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Ministers promise legislation to tackle high energy bills, but | :00:06. | :00:09. | |
refuse to repeat David Cameron's promise that companies will be | :00:09. | :00:16. | |
forced to give customers their cheapest tariff. Labour said the | :00:16. | :00:18. | |
Prime Minister had thrown Government plans into chaos, saying | :00:18. | :00:25. | |
his proposals were unworkable. he confirm today whether or not the | :00:25. | :00:28. | |
Government will be ledge lating to force the energy companies to put | :00:28. | :00:32. | |
all their customers on the cheapest tariff? | :00:32. | :00:35. | |
As another crucial EU meeting takes place to try to resolve the | :00:35. | :00:39. | |
eurozone crisis, there's another general strike in Greece. Petrol | :00:39. | :00:42. | |
bombs and tear gas are used. Even the world's second biggest | :00:42. | :00:48. | |
economy is affected - China reports a 7th quarterly drop in a row. | :00:48. | :00:51. | |
Human trafficking is on the rise to the UK. Police say criminal gangs | :00:51. | :00:57. | |
are luring people into modern day slavery. | :00:57. | :00:59. | |
And, joy for the parents of conjoined twins Rosie and Ruby | :00:59. | :01:02. | |
Formosa who've survived an operation to separate them. Their | :01:02. | :01:12. | |
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On BBC London: The B&B owners fined. And there are claims promises have | :01:16. | :01:26. | |
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been broken to restore public land Good afternoon and welcome to the | :01:37. | :01:39. | |
BBC News at One. Energy Ministers say the Government | :01:39. | :01:42. | |
is considering legislation to help customers to get the best energy | :01:42. | :01:44. | |
prices, but they've stopped short of confirming David Cameron's | :01:44. | :01:47. | |
promise that companies will be forced to put customers on their | :01:47. | :01:54. | |
cheapest tariff. Labour has said government policy is in chaos, | :01:54. | :01:56. | |
while the industry described the position as, confusing, to say the | :01:56. | :02:04. | |
least. Our industry correspondent John Moylan reports. For years, | :02:04. | :02:08. | |
millions of households have struggled in the face of hundreds | :02:08. | :02:13. | |
of complex energy deals. A prime Minister's plan to force companies | :02:13. | :02:17. | |
to give the lowest tariff would amount to a major shake-up but how | :02:17. | :02:21. | |
would it work? Today his Energy Secretary wasn't providing much | :02:21. | :02:24. | |
detail. We have a range of other ideas we have been working on with | :02:24. | :02:27. | |
the Deputy Prime Minister, with the Prime Minister, and others to try | :02:27. | :02:30. | |
to help consumers and businesses with their energy bills and the | :02:30. | :02:32. | |
Prime Minister's referring to those and we will be delivering the | :02:33. | :02:37. | |
details over the next few weeks. In the Commons today, Labour wanted | :02:37. | :02:40. | |
answers. The shadow Energy Secretary said the Prime Minister | :02:40. | :02:44. | |
had caused chaos in the energy industry, was there a policy or | :02:44. | :02:48. | |
not? Can he confirm today whether or not the Government will be ledge | :02:48. | :02:52. | |
lating to force -- legislating to force the energy companies to put | :02:52. | :02:56. | |
customers on cheapest tariff, not a voluntary agreement, not sending a | :02:56. | :02:59. | |
letter once a year but in the words of the Prime Minister, legislating | :02:59. | :03:05. | |
to make companies put all their customers on the lowest tariff? | :03:05. | :03:09. | |
The energy Minister said Labour had done little in 13 years on energy | :03:10. | :03:13. | |
policy but he stopped short of confirming the pledge of forcing | :03:13. | :03:19. | |
firms to offer the best deal. will use the energy bill to get | :03:19. | :03:23. | |
people lower tariffs and, of course, there are different options to be | :03:23. | :03:28. | |
considered in that process. will all this help customers like | :03:28. | :03:32. | |
Bob Allen? He is a retired engineer. He regularly switches his supplier | :03:32. | :03:37. | |
but he wishes it was easier. They could make it far, far simpler. You | :03:37. | :03:44. | |
don't have this with water. You have one tariff, end of story. They | :03:44. | :03:49. | |
should make it transparent to all customers what prices are. | :03:49. | :03:53. | |
The firms insist they're doing a lot already. They're bracing | :03:53. | :03:57. | |
themselves for new proposals due tomorrow to radically simplify | :03:57. | :04:01. | |
offers but they say the Government's plan came completely | :04:01. | :04:05. | |
out of the blue. What we were waiting for was the announcements | :04:05. | :04:09. | |
by Ofgem, that's the regulator, because they've been undertaking a | :04:09. | :04:13. | |
retail market review and the energy companies have all been very much | :04:13. | :04:17. | |
engaged with that. We were not expecting the announcements made by | :04:17. | :04:21. | |
the Prime Minister and then again today. This political row looks set | :04:22. | :04:25. | |
to run and run. But with energy prices soaring, there's little sign | :04:25. | :04:30. | |
of relief for households any time soon. | :04:30. | :04:34. | |
Our political correspondent Norman Smith is in Westminster. Picking up | :04:34. | :04:38. | |
on that final point, really this row if it does run just threatens | :04:38. | :04:42. | |
to undermine the whole policy? this is already has been attacked | :04:42. | :04:46. | |
by Labour as another another omnishambles and perhaps more | :04:46. | :04:55. | |
cruelly on Twitter by combishambles. The pledge yesterday that the | :04:55. | :04:59. | |
Government was going to introduce legislation to ensure energy | :04:59. | :05:01. | |
companies gave the best deals. In other words, they would force big | :05:01. | :05:06. | |
companies to give people to put people on the lowest tariffs. The | :05:06. | :05:09. | |
trouble is no Minister when asked today has repeated that assertion. | :05:09. | :05:12. | |
Indeed the energy Minister suggested they would look at | :05:12. | :05:17. | |
existing voluntary arrangements and then evaluate if, if, legislation | :05:17. | :05:21. | |
was needed. While Downing Street in the last hour have said they wanted | :05:21. | :05:24. | |
to put an obligation on companies to offer the best deals. That fuels | :05:24. | :05:29. | |
the suspicion that this might amount merely to trying to ensure | :05:29. | :05:32. | |
companies send out letters once a year telling customers what might | :05:32. | :05:36. | |
be the most appropriate deal for them. The problem it seems is that | :05:36. | :05:40. | |
falls a long way short of being able to say to people, we will cut | :05:40. | :05:44. | |
your electricity bills. The danger is it creates a false expectation. | :05:45. | :05:50. | |
The only thing that is clear is there is clearly an aspiration on | :05:50. | :05:54. | |
the Government's part to drive down energy prices but in terms of the | :05:54. | :06:01. | |
detail, there's little of that. Thank you. | :06:01. | :06:04. | |
EU leaders are meeting in Brussels today for a crucial summit to | :06:04. | :06:07. | |
discuss how to tackle the eurozone crisis. It's the fourth time | :06:07. | :06:10. | |
they've met this year, and although no substantial decisions are | :06:10. | :06:13. | |
expected, they will try to agree on plans for a banking union. In | :06:13. | :06:16. | |
Greece, thousands of people have taken to the streets in protest | :06:16. | :06:19. | |
over the next round of Government spending cuts. Matthew Price | :06:19. | :06:27. | |
reports. In Athens this lunchtime, the | :06:27. | :06:31. | |
eurozone crisis was back on the streets. | :06:31. | :06:37. | |
Jobs, money, cuts, it's the people of Europe who are suffering. As the | :06:37. | :06:42. | |
leaders of Europe gather here in Brussels. The main topic today, not | :06:42. | :06:46. | |
the demos and protests, but how to fix the single currency. One step | :06:46. | :06:50. | |
on the road is a banking union that would cover the eurozone. It would | :06:51. | :06:58. | |
have a single supervisor, a common bank deposit scheme and common | :06:58. | :07:03. | |
rescue scheme. Opposite, in the European Commission, top floor, the | :07:03. | :07:08. | |
President believes the first of those can happen soon. What I still | :07:08. | :07:13. | |
expect is possible to do is to have an agreement until the end of this | :07:13. | :07:18. | |
year on one very important element of the banking union, single | :07:18. | :07:21. | |
supervisary mechanism. The European Commission put forward a proposal | :07:21. | :07:24. | |
and I expect the next European Council to agree on the main | :07:25. | :07:31. | |
elements of this proposal. But the view from Berlin is very different. | :07:31. | :07:35. | |
Today, Angela Merkel spoke to parliament. She doesn't want | :07:35. | :07:41. | |
banking union any time soon. First, she wants all euro countries to | :07:41. | :07:46. | |
have their Government budgets strictly controlled by Brussels. | :07:46. | :07:49. | |
TRANSLATION: We believe, and I speak for the | :07:49. | :07:55. | |
whole German Government on this, that we could go a step further by | :07:55. | :07:58. | |
giving Europe reel rates of intervention -- real rights of | :07:58. | :08:03. | |
intervention. There will be real differences of opinion. The Germans | :08:03. | :08:07. | |
and the French in particular have competing visions on how to fix the | :08:07. | :08:11. | |
eurozone. Now that could, of course, provide room for some fruitful | :08:11. | :08:15. | |
negotiations, while we have -- what would be more dangerous is if there | :08:15. | :08:18. | |
were to be a political standoff, just at the moment when it was | :08:18. | :08:24. | |
beginning to look as if Europe could sort out its problems. | :08:24. | :08:29. | |
Back in Athens, few will follow the summit closely. For them, there's | :08:29. | :08:37. | |
little sign of progress, just a life more difficult by the day. | :08:37. | :08:41. | |
Let's turn to our correspondent in Athens. What is the situation there | :08:41. | :08:47. | |
now? It's another huge show of strength today by the unions, tens | :08:47. | :08:51. | |
of thousands out on the streets here in Athens and other big cities. | :08:51. | :08:55. | |
Some scuffles towards the end of the demonstrations, tear gas and | :08:55. | :09:00. | |
grenades and petrol bombs thrown here. And the general strike also | :09:00. | :09:04. | |
under way across the public and private sectors. All the while, the | :09:04. | :09:09. | |
Greek Prime Minister is in Brussels to negotiate another wave of | :09:09. | :09:13. | |
spending cuts, 13.5 billion euros in return for more rescue funds. | :09:14. | :09:17. | |
There is still after three years of the debt crisis, immense anger here | :09:17. | :09:21. | |
on the streets of Athens and that anger has translated into more and | :09:21. | :09:26. | |
more Greeks turning to political extremes. The neo-Nazi, anti- | :09:27. | :09:30. | |
immigrant golden dawn party has shot up into third place in the | :09:30. | :09:34. | |
opinion polls. That is sa very good indication of just how dark the | :09:34. | :09:44. | |
public mood is here on the streets of aten. -- Athens. Thank you. | :09:44. | :09:46. | |
Even the world's second biggest economy is affected by the economic | :09:46. | :09:50. | |
slowdown - China has reported a 7th quarterly drop in GDP in a row. It | :09:50. | :09:54. | |
was up by 7.4% in the three months to September but that missed the | :09:54. | :09:57. | |
government's target for the first time since the depths of the global | :09:57. | :10:00. | |
financial crisis in early 2009. It has been hit by falling demand for | :10:00. | :10:02. | |
exports meaning it's often relying on consumers from within the | :10:02. | :10:10. | |
country, as Martin Patience reports. They've just got married and are | :10:10. | :10:17. | |
now big spenders. They have splurged on a sofa, computers and a | :10:17. | :10:23. | |
TV for their new home. In total, they've spent �10,000. This couple | :10:23. | :10:27. | |
-- it's couples like these that are swelling the growth in China's | :10:27. | :10:31. | |
consumer spending. TRANSLATION: We usually spend a lot of money. We | :10:31. | :10:37. | |
want to have a good quality of life but it's very expensive here. | :10:37. | :10:42. | |
With demand for exports dropping in Europe and the US, Chinese | :10:42. | :10:48. | |
businesses, big and small, are looking to home for opportunities. | :10:49. | :10:53. | |
In this town the orders are piling up. These goods would have once | :10:53. | :10:58. | |
been shipped overseas. But this town is a major centre for online | :10:58. | :11:06. | |
shopping, catering to millions of Chinese consumers. Li ourbgs sells | :11:06. | :11:10. | |
10,000 pounds of underwear every single day. She says that by | :11:10. | :11:17. | |
targeting the domestic market her business has boomed. We currently | :11:17. | :11:21. | |
have ten staff in the office. But I am looking to take on new people. I | :11:21. | :11:26. | |
think this business has very good future. But despite the growth, | :11:26. | :11:31. | |
China's domestic consumption is just half that of the UK. That will | :11:31. | :11:36. | |
be one of the biggest challenges facing China's next generation of | :11:36. | :11:40. | |
leaders, boosting domestic consumption won't be easy. It will | :11:40. | :11:44. | |
involve carrying out painful economic reforms. But it's a | :11:44. | :11:49. | |
process that China must go through in order to ensure more sustainable | :11:49. | :11:59. | |
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economic growth. Zhao likes the comforts of life, | :12:01. | :12:06. | |
she spends what she earns. China will need more like her if its | :12:06. | :12:16. | |
economy is to change. More than 400 former members of the | :12:16. | :12:18. | |
Royal Regiment of Fusiliers have marched to Parliament to protest at | :12:18. | :12:22. | |
cuts to their regiment. An MP who served in the regiment, said the | :12:22. | :12:24. | |
decision to axe one of its battalions had been taken for | :12:25. | :12:27. | |
political, rather than military reasons. An MoD source said the | :12:27. | :12:30. | |
cuts had been decided by military commanders as part of the plan to | :12:30. | :12:38. | |
reduce the size of the army. A gay couple have been awarded | :12:38. | :12:41. | |
�3,600 in damages after they weren't allowed to share a double | :12:41. | :12:46. | |
bed in a B&B. The owner said allowing them to spend the night in | :12:46. | :12:51. | |
a double room was Gibbs her -- against her beliefs. The couple are | :12:51. | :13:01. | |
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considering appealing the ruling. Human trafficking to Britain is on | :13:04. | :13:06. | |
the increase according to new Government estimates. The study | :13:06. | :13:09. | |
says organised criminal gangs are behind the illegal trade in people | :13:09. | :13:12. | |
for sex, labour and domestic slavery. Most of the victims come | :13:12. | :13:15. | |
from China, Vietnam, Nigeria and Eastern Europe. The first cases of | :13:15. | :13:18. | |
people being brought to the UK to have organs removed have also been | :13:18. | :13:20. | |
recorded. Our home affairs correspondent Tom Symonds reports. | :13:20. | :13:24. | |
Twice a week on average police fighting modern day slavery in | :13:24. | :13:31. | |
London make their early morning call. | :13:31. | :13:36. | |
Sometimes they find children, sometimes women forced into | :13:36. | :13:39. | |
prostitution. This morning, the trail leads to another house. | :13:39. | :13:45. | |
They're looking for Eastern Europeans, promised a job, | :13:45. | :13:48. | |
threatened with violence should they leave. These are different | :13:48. | :13:52. | |
names and addresses... There's evidence that dozens of | :13:52. | :13:58. | |
people have stayed in this property. Inside the officers are questioning | :13:58. | :14:01. | |
five Lithuanian people. One of the problems with this sort of | :14:01. | :14:04. | |
operation is that victims of trafficking often don't want to | :14:04. | :14:07. | |
admit that they are here under duress. But these people are living | :14:08. | :14:13. | |
in a house where the entrance is monitored by a CCTV camera. | :14:13. | :14:16. | |
There were no arrests this morning, but there's still plenty of | :14:16. | :14:23. | |
intelligence. We know there are multiple victims and it's organised | :14:23. | :14:28. | |
network bringing people in from European. Some of the people have | :14:28. | :14:33. | |
been subject to serious violence, had bones broken and been stabbed. | :14:33. | :14:38. | |
According to today's figures, 946 victims were identified last year, | :14:38. | :14:43. | |
compared to 710 the year before. It may be that monitoring has improved | :14:43. | :14:50. | |
but many cases go undetected. Sophie is a British victim. -- | :14:50. | :14:54. | |
she's still hiding from her trafficking who took her to Italy | :14:54. | :15:00. | |
for a holiday before turning hopb her -- on her. He told me I was | :15:00. | :15:03. | |
going to have to become a prostitute and that night he pinned | :15:03. | :15:09. | |
me up against the wall. And almost strangled me. Just enough for me to | :15:09. | :15:14. | |
get frightened of him. It just got worse and worse from then on. He | :15:14. | :15:20. | |
took over my whole head. I couldn't think any more. I couldn't do | :15:20. | :15:30. | |
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anything because he controlled The chemical -- $:/STARTFEED. They | :15:40. | :15:45. | |
are going to ensure co-operation with law enforcers across the world. | :15:45. | :15:48. | |
A mother of conjoined twins has spoken of her joy after they were | :15:48. | :15:50. | |
successfully separated during an emergency operation the day after | :15:50. | :15:53. | |
they were born. Rosie and Ruby Formosa, now 12 weeks old, were | :15:53. | :15:56. | |
joined at the abdomen and shared part of the intestine. Doctors said | :15:56. | :16:06. | |
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the girls should be able to lead happy and normal lives. The two | :16:10. | :16:14. | |
little girls are now flourishing at home with their relieved and happy | :16:14. | :16:19. | |
parents. Having a baby is an anxious time for any set of parents, | :16:19. | :16:25. | |
but particularly for conjoined twins. I am joined by the man who | :16:25. | :16:30. | |
led the surgical team separating the little girls. Relatively, was | :16:30. | :16:35. | |
this a straightforward case for conjoined twins? It was more simple | :16:35. | :16:42. | |
than the other cases. Separation of conjoined twins is never easy but | :16:42. | :16:45. | |
it was successful in this case. What did you have to do to give | :16:45. | :16:51. | |
them their own separate healthy bodies? They were joined by the | :16:51. | :16:55. | |
stomach and they were sharing some of the intestines. We had to | :16:55. | :16:59. | |
separate them because there was a blockage in the intestine. We | :16:59. | :17:05. | |
separated them on the second day of life, separated the intestine and | :17:05. | :17:11. | |
then we created everything as normal as could be. For the two | :17:11. | :17:18. | |
little girls, what a their prospects for a healthy life? -- | :17:18. | :17:22. | |
what are their prospects? expectations are that they will | :17:22. | :17:30. | |
have a normal life in the future. They will need normal -- future | :17:30. | :17:35. | |
surgery. A very successful outcome in this complicated case for the | :17:35. | :17:40. | |
two little girls who, with a bit of extra help from Great Ormond Street, | :17:40. | :17:46. | |
can now look forward to a normal life. Our top story this lunchtime: | :17:46. | :17:49. | |
Ministers promise legislation to tackle high energy bills but refuse | :17:49. | :17:52. | |
to repeat David Cameron's promise that companies will be forced to | :17:52. | :17:56. | |
give customers their cheapest tariff. Coming up: The cost of | :17:56. | :18:00. | |
going to a football match. Which ground has the cheapest pies, or | :18:00. | :18:10. | |
the most expensive tickets? Later on BBC London: Allegations of | :18:10. | :18:14. | |
double standards from the family of a man with Asperger's syndrome, | :18:14. | :18:18. | |
extradited to the United States. A special meeting at London Zoo which | :18:18. | :18:27. | |
could help to save an endangered Retail sales in September have | :18:27. | :18:30. | |
grown by 2.5%, compared with last year, a much higher increase than | :18:30. | :18:36. | |
expected. It means spending is now at a record level. But new research | :18:36. | :18:40. | |
suggests that big retailers closed more than 30 stores a day in July | :18:40. | :18:50. | |
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and August. With the Olympics are over, we finally hit the shops - | :18:52. | :18:58. | |
splashing out on school uniforms, a new winter clothing and footwear. | :18:58. | :19:02. | |
Retail sales were up nearly 3% in September, compared with the | :19:02. | :19:08. | |
previous year. Welcome news after a poor summer. It was an absolute | :19:08. | :19:13. | |
washout. People did not spend and retailers had a lot of excess stock | :19:13. | :19:17. | |
which they were forced to discount. In September, the weather turned | :19:17. | :19:22. | |
cold air, and that ignited demand for warmer clothes, which helped to | :19:22. | :19:27. | |
get shoppers out and spending. These are encouraging figures for | :19:27. | :19:32. | |
retailers in the run-up to Christmas. We have hard evidence | :19:32. | :19:38. | |
about the rapid increase in the closure of chain stores across the | :19:38. | :19:43. | |
UK. From Peacocks and Game to Clinton Cards, just some of the | :19:43. | :19:47. | |
household names that have collapsed this year. Other retailers have | :19:47. | :19:53. | |
also been shedding stores. It all adds up to almost 1000 fewer chain | :19:53. | :19:57. | |
stores in the first six months of the sheer, according to new | :19:57. | :20:04. | |
research. Compared with the 170 foreclosures for the whole of 2011. | :20:04. | :20:10. | |
These guys have been the anchors of the High Street. There will be more | :20:10. | :20:18. | |
to come. You probably only need 100 to 200 stores instead of the 500, | :20:18. | :20:25. | |
600 now. We will see more stores shutting up shop. Fastest growth is | :20:25. | :20:31. | |
in online sales, especially on smartphones and tablets. For | :20:31. | :20:34. | |
pawnbrokers, charity shops and convenience stores are filling | :20:35. | :20:41. | |
empty spaces. Yet more proof of how fast our high streets are changing. | :20:41. | :20:44. | |
A 21-year-old Bangladeshi man has been arrested in New York on | :20:44. | :20:47. | |
suspicion of plotting to blow up the Federal Reserve building. Quazi | :20:47. | :20:51. | |
Nafis had travelled to the US on a student visa and was arrested after | :20:51. | :21:01. | |
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an under-cover FBI agent supplied It was a very ambitious plot. The | :21:02. | :21:07. | |
building with the red truth is the Federal Reserve Bank, a heavily | :21:07. | :21:15. | |
fortified structure at the heart of New York's financial district. | :21:15. | :21:22. | |
Quazi Mohammed Nafis focused on the bank. He was said to be expired by | :21:22. | :21:26. | |
Al-Qaeda, although there are doubts he was connected to it. From his | :21:27. | :21:32. | |
home in Queens, he is reported to have sought at recruits to help him. | :21:32. | :21:38. | |
He tipped off an FBI informer. The police and an F -- ate the FBI let | :21:38. | :21:43. | |
him carry on with the plot. He was arrested as he tried to detonate | :21:43. | :21:48. | |
what he thought was a bomb, in a van parked outside the building. | :21:48. | :21:55. | |
Police said the public was never in danger. He has already been brought | :21:55. | :21:59. | |
to court to face charges of terrorism. The latest suspect | :21:59. | :22:04. | |
picked up in a sting operation. Some criticise the role of the | :22:04. | :22:09. | |
Government in nurturing such plots. They say these men could do real | :22:09. | :22:14. | |
damage. This is his court-appointed lawyer leading after the hearing. | :22:14. | :22:18. | |
Her client did not succeed in carrying out his planned attack but | :22:18. | :22:23. | |
it is a reminder that New York continues to be a target. Up to 50 | :22:23. | :22:25. | |
people are protesting outside the first private clinic to offer | :22:25. | :22:28. | |
abortions in Northern Ireland. The service, run by Marie Stopes, | :22:28. | :22:32. | |
opened in Belfast today. It has said it will provide terminations | :22:32. | :22:36. | |
within NI's current legal framework. Abortions are not illegal but are | :22:36. | :22:39. | |
very strictly controlled. The protesters are from a range of | :22:39. | :22:44. | |
religious denominations. Research suggests that weight loss surgery, | :22:44. | :22:48. | |
such as fitting gastric bands, is too often being seen as a quick fix | :22:48. | :22:50. | |
to tackling obesity and that people are undergoing surgery without | :22:50. | :22:53. | |
having sufficient information. The independent study says some | :22:53. | :22:56. | |
patients in England, Wales and Northern Ireland are also not given | :22:56. | :22:59. | |
enough time before they consent to surgery, and are not being offered | :22:59. | :23:09. | |
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enough support after their A weight loss operation, known as | :23:13. | :23:18. | |
bariatric surgery, can be a life- changing event. It is a relatively | :23:18. | :23:24. | |
new way of tackling obesity. A report says too often it is seen as | :23:24. | :23:30. | |
the quick fix. After reviewing more than 300 operations, nearly half of | :23:30. | :23:33. | |
which are carried out in private hospitals, doctors say some | :23:33. | :23:37. | |
patients are not getting the right support. It is important to | :23:37. | :23:41. | |
understand this is part of a package of care which involves | :23:41. | :23:45. | |
lifestyle changes. Those changes need to be supported by | :23:45. | :23:51. | |
professionals such as dieticians and that his lifelong. There are a | :23:51. | :23:54. | |
significant number of patients who are just having a procedure and not | :23:54. | :24:01. | |
getting adequate follow-up. inquiry into this surgery looked at | :24:01. | :24:05. | |
cases in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. Nearly a third of | :24:05. | :24:11. | |
patients were not properly followed up after surgery. Only 29% were | :24:11. | :24:16. | |
seated psychological counselling and nearly a 5th of patients were | :24:16. | :24:20. | |
readmitted within six months of having surgery. There has been a | :24:20. | :24:26. | |
huge increase in the amount of bury hatchet surgery being carried out. | :24:26. | :24:31. | |
It is still a very effective tool in the fight against obesity. Some | :24:31. | :24:33. | |
patients are entering into the surgery without being fully | :24:33. | :24:40. | |
informed about the consequences. will be going into theatre but I | :24:40. | :24:47. | |
want the operation very much. It is me he wanted to take a small risk | :24:47. | :24:53. | |
for a lot more happiness. Having struggled for years with her weight, | :24:53. | :24:57. | |
Deborah had surgery despite her daughter's misgivings but she died | :24:57. | :25:02. | |
from complications. Louise says too many people are undergoing the | :25:02. | :25:06. | |
operations without appreciating the wrists. People say they want to | :25:06. | :25:14. | |
lose weight for their family and children. My mother has not got a | :25:14. | :25:19. | |
life now. If she had gone on a diet she would still be here. I can only | :25:20. | :25:26. | |
say, do not do it because it is not a quick fix. It is a long-term life | :25:26. | :25:32. | |
decision if it goes well. If it does not go well, then maybe their | :25:32. | :25:37. | |
families will be sitting here with this interview, sadly. There are | :25:37. | :25:42. | |
many examples of excellent care. Standards across both the NHS and | :25:42. | :25:47. | |
private sector need to improve. The Chelsea, and former England captain, | :25:47. | :25:49. | |
John Terry, has decided not to challenge a four-match ban and | :25:49. | :25:52. | |
�220,000 fine, for racially abusing QPR's Anton Ferdinand during a | :25:52. | :25:58. | |
match last year. The sanction was issued by an independent Football | :25:58. | :26:02. | |
Association Commission. Chelsea also announced this morning they | :26:02. | :26:07. | |
would take disciplinary action against the player. Are you, and | :26:07. | :26:12. | |
your family, being priced out of football? The average cost of a | :26:12. | :26:16. | |
match day ticket has jumped by nearly 12% in the past year, around | :26:16. | :26:20. | |
five times the rate of inflation. That's one of the findings from the | :26:20. | :26:23. | |
BBC Sport Price of Football survey, which shows the average price of | :26:23. | :26:25. | |
the cheapest ticket in English league football now stands at over | :26:25. | :26:34. | |
�21. Dan Roan has the details. It is the same at football grounds up | :26:34. | :26:40. | |
and down the country, loyalty comes at an ever-increasing cost. These | :26:40. | :26:45. | |
fans arriving for a match against Carlisle this week. Like most clubs, | :26:45. | :26:49. | |
the price of the match-day experience has risen. How will the | :26:49. | :26:55. | |
fans feel? A lot of people are saying they cannot justify the cost. | :26:55. | :27:02. | |
�18 to come tonight. Is it good value? I would say it is affordable. | :27:02. | :27:07. | |
What do you think about the cost of coming to the football? In this | :27:07. | :27:12. | |
division, I do not think it is too bad. The BBC found the price of the | :27:12. | :27:18. | |
cheapest ticket in the top four divisions has risen more than 12%. | :27:18. | :27:25. | |
In the Premier League, that figure is more than �28, up 14%. This may | :27:25. | :27:29. | |
only be League One but remarkably it cost more to come here then some | :27:29. | :27:33. | |
of the biggest clubs in European football. Barcelona offer tickets | :27:33. | :27:38. | |
that are cheaper here. At a time when fans are feeling the pinch, | :27:38. | :27:42. | |
many believe this is simply unsustainable. The football | :27:42. | :27:46. | |
industry should not be putting up ticket prices more than the rate of | :27:46. | :27:50. | |
inflation in the economic the difficult times we have got. This | :27:50. | :27:54. | |
industry has huge amounts of money going into red at the top of the | :27:54. | :27:58. | |
game because of media rights. We ought to see some of the benefits | :27:58. | :28:02. | |
of that money going to match going supporters. The most expensive | :28:02. | :28:08. | |
ticket is at the Emirates were Arsenal charge �126 for some seats. | :28:08. | :28:13. | |
We have not seen a weakening in demand. More generally, if we and | :28:13. | :28:18. | |
other clubs are not conscious of the economic environment, there is | :28:18. | :28:23. | |
nothing to be complacent about. Maximising ticket revenue is | :28:23. | :28:27. | |
essential for the club's survival. The fans are having to dig deeper | :28:27. | :28:37. | |
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Time for the weather. Some reasonable weather over the next | :28:44. | :28:49. | |
few days. Some of milder weather heading our way. There is some | :28:49. | :28:54. | |
sunshine but there are still some showers around. Still a chance to | :28:54. | :28:59. | |
get wet for some of us. On the radar picture come up we are most | :28:59. | :29:04. | |
likely to get wet in South West Scotland and Northern Ireland. Some | :29:04. | :29:10. | |
sharp showers in the south-west of England and Wales. They are tending | :29:10. | :29:14. | |
to fade. The showers will be confined to the more western parts | :29:14. | :29:22. | |
of Wales. There will be some sunshine across Northern Ireland. | :29:22. | :29:26. | |
Across northern Scotland, feeling a bit milder than it did yesterday. | :29:26. | :29:32. | |
Rain pushing up towards the central belt. Through the late afternoon, | :29:32. | :29:37. | |
it could turn wet and miserable. In northern England and much of the | :29:37. | :29:41. | |
Midlands, we could see some reasonable spells of sunshine. The | :29:41. | :29:46. | |
winds will be lighter than yesterday. Cloud is gathering in | :29:46. | :29:51. | |
the South East and threatening further rain. One or two showers in | :29:51. | :29:55. | |
Wiltshire and Hampshire but clearing away from Cornwall as the | :29:55. | :30:01. | |
afternoon goes on. This evening and overnight the rain waxes and wanes. | :30:01. | :30:08. | |
The rain in Scotland still remains. Clearer spells in the central parts | :30:08. | :30:13. | |
of the UK. Temperatures down into single figures and quite a high | :30:13. | :30:18. | |
risk of patchy fog turning up. It could take a bit of time to clear | :30:18. | :30:24. | |
away during tomorrow. Tomorrow, apart from the rain in the south- | :30:24. | :30:29. | |
east and showery outbreaks in Scotland, most places will end up | :30:29. | :30:34. | |
with a dry day. Temperatures ranging from 10 in and not to 14, | :30:34. | :30:44. | |
:30:44. | :30:45. | ||
at 15 in the south. That is about right for this time of year. -- 10 | :30:45. | :30:53. | |
in the north. The fog may take a bit of time to clear. Winds will be | :30:53. | :30:58. | |
light. It will feel quite pleasant. Rain pushing in from the south-east | :30:58. | :31:03. | |
once again which will spread north and west on Sunday. The further | :31:03. | :31:12. | |
north and west to rub the better chance to stay dry. -- you are, the | :31:12. | :31:19. |