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It's gold number 19 at London 2012 and Team GB equals its tally from | :00:10. | :00:20. | |
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the Beijing Olympics. Alastair Brownlee win's the men's triathlon | :00:21. | :00:31. | |
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and there are hopes of yet more golds this afternoon. Now golden | :00:38. | :00:41. | |
hopes turn to the velodrome - Sir Chris Hoy, Victoria Pendleton and | :00:41. | :00:44. | |
Laura Trott are all tipped to win this afternoon. But one of | :00:44. | :00:46. | |
Britain's big medal hopes, the triple jumper Philips Idowu, | :00:46. | :00:53. | |
crashes out after failing to make the final. It wasn't me out there | :00:53. | :00:59. | |
today. I've competed for 12 years and I can't remember a time when | :00:59. | :01:02. | |
I've performed that badly. Shares in the British bank Standard | :01:02. | :01:05. | |
Chartered slump by 25% as it denies allegations it illegally schemed | :01:05. | :01:10. | |
with Iran to launder money. Calls for fundamental changes in the way | :01:10. | :01:12. | |
vulnerable adults are cared for and monitored, following abuse at the | :01:12. | :01:22. | |
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Winterbourne Care Home. It has identified all of the crimes and | :01:23. | :01:27. | |
abusive acts that took place at this hospital, because typically, | :01:27. | :01:34. | |
with this kind of abuse, the full scale of crimes are unknown. | :01:34. | :01:37. | |
creator of Jodrell Bank, one of Britain's greatest astronomers, Sir | :01:37. | :01:41. | |
Bernard Lovell, has died at the age of 98. Later on BBC London - one | :01:41. | :01:43. | |
year on, City Hall still hasn't handed out �70 million earmarked | :01:43. | :01:46. | |
for regenerating riot-hit areas. And, why one east Londoner's | :01:46. | :01:49. | |
support for boxing has propelled him to become an Olympic master of | :01:49. | :01:59. | |
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ceremonies. Good afternoon and welcome to the BBC News at One. | :02:18. | :02:21. | |
Alistair Brownlee has just won gold in the triathlon, bringing the | :02:21. | :02:24. | |
total number of golds to 19. Thousands of people lined the | :02:24. | :02:27. | |
streets to watch him and his brother, Jonny Brownlee, who | :02:27. | :02:32. | |
claimed a bronze medal. Later this afternoon there could be even more | :02:32. | :02:42. | |
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golden success in cycling and dressage. Two brothers, one goal. | :02:43. | :02:50. | |
Could this spur them to Olympic glory? 55 of the world's finest | :02:50. | :02:54. | |
athletes prepared to do battle. Above grey skies threatened rain. | :02:54. | :02:59. | |
Around them grassy banks were imvisible among the crowds, whose | :02:59. | :03:05. | |
voices echoed around Westminster. Across the 28-acre lake, a shoal of | :03:05. | :03:09. | |
come petors already spreading into groups as they headed for the | :03:09. | :03:13. | |
jostle of the first tight turn. It's a much-repeated statistic that | :03:13. | :03:17. | |
the favourite has never won this race. Dating back to the first time | :03:17. | :03:21. | |
the sport featured in the Sydney Games. The Brownlees believed their | :03:21. | :03:25. | |
commitment would break that trend. They completed the swim and they | :03:25. | :03:32. | |
were still in contention and the crowds loved it. Out of Hyde Park | :03:32. | :03:40. | |
and the applause rows like a -- rose like a wave. The tight curve | :03:40. | :03:43. | |
here and the supporters from every corner of the UK willing the | :03:43. | :03:50. | |
brothers to victory. It's brilliant. I really hope they come first and | :03:50. | :03:52. | |
second. I know they're world champions with this crowd they can | :03:52. | :03:56. | |
do anything, so we hope for the best. Brilliant. Gold and silver | :03:56. | :04:02. | |
all day long. There's an extra vein of excitement running through the | :04:02. | :04:06. | |
crowds. Over the past week, the people of Yorkshire has watched | :04:06. | :04:11. | |
their county's medal tally rise day by day. Success for the lads from | :04:11. | :04:16. | |
Leeds will be the icing on the cake. By the closing stages, a blow for | :04:16. | :04:21. | |
Jonny, news he had been penalised for failing to mount his bike | :04:21. | :04:26. | |
properly after the swim. A 15- second penalty, but he didn't | :04:26. | :04:33. | |
faulter. The brothers can the 10k run and Jonny was still at his | :04:33. | :04:37. | |
brother's shoulder. Alistair forced a pace to test all the leaders. | :04:37. | :04:42. | |
Gomez of Spain pushing hard beside them. Deep into the third lad, | :04:42. | :04:45. | |
Jonny was struggling, wondering whether his penalty could take him | :04:45. | :04:49. | |
out of medal contention and watching his brother move ahead of | :04:49. | :04:52. | |
the Spaniard. Tens of thousands were now watching the drama play | :04:52. | :04:56. | |
out. Ten metres now between the two leaders. Jonny Brownlee watching | :04:56. | :05:00. | |
the seconds tick away in the penalty box, but still in the | :05:00. | :05:05. | |
bronze position. His older brother, out of sight, was holding his lead. | :05:05. | :05:08. | |
Gomez heading for a comfortable silver, Alistair approaching the | :05:08. | :05:14. | |
end as strongly as ever. The supporters were confident of a GB | :05:14. | :05:21. | |
victory and then it was over. Another triumph and gold to be | :05:21. | :05:27. | |
taken back to the White Rose County. Our sports correspondent, Andy | :05:27. | :05:34. | |
Swiss, is at the finishing line in Hyde Park. Fantastic achievement | :05:34. | :05:37. | |
for the brothers and Team GB? That's right. What a day for the | :05:38. | :05:42. | |
thousands of fans here in Hyde Park and what a day for the Brownlee | :05:42. | :05:45. | |
family. Gold and bronze. A particular special day for Alistair | :05:46. | :05:49. | |
Brownlee, who secured the gold medal, the world champion, now the | :05:49. | :05:56. | |
Olympic champion. It was really the perfect tactical race from him. He | :05:56. | :06:00. | |
was tucked away during the swimming and cycling and then in the run he | :06:00. | :06:03. | |
strode away from the rest of the field. He had time to pretty much | :06:03. | :06:08. | |
stop by the side, take a Union Flag off one of the people and walk over | :06:08. | :06:11. | |
the line with it. It was some performance by him. As far as his | :06:12. | :06:15. | |
brother goes, perhaps he'll be a little disappointed, that 15-second | :06:15. | :06:18. | |
penalty he picked up for getting on his bike too early might have cost | :06:18. | :06:23. | |
him a medal, but gold and bronze in one family, what an extraordinary | :06:23. | :06:26. | |
day for them. Thank you very much. It's the final day at the velodrome | :06:26. | :06:28. | |
and there's a big afternoon ahead for Britain's cyclists. Victoria | :06:29. | :06:32. | |
Pendleton is tipped for another gold in the women's sprint. If she | :06:32. | :06:36. | |
winsit'll make her Britain's most successful female Olympian. Sir | :06:36. | :06:40. | |
Chris Hoy is also going for gold. If he succeeds in the men's keirin, | :06:40. | :06:42. | |
he would overtake Sir Steve Redgrave to become Britain's most | :06:42. | :06:45. | |
successful male Olympian. And Laura Trott will also try to win her | :06:45. | :06:55. | |
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second gold on the track. James Pearce is at the velodrome now. An | :06:56. | :06:59. | |
afternoon of drama? Of course. Saturday will go down in history, | :06:59. | :07:05. | |
but today it could be the same. Already, having equalled that tally | :07:05. | :07:10. | |
from Beijing, there's every chance that Team GB can push ahead to get | :07:10. | :07:14. | |
the record tally for more than a century and breaking other records | :07:14. | :07:18. | |
too. Victoria Pendleton is going in the semi-finals of the individual | :07:18. | :07:23. | |
sprint. She is on course to beat her big rival in the final. If she | :07:23. | :07:27. | |
can win, she'll have three golds and be the most decorated British | :07:27. | :07:31. | |
female Olympian of all time. If that's not enough, Sir Chris Hoy | :07:31. | :07:36. | |
has a chance to become the most decorated British male Olympian of | :07:36. | :07:41. | |
all time. He's going in the semi- finals. He won the heat very easily | :07:41. | :07:45. | |
this morning. He's already the current world champion. It's an | :07:45. | :07:51. | |
event that can be a little unpredictable, but he'll go in as | :07:51. | :07:55. | |
favourite and create his own history, overtaking Sir Steve | :07:55. | :07:59. | |
Redgrave's tally of five golds. Laura trot, much younger than | :07:59. | :08:03. | |
Pendleton and hoi, who will be retiring after these Games. She | :08:03. | :08:06. | |
will be around for many years and she could be around as another | :08:06. | :08:10. | |
winner with another gold around her neck. She has already won the team | :08:10. | :08:18. | |
purr site. She's in second place in her trial, so there could be three | :08:18. | :08:21. | |
more British golds here tonight, if everything goes accord to plan. | :08:22. | :08:25. | |
Thank you very much. There was disappointment for Team GB in the | :08:25. | :08:28. | |
athletics as one of the big medal hopes, the triple jumper Phillips | :08:28. | :08:31. | |
Idowu, failed to qualify for the final. There had already been | :08:31. | :08:34. | |
speculation over whether Idowu was fit enough to take part in the | :08:34. | :08:38. | |
games. But there was no such trouble for Jamaica's Usain Bolt. | :08:38. | :08:41. | |
He won his heat in the 200m comfortably. Our correspondent, Dan | :08:41. | :08:51. | |
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Roan, reports. In the build-up he can come to be known as The | :08:52. | :08:56. | |
Invisible Man, but no sooner had Philips Idowu finally appeared, he | :08:56. | :09:00. | |
was gone again. Speculation over his fitness and whereabouts had | :09:00. | :09:04. | |
applied a certain intrigue to the competition, but today there was no | :09:04. | :09:10. | |
mystery. Philips Idowu simply wasn't himself. The Beijing silver | :09:10. | :09:15. | |
medalist had been regarded as a contender, but fell well short of | :09:15. | :09:20. | |
the automatic qualifying mark of 17.10 and nine weeks after his last | :09:20. | :09:24. | |
competitive jump he was out. That wasn't me out there today. I've | :09:24. | :09:31. | |
competed for 12 years and I can't remember a time when I've performed | :09:31. | :09:35. | |
that badly. So, his Games were open almost before they had begun, but | :09:35. | :09:41. | |
still plenty more for the crowd to enjoy. Two days after his lit up | :09:41. | :09:45. | |
the Games and wowed the world, Usain Bolt is back and how he | :09:45. | :09:54. | |
begins his bid for a second gold. This time, in the 200 metres. The | :09:54. | :09:58. | |
Olympic champion restricted himself to a gentle jog. The fastest man on | :09:58. | :10:04. | |
the planet cruising into tomorrow's semi-finals. His rival Blake and | :10:04. | :10:11. | |
Britain's Christian Malcolm also through. But the Games can be cruel | :10:11. | :10:17. | |
at time. Lui, the iconic Chinese poster boys carried the hopes of a | :10:17. | :10:27. | |
nation, but his first hurdle was also his last. His Achilles injury | :10:27. | :10:32. | |
ruled him out. He was forced to withdraw four years ago and he had | :10:32. | :10:37. | |
the sympathy of both competitors and spectators alike. There are | :10:37. | :10:40. | |
high hopes of success for Great Britain in the dressage which is | :10:40. | :10:43. | |
currently under way. Team GB rides this afternoon and they are also | :10:43. | :10:52. | |
going for Gold. Joe Wilson is at Greenwich. A feeling they can | :10:52. | :10:58. | |
perhaps do it? I think so. You might say it's a once-in-a-century | :10:59. | :11:01. | |
opportunity. This is the first time really there's been a real list | :11:01. | :11:06. | |
tiing hope for Britain to win any kind of medal and they -- realistic | :11:06. | :11:11. | |
hope for Britain to win any kind of medal. They demand total silence | :11:11. | :11:14. | |
from the crowd whilst the tests are going on. That's why we have come | :11:14. | :11:18. | |
outside. The last thing we want to do is disturb any of the horses. | :11:18. | :11:25. | |
It's a happy coincidence. This is a team event that Britain if 2012 | :11:25. | :11:32. | |
have three excellent -- in 2015 have three excellent riders and | :11:32. | :11:37. | |
horses. We have seen one excellent test in qualifying from one of our | :11:37. | :11:42. | |
riders. It's marked by the judges. A total score of 80% is excellent. | :11:42. | :11:47. | |
83.6% is what we managed in qualifying. It's very technical. | :11:47. | :11:51. | |
Very disciplined. You are supposed to demonstrate total harmony | :11:51. | :11:55. | |
between horse and rider. Maybe it's not the most thrilling spectacle | :11:55. | :12:01. | |
for all people, but we shouldn't jund estimate the high level of | :12:01. | :12:04. | |
skill -- underestimate the high level of skill. Germany have won | :12:04. | :12:12. | |
the last seven golds. Final thought, I'm intrigued why individuals do | :12:12. | :12:16. | |
certain sports, well Karl Hester grew up on the island of Sark and | :12:16. | :12:20. | |
he had to ride from an early age simply because on that island there | :12:20. | :12:28. | |
are no cars. Thank you very much. There was more success in the last | :12:28. | :12:35. | |
few minutes. Nick Dempsey took silver in the wind surfing. He only | :12:35. | :12:39. | |
needed to come in the top six and he came third to secure his silver | :12:39. | :12:46. | |
medal. Well, let's see how this morning's action has influenced the | :12:46. | :12:56. | |
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The shares in Britain's third- largest bank, Standard Chartered, | :13:03. | :13:08. | |
fell by 21 points after the US regulators accused of hiding | :13:08. | :13:12. | |
billions of pounds in transactions with Iranian banks. Standard | :13:12. | :13:15. | |
Chartered has denied the allegations made by their New York | :13:15. | :13:19. | |
financial services department and says it has complied overwhelmingly | :13:19. | :13:24. | |
with sanctions in Iran. Just explain exactly what the banks are | :13:24. | :13:30. | |
being accused of. Since the Iranian revolution the US has had strict | :13:30. | :13:33. | |
economic sanctions with Iran but is it alleged Standard Chartered | :13:33. | :13:38. | |
helped to launder up to $250 billion through the New York branch | :13:38. | :13:43. | |
for Iranian institutions covered by the sanctions. It is perfectly | :13:43. | :13:46. | |
legal for individuals and companies to undertake business in Europe, | :13:46. | :13:50. | |
but when it is in dollars, the transactions have to be procured | :13:50. | :13:53. | |
through the United States and it can raise the suspicions of the | :13:53. | :14:01. | |
authorities. It is alleged to Standard Chartered hid details and | :14:01. | :14:05. | |
cloaked their dollar dealing activities of Iranian clients from | :14:05. | :14:08. | |
the regulators. It has to be said that Standard Chartered have been | :14:08. | :14:12. | |
robust about this this morning and say they strongly reject the | :14:12. | :14:17. | |
position as set out by the US financial regulator and say the US | :14:17. | :14:22. | |
authorities have misinterpreted the law and that 99.9% of their Iranian | :14:22. | :14:25. | |
transactions complied with regulations. You have to say this | :14:25. | :14:28. | |
is still a very serious allegations against one of the most important | :14:28. | :14:32. | |
financial institutions in the world. They have denied the allegations | :14:32. | :14:36. | |
but a big impact on their shares. Yes, a big knock when they opened | :14:37. | :14:42. | |
in London. They fell by 24%. The company also faces the prospect of | :14:42. | :14:46. | |
a large fine should the allegations be proven, and perhaps more serious | :14:46. | :14:50. | |
is that it could have its licence to operate in New York revoked. | :14:50. | :14:54. | |
Something like 30 or 40% of its entire operations around the world | :14:54. | :15:00. | |
are undertaken in US dollars so that could have a serious hit on | :15:00. | :15:08. | |
the back -- on the bank, as well as to its reputation. More on that | :15:08. | :15:18. | |
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story and a question and answer Alastair Brown Lee wins a 19th goal | :15:21. | :15:25. | |
for Team GB in the men's triathlon, equalling the gold medal tally from | :15:25. | :15:30. | |
the g -- Beijing Olympics. And coming up, a new way to fill your | :15:30. | :15:37. | |
fridge before you get back from holiday. Later on BBC London: | :15:37. | :15:40. | |
Closing in on a possible medal. The capital's Andy Turner sprints into | :15:40. | :15:43. | |
the semi-finals of the Olympic 110m Hurdles. And with today's busy | :15:43. | :15:46. | |
sporting schedule we'll have a full travel update on the roads and | :15:46. | :15:55. | |
An official inquiry into abuse at the Winterborne private hospital | :15:55. | :15:58. | |
near Bristol has called for fundamental changes in the way | :15:58. | :16:01. | |
vulnerable adults are looked after. 11 former staff members have | :16:01. | :16:03. | |
admitted neglecting and ill- treating patients with learning | :16:03. | :16:07. | |
difficulties. The serious case review says the hospital's owners | :16:07. | :16:17. | |
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put profit before standards. Alison Behind the locked doors of | :16:18. | :16:23. | |
Winterborne Vu, Hospital for people with learning disabilities. A | :16:23. | :16:27. | |
hidden Panorama camera revealed what today's serious case review | :16:27. | :16:31. | |
called the arbitrary violence against the vulnerable patients. It | :16:31. | :16:38. | |
describes a place where restraint was commonplace. Stephen was a | :16:38. | :16:42. | |
shock when he discovered a number of times his son was restrained and | :16:42. | :16:46. | |
he has asked us not to show his photograph. 45 times in the space | :16:47. | :16:51. | |
of five months. It is not right, considering he has been at the new | :16:51. | :16:55. | |
place for nearly two years, and in two years they have had to restrain | :16:55. | :17:00. | |
him twice. The report says Castle back, the company that ran | :17:00. | :17:05. | |
Winterborne, took financial reward without accountability. Staff were | :17:05. | :17:10. | |
under-trained and not properly supervised. If we cannot put people | :17:10. | :17:15. | |
together in hospitals and leave them without any credible | :17:15. | :17:19. | |
monitoring in the naive belief that the hospital can deliver both | :17:19. | :17:24. | |
assessment and treatment. And there were warnings. The report details | :17:24. | :17:27. | |
nearly 40 safeguarding alerts to the local council. The police and | :17:27. | :17:30. | |
the regulator, the care quality commission, were told of problems | :17:30. | :17:36. | |
but little was done. I would like to take the opportunity today to | :17:36. | :17:41. | |
purvey our deep regret and the events that took place in | :17:41. | :17:46. | |
Winterborne private hospital. I would like to express our profound | :17:46. | :17:52. | |
regret to family, friends and carers and the patients. In a | :17:52. | :17:56. | |
statement, Castle Beck said there would be changes to make sure there | :17:56. | :18:00. | |
was not a repeat of Winterborne. Terry Brian was the nurse who blew | :18:00. | :18:04. | |
the whistle on what was happening at the hospital and now acts as an | :18:04. | :18:07. | |
independent inspector but says this sort of abuse remains difficult to | :18:07. | :18:12. | |
detect. People can hurt people if they want to. And if they want to, | :18:12. | :18:16. | |
they will, because they do it behind closed doors when no one is | :18:16. | :18:20. | |
looking. No inspection will pick that up. No police investigation | :18:20. | :18:24. | |
will pick that up. The only people who pick that up will be the people | :18:24. | :18:30. | |
in that room. Or on the shift who know it was in the room. | :18:30. | :18:33. | |
Winterborne was closed more than a year ago, but for many it leaves | :18:33. | :18:37. | |
the question of how such a place which was large, locked and cut off | :18:37. | :18:42. | |
from the community could ever have been the right place for people | :18:42. | :18:52. | |
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Anne Milton is Minister for Public Health, and she's in Westminster. | :18:52. | :18:56. | |
Good afternoon. It is a highly critical report published today. | :18:56. | :19:00. | |
How do you ensure there is never a repeat of the abuse we saw at | :19:00. | :19:05. | |
Winterborne? I think what this report clearly demonstrates is that | :19:05. | :19:11. | |
this was a failure at every level. Serious, shocking, appalling abuse | :19:11. | :19:15. | |
which has led to criminal proceedings, but also a failure at | :19:15. | :19:19. | |
ward level, insufficient management and the failure of other services | :19:19. | :19:25. | |
to pick up the early warning signs of what was going on. And also a | :19:25. | :19:28. | |
complete failure up on the part of the commissioners, those people who | :19:28. | :19:33. | |
were paying for the care in his home. Clearly they did not have any | :19:33. | :19:38. | |
kind of monitoring in place, as your piece rightly pointed out. It | :19:38. | :19:42. | |
is quite tricky, even with unannounced inspections, to be sure | :19:42. | :19:47. | |
about what is going on. So you need action at every level. This is a | :19:47. | :19:52. | |
real shock and a real wake-up call. One exactly will you do? What | :19:52. | :19:57. | |
action can be taken to make sure it will not be repeated? The number of | :19:57. | :20:02. | |
actions. On a one to-one basis, we are bringing in new training | :20:02. | :20:07. | |
standards. It is about leadership at ward level and we need to work | :20:07. | :20:11. | |
with the commission's to make sure. They are very clear about their | :20:11. | :20:15. | |
duties are response -- and responsibilities. When they are | :20:15. | :20:19. | |
paying for high quality care they should be doing that. There are | :20:19. | :20:22. | |
other questions about why other agencies did not pick up the early | :20:22. | :20:25. | |
warning signs and there are other issues around restraint. The | :20:25. | :20:29. | |
gentleman interviewed talked about how little restraint had been used | :20:29. | :20:34. | |
since his relative had moved on, and we need to look at that. It is | :20:34. | :20:37. | |
action at every single level. This is really shocking and very | :20:38. | :20:41. | |
distressing for those involved and we are determined to make sure this | :20:41. | :20:48. | |
Almost 160,000 secondary school pupils in Scotland get their exam | :20:48. | :20:50. | |
results today, and there's been a record pass rate among those | :20:50. | :20:54. | |
studying Highers. The latest figures show almost 77% of Highers | :20:54. | :20:58. | |
candidates have passed this year - a rise of 1.8% on last year. Lorna | :20:58. | :21:08. | |
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Hundreds of phone calls already to this helpline this morning, and | :21:09. | :21:13. | |
about a third of them from worried parents. We are told they are | :21:13. | :21:17. | |
getting far more phone calls than they got at the same point last | :21:17. | :21:21. | |
year, but help and advice is available to all of those who have | :21:21. | :21:28. | |
been left disappointed with their It has been a some of waiting. | :21:28. | :21:35. | |
After all hard work. -- a summer of waiting. And today almost 160,000 | :21:35. | :21:37. | |
candidates who sat Scottish exams have been finding out how they | :21:37. | :21:43. | |
fared. I did a little bit better than they expected. I wasn't | :21:43. | :21:49. | |
inspecting to pass the high English. I have passed the more, so I am | :21:49. | :21:55. | |
quite happy. Last year those who receive their results by a text | :21:55. | :21:57. | |
found that grades a day early. This time around there were no such | :21:57. | :22:04. | |
problems. I got some good results but I can sit this one again and | :22:04. | :22:09. | |
get a better grade. Scottish Highers, the exams the pupils have | :22:09. | :22:12. | |
completed are the benchmark exams for those hoping to go on to | :22:12. | :22:16. | |
university or college. And yet again, across Scotland, a record | :22:16. | :22:22. | |
number of candidates have passed. Advice is available for those who | :22:22. | :22:28. | |
have been left disappointed, but what of that record pass rate? And | :22:28. | :22:32. | |
there are also claims that grates are being inflated. The exams are | :22:32. | :22:37. | |
definitely not getting media -- easier. Things are changing, but | :22:37. | :22:39. | |
young people are working harder and are more convinced of the | :22:39. | :22:44. | |
importance of good results and our teaching is getting better. | :22:44. | :22:49. | |
this year colleges and universities can start charging fees of up to | :22:49. | :22:54. | |
�9,000, but tuition in Scotland will remain free for Scottish | :22:54. | :22:57. | |
students. I am going to university and sticking in Scotland because | :22:57. | :23:01. | |
the fees in England a ridiculous. Who can afford that? Definitely not | :23:01. | :23:08. | |
me. 40s school pupils, these decisions are for the future -- for | :23:08. | :23:11. | |
these school pupils. Today is all about celebrating their | :23:11. | :23:18. | |
achievements. As with previous years, places in clearing are going | :23:18. | :23:22. | |
to prove extremely limited, but the Scottish government has promised a | :23:22. | :23:28. | |
place in training or education for every 16 to 19-year-old in Scotland, | :23:28. | :23:31. | |
so with a bit of advice and help there are still plenty of options | :23:31. | :23:38. | |
Now you may be familiar with the problem: you get back from your | :23:38. | :23:40. | |
holidays to find an empty fridge. Well Britain's biggest retailer, | :23:40. | :23:44. | |
Tesco, thinks it has the solution. It will trial what it says is the | :23:44. | :23:47. | |
country's first virtual interactive shop at Gatwick Airport. But is it | :23:47. | :23:57. | |
the future of shopping? Here's our It is never a nice feeling when the | :23:57. | :24:01. | |
holiday comes to an end, and you start thinking about having no food | :24:01. | :24:06. | |
at home. So what is the answer? Before you have even left the | :24:06. | :24:12. | |
departure lounge, Tesco would like you to use this virtual supermarket | :24:12. | :24:16. | |
scream. You use your smart phone to scan the code and you can Popper | :24:16. | :24:20. | |
all of these items in your basket and supposedly get them delivered | :24:20. | :24:24. | |
to your home in time for when you get back. But is this just a | :24:24. | :24:29. | |
gimmick, or will it really take off? I met up with the shepherd | :24:29. | :24:39. | |
family, off to Majorca. Personally, myself, I actually like to go | :24:39. | :24:43. | |
shopping and pick out what we have cell I know that the fruit is not | :24:43. | :24:49. | |
bruised, but it is a good idea. Technology is changing the way we | :24:49. | :24:53. | |
shop, and it is being driven by smartphones, which allow you to | :24:54. | :24:57. | |
access the internet. Other retailers will be watching Tesco's | :24:57. | :25:02. | |
experiment. A I think it is significant because it starts to | :25:02. | :25:06. | |
show the way retailers changing and the fact that a lot more of us | :25:06. | :25:09. | |
these days are shopping on our mobile phones. We are shopping on | :25:09. | :25:13. | |
the move, effectively. I think this latest initiative is a recognition | :25:13. | :25:17. | |
that there has been great growth in that area and there will continue | :25:17. | :25:22. | |
to be growth of the next few years. And now to this, which the | :25:22. | :25:26. | |
inventors claim will revolutionise shopping. 25 years ago this was the | :25:26. | :25:31. | |
prediction for the high street. can order up to 3,000 products to | :25:31. | :25:35. | |
purchase directly. In turn is that they weren't far off. -- it turns | :25:35. | :25:40. | |
out. These days Retail is all about convenience and it may not be long | :25:40. | :25:49. | |
before something like this is coming to a location near you. | :25:49. | :25:52. | |
creator of Jodrell Bank, the pioneer of radio astronomy in | :25:52. | :25:58. | |
Britain, Sir Bernard Lovell has died at the age of 98. For 30 years | :25:58. | :26:01. | |
he was the director of Jodrell Bank in Cheshire, the site of the radio | :26:01. | :26:04. | |
telescope which became famous around the world and set the | :26:04. | :26:06. | |
pattern for the many observatories that followed. Nick Higham reports. | :26:06. | :26:13. | |
Even today, the radio telescope at Jodrell Bank is impressive. The | :26:13. | :26:16. | |
vast white parabola gathering signals from the corners of the | :26:16. | :26:20. | |
universe. When it was built in the 1950s it was an object of wonder, | :26:20. | :26:25. | |
something out of science fiction. Bernard Lovell, seen on the right, | :26:25. | :26:28. | |
came up with the idea while developing radar during World War | :26:28. | :26:37. | |
II. It made him a scientific celebrity. The signals making holes | :26:37. | :26:42. | |
in this tape have been processed by computer and they are an account of | :26:42. | :26:46. | |
signals which have been carried through space for around 8 billion | :26:46. | :26:51. | |
years. In other words we believe this quasar is a distance of at | :26:52. | :26:56. | |
least a million light years. Bernard Lovell made this programme | :26:56. | :27:00. | |
about his career and his beliefs in the 1980s. He disliked the way | :27:00. | :27:03. | |
governments tried to appropriate scientific research, although it | :27:03. | :27:08. | |
did not stop him letting the military use Jodrell Bank as a | :27:08. | :27:13. | |
tracking station for a time. He had a strict religious upbringing and | :27:13. | :27:16. | |
remained a believer all his life, despite his scientific | :27:16. | :27:20. | |
investigations. Late in life, he reflected on the telescope's | :27:20. | :27:26. | |
success. This telescope at Jodrell Bank is working marvellously at the | :27:26. | :27:33. | |
moment. Obviously it has a limited life. I think it's life will not be | :27:33. | :27:39. | |
limited by the structure, but by its ability to cope with that the | :27:39. | :27:46. | |
new demands in astronomy. I thought 20 years ago, for example, that we | :27:46. | :27:50. | |
knew all we wanted to know about the structure and evolution of the | :27:50. | :27:55. | |
universe, and now we know almost nothing. Sir Bernard Lovell, who | :27:55. | :28:04. | |
died at the age of 98. And finally, just imagine the scene. Dozens of | :28:04. | :28:07. | |
students at Usain Bolt's old school in Jamaica had gathered to watch | :28:07. | :28:10. | |
their hero run in the 100 metres final on Sunday when this happened. | :28:10. | :28:13. | |
A power blackout plunged the school into darkness and meant they lost | :28:13. | :28:18. | |
live coverage of the race. Luckily someone managed to get hold of a | :28:18. | :28:22. | |
radio, which they all huddled round to listen. And the rest, as they | :28:22. | :28:32. | |
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Thank goodness they found the radio. A cloudy morning so far, but the | :28:37. | :28:41. | |
rain has held up just about. Be on the skyline of London we have some | :28:41. | :28:46. | |
thick layers of cloud and that is bearing rein. We will see it | :28:46. | :28:49. | |
turning up across southern Wales, south-west England were has been | :28:49. | :28:52. | |
patchy and it will continue to extend through the east this | :28:52. | :28:57. | |
afternoon. For the sailors at Portland and Weymouth, good | :28:57. | :29:02. | |
visibility but as the cloud and rain arrives the visibility will | :29:02. | :29:05. | |
deteriorate for the races this afternoon. Through the rest of the | :29:05. | :29:09. | |
afternoon across the country we will see patchy rain sliding across | :29:09. | :29:12. | |
the southern parts of England said we will see patches of rain | :29:12. | :29:17. | |
arriving in the south-east before too long. The Southway -- the South | :29:17. | :29:21. | |
West prone to rain. North of Wales should stay dry and bright. For | :29:21. | :29:25. | |
Northern Ireland, dry and bright, but the showers will fade later | :29:25. | :29:28. | |
this afternoon and we will see increasing amounts of sunshine. Not | :29:29. | :29:32. | |
a bad day for western Scotland. Generally dry and bright, and | :29:32. | :29:37. | |
eastern areas prone to one or two sharp showers and some pretty heavy | :29:37. | :29:40. | |
ones forecast for more than England, especially around the Pennines | :29:40. | :29:43. | |
where there are thunderstorms and through the afternoon the | :29:43. | :29:46. | |
thunderstorms will push towards the east, reaching the coastal areas of | :29:46. | :29:50. | |
Yorkshire. One or two showers or East Anglia and the patchy rain | :29:50. | :29:54. | |
edging into the London area and through the Olympic Park. The | :29:54. | :30:00. | |
riverbank arena where the men's hockey team are playing Spain later | :30:00. | :30:05. | |
on, one or two spots of rain probably arriving and also over the | :30:05. | :30:10. | |
evening. We will keep a weather front in the south, so quite cloudy | :30:10. | :30:15. | |
and great, but on the mild side. Further north, clear spells across | :30:15. | :30:18. | |
the north-east of Scotland and eastern England as well. Tomorrow | :30:18. | :30:21. | |
morning we start cloudy in the south with spots of rain but things | :30:21. | :30:24. | |
will improve quickly and there could be a bit more in the way of | :30:24. | :30:28. | |
brightness across the south. Because of that, temperatures have | :30:28. | :30:31. | |
bit higher, creeping into the low twenties, so maybe a bit more | :30:31. | :30:35. | |
pleasant. For many of us, a dry afternoon. That sets the scene for | :30:35. | :30:38. | |
Thursday with high pressure building across the British Isles | :30:38. | :30:41. | |
and most places will have a dry and bright conditions with hazy | :30:41. | :30:44. | |
sunshine. No heat wave across the north-east of Scotland where | :30:45. | :30:48. | |
temperatures will be stuck in the high teens but elsewhere across | :30:48. | :30:51. | |
England and Wales we will see the temperatures building and we could | :30:51. | :30:56. | |
be looking at highs of around 25 Celsius, 77 degrees Fahrenheit and | :30:56. | :31:02. | |
it will feel a bit humid. We will see if that fine spell of weather | :31:02. | :31:12. | |
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A reminder of our top story: Great Britain wins then 19th gold-medal | :31:12. | :31:16. | |
meaning that they have equalled their medal tally from the Beijing | :31:16. | :31:20. |