:00:07. > :00:10.The Chancellor says Britain is on The Chancellor says Britain is on
:00:10. > :00:16.the right track and turning back on his economic plans would be a
:00:16. > :00:19.disaster. In his Autumn statement, George
:00:19. > :00:29.Osborne, told the House of Commons, "It's taking time, but the British
:00:29. > :00:30.
:00:30. > :00:34.economy is healing." in his Autumn Statement we showed his coalition
:00:34. > :00:39.Government is confronting the problems instead of ducking them.
:00:39. > :00:44.The deficit is going up and knock down on his watch. We remembered
:00:44. > :00:46.the posters saying I will cut the deficit, not the NHS. We'll be
:00:46. > :00:49.getting all the reaction to the Chancellor's statement from the
:00:49. > :00:52.world of politics and business. In today's other news: The hospital
:00:52. > :00:55.where the Duchess of Cambridge is being treated apologises after
:00:55. > :00:57.giving out medical details during a prank call by an Australian radio
:00:57. > :01:02.station. New research shows more premature
:01:02. > :01:06.babies born before 26 weeks are surviving than ever before.
:01:06. > :01:09.More than 200 people are killed in a typhoon which has struck the
:01:09. > :01:13.southern Philippines - many more are missing.
:01:13. > :01:21.A six-month racing ban for Frankie Dettori, for failing a drugs test -
:01:21. > :01:26.it means he'll miss the 1,000 and 2,000 Guineas.
:01:26. > :01:31.On BBC London: Pressure on housing and white thousands of people on
:01:31. > :01:41.the longer moving out of London. 60 years on, where pollution is
:01:41. > :01:48.
:01:48. > :01:50.still causing unnecessary deaths in Good afternoon and welcome to the
:01:51. > :01:53.BBC news at One. The Chancellor, George Osborne, has
:01:54. > :02:03.been telling MPs there is "no miracle cure" for the UK's economic
:02:03. > :02:09.problems, in his Autumn Statement. He's been on his feet for half an
:02:09. > :02:12.hour. Let's have a look at the key developments this morning. The
:02:12. > :02:18.Office of Budget Responsibility downgraded its growth forecast down
:02:18. > :02:28.from 0.8% to 0%. The Chancellor admitted the national debt would
:02:28. > :02:46.
:02:46. > :02:50.Are we facing more austerity? He knows the answer to that. Yes we
:02:50. > :02:54.are. More tax rises are coming and more spending cuts are on the
:02:54. > :02:59.weight. The man that lives next door knows the journey ahead is
:02:59. > :03:04.about to get longer and harder. People know there are no quick
:03:04. > :03:09.fixes to these problems. But they want to know that we are making
:03:09. > :03:13.progress and the message from today's Autumn Statement is we are
:03:14. > :03:19.making progress. The problem is the deficit. It is not falling fast
:03:19. > :03:29.enough. It could take until 2018 to deal with the big difference
:03:29. > :03:29.
:03:29. > :03:31.between what the Government has got coming into what it is spending.
:03:31. > :03:35.quickly enough and it is no where near were forecast. All of which
:03:35. > :03:39.means the debt is increasing, not falling. That was the key targets
:03:39. > :03:44.and the Government will miss it. short, the tougher economic
:03:44. > :03:49.conditions mean that while the debt as it is forecast to go on falling,
:03:49. > :03:53.instead of taking three years, it is going to take four. It is not
:03:53. > :03:58.all doom and gloom. There is extra money for investment in roads and
:03:58. > :04:01.schools, that was announced yesterday. The planned rise in fuel
:04:01. > :04:08.duty won't happen, all of which is designed to ease the squeeze.
:04:08. > :04:12.Speaking earlier, the Labour leader was damp. The deck as it is going
:04:12. > :04:18.up and knock down on his watch. We remember the posters with his
:04:18. > :04:21.airbrushed face, saying I will cut the deficit, not the NHS. The facts
:04:21. > :04:24.speak for themselves, he has cut the NHS and he is not cutting the
:04:24. > :04:30.deficit. The Chancellor and coalition think they're on the
:04:30. > :04:34.right track. They reckon their tax and spend found -- plans offer. But
:04:34. > :04:42.it will take longer than planned to get the wind back in the sales of
:04:42. > :04:49.the UK economy. Our chief economics correspondent,
:04:49. > :04:56.Hugh Pym, is with me. What has caught your eyes so far?
:04:56. > :05:00.It's is a bleak prognosis. In other words more austerity. A bit of
:05:00. > :05:04.better news he announced, is borrowing this financial year would
:05:04. > :05:09.be lower than last year. They had been predictions it would be higher,
:05:09. > :05:14.which would have been embarrassing for the Chancellor to have higher
:05:14. > :05:18.borrowing. He has avoided that. But he is having to shift his key debt
:05:19. > :05:23.reduction target. He said he wanted to reduce Government debt as a
:05:24. > :05:29.percentage of national income in the 2015, 16 year. It was a firm
:05:29. > :05:36.target when he took the job in 2010, now he is saying it is delayed. He
:05:36. > :05:40.has pushed back the austerity programme into 2017, 18. And
:05:40. > :05:44.spending in that final year will be more than 4 billion a lower in real
:05:44. > :05:48.terms than it might have been before today's announcement. If you
:05:48. > :05:55.like, he has some of the bad news out there as expected, but trying
:05:55. > :05:57.to say this is very much to external events. The Office for
:05:57. > :06:00.Budget Responsibility says it is largely down to the world economy.
:06:00. > :06:05.But Labour is likely to contest that.
:06:05. > :06:10.Let's speak to our political correspondent, Norman Smith. There
:06:11. > :06:16.is a lot at stake at this? wasn't just about economic facts
:06:16. > :06:20.and figures, it was a direct appeal to the public for patients, and is
:06:20. > :06:25.also an appeal by the Chancellor for people to trust him. Because,
:06:25. > :06:30.based with sluggish, falling growth, the Chancellor's response was to
:06:30. > :06:34.delay the economic turnaround, delay his own targets, putting back
:06:34. > :06:37.when we will begin to pay off debts, put him back when we will have got
:06:37. > :06:46.rid of the structural deficit by a further year. The danger
:06:46. > :06:52.politically, it can be presented as a man in a sombrero simply saying
:06:52. > :06:58.later, later. The Chancellor's response is, we are getting there.
:06:58. > :07:01.The global position is much worse and to abandon the position we are
:07:01. > :07:06.in would put us in a worse situation. He is asking for
:07:06. > :07:11.patients from the British public. We're talking about a years of
:07:11. > :07:14.austerity. No one alive today will have lived anything like that. Aids
:07:14. > :07:17.for years of entrenchment in public spending.
:07:17. > :07:19.And we'll have more on the Chancellor's speech later in the
:07:19. > :07:22.programme. The King Edward the VII Hospital in
:07:22. > :07:25.London has confirmed that it's fallen victim to a prank call in
:07:25. > :07:28.which an Australian radio station tried to contact the Duchess of
:07:28. > :07:31.Cambridge. A nurse who took the call discussed the Duchess'
:07:31. > :07:33.condition - she's being treated there for chronic sickness. The
:07:33. > :07:36.hospital's chief executive said patient confidentiality is taken
:07:36. > :07:42.extremely seriously and that a review had begun into how calls are
:07:42. > :07:50.handled. Our Royal correspondent, Nicholas Witchell, is at the
:07:50. > :07:56.hospital now. Embarrassment for the hospital,
:07:56. > :07:59.certainly, which has said it deeply regrets the incident. And
:07:59. > :08:03.difficulty for the unfortunate switchboard operator, and
:08:03. > :08:07.unfortunate for the night duty nurse, who believed they were
:08:07. > :08:10.talking to the Queen. Both from Buckingham Palace, and St James's
:08:10. > :08:13.Palace, they are taking it in their stride.
:08:13. > :08:18.It was a few hours at the William had left the hospital on Monday
:08:18. > :08:22.night, that the Australian radio station made the call. A disc
:08:22. > :08:32.jockey called pretending to be the Queen.
:08:32. > :08:32.
:08:32. > :08:42.Good morning. Could I speak to, Kate please, my granddaughter?
:08:42. > :08:49.hold on. Are they putting us through? If this has worked, it is
:08:49. > :08:54.the easiest prank call I have ever made. In the ensuing conversation,
:08:54. > :08:58.which we are not broadcasting, a nurse gave details about Kate's
:08:58. > :09:03.condition. Like any patient she is entitled to confidentiality. The
:09:03. > :09:07.hospital prides itself on its long association with the Royal Family.
:09:07. > :09:17.In a statement it says it deeply regrets the incident. The chief
:09:17. > :09:20.
:09:20. > :09:24.Prince William arrive at the hospital shortly after midday,
:09:24. > :09:28.without making any comment. He is expected to spend several hours
:09:28. > :09:34.with his wife. The first public comments about Kate's pregnancy
:09:34. > :09:38.within the Royal Family, came from the Earl of Wessex this morning.
:09:38. > :09:43.Deep sympathy with Catherine. We know somebody who has suffered
:09:43. > :09:49.exactly the same. We wouldn't wish that on anybody. All the best
:09:49. > :09:57.wishes for her. Back at the hospital, all aspects of security
:09:57. > :10:00.As for the patient, without breaching her confidentiality,
:10:00. > :10:05.there has been no further information this morning and I am
:10:05. > :10:09.not sure we will get any more details today. William is still at
:10:09. > :10:11.her bedside. The Palace last night said she is continuing to feel
:10:12. > :10:14.better. The number of severely premature
:10:15. > :10:17.babies that survive is on the increase - that's according to two
:10:17. > :10:19.studies of more than f5,000 births in hospitals across England.
:10:19. > :10:21.However, researchers from University College London and Queen
:10:22. > :10:26.Mary University of London, also discovered that the proportion of
:10:26. > :10:34.children who have severe disabilities has remained unchanged.
:10:34. > :10:43.Our medical correspondent, Fergus Walsh, reports.
:10:43. > :10:48.Fragile, vulnerable and tiny. This little boy weighed just want 0.5lb
:10:48. > :10:53.when he was delivered a 24 weeks. Any one out of 10 babies born that
:10:53. > :10:58.early will survive. He is doing well in east London. When I found
:10:58. > :11:02.out she was going into labour, I thought, she cannot be, it is only
:11:02. > :11:09.four months. It is shocking to see him this small, but he is doing
:11:09. > :11:15.good. In 1995, 40% of babies born between 22 and 25 weeks, and
:11:15. > :11:21.admitted to intensive care survived. In 2006, the figure rose to 53%.
:11:21. > :11:27.Hello. Doctors say although the research was done in England, the
:11:27. > :11:30.improvements apply across the UK. Obstetric colleagues are using more
:11:30. > :11:35.antenatal steroid to make the baby's lungs mature, so it is
:11:35. > :11:39.easier for them to breed. We are better at paediatricians from
:11:39. > :11:42.stopping babies becoming cold when they are first born. The air has
:11:42. > :11:47.been a dramatic increase in the number of severely premature babies
:11:47. > :11:50.being admitted to intensive care. Doctors are not sure why. It is not
:11:50. > :11:55.because of multiple births from fertility treatment, which has been
:11:55. > :12:04.a problem in the past. And decreasing age of mothers explains
:12:04. > :12:08.only part of the rise. It costs �1,500 a week to care for a baby in
:12:08. > :12:13.intensive care. And although more are doing well, there has been no
:12:13. > :12:18.improvement in the proportion who end up with a serious disability.
:12:18. > :12:22.Around one in five he had conditions such as cerebral palsy,
:12:23. > :12:25.blindness or deafness. A decision's expected today on the
:12:26. > :12:28.future of London's Olympic Stadium. A deal which would have seen West
:12:28. > :12:31.Ham United take over the venue collapsed last year. But the
:12:31. > :12:38.Premier League club is expected to be named as the preferred bidder
:12:38. > :12:44.again. Our sports correspondent, James Pearce, is here. What has
:12:44. > :12:49.changed? This is a step forward, but a process that has had plenty
:12:49. > :12:53.of steps backwards. West Ham have already been announced as preferred
:12:53. > :12:58.bidders. Last time the deal collapsed under legal challenges.
:12:58. > :13:06.There are differences this time. At that initial phase they were going
:13:06. > :13:10.to buy the stadium. We no major changes, there would be down
:13:10. > :13:15.scaling. But now they will have �150 million worth of retractable
:13:15. > :13:20.seating but in which makes it a better view for spectators. He will
:13:20. > :13:26.pay for that? That is why this deal is far from done. Yes, they are
:13:26. > :13:29.preferred bidders, but it is far from done. It will cost �150
:13:29. > :13:35.million putting in the seating, and West Ham are only offering �50
:13:35. > :13:39.million. Boris Johnson once the club to greet two extra money
:13:39. > :13:43.generated because they are the tenants of the Olympic Stadium and
:13:43. > :13:47.the taxpayer should have some say in it. An interesting line from the
:13:47. > :13:52.legacy company is saying, other parties might not be able to meet
:13:52. > :13:56.the necessary conditions, so are progressing a detailed design for a
:13:56. > :13:59.non-football option. So we're not much further forward at all.
:13:59. > :14:02.A powerful typhoon which has caused destruction across parts of the
:14:02. > :14:05.Philippines is now known to have killed more than 200 people and
:14:05. > :14:08.left thousands missing. Worst hit was a mountainous coastal region,
:14:08. > :14:11.which took the full force of the storm. Residents in one area were
:14:11. > :14:21.hit by a mudslide after they'd abandoned their homes for an
:14:21. > :14:25.evacuation centre. Kate McGeown sent this report from from Manila.
:14:25. > :14:31.The human cost of Typhoon Bopha. Torrents of water came down the
:14:31. > :14:35.mountains, killing and injuring scores of people. People like this
:14:35. > :14:40.family. TRANSLATION: My father is in
:14:40. > :14:47.hospital. My mother and older brother was swept away by water.
:14:47. > :14:51.That was the last time I saw them. My mother said to me, "I love you".
:14:51. > :14:56.Carried to safety by his cousin, young Julius is facing the fact
:14:56. > :15:01.most of his immediate family are dead. More than half of the
:15:01. > :15:05.reported casualties off from the same province. Most of their crops
:15:05. > :15:09.have been wiped out, power and communications are down, homes and
:15:09. > :15:12.infrastructure destroyed. The Government in Manila has often been
:15:12. > :15:17.accused of doing too little and too late when it comes to disasters
:15:17. > :15:21.like this. But this time be seen to have been more proactive. The
:15:21. > :15:24.President went on television to advise people to leave at risk
:15:24. > :15:30.areas. There were phone numbers made available and people were
:15:30. > :15:35.being sent messages on Facebook and Twitter, to advise them what to do.
:15:36. > :15:40.This preparation appears to have paid off. Preparation centres are
:15:40. > :15:45.providing basic care of thousands. Rescue workers are saying, as bad
:15:45. > :15:49.as things are, they could have been worse. Typhoon Bopha was the
:15:49. > :15:54.strongest to hit the Philippines or years. And the strongest to hit
:15:54. > :15:59.this area in decades. In the past, typhoons of this strength claimed
:15:59. > :16:04.thousands of lives. But this time, people in its path had warning and
:16:04. > :16:10.the death toll is substantially lower. But for these people, that
:16:10. > :16:20.is little comfort. One life lost, one widely had destroyed, is still
:16:20. > :16:20.
:16:20. > :16:23.Our top story this lunch time: the Chancellor has downgraded Britain's
:16:23. > :16:27.growth forecasts but says the country is on the right track and
:16:27. > :16:31.turning back on his plans would be a disaster. He told the House of
:16:31. > :16:35.Commons it's taking time but the British economy is healing.
:16:35. > :16:40.Coming up: seven wickets for England's bowlers, including that
:16:40. > :16:44.Tendulkar. On BBC London, GP care varies
:16:45. > :16:47.across the capital, but a new report suggests it doesn't
:16:47. > :16:51.necessarily depend on whether you live in a rich or poor area.
:16:51. > :16:57.And with the first snowfall across the south-east, how is the weather
:16:57. > :17:01.for the next few days? Planners will decide today whether
:17:01. > :17:05.to give the go-ahead to build Britain's biggest moss income east
:17:05. > :17:12.London. At if you are times the size of St Paul's Cathedral, it's
:17:12. > :17:21.been dubbed the megamosque and will become the European centre for the
:17:21. > :17:27.world's largest Islamic movement, Tablighi Jamaat. Critics say it'll
:17:27. > :17:32.become an Islamic enclave as the followers of Yusuf Jamma have to
:17:32. > :17:37.keep contact with secular life to a minimum.
:17:37. > :17:41.In sight of Canary Wharf, the world's largest missionary movement
:17:41. > :17:45.now wants to build a huge new mosque to be their regional
:17:45. > :17:51.headquarters. Tablighi Jamaat already own this piece of
:17:51. > :17:54.industrial wasteland. For years they've used makeshift port cabins
:17:54. > :17:58.for prayers. Tablighi Jamaat was Muslims to go
:17:58. > :18:01.back to a pure Islamic faith untainted by modern attitudes. They
:18:01. > :18:05.believe their followers should have as little as possible to do with
:18:05. > :18:10.the wider secular society. It's from here that they want to preach
:18:10. > :18:14.that message. The leaders have refused us interviews, notoriously
:18:14. > :18:20.adverse to publicity. We want to talk so some of the people going to
:18:20. > :18:24.pray. I'm late. I am the imam. are the imam. Hello. Can I quickly
:18:24. > :18:29.ask you? I haven't got time. I'm late. Can I ask you about the new
:18:29. > :18:37.mosque you want to build? I cannot give you anything right now.
:18:37. > :18:42.cannot give me an interview. But some non- tab leaguey Muslims were
:18:43. > :18:47.taby to speak. -- Tablighi. I feel there is a need for people like
:18:47. > :18:52.them because they are presenting a true, peaceful image of Islam.
:18:52. > :18:56.Campaigners against the Newham mosque worry about the movement's
:18:56. > :18:59.ideology. They are teaching that Muslims should keep themself
:18:59. > :19:05.separate from everybody else. They should isolate them from everybody
:19:05. > :19:09.else and the more you do that, the better Muslim you are. It's very
:19:09. > :19:15.antisocial teaching and doesn't help any integration and community
:19:15. > :19:19.feeling. In effect, what they would do in the long-run is build a get
:19:19. > :19:23.yo, an Islamic enclave. The new mosque would hold 9,000 worshippers,
:19:23. > :19:28.nearly four times of capacity of St Paul's Cathedral.
:19:28. > :19:32.Many local Muslims are also uneasy about the new mosque but were
:19:32. > :19:36.nervous about speaking publicly against it. Some told us it would
:19:36. > :19:39.give one Islamic group too much dominance over the whole community.
:19:39. > :19:43.Planning experts are advising the local authority to refuse
:19:43. > :19:50.permission for the mosque complex, arguing it doesn't provide the
:19:51. > :19:55.desired mixture of housing and jobs. Frankie Dettori has been banned
:19:55. > :19:59.from racing for six months after he failed a drugs test in France in
:19:59. > :20:07.September. The six-month ban means Dettori will miss the 1,000 and
:20:07. > :20:11.2,000 Guineas but he will be back in time for the Derby.
:20:11. > :20:16.COMMENTATOR: Another win for Dettori. In a sport with few
:20:16. > :20:20.household names, he is the superstar. Frankie Dettori, the
:20:20. > :20:26.bubbley personality, the countless winners, the flying dismounts. But
:20:26. > :20:30.from success to scandal, after a hearing in Paris, Dettori banned
:20:30. > :20:35.for taking n unspecified substance. Today his lawyer said he'd made a
:20:35. > :20:39.mistake. He also accepts that he has let down the sport he loves and
:20:39. > :20:44.all those associated with it, as well as the wider public. But, most
:20:44. > :20:46.of all, and this is his greatest regret, he has let down his wife
:20:46. > :20:51.and children. It was back in September that Dettori competed
:20:51. > :20:55.here at Longchamp on the outskirts of Paris. He didn't win any of his
:20:55. > :21:01.four race, but the drugs test that he failed that day has now had the
:21:01. > :21:05.most serious of consequences. Ever since he won all seven races
:21:05. > :21:13.at Ascot in 1986, Dettori has been pure box office from. A team
:21:13. > :21:19.captain on Question of Sport Stop it, boys. To a torch-bearer at this
:21:19. > :21:23.year's Olympics. For nearly 20 years, the Frankie Factor has been
:21:23. > :21:27.racing's greatest asset People go racing because Frankie is riding.
:21:27. > :21:31.Autograph hunt remembers swarming around him. Everyone recognises him.
:21:31. > :21:36.That's why this is news right around the world. Dettori, who's
:21:36. > :21:41.banned until May, has vowed to rebuild his reputation. But
:21:41. > :21:45.racing's brightest star now faces his toughest challenge.
:21:45. > :21:51.Now, if you bought a lottery ticket in Hertfordshire in June, you need
:21:51. > :21:54.to look under your sofa now. Someone somewhere is sitting on a
:21:55. > :22:00.�63 million fortune. Unless they come forward by 11 owe clkpm
:22:00. > :22:07.tonight the money will be gone forever, make tgt UK's biggest
:22:07. > :22:14.unclaimed prize. -- 11.00pm. Where could it be? Down the back of
:22:15. > :22:19.a couch? Buried at the bottom of a handful? Here? There? Time's almost
:22:19. > :22:23.up in the search for a missing multi-million pound lottery ticket
:22:23. > :22:28.Everyone has been looking for it. Everybody I know. People who have
:22:28. > :22:35.never even bought a ticket have been looking for it. Have you had a
:22:35. > :22:39.good luck? Definitely. But no joy. I could do with �63 million.
:22:39. > :22:43.this newsing agent in Stevenage they have seen a steady stream of
:22:43. > :22:48.hopefuls, none with the magic numbers. Recently everyone is
:22:48. > :22:54.looking for the tickets. Searching high and low, in vans, cars, houses,
:22:54. > :22:58.upstairs, downstairs, anywhere they can think of. They have until
:22:58. > :23:02.11.00pm to come forward, if not the money will go to charity, becoming
:23:03. > :23:07.the biggest unclaimed jackpot in British Lottery history. While
:23:07. > :23:12.there is time, we have hope. We hope the winner comes forward and
:23:12. > :23:16.we can pay them out. They've had 180 days since the day of the draw.
:23:16. > :23:23.Chance may be slim but hopefully we'll be helping someone to
:23:23. > :23:30.celebrate. Mis-placed tickets have been found in time before. Ieries
:23:30. > :23:35.Jeffries scooped �20 million after a TV appeal. Maurice Mogg won �1.9
:23:35. > :23:42.million in 1997. His ticket turned newspaper his secretary's make-up
:23:42. > :23:47.back and Chris Jackson won �250,000 in 2000. His ticket found in a
:23:47. > :23:54.shoebox in the back of the car he was living in. The local paper has
:23:54. > :23:58.reported the Lotto frepbzy and now the campaign to keep the money --
:23:58. > :24:02.Frenzy. It was bought here. It should go to good causes in this
:24:02. > :24:09.area and not to the rest of the country. With the added interest,
:24:09. > :24:13.it comes to almost �46 -- 64 million. A staggering amount to win.
:24:13. > :24:19.A staggering amount to lose. Cricket and England have had the
:24:19. > :24:22.better of the opening day's play in the third test in Kolkata,
:24:22. > :24:26.restricting India. James Anderson took three wickets, including
:24:26. > :24:31.Sachin Tendulkar, who made 76. Joe Wilson reports.
:24:31. > :24:37.Cricket, of course, is a great unifyer. Everyone knows that the
:24:37. > :24:42.team that bats first in Kolkata should score loads. Of 616, 643,
:24:42. > :24:52.631, India's recent totals. But every run must be completed which
:24:52. > :24:53.
:24:53. > :24:56.Virender Sehwag seemed to forget. Run out. Still, Che Pujara has
:24:56. > :25:01.great powers of concentration - normally. And Monty Panesar appears
:25:01. > :25:11.to have been practising his celebration.
:25:11. > :25:11.
:25:11. > :25:17.Gautam Gambhir, from a decent catch by Trot. Virat Colely was caught
:25:17. > :25:21.and England inspired. India 136-4. Remember this th man it. Seemed
:25:21. > :25:26.that the world was waiting for Sachin Tendulkar to retire or to be
:25:26. > :25:30.retired. Here was another 50 to extend his record at the top of the
:25:30. > :25:35.all-time scoring list. If this is his farewell tour, India wants to
:25:35. > :25:42.enjoy it, but there is painful viewing.
:25:42. > :25:45.Swan to Singh, catching practice. James Anderson and Matt prier a
:25:45. > :25:52.precious moment. When things are going your way, it's always
:25:52. > :25:55.tempting to want mofrplt Anderson to Ashwin. -- want more.
:25:55. > :25:59.Seven wickets taken. Certainly England's day it. Could be their
:25:59. > :26:02.match. Now, a look at the weather. Philip
:26:02. > :26:04.is here. is here.
:26:04. > :26:08.Snow for many this morning. Yes across the south-east one or two
:26:08. > :26:12.woke up to those scenes. This afternoon, for the most part will
:26:12. > :26:15.be a sunny one for many parts of the British Isles. There is the
:26:15. > :26:18.cloud across the south-eastern quarter of the British Isles that
:26:18. > :26:22.brought more snow than we were expecting, but following on behind
:26:22. > :26:26.clear skies for many and there will be a further supply of wintry
:26:26. > :26:30.showers in eastern coastal counties of England. A chilly one in
:26:30. > :26:33.prospect. That's as high as the temperatures get. As soon as the
:26:33. > :26:37.sun is down, a widespread frost. An early one for Scotland and Northern
:26:37. > :26:41.Ireland, because we are bringing in cloud, rain, sleet and snow here.
:26:41. > :26:47.These are the towns and city temperatures but in the countryside
:26:47. > :26:52.it'll be one of the coldest nights of the week thus farment
:26:52. > :26:57.Minus five or minus six. -- thus far. Tomorrow morning and the
:26:57. > :27:03.commute. Ten to 15 centimetres on the highest ground in Scotland.
:27:03. > :27:07.Above 200m, five to 10 centimetres. If you are thinking about the M8
:27:07. > :27:11.there could be significant snowfall. The snow extending even at this
:27:11. > :27:14.stage in the morning down towards Cumbria. Further south where you
:27:14. > :27:18.have had showers overnight, watch out for ice through eastern coastal
:27:18. > :27:21.counties. It is that sort of damp time of year there. Could be quite
:27:21. > :27:25.a tricky situation with regard to ice across central and southern
:27:25. > :27:29.England. Always milder down towards the south-west. Similar sort of
:27:29. > :27:36.prospect into the south-western corner of Wales, too. If you are
:27:36. > :27:40.at minus something on the dashboard as you drive to work. A really wet
:27:40. > :27:46.start across a good of Northern Ireland. But bear in mind what I
:27:46. > :27:53.intelait snowfall. Significant amounts here. -- bear in mind what
:27:54. > :27:58.I say about Northern Ireland. Watch out for the snow getting into
:27:58. > :28:01.the north of England, not just in higher levels. It could be into
:28:01. > :28:04.major conurbations as a covering later in the day.
:28:04. > :28:09.The weather feature lurking win tent through the course of Friday.
:28:09. > :28:12.A lot of isobars on the chart. Yes there will be sunshine away from
:28:12. > :28:15.eastern coastal fringes where it will be a dank day. But with the
:28:15. > :28:18.wind in that direction, those are the temperatures you can expect. We
:28:19. > :28:26.forget about low pressure towards the weekend. High pressure
:28:26. > :28:31.dominating but rather cloudy across the northern parts of the British
:28:31. > :28:35.Isles. Please bear in mind what I say about the travel situation in
:28:35. > :28:40.Scotland and northern England. You can get more updates here and at
:28:40. > :28:45.the Bakke weather website. More now on what the Chancellor has
:28:45. > :28:48.been saying. Hugh Pym joins us. What has been
:28:48. > :28:53.going on? We learned about the real losers. The continued squeeze will
:28:53. > :28:57.hit people on benefits. Most working age benefits, the
:28:57. > :29:01.Chancellor said, increases capped at 1% over the next three years,
:29:01. > :29:04.even if inflation is above that. As well as people who are unemployed,
:29:04. > :29:10.it'll affect people on some tax credits. So they could be in work,
:29:10. > :29:14.on tax credits, and they will be squeezed there. In terms of
:29:14. > :29:18.possible winners., business got measures they will applaud. Cuts in
:29:18. > :29:22.corporation tax, 1p in the pound. A big boost to investment allowances
:29:22. > :29:26.and drivers. The 3p fuel duty increase, that was set to take
:29:26. > :29:31.effect in January, hasn't been postponed. The Chancellor said it
:29:31. > :29:34.has been cancelled it. Just won't happen. So, that's the way he sees
:29:34. > :29:39.the better news at the end of the speech. But overall, as we have
:29:39. > :29:42.been hearing, it is an austerity Autumn Statement. Thank you very
:29:42. > :29:46.much that's the economics of it. What about the politics. Carole
:29:46. > :29:49.Walker is in Westminster? Well we saw some very interesting coalition
:29:49. > :29:52.saw some very interesting coalition politics on display as the
:29:52. > :29:56.Chancellor announced he was not going to introduce a mansion tax,
:29:56. > :30:02.the levy on the most expensive profits r properties which the Lib
:30:02. > :30:09.Dems wanted. Nick Clegg shook his head in disappointment at that.
:30:09. > :30:12.Just to pick up on what Hhu, gh was talking ban important signal from
:30:12. > :30:16.the Chancellor who wants to keep the benefits, certainly not
:30:16. > :30:19.increasing any fagser than public sector pay. -- faster. This of
:30:19. > :30:24.course a Chancellor who will have to get through some legislation to
:30:25. > :30:29.keep these benefits down. Interesting boost for business, in
:30:29. > :30:33.particular some extra funding for the regional development
:30:33. > :30:37.partnerships. That's something which Lord Heseltine has been
:30:37. > :30:42.recommending and of course as Hugh mentioned there. He got a big cheer
:30:42. > :30:44.when he announced that the 3p rise in fuel duty, due to come in the
:30:45. > :30:48.new year will be scrapped altogether. I think he was
:30:48. > :30:51.desperate to show that despite the very grim overall picture, he did
:30:51. > :30:57.have at least some positive news to announce.
:30:57. > :31:00.Thank you very much. Now a reminder of your main story:
:31:00. > :31:03.the Chancellor downgrading Britain's growth forecast but says
:31:04. > :31:08.the country is on the right track and turning back on his economic
:31:08. > :31:15.plans would be a disaster. In the last few minutes, the Shadow
:31:15. > :31:18.Chancellor, Ed Balls showed the statement showed the true scale of
:31:18. > :31:22.economic failure. We have learned growth is downgraded, this year,
:31:22. > :31:26.next year, the year after, the year after and the year after that, too.
:31:26. > :31:31.The longest double-dip recession since the Second World War, now
:31:31. > :31:34.followed by the slowest recovery in the last 100 years. Well ux keep