:00:12. > :00:15.Superstorm Sandy's trail of devastation in the easten United
:00:15. > :00:20.States. 40 people are now known to have died in the biggest storm to
:00:20. > :00:23.hit America for decades. Fires are still burning in parts of New
:00:23. > :00:31.Jersey and more than eight million homes and businesses are without
:00:31. > :00:35.power. Within a matter of minutes I think we were completely flooded.
:00:35. > :00:43.It's completely destroyed. I'm in New York, where people are
:00:43. > :00:45.struggling to get back to normal in the aftermath of the epic storm.
:00:46. > :00:49.Lord Heseltine, a former Conservative Deputy Prime Minister,
:00:49. > :00:54.challenges the Government to take bolder action to stimulate the
:00:54. > :00:58.economy. A former porter claims Jimmy Savile was given keys to an
:00:58. > :01:01.accommodation block at Leeds infirmary where he took teenage
:01:01. > :01:06.girls. Another investigation into Barclays on the day the bank
:01:06. > :01:11.reports large pretax losses for the three months to accept. And why
:01:11. > :01:14.there's been a sharp fall in the amount of honey coming from behives
:01:14. > :01:17.in England and Wales and Northern Ireland. Later on BBC London - the
:01:17. > :01:20.plans to build hundreds more homes in central London for teachers,
:01:20. > :01:30.nurses and other key workers. And, we hear from the teenagers in the
:01:30. > :01:44.
:01:44. > :01:49.capital about how knife crime is Good afternoon. Welcome to the news.
:01:49. > :01:53.A clean-up operation's begun in the eastern United States following
:01:53. > :01:55.Sandy. At least 40 people have died and more than eight million
:01:56. > :02:00.households and businesses remain without electricity. Fires are
:02:00. > :02:04.still burning in parts of New York and the subway is closed. President
:02:04. > :02:10.Obama, who has suspended his election campaign, is due to visit
:02:10. > :02:15.affected areas in a few hours' time. The New York governor said we
:02:15. > :02:23.haven't seen damage like this in a generation. The cost has been
:02:23. > :02:28.estimated between $18 and $24 billion. The skyline of Lower
:02:28. > :02:36.Manhattan was not trinkling this morning. The city emerge D
:02:36. > :02:41.twinkling this morning. The city emerged without power. But at least
:02:41. > :02:45.here the buildings are still standing. In the boroughs the
:02:45. > :02:52.scenes are terrible. In Queens Hurricane Sandy destroyed a whole
:02:52. > :02:54.neighbourhood, with floods and fire. More than 100 homes in Breezy Point
:02:54. > :03:04.are scorched, a community destroyed. The worst fire in New York's
:03:04. > :03:10.history. I used to see a standing chimney. It looks like world wore
:03:11. > :03:15.two. The gas main continues to burn. Nearby New Jersey also endured
:03:15. > :03:20.Sandy's wrath. The storm made landfall on Monday evening. Here,
:03:20. > :03:26.too floods and fire. There's devastation all along the Jersey
:03:26. > :03:30.shore. Parts of Atlantic City have been destroyed. I can't believe
:03:30. > :03:36.this. I can't believe this. water has started to recede, but
:03:36. > :03:41.people were trapped by the floods for hours. Relief efforts continue.
:03:42. > :03:46.The National Guard de ployed to help with a rescue and deliver
:03:46. > :03:50.supplies. The water took many by surprise. The full extent of the
:03:50. > :03:57.damage is only now dawning on people. No, we have never seen
:03:57. > :04:02.anything like this in our lives. This is the worst I've ever seen.
:04:02. > :04:07.The east coast has seen the worst of the weather, but the superstorm
:04:07. > :04:12.is now reeking havoc further inland. The snow has come early in North
:04:12. > :04:16.Carolina and Kentucky. A blizzard has paralysed much of vest Virginia.
:04:16. > :04:21.The road to recovery will be daunting for the east coast and for
:04:21. > :04:25.New York City. The subway system here is still crippled. Debris and
:04:25. > :04:30.water need to be cleared before the repairs can even begin. It will
:04:30. > :04:35.take at least four days before New Yorkers can ride the subway again.
:04:35. > :04:41.On the streets of the city, the traffic is slowly picking up again.
:04:41. > :04:45.Some buses are running and after two days of closure, the New York
:04:45. > :04:55.Stock Exchange is open again. This vibrant and resilient city is
:04:55. > :04:55.
:04:56. > :04:59.trying to get back to business. We'll see if it is. Laura Trevelyan
:04:59. > :05:04.is in Brooklyn. It looks tranquil, but what is the situation there at
:05:04. > :05:08.the moment? Very oddly tranquil. You can see the Lower Manhattan
:05:08. > :05:13.skyline behind me. Completely without power. Almost two million
:05:13. > :05:16.people in New York State woke up without power this morning and in
:05:16. > :05:19.Manhattan they're told it could be up to four days before they have
:05:19. > :05:23.any. People are trying to get to work. They are walking over the
:05:23. > :05:33.bridges. People are driving, but there are no traffic light. There's
:05:33. > :05:34.
:05:34. > :05:38.a strange an narkic feel to the city. The subways, we don't know
:05:38. > :05:42.when they're going to be able to re-open. You see New York Harbour
:05:42. > :05:46.behind me. The storm surge was almost 14 feet. We have escalators
:05:46. > :05:50.that are just sitting in stagnant water in the subways, so the city's
:05:50. > :05:56.trying to get back to normal and in just under half an hour's time the
:05:56. > :05:59.Stock Exchange will open. Trading will begin on Wall Street. The
:05:59. > :06:04.Mayor will ring the opening bell and tell the world that the city is
:06:04. > :06:07.trying to be open once again for business. Laura, I heard you in an
:06:07. > :06:13.interview on the BBC News Channel earlier saying that people are
:06:13. > :06:19.starting to question the future of their city? Look at where we are.
:06:19. > :06:25.We are at sea level. The financial capital of America is behind me at
:06:25. > :06:31.sea level. Extensive flooding has knocked out the city's ability to
:06:31. > :06:35.function and this very nearly happened just last year with
:06:35. > :06:39.Hurricane Irene, so people are asking, do we need coastal defences
:06:39. > :06:43.now? Do we need flood barriers? Do we need something to protect us
:06:43. > :06:46.from this storm surge? This is something that the governor,
:06:46. > :06:50.Kristinaity has said he'll raise with President Obama. He's the
:06:50. > :06:53.governor of neighbouring New Jersey, where there's been devastation
:06:53. > :06:58.along the shore. Far worse than what has happened here in the city.
:06:58. > :07:01.And he has said he wants to talk to the President about how to protect
:07:02. > :07:09.the beeches and protect communities from this devastating flooding.
:07:09. > :07:19.Laura, thank you very much. You can get more information and live
:07:19. > :07:21.updates online. Lord Heseltine, the former
:07:21. > :07:25.Conservative Deputy Prime Minister has challenged the Government to
:07:25. > :07:28.take bolder action to stimulate the economy, saying people think the UK
:07:28. > :07:32.doesn't have a strategy for growth and wealth creation. In a report
:07:32. > :07:36.commissioned by Downing Street, he says more investment should be
:07:36. > :07:41.distributed in the regions rather than becentral Government. Hugh Pym
:07:41. > :07:46.has more. -- by central government. Hugh Pym has more. He's back and
:07:46. > :07:49.firing off big ideas again. Lord Heseltine, a former Defence
:07:49. > :07:53.Secretary, as well as being a business tycoon in his own right,
:07:53. > :07:58.never pulled his punches when he was part of the last Conservative
:07:58. > :08:02.government. He certainly isn't now. The report calls for radical new
:08:02. > :08:06.policies to boost growth. I think the essence of my report is that
:08:06. > :08:11.you can't just point to the good bits and ignore the bits that are
:08:11. > :08:16.not so good. This needs a national response and at every level.
:08:16. > :08:21.the Chancellor has set out a growth strategy before. You are more or
:08:21. > :08:26.less suggesting a completely different approach on a much bigger
:08:26. > :08:29.scale? Certainly I'm recommending an extension of the Chancellor's
:08:29. > :08:32.strategy to cover a wider field and involve more people. Let's not
:08:32. > :08:40.forget it was the Chancellor who helped set up my inquiry and who
:08:40. > :08:44.has been immensely supportive. There were some in the business and
:08:44. > :08:49.political worlds that saw the report as a swipe at Downing Street.
:08:49. > :08:53.Lord Heseltine today says, "The message I keep hearing is the UK
:08:53. > :08:59.doesn't have a strategy for growth and wealth creation." Who does the
:08:59. > :09:05.Prime Minister blame for that? Michael Hesletine says is the
:09:05. > :09:09.coalition is fundamentally on the right track. He said, "I praise its
:09:09. > :09:12.work for pioneering city devolution and for the revolutions in
:09:12. > :09:15.education and tackling unemployment ." Shifting a big chunk of money
:09:15. > :09:20.out of Whitehall and into the hands of local employers and politicians
:09:20. > :09:23.is Lord Heseltine's big idea. He thinks that grants to support jobs,
:09:23. > :09:27.skills and a whole range of business services are better
:09:27. > :09:33.allocated by local communities than by Civil Servants and ministers
:09:33. > :09:38.incentral government. -- in central government. He believes billions of
:09:38. > :09:41.pounds could be moved. He wants to create more local power and funding
:09:41. > :09:45.and simplify local authorities and he calls for a national growth
:09:46. > :09:51.council headed by the Prime Minister. Less central control and
:09:51. > :09:55.more local control is a good thing. I also think that providing an
:09:56. > :09:59.enterprise and friendly environment across the country as a whole will
:09:59. > :10:04.enable the great businesses to prosper and grow. Ministers say
:10:04. > :10:09.they'll study the report carefully. It's certainly fuelled the crucial
:10:09. > :10:18.debate on how to get the UK economy firing up again.
:10:18. > :10:22.More now from Ross Hawkins. The report commissioned by Downing
:10:22. > :10:25.Street says Lord Heseltine is supportive of the Government?
:10:25. > :10:29.things are more important to the current politics than whether
:10:29. > :10:33.there's growth in the economy or not. Labour looked to the fact that
:10:33. > :10:36.this Government has asked the old warrior of Conservative battles
:10:36. > :10:40.past, to come back and recommend a growth strategy as proof that the
:10:40. > :10:44.Treasury does not have a growth strategy of its own. On the
:10:44. > :10:47.Government side, sources are saying if there's a criticism here it's of
:10:47. > :10:52.decades of government policy that has left regions falling behind.
:10:52. > :10:55.There is a broader, more philosophical debate, about whether
:10:55. > :10:59.we are talking about a fundamental change in industrial strategy that
:10:59. > :11:02.would see governments getting more involved in big business and
:11:02. > :11:05.spending more money locally. Sources say this is all an
:11:05. > :11:09.extension of the sort of things the Government is doing at the moment,
:11:09. > :11:12.but the real test of the report, of the ideas we have been hearing
:11:12. > :11:15.about there, won't be whether somebody was embarrassed or won a
:11:15. > :11:19.political point at Prime Minister's questions today. It will be whether
:11:19. > :11:23.any of the ideas are turned into reality and for all our sakes,
:11:23. > :11:25.whether they turn out to be effective. How likely is that,
:11:25. > :11:29.then? The Treasury isn't giving too much away today. They say they're
:11:29. > :11:33.going to consider what is a long and complex report. Where this may
:11:33. > :11:37.have changed things, though, not in one news cycle or one session of
:11:37. > :11:40.Prime Minister's questions, is that in the months to come of this
:11:40. > :11:44.Government, people keep on looking back to this report and they'll say
:11:44. > :11:48.has the Treasury adapted the ideas? Does it agree with the philosophy?
:11:48. > :11:52.If it hasn't, would Michael Hesletine like to come out and
:11:52. > :12:00.publicly damn it for not doing so. This would have shifted the weather
:12:00. > :12:05.in terms of how we take economics and politics together. Thank you
:12:05. > :12:08.very much. A former hospital porter if Leeds has told the BBC that
:12:08. > :12:12.Jimmy Savile was regularly handed a key to a building there when he
:12:12. > :12:16.turned up with teenage girls. He said the broadcaster, who died last
:12:16. > :12:19.year, would often arrive in the early hours of the morning, take
:12:19. > :12:26.the girls to a nurses' accommodation block and leave
:12:26. > :12:32.before dawn. Jimmy Savile playing the porter at Leeds General
:12:32. > :12:36.Infirmary. He was well known as a volunteer, a fundraiser and now an
:12:36. > :12:39.alleged sexual predator. Today, the BBC's been told more about what
:12:39. > :12:45.allegedly went on behind closed, hospital doors in the middle of the
:12:45. > :12:50.night. He was going into a property which he had no right to go into.
:12:50. > :12:57.He wasn't a doctor and he wasn't a nurse. He had no right going there
:12:57. > :13:00.in the first place. Former night porter at the hospital, Terry, said
:13:00. > :13:06.he became suspicious when Jimmy Savile started paying regular night
:13:06. > :13:09.visits with teenage girls. He said had would arrive at 1 or 2am and
:13:09. > :13:14.ask for the keys to an accommodation block and takes the
:13:14. > :13:20.girls there. Shs how he described the girls. She were star struck.
:13:20. > :13:27.They didn't say a Dickie Bird. They arrived. You see the eyes watching
:13:27. > :13:30.him and everything he did. Their eyes followed him. Just disappear
:13:30. > :13:35.with him. Mr Pratt said Jimmy Savile would spend several hours
:13:35. > :13:41.with them and return at 5am to drop the keys back. The former porter
:13:41. > :13:45.says he never reported his behaviour. We looked at him in a
:13:45. > :13:47.film star, cult figure, because he'd been on television and Top of
:13:48. > :13:52.the Pops and he did a lot for children and Stoke Mandeville. He
:13:52. > :14:02.did a hell of a lot of charity, so it wasn't thought of. Today in a
:14:02. > :14:07.statement the hospital says: The hop says other porters have
:14:07. > :14:10.disputed Mr Pratt's account and the accommodation block didn't need
:14:10. > :14:14.keys because it had a warden. Police are now investigating
:14:14. > :14:18.allegations of abuse by Jimmy Savile at three hospitals. The
:14:18. > :14:24.hospital says it's waiting for police to give them the go-ahead
:14:24. > :14:28.before it begins its own investigation. The father of a 12-
:14:28. > :14:32.year-old British boy who went missing from a small area in the
:14:32. > :14:37.south of France says he believes his son will never be found. French
:14:37. > :14:41.police have called off the search for Pierre Barns who disappeared
:14:41. > :14:45.during a storm on Saturday. Barclays has reported a pretax loss
:14:45. > :14:51.of �47 million for the three months to September. That's compared with
:14:51. > :14:54.a profit of more than �2 billion for the same period last year. It
:14:54. > :14:57.said profits have been hit by mis- selling insurance and it has
:14:58. > :15:07.revealed the business practises are being investigated in the United
:15:08. > :15:14.
:15:14. > :15:18.$:/STARTFEED. One of the scandals is the selling of payment
:15:18. > :15:22.protection insurance to people who should never have had it. The bill
:15:22. > :15:28.for dealing with that is affecting its performance. Those figures you
:15:28. > :15:33.mentioned, there was a loss from July to September of �47 million,
:15:33. > :15:38.at a time when they would normally make billions. The significant
:15:38. > :15:44.reason for that was the cost of adding an extra �700 million to
:15:44. > :15:47.their fund for paying compensation to the victims of PPI mis-selling.
:15:47. > :15:53.All the banks badly underestimated the extent to which this is going
:15:53. > :15:58.to hit them. Claims management companies, consumer groups, are
:15:58. > :16:02.encouraging people to complain and much more money will be paid out.
:16:03. > :16:09.The potential problems do not end there. Tell us about the
:16:09. > :16:11.investigation in the US. It is being investigated by the US
:16:11. > :16:14.authorities under the Foreign corrupt practices Act. My
:16:14. > :16:19.understanding is this is in connection with payments that were
:16:19. > :16:26.made during the financial crisis to help raise billions of pounds worth
:16:26. > :16:31.of money to tide Barclays over. That meant we as taxpayers did not
:16:31. > :16:35.have to rescue Barclays. But now these payments, which not a lot of
:16:36. > :16:40.people knew about, are being invested -- investigated in the
:16:40. > :16:45.United Kingdom and the United States. It is a serious problem and
:16:45. > :16:49.we do not know where it is going to end. In a couple of days they will
:16:49. > :16:54.be notified of a fine by the US Energy Commission which has been
:16:54. > :16:58.investigating trading of contracts to supply electricity, a business
:16:58. > :17:04.Barclays has been in in the US. Another questionable issue to add
:17:04. > :17:14.to PPI, the interest-rate fixing scandal, which is weighing down on
:17:14. > :17:17.its reputation. Our top story: Superstorm Sandy's trail of
:17:17. > :17:22.devastation in the Eastern United States leaves at least 40 people
:17:22. > :17:29.dead. It is the biggest storm to hit America for decades.
:17:29. > :17:33.Coming up: 35 years on, Star Wars passes to a new generation of film-
:17:33. > :17:38.makers. Later on BBC London: Their latest
:17:38. > :17:44.hit fell to make its stage debut as it celebrates its worldwide
:17:44. > :17:54.premiere at Wembley. And the 12 golf there are at the
:17:54. > :17:55.
:17:55. > :17:59.Next week the Communist Party in China begins a once in a decade
:17:59. > :18:03.handover of power which will see a new President and Prime Minister
:18:03. > :18:08.leading one of the world's most powerful countries. What challenges
:18:08. > :18:14.will they face? John Sudworth has been to Shanghai whose rapid growth
:18:14. > :18:20.is now slowing down. If China's leaders could choose one
:18:20. > :18:25.image to symbolise their decade in power, this might be it. Shanghai's
:18:25. > :18:28.rise as an important engine of growth has been dazzling. The
:18:28. > :18:35.City's own building boom has provided jobs for millions of
:18:35. > :18:40.workers, pushing per-capita income well above 12,000 US dollars a year.
:18:40. > :18:46.But Shanghai is a symbol of modern China in another important way.
:18:46. > :18:50.Those who are growing rich, those who pay $2.5 million for apartments
:18:50. > :18:58.like this one are acutely aware the growing wealth gap is leading to
:18:58. > :19:04.resentment and anger. The gap is getting bigger and some poor people
:19:04. > :19:08.are trying to make something out of it. Fortunately, we have a very
:19:08. > :19:12.strict and powerful Government and they are trying to control
:19:12. > :19:18.everything and calm of these people down. But some economists argue
:19:18. > :19:23.that strong Government is now part of China's problem. The over-
:19:23. > :19:29.reliance on big infrastructure spending is stifling innovation and
:19:29. > :19:34.distorting the economy, they say. The economy is becoming the problem,
:19:34. > :19:40.not the solution. The Government is too powerful and creating a lot of
:19:40. > :19:46.distortion. People are getting a smaller piece of the cake, the GDP.
:19:46. > :19:52.That is why it is difficult to transform the Chinese economy
:19:52. > :19:57.because the people do not have enough income to consume. The it is
:19:57. > :20:01.not hard to find people with in-out -- without enough income to consume
:20:01. > :20:05.in Shanghai. This lady lives in a one-room apartment and shares a
:20:05. > :20:09.bathroom and kitchen with her neighbours. This city might be a
:20:09. > :20:16.success story, but it is a reminder of the challenges that lie ahead
:20:16. > :20:20.for the next generation of leaders. The Government has insisted there
:20:20. > :20:23.has been no change in policy on wind farms despite the Conservative
:20:23. > :20:28.energy minister John Hayes suggesting the UK is now peppered
:20:28. > :20:32.with them and enough is enough. The Department for energy said his
:20:32. > :20:37.remarks do not represent Government policy. Our political correspondent
:20:37. > :20:47.Chris Mason is at Westminster for us. Tell us exactly what he had to
:20:47. > :20:52.
:20:52. > :20:59.say. The problem is... We will wait and see if the sound is going to
:20:59. > :21:02.come in. We will have to leave that. Millions of people are at risk of
:21:02. > :21:07.carbon monoxide poisoning at home because they mistakenly think a
:21:07. > :21:11.smoke alarm will alert them to a gas leak. That is the conclusion of
:21:11. > :21:15.research which coincides with Northern Ireland becoming the first
:21:15. > :21:22.place in the UK to make carbon monoxide detectors compulsory in
:21:22. > :21:26.new homes. Last Christmas, this nurse woke
:21:26. > :21:31.early with a headache, dizziness and nausea. Her boiler had not been
:21:31. > :21:37.working properly, so she went to attack on her flatmate who was
:21:37. > :21:41.vomiting in the kitchen. I really felt like I was at death's door.
:21:41. > :21:51.The pain in my head was so excruciating, I thought I was
:21:51. > :21:52.having a haemorrhage. I thought I would be on my own. Northern
:21:52. > :21:57.Ireland is the first part of the UK to introduce a new building
:21:57. > :22:01.controls. From today on new houses must be equipped with a carbon
:22:01. > :22:06.monoxide alarms. 50 people are killed in the UK by carbon monoxide
:22:06. > :22:10.poisoning every year and a further 4000 are treated in hospital.
:22:10. > :22:16.Campaigners say most people mistakenly believe their smoke
:22:16. > :22:21.detectors will pick up this gas. It will not. Homes require a dedicated
:22:21. > :22:26.device costing just �15. Northern Ireland is leading the way largely
:22:26. > :22:32.because of a campaign that followed the death of two young men at a
:22:32. > :22:39.holiday home on the County Antrim coast. Both were 15 and they also
:22:39. > :22:43.died as they slept. The effects of this gas is you might confuse them
:22:43. > :22:48.with something very common like flu or food poisoning that starts with
:22:48. > :22:52.headaches and dizziness and nausea. You would not instantly know you
:22:52. > :22:56.are suffering from that and that is why the audible alarm that makes
:22:56. > :23:02.the noise when it detects this gas is the best way to make sure you
:23:02. > :23:08.are protected. The rising cost of oil and gas means more people are
:23:08. > :23:12.turning to solid feel. Anyone buying a new stove, fire or even a
:23:12. > :23:18.boiler for an existing home must install a dedicated carbon monoxide
:23:18. > :23:22.detector as well. Beekeepers say a cool, wet summer
:23:22. > :23:27.has led to a sharp drop in the amount of honey produced by hives
:23:27. > :23:36.in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. The British Beekeepers'
:23:36. > :23:41.Association says the average output was down by 72% on last year.
:23:41. > :23:46.appalling weather in the summer has meant the bees cannot get out to
:23:46. > :23:51.fly and even when they do they are getting hit by rain and cold
:23:52. > :23:54.weather. There is no pollen. Everything is against them.
:23:54. > :23:59.temperature in these working hives in south Gloucestershire is
:23:59. > :24:04.normally well above 30 degrees, so it is hardly surprising they have
:24:04. > :24:08.been reluctant to leave the warmth of their home this summer. That has
:24:08. > :24:13.met their honey production has plummeted. The British beekeepers
:24:13. > :24:18.Associations says the weather has contributed to a 72% drop in the
:24:18. > :24:24.harvest. That means this Hythe last year which have produced around 30
:24:24. > :24:29.jars of honey, but this year has only produced eight. I have got a
:24:29. > :24:34.beekeeper who has been keeping bees for 53 years and he says he has
:24:34. > :24:38.never seen anything like it. The British Beekeepers' Association
:24:39. > :24:46.issued a starvation warning in June. They said lookout, they will not
:24:46. > :24:51.have as much honey as you think. the other end of the supply chain
:24:51. > :24:56.stores are having to adapt to a shortage of supplies. At this
:24:56. > :25:01.community shop locally produced honey is the latest example. Lots
:25:01. > :25:06.of people come in for the local produce and very often it is an
:25:06. > :25:11.ageing population and they love the local produce. It is a blow. Bees
:25:11. > :25:14.produce honey as a food store and the shortages mean it's sweet
:25:14. > :25:19.substitutes are being provided early to keep them going in the
:25:19. > :25:23.winter. As a Christmas present I would give them a bag of fondant.
:25:23. > :25:28.That means at the end of the year they have got some stores if they
:25:28. > :25:32.have run out. Christmas may have come already for these hives, but
:25:33. > :25:41.for the rest of us our Christmas hampers maybe one ingredient short
:25:41. > :25:45.this year. Now, the return of Star Wars and a
:25:45. > :25:53.new film is going to be back on the big screen in 2015. Disney studio
:25:53. > :26:03.is buying the company behind Star Wars, Lucasfilm, for more than �2.5
:26:03. > :26:12.
:26:12. > :26:17.billion and plans to release three It is one of the best known and
:26:17. > :26:22.most popular film series of all time and now fans know more Star
:26:22. > :26:28.Wars movies are on the way. George Lucas will remain involved, but the
:26:28. > :26:34.films will now be produced by Disney, who paid him �2.5 billion
:26:34. > :26:38.for Lucasfilm, which owns the rights. It will give it a chance to
:26:38. > :26:44.explore my own interests at the same time. I am completely
:26:44. > :26:51.confident Disney will take good care of the franchise I have built.
:26:51. > :26:59.The last movie was released in 2005 and after the next film is released
:26:59. > :27:05.Disney hopes to bring out a new movie every three years. And here
:27:05. > :27:09.at Elstree Studios just outside London is where it all began back
:27:09. > :27:13.in 1976 when George Lucas made his first Star Wars film, little
:27:13. > :27:18.knowing that it would give rise to a franchise that would make
:27:18. > :27:22.billions at the box office and even more in spin-offs and franchising.
:27:22. > :27:27.Busy believes there is more money to be made. In the past Disney has
:27:27. > :27:32.had huge success by purchasing companies like Pixar and they
:27:32. > :27:37.expect to do the same with Star Wars. We understand the
:27:37. > :27:46.responsibility that comes with being deter caters -- caretakers of
:27:46. > :27:51.such iconic films. The next film will be a huge, commercial hit, but
:27:51. > :27:55.after that its continuing success will depend on whether the audience
:27:55. > :28:05.sees it as a return to the spirit of the originals.
:28:05. > :28:07.
:28:07. > :28:11.Now it is time to find out what the It is a wet and windy spell for
:28:11. > :28:16.Hallowe'en, certainly in large parts of England and Wales. If you
:28:16. > :28:21.are going out, expect it to be blustery this evening. This is the
:28:21. > :28:28.culprit on the satellite picture. There are some bright skies in
:28:28. > :28:35.eastern England. But it is a very wet afternoon in southern Scotland,
:28:35. > :28:41.north-west England, Wales and the south-west of England. Temperatures
:28:41. > :28:47.are seven up to 13, but it feels cooler when you add on the winds.
:28:47. > :28:52.Strong and gusty, squally winds, picking up as the rain sets in. It
:28:52. > :28:58.will be blustery in the south-west. Not very pleasant for the evening
:28:58. > :29:03.rush hour. Lots of spray on the roads. That rain gradually heads
:29:03. > :29:08.across to the Midlands. The London area and East Anglia may stay dry
:29:08. > :29:14.in the evening, but the rain will arrive overnight. Some clearer
:29:14. > :29:19.spells in Northern Ireland and turning dry in eastern Scotland.
:29:19. > :29:23.But it will turn quite cold here and there will be a touch of frost.
:29:23. > :29:29.For England and Wales this band of rain is going to be very heady as
:29:29. > :29:35.it goes across to the Eastern areas and it will be a company by a
:29:35. > :29:38.strong wind. It will be colder than last night, particularly across
:29:38. > :29:43.Northern Ireland and Scotland. There will also be some mist and
:29:43. > :29:48.fog which will clear tomorrow. The rain will clear across the extreme
:29:48. > :29:56.east, but it may linger in Shetland. Then we are into a mixture of
:29:56. > :30:01.sunshine and showers. There will be some sunshine as well as the
:30:01. > :30:06.showers, but the temperatures are only in single figures. It will
:30:06. > :30:11.feel cooler because of the breeze. That will be a feature over the
:30:11. > :30:18.next few days. Plenty of isobars on the chart, and spiralling bans of
:30:18. > :30:23.showers across the UK. Friday is a day of sunshine and showers.
:30:23. > :30:29.Wherever you are, even in the sunny spells, temperatures are only eight
:30:29. > :30:35.or nine, but feeling colder because of the wind. That will be a feature
:30:35. > :30:42.over the next few days and into the weekend.
:30:42. > :30:45.A reminder of our main story: Superstorm Sandy's trail of
:30:45. > :30:49.devastation in the eastern United States leaves at least 40 people