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The Prime Minister says more lives could have been saved in the | :00:07. | :00:13. | |
Hillsborough disaster but safety was compromised at every level. 96 | :00:13. | :00:17. | |
people lost their lives in the tragedy 23 years ago. Official | :00:17. | :00:20. | |
documents show the authorities tried to deflect the blame onto | :00:20. | :00:24. | |
fans. In the last half hour, the Prime | :00:24. | :00:27. | |
Minister issued a profound apology to the families and revealed the | :00:27. | :00:31. | |
full extent of the failings of the authorities. It was wrong that the | :00:31. | :00:36. | |
families have had to wait for so long and fight so hard just to get | :00:36. | :00:40. | |
to the truth. It was wrong quite profoundly wrong, that the police | :00:40. | :00:43. | |
changed the records of what happened and tried to blame the | :00:43. | :00:49. | |
fans. The American Ambassador to Libya, | :00:49. | :00:51. | |
Christopher Stevens, has been killed in disturbances linked to an | :00:51. | :00:54. | |
anti-Islamic video. Nearly 250 people are killed in a | :00:54. | :00:57. | |
fire at a clothing factory in Pakistan, which had no emergency | :00:57. | :01:01. | |
exits. The number of people in work sees | :01:01. | :01:06. | |
its biggest increase in two years. Was a drop in unemployment partly | :01:06. | :01:10. | |
down to the Olympics? And not in the "deep bosom of the | :01:10. | :01:14. | |
ocean buried" after all - is this car park the last resting place of | :01:14. | :01:19. | |
King Richard III? Later on BBC London: Unemployment is down in | :01:19. | :01:21. | |
London, we will be talking to the people setting up their own | :01:21. | :01:31. | |
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businesses. And the former detective who | :01:32. | :01:35. | |
fallsified crime records relating to 13 cases of rape and sexual | :01:35. | :01:45. | |
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Good afternoon and welcome to the BBC News at One. A report into the | :01:50. | :01:53. | |
Hillsborough disaster 23 years ago, has criticised the authorities for | :01:53. | :01:56. | |
compromising safety at every level and said lives could have been | :01:56. | :02:00. | |
saved. 96 football fans died following a crush on the terraces | :02:00. | :02:05. | |
of Sheffield Wednesday, in April 1989. The Hillsborough Independent | :02:05. | :02:07. | |
Panel scrutinised nearly half a million pages of official documents | :02:07. | :02:14. | |
which had not been disclosed to the public. In the past half hour, the | :02:14. | :02:18. | |
Prime Minister described its findings as deeply distressing. He | :02:18. | :02:21. | |
said he was profoundly sorry for what he described as a double | :02:21. | :02:25. | |
injustice - both in the way the disaster was handled and the way it | :02:25. | :02:28. | |
was subsequently reported in some parts of the media, where blame was | :02:28. | :02:36. | |
put on Liverpool fans. From Liverpool, here's Ed Thomas. | :02:36. | :02:40. | |
There were cheers inside the cathedral from the families of the | :02:40. | :02:44. | |
96 people who died at Hillsborough when they heard this independent | :02:44. | :02:50. | |
report. They were told police tried to blame fans, police altered 164 | :02:50. | :02:53. | |
statements, the inquests were flawed, the ambulance service could | :02:53. | :02:57. | |
have done more and the source of the Sun's the truth article was the | :02:57. | :03:01. | |
police and a local MP, all words from an independent panel. But | :03:01. | :03:05. | |
words that people here on Merseyside have been saying for 23 | :03:05. | :03:15. | |
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years. It's the days of families of fans | :03:16. | :03:22. | |
who died at Hillsborough will finally see a report... Many in | :03:22. | :03:25. | |
Liverpool have long waited for this. The day the families of those who | :03:25. | :03:31. | |
died at Hillsborough hope the truth will be heard. | :03:31. | :03:36. | |
23 years after 96 fans died, their families came here and told us they | :03:36. | :03:42. | |
wanted answers. A long journey. A long and painful journey. Obviously, | :03:42. | :03:46. | |
child bereavement is something that's very difficult to deal with | :03:46. | :03:52. | |
and effectively we lost both, all our children. What do you want from | :03:52. | :03:56. | |
today? Very simple, we want the truth, not the truth as written in | :03:56. | :04:00. | |
the Sun newspaper but the real truth. Today that search for truth | :04:00. | :04:04. | |
has taken the Hillsborough families to Liverpool's Anglican cathedral. | :04:04. | :04:07. | |
Inside, they were given an independent report written from | :04:07. | :04:12. | |
thousands of unseen documents. It found police tried to cover up | :04:12. | :04:15. | |
their mistakes. The inquests were flawed. And the ambulance service | :04:15. | :04:19. | |
could have done more. In parliament, the Prime Minister | :04:19. | :04:24. | |
said sorry. It is right for me today as Prime Minister to make a | :04:24. | :04:28. | |
proper apology to the families of the 96 for all they have suffered | :04:28. | :04:33. | |
over the past 23 years. Indeed, the new evidence that we are presented | :04:33. | :04:37. | |
with today makes clear in my view that these families have suffered a | :04:37. | :04:40. | |
double injustice. The injustice of the appalling events, the failure | :04:40. | :04:44. | |
of the state to protect their loved ones and the indefensible wait to | :04:44. | :04:50. | |
get to the truth and then the injustice of the denigration of the | :04:50. | :04:54. | |
deceased that they were somehow at fault for their own deaths. On | :04:54. | :04:58. | |
behalf of the Government and our own country I am profoundly sorry | :04:58. | :05:02. | |
this double injustice has been left uncorrected for so long. | :05:02. | :05:07. | |
96 Liverpool fans died because of what happened here. These pictures | :05:07. | :05:11. | |
showed the chaos after police opened an exit gate to allow people | :05:11. | :05:16. | |
into the ground. Days later, some newspapers blamed fans. The | :05:16. | :05:20. | |
official inquiry showed a lack of police control was to blame. Some | :05:20. | :05:24. | |
who represent the families believe those responsible now need to be | :05:24. | :05:30. | |
held to account. Accountability is absolutely vital. And it applies as | :05:30. | :05:34. | |
I say, to every single occupation, whatever decisions you take, the | :05:34. | :05:38. | |
BBC takes, I take, I have to be accountable. I can't say I am sorry, | :05:38. | :05:42. | |
I can't do my job if I have to explain what I have done. They | :05:42. | :05:49. | |
absolutely do. Every year Liverpool supporters | :05:49. | :05:53. | |
remember Hillsborough. At Anfield they call for justice for the 96. | :05:53. | :05:59. | |
The families of those who died now need to decide if they are closer | :05:59. | :06:05. | |
to that call than ever before. Families have been fighting for | :06:05. | :06:10. | |
justice for 23 years, do they feel they're finally getting the full | :06:10. | :06:17. | |
extent of the truth? Well, this apology from the Prime Minister is | :06:17. | :06:19. | |
significant. For so long the families of those who died at | :06:19. | :06:24. | |
Hillsborough have been calling for the wider establishment, to open up | :06:24. | :06:28. | |
and admit what went wrong at Hillsborough. The next issue now is | :06:28. | :06:32. | |
accountability. Many of the families here want these original | :06:32. | :06:35. | |
inquest verdicts of accidental deaths to be wiped, a new inquest | :06:35. | :06:41. | |
to go ahead. If those inquests find that some of the fans were | :06:41. | :06:44. | |
unlawfully killed, then many families want someone to be held | :06:45. | :06:48. | |
responsible for what happened at Hillsborough. But for now there is | :06:48. | :06:53. | |
a certain sense of relief around the cathedral coming from some | :06:53. | :06:57. | |
people here, that the sense that the true story of Hillsborough | :06:57. | :07:03. | |
after so long, after 23 years, is finally being heard. | :07:03. | :07:06. | |
Thank you. Let's cross to Westminster and talk | :07:06. | :07:10. | |
to our political correspondent Norman Smith. We heard the gasps in | :07:10. | :07:14. | |
the Commons as the Prime Minister revealed the extent of this report. | :07:14. | :07:18. | |
And the coverup which was widespread, wasn't it? Yes, this | :07:18. | :07:21. | |
was I think a deeply significant moment of parliament. It wasn't | :07:21. | :07:26. | |
just an apology from the Prime Minister, it was really a moment of | :07:26. | :07:29. | |
contrition, perhaps Atonement on behalf of the entire British | :07:29. | :07:33. | |
establishment, those who are most trusted, most accountable, those | :07:33. | :07:37. | |
who are meant to protect people, meant to provide vehicles for | :07:37. | :07:42. | |
addressing grievances, namely the police, the media, the judiciary | :07:42. | :07:46. | |
and politicians. The police, who Mr Cameron said had falsified | :07:46. | :07:50. | |
statements, the media who ran with stories about supporters stealing | :07:50. | :07:54. | |
from the dead, the judiciary who tried to draw too close a link | :07:54. | :07:58. | |
between the dead and their blood alcohol levels, including those of | :07:58. | :08:01. | |
young children and the politicians who failed to sufficiently | :08:01. | :08:04. | |
challenge the police version of events. Mr Cameron said Mrs | :08:04. | :08:08. | |
Thatcher was told that the police version of events was defensive, | :08:08. | :08:13. | |
bordering on deceitful and the hope will be that national apology, the | :08:13. | :08:16. | |
apology on behalf of the establishment will go some way to | :08:16. | :08:22. | |
offer the families closure. Thank you. | :08:22. | :08:30. | |
We will be getting reaction from Sheffield later. And you can see | :08:30. | :08:32. | |
the report by the Hillsborough Independent Panel, which includes | :08:32. | :08:38. | |
the documents, in full on the bbc website at bbc.co.uk//news. | :08:38. | :08:41. | |
The American Ambassador to Libya has been killed in an attack on the | :08:41. | :08:43. | |
country's consulate in Benghazi. Three other officials were killed. | :08:43. | :08:46. | |
It's thought gunmen stormed the building as part of protests | :08:46. | :08:48. | |
against a film about the prophet Mohammed. In the last hour, | :08:48. | :08:51. | |
President Obama called the attack outrageous. Our diplomatic | :08:51. | :08:58. | |
correspondent James Robbins reports. Armed attackers overwhelmed those | :08:58. | :09:03. | |
guarding the American consulate in Benghazi, Libya's second city. | :09:03. | :09:06. | |
Throwing grenades and with powerful weapons they set fire to large | :09:06. | :09:10. | |
parts of the compound and killed American officials. The United | :09:10. | :09:14. | |
States ambassador, Christopher Stevens, is wrong the dead. Some | :09:14. | :09:20. | |
reports suggest they may have been killed by a rocket-propelled | :09:20. | :09:24. | |
grenade. Christopher Stevens was promoted to the role of American | :09:24. | :09:28. | |
ambassador four months ago but had spent much of the last two years in | :09:28. | :09:34. | |
the country, first as envoy to the anti-Colonel Gaddafi rebels. | :09:34. | :09:38. | |
Outside the burning consulate a local resident said the attack was | :09:38. | :09:43. | |
in response to an anti-Islam video posted on the internet from the | :09:43. | :09:47. | |
United States which attacks the prophet Mohammed. He is our prophet. | :09:47. | :09:54. | |
So, we have to have to stop this film, stopping film is our hope, is | :09:54. | :09:59. | |
our relationship with the Americans. After extracts of the video were | :09:59. | :10:03. | |
shown on TV in Egypt, thousands of people protested outside the | :10:03. | :10:08. | |
American Embassy in Cairo. Protesters were angered by the | :10:08. | :10:13. | |
video's crude denouncation of the prophet Mohammed, some tore down | :10:13. | :10:17. | |
the stars and stripes and replaced it with an Islamist banner. | :10:17. | :10:22. | |
There is a collision here of cultures and value systems with | :10:22. | :10:25. | |
echoes of similar protests in much of the Muslim world five years ago | :10:25. | :10:29. | |
after cartoons of the prophet Mohammed were published in Denmark. | :10:29. | :10:37. | |
As well as the death threats against the author Salmam Rushdie. | :10:37. | :10:41. | |
In Benghazi, the consulate was still burning this morning. Hillary | :10:41. | :10:44. | |
Clinton said there was never any justification for such a vicious | :10:44. | :10:48. | |
and violent attack. She praised the four who died and said the | :10:48. | :10:52. | |
ambassador was committed to advancing America's values and | :10:52. | :10:59. | |
interests, even when that meant putting himself in danger. | :10:59. | :11:01. | |
Let's speak to our Washington correspondent Adam Brookes. | :11:01. | :11:04. | |
We heard that President Obama within the past hour has called | :11:04. | :11:08. | |
this attack outrageous. What other reaction has there been in America? | :11:08. | :11:12. | |
Well, America's just waking up as I am speaking to you, to this awful | :11:12. | :11:16. | |
news, the death of the ambassador Christopher Stevens. President | :11:16. | :11:19. | |
Obama issued a statement, he said, yes, indeed this attack was | :11:19. | :11:23. | |
outrageous, that he's taking all necessary steps to support security | :11:23. | :11:28. | |
at American Embassies all over the world. He said that the United | :11:28. | :11:37. | |
States rejects efforts to denigrate the religious beliefs to others. | :11:37. | :11:42. | |
And he said that we must unequiffibly oppose the kind of | :11:42. | :11:45. | |
senseless violence that took the lives of these public servants. | :11:45. | :11:48. | |
America will be waiting for a much clearer notion of what actually | :11:48. | :11:52. | |
took place in Benghazi, until it considers any further response. We | :11:52. | :11:56. | |
don't know yet exactly what the ambassador was doing, what the | :11:56. | :12:00. | |
circumstances of this attack were. Crucially, we don't know if this | :12:00. | :12:03. | |
was an organised, planned and targeted attack against the | :12:03. | :12:06. | |
ambassador, or whether it was just something that took place on the | :12:06. | :12:11. | |
spur of the moment in the middle of a chaotic situation. Until those | :12:11. | :12:14. | |
details come clear, I think America will be waiting to consider its | :12:14. | :12:21. | |
options. Thank you. | :12:21. | :12:25. | |
There's been a small drop in the number of people out of work in the | :12:25. | :12:28. | |
UK. Unemployment fell by 7,000 in the three months to July and now | :12:28. | :12:31. | |
stands at 2.59 million. It's thought some of the fall could be | :12:31. | :12:34. | |
attributed to the Olympics. Hugh Pym has been examining the new | :12:34. | :12:38. | |
figures. It's more positive news from the | :12:38. | :12:41. | |
jobs market, the number of people in work is up, the highest in four | :12:41. | :12:45. | |
years, and the total of those looking for work fell between May | :12:45. | :12:48. | |
and July. What's happening? Here in Kent a | :12:48. | :12:57. | |
scheme run partly by the Medway kwrous trust -- youth trust helps | :12:57. | :13:03. | |
people find jobs. Kim Kim now works as a waitress, her break came after | :13:04. | :13:08. | |
she impressed bosses during work experience. Having been signed on | :13:08. | :13:12. | |
at the Jobcentre and not really getting anywhere with the job | :13:12. | :13:15. | |
applications I was doing since I left school at 18, two years I have | :13:15. | :13:19. | |
a been searching and not getting anywhere and to get a phone call | :13:19. | :13:21. | |
saying I have made a good impression on my work experience | :13:21. | :13:25. | |
and that they were willing to offer me a job, it just - I was over the | :13:25. | :13:30. | |
moon really. The public sector is still cutting back, employment fell | :13:30. | :13:34. | |
by 39,000 between April and June. But private sector growth more than | :13:34. | :13:39. | |
covered that with a 275,000 employment increase. | :13:39. | :13:42. | |
Total unemployment has fallen in England, it was up in Scotland, | :13:42. | :13:46. | |
Wales and Northern Ireland. Looking at the overall economic | :13:46. | :13:50. | |
landscape there's one thing that's really puzzling for policy-makers, | :13:50. | :13:53. | |
even though the economy is in recession with output contracting, | :13:53. | :13:58. | |
jobs have been created with total employment numbers rising and that | :13:58. | :14:01. | |
doesn't there appear to be a simple explanation. | :14:01. | :14:04. | |
Some experts think the growth picture is brighter than the | :14:04. | :14:07. | |
official figures suggest and that the economy wasn't really | :14:07. | :14:10. | |
contracting in the second quarter of this year. If I strip out what I | :14:10. | :14:16. | |
think is noise, I think actual underlining economic growth was | :14:17. | :14:23. | |
positive. Even so, these employment gains are still too good to be true. | :14:23. | :14:28. | |
At some point I think we will have bit of payback. Now we are doing | :14:28. | :14:33. | |
well. Caitlin doesn't see it that way. She graduated with first class | :14:33. | :14:37. | |
honours this year but even after 100 applications she hasn't landed | :14:37. | :14:41. | |
a job. After being encouraged to work hard for her degree, she feels | :14:41. | :14:46. | |
let down. I feel quite lied to almost, I mean from when I was at | :14:46. | :14:49. | |
school you are constantly being told, if you do a degree you will | :14:49. | :14:54. | |
be able to walk - almost like a middle management job and get get | :14:54. | :14:57. | |
paid loads of money and you come out of university to find you are | :14:57. | :15:01. | |
having to apply for jobs right at the bottom with a rubbish pay like | :15:01. | :15:06. | |
everyone else. Youth unemployment is up slightly as is the number of | :15:06. | :15:09. | |
jobless out of work for more than a year. For some the jobs market | :15:09. | :15:19. | |
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Germany's highest court has decided that the country's constitution | :15:19. | :15:24. | |
does allow it to contribute to a bail-out fund for struggling | :15:24. | :15:28. | |
Eurozone countries. Members of the public had called for a referendum | :15:28. | :15:33. | |
and a block on the fund. Many people said the judges dressed | :15:33. | :15:37. | |
in red held the fate of the Eurozone in their hands. The German | :15:37. | :15:41. | |
constitutional court had to decide whether it was legal for Germany to | :15:41. | :15:46. | |
take part in the single currency's new permanent bail-out fund. In the | :15:46. | :15:51. | |
end, they said it was, as long as German taxpayers faced no unlimited | :15:51. | :15:57. | |
financial liability. In the name of the People, said the court's | :15:57. | :16:01. | |
President, the complaints against the European stability mechanism | :16:01. | :16:06. | |
and the fiscal pact are rejected. He went on to say that nothing in | :16:06. | :16:10. | |
the treaty should be interpreted to mean higher payment obligations by | :16:10. | :16:16. | |
Germany without German consent. Opponents will be dismayed, but | :16:16. | :16:20. | |
there will have been sighs of relief in many capitals across the | :16:20. | :16:25. | |
Continent. Among many here of the European Parliament in Strasbourg. | :16:25. | :16:28. | |
The president of the European Commission, due Jose Manuel Barroso, | :16:28. | :16:32. | |
giving his annual State of the Union speech, spoke of the deep | :16:32. | :16:37. | |
sense of crisis, and unashamedly federalist in tone, he said it was | :16:37. | :16:45. | |
time for new thinking. In Europe, we need now more walls dividing us. | :16:45. | :16:49. | |
The European Union is stronger as a whole in keeping the integrity of | :16:49. | :16:55. | |
its single market, its membership and its interests. No one will be | :16:55. | :17:01. | |
forced to come along, and no one will be forced to stay out. But the | :17:01. | :17:05. | |
speed will not be detected by the - - it will not be dictated by the | :17:05. | :17:10. | |
slowest. He unveiled plans for a banking supervisor for the Eurozone | :17:10. | :17:13. | |
and other countries which want to join, for the first step towards | :17:14. | :17:17. | |
banking union. He called for further economic and political | :17:17. | :17:21. | |
union, a federation of nation states, and said that before the | :17:21. | :17:25. | |
next European elections in 2014, the commission would put forward | :17:25. | :17:29. | |
ideas for changing the EU treaties. Just because the president of the | :17:29. | :17:32. | |
European Commission suggests something, it doesn't mean it will | :17:32. | :17:35. | |
happen. There are huge disagreements among Eurozone | :17:35. | :17:39. | |
countries about the best way forward. But there is an | :17:39. | :17:43. | |
understanding that if the currency is to survive, they do need to pool | :17:43. | :17:46. | |
more sovereignty. The countries that don't want to be involved, | :17:46. | :17:51. | |
like the UK, need to work out how to protect their interests as well. | :17:51. | :17:54. | |
European politicians still need to persuade their people that they are | :17:54. | :17:58. | |
heading in the right direction. The Netherlands is going to the polls | :17:58. | :18:04. | |
today in unease about a decisions made in Europe has been a dominant | :18:04. | :18:07. | |
theme in the campaign there. Pushing through radical change from | :18:07. | :18:17. | |
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the top down will not work any more. Our top story this lunchtime: The | :18:20. | :18:23. | |
Prime Minister says more lives could have been saved in the | :18:23. | :18:27. | |
Hillsborough disaster, but safety was compromised at every level. | :18:27. | :18:31. | |
Coming up: the Royal site beneath a Leicester car park which could be | :18:31. | :18:38. | |
the last resting place of King Richard III. | :18:38. | :18:40. | |
On BBC London: The biggest change in policing for | :18:40. | :18:44. | |
50 years - how the Home Counties will vote for a police commissioner. | :18:44. | :18:47. | |
And up for sale - memorabilia from the Olympic opening ceremony is up | :18:47. | :18:52. | |
for auction. Nearly 250 people have died in a | :18:52. | :18:57. | |
huge fire at a clothing factory in Pakistan. Officials in Karachi say | :18:57. | :18:59. | |
the building's windows had metal grilles fitted and there were no | :18:59. | :19:09. | |
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alarms, sprinklers or emergency exits. | :19:10. | :19:15. | |
For the hundreds of people trapped inside this building became a thing | :19:15. | :19:21. | |
of nightmares. For hour upon hour, bodies have been pulled from its | :19:21. | :19:27. | |
burnt-out shell. Some relatives are still waiting for news. | :19:27. | :19:31. | |
TRANSLATION: they are finding bodies all the time. They are all | :19:31. | :19:36. | |
lying there. But they still haven't found the body of my son. Where is | :19:36. | :19:42. | |
he? Where Is My Boy? He was my youngest son. The fire broke out in | :19:42. | :19:46. | |
the evening and quickly engulfed the entire building. Large | :19:46. | :19:51. | |
quantities of cotton and chemical dyes fuelled the flames. There are | :19:51. | :19:54. | |
reports of factory workers calling relatives to say they couldn't get | :19:54. | :20:02. | |
out. For a staggering number of people, there was simply no escape. | :20:02. | :20:06. | |
No safety measures were taken in the design of the building. There | :20:06. | :20:10. | |
were no safety exits, and all the people got trapped. There was only | :20:10. | :20:18. | |
one way out, which they could not reach. That is why they tried to | :20:18. | :20:22. | |
jump from the windows, but the windows were also blocked by a | :20:22. | :20:27. | |
grill. Many women and children got trapped inside. In terms of the | :20:27. | :20:31. | |
number of dead, this the worst fire in Pakistan for many years. There | :20:31. | :20:35. | |
are renewed calls for the authorities to finally do what they | :20:35. | :20:40. | |
have promised and make sure factory owners abide by safety regulations, | :20:40. | :20:47. | |
before more people lose their lives in such horrific circumstances. | :20:47. | :20:49. | |
The Education Secretary, Michael Gove, has strongly criticised the | :20:49. | :20:52. | |
decision of the Welsh Government to order the re-marking of some GCSE | :20:52. | :20:57. | |
English exams. It follows the admission by the regulator Ofqual | :20:57. | :20:59. | |
that papers marked in January were marked more leniently than those | :20:59. | :21:05. | |
taken in June. But Mr Gove said the Welsh Education Secretary, Leighton | :21:05. | :21:07. | |
Andrews, had made a "regrettable political intervention" that will | :21:07. | :21:17. | |
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disadvantage children in Wales. Our education correspondent is with me. | :21:19. | :21:23. | |
How has this row intensified? Michael Gove was giving evidence to | :21:23. | :21:27. | |
a committee of MPs today, and he used the occasion to launch this | :21:27. | :21:30. | |
outspoken attack on Leighton Andrews. We have been reporting for | :21:30. | :21:35. | |
weeks about the anger that head teachers have felt over the grades | :21:35. | :21:39. | |
that some pupils have got in the June exams. They were furious | :21:39. | :21:42. | |
because they have said many pupils have missed out on college places | :21:43. | :21:47. | |
or sixth-form places. Despite that, the exams watchdog in England, | :21:47. | :21:51. | |
Ofqual, has said it will not reach grade for those exams, in contrast | :21:51. | :21:56. | |
to Wales, where the Welsh Education Minister is himself the regulator. | :21:56. | :22:01. | |
Yesterday, he ordered the Welsh exam board to reach grade papers. | :22:01. | :22:05. | |
That true this stinging response today from Michael Gove. | :22:05. | :22:07. | |
decision by the Welsh Education Minister is irresponsible and | :22:07. | :22:12. | |
mistaken. I think he has undermined confidence in Welsh children's | :22:12. | :22:17. | |
GCSEs, and he should think again after having made what I regard to | :22:17. | :22:21. | |
be a regrettable political intervention. | :22:21. | :22:24. | |
In the past few minutes, there has been a response from the Welsh | :22:24. | :22:28. | |
Education Minister? Yes, Leighton Andrews was angry enough to defend | :22:28. | :22:32. | |
himself promptly. He said Michael Gove has been talking down GCSEs | :22:32. | :22:36. | |
for the past 18 months, and accused him of trying to turn a deepening | :22:36. | :22:40. | |
crisis in England into a political spat with Labour in Wales. In | :22:40. | :22:45. | |
response to the accusation from Mr Gove that he should not have | :22:45. | :22:49. | |
regraded or ordered to regrading of these exams in Wales, he said this. | :22:50. | :22:54. | |
Michael Gove got a number of things wrong today. This is about fairness | :22:54. | :22:57. | |
to students. Michael Gove has said these results are unfair. My | :22:58. | :23:01. | |
officials produced a report demonstrating that the results are | :23:01. | :23:05. | |
unfair. The difference between Michael Gove and is that he will | :23:05. | :23:09. | |
not act. I have. So we are still in this strange situation of having | :23:09. | :23:13. | |
pupils in Wales who will be regraded, and pupils in England who | :23:13. | :23:17. | |
did exactly the same exam who will not be regraded. And we had an | :23:17. | :23:20. | |
almighty row going on between the education ministers in Westminster | :23:20. | :23:23. | |
and Cardiff. He famously promised his kingdom | :23:23. | :23:27. | |
for a horse, but what happened to the body of King Richard III after | :23:27. | :23:30. | |
his defeat at the Battle of Bosworth has remained a mystery for | :23:30. | :23:32. | |
more than 500 years. Until now, maybe. Archaeologists in Leicester | :23:32. | :23:36. | |
have been digging in a car park in the city centre, and this morning | :23:36. | :23:38. | |
announced that they had made a discovery that could solve the | :23:39. | :23:48. | |
:23:49. | :23:49. | ||
mystery. In a quiet Leicester Street, crowds | :23:49. | :23:54. | |
gather to hear a word of the King. The search for Richard III's final | :23:54. | :24:01. | |
resting place appears to be on firmer foundations today. Beneath a | :24:01. | :24:03. | |
city-centre car park, these trenches have revealed the medieval | :24:03. | :24:08. | |
Grey Friars church, and from there, more evidence has led them to human | :24:08. | :24:16. | |
remains. We have a man with what appear to be battle injuries, who | :24:16. | :24:21. | |
suffered from severe scoliosis, curvature of the spine. | :24:21. | :24:25. | |
Respectfully, but modestly buried in a place of honour in the church. | :24:25. | :24:28. | |
The team behind this did say it has been mind-blowing. In just three | :24:28. | :24:33. | |
weeks, they have uncovered part of the nation's history, which has | :24:33. | :24:38. | |
been parked here for centuries. So far, the pieces fit with some | :24:38. | :24:42. | |
historical accounts of Richard's death and burial. After his defeat | :24:42. | :24:47. | |
at the Battle of Bosworth, and they could we write some of our history | :24:47. | :24:53. | |
books. It does potentially change everything in terms of study of the | :24:53. | :24:58. | |
real Richard III, not the Tudor myth. A 17thth generation | :24:58. | :25:03. | |
descendant of the king's sister has given DNA samples to experts, and | :25:03. | :25:09. | |
they hope to match them with the remains. 527 years after Richard's | :25:10. | :25:13. | |
death, we must now wait at least another three months to answer the | :25:13. | :25:21. | |
big question. Now we return to our top story. The | :25:21. | :25:24. | |
Prime Minister has apologised to relatives of the 96 victims of the | :25:24. | :25:27. | |
Hillsborough stadium disaster for their suffering of the past 23 | :25:27. | :25:31. | |
years. Mr Cameron said the safety of the crowds had been compromised | :25:31. | :25:38. | |
at every level, and lives could have been saved. Let's talk to our | :25:38. | :25:41. | |
correspondent outside the headquarters of South Yorkshire | :25:41. | :25:46. | |
police. The authorities were severely criticised in Sheffield | :25:46. | :25:52. | |
for their cover up. Remind us what was said? It would have made very | :25:52. | :25:56. | |
uncomfortable hearing for various public organisations here, | :25:56. | :25:59. | |
particularly the ambulance service, the coroner at the time and above | :25:59. | :26:02. | |
all, south you go police. The Prime Minister said today that South | :26:02. | :26:07. | |
Yorkshire police gave briefings to the media in an attempt by the | :26:07. | :26:11. | |
police to change the account of events that day. He said the source | :26:11. | :26:14. | |
of those despicable untruths was a news agency in Sheffield that was | :26:14. | :26:19. | |
talking to the police as well. Hundreds of statements were changed | :26:19. | :26:24. | |
to put the police in a more favourable light and to push the | :26:24. | :26:29. | |
blame on to the Liverpool fans. Various documents relating to South | :26:29. | :26:33. | |
Yorkshire's Ambulance organisation were also changed. And the | :26:33. | :26:36. | |
coroner's inquest was criticised. There is now considerable doubt | :26:36. | :26:42. | |
over the adequacy of those inquests. There were accidental deaths which | :26:42. | :26:47. | |
were ruled at the time, and there is now about over that. | :26:47. | :26:50. | |
families will be expecting justice and will expect the authorities to | :26:50. | :26:54. | |
come up with a reaction to what has been said. Have we had any response | :26:54. | :26:59. | |
so far? South Yorkshire police will give a statement at 3pm this | :26:59. | :27:02. | |
afternoon, although the Prime Minister has said this is a very | :27:02. | :27:06. | |
different organisation to what it was 23 years ago. These documents | :27:06. | :27:09. | |
will now be passed on to the Attorney-General, who will decide | :27:09. | :27:13. | |
whether there are to be new inquests and maybe criminal charges | :27:13. | :27:19. | |
against those involved. For example, for perverting the course of | :27:19. | :27:22. | |
justice. Let's see what the Attorney-General says, but there | :27:22. | :27:26. | |
could well be inquests happening again into the deaths of the 96 | :27:26. | :27:36. | |
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We have our first autumnal gales of the season on their way, courtesy | :27:43. | :27:48. | |
of this area of low pressure. There are some trouble cold air mixed in, | :27:48. | :27:52. | |
hence the risk of severe gales. Ahead of that, we have this lump of | :27:52. | :27:58. | |
cloud across the country, giving us some potent rain. We have had a wet | :27:58. | :28:01. | |
morning in Northern Ireland. It is currently raining heavily in parts | :28:01. | :28:04. | |
of north-west England, and that rain is expected to drift eastwards | :28:04. | :28:07. | |
in the next few hours. There is a lot of cloud moving further south | :28:07. | :28:13. | |
as well. There are overcast skies in southern areas. Not raining for | :28:13. | :28:19. | |
everyone, but it is a lot cooler, with cloudier conditions due in the | :28:19. | :28:23. | |
afternoon compared with recent days. We will see a few showers across | :28:23. | :28:30. | |
the south-west of England and Wales. In contrast, after a wet morning in | :28:30. | :28:33. | |
Northern Ireland, it brightens up, with good spells of sunshine. It | :28:33. | :28:38. | |
should be a lovely and to the day for most. A similar scenario for | :28:38. | :28:43. | |
Scotland. The showers will ease off dramatically as we head through the | :28:43. | :28:46. | |
afternoon. Eventually, the drier and brighter weather in the north | :28:47. | :28:50. | |
will filter southwards for some evening sunshine in northern | :28:50. | :28:55. | |
England and North Wales. It was chilly first thing this morning in | :28:55. | :28:59. | |
a few localities. It will be chilly in many more localities overnight, | :28:59. | :29:06. | |
except the far north. Temperatures recover here. Out in the suburbs | :29:06. | :29:11. | |
and the countryside, temperatures will mean potential ice gripping | :29:11. | :29:15. | |
first thing tomorrow morning, even possibly the odd pocket of foggy | :29:15. | :29:20. | |
lingering into the rush-hour. There will be increased cloud around | :29:20. | :29:25. | |
western coasts, but the cloud and rain piles in. It will not be a day | :29:25. | :29:34. | |
for the mountains. A bit warmer in the South, with more sunshine than | :29:34. | :29:39. | |
today. Tomorrow night, the winds escalate further. We are talking 50 | :29:39. | :29:44. | |
mph gusts through the day and severe gale territory overnight | :29:44. | :29:51. | |
across Scotland. The winds will gradually ease on Friday. It is | :29:51. | :29:56. | |
looking quieter. More cloud has introduced to the south, but it | :29:56. | :30:00. |