14/02/2013 BBC News at One

Oscar Pistorius is charged with murder after his girlfriend was

shot at his home. He was arrested in the early hours of the morning

and will appear in court tomorrow. I can confirm there has previously

been incidents at the home of Mr Oscar Pistorius.

Findus tests negative for the horse painkiller bute, but traces of the

drug are found in UK abattoirs. The FSA's most recent test on the

presence of bute checked 206 horse carcasses. Eight have come back

positive. Three may have entered the food chain in France.

A former NHS manager says he was forced out for putting patients'

safety before Government targets. The UK's biggest insurance firm

calls for a change in whiplash claims saying premiums could be cut.

I will be live at this specialist sport primary school in Manchester

as Ofsted raises concerns over the quality of PE and sport in schools.

The Mayor's accused of using the wrong figures over the number of

police in the capital. And commuter misery after extensive damage to

Good afternoon. Welcome to the BBC News at One. Oscar Pistorius has

been charged with murder after his girlfriend was shot dead at his

home in South Africa. The incident happened in Pretoria in the early

hours of the morning. Police have dismissed earlier reports that

Reeva Steenkamp had been mistaken for an intruder. Pistorius, 26, and

known as the Blade Runner, became the first double amputee to run in

the Olympics last year. He will appear in court tomorrow.

Oscar Pistorius in custody in Pretoria. A South African sporting

hero and a household name. They were the country's golden couple,

the Paralympic Champion and his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, a 30-

year-old model from Port Elizabeth. Police in Pretoria say they were

called to the home of Oscar Pistorius in the early hours of

this morning. They found paramedics treating a 30-year-old woman who

had sustained gunshot wounds to the head and upper body. She died at

the scene and a 9mm pistol was recovered. The police say

neighbours heard gunshots as well as screaming and shouting coming

from the house. We can confirm there was a shooting incident this

morning at the home of the well- known Paralympic athlete, Oscar

Pistorius. At this stage, we can confirm that a young woman, a 30-

year-old woman, did die on the scene of gunshot wounds. A 26-year-

old man has been arrested and has been charged with murder. I can

confirm that there has previously been incidents at the home of Mr

Oscar Pistorius. REPORTER: Can you...? I'm not going

to elaborate on that. There have been previous incidents.

REPORTER: Of violence? allegations of a domestic nature.

Police say they have no knowledge of the suggestion that Pistorius

may have thought an intruder had entered his house. The police have

not named Oscar Pistorius, but it is understood he's now been charged

with murder. REPORTER: How is Oscar doing at the

moment? He is very well. Very emotional, but he is fine, guys.

Please excuse me. I can't comment. He is without doubt one of South

Africa's national icons. A man who came to prominence very quickly

with athletics success. This tragic episode will be reverberating in

South Africa and around the world. Let's talk to Andrew Harding who is

in Pretoria, where the shooting occurred. Andrew, Oscar Pistorius

due to appear in court tomorrow. Of course, investigations continue

there. What is happening? Those investigations are taking a little

longer than had initially been anticipated. That court appearance

delayed until tomorrow. Forensic examinations have been taking place,

both in Oscar Pistorius' house behind me but also at hospital.

Oscar Pistorius was taken to a nearby hospital to be examined,

presumably looking for cuts, bruises, evidence of a fight and

also we understand blood tests to see if he had drugs or alcohol in

his system. We also have heard from the police that they have been

talking to neighbours here at this estate who reported hearing an

altercation preceding the four gunshots that they reported hearing

in the early hours of this morning. The police very much working on the

theory that this was murder and not the accidental shooting of a

suspected burglar which local media have been reporting in the initial

stages of the investigation. Thank you. Andrew Harding in Pretoria.

Tests for the horse painkiller bute in Findus food products have come

back negative according to the Agriculture Minister. He told MPs

that traces of the drug were found in horse carcasses from the UK,

some of which may have entered the food chain in France.

Just some of the food which has tested positive for horsemeat. The

latest results have shown no trace of the potentially harmful horse

painkiller bute in this Findus lasagne. Today, the Government

revealed the Food Standards Agency's findings after concerns

that bute may have entered the human food chain. The FSA's most

recent tests on the presence of bute checked 206 horse carcasses.

Eight have come back positive. Three may have entered the food

chain in France. The remaining five have not gone into the food chain.

Ministers have been strongly criticised for what the opposition

has called "their slow response to the crisis". It is totally

unacceptable that all UK horses were being slaughtered - tested for

bute at slaughter, but still being released into the human food chain

until four days ago. Lab tests showing bute contaminated horsemeat

may have been used in food in France will only heighten concerns

across Europe. Yesterday, EU Ministers agreed plans for products

to be randomly tested for horsemeat and the equine drug bute. Back here,

the Chief Medical Officer has sought to reassure consumers.

phenylbutazone has got into the diet through horsemeat, then the

level will be so low it is very unlikely to impact on human health.

So human health, please don't worry. Yuck factor is another matter and

whether there are criminal factors is a third. The Government says it

suspects the horsemeat scandal is an international criminal

conspiracy. EU police Europol are expected to co-ordinate

investigations across Europe's markets.

Let's talk to Fergus Walsh. We heard there both Ministers and the

Chief Medical Officer saying very minimal risk to human health. Does

that mean consumers need not be worried? Regarding bute, they

probably don't need to worry. It's trace amounts that have been found

in these animals. Phenylbutazone is the name given for the drug which

is used for a rare form of arthritis. It is used in humans. In

order to get one dose of that from eating horsemeat, you would have to

eat at least 500 250g pure horsemeat burgers in a day. That

will be to get one dose. Even if you have this phenylbutazone in the

human form, the side-effects from it are very rare. Regarding bute, I

think the dangers to public health do seem to be absolutely minimal.

Consumers still concerned that the products they might be eating might

contain horsemeat. Where do the investigations go now? Tomorrow

will be an important day because that is the deadline that Ministers

have given for the retailers to produce meaningful results on all

the hundreds of processed meat products, beef products, to find

out whether they have got any amount of horsemeat in them. So

tomorrow will be important to get a picture of just how far this

horsemeat scandal pervades the processed meat industry.

The former Chief Executive of an NHS Trust which is being

investigated for persistently high death rates has broken the terms of

a gagging order to speak for the first time of his concerns about

patient safety. Gary Walker was dismissed from the United

Lincolnshire Hospitals Trust in 2010 and signed a non-disclosure

agreement as part of his pay-off deal. The Trust he ran is now one

of 14 under scrutiny after an inquiry into deaths in mid

Staffordshire. Gary Walker says he felt compelled

to sign a secret agreement with his Trust following a dispute over

Government targets. He claims he argued with senior NHS managers

that to prioritise non-emergency care risked patients' safety at a

time of excessive demand for hospital beds. The non-disclosure

agreement came with a pay-off of �500,000 including costs. I was in

danger of losing my house, you know, I have children to support. One

thing you must remember is that if you are attacking the very top of

the NHS, the sanctions are dramatic. So I spent 20 years in the Health

Service. I'm blacklisted from it. I can't work in the Health Service

again. When Gary Walker became Chief Executive here in 2006, it

was the latest promotion in what he hoped would be a long career in the

National Health Service. But he claims that his refusal to put

Whitehall targets first led instead to him being compelled to leave the

NHS and prevented from speaking out by a so-called gagging order. Mr

Walker's decision to break his silence comes after last week's

report on the mid Staffordshire Hospital scandal. Government

targets were said to play a role here, too. Campaigners agree with

the findings of the chairman of the Mid Staffs Public Inquiry. These

"gagging orders" are an outrage. This is a public institution and to

silence people who are raising concerns about patient safety, it

is an outrage. We believe that this goes right to the top of the NHS.

In a statement, a spokesman for the Department of Health acknowledged

the culture of the NHS had to change and added gagginged orders

should be prohibited. Lawyers have threatened Mr Walker with legal

action for breaking his agreement. A Trust spokesman said the

agreement was not about his concerns over patient safety, but

about his employment contract. The Labour Leader has set out some

of the tax policies on which the party could fight the next election.

In a speech in Bedford, he said Labour would reintroduce a 10p rate

of income tax which would be funded by a tax on houses worth more than

�2 million. This would benefit 25 million basic

rate taxpayers. It would move Labour on from the past and put

Labour where it should always have been, on the side of working people.

It shows our priority to do everything we can to make a

difference to people's living standards and it sends a message

about how Britain is going to succeed in the years ahead.

Ed Miliband speaking in Bedford. Robin Brant joins us from there. In

2008, Ed Miliband was saying it was a bad idea to reintroduce the 10p

rate of tax. What's changed? Well, we have seen quite a significant

moment here today for Ed Miliband's leadership of the Labour Party. He

has changed his mind. He says back then he told Gordon Brown it was a

bad idea to ditch it. What we have today is a big policy announcement

on tax from Ed Miliband and these are rare. It is not a manifesto

pledge. He says it is what he wants to do if and when Labour are in

Government. So we have this council tax which will charge higher rate

taxpayers more on their �2 million properties. That will raise �2

billion. Labour's plan is to get those much lower down the scale to

pay less tax. You can earn �10,000 and pay no tax. Under Labour's plan,

you could earn a further �1,000 roughly and on that, you would pay

10p in the pound. That is the plan. The other significant thing we have

seen today is a distancing again in public from Gordon Brown's

leadership. Ed Miliband and Ed Balls, two people who served under

Gordon Brown, saying today Labour ditching that 10p tax band was a

very bad mistake. So Ed Miliband trying to move away, distance

himself from Gordon Brown's leadership. A Government spokesman

today said all these plans will mean more snoopers having to re-

evaluate the price of property. Ed Miliband told me, he has sent his

wife a bunch of flowers, he hopes this 10p tax band will waft under

the noses of millions of voters and the hope is they will find it

sweet-smelling. The jury in the trial of Vicky Pryce has retired to

consider its verdict. The judge told jurors they would have to

decide whether they believed she had been coerced by her husband,

the former Energy Secretary, into accepting speeding points ten years

ago. She denies perverting the Chris Grayling has said he wants to

improve the education of those in detention centres.

Rita Chakrabati has this report. Cookham Wood Youth Offenders

Institution in Kent houses young offenders aged 15 to 18. Most are

here as they have committed a serious violent crime. Most have

been excluded from school at least once. Some have difficulty with

numeracy and literacy. Cookham Wood Youth Offenders

Institution says that it tries to improve the skills of the boys in

custody, even though that the average stay is eight weeks. All of

the boys get 15 hours of academic and vocational education a week.

Topped up by classes in anger management and even in how to

change a plug. There are all sorts of courses that

help you behaviourwise and not just learning, they are helping me do it

it, to change and to be a better person when I'm released in the

community. Ministers want fresh ideas about

how to educate young offenders, not just on how to detain them it costs

five times as much to detain a young person as it does to send

them to private school. Yet two out of three re-offend.

The Government has no argument with what happens here but thinks

overall, that the system delivers poor value for money.

I'm asking those in the education world to come forward with ideas

about how to refocus so that the effort is primarily about giving

the young people qualifications so that when he are released they can

go on to something more positive. The governor of Cookham Wood Youth

Offenders Institution says that the serious of offenders end up in de--

detention. Preparing them for life outside is complicated.

If we can send them into the community with a lowered sense of

harm to themselves and to the public. We may have been successful.

Ministers are to consultant on how to improve youth custody but

acknowledge that many young offenders have a range of problems.

A better education is not a total solution.

Now the time: 1..17pm, the top story: Oscar Pistorius is charged

with his girlfriend's murder in South Africa. He will appear in

court tomorrow. Coming up:

How residents of a beautiful rural village dug deep after they were so

fed up with the lack of broadband. On BBC London: Did firefighters at

Lakanal House where six people died, know the layout of the building? An

inquest hears the evidence. A decade of congestion charging that

promised to ease traffic, has it worked? Many PE lessons are failing

to improve pupils' fitness, according to Ofsted inspectors.

They found inadequate qasis in the provision of sports in a third of

primary schools and a quarter of secondary schools that they visited.

They say there is a danger of losing the legacy of the London

Olympics and the Paralympics. Well, this school here, St John's

is something of a rarity. A specialist sport primary school

with dedicated sports teachers and an emphasis on fiscal activity, but

today's Ofsted reports raises concerns about the quality of PE,

especially as primary schools. It says that PE is better than it was

four years ago but more should be done. Waterhall School in Bletchley,

their one and only 45 minute PE session of the week is under way.

It is schools like this that the Ofsted report raises concerns about.

That teachers lack specialist knowledge of the subject and there

is not enough time spent on PE. People have to wake up and invest

in PE and in sports and in the teachers and to invest in the

primaries to have the future Olympic champions coming through.

Why is it a good thing that children of your age do PE?

makes you fit. Is it fun as well? Yes.

Ofsted say there is is good outstanding PE in two thirds of

schools more than four years ago, but in a quarter of cases pupils'

fiscal fitness wat not improved. In most primary schools PE is left

to the classroom teacher. Many of whom get as little as six hours

training in fiscal education. It is hard for them to provide the right

kind of stretches experience for the most talented -- physical.

Ofsted praised the success of the schools Sports Partnerships.

It claims that it has been putting �1 billion in youth sport and is to

announce new policies. Unlike state schools, fee-paying

schools have a huge emphasis on sports. This is Bedford School,

these pupils benefit from five sessions of PE each and every week.

Fees here reach �30,000 a year, but there are impressive facilities and

dedicated sports teachers. For the future of sport in England

it is essential to get the coaching levels from the entry level. That

is the most important point for a kid for his future. I play tennis,

Saturday, Wednesday, rugby on a Sunday and skiing on a Tuesday.

And hockey today? Yes. Private schools produced 36% of British

medallists at the London Gamess. Just 7% of the population. School

sport, it seems is far from a level playing field. Interestingly,

Ofsted have announced that they have commissioned a record report

to look at the differences in sport provision offered by schools in the

private sector, compared to those in the state sector. They want the

Government to act fast, to take advantage of the pruent created by

the Olympics to come up with a national strategy when it comes to

PE. Six months on from the Games it appears that the pressure on the

Government to honour the leg asis when it comes to school sport are

intensifying. The UK's biggest insurance company

is call for a change in the way that people claim for whiplash

injuries. The claims should be put directly to the insurers of the

driver who caused the crash. It says that this could cut premiums

by 60% a year. An accident and increasingly, a

whiplash claim. Most victims report it to their own insurer then go to

a claims company to get as much compensation as possible. Aviva

wants a new law, forcing them to go straight to the insurer who has to

pay. I would like a change in behaviour.

To cut out the middle man of accident management companies and

lawyers going to the insurer at fault and let them sort it out. You

get the same level of compensation but it will be faster an cheaper,

leading to a reduction in insurance premiums. Daniel is one of half a

million people a year getting whiplash compensation. �1,200 in

his case, but he agrees that the problem is the claims companies who

have fees that have doubled in the cost of whiplash claims.

I have phone calls, text messages it telling me they found out I had

an accident, would I like a claim. Whiplash and other injury claims

add �118 to the typical motorinsurance policy. Aviva says

by-passing claims companies and fees they could cut �60 off every

drivers' insurance. Insurers provide immediate

treatment, but claims firms warn that the victims will lose out if

they are forced to trust the insurer of the driver who caused

the accident. The insurer's, have short-changed

clients in the UK. So a case where a client was offered �1,200 but

settled for �100. Aviva's anti-whip will -- whiplash

plan carries weight as it is the biggest insurance company.

Government says that the system is open to abuse that it is time for

change.$$NEWLINE A serving Met police officer has been arrested at

his home in Wiltshire on suspicion of passing confidential information

to journalists. The 51-year-old officer is being questioned on

suspicion of misconduct in a public office. He is the 51st person to be

detained as part of inquiry Operation Elveden.

The The incoming Director-General of the BBC, Tony Hall, has made

changes to the management structure. Helen Boaden, the executive in

charge of BBC News, will now run radio. And the former Culture

Secretary, James Purnell, joins the Corporation in a senior strategic

role. Our correspondent David Sillito is at the BBC headquarters

in Central London. David, what will the viewers and the listeners

notice? It is hard to see what the viewers and listeners will see, but

it has been a turbulent time at the BBC. These are the beginnings of a

series of changes. James Purnell, the head of strategy. How the BBC

copes with the massive changes in technology. Of course, James

Purnell is a former Labour Cabinet Minister. He was a former BBC

employee and he is not the first person with a political background

at the BBC. The current head of the Trust, Lord patten is a former

Party Chairman himself. Then, of course, Helen Boaden, she was at

the heart of the story about Jimmy Savile and the allegations made

that was investigated that there had been untoward corporate

pressure to quash a report into Jimmy Savile by Newsnight, well,

the Pollard Review said that she had not in any way been involved in

anything un toward that led to the report being stopped.

However, there were criticisms of her. Any way, she moves to, well,

it is a new job title. It was audio and music, now it is called simply

its old name, the head of radio. A sign of the change of culture and

if you look at it, from the beginning of the Jimmy Savile story,

everyone in the management chain that goes from the deputy editor of

Newsnight, to the top of the Director-General has now either

moved or left the BBC. David, thank you.

The Pope has indicated that he intends to retreat entirely from

public life when retiring at the end of the month. Pope Benedict XVI

made -- Pope Benedict XVI made the remarks this morning. There were

emotional scenes in the Vatican yesterday when he performed his

final public mass. The group of cardinals are to meet to choose his

successor next month. Now a good internet connection is for many a

part of modern life, but what happens when you are told it could

take years to get decent broadband? One unhappy rural community in

Lancashire decided to take matters into their own hands and even

fitted their own cables. We report from the village of

Arkholme. In rural Lancashire is village is coming together to put

rits in the broadband fast lane. These are not Telecom engineers but

volunteers from the area of the rural north. Feeding fibreoptic

cable to a nearby house. Soon this home will have a superfast

connection. Right now, the owner says that the BT broadband is slow.

It is diabolical for uploading and downloading attachments. When the

children are home you cannot do it. The signal is lost. Broadband

companies said it was too expensive to bring a fast service to this

sparsely populated area. Now the community has contributed half a

million pounds to start to build its own network. In all kinds of

weather, the grou community broadband group have laid 40 metres

of fibre optic cable. They are saying that they can do it cheaper

than BT. Harry Ball's ancient computer is hooked up and going now

at an amazing speed. Congratulations, you are in one of

the more remote parts of Britain, yet you have one of Britain's

fastest connections? That is fabulous. That is showing how

people have got together and down the horrible hard work. It has been

terrible weather. This local resident, a expert on

computer networks got the scheme off the ground. He says that there

has been an amazing response. Why is there demand for this?

can't live without broadband anymore. If you don't have

broadband, you are severely disadvantaged.

Another �1.5 million still must be raised to complete the network, but

the enthusiasts, working long hours, say they have a simple motto for

anyone wanting fast broadband, "Just do it.".

Good for them. Now let's get a look at the weather. Alex Deakin is here.

at the weather. Alex Deakin is here. Hello, Alex.

There is something in the air. It is a bit of an kpraj ration to say

we have changed season but the weather over the next few days

should put a spring in our step. Gone is the thick widespread cloud.

Now it has shifted to the North Sea to reveal sunshine and temperatures

widely eight to nine Celsius. Now it is not sunny everywhere.

There are showers developing over Wales, the Midlands and north-west

England. Another weather system bringing rain over the Highlands of

Scotland here. That could be as far south as Glasgow. Brighter skies in

the east of Scotland. Sunny spells for Northern Ireland, one or two

showers here. The showers are developing over to

Wales, north-west Wales, and down to the Midlands, but the showers

scattered and between them when the sun comes out, the temperatures up

to 11 Celsius. The showers are to spread widely over the south-east

for a time before fizzling away. The rain over north-east Scotland

tends to ease off. For most a dry night with long, clear spells. We

are in February, so the temperatures will fall. That is two

to three Celsius in towns and cities. In the rural areas it could

go down to freezing. So a fresh start to Friday but it should

abcracking day. Mist and fog patches disappearing, to reveal

blue skies for much of the UK. After a chilly start, the

temperatures up to where they are today, up to 10 Celsius. Around

average and milder than it has been for most of this year. The fine

weather is from the ridge of high pressure. It is sticking with us

through the weekend. The weather fronts adding a complication to

bring cloud and rain to Northern Ireland and Scotland on Friday

night. Still over Scotland for a time on Saturday, staying damp in

the far north and on the west coast of Scotland. Elsewhere, it is fine

and bright. Most of us seeing sunshine. Lifting the temperatures

back up to a few places to double figures. A chilly start on Sunday

but more of the same. Dry and bright for most places. With a

threat of patchy rain in some places and in Northern Ireland

later on. For most of us, the weather is set fair. Most places

looking dry for Saturday and Sunday with sunny spells and compared to

recent days, a lot less colder by the day. Chillier nights but fine