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Allegations of sexual abuse by Jimmy Savile are to be reviewed by | :00:11. | :00:15. | |
the Crown Prosecution Service. It comes on the day that charities say | :00:15. | :00:18. | |
there's been an unprecedented rise in the number of people reporting | :00:18. | :00:24. | |
cases of sexual abuse as a result of the scandal. The Director Of | :00:24. | :00:26. | |
Public Prosecutions specifically is going to consider what more can be | :00:26. | :00:30. | |
done to alert relevant authorities where there are concerns but a | :00:30. | :00:35. | |
prosecution is not taken forward. Sir Norman Bettison, the Chief | :00:35. | :00:38. | |
Constable of West Yorkshire Police has resigned. He had been | :00:38. | :00:40. | |
criticised over his role in the Hillsborough disaster. | :00:40. | :00:45. | |
The Supreme Court ruling paved the way for thousands of women to bring | :00:45. | :00:46. | |
equal pay claims against their former bosses. | :00:46. | :00:49. | |
The Welsh Government is to be allowed to borrow more money to pay | :00:50. | :00:53. | |
for big capital projects. A new food labelling system to make | :00:53. | :01:03. | |
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content clearer is to be introduced next year. Later on BBC London: | :01:04. | :01:07. | |
Could plans for a giant incinerator in Hertfordshire get the go ahead? | :01:07. | :01:10. | |
And the funeral of five children and their mother, who died in a | :01:10. | :01:20. | |
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Good afternoon and welcome to the BBC News at One. The director of | :01:34. | :01:38. | |
public prosecution sz to review why Jimmy Savile wasn't invested over | :01:38. | :01:42. | |
allegations made against him in 2009. The announcement was made | :01:42. | :01:45. | |
today by the Prime Minister. It's been revealed that organisations | :01:45. | :01:49. | |
working with victims of sexual assault say the scandal has led to | :01:49. | :01:52. | |
an unprecedentsed rise in the number of people reporting | :01:52. | :01:58. | |
allegations of abuse. The NSPCC alone says it has received 161 | :01:58. | :02:01. | |
calls directly relating to allegations concerning Jimmy Savile. | :02:01. | :02:07. | |
It also had 105 contacted prompted by the story by adults who wanted | :02:07. | :02:10. | |
to discuss their own experience of ak buezed as children. Here's our | :02:10. | :02:14. | |
social affairs correspondent, Michael Buchanan. Three weeks of | :02:14. | :02:18. | |
sordid allegations against Jimmy Savile has finally had one positive | :02:18. | :02:20. | |
consequence - an unprecedented number of people have reported | :02:20. | :02:26. | |
allegations of abuse. The publicity has given people the courage to | :02:26. | :02:31. | |
call help lines seeking support. This small charity has been | :02:31. | :02:34. | |
inundated with calls and e-mails. They're desperate for extra | :02:34. | :02:38. | |
volunteers and resources to handle the demand. The national | :02:38. | :02:44. | |
association for people abused in childhood say they've had 3,700 | :02:44. | :02:48. | |
calls over the past three weeks. They usually receive about 700 over | :02:48. | :02:52. | |
the period. The Lucy Faithfull Foundation has seen a 50% increase | :02:52. | :02:58. | |
in call volumes. Rape crisis centres report a 20% increase. | :02:58. | :03:03. | |
We've seen unprecedentsed deluge of callers, people making contact with | :03:03. | :03:07. | |
us, survivors of abuse, telling us about stuff that happened to them, | :03:07. | :03:11. | |
mostly a long time ago. Many of the people who call this help line talk | :03:11. | :03:16. | |
about abuse that happened years, even techades ago. A lot are not | :03:16. | :03:20. | |
looking for retribution, however. Police investigations, arrests and | :03:20. | :03:24. | |
convictions. They simply want to be heard. For those willing and able | :03:24. | :03:27. | |
to go to the police, the Prime Minister today promised they'd | :03:27. | :03:31. | |
receive support and that allegations of abuse wouldn't again | :03:31. | :03:35. | |
be dismissed. Government will do everything it can do. Other | :03:35. | :03:38. | |
institutions must do what they can so we can learn the lessons for | :03:38. | :03:43. | |
this and it can never happen again. More support for victims comes from | :03:43. | :03:46. | |
the Director Of Public Prosecutions. Speaking to the Times for the | :03:46. | :03:54. | |
failure of men prosecuted for graming girls in Rochdale, he said | :03:54. | :03:58. | |
"If we're honest it's the credibility issue that has caused | :03:58. | :04:02. | |
these cases not to be prosecuted in the past." The torrent of | :04:02. | :04:05. | |
allegation that's have come to light in recent weeks have shown | :04:05. | :04:09. | |
that many victims, long hidden, are willing to come forward. Now the | :04:09. | :04:15. | |
authorities have to believe them. It's now been confirmed that the | :04:16. | :04:19. | |
decision not to prosecute Jimmy Savile in 2009 is to be reviewed by | :04:19. | :04:22. | |
the Crown Prosecution Service. David Cameron told MPs that the | :04:22. | :04:25. | |
scandal left many institutions, particularly the BBC, with | :04:25. | :04:32. | |
questions to answer. David Sillito reports. The BBC admits it has many | :04:32. | :04:36. | |
questions to answer over Jimmy Savile, but today, it's the | :04:36. | :04:41. | |
Government that's been doing some of the questioning. These are very | :04:41. | :04:42. | |
serious allegations. It's absolutely right that the | :04:42. | :04:47. | |
Government reflects the deep level of public concern. What's important | :04:47. | :04:52. | |
now is that the inquiries that are already working in looking at these | :04:52. | :04:57. | |
allegations are able to continue to do so and get to the bottom of | :04:57. | :05:02. | |
these problems. And minutes later, in Parliament, came this: Could I | :05:02. | :05:08. | |
ask my right honourable friend whether he will ensure that the | :05:08. | :05:14. | |
full pan play of Government powers is used to investigate the | :05:14. | :05:20. | |
predatory activities of the late Mr Jimmy Savile? I think my honourable | :05:20. | :05:23. | |
friend makes a very important point. The allegations and what seems to | :05:23. | :05:28. | |
have happened are completely appalling. I think it is shocking | :05:28. | :05:31. | |
the entire country. These allegations leave many institutions, | :05:31. | :05:34. | |
perhaps particularly the BBC, with serious questions to answer. | :05:34. | :05:40. | |
There's also been a letter from Maria Miller to the BBC chairman | :05:40. | :05:44. | |
Chris Patten, saying "Very real concerns are being raised about | :05:45. | :05:49. | |
public trust and confidence in the BBC." In response he said "You know | :05:49. | :05:51. | |
how seriously the trust takes the allegations surrounding Jimmy | :05:52. | :05:55. | |
Savile and the need to maintain public trust in the BBC. I know you | :05:55. | :05:57. | |
will not want to give any impression that you're questioning | :05:57. | :06:02. | |
the independence of the BBC." A Conservative MP has said those | :06:02. | :06:07. | |
remarks should be withdrawn. But a former BBC chairman says he's | :06:07. | :06:11. | |
concerned about the demand for immediate answers. That will take | :06:11. | :06:15. | |
time to establish and although, we live in a 24-hour news environment, | :06:15. | :06:20. | |
that doesn't mean that you can't take the time to go through the e- | :06:20. | :06:23. | |
mails, to talk to everybody involved and find out what really | :06:23. | :06:28. | |
happened. We're in danger of not allowing that investigation to | :06:28. | :06:34. | |
reach its proper conclusion. Meanwhile the team behind the | :06:34. | :06:38. | |
Newsnight investigation into Savile, the story that was not broadcast | :06:38. | :06:42. | |
last year arrived for work. The only comment on the fact that | :06:42. | :06:45. | |
Panorama had this week finally given the people they spoke to a | :06:45. | :06:49. | |
chance to be heard. I've been asked not to do interviews, yes, I'm | :06:49. | :06:55. | |
happy that our story is out there. Our Home Affairs Correspondent | :06:55. | :06:59. | |
Danny Shaw is in Central London. There is to be a review then. What | :06:59. | :07:04. | |
exactly is your analysis of what Keir Starmer said today? What he | :07:04. | :07:07. | |
has said is that he has already sought a review of the four cases | :07:07. | :07:12. | |
which were adjudged by the Crown Prosecution Service in 2009 to | :07:12. | :07:15. | |
contain insufficient evidence to proceed with the prosecution. That | :07:16. | :07:20. | |
review has concluded that the decision making was sound. He says | :07:20. | :07:26. | |
that out of an abundance of caution, he's asked his principal legal | :07:26. | :07:29. | |
advisor, the most senior person at the Crown Prosecution Service, | :07:29. | :07:32. | |
apart from Keir Starmer in terms of legal advice, to have another look, | :07:32. | :07:36. | |
just to double check that the decisions reached were correct. But | :07:36. | :07:39. | |
there's another element to this as well. He's clearly concerned that | :07:39. | :07:44. | |
in cases where there isn't enough evidence to prosecute, where | :07:44. | :07:47. | |
victims, for instance, don't want to go to court, that the matter | :07:47. | :07:51. | |
shouldn't be just thrown away, it should perhaps be referred to other | :07:51. | :07:55. | |
agencies, possibly Social Services. He's going to discuss with the | :07:55. | :07:58. | |
Attorney-General whether there is a procedure that can be adopted in | :07:58. | :08:03. | |
those cases where allegations which can't be proceeded with do, though, | :08:03. | :08:09. | |
get referred to other agencies and institutions. Thank you very much. | :08:09. | :08:14. | |
Sir Norman Bettison, the Chief Constable of West Yorkshire Police, | :08:14. | :08:18. | |
has announced his resignation. He is at the centre of criticism in | :08:18. | :08:23. | |
the aftermath of the Hillsborough disaster. Let's speak to our | :08:23. | :08:29. | |
correspondent Judith Moritz in Wakefield. That's right, this news | :08:29. | :08:34. | |
came within the last half hour or so. Sir Norman Bettison, this | :08:34. | :08:37. | |
morning, offered his resignation. It comes in the wake of heavy | :08:37. | :08:41. | |
criticism follows the Hillsborough independent report. The vice | :08:41. | :08:45. | |
chairman of the West Yorkshire Police Authority is with me now. I | :08:45. | :08:48. | |
want to ask you about the circumstances of Sir Norman | :08:48. | :08:50. | |
resignation, how you heard about, it how he offer today and whether | :08:50. | :08:54. | |
you accept today immediately? heard by a telephone conversation | :08:54. | :09:01. | |
about 8am. Sir Norman was offering his resignation. I had a talk to | :09:01. | :09:05. | |
Sir Norman over the telephone at 11am. What did he say to you? Is | :09:05. | :09:09. | |
the feeling really that this has all been a distraction, the | :09:09. | :09:12. | |
Hillsborough criticism, has been a distraction for him? He didn't give | :09:12. | :09:17. | |
me any firm reasons himself. He has put a press statement out, in which | :09:17. | :09:22. | |
he's making his points there. says that he refutes any wrongdoing. | :09:22. | :09:27. | |
So I wonder, then, why he's felt it necessary to go. There have been | :09:27. | :09:31. | |
many calls for him to resign. you consider the last few weeks, | :09:31. | :09:35. | |
consider the amount of prshure that's been building up since the | :09:35. | :09:43. | |
report -- pressure. The members of Parliament discussing it, people | :09:43. | :09:48. | |
making accusations of what he has and hasn't done. I think he came to | :09:48. | :09:52. | |
the conclusion that he is running a large, important force, it's better | :09:52. | :09:58. | |
to leave that to someone else. Thank you very much. One thing I | :09:58. | :10:02. | |
should add is that it's my understanding that Sir Norman goes | :10:02. | :10:06. | |
with his full pension rights, that is something that may exercise | :10:06. | :10:09. | |
members of campaign groups on behalf of Hillsborough. But they | :10:09. | :10:12. | |
have said today that they are delighted to hear this news. It is | :10:12. | :10:18. | |
something that they wanted very much. | :10:18. | :10:21. | |
Thousands more women will be able to bring equal pay claims against | :10:21. | :10:24. | |
their former employers on the basis of a ruling from the Supreme Court | :10:24. | :10:31. | |
today. It's decided that a claims from a group of employees can be | :10:31. | :10:36. | |
heard at civil courts, which would open the way for cases going back | :10:36. | :10:38. | |
six years. More details from our employment correspondent, John | :10:38. | :10:42. | |
Moylan. The law is clear, men and women who do similar work should be | :10:42. | :10:47. | |
paid the same. But in many work places pay arrangements have been | :10:47. | :10:52. | |
out of step and in recent years, tens of thousands of council | :10:52. | :10:59. | |
workers have won payments due to sex discrimination. And there could | :11:00. | :11:06. | |
be more to come. Yay! Today these former Birmingham City Council | :11:06. | :11:10. | |
employees found out they'll be able to make claims too, despite having | :11:10. | :11:18. | |
retired years ago. Pam and Mary are amongst more than 170 women | :11:18. | :11:21. | |
involved in this case who believe they were unfairly treated. | :11:21. | :11:26. | |
Disgusting, be honest, we were stabbed in the back, weren't we? | :11:26. | :11:30. | |
Truthfully, we were, weren't we? were, just took for granted. If we | :11:30. | :11:34. | |
hadn't have taken it up with a solicitor or read of it in the | :11:35. | :11:38. | |
press, we would have just let it go any way. Look how much money they'd | :11:38. | :11:42. | |
have made out of us. Birmingham City Council argued that equal pay | :11:43. | :11:46. | |
cases should be heard in employment tribunals, where your right to | :11:46. | :11:51. | |
claim expires six months after leaving your job. But the court | :11:51. | :11:55. | |
disagreed, which means that civil courts may now be used which can | :11:55. | :12:00. | |
consider cases going back six years. Previously when they've tried to | :12:00. | :12:02. | |
make an equal pay claim, they've been told they're out of time | :12:02. | :12:06. | |
because the limit was six months. This judgment means that they can | :12:06. | :12:15. | |
wait six years to bring their claim. The council faces a liability of | :12:15. | :12:19. | |
hundreds of millions of pounds linked to pay cases. In a statement, | :12:19. | :12:23. | |
it says that it was reviewing the judgment in detail before | :12:23. | :12:26. | |
considering its options going forward and that it would be making | :12:26. | :12:31. | |
no further comment at this stage. The ruling could have implications | :12:31. | :12:35. | |
for thousands of people, who have worked in both the public and | :12:35. | :12:41. | |
they were paid less than their colleagues simply because of their | :12:42. | :12:43. | |
sex. David Cameron has insisted the | :12:43. | :12:48. | |
Government is committed to ensuring prisoners don't get the right to | :12:48. | :12:51. | |
vote. His comments follow a report that the coalition is in | :12:51. | :12:54. | |
negotiations with the European Court following their ruling that | :12:54. | :13:02. | |
it's illegal to bar all prisoners from writing -- voting. We can | :13:02. | :13:06. | |
speak to our political correspondent Norman Smith. Is the | :13:06. | :13:09. | |
the Prime Minister heading for a show down with Europe over this | :13:09. | :13:14. | |
issue? The Prime Minister could not have been clearer. There was no | :13:14. | :13:19. | |
ambiguity, no wriggle room, no long grass to hide in. He said be in no | :13:19. | :13:24. | |
doubt, prisoners will not get the vote under this Government. This, | :13:24. | :13:27. | |
despite the fact the European Court has clearly ruled that you cannot | :13:27. | :13:30. | |
have a blanket ban on prisoners getting the vote. The Attorney- | :13:30. | :13:33. | |
General saying it will damage our international reputation if we | :13:33. | :13:37. | |
ignore the court and the fact that we have always obeyed the court. On | :13:37. | :13:41. | |
this issue, Mr Cameron appears to have decided to make a stand. The | :13:41. | :13:46. | |
view in Government that Parliament is sovereign when it comes to | :13:46. | :13:50. | |
prisoners' votes. What Mr Cameron seems to be intending is to hold a | :13:50. | :13:54. | |
further vote in the Commons on this issue in the hope that will | :13:54. | :13:56. | |
underscore the level of Parliamentary opposition and also, | :13:56. | :14:03. | |
in the words of Mr Cameron's spokesman, clarify the legal | :14:03. | :14:07. | |
position. Whatever the legal pros and cons the politics of this are | :14:07. | :14:11. | |
utterly, brutally simple. Mr Cameron knows on this issue he | :14:11. | :14:15. | |
cannot cave into the European Court without inflaming opinion on his | :14:15. | :14:18. | |
back benches, more broadly across Parliament and in the media. | :14:18. | :14:28. | |
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The top story. The Crown Prosecution Service will review its | :14:30. | :14:34. | |
decision not to prosecute Jimmy Savile over sex abuse allegations | :14:34. | :14:38. | |
in 2009. And the Poppy Appeal is launched in Trafalgar Square aiming | :14:38. | :14:45. | |
to raise �42 million. In London: A tribute to London, a | :14:45. | :14:48. | |
documentary of the city, past and present, is nominated for an | :14:48. | :14:51. | |
international award. And the age of the steam train makes a comeback in | :14:51. | :15:00. | |
London for one day only as the Tube prepares to celebrate 150 years. | :15:00. | :15:04. | |
The threat level from dissident republicans to Great Britain has | :15:04. | :15:10. | |
been downgraded to moderate. The degree shows the Security Service | :15:10. | :15:13. | |
regard an attack from groups such as the Real IRA as possible but not | :15:13. | :15:18. | |
lightly. The threat level in Northern Ireland remain severe. Our | :15:19. | :15:24. | |
correspondent reports. A sudden rise in dissident | :15:24. | :15:29. | |
republican violence four years ago has been followed by a gradual | :15:29. | :15:34. | |
decrease. Groups such as the Real IRA remain armoured, active and | :15:34. | :15:38. | |
dangerous, but the chances of their mounting attacks in London have | :15:38. | :15:45. | |
reduced. They have attacked the city before. Aid device went off at | :15:45. | :15:52. | |
the BBC in 2001, no one was killed -- a bomb. Two years ago, | :15:52. | :15:55. | |
dissidents were preparing to strike again in Great Britain but today | :15:55. | :16:01. | |
the threat level was reduced by MI5 to moderate. It means that an | :16:01. | :16:07. | |
attack in London is possible but not likely. Why the change? Looking | :16:07. | :16:11. | |
at activity in Britain in recent times. A telephone warning that | :16:11. | :16:17. | |
turned out to be nothing. We see on occasion and ability to engage in | :16:17. | :16:21. | |
deadly attacks, but that is the exception. That threat came just | :16:21. | :16:26. | |
before the Queen's visit to Dublin last year. At the time there were | :16:26. | :16:31. | |
fears of an attack in England or Ireland. Nothing happened. The | :16:31. | :16:36. | |
level of threat may have gone down in London but in Belfast it is a | :16:36. | :16:40. | |
different story. Officially it is described as severe, in other words | :16:40. | :16:45. | |
attacks are highly likely. In the House of Commons the Northern | :16:45. | :16:48. | |
Ireland Secretary said dissidents would not be allowed to wreck the | :16:48. | :16:54. | |
peace process. In Great Britain and Northern Ireland the Government is | :16:54. | :17:01. | |
focused on terrorism and will use all means to refute it. Dissident | :17:01. | :17:06. | |
republics -- Republicans have had setbacks but they still have | :17:06. | :17:09. | |
weapons and remain determined use them. | :17:09. | :17:12. | |
Ministers in Cardiff should in principle be allowed to borrow | :17:12. | :17:17. | |
money to pay for large capital projects. The UK and Welsh | :17:17. | :17:20. | |
governments agreed the move on condition that responsibility for | :17:20. | :17:26. | |
some taxes is also handed to the Welsh government. Our political | :17:26. | :17:32. | |
editor is at the Welsh Assembly. What has been announced? | :17:32. | :17:36. | |
This is an agreement in principle between the governments. There | :17:36. | :17:40. | |
Rameau's Pacifics and no funding details and no change of | :17:40. | :17:45. | |
immediately -- there are no specific details. Both governments | :17:45. | :17:50. | |
are keen to go down a road that sees the Welsh government for the | :17:50. | :17:58. | |
first time given powers to pay for big capital projects and for the UK | :17:58. | :18:05. | |
government to 0.2 accountability in the way it is funded. -- point to | :18:05. | :18:10. | |
accountability. Danny Alexander, the Chief Secretary to the Treasury | :18:10. | :18:14. | |
said in his view it is a signal that Wales is about to take a major | :18:14. | :18:21. | |
step forward. Fiscal devolution is a necessary step and opens up | :18:21. | :18:24. | |
opportunities to boost financial accountability and provide greater | :18:24. | :18:30. | |
spending power. For the first time, the UK government agrees that the | :18:30. | :18:34. | |
Welsh government should be given capital borrowing powers on the | :18:34. | :18:38. | |
condition that this is supported by the Independent revenue stream. | :18:38. | :18:44. | |
There are conditions attached. Absolutely, the revenue stream, if | :18:44. | :18:49. | |
you want to borrow you have to be able to pay back and the | :18:49. | :18:52. | |
significance is how, and that is where devolving tax-raising powers | :18:52. | :18:59. | |
comes in. The key thing is recommendations of a commission on | :18:59. | :19:02. | |
devolving tax-raising powers. They will report next month and if they | :19:02. | :19:07. | |
say yes to that, if it happens, the UK government made it clear they | :19:07. | :19:11. | |
wanted to be ambitious and if that happens the Government in Wales can | :19:11. | :19:21. | |
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borrow against the revenue stream. There are far too few details | :19:29. | :19:37. | |
according to Plaid Cwymru. Today's retired households are | :19:37. | :19:41. | |
significantly better off than their equivalents a quarter of a century | :19:41. | :19:46. | |
ago. Official figures showed their average disposable income was over | :19:46. | :19:55. | |
17 and a half 1,000 in 2011, 2 pied -- 2.5 times higher than in 1977. | :19:55. | :19:59. | |
They are better off but there are still large numbers struggling to | :19:59. | :20:05. | |
survive on low income. A new food labelling system is set | :20:05. | :20:08. | |
to be introduced to give shoppers clear information on the fat, sugar | :20:08. | :20:14. | |
and salt content of food. It will be voluntary but the Government is | :20:14. | :20:18. | |
confident it has the industry on board. | :20:18. | :20:24. | |
Food labelling can be confusing. There is no agreed approach and | :20:24. | :20:31. | |
shoppers face many numbers and symbols detailing calories, and fat, | :20:31. | :20:37. | |
sugar and salt. It makes it hard to compare products and which are | :20:37. | :20:42. | |
healthier. But Labour linger affects consumer choice and the | :20:42. | :20:50. | |
Government wants a unified approach -- food labelling affects. | :20:50. | :20:55. | |
Supermarkets and manufacturers have woken up to the fact they have a | :20:55. | :20:59. | |
responsibility to make sure we lead and live healthier and happier | :20:59. | :21:05. | |
lives. How the labels will work has not been decided but they will have | :21:05. | :21:08. | |
a traffic light system and information on guideline daily | :21:08. | :21:18. | |
amounts. And also the words of high, medium and low. His people | :21:18. | :21:25. | |
understand it, it will be helpful - - if people understand it. It will | :21:25. | :21:33. | |
make a lot of difference. Some campaigners are sceptical, saying | :21:34. | :21:39. | |
it needs the whole industry to buy in. There are new battleground is | :21:40. | :21:45. | |
manufacturers. Over many years they have dragged their heels. There is | :21:45. | :21:49. | |
confusion over labelling and the Government must compel them to act. | :21:49. | :21:53. | |
Ministers will have to sell the plan when they meet food companies | :21:53. | :21:57. | |
and health campaigners this week to agree on a design. They say it | :21:57. | :22:04. | |
should be ready by summer next year. The funeral of a mother and five | :22:05. | :22:10. | |
children who died in a house fire is taking place in Essex. Sabah | :22:10. | :22:14. | |
Usmani and her children aged between 12 and three years died | :22:14. | :22:19. | |
last week. Their father, Dr Abdul Shakoor, was the only survivor. | :22:19. | :22:24. | |
Police originally treated the fire as a suspected arson attack but it | :22:24. | :22:29. | |
is likely now that the fire was a tragic accident. | :22:29. | :22:32. | |
Over 75 years since it began, analogue television has been | :22:32. | :22:38. | |
switched off in the UK. The digital switch-over which began five years | :22:38. | :22:44. | |
ago finished last night in Northern Ireland. It means the end of Ceefax, | :22:44. | :22:50. | |
but first Teletext service. The red of the Tour de France has | :22:50. | :22:54. | |
been unveiled in Paris as professional cycling tries to put | :22:54. | :22:58. | |
allegations of doping behind it. It will be the 100 edition of the Tour | :22:58. | :23:04. | |
de France and highlights will be a night-time finish in the Champs- | :23:04. | :23:07. | |
Elysees. It comes after Lance Armstrong was stripped of his seven | :23:07. | :23:16. | |
Tour de France victories. Unveiled for the 100 time, the | :23:16. | :23:22. | |
route for the most gruelling race in cycling. While the riders in | :23:22. | :23:27. | |
next summer's Tour de France know where they are going, when that | :23:27. | :23:32. | |
course was revealed, the directions to sport was less clear. Lance | :23:33. | :23:37. | |
Armstrong was the greatest champion of the event until two days ago | :23:37. | :23:41. | |
when he was stripped of his titles and banned for life. He continues | :23:41. | :23:45. | |
to deny he was a drugs cheat but the current stars want him to come | :23:45. | :23:52. | |
clean. Anybody who has done something, confesses, it is not | :23:52. | :23:57. | |
fair that I have to sit and answer questions. But it is up to not just | :23:57. | :24:02. | |
one person, but everyone involved with anything that can damage my | :24:02. | :24:12. | |
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career, anyone who can damage the sport right now, it is frustrating. | :24:12. | :24:16. | |
By disgracing the sport, Lance Armstrong has left cycling in | :24:16. | :24:20. | |
crisis. A former team-mate to testified against him believes | :24:21. | :24:26. | |
there is a road to redemption. Every scandal has its purpose. | :24:26. | :24:33. | |
Every obstacle has a reason for being back and to be able to | :24:33. | :24:40. | |
circumvent it and get over it, that only leads to progress. As the | :24:40. | :24:46. | |
sport tries to recover, Britain is leading the charge. Bradley Wiggins | :24:46. | :24:51. | |
became the first Tour de France winner for his country. The 2013 | :24:51. | :24:54. | |
course presents a greater challenge, but for the Champion, instead of | :24:54. | :25:00. | |
excitement, there is anger. It is difficult to convince some people | :25:00. | :25:04. | |
because of the precedent that has been sacked and ingrained for so | :25:04. | :25:11. | |
long. I have not got the answer -- that has been set. A feature of | :25:11. | :25:16. | |
next summer's race is a night-time finish at the end of the final | :25:16. | :25:21. | |
stage in the French capital. As the Tour de France celebrates 100 years | :25:21. | :25:28. | |
of history, it continues to be haunted by ghosts of the past. | :25:28. | :25:33. | |
Each year, the Royal British Legion works to provide care and support | :25:33. | :25:37. | |
to personnel returning from conflict, and to their families. | :25:37. | :25:41. | |
The work relies on money raised from the Poppy Appeal which is | :25:41. | :25:46. | |
being launched today. This year, the Legion hopes to raise �42 | :25:46. | :25:54. | |
million. This is one of the projects funded | :25:54. | :25:59. | |
by the Royal British Legion's Poppy Appeal. It is a �30 million sports | :25:59. | :26:02. | |
and training centre in Lilleshall for those who have served on the | :26:02. | :26:11. | |
front line and suffered life changing injuries. The centre is an | :26:11. | :26:15. | |
essential element to recovery for men like Sapper Clive Smith who | :26:15. | :26:21. | |
lost his legs in a roadside bomb in Afghanistan two years ago. He is | :26:21. | :26:25. | |
one of the people fronting the appeal. 20 years ago, if this | :26:25. | :26:30. | |
happened, the networks would not have been as supported and funded | :26:30. | :26:36. | |
as they are now, which is down to the public's generosity to support | :26:36. | :26:40. | |
those coming back. Alesha Dixon is among celebrities lending their | :26:40. | :26:46. | |
support. She hopes the appeal will engage a new generation, but | :26:46. | :26:51. | |
wearing a poppy is not only about honouring the sacrifice of the past, | :26:51. | :26:56. | |
it is linked to the presence -- present. Wearing it with pride, I | :26:56. | :27:02. | |
do every year. It is important to stand together as a country. | :27:02. | :27:07. | |
Steer the appeal raised a record �40 million and the aim this year | :27:07. | :27:16. | |
is to go one better with a target of �42 million. | :27:16. | :27:21. | |
The job of the United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon | :27:21. | :27:25. | |
revolves around weighty issues as conflict resolution and | :27:25. | :27:30. | |
peacekeeping. In a departure from his schedule, he met a celebrity is | :27:30. | :27:35. | |
in an attempt to reach out to young people from different social groups. | :27:35. | :27:41. | |
The pictures contain flash photography. And one of these | :27:41. | :27:45. | |
celebrities he met was the global pop sensation and fellow South | :27:45. | :27:53. | |
Korean, Psy, his track Gangnam Style has been a worldwide hit. The | :27:53. | :28:00. | |
and Ban Ki-moon tried out the trade mark dance moves. I have not seen | :28:00. | :28:06. | |
that, it was not too bad! Shall we that, it was not too bad! Shall we | :28:06. | :28:15. | |
just move on with the weather? The weather it is cloudy. We have | :28:15. | :28:19. | |
grey skies across the country. There will be changes and I will | :28:19. | :28:24. | |
come to those in a moment. The satellite shows much of the country | :28:24. | :28:31. | |
under cloud. There are breaks in the cloud. Across southern parts of | :28:31. | :28:36. | |
Scotland we see brighter skies, but cloudy across northern Scotland and | :28:36. | :28:42. | |
maybe some rain. Northern Ireland keeping the cloud. Across the west | :28:42. | :28:45. | |
coast of England, there is brightness through the afternoon | :28:45. | :28:50. | |
and that is true of the west coast of Wales. Moving inland, figure | :28:50. | :28:58. | |
cloud. We could see some light rain. -- thicker cloud. There may be | :28:58. | :29:02. | |
showers in East Anglia, the East Midlands and up to Yorkshire. | :29:02. | :29:08. | |
Tonight, the return a cloud across England and Wales. You might see | :29:08. | :29:15. | |
breaks in the cloud in parts of Scotland, turning chilly here. We | :29:16. | :29:21. | |
could also see a touch of frost in the countryside. The cold air is a | :29:21. | :29:27. | |
sign of things to come and it will move into parts of Scotland and | :29:27. | :29:32. | |
Northern Ireland, breaking up the cloud, but we keep the damp weather | :29:32. | :29:37. | |
across southern areas with temperatures around 13 degrees. The | :29:37. | :29:43. | |
changes are due to a weather system. It is moving down the country. | :29:43. | :29:47. | |
Temperatures will drop and along with that we will see increasing | :29:47. | :29:52. | |
amounts of sunshine. This week we have been used to temperatures that | :29:52. | :29:56. | |
are above average but they will fall away at the end of the week. | :29:56. | :30:01. | |
They will be accompanied by strong northerly breezes, making it feel | :30:01. | :30:09. | |
even colder. More sunshine around on Sat -- Friday. We can see sleet | :30:09. | :30:15. | |
and hail at low levels. Daytime temperatures struggling in single | :30:15. | :30:21. | |
figures. And cold nights. The weekend gets off to a frosty start. | :30:21. | :30:28. | |
In southern areas, they will stay cold, but see sunshine. Cloud | :30:28. | :30:33. | |
arriving on Sunday. Perhaps some rain in southern areas. Cloudy in | :30:33. | :30:38. | |
the North on Saturday. The rain is across Scotland and Northern | :30:38. | :30:42. | |
Ireland. The second half of the weekend is looking cloudy and | :30:42. | :30:47. | |
weekend is looking cloudy and wetter. More details online. | :30:47. | :30:53. | |
The top story. The Crown Prosecution Service will review its | :30:53. | :30:57. | |
decision not to prosecute Jimmy Savile over sex abuse allegations | :30:57. | :31:03. | |
in 2009. The Director of Public Prosecutions will consider what | :31:03. | :31:06. | |
more can be done to alert authorities when there are concerns | :31:06. | :31:11. |