:00:06. > :00:08.The Chancellor will set out a fresh spending squeeze in tomorrow's
:00:08. > :00:17.Autumn Statement, to fund new schools, science and transport
:00:17. > :00:21.schemes. Most Government departments will be asked to save
:00:21. > :00:24.an extra 1% next year and a further 2% the following year.
:00:24. > :00:27.Newspaper editors attend a summit in Downing Street to discuss press
:00:27. > :00:32.regulation - David Cameron tells them the clock is ticking and they
:00:32. > :00:35.must act soon. The Duke of Cambridge visits his
:00:35. > :00:39.wife in hospital, where she's being treated for acute nausea in the
:00:39. > :00:41.early stages of her pregnancy. NATO foreign ministers look set to
:00:41. > :00:50.approve Turkey's request for the deployment of patriot missiles on
:00:50. > :00:55.its border with Syria. Calls for more compassion from
:00:55. > :00:58.nurses, the Chief Nursing Officer for England wants a response to to
:00:58. > :01:01.to worries about neglect at some hospitals. On BBC London: We look
:01:01. > :01:06.at plans to improve the capital's public transport network over the
:01:06. > :01:16.next decade. And the family of a missing 14-year-old girl from south
:01:16. > :01:22.
:01:22. > :01:28.London plea for help to find their daughter.
:01:28. > :01:32.Good afternoon and welcome to the BBC news at 1.00pm. Some Whitehall
:01:32. > :01:34.departments are to be asked to make billions of pounds of further cuts,
:01:34. > :01:41.with the savings diverted to capital projects in transport,
:01:41. > :01:45.education and science. Government sources say part of the money will
:01:45. > :01:47.go towards building 100 new free schools and academies. More details
:01:47. > :01:52.will be announced in the Chancellor's Autumn statement
:01:52. > :01:56.tomorrow. With me is our chief economics correspondent, Hugh Pym.
:01:56. > :02:00.Take us through what we have learned today. Well, essentially we
:02:00. > :02:03.are getting a chunk of the Autumn Statement a day early, today,
:02:03. > :02:06.that's quite unusual in its own right. The details are put out this
:02:06. > :02:11.morning by Number 10 Downing Street and the Treasury. What do they
:02:11. > :02:14.involve? First of all, �5 billion of extra capital project spending,
:02:14. > :02:19.that's investment, over three years. Where is the money going to go?
:02:19. > :02:24.It's going to be focused, we are told, on three key areas, that's
:02:24. > :02:27.transport, science and schools. �1 billion will go to schools in
:02:27. > :02:31.England. That's not new money, it's got to be paid for somehow. That
:02:31. > :02:36.will be by spending cuts elsewhere. What the Treasury is saying is
:02:36. > :02:39.they're asking departments to cut back 1% on their current day-to-day
:02:39. > :02:42.spending next year and the following year 2%. Health and
:02:42. > :02:45.education will be protected from that, but those cuts will be
:02:46. > :02:49.applied in other departments like transport, for example, local
:02:49. > :02:54.Government and defence. Cuts in administration, we are told, not
:02:54. > :02:59.frontline services. But another big ask for Whitehall. Indeed. Why does
:02:59. > :03:02.he feel the need to do it? Chancellor has been stung by
:03:02. > :03:06.criticisms that in his austerity programme he concentrated too much
:03:06. > :03:10.on investment, capital spending, shovel-ready projects and so on out
:03:10. > :03:15.there in the real economy and he is maybe trying to readdress that and
:03:15. > :03:18.say, let's put more into investment to help the economy get going and
:03:18. > :03:21.cut more on day-to-day spending elsewhere. The problem is that may
:03:21. > :03:26.not work straightaway and �5 billion over three years doesn't
:03:26. > :03:32.amount to a massive amount. Thank you. Let's get more from our
:03:32. > :03:37.political correspondent Norman Smith outside Number 11 Downing
:03:37. > :03:42.Street. How is all of this likely to be perceived politically? Well,
:03:43. > :03:47.the truth is this was always going to be an extraordinarily difficult
:03:47. > :03:54.Autumn Statement with the expectation tomorrow the Chancellor
:03:54. > :03:57.may have to may -- and he may actually have to concede that he is
:03:57. > :04:01.not going to be able to meet crucial debt target of having
:04:01. > :04:05.borrowing coming down by the end of this parliament. And in a way,
:04:05. > :04:10.today's announcement is an attempt it seems to try and change the
:04:10. > :04:13.backdrop, the narrative behind this Autumn Statement from an Autumn
:04:13. > :04:18.Statement exclusively about austerity, to one about growth. The
:04:18. > :04:22.argument being that by releasing this additional �5 billion in
:04:22. > :04:25.capital spending, that is evidence of the Government trying to kick-
:04:25. > :04:29.start the economy and what the Treasury are saying is that capital
:04:29. > :04:33.spending now on average is higher every year than it was under the
:04:33. > :04:37.last three governments when the economy was actually doing an awful
:04:37. > :04:41.lot better. But it seems today's announcement also tells us a truth
:04:41. > :04:45.about just how limited the room for manoeuvre the Chancellor has,
:04:45. > :04:49.because to find this extra �5 billion he cannot go to the markets
:04:49. > :04:55.and borrow money. He cannot raise it through taxes. The only way he
:04:55. > :04:58.can find it is by pairing back even further in in some Government
:04:58. > :05:00.departments. I think that just underlines how politically
:05:00. > :05:08.difficult tomorrow's Autumn Statement is set to be. Indeed,
:05:08. > :05:11.thank you. David Cameron has told newspaper
:05:11. > :05:14.editors the clock is ticking and that they need to set up an
:05:14. > :05:16.independent regulator urgently. A new watchdog was one of the main
:05:16. > :05:19.recommendations of the Leveson Inquiry into press standards. After
:05:19. > :05:21.meeting the editors at Number 10, the Prime Minister said he'd
:05:21. > :05:31.stressed the need for a speedy response. Our political
:05:31. > :05:34.
:05:34. > :05:38.correspondent Robin Brant reports. One by one they arrived, from the
:05:38. > :05:40.Sun, the Financial Times, a dozen or so of the people who decide what
:05:41. > :05:45.goes in the nation's newspapers were summoned to Downing Street.
:05:45. > :05:50.have to try and fix it, obviously. And there's urgency to do so.
:05:50. > :05:54.they were face-to-face the Prime Minister's message was short and
:05:54. > :05:57.sweet. I have told them they have to produce a tough, independent
:05:57. > :06:00.regulatory system, rapidly and they've got to do it in a way
:06:00. > :06:04.that's absolutely meets the requirement of Lord Justice
:06:04. > :06:09.Leveson's report, that means million-pound fines, proper
:06:09. > :06:11.investigation of complaints, a prominent apology, a tough,
:06:11. > :06:15.independent regulatory system and they know, because I told them, the
:06:15. > :06:20.clock is ticking for this to be sorted out. The pressure is on the
:06:20. > :06:23.papers to make the leap, to beef up their standards. Otherwise, the
:06:23. > :06:27.Culture Secretary has made it clear she would act and that... Would
:06:27. > :06:31.include legislation. The judge made dozens of recommendations to clean
:06:32. > :06:35.up the newspaper industry. Lord Justice Leveson called for a
:06:35. > :06:39.new regulatory body, chaired by someone with no press or political
:06:39. > :06:43.background. It could demand apologies be
:06:43. > :06:47.printed in prominent places. And it could enforce fines for
:06:47. > :06:51.serious wrongdoing. And the crucial element, all of this would be
:06:51. > :06:55.backed up by new legislation. As the newspaper editors and the Prime
:06:55. > :06:58.Minister met, campaigners gathered at the gates. In the name of Milly
:06:58. > :07:04.Dowler's family and many more victims of hacking, they say the
:07:04. > :07:08.time for last chances has London past. They want to see real
:07:09. > :07:13.legislation which can ensure that we have independent self-regulation
:07:13. > :07:16.guaranteed in law. So that other people don't find they are the
:07:16. > :07:20.victims of abuse by the press in the way that the people I have met
:07:20. > :07:24.have suffered. Leaving the meeting, the editors
:07:24. > :07:29.know their role as guardians of their own free press is up for
:07:29. > :07:33.grabs. Was it friendly? Friendly, but firm. Labour is lined up
:07:33. > :07:38.against them, the coalition is split on what to do next. A new law
:07:38. > :07:43.forced upon them by the politicians is still the main sticking point.
:07:43. > :07:48.Let's pick up with Robin now. What indeed does happen next? Well, we
:07:48. > :07:52.know the editor of The Guardian who you saw in that report said the
:07:52. > :07:56.editors are going to meet to hatch their own plan and the Culture
:07:56. > :07:59.Secretary wants to keep things moving very quickly. She wants to
:07:59. > :08:02.capitalise on the momentum and wants another meeting with the
:08:02. > :08:06.editors in two days' time. What they seem to all be aiming for is
:08:06. > :08:10.some kind of agreement by Christmas so that is weeks away. The
:08:10. > :08:13.calculation for the Prime Minister, David Cameron, is that did those
:08:13. > :08:18.editors in that meeting across the table from him really get the
:08:18. > :08:22.message when he said I told them they need a tough new regulatory
:08:23. > :08:26.system? Because it has to be acceptable to the editors, their
:08:26. > :08:31.readers, politicians here at parliament. Ultimately, it could
:08:31. > :08:34.come down to parliament whether they accept or reject the new
:08:34. > :08:37.framework. The Prime Minister knows that his coalition partners, the
:08:37. > :08:41.Liberal Democrats, are up against him here. Ed Miliband and most of
:08:41. > :08:45.the Labour Party are up against him. It's ultimately a numbers game
:08:45. > :08:49.often and were there to and vote on a new law, something he doesn't
:08:49. > :08:55.want at the moment, David Cameron is likely to lose that.
:08:55. > :08:58.Thank you. Later this afternoon MSPs will be
:08:58. > :09:00.debating the findings of the Leveson Inquiry. Alex Salmond has
:09:00. > :09:02.indicated he's in favour of Scotland exercising its right to
:09:02. > :09:06.legislate on press regulation independently of Westminster. Our
:09:06. > :09:10.correspondent Lorna Gordon is at Holyrood. The First Minister
:09:10. > :09:13.looking to get some consensus in Scotland on the issue? Yes, that's
:09:13. > :09:17.what he would like, what any politician would like really.
:09:17. > :09:22.Whether he gets consensus another matter entirely. What is clear,
:09:22. > :09:28.though, is that sitting back and doing nothing at this point is not
:09:28. > :09:32.an option. The reason for that is that press regulation is devolved
:09:32. > :09:36.to Scotland. So MSPs here in the Scottish parliament will have to
:09:36. > :09:42.have a view on this issue. They will get to debate this matter this
:09:42. > :09:47.afternoon in the debating chamber up the steps behind me. Alex
:09:47. > :09:50.Salmond has said a body with a statutory underpinning is a very
:09:50. > :09:53.attractive option. He believes it's possible to have that and still
:09:53. > :09:57.have a free and vigorous press. I think what he is thinking of is
:09:57. > :10:02.along the lines of an Irish model where you have a Scottish press
:10:02. > :10:07.council and an ombudsman who would take cases forward on behalf of
:10:07. > :10:16.people who feel they've been wronged by the press. They'll
:10:16. > :10:20.debate that this afternoon. Some of the parties would like to see a
:10:20. > :10:24.cross-border solution. Others have an issue with Alex Salmond leading
:10:24. > :10:28.any discussions because party leaders will meet on Thursday to
:10:28. > :10:36.discuss this, if a voluntary code is agreed that may supersede all of
:10:36. > :10:39.this entirely. Thank you.
:10:39. > :10:41.The Duchess of Cambridge has spent the night in hospital, after
:10:41. > :10:44.yesterday's announcement that she's expecting a baby but is suffering
:10:44. > :10:47.from acute nausea. A short time ago, the Duke of Cambridge arrived at
:10:47. > :10:50.the King Edward VII Hospital in Central London to visit his wife.
:10:50. > :10:54.Our Royal correspondent Nicholas Witchell is there. The Duke is
:10:55. > :10:59.still there, Nick? Yes, he is. But otherwise no change or certainly no
:10:59. > :11:03.change that we are aware of. It's now nearly 22 hours since Kate was
:11:03. > :11:06.admitted. She is still at the hospital, still one assumes being
:11:06. > :11:10.unwell, still being treated. This hospital never says a single word
:11:10. > :11:20.about any of its patients, particularly Royal ones, St James
:11:20. > :11:21.
:11:21. > :11:24.Palace hasn't said anything at all this morning about Kate's condition.
:11:24. > :11:29.He went up the steps quickly looking preoccupied and this is the
:11:29. > :11:32.very last thing that he will have wanted to happen for his wife to be
:11:32. > :11:37.in hospital, for this very private moment in their lives to be being
:11:37. > :11:40.played out in this very public fashion. There are literally dozens
:11:40. > :11:44.of broadcasters here outside the hospital, such is their profile,
:11:44. > :11:47.such is the level of interest in them. What they had wanted was to
:11:48. > :11:50.keep this news private. I should imagine they were hoping to tell
:11:50. > :11:53.the Queen and other members of the Royal Family at Christmas at
:11:53. > :11:57.Sandringham and then for the news to be announced in the new year
:11:57. > :12:02.after she had passed this critical 12-week point in the pregnancy.
:12:02. > :12:06.Well, that hasn't - isn't the way it's turned out. She's here at the
:12:06. > :12:14.hospital receiving medical attention and one imagines in the
:12:14. > :12:16.best place for her at the moment. Thank you. The Secretary-General of
:12:16. > :12:19.NATO reiterated President Obama's warning to the Syrian government
:12:19. > :12:23.not to use chemical weapons against rebel forces. Mr Rasmussen said it
:12:23. > :12:25.would provoke an immediate reaction from the international community.
:12:25. > :12:28.This afternoon, NATO foreign ministers are expected to approve a
:12:28. > :12:33.request from Turkey to deploy missiles on its border with Syria
:12:33. > :12:43.as a defensive measure. Our world affairs correspondent Richard
:12:43. > :12:47.Galpin reports. Panic yesterday in the Turkish town
:12:48. > :12:51.which lies on the border with Syria. Syrian airforce jets had just
:12:51. > :12:55.bombed rebel positions a few hundred metres away in Syrian
:12:55. > :13:03.territory. Some of the wounded brought over
:13:03. > :13:07.for treatment in Turkey. So, today in Brussels, NATO leaders gathered
:13:08. > :13:14.to agree on ways to defend Turkey, as fears mount it could be sucked
:13:14. > :13:21.into the Syrian conflict. I would expect NATO allies to make a
:13:21. > :13:29.decision later today. I am confident we will demonstrate our
:13:29. > :13:33.determination to deter against any threats and defend our ally. It's
:13:33. > :13:39.expected the decision will be to deploy this, the patriot missile
:13:39. > :13:46.defence system along Turkey's border with Syria. This system also
:13:46. > :13:50.capable of shooting down aircraft. NATO officials have already been in
:13:50. > :13:55.Turkey, deciding where to place the missiles, visiting around ten
:13:55. > :14:00.different sites. It's thought around six batteries
:14:01. > :14:06.will be sent to guard the border area and could be in place in weeks.
:14:06. > :14:09.To operate them, at least 300 foreign troops will be needed on
:14:09. > :14:15.the ground. They could come from the United States, Holland and
:14:15. > :14:20.Germany. Those involved insist it's purely
:14:20. > :14:23.defensive, it's not about creating a no-fly zone for the rebels inside
:14:23. > :14:28.Syria. The weapons system is basically the
:14:28. > :14:31.only thing it will do over there, it's defend population against
:14:31. > :14:36.ballistic missiles coming from a certain area to the direction of
:14:37. > :14:41.NATO territory. Shells have already been fired from Syria into Turkey
:14:41. > :14:47.recently. But Turkey's biggest fear is a chemical weapons attack which
:14:47. > :14:52.the patriot system should help prevent.
:14:52. > :14:56.Our defence correspondent Jonathan Beale is in Brussels. Two issues at
:14:56. > :15:03.stake here. One is the missile for defensive reasons, the other is
:15:04. > :15:08.this talk of potential use of chemical weapons. Yes, first of all,
:15:08. > :15:12.on the patriots, very clear message from the Secretary General of NATO
:15:12. > :15:16.that this is a defensive measure, that this is not about creating a
:15:16. > :15:21.no-fly zone, hz that's as much to give reassurance to Russia which
:15:21. > :15:25.has voiced opposition to the siting of missiles in Turkey itself and
:15:25. > :15:29.the Russian foreign Minister will be here at Brussels at that meeting
:15:29. > :15:33.and no doubt will be a fly in the ointment. That said, because this
:15:33. > :15:36.request comes from Turkey we are expecting approval to be given. It
:15:36. > :15:40.will be sometime before those patriot missiles are actually on
:15:40. > :15:46.the ground to transport them, but also some of the countries involved,
:15:46. > :15:49.namely Germany and the Netherlands, would need approval of their
:15:49. > :15:54.parliaments. On that separate issue of the chemical weapons, a very,
:15:54. > :15:58.very strong message from President Obama, backed up now by the NATO
:15:59. > :16:02.Secretary General, warning of consequences, nobody is spelling
:16:02. > :16:05.out what those consequences would be. Clearly they're thinking of
:16:05. > :16:08.military action but the options of military action are not that
:16:08. > :16:11.attractive, either striking volatile chemical weapons or
:16:11. > :16:15.putting boots on the ground ground so the hope is these strong
:16:15. > :16:18.warnings will force Syria to make sure that they don't use that
:16:18. > :16:25.chemical weaponry they have and indeed the message from Syria at
:16:25. > :16:28.the moment is they no intention if The NHS should put more emphasis on
:16:28. > :16:31.the compassionate care of patients - that's the call from leaders of
:16:31. > :16:34.the nursing profession in response to worries about neglect and abuse
:16:34. > :16:37.at some hospitals. The chief nursing officer for England, Jane
:16:37. > :16:40.Cummings, is starting a campaign to reassure the public and says action
:16:40. > :16:50.must be taken to ensure that the values nurses stand for are not
:16:50. > :16:52.
:16:52. > :16:56.betrayed. Our health correspondent, Compassionate care in the NHS has
:16:56. > :16:59.been in the spotlight in recent weeks. A series of critical reports
:16:59. > :17:06.have highlighted there are still too many places where the quality
:17:06. > :17:10.of care is pork or even unsafe. Maria and her family feel they have
:17:10. > :17:14.seen that first hand. Her father was admitted to hospital with a
:17:14. > :17:19.broken hip. He had been a fit 82- year-old but Maria says a lack of
:17:19. > :17:24.care left him ill and dying. needed a bit of help and they
:17:24. > :17:32.didn't give it to him at all. He was not ready to die. He was fit as
:17:32. > :17:37.a fiddle. He used to walk about, he used to go on holiday, he used to
:17:37. > :17:43.do gardening, visit his sons and daughters. He wasn't ready. They
:17:43. > :17:48.let us all down. Can there are many more cases. Tameside Hospital where
:17:48. > :17:52.he was treated has apologised to the family and says it has taken
:17:52. > :17:56.steps to address the shortcomings in his care, but reports into poor
:17:56. > :18:00.care have prompted a more official response from government. A three-
:18:00. > :18:04.year campaign to develop a culture of compassionate care. It includes
:18:04. > :18:08.concentrating on the values held by staff as well as technical skills,
:18:08. > :18:12.regular reviews of staffing levels and ensuring that every contact
:18:12. > :18:16.with patients counts towards improving health. Some places,
:18:16. > :18:21.nurses are working under huge pressure and in other places there
:18:21. > :18:25.are extra demands. It is about stepping back and looking at what
:18:25. > :18:28.works well in some organisations and spreading that good practice
:18:28. > :18:31.and having a really strong leadership from the people that run
:18:31. > :18:35.those organisations to the nurses on the front line foot of her the
:18:35. > :18:39.new plans will affect nurses, midwives and care staff across
:18:39. > :18:43.England, but the Royal College of Nursing says the key is having the
:18:43. > :18:47.right number of properly trained staff. You need the infantry, you
:18:48. > :18:53.need people on the ground in order to do the job. If you don't, it
:18:53. > :18:57.will undoubtedly fail. You need a world trade, well-motivated
:18:57. > :19:02.workforce. In an era where so many jobs have been cut, this is very
:19:02. > :19:06.worrying. An ageing population with more complicated health problems
:19:06. > :19:10.plus pressure on finances mean nurses and other health workers are
:19:10. > :19:13.under increasing strain, but there's also pressure for good-
:19:13. > :19:17.quality compassionate care to be provided across all parts of the
:19:17. > :19:20.health service. Our top story this lunchtime:
:19:20. > :19:22.Billions of pounds worth of cuts to Government departments will be
:19:22. > :19:26.announced by the Chancellor, George Osborne, in his Autumn Statement
:19:26. > :19:28.tomorrow. Coming up:
:19:28. > :19:36.Desperate measures to save Desperate Dan - Britain's longest
:19:36. > :19:38.running comic enters the digital Later on BBC London:
:19:38. > :19:40.How cash from foreign investors is being ploughed into London's
:19:40. > :19:43.property market. And some respite for residents
:19:43. > :19:53.living under Heathrow's flight path as planes are told to steer clear
:19:53. > :19:57.
:19:57. > :20:01.15 police officers have been hurt in Belfast after violence flared
:20:01. > :20:03.following a vote to stop flying the Union flag over City Hall. Hundreds
:20:03. > :20:06.of loyalists gathered as councillors voted by 29 to 21 to
:20:06. > :20:16.hoist the flag only on special occasions. Our Ireland
:20:16. > :20:17.
:20:17. > :20:24.correspondent, Mark Simpson, is in Belfast.
:20:24. > :20:28.History has been made. For the first time in 106 years, the Union
:20:28. > :20:32.flag is not flying at Belfast City Hall. The decision was taken inside
:20:32. > :20:38.the building last night. Outside, it right in the heart of Belfast,
:20:38. > :20:47.things turned very, very ugly. He Christmas time in the centre of
:20:47. > :20:51.In one part of the city, people were late night shopping. Here,
:20:51. > :20:56.they were rioting. Not for the first time in Northern Ireland's
:20:56. > :21:00.history, it was a dispute about a flag. The council decided to stop
:21:01. > :21:06.flying the Union flag from Belfast City Hall every day of the year.
:21:06. > :21:16.These loyalists came to protest. At one stage, they came close to the
:21:16. > :21:19.council chamber. But police managed to hold them back. But the
:21:19. > :21:24.demonstration didn't change anything. The council decided that
:21:24. > :21:29.the Union flag should only fly 15 days a year. A we will not be
:21:29. > :21:33.deterred by a bunch of thugs threatening us. This is about
:21:33. > :21:37.equality, making it a City Hall for everyone. Unionist councillors
:21:37. > :21:42.condemned the violence, but they refused to support the removal of
:21:42. > :21:48.the flag. Her absolutely not. We live in the United Kingdom, for
:21:48. > :21:54.flag of the kingdom is the Union flag. 18 people were hurt during
:21:54. > :21:57.the violence, including 15 police officers. We will be very robust in
:21:57. > :22:00.identifying those that were responsible for breaking their way
:22:00. > :22:06.into the grounds of City Hall and attacking police officers. It is
:22:06. > :22:11.unacceptable. Outside Belfast City Hall, the flag is now no longer
:22:11. > :22:16.flying. But peace has been restored, the rioting has stopped and
:22:16. > :22:22.shopping has resumed. You have to say, looking around the
:22:22. > :22:27.centre of Belfast today, riot, or what riot? Everything has returned
:22:27. > :22:32.to normal. People Christmas shopping, business as usual.
:22:32. > :22:37.Felicity required -- recovers very, very quickly. Sadly, it has had
:22:37. > :22:40.plenty of practice over the years. A Dutch linesman has died after he
:22:40. > :22:42.was chased and beaten by teenage footballers taking part in a youth
:22:42. > :22:46.match. Richard Nieuwenhuizen was officiating at the game in which
:22:46. > :22:55.his own son was playing. After he was attacked, he collapsed and was
:22:55. > :22:59.taken to hospital where he died Killed while helping at his own
:22:59. > :23:04.son's football match. 41-year-old Richard Nieuwenhuizen was a
:23:04. > :23:08.volunteer linesman for Buitenboys club in the Dutch town of Almere,
:23:08. > :23:13.but as a youth game on Sunday he was attacked by several members of
:23:13. > :23:16.the opposing team, Nieuw Sloten. It was claimed he was punched and
:23:16. > :23:21.kicked. Later that evening he collapsed and he died the following
:23:21. > :23:26.day. While his friends in his club are still struggling to come to
:23:26. > :23:29.terms with what happened, police have now charged three of the Nieuw
:23:29. > :23:35.Sloten players with manslaughter. Throughout the Netherlands,
:23:35. > :23:39.football is in mourning. TRANSLATION: This is not just a
:23:39. > :23:43.tragedy for Almere and our club, but the Dutch football in general.
:23:43. > :23:48.This can't happen on a football field. FIFA President Sepp Blatter
:23:48. > :23:52.said he was deeply shocked by the events, the same ills that inflict
:23:52. > :23:58.-- afflict society, he said, are present in football. Nieuw Sloten
:23:58. > :24:03.have now withdrawn from the league, but investigations continue into
:24:03. > :24:06.how a teenage football game could end in such violence and tragedy.
:24:06. > :24:09.The high cost of fuel, food and housing has pushed household
:24:10. > :24:13.spending to its highest recorded level. Despite pressure on their
:24:13. > :24:19.budgets, families spent an average of �484 a week last year, �10 more
:24:19. > :24:21.than in 2010. Highest spending was in London, the lowest in the north-
:24:21. > :24:28.east of England. Our personal finance correspondent, Simon
:24:28. > :24:33.Gompertz, is with me. Perhaps no surprise that spending
:24:33. > :24:37.is highest in London given a higher living costs, but overall what is
:24:37. > :24:42.behind the higher spending? This snapshot from 2011 shows how
:24:42. > :24:48.families are struggling with higher prices for housing and fuel. They
:24:48. > :24:57.are having to spend extra money. Let's take driving first. That is
:24:57. > :25:05.the weekly spend, up 9%. Around �36. Because of the rising price of
:25:05. > :25:10.petrol. But housing and heating the home, as well, that is up 5%. Fuel
:25:10. > :25:15.costs and rent as well. In contrast, what they call household goods
:25:15. > :25:20.spending, that is down by a whopping 15%. Furniture down a lot,
:25:20. > :25:25.but also clothing, footwear. He people are shifting their spending
:25:25. > :25:29.from those things they can economise on to the essentials. It
:25:29. > :25:34.is not all bad news because we are having fun. We are managing to go
:25:34. > :25:37.to the movies, it costs more nowadays, to football matches and
:25:37. > :25:41.to the gym. We are spending a bit more on that so we are managing to
:25:41. > :25:45.have a bit of fun as well. wondering whether money is coming
:25:45. > :25:49.from. People's earnings are generally not going up so how are
:25:50. > :25:52.people managing? You are lucky if you had a pay rise. This higher
:25:52. > :25:57.spending meets it seemed like people have more money, but
:25:57. > :26:02.generally speaking they haven't. They might be borrowing money, that
:26:02. > :26:06.is a worry, or dipping into savings. We have this challenge. We have a
:26:06. > :26:09.pot to spend, but we face higher prices. This is a reflection of
:26:09. > :26:12.that and it shows how people are up against it.
:26:12. > :26:15.Desperate Dan appears in print for the final time today as Britain's
:26:15. > :26:18.longest running comic, The Dandy, disappears from the shelves to
:26:18. > :26:21.become a digital only publication. By making it available as a
:26:21. > :26:23.smartphone and tablet application, the publishers hope to attract a
:26:23. > :26:33.new generation of readers to the comic, which has suffered dwindling
:26:33. > :26:35.
:26:35. > :26:41.sales. Our correspondent James Cook They were queuing for the Dandy in
:26:41. > :26:45.Glasgow today, but too late to save the comic as we know it. This is
:26:45. > :26:51.the 3610th edition had of a much- loved institution and its final
:26:51. > :26:55.issue in print. I grew up with it as a kid. I got it every week. My
:26:55. > :27:01.mother bought it. This is the last one, it is iconic. Quite a sad
:27:01. > :27:06.moment. Yes. It is quite sad because I read the Dandy when I was
:27:06. > :27:14.little. Then I brought the boys up on it as well. I will have to buy
:27:14. > :27:18.another one to send my sister in America. She will be quite sad and.
:27:18. > :27:23.It is a wistful moment also for the staff at the Dandy's publisher, DC
:27:23. > :27:28.Thomson. Skills like these are becoming history as the presses run
:27:28. > :27:32.for the last time. But it is not the end. The Dandy is going digital.
:27:32. > :27:36.I think it will be more fun and there will be a lot more of the
:27:36. > :27:39.children can do. It is more interactive. You can control the
:27:39. > :27:45.pace through which they read the stories. I think they will be
:27:45. > :27:49.delighted. The strips will be animated. This is what the 21st
:27:49. > :27:51.century Dandy will look like, on tablet and on the where, the
:27:51. > :27:56.designers are Folkington -- focusing on interactive games and
:27:56. > :28:00.videos. We recognise that the decline in print sales of comics
:28:00. > :28:04.and magazines across the board and to make the content relevant to
:28:04. > :28:08.children, we have to have it digitised. We are competing with
:28:08. > :28:12.the likes of Angry Birds and Club Penguin. When they Dandy first
:28:12. > :28:17.appeared in 1937, Britain were still trying to appease Adolf
:28:17. > :28:20.Hitler. By the 1950s it was selling 2 million copies a week. That has
:28:20. > :28:25.plummeted to just 8,000 of these pupils in Stevenage think they know
:28:25. > :28:30.why. I haven't even heard of it. Her Bishi in is not good, it is
:28:30. > :28:33.cheesy. We've got more electrical things to play like the Xbox.
:28:34. > :28:37.clear at that the Dandy and its characters still inspired great
:28:37. > :28:46.loyalty and affection, but the age of the printed comic is going by
:28:46. > :28:48.the book, forcing the characters like desperate Dan to adapt or die.
:28:48. > :28:55.like desperate Dan to adapt or die. Poor Desperate Dan! Let's get the
:28:55. > :28:58.weather. Memories, memories. This is the way
:28:58. > :29:03.things are shaping up this afternoon. Cold across the British
:29:03. > :29:09.Isles, some sharp showers as well. The satellite picture shows them
:29:09. > :29:13.nicely, especially across the south-west. Plenty in Wales. And
:29:13. > :29:17.they will feature over parts of Northern Ireland as well. Another
:29:17. > :29:21.feature in the north-eastern corner of Scotland. To the north, some
:29:21. > :29:26.very cold air and it is not going to stay there. Some snow showers
:29:26. > :29:29.down to about two to 300 metres, plenty coming in through Liverpool
:29:29. > :29:34.Bay and into the north of Wales through the Greater Manchester area
:29:34. > :29:37.and down into the North Midlands. The best of the sunshine in the
:29:37. > :29:42.south Midlands and to the eastern side of the Pennines and then
:29:42. > :29:46.coming down into central and southern England. We are not quite
:29:46. > :29:50.done with the showers because there might be a bit of law in
:29:50. > :29:54.proceedings with those showers in the afternoon, but that feature I
:29:54. > :29:58.was talking about to the west of Ireland will perk up those showers
:29:58. > :30:02.in the south-east -- south-west. The more northerly feature across
:30:02. > :30:07.north-east Scotland comes down into the Midlands. Maybe some sleet as
:30:07. > :30:11.it comes out. It keeps temperatures up underneath a cloud, but it
:30:11. > :30:15.introduces colder air. A widespread frost and they could be a problem
:30:16. > :30:19.with ice first thing in the northern half of the British Isles.
:30:19. > :30:24.That weather front continues its journey across the British Isles.
:30:24. > :30:28.On Wednesday, a really crisp, sunny affair across many parts. You will
:30:28. > :30:37.notice one or two showers to the west of Wales. Further showers on
:30:37. > :30:41.the eastern coasts and they will be snowy. Top temperatures of two to
:30:41. > :30:46.three degrees only in the northern half of the British Isles. Through
:30:46. > :30:49.the course of the night, before we bring in that cloud, wind and rain,
:30:49. > :30:53.the temperatures will really see the way across the British Isles.
:30:53. > :30:58.This is the wee small hours of Thursday morning. Those are the 10
:30:58. > :31:03.judges you can expect in towns and cities, but if I take you into the
:31:03. > :31:06.countryside, it will be a bitterly cold night. Once we've got that
:31:06. > :31:11.sort of temperature profile across the British Isles, one site
:31:11. > :31:15.introduced or cloud and wind and rain from the north-west, there
:31:15. > :31:18.will be some snow for a time before will be some snow for a time before
:31:18. > :31:21.it turns back into rain. Loads going on, more online.
:31:21. > :31:24.Now a reminder of our top story. Billions of pounds worth of cuts to
:31:24. > :31:26.Government departments will be announced by the Chancellor, George