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David Cameron tells EU leaders they can be no question to any further | :00:16. | :00:21. | |
cuts to the budget rebate. He is at a crucial two-day summit in | :00:21. | :00:30. | |
Brussels. We're going to be negotiating very hard for a good | :00:30. | :00:32. | |
deal for Britain's tax payers and for Europe's tax payers, and to | :00:33. | :00:35. | |
keep the British rebate. The BBC appoints a new Director General. | :00:35. | :00:38. | |
Tony Hall, the current head of the Royal Opera House, replaces George | :00:38. | :00:45. | |
Entwistle who stepped down following the Jimmy Savile scandal. | :00:45. | :00:48. | |
A ceasefire in the Middle East appears to be holding after a deal | :00:48. | :00:53. | |
brokered by Egypt and the US came into force last night. And high | :00:53. | :01:02. | |
winds across much of the country along with flood alerts. And Beth | :01:02. | :01:04. | |
Tweddle opens a new centre for wounded servicemen and women in | :01:04. | :01:12. | |
Shropshire. Later on BBC London: Five Spurs fans are injured, one of | :01:12. | :01:14. | |
them seriously, after they're attacked by a gang carrying iron | :01:14. | :01:17. | |
bars in Rome. And the number of affordable homes built by the mayor | :01:17. | :01:27. | |
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has dropped by more than half in the last year. | :01:27. | :01:31. | |
Good afternoon and welcome to the BBC News at One. | :01:31. | :01:34. | |
David Cameron has told EU leaders there can be "no question" of any | :01:34. | :01:38. | |
further cuts to the British budget rebate. He issued his message | :01:39. | :01:41. | |
during face to face talks with the EU leadership ahead of a crucial | :01:41. | :01:50. | |
meeting of all 27 member states. They are in Brussels for two days | :01:50. | :01:52. | |
of negotiations over spending plans for the seven years beginning in | :01:52. | :01:55. | |
2014. Britain wants at least a freeze in spending, arguing that | :01:55. | :01:57. | |
any increase would be unjustified when many countries are having to | :01:57. | :02:04. | |
cut their own spending. Here's our Europe correspondent, Matthew Price. | :02:04. | :02:08. | |
Head south from Brussels to France. You immediately hit tricky | :02:08. | :02:15. | |
territory. The EU spends much of its money on farming subsidies. | :02:15. | :02:21. | |
Farming subsidies that keep businesses like this afloat and | :02:21. | :02:25. | |
filled prices down. What if the French president were to agree to a | :02:25. | :02:32. | |
reduction in NOS subsidies as part of a deal on the EU budget? | :02:32. | :02:37. | |
That would be a great deception for me and I think for most of the | :02:37. | :02:41. | |
farmers in France. You would feel let down by the President? | :02:41. | :02:47. | |
Completely. The French are digging in their heels on agriculture | :02:47. | :02:54. | |
spending and in Poland, there saying there must be increases in | :02:54. | :02:58. | |
regional development funding. The problem for Brussels is that every | :02:58. | :03:02. | |
single country has to agree on the deal otherwise there is no deal. | :03:02. | :03:06. | |
That means every single country has to give up something. Including | :03:06. | :03:11. | |
Britain. I am quite prepared to use the veto if we do not get a deal | :03:12. | :03:17. | |
that is good for Britain. David Cameron has promised to fight for a | :03:17. | :03:20. | |
real-terms freeze in European spending. But some fear there is a | :03:20. | :03:25. | |
cost for Britain as part of any such deal. They could be less | :03:25. | :03:28. | |
European money being spent on development projects like this one | :03:28. | :03:33. | |
in Wales. Wells probably gets the best part of �1 billion per year in | :03:33. | :03:39. | |
EU funding. So that would have a big impact on us. Across Eastern | :03:39. | :03:43. | |
Europe in particular they have the same fear. Infrastructure projects | :03:43. | :03:49. | |
get much of their money from the EU. And also in indebted Spain and | :03:49. | :03:54. | |
Italy there fighting Against cuts to regional funding. The EU budget | :03:54. | :03:58. | |
is in comparison to national spending, tiny. But in Brussels the | :03:58. | :04:03. | |
argument is about both how much money is spent and how it is spent. | :04:03. | :04:09. | |
And it is an argument that may not be resolved at this summit. | :04:09. | :04:14. | |
Let's speak to our political correspondent, Norman Smith. It is | :04:14. | :04:20. | |
fair to say that the Prime Minister has an almighty job on his hands. | :04:20. | :04:26. | |
He is facing an huge tussle. It is a bit like a tug of war with David | :04:26. | :04:30. | |
Cameron at one end of the rope demanding a freeze in spending. | :04:30. | :04:34. | |
Helped by one of two other countries. And if the other end | :04:34. | :04:40. | |
about 20 countries demanding an increase in spending. If anything | :04:40. | :04:43. | |
David Cameron this morning appears to have toughened up his | :04:44. | :04:48. | |
negotiating position. He was first in to see the negotiators and said | :04:48. | :04:52. | |
he would not countenance any increase in spending and would not | :04:52. | :04:57. | |
accept any cut to the British rebate. He also demanded symbolic | :04:57. | :05:03. | |
cuts to European administration, to the Brussels bureaucracy. And just | :05:03. | :05:05. | |
in case other European leaders have not got the message this is what he | :05:06. | :05:11. | |
said on his way into those talks. am not happy at all. These are | :05:11. | :05:16. | |
important negotiations and at a time when we're making difficult | :05:16. | :05:20. | |
decisions at home it is wrong for there to be proposals for this | :05:20. | :05:24. | |
increased extra spending in the EU. So we will be negotiating hard for | :05:24. | :05:31. | |
a good deal for Britain's taxpayers and to keep the British rebate. | :05:31. | :05:36. | |
Taking a tough stance indeed. What reaction has there been? Well Chris | :05:36. | :05:41. | |
Storey this morning seems to be of other European leaders arriving, | :05:41. | :05:45. | |
stepping out of their cars and promptly criticising David Cameron | :05:45. | :05:49. | |
and his stance. We had the Belgian Prime Minister telling him to be | :05:49. | :05:54. | |
more ambitious about the Budget. Lab fee of telling him to be more | :05:54. | :06:00. | |
open-minded. And the Dutch Prime Minister. The Dutch are one of our | :06:00. | :06:05. | |
few friends. Were somewhat bereft of allies. The Dutch Prime Minister | :06:05. | :06:08. | |
got out the car and accused David Cameron of putting a loaded gun on | :06:08. | :06:13. | |
the table with his threat to use the veto. It even your friends are | :06:13. | :06:17. | |
being a bit rude about you in public, you know you're in some | :06:17. | :06:25. | |
trouble. For more on the two-day EU budget | :06:25. | :06:33. | |
talks in Brussels, log on to our website at bbc.co.uk/europe. | :06:33. | :06:37. | |
It has been confirmed that the BBC has appointed a new director | :06:37. | :06:42. | |
general to replace George and Will's will. He is Tony Hall, who | :06:42. | :06:46. | |
used to be director of News of the corporation but is currently chief | :06:46. | :06:50. | |
Executive at the Royal Opera House. The appointment came on the day | :06:50. | :07:00. | |
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that MPs criticised the pay-off made to the former director-general. | :07:02. | :07:06. | |
The BBC, mired in crisis over Jimmy Savile and the Newsnight report | :07:06. | :07:10. | |
that made false accusations of paedophilia, has managed in less | :07:10. | :07:17. | |
than two weeks to find a new leader. Tony Hall, a former BBC manager, | :07:17. | :07:21. | |
who has in recent years been running the Royal Opera House, is | :07:21. | :07:26. | |
to be the new director-general. most important heat -- thing he | :07:26. | :07:30. | |
brings his weight and stability and experience. The BBC will feel the | :07:30. | :07:35. | |
effect of that almost instantly. The appointment comes on a day in | :07:35. | :07:38. | |
which the way that previous director-general went came in for | :07:38. | :07:42. | |
some heavy criticism. George Entwistle was raising questions | :07:42. | :07:46. | |
about Jimmy Savile and Newswrap reports, up 1 on Jimmy Savile but | :07:46. | :07:49. | |
perhaps should have been forecast and another claiming incorrectly | :07:49. | :07:53. | |
that a senior Conservative figure was a paedophile and that most | :07:53. | :07:59. | |
certainly should not have gone out. He decided to go but only if he got | :07:59. | :08:04. | |
�450,000, twice what he was owed for resignation. Today the BBC | :08:04. | :08:08. | |
Trust appeared before MPs to defend that payment. Visit the choice was | :08:08. | :08:12. | |
allowing him to go quickly or sacking him which they said would | :08:12. | :08:18. | |
have cost the same or perhaps even more. The Director-General made it | :08:18. | :08:22. | |
clear to trust through his lawyers that the only thing that was on the | :08:22. | :08:28. | |
table if he was prepared to resign was a payment of �450,000. | :08:28. | :08:31. | |
there was more. Payments for private health insurance, legal | :08:31. | :08:37. | |
fees, �10,000 to cope with the press waiting on his doorstep. MPs | :08:37. | :08:42. | |
were aghast and especially about the private health insurance. But | :08:42. | :08:46. | |
now there is a new director-general and the hopes of bringing an end to | :08:46. | :08:50. | |
some of the turmoil. But there are still many difficult questions to | :08:50. | :08:57. | |
be answered. David is with me now. Immediate | :08:57. | :09:01. | |
reaction, there has been some concern raised about the process, | :09:02. | :09:06. | |
perhaps the appointment been too quick. For an organisation like the | :09:06. | :09:12. | |
BBC this has been an extraordinary turn of speed. Consider how long it | :09:12. | :09:15. | |
took Torpoint George Entwistle and the long convoluted process of | :09:15. | :09:19. | |
interviews and strategies. This time they went to one man, Tony | :09:19. | :09:25. | |
Hall. They asked him, he said yes. He will start work in March. It is | :09:25. | :09:29. | |
a sign that the wanted to bring some sense of order to the | :09:29. | :09:33. | |
managerial chaos that has ensued in light of all that has happened in | :09:33. | :09:40. | |
the past six or seven weeks. news has just broken. Lord McAlpine, | :09:40. | :09:45. | |
and not unrelated story, has reached a settlement with ITV over | :09:45. | :09:49. | |
the programme that went out in November. This is the second | :09:49. | :09:53. | |
Newsnight report, one that made allegations of paedophilia against | :09:53. | :09:59. | |
a senior Conservative. And the name of one doubt on Twitter and was | :09:59. | :10:04. | |
also mentioned. He sued the BBC, reached a settlement with them and | :10:04. | :10:10. | |
now we have been told that after that event with Philip Schofield | :10:10. | :10:14. | |
when he handed the reins to David Cameron, that name could be seen on | :10:14. | :10:16. | |
a piece of paper and they today have said there has been a | :10:16. | :10:24. | |
settlement of �125,000. 18 hours in, and the ceasefire | :10:24. | :10:27. | |
agreed last night between Israel and Hamas appears to be holding. | :10:27. | :10:30. | |
Shortly after it came into force, missiles were fired from Gaza. But | :10:30. | :10:33. | |
so far Israel hasn't responded. We'll be getting the views from | :10:33. | :10:38. | |
both sides of the divide. Let's cross to Ben Brown who's in Sderot | :10:38. | :10:46. | |
in southern Israel. We are right on the border. We were | :10:46. | :10:50. | |
here a couple of days ago and we could see and here all day long | :10:50. | :10:54. | |
thunderous explosions on both sides of this border. Today it could not | :10:54. | :10:58. | |
be more different. There is absolute peace and quiet so the | :10:58. | :11:01. | |
ceasefire is holding pretty well. Over there in Das at their | :11:01. | :11:11. | |
celebrating it as a victory. Last night Gaza came out of hiding. | :11:11. | :11:15. | |
As the ceasefire began, people surged onto the streets. After more | :11:15. | :11:20. | |
than a week of being trapped in their homes. Guns fired in | :11:20. | :11:25. | |
celebration, it no longer in anger. This morning for many normality | :11:25. | :11:31. | |
resumed. But Gaza, knocked down again, will once more have to | :11:31. | :11:39. | |
rebuild. And thousands of people has been left grieving. In Gaza | :11:39. | :11:46. | |
there are still funerals taking place today. But despite the huge | :11:46. | :11:51. | |
loss of life, most people think that Hamas showed its strength and | :11:51. | :11:59. | |
one. That is because after years of isolation, this week Hamas asserted | :11:59. | :12:02. | |
itself as the key Palestinian player in a fast-changing region. | :12:02. | :12:07. | |
It has been bolstered by its close ties with new Islamist leadership | :12:07. | :12:12. | |
in Egypt which brokered the deal. But the ceasefire deal is fragile | :12:12. | :12:15. | |
and there is a good chance that neither side will honour it for | :12:15. | :12:21. | |
long. Palestinians want Israel to end all hostilities on the Gaza | :12:21. | :12:27. | |
strip by sea, land and air. They want crossings in Gaza to be opened | :12:27. | :12:31. | |
Bellal and free movement of people and goods. Until these demands are | :12:31. | :12:37. | |
met fully, the status quo remains. Today for people in Gaza it feels | :12:37. | :12:47. | |
like victory but there's no sign that the peace will last. | :12:47. | :12:51. | |
Well this is the Israeli border town of right on the frontline with | :12:51. | :12:56. | |
Gaza. It has been continually intact over the past few days. So | :12:56. | :13:01. | |
there is relief that the ceasefires holding. But across Israel we just | :13:01. | :13:05. | |
had an opinion poll showing 70% of people there are against the | :13:05. | :13:10. | |
ceasefire and wanted to keep on fighting. | :13:10. | :13:15. | |
In southern Israel, day one of the ceasefire. 30 miles from Gaza, this | :13:15. | :13:22. | |
is hardly a border town. Yet 129 Roberts were fired during the | :13:22. | :13:29. | |
recent crisis. Like many, in the country, people here are doubtful | :13:29. | :13:34. | |
about the ceasefire. His role demanded that all armed groups in | :13:34. | :13:37. | |
Gaza or stop hostilities against Israel including rocket and border | :13:37. | :13:41. | |
attacks as part the deal. For its part Israel promised to review its | :13:41. | :13:46. | |
restrictions on the movement of people and goods in and out of Gaza. | :13:46. | :13:56. | |
But that concerns Israelis. There was a direct hit here after the | :13:56. | :13:59. | |
ceasefire was declared last night. People in Israel are worried that | :13:59. | :14:05. | |
militant groups could use the opportunity to replenish their | :14:05. | :14:08. | |
rocket supplies its borders are open. Israel wants international | :14:08. | :14:14. | |
guarantees the that will not happen. It is especially looking to Egypt | :14:14. | :14:19. | |
to clamp down on weapons smuggling. Israel's military has begun its | :14:19. | :14:23. | |
withdrawal from the Gaza border. Israel is keen to give the | :14:23. | :14:27. | |
ceasefire a chance it says. These reservists soldiers are being sent | :14:28. | :14:37. | |
home, aware that they could be The good news this lunch time from | :14:37. | :14:41. | |
the border here is that the ceasefire is holding pretty well. | :14:41. | :14:45. | |
But to get a lasting peace between Israel and Hamas is going to take a | :14:45. | :14:49. | |
lot more talking and negotiating. More details and analysis on our | :14:49. | :14:59. | |
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The Chief Constable of Avon and Somerset Police has announced that | :15:00. | :15:04. | |
he is to leave, less than a week after his new boss was elected as | :15:04. | :15:08. | |
the Police and Crime Commissioner. He says the area's commissioner | :15:08. | :15:12. | |
wants to recruit a new chief constable, and he will not be | :15:12. | :15:17. | |
reapplying for his job. A man has been cleared of killing a teenager | :15:17. | :15:21. | |
in London's Oxford Street during the Boxing Day sales last year. | :15:21. | :15:24. | |
Seydou Diarrassouba died from a single stab wound, but a jury at | :15:25. | :15:28. | |
the Old Bailey found Jermaine Joseph not guilty of murder and | :15:28. | :15:35. | |
manslaughter. Domain Joseph had moved from South London to north | :15:35. | :15:41. | |
London to escape his gang past. -- Jermaine Joseph. He'd taken to | :15:41. | :15:45. | |
carrying a knife to defend himself, in case it caught up with him. Last | :15:45. | :15:50. | |
Boxing Day in Oxford Street it did. He ran into Seydou Diarrassouba, a | :15:50. | :15:56. | |
man who was a loose grouping of gangs based in Stockwell, south | :15:56. | :16:02. | |
London. Seydou Diarrassouba chased Joseph into a shoe store, there was | :16:02. | :16:05. | |
a knife fight and it was Seydou Diarrassouba who emerged with a | :16:05. | :16:09. | |
fatal wound. He collapsed on the pavement in front of onlookers. The | :16:09. | :16:13. | |
court heard that Joseph had been defending himself against this man, | :16:13. | :16:20. | |
a man known as the Nuts, his street name, in the gang. The defence said | :16:20. | :16:24. | |
that gave an idea of the sort of man he was. The jury believed it | :16:24. | :16:28. | |
was self-defence. This was a case which showed one thing above all | :16:28. | :16:32. | |
others. The difficulty of escaping a gang life if you have been | :16:32. | :16:36. | |
seriously involved in that sort of life. He had moved away and, as I | :16:36. | :16:41. | |
said, it had caught up with him. It showed one other thing. This jury | :16:41. | :16:45. | |
had a lot of detail about Seydou Diarrassouba's past, about knife | :16:45. | :16:48. | |
and gun incidents he'd been involved in, about the number of | :16:48. | :16:52. | |
times he had been arrested, but the fact he had never been charged for | :16:52. | :16:56. | |
almost all of those incidents. That was because there simply weren't | :16:56. | :16:59. | |
the witnesses to give evidence against them. That is the sort of | :16:59. | :17:09. | |
effect that some of the street Our main story this lunchtime. | :17:09. | :17:14. | |
David Cameron says he will negotiate hard to get a good deal | :17:14. | :17:20. | |
for British taxpayers at the EU We are live from White Hart Lane | :17:20. | :17:25. | |
with reaction from Spurs over the attack on their fans in Italy. And | :17:25. | :17:28. | |
living life online. We challenged our technology correspondent to | :17:28. | :17:33. | |
cope without the internet for 24 hours, as part of our lonely in | :17:33. | :17:42. | |
Strong winds and heavy rain a battering many parts of the UK | :17:42. | :17:47. | |
today. Forecasters are predicting there's worse to come. Jeremy Cook | :17:47. | :17:50. | |
is near Bristol. Those predictions not going to bring much cheer to | :17:50. | :17:56. | |
those people who have already had a very challenging few days. Look at | :17:56. | :18:02. | |
this. This is normally the most placid, | :18:02. | :18:06. | |
travel bit of water you can imagine. But today, but these incredibly | :18:06. | :18:11. | |
high winds, it looks more like the open sea. Look at all the water | :18:11. | :18:15. | |
which has fallen in the last 24 hours also, streaming out of this | :18:15. | :18:19. | |
reservoir into the river beyond. It's that sort of water flow which | :18:19. | :18:22. | |
means that there are worries about flooding across much of the country | :18:22. | :18:29. | |
today in this region, also in Northamptonshire where a holiday | :18:29. | :18:32. | |
home caravan site has been evacuated during the course of the | :18:32. | :18:37. | |
day. We are told up to 1000 people have been taken to shelter there. | :18:37. | :18:42. | |
This is the prediction, for much more rainfall in the next 24 hours | :18:42. | :18:48. | |
or so. In this region where I'm talking to you from, parts of Wales, | :18:48. | :18:52. | |
the West Midlands, too, the ground is already absolutely saturated. | :18:52. | :18:57. | |
That means there are real fears that as more water comes into the | :18:57. | :19:01. | |
system, rivers and lakes and streams which are already at | :19:01. | :19:05. | |
breaking point will finally break their banks. We've already seen | :19:05. | :19:10. | |
localised flooding. More of that to come. There are 77 flood warnings | :19:10. | :19:15. | |
across England this lunchtime. There are warnings of a tidal surge | :19:15. | :19:21. | |
on the Somerset coast. It looks like a pretty grim 24 hours to come. | :19:21. | :19:27. | |
Just to finish up, Bath and North East Somerset Council have asked | :19:27. | :19:31. | |
parish councils to prepare village halls as emergency reception | :19:31. | :19:34. | |
centres. They clearly think this situation is going to get a lot | :19:34. | :19:43. | |
As ever, we will have a full weather forecast for you at the end | :19:43. | :19:49. | |
of the programme. A number of English football fans have been | :19:49. | :19:53. | |
injured, one seriously, during violence in Rome ahead of tonight's | :19:53. | :19:57. | |
match between Tottenham and Lazio. The trouble flared at the Drunken | :19:57. | :20:04. | |
Ship pub in the city's Campo de' Fiori's piazza. It was said the | :20:04. | :20:07. | |
English men were attacked with metal rods. Five Italian men have | :20:08. | :20:15. | |
been arrested. What are the details emerging? All this unfolded in one | :20:15. | :20:21. | |
of the fame this old Piazzas here in the heart of historic Rome. | :20:21. | :20:25. | |
group of Spurs fans had chosen to take a drink the pub that you see | :20:25. | :20:32. | |
just over my shoulder. The police tell us that just after 1am, around | :20:32. | :20:36. | |
30 armed men appeared. They came with their faces covered and | :20:36. | :20:40. | |
carrying iron bars. The owner of this Barr has told us that what | :20:40. | :20:46. | |
followed was nothing less, in his view, than a premeditated attack. | :20:46. | :20:50. | |
But then it smashed the glass in the door, then stormed into the pub. | :20:50. | :20:53. | |
The Spurs fans found themselves hopelessly outnumbered and trapped. | :20:54. | :20:58. | |
They tried to take cover but the violence exploded around them. The | :20:58. | :21:03. | |
bow was trashed, 10 of the Spurs fans injured, one of them seriously. | :21:03. | :21:07. | |
Five arrests made, all of them Italian citizens. The Italian media | :21:07. | :21:12. | |
blaming all this very firmly on a group of supporters from the local | :21:12. | :21:16. | |
club Lazio. This coming just hours before tonight's game between | :21:16. | :21:21. | |
Tottenham and Lazio. The hope here is that that match and the | :21:21. | :21:25. | |
aftermath can pass off peacefully, despite the shocking events of last | :21:25. | :21:34. | |
night. There has been yet another critical report into the work of | :21:34. | :21:38. | |
the UK Border Agency. This one, by the agency's chief inspector, | :21:38. | :21:41. | |
accused it of misleading Parliament over how it was dealing with its | :21:41. | :21:45. | |
huge backlog of cases. MPs published similar findings earlier | :21:45. | :21:54. | |
this month. An operation to remove some who have failed in their | :21:54. | :21:57. | |
attempt to stay in the UK. But today's report save thousands have | :21:57. | :22:00. | |
remained here without proper checks, because immigration staff didn't | :22:00. | :22:04. | |
get a grip on cases. And officials misled Parliament by suggesting a | :22:05. | :22:09. | |
backlog of cases had been cleared, according to the Chief Inspector of | :22:09. | :22:13. | |
immigration. In the cases that have been put into Arkan of, for reasons | :22:13. | :22:19. | |
either because people can't be traced, for example. We have looked | :22:19. | :22:23. | |
at the cheques that have been made and found that assurances they have | :22:23. | :22:26. | |
given to Parliament about regular checks being made haven't actually | :22:26. | :22:34. | |
been made. At its worst, there were a but 100,000 items of unopened | :22:34. | :22:39. | |
post to be dealt with. These included 14,800 recorded delivery | :22:39. | :22:44. | |
letters. And 13.001st and second class letters. The last Labour | :22:44. | :22:48. | |
government struggled with the immigration system and it was one | :22:48. | :22:51. | |
of their home secretarys who famously described it as not fit | :22:51. | :22:54. | |
for purpose. But today they were blaming the current Home Secretary, | :22:54. | :23:03. | |
Theresa May, for the shambles. Since she has been Home Secretary, | :23:03. | :23:07. | |
they have been no routine checks in to people they have been allowing | :23:07. | :23:10. | |
to stay in this country, whether they won on the police records or | :23:10. | :23:14. | |
on the serious warnings index. This is a complete failure by Theresa | :23:14. | :23:22. | |
May personally. They Ho my office acknowledged that the Border Agency | :23:22. | :23:26. | |
had a poor delivery record but said the situation was improving. Too | :23:26. | :23:30. | |
many patients are still being let down by the NHS, that's according | :23:30. | :23:33. | |
to a report out today by the Patients' Association. It | :23:33. | :23:37. | |
highlighted what it called appalling examples of poor care, | :23:37. | :23:41. | |
including patients who had been left, neglected and in pain and | :23:41. | :23:45. | |
sometimes without food and water. It did, though, conclude that they | :23:45. | :23:49. | |
are still a lot to be proud of. The Health Secretary, Jeremy Hunt, | :23:49. | :23:52. | |
insisted most patients have excellent care, but he said you | :23:52. | :23:58. | |
wouldn't tolerate any failings. Sit on it, store things in it, sleep on | :23:58. | :24:03. | |
it. Whatever it is, furniture is a crucial part of our lives. Now a | :24:03. | :24:06. | |
new exhibition of British furniture over the past 500 years has just | :24:06. | :24:10. | |
opened at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. Will Gompertz has | :24:10. | :24:13. | |
been to see how our tastes and needs have changed over the | :24:13. | :24:18. | |
centuries, and how our lives have changed with it. At the V&A in | :24:18. | :24:20. | |
London, we are here to look at their new furniture gallery, which | :24:20. | :24:24. | |
they say is the first of its type in the world. It's a collection of | :24:24. | :24:29. | |
Western furniture from 1400 to the present day. It looks at the Arts | :24:29. | :24:32. | |
and Crafts of furniture-making. Someone who knows about this is | :24:32. | :24:37. | |
David, a well-known cabinet maker. What do you think? It's | :24:37. | :24:41. | |
inspirational. It is brilliant they've done this. The V&A have | :24:41. | :24:45. | |
been a great inspiration for me as a maker and designer Paul Stout I | :24:45. | :24:48. | |
often bring designers from around the world here to see the | :24:48. | :24:52. | |
incredible collection. This is another vital strand that we can | :24:52. | :25:01. | |
offer to show people. Not only the pieces, but how they are made. | :25:01. | :25:05. | |
have created sections where they have focused in on specific aspects | :25:05. | :25:09. | |
of the art of furniture-making. Here it is joinery. Tell me about | :25:09. | :25:18. | |
these pieces. The it taken apart his cabinet and chummy the | :25:18. | :25:21. | |
procedures that go into making a piece. Whether it is panelling or | :25:21. | :25:25. | |
dovetailing on the side or the group in the middle. To take it to | :25:25. | :25:30. | |
its very simplistic, an illustration. It gives people the | :25:30. | :25:34. | |
idea that they could make that. You can make this in your garage with | :25:34. | :25:40. | |
skills you can learn at either school... And there are more and | :25:40. | :25:43. | |
more people coming into our shop in Pimlico Road signing, please can | :25:43. | :25:48. | |
you teach us, please can we be an apprentice, please can we examine | :25:48. | :25:51. | |
how you make things are. Making today is something that people can | :25:51. | :26:01. | |
identify with. It's like being an artist but using wood. From the 1st | :26:01. | :26:04. | |
December you can come and make your own mind up, that's when it opens | :26:04. | :26:08. | |
to the public. Every year, school - - scores of service personnel | :26:09. | :26:14. | |
return from conflict with terrible injuries. Today, a new specialist | :26:14. | :26:18. | |
rehabilitation centre opens in Shropshire. It's being funded and | :26:18. | :26:26. | |
run by the Royal British Legion. It may seem strange opening up this | :26:26. | :26:29. | |
recovery centre when we know that the war in Afghanistan is drawing | :26:29. | :26:33. | |
to a close. But the impact of that war and the one in Iraq will be | :26:33. | :26:40. | |
felt for many years to come, not least bobbies injured soldiers who | :26:40. | :26:46. | |
have life-changing injuries. This is no ordinary sports centre and | :26:46. | :26:49. | |
these are no ordinary athletes. They are those in uniform who put | :26:49. | :26:53. | |
their lives in danger serving their country. And to have suffered like | :26:53. | :26:58. | |
changing injuries. Men like Saqba Clive Smith, who lost both his legs | :26:58. | :27:02. | |
in Afghanistan. The sports on offer, like wheelchair basketball, have | :27:02. | :27:10. | |
helped as long road to recovery. They are fact that La Tasca and go | :27:10. | :27:15. | |
out there and try new sports that they wouldn't have tried as able- | :27:15. | :27:18. | |
bodied, that they can come out and come here and try different sports | :27:18. | :27:21. | |
and activities is a massive release all the blokes and can give them a | :27:22. | :27:25. | |
bit of a drive back. They can go on and try new things | :27:25. | :27:32. | |
from there. The Royal British Legion has poured �27 million into | :27:32. | :27:35. | |
the Battle Back centre, as well as the sports on offer there are 24 | :27:35. | :27:39. | |
rooms all with wheelchair access. But it's not only for those with | :27:39. | :27:44. | |
obvious physical injuries. It has been a lifeline for warrant Officer | :27:44. | :27:46. | |
Neil Harrison, too, who has suffered from mental stress, | :27:46. | :27:50. | |
dealing with the casualties of war. I felt very depressed about being | :27:50. | :27:57. | |
sent home. This was the turning point for me. I went away from here | :27:57. | :28:02. | |
very confident, feeling a lot better. The centre was officially | :28:03. | :28:06. | |
opened today by one of Britain's Olympic medallists, who trains at | :28:06. | :28:12. | |
the same grounds. She is inspired by those injured personnel as they | :28:12. | :28:17. | |
are of her success. We do a lot of rehabilitation here. It is an | :28:17. | :28:19. | |
inspiration for us to see these people who are giving up their | :28:19. | :28:24. | |
lives for us, to come back here and be able to get back on track. | :28:24. | :28:27. | |
Though the centre is all about helping the recovery of wounded | :28:27. | :28:31. | |
soldiers, could it also produce the next generation of Paralympians, | :28:31. | :28:39. | |
too? This centre is going to be very important. When you look at | :28:39. | :28:44. | |
the statistics, over the last five years in Afghanistan alone, more | :28:44. | :28:49. | |
than 500 personnel have come back seriously injured. This is going to | :28:49. | :28:52. | |
be very important for them. Remember, these are people who are | :28:52. | :28:59. | |
probably in their 20s and early 30s. Let's take you to an all-important | :28:59. | :29:09. | |
weather forecast. That was the Yes, these sort of scenes might | :29:09. | :29:13. | |
become more commonplace over the next couple of days. Some pretty | :29:13. | :29:17. | |
nasty flooding conditions. We are likely to see similar conditions | :29:17. | :29:21. | |
over the next few days, as a succession of areas of heavy rain | :29:21. | :29:25. | |
across the country. Warnings in force across south-west Scotland, | :29:25. | :29:28. | |
Central Scotland, southern Wales and the south-west of England as | :29:28. | :29:32. | |
well. But we can see some heavy areas of brain working into | :29:32. | :29:36. | |
particularly Wales and the south- west. The lime green colours, that | :29:36. | :29:40. | |
rain will be really intense, falling at around 20 mm per hour. | :29:40. | :29:45. | |
That is enough to cause the risk of aquaplaning on the roads to drivers, | :29:45. | :29:48. | |
and accumulations of rain through the rest of today. We could see up | :29:48. | :29:52. | |
to 50 mm of rain, falling particularly over the hills of | :29:52. | :29:56. | |
southern England and across south- west Scotland. The band of rain | :29:56. | :30:03. | |
will be accompanied by gales and severe gales. It will be very blowy. | :30:03. | :30:06. | |
But ahead of the band of wet weather it will also be relatively | :30:06. | :30:11. | |
mild. As the rain pushes through, there will be a sharp drop in | :30:11. | :30:15. | |
temperatures as they fall by around five degrees. We have already seen | :30:15. | :30:20. | |
travel problems on the roads and rail, we are likely to see more of | :30:20. | :30:27. | |
that to come over the next few days. Overnight tonight, and a | :30:27. | :30:31. | |
combination of wet and windy weather will push towards eastern | :30:31. | :30:36. | |
areas of England, East Anglia and the south-east. Behind that, the | :30:36. | :30:40. | |
winds Paul Light and the skies are clear. There will be a touch of | :30:40. | :30:44. | |
frost in rural areas and icy stretches on untreated roads and | :30:44. | :30:49. | |
services. Tomorrow it will be a much quieter day, particularly | :30:49. | :30:53. | |
across Wales and the south-west of England. The weather system | :30:53. | :30:57. | |
clearing away. The cloud probably lingering into the early afternoon. | :30:57. | :31:01. | |
Most of the British Isles will see some sunshine. But there will be | :31:01. | :31:05. | |
some showers packing in across Scotland. That is one area which is | :31:05. | :31:11. | |
quite sensitive to extra rainfall. Friday, relatively quiet. It is | :31:11. | :31:15. | |
good news because what we've got on the way for this weekend looks like | :31:15. | :31:18. | |
it could be quite serious. Low- pressure moving in from the south- | :31:18. | :31:21. | |
west and brings another spell of very windy and wet weather across | :31:21. | :31:26. | |
the country. Again, we are going to see accumulations of rain of | :31:26. | :31:31. | |
probably around 20 to 40 mm in places. That will exasperated the | :31:32. | :31:39. | |
flooding problem. It is a case of hoping for the best bet fearing for | :31:39. | :31:47. | |
the worst. We could see further A reminder of our main story to | :31:47. | :31:52. |