:00:12. > :00:15.The appalling suffering of patients at Stafford Hospital, a public
:00:15. > :00:20.inquiry concludes sweeping changes are needed in the NHS. Hundreds of
:00:20. > :00:23.patients were treated with a lack of care, humanity and compassion.
:00:23. > :00:29.The head of the inquiry says many will find it hard to believe this
:00:29. > :00:33.could happen in an NHS hospital. They were failed by a system which
:00:33. > :00:38.ignored the warning signs and put corporate self-interest and cost
:00:38. > :00:41.control ahead of patients and their safety. It's one of the worst
:00:41. > :00:46.scandals in NHS history. Families of the victims say people should be
:00:46. > :00:52.held to account for the hospital's failings. It's failings from the
:00:52. > :00:56.ward right to the top, right to Whitehall. We are looking still for
:00:56. > :01:00.resignations. We have lost hundreds of lives. People have got to be
:01:00. > :01:03.held accountable within the NHS. The Prime Minister apologises to
:01:04. > :01:11.the victims and their families for the horrific abuse that was allowed
:01:11. > :01:18.to go unchecked and unchallenged for so long. What happened at the
:01:18. > :01:21.Foundation Trust between 2005 and 2009 was not just wrong, it was
:01:21. > :01:26.truly dreadful. Hundreds of people suffered from the most appalling
:01:26. > :01:31.neglect and mistreatment. The other headlines - a huge fine expected
:01:31. > :01:36.for the RBS, mostly owned by the taxpayer, for their part in the
:01:36. > :01:41.LIBOR rate rigging scandal. Virgin Media is bought by the American
:01:41. > :01:47.cable giant, Liberty Global for more than �10 billion, creating the
:01:47. > :01:52.world's leading broadband company. I'm beneath an Italian mountain,
:01:52. > :02:00.where scientists are on the hunt for one of the most mysterious
:02:00. > :02:03.particles in the universe. Later, the biggest operation to crack down
:02:03. > :02:13.on human trafficking and the Mayor says City Hall should be able to
:02:13. > :02:23.
:02:23. > :02:27.keep all the money raised in London Welcome to the nuebz at one. It's a
:02:27. > :02:32.story of appalling and unnecessary suffering, of hundreds of people.
:02:32. > :02:35.Those were the words of the man who has led the public inquiry. In his
:02:35. > :02:40.highly critical report, Robert Francis QC said patients were
:02:40. > :02:44.failed by a system which ignored the warning signs and put corporate
:02:44. > :02:49.self-interest and cost control ahead of patient safety. The report
:02:49. > :02:54.calls for a fundamental change in the culture of the NHS, to ensure
:02:54. > :02:58.patients are cared for properly. Dominic Hughes is at the hospital
:02:58. > :03:03.now for us. This has been a long- awaited report, one that took more
:03:04. > :03:07.than two years to deliver. It cost more than �30 million. The report
:03:07. > :03:12.team gathered hundreds of thousands of pages of documentation. The
:03:12. > :03:16.impact of this report will be felled not just here, but across
:03:16. > :03:23.the NHS, because this is a report that seeks to secure a cultural
:03:23. > :03:27.shift in how patients are cared for. The events have become one of the
:03:27. > :03:33.worst scandals in the history of the National Health Service.
:03:33. > :03:38.Vulnerable patients left in pain, unwashed and malnourished sh or
:03:39. > :03:42.humiliated, lying if filthy bed sheet. A chaotic environment. Today,
:03:42. > :03:46.the QC, Robert Francis, unveiled his second record into the terrible
:03:46. > :03:53.events, revealing why those who should have prevented the disaster
:03:53. > :03:58.failed so badly. This is a story of appalling and unnecessary suffering
:03:58. > :04:02.of hundreds of people. They were failed by a system which ignored
:04:02. > :04:07.the warning signs and put corporate self-interest and cost control
:04:07. > :04:10.ahead of patients and theirivity. - - safety. He unleashed a searing
:04:10. > :04:14.indictment of the management of the hospital, the role of regional
:04:14. > :04:20.health managers and regulators and the Department of Health itself.
:04:20. > :04:24.There was a lack of care, compassion, humanity and leadership.
:04:24. > :04:29.The most basic standards of care were not observed and rights to
:04:29. > :04:34.dignity were not respected. Elderly and vulnerable patients were left
:04:34. > :04:38.unwashed, unfed and without fluids. They were deprived of dignity and
:04:38. > :04:45.respect. Some patients had to relieve themselves in their beds
:04:45. > :04:48.when they were offered no help to get to the bathroom. Among the 290
:04:48. > :04:53.recommendations are a statutory duty of candour for all medical
:04:53. > :04:59.staff to end a culture of secrecy in the NHS. The ability to
:04:59. > :05:04.prosecute if a failing in standards leads to the death of patients. A
:05:04. > :05:14.single regulator, meaning the two existing bodies would be merged.
:05:14. > :05:16.
:05:16. > :05:24.Here the NHS is a -- here is a group trying to raise standards.
:05:24. > :05:28.The founder of Cure the NHS says heads must roll. Everything we
:05:28. > :05:32.heard today tells us this was systemic failings from the ward
:05:32. > :05:36.right to the top, to Whitehall. We are looking for resignations. We
:05:36. > :05:40.have lost hundreds of lives. People have got to be held accountable
:05:40. > :05:44.within the NHS. There has been support from the highest levels of
:05:44. > :05:48.Government, including a pledge to create a Chief Inspector of
:05:48. > :05:51.hospitals to concentrate on respect and compassion in care. The Prime
:05:51. > :05:57.Minister said today how shocked he was by the appalling suffering
:05:57. > :06:03.patients had to endure. What happened at the mid-Stafford NHS
:06:03. > :06:06.Foundation Trust between 2005 and 2009 was not just wrong, it was
:06:06. > :06:10.truly dreadful. Hundreds of people suffered from the most appalling
:06:10. > :06:17.neglect and mistreatment. There were patients so desperate for
:06:17. > :06:22.water that they were drinking from dirty flower vases. The Foundation
:06:22. > :06:25.Trust, which runs the hospital, has apologised for the poor treatment
:06:25. > :06:29.patients had to endure. Staff say it's now a very different place
:06:29. > :06:33.from five years ago. But the scandal that developed here will
:06:34. > :06:37.now have implications across the NHS in England. The real test of
:06:37. > :06:43.what follows this latest report will be whether a similar disaster
:06:43. > :06:48.can be prevented from happening somewhere else. It's worth
:06:48. > :06:52.repeating some of the words of Robert Francis, a lack of care,
:06:52. > :06:59.compassion, humanity and leadership. That's how he characterised the
:06:59. > :07:04.failures. This is no longer a story just about Stafford. The lessons of
:07:04. > :07:11.this disaster will have to be learnt across the NHS.
:07:11. > :07:16.We'll get more from Branwyn Jeffries who is in central London.
:07:16. > :07:20.A highly critical report and clearly one tkha may well knock
:07:20. > :07:26.people's -- that may well knock people's confidence in the NHS in
:07:26. > :07:30.England? That's right. As the bells of Westminster Abbey peel out, the
:07:30. > :07:34.family and ministers are digesting the details of the report which
:07:34. > :07:38.tells in horrific detail of how things went so badly wrong. As
:07:38. > :07:43.Robert Francis said, the public trust in the NHS was betrayed at
:07:43. > :07:47.Stafford and it's going to require a change from the top to bottom.
:07:47. > :07:52.Backed up, he thinks, by new legal requirement for openness, for an
:07:52. > :07:57.end to secrecy, to prevent it happening again. He makes it very
:07:57. > :08:01.clear that Stafford was not so rare or so unique a hospital that this
:08:01. > :08:08.couldn't happen somewhere else. This prospect now that the NHS is
:08:08. > :08:11.facing of an overhaul literally from top to bottom? An overhaul in
:08:11. > :08:14.terms of regulation, if the Government accepts that
:08:14. > :08:21.recommendation, which is going to go away and be considered. The
:08:21. > :08:25.Prime Minister has already signalled that he wants to see
:08:25. > :08:29.hospital managed by people who are held to account, not just for how
:08:29. > :08:33.they handle money, but for the care and what the NHS is actually all
:08:33. > :08:36.about. For looking after people when they are frail, when they are
:08:36. > :08:41.ill, when they are vulnerable and when they should expect the very
:08:41. > :08:45.best of care and not the worst. Thank you.
:08:45. > :08:49.More now from Norman Smith at Westminster. The Prime Minister
:08:49. > :08:54.apologised earlier to the families and victims of those who suffered
:08:54. > :08:57.in this hospital. How will the Government go about addressing this
:08:57. > :09:01.critical report? The Government is going to move and to move quickly,
:09:01. > :09:06.because David Cameron views this as not a story about one particular
:09:06. > :09:11.failing hospital, but a story about the way the NHS is run today. To
:09:11. > :09:14.that end, he has announced in future hospital boards can be
:09:14. > :09:18.dismissed for failings not just in financial management, but patient
:09:18. > :09:21.care as well. He'll also say that where patients are unhappy with the
:09:22. > :09:25.standard of care they receive in hospital, if enough complain, they
:09:25. > :09:29.can trigger an immediate inspection. The Care Quality Commission is to
:09:29. > :09:31.be given the power to launch criminal prosecutions, but most
:09:31. > :09:37.significant, David Cameron announced in the last 30 minutes,
:09:37. > :09:40.that those hospitals with the highest death rates will face an
:09:40. > :09:44.immediate inspection. Downing Street are suggesting that could
:09:44. > :09:47.amount to some 20 other hospitals that will now be inspected. That
:09:47. > :09:53.reflects the fact that David Cameron views this as an issue
:09:53. > :09:58.which reflects on the NHS throughout the country. It matters
:09:58. > :10:02.hugely politically, because the NHS matters to people. David Cameron
:10:03. > :10:07.absolutely knows there cannot be any repeat of Mid-Staffordshire,
:10:07. > :10:12.because I imagine the public could be deeply unforgiving given the
:10:12. > :10:17.nature of today's report. Cue go to the website for more on the story.
:10:17. > :10:21.-- you can go to the website for more on that story.
:10:21. > :10:25.The Royal Bank of Scotland, which is mostly owned by the taxpayer is
:10:25. > :10:30.expected to be hit with a huge fine for its role in the LIBOR rate
:10:30. > :10:33.fixing scandal. They may have to pay a �400 million penalty. The
:10:33. > :10:38.Business Secretary says the taxpayer should not have to fit the
:10:38. > :10:43.bill. InTed -- instead it should come out of bankers' bonus pots.
:10:43. > :10:47.Over to Adam. This is a fascinating announcement we are expecting to
:10:47. > :10:53.come out of the United States in the coming hour or so. We are
:10:53. > :10:56.expecting fines of around �400 million coming the way of RBS. So
:10:56. > :11:01.much of the argument will be why should something that was bailed
:11:01. > :11:07.out by the British Government end up paying money to American and
:11:07. > :11:12.Japanese regulators? We await with interest. Hugh Pym has been
:11:12. > :11:16.reflecting on RBS's woes. It was a scandal that rocked the City of
:11:16. > :11:20.London and caused a new wave of outrage about the conduct of
:11:20. > :11:25.leading banks. Today, the spotlight is on the bank that was bailed out
:11:25. > :11:29.and is still majority owned by the taxpayer, RBS. So who exactly will
:11:29. > :11:32.pay the RBS fines owed to British and American regulators? The
:11:32. > :11:36.Government has insisted that staff will have to shoulder their share
:11:36. > :11:40.of the burden through cuts to their bonuses. The Chancellor made it
:11:40. > :11:45.very clear a few days ago that if funds have to be paid they
:11:45. > :11:48.shouldn't be paid by the taxpayer, or the customer, but paid by the
:11:48. > :11:55.staff who are still pretty generously rewarded in that bit of
:11:55. > :11:59.the bank, but we are dealing with a legacy problem here. The LIBOR
:11:59. > :12:04.scandal led to Bob Diamond quitting Barclays last year. The chairman
:12:04. > :12:08.and another senior emive left the bank. Their fines were just under
:12:08. > :12:12.�300 million. At the end of last year, penalties on UBS were more
:12:12. > :12:17.than three times that at nearly �1 billion. Today, it's the turn of
:12:17. > :12:22.RBS. LIBOR is a key interest rate used in many economies as a bench
:12:22. > :12:25.mark for consumers and businesses. It's based on submissions from
:12:25. > :12:27.banks on their lending rates. Traders at some banks tried to
:12:27. > :12:33.manipulate those submissions because they were betting on which
:12:33. > :12:37.way the rates would go. It shows that there was some systemic
:12:37. > :12:41.unethical behaviour over a long period of time. Some of the other
:12:41. > :12:44.scandals were the whole thing tipped into overdrive and collapsed.
:12:44. > :12:48.Because of something that happened over a fairly short period, that is.
:12:48. > :12:52.This was going on for maybe, four or five years. That's the
:12:52. > :12:55.difference. RBS won't be the last bank to settle with regulators.
:12:55. > :12:58.Several other international institutions are being investigated.
:12:58. > :13:04.City of London Police have made three arrests as part of their on-
:13:04. > :13:07.going inquiries. Adam, Vince Cable says that the
:13:07. > :13:12.taxpayer shouldn't end up paying this fine when it comes. He says
:13:12. > :13:20.instead it should be bankers' bonus pots sfplt that realistic?
:13:20. > :13:23.politician ever. Is that realistic? No politician ever lost votes by
:13:23. > :13:28.saying that. But there are a couple of things being mixed up. We owned
:13:28. > :13:32.almost all of RBS anyway. We own 81%, so it's our money that is
:13:32. > :13:36.going to the bankers in the first place and it's our money that will
:13:36. > :13:39.be used to pay the fines. The problem for RBS is this - when it
:13:39. > :13:43.was bought out largely by the Government back in the middle of
:13:43. > :13:46.the financial crisis, it used up a huge amount of money. The
:13:46. > :13:50.Government could say they've had enough and get rid, but we stand to
:13:50. > :13:55.Luzon today's figures around �15 billion. We have to persevere, but
:13:55. > :14:01.it's having a horrible time. Not just this. Money being set aside
:14:01. > :14:04.for PPI mis-selling and money set aside for the IT disaster that
:14:04. > :14:08.collapsed, so it's leaking money left, right and centre. The money
:14:08. > :14:11.used to pay the fines will have to come from somewhere. The problem is,
:14:11. > :14:16.as the bank will say, if it takes all the money away from leading
:14:16. > :14:21.bankers, most of whom were not implicated in this scandal, then
:14:21. > :14:28.those people might leave, and the bank gets worse and that means we
:14:28. > :14:33.are even more out of pocket. We await that announcement. It will be
:14:33. > :14:37.around �400 million. That is a lot less money than the PPI mis-selling.
:14:37. > :14:40.Thank you very much. Virgin Media have been taken over
:14:40. > :14:46.by an American cable television company called Liberty Global in a
:14:46. > :14:50.deal worth more than �10 billion. It creates the world's leading
:14:50. > :15:00.broadband company. Virgin Media employs 14,000 people in the UK.
:15:00. > :15:05.
:15:05. > :15:11.Mr Malone's cable firm Liberty Global is paying a high price to
:15:11. > :15:16.control Virgin Media. Whose biggest rife is BSkyB where Rupert Murdoch
:15:16. > :15:23.is the biggest shareholder. They have been scrapping over mayor
:15:23. > :15:30.mayorious bits of -- various bits of media ownership for a long time.
:15:30. > :15:35.It is going to be great fun for him to be competing against Rupert
:15:35. > :15:37.Murdoch's prized asset in Europe which is Sky. Virgin Media in which
:15:37. > :15:41.Sir Richard Branson only has a small stake has five million
:15:41. > :15:47.customers and prides itself in having the UK's fastest broadband
:15:47. > :15:52.service, but it has been in a battle for for TV customers with
:15:52. > :15:55.BSkyB which has over ten million subscribers. After years in which
:15:55. > :15:59.Britain's cable industry industry struggled under the burden of debts
:15:59. > :16:03.and poor customer service things have improved since Virgin Media
:16:03. > :16:10.was formed in 2006, but after paying so much, will the new owners
:16:10. > :16:17.be able to afford to invest in further progress? Could virgin
:16:17. > :16:22.compete with Sky for more more sports right, Liberty Global has
:16:22. > :16:27.been playing down that prospect. Together this powerful combination
:16:27. > :16:30.will enhance our position as the world's leading broadband company,
:16:31. > :16:34.providing 25 million customers with video, voice and broadband services
:16:34. > :16:37.across 12 European countries. A deal has to be approved by
:16:37. > :16:46.shareholders and the regulators, but it looks as though a new
:16:46. > :16:49.American force is about to join the battle for Britain's living rooms.
:16:49. > :16:53.Scientists have identified the mysterious substance which caused
:16:53. > :16:58.hundreds of seabirds to be washed up on the South Coast of England
:16:59. > :17:04.last week. It is a chemical used by ships to make their engines work
:17:04. > :17:08.more efficiently. Duncan Kennedy is on Chesil Beach for us now.
:17:08. > :17:13.This has been a mystery over the past week or so, knowing what this
:17:13. > :17:16.substance has been. This washed up along this beautiful stretch of the
:17:16. > :17:21.South Coast and it has, as you said, affected hundreds of birds. Many of
:17:21. > :17:27.them had been killed. Now, a team from Plymouth University has done
:17:27. > :17:32.the experiments and done the an the analysis and it reckons it
:17:32. > :17:35.identified what the chemical is. Coated by this unidentified sea-
:17:35. > :17:41.borne contamination, hundreds of birds have been washed up on the
:17:41. > :17:45.beaches of Southern England. The glue-like substance stuck to their
:17:45. > :17:50.feathers, damaging their ability to fly. Many have been killed. Until
:17:50. > :17:53.now, no one knew what the substance. At Plymouth University they have
:17:53. > :17:57.spent the past week trying to analyse the chemicals to identify
:17:58. > :18:05.them. That made carrying out detailed blood and other checks on
:18:05. > :18:15.the birz the other checks on the birds.
:18:15. > :18:15.
:18:15. > :18:19.All the data say this is chemical is PIB and it is a a lubricant and
:18:19. > :18:26.it is transported around the world and used for a variety of functions.
:18:26. > :18:31.Some of the birds are being cleaned with a mixture of soap and
:18:31. > :18:35.margarine. In some cases, it has taken an hour or so to get rid of
:18:35. > :18:39.the substance. The numbers of birds affected seems to have peaked and
:18:39. > :18:46.now the question has gone from what the chemical is to where it came
:18:46. > :18:49.Well, we spoke to the Maritime Coastguard Agency this morning,
:18:49. > :18:53.that's the agency that monitors the waters off Britain and it tells us
:18:53. > :18:58.that knowing what the substance is will help narrow the search for the
:18:58. > :19:03.vessel involved, but in its words, it is going to be a complicated
:19:03. > :19:09.task of identifying which ship dumped that material into the
:19:09. > :19:13.waters off the South Coast here. Ted time is almost 1.20pm.
:19:13. > :19:17.The inquiry into failings at Stafford Hospital calls for
:19:17. > :19:23.sweeping changes to the NHS to prevent a repeat of the appalling
:19:23. > :19:30.suffering patients endured. Get a chip or face a fine. All dogs
:19:30. > :19:33.in England will need need to be Later on BBC London:
:19:33. > :19:36.A former gang member turned film director has his film screened at
:19:36. > :19:46.the BAFTAs. The BBC brings together over
:19:46. > :19:50.
:19:50. > :19:54.200,000 publicly owned pictures All dogs in England will have to
:19:54. > :19:58.have microchips fitted by 2016. It's hoped the new law will help
:19:58. > :20:01.deal with around 100,000 stray dogs that are picked up every year.
:20:01. > :20:08.Anyone found with a dog that has not been microchipped after April
:20:08. > :20:16.2016 could face a fine. Jon Kay reports.
:20:16. > :20:19.Just 13 weeks old, but it is a big day for Buddy. Time for him to be
:20:19. > :20:23.microchipped. We are going to implant the chip just in the skin
:20:23. > :20:25.at the back of the neck. We are going to inject that through the
:20:25. > :20:32.skin and you are the bravest puppy in the world!
:20:32. > :20:38.It takes a few seconds and costs �20.
:20:38. > :20:40.It It and there is your chip. If Buddy is lost, a quick scan
:20:40. > :20:44.should reveal that Olly is his owner.
:20:44. > :20:48.When the technology is there, why not have that peace of mind? I know
:20:48. > :20:51.he can run off, not that I'm going to let him run off, but he is more
:20:51. > :20:56.likely to come back to me if that does happen.
:20:57. > :21:01.This is what the Government wants to stop. Every year, 100,000 dogs
:21:01. > :21:04.are lost or abandoned. There are nearly 100 just at this home in
:21:04. > :21:09.Bristol. Well this little chap came in here
:21:09. > :21:19.a couple of weeks. No microchip so they have got no idea where he came
:21:19. > :21:20.
:21:20. > :21:23.from or who his owners might be. The Government now wants to
:21:23. > :21:27.introduce compulsory microchipping in England. Owners who don't comply
:21:27. > :21:31.could be fined �500. A similar scheme was introduced in
:21:31. > :21:35.Northern Ireland last year and dog wardens there say it made a
:21:35. > :21:39.difference. 95% of the dogs we lift are
:21:39. > :21:42.microchipped and that's a a huge amount of dogs that's han han
:21:42. > :21:46.returned to their -- what's been returned to their owners.
:21:46. > :21:51.The Government wants to change the law so their dogs dogs can be
:21:51. > :21:55.prosecuted if their dog attacks someone on private property. There
:21:55. > :21:59.is no need to have a dog out of control and gives a bad name to the
:21:59. > :22:06.rest of the dog in the country. Back at the vets, Buddy is ready to
:22:06. > :22:16.go home. Animal charities welcomed today's news and say unless owners
:22:16. > :22:17.
:22:17. > :22:22.keep their details up-to-date, meeting up with a dog could be
:22:23. > :22:26.Spending on services like police, transport and defence could be cut
:22:26. > :22:28.by a third within the next five years according to a report from
:22:28. > :22:30.the Institute for Fiscal Studies. The influential think-tank warns
:22:31. > :22:33.that current government spending plans might lead to 1.2 million
:22:33. > :22:35.public sector job losses - 300,000 more than predicted by the
:22:35. > :22:38.Government. Police investigating allegations of
:22:38. > :22:43.child abuse at a guest house in south-west London during the early
:22:43. > :22:45.1980s have arrested two men. They're the first to be detained as
:22:45. > :22:48.part of Operation Fernbridge, the inquiry into claims that senior
:22:48. > :22:56.political figures and others sexually abused boys at the Elm
:22:56. > :22:59.Guest House in Barnes. More people are setting up their
:22:59. > :23:03.own businesses with the number of self-employed workers up by more
:23:03. > :23:10.than a third of a million since the economic downturn in 2008. The most
:23:10. > :23:16.significant rise is among the over 50s. John Moylan has been examining
:23:16. > :23:17.the figures. What do you do when a downturn
:23:17. > :23:22.comes and you lose your job? According to Official figures many
:23:22. > :23:29.more people are choosing to work for themselves to make ends meet.
:23:29. > :23:35.Since the start of 2008, 367,000 people have registered as self-
:23:35. > :23:42.employed. Remarkably, 60% of that increase has occurred since 2011
:23:43. > :23:47.and 84% of the increase has been in those aged 50 plus.
:23:47. > :23:50.Alan Matthews started his business last year. He sells protective
:23:50. > :23:54.clothing for the engineering engineering sector. He struggled to
:23:54. > :23:58.find work after being made redundant twice in recent years.
:23:58. > :24:03.have thought, you know, several times in the past about running my
:24:03. > :24:09.own business, but never really had that final push I guess and being,
:24:09. > :24:12.you know, unemployed and 50 and struggling to find an opportunity
:24:12. > :24:17.at the level that I was at previously before being made
:24:17. > :24:21.redundant was that final push that made me think now is the time I
:24:21. > :24:25.need to do this. . This rise in the number of people
:24:25. > :24:30.working for themselves has helped to keep the unemployment figures
:24:30. > :24:33.that bit lower and the employment figures that bit higher. But
:24:33. > :24:40.economists warn that for every self-employed budding entrepreneur
:24:40. > :24:43.out there, there are many more people who are simply struggling to
:24:43. > :24:49.get by. We think for a significant group,
:24:49. > :24:53.they will be earning low wages, eeking out a living in self
:24:53. > :24:56.employment and the consequences are they will be paying less tax and
:24:56. > :24:59.claiming tax credits when they would have been paying tax or the
:24:59. > :25:03.national economy it is not a good thing.
:25:03. > :25:07.Taxi driving, construction, even farming are amongst the top
:25:07. > :25:10.occupations for those choosing to do their own thing. With no sign of
:25:10. > :25:16.the economy picking up the self employment trend looks set to
:25:16. > :25:19.continue. In a subterranean laboratory, a
:25:19. > :25:22.mile under a mountain range in Italy, scientists are about to
:25:22. > :25:30.start an experiment to try to find the first evidence of dark matter
:25:30. > :25:34.which physicists believe makes up most of the universe. Our science
:25:34. > :25:42.reporter, Rebecca Morelle, is there. Yes, that's right, it does seem
:25:42. > :25:45.like we are in the midst of a layer. I am one mile underneath a mountain
:25:45. > :25:49.and this experiment will be searching for some of the most
:25:49. > :25:54.mysterious stuff in the universe, dark matter. The reason why we are
:25:54. > :25:57.underground is because back up on the surface, the Earth is
:25:57. > :26:01.constantly being bombarded with radiation from space, but the only
:26:01. > :26:06.thing scientists want to see is dark matter so the mountain is
:26:06. > :26:10.acting as a shield. They don't want a speck of dust from me which I'm
:26:10. > :26:20.having to wear this suit. They say the rewards of all of this effort
:26:20. > :26:23.Heading deep beneath a mountain. One-and-a-half kilometres down in
:26:23. > :26:28.these specially constructed tunnels, the secrets of the universe could
:26:28. > :26:32.be revealed. In this subterranean laboratory, a
:26:32. > :26:36.new experiment could prove the existence of dark matter.
:26:36. > :26:40.Scientists think that dark matter is all around us. Every second they
:26:40. > :26:44.say millions of these particles are passing through us and everything
:26:44. > :26:49.else. But just sometimes they will bump into something. And that's
:26:50. > :26:55.what this experiment here is trying to spot. Inside, a detector will be
:26:55. > :27:00.filled full of argon. As the dark matter particles stream through,
:27:00. > :27:04.scientists are hoping one or two might collide with an argon at
:27:04. > :27:10.tomorrow. This will generate a flash of light and provide the
:27:10. > :27:15.first evidence of this hidden world. Today is one of the last chances to
:27:15. > :27:18.to take a look up close. One a detector is lowered in, any
:27:18. > :27:22.contamination could ruin the experiment.
:27:22. > :27:25.If we did find dark matter, we would have solved one of nature's
:27:25. > :27:30.best kept secrets. Most of the mass of the universe is in the form of
:27:30. > :27:35.this dark matter. To really understand that and to know what it
:27:35. > :27:39.is been something that will change our understanding of the universe
:27:39. > :27:44.universe, the way it is formed and the way it is going to evolve.
:27:44. > :27:48.Darkside is a number of new experiments in this field.
:27:48. > :27:55.At the end we will have nothing, but the feeling is that the dark
:27:55. > :27:59.matter can be just behind a corner. So everybody is rushing to be the
:27:59. > :28:05.first to find dark matter. Understanding dark matter will help
:28:05. > :28:10.to explain why our universe is the way way it is. Scientists believe
:28:10. > :28:16.we are entering a new era of physics and dark matter is the next
:28:16. > :28:20.Well, the next step is for this tank to be flooded out with water
:28:20. > :28:25.and then the experiment will be switched on. It will take a month
:28:25. > :28:32.or a year to get a glimpse of this stuff. The scientists say if they
:28:32. > :28:35.do, the results could be Nobel prize winning stuff.
:28:35. > :28:39.A group of whale watchers got a little more than they bargained for
:28:39. > :28:42.when they paddled out to sea in a canoe while on holiday in Hawaii.
:28:42. > :28:46.They had spotted whales from the shore and went to get a closer look.
:28:46. > :28:49.It turned out to be a little too close for comfort as a humpback
:28:49. > :28:55.whale launched itself out of the water clipping the front of the
:28:55. > :28:57.canoe before disappearing again. Far too close for my liking!
:28:57. > :29:00.Far too close for my liking! Now the weather.
:29:00. > :29:04.We have got good spells of sunshine out there, but not everywhere. The
:29:04. > :29:08.one thing that everywhere will see is a cold wind. A significant wind-
:29:08. > :29:14.chill factor with that wind coming down from the Arctic. Yesterday's
:29:14. > :29:17.weather, a weather front lurking out in the Atlantic. We have got
:29:17. > :29:22.the cold northerly air stream pushing down across the United
:29:22. > :29:27.Kingdom. One or two showers dotted around the tip of Cornwall. There
:29:27. > :29:30.could be sharp showers here and maybe some hail. Move towards Devon
:29:30. > :29:34.and Somerset and it is fine and dry with sunshine, but it is cold. One
:29:34. > :29:39.or two showers affecting Pembrokeshire. Northern Ireland, a
:29:39. > :29:44.descent afternoon. Lots of sunshine, but it is cold in the wind. 5 or 6
:29:45. > :29:48.Celsius. You have to take a few degrees off for the feel for the
:29:48. > :29:53.day. One of the coldest areas will be the north-east. It will feel
:29:53. > :29:58.sub-zero in Newcastle and Aberdeen and some snow showers into the
:29:58. > :30:01.North York Moors and in inglyia, we will see wintry showers here. Much
:30:01. > :30:06.of the Midlands and southern counties, a descent afternoon, but
:30:06. > :30:09.it is cold in the wind. Through the evening, we will see significant
:30:09. > :30:13.snow developing across parts of East Anglia. A good couple of
:30:13. > :30:16.inches of snow possible here. Elsewhere, it is a dry story with
:30:16. > :30:22.clearing skies and the winds falling lighter as well. It will be
:30:22. > :30:24.a cold night. So a widespread frost with the risk
:30:24. > :30:29.of ice. A bright start to the day for much
:30:29. > :30:33.of the eastern side sd of the UK, bar the odd wintry. The sunshine
:30:33. > :30:36.turns hazy the further east you are as the cloud thickens up and that's
:30:36. > :30:39.because we have this weather front and that will bring rain to
:30:39. > :30:43.Northern Ireland and snow up over the west of Scotland and the hills
:30:43. > :30:48.of Wales, but nothing too untoward. It is a weakening feature. Still
:30:48. > :30:51.there or thereabouts on Friday. It is only light rain, sleet and snow,
:30:51. > :30:54.nothing too concerning at this stage, but another cold day. Into
:30:54. > :30:58.the start of the weekend, some uncertainty with the timing of this
:30:58. > :31:02.weather front coming in from the west, but it looks like it will
:31:02. > :31:05.spread rain into Northern Ireland. Elsewhere, it is dry on Saturday. A
:31:05. > :31:09.usable start to the weekend, but cold, still cold, but not windy.
:31:09. > :31:15.The second half of the weekend, it looks like the winds will be
:31:15. > :31:19.picking up. A windier day on Sunday. Still cold. Temperatures in single
:31:19. > :31:22.figures and there is the risk of snow from the the west. But some
:31:22. > :31:26.uncertainty with the forecastment keep up-to-date with the details
:31:26. > :31:29.online. The top story:
:31:29. > :31:32.A public inquiry has revealed appalling suffering of patients at
:31:32. > :31:42.Stafford Hospital and calls for sweeping changes in the NHS to
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