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Unemployment is down again. The figure falls to just over 2.5 | :00:06. | :00:09. | |
million. It's the lowest level for more than | :00:09. | :00:12. | |
a year, but the Bank of England warns that the road to recovery is | :00:12. | :00:20. | |
still a long one. The immediate outlook remains a | :00:20. | :00:24. | |
challenging one. Growth is likely to remain sluggish and inflation | :00:24. | :00:30. | |
above target. The road to recovery may be long and winding. | :00:30. | :00:33. | |
Out on strike - tens of thousands take to the streets across Europe | :00:33. | :00:35. | |
to protest against rising unemployment and cuts to public | :00:35. | :00:37. | |
spending. Care for sufferers of schizophrenia | :00:37. | :00:42. | |
is branded catastrophic - a charity calls for a radical overhaul. | :00:42. | :00:45. | |
Quids in - after the controversy over Olympic ticket sales, the | :00:45. | :00:51. | |
latest figures show organisers made millions more than they'd planned. | :00:51. | :00:54. | |
The sunshine coast says goodbye to the sun - thousands get the chance | :00:54. | :00:57. | |
to witness a total eclipse Down Under. | :00:57. | :01:00. | |
Later on BBC London: Keeping the Olympic sporting spirit | :01:00. | :01:03. | |
alive in London's schools - Lord Coe speaks out about his | :01:03. | :01:06. | |
frustrations. And more people in work in London, | :01:06. | :01:16. | |
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but there's a rise in unemployment, Good afternoon and welcome to the | :01:29. | :01:33. | |
BBC News at One. There was mixed news on the economy today, with | :01:33. | :01:37. | |
figures showing another fall in the number of people out of work, but | :01:37. | :01:40. | |
warnings of a slowdown in the economy. Unemployment across the UK | :01:40. | :01:45. | |
is now down to just over 2.5 million. That is despite increases | :01:45. | :01:48. | |
in Scotland and Northern Ireland. The Governor of the Bank of England | :01:48. | :01:52. | |
says that Britain faces an unappealing mix of a weak recovery | :01:52. | :01:55. | |
and higher inflation. Sir Mervyn King said inflation will also | :01:55. | :02:03. | |
remain higher for longer, squeezing household income further. | :02:03. | :02:07. | |
Unemployment is down again. The number in work is up. So the | :02:07. | :02:11. | |
headline from the jobs market is positive. But ministers were | :02:11. | :02:13. | |
cautious in their reaction to the list figures. | :02:13. | :02:23. | |
It is a good sign. But I think we all recognise there's challenge is | :02:23. | :02:28. | |
out there. People want to find work, and we have to do what we can to | :02:28. | :02:31. | |
give them opportunities. Youth unemployment was down 49,000 | :02:31. | :02:37. | |
over the latest period. But the number of long-term jobless was up | :02:37. | :02:45. | |
12,000. The claimant count was up just over 10,000 last month. | :02:45. | :02:48. | |
Today's headline for his welcome, but what worries me is what is | :02:48. | :02:53. | |
going on beneath the headlines. We have seen another sharp increase in | :02:53. | :03:03. | |
unemployment, to one million. Schemes like this are helping young | :03:03. | :03:08. | |
people searching for jobs. The Prince's Trust is organising | :03:08. | :03:13. | |
training. Many get work here as stewards. For Adam, it is a welcome | :03:13. | :03:18. | |
break after two years of signing on. When you go to sign on the | :03:18. | :03:28. | |
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JobCentre, you just feel like you are a dosser. It makes you feel | :03:30. | :03:34. | |
that lack of confidence. Many private sector employers are | :03:34. | :03:37. | |
recruiting, including this engineering business. It makes | :03:37. | :03:41. | |
components for industries like defence and construction. Did his | :03:41. | :03:46. | |
prospects right now are looking good. -- business prospects. | :03:46. | :03:52. | |
We have taken on five people recently. We feel positive. The | :03:52. | :03:57. | |
markets we are entering into have continued to expand. We are | :03:57. | :04:00. | |
concentrating more on global markets as opposed to just European | :04:00. | :04:03. | |
ones. Employment levels have held up | :04:03. | :04:07. | |
better than most experts expected, given the state of the economy in | :04:07. | :04:11. | |
the past year. But those in work have had to make some sacrifices. | :04:11. | :04:16. | |
Many have seen pay rises behind the rate of inflation, or even wage | :04:16. | :04:21. | |
freezes. Like many others, workers at this | :04:21. | :04:24. | |
firm have received pay rises below the rate of inflation for the past | :04:24. | :04:28. | |
couple of years. For a time they were on a four-day week. They are | :04:28. | :04:31. | |
relieved to be still in work but they know their pay packets have | :04:31. | :04:34. | |
been squeezed. The Governor of the Bank of England | :04:34. | :04:38. | |
has warned that next year, inflation will be so good to get | :04:38. | :04:41. | |
the higher than previously expected. It's because of factors light | :04:41. | :04:45. | |
tuition fees and gas and electricity price rises. | :04:45. | :04:49. | |
The immediate economic outlook remains challenging. Growth is | :04:49. | :04:54. | |
likely to remain sluggish, and inflation above target. The road to | :04:54. | :04:58. | |
recovery will be long and winding. But there are good reasons to | :04:58. | :05:02. | |
suppose that we are travelling in the right direction. The committee | :05:02. | :05:08. | |
is ready to do whatever it can to keep us on the right path. | :05:08. | :05:12. | |
Let's speak to our economics editor, Stephanie Flanders. It is a pretty | :05:12. | :05:16. | |
mixed picture today. We had this press conference | :05:16. | :05:19. | |
unveiling the new quarterly forecast from the Bank of England. | :05:19. | :05:24. | |
We had something that I can't remember not hearing in the recent | :05:24. | :05:28. | |
compasses, which is that the forecast has gone up for the next | :05:28. | :05:31. | |
few months and the growth forecast has gone down. I would not say it | :05:31. | :05:35. | |
was a Trans formation in the picture compared to August, but | :05:35. | :05:39. | |
then the outlook and then was not looking great. The message from Sir | :05:39. | :05:44. | |
Mervyn King was that the growth that we saw for the third quarter, | :05:44. | :05:48. | |
to September, that took us out of form of recession, we should not | :05:48. | :05:51. | |
expect anything like that in the next few months, when the figure | :05:51. | :05:55. | |
comes out for the last three months of the year. In fact, we could, he | :05:56. | :06:00. | |
said, see a negative figure. That does not mean we are seeing another | :06:00. | :06:06. | |
double dip, but it underlines that they have got a challenging picture. | :06:06. | :06:13. | |
The next year could still look like a very kind of bumpy path. The good | :06:13. | :06:17. | |
news was what you pay was talking about. We have a situation where | :06:17. | :06:21. | |
employment is growing. People puzzler wages are being squeezed, | :06:21. | :06:27. | |
but it has kept more people in work. -- people's wages. | :06:27. | :06:33. | |
Let's speak to Norman Smith. Ahead of the Autumn Statement, will the | :06:33. | :06:37. | |
government see these figures as good or bad? | :06:37. | :06:40. | |
My sense is that the figures will provide the government with some | :06:40. | :06:44. | |
respite ahead of the crucial economic statement, because it | :06:44. | :06:49. | |
underpins the government's core argument, which is that slowly, the | :06:50. | :06:55. | |
wheels of the economy are starting to turn. It is not a runaway train | :06:55. | :06:59. | |
of recovery. It is more like a sort of one-legged crab scuttling this | :06:59. | :07:03. | |
way and that way. When the borrower into the figures, they are very | :07:03. | :07:09. | |
mixed. We see youth unemployment below one million, but long-term | :07:09. | :07:14. | |
unemployment is up towards one million. We see half the regions in | :07:14. | :07:19. | |
the UK have unemployment falling, but half have it rising. 100,000 | :07:20. | :07:26. | |
new jobs are created, but half are full-time, 1/2 part-time. | :07:26. | :07:30. | |
Politically, the government will be relieved. But economically, not | :07:30. | :07:36. | |
much has changed. The economy is still fragile. | :07:36. | :07:39. | |
Across Europe, tens of thousands of people have taken to the streets to | :07:39. | :07:43. | |
take part in strikes and anti- austerity protests. Walkouts have | :07:43. | :07:47. | |
already started in Spain and Portugal, with action also under | :07:47. | :07:52. | |
way in France, Greece and Italy. The action has led to Thant -- | :07:52. | :07:59. | |
hundred off light beam of a cancelled. Al correspondent -- our | :07:59. | :08:04. | |
correspondent is in Madrid. There are chaotic scenes here today | :08:04. | :08:07. | |
as protesters jostled with the police, who are trying to keep part | :08:07. | :08:12. | |
of the city open for business. The government has said a lot of people | :08:12. | :08:16. | |
have not followed the strike. The unions disagree. Today is another | :08:17. | :08:19. | |
day of discontent in the crisis within the eurozone. | :08:19. | :08:27. | |
In Barcelona, the unions were out in force. There were some scuffles | :08:27. | :08:33. | |
at Madrid's main station, but trouble, so far, has been isolated. | :08:33. | :08:40. | |
Pickets did what they could as some buses headed out. However, there's | :08:40. | :08:43. | |
widespread disruption and unions have called on people to stay away | :08:43. | :08:48. | |
from work. They have today this and a message to the government here | :08:48. | :08:51. | |
and abroad. This is not just about Spain, but | :08:51. | :09:01. | |
Europe. European policy should change after this. People can't | :09:01. | :09:05. | |
stand any more. There are 90 austerity protests | :09:05. | :09:12. | |
today. In Portugal, there is also a general strike. Two in Greece, too. | :09:12. | :09:17. | |
Both countries are implementing deep measures to try to manage | :09:17. | :09:22. | |
their debts. Spain has a debt of 76% of its | :09:22. | :09:27. | |
total annual income. That is the highest it has been in 22 years. | :09:27. | :09:33. | |
Last year, Portugal's debt rose to 107 % of what its economy generates | :09:33. | :09:43. | |
in a year. Increase, national debt is at 165 %. -- Kinnock Greece. | :09:43. | :09:47. | |
People in all three countries are now leading the effects of public | :09:47. | :09:53. | |
cuts. They are paying more tax. Amid the confusion of a strike, it | :09:53. | :09:57. | |
is hard to say if the growing anger of the unions and their supporters | :09:57. | :10:01. | |
represent a wider trend in Spanish society. There will be bigger | :10:01. | :10:05. | |
protests tonight, which may give us a better indication of whether | :10:05. | :10:08. | |
people's patience is wearing thin with the government. It was a tough | :10:09. | :10:13. | |
day for those travelling across part of Europe, but most of those | :10:13. | :10:17. | |
living in crisis-hit countries have bigger priorities. A path to | :10:17. | :10:27. | |
economic growth in Spain means so much protest will be hard. | :10:27. | :10:30. | |
There's been an interesting concession from the banks over | :10:30. | :10:36. | |
housing. But I don't think we can expect a policy change from Spain's | :10:36. | :10:42. | |
government. It is committed to deep austerity. | :10:42. | :10:45. | |
Here, a damning report into the care of people with schizophrenia | :10:45. | :10:50. | |
in England says standards are catastrophically short. The report | :10:50. | :10:52. | |
by the Schizophrenia Commission says the NHS are not spending | :10:53. | :10:56. | |
enough on mental health in England and that money is being wasted on | :10:56. | :11:01. | |
keeping people in demoralised hospital wards for too long. Our | :11:01. | :11:06. | |
health correspondent reports. Carly Townsend was just 14 when she | :11:06. | :11:10. | |
started hearing voices. Twice she has been sectioned in a psychiatric | :11:10. | :11:15. | |
hospital. Now, anti-psychotic drugs are helping. But broader attitudes | :11:15. | :11:19. | |
are harder to overcome. If somebody has fallen over and | :11:20. | :11:24. | |
broken their leg, they were sympathise. But when you have got a | :11:24. | :11:28. | |
mental illness, people suddenly don't want to talk about it. They | :11:28. | :11:33. | |
might ask you, how are you, courteously, but they are not | :11:33. | :11:38. | |
interested in the answer. Today's report describes shameful | :11:38. | :11:42. | |
standards of care on some wards. Units that are all too often | :11:42. | :11:47. | |
stressful, chaotic and scary places. And a mental health system that is | :11:47. | :11:50. | |
broken and demoralised. This report says that a significant | :11:50. | :11:53. | |
amount of money is spent on providing secured a cremation for | :11:53. | :11:59. | |
people with mental illness in hospitals. -- secure accommodation. | :11:59. | :12:02. | |
But it says the money would be better spent reaching people in the | :12:03. | :12:07. | |
first place. The at this is on keeping more | :12:07. | :12:11. | |
people on -- the empathy is on keeping people in hospital for too | :12:11. | :12:19. | |
long. We could release people into lower care. | :12:19. | :12:25. | |
Schizophrenia and psychosis affects 22,000 people in England alone. One | :12:25. | :12:29. | |
in six of us will experience it at some stage. Ministers say services | :12:29. | :12:33. | |
for those with severe mental illness must improve. | :12:33. | :12:38. | |
We are letting people down. People with some acute problems could be | :12:38. | :12:44. | |
helped so much more effectively by using the money more sensibly. | :12:44. | :12:48. | |
The report calls for improved services, more research, and better | :12:48. | :12:52. | |
drugs. It also points to a change in attitudes to mental illness | :12:52. | :12:58. | |
across society. Lancashire police have appealed for | :12:58. | :13:02. | |
witnesses to come forward if they were abused by or knew of any abuse | :13:02. | :13:08. | |
by the former MP for Rochdale, sell Smith, who died in 2010. -- Cyril | :13:08. | :13:14. | |
Smith. This follows the naming of him in Parliament. | :13:14. | :13:18. | |
It does. Yesterday afternoon, Rochdale's MP made the allegation | :13:19. | :13:28. | |
that one of his predecessors, the town's MP for 20 years until 1992, | :13:28. | :13:33. | |
had sexually abused young boys who at the time were living at a hostel | :13:33. | :13:37. | |
in Rochdale. It is not the first time that allegations of this | :13:38. | :13:43. | |
nature have been made about Sir Cyril Smith. In 1979, three former | :13:43. | :13:48. | |
residents of that hostel made statements to a solicitor making | :13:48. | :13:52. | |
similar allegations. But then nothing happened over the | :13:52. | :13:55. | |
intervening years. Lancashire police said they believed there was | :13:55. | :13:58. | |
a police investigation, but they can't find the records from it and | :13:58. | :14:02. | |
they don't know whether it was ever referred to the Director of Public | :14:02. | :14:08. | |
Prosecutions. That brings us to the present day. Since the Jimmy Savile | :14:08. | :14:13. | |
affair broke, more Poole have been coming forward. Three people have | :14:13. | :14:18. | |
made similar allegations. These are new allegations of a similar nature. | :14:18. | :14:21. | |
But Lancashire police said they have not been made to them, they | :14:21. | :14:25. | |
have not gone to the police. Today, Lancashire Police said they would | :14:25. | :14:32. | |
like anybody, they say, who has been a victim of sexual abuse by | :14:32. | :14:38. | |
Sir Cyril Smith, to get in touch. His family say that they are very | :14:38. | :14:42. | |
upset by these allegations, and feel that they have been made out | :14:42. | :14:48. | |
of political motivation. How were top story - unemployment | :14:49. | :14:55. | |
is down again. The figure falls to 2.5 million. But the Bank of | :14:55. | :14:58. | |
England warns that the road to recovery is a long one. Coming up, | :14:58. | :15:03. | |
the handover of power - China prepares to announce its new leader. | :15:03. | :15:07. | |
Later on BBC London, as Children in Need approaches, we hear about a | :15:07. | :15:12. | |
mentoring project which is changing the life of a former Young offender. | :15:12. | :15:15. | |
And on the most important Hindu festival of the year, record- | :15:15. | :15:25. | |
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breaking numbers that at Neasden Tomorrow, China's Communist Party | :15:28. | :15:31. | |
will announce its new leadership team. President Hu Jintao has | :15:31. | :15:34. | |
stepped down and his successor is widely expected to be Xi Jinping. | :15:34. | :15:37. | |
More than 2000 delegates have been meeting at a conference in Beijing | :15:37. | :15:46. | |
to finalise the handover of power. John Sudworth sent this report. On | :15:46. | :15:51. | |
fat crisp Beijing morning, the stage is set for the final key | :15:51. | :15:58. | |
moments in China's power transition. Inside the Great Hall of the people, | :15:58. | :16:02. | |
a new generation is being anointed. The incoming senior leaders will | :16:02. | :16:09. | |
not be revealed until tomorrow. But Hu Jintao's decade as unchallenged | :16:09. | :16:14. | |
ruler of 1.3 billion people is at an end. He stays on as president | :16:14. | :16:18. | |
for a few months but it is the party position that matters in | :16:18. | :16:23. | |
China. The delegates vote for a new central committee and that convenes | :16:23. | :16:29. | |
on Thursday morning to approve the new ruling Politburo. There have | :16:30. | :16:34. | |
been more candidates than seats. The thin veneer of democracy but | :16:34. | :16:42. | |
the reality is that this process is highly choreographed. The delegates | :16:42. | :16:46. | |
selected and the top jobs decided long in advance in backroom deals. | :16:46. | :16:52. | |
The old leadership choosing the new one. 59 year-old Xi Jinping is | :16:52. | :16:57. | |
almost certain to become the new general secretary. Little is known | :16:57. | :17:01. | |
about him but China's leadership transition is a process of the | :17:01. | :17:05. | |
party and by the party for the party. And few people expect any | :17:05. | :17:11. | |
surprise change of direction. You can find more information and | :17:11. | :17:21. | |
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analysis on the transfer of power in China on our website. An | :17:26. | :17:29. | |
investigation has begun into a woman in Ireland he was refused | :17:29. | :17:35. | |
abortion. The doctors said they could not terminate her pregnancy | :17:35. | :17:40. | |
because the foetus had a heart beat. She subsequently lost the baby and | :17:40. | :17:44. | |
died of blood poisoning. Mark Simpson joins me. Inquiries | :17:44. | :17:48. | |
underway? That is right and I had spoken to the husband of the women | :17:48. | :17:52. | |
had died and he is adamant that his wife would still be alive today if | :17:52. | :17:57. | |
she had been allowed that abortion when she said she wanted it, before | :17:57. | :18:01. | |
she miscarried her baby. Her husband says it was clear that her | :18:01. | :18:07. | |
life was in danger. The whole investigation will be to try to | :18:07. | :18:11. | |
establish, was he right? Did DRS think that her life was in danger | :18:11. | :18:16. | |
but did not get have -- did not give her an abortion because | :18:16. | :18:20. | |
Ireland is a Catholic country? That is the subject of this | :18:20. | :18:23. | |
investigation and there will be to investigations, such is the | :18:23. | :18:27. | |
seriousness. And it has been raised in the Irish Parliament this | :18:27. | :18:32. | |
morning. Abortion is one of those issues, the most divisive in | :18:32. | :18:36. | |
Ireland, socially, medically and politically and today it is back at | :18:36. | :18:44. | |
the top of the political agenda. Mark Simpson, thank you very much. | :18:44. | :18:47. | |
Toyota is recalling 75,000 cars in the UK. It is because of faults | :18:47. | :18:50. | |
with steering and water pumps in some Avensis, Corolla and Prius | :18:50. | :18:53. | |
models. Toyota says the defects had caused no accidents and could be | :18:53. | :18:57. | |
fixed easily. More than 2.5 million vehicles are being recalled | :18:57. | :19:03. | |
worldwide. The British drinks company Britvic, that makes | :19:03. | :19:06. | |
Robinsons, Tango, R Whites and other brands, is to merge with AG | :19:06. | :19:10. | |
Barr, which produces Irn-Bru and Tizer. The deal will create a | :19:10. | :19:14. | |
corporation with sales worth �1.4 billion. Up to 500 jobs are | :19:14. | :19:22. | |
expected to be cut from the combined workforce of 4000. One of | :19:22. | :19:25. | |
the UK's biggest energy suppliers, SSE, has reported a rise in half- | :19:25. | :19:30. | |
year profits of 38.3%. It said it had benefited from increased demand | :19:30. | :19:34. | |
because of recent cold weather. The company put up its domestic gas and | :19:34. | :19:37. | |
electricity prices by an average of 9% last month along with the other | :19:37. | :19:43. | |
major firms. It's a potentially lethal infection which is resistant | :19:43. | :19:46. | |
to treatment, but now doctors at in Cambridge say they've managed to | :19:46. | :19:50. | |
stop an outbreak of MRSA by cracking its genetic code. They | :19:50. | :19:53. | |
analysed DNA from several cases of the disease and found it came from | :19:54. | :19:58. | |
one source, a member of staff who was carrying it without knowing. | :19:58. | :20:01. | |
Joining me now is Dr Julian Parkhill, who was involved in the | :20:01. | :20:10. | |
research. What exactly have you done? We have been able to use a | :20:10. | :20:13. | |
very high frequency technology that was developed to sequence the human | :20:13. | :20:18. | |
genome. And apply them to bacterial genomes, which are very much | :20:18. | :20:23. | |
smaller and we have been able to do this rapidly, enabling us to build | :20:23. | :20:28. | |
a family tree of the bacteria and work out how closely related they | :20:28. | :20:31. | |
are and how recently they split from each other and how old they | :20:31. | :20:36. | |
are. And we can call it that information with the information we | :20:36. | :20:43. | |
have about the likely outbreak and say very clearly whether at the | :20:43. | :20:49. | |
outbreak has occurred and who has transmitted what. How far can this | :20:49. | :20:55. | |
be rolled out? Does this mean we are on the verge of ridding of -- | :20:55. | :21:00. | |
on the verge of ridding us of MRSA? No, because it is very common and | :21:00. | :21:04. | |
is carried frequently by the public. It is frequently brought into | :21:04. | :21:09. | |
hospitals but what we want to do is identify when transmission ochres | :21:09. | :21:13. | |
and hospitals because that is when the danger a curse. We believe that | :21:13. | :21:19. | |
over the next few years, we can Road at this technology into the | :21:19. | :21:24. | |
NHS and build a system that enables hospitals to detect rapidly and | :21:24. | :21:28. | |
accurately when transmissions have occurred and when different strands | :21:28. | :21:32. | |
of MRSA have been brought in separately. Thank you very much and | :21:32. | :21:38. | |
congratulations. NASA scientists, amateur astronomers and visitors | :21:38. | :21:40. | |
from around the world gathered in Queensland last night for | :21:40. | :21:43. | |
Australia's first full solar eclipse for a decade. Onlookers had | :21:43. | :21:45. | |
a magnificent view of the sun completely obscured by the | :21:45. | :21:51. | |
silhouette of the moon. Duncan Kennedy sent this report. People | :21:51. | :21:55. | |
usually travel to the Queensland coast to see the sun. This time, | :21:55. | :21:59. | |
they came to watch it being obscured. Some brought their | :21:59. | :22:04. | |
glasses. And then more glasses. Others went for industrial-strength | :22:04. | :22:08. | |
protection. And some did not quite get that projection through the | :22:08. | :22:13. | |
card thing. Staying awake meant mobile coffee machines. What you | :22:13. | :22:21. | |
might call car bunks. All this has been good for the economy. 50,000 | :22:21. | :22:26. | |
tourists converged around the area for an event that lasted no more | :22:26. | :22:31. | |
than 180 seconds. Nice and clear this morning so I managed to get a | :22:31. | :22:40. | |
good spot. Once-in-a-lifetime thing. We welcome and have a good look. | :22:40. | :22:44. | |
precisely 6:38am local time, the total eclipse began its short, | :22:44. | :22:51. | |
mesmerising cycle. It was the cue for temperatures to plunge, dogs to | :22:51. | :22:59. | |
start barking and the cheering... Only the white glow of the San's | :22:59. | :23:02. | |
Corona was visible and all made possible because although the sun | :23:02. | :23:08. | |
is 400 times bigger than the Moon, the moon is 400 times closer. | :23:08. | :23:13. | |
absolutely awesome, a fantastic display. It was great, the first | :23:13. | :23:19. | |
one I have seen. It was just amazing. Absolutely amazing, once | :23:19. | :23:24. | |
in a lifetime. Australian television brought in its own props | :23:24. | :23:29. | |
to help the worse still confused. Now, the moon is passing exactly in | :23:29. | :23:35. | |
front of the Sun. It is about here. And that shall continue and then... | :23:35. | :23:39. | |
Two hours later, it will be gone. It was the real thing that had | :23:39. | :23:43. | |
everybody spellbound for two minutes. If you want to see the | :23:43. | :23:48. | |
next one, head to the North Atlantic in 20th March 15. And | :23:48. | :23:58. | |
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witnessed the greatest celestial show-stopper. # March how to 15. -- | :24:00. | :24:07. | |
March 2015. Revenue from the sale of tickets for the Olympic Games | :24:07. | :24:09. | |
and Paralympics were far better than hoped for. Sales exceeded | :24:09. | :24:12. | |
expectations by more than �150 million, but there were still | :24:12. | :24:14. | |
thousands of unsold tickets for many events, including athletics. | :24:14. | :24:18. | |
James Pearce is in Central London. Most of those unsold tickets were | :24:18. | :24:21. | |
for the football but surprisingly there were more than 2000 Olympic | :24:21. | :24:24. | |
athletics tickets which were never bought and several hundred for the | :24:24. | :24:28. | |
opening and closing ceremony. But this was a success story with | :24:28. | :24:37. | |
tickets having been sold in record numbers. The opening ceremony of an | :24:37. | :24:39. | |
Olympics that has seen unprecedented demand for tickets. | :24:39. | :24:44. | |
For more than one year, millions tried and many had failed to find a | :24:44. | :24:49. | |
way to get into the venues to watch what was described as the greatest | :24:49. | :24:53. | |
show on earth. Arguably, the best Olympics ever, they were the most | :24:53. | :25:00. | |
successful in terms of ticket sales. London 2012 announced today that | :25:00. | :25:04. | |
10.9 million tickets were sold for the Olympics and Paralympics. Out | :25:04. | :25:08. | |
of the 11.3 million which were available. Revenue from ticket | :25:08. | :25:16. | |
sales reached �659 million, far ahead of the target. One of the | :25:16. | :25:20. | |
most remarkable statistics is that from well over 1 million tickets | :25:20. | :25:24. | |
available for the Paralympic athletics, only 668 were not sold. | :25:24. | :25:31. | |
It was because of the high demand and the sight of empty seats at the | :25:31. | :25:33. | |
start that caused such anger amongst many of those who had been | :25:33. | :25:38. | |
unable to get to watch. The problem was mainly caused by those in | :25:38. | :25:43. | |
accredited areas not turning up. London 2012 said the public seating | :25:43. | :25:48. | |
was full at nearly every sport, apart from football. This was a | :25:48. | :25:53. | |
world-beating success in terms of powerful and the atmosphere. In the | :25:53. | :25:57. | |
accredited areas there is an issue because they do not always sit | :25:57. | :26:00. | |
there for the whole time but that is part of hosting an international | :26:00. | :26:07. | |
event. Today, for the first time, London 2012 told us how many seats | :26:07. | :26:12. | |
had been sold to the home supporters rather than the sponsors. | :26:12. | :26:18. | |
The total at the men's 100 metres final was only 51% of tickets in | :26:18. | :26:23. | |
the hands of the British public. Overall, the target of three | :26:23. | :26:26. | |
quarters of Olympic tickets being sold to home supporters was reached. | :26:26. | :26:30. | |
It was a summer that one never be forgotten. The athletes enjoyed | :26:30. | :26:33. | |
themselves and so did the spectators lucky enough to be there. | :26:33. | :26:38. | |
With the demand for tickets so high, those spectators will be well aware | :26:38. | :26:43. | |
of just how lucky they were. Stunning figures and far better | :26:43. | :26:49. | |
than expected? Yes, in terms of revenue there is no doubt that this | :26:49. | :26:53. | |
has been a resounding success but there are big issues. It was the | :26:53. | :26:59. | |
biggest problem, ticketing. Next week, Lord Coe and his team go to | :26:59. | :27:03. | |
Rio de Janeiro for the official debriefing of the London Games and | :27:03. | :27:08. | |
ticketing, which is discussed, and lessons will be learnt and the | :27:08. | :27:11. | |
demand was unprecedented but it was frustrating because of the way the | :27:11. | :27:21. | |
website worked and the desire to stop that happening again. And if | :27:21. | :27:26. | |
somebody -- some tickets end up in the wrong hands, there have been | :27:26. | :27:28. | |
investigations and ruthless people from various associations trying to | :27:28. | :27:32. | |
sell tickets for profit. And Rio will determine that should not | :27:32. | :27:41. | |
happen. Thank you very much. Now a very lucky escape for three people | :27:41. | :27:44. | |
whose plane crashed in Brazil. A security camera caught the moment a | :27:44. | :27:46. | |
Cessna aircraft came off the runway at Sao Paulo's airport. After | :27:46. | :27:50. | |
bouncing off the end of a grass verge the plane crashes to a | :27:50. | :27:56. | |
standstill. Seconds later, one of the passengers is seen escaping. No | :27:56. | :27:59. | |
one was seriously hurt. Investigators are trying to | :27:59. | :28:09. | |
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establish why it happened. Now a Mild again today, not quite as warm | :28:12. | :28:17. | |
as yesterday, hitting 16 degrees yesterday but temperature is still | :28:17. | :28:20. | |
above average in many areas. Despite the fact that there is a | :28:20. | :28:24. | |
lot of cloud. The latest satellite picture shows the extent of the | :28:24. | :28:28. | |
cloud cover but also whether cloud has been dissolving nicely in | :28:28. | :28:31. | |
recent hours across southern counties and we shall see more | :28:31. | :28:34. | |
practice this afternoon across parts of the Midlands at perhaps | :28:34. | :28:40. | |
the north-east. Further north, more rain for Northern Ireland and | :28:40. | :28:45. | |
southern and central Scotland. By this evening, particularly into the | :28:45. | :28:50. | |
small hours, we will have this weakening weather front sliding | :28:50. | :28:53. | |
into northern England. Behind the weather front, chances of dense fog | :28:53. | :28:58. | |
across southern Scotland but further south, across England and | :28:58. | :29:02. | |
Wales, particularly with clear skies. Some of that this and fog | :29:02. | :29:08. | |
will not clear. Always some favoured spots, like the Viola your, | :29:08. | :29:12. | |
tending to hold on to that murky weather but we could see mist and | :29:12. | :29:19. | |
fog just about anywhere and predicting when a Charles Pic and | :29:19. | :29:24. | |
left is probably going to be our biggest headache for Thursday. The | :29:24. | :29:27. | |
Midlands looking like an area that might struggle with the lingering | :29:27. | :29:32. | |
fog and denser patches. Western Wales could come out nicely. | :29:32. | :29:35. | |
Northern Ireland, Cloudy first thing on Thursday but considerably | :29:35. | :29:40. | |
drier than it has been. Northern Scotland, potentially patchy frost | :29:40. | :29:44. | |
in the north-east and further south, drier. But we could have mist and | :29:44. | :29:48. | |
fog and again, that could stick so it could be bad for rush hour and | :29:48. | :29:52. | |
also through the day if that does linger. It will mean it feels | :29:52. | :29:59. | |
rather chilly with temperatures struggling at single figures. Highs | :29:59. | :30:04. | |
of around him or 11 degrees. Into Friday, potentially as similar | :30:04. | :30:10. | |
start across England and Wales. For Scotland and Northern Ireland, | :30:10. | :30:13. | |
another weather front living in the wings, bringing wet weather for the | :30:13. | :30:17. | |
end of Friday but the rain will affect all parts of the UK as the | :30:17. | :30:21. | |
weekend gets underway. Sunday could be a very different day. England | :30:21. | :30:25. | |
and Wales, wet weather around on Saturday but Sunday is cooler and | :30:25. | :30:29. | |
crisper and clearer with plenty of sunshine on the way. Scotland and | :30:29. | :30:32. | |
Northern Ireland, cloud and rain possible on Saturday but Sunday | :30:32. | :30:37. | |
brighter and cooler. A real mixture of autumnal weather. More details | :30:37. | :30:43. | |
online. Thank you. A reminder of our top story. Unemployment is down | :30:43. | :30:47. |