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Horsemeat is found in dinners delivered to 47 schools in | :00:10. | :00:13. | |
Lancashire. The cottage pies have been withdrawn from kitchens. | :00:13. | :00:17. | |
Officials say the amount eaten will have been minute. | :00:17. | :00:24. | |
In the last few minutes, Whitbread says horsemeat has been found in | :00:24. | :00:29. | |
burgers and lasagne. We will have all the latest developments on this | :00:29. | :00:33. | |
from our correspondents. Accused of murder, Oscar Pistorius | :00:33. | :00:39. | |
weeps in court as he is charged with killing his girlfriend. | :00:39. | :00:43. | |
The Coronation Street actor Michael Le Vell is charged with 19 sexual | :00:43. | :00:47. | |
offences including the rape of a child. | :00:47. | :00:53. | |
The biggest meteor strike since 1908. 500 people are injured in | :00:53. | :01:03. | |
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Russia and buildings are turned to rubble. | :01:03. | :01:08. | |
Lost for three days in the heat of the Australian Outback. Sam | :01:08. | :01:12. | |
Woodhead is found safe and well, if a little sun burnt. | :01:12. | :01:15. | |
Later on BBC London: Health bosses confirm plans to close four A&E | :01:15. | :01:18. | |
units in north-west London. And ten years since the congestion | :01:18. | :01:21. | |
charge was introduced journey times are unchanged but traffic is down. | :01:21. | :01:31. | |
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Good afternoon. Welcome to the BBC News at One. In the last hour, it's | :01:47. | :01:51. | |
been confirmed that meat in school dinners in Lancashire has tested | :01:51. | :01:56. | |
positive for horse DNA. Cottage pie, which was delivered to 47 schools | :01:56. | :02:00. | |
in the county, has now been withdrawn from school kitchens. | :02:00. | :02:05. | |
Lancashire County Council says the amount of horsemeat eaten will have | :02:05. | :02:09. | |
been minute. All head teachers in the county have been alerted. And | :02:09. | :02:14. | |
the Whitbread chain, which supplies food to thousands of pubs, has just | :02:14. | :02:18. | |
revealed that horse DNA has been discovered in some of its meat | :02:18. | :02:23. | |
products. It's also been confirmed that horse DNA has been detected in | :02:23. | :02:28. | |
burgers sold by the Compass group in Ireland. All the latest | :02:28. | :02:30. | |
developments come from our correspondent. | :02:30. | :02:35. | |
This scandal has moved from supermarkets to schools. Within the | :02:35. | :02:40. | |
last hour, samples of cottage pie supplied to schools in Lancashire | :02:40. | :02:45. | |
have been found to contain horse DNA. The council says the amount | :02:45. | :02:48. | |
consumed by children will be minute and the food has been withdrawn | :02:49. | :02:53. | |
from the kitchens. The pub supplier Whitbread has said horsemeat has | :02:53. | :02:59. | |
been found in two of its products. At labs around the country, | :02:59. | :03:02. | |
hundreds of food samples are being tested. Scientists are trying to | :03:02. | :03:08. | |
find out how far the horsemeat contamination has spread. | :03:08. | :03:11. | |
Supermarkets have been removing some meat products from the shelves, | :03:11. | :03:15. | |
but they have been criticised by Downing Street for not doing enough | :03:15. | :03:19. | |
to reassure their customers. Nothing is more important to us... | :03:19. | :03:22. | |
This morning, the boss of one appeared online rather than in | :03:23. | :03:28. | |
front of the media and add cressed his customers directly. We take the | :03:28. | :03:32. | |
trust you place in us very seriously. We work every day to | :03:32. | :03:38. | |
make sure you can and we will continue to work every day. | :03:38. | :03:40. | |
supermarkets know this scandal is damaging them. Some of them have | :03:40. | :03:48. | |
published a letter saying they share their customers' outrage. | :03:48. | :03:52. | |
There are problems when you put all your trust in a multi-national | :03:52. | :03:55. | |
company whose profits come before people. We need to relocallise our | :03:55. | :04:00. | |
food chain so we have local, small- scale farmers selling their produce | :04:00. | :04:04. | |
with local slaughter houses and local butchers. ASDA is the latest | :04:04. | :04:10. | |
of the big chains to take action after horse DNA was found in a | :04:10. | :04:13. | |
bolognese sauce. It is the first time that fresh rather than frozen | :04:13. | :04:17. | |
meat has been found to be contaminated. This is the plant in | :04:17. | :04:22. | |
Bristol which is thought to have supplied ASDA. Shoppers say it is | :04:22. | :04:26. | |
taking too long to get to the bottom of the scandal. We look | :04:26. | :04:32. | |
twice and are avoiding places which we think will have it. Keep away | :04:32. | :04:42. | |
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from the frozen meals. Prepare everything yourself. This is a | :04:42. | :04:49. | |
European crisis. According to the French, 13 countries and 28 | :04:49. | :04:54. | |
companies could be affected. TRANSLATION: To the British | :04:54. | :04:58. | |
consumers, even though I want to repeat, we are innocent, we are | :04:58. | :05:02. | |
victims, we are not guilty. To them, I want to apologise. I'm very sorry. | :05:02. | :05:08. | |
We never wanted this. Today's test results will give a | :05:08. | :05:12. | |
snapshot of the spread of contaminated meat but not the full | :05:12. | :05:16. | |
picture. It may take several months before we know how all this started | :05:16. | :05:23. | |
and who is to blame. Let's get the latest from Andy Gill | :05:23. | :05:28. | |
who is in Salford. In terms of horsemeat getting into schools now, | :05:28. | :05:32. | |
the products have been withdrawn, but we don't know how much | :05:32. | :05:37. | |
horsemeat might have been eaten or for how long? This came about | :05:37. | :05:40. | |
because Lancashire Council is one of seven local authorities which | :05:40. | :05:44. | |
has its own laboratories to test food. It was testing products | :05:44. | :05:48. | |
already implicated in the horsemeat scandal on behalf of the Food | :05:48. | :05:51. | |
Standards Agency. The council took an independent decision to test its | :05:52. | :05:57. | |
own food that was supplied to its schools. It's confirmed cottage pie | :05:57. | :06:02. | |
sent to 47 schools does have horse DNA in it. The council has also | :06:02. | :06:07. | |
said that any DNA which children may have consumed will have been in | :06:07. | :06:11. | |
minute quantities. The head teachers of all these 47 schools | :06:11. | :06:15. | |
have already been alerted about this. Now, the council website says | :06:15. | :06:22. | |
they supply 55,000 meals to schools across the county during a week. | :06:22. | :06:30. | |
They say that most of the meat is fresh-farm assured from the Fylde | :06:30. | :06:36. | |
coast. They have not been able to tell us who has supplied the | :06:36. | :06:41. | |
cottage pie with the horse DNA for the schools in Lancashire. Thank | :06:41. | :06:44. | |
you, for now. Of course, it is not just this | :06:44. | :06:48. | |
country that's affected by contaminated meat products. 16 | :06:48. | :06:51. | |
European countries are dealing with the problem and today in Brussels | :06:51. | :06:54. | |
food safety officials from throughout the EU are meeting to | :06:54. | :06:59. | |
discuss the situation. Let's get the latest from Matthew Price. In | :06:59. | :07:03. | |
fact, I think the meeting might still be going on. What are you | :07:03. | :07:09. | |
hearing there? It is, Jane. I think what they want to do here in | :07:09. | :07:13. | |
Brussels, as in Britain, is to try and get the clearest possible | :07:13. | :07:17. | |
picture of exactly the size and scope of this problem. We do not | :07:17. | :07:21. | |
have a very clear picture at the moment. All that we do know is that | :07:21. | :07:25. | |
it is widespread and it's not just confined to Britain. It is across | :07:25. | :07:28. | |
the EU, it would seem. At that meeting, experts who regularly meet | :07:28. | :07:32. | |
on a monthly basis, they are in emergency sessions at the moment. | :07:32. | :07:37. | |
They are trying to work out the best method for conducting new, | :07:37. | :07:42. | |
quick tests to try and ascertain how much of the food chain in | :07:42. | :07:48. | |
Europe has been affected. Two tests they will be conducting, randomly, | :07:48. | :07:53. | |
across the European Union, in every country of the EU, two tests - one | :07:53. | :07:57. | |
to look for the presence of horse DNA in beef products; the other to | :07:57. | :08:02. | |
look for the presence of the horse painkiller bute in the food chain | :08:02. | :08:05. | |
as well. They are not going to be able to conduct those tests that | :08:05. | :08:09. | |
quickly and get the results that quickly. We are not expecting them | :08:09. | :08:15. | |
to start until March. When they do start, we are not expecting results | :08:16. | :08:18. | |
until mid-April. Only then will we get a clear picture of the extent | :08:18. | :08:23. | |
of this problem. It is clear already that the problem is | :08:23. | :08:26. | |
widespread. Thank you. We will talk more about | :08:26. | :08:31. | |
this story later in the programme. The South African Paralympic | :08:31. | :08:34. | |
Champion, Oscar Pistorius, has appeared in court in Pretoria | :08:34. | :08:37. | |
accused of the murder of his girlfriend. He broke down in tears | :08:37. | :08:41. | |
as he was charged with shooting Reeva Steenkamp at his home | :08:41. | :08:46. | |
yesterday. The prosecution will argue it was a premeditated murder. | :08:46. | :08:51. | |
But his agent says he will be contesting the charge in the | :08:51. | :08:57. | |
strongest possible terms. After a night in a police cell, | :08:57. | :09:01. | |
Oscar Pistorius was driven to court in Pretoria this morning. His face | :09:01. | :09:07. | |
and feelings well hidden for now. The courtroom was packed and very | :09:07. | :09:11. | |
emotional. Oscar Pistorius walked in looking grim-faced but as soon | :09:11. | :09:15. | |
as the prosecutor mentioned "premeditated murder" he broke down, | :09:15. | :09:19. | |
sobbing, his head in his hands. The magistrate asked him if he wanted | :09:19. | :09:25. | |
to sit down. He did so and barely moved for the next 45 minutes, | :09:25. | :09:29. | |
occasionally breaking into more sobs. The man whose sporting | :09:29. | :09:33. | |
achievements have dazzled the world broke down when it was suggested he | :09:33. | :09:37. | |
deliberately killed his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp. Friends and family | :09:37. | :09:43. | |
of the dead woman shot yesterday have continued to pay tribute to | :09:43. | :09:50. | |
the former model. I must just say that her future has been cut short, | :09:50. | :09:54. | |
all her dreams have been and what she has accomplished in the past. | :09:54. | :10:03. | |
And the family at the moment are devastated. This case has shocked | :10:03. | :10:07. | |
and bewildered South Africa, an iconic local hero transformed into | :10:07. | :10:12. | |
a murder suspect. I'm so sad. He is my inspiration. I'm disappointed | :10:12. | :10:18. | |
the way things have happened. would know if it was a burglar. In | :10:18. | :10:23. | |
a high-security estate, there is no chance that it was a burglar. | :10:23. | :10:27. | |
decision on whether Oscar Pistorius will be allowed out on bail has | :10:27. | :10:31. | |
been postponed until next week. In the meantime, one of the world's | :10:31. | :10:35. | |
most famous sporting stars will remain behind bars at a local | :10:36. | :10:41. | |
police station. We can get the latest from Andrew | :10:41. | :10:46. | |
now. Really quite chaotic scenes at one point in the court, a sense of | :10:46. | :10:50. | |
the huge shock still within the country? Indeed, it was | :10:50. | :10:53. | |
extraordinary to be in that courtroom. I was standing three | :10:53. | :10:57. | |
yards from Oscar Pistorius and to watch his face and the reactions | :10:57. | :11:07. | |
every time "murder" came up, he crumpled. He sat there as this very | :11:07. | :11:11. | |
lonely figure. All of South Africa, people outside discussing this, | :11:11. | :11:15. | |
wondering could this possibly have been some sort of accident, as | :11:15. | :11:19. | |
Pistorius and his friends insist, or as the police are arguing, as | :11:19. | :11:24. | |
they are building up their case now with forensics going to his house | :11:24. | :11:28. | |
nearby, could this have been some sort of premeditated murder? We are | :11:28. | :11:33. | |
hearing a lot of people now coming out of the woodwork, the mothers of | :11:33. | :11:37. | |
ex-girlfriends saying he did have a violent streak, he often couldn't | :11:37. | :11:42. | |
control that anger, perhaps he couldn't handle the fame, he had | :11:42. | :11:46. | |
some sort of particular enthusiasm for guns. People are putting that | :11:46. | :11:50. | |
altogether and basically this is still a mystery. A lot of people in | :11:50. | :11:54. | |
South Africa starting to wonder whether the golden boy of sport, | :11:54. | :12:00. | |
this local hero, may not prove to be quite such a hero after all. | :12:00. | :12:04. | |
Thank you. Here, the Coronation Street actor | :12:04. | :12:08. | |
Michael Le Vell has been charged with 19 sexual offences including | :12:08. | :12:13. | |
raping a child. The actor, who plays Kevin Webster, is due to | :12:13. | :12:15. | |
appear in court in Manchester at the end of this month. In a | :12:15. | :12:21. | |
statement, he said he is innocent of all charges and will fight them | :12:21. | :12:26. | |
vigorously. Michael Le Vell has played the part | :12:26. | :12:36. | |
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of Kevin Webster for 30 years. Kevin John Webster... He is still | :12:36. | :12:41. | |
one of the best-known faces on- screen, as one of the longest- | :12:41. | :12:46. | |
serving cast members of Coronation Street. Today, there was no sign of | :12:46. | :12:51. | |
the actor at his home. He was granted bail late last night after | :12:51. | :12:55. | |
being charged with 19 sexual offences against a girl who is now | :12:55. | :13:00. | |
in her late teens. Under his real name, he faces charges including | :13:00. | :13:07. | |
the rape and indecent assault of a child between 2001 and 2010. The | :13:07. | :13:12. | |
star was first arrested in 2011, in connection with alleged offences | :13:12. | :13:16. | |
against the same child, but no charges were then brought. Now, the | :13:16. | :13:20. | |
Crown Prosecution Service has reviewed the evidence. Alison | :13:20. | :13:30. | |
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Having starred in the soap since 1983, the actor will not be | :13:44. | :13:49. | |
involved in new scenes. Coronation Street has filmed here | :13:49. | :13:55. | |
at the Granada Studios. Today, ITV have said that due to the serious | :13:55. | :13:59. | |
nature of the charges against him, Michael Le Vell won't be appearing | :13:59. | :14:03. | |
in the soap whilst legal proceedings are ongoing. Michael Le | :14:03. | :14:11. | |
Vell will appear before magistrates on February 27th. | :14:11. | :14:16. | |
More than 500 people were injured when a meteor shot across the sky | :14:16. | :14:21. | |
in central Russia sending fireballs crashing to earth. Windows were | :14:21. | :14:24. | |
blown out and buildings damaged. It is the first recorded meteor strike | :14:24. | :14:34. | |
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of this kind for more than 100 The first thing people notice was a | :14:37. | :14:40. | |
fireball flying through the sky, and dozens of video cameras | :14:40. | :14:44. | |
captured the same event, what seems to have been a meteor burning up in | :14:44. | :14:50. | |
the atmosphere, leaving behind it a white trail. TRANSLATION: Eyes on | :14:50. | :14:54. | |
object moving through the sky, then there was a flash. -- I saw. Then | :14:54. | :14:59. | |
we saw a trace as if from a rocket, followed by an explosion a couple | :14:59. | :15:05. | |
of minutes later. The explosion was also caught on camera. It is not | :15:05. | :15:10. | |
yet clear whether it was the meteor exploding in mid-air or hitting the | :15:10. | :15:16. | |
ground. Either way, the shock wave from the blast knocked over walls | :15:16. | :15:21. | |
and blowout windows. This factory in the Urals region suffered | :15:21. | :15:25. | |
extensive damage. People who had rushed to look outside to see what | :15:25. | :15:31. | |
was flying overhead were injured by glass when the windows smashed. | :15:31. | :15:36. | |
Hundreds had to be treated for cuts to their heads and hands. Buildings | :15:36. | :15:42. | |
across the region were evacuated. At one point, the mobile phone | :15:42. | :15:45. | |
networks stop working because of the number of people trying to call | :15:45. | :15:49. | |
friends and relatives. It appears that eyewitnesses all saw the same | :15:49. | :15:53. | |
meteor, but that has not been established for sure, and it is not | :15:53. | :15:57. | |
yet clear how many pieces of meteorite are now lying on the | :15:57. | :16:01. | |
ground in the wilds of the Ural mountains, how many solid reminders | :16:02. | :16:05. | |
there will be of the extraordinary object that fell to earth on a | :16:05. | :16:15. | |
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Just to tell you we will be talking a little bit more about that meteor | :16:17. | :16:21. | |
and an asteroid, indeed, that is heading for Earth, coming up a | :16:21. | :16:25. | |
little later in the programme. That asteroid is due to pass within | :16:25. | :16:29. | |
20,000 miles of us this evening. That is still to come. Just a | :16:29. | :16:36. | |
reminder of our main story this lunchtime, horsemeat has been found | :16:36. | :16:40. | |
in summer school dinners in Lancashire. And the Whitbread chain | :16:40. | :16:44. | |
has found horsemeat in some of its meat products. | :16:44. | :16:50. | |
He also still to come here, a gang which staged a cash for crash | :16:50. | :16:56. | |
collision which killed a driver is being sentenced today. | :16:56. | :16:59. | |
Later on BBC London, the flying doctors, London's air ambulance | :16:59. | :17:03. | |
takes to the skies with a whole new look. And in sport we look ahead to | :17:03. | :17:05. | |
this weekend's FA Cup action with Millwall once again in the | :17:05. | :17:15. | |
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spotlight. Those stories plus a Our main story this lunchtime, the | :17:23. | :17:28. | |
revelations that horsemeat has been found in school dinners sent to 47 | :17:28. | :17:32. | |
Lancashire schools and also, as we said, the huge Whitbread chain also | :17:33. | :17:37. | |
finding horsemeat in a couple of its products. All of this, of | :17:37. | :17:40. | |
course, as the Food Standards Agency prepares to release details | :17:40. | :17:44. | |
of more testing, and we will probably get more results on those | :17:44. | :17:49. | |
tests later today. Let's just assess the situation with medical | :17:49. | :17:53. | |
correspondent Fergus Walsh. We get the sense that things are coming | :17:53. | :17:57. | |
through, information is coming through all the time. What do you | :17:57. | :18:05. | |
make of these developments? Well, obviously, the fact that we found | :18:05. | :18:12. | |
horsemeat in two pub chains and in schools will be of concern, but the | :18:12. | :18:16. | |
medical correspondent, this is not really a medical health issue. This | :18:16. | :18:22. | |
is about mislabelling and a consumer deception issue. Although | :18:22. | :18:26. | |
there are significant developments, I think we may find today, if we | :18:26. | :18:31. | |
are to trust the rumours we are hearing, that the supermarkets will | :18:31. | :18:37. | |
line up and say pretty much they have found none or very little | :18:37. | :18:47. | |
other products with horsemeat in them. For example, the Co-op has | :18:47. | :18:51. | |
said that nine out of 102, all negative, and we have heard from | :18:51. | :18:55. | |
the British Retail Consortium that they are not expecting any of their | :18:55. | :19:01. | |
13 members to reveal more or Smith products. So, obviously, worrying | :19:01. | :19:04. | |
developments today, but in a sense the supermarkets will be hoping | :19:04. | :19:09. | |
very much to draw a line under this, if they can say, well, we have not | :19:09. | :19:13. | |
found any more. Thank you, Fergus Walsh, much more on that story over | :19:13. | :19:18. | |
the course of the day. Four members of a gang who staged a | :19:18. | :19:23. | |
cash for crash collision to result in the death of another driver are | :19:23. | :19:26. | |
being sentenced today. They staged a crash on the A40 in | :19:26. | :19:30. | |
Buckinghamshire which damaged the car of Baljinder Gill, who was then | :19:30. | :19:34. | |
killed by another driver. Our correspondent Tom Symonds is | :19:35. | :19:39. | |
following the case at Reading Crown Court. | :19:39. | :19:45. | |
Yes, these crash for cash scams are increasingly worrying the police. | :19:45. | :19:50. | |
They are staged by criminals so that they can claim personal | :19:50. | :19:59. | |
accident compensation, but this one leads to a tragedy, and as a result | :19:59. | :20:08. | |
a gang of men are facing long The last moments of liberty for the | :20:08. | :20:11. | |
so called Crash For Cash Gang. They staged their collision not on a | :20:11. | :20:16. | |
quiet road but on a dual- carriageway. They planned this | :20:16. | :20:21. | |
quite carefully. Yes, this was an organised crime team who set out to | :20:21. | :20:26. | |
cause a crash on the A40, using their mobile phones to planet. The | :20:26. | :20:30. | |
car you see here pulled in front of the white car, also been driven by | :20:31. | :20:35. | |
one of the members of the gang. The idea was that they would force the | :20:35. | :20:38. | |
green van you see here to crash into the back of the white car when | :20:38. | :20:43. | |
it stood on its brakes. The driver of the green van, recognising that | :20:43. | :20:47. | |
something was afoot, manage to slow down enough to avoid crashing into | :20:47. | :20:52. | |
the back of the white car. Unfortunately, Baljinder Gill, | :20:52. | :20:56. | |
driving the silver car, did not stop in time and crashed into the | :20:56. | :21:01. | |
back of the green van. Baljinder Gill got out of their car to check | :21:01. | :21:05. | |
the damage, but the traffic was still moving. What happened next | :21:05. | :21:09. | |
was witnessed by passengers on a passing coach. The horror of what | :21:09. | :21:14. | |
they saw his evident in their reactions. As Baljinder Gill stood | :21:14. | :21:19. | |
here dealing with her damaged car, another driver was coming up the | :21:19. | :21:24. | |
motorway behind a fast. Colin Lee, in this van, did not see her. He | :21:24. | :21:29. | |
slammed into the back of her car and she was killed instantly. | :21:29. | :21:34. | |
difficulty with causing a crash at 70 mph on a major roads in and out | :21:34. | :21:39. | |
of London towards the Midlands, it is unlikely that any criminal could | :21:39. | :21:43. | |
control what is going to happen to anybody. As proved in this case, | :21:43. | :21:47. | |
they have no control over it, and she tragically lost her life. | :21:48. | :21:53. | |
the very next day the gang began making claims for personal injuries. | :21:53. | :21:57. | |
Crash for cash incidents are a growing problem. It is estimated | :21:57. | :22:01. | |
they cost nearly �400 million a year, pushing up insurance premiums | :22:01. | :22:05. | |
for all motorists. One in seven injury claims are linked to the | :22:05. | :22:10. | |
scams. Police are investigating 40 gangs, along with experts from the | :22:10. | :22:15. | |
insurance industry. Firstly, it increases the cost of insurance | :22:15. | :22:19. | |
policies, and fraud generally at �50 to the cost of your insurance | :22:19. | :22:24. | |
each year. Secondly, with these accidents taking place, we are | :22:24. | :22:27. | |
concerned that people will get injured, and indeed we have seen | :22:27. | :22:32. | |
one fatality. And the officers that investigated this tragedy said it | :22:32. | :22:35. | |
proved one thing above all, that crash for cash is not a victimless | :22:35. | :22:42. | |
Now, three of the four at quarter they were found guilty of the more | :22:42. | :22:46. | |
serious offence of causing death by dangerous driving, and Colin Lee, | :22:46. | :22:51. | |
the driver of the van that smashed into Baljinder Gill's Qom has been | :22:51. | :22:55. | |
found guilty of the less serious offence of causing death by | :22:55. | :23:03. | |
careless driving. All will be A third person caught in an | :23:03. | :23:06. | |
avalanche in the Highlands yesterday has died in hospital. Two | :23:06. | :23:10. | |
men and a woman were buried in snow in the Cairngorms. The area is | :23:11. | :23:14. | |
popular with hill-walkers and is home to three of Scotland's five | :23:14. | :23:21. | |
ski resorts. James Cook is in Aviemore. James. | :23:21. | :23:25. | |
Yes, within the past few minutes, the Ministry of Defence has | :23:25. | :23:28. | |
confirmed that two of the three people who died in yesterday's | :23:28. | :23:34. | |
incident where RAF personnel. They died just behind me here in an area | :23:34. | :23:37. | |
known as the Chalamain Gap, and for the RAF and for people here, this | :23:37. | :23:45. | |
The beauty of the mountains is what draws people here, and the | :23:45. | :23:50. | |
challenge of heading off into the snow we Wildes, but for two groups | :23:50. | :23:53. | |
Yesterday's venture into the hills ended in tragedy. The avalanche | :23:53. | :23:57. | |
happened on the lower slopes, just a few miles from the Cairngorms ski | :23:57. | :24:02. | |
centre. It was not an area thought to be high risk. Certainly not, and | :24:02. | :24:06. | |
everybody who knows about this incident is quite shocked that it | :24:06. | :24:11. | |
happened at this relatively low altitude. Within minutes of the | :24:11. | :24:14. | |
avalanche, mountain rescuers were risking their lives and heading out | :24:14. | :24:18. | |
to try to save others. Two helicopters were sent from RAF | :24:18. | :24:23. | |
Lossiemouth. They picked up the three casualties, two men and a | :24:23. | :24:28. | |
woman, and flew them to Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, but none survived. | :24:28. | :24:32. | |
They were not the only people on the mountain yesterday. These two | :24:32. | :24:35. | |
climbers spend the night in a snow hole before making it back safely | :24:35. | :24:41. | |
this morning. You know there is a risk when you go up there. And you | :24:41. | :24:47. | |
just have to be careful, check the snow, use your common sense. I mean, | :24:47. | :24:53. | |
unfortunately, an avalanche can happen whenever. It is terrible, | :24:53. | :24:56. | |
but again, you have just got to choose the right locations, plan | :24:56. | :25:01. | |
ahead, check the weather, check the avalanche forecasts. Eight people | :25:01. | :25:05. | |
have now died on Scottish mountains this year, seven in avalanches, but | :25:05. | :25:09. | |
most climbers and rescuers in the Highlands should not and could not | :25:09. | :25:18. | |
We will get more details of what happened from the police in a news | :25:18. | :25:21. | |
conference this afternoon, but for now the Ministry of Defence says | :25:21. | :25:24. | |
that his thoughts and prayers are with the families of those who died | :25:24. | :25:28. | |
here. All right, thank you for now, James | :25:28. | :25:32. | |
Cook there. A British backpacker missing in the | :25:32. | :25:35. | |
Australian outback for more than three days has been found by | :25:35. | :25:39. | |
rescuers. 18-year-old Sam Woodhead disappeared from a cattle station | :25:39. | :25:48. | |
in Queensland on Tuesday. Nick Rescued from a frightening Outback | :25:48. | :25:52. | |
ordeal, Sam Woodhead, the 18-year- old from London, seen here with his | :25:52. | :25:56. | |
mother and sister at last year's Olympics, whose early evening jog | :25:56. | :26:02. | |
on Tuesday evening became a three- day test of survival. In 40 degree | :26:02. | :26:05. | |
heat of the outback, Australia's harshest terrain, the police had | :26:05. | :26:09. | |
grave fears for his safety. So when the news reached his home in | :26:09. | :26:13. | |
Richmond early this morning that he had been found, his father and | :26:13. | :26:19. | |
sister were elated. Very, very sort of rugged terrain like that, | :26:19. | :26:26. | |
anything could have happened, and I think Sam's fitness and interest in | :26:26. | :26:33. | |
the outdoor world, if you like, has served him in good stead, thank | :26:33. | :26:38. | |
you! And enabled him to last for quite a long time. He had set off | :26:38. | :26:42. | |
from a remote sheep farm in Queensland where he had started | :26:42. | :26:47. | |
working, 80 miles from the nearest town. But then he got lost and | :26:47. | :26:50. | |
disorientated, and rather than making his way back to the farm, he | :26:50. | :26:56. | |
kept moving further away. He was spotted by a rescue helicopter, | :26:56. | :27:00. | |
sunburnt, dehydrated, suffering from cuts and abrasions, but | :27:01. | :27:06. | |
otherwise he is in surprisingly good shape. A fitness fanatic and | :27:06. | :27:11. | |
keen rugby player, he has been in Australia on a gap year before | :27:11. | :27:14. | |
joining the armed forces. He had apparently been finding life on the | :27:14. | :27:18. | |
remote farm a bit boring when he had gone looking for adventure. | :27:18. | :27:28. | |
:27:28. | :27:34. | ||
Nick Bryant there are talking about, thankfully, the recovery of that he | :27:34. | :27:37. | |
and 18-year-old after three days in the outback. Now, as promised, we | :27:37. | :27:41. | |
are going to talk about space matters. As we head earlier, 500 | :27:41. | :27:45. | |
people were injured in Russia when that meteorite shot across the sky | :27:45. | :27:51. | |
there, and tonight an asteroid the size of an Olympic swimming pool is | :27:51. | :27:56. | |
going to be whistling past Earth, coming within about 20,000 miles of | :27:56. | :28:00. | |
the surface. Let's assess the significance of these things, with | :28:01. | :28:03. | |
me in the studio is Dr Marek Kukula from the Royal observatory | :28:03. | :28:09. | |
Greenwich. Good afternoon to you. Now, people were injured, we do not | :28:09. | :28:12. | |
want to downplay that, what happened in Russia, but in | :28:12. | :28:17. | |
astronomical terms this is very unusual. It is unusual to see a | :28:17. | :28:21. | |
fireball of this brightness and intensity, and to have such video | :28:21. | :28:25. | |
footage, lots and lots of different clips of video is really unusual, | :28:25. | :28:32. | |
fascinating scientific trochees. And if people find meteorites on | :28:32. | :28:37. | |
the ground, that is presumably important for research. Absolutely, | :28:37. | :28:41. | |
scientists who study meteorites will be very excited to get any | :28:41. | :28:45. | |
solid pieces in their hands, so we have an idea of where it may have | :28:45. | :28:49. | |
come from in the solar system. that is not enough for one day, we | :28:49. | :28:55. | |
have an asteroid, are these two things linked? It could be a | :28:55. | :28:59. | |
coincidence. There are lot of rocks at there, but maybe too much of a | :28:59. | :29:02. | |
coincidence. Scientists will be looking at the trajectory of the | :29:02. | :29:05. | |
Russian meteor to see if it is similar to the orbit of the | :29:05. | :29:09. | |
asteroid. They will be able to compare the composition, but it | :29:10. | :29:15. | |
could just be a cosmic coincidence. 20,000 miles, is that close? It is | :29:15. | :29:19. | |
safe, and it is certainly not going to hit us, unlike the thing that | :29:19. | :29:22. | |
exploded over Russia, but in astronomical terms it is closer | :29:22. | :29:27. | |
than a lot of our satellites, it is within our cosmic territory. It is | :29:27. | :29:31. | |
fascinating, thank you very much indeed, Dr Marek Kukula or from the | :29:31. | :29:35. | |
Royal observatory in Greenwich. I wonder how clear these guys need to | :29:35. | :29:43. | |
be to see any of that. Let's find A pretty decent chance of seeing | :29:43. | :29:46. | |
the asteroid tonight, but you will need a pair of binoculars at the | :29:46. | :29:51. | |
very least. It is a big beasts, 50 metres across, the size of an | :29:52. | :29:55. | |
Olympic swimming pool, and in this Markup you can see how close it is | :29:55. | :30:01. | |
going to get, 17,000 miles at its closest point. -- More Cup. | :30:01. | :30:04. | |
Astronomically speaking, that is close. For example, it is a lot | :30:04. | :30:08. | |
closer than the satellite which took this image of the clouds | :30:08. | :30:12. | |
currently across the UK. There is a little bit of cloud here and there, | :30:12. | :30:16. | |
but a fine afternoon for the majority, sunny spells lifting the | :30:16. | :30:20. | |
temperatures to nine degrees. More cloud may spill into the southwest | :30:20. | :30:23. | |
later this afternoon, but on the south coast we could reach double | :30:23. | :30:28. | |
figures. Maybe not quite as warm as yesterday, but with lighter winds, | :30:28. | :30:32. | |
feeling pleasant in the sunshine. Some patches of cloud around, this | :30:32. | :30:35. | |
one across North Wales may produce some showers, a small chance of | :30:35. | :30:40. | |
showers across Northern Ireland and western Scotland. For the majority, | :30:40. | :30:45. | |
staying fine for the rest of the day. 89 on the Moray Firth already. | :30:45. | :30:49. | |
Temperatures dropping quite sharply this evening, clouding over across | :30:49. | :30:51. | |
Northern Ireland and western Scotland. Elsewhere in the West, | :30:51. | :30:56. | |
the best chance of clear skies, looking for that asteroid, across | :30:56. | :31:00. | |
central and eastern areas. In the clear skies, that is where it is | :31:00. | :31:05. | |
going to turn quite foggy with dense patches expected as | :31:05. | :31:09. | |
temperatures in the East dropped down to freezing. Not as cold in | :31:09. | :31:11. | |
the north-west, where they will be patchy rain. That should clear on | :31:11. | :31:16. | |
Saturday. The fog will be slower to disappear. As I say, it could cause | :31:16. | :31:21. | |
a few issues, it may affect the airports across eastern England, | :31:21. | :31:26. | |
and it may take a while to clear. Once it has gone, much of the | :31:26. | :31:30. | |
country will be dry and bright with sunshine. In the West, cloud, | :31:30. | :31:34. | |
drizzly rain around the western coasts, but for the majority it is | :31:34. | :31:39. | |
a dry and bright Saturday, seven-10 Celsius, about average for the time | :31:39. | :31:43. | |
of year. The finance settled weather is going to last, this high | :31:43. | :31:47. | |
pressure is keeping the weather fronts at bay. -- the fine and | :31:47. | :31:52. | |
settled weather. Generally dry, some cloud milling around, early | :31:52. | :31:56. | |
morning mist and fog again, but generally dry and bright, | :31:56. | :32:00. | |
temperatures up to nine Celsius in the sunshine. Overall, the weekend | :32:00. | :32:04. | |
is pretty pleasant, watch out for morning fog on Saturday, and the | :32:04. | :32:08. | |
winds will be like. More information and a little bit of a | :32:08. | :32:11. | |
video explaining more about the asteroid and the chances of seeing | :32:11. | :32:19. | |
Before we go, a reminder of our top story this lunchtime. Horsemeat has | :32:19. | :32:23. |