:00:12. > :00:15.A fall in the proportion of GCSEs awarded a A* to a C grade for the
:00:15. > :00:18.first time since the exams were introduced 24 years ago. As
:00:18. > :00:22.hundreds of thousands of pupils find out their results, teachers'
:00:22. > :00:25.unions expressed concerns that some have been marked down. We have
:00:25. > :00:29.heard significant numbers of students who had been expected to
:00:29. > :00:33.get a grade C or above have found themselves getting a D.
:00:33. > :00:37.I Asil Nadir is sentenced to 10 years in jail for stealing millions
:00:37. > :00:45.of pounds from his Polly Peck business empire. His wife says he
:00:45. > :00:51.will fight to clear his name. husband is innocent. Having faith
:00:51. > :00:56.in the British justice and legal system, we will continue with our
:00:56. > :01:01.efforts to rectify the wrongs. Pathologist Freddy Patel is struck
:01:01. > :01:05.off the medical register after seeing newspaper seller Ian
:01:05. > :01:08.Tomlinson died of natural causes at the G20 protests.
:01:08. > :01:12.Memorial services take place in South Africa for 44 people killed
:01:12. > :01:16.in clashes with police at a platinum mine.
:01:16. > :01:20.And the DIY restoration which turned this 19th century fresco
:01:20. > :01:23.into this. The woman responsible say she wanted to save the Church
:01:23. > :01:26.time and money. Later on BBC London. The family of
:01:26. > :01:28.a man who died in police custody claim the police watchdog's
:01:28. > :01:38.investigation is flawed. And dressage, Paralympic style. Will we
:01:38. > :01:52.
:01:52. > :01:56.have another golden moment in Good afternoon. The proportion of
:01:56. > :02:00.GCSE entries receiving at least A grades C has fallen for the first
:02:00. > :02:05.time since the exams were introduced, 24 years ago. Results
:02:05. > :02:11.in England, Wales and Northern Ireland show 69.4% of entries
:02:11. > :02:15.earned grades A* to C, compared to 69.8% last year. Union leaders said
:02:15. > :02:18.they were concerned that some exams, particularly in English, had been
:02:18. > :02:22.marked too harshly, with many students not getting the results
:02:22. > :02:27.that they expected. Chris Buckler is that Thornton Grammar School in
:02:27. > :02:30.Bradford. Here, pupils have been getting
:02:30. > :02:35.their results, just as they have been at hundreds of schools across
:02:35. > :02:39.England, Wales and Northern Ireland. This fall in the percentage of
:02:39. > :02:42.entries getting the top grades is small. It is also significant. It
:02:42. > :02:46.comes at a time when the Government has been trying to address
:02:46. > :02:50.allegations that exams have been dumbing down and also trying to
:02:50. > :02:53.raise the standards of schools. Michael Gove has made it very clear
:02:54. > :03:02.that he is dissatisfied with GCSE. He has been considering big changes,
:03:02. > :03:07.even getting rid of the exam After months of work and weeks of
:03:07. > :03:13.worry... This morning, pupils finally found out their grades. For
:03:13. > :03:16.many, it was good news. But after more than two decades in which year
:03:16. > :03:21.after year results got better and better, for the first time in the
:03:21. > :03:28.history of GCSEs the proportion of entries getting top grades fell.
:03:28. > :03:34.The proportion of GCSEs awarded grades A* to C was 69.4%. That is a
:03:35. > :03:42.fall of 0.4% on last year. 7.3% of entries were given the top grade of
:03:42. > :03:49.A*, again, down by 0.5% from 2011. Girls are significantly
:03:49. > :03:53.outperformed boys in higher-grade passages, including A*. The
:03:53. > :03:56.regulator, Ofqual, had warned exam bodies that they would have to
:03:56. > :04:00.justify any improvement in results this year. But there are worries
:04:00. > :04:03.that some subjects have been knocked too harshly. There are big
:04:03. > :04:08.concerns about the English results and some very surprising results
:04:08. > :04:13.which are much lower than expected. We believe that is because the
:04:13. > :04:18.boundaries have been significantly changed at the very last minute.
:04:18. > :04:22.England, GCSEs are changing. The module system that allowed pupils
:04:22. > :04:25.to sit and resit parts of exams at different times has been scrapped
:04:26. > :04:30.for anyone starting studies next month. Many getting results said
:04:30. > :04:34.they thought doing all of their exams at one time would be harder.
:04:34. > :04:37.I definitely prefer what we have done. It gives you a chance to
:04:37. > :04:41.resit and build on what you have got. You know what you're aiming
:04:41. > :04:46.for and how to achieve more. Education Secretary Michael Gove
:04:46. > :04:51.once even greater changes. He's talked about getting rid of GCSEs,
:04:51. > :04:54.gritty and returning to exams similar to the old O-levels. Unions,
:04:54. > :04:58.the Liberal Democrat and Labour have reservations. I don't know
:04:58. > :05:02.what will happen next. Michael Gove has talked about turning the clock
:05:02. > :05:06.right back and bringing back CSEs and O-levels. I hope we do not go
:05:06. > :05:09.down at route because it would be a disaster for many young people.
:05:09. > :05:12.a time of uncertainty, the Government is putting pressure on
:05:12. > :05:18.schools to raise standards. They are expected to ensure that at
:05:18. > :05:21.least 40% of pupils achieved five good GCSE grades. Slightly
:05:21. > :05:24.irritating if you believe it is a politically driven, rather than
:05:24. > :05:30.educationally. But because we are measured in that way, we have to
:05:30. > :05:33.respond. In Wales, the GCSE system is currently under review. For the
:05:33. > :05:38.minute, pupils there and in Northern Ireland will continue to
:05:38. > :05:43.have the option of sitting modules. Make no mistake, in England it is
:05:43. > :05:47.not just students but the exam itself that is under real scrutiny.
:05:47. > :05:51.There is some divisiveness within this. There is controversy in
:05:51. > :05:56.Michael Gove's suggestion that they could return to some kind of O-
:05:56. > :05:59.level system, potentially even O- levels and CSEs. He has denied
:05:59. > :06:02.there will be a two-tier system. That is something the Liberal
:06:03. > :06:07.Democrat are concerned about. Nevertheless, in coming up with
:06:07. > :06:11.plans there will be a great deal of discussion and some concern within
:06:11. > :06:14.the Government itself. If you would like to find out more
:06:14. > :06:22.about GCSEs and what to do next, there is more information on the
:06:22. > :06:26.The former business tycoon Asil Nadir has been sentenced to 10
:06:26. > :06:30.years in prison for stealing nearly �29 million from his Polly Peck
:06:30. > :06:36.empire in the 1980s. The judge said that he had stolen out of pure
:06:36. > :06:40.greed. Nadir was due to face trial in 1993, but fled to Cyprus before
:06:40. > :06:44.returning to Britain two years ago, saying that he wanted to clear his
:06:44. > :06:48.name. Clive Coleman is at the Old Bailey.
:06:48. > :06:52.Before he was sentenced this morning, Asil Nadir looked relaxed.
:06:52. > :06:55.He was chatting to members of the foreign press committee people in
:06:55. > :07:01.the gallery and to his wife, who remained by the side of the dock.
:07:01. > :07:05.When it came to sentencing, the judge said that the company's
:07:05. > :07:10.success was, in many ways, Dorset S. It said the company money was not
:07:10. > :07:15.your money. He said, you knew that, none the less, you help yourself to
:07:15. > :07:19.it and committed theft on a grand scale. At the conclusion of
:07:19. > :07:25.sentencing, receiving the 10 year sentence, Asil Nadir thanked the
:07:25. > :07:34.judge. But outside court, his wife was defiant. He is a man of great
:07:34. > :07:39.character. Integrity and honour. He gave in abundance to charities and
:07:39. > :07:45.were the organisations for many years. -- were the organisations.
:07:45. > :07:55.My husband is innocent. Having faith in the British justice legal
:07:55. > :07:56.
:07:56. > :08:01.system, we will continue with our The judge talked of aggravating
:08:01. > :08:06.factors, what were they? Primarily, the fact that this was a big breach
:08:06. > :08:10.of trust. Asil Nadir was in a position of great power. That he
:08:10. > :08:15.abused that trust. One of the things he pointed out was that Asil
:08:15. > :08:18.Nadir had the single signatory system, where he alone was able to
:08:18. > :08:21.move money around. He was able to do that without a count the
:08:21. > :08:26.signature from another board director. In addition to that, the
:08:26. > :08:36.fact that the thefts were massive and that they took place over a
:08:36. > :08:36.
:08:36. > :08:40.very extended period of time, three The pathologist Freddy Patel, who
:08:40. > :08:43.wrongly said that newspaper seller Ian Tomlinson died of natural
:08:44. > :08:49.causes at the G20 protests in London three years ago, has been
:08:49. > :08:54.struck off the medical register. Why did they conclude that he was
:08:54. > :08:57.unfit to practise? Well, Dr Freddy Patel was the first apologist to
:08:57. > :09:00.examine the body of Ian Tomlinson and the only one to conclude that
:09:00. > :09:06.he died of natural causes. Mr Tomlinson was trying to make his
:09:06. > :09:10.way home through the G20 protests in 2009. Even after he was shown
:09:10. > :09:13.this video footage of PC Simon Harwood first striking Ian
:09:14. > :09:18.Tomlinson with a baton and then pushing into the ground, he stuck
:09:18. > :09:22.to his original conclusion, even as other medical experts concluded he
:09:22. > :09:26.had in fact died from internal bleeding. Freddy Patel had been
:09:26. > :09:32.suspended from the Home Office list of pathologists in 2009 and then
:09:32. > :09:35.removed completely in 2010. At the time he conducted a post-mortem on
:09:35. > :09:41.Ian Tomlinson, he was effectively doing so under false pretences. He
:09:41. > :09:44.had also been investigated numerous times. In 2002, he concluded that a
:09:44. > :09:50.woman, Sally White, had died from natural causes when she had in fact
:09:50. > :09:55.been murdered by a serial killer. The fitness to practise panel today
:09:55. > :09:58.concluded and it said that he had a rigid mindset, unwarranted
:09:58. > :10:01.confidence in his own abilities and a deep-seated problem with his
:10:01. > :10:04.attitude. The family of Ian Tomlinson has released a statement
:10:04. > :10:08.in the past half-hour in which they say they are surprised that Dr
:10:09. > :10:12.Freddy Patel was able to work as a pathologist for so long and that he
:10:12. > :10:14.was selected to do the post-mortem on the Ian Tomlinson. But they are
:10:14. > :10:19.pleased he will not be able to put any more families through the
:10:19. > :10:26.ordeal he calls them. Dr Freddy Patel himself has refused to
:10:26. > :10:29.Two men jailed for the racist murder of Stephen Lawrence in
:10:29. > :10:33.south-east London in 1993 have had their applications for permission
:10:33. > :10:37.to appeal rejected by a judge. Gary Dobson and David Norris have
:10:37. > :10:40.continued to protest their innocence and were given life
:10:40. > :10:44.sentences in January. They can still renew their applications
:10:44. > :10:47.before a panel of judges sitting at the Court of Appeal.
:10:47. > :10:51.Prince Harry is believed to be back in the UK after pictures of him
:10:51. > :10:55.naked in a Las Vegas hotel room appeared on American gossip website.
:10:55. > :10:58.St James's Palace has confirmed that he is in the photographs and
:10:58. > :11:01.that it contacted the police -- Press Complaints Commission because
:11:01. > :11:04.of concerns about his privacy being intruded on.
:11:05. > :11:08.Three members of Jordan's Paralympic team facing sex charges
:11:09. > :11:12.have been pulled out of the Paralympic Games. The men, who had
:11:12. > :11:15.been in Northern Ireland for training, appeared in court in
:11:15. > :11:20.County Londonderry yesterday. Mark Simpson is in Belfast. They have
:11:20. > :11:24.gone home, what happens next? are on their way home back to
:11:24. > :11:29.Jordan as we speak. They will be back in Northern Ireland to face
:11:29. > :11:33.the courts at some stage. The case is due for mention again on October
:11:33. > :11:37.16th, seven weeks away. It is not clear if the men will be obliged to
:11:37. > :11:41.appear in person. What we know for sure is that they will not be
:11:41. > :11:45.appearing next week at the Paralympics. The Games begin on
:11:45. > :11:49.Wednesday. It is the power lifting event that the men were due to
:11:49. > :11:53.participate in, which starts on Thursday. The three men will not be
:11:53. > :11:56.there. They have voluntarily gone back home to Jordan.
:11:56. > :12:01.Services are taking place in South Africa in memory of those killed
:12:01. > :12:06.during a strike at a platinum mine. Of the 44 victims, 34 were workers
:12:06. > :12:14.who were shot dead by police last week. There are fears now that the
:12:14. > :12:18.dispute could spread to other mines The 44 need never have died.
:12:18. > :12:24.Nothing, their families say, could compensate for the loss of their
:12:24. > :12:27.loved ones. Candlelight provides this community with an enduring
:12:27. > :12:31.symbol of remembrance. South Africans are marking a day that
:12:31. > :12:36.they will recall as one of the darkest in the country's modern
:12:36. > :12:40.history. Bavuyisa Miya was still limping from the injuries he
:12:40. > :12:49.sustained escape in gunfire. He says his colleagues should not have
:12:49. > :12:53.been killed, they were simply TRANSLATION: I am deeply saddened
:12:53. > :12:56.by the turn of events. We were demanding a better wage from the
:12:56. > :13:02.employers. That is what the march was about. We didn't know that
:13:02. > :13:06.these people will kill us for demanding 12,500 rand. Not since
:13:06. > :13:11.the days of apartheid has South Africa witnessed such bloody scenes
:13:11. > :13:15.as they saw here last week. The shocking images of police officers
:13:15. > :13:20.gunning down striking miners has put an ugly face on industrial
:13:20. > :13:26.relations in South Africa. The mining industry is one of the
:13:26. > :13:29.bedrocks of the economy. Lonmin mine has been in virtual shutdown.
:13:29. > :13:33.Reflecting on last week's events certainly will not stop the
:13:33. > :13:38.protests. In some parts of South Africa, unemployment is as high as
:13:38. > :13:46.50%. Discontent is growing. These miners are certain that they will
:13:46. > :13:50.not return to work and tell -- until their demands are met. Other
:13:50. > :13:58.workers in neighbouring mines have downed tools, also demanding better
:13:58. > :14:02.wages. We believe that further deaths resulted from protests and
:14:02. > :14:06.demonstrations can be avoided if only they would listen to what the
:14:06. > :14:09.workers are saying. A President Jacob Zuma says that the industry
:14:09. > :14:14.needs to start to examine the living conditions of people working
:14:14. > :14:17.for them. The nation is under growing pressure from its workforce.
:14:17. > :14:23.The place where so many died has become a poignant symbol of
:14:23. > :14:27.defiance. For the grieving wives, mothers and children left behind,
:14:27. > :14:37.today's prayers are not only for the dead but those left without a
:14:37. > :14:41.
:14:41. > :14:45.Our top story. A fall in the proportion of GCSEs awarded that a
:14:45. > :14:50.* to C great have fallen for the first time since the exams were
:14:50. > :14:54.introduced. Coming up, if the rain has ruined your summer, spare a
:14:54. > :14:59.thought for the bees. I'll be finding out by some hives have been
:14:59. > :15:02.left starving by the wet weather. Later on BBC London. Two men jailed
:15:02. > :15:04.for the racist murder of Stephen Lawrence lose the first stage of
:15:04. > :15:14.their attempt to challenge their convictions. And after a 200 mile
:15:14. > :15:17.
:15:17. > :15:20.journey a century-old narrowboat One of the Government's most senior
:15:20. > :15:23.scientific advisers has said that efforts to stop a sharp rise in
:15:23. > :15:28.global temperatures are now unrealistic. Professor Sir Robert
:15:28. > :15:31.Watson, who is shortly to step down from his role in government, told
:15:31. > :15:38.BBC News that he'd like to see the Chancellor George Osborne back
:15:38. > :15:43.efforts to cut C02 emissions. Professor Watson is one of the most
:15:43. > :15:45.respected scientists in the world on Climate Change policy. He is
:15:45. > :15:50.currently chief scientist at the Department for food and rural
:15:50. > :15:54.affairs and a former chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
:15:54. > :15:56.Change. He believes that because of a lack of progress at successive
:15:56. > :16:00.international climate change summit, it is now unlikely that governments
:16:00. > :16:03.will be able to meet an internationally agreed target to
:16:03. > :16:08.reduce their carbon-dioxide emissions, and so limit the average
:16:08. > :16:12.rise in global temperatures. idea of a to degree target is
:16:12. > :16:18.largely out the window. Not impossible but not particularly
:16:18. > :16:23.likely. I'd really do believe we are on the way to 83, four or five
:16:23. > :16:26.degree world. And if we are in a world that is three, four or five
:16:26. > :16:31.degrees warmer, there will be significant adverse effects.
:16:31. > :16:36.what does this mean? According to the UK Committee on climate change,
:16:36. > :16:38.there are regional variations but overall, if there is a today degree
:16:38. > :16:42.increase in average temperatures there will be more extremes of
:16:42. > :16:45.weather, floods and droughts and more people will die. If
:16:45. > :16:49.temperatures rise between three to four degrees, agricultural
:16:49. > :16:53.production will fall and sea levels will rise. At five degrees the
:16:53. > :16:59.overall picture will get much worse and there will be an irreversible
:16:59. > :17:03.loss of many species. David Cameron has said that he wants his
:17:03. > :17:08.government to be the greenest ever. But because of the recession his
:17:08. > :17:12.Chancellor, George Osborne, has asked for an easing of the
:17:12. > :17:16.ambitious C02 reduction targets, to take the pressure off businesses.
:17:16. > :17:22.Professor Watson said that would be the wrong way to go. I would say to
:17:22. > :17:25.George Osborne, work with the private sector, work with the
:17:25. > :17:28.public on behaviour change. Let's demonstrate to the rest of the
:17:28. > :17:33.world that through some cost- effective technology we can make
:17:33. > :17:37.significant progress here. Professor Watson added that deep
:17:37. > :17:40.cuts in CO2 emissions of possible through the development of new ways
:17:40. > :17:47.of generating energy that do not harm the environment. But he says
:17:47. > :17:50.what is really needed is greater political will. There are reports
:17:50. > :17:54.this lunch time of intense fighting on the outskirts of the Syrian
:17:54. > :17:58.capital Damascus. Government forces are reported to be using helicopter
:17:58. > :18:01.gunships and battery fired to attack a district of the city. Here,
:18:01. > :18:07.the Prime Minister David Cameron joined the United States in warning
:18:07. > :18:16.the Syria against using its chemical weapons in the conflict.
:18:16. > :18:20.Daily life in Syria at the moment. The Syrian army is continuing its
:18:20. > :18:26.attempts to dislodge opposition fighters from the northern city of
:18:26. > :18:33.Aleppo. Unverified pictures, but the aftermath shows heavy damage -
:18:33. > :18:38.typical of aerial bombardment. And now head the attacks have moved to
:18:38. > :18:44.the southern outskirts of Damascus, according to opposition sources.
:18:44. > :18:48.This was apparently the air attack on the suburb of Deraa, first at --
:18:48. > :18:52.possibly the first time shelling attacks in action on residential
:18:52. > :18:58.area so close to the capital. Other amateur footage shows columns of
:18:58. > :19:03.tanks moving in, apparently followed by house-to-house searches.
:19:03. > :19:07.A latest pictures, apparently to date from the same suburb, a
:19:07. > :19:15.reminder of the mounting human cost of this conflict. Funerals for
:19:15. > :19:19.those caught up in the violence. On Syrian state TV, news reports
:19:19. > :19:24.describe the operations of brave army units in Aleppo, pursuing
:19:24. > :19:30.terrorist gangs and mercenaries. Here the reporters say the Syrian
:19:30. > :19:34.army inflicted major losses and killed dozens of them. From now one
:19:34. > :19:40.these glimpses of Syria's war won't be amplified by the UN monitoring
:19:40. > :19:45.team, which is pulling out. More of them departed today. From afar,
:19:45. > :19:48.President Obama and David Cameron have warned they may we think there
:19:48. > :19:53.non-intervention strategy if President Assad dares use chemical
:19:53. > :19:59.weapons. But for opposition supervisors that is little comfort.
:19:59. > :20:07.The flipside of that statement is that if there is no chemical weapon
:20:07. > :20:10.used by the regime then there will be no intervention. There is a
:20:10. > :20:14.craving for international protection from the Syrian
:20:14. > :20:17.opposition and from the Syrian population. Meanwhile, the fighting
:20:17. > :20:25.on the ground is turning more and more of the country into a
:20:25. > :20:28.terrifying battle ground. The Prime Minister is meeting the King of
:20:28. > :20:33.Bahrain in Downing Street this afternoon to discuss the situation
:20:33. > :20:36.in Syria. This will be a controversial visit for some.
:20:36. > :20:41.Eyebrows will be raised because this is the second time that the
:20:41. > :20:44.king has met all will meet Mr Cameron since December. The King
:20:44. > :20:48.was also invited to the Queen's special jubilee lunch for
:20:48. > :20:53.international royalty. This visit comes as protests rumble on in
:20:53. > :20:57.Bahrain. A teenage protester was killed last week and a prominent
:20:57. > :21:01.activist was jailed for three years. So human rights groups certainly
:21:01. > :21:06.know what they want to be discussed. Amnesty International has said what
:21:06. > :21:09.they call a facade of supposed reform in the kingdom, while
:21:09. > :21:15.peaceful protesters have been jailed. It has called on Mr Cameron
:21:15. > :21:21.to say that Britain will stand by while Bahrain locks up dissidents.
:21:21. > :21:25.I've been told that on the agenda of the meeting is Syria, but also
:21:25. > :21:29.trade opportunities. I've been told the purpose of the meeting is not
:21:29. > :21:32.to discuss Bahrain's promised reforms. The first thing mentioned
:21:32. > :21:41.to me was Britain trying to look for further trading opportunities
:21:41. > :21:45.with Bahrain in what clearly is a sensitive time. This summer's wet
:21:45. > :21:49.weather has badly affected Britain's bee population.
:21:49. > :21:52.Conditions have been their worst for three decades and have made it
:21:52. > :21:59.difficult for the insects to gather nectar and pollen. It is warning
:21:59. > :22:04.honey production could be down by as much as 60 %. Our reporter is
:22:04. > :22:09.just outside Conwy. We've heard so much about record rainfall ruining
:22:09. > :22:12.things for us humans this summer. But it's also playing havoc with
:22:12. > :22:18.Britain's bee population. Rain makes it difficult for them to go
:22:19. > :22:23.out and forage, which means that some hives have been left as a
:22:23. > :22:27.staff -- left to starve. Much as humans, honey bees aren't too keen
:22:27. > :22:31.in venturing out in wet weather. Torrential rain in June followed by
:22:31. > :22:35.downpours in July and August have all limited their time foraging for
:22:35. > :22:41.food. And without feathering the enough nectar and pollen, some have
:22:41. > :22:46.been starved. Right in the middle of the summer in the middle of June,
:22:46. > :22:51.when the nectar flows should have been at their best, bees were
:22:51. > :22:55.starving. So beekeepers have had to feed their bees, they feed them on
:22:55. > :22:59.sugar syrup. I've never known that before. This year's honey crop is
:22:59. > :23:04.also likely to suffer. Some beekeepers are predicting a drop of
:23:04. > :23:08.up to 60 % on last year. It's classed as a luxury item. People
:23:08. > :23:11.are coming in buying their honeyed, there's not enough to bring into
:23:11. > :23:16.the shop, the premium will have to go up on the Hanley. The customers
:23:16. > :23:21.will have to pay more for it, which they will not like. Funny isn't the
:23:21. > :23:26.only food the bees help to produce. As they fly from flower to flower,
:23:26. > :23:30.they also pollinate around three- quarters of the crops wheat. A
:23:30. > :23:35.familiar buzz has been missing from Ian Sturrock's orchard. Normally he
:23:35. > :23:40.can depend on bees to pollinators fruit trees, but this year most of
:23:40. > :23:44.Arran. This tree is a bar of the island apple tree. Normally it
:23:44. > :23:50.would be absolutely covered in fruit. This year it is almost
:23:50. > :23:54.totally barren. I've lost about 75- 80 % of my crop. And there's one
:23:54. > :23:57.final sting in the tail. The rain may also have put a dampener on
:23:58. > :24:04.meeting for Virgin Queen Bees, threatening, the numbers in the
:24:04. > :24:07.future. That could be a real problem for all those people who
:24:07. > :24:13.have recently taken an interest in beekeeping. Although beekeeper
:24:13. > :24:16.numbers are up, it seems that colony numbers are on the way down.
:24:16. > :24:20.Developers building new rental properties should be freed from the
:24:20. > :24:23.obligation to provide affordable homes. That's according to a new
:24:23. > :24:26.report commissioned by the government. It says the requirement
:24:26. > :24:30.encourages quick sales and deters developers from considering renting
:24:30. > :24:35.out their properties. But critics say changing the rules would have
:24:35. > :24:40.are those on lower incomes. Once they are finished the developer of
:24:40. > :24:43.these properties will hope to sell them as fast as possible. Very few
:24:43. > :24:47.companies hang on to the homes they build and rent them privately. One
:24:47. > :24:51.of the panel members of today's review says that leaves a great -
:24:51. > :24:54.that a gaping hole in the housing market. The majority of the
:24:54. > :24:58.landlords out there are landlords who have bought houses that are
:24:58. > :25:04.generally in the market for sale. There is very little purpose-built
:25:04. > :25:10.rental stock. Actually, the mansion blocks of the 1920s and 1930s, they
:25:10. > :25:13.were built for rent. The report recommends looking at how planning
:25:13. > :25:17.rules might be further eased to encourage the building of Red 4
:25:17. > :25:21.properties. It says a share of publicly owned land could be set
:25:21. > :25:25.aside and calls for new financial incentives for build to let schemes.
:25:25. > :25:29.But the most contentious element is the call for local authority rules
:25:29. > :25:32.to be waived. At the moment, builders must promise a certain
:25:32. > :25:35.quota of affordable properties to get the go-ahead for more lucrative
:25:35. > :25:38.schemes. They say that is holding back construction. If the
:25:38. > :25:41.obligation is waved it will free up developers, they can be more
:25:41. > :25:45.flexible about how they develop things. That will mean there will
:25:45. > :25:48.be more developments done. More housing available, which will mean
:25:48. > :25:52.that rents will come down because it's a question of supply and
:25:52. > :25:56.demand. From here you can see exactly what these rules have meant
:25:56. > :26:00.in practice. Developers wanted to build expensive luxury flats over
:26:00. > :26:05.there in London's Bankside. But to get permission to do that they had
:26:05. > :26:08.to promise to build these affordable properties over here.
:26:08. > :26:12.Housing associations are worried about any attempt to divert
:26:12. > :26:16.investment away from the affordable sector. We really welcome a strong
:26:16. > :26:21.private rented sector. There is such a shortage of housing in this
:26:21. > :26:25.country that we need all sectors to be strong. But our fear would be
:26:25. > :26:30.that schemes such as this might not be produced. And therefore that
:26:30. > :26:34.would affect our ability to produce affordable rented housing. And many
:26:34. > :26:37.in the housing industry say the biggest problem is the limited
:26:38. > :26:44.availability of credit, both for developers and potential buyers who
:26:44. > :26:48.are struggling to get mortgages. It was all done with the best of
:26:49. > :26:53.intentions. A woman in her 80s who thought that the 19th century
:26:53. > :26:56.fresco in her local church was looking a little worse for wear. To
:26:56. > :27:00.save the Church time of money she decided to do the restoration work
:27:00. > :27:05.herself. The result was... Well, I will let Tim Reid explained. This
:27:05. > :27:10.is how Christ was depicted originally. This is how he looks
:27:10. > :27:13.now, after a DIY restoration. The much-loved fresco has been a
:27:13. > :27:18.feature in this church for more than a century. But the years have
:27:18. > :27:22.taken their toll, as these pictures show. Unhappy at the state of the
:27:22. > :27:27.painting, a local worshipper set to work with a paintbrush, but has
:27:27. > :27:32.denied doing it without permission. No, of course not, everybody could
:27:32. > :27:37.see me as I was painting so I wasn't doing it secretly. But the
:27:37. > :27:42.family of the original artist say the work is now ruined.
:27:42. > :27:46.TRANSLATION: Until now she was just painting the tunic, but the problem
:27:46. > :27:52.started when she began painting the head, too. She has destroyed the
:27:52. > :27:55.painting. Art experts say the 19th century fresco by Martinez was
:27:55. > :28:00.popular locally but not particularly valuable, much less so
:28:00. > :28:04.now. I have to confess when I saw this illustrated in the paper I
:28:04. > :28:10.burst out laughing. It is an amusing tragedy. She has made a
:28:10. > :28:14.horrible mess of it. If a 5-year- old child had done it it couldn't
:28:14. > :28:18.be worse. Of course, nobody is going to be devoted to it now, are
:28:18. > :28:25.they? Local officials have now called in the professionals to try
:28:25. > :28:34.to undo this amateur restorer's handiwork. Never muck about with an
:28:34. > :28:38.Not the cheeriest picture behind me but it's not all doom and gloom.
:28:38. > :28:42.There will be some bright spells of round, a scattering of showers as
:28:42. > :28:47.well perhaps. The cloud is massing out towards the western side of the
:28:47. > :28:51.British Isles, it is tied in with the low pressure. There is a veil
:28:51. > :28:55.of cloud gradually working its way in across some areas. There will be
:28:55. > :28:58.some brightness this afternoon across parts of East Anglia and the
:28:58. > :29:01.south-east. 22 Ward 23 in the sunshine. But there's no getting
:29:01. > :29:06.away from the fact that once you drift out towards the West, the
:29:06. > :29:10.cloud is a bit thicker. You are in with a chance of seeing some
:29:10. > :29:13.showery rain from medium level cloud. A scattering of showers to
:29:13. > :29:17.the western side of the Pennines through the morning, that prospect
:29:17. > :29:21.will continue. Because the weather is out towards the West, Northern
:29:22. > :29:27.Ireland have a better chance of seeing a showery burst of something.
:29:27. > :29:31.The showers in Scotland not as intense as yesterday. As we come to
:29:31. > :29:35.the eastern side of the Pennines, one or two shout was breaking
:29:35. > :29:38.through but again, a little bit of sunshine as well. Let's move on
:29:38. > :29:42.through the evening and overnight, where I think we will find the
:29:42. > :29:46.cloud filling in a bit more as the low-pressure grinds its weighting
:29:46. > :29:50.towards the western side of the British Isles. Even away from that
:29:50. > :29:53.main area of cloud and rain out to the west, we may find an area
:29:53. > :29:57.developing around Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, that could well
:29:57. > :30:01.drift up towards the south eastern quarter of England to start of the
:30:01. > :30:05.day on Friday. But the main weather event is out towards the West. An
:30:05. > :30:10.area of heavy rain gradually swinging its way through the West
:30:10. > :30:14.Country, up into Wales and Northern Ireland. Eventually a box of in two
:30:14. > :30:20.parts of the South East. Away from that is the familiar tale of sunny
:30:20. > :30:24.spells and showers. How is the weekend shaping up? There will be
:30:24. > :30:28.rain at times, gusty winds as well. Compared to last weekend where some
:30:28. > :30:32.places were getting around 30 degrees, it will feel cooler than
:30:32. > :30:37.that. It depends where you are in relation to this area of low
:30:37. > :30:41.pressure. It makes slow progress on Saturday. Persistent rain in
:30:41. > :30:47.southern Scotland and northern England, Northern Ireland and down
:30:47. > :30:50.into the south-west. Showery bursts potentially driven along with gales
:30:51. > :30:55.in the south. The whole thing moving a little bit further towards
:30:55. > :30:59.the east, so a northerly pushing showers towards the eastern side of
:30:59. > :31:08.England through Sunday. Brighter skies pushing in from the West.
:31:08. > :31:12.Monday you strive for some as well. A fall in the proportion of GCSEs