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