:00:09. > :00:15.More than 4,000 jobs at risk as HMV calls in the administrators. The
:00:15. > :00:20.trouble music and DVD retailer has fallen victim to online competitors
:00:20. > :00:25.and supermarkets. Banned from wearing a cross at work,
:00:25. > :00:27.the European Court of Human Rights rules that British Airways did
:00:27. > :00:32.discriminate against an employee's Christian beliefs.
:00:32. > :00:35.It means that Christians can move around more freely in their
:00:35. > :00:38.workplace. Depressing, the governor of the
:00:38. > :00:44.Bank of England's verdict on the bankers trying to delay their
:00:44. > :00:47.bonuses to save on tax. Cut by �4,000, the starting salary
:00:47. > :00:53.for police officers is to be slashed as the Home Secretary
:00:53. > :00:56.approves controversial reforms. Women with a family history of the
:00:56. > :01:01.breast cancer could be driven drugs to prevent the disease.
:01:01. > :01:05.And get to go grips with the wonder product that is stronger than steel
:01:05. > :01:10.and diamonds. You could have a computer screen
:01:10. > :01:13.that you could fold up like paper. No wonder people are talking about
:01:13. > :01:17.it as a material that could revolutionise the way we make
:01:17. > :01:21.The independent police watchdog considers a complaint against the
:01:21. > :01:24.Mayor's deputy over a redevelopment scheme in Earl's Court.
:01:24. > :01:34.And the inquest continues into a deadly tower block fire in
:01:34. > :01:45.
:01:45. > :01:53.Good afternoon. Welcome to the BBC News at one.
:01:53. > :01:59.Over 4,000 jobs are at risk as HMV calls in the administrators. Like
:01:59. > :02:04.two other big name high street chains, Jessops and Comet it has
:02:04. > :02:07.fallen victim to supermarkets and online competitors. HMV vouchers
:02:07. > :02:11.and gift cards have become worthless.
:02:11. > :02:15.Here is our business correspondent, Emma Simpson.
:02:15. > :02:18.It is the flagship store in London's West End. The doors opened
:02:18. > :02:24.as usual this morning, but for how long?
:02:24. > :02:28.The Christmas sale is still on. But for a long time now this much loved
:02:28. > :02:34.retailer hasn't been able to keep up with the competition.
:02:34. > :02:37.I think it is a real shame. I like to buy physical CDs. You can buy
:02:37. > :02:42.them online, but I like to go to a place and buy the record.
:02:42. > :02:52.No one goes into the music shop to buy buy CDs anymore.
:02:52. > :02:52.
:02:52. > :03:00.I think it is really sad. It was a prestige company when I was a child.
:03:00. > :03:04.Gracy Fields pressing her four millionth disc. HMV has come a long
:03:05. > :03:09.way. Over the decades, it became one of the best known names on the
:03:09. > :03:16.high street. It is the HMV sale.
:03:16. > :03:23.A business once valued at over �1 billion, but HMV failed to adapt to
:03:23. > :03:33.the digital revolution. It is easy to point the fingers at
:03:33. > :03:38.Amazon or Play Doum, -- Play Dom, but it is consumer habit.
:03:38. > :03:41.Christmas was make or break, but sales proved dispinting. --
:03:41. > :03:48.disappointing, HMV bosses said they were hopeful that a solution could
:03:48. > :03:51.be found. Will this household name go the same way as Comet and
:03:52. > :03:56.Jessops and disappear from the high street? Administrators will try to
:03:56. > :04:02.fin a buyer for all or at least part of the business, but even if a
:04:02. > :04:07.rescue of sorts is possible, store closures seem inevitable. It is yet
:04:07. > :04:12.another blow to our trucked high streets and shopping centres. With
:04:12. > :04:16.239 stores, the demise of HMV will leave a big gap to fill.
:04:16. > :04:20.This could be the final straw for many of the high streets. Meaning
:04:20. > :04:23.that, landlords, local authorities, and other interested parties have
:04:23. > :04:26.got to come together to work out what can be done with the high
:04:26. > :04:32.streets. In the meantime, jobs are being
:04:32. > :04:36.lost. Here in Warrington, former workers at Jessops have resorted to
:04:36. > :04:44.sticking their pictures in the store window in a desperate bid to
:04:44. > :04:48.A British Airways employee who was sent home without pay when she
:04:48. > :04:51.refused to take off a cross at work has won her case at the European
:04:51. > :04:55.Court of Human Rights. Nadia Eweida, says she jumped for joy when she
:04:55. > :04:59.she heart the court's ruling, that BA had discriminated against her
:04:59. > :05:07.because of her religion, but three other Christians lost their cases.
:05:07. > :05:11.This was the cross that got Nadia Eweida suspended from her job as a
:05:11. > :05:15.British Airways check-in clerk. Her victory confirmed that Christians
:05:15. > :05:23.could see wearing a cross as a way of expressing they're beliefs.
:05:23. > :05:27.Nadia Eweida was awarded 6,000 euros in compensation compensation
:05:27. > :05:36.and lost pay. Christians can can move around more
:05:36. > :05:42.freely in their workplace without discrimination.
:05:42. > :05:47.A Christian nurse, lost her case. Her employers said the cross she
:05:47. > :05:51.wore on the ward was unhygienic and Gary McFarland, a counsellor lost.
:05:51. > :05:59.He was sacked when he refused to counsel gay couples about their
:06:00. > :06:05.sexual relationships. And a register lost her case. Mr
:06:05. > :06:09.McFarlane is trying to rebuild his career as an independent counsellor.
:06:09. > :06:15.Today's judgement gives discretion to employers to override the
:06:15. > :06:21.religious concerns of staff. The implications, really, I think,
:06:21. > :06:26.a lot of Chrisians will remain hidden. Will remain unable to
:06:26. > :06:30.exercise the minimum expressions of their faiths because of the
:06:30. > :06:35.intimidation effect. Christian groups claim the courts
:06:35. > :06:40.judgement undermines freedom of conscience, secularists say it was
:06:41. > :06:46.sensible. We're delighted they they haven't
:06:47. > :06:52.resulted in the creation of a hierarchy of religious rights with
:06:52. > :06:56.gay people badly affected by that. Today's judgement sets a legal seat
:06:56. > :07:00.on years in which Christians have gone to British courts and tried
:07:00. > :07:04.unsuccessfully to defend their values against secular ones. It
:07:04. > :07:07.confirms that although people are entitled to hold religious
:07:07. > :07:15.religious beliefs, they won't be allowed to infringe the rights of
:07:15. > :07:24.The governor of the Bank of England hit out at City Citibankers who
:07:24. > :07:34.have considered deferg bonuses -- deferring bonuses to avoid the top
:07:34. > :07:37.rate of a tax. . It would be a rather clumsy and
:07:37. > :07:43.rather lacking in care and attention to how other people might
:07:43. > :07:48.react and in the long run, financial institutions like all
:07:48. > :07:55.large institutions do depend on goodwill from the rest of society.
:07:55. > :07:59.Hugh Pym is here. Strong words from Sir Mervin today. It is banks like
:07:59. > :08:05.Goldman Sachs he is pointing the finger at. Explain what has been
:08:05. > :08:08.going on? Strong words, indeed. Those were note worthy, the
:08:08. > :08:17.comments he made there. The background to this is the top rate
:08:17. > :08:27.of tax is being cut from 50 pence in the pound pound to 45 pence in
:08:27. > :08:31.
:08:31. > :08:36.the the pound in April. Gold Gold man Goldman Sachs is known to be be
:08:36. > :08:40.deferring bonuses and that may save bankers a few thousand pounds.
:08:40. > :08:44.Other banks are considering it. Some British banks decided not to
:08:44. > :08:49.do it because of public opinion against this thing not least in the
:08:49. > :08:53.wake of the Starbucks case and rows over corporation tax not being paid,
:08:53. > :08:57.but Sir Mervin's words will make the bankers sit up and think again.
:08:57. > :09:01.The starting salary for police officers is to be cut after the
:09:01. > :09:05.Home Secretary approved a package of controversial changes today. The
:09:05. > :09:11.starting pay for police constables will be reduced by �4,000 to
:09:11. > :09:17.�19,000 a year. Our home affairs correspondent, Tom Symonds joins me.
:09:17. > :09:22.A controversial move, but is the devil in the detail? Well, it is
:09:22. > :09:24.Sophie. Certainly and controversial which many it had to be considered
:09:24. > :09:30.by a police arbitration panel and it is that panel's recommendation
:09:30. > :09:34.that is the Home Secretary is today agreeing. As you say, cutting the
:09:34. > :09:38.�23,000 or so police constable starting salary to �19,000, but
:09:38. > :09:44.here is the detail - people who join the police who have some
:09:44. > :09:47.experience, for example, being a special or a PCSO, so having
:09:47. > :09:51.volunteered or worked on a lower salary to be a police officer can
:09:51. > :09:55.get an increase. They can get back up to �23,000 once they start
:09:55. > :10:00.working as a full police officer. And the other change which will
:10:00. > :10:04.affect officers as they go through their career is that it will be
:10:04. > :10:10.quicker for them to get to the higher basic salary of �36,000.
:10:10. > :10:12.They are reducing the number of pay grades from 10 to seven. So that
:10:12. > :10:16.will benefit some police officers, but this is controversial. The
:10:16. > :10:20.Police Federation says it is disappointed, but it accepts that
:10:20. > :10:23.there has been a full consideration of these proposals. I think the
:10:23. > :10:28.reason this is possible is that actually police forces are not
:10:28. > :10:35.recruiting in the numbers they used to and when they recruit they have
:10:35. > :10:39.plenty of the specials and PCSOs to chose from and as as one chief
:10:39. > :10:43.constable said they were overwhelm with recruits.
:10:43. > :10:49.There were more disturbances in Belfast last night over the
:10:49. > :10:56.decision to limit the number of times the Union flag with fly at
:10:56. > :10:59.Belfast City Hall each year. A bus bus driver was injured when
:10:59. > :11:03.protesters attempted to hijack two buses. One police officer was
:11:03. > :11:07.injured. Women with a family history of
:11:07. > :11:13.breast cancer could be offered preventive medication if approved,
:11:13. > :11:18.the guidelines from the regulator Nice would apply to -- NICE would
:11:18. > :11:25.apply to patients in England and Wales from this summer.
:11:25. > :11:29.Breast cancer cells. What makes them grow in one person and not
:11:29. > :11:34.another? Scientists are still trying to understand the many
:11:34. > :11:38.factors, but they know up to 3% of women over 30 are at higher risk
:11:38. > :11:44.and for the first time, those women maybe offered a drug to reduce
:11:44. > :11:48.their chance of getting cancer. Emma has been blogging about her
:11:49. > :11:53.experience. She found out she had a faulty gene that put her at high
:11:53. > :11:58.risk of breast cancer. So high, she decided to have a double mastectomy
:11:58. > :12:02.to cut that risk. Now she knows her daughter, who will have a similar
:12:03. > :12:05.risk, may have the option of taking a tablet to reduce her chances of
:12:05. > :12:11.cancer. I think today is a very exciting
:12:11. > :12:16.day. I think there is a future we can see now where there will be
:12:16. > :12:21.specific drugs which can be related to different risks and I think that
:12:21. > :12:26.in the future, yes, women might not need to have the surgery that I had.
:12:26. > :12:33.Breast cancer is the most common cancer in thic. Around 50,000 women
:12:33. > :12:37.are diagnosed each year along with 400 men. A strong family -- family
:12:37. > :12:43.link, having many relatives who have had the cancer means there is
:12:43. > :12:46.a higher risk. Tests or a family history can prevent that risk. For
:12:46. > :12:51.the first time a drug could be given to healthy women at higher
:12:51. > :12:54.risk to prevent them developing breast cancer. This is a really
:12:55. > :12:58.exciting development. It is a historic step in the prevention of
:12:58. > :13:01.breast cancer because it is the first time that drugs have been
:13:01. > :13:06.recommended for use in this way in the UK. It is really important that
:13:06. > :13:10.women with a family history of breast cancer have options.
:13:10. > :13:13.Most women will just be offered standard screening once they are
:13:13. > :13:20.over the age of 50. That is because it is not worth taking drugs if you
:13:21. > :13:24.are not at higher risk. But women who are at higher risk could in
:13:24. > :13:33.future have more choice about how to stay healthy.
:13:33. > :13:43.A jury at the Old Bailey heard how nine men deliberately targeted
:13:43. > :13:45.
:13:45. > :13:49.young girls in Oxford. The men deny charges including rape and
:13:49. > :13:56.organising Prost at this time Tuesday -- prostitution.
:13:56. > :14:00.Alison Holt is at the Old Bailey. Nine men are accused of sexually
:14:00. > :14:03.exploiting six girls over seven years. One of the victims says she
:14:03. > :14:09.was living in a nightmare which was almost impossible to escape from.
:14:09. > :14:14.The jury has been told that the men targeted vulnerable girls using
:14:14. > :14:17.threats and extreme violence to control them.
:14:17. > :14:21.Oxford is best known for its dreaming spires and academic
:14:21. > :14:25.achievement, but today's case centres on a brutal, hidden world,
:14:25. > :14:28.where it is claimed girls as young as 11 were sexually exploited by a
:14:28. > :14:34.group of men. It is alleged they targeted girls
:14:34. > :14:38.whose lives were out of control, often focusing on children's homes.
:14:38. > :14:42.The nine men were arrested last year after a major police operation.
:14:42. > :14:48.They are accused of abusing six girls.
:14:48. > :14:55.The men face a total of 51 charges including seven counts of raping a
:14:55. > :14:59.child under 13. Five are for facilitating child prostitution and
:14:59. > :15:03.five counts of trafficking within the UK for sexual exploitation. It
:15:03. > :15:07.is claimed in guest houses and private homes in Oxford, the girls
:15:07. > :15:10.were abused by the men. It is alleged they had been groomed,
:15:10. > :15:20.given gifts and attention and plied with alcohol and drugs. The nine
:15:20. > :15:23.The court has also been told that other men came from as far afield
:15:23. > :15:27.as Bradford, Leeds, London and Slough to abuse the girls by
:15:27. > :15:31.appointment. It's also alleged that the girls were taken to other
:15:31. > :15:36.cities in the UK for the same reason. The case is expected to
:15:36. > :15:42.last for at least eight weeks. Thank you very much.
:15:42. > :15:46.Our top story: More than 4,000 jobs at risk as HMV calls in the
:15:46. > :15:49.administrators. The troubled music and DVD retailer, like other big
:15:49. > :15:54.high street names, has fallen victim to online competitors and
:15:54. > :15:57.supermarkets. Coming up: Gordon Strachan is unveiled as the new
:15:57. > :16:01.Scotland manager, promising that a World Cup place is still within
:16:01. > :16:04.reach. Later on BBC London: The
:16:04. > :16:09.Metropolitan Police warns Londoners about street robberies as hundreds
:16:09. > :16:12.of mobile phones are stolen in the city every day. And a yellow box
:16:12. > :16:22.junction which has earned Hammersmith and Fulham council
:16:22. > :16:24.The UN Security Council has given strong backing to France's military
:16:24. > :16:27.intervention in the West African country of Mali - where the
:16:27. > :16:34.government is fighting Islamist rebels. French officials say they
:16:34. > :16:37.are planning to increase its forces from 750 to 2,500 troops. Britain
:16:37. > :16:42.has sent transport aircraft to support the operation. Frank
:16:42. > :16:46.Gardner reports. French warplanes have been in
:16:46. > :16:49.action again over Mali carrying out air strikes on rebel positions
:16:49. > :16:52.around a town seizeded from the Government yesterday. French
:16:52. > :16:57.commanders say they're surprised by the strength of rebel resistance.
:16:57. > :17:01.Some with with hreurpbgs to al- Qaeda. The -- links to al-Qaeda.
:17:01. > :17:05.The air strikes look set to continue. TRANSLATION:
:17:05. > :17:09.Last night we carried out more successful strikes and achieved our
:17:09. > :17:13.objectives. We have full confidence in the operational speed with which
:17:13. > :17:17.we will be able to hold the aggressors and the terrorists first
:17:17. > :17:21.and foremost. France has rushed hundreds of troops to Mali with
:17:21. > :17:24.thousands more on the way. The RAF has been helping them fly in
:17:24. > :17:28.reinforcements. They're due to be joined by west African soldiers in
:17:28. > :17:31.a bid to roll back the advances made by rebel Islamist forces that
:17:31. > :17:35.have taken over much of the country. This whole French military
:17:35. > :17:39.deployment has been very sudden. Why the urgency? Well, for sometime
:17:39. > :17:43.now there's been a fear that northern Mali was becoming a save
:17:43. > :17:45.haven for extremist militants who could eventually plan attacks
:17:46. > :17:48.against Europe. Last week, with little warning, they started
:17:48. > :17:53.advancing towards the capital, which risked giving them control
:17:53. > :17:57.over the whole country. That's caused several French families to
:17:57. > :18:02.evacuate. In this former French colony, there are 6,000 citizens
:18:02. > :18:05.living in the capital alone. Al- Qaeda -linked rebels already hold
:18:05. > :18:09.eight French hostages and their fate is uncertain. France has full
:18:09. > :18:15.UN backing for this operation. Nobody wants a failed state awash
:18:15. > :18:19.with weapons. But the question is how long can they stay? Protecting
:18:19. > :18:25.the capital has been relatively easy but dislodging the rebels from
:18:25. > :18:27.a territory the size of Spain could take months, maybe years.
:18:27. > :18:34.Our correspondent Mark Doyle is one of the few international
:18:34. > :18:37.journalists in Mali's capital, Bamako. What is the latest there?
:18:37. > :18:41.The latest information I can confirm is that the French air
:18:41. > :18:45.campaign has continued in at least two locations. The French President
:18:45. > :18:49.has talked about a number of successful strikes, he says, but I
:18:49. > :18:52.can confirm from my sources that they attacked at least two places
:18:52. > :18:57.in the last 24 hours or so. The other major development is west
:18:57. > :19:03.African military chiefs have been meeting here and have pledged to to
:19:03. > :19:06.bring soldiers here to help with the French effort backing the
:19:06. > :19:09.Government army. There are questions about when they'll arrive
:19:09. > :19:17.and what equipment they'll have but the beginnings of an African
:19:17. > :19:20.response to this crisis have now begun. Thank you very much. The
:19:20. > :19:22.Supreme Court in Pakistan has ordered the arrest of the prime
:19:22. > :19:25.minister on corruption charges, relating to his time as Minister
:19:25. > :19:31.for Water and Power. The judges gave their ruling as thousands of
:19:31. > :19:33.demonstrators gather in Islamabad to demand the government steps down.
:19:33. > :19:37.Around 25,000 elephants were killed in 2011 - despite an international
:19:37. > :19:43.ban on the trade in ivory that's been in place since 1990 and it's
:19:43. > :19:45.thought the number killed last year will be even higher. Half of all
:19:45. > :19:48.illegal ivory ends up in China, where growing prosperity is helping
:19:48. > :19:54.to fuel a boom in the trade. Our correspondent Gabriel Gatehouse
:19:54. > :19:59.reports from Kenya's Nairobi National Park.
:19:59. > :20:04.The elephants' final moments are traced in blood. Blackened under
:20:04. > :20:09.the scorching Kenyan sun. By the time we came upon their
:20:09. > :20:16.rotting carcasses, the animals had been dead for several days. The
:20:16. > :20:20.poachers had gunned them down with rifles. The rangers say they
:20:20. > :20:25.haven't seen slaughter on this scale since the 1980s, nine
:20:25. > :20:31.elephants here killed in one day. Indeed, across Africa the numbers
:20:31. > :20:36.of elephants being poached are at their highest for two decades. The
:20:36. > :20:43.kind of mass killing that we see here is the direct consequence of
:20:43. > :20:47.an increase in the price and demand for ivory. On the other side of the
:20:47. > :20:52.continent, on the streets of Lagos, Nigeria, there is an indication of
:20:52. > :20:55.what's fuelling this globalised business. The ever growing Chinese
:20:55. > :21:01.presence. Campaigners say increasing demand in a prospering
:21:02. > :21:06.China has helped turn Lagos into the largest retail centre for
:21:06. > :21:13.illegal identify other -- ivory on the continent. It's moving from
:21:13. > :21:19.Kenya, into Nigeria. They're exporting tusks to China. Tusks
:21:19. > :21:25.coming in and going out. Ivory going in and out. Ivory being made.
:21:25. > :21:29.At one of the main markets in Lagos we went to see for ourselves.
:21:29. > :21:32.These are all ivories? Wearing a hidden camera, a colleague from the
:21:32. > :21:40.BBC's Chinese service is immediately approached by a number
:21:40. > :21:45.of ivory traders. I give you 100 kilos. One man
:21:45. > :21:51.offers to supply him with tusks in carved ivory in bulk, to be
:21:51. > :21:55.smuggled back to China. Back in Kenya, armed rangers risked
:21:55. > :22:01.their lives trying to protect the elephants. It's a dangerous job, if
:22:01. > :22:11.they encounter poachers, they say, it's a question of shoot or get
:22:11. > :22:12.
:22:12. > :22:16.shot. A poacher, he just kill. It's only way to protect animals, to
:22:16. > :22:20.kill poachers. The conservationists are warning in Kenya these majestic
:22:20. > :22:25.animals could soon disappear from the wild altogether. In a country,
:22:25. > :22:35.indeed a continent, where guns are plentiful and poverty widespread,
:22:35. > :22:37.
:22:37. > :22:40.the rewards of poaching quite simply outweigh the risks.
:22:40. > :22:42.Gordon Strachan has been confirmed as the new Scotland manager. He
:22:42. > :22:45.takes over from Craig Levein, who left in November, following a
:22:45. > :22:48.disastrous start to Scotland's World Cup qualifying campaign.
:22:48. > :22:54.club you you go to there is always challenges, this is the first time
:22:54. > :22:59.the challenge is on behalf of a nation. Also the rewards to that
:22:59. > :23:04.are if you can be successful, you make a nation happy. And make a
:23:04. > :23:08.nation proud. So, that is the factor for me, to be able to do
:23:08. > :23:12.that and I have to try and do that. Our Scotland Correspondent Lorna
:23:12. > :23:18.Gordon is at Hampden Park. There's a feeling he's been
:23:18. > :23:23.overlooked in the past, so what's been the response from fans today?
:23:23. > :23:27.I think fans will be very pleased at this appointment. He's long been
:23:27. > :23:34.their choice, way back Scotland's game against Belgium in October of
:23:34. > :23:38.last year, a group of fans held up a sign saying "SOS Strachan" and
:23:38. > :23:43.that was before Craig Levein was out the door. He has a track record
:23:43. > :23:49.here as player and manager, managing Celtic, and winning 50
:23:49. > :23:55.caps for his country as a player. At a press conference here in the
:23:55. > :23:59.last hour he said, this was a great day, he was very proud to become
:23:59. > :24:05.Scotland manager. His aim was to progress with the squad, try and
:24:05. > :24:09.win some games, find a system that works for the players he has. Most
:24:09. > :24:16.people would think getting Scotland to progress to the finals of the
:24:16. > :24:21.World Cup would be impossible, he said he will give it a go. The
:24:21. > :24:27.first challenge a game against Estonia in February and I think he
:24:27. > :24:30.will get a warm welcome from fans at that. Thank you.
:24:30. > :24:32.British number one Andy Murray has begun his Australian Open campaign
:24:32. > :24:35.with an impressive straight sets win. Murray dominated the Dutchman
:24:35. > :24:38.Robin Haase, in his first major match since becoming US Open
:24:38. > :24:45.champion. He'll be joined in the second round by Heather Watson and
:24:45. > :24:50.Laura Robson, who both showed impressive form in Melbourne.
:24:50. > :24:57.England have just lost the second one-day international in cricket,
:24:57. > :25:02.against India. The hosts set a competitive target of 286. In reply,
:25:02. > :25:10.England struggled throughout, making only 158 to lose by 127 runs
:25:10. > :25:12.to tie the series at 1-1 with three matches remaining.
:25:12. > :25:14.Now it's been dubbed a wonder product, it's the thinnest
:25:14. > :25:18.substance ever created, and two scientists at Manchester University
:25:18. > :25:21.won the Nobel prize for Physics for their work in isolating it. But
:25:21. > :25:24.Graphene is not being developed as much in the UK as by rival
:25:24. > :25:31.countries such as China, according to a new study. Our science editor,
:25:31. > :25:36.David Shukman, reports. Can you make anything thinner than
:25:36. > :25:41.one layer? A science fair in Manchester and excitement about the
:25:41. > :25:45.revolutionary new material, graphene. Manchester has pioneered
:25:45. > :25:50.research into graphene, a material so thin it has just a single layer
:25:50. > :25:57.of atoms and a lot of potential uses. You can make a brand new
:25:57. > :26:01.phone. And you can fold it and take it wherever you like, you can you
:26:02. > :26:07.can throw it out the window and it won't smash. It's strange. It's
:26:07. > :26:12.amazing. I can't believe it. Graphene is contained in the tiny
:26:12. > :26:18.black flecks on this tape. It's been called a wonder material,
:26:18. > :26:21.because it's destined to be incredibly useful. Now let's use
:26:21. > :26:25.virtual reality to get a closer look at this because it's got
:26:25. > :26:30.extraordinary properties. If you stretch graphene it turns out to be
:26:30. > :26:36.stronger than steel or even diamond down at the same scale. Useful for
:26:36. > :26:41.making all kinds of things more robust. It conducts electricity far
:26:41. > :26:45.more effectively than copper, vital for future electronics. It's also
:26:45. > :26:49.amazingly flexible. You can bend it any way you want. You could have a
:26:49. > :26:54.computer screen that you could fold up like paper. No wonder people are
:26:54. > :27:01.talking of graphene as a material that could revolutionise the way we
:27:01. > :27:07.make things. This promotional video from Samsung shows one view of the
:27:07. > :27:12.kind of gadgets that could emerge with graphene. Paper-thin, flexible,
:27:12. > :27:22.3-D. This huge potential, according to the scientists who started the
:27:22. > :27:27.research. Take any big name, IBM, Samsung, Intel, all those companies
:27:27. > :27:32.are very excited about prospects, what can be done with this material.
:27:32. > :27:38.What it can be used for. Graphene is seen as so valuable it's now
:27:38. > :27:45.part of a global contest. This huge lab in Singapore is racing to
:27:45. > :27:48.exploit it. So are China, America and South Korea. Britain was first
:27:48. > :27:56.to investigate this strange new substance. But it's not clear who
:27:56. > :28:06.will get most out of it. There's more from David on this
:28:06. > :28:06.
:28:06. > :28:11.subject on our website. Heavy snow is falling in Norfolk.
:28:11. > :28:14.More is forecast for eastern areas. Norfolk Police have reported five
:28:14. > :28:20.multivehicle accidents and Norwich airport is closed until further
:28:20. > :28:26.notice. In Suffolk, a gritting lorry crashed during a snow flurry,
:28:26. > :28:34.49 schools have been forced to close across Norfolk and conditions
:28:34. > :28:43.are said to be treacherous, particularly in north Nor folk. --
:28:43. > :28:47.This is taken in Mansfield earlier in the day. Still sunny spells
:28:47. > :28:52.around, but it's staying cold wherever you are spending the next
:28:53. > :28:59.few days. The overnight snow came thanks to that cloud which is
:28:59. > :29:02.disappearing. There are the showers rafting in towards north Norfolk.
:29:02. > :29:09.The focus of the showers has drifted with time and there are
:29:09. > :29:11.hefty ones we have seen, and heard thunder. It's not like that
:29:11. > :29:15.everywhere. We have sunshine to speak of through Northern Ireland
:29:15. > :29:19.and a good part of Scotland. Still one or two showers there. As we
:29:19. > :29:23.come down through the western areas across the western side of the
:29:23. > :29:27.Midlands and Pennines, a good part of Wales and the south-west, one or
:29:27. > :29:30.two showers here through Pembrokeshire and west Devon but
:29:30. > :29:35.it's towards the east where we have real problems at the moment and
:29:35. > :29:39.cloud sitting low in the atmosphere and appalling visibility, as well.
:29:39. > :29:43.The good news is for that region the showers will tend to fade with
:29:43. > :29:47.time. New problems arise, because where that snow is lying we will
:29:47. > :29:54.see significant freezing fog developing from East Anglia to
:29:54. > :29:58.Lincolnshire and York overnight and what is going to be a bitterly cold
:29:58. > :30:02.night. All the while we keep showers going into the eastern side
:30:02. > :30:11.of Kent, through the day on Wednesday we could see around about
:30:11. > :30:16.ten centimetres of snow there. We will bring a new area of cloud
:30:16. > :30:21.and rain to the western side of Scotland and perhaps Northern
:30:21. > :30:27.Ireland. Wednesday for the most part and Thursday relatively quiet
:30:27. > :30:32.sort of days. We may still have one or two wintry showers and notice
:30:32. > :30:36.again temperatures are down around about zero or plus one. A lot of
:30:36. > :30:39.cold air at the moment. Waiting towards the west we always have had
:30:39. > :30:42.mild air, as you would expect relatively speaking over the
:30:42. > :30:48.Atlantic. Friday could be a hugely significant day. Detail, we are
:30:48. > :30:52.chasing it at the moment but we expect that it will make a real
:30:52. > :30:55.attempt to make an incursion to the western areas. Northern Ireland,
:30:55. > :30:59.Wales, West Midlands, the south- west of England, if this comes to
:30:59. > :31:05.pass that will be very significant snow indeed and we still have one
:31:05. > :31:10.or two snow showers towards the east. Thank you very much.
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