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The bodies of an young couple are found her in a swollen river in | :00:09. | :00:12. | |
North Wales. It is thought there may have been trying to save their | :00:12. | :00:17. | |
dog from the flooded river. In Yorkshire, people have been rescued | :00:17. | :00:21. | |
by boat as water continues to hit parts of the UK. | :00:21. | :00:25. | |
Years of failures by a social services and police allowed young | :00:25. | :00:30. | |
girls to be sexually abused, according to a report. | :00:30. | :00:34. | |
Better news for the UK economy - it shrank by less than thought in the | :00:34. | :00:37. | |
last quarter. More news from Spain as the | :00:37. | :00:41. | |
government plans to run rail more austerity measures. | :00:41. | :00:47. | |
And coming unstuck as David Cameron is subjected to a mock citizenship | :00:47. | :00:53. | |
test on television. And the literal translation? Again, you are testing | :00:53. | :00:58. | |
me... It would be good if you knew this! It would be! | :00:58. | :01:01. | |
Later on BBC London: Evidence of more camps of illegal | :01:01. | :01:04. | |
immigrants sleeping rough in West London - charities call for help. | :01:04. | :01:07. | |
And senior officers could go, as the Met Police seeks to find tens | :01:07. | :01:17. | |
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Police say the bodies of a young couple have been found in a swollen | :01:33. | :01:36. | |
river near Wrexham in North Wales. It is thought they may have been | :01:36. | :01:42. | |
trying to rescue a dog which got into trouble in the flooded river. | :01:42. | :01:45. | |
Meanwhile, the Environment Agency says around 300 homes have been | :01:45. | :01:49. | |
flooded in Yorkshire and soldiers had to be brought in to help with a | :01:49. | :01:58. | |
sand back operation. The bodies of a 27-year-old woman | :01:58. | :02:03. | |
and a 25-year-old man were found yesterday afternoon and early this | :02:04. | :02:07. | |
morning. Both are believed to be from the Wrexham area and it is | :02:07. | :02:12. | |
thought their deaths are linked. believe the couple were here with | :02:12. | :02:17. | |
dogs at the time the river was swollen and the river is at a | :02:17. | :02:22. | |
higher level than it was at the moment. It is impossible to say | :02:22. | :02:25. | |
whether the animals went into the river and they went in to save them | :02:25. | :02:29. | |
because we do not have the evidence to confirm that. Heavy rainfall | :02:29. | :02:34. | |
over the past three days has affected much of Wales. The Fire | :02:34. | :02:38. | |
Service has already warned people to be careful following the extreme | :02:38. | :02:43. | |
weather. To be honest, the river still has tremendous power and | :02:43. | :02:48. | |
still bursting banks. It has moved a tree at the back of us about a | :02:48. | :02:53. | |
foot, so that is how much power is in the water. So if anybody had | :02:53. | :02:58. | |
fallen in, it would have taken them quite a way further down the river. | :02:58. | :03:03. | |
The Fire Service described parts of this river as fast-flowing. Locals | :03:03. | :03:07. | |
say the river had already burst its banks in some areas. Emergency | :03:07. | :03:11. | |
services are continuing to warn people about the dangers of fast- | :03:11. | :03:15. | |
flowing, swollen rivers as police tried to piece together how this | :03:15. | :03:21. | |
tragedy occurred. If in York, River Ouse has risen | :03:21. | :03:25. | |
five metres above its usual level to its second highest level ever. | :03:25. | :03:28. | |
Some people had to be rescued from the flood waters by boat this | :03:28. | :03:34. | |
morning. It Thomas is in the City now. | :03:34. | :03:38. | |
-- ed Thomas. This is how firefighters are getting around | :03:38. | :03:43. | |
some parts of York today. River Ouse has now peaked and hundreds of | :03:43. | :03:47. | |
homes have been flooded. But they are confident they are over the | :03:47. | :03:55. | |
worst. River Ouse peak in York and the flood defences held. But that | :03:55. | :04:02. | |
isn't even half the story. The mess it left behind goes on. For two | :04:02. | :04:07. | |
days, the place Jacqui and David call home is now more like a prison. | :04:07. | :04:12. | |
Have you ever seen at this bad before? Nowhere near. How has this | :04:12. | :04:17. | |
left you feeling? Emotionally draining. I stood at the top of the | :04:17. | :04:21. | |
stairs and when I could see the amount of water that is that colour | :04:21. | :04:28. | |
but now inside the house. Then there's the vulnerable. Here, | :04:28. | :04:32. | |
firefighters had to use bodes so carers could visit those who needed | :04:32. | :04:38. | |
help the most. -- used boats. Obviously it is trying to get the | :04:38. | :04:43. | |
medication to them, more than anything. But, yeah, we have been | :04:43. | :04:48. | |
back and forth all day. York is no stranger to floods but nobody | :04:48. | :04:57. | |
expected this. If we manage to get three, four hours sleep last night. | :04:58. | :05:02. | |
Now the focus for the Environment Agency moves downstream. In this | :05:02. | :05:05. | |
control room, the Red Tower represents what saving thousands of | :05:05. | :05:13. | |
homes along with the Mac. We are pumping out thousands of litres per | :05:13. | :05:20. | |
second. If that wasn't happening, it would go over the top... Into | :05:20. | :05:27. | |
the city centre? Yes. This is the main worry. Just a few miles from | :05:27. | :05:33. | |
York, soldiers have used 400,000 sandbags to save this village. | :05:33. | :05:38. | |
and my husband came down and there were many residents already. | :05:38. | :05:43. | |
Basically, the moral and agency gave us instructions to start with | :05:43. | :05:47. | |
the sand bags. -- the Environment Agency. The misery left behind will | :05:47. | :05:51. | |
take far longer than the water to clear. | :05:51. | :05:55. | |
This is one of the boats used to help some of the vulnerable people | :05:55. | :06:01. | |
from the care home over there. The A1 is still shut. We expect it to | :06:01. | :06:10. | |
open later today but the waters appear to be easing in Selby. | :06:10. | :06:13. | |
Worries that the river would burst its banks now look to be just that | :06:13. | :06:18. | |
- worries. Social workers, police and | :06:18. | :06:22. | |
prosecutors have been criticised for missing opportunities to stop | :06:22. | :06:26. | |
the abuse of young girls in Rochdale. In May, eight men of | :06:26. | :06:30. | |
Pakistani origin and one from Afghanistan were jailed for | :06:30. | :06:34. | |
repeatedly abusing five white girls. A report from the Rochdale | :06:34. | :06:41. | |
Safeguarding Children Board has found deficiencies were made in | :06:41. | :06:47. | |
where it -- the way complaints were dealt with. In 2007, care teams | :06:48. | :06:52. | |
here in Rochdale first identify children at risk of sexual | :06:52. | :06:55. | |
exploitation, yet when they came forward in the years immediately | :06:56. | :07:00. | |
afterwards, they were not believed or not listened to. It comes down | :07:00. | :07:05. | |
to money, resources and training, but is -- what is most concern is | :07:05. | :07:08. | |
the culture within children's social care. Children were | :07:08. | :07:12. | |
considered to be making their own choices and engaging in consensual | :07:12. | :07:17. | |
activity. In reality, they were being abused and exploited by a | :07:17. | :07:23. | |
grinning gang. Years of failings left children | :07:23. | :07:28. | |
vulnerable in the Rochdale area and dozens suffered abuse. Even after a | :07:28. | :07:32. | |
authorities have been told what was happening. Earlier this year, nine | :07:32. | :07:37. | |
men were jailed for sexually exploiting girls in Halewood, just | :07:37. | :07:41. | |
on the outskirts of Rochdale, but this was long after one of the | :07:41. | :07:46. | |
girls had given detailed complaints to social workers. Suzie is not her | :07:46. | :07:52. | |
real name but months ago, she told the BBC she had simply been ignored. | :07:52. | :07:58. | |
I was used to being used and abused daily. It was like it wasn't me any | :07:58. | :08:02. | |
more. They took everything away. The report says in the wake of the | :08:02. | :08:07. | |
baby peas scandal, social services were more concerned about younger | :08:07. | :08:13. | |
children and teenagers. -- the Baby P scandal. Teenagers say they were | :08:13. | :08:17. | |
not listened to and even when they co-operated with agencies, the | :08:17. | :08:22. | |
abuse continued. Social workers took the view that the girls were | :08:22. | :08:27. | |
making life choices and they viewed them as prostitutes. All of that is | :08:27. | :08:33. | |
completely unacceptable. The culture was wrong. One of the | :08:33. | :08:38. | |
victim's fathers said he wanted those who have made mistakes named, | :08:38. | :08:42. | |
shamed and sacked. In terms of being named and shamed, and need to | :08:42. | :08:48. | |
make sure this is rooted out and this is effective. And if there are | :08:48. | :08:56. | |
staff working in any of our departments who are unable to | :08:56. | :08:59. | |
recognise this in under-aged children, clearly they would have | :08:59. | :09:05. | |
to be disciplined. One of the girls' lawyers says she is planning | :09:05. | :09:09. | |
to sue for compensation because of what the report calls clear | :09:09. | :09:13. | |
deficiencies. Obviously we need to get a picture and the detailed of | :09:13. | :09:18. | |
what happened but this gives a pretty firm basis. In Rochdale, | :09:18. | :09:22. | |
there have been many steps taken to improve child protection but | :09:22. | :09:26. | |
today's report is just the first in a series trying to uncover why | :09:26. | :09:32. | |
there were so many years of failure. I am that pattern of mistakes and | :09:32. | :09:36. | |
failures are familiar from other areas where grooming has been a | :09:36. | :09:43. | |
problem. -- and that pattern. Serious case reviews are still to | :09:43. | :09:48. | |
be held. But at the same time, this multi-agency reviewed has exposed | :09:48. | :09:52. | |
some of the difficulties riddled through the whole system, and one | :09:52. | :09:57. | |
told the BBC Today, I am just glad they acknowledged they were wrong. | :09:57. | :10:00. | |
The UK economy shrank by less than thought in the second quarter of | :10:00. | :10:05. | |
this year, according to the latest figures. The Office for National | :10:05. | :10:09. | |
Statistics said GDP, the total of all goods and services produced in | :10:09. | :10:16. | |
the country, fell by 0.4% between April and June. Not as bad as we | :10:16. | :10:23. | |
thought. Why? This is the latest snapshot and they have keyed the | :10:24. | :10:30. | |
data in. The picture looks better than we thought. Let's remind us of | :10:30. | :10:37. | |
the original figure. It showed output down by 0.7% in June. After | :10:37. | :10:42. | |
two revisions, we are told the report figure was not 0.4%. Still | :10:42. | :10:46. | |
in recession so not as bad. The key reason is down to largely the | :10:47. | :10:54. | |
construction sector. A really big fall in the first four months of | :10:54. | :11:01. | |
5.2%. Now, the fall is more like 3%, so not as bad. Some people could be | :11:01. | :11:04. | |
wondering whether the first estimate was a long way from | :11:04. | :11:08. | |
reality. And people will also be looking forward to the next set of | :11:08. | :11:13. | |
figures. Are we likely to see growth? Yes, some economists think | :11:13. | :11:19. | |
there will be growth, helped by the Olympics and tickets sold last year, | :11:19. | :11:22. | |
though their only count towards figures in the current quarter. And | :11:22. | :11:28. | |
the bank holiday effect. That will happen in this quarter. I do not | :11:29. | :11:32. | |
think anybody is talking yet about a sustainable long-term recovery, | :11:32. | :11:36. | |
however. A health trust in Staffordshire | :11:36. | :11:40. | |
says two premature babies have died while being cared for at a neonatal | :11:41. | :11:44. | |
unit at the University Hospital North Staffordshire. They had | :11:44. | :11:48. | |
contracted a red bud and both died in July. The details have only just | :11:48. | :11:58. | |
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been released. A third baby is also being treated. -- they had | :11:58. | :12:04. | |
contracted a bug. These two babies died back in July. They were being | :12:04. | :12:08. | |
cared for at the neonatal unit after being born prematurely, less | :12:08. | :12:14. | |
than 28 weeks. They found both babies had died because they | :12:14. | :12:18. | |
contracted this bacterial infection called Serratia marcescens. | :12:18. | :12:22. | |
Obviously they reacted by doing his sweep of neonatal units to look for | :12:22. | :12:27. | |
any other infections and they did find five other babies in that unit | :12:27. | :12:33. | |
were carrying it. Subsequently, they close the unit and they | :12:33. | :12:37. | |
performed a deep clean and say since then, there have been no new | :12:37. | :12:42. | |
cases. Obviously, the hospital has offered its condolences to the | :12:42. | :12:47. | |
families of those two babies and reassured parents who have been | :12:47. | :12:49. | |
discharged with their newborn babies that they need not worry | :12:49. | :12:53. | |
about infection. Fife the Spanish government is | :12:53. | :12:57. | |
about to unveil billions of pounds worth of spending cuts and tax | :12:57. | :13:01. | |
rises today as it seeks to convince investors and the EU it is serious | :13:01. | :13:04. | |
about reducing its deficit but the austerity budget has already | :13:04. | :13:08. | |
provoked an angry response in Spain, which is suffering from the highest | :13:08. | :13:17. | |
unemployment rate in Europe. Late last night, thousands gathered | :13:17. | :13:22. | |
again on the roads around Spain's Parliament. Again, a tense | :13:22. | :13:27. | |
atmosphere as the police moved in. But it was not violent, like the | :13:27. | :13:33. | |
night before. -- not North Island the night before. All this as the | :13:33. | :13:38. | |
government tries to set out its Budget for next year. There is a | :13:38. | :13:42. | |
sense of deja-vu as the Spanish government cuts tens of billions of | :13:42. | :13:46. | |
euros from his Budget. This is Spain doing its part of the deal | :13:46. | :13:50. | |
with the eurozone, which has already pledged 100 billion euros | :13:50. | :13:53. | |
for troubled banks here and will soon probably have to help Spain | :13:53. | :14:02. | |
again. So what is the Spanish government trying to do? It has to | :14:02. | :14:07. | |
reduce the budget are so fit. It needs to make savings of 62 billion | :14:07. | :14:13. | |
euros this year and 42 billion euros in 2013. The fear is that a | :14:13. | :14:17. | |
deteriorating recession makes hitting those targets even harder. | :14:17. | :14:20. | |
The problem is if you raise taxes because you need revenue to pay | :14:20. | :14:25. | |
your debts, consumption goes down so you don't have money to pay the | :14:25. | :14:31. | |
debts and then there is no growth and you stay in a recession, so, | :14:31. | :14:37. | |
yes, it is a vicious circle. It is impossible to solve this conundrum. | :14:37. | :14:41. | |
By it for all the pressure from its eurozone partners, there is anger | :14:41. | :14:46. | |
from those affected by government cuts. Health workers demonstrate | :14:46. | :14:50. | |
every day you the country's biggest hospital. Government budgets will | :14:50. | :14:55. | |
again be/today as people here struggle in a deepening recession. | :14:55. | :15:01. | |
-- again today will be slashed. Asil Nadir has told a court he is | :15:01. | :15:07. | |
penniless. He was jailed for 10 years last month, seen here on the | :15:07. | :15:11. | |
right, after being found guilty of stealing millions from his Polly | :15:12. | :15:16. | |
Peck business empire. He said he had no financial assets to the Old | :15:16. | :15:19. | |
Bailey. A policeman has told a court how we | :15:19. | :15:23. | |
found a gun allegedly belonging to Mark Duggan in Bruges is a short | :15:23. | :15:28. | |
distance from where he was shot dead by police. -- in bushes. His | :15:28. | :15:38. | |
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death sparked riots in London last This was one of a number of | :15:41. | :15:45. | |
witnesses who have so far given evidence anonymously from behind a | :15:45. | :15:52. | |
screen. This one was an occupant of one of the three unmarked police | :15:52. | :15:56. | |
cars full of firearms officers which intercepted the mini-cab in | :15:56. | :15:59. | |
which Mark Duggan was travelling. He talked about the moment when | :15:59. | :16:03. | |
Mark Duggan got out of the mini-cab. He said in his experience, people | :16:03. | :16:09. | |
in this situation either freeze like a rabbit. In Mark Duggan's | :16:09. | :16:14. | |
case, he said it was the former. He believed Mark Duggan was trying to | :16:14. | :16:19. | |
escape when he was shot by police. This police officer said he was | :16:19. | :16:23. | |
unable to see Mark Duggan's hands, so he couldn't see if he was armed. | :16:23. | :16:27. | |
He then described the moment when Mark Duggan was shot. He said he | :16:27. | :16:32. | |
was aware of Mark Duggan's jacket ballooning up behind his back as | :16:32. | :16:36. | |
the bullets pierced his body. He has then said there was a falling | :16:36. | :16:40. | |
off the legs and a fall into the ground. This officer then surged | :16:40. | :16:45. | |
grassland just the other side of railings from where Mark Duggan was | :16:45. | :16:49. | |
shot. He surged some cautious first and then he found a black object | :16:49. | :16:54. | |
which turned out, he said, to be a hand gun wrapped in a sock. It was | :16:54. | :16:57. | |
located about a car's length from Mark Duggan. This trial is all | :16:57. | :17:01. | |
about how Mark Duggan is supposed to have got at gun. There's a man | :17:01. | :17:05. | |
and they're called Kevin Hutchinson Foster who denies supplying Mark | :17:05. | :17:09. | |
Duggan with the gun, 15 minutes before he was shot dead by police. | :17:09. | :17:13. | |
We started hearing evidence from the mini-cab driver who drove Mark | :17:13. | :17:19. | |
Duggan, and that will continue this afternoon. The bodies of a young | :17:19. | :17:24. | |
couple have been found in a swollen river in North Wales, as | :17:24. | :17:32. | |
floodwaters continued to hit parts of the UK. How this British build, | :17:32. | :17:36. | |
150 mph supercar has broken a land speed record, powered by | :17:36. | :17:41. | |
electricity. Later on BBC London. A stretch of road in Surrey has | :17:41. | :17:44. | |
collapsed because of a burst water- main, causing schools to close. And | :17:44. | :17:46. | |
the London carpenter who's just discovered he's a descendant of | :17:46. | :17:56. | |
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The government's health service reforms in England have provoked | :18:00. | :18:04. | |
huge controversy, particularly over the role of private companies. The | :18:04. | :18:07. | |
changes mean there are many new opportunities for businesses to bid | :18:08. | :18:12. | |
for NHS work. Ministers maintain this will mean better care and | :18:12. | :18:16. | |
value for money. But critics worry that private firms will put profits | :18:16. | :18:23. | |
before the interests of patients. Our correspondent is at AGP's | :18:23. | :18:27. | |
surgery now. So far, most of the debate about | :18:27. | :18:30. | |
privatisation in the health service has been to do about what goes on | :18:30. | :18:33. | |
in hospitals. But there's a lot happening in privately run GP | :18:33. | :18:38. | |
practices such as this one, and other local health services. | :18:38. | :18:43. | |
Companies are keen to get involved in this growing market, worth an | :18:43. | :18:49. | |
estimated �10 billion a year. you just open wide. This GP | :18:49. | :18:53. | |
practice in Birmingham looks much like any other modern NHS surgery. | :18:53. | :19:00. | |
It has 4000 registered NHS patients. It treats many more who walk in | :19:00. | :19:05. | |
without an appointment. But it is owned by a private company, Virgin | :19:05. | :19:10. | |
care, in partnership with local GPs. It's one of several big firms with | :19:10. | :19:14. | |
a foothold in the market of GP and other local health services. The | :19:14. | :19:19. | |
company says there are benefits to being part of a chain. Because we | :19:19. | :19:22. | |
are a national company, we have the opportunity here to draw on the | :19:22. | :19:26. | |
experience of a wide network across the country. And network of | :19:27. | :19:31. | |
clinicians, but also a network of managers. We learn lessons from | :19:31. | :19:36. | |
around the country. By deploying all of that in this service, and | :19:36. | :19:39. | |
it's the same throughout the country, we managed to provide | :19:39. | :19:44. | |
something that is so much better than what people are used to. | :19:44. | :19:49. | |
company promotes the patient be back. It says satisfaction rates | :19:49. | :19:54. | |
compare well with the NHS. Patients we spoke to were pleased with the | :19:54. | :19:58. | |
service, with some reservations. How have you been, the practice you | :19:58. | :20:07. | |
been coming to his run by Virgin? I've never been told. How much does | :20:07. | :20:12. | |
that matter to you? Not a lot. NHS is opening up for business as | :20:13. | :20:20. | |
never before. Virgin Care runs 120 NHS services across England, | :20:20. | :20:23. | |
including 25 g be partnerships such as this one, covering 3 million | :20:23. | :20:29. | |
people. But this is just the start. There are new opportunities opening | :20:29. | :20:34. | |
up for community-based services including scans, physiotherapy and | :20:34. | :20:38. | |
foot care. But business potential is enormous. Critics say this could | :20:38. | :20:43. | |
create pressure for GPs to refer patients on to their own company's | :20:43. | :20:47. | |
services. They fear profits will always take priority. A there's | :20:48. | :20:52. | |
bound to be a divided loyalty there. The NHS logo outside but the | :20:53. | :20:56. | |
employer, which is a private company, and that private company | :20:56. | :20:59. | |
is not there for the good of our health, it's there in order to | :20:59. | :21:03. | |
ensure they make money. And therefore the GP will be torn as to | :21:03. | :21:07. | |
whether or not they prioritise the interests of the company and some | :21:07. | :21:11. | |
of the requirements of the company, or whether or not they prioritise | :21:11. | :21:16. | |
patient care. The contest for NHS contracts is on. It's not clear how | :21:16. | :21:20. | |
many of these local health services will be run by the private sector. | :21:20. | :21:24. | |
Businesses insist they can improve the NHS. Critics say they could | :21:24. | :21:31. | |
wreck it. What does all this mean for patients? The idea is to | :21:31. | :21:34. | |
provide more options for treatment, more choice. But some people fear | :21:35. | :21:39. | |
that having a lot of extra providers coming on the scene will | :21:39. | :21:45. | |
simply add to confusion and cause disruption. You can get more | :21:45. | :21:48. | |
information on the future of the National Health Service on our | :21:48. | :21:57. | |
David Cameron has become the first sitting British Prime Minister to | :21:57. | :22:01. | |
appear on the Late Show With David Letterman in New York. The | :22:01. | :22:06. | |
satirical chat show is an American cultural institution. A mock | :22:06. | :22:09. | |
British citizen test was sprung on David Cameron, which revealed a few | :22:09. | :22:18. | |
gaps in his knowledge. There were no questions about Andrew Mitchell | :22:18. | :22:24. | |
or Boris Johnson or the state of the coalition. Instead, when David | :22:24. | :22:27. | |
Cameron appeared on the Late Show With David Letterman in New York | :22:27. | :22:31. | |
last night, he found himself being closely interrogated about British | :22:31. | :22:39. | |
history and culture. Rule Britannia, written by whom? Elgar? Rule | :22:39. | :22:44. | |
Britannia, which is a beautiful refrain based on a poem by James | :22:44. | :22:50. | |
Thompson, are you familiar with James Thomson? I am now. The Prime | :22:50. | :22:53. | |
Minister was able to explain the differences between the nations of | :22:53. | :22:57. | |
the UK, the size of the population, the extent of the British Empire | :22:57. | :23:01. | |
and the date and place where Magna Carta was signed. But much to his | :23:01. | :23:09. | |
embarrassment, Mr Cameron was unable to say what Magna Carter -- | :23:09. | :23:15. | |
Magna Carta or mend in English. would be good if you knew this. | :23:15. | :23:18. | |
think it's good for the American public to see him, they don't know | :23:18. | :23:22. | |
that much about him. I sort of like him, I thought he was a good guide. | :23:22. | :23:27. | |
I'm going to look him up on Wikipedia when I get home. What the | :23:27. | :23:33. | |
3 million Americans watching it made of them is not known. But when | :23:33. | :23:37. | |
David Cameron returns home this week, they'll probably be asking | :23:37. | :23:41. | |
that border staff don't want him to do a citizen test. A website has | :23:41. | :23:45. | |
been launched offering information and how much value for many | :23:45. | :23:49. | |
university courses offer. The UniSat site lists the cost of every | :23:49. | :23:52. | |
higher education course in the UK and includes the number of teaching | :23:52. | :24:01. | |
hours and how much graduates are Going to university is not just | :24:01. | :24:06. | |
about learning but about cost, with tuition fees rising the students | :24:06. | :24:08. | |
are now consumers and the government wants them to have | :24:08. | :24:12. | |
access to good information. It has set up this website for applicants | :24:12. | :24:17. | |
to compare thousands of degree courses across the UK, similar to | :24:17. | :24:22. | |
those for insurance or mortgages. It is all about and lodging student | :24:22. | :24:28. | |
choice, empowerment. So what is and universities deciding which | :24:28. | :24:31. | |
students they want, it's the students deciding which | :24:31. | :24:35. | |
universities and courses they want. The website includes data on | :24:35. | :24:38. | |
average earnings after graduation, the cost of tuition and | :24:38. | :24:42. | |
accommodation, the amount of teaching and the level of student | :24:42. | :24:46. | |
satisfaction. These teenagers are making their university choices. Do | :24:46. | :24:52. | |
they think the website is helpful? It's great. It allows me to compare | :24:52. | :24:56. | |
different universities around this area. To see what university is | :24:56. | :25:00. | |
better at what I'm looking for. is very important because one of | :25:00. | :25:03. | |
the main deciding factors, as well as an interest in the course, you | :25:03. | :25:07. | |
need to know how much it costs. These women are already at | :25:07. | :25:11. | |
university in London, but they have found this website useful. It is | :25:11. | :25:15. | |
good information for certain people. For me, I don't think I've would | :25:15. | :25:19. | |
have particularly used it because I knew I wanted to come here and do | :25:19. | :25:24. | |
this course. Ministers who braised tuition fees to a maximum of | :25:24. | :25:27. | |
�9,000.10 students to see the air getting value for money, but | :25:27. | :25:30. | |
critics dismiss all this information as just a sideshow. | :25:30. | :25:34. | |
Simply giving them more information about universities that they can't | :25:34. | :25:38. | |
afford and can't have access to because of government policy, I'm | :25:38. | :25:42. | |
afraid it is something of a gimmick and I'm afraid, too, it is | :25:42. | :25:46. | |
something of a Binya. Few will argue against more information for | :25:46. | :25:49. | |
prospective students, but some do question whether this limited set | :25:49. | :25:55. | |
of figures says anything meaningful about the real value of a degree. | :25:55. | :26:01. | |
The makers of a battery-powered car claimed to have set a new UK land | :26:01. | :26:03. | |
speed record for an electric vehicle. The car, known as the | :26:03. | :26:10. | |
Nemesis, reached 148 mph at Elvington airfield, near York, | :26:10. | :26:20. | |
:26:20. | :26:23. | ||
This is no milk float. Nick. -- Nick Ponting is at the wheel of a | :26:23. | :26:27. | |
vehicle that may not sound like a supercar but certainly behaves like | :26:27. | :26:37. | |
one. The speed on the first leg tops 145. This is John, Go, Go, Go! | :26:37. | :26:44. | |
And on the return my he goes even faster. A new record, 148 mph. | :26:44. | :26:51. | |
They've done it, have they? Yes, they've done it. Congratulations, | :26:51. | :26:56. | |
you've broken the record. But what is it like to drive? Very different. | :26:56. | :27:00. | |
It is phenomenally quick. It feels very different to any racing car | :27:00. | :27:04. | |
I've ever driven. The acceleration is phenomenal. It is probably one | :27:04. | :27:10. | |
of the quickest cars I've driven, much quicker than a V12 Ferrari. | :27:10. | :27:15. | |
has been a labour of love and money to convert this car, bought from E- | :27:15. | :27:21. | |
Day, into a record-breaker. The company behind it is a green energy | :27:21. | :27:25. | |
firm and once Nemesis to challenge perceptions that electric cars are | :27:25. | :27:29. | |
slow. What we are hoping to achieve is to get a bit of attention for | :27:29. | :27:32. | |
electric cars and get people thinking about them in a different | :27:32. | :27:37. | |
way. They are not the kind of things that Noddy might drive, they | :27:37. | :27:44. | |
are supercars. Now Campbell hurtles over the salt flats... We Brits | :27:44. | :27:48. | |
have long harboured a need for speed. The previous UK electorate | :27:48. | :27:54. | |
record of 137 mph was set by the grandson of Sir Malcolm Campbell, a | :27:54. | :28:01. | |
family name synonymous with speed records. The new record has to be | :28:01. | :28:05. | |
officially ratified but if it is, Nemesis will have achieved did not | :28:05. | :28:15. | |
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They chose a pretty good morning for that record. Most of us | :28:20. | :28:25. | |
enjoying a pretty decent afternoon. Plenty of sunshine, dry and bright. | :28:25. | :28:30. | |
There will be one or two showers out there. There is some cloud | :28:30. | :28:34. | |
gathering in the north-west which will bring some rain. The hole in | :28:34. | :28:40. | |
the crowd behind it is Saturday's weather, looking good for Saturday. | :28:40. | :28:45. | |
Before that happens, a lot of fine, dry weather across the UK into the | :28:45. | :28:50. | |
afternoon. One or two showers in Wales. Sunshine a bit harder to | :28:50. | :28:53. | |
find in Northern Ireland but they be some lingering longer has the | :28:53. | :28:56. | |
further east you are. There is already some rain in western | :28:57. | :29:00. | |
Scotland and there is more to come. Eastern Scotland Ferring that bit | :29:00. | :29:07. | |
better. -- bearing that bit better. In northern England there is plenty | :29:07. | :29:12. | |
of sunshine. Maybe one or two showers the most places fine and | :29:12. | :29:20. | |
dry. The showers are fairly few and far between in most places. Like | :29:20. | :29:25. | |
winds, it's a pretty pleasant afternoon. It is largely dry | :29:26. | :29:29. | |
towards the south and west. Tonight, the rain push us into Northern | :29:29. | :29:34. | |
Ireland and moves through swiftly. Eventually it will clear away from | :29:34. | :29:40. | |
Scotland. Ahead of it should stay dry but behind it are some showers | :29:40. | :29:45. | |
coming in. Most showers being pushed along by a noticeable breeze. | :29:45. | :29:49. | |
A breezy day in the north of the UK through tomorrow, sunny spells and | :29:49. | :29:54. | |
showers. More cloud around for England and Wales at first. That | :29:54. | :29:58. | |
moves eastwards with patchy rain, which will gradually fizzled out. | :29:58. | :30:04. | |
It should brighten up. Temperatures on a par with today's values. The | :30:04. | :30:08. | |
start of the weekend looking pretty good. Any early rain will clear | :30:08. | :30:11. | |
away from the south-eastern corner and it is dry and bright with that | :30:11. | :30:16. | |
spells of sunshine and light winds, although there will be blustery | :30:16. | :30:20. | |
showers in northern Scotland. The winds pick up on Sunday. The | :30:20. | :30:24. | |
weather front will bring some rain and wind into the north of the UK | :30:24. | :30:28. | |
initially. It will move away from Scotland and Northern Ireland, | :30:28. | :30:31. | |
pushing south into northern England and Wales. The rain will continue | :30:31. | :30:36. | |
to drift ever southwards, getting into the South Eastern corner later | :30:36. | :30:39. | |
in the day. Saturday is the day for getting out and about. But by | :30:39. | :30:43. | |
Sunday, things are going downhill from the north with rain on the way | :30:43. | :30:52. | |
The bodies of a young couple have been found in a swollen river in | :30:52. | :30:57. |