:00:09. > :00:13.Oscar Pistorius is charged with murder after his girlfriend was
:00:13. > :00:19.shot at his home. He was arrested in the early hours of the morning
:00:19. > :00:24.and will appear in court tomorrow. I can confirm there has previously
:00:24. > :00:27.been incidents at the home of Mr Oscar Pistorius.
:00:27. > :00:34.Findus tests negative for the horse painkiller bute, but traces of the
:00:34. > :00:39.drug are found in UK abattoirs. The FSA's most recent test on the
:00:39. > :00:43.presence of bute checked 206 horse carcasses. Eight have come back
:00:43. > :00:47.positive. Three may have entered the food chain in France.
:00:47. > :00:53.A former NHS manager says he was forced out for putting patients'
:00:53. > :00:58.safety before Government targets. The UK's biggest insurance firm
:00:58. > :01:03.calls for a change in whiplash claims saying premiums could be cut.
:01:03. > :01:10.I will be live at this specialist sport primary school in Manchester
:01:10. > :01:13.as Ofsted raises concerns over the quality of PE and sport in schools.
:01:13. > :01:16.The Mayor's accused of using the wrong figures over the number of
:01:16. > :01:26.police in the capital. And commuter misery after extensive damage to
:01:26. > :01:43.
:01:43. > :01:47.Good afternoon. Welcome to the BBC News at One. Oscar Pistorius has
:01:47. > :01:50.been charged with murder after his girlfriend was shot dead at his
:01:50. > :01:55.home in South Africa. The incident happened in Pretoria in the early
:01:55. > :01:58.hours of the morning. Police have dismissed earlier reports that
:01:58. > :02:02.Reeva Steenkamp had been mistaken for an intruder. Pistorius, 26, and
:02:02. > :02:10.known as the Blade Runner, became the first double amputee to run in
:02:10. > :02:15.the Olympics last year. He will appear in court tomorrow.
:02:15. > :02:20.Oscar Pistorius in custody in Pretoria. A South African sporting
:02:20. > :02:24.hero and a household name. They were the country's golden couple,
:02:24. > :02:30.the Paralympic Champion and his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, a 30-
:02:30. > :02:34.year-old model from Port Elizabeth. Police in Pretoria say they were
:02:34. > :02:38.called to the home of Oscar Pistorius in the early hours of
:02:38. > :02:41.this morning. They found paramedics treating a 30-year-old woman who
:02:41. > :02:45.had sustained gunshot wounds to the head and upper body. She died at
:02:45. > :02:48.the scene and a 9mm pistol was recovered. The police say
:02:48. > :02:52.neighbours heard gunshots as well as screaming and shouting coming
:02:52. > :02:57.from the house. We can confirm there was a shooting incident this
:02:57. > :03:02.morning at the home of the well- known Paralympic athlete, Oscar
:03:02. > :03:06.Pistorius. At this stage, we can confirm that a young woman, a 30-
:03:07. > :03:11.year-old woman, did die on the scene of gunshot wounds. A 26-year-
:03:11. > :03:16.old man has been arrested and has been charged with murder. I can
:03:16. > :03:20.confirm that there has previously been incidents at the home of Mr
:03:20. > :03:25.Oscar Pistorius. REPORTER: Can you...? I'm not going
:03:25. > :03:28.to elaborate on that. There have been previous incidents.
:03:28. > :03:31.REPORTER: Of violence? allegations of a domestic nature.
:03:31. > :03:36.Police say they have no knowledge of the suggestion that Pistorius
:03:36. > :03:41.may have thought an intruder had entered his house. The police have
:03:41. > :03:43.not named Oscar Pistorius, but it is understood he's now been charged
:03:43. > :03:47.with murder. REPORTER: How is Oscar doing at the
:03:47. > :03:52.moment? He is very well. Very emotional, but he is fine, guys.
:03:52. > :03:56.Please excuse me. I can't comment. He is without doubt one of South
:03:56. > :04:00.Africa's national icons. A man who came to prominence very quickly
:04:00. > :04:08.with athletics success. This tragic episode will be reverberating in
:04:08. > :04:12.South Africa and around the world. Let's talk to Andrew Harding who is
:04:12. > :04:15.in Pretoria, where the shooting occurred. Andrew, Oscar Pistorius
:04:15. > :04:22.due to appear in court tomorrow. Of course, investigations continue
:04:22. > :04:26.there. What is happening? Those investigations are taking a little
:04:26. > :04:31.longer than had initially been anticipated. That court appearance
:04:32. > :04:36.delayed until tomorrow. Forensic examinations have been taking place,
:04:36. > :04:40.both in Oscar Pistorius' house behind me but also at hospital.
:04:40. > :04:44.Oscar Pistorius was taken to a nearby hospital to be examined,
:04:44. > :04:49.presumably looking for cuts, bruises, evidence of a fight and
:04:49. > :04:52.also we understand blood tests to see if he had drugs or alcohol in
:04:52. > :04:59.his system. We also have heard from the police that they have been
:04:59. > :05:02.talking to neighbours here at this estate who reported hearing an
:05:02. > :05:07.altercation preceding the four gunshots that they reported hearing
:05:07. > :05:12.in the early hours of this morning. The police very much working on the
:05:12. > :05:16.theory that this was murder and not the accidental shooting of a
:05:16. > :05:22.suspected burglar which local media have been reporting in the initial
:05:22. > :05:28.stages of the investigation. Thank you. Andrew Harding in Pretoria.
:05:28. > :05:31.Tests for the horse painkiller bute in Findus food products have come
:05:31. > :05:37.back negative according to the Agriculture Minister. He told MPs
:05:37. > :05:44.that traces of the drug were found in horse carcasses from the UK,
:05:44. > :05:48.some of which may have entered the food chain in France.
:05:48. > :05:54.Just some of the food which has tested positive for horsemeat. The
:05:54. > :05:58.latest results have shown no trace of the potentially harmful horse
:05:58. > :06:00.painkiller bute in this Findus lasagne. Today, the Government
:06:00. > :06:06.revealed the Food Standards Agency's findings after concerns
:06:06. > :06:13.that bute may have entered the human food chain. The FSA's most
:06:13. > :06:16.recent tests on the presence of bute checked 206 horse carcasses.
:06:16. > :06:21.Eight have come back positive. Three may have entered the food
:06:21. > :06:24.chain in France. The remaining five have not gone into the food chain.
:06:24. > :06:28.Ministers have been strongly criticised for what the opposition
:06:28. > :06:35.has called "their slow response to the crisis". It is totally
:06:35. > :06:38.unacceptable that all UK horses were being slaughtered - tested for
:06:38. > :06:42.bute at slaughter, but still being released into the human food chain
:06:42. > :06:47.until four days ago. Lab tests showing bute contaminated horsemeat
:06:47. > :06:50.may have been used in food in France will only heighten concerns
:06:50. > :06:57.across Europe. Yesterday, EU Ministers agreed plans for products
:06:57. > :07:02.to be randomly tested for horsemeat and the equine drug bute. Back here,
:07:02. > :07:07.the Chief Medical Officer has sought to reassure consumers.
:07:07. > :07:13.phenylbutazone has got into the diet through horsemeat, then the
:07:13. > :07:18.level will be so low it is very unlikely to impact on human health.
:07:18. > :07:24.So human health, please don't worry. Yuck factor is another matter and
:07:24. > :07:28.whether there are criminal factors is a third. The Government says it
:07:28. > :07:32.suspects the horsemeat scandal is an international criminal
:07:32. > :07:38.conspiracy. EU police Europol are expected to co-ordinate
:07:38. > :07:43.investigations across Europe's markets.
:07:43. > :07:46.Let's talk to Fergus Walsh. We heard there both Ministers and the
:07:46. > :07:51.Chief Medical Officer saying very minimal risk to human health. Does
:07:51. > :07:56.that mean consumers need not be worried? Regarding bute, they
:07:56. > :08:01.probably don't need to worry. It's trace amounts that have been found
:08:01. > :08:06.in these animals. Phenylbutazone is the name given for the drug which
:08:06. > :08:12.is used for a rare form of arthritis. It is used in humans. In
:08:12. > :08:19.order to get one dose of that from eating horsemeat, you would have to
:08:19. > :08:26.eat at least 500 250g pure horsemeat burgers in a day. That
:08:26. > :08:31.will be to get one dose. Even if you have this phenylbutazone in the
:08:31. > :08:36.human form, the side-effects from it are very rare. Regarding bute, I
:08:36. > :08:40.think the dangers to public health do seem to be absolutely minimal.
:08:40. > :08:44.Consumers still concerned that the products they might be eating might
:08:44. > :08:49.contain horsemeat. Where do the investigations go now? Tomorrow
:08:49. > :08:53.will be an important day because that is the deadline that Ministers
:08:53. > :08:56.have given for the retailers to produce meaningful results on all
:08:56. > :08:59.the hundreds of processed meat products, beef products, to find
:09:00. > :09:06.out whether they have got any amount of horsemeat in them. So
:09:06. > :09:11.tomorrow will be important to get a picture of just how far this
:09:11. > :09:15.horsemeat scandal pervades the processed meat industry.
:09:15. > :09:18.The former Chief Executive of an NHS Trust which is being
:09:18. > :09:22.investigated for persistently high death rates has broken the terms of
:09:22. > :09:26.a gagging order to speak for the first time of his concerns about
:09:26. > :09:30.patient safety. Gary Walker was dismissed from the United
:09:30. > :09:34.Lincolnshire Hospitals Trust in 2010 and signed a non-disclosure
:09:34. > :09:39.agreement as part of his pay-off deal. The Trust he ran is now one
:09:39. > :09:42.of 14 under scrutiny after an inquiry into deaths in mid
:09:42. > :09:46.Staffordshire. Gary Walker says he felt compelled
:09:46. > :09:51.to sign a secret agreement with his Trust following a dispute over
:09:51. > :09:55.Government targets. He claims he argued with senior NHS managers
:09:55. > :09:58.that to prioritise non-emergency care risked patients' safety at a
:09:58. > :10:03.time of excessive demand for hospital beds. The non-disclosure
:10:03. > :10:09.agreement came with a pay-off of �500,000 including costs. I was in
:10:09. > :10:15.danger of losing my house, you know, I have children to support. One
:10:15. > :10:20.thing you must remember is that if you are attacking the very top of
:10:20. > :10:23.the NHS, the sanctions are dramatic. So I spent 20 years in the Health
:10:23. > :10:27.Service. I'm blacklisted from it. I can't work in the Health Service
:10:27. > :10:31.again. When Gary Walker became Chief Executive here in 2006, it
:10:31. > :10:35.was the latest promotion in what he hoped would be a long career in the
:10:35. > :10:39.National Health Service. But he claims that his refusal to put
:10:39. > :10:44.Whitehall targets first led instead to him being compelled to leave the
:10:44. > :10:48.NHS and prevented from speaking out by a so-called gagging order. Mr
:10:48. > :10:53.Walker's decision to break his silence comes after last week's
:10:53. > :10:59.report on the mid Staffordshire Hospital scandal. Government
:10:59. > :11:09.targets were said to play a role here, too. Campaigners agree with
:11:09. > :11:11.
:11:11. > :11:16.the findings of the chairman of the Mid Staffs Public Inquiry. These
:11:16. > :11:22."gagging orders" are an outrage. This is a public institution and to
:11:22. > :11:27.silence people who are raising concerns about patient safety, it
:11:27. > :11:31.is an outrage. We believe that this goes right to the top of the NHS.
:11:31. > :11:38.In a statement, a spokesman for the Department of Health acknowledged
:11:38. > :11:41.the culture of the NHS had to change and added gagginged orders
:11:42. > :11:45.should be prohibited. Lawyers have threatened Mr Walker with legal
:11:45. > :11:49.action for breaking his agreement. A Trust spokesman said the
:11:49. > :11:54.agreement was not about his concerns over patient safety, but
:11:54. > :11:58.about his employment contract. The Labour Leader has set out some
:11:58. > :12:03.of the tax policies on which the party could fight the next election.
:12:03. > :12:08.In a speech in Bedford, he said Labour would reintroduce a 10p rate
:12:08. > :12:15.of income tax which would be funded by a tax on houses worth more than
:12:15. > :12:18.�2 million. This would benefit 25 million basic
:12:18. > :12:25.rate taxpayers. It would move Labour on from the past and put
:12:25. > :12:28.Labour where it should always have been, on the side of working people.
:12:29. > :12:33.It shows our priority to do everything we can to make a
:12:33. > :12:38.difference to people's living standards and it sends a message
:12:38. > :12:44.about how Britain is going to succeed in the years ahead.
:12:44. > :12:48.Ed Miliband speaking in Bedford. Robin Brant joins us from there. In
:12:48. > :12:53.2008, Ed Miliband was saying it was a bad idea to reintroduce the 10p
:12:53. > :12:57.rate of tax. What's changed? Well, we have seen quite a significant
:12:57. > :13:01.moment here today for Ed Miliband's leadership of the Labour Party. He
:13:01. > :13:05.has changed his mind. He says back then he told Gordon Brown it was a
:13:05. > :13:09.bad idea to ditch it. What we have today is a big policy announcement
:13:09. > :13:13.on tax from Ed Miliband and these are rare. It is not a manifesto
:13:13. > :13:20.pledge. He says it is what he wants to do if and when Labour are in
:13:20. > :13:23.Government. So we have this council tax which will charge higher rate
:13:23. > :13:28.taxpayers more on their �2 million properties. That will raise �2
:13:28. > :13:33.billion. Labour's plan is to get those much lower down the scale to
:13:33. > :13:37.pay less tax. You can earn �10,000 and pay no tax. Under Labour's plan,
:13:37. > :13:40.you could earn a further �1,000 roughly and on that, you would pay
:13:40. > :13:43.10p in the pound. That is the plan. The other significant thing we have
:13:44. > :13:48.seen today is a distancing again in public from Gordon Brown's
:13:48. > :13:51.leadership. Ed Miliband and Ed Balls, two people who served under
:13:51. > :13:56.Gordon Brown, saying today Labour ditching that 10p tax band was a
:13:56. > :14:00.very bad mistake. So Ed Miliband trying to move away, distance
:14:00. > :14:08.himself from Gordon Brown's leadership. A Government spokesman
:14:08. > :14:17.today said all these plans will mean more snoopers having to re-
:14:17. > :14:23.evaluate the price of property. Ed Miliband told me, he has sent his
:14:23. > :14:30.wife a bunch of flowers, he hopes this 10p tax band will waft under
:14:30. > :14:35.the noses of millions of voters and the hope is they will find it
:14:35. > :14:38.sweet-smelling. The jury in the trial of Vicky Pryce has retired to
:14:38. > :14:43.consider its verdict. The judge told jurors they would have to
:14:43. > :14:46.decide whether they believed she had been coerced by her husband,
:14:46. > :14:56.the former Energy Secretary, into accepting speeding points ten years
:14:56. > :15:01.
:15:01. > :15:04.ago. She denies perverting the Chris Grayling has said he wants to
:15:04. > :15:08.improve the education of those in detention centres.
:15:08. > :15:11.Rita Chakrabati has this report. Cookham Wood Youth Offenders
:15:11. > :15:16.Institution in Kent houses young offenders aged 15 to 18. Most are
:15:16. > :15:20.here as they have committed a serious violent crime. Most have
:15:20. > :15:23.been excluded from school at least once. Some have difficulty with
:15:23. > :15:26.numeracy and literacy. Cookham Wood Youth Offenders
:15:26. > :15:30.Institution says that it tries to improve the skills of the boys in
:15:30. > :15:35.custody, even though that the average stay is eight weeks. All of
:15:35. > :15:38.the boys get 15 hours of academic and vocational education a week.
:15:38. > :15:42.Topped up by classes in anger management and even in how to
:15:42. > :15:48.change a plug. There are all sorts of courses that
:15:48. > :15:53.help you behaviourwise and not just learning, they are helping me do it
:15:53. > :15:57.it, to change and to be a better person when I'm released in the
:15:57. > :16:01.community. Ministers want fresh ideas about
:16:01. > :16:05.how to educate young offenders, not just on how to detain them it costs
:16:05. > :16:09.five times as much to detain a young person as it does to send
:16:09. > :16:13.them to private school. Yet two out of three re-offend.
:16:13. > :16:16.The Government has no argument with what happens here but thinks
:16:16. > :16:19.overall, that the system delivers poor value for money.
:16:19. > :16:24.I'm asking those in the education world to come forward with ideas
:16:24. > :16:28.about how to refocus so that the effort is primarily about giving
:16:28. > :16:33.the young people qualifications so that when he are released they can
:16:33. > :16:38.go on to something more positive. The governor of Cookham Wood Youth
:16:38. > :16:43.Offenders Institution says that the serious of offenders end up in de--
:16:43. > :16:47.detention. Preparing them for life outside is complicated.
:16:48. > :16:50.If we can send them into the community with a lowered sense of
:16:51. > :16:56.harm to themselves and to the public. We may have been successful.
:16:56. > :17:00.Ministers are to consultant on how to improve youth custody but
:17:00. > :17:04.acknowledge that many young offenders have a range of problems.
:17:04. > :17:10.A better education is not a total solution.
:17:10. > :17:13.Now the time: 1..17pm, the top story: Oscar Pistorius is charged
:17:13. > :17:16.with his girlfriend's murder in South Africa. He will appear in
:17:16. > :17:20.court tomorrow. Coming up:
:17:20. > :17:27.How residents of a beautiful rural village dug deep after they were so
:17:27. > :17:31.fed up with the lack of broadband. On BBC London: Did firefighters at
:17:31. > :17:37.Lakanal House where six people died, know the layout of the building? An
:17:37. > :17:47.inquest hears the evidence. A decade of congestion charging that
:17:47. > :17:47.
:17:47. > :17:52.promised to ease traffic, has it worked? Many PE lessons are failing
:17:52. > :17:57.to improve pupils' fitness, according to Ofsted inspectors.
:17:57. > :18:00.They found inadequate qasis in the provision of sports in a third of
:18:00. > :18:05.primary schools and a quarter of secondary schools that they visited.
:18:05. > :18:11.They say there is a danger of losing the legacy of the London
:18:11. > :18:16.Olympics and the Paralympics. Well, this school here, St John's
:18:16. > :18:22.is something of a rarity. A specialist sport primary school
:18:23. > :18:27.with dedicated sports teachers and an emphasis on fiscal activity, but
:18:27. > :18:32.today's Ofsted reports raises concerns about the quality of PE,
:18:33. > :18:37.especially as primary schools. It says that PE is better than it was
:18:38. > :18:43.four years ago but more should be done. Waterhall School in Bletchley,
:18:43. > :18:49.their one and only 45 minute PE session of the week is under way.
:18:49. > :18:54.It is schools like this that the Ofsted report raises concerns about.
:18:54. > :18:59.That teachers lack specialist knowledge of the subject and there
:18:59. > :19:03.is not enough time spent on PE. People have to wake up and invest
:19:03. > :19:06.in PE and in sports and in the teachers and to invest in the
:19:06. > :19:11.primaries to have the future Olympic champions coming through.
:19:11. > :19:17.Why is it a good thing that children of your age do PE?
:19:17. > :19:21.makes you fit. Is it fun as well? Yes.
:19:21. > :19:27.Ofsted say there is is good outstanding PE in two thirds of
:19:27. > :19:32.schools more than four years ago, but in a quarter of cases pupils'
:19:32. > :19:37.fiscal fitness wat not improved. In most primary schools PE is left
:19:37. > :19:41.to the classroom teacher. Many of whom get as little as six hours
:19:41. > :19:46.training in fiscal education. It is hard for them to provide the right
:19:46. > :19:53.kind of stretches experience for the most talented -- physical.
:19:53. > :19:59.Ofsted praised the success of the schools Sports Partnerships.
:19:59. > :20:04.It claims that it has been putting �1 billion in youth sport and is to
:20:04. > :20:09.announce new policies. Unlike state schools, fee-paying
:20:09. > :20:14.schools have a huge emphasis on sports. This is Bedford School,
:20:14. > :20:18.these pupils benefit from five sessions of PE each and every week.
:20:18. > :20:22.Fees here reach �30,000 a year, but there are impressive facilities and
:20:22. > :20:26.dedicated sports teachers. For the future of sport in England
:20:26. > :20:31.it is essential to get the coaching levels from the entry level. That
:20:31. > :20:37.is the most important point for a kid for his future. I play tennis,
:20:37. > :20:43.Saturday, Wednesday, rugby on a Sunday and skiing on a Tuesday.
:20:43. > :20:48.And hockey today? Yes. Private schools produced 36% of British
:20:48. > :20:52.medallists at the London Gamess. Just 7% of the population. School
:20:52. > :20:55.sport, it seems is far from a level playing field. Interestingly,
:20:55. > :21:00.Ofsted have announced that they have commissioned a record report
:21:00. > :21:04.to look at the differences in sport provision offered by schools in the
:21:04. > :21:07.private sector, compared to those in the state sector. They want the
:21:07. > :21:12.Government to act fast, to take advantage of the pruent created by
:21:12. > :21:15.the Olympics to come up with a national strategy when it comes to
:21:15. > :21:20.PE. Six months on from the Games it appears that the pressure on the
:21:20. > :21:26.Government to honour the leg asis when it comes to school sport are
:21:26. > :21:32.intensifying. The UK's biggest insurance company
:21:32. > :21:37.is call for a change in the way that people claim for whiplash
:21:37. > :21:42.injuries. The claims should be put directly to the insurers of the
:21:42. > :21:47.driver who caused the crash. It says that this could cut premiums
:21:47. > :21:51.by 60% a year. An accident and increasingly, a
:21:51. > :21:56.whiplash claim. Most victims report it to their own insurer then go to
:21:56. > :22:00.a claims company to get as much compensation as possible. Aviva
:22:00. > :22:03.wants a new law, forcing them to go straight to the insurer who has to
:22:03. > :22:07.pay. I would like a change in behaviour.
:22:07. > :22:12.To cut out the middle man of accident management companies and
:22:12. > :22:17.lawyers going to the insurer at fault and let them sort it out. You
:22:18. > :22:21.get the same level of compensation but it will be faster an cheaper,
:22:21. > :22:27.leading to a reduction in insurance premiums. Daniel is one of half a
:22:27. > :22:32.million people a year getting whiplash compensation. �1,200 in
:22:32. > :22:37.his case, but he agrees that the problem is the claims companies who
:22:37. > :22:44.have fees that have doubled in the cost of whiplash claims.
:22:44. > :22:51.I have phone calls, text messages it telling me they found out I had
:22:51. > :22:55.an accident, would I like a claim. Whiplash and other injury claims
:22:55. > :23:00.add �118 to the typical motorinsurance policy. Aviva says
:23:00. > :23:06.by-passing claims companies and fees they could cut �60 off every
:23:06. > :23:09.drivers' insurance. Insurers provide immediate
:23:09. > :23:13.treatment, but claims firms warn that the victims will lose out if
:23:13. > :23:20.they are forced to trust the insurer of the driver who caused
:23:20. > :23:27.the accident. The insurer's, have short-changed
:23:27. > :23:35.clients in the UK. So a case where a client was offered �1,200 but
:23:35. > :23:40.settled for �100. Aviva's anti-whip will -- whiplash
:23:40. > :23:45.plan carries weight as it is the biggest insurance company.
:23:45. > :23:48.Government says that the system is open to abuse that it is time for
:23:48. > :23:53.change.$$NEWLINE A serving Met police officer has been arrested at
:23:53. > :23:57.his home in Wiltshire on suspicion of passing confidential information
:23:57. > :24:04.to journalists. The 51-year-old officer is being questioned on
:24:04. > :24:06.suspicion of misconduct in a public office. He is the 51st person to be
:24:06. > :24:09.detained as part of inquiry Operation Elveden.
:24:09. > :24:12.The The incoming Director-General of the BBC, Tony Hall, has made
:24:12. > :24:15.changes to the management structure. Helen Boaden, the executive in
:24:15. > :24:17.charge of BBC News, will now run radio. And the former Culture
:24:17. > :24:21.Secretary, James Purnell, joins the Corporation in a senior strategic
:24:21. > :24:31.role. Our correspondent David Sillito is at the BBC headquarters
:24:31. > :24:33.
:24:33. > :24:39.in Central London. David, what will the viewers and the listeners
:24:39. > :24:44.notice? It is hard to see what the viewers and listeners will see, but
:24:44. > :24:48.it has been a turbulent time at the BBC. These are the beginnings of a
:24:48. > :24:53.series of changes. James Purnell, the head of strategy. How the BBC
:24:53. > :24:58.copes with the massive changes in technology. Of course, James
:24:58. > :25:01.Purnell is a former Labour Cabinet Minister. He was a former BBC
:25:01. > :25:08.employee and he is not the first person with a political background
:25:08. > :25:13.at the BBC. The current head of the Trust, Lord patten is a former
:25:13. > :25:17.Party Chairman himself. Then, of course, Helen Boaden, she was at
:25:17. > :25:21.the heart of the story about Jimmy Savile and the allegations made
:25:21. > :25:25.that was investigated that there had been untoward corporate
:25:25. > :25:30.pressure to quash a report into Jimmy Savile by Newsnight, well,
:25:30. > :25:34.the Pollard Review said that she had not in any way been involved in
:25:34. > :25:39.anything un toward that led to the report being stopped.
:25:39. > :25:45.However, there were criticisms of her. Any way, she moves to, well,
:25:45. > :25:49.it is a new job title. It was audio and music, now it is called simply
:25:49. > :25:54.its old name, the head of radio. A sign of the change of culture and
:25:54. > :25:57.if you look at it, from the beginning of the Jimmy Savile story,
:25:57. > :26:00.everyone in the management chain that goes from the deputy editor of
:26:00. > :26:06.Newsnight, to the top of the Director-General has now either
:26:06. > :26:10.moved or left the BBC. David, thank you.
:26:10. > :26:15.The Pope has indicated that he intends to retreat entirely from
:26:15. > :26:20.public life when retiring at the end of the month. Pope Benedict XVI
:26:20. > :26:23.made -- Pope Benedict XVI made the remarks this morning. There were
:26:23. > :26:29.emotional scenes in the Vatican yesterday when he performed his
:26:29. > :26:33.final public mass. The group of cardinals are to meet to choose his
:26:33. > :26:37.successor next month. Now a good internet connection is for many a
:26:37. > :26:43.part of modern life, but what happens when you are told it could
:26:43. > :26:46.take years to get decent broadband? One unhappy rural community in
:26:46. > :26:51.Lancashire decided to take matters into their own hands and even
:26:51. > :26:55.fitted their own cables. We report from the village of
:26:55. > :27:01.Arkholme. In rural Lancashire is village is coming together to put
:27:01. > :27:08.rits in the broadband fast lane. These are not Telecom engineers but
:27:08. > :27:14.volunteers from the area of the rural north. Feeding fibreoptic
:27:14. > :27:19.cable to a nearby house. Soon this home will have a superfast
:27:19. > :27:24.connection. Right now, the owner says that the BT broadband is slow.
:27:24. > :27:28.It is diabolical for uploading and downloading attachments. When the
:27:28. > :27:32.children are home you cannot do it. The signal is lost. Broadband
:27:32. > :27:36.companies said it was too expensive to bring a fast service to this
:27:36. > :27:40.sparsely populated area. Now the community has contributed half a
:27:40. > :27:50.million pounds to start to build its own network. In all kinds of
:27:50. > :27:51.
:27:51. > :27:58.weather, the grou community broadband group have laid 40 metres
:27:58. > :28:02.of fibre optic cable. They are saying that they can do it cheaper
:28:02. > :28:07.than BT. Harry Ball's ancient computer is hooked up and going now
:28:08. > :28:12.at an amazing speed. Congratulations, you are in one of
:28:12. > :28:15.the more remote parts of Britain, yet you have one of Britain's
:28:15. > :28:19.fastest connections? That is fabulous. That is showing how
:28:19. > :28:24.people have got together and down the horrible hard work. It has been
:28:24. > :28:27.terrible weather. This local resident, a expert on
:28:27. > :28:34.computer networks got the scheme off the ground. He says that there
:28:34. > :28:37.has been an amazing response. Why is there demand for this?
:28:37. > :28:41.can't live without broadband anymore. If you don't have
:28:41. > :28:45.broadband, you are severely disadvantaged.
:28:45. > :28:50.Another �1.5 million still must be raised to complete the network, but
:28:50. > :28:55.the enthusiasts, working long hours, say they have a simple motto for
:28:55. > :29:00.anyone wanting fast broadband, "Just do it.".
:29:00. > :29:02.Good for them. Now let's get a look at the weather. Alex Deakin is here.
:29:02. > :29:08.at the weather. Alex Deakin is here. Hello, Alex.
:29:08. > :29:13.There is something in the air. It is a bit of an kpraj ration to say
:29:13. > :29:19.we have changed season but the weather over the next few days
:29:19. > :29:24.should put a spring in our step. Gone is the thick widespread cloud.
:29:24. > :29:29.Now it has shifted to the North Sea to reveal sunshine and temperatures
:29:29. > :29:34.widely eight to nine Celsius. Now it is not sunny everywhere.
:29:34. > :29:38.There are showers developing over Wales, the Midlands and north-west
:29:38. > :29:43.England. Another weather system bringing rain over the Highlands of
:29:43. > :29:47.Scotland here. That could be as far south as Glasgow. Brighter skies in
:29:47. > :29:52.the east of Scotland. Sunny spells for Northern Ireland, one or two
:29:52. > :29:55.showers here. The showers are developing over to
:29:55. > :29:59.Wales, north-west Wales, and down to the Midlands, but the showers
:29:59. > :30:03.scattered and between them when the sun comes out, the temperatures up
:30:03. > :30:07.to 11 Celsius. The showers are to spread widely over the south-east
:30:07. > :30:12.for a time before fizzling away. The rain over north-east Scotland
:30:12. > :30:17.tends to ease off. For most a dry night with long, clear spells. We
:30:17. > :30:21.are in February, so the temperatures will fall. That is two
:30:21. > :30:26.to three Celsius in towns and cities. In the rural areas it could
:30:26. > :30:31.go down to freezing. So a fresh start to Friday but it should
:30:31. > :30:35.abcracking day. Mist and fog patches disappearing, to reveal
:30:35. > :30:40.blue skies for much of the UK. After a chilly start, the
:30:40. > :30:44.temperatures up to where they are today, up to 10 Celsius. Around
:30:44. > :30:47.average and milder than it has been for most of this year. The fine
:30:48. > :30:51.weather is from the ridge of high pressure. It is sticking with us
:30:51. > :30:54.through the weekend. The weather fronts adding a complication to
:30:54. > :30:57.bring cloud and rain to Northern Ireland and Scotland on Friday
:30:57. > :31:02.night. Still over Scotland for a time on Saturday, staying damp in
:31:02. > :31:05.the far north and on the west coast of Scotland. Elsewhere, it is fine
:31:05. > :31:09.and bright. Most of us seeing sunshine. Lifting the temperatures
:31:09. > :31:14.back up to a few places to double figures. A chilly start on Sunday
:31:14. > :31:18.but more of the same. Dry and bright for most places. With a
:31:18. > :31:22.threat of patchy rain in some places and in Northern Ireland
:31:22. > :31:27.later on. For most of us, the weather is set fair. Most places
:31:27. > :31:32.looking dry for Saturday and Sunday with sunny spells and compared to
:31:32. > :31:37.recent days, a lot less colder by the day. Chillier nights but fine