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:00:15. > :00:21.After the Mark Duggan inquest, the Met appoints a community tsar to
:00:22. > :00:25.diffuse anger and tension. The real legacy of Mark Duggan ought to be,
:00:26. > :00:28.can we improve our preventative policing? We'll have reaction from
:00:29. > :00:32.the Mark Duggan family campaign. Also tonight: An inspection finds
:00:33. > :00:39.low staff morale and complaints of bullying at London's largest NHS
:00:40. > :00:43.Hospital Trust. Searching for the stranger who saved
:00:44. > :00:46.his life six years ago, after talking him out of jumping off a
:00:47. > :00:49.bridge. And London's newest theatre opens
:00:50. > :00:59.its doors jack could be a style. Good evening and welcome to the
:01:00. > :01:02.programme. The Met Police is to appoint a
:01:03. > :01:12.senior officer to improve community engagement. This is following the
:01:13. > :01:18.inquest into the death of Mark Duggan. The move was revealed to MPs
:01:19. > :01:24.who had summoned a commissioner to answer questions about the case.
:01:25. > :01:27.Last week, a jury found that Mr Duggan had been lawfully killed when
:01:28. > :01:33.he was stopped by police in Tottenham in 2011. We'll get
:01:34. > :01:38.reaction from Tottenham in just a moment. But first here's our home
:01:39. > :01:44.affairs correspondent, Guy Smith. His report contains some flash
:01:45. > :01:49.photography. We are going to fight for justice for Mark, for his
:01:50. > :01:54.children. Many questions have been asked following the verdict which
:01:55. > :01:59.saw angry scenes outside court. But probably the most serious one, at
:02:00. > :02:04.least for the Mets, still hangs in the air. Has the capital's police
:02:05. > :02:10.service lost touch with young, black Londoners. Today, the assistant
:02:11. > :02:14.commissioner, Mark Crowley, announced an apparently new position
:02:15. > :02:18.within Scotland Yard. A senior officer would be specifically
:02:19. > :02:23.appointed to improve community relations. A very senior officer
:02:24. > :02:30.would be dedicated to community engagement. We hope to make a
:02:31. > :02:35.decision this week. He addressed the issue of stop and search, saying the
:02:36. > :02:40.Met had reduced the tactic by a third in the last two years. Asked
:02:41. > :02:44.what lessons could be learnt from such a contentious debt, he referred
:02:45. > :02:50.again to fire officers using cameras. We've been looking at
:02:51. > :02:54.whether there is any tactical improvements we can make on forced
:02:55. > :02:58.stop. There's the comments made on the intelligence and preliminary
:02:59. > :03:03.work done before a case, and there may be opportunities there. The
:03:04. > :03:08.Assistant Commissioner welcome to the coroner's request to consult the
:03:09. > :03:13.Duggan family on how firearms officers should be trained in the
:03:14. > :03:17.future. I'm open to anybody who has any better ideas on how we can do
:03:18. > :03:23.our work. He offered to meet the family, but said they were not keen
:03:24. > :03:29.at the moment. He accepted mistakes had been made after the fatal
:03:30. > :03:33.shooting. We have said, the Met Police and the IPCC, that we made
:03:34. > :03:39.the stakes early on. Lots of other factors have played into it. It is
:03:40. > :03:46.rumour and innuendo that causes some consternation against the verdict of
:03:47. > :03:50.the jury. According to Mr rowdy, the most important legacy of Mark
:03:51. > :03:55.Duggan's death would be if fewer young men felt it necessary to carry
:03:56. > :03:59.a gun. Let's cross to our special
:04:00. > :04:06.correspondent in Tottenham this evening. How have people been
:04:07. > :04:13.reacting? It's fair to say that there are a few raised eyebrows
:04:14. > :04:19.about this idea of a new czar for community engagement. I'm joined by
:04:20. > :04:24.Stafford Scott from `` a Tottenham rights coordinator. What do you make
:04:25. > :04:34.of this call for the Met to have a news are for community engaged when?
:04:35. > :04:40.`` a new czar. We have to commend them for doing something, but it
:04:41. > :04:46.makes little sense. As a result of the MacPherson report, the Met was
:04:47. > :04:49.required to beginning gauging with the communities and maintaining
:04:50. > :04:54.that. There's been engagement, but the Met doesn't in gauge. It merely
:04:55. > :04:58.seeks to consult. It doesn't want to talk to people that try to challenge
:04:59. > :05:03.it and push it to do better. It talks to lap dogs, two lackeys,
:05:04. > :05:09.people who don't have a real stake in the community. Broadwater the and
:05:10. > :05:17.the disturbances there led to a commitment for community engagement.
:05:18. > :05:22.Where are we, 29 years on? The truth is, we keep on getting different
:05:23. > :05:27.commissioners, but the community remains the same. We remember 29
:05:28. > :05:31.years ago. We remember being told they were going to improve community
:05:32. > :05:39.engagement. The Met doesn't know how to engage. It is a two`way street.
:05:40. > :05:47.Engagement in furs a two`way process. The point of engagement is
:05:48. > :05:53.the public service needs to learn and shape its services based on that
:05:54. > :05:57.engagement. I say this as someone who was engaged with them for years,
:05:58. > :06:02.and I stopped engaging, because I got fed up with banging my head
:06:03. > :06:08.against a closed door. They use it as a tick box exercise, which
:06:09. > :06:12.doesn't help anybody. Thank you. There is still some confusion about
:06:13. > :06:17.this very notion of engagement. How are they going to do it? Who are
:06:18. > :06:23.they going to put in charge of it? Thank you.
:06:24. > :06:26.Coming up later: The soup kitchen opening its doors to homeless
:06:27. > :06:34.Romanians, and why some say it sends out the wrong message.
:06:35. > :06:38.An inspection of London's largest NHS Trust found accusations of
:06:39. > :06:44.hospital staff being bullied and patients put at risk of harm due to
:06:45. > :06:47.variable staffing levels. England's Chief Inspector of Hospitals looked
:06:48. > :06:52.at the six hospitals and two birthing centres managed by Barts
:06:53. > :06:56.NHS Trust. Services were found to be generally safe. But the Care Quality
:06:57. > :06:58.Commission has issued orders for a number of improvements. Here's our
:06:59. > :07:09.political correspondent, Karl Mercer.
:07:10. > :07:15.Care comes in many forms, from our later years to our very earliest
:07:16. > :07:19.days. This is life in London's hospitals. But the trust running
:07:20. > :07:24.hospitals in North and East London is feeling the strain, a strain
:07:25. > :07:28.being felt most keenly by its staff. Those on the front line are part of
:07:29. > :07:34.the biggest NHS Trust in the country. 14,000 staff serving 2.5
:07:35. > :07:44.million Londoners. Barts health is in charge of a number of hospitals
:07:45. > :07:49.across London, and there were some robins found last year. We found
:07:50. > :07:55.that there was a culture of bullying and some morale problems. The report
:07:56. > :08:00.talks of low staff morale at several levels. It said 32% of staff had
:08:01. > :08:05.complained of being bullied and found poor equipment in some areas
:08:06. > :08:10.of the hospital. Staff said they had been victimised and bullied. I was
:08:11. > :08:16.saddened to hear that feedback. That will get in the way of patient care
:08:17. > :08:21.and safety. The findings haven't surprised Sharla Monro. She'd worked
:08:22. > :08:29.at Whipps Cross `` Whipps Cross for several years and had been leading a
:08:30. > :08:33.campaign for public services. Care professionals and other staff fear
:08:34. > :08:38.to say what they think, and fear there will be consequences. It is
:08:39. > :08:42.essential in health care that people can talk freely, that discussions
:08:43. > :08:48.can be objective, based on people's experience. There were signs of
:08:49. > :08:52.improvement, according to inspectors. The maternity unit did
:08:53. > :08:57.have were warning notices on it following previous inspections.
:08:58. > :09:02.They've been lifted. Care here is improving. I was worried because I
:09:03. > :09:08.had a baby nine years ago here, and we only had one midwife. My husband
:09:09. > :09:15.ended up helping quite a lot. But this time, he was sidelined doesn't
:09:16. > :09:20.experience. Barts have been given areas to improve him. They will be
:09:21. > :09:24.back, unannounced, to see if it has. The new chairman of the planned High
:09:25. > :09:26.Speed Rail link from London to the north`west is promising to keep its
:09:27. > :09:29.costs under control. Sir David Higgins has been asked to look at
:09:30. > :09:32.ways of delivering HS2 more quickly and more cheaply than planned.
:09:33. > :09:35.Opponents believe the line isn't necessary and will be a waste of
:09:36. > :09:45.money, but the new chairman says extra capacity is vitally needed.
:09:46. > :09:48.The Mayor has claimed that he was instrumental in reducing the cost of
:09:49. > :09:51.rail travel across the country. Boris Johnson says he bounced the
:09:52. > :09:54.Chancellor into only raising fares in line with the rate of inflation.
:09:55. > :10:00.More on this from our political editor, Tim Donovan, who's at City
:10:01. > :10:06.Hall. Fair to say that tensions rumble on between these two.
:10:07. > :10:11.Apparently so. It provides an insight into what can happen when
:10:12. > :10:16.these two big political rivals are not speaking as one, or are trying
:10:17. > :10:21.to outdo each other on big issues of policy affecting London. This is all
:10:22. > :10:26.to do with fares. Before Christmas, Boris Johnson announced that overall
:10:27. > :10:33.fares were going to go up by just 3%. But within that, the cost of
:10:34. > :10:38.travel cards were going to go up by 1% above inflation. Two days after
:10:39. > :10:42.he'd done that, the Chancellor said that across the country, rail fares
:10:43. > :10:47.were only going to go up by inflation. So there was an immediate
:10:48. > :10:51.discrepancy between the travel card and rail travel in London, more
:10:52. > :10:55.expensive than the rest of the country. A government source has
:10:56. > :11:00.said that perhaps Boris Johnson should have waited to see what the
:11:01. > :11:05.Chancellor said first. But today, the Mayor claimed he had bounced the
:11:06. > :11:11.government into keeping this fare rise down across the country on the
:11:12. > :11:16.railways, and were effectively following his lead here in London.
:11:17. > :11:28.The government decided that they would mimic TfL, and keep fares on
:11:29. > :11:33.the network at RPI. Are you saying that rail passengers from Cornwall
:11:34. > :11:41.to corn be happy Boris Johnson to thank? I am. The upshot of this
:11:42. > :11:47.looks like about ?20 billion of investment TfL will not now have. He
:11:48. > :11:50.is a conservative Mayor and a Conservative Chancellor. People from
:11:51. > :11:56.all parties are saying they could have sat down, talked, agreed,
:11:57. > :12:02.decided. We heard more today about the Mayor's issues over cycling.
:12:03. > :12:06.Challenged about whether we could believe what he says he is spending
:12:07. > :12:11.on cycling, when this year, according to the Greens, he said he
:12:12. > :12:16.was going to spend about ?11 million, and only ?73 million has
:12:17. > :12:29.been spent. So a third of that budget has been underspent. Thank
:12:30. > :12:35.you. Tonight, there are 19 flood warnings
:12:36. > :12:40.in place along the River Thames in Surrey and Berkshire. For many flood
:12:41. > :12:44.hit residents, the water has started to recede, so they can turn their
:12:45. > :12:49.attention to the huge challenge of clearing up their damaged homes. We
:12:50. > :12:55.spent the day in Berkshire. The school run as never before. For
:12:56. > :12:59.the last six days, this family have become masters of improvisation,
:13:00. > :13:06.wading, boating and canoeing to dry land. I'm quite a pushy parent, so
:13:07. > :13:11.school is important. Whether we are flooded or not, they do need to get
:13:12. > :13:16.to school. He's been really good. He's been able to take us to
:13:17. > :13:24.school, which a lot of parents haven't been able to do. A day of
:13:25. > :13:29.school would be nice! Wouldn't it? The good news for dad is the water
:13:30. > :13:32.is now dropping. Around two feet in the last 12 hours. The bad news is
:13:33. > :13:40.the extent of the damage is beginning to emerge. About two foot
:13:41. > :13:45.high. Now they have pumped the water out, there was a long list of
:13:46. > :13:52.problems to fix. The washing machine has gone. All of my son's stuff in
:13:53. > :13:56.the garage has been destroyed. The garden has raw sewage. The electrics
:13:57. > :14:00.are gone. The carpet in the family room needs to be sorted. It will
:14:01. > :14:06.probably take us about a week to sort it all out. So she is far from
:14:07. > :14:11.being on cloud nine. Other people `` now that people's attention is
:14:12. > :14:15.getting to turn towards the clear up, there is a growing concern about
:14:16. > :14:21.insurance premiums, and how they will be affected by the flooding. We
:14:22. > :14:25.put this consent of the Association of British Insurers. The moment
:14:26. > :14:29.their spokesman arrived, he was accosted by a resident, angry
:14:30. > :14:34.because she says her premiums will go up, even though she will not be
:14:35. > :14:39.making a claim. Insurers are committed to offering insurance to
:14:40. > :14:44.as many flood vulnerable hand `` homes as they can. Sometimes they
:14:45. > :14:49.will have to charge premiums that reflect the increased flood risks.
:14:50. > :14:52.Even if you have a high XS, it will be considerably less than the
:14:53. > :15:00.average flood claim that insurers will have to pay. Above all, people
:15:01. > :15:05.who hope life will return to normal, praying that any further rain
:15:06. > :15:10.forecast is not on this scale again. A church run soup kitchen has been
:15:11. > :15:16.set up to help homeless Romanians, offering them support and advice.
:15:17. > :15:19.London members of the UK Independence Party have expressed
:15:20. > :15:23.concern over the service, claiming it could encourage more migrants to
:15:24. > :15:29.come to London. The soup kitchen opens as usual in
:15:30. > :15:33.Muswell Hill, but this one is a little different. With an invitation
:15:34. > :15:44.to Romanian rough sleepers, and this man was the first Romanian to enjoy
:15:45. > :15:49.a free meal. Last month, I come to London to find one job. I have to
:15:50. > :15:51.September money for my children. He's an electrician, but he's been
:15:52. > :15:58.sleeping on the streets because he can't get work. Nobody take me
:15:59. > :16:03.without papers. Work papers. Now, at least, for one night a week, there's
:16:04. > :16:14.somewhere warm with some entertainment. We're offering it as
:16:15. > :16:17.a unique service as we have a capacity with food and expertise
:16:18. > :16:22.here and we felt there was a lot of negative press surrounding
:16:23. > :16:26.particularly Romanian workers. Just last July, the Border Agency and
:16:27. > :16:32.Westminster Council was persuading rough sleepers in Marble Arch to fly
:16:33. > :16:34.back home. Now, all have rights of access, but some politicians are
:16:35. > :16:40.trying to make something out of this. We shouldn't be stopped from
:16:41. > :16:44.getting assistance either from the local authority that they're living
:16:45. > :16:47.in or from charities to help them, but I really would much prefer if
:16:48. > :16:51.they hadn't come here in the first place. We have enough of a problem
:16:52. > :16:56.with homelessness in London as it is. We don't need to add to it. We
:16:57. > :17:02.felt that the idea of a soup kitchen is to offer food with advice, but
:17:03. > :17:05.link it in with the embassy and all the Romanian contacts so people can
:17:06. > :17:11.make sensible decisions about their future. He was the first to enjoy a
:17:12. > :17:15.free meal and he may return next weekend, along with others, but for
:17:16. > :17:25.now, it's back to street and that continuing search for work.
:17:26. > :17:29.Still to come ` Mo the marathon man, can the double Olympic champion make
:17:30. > :17:35.London proud once again? We'll have details of the tough competition
:17:36. > :17:42.he's up against. 17 years after the opening of Shakespeare's Globe, the
:17:43. > :17:48.vision is about to be recognised with the opening of the new indoor
:17:49. > :17:54.theatre. Next, the search for the stranger
:17:55. > :17:59.who saved the life of this man. Jonny Ben jam main was diagnosed
:18:00. > :18:04.with schizophrenia when he was 24 years old and he was talked out of
:18:05. > :18:10.jumping off Waterloo Bridge by a passerby. Now six years on, he is
:18:11. > :18:16.keen to chase the stranger who gave him hope, having come to terms with
:18:17. > :18:20.his illness. It's an unusual appeal from someone for whom this bridge
:18:21. > :18:24.holds very different memories. Jonny came here six years ago today with
:18:25. > :18:33.the intention of taking his own life. I'd just been diagnose and I
:18:34. > :18:37.couldn't accept the diagnosis and I thought I would never get better and
:18:38. > :18:42.I was petrified. I just thought my life's over. While on Waterloo
:18:43. > :18:47.Bridge a passerby stopped, spoke to him and helped him change his mind.
:18:48. > :18:52.Now he wants to find that good samaritan. I just want to thank them
:18:53. > :18:57.and show them my gratitude. They didn't need to stop, but not only
:18:58. > :19:01.did they stop, but he gave me hope and he told me it will get better
:19:02. > :19:05.and that's what I needed to hear. Jonny sought professional help and
:19:06. > :19:09.has now learnt to manage his illness through social media, he's now
:19:10. > :19:14.helping others. I first started hearing a voice in my head when I
:19:15. > :19:19.was about ten years old. It was an older man's voice. I thought it was
:19:20. > :19:23.an angel. He's become a prolific video blogger, with thousands of
:19:24. > :19:27.followers from around the world. What Jonny shows is that you can get
:19:28. > :19:31.good treatment and you can get good support and you can then get on with
:19:32. > :19:34.life and it really isn't the end of everything. It's a really positive
:19:35. > :19:39.message. There is hope that you can carry on leading a good and
:19:40. > :19:43.fulfilling life. There's nothing to be afraid of or be ashamed about.
:19:44. > :19:47.It's very human to go through these experiences. The most important
:19:48. > :19:51.thing is that you can overcome it. Jonny's memory of that distressing
:19:52. > :19:56.day is hazy. He thinks the man was in his early 20s and on his way to
:19:57. > :20:06.work. He hopes his appeal will help jog someone's memory.
:20:07. > :20:11.If you think you can help Jonny Ben mam Jane `` Benjamin with his appeal
:20:12. > :20:17.there is more information on our website. The man who disrupted the
:20:18. > :20:20.Boat Race in 2012 could still face deportation after the Home Office
:20:21. > :20:25.announce it's lodging an appeal against a judge's decision to let
:20:26. > :20:28.Trenton Oldfield stay in the country. Sara joins me with more
:20:29. > :20:32.details. What can you tell us? It's nearly two years now since Trenton
:20:33. > :20:36.Oldfield put his life in danger when he wanted to protest at the 2012
:20:37. > :20:41.boat race. You will remember the pictures very well now. After the
:20:42. > :20:45.event he did serve a six`month prison sentence for causing a public
:20:46. > :20:47.nuisance, but he's Australian and he's living here in London and
:20:48. > :20:52.following the events, the Government attempted to have him deported. A
:20:53. > :20:56.judge overruled at the time he had a wife and child here and allowed him
:20:57. > :21:00.to stay. From that, we have heard that the Home Secretary hopes to
:21:01. > :21:04.appeal against the judge's decision. Has anyone else spoken about this
:21:05. > :21:08.today? We contacted Trenton Oldfield and we have heard from him and he
:21:09. > :21:12.said, "I would like to invite Theresa May for a cup of tea "Kwep
:21:13. > :21:15.we have heard from the Home Office and he said, "We were disappointed
:21:16. > :21:19.with the court's decision and so are taking further action by lodging an
:21:20. > :21:23.appeal. Those who come it the UK must abide by our laws. We have
:21:24. > :21:26.refused this individual leave to remain because we do not believe his
:21:27. > :21:31.presence in this country was conducted to the public good." I'm
:21:32. > :21:35.sure it will continue. On a lighter note, we have heard more today about
:21:36. > :21:39.Mo Farah and who he will be taking on in the London Marathon in April?
:21:40. > :21:44.It's exciting. Four men named today who will line up alongside him in
:21:45. > :21:49.the 2014 race. This is the first marathon that Farrah will actually
:21:50. > :21:52.run. One name was missing though. He was the man who beat him in the
:21:53. > :22:01.Great North Run at the end of last year, but confirmed names include
:22:02. > :22:07.Wilson Kipsan and Stephen Kipratich and the current London Marathon
:22:08. > :22:11.course record holder, Mutai. This will be one of the toughest
:22:12. > :22:16.challenges of his career and I include in that his attempt to win
:22:17. > :22:20.the 5,000 and 10,000 metres double in London. With this quality of
:22:21. > :22:23.field it would generate a buzz around the race like the London
:22:24. > :22:28.Marathon hasn't done in the three decades of existence. If he wins on
:22:29. > :22:32.Sunday, 18th April it will be an achievement to match anything he's
:22:33. > :22:38.done in his career so far. It is only January. More names could be
:22:39. > :22:42.named. It's still a long time. April 13th. Thank you.
:22:43. > :22:47.London's newest theatre has opened this week, taking the form of a 17th
:22:48. > :22:52.century playhouse. The indoor theatre, which sits along the Globe
:22:53. > :23:02.on Bankside kicks off with a production with the The Duchess of
:23:03. > :23:08.Malfi starring Gemma Arterton. Sister, I have to speak to you. To
:23:09. > :23:13.me Sir? I gentleman, one in the gallows. Gemma Arterton as the The
:23:14. > :23:16.Duchess of Malfi in the first production at the Sam Wanamaker
:23:17. > :23:20.theatre, the new indoor space recently completed at the Globe. My
:23:21. > :23:30.first professional job was here, so it's always been a very special
:23:31. > :23:35.place for me. T 340`seat venue has two tiers and most will be performed
:23:36. > :23:40.in a jack beeian environment. What kind of an experience has that been
:23:41. > :23:47.for the actors? It makes it much easier. It's not an easy play. But
:23:48. > :23:54.the atmosphere is created before you even open your mouth. The audience
:23:55. > :23:59.already have an excitement, so it can be quite cumbersome at times,
:24:00. > :24:06.but you have to use these things and as it would have been at that time.
:24:07. > :24:10.You cannot speak you know, but he makes faces. The playhouse affords
:24:11. > :24:13.the Globe a number of new opportunities, not only to present
:24:14. > :24:21.plays throughout the year and extend their repertoire, but to stage plays
:24:22. > :24:25.in their intended atmosphere. You come in here and you think you're in
:24:26. > :24:29.a different world. So you can understand where the theatre of that
:24:30. > :24:35.time came from and how people lived at that time in a more complete way
:24:36. > :24:38.and how they used candlelight and it was common for them and it's
:24:39. > :24:45.extraordinary over the last week how all of our eyes have started adapt
:24:46. > :24:53.to a whole new way of seeing people and seeing drama on stage. You are a
:24:54. > :24:59.Lord of misrule. It had always been the vision of the Globe founder to
:25:00. > :25:07.have an indoor space alongside the open`air playhouse. 17 years later,
:25:08. > :25:09.the dream has been realised. It's that time of the evening for a
:25:10. > :25:19.check on the weather. I mild week and a little bit of
:25:20. > :25:25.rain. The first hints of rain coming into parts of west London at the
:25:26. > :25:29.moment. As we go through tonight, the mild spell will begin. Quite a
:25:30. > :25:36.contrast to this time last year, when when we were beginning a cold
:25:37. > :25:40.spell. It was just one degree. Top temperature was there. Tonight, the
:25:41. > :25:44.temperatures are going to pick up. As we get this warm front through,
:25:45. > :25:48.we'll have the milder air in behind it. We'll be in the milder spell
:25:49. > :25:53.tomorrow. If we get any breaks in the cloud we could get temperatures
:25:54. > :25:57.up to 13. Coldest part of the night will be around now. I think we'll
:25:58. > :26:01.drop to maybe two or three degrees just for a time and then we'll get
:26:02. > :26:06.the rain working its way in as the night goes on. The temperature will
:26:07. > :26:10.lift. The wind will pick up and it will become more breezy. There's a
:26:11. > :26:14.dose of rain in this. It will be on and off. Some bursts will be heavy
:26:15. > :26:20.and it won't help the problems with the flooding that we have, but it is
:26:21. > :26:25.going to be tailing off through the night and becoming more showery to
:26:26. > :26:28.end the night. We are going to have that breeze continuing through the
:26:29. > :26:33.day. Plenty of cloud around. Misty and murky. A classic warm sector
:26:34. > :26:38.continues if you like. Right the way through the afternoon, month many
:26:39. > :26:42.breaks. We can get to 12 or 13, but generally we'll be in double
:26:43. > :26:45.figures. The showery bits and pieces will continue into the afternoon.
:26:46. > :26:49.There will be further outbreaks of rain overnight into Thursday as
:26:50. > :26:52.well. Possibly some quite heavy showers around on Thursday, with
:26:53. > :26:55.sunshine in between. A few showers dotted around for Friday too.
:26:56. > :27:04.Watching the next spell of rain to come through on Saturday. Thank you.
:27:05. > :27:08.The day's main headlines ` the Coronation Street actor, William
:27:09. > :27:17.Roache has gone on trial accused of the rape and indecent assault of
:27:18. > :27:25.girls of the age of 11 to 16. The former Radio 1 DJ, Dave Lee Travis,
:27:26. > :27:30.has also gone on trial. He denies the charges.
:27:31. > :27:35.Inflation has hit the 2% target for the first time in four years,
:27:36. > :27:39.according to latest figures. That's it for now. Thank you for joining
:27:40. > :27:43.us. I'll be back with our late news. Until then frshingS me and all the
:27:44. > :27:46.team here, do have a lovely evening. Goodbye.