > :04:03.business as usual from Vettel. He led the race from start to finish
:04:03. > :04:06.with Britain's Jenson Button taking second place. But once again, there
:04:06. > :04:10.was a coming together between Lewis Hamilton and Felipe Massa - the
:04:10. > :04:13.sixth time these two drivers have collided this season. Much to the
:04:13. > :04:17.horror of the teams and a well- known dodgy Mr Bean, stewards
:04:17. > :04:21.pinned the blame on the Brazilian for this latest incident. It has
:04:21. > :04:31.led to much bad feeling between the two men, but Hamilton claims that
:04:31. > :04:38.he at least has tried to extend the olive branch. I made an effort to
:04:38. > :04:48.put my arm around him and say good luck for the race. But I tried to
:04:48. > :04:53.overtake and come out of it and we collided. But again, I am really
:04:53. > :04:57.sorry for my team. It looked as if he had played his
:04:57. > :05:00.last game for Wales at the World Cup, but winger Shane Williams will
:05:00. > :05:03.play once more in the famous red jersey before quitting the
:05:03. > :05:06.international arena for good. A former World Player of the Year,
:05:06. > :05:10.Williams has played 86 times for Wales and is the country's record
:05:10. > :05:13.try scorer. He has decided to make his swan song at the Millennium
:05:13. > :05:16.Stadium when Wales play Australia on December 3rd. The 34-year-old
:05:16. > :05:19.will however continue to turn out for the Ospreys.
:05:19. > :05:22.Sergio Garcia has returned to the world's top 20 with victory in the
:05:22. > :05:27.Andalucia Masters at Valderrama. Garcia clinched the title by just a
:05:27. > :05:30.single shot from his fellow Spaniard, Miguel Angel Jiminez.
:05:30. > :05:34.After a three-year drought, it was Garcia's second straight win on the
:05:34. > :05:37.European Tour. And the Wimbledon Champion, Petra
:05:37. > :05:40.Kvitova, has won the season ending WTA Championship title in Istanbul.
:05:40. > :05:47.She defeated Viktoria Azarenka in three sets to claim her sixth title
:05:47. > :05:51.of the year and move ahead of Maria Sharapova as world number two.
:05:51. > :05:55.Imagine running for more than two hours only to find you have missed
:05:55. > :05:57.out on the world record by just four seconds. That is what happened
:05:57. > :06:01.to Kenya's Wilson Kipsang in the Frankfurt Marathon. The 29-year-old
:06:01. > :06:04.defended his title in a time of two hours, three minutes and 42 seconds
:06:04. > :06:08.to complete the second fastest marathon ever. But he said
:06:08. > :06:18.afterwards that he was very happy with his time and that he would try
:06:18. > :06:18.
:06:18. > :06:26.again next year. I am sure that he said that through gritted teeth.
:06:26. > :06:32.Four seconds! Lewis Hamilton says it wasn't his
:06:32. > :06:42.fault this time. He has been blamed in the past. He and fully to last
:06:42. > :06:44.
:06:44. > :06:49.up often clash in the race's. Shall we just nail this one on the head?
:06:49. > :06:56.Every year, we have the puppy debate. Men have a button hole and
:06:56. > :07:02.that is why they left -- they have the poppy flowers on that site. But
:07:02. > :07:12.women do not have buttonholes and every year, I seem to get it on the
:07:12. > :07:18.
:07:18. > :07:27.wrong side. Are there any more complaints?
:07:27. > :07:30.(LAUGHS) Every year! A shake-up of the university
:07:31. > :07:35.admissions system is being proposed. In the future, students will take
:07:35. > :07:42.their A-level exams earlier in the year, apply for universities in
:07:42. > :07:46.summer and start their courses in October. Thank you for joining us.
:07:46. > :07:53.What is wrong with the current system? I think that it is fair to
:07:53. > :07:59.say that the UCAS system has been incredibly successful over 50 years.
:07:59. > :08:07.But what we are beginning to see as the number of applicants increases
:08:07. > :08:15.every year, there are some changes that suggest that we need to review
:08:15. > :08:25.the system. Things like the fact that we place many people through
:08:25. > :08:26.
:08:26. > :08:31.the insurance system. Only 10% of our applicants predict their graves
:08:31. > :08:34.correctly. -- their A-level results correctly. There have also been
:08:34. > :08:40.changes in government policy and the economic climate also means
:08:40. > :08:45.that we have to look for efficiencies. How would that
:08:45. > :08:50.produce efficiencies if this system were to change? One of the things
:08:50. > :08:56.we do at the moment is that we go through the process twice. People
:08:56. > :09:02.apply with what they predict they will get and they get a provisional
:09:02. > :09:07.offer. Then they do it again in the summertime when they get their real
:09:07. > :09:15.results. If you take out the clearance system element of it...?
:09:15. > :09:20.Just do it the once. Talk us through the timetable. How would it
:09:20. > :09:25.work in the future? What we are trying to do is put forward what we
:09:25. > :09:31.believe is a workable process for applying with test results. But
:09:31. > :09:37.also one that minimises the change to schools and universities. We ask
:09:37. > :09:42.that A-level exams are taken three weeks earlier than at present. That
:09:43. > :09:48.is different from in Scotland and Northern Ireland, where that
:09:48. > :09:53.happens at different times. We definitely want to hear from