:00:15. > :00:18.Still waiting - Oscar Pistorius is about to find out if he has been
:00:18. > :00:26.granted bail. The Chief Magistrate is about to give his ruling on the
:00:26. > :00:33.fourth day of legal argument in This is the South African court
:00:33. > :00:36.where he's hearing that ruling. We'll be live at the courthouse.
:00:37. > :00:43.After the inquiry, the BBC publishes evidence why it dropped
:00:43. > :00:47.its investigation into Jimmy Savile. The Trust chairman says it paints a
:00:47. > :00:50.very unhappy picture but some of the evidence remains unpublished.
:00:50. > :00:52.Birds Eye is the latest food company to withdraw products from
:00:52. > :00:59.its shelves after horsemeat was found in beef meals, as Scottish
:00:59. > :01:04.schools ban all frozen beefburgers. Failing to keep up - England's top
:01:04. > :01:07.pupils fall two years behind pupils in other countries by the time they
:01:07. > :01:11.take GCSEs. Do you like hospital food? The
:01:11. > :01:14.Government spends millions of pounds to make it better. Campaign
:01:14. > :01:19.groups say the money has been wasted.
:01:19. > :01:24.Later on BBC London, the mayor steps in to exempt plans to turn
:01:24. > :01:34.offices into housing. Accused of discrimination - why
:01:34. > :01:42.
:01:42. > :01:48.City University won't let Muslim Good afternoon and welcome to the
:01:48. > :01:51.BBC News at One. The Paralympic champion Oscar Pistorius will hear
:01:51. > :01:57.shortly if he's to be granted bail before going on trial for the
:01:57. > :02:02.murder of his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp. The athlete says he shot
:02:02. > :02:06.Ms Steenkamp by mistake, thinking she was an intruder at his home in
:02:06. > :02:10.Pretoria. He's denied premeditated murder, but the prosecutor has
:02:10. > :02:13.argued that Mr Pistorius was intent on killing and would pose a flight
:02:13. > :02:21.risk if freed. The decision on the bail hearing is being read to a
:02:21. > :02:25.court in Pretoria now. This report from Peter Biles.
:02:25. > :02:30.Oscar Pistorius returned to court for the fourth day of this bail
:02:30. > :02:33.hearing after another night in the police cells in Pretoria. His
:02:33. > :02:38.family supported him. They were hopeful that he would be released
:02:38. > :02:44.on bail. The athlete's coach was also in court. He too was
:02:44. > :02:48.optimistic in spite of the personal turmoil that Oscar Pistorius is
:02:48. > :02:54.clearly experiencing. I'm sure we can start training Monday if he's
:02:54. > :02:58.out on bail. I think just to get his mind cleared as soon as he can
:02:58. > :03:02.start with a bit of work, the better. On the streets outside the
:03:02. > :03:07.Magistrates Court, the Pistorius case is still the only talking
:03:07. > :03:10.point in town. In their closing arguments, prosecution and defence
:03:10. > :03:14.lawyers returned to the issue of whether Oscar Pistorius had shown
:03:14. > :03:18.intent when killing Reeva Steenkamp at his home last week. He'd said he
:03:18. > :03:22.got up to fetch a fan from a balcony. He heard a noise in the
:03:22. > :03:26.bathroom, grabbed his gun and shot four times through the door of the
:03:26. > :03:31.toilet. The prosecutor said the degree of violence was horrific and
:03:31. > :03:36.his actions had shown intent to murder. But Mr Pistorius' lawyer
:03:36. > :03:41.said he'd wanted to kill an unknown burglar, not his girlfriend Reeva.
:03:41. > :03:44.Oscar Pistorius has been at the centre of an emotional whirlwind
:03:44. > :03:49.this week. Whatever the outcome, when this case eventually comes to
:03:49. > :03:56.trial, his life has changed forever. Well, Peter joins me from the
:03:56. > :04:00.courthouse now. We're still waiting. Yes. The magistrate, Desmond Nair,
:04:00. > :04:04.began his ruling a little while ago. He's expecting to take at least an
:04:05. > :04:09.hour or more to deliver the ruling. There is immense interest in what
:04:09. > :04:13.he has to say. He's going to decide on whether or not Oscar Pistorius
:04:13. > :04:18.is granted bail. Don't forget that a trial is still many months away,
:04:18. > :04:22.perhaps even a year away. As far as the state is concerned, this was a
:04:22. > :04:26.case of premeditated murder. As far as the defence is concerned, it was
:04:26. > :04:28.a tragic accident in which Oscar Pistorius shot and killed his
:04:28. > :04:33.girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp. Back to you.
:04:33. > :04:37.Peter, thank you very much. Of course, as soon as that decision
:04:37. > :04:42.comes through, we'll bring it to you here on the BBC News at 1.00pm.
:04:43. > :04:46.Now, you're watching the News at One. Thousands of pages of evidence
:04:47. > :04:49.gathered during an inquiry into why Newsnight dropped its investigation
:04:49. > :04:53.into abuse by Jimmy Savile have been published by the BBC. In
:04:53. > :04:56.December, an independent review concluded that the decision had
:04:56. > :05:00.been seriously flawed. The material published this morning includes
:05:00. > :05:04.interviews with managers and journalists at the corporation as
:05:05. > :05:09.well as e-mails and texts. In one exchange, the Newsnight presenter
:05:09. > :05:12.Jeremy Paxman says it was common gossip that Jimmy Savile liked
:05:12. > :05:16.young girls. Our correspondent Nick Higham reports.
:05:16. > :05:21.It was the scandal that brought down a Director-General and ended
:05:21. > :05:24.up revealing chaos and confusion at the top of the BBC and a lack of
:05:24. > :05:29.leadership and control. A Newsnight investigation into Jimmy Savile had
:05:29. > :05:33.been dropped by the programme's editor just over a month after his
:05:33. > :05:38.death. A decision condemned as flawed in a report commissioned by
:05:38. > :05:43.the BBC. That report by Nick Pollard, former head of Sky News
:05:43. > :05:47.was published in December. Now the BBC has given the affair a new
:05:47. > :05:51.lease of life by publishing thousands of pages of evidence
:05:51. > :05:52.submitted to Pollard. In it exam makers and executives speak frankly
:05:53. > :05:56.about what happened. Controversially, some of the
:05:56. > :06:02.material has been blacked out, but, says the BBC, there is nothing
:06:02. > :06:05.sinister in that. Everything we have redacted is purely driven by
:06:05. > :06:08.external legal advice, and in this big pack of supporting material,
:06:08. > :06:13.there are thousands of pages that, frankly, are uncomfortable reading
:06:13. > :06:16.for the BBC. I think people when they read it will not look at, say,
:06:16. > :06:21.management the BBC have been deliberately trying to stop
:06:21. > :06:31.embarrassment. Frankly, that doesn't stack up. The chair of the
:06:31. > :06:33.
:06:33. > :06:39.The material released today adds little that's new but it will
:06:39. > :06:41.further embarrass the BBC, and it won't silence those who think the
:06:41. > :06:45.corporation wrong not to have published every scrap of evidence.
:06:45. > :06:47.Nick is with me now. What have we learnt that is new? I think one
:06:47. > :06:51.thing we have learnt that we didn't know before is that when Jimmy
:06:51. > :06:55.Savile died, the BBC's online story about his death attracted a lot of
:06:55. > :06:58.comments, some of which were taken down by moderators, which did
:06:58. > :07:02.identify Jimmy Savile as a paedophile. One person said, "One
:07:02. > :07:06.of my best friends in 1972 was molested by this creep Savile. He
:07:06. > :07:10.was never the same again." Another commenter referred to a blog
:07:10. > :07:13.written by a former pupil at dun Croft, which was the approved
:07:13. > :07:17.school, which sparked the original Newsnight investigation. She goes
:07:17. > :07:21.into great detail, this person says, about the acts this gentleman
:07:21. > :07:24.forced the girls to perform. As I say, those comments were taken down
:07:24. > :07:28.by moderators, but it does show there were people trying to alert
:07:28. > :07:32.the BBC immediately after his death to his real character. What else
:07:32. > :07:36.has emerged from these documents? whole scatter gun of things, which
:07:36. > :07:39.it's very difficult really to make sense of. We know a lot more about
:07:39. > :07:43.what various people in the BBC think about various other people in
:07:43. > :07:48.the BBC - Jeremy Paxman, for instance, very disparaging what
:07:48. > :07:53.about he saw as a cadry of young people from radio taking over at
:07:53. > :07:57.news - one of those people, Helen Bowden, the Director of News
:07:57. > :08:01.talking about first being told about the Newsnight investigation,
:08:01. > :08:05.saying it doesn't sound like core Newsnight territory." She thought
:08:05. > :08:10.it was a rather tabloidesque story involving groupies, but then she
:08:10. > :08:15.was told it was about sexual abuse of teenage girl, she then thought
:08:15. > :08:18.in that case it was critical. We have then heard the BBC Trust
:08:18. > :08:21.chairman Lord Patten was angry he wasn't fully informed of what was
:08:21. > :08:26.going on. We know the director general of the BBC, who departed -
:08:26. > :08:29.he was tipped off at an industry function by Helen Bowden about this
:08:29. > :08:33.potential Jimmy Savile investigation and Newsnight, and he
:08:33. > :08:36.apparently said, "I remember saying thanks, and I think I may have said
:08:37. > :08:41.it in an ironical way because I wanted to reflect the view that
:08:41. > :08:45.television might generally have of news's capacity for creating
:08:45. > :08:50.problems." Nick, thank you very much.
:08:50. > :08:56.Don't forget, the BBC News website is publishing key quotes from the
:08:56. > :08:59.inquiry. It's at bbc.co.uk/news. Birds Eye is withdrawing three beef
:08:59. > :09:03.ready meals after traces of horse were found in its ready-made chilli
:09:03. > :09:05.con carne. And all Scottish schools have been told not to serve frozen
:09:05. > :09:08.beefburgers after a burger in a Lanarkshire school kitchen was
:09:08. > :09:11.found to contain traces of horse DNA. The results of the Food
:09:11. > :09:19.Standards Agency tests into other beef products are to be published
:09:19. > :09:24.this afternoon. Sophie Hutchinson reports.
:09:24. > :09:27.Three more products removed from the shelves as part of the
:09:27. > :09:32.horsemeat scandal - Birds Eye says it's a precautionary measure. The
:09:32. > :09:38.ready meals are all made by a Belgium supplier, whose chili con
:09:38. > :09:48.carne not sold in the UK has tested positive for horsemeat. Today Birds
:09:48. > :09:48.
:09:48. > :09:54.A the association for the UK's cattle producersas has stretched
:09:54. > :09:58.it's better to buy beef reared at home with shorter supply chains.
:09:58. > :10:01.Having convoluted supply chains - it allows mistakes and hampering to
:10:01. > :10:04.happen with the supply. That's been apparent with the horsemeat
:10:04. > :10:09.situation. The more traders involved, the higher the chance of
:10:09. > :10:12.a risk of tampering with that product. Concern about
:10:12. > :10:17.contamination has now led local authorities in Scotland to tell
:10:17. > :10:23.schools to take beefburgers cooked from frozen off the menu. It
:10:23. > :10:27.follows the discovery of horsemeat in a burger from an unnamed North
:10:27. > :10:32.Lanarkshire school kitchen. Other council-run services are being told
:10:32. > :10:36.to put services on hold. Last week tests carried out by the Food
:10:36. > :10:41.Standards Agency on 2,500 beef products found almost 30 contained
:10:41. > :10:47.horsemeat. A second set of results for horse and pig DNA is expected
:10:47. > :10:50.today from 140 beef-based ready meals. These include lasagna,
:10:50. > :10:54.cottage pie and spaghetti bolognese. Some of the biggest brands have
:10:54. > :10:59.been dragged into this scandal. Next week the food watchdog will
:10:59. > :11:04.broaden its scope and examine food where beef is a major ingredient.
:11:04. > :11:08.It's expected to include beef dripping, gelatine and stock cubes,
:11:08. > :11:12.all this while police across Europe continue their criminal
:11:12. > :11:16.investigations into how horsemeat came to be sold as beef.
:11:16. > :11:20.A court has heard evidence from a teenager who says she was raped
:11:21. > :11:25.multiple times by a gang starting when she was 12 years old. Nine men
:11:25. > :11:28.deny 51 charges including rape and sex traing against girls. Our
:11:28. > :11:33.correspondent Mike Sergeant is at the Old Bailey. What was said in
:11:33. > :11:36.court this morning? The court has heard more harrowing evidence from
:11:36. > :11:39.the fourth of the alleged victims in this case, who, as you say, was
:11:39. > :11:44.just 12 when some of these incidents were said to have taken
:11:44. > :11:48.place. Appearing by video link and pausing frequently to compose
:11:48. > :11:52.herself, she described one incident when one of the defendants,
:11:52. > :11:56.Mohammed Karrar, took a hairpin and bent it into the shape of the
:11:57. > :12:02.letter M for "Mohammed". He then, she said, heated it up with a
:12:02. > :12:06.lighter and branded her on an intimate part of her body. "He was
:12:06. > :12:10.branding me so everyone would know I belonged to him" she told the
:12:10. > :12:13.court. She also described several occasion when she was raped by
:12:13. > :12:17.Mohammed Karrar and his brother Bassam Karrar and other men who
:12:17. > :12:20.were also invited to have sex with her. On one occasion she said she
:12:20. > :12:25.tried to resist by grabbing Mohammed Karrar's knife and
:12:25. > :12:29.threatening to staff him with it. He took the knife back off her and
:12:29. > :12:34.she said went mad and told everyone else to leave. Then she said he
:12:34. > :12:37.took a baseball bat and hit her over the head with it and sexually
:12:37. > :12:46.assaulted her as well. Her evidence will continue this afternoon, and
:12:46. > :12:49.the nine defendants deny all the charges. Mike Sergeant, thank you.
:12:49. > :12:52.At the age of ten, England's brightest pupils are a match for
:12:52. > :12:55.most foreign counterparts in maths. But by the time they take their
:12:55. > :12:58.GCSEs, they're up to two years behind equivalent pupils in Taiwan
:12:58. > :13:00.and Hong Kong. That's according to research from the University of
:13:00. > :13:03.London, which also found that English students are overtaken by
:13:03. > :13:05.those in Scotland by the time they're 16. Our education
:13:05. > :13:11.correspondent Reeta Chakrabarti explains.
:13:11. > :13:13.Let's roll numbers. Comparing how pupils from around the globe do in
:13:13. > :13:18.key subjects has become increasingly important in recent
:13:18. > :13:21.years. Now researchers have looked at data from two international
:13:21. > :13:26.league tables and found the gap between able children in England
:13:27. > :13:31.and other countries in maths widens in secondary school. Singapore,
:13:31. > :13:34.along with Hong Kong, Taiwan and Japan consistently comes top of
:13:34. > :13:38.international school tables, including in maths. Today's
:13:38. > :13:44.research found English children some way behind those in Singapore
:13:44. > :13:47.at age ten, but almost as strong as their peers in Hong Kong and Taiwan,
:13:47. > :13:51.but by 16 they'd fallen behind, with pupils in Scotland slightly
:13:51. > :13:55.ahead of them. Why is this happening? One maths teacher at a
:13:55. > :13:59.London secondary school says it's due to environment and schooling.
:13:59. > :14:03.Education in Asian countries is much more respected than it is here.
:14:03. > :14:07.Unfortunately, there's a lot of distractions for our student, so
:14:07. > :14:12.therefore they're not as, if you like, they're not driven as much as
:14:12. > :14:16.our Asian counterparts and especially in maths. The brightest
:14:16. > :14:19.students aren't stretched as much as they should be. But say the
:14:19. > :14:22.authors, widespread tutoring in East Asia and higher teacher
:14:22. > :14:26.salaries also make a difference, and East Asian children who have
:14:26. > :14:29.been through the English system do very well in these tests too,
:14:29. > :14:33.suggesting the reasons may be partly cultural. There's things
:14:33. > :14:36.going on outside of the schooling system, and particularly outside
:14:36. > :14:41.secondary schools, that's driving these results. In other words, it
:14:41. > :14:45.could be, say, pushy parents, or it could be other cultural factors
:14:45. > :14:50.that's driving this. The Secretary of State... But these league tables
:14:50. > :14:53.are important to the Education Secretary, Michael Gove. Today
:14:53. > :14:56.Ministers said Government reforms including a harder curriculum and
:14:56. > :15:02.exams and better teaching will help drive up standards. The league
:15:02. > :15:06.table of the future will show if their prct predictions are correct.
:15:06. > :15:10.It's exactly 1.30pm. Our top story: The Paralympic champion Oscar
:15:10. > :15:12.Pistorius will hear shortly if he's to be granted bail before going on
:15:13. > :15:16.trial for the murder of his girlfriend.
:15:16. > :15:21.Coming up: The most unlikely League Cup final
:15:21. > :15:26.- giant killers Bradford City take on Swansea at Wembley.
:15:26. > :15:30.Later on BBC London, the new work of art that's appeared after a
:15:30. > :15:40.Banksy was removed in North London only to go on auction in Miami. Two
:15:40. > :15:44.
:15:44. > :15:48.London clubs remain on course for Campaigners what compulsory
:15:48. > :15:50.standards of nutrition and quality far hospital food to be introduced
:15:50. > :15:54.in England. The Campaign for Better Hospital Food says 20 years of
:15:54. > :15:57.voluntary guidelines have not worked. �54 million has been wasted
:15:57. > :16:01.on initiatives that have failed to improve food for patients. The
:16:01. > :16:06.government says that decision on what to serve should be taken
:16:07. > :16:12.locally, rather than at a national level. John Maguire is at North
:16:12. > :16:16.Tyneside General Hospital for us. It is worth remembering that there
:16:16. > :16:20.are many hospitals across England who produce very good, very
:16:20. > :16:24.nutritious food. Here for example in Northumbria, they have a scheme
:16:24. > :16:28.to ensure that the patient eats the food once it is brought to their
:16:28. > :16:32.bedside. They showed these picture menus, particularly appreciated by
:16:32. > :16:36.elderly patients. The problem is that certainly in England at the
:16:36. > :16:42.moment this sort of idea is not controlled, is not insisted upon by
:16:42. > :16:47.law, as it is in Scotland and Wales, so campaigners want hospital food
:16:47. > :16:50.in England to meet those same legal standards.
:16:50. > :16:57.The report details a raft of initiatives and launches to improve
:16:57. > :17:01.food. 21, in fact. One for every year since 1992. But campaigners
:17:01. > :17:08.say it is a list of failure. Too many hospitals produce food that is
:17:08. > :17:13.cheap, of little nutritional value and sometimes is inedible.
:17:13. > :17:19.What do you think it is? What is it? It is supposed to be shepherd's
:17:19. > :17:23.pie. Michael Sears has been in and out of hospitals for 30 years with
:17:23. > :17:29.Crohn's disease. He has had a bowel transplant and now campaigns and
:17:29. > :17:32.lochs about patients' food, based on his experiences. I have been in
:17:32. > :17:36.three major -- major hospitals where it is not just myself and
:17:36. > :17:42.family who bring in, between patients and the nurses we co-
:17:42. > :17:45.ordinate rotors. So the staff bring in takeaway food? Yes. A report by
:17:45. > :17:51.the Campaign for Better Hospital Food says there has been 20 years
:17:51. > :17:55.of failure, broken pledges and promises. Here in Scotland and in
:17:55. > :18:00.Wales, where health is devolved, there are mandatory standards but
:18:00. > :18:03.not in England. What is even more shocking is this Government has
:18:03. > :18:07.introduced food standards another part of the public sector including
:18:07. > :18:11.government departments, food served to government ministers and also
:18:11. > :18:16.presents, so it is even more staggering that the same rules have
:18:16. > :18:21.not been applied to a hospital food as well. It is a mixed bag. Here in
:18:21. > :18:25.Nottingham for example, the Trust puts food at the very heart of its
:18:25. > :18:29.treatment. England is about to introduce a system of checks by
:18:29. > :18:36.volunteers, representing patients, and Westminster rejects the setting
:18:36. > :18:41.of national standards. There is no reason whatsoever why food can't be
:18:41. > :18:44.delivered to a good standard but also in a nutritious way involving
:18:44. > :18:48.chefs and other people to help us and make sure we can improve the
:18:48. > :18:52.quality and nutritional food and in particular we are asking patients
:18:52. > :18:56.to give the back. That has got to be the way forward. Ben Page --
:18:56. > :19:02.campaigners and patients will watch carefully if this latest scheme is
:19:02. > :19:07.judged yet another failure, it will be hard to swallow.
:19:07. > :19:10.It is worth mentioning also that as well as those patient lead groups
:19:10. > :19:14.there are inspections taking place at the moment by the Care Quality
:19:14. > :19:17.Commission at around 50 hospitals across England. That report will be
:19:17. > :19:21.published in the next couple of weeks, the next couple of months.
:19:21. > :19:27.It will give us a much clearer idea of exactly what is on the menu in
:19:27. > :19:30.hospitals across England. There is a warning from motoring
:19:30. > :19:34.organisations and retailers that petrol prices could reach a record
:19:34. > :19:38.high at Easter. One reason is that the pound has fallen to a two-and-
:19:38. > :19:41.a-half-year low against the US dollar. Our chief economics
:19:41. > :19:48.correspondent Hugh Pym is here. What is behind a two-and-a-half-
:19:48. > :19:53.year low? It hit a low a couple of days ago. It has come back a bit
:19:53. > :19:56.since but pretty low relatively speaking. It seems there is a
:19:56. > :20:00.different view of the UK economy, they are worried about news that
:20:00. > :20:04.inflation is predicted to stay high for longer than it was revealed the
:20:04. > :20:07.other day that the members of the MUC Monetary Policy Committee
:20:07. > :20:10.wanted to do more to stimulate the economy, so the pound weakened.
:20:10. > :20:14.Very good news for exporters selling goods abroad. Not so good
:20:14. > :20:24.for anybody who wants to travel to the United States, for example, and
:20:24. > :20:27.not so good for people in -- people we have been hearing? A very good
:20:27. > :20:30.illustration of what a weaker pound means. Into now off --
:20:30. > :20:32.international fuel supplies are priced in dollars, therefore
:20:32. > :20:37.British royal companies putting oil on the forecourts have to pay more
:20:38. > :20:42.because of a weaker pound and the price at the pumps of unleaded is
:20:42. > :20:48.now �1.39 a litre, up from �1.32 at the beginning of this year. Still
:20:48. > :20:51.below the record level we saw last April in 2012 of �1.42, but
:20:51. > :20:56.motoring organisations are saying it could hit that record level. We
:20:56. > :21:02.have learned that the volume of fuel sold in the UK in January was
:21:02. > :21:07.the lowest it has ever been for that month since 1990.
:21:07. > :21:09.More than 40 tanker drivers at Grangemouth refinery on the Firth
:21:09. > :21:14.of Forth are beginning a three-day strike. The drivers have walked out
:21:14. > :21:19.over a dispute with BP about pay and pensions. The Unite union says
:21:19. > :21:21.the action will affect supplies of aviation fuel and deliveries to be
:21:21. > :21:25.before courts in Scotland and north-east England. The company
:21:25. > :21:28.says its operations will be unaffected.
:21:28. > :21:31.The senior Liberal Democrat peer Lord Rennard has strongly denied
:21:31. > :21:35.allegations of sexual harassment made against him by a number of
:21:35. > :21:38.women. He is standing aside from the Lib Dems group in the House of
:21:38. > :21:43.Lords while the matter is resolved. The party has begun an inquiry into
:21:43. > :21:47.the way it handles harassment claims. Al political correspondent
:21:47. > :21:52.Ross Hawkins is in Westminster. Who is he and how damaging could this
:21:52. > :21:56.be? Chris Lemar has been a hugely important figure for the Lib Dems.
:21:56. > :22:00.He was for decades in effect there campaigner in chief responsible for
:22:00. > :22:05.many of their victories. Last night, Channel Four News published a
:22:05. > :22:08.report in which women alleged that he had been appropriately touched
:22:08. > :22:13.them or propositioned them and went on to say that these reports had
:22:13. > :22:16.been put to senior figures in that -- these reports had been put to
:22:16. > :22:20.senior figures in the party but had not been properly dealt with. Lord
:22:20. > :22:24.Rennard disputed the report, which he said was a distortion of his
:22:24. > :22:28.character. He said in 27 years he was not aware of any allegation of
:22:28. > :22:33.misconduct against him. As you mentioned, the party is not looking
:22:33. > :22:36.just at what he may or may not have done but also into how it handled
:22:36. > :22:41.the allegations. The crucial questions there will be who knew
:22:41. > :22:44.what and when, how senior what those people who may have received
:22:44. > :22:50.allegations against Lord Rennard and what on earth did they do about
:22:50. > :22:52.it at the time? The home team's a reaction of the
:22:52. > :22:56.Six Nations Championship this weekend. Wales will have a tough
:22:56. > :23:00.fight against Italy in Rome tomorrow, and the home team could
:23:00. > :23:04.struggle without their captain. Scotland take on Ireland and
:23:04. > :23:07.changed England team take on France at Twickenham. Our sports
:23:07. > :23:12.correspondent Joe Wilson is there and for England, three changes at
:23:12. > :23:16.the moment? Absolutely, there is a saying in sport that you should
:23:16. > :23:19.never change a winning team. England have done that for the game
:23:19. > :23:23.against France. I think chiefly to make sure their team is as big and
:23:23. > :23:28.physical and -- as possible, because France come here already
:23:28. > :23:32.with a sense of desperation after two defeats. For them it is almost
:23:32. > :23:36.unheard of. They have made it clear they are targeting one Englishman
:23:36. > :23:40.in particular, the young fly half, when Farrell, 21 years of age. He
:23:40. > :23:44.has shown remarkable calmness and composure during the victories so
:23:44. > :23:48.far, kicking a points. France have made it clear they will make it as
:23:48. > :23:51.difficult as they can for him. Let's be clear, that does not mean
:23:51. > :23:54.they are going to ask him tricky questions about French grammar, but
:23:54. > :24:00.it is going to be very physical him at Twickenham tomorrow early
:24:00. > :24:03.evening. Scotland and Wales both leading momentum? Yes, absolutely.
:24:04. > :24:08.They will be trying to build on those victories for them a
:24:08. > :24:14.fortnight ago. Wales ended a long run of defeats by beating France.
:24:14. > :24:19.As you said, it is a tricky in Rome but Italy are missing their
:24:19. > :24:23.inspirational captain, who is so Urdd -- serving a ban after being
:24:23. > :24:27.rude to a referee. It is like a pizza without a base. Scotland
:24:27. > :24:31.versus Italy on Sunday, sorry, Scotland versus Ireland. Ireland
:24:31. > :24:34.are looking in experienced with a lot of injuries. It could be the
:24:34. > :24:38.close -- closest game of the lot, on Sunday afternoon. The Six
:24:38. > :24:44.Nations, it is what February weekends were made for. Stay warm,
:24:44. > :24:48.listen or watch on the BBC. Bradford City and Swansea will meet
:24:48. > :24:51.in the most unlikely of League Cup finals at Wembley on Sunday.
:24:51. > :24:56.Bradford play in the 4th to of English football. They have not
:24:56. > :24:59.reached a major final for 102 years. The day will be bittersweet as the
:24:59. > :25:06.club remembers its supporters who lost their lives in a fire at its
:25:06. > :25:09.ground in 1985. Bradford's journey to Wembley has
:25:09. > :25:12.been a remarkable one and as the squad left for London this morning
:25:12. > :25:16.they knew that win or lose on Sunday they had already made
:25:16. > :25:19.history. Bradford are the first club ever from the bottom Tim Roth
:25:19. > :25:23.the Football League to reach Wembley in a major cup final and
:25:23. > :25:27.having some how overcome three Premier League teams along the way.
:25:27. > :25:31.COMMENTATOR: The greatest night in the history of Bradford City.
:25:31. > :25:36.would like all the fans to enjoy the day because it is a miracle. We
:25:36. > :25:42.were going through a bad time and this has given some hope. It gives
:25:42. > :25:46.us more -- it tells small people but the underdog, the idea they can
:25:46. > :25:50.succeed. 12 years ago this was a Premier League club but since then
:25:50. > :25:54.Bradford City have fallen down the divisions and come close to going
:25:54. > :25:56.out of business. But he met Valley Parade, there were other reasons to
:25:56. > :26:04.savour one of the more remarkable cup runs in English football
:26:04. > :26:09.history. The club still defined by football's less remembered tragedy
:26:09. > :26:13.in 1985, the stadium fire which claimed 56 lives. 12 years ago race
:26:13. > :26:16.riots cast another shadow of the city, highlighting divisions in the
:26:16. > :26:20.community. Today, racial tensions have these stand the unlikely
:26:20. > :26:25.success of the football club is playing its part in healing old
:26:25. > :26:29.wounds and uniting the city. Were the what old, young, black, white,
:26:29. > :26:34.it doesn't matter. You either support the team were you do not.
:26:34. > :26:37.Fortunately for us, most of us guys support Bradford City. When I was
:26:37. > :26:41.at the semi-final I have never seen so many people come together in one
:26:41. > :26:46.place, supporting the same thing. It has never happened before.
:26:46. > :26:49.years ago it was Bradford's opponents, Swansea, who came close
:26:49. > :26:53.to dropping of the footballing map but now the club could Capper
:26:53. > :26:58.dramatic revival by winning their first major trophy. It is the
:26:58. > :27:04.people's Cup final. Look at Swansea, not a big city. The two teams have
:27:04. > :27:08.been brought together and it is fate. The Bradford fire, you know,
:27:08. > :27:12.horrendous, absolutely horrendous. Perhaps this is payback time.
:27:12. > :27:15.Whichever way you look at it, this is a fairy-tale final but it is
:27:16. > :27:21.Bradford's story that has given this West Yorkshire city a much-
:27:21. > :27:24.needed lift and transport. An awful lot of sport this weekend
:27:24. > :27:33.but if you have a scarf with you, it is probably best around your
:27:33. > :27:36.Absolutely. The wind is going to be bitter. Especially across the south
:27:36. > :27:40.of the country. That is where the wind has been most bitter for the
:27:40. > :27:46.last couple of days. These are the temperatures today. Two or three
:27:46. > :27:50.degrees. With the wind, it feels below freezing. It feels like how
:27:50. > :27:53.quickly you lose the heat from the skin and the perception of cold is
:27:53. > :27:58.greatest. As far as the wind goes that we have been having for the
:27:58. > :28:03.last couple of days, it is not just cold wind, it is dry air. There is
:28:03. > :28:08.not a lot of frost in the grass or the car window. The water freezes
:28:08. > :28:13.in the ground. Was moist air, that is when you get frosty conditions.
:28:13. > :28:16.We are not getting that, it is to guide to produce the frost on the
:28:16. > :28:19.ground, such is the dry air coming in from Eastern Europe. It is quite
:28:19. > :28:24.moist in the upper levels of the atmosphere. That is why we have
:28:24. > :28:28.quite a lot of cloud across the UK. The cloud has been breaking up
:28:28. > :28:33.across western parts of the UK and the south-west, for example. Let's
:28:33. > :28:36.look at the scene and three a clock in the afternoon. A bit of since
:28:36. > :28:40.Chang -- sunshine for the West. Reports of snow across parts of
:28:40. > :28:44.Devon, into East Anglia as well, northern parts of England. The
:28:44. > :28:49.thickest of the cloud and snow flurries all its further East
:28:49. > :28:53.across the UK. In Scotland, some breaks in the cloud. Last night
:28:53. > :28:57.breaks were quite prolonged, so temperatures down to minus ten
:28:57. > :29:03.degrees Celsius. Similarly tonight, it will be cold across the north-
:29:03. > :29:06.west of the UK. One thing to point out, in the North York Moors,
:29:06. > :29:10.particularly northern Kent and the North Downs, we could see a
:29:10. > :29:15.covering of snow first thing in the morning. There will be a light
:29:15. > :29:19.dusting of snow. Where you want across the UK tonight, it will be
:29:19. > :29:22.below zero. The Prost will be penetrating given the strength of
:29:23. > :29:26.the wind. Tomorrow, fleeting flurries of snow almost anywhere
:29:26. > :29:31.across England, in fact as far west as the Midlands, I think. There
:29:31. > :29:36.will be sunshine coming through as well. Copycat conditions,
:29:36. > :29:41.temperatures feel like three, but feels like minus three degrees
:29:41. > :29:45.Celsius. Here is Sunday, temperatures hovering around two to
:29:45. > :29:49.five degrees. Flurries of snow possibly across the south-east as
:29:49. > :29:53.well. He is the weekend summary. The bitter wind is not in a hurry
:29:53. > :29:58.to go. It will stay through into next week. Snow flurries, not heavy,
:29:58. > :30:07.but some snow flurries and not a lot of frost on the ground. It is a
:30:07. > :30:10.A reminder of the top story. The chief magistrate in Pretoria is
:30:10. > :30:13.delivering his judgment on whether Oscar Pistorius will be granted