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very unhappy picture but some of the evidence remains unpublished.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