:00:05. > :00:11.The cost of living goes up. It's the biggest rise in inflation for a
:00:11. > :00:14.year. The rate has jumped by 0.5% partly down to higher tuition fees.
:00:14. > :00:18.The Government warns energy companies will face fines if they
:00:18. > :00:26.have rigged gas prices. The radical Muslim terror suspect,
:00:26. > :00:30.Abu Qatada is released from prison on bail.
:00:30. > :00:33.The authors are where I wanted to imagine you are playing tennis.
:00:33. > :00:35.man, severely brain damaged and in a vegetative state for a decade,
:00:35. > :00:38.communicates with scientists. A GP from Scotland prepares for a
:00:38. > :00:46.gruelling challenge. Seven marathons, in seven days on seven
:00:46. > :00:50.continents. And coming up in the sport, on the
:00:51. > :01:00.BBC News Channel, good and bad news for England's cricketers ahead of
:01:01. > :01:12.
:01:12. > :01:15.Good afternoon and welcome to the BBC News at One. There's been a
:01:15. > :01:20.bigger than expected increase in the cost of living with the rate of
:01:20. > :01:23.inflation going up by 0.5% last month to 2.7%. The rise is being
:01:23. > :01:27.put down, in part, to higher tuition fees even though most
:01:27. > :01:35.students won't actually pay them for years. Our chief economics
:01:35. > :01:39.correspondent Hugh Pym reports. A inflation which measures cost-of-
:01:39. > :01:46.living increases has jumped and by more than most economists expected.
:01:46. > :01:50.The annual rate hit 2.7% after the biggest search for more than a year.
:01:50. > :01:55.Some of it was expected, the cap on the tuition fees has been a big
:01:55. > :02:00.driver, but that was factored in so it was higher cost of transport and
:02:00. > :02:04.food which does seem to have caused a bit of a surprise. Those higher
:02:04. > :02:08.university tuition fees affecting first-year students in England were
:02:08. > :02:11.certainly a big factor, hitting the inflation rate for the first time.
:02:11. > :02:17.I asked a student at Manchester University how they felt about the
:02:18. > :02:21.cost of living. My mum took me for a proper shop to stock up on
:02:21. > :02:27.toiletries and basic things I would not think of and it's stacked up to
:02:27. > :02:32.a lot more than I thought it would be. When I went to uni, it was 80p
:02:32. > :02:36.but now it is one and 30, I think. You could always do with more money
:02:36. > :02:42.and things could be cheaper. If you just focus and plan ahead, it's not
:02:42. > :02:47.too bad. Breaking down the cost of living increase shows food prices
:02:47. > :02:54.increased 3.3% in the year to October, Transport transports, 3.1%
:02:54. > :02:58.higher, but clothes were down 0.2% so it means not all today's
:02:58. > :03:02.inflation news is so bad for the consumer. This company in
:03:02. > :03:07.Manchester can explain why clothing prices have not been going up as
:03:07. > :03:11.fast as they were. They have had to keep the lid on prices to win
:03:11. > :03:18.businesses from customers. We are looking to make sure we keep costs
:03:18. > :03:23.down and we are not passing on costs to customers as much. People
:03:23. > :03:28.are not as willing to spend money as they used to be. Inflation is a
:03:28. > :03:34.lot lower than last autumn, above the 5%, and the fact it's gone
:03:34. > :03:39.ahead of average wage rises will added to that squeeze on consumer
:03:39. > :03:44.budgets for the. Hugh is here.
:03:44. > :03:47.The first thing to make clear is this is not just goods measuring
:03:47. > :03:51.their consumer prices index but includes his financial services and
:03:51. > :03:57.things like that. If you are paying higher tuition fees, just first-
:03:57. > :04:02.year students in England effect, paying more, the statisticians have
:04:02. > :04:06.got to put into the CPI at some stage, even though you may not pay
:04:06. > :04:15.it for a while to come so it has pushed the overall cost of living
:04:15. > :04:19.up. Now 2.7%. If you to go dead, inflation would be nearer to 2.4%.
:04:19. > :04:23.Food price inflation has been picking up, fuel price and so on,
:04:23. > :04:27.so it's not a particularly promising picture.
:04:27. > :04:30.Will it continue to have an impact on inflation?
:04:30. > :04:36.Tuition fees will still affect the annual rate for some months to come
:04:36. > :04:41.but we also have gas prices to come. Many have not fed through to these
:04:41. > :04:46.figures so it's going to be had to go down to the Bank of England
:04:46. > :04:49.target of 2%. They publish their inflation rate report tomorrow.
:04:49. > :04:52.Thank you. The Government is warning of huge fines and criminal
:04:52. > :04:55.proceedings if energy companies are found to have rigged the wholesale
:04:55. > :04:57.gas market to push profits up. The allegations come from a
:04:57. > :05:01.whistleblower, who works in the industry, who suggested that
:05:01. > :05:04.traders supplied incorrect information about deals. All the
:05:04. > :05:13.major domestic gas suppliers have denied the claims. Our industry
:05:13. > :05:18.correspondent John Moylan has more. It's worth hundreds of billions of
:05:18. > :05:22.pounds and it has a major impact upon our energy bills. But has the
:05:22. > :05:26.UK's gas market been open to manipulation? By some of the
:05:26. > :05:33.biggest power companies in the world? Looking at this craft, we
:05:33. > :05:36.can see all of the trading which has occurred. This man works for an
:05:36. > :05:41.organisation that sets the benchmark gas prices and says he
:05:41. > :05:48.has seen several examples of unusual trading activity. It's
:05:48. > :05:52.become apparent to me, having spoken to traders and analysed data,
:05:52. > :05:57.that people are worried about manipulation and there are several
:05:57. > :06:01.examples where it appears prices have been fixed. These key
:06:01. > :06:04.commodity prices are set by a handful of firms and in recent
:06:04. > :06:10.months there has been increased scrutiny of how exactly the system
:06:11. > :06:14.works. The reason is because these same prices can be used on that big
:06:14. > :06:23.long-term gas contracts which can have an impact upon how much we all
:06:23. > :06:26.pay for energy. If traders have illegally inflated prices, it means
:06:26. > :06:31.higher bills, and that's an important issue we need to figure
:06:31. > :06:36.out in this market. There are dozens of companies involved in the
:06:36. > :06:40.wholesale gas market including many of the main energy suppliers. They
:06:40. > :06:44.have quickly denied any wrongdoing and say they will help of any
:06:44. > :06:50.investigation. It's very important these allegations are locked into
:06:50. > :06:54.quickly. By the regulators, and we want have not just good, clean
:06:54. > :07:00.markets and well regulated markets in the UK, but we want to ensure
:07:00. > :07:04.that customers have confidence and trust. The energy regulator OFGEM
:07:04. > :07:08.and the FSA are examining the claims published by the Guardian
:07:09. > :07:13.newspaper. The government which was told of the allegations on Friday,
:07:13. > :07:18.says it's extremely concerned. There are criminal penalties since
:07:18. > :07:23.anyone found to be manipulating markets and stringent fines against
:07:23. > :07:26.any companies involved and, obviously, if these allegations are
:07:27. > :07:31.turned out to be well-founded, we expect these powers to be used
:07:31. > :07:35.vigorously. Those investigations could take weeks and may be months
:07:35. > :07:38.to conclude but this is another setback for industry at a time when
:07:38. > :07:44.energy prices are heading ever higher this winter.
:07:44. > :07:48.Well, let's speak our political correspondent Norman Smith. Downing
:07:48. > :07:54.Street are keen to say that if these companies have manipulated
:07:54. > :07:58.prices, they will clamp down on them. There has been a concerted
:07:58. > :08:00.attempt in Downing Street to stress just how seriously they asked
:08:00. > :08:04.taking these claims, even though the big energy companies have
:08:04. > :08:09.vehemently denied any involvement in price-fixing and the reason for
:08:09. > :08:14.this approach is bluntly because energy is such a political charged
:08:14. > :08:17.issue, the cost of gas and electricity bills are one of the
:08:17. > :08:21.main pressure points on household budgets and ministers know they
:08:21. > :08:24.have to be seen to be responding robustly. I think they have also
:08:24. > :08:28.learned from the banking crisis are the absolute you do not want to be
:08:28. > :08:33.caught behind the wave of public indignation when they look the
:08:33. > :08:36.banks. There, too, they had been allegations of interest-rate fixing.
:08:36. > :08:39.The consequences for the companies are colossal. Downing Street are
:08:39. > :08:43.warning of possible criminal prosecutions and say companies
:08:43. > :08:46.could face fines of up to 10% of their annual turnover, and
:08:46. > :08:50.politically, there will be pressure for tighter regulation of the
:08:50. > :08:55.energy market and the introduction of statutory binding controls
:08:55. > :08:59.forcing companies to pass on pricing cuts to consumers. It seems
:08:59. > :09:05.there's one other comparison with a banking crisis and that if energy
:09:05. > :09:09.Boyce has -- bosses have been fixing prices, and they had been
:09:09. > :09:15.given pride of place in the Hall of fame of a latter-day popular
:09:15. > :09:17.villains. Norman, thank you. The radical Muslim cleric Abu Qatada
:09:17. > :09:20.has been freed from prison on strict bail conditions after
:09:20. > :09:23.winning the latest stage of his battle to avoid deportation to
:09:23. > :09:27.Jordan to face terror charges. A special commission ruled yesterday
:09:27. > :09:35.that he could not be guaranteed a fair trial if he were sent to
:09:35. > :09:40.Jordan. The government says it will appeal. Here's June Kelly.
:09:40. > :09:45.It was mid-morning when the prisoner described yesterday as a
:09:45. > :09:49.dangerous terrorist subject emerged a free man. Abu Qatada departed
:09:49. > :09:54.from Long Lartin top-security jail, an image ministers hoped they would
:09:54. > :09:58.never see. They have been brief periods of freedom before but Abu
:09:58. > :10:02.Qatada has spent much of the past decade in custody. Although he's
:10:02. > :10:06.never been convicted of an offence in the UK. It's his home country
:10:06. > :10:10.Jordan which is trying to put him on trial. For the second day in the
:10:10. > :10:15.Commons there was fury from the government front bench. I have to
:10:15. > :10:17.say that I do not believe it is ever the intention of those who
:10:17. > :10:21.created their human rights framework we are currently
:10:21. > :10:25.subjected to, people who have attempted to damage this country
:10:25. > :10:30.should be able to use human rights laws to prevent the deportation
:10:30. > :10:35.back to their country of origin. The Home Secretary Theresa May went
:10:35. > :10:39.to Jordan as part of the drive to have Abu Qatada sent back.
:10:39. > :10:44.Yesterday's court judge what is being looked at by many lawyers
:10:44. > :10:48.including the barrister who refuse the UK's terror laws. The Home
:10:48. > :10:52.Secretary lost this but only just lost. The court came close to
:10:52. > :10:56.saying that if Abu Qatada are sent to Jordan he will have a fair trial.
:10:56. > :11:00.The Jordanians have already done a lot to comply with what the Court
:11:00. > :11:04.of Human Rights was asking of them. So what of the Government's
:11:04. > :11:08.options? Britain will seek further guarantees from the Jordanians. The
:11:08. > :11:11.government is also trying and appeared in the British courts. As
:11:11. > :11:15.for suggestions that Abu Qatada could be put on trial in the UK,
:11:15. > :11:20.not possible because certain secret material cannot be used as evidence
:11:20. > :11:24.here. It was in the spring at the radical cleric was removed from his
:11:24. > :11:29.family home which we can't identify on what was supposed to be the
:11:29. > :11:32.first stage of his journey out of the UK. A short time ago, he
:11:32. > :11:35.arrived back here. Police in Sussex investigating
:11:35. > :11:41.historic allegations of child abuse in the 1980s and early 90s have
:11:41. > :11:44.arrested two Church of England clergymen. The former bishop of
:11:44. > :11:47.Lewes Peter Ball was detained at his home in Somerset on suspicion
:11:47. > :11:56.of eight sex offences. A retired priest, Father Vickery House, has
:11:56. > :12:00.also been arrested in West Sussex. A jury so the former Labour MP
:12:00. > :12:03.Margaret Moran of falsely claimed more than �53,000 in expenses while
:12:03. > :12:10.in office. She did not attend the proceedings at Southwark Crown
:12:10. > :12:14.Court after she was deemed unfit to stand trial. The jury found him
:12:14. > :12:19.guilty of 15 counts of false accounting and six of using a false
:12:19. > :12:22.instrument over the claims. Scientists say they have managed to
:12:22. > :12:25.communicate with a Canadian man who was thought to have been in a
:12:25. > :12:28.vegetative state for more than a decade. They say Scott Routley,
:12:28. > :12:32.who's 39 and suffered a serious head injury in a car accident, has
:12:32. > :12:35.been able to let them know he isn't in any pain. It's the first time a
:12:35. > :12:39.patient in this condition has been able to give answers to such
:12:39. > :12:43.questions. Our medical correspondent Fergus Walsh reports.
:12:43. > :12:49.Scott Routley is about to show he can communicate with his mind
:12:49. > :12:54.rather than his body. Doctors thought he was vegetative. Unaware
:12:54. > :12:58.of himself or the outside world. wanted to imagine you are playing
:12:59. > :13:06.tennis. Imagining playing tennis produces a distinct pattern of
:13:06. > :13:12.brain activity. It shows up on the screen as red dots. Inside the
:13:12. > :13:20.scanner, he starts to respond, revealing he has an unconscious
:13:20. > :13:24.thinking mind. Tell us whether you are in pain. This is a crucial
:13:24. > :13:32.question for patients like Scott, and his scans clearly answer no.
:13:32. > :13:36.It's the first time that we have asked the patient a question which
:13:36. > :13:41.is relevant to their clinical condition, whether he was in any
:13:41. > :13:45.pain. Researchers have validated this technique in publications in
:13:45. > :13:50.the legal medical journals and they say the results here can't be down
:13:50. > :13:56.to chance. His doctor says, although he still appears
:13:56. > :14:01.vegetative, the brain scans tell the true story. I was quite
:14:01. > :14:06.impressed that he was able to show a cognitive response. I think we
:14:06. > :14:09.can no longer just rely on behavioural responses to tell if a
:14:09. > :14:16.person is vegetative or not and we need the special techniques to show
:14:16. > :14:20.that. I think that has to be introduced into the literature.
:14:20. > :14:24.results have delighted his family. They thought he could sometimes
:14:25. > :14:28.respond with his thumb or eyes, and say their observations were
:14:28. > :14:34.dismissed as wishful thinking, so what questions would they like to
:14:34. > :14:43.put to him? In the back of your mind, you always wandering, is he
:14:43. > :14:50.happy? Does he want to keep going? Not that we would do anything to
:14:50. > :14:52.stop that. You wonder if there's other things we could do. Signed to
:14:52. > :14:56.say the scans could improve patients' quality of life, for
:14:56. > :15:03.example, by checking if they are happy with the times they are fed
:15:03. > :15:05.and washed. Or with the entertainment they are shown.
:15:05. > :15:15.And you can see the full Panorama programme, The Mind Reader,
:15:15. > :15:19.
:15:19. > :15:23.Unlocking My Voice, tonight on BBC Our top story this lunchtime: The
:15:23. > :15:25.cost of living goes up by half of one per cent, the biggest rise in
:15:25. > :15:28.inflation for a year. Coming up: Mothers of newborn
:15:28. > :15:38.babies are promised the right to share their maternity leave with
:15:38. > :15:42.Later on BBC London, why secondary schools could be missing out on
:15:42. > :15:45.hundreds of thousands of pounds per year in extra cash.
:15:45. > :15:55.And a win for Wimbledon means they could be heading for football's
:15:55. > :15:57.
:15:57. > :16:00.China's new leaders will be unveiled on Thursday. The select
:16:00. > :16:03.band of men will run the country for the next ten years. But they
:16:03. > :16:06.are from a generation quite unlike the one now experiencing new wealth
:16:06. > :16:08.and freedom. And, as our Beijing correspondent Martin Patience now
:16:08. > :16:18.reports, relating to young people will be one of the greatest
:16:18. > :16:21.
:16:21. > :16:27.challenges facing the new It is the glossy face of China, a
:16:27. > :16:34.generation who is not shy about flaunting what it has got.
:16:34. > :16:36.Many are cool, content and confident. They are wallowing in
:16:36. > :16:41.opportunities their parents never had.
:16:41. > :16:46.Unlike her mother, this girl was allowed to follow her passion and
:16:47. > :16:51.became a fashion stylist. She says that her generation is now more
:16:51. > :16:59.independent than her parents could ever have dreamed of.
:16:59. > :17:03.It is all a far cry from the days of Chairman Mao. When China's new-
:17:03. > :17:10.generation of leaders was growing up, a party governed almost every
:17:10. > :17:13.aspect of life. Now they are said to lead a better society. Young
:17:13. > :17:18.people have grown up in a country that has only become richer every
:17:18. > :17:22.single year. They have become used to growing freedoms, which have
:17:22. > :17:30.made China a noisier and more critical place. The challenge for
:17:30. > :17:33.the country's new leaders will be engaging with the generations --
:17:33. > :17:36.whether the generations experiences are so different.
:17:36. > :17:40.This man enjoys the fast life as a stockbroker. Instead of spending
:17:40. > :17:45.time with his family, he would rather be out on the track with
:17:45. > :17:52.friends. He admits his generation is more
:17:52. > :17:58.selfish than its parents. They care less about the country.
:17:58. > :18:08.Many young people are busy pursuing their own hopes. That means they
:18:08. > :18:09.
:18:09. > :18:17.are less likely to listen to what the party has to say.
:18:17. > :18:22.President Obama has delayed the domination of supreme commander
:18:22. > :18:26.because of the scandal surrounding the head of the CIA. David Petraeus
:18:26. > :18:32.quit after it emerged he had had an affair. Now, John Allen, the top
:18:32. > :18:36.command in Afghanistan, is being investigated for allegedly sending
:18:36. > :18:41.inappropriate e-mails. A second top US general in the
:18:41. > :18:44.firing line. John Allen in the charge of international forces in
:18:44. > :18:48.Afghanistan, and he was about to be made the Supreme Allied Commander
:18:48. > :18:54.in Europe. But now he has been drawn into an embarrassing military
:18:54. > :18:58.scandal that has rocked Washington. He is being investigated because he
:18:58. > :19:02.is alleged to have sent tens of thousands of pages of e-mails and
:19:02. > :19:08.documents to this woman, Jill Kelley. She is a volunteer with
:19:08. > :19:11.military family is at the US-based in Tampa, Florida. She's also a key
:19:11. > :19:18.player in the scandal surrounding General Petraeus, who resigned as
:19:18. > :19:22.director of the C I A last week. Paula Broadwell is General
:19:22. > :19:27.Petraeus' by were far. She allegedly sent harassing e-mails to
:19:27. > :19:30.Jill Kelley. This sparked the initial investigation. As agents
:19:30. > :19:36.began my inquiries, they discovered she and the general had had an
:19:36. > :19:40.extra-marital affair. Agents searched Paula Broadwell's House on
:19:40. > :19:45.Monday. It is clear that with another general in the frame for
:19:45. > :19:49.investigation is not over. General Petraeus is said to be
:19:49. > :19:53.devastated by his fall from grace. As doubts hang over his future,
:19:53. > :19:56.there are many questions, in particular why the White House only
:19:56. > :20:05.learned of the investigation last week, and whether national security
:20:05. > :20:09.was put at risk. Let's talk to our correspondent in
:20:09. > :20:14.Washington. How embarrassing is all this for President Obama?
:20:14. > :20:18.It is becoming more difficult for the whole American a full security
:20:18. > :20:21.administration. This started as a personal tragedy, albeit one with
:20:21. > :20:25.national dimensions because General Petraeus was such a famous soldier,
:20:25. > :20:29.the man many people thought was responsible for bringing some calm
:20:29. > :20:37.to Iraq. Over the weekend, it built and built, until on Monday you had
:20:38. > :20:41.Congress talking about implications for security. Huge questions are
:20:41. > :20:47.being asked about what levels of impropriety are involved, but also
:20:47. > :20:54.what degree of national security breaches have taken place. The talk
:20:54. > :20:54.is of 30,000 pages of documents that the FBI are looking at that
:20:54. > :21:04.may have come between the commander of Afghanistan forces and a
:21:04. > :21:05.
:21:05. > :21:08.volunteer in Tampa, Florida. In two days' time, people in Wales
:21:08. > :21:11.and England, with the exception of London, will vote to elect their
:21:11. > :21:13.new police and crime commissioners. 41 people will take charge of
:21:13. > :21:16.overseeing their forces, replacing police authorities. It's been
:21:16. > :21:26.described as the biggest change to police accountability in almost 200
:21:26. > :21:27.
:21:27. > :21:31.years. Our Wales political editor Betsan Powys is in Anglesey.
:21:31. > :21:35.I am on Anglesey, towards the west of what is a vast police force area
:21:35. > :21:42.in North Wales, stretching from Wrexham in the East, along the
:21:42. > :21:46.North Wales coast, to Anglesey, when many people live their lives
:21:46. > :21:51.through the medium of Welsh, where they suffer their fair share of
:21:51. > :21:54.crime driven by deprivation, and where people have their doubts
:21:54. > :22:01.whether anything a brand new police commissioner on Thursday will make
:22:01. > :22:06.a big difference to them. It is a bleak landscape. The
:22:06. > :22:11.economic picture is pretty unforgiving, too. The island is an
:22:11. > :22:16.unemployment blackspot. On his farm, this man has learned from
:22:16. > :22:20.experience that when times are tough, farm machinery and stock is
:22:20. > :22:27.vulnerable. Crime is on the up. The number of bodies he sees on the
:22:27. > :22:30.beat is down. -- bobbies. Until 12 months ago, we had a
:22:30. > :22:34.policeman coming to our community council every month. We could
:22:34. > :22:41.actually tell him, this is a problem here, they are going there,
:22:41. > :22:46.wherever. We don't see him any more. We are actually paying more for
:22:46. > :22:52.less service. It is a bleak picture when it comes
:22:52. > :22:56.to drug abuse, too. Drug-related crime is high here, and so is
:22:56. > :23:00.serious drug and alcohol abuse. At this support group, they know what
:23:00. > :23:06.they want from the new police and crime commissioner.
:23:06. > :23:16.I would like to see both approaches. Strong enforcement, and then this
:23:16. > :23:21.is on education -- and an emphasis on emphasis. Groups that this can't
:23:21. > :23:26.help -- like this can help it with addiction.
:23:26. > :23:30.Few seem to know much about the first a's election, let alone what
:23:30. > :23:36.sort of power as the eventual winner will have. -- Thursday's
:23:37. > :23:42.election. There should be no barriers between
:23:42. > :23:47.the public and the authorities. fliers, nothing come through the
:23:47. > :23:52.door. Don't know who is representing where or anything,
:23:52. > :23:56.really. It is very disappointing. It seems that whoever becomes the
:23:56. > :24:02.new bridge between the police and the communities of North Wales will
:24:02. > :24:05.have their work cut out. A difficult job to be done here.
:24:05. > :24:11.And yes, people in North Wales do pay more per head for policing than
:24:11. > :24:15.in other parts of Wales. But, come Thursday, they also have a better
:24:15. > :24:18.choice of candidates. Five in all. If you want to know who they are,
:24:18. > :24:28.what they stand for, what they would do for the people of North
:24:28. > :24:34.
:24:34. > :24:37.Wales, or indeed who the candidates A Royal Navy submariner has
:24:37. > :24:40.admitted collecting secret coding programmes that could be useful to
:24:40. > :24:42.an enemy of the UK. Petty Officer Edward Devenney pleaded guilty to
:24:42. > :24:44.gathering details of encryption programmes, in breach of the
:24:44. > :24:54.Official Secrets Act. Our security correspondent Gordon Corera is at
:24:54. > :24:55.
:24:55. > :24:58.Edward Devenney pleaded guilty this morning to two charges, firstly,
:24:58. > :25:03.collecting secret information, which was calculated to be useful
:25:03. > :25:07.to an enemy, including code material. Secondly, misconduct a
:25:07. > :25:11.public office by attempting to set up a covert relationship with
:25:11. > :25:15.another country. He did plead not guilty, though, to actually
:25:15. > :25:20.communicating any of that information. Prosecutors have said
:25:20. > :25:23.they would not be pursuing the charge. What happened? It appears
:25:23. > :25:27.that Edward Devenney thought he had sat at a meeting with officers from
:25:27. > :25:31.the Russian intelligence service. In fact, he had been detected by
:25:31. > :25:35.the British authorities and was meeting with undercover security
:25:35. > :25:39.service officers. When he discussed the details of operations and
:25:39. > :25:45.movements are brought of Royal Navy submarines, none of it actually
:25:45. > :25:52.passed to a foreign power. He was remanded in custody until December
:25:52. > :25:54.12th for sentencing. All staff would have the right to
:25:54. > :25:57.request flexible working arrangements under plans set out by
:25:57. > :25:59.the Government today. The Deputy Prime Minister, Nick Clegg, also
:25:59. > :26:06.outlined proposals to allow mothers to share the year's maternity leave
:26:06. > :26:12.with fathers from two weeks after a child is born. Adam Parsons is here.
:26:12. > :26:16.How is this going to work? It is due to come in 2015. These
:26:16. > :26:20.are proposals. It is about childcare straight after birth,
:26:20. > :26:25.maternity leave, Alastair love getting 52 weeks, the mother would
:26:25. > :26:29.have two weeks and would be able to split the remaining time between
:26:29. > :26:33.the mother and the father. They can either have time together, taking
:26:33. > :26:38.it one after the other, they can share it out as long as they don't
:26:38. > :26:42.go be on the 12 months - it is fine. The other option is about flexible
:26:42. > :26:47.leave. At the moment, it is open to parents with young children. The
:26:47. > :26:51.proposal is to open the doors so that anybody can have the right to
:26:51. > :26:55.request flexible working. That might be changing shift times,
:26:55. > :27:00.working from home, those kinds of things. You don't have to get it
:27:00. > :27:10.but to have a right to request it. As you would imagine, the response
:27:10. > :27:12.from business has been it, yes, it sounds good. The caution here,
:27:12. > :27:17.particularly from the Federation for small businesses, is that when
:27:17. > :27:25.times are tough, we are trying to develop business, the last thing we
:27:25. > :27:28.need is more red tape. A GP from Edinburgh will set off
:27:28. > :27:31.tomorrow on a gruelling marathon challenge, which he hopes will
:27:31. > :27:33.encourage more people to get active. Andrew Murray will run seven
:27:33. > :27:40.marathons in seven days on seven continents. Lorna Gordon is in
:27:40. > :27:44.Edinburgh. Dr Murray really is trying to lead
:27:44. > :27:48.by example. He is not expecting everybody to reach his level of
:27:48. > :27:56.fitness. But he hopes to encourage others to do 30 minutes of exercise,
:27:56. > :28:04.to five times per week. A man on a mission embarking on a
:28:04. > :28:07.mammoth challenge. Around the world in just one week, rally seven ultra
:28:07. > :28:12.marathons in the process. -- running.
:28:12. > :28:17.It is something I really want to do. It is 50 kilometres per day,
:28:17. > :28:21.minimum, on for it. The total air miles is around 41,000.
:28:21. > :28:25.Quite a journey! It is, but spectacular.
:28:25. > :28:30.He is no stranger to a stream running. He has already travelled
:28:30. > :28:35.more than 2,500 miles to the Sahara on for it. Earlier this year, he
:28:35. > :28:40.came first in an arduous marathon at the North Pole. This latest
:28:40. > :28:43.challenge will start in Antarctica. After that he will be heading to
:28:43. > :28:49.Patagonia, then onwards to an answer in the night is States
:28:49. > :28:58.before crossing the Atlantic to London. -- onwards to Atlanta in
:28:58. > :29:00.the United States. On day seven, he returns from the opera house in
:29:00. > :29:05.Sydney. The aim is to motivate others to
:29:05. > :29:12.get out and get active, ideally to run, cycle or walk five kilometres
:29:12. > :29:14.per day. It is good, not just physically but
:29:14. > :29:19.mentally. The main thing we want to promote
:29:19. > :29:23.is that people should be active for around half an hour every day.
:29:23. > :29:30.Dr Murray has set himself a big challenge. But he already knows how
:29:30. > :29:36.he would celebrate if he succeeds - a small drink and then a long sleep.
:29:36. > :29:42.How difficult will this be? He will burn around 6,500 calories per day.
:29:42. > :29:46.To get from all these places, he will travel more than 40,000 miles.
:29:46. > :29:51.It really is a huge logistical and athletic challenge.
:29:51. > :29:54.Good luck to him! Let's get a look Good luck to him! Let's get a look
:29:54. > :30:00.at the weather. What is it like out there, Susan?
:30:00. > :30:07.Very mild. The weather is no excuse to hide away inside today. It is
:30:08. > :30:12.quite breezy. The winds is to thank for our remarkable temperatures.
:30:12. > :30:19.This afternoon we are looking at perhaps 13 or 14 across much of the
:30:19. > :30:24.UK. That is three or four degrees above average. You can see this big
:30:24. > :30:28.rig and of cloud streaming up from the Atlantic. That is a weather
:30:28. > :30:33.front coming into the UK. It is accompanied by the south-westerly
:30:33. > :30:37.winds. It is mild this afternoon. The front will continue to bring
:30:37. > :30:44.some more rain into Northern Ireland, particularly Western
:30:44. > :30:48.Scotland. Certainly this is an area the Met Office is watching closely.
:30:48. > :30:52.The rainfall is adding up. A bit cooler behind the weather front
:30:52. > :30:57.tonight. Look at the temperatures to the south - a very mild night
:30:57. > :31:01.under a thick covering of cloud. Temperatures no lower than 10 or 11
:31:01. > :31:05.Celsius. Wednesday morning for Northern Ireland is looking grey
:31:05. > :31:08.and rather wet. Still a pretty white picture in Southern Scotland.
:31:09. > :31:15.The yellow triangle indicates the Met Office had issued a yellow
:31:15. > :31:18.warning for their concerns about the rainfall. Further south, I
:31:19. > :31:23.think quite a great picture to start the day, rather a lot of
:31:23. > :31:26.cloud around, but mild. Temperatures are at 10 or 11. Those
:31:26. > :31:30.are typically the figures we would be expecting during the middle of
:31:30. > :31:38.the afternoon at this time of year. Temperatures are pretty healthy
:31:38. > :31:48.from the word go. Hang on in there, because it seems we were sees and
:31:48. > :31:49.
:31:49. > :31:54.cool air posing in from the South East. -- we will see. Northern
:31:54. > :32:00.Ireland stays gloomy but loses the rain. Suddens, stays damp, but the
:32:00. > :32:04.rain should continue to ease. -- Southern Scotland. The rest of the
:32:04. > :32:08.week is increasingly drive. Rather misty and murky across England and
:32:08. > :32:13.Wales first thing. Some of the mist and fog could cause problems for