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Britain is officially out of recession - the latest figures show | :00:08. | :00:11. | |
the economy grew by 1% in the three months to September. The figures | :00:11. | :00:14. | |
are better than expected. The Prime Minister David Cameron gave the | :00:14. | :00:22. | |
news a cautious welcome. We still have a long way to go and there are | :00:23. | :00:26. | |
still difficulties ahead but I think these figures do show that we | :00:26. | :00:32. | |
are on the right track. We have got the right approach. We have had a | :00:32. | :00:35. | |
difficult two years with the recession. Borrowing is rising. | :00:35. | :00:40. | |
There are risks with our economy. A complacent thing to do is for the | :00:40. | :00:44. | |
government to cross its fingers and hope for the best. Ticket sales for | :00:44. | :00:47. | |
the Olympic and Paralympic Games helped boost the economy. After | :00:47. | :00:50. | |
nine months of recession, and now appears to be growing at its | :00:50. | :00:56. | |
fastest rate for five years. It is not all good news. Ford is to close | :00:56. | :00:59. | |
its Transit van factory in Southampton and a plant in Dagenham | :00:59. | :01:03. | |
with the loss of up to 1300 jobs. Scotland Yard says the number of | :01:03. | :01:06. | |
possible sexual abuse victims of Jimmy Savile could be as high as | :01:06. | :01:09. | |
300. It says other high-profile figures are being investigated. | :01:09. | :01:12. | |
And 40 years after Dutch elm disease, a fungus that has the | :01:12. | :01:14. | |
potential to devastate the ash tree population has been discovered in | :01:14. | :01:20. | |
Later on BBC London: Compensation for the residents having to move | :01:20. | :01:23. | |
for high-speed rail, but is it enough? | :01:23. | :01:26. | |
And plans for a network of cycle paths above the capital's streets, | :01:26. | :01:36. | |
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Good afternoon and welcome to the BBC News at One. The UK economy has | :01:50. | :01:54. | |
come out of recession and grew by one per cent in the three months | :01:54. | :01:57. | |
from July, more than was widely expected. The Olympics and | :01:57. | :02:00. | |
Paralympics provided a boost through ticket sales and jobs in | :02:00. | :02:05. | |
London and the south-east. But after nine months of recession, the | :02:05. | :02:09. | |
economy now appears to be growing at its fastest rate for five years. | :02:09. | :02:12. | |
David Cameron said the figures showed the country was on the right | :02:12. | :02:16. | |
track, but Labour insisted the government still had to do more. | :02:16. | :02:22. | |
Our chief economics correspondent Hugh Pym reports. | :02:22. | :02:27. | |
The British economy is growing again. GDP, that is the value of | :02:27. | :02:31. | |
all goods and services, fell back last autumn and the UK went into | :02:31. | :02:36. | |
recession. But between July and September it bounced back with | :02:36. | :02:40. | |
growth of 1%. The Prime Minister gave a cautious welcome to news | :02:40. | :02:45. | |
that the UK had come back out of recession. We still have a long way | :02:45. | :02:49. | |
to go. There are still difficulties ahead but I think these figures do | :02:49. | :02:54. | |
show that we are on the right track. We have got the right approach. We | :02:54. | :02:58. | |
can see that with unemployment falling. With a quarter of the | :02:58. | :03:02. | |
deficit paid down in the last two years, there is more to do but | :03:02. | :03:06. | |
these figures are good progress. Labour welcomed the return to | :03:06. | :03:10. | |
growth but it said the economy was some way from a full and | :03:10. | :03:14. | |
sustainable recovery. I do not think today is a day for | :03:14. | :03:18. | |
complacency. Borrowing is rising. Going forward, there are real risks | :03:18. | :03:22. | |
in our economy. I think the complacent thing to do as for the | :03:22. | :03:26. | |
government to cross it fingers and hope for the Bathurst. I have | :03:26. | :03:31. | |
wished they would act to get jobs moving. Kick manufacturing saw | :03:31. | :03:36. | |
solid growth. This company has ambitious expansion plans and | :03:36. | :03:41. | |
covered by a government grant. It is about to start making washing | :03:41. | :03:46. | |
machines and taking on a lot more staff. It will probably take us 18 | :03:46. | :03:51. | |
months to two years but it should double our number of staff here. We | :03:51. | :03:56. | |
currently employed 200 people. Over the next 20 years, we want to start | :03:56. | :04:01. | |
making all appliances so that will be massive. The Olympics gilded the | :04:01. | :04:05. | |
latest growth estimate. Ticket sales were included in these | :04:05. | :04:10. | |
figures and there was always going to be some recovery because of the | :04:10. | :04:17. | |
Jubilee celebrations. But there was nothing to cheer about in the | :04:17. | :04:21. | |
construction industry. Once again, output fell back. Public sector | :04:21. | :04:26. | |
cuts have affected the mood. One barometer of the state of the | :04:26. | :04:29. | |
construction industry is brick production. The number of bricks | :04:29. | :04:34. | |
leaving sites like this gives an indication about how active the | :04:34. | :04:39. | |
building trade is. Brick production is down 8% year-on-year. This | :04:39. | :04:43. | |
company has seen it all does hold up but bosses acknowledge that is | :04:43. | :04:47. | |
partly because other brickworks have closed and they have picked up | :04:47. | :04:52. | |
business. Overall, they say, at the climate has worsened since the | :04:52. | :04:56. | |
spring. Housing numbers have gone back, both in terms of private | :04:56. | :05:00. | |
housing but also public housing. There has been a general loss of | :05:00. | :05:05. | |
confidence. This is just one corner of the economy. Other sectors may | :05:05. | :05:11. | |
be based on firmer foundations. Today's news is looking back. As | :05:11. | :05:16. | |
for the future, there are many uncertainties, not least in the | :05:16. | :05:21. | |
eurozone. Any downturn there could pull back activity here. | :05:21. | :05:24. | |
Our economics editor of Stephanie Flanders joins me now. How | :05:24. | :05:29. | |
significant are these figures? think they are significant because | :05:29. | :05:34. | |
they do show in effect, if it had not been for that extra gene bank | :05:34. | :05:41. | |
holiday for the Jubilee in June, we may have seen the economy growing | :05:41. | :05:47. | |
since the spring. It is hard to reap the underlying picture. We | :05:47. | :05:52. | |
knew the extra gene bank holiday would have pushed down the figures | :05:52. | :05:56. | |
by or half a % in the second quarter and then pushed them up | :05:56. | :06:00. | |
again as people made up the lost output in this quarter. We also | :06:00. | :06:05. | |
knew we had the Olympics which may have added another 0.2 to the | :06:05. | :06:10. | |
figures. Despite that, we can see some growth leftover, some | :06:10. | :06:14. | |
underlying momentum. We have probably been growing by 0.3 % | :06:14. | :06:19. | |
every three months. That is much slower than the long-term average. | :06:19. | :06:22. | |
It is lower than many people would like to see after the deep | :06:22. | :06:27. | |
recession which started in 2008 but it is more than the city was | :06:27. | :06:32. | |
expecting to see. They thought we might see no growth at all. I think | :06:32. | :06:35. | |
ministers might be profoundly cheered but there is some sign of | :06:35. | :06:41. | |
forward momentum. We are moving forwards, not backwards. They know, | :06:41. | :06:45. | |
looking at the head wins facing the recovery, that this number will be | :06:45. | :06:50. | |
a hard act to follow. Thank you. Let's get some more reaction to the | :06:50. | :06:54. | |
GDP figures and joined our correspondent Dave Harvey at a | :06:54. | :07:01. | |
factory in Gloucestershire. Good afternoon. 1%, try 108 %. That | :07:01. | :07:07. | |
is what happened to company profits here. They make precision measuring | :07:07. | :07:12. | |
equipment and they are printing their own circuit boards. 36,000 | :07:12. | :07:16. | |
components come of this expensive machines. Wide as a profit in a | :07:16. | :07:20. | |
company like this matter? You need this kit if you run a factory. Are | :07:20. | :07:24. | |
all their kit is sold to other factories. If they are doing well, | :07:24. | :07:29. | |
it suggests everyone is doing well. Is that true? It is in | :07:29. | :07:34. | |
manufacturing. We support things like aero-engine production and air | :07:34. | :07:40. | |
freight production. That has helped us. We are trying to find 120 | :07:40. | :07:45. | |
people to work here in the UK. are recruiting and that this end of | :07:46. | :07:49. | |
the economic pipe, things are good. But it does not mean they are | :07:49. | :07:53. | |
cracking open the champagne here. You are one of the guys who works | :07:53. | :07:59. | |
here. The bills are still tough, aren't they? Yes, the cost of fuel, | :07:59. | :08:06. | |
food, gas and electric, they are continually rising. Obviously, the | :08:06. | :08:13. | |
wages do not go up as much. I think we are in a good position. Lots of | :08:13. | :08:19. | |
people will say to you it is still tight. It is, and I do not think it | :08:19. | :08:23. | |
gets any better in the near future but hopefully, the way that the | :08:23. | :08:27. | |
company is going, we are doing well and I hope it continues that way. | :08:27. | :08:33. | |
And you keep on plugging away. It is a hi-tech firm. It started when | :08:33. | :08:38. | |
they were producing Concorde down the road in Bristol 40 years ago. | :08:38. | :08:42. | |
Now they use their equipment to make the latest mobile phones. Hi- | :08:42. | :08:47. | |
tech is certainly high growth. Thank you. Our political | :08:47. | :08:50. | |
correspondent Norman Smith is in Downing Street. Hard as this effect | :08:50. | :08:55. | |
the argument over the economy? There has been no attempt in | :08:55. | :08:58. | |
government to present today's figures as some sort of turning | :08:58. | :09:04. | |
point. I think if any minister had dared to utter the dead -- dread | :09:04. | :09:09. | |
phrase green shoots, they would have been taken out by a Treasury | :09:09. | :09:13. | |
sniper. Instead, there has been an attempt to warn of difficult days | :09:13. | :09:17. | |
ahead. We do not know what will happen with the eurozone. But | :09:17. | :09:22. | |
politically, these figures are important. To help the government | :09:22. | :09:26. | |
in terms of its core political narrative on the economy. They | :09:26. | :09:31. | |
enable them to nail down another key plank in terms of plan A. Last | :09:31. | :09:36. | |
week we had unemployment down. That was one plant meltdown. Then we had | :09:36. | :09:42. | |
inflation down. That was another plank. And now GDP up, another | :09:42. | :09:48. | |
plank meltdown. It helps to can since -- create another convincing | :09:48. | :09:51. | |
argument to present to the electorate. For more on what these | :09:51. | :09:55. | |
figures might mean to you, you can visit our website, | :09:56. | :10:02. | |
bbc.co.uk/economy. Ford is to close its Transit van | :10:02. | :10:06. | |
factory in Southampton and one of its plant in Dagenham in Essex, | :10:06. | :10:11. | |
with the loss of around 1,300 jobs. Union officials have described the | :10:11. | :10:19. | |
news as devastating. John Moylan is at the Southampton factory for us. | :10:19. | :10:24. | |
Staff were due to knock off work at 2 o'clock this afternoon. In fact, | :10:24. | :10:28. | |
they have all been sent home early. They have received the devastating | :10:28. | :10:33. | |
news that this plant is to close. They will lose their jobs. It will | :10:33. | :10:37. | |
close next summer. That is a move which will end more than 100 years | :10:37. | :10:41. | |
of vehicle production by Ford here in Britain. | :10:41. | :10:45. | |
It is the news that workers he had dreaded. For decades, this plant | :10:45. | :10:50. | |
has been home to a, a Transit van. In meetings held this morning, | :10:50. | :10:56. | |
staff were told production would end and the plant would shut. | :10:56. | :11:01. | |
gutted. I have worked there for 25 years. It seems like the hard work | :11:01. | :11:07. | |
we have put in has been a waste of time. When people in a few years' | :11:07. | :11:11. | |
time by a Transit van which you think will be a British icon, they | :11:11. | :11:19. | |
are buying a Turkish Van. Transits have been built here since the | :11:19. | :11:24. | |
early 1970s. In its heyday, the plant employed 4,000 people. Those | :11:25. | :11:29. | |
who spent much of their working life here said it is a key plant of | :11:29. | :11:34. | |
the -- a key part of the local economy. It is very sad for those | :11:34. | :11:38. | |
who have young families and all of us who have gone through Ford with | :11:38. | :11:42. | |
our families hold it very deeply that these people are losing their | :11:42. | :11:46. | |
jobs. How will they manage? How will they pay their mortgages? | :11:46. | :11:51. | |
the 500 jobs going here are part of wider cuts being made by Ford. A | :11:52. | :11:58. | |
plant in Dagenham which makes parts for the Transit will also close. A | :11:58. | :12:02. | |
total of 1,300 jobs are expected to go in Britain. Unions fear the | :12:02. | :12:07. | |
number could be even higher. Ford is cutting capacity in Europe to | :12:07. | :12:12. | |
stem mounting losses. Yesterday, it announced plans to close a major | :12:12. | :12:18. | |
car plant in Belgium. Having cut back operations in the US, the car | :12:18. | :12:22. | |
giant is now targeting Europe where sales have plummeted in the wake of | :12:22. | :12:27. | |
the financial crisis. The European market is having a tough time | :12:27. | :12:30. | |
because the European economy is going back a. It is affecting | :12:30. | :12:36. | |
northern Europe. Event well one companies like Ford are being | :12:36. | :12:42. | |
sucked in. Everyone will have to cut costs and restructured. There | :12:42. | :12:46. | |
is some good news. Ford makes 2 million engines a year in Britain. | :12:46. | :12:52. | |
Today, it has confirmed that the next generation Pamper model will | :12:52. | :12:56. | |
be billed here as well, safeguarding hundreds of jobs. | :12:56. | :13:01. | |
A head is worth saying other parts of the auto industry in the UK are | :13:01. | :13:06. | |
doing better than here. Jaguar Land Rover continues to expand. There | :13:06. | :13:12. | |
has been investments in Nissan and BMW. The news we are hearing today | :13:12. | :13:17. | |
is worse than expected. It does look as if the UK and Belgium are | :13:17. | :13:21. | |
bearing the brunt of the restructuring that Ford is doing in | :13:21. | :13:25. | |
Europe. Today, the main union that covers car plants is describing | :13:25. | :13:31. | |
this as a betrayal. It is talking about 1,500 jobs and says Winnie | :13:31. | :13:34. | |
bring in the wider impact on the supply chain, there could be | :13:34. | :13:37. | |
thousands of workers affected by this news today. | :13:38. | :13:42. | |
The number of possible sexual abuse victims of Jimmy Savile is | :13:42. | :13:46. | |
understood to be fast approaching 300. Sources close to the | :13:46. | :13:50. | |
investigation say police are also investigating other high-profile | :13:50. | :13:55. | |
figures. Danny Shaw is at Scotland Yard for us. How do we think this | :13:55. | :13:59. | |
investigation is progressing at the moment? Earlier this month we were | :13:59. | :14:04. | |
told the number of potential victims would be around the 30 mark. | :14:04. | :14:10. | |
That was revised by Scotland Yard to 60. Last week we were told it | :14:10. | :14:15. | |
was 200. Now we are looking at 300 potential victims over 50 year | :14:15. | :14:19. | |
period. There are also other individuals who may be implicated. | :14:19. | :14:24. | |
People who may have assisted Jimmy Savile, facilitated the abuse, | :14:24. | :14:28. | |
organised children to come to his dressing room or covered it up or | :14:28. | :14:32. | |
people who took part in the bees themselves. I am told we are | :14:32. | :14:37. | |
looking at figures of high standing. Clearly, those figures are at an | :14:37. | :14:41. | |
early stage. No one has been arrested so far. It is likely in | :14:41. | :14:45. | |
the days and weeks ahead, police will be knocking on the doors of | :14:45. | :14:50. | |
suspects to make arrests. Thank you. Two British service personnel have | :14:50. | :14:54. | |
been killed on patrol and Afghanistan. A Royal Marine from 40 | :14:54. | :14:59. | |
Commando and a female soldier from 3 Medical Regiment died after being | :14:59. | :15:02. | |
injured in Helmand Province yesterday. The Ministry of Defence | :15:02. | :15:07. | |
has just said there was an exchange of fire between Japan and an Afghan | :15:07. | :15:10. | |
man who was believed to be a member of the Afghan police but not | :15:10. | :15:20. | |
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wearing uniform at the time. The Royal Marine and female army | :15:27. | :15:30. | |
medic were hit by gunfire and fatally wounded with a least one | :15:30. | :15:34. | |
other injured. Afghan sources say an Afghan policeman was also killed. | :15:34. | :15:39. | |
But it is not yet clear what actually happened or Ewshot first. | :15:39. | :15:43. | |
Different sources have given compact -- conflicting accounts and | :15:43. | :15:47. | |
the MoD says the investigation is continuing -- who shot first. The | :15:48. | :15:51. | |
bleak picture of what has been achieved in Afghanistan, despite | :15:51. | :15:56. | |
the sacrifice is made, was painted today by the British Government's | :15:56. | :16:00. | |
parliamentary aide watchdog. It said that creating a viable state | :16:00. | :16:05. | |
in Afghanistan is probably not achievable. MPs on the | :16:05. | :16:07. | |
international development committee said years of intervention had | :16:07. | :16:11. | |
failed to create a working, transparent Afghan government, and | :16:11. | :16:15. | |
that Britain should reconsider its ambitions in favour of more | :16:15. | :16:20. | |
traditional aid targets. A huge amount of life has been lost in | :16:20. | :16:23. | |
Afghanistan. Gains have been made since the Taliban were in charge, | :16:23. | :16:27. | |
but the thing we have to focus is on securing those rather than the | :16:27. | :16:30. | |
more ambitious objectives of building a viable state, | :16:30. | :16:34. | |
particularly in the interests of women. They have been the worst | :16:34. | :16:38. | |
victims in the past and made the most gains, but those are the ones | :16:38. | :16:43. | |
we are most seen under pressure. But they also stress it is vitally | :16:43. | :16:47. | |
important not to abandon the people of Afghanistan, especially the | :16:47. | :16:54. | |
country's women. Here in couple -- Kabul, there have been gains, but | :16:54. | :16:59. | |
they are fragile and a threatened by corruption. This is one of the | :16:59. | :17:04. | |
worst and biggest problems, corruption is everywhere. It is | :17:04. | :17:09. | |
such a corrupted system. Women are the first victim of this corruption. | :17:09. | :17:13. | |
The focus is now very much on what the West can realistically achieved | :17:13. | :17:17. | |
as international combat forces prepare to leave by the under 2014. | :17:17. | :17:22. | |
Many lives have been lost over the past 11 years and nobody wants | :17:22. | :17:26. | |
sacrifices to have been in vain. But it is clear that while the | :17:26. | :17:28. | |
international community wants to continue to help, much of what | :17:28. | :17:38. | |
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happens next is up to the Afghan Our top story this lunchtime: | :17:40. | :17:43. | |
Britain is officially out of recession. The economy grew by 1% | :17:43. | :17:46. | |
in the three months to September and appears to be growing at its | :17:46. | :17:50. | |
fastest rate for five years. Coming up: We'll be looking through | :17:50. | :17:52. | |
Microsoft's latest Windows, as the computer giant challenges its | :17:52. | :18:01. | |
Later on BBC London: The Olympic athletes who had their medals were | :18:01. | :18:04. | |
stolen as they celebrated in the West End. And former Crystal Palace | :18:04. | :18:14. | |
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manager Dougie Freedman is A disease that's killed a huge | :18:16. | :18:19. | |
number of ash trees in Denmark and central Europe has been found in | :18:19. | :18:29. | |
the East Anglian countryside. The Forestry Commission says that up | :18:29. | :18:32. | |
until now, the deadly fungus had only been found in Britain in | :18:32. | :18:35. | |
nurseries and new woodlands. Ben Ando is in one of the two areas | :18:35. | :18:38. | |
where the disease has been found at Lower Wood reserve in Norfolk. | :18:38. | :18:44. | |
Good afternoon. This is Ashwellthorpe in Norfolk, dedicated | :18:44. | :18:48. | |
ancient, which means in recorded history it has only ever been a | :18:49. | :18:52. | |
woodland. But now the ash trees are facing a potentially deadly new | :18:52. | :19:00. | |
threat. In woodlands, parks and forests, native ash trees make up | :19:00. | :19:03. | |
nearly a third of the last -- landscape. They provide an | :19:03. | :19:07. | |
important habitat for nesting birds and other wildlife, but in this | :19:07. | :19:10. | |
area in Norfolk and another in Suffolk, significant numbers of | :19:10. | :19:16. | |
trees have fallen victim to ash dieback, a deadly fungus which has | :19:16. | :19:22. | |
the potential to devastate the population. The my hope is that the | :19:22. | :19:24. | |
trees are slightly more resilient than they have been on the | :19:24. | :19:30. | |
Continent. My fear is we will lose the ash trees from the woodland. It | :19:30. | :19:35. | |
will mean a significant reduction in habitat for nesting birds and it | :19:35. | :19:40. | |
will change the light levels to the woodland floor. Of course, any | :19:40. | :19:49. | |
species last is terrible. In the 1970s, Dutch elm disease killed 20 | :19:49. | :19:51. | |
million trees in Britain and effectively destroyed the native | :19:51. | :20:01. | |
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In Denmark, ash dieback has wiped out 90% of the ash trees in the | :20:02. | :20:06. | |
last seven years and is spreading across continental Europe. In a | :20:06. | :20:09. | |
typical coppice there will be standard ash trees with a single, | :20:09. | :20:14. | |
big trunk, as well as cut trees with multiple trunks, and often | :20:14. | :20:18. | |
these are all there. However the experts say that both types are | :20:18. | :20:23. | |
equally at risk from the fungus -- these are all there. For now the | :20:23. | :20:28. | |
outbreak in East Anglia is isolated, but woodland workers are observing | :20:28. | :20:32. | |
strict a buyer of security and the government is being urged to create | :20:32. | :20:36. | |
a emergency task force to tackle the disease. A measure of the | :20:37. | :20:40. | |
urgency is that this morning the government announced a ban on | :20:40. | :20:45. | |
imported ash and severe restrictions on the movement of | :20:45. | :20:50. | |
cash within the UK to be enforced from Monday. -- ash trees. But will | :20:50. | :20:55. | |
that be enough to save Britain's estimated 80 million ash trees from | :20:55. | :21:04. | |
Child-related benefits for families may be capped at two children. | :21:04. | :21:06. | |
That's the plan from Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan- | :21:06. | :21:09. | |
Smith who says it's "madness" that taxpayers are supporting families | :21:09. | :21:12. | |
with large numbers of children to live on benefits. Our political | :21:12. | :21:20. | |
correspondent Gary O'Donoghue is at Welfare is one of the budgets and a | :21:20. | :21:26. | |
huge financial pressure. Already �18 billion has been saved in this | :21:26. | :21:30. | |
Parliament and they are looking at a further �10 billion of savings, | :21:30. | :21:34. | |
but they say in this case this is not really about the money in terms | :21:34. | :21:39. | |
of capping the help people get at two children. They argue the | :21:39. | :21:42. | |
average family in the country has 1.8 children, so why should people | :21:42. | :21:47. | |
on benefits not make the same kind of calculations as those in work | :21:47. | :21:51. | |
when it comes to how many children you can afford? This is an idea for | :21:51. | :21:55. | |
after each the next election. It will not say that much money. There | :21:55. | :21:59. | |
are two Major problems. Firstly the Liberal Democrats are not signed up | :21:59. | :22:02. | |
to this what some of it. One of their spokes people said earlier | :22:02. | :22:08. | |
that this was Tory kite-flying, same at the Conservative Party | :22:08. | :22:11. | |
conference. The second problem, how do you make the moral case for | :22:11. | :22:15. | |
withdrawing support for children who may be born in the future who | :22:15. | :22:18. | |
do not have a choice in coming into the world, just because of what | :22:18. | :22:28. | |
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their parents have chosen? mortgage rules are being applied by | :22:28. | :22:32. | |
the financial services regulator. From 2014, lenders will have to | :22:32. | :22:35. | |
consider the borrower's income and outgoings and interest-only | :22:35. | :22:38. | |
mortgages will be hard to obtain. The measures are designed to make | :22:39. | :22:42. | |
sure that people only get loans they can afford to pay back. | :22:42. | :22:45. | |
Hurricane Sandy is passing through Cuba, causing flooding after 30- | :22:45. | :22:51. | |
foot storm surges. Thousands of homes have been evacuated. Earlier, | :22:51. | :22:55. | |
the storm hit Jamaica with 100 mile an hour winds. 70% of the island | :22:55. | :22:57. | |
was left without power, residents were advised to stay indoors, and | :22:57. | :23:07. | |
airports remained closed. It's now been 24 days since five- | :23:07. | :23:09. | |
year-old April Jones went missing. Although a man has been charged | :23:09. | :23:13. | |
with her murder no trace of her has been found. Police are continuing | :23:13. | :23:16. | |
to search the mid-Wales area where the community is still coming to | :23:16. | :23:18. | |
terms with the disappearance of the young schoolgirl. Hywel Griffith | :23:18. | :23:28. | |
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At first light, they start again. After more than 44,000 hours of | :23:29. | :23:33. | |
searching, there is still no end date to the biggest police | :23:33. | :23:38. | |
operation in a quarter of a century. What is remarkable is the officers | :23:38. | :23:41. | |
from all over the country who come here and share the desire and will | :23:41. | :23:46. | |
to find April. We share a common goal. And you know that her family | :23:46. | :23:50. | |
are watching and waiting? Absolutely, yes. April Jones went | :23:50. | :23:54. | |
missing on the 1st October. She had been playing with friends outside | :23:54. | :23:58. | |
her home. A 46-year-old man has been charged with the abduction and | :23:58. | :24:04. | |
murder. Here at April's School, they have tried to find ways for | :24:04. | :24:08. | |
the children to express some of the difficult emotions they have felt | :24:08. | :24:12. | |
over the last three and a half weeks. This area has been set aside | :24:12. | :24:20. | |
for them to come and sit quietly and reflect. Some children are just | :24:20. | :24:23. | |
three-and a-half, not even writing yet. Every pupil has made a message | :24:24. | :24:27. | |
for April. The head teacher has been trying to slowly bring back | :24:27. | :24:32. | |
some kind of normality to school life. Outside in the town it is not | :24:32. | :24:36. | |
normal. It is getting harder and harder as the weeks go on. The | :24:36. | :24:41. | |
children are asking things, and they know Christmas is coming, so | :24:41. | :24:46. | |
the questions are getting harder. Throughout the town pink ribbons | :24:46. | :24:50. | |
decorate every corner, showing the hope that many cling to. | :24:50. | :24:54. | |
thoughts are still with the family. We still want able to come home. We | :24:54. | :24:58. | |
have hope she is out there and she will be brought home to us -- we | :24:58. | :25:03. | |
want people to come home. Beano's how or when the search will | :25:03. | :25:08. | |
end. -- nobody knows how. 24 days in, nobody is prepared to give up | :25:08. | :25:14. | |
The computer giant Microsoft is unveiling the latest version of its | :25:14. | :25:17. | |
Windows operating system today in an attempt to catch up with rivals | :25:17. | :25:19. | |
such as Apple and Google. The company's chief Executive Steve | :25:20. | :25:23. | |
Ballmer, has acknowledged it's a 'pivotal time' for the company. Our | :25:23. | :25:32. | |
technology correspondent Rory This is what computing has looked | :25:32. | :25:37. | |
like for 30 years, the age of the Windows PC. Now we are moving into | :25:37. | :25:41. | |
a different era of touch-screen mobile computing where Microsoft | :25:41. | :25:48. | |
risks being left behind. We have re-imagined Windows in Windows 8. | :25:48. | :25:52. | |
The new system is supposed to take the company into this brave new | :25:52. | :26:00. | |
world. The boss knows what is at stake. The launch of Windows 8 is | :26:00. | :26:05. | |
really an epic thing for Microsoft. It is right up there in the top two | :26:05. | :26:10. | |
or three big moment, including Windows 95, and the launch of the | :26:10. | :26:15. | |
IBM PC. Apple is bigger and Google has caught your up. Do you lie | :26:15. | :26:24. | |
Tried don't worry about the valuation of our company -- I don't | :26:24. | :26:29. | |
worry. It is a topic on which I'm very very proud. My go soft remains | :26:29. | :26:36. | |
a giant -- Microsoft remains a giant, employing 40,000 people in | :26:36. | :26:40. | |
Seattle alone and in generating big profits. But what the clever people | :26:40. | :26:44. | |
in the buildings have undone in the last 10 years is produce anything | :26:44. | :26:50. | |
that has changed the world war made consumers shock. Unlike Apple which | :26:50. | :26:54. | |
launched another iPad and has outpaced its rival in delivering | :26:54. | :27:00. | |
smart, new products. But this, the Surface tablet computer is the | :27:00. | :27:06. | |
answer from Microsoft. Analysts say it is about time. They have not | :27:06. | :27:11. | |
really been at the forefront of looking at what the next phase of | :27:11. | :27:15. | |
the computing industry was going to be and how consumers were going to | :27:16. | :27:22. | |
interact with their devices. Microsoft's founder, Bill Gates, at | :27:22. | :27:26. | |
a charity event, handed over the reins more than a decade ago. Now | :27:26. | :27:30. | |
his successor needs to show that Windows 8 can deliver a smarter | :27:30. | :27:36. | |
future. And Rory is here with me now. It's important for the | :27:36. | :27:42. | |
business, so what is it like? ways dangerous to do a live | :27:42. | :27:44. | |
technology demonstration, but this is the first computer Microsoft has | :27:45. | :27:51. | |
ever made. This is intended to showcase it. It has a keyboard. | :27:51. | :27:55. | |
That is the look of it. The important thing is that the same | :27:55. | :27:59. | |
look will exist across phones, computers and tablet computers. | :27:59. | :28:04. | |
What is important for Microsoft is that it does transition into this | :28:04. | :28:07. | |
new world where people are using computers in different ways. It | :28:07. | :28:11. | |
does look very slick, but what everybody will be saying is, how | :28:11. | :28:15. | |
does it compare with the existing things, the iPad? Other devices on | :28:15. | :28:21. | |
the market. Aren't the competitors already a long way ahead? Microsoft | :28:21. | :28:26. | |
has to prove in a hurry that it is smarter than its rivals. An Army | :28:26. | :28:29. | |
sniffer dog who died hours after his handler was killed in | :28:29. | :28:35. | |
Afghanistan was given a posthumous award today. Lance Corporal Liam | :28:35. | :28:38. | |
Tasker was shot by insurgents last year while on patrol in Helmand | :28:38. | :28:41. | |
with his springer spaniel Theo, who died of a seizure shortly | :28:41. | :28:43. | |
afterwards. The pair, who were inseparable, detected 14 Taliban | :28:43. | :28:50. | |
roadside bombs and weapons hoards. Theo's been awarded the animal | :28:51. | :28:58. | |
equivalent of the Victoria Cross by Keith let's have a look at the | :28:58. | :29:05. | |
Gray, cloudy and mild in the last couple of days but all change for | :29:05. | :29:10. | |
the weekend. A lot brighter but also a lot colder as we get a blast | :29:10. | :29:14. | |
of air coming in from the Arctic. It is already pushing into Scotland, | :29:14. | :29:17. | |
northern England and Ireland and it is here we will get the best | :29:17. | :29:22. | |
sunshine. Further south, more cloud and grey and murky with drizzly | :29:22. | :29:28. | |
rain. Very mild with temperatures at 13 or 14. Overnight we will see | :29:28. | :29:32. | |
the cloud confined to southern England with outbreaks of rain. | :29:32. | :29:39. | |
Further north as the sky clears, it will be colder. Lowe's eight or | :29:39. | :29:42. | |
nine and further north, the colder it gets and widespread frost or | :29:42. | :29:45. | |
Scotland and parts of northern England by the end of the night. | :29:45. | :29:48. | |
With some showers across the North Sea for Scotland we could have some | :29:48. | :29:53. | |
issues on the road -- the north- east of Scotland. We will pick up | :29:53. | :29:57. | |
some wintry showers early on across Shetland, Orkney and into | :29:57. | :30:00. | |
Aberdeenshire. Actually start for northern England but the sunshine | :30:00. | :30:05. | |
spreads into the Midlands. Still crate across East Anglia and the | :30:05. | :30:11. | |
south-east. A lot of drizzly rain, but a mile start. Contrast the | :30:11. | :30:15. | |
temperatures of eight or 9:00am to those hovering around freezing to | :30:15. | :30:18. | |
the north of the UK. Wales probably on the boundary with the cold | :30:19. | :30:23. | |
weather pushing him by this stage. We will see temperatures to the | :30:23. | :30:27. | |
north already on the way down, but further south a little milder. The | :30:27. | :30:31. | |
sunshine extends into Wales and Northern Ireland and heralds the | :30:31. | :30:35. | |
arrival of colder weather. To hammering home, let's add on a | :30:35. | :30:42. | |
northerly breeze. --, it home. It will make it feel very cold. | :30:42. | :30:46. | |
Temperatures scrabbling around single figures in Scotland. The far | :30:46. | :30:50. | |
south-east keeping some cloud and outbreaks of rain, but that what | :30:50. | :30:54. | |
clear into Saturday and watch the icy blue come trickling down the | :30:54. | :30:58. | |
map first thing on Saturday. A much colder night that we have had in | :30:58. | :31:02. | |
some time. A widespread frost and temperatures below freezing first | :31:02. | :31:08. | |
thing on Saturday. Abbey to start but a sparkling day of sunshine. -- | :31:08. | :31:15. | |
a better start. Saturday, a uniform start, blue sky and sunshine but | :31:15. | :31:19. | |
highs of just eight or nine. Sunday, the cloud piling back in, the | :31:19. | :31:23. | |
breeze picks up and the chance of outbreaks of rain and temperatures | :31:23. | :31:27. | |
lift again as well. A real mixture for the next few days and hopefully | :31:27. | :31:33. | |
there is something in there to your taste. More details can be found by | :31:33. | :31:36. | |
taking a look on the website. And there is a promo which shows you | :31:36. | :31:43. | |
what is happening with the cold Thanks, Susan. At 1:30pm, a | :31:43. | :31:46. | |
reminder of our top story: Britain is officially out of recession. The | :31:46. | :31:49. | |
economy grew by 1% in the three months to September, and appears to | :31:49. | :31:53. | |
be growing at its fastest rate for five years. Still to come on the | :31:53. | :31:59. |