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The Co-op pulls out of a deal to buy more than 600 branches of | :00:20. | :00:21. | |
Lloyds. Up to 4.5 million Lloyds customers | :00:21. | :00:24. | |
were due to have their accounts transferred in the deal to increase | :00:24. | :00:29. | |
competition on the high street. After the deal collapses, we'll be | :00:29. | :00:32. | |
asking our business editor Robert Peston how much of a blow it is to | :00:32. | :00:34. | |
the banking sector. Also this lunchtime: | :00:34. | :00:37. | |
The UK signs a new treaty with Jordan in a new government attempt | :00:37. | :00:39. | |
to deport the radical cleric Abu Qatada. | :00:39. | :00:41. | |
An eight-storey building collapses in Bangladesh, killing at least 80 | :00:41. | :00:46. | |
factory workers with many more trapped and feared dead. | :00:47. | :00:49. | |
The young couple killed while riding their tandem bike - a driver, | :00:50. | :00:51. | |
who'd been disqualified, admits causing their death. | :00:51. | :00:54. | |
Tightening up on cosmetic surgery - warnings that some procedures are a | :00:54. | :00:57. | |
crisis waiting to happen. And Australia unveils the squad | :00:57. | :00:59. | |
that'll face England in this summer's Ashes, but will anyone | :01:00. | :01:07. | |
recognise any of the players? Later on BBC London: | :01:07. | :01:11. | |
Thousands in South London are at risk of malnutrition. A hospital | :01:11. | :01:13. | |
investigates the extent of the problem. | :01:13. | :01:16. | |
Rough sleepers from Romania return to Park Lane a year after they were | :01:17. | :01:26. | |
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Good afternoon, and welcome to the BBC News at 1.00pm. | :01:38. | :01:41. | |
It was hoping to become a major competitor to the main high street | :01:41. | :01:46. | |
banks, but today, the Co-op pulled out of a deal to buy more than 600 | :01:46. | :01:49. | |
branches from the Lloyds Banking Group. The Co-op is blaming the | :01:49. | :01:53. | |
continued economic downturn and tougher bank regulations. The | :01:53. | :01:57. | |
Treasury says it remains committed to encouraging more competition in | :01:57. | :02:03. | |
the industry and says all is not lost. Here is our chief economics | :02:03. | :02:05. | |
correspondent Hugh Pym. Branchs for sale - it was supposed | :02:05. | :02:09. | |
to inject new life into the banking industry, but now the Lloyds deal | :02:09. | :02:13. | |
with the Co-op is off, it vouf involved more than 600 branches | :02:14. | :02:17. | |
changing hands. It's a blow to the Government's hope of boosting | :02:17. | :02:21. | |
competition with Co-op deciding not to go ahead. We fully expected | :02:21. | :02:27. | |
recovery and not just us but most people expected the economy to | :02:27. | :02:30. | |
recover, and only a few months ago, the Chancellor slashed his growth | :02:31. | :02:36. | |
forecast by half, and so, you know, that clearly has had an impact on | :02:36. | :02:41. | |
our appetite to do this transaction. Consumer groups say the | :02:41. | :02:45. | |
announcement is a setback for bank customers who would benefit from a | :02:45. | :02:49. | |
wider range of services on the high street. This is bad news for people | :02:49. | :02:53. | |
that were looking for much-needed competition among retail banks. | :02:53. | :02:57. | |
Most of us are still with the very biggest banks. This would have put | :02:57. | :03:01. | |
more pressure on them to improve their service and offer a real | :03:01. | :03:05. | |
choice to consumers. Today's announcement on bank branches comes | :03:05. | :03:08. | |
as the Bank of England has been unveiling an extension to its | :03:08. | :03:16. | |
scheme run with the Treasury to try Mortgage lending has been boosted | :03:16. | :03:21. | |
by the scheme since it launched last year. Cheap loans are provided | :03:21. | :03:23. | |
to banks and building societies as long as they pass them on to | :03:23. | :03:29. | |
customers, but it hasn't had the same impact on businesses. Now | :03:29. | :03:37. | |
there will be new incentives to leding to small firms. Some | :03:37. | :03:41. | |
businesses have been able to borrow, and some haven't, and what we're | :03:41. | :03:46. | |
trying to do here is put a bit more pressure on the banks to up their | :03:46. | :03:54. | |
game and deliver on lending to small businesses. This firm in | :03:54. | :03:57. | |
Wrexham makes components for the car industry. It found bank finance | :03:57. | :04:03. | |
hard to come by so switched to an alternative lender using invoice | :04:03. | :04:06. | |
financing. That will be covered now by the Bank of England scheme. | :04:06. | :04:09. | |
have had a great deal of difficulty getting any lending from the banks | :04:09. | :04:13. | |
who have called our loans in some while ago, so we had to turn to | :04:14. | :04:19. | |
invoice financing, which has actually been our lifesaver, the | :04:19. | :04:22. | |
company couldn't have survived without it. So there's a lot going | :04:22. | :04:27. | |
on in the banking world right now. Lloyds has to sell branches after a | :04:27. | :04:31. | |
European Commission ruling and says it may float them off on the stock | :04:31. | :04:36. | |
market. One thing's clear - there's a lot more uncertainfy for | :04:36. | :04:39. | |
customers and staff. Our business editor Robert Peston | :04:39. | :04:44. | |
is here now. As he was just saying, very unsettling for bank customers, | :04:44. | :04:47. | |
staff and at the end of the day, these branches do still have to be | :04:47. | :04:51. | |
sold. They do. I don't actually think it's going to be too | :04:51. | :04:55. | |
disruptive for the customers of the bank because they already knew they | :04:55. | :05:00. | |
were going to a new home. They'd originally been told their new home | :05:00. | :05:07. | |
would be called TSB owned by the Co-op. Now their new home will be | :05:07. | :05:11. | |
TSB floated on the stock market because Lloyds' plan is still to | :05:11. | :05:15. | |
hive this business off and float it now on the stock market rather than | :05:15. | :05:19. | |
selling it to a competitor. It has to do that. The European | :05:19. | :05:23. | |
Commissioner says it has. But the new bank will be much smaller than | :05:23. | :05:27. | |
it would have been had it been merged with the Co-op, so actually, | :05:27. | :05:31. | |
it will be a less fearsome competitor, and that's a bit | :05:31. | :05:34. | |
embarrassing for the Government because the Government has been | :05:34. | :05:38. | |
saying it wants these challenger banks to really take on the big | :05:38. | :05:42. | |
banks. The bit that's being hived off won't now be as fearsome, so | :05:42. | :05:46. | |
there is a bit of a blow to Government policy here. Thank you | :05:46. | :05:48. | |
very much. Let's go to Westminster. Our political correspondent Norman | :05:48. | :05:52. | |
Smith is there, and as Robert is saying, embarrassing - the Treasury | :05:52. | :05:56. | |
is saying all is not lost, though. No, the Treasury are trying to play | :05:56. | :06:01. | |
down the significance of this, saying it's a commercial decision, | :06:01. | :06:04. | |
that Lloyds are still trying to sell off these 600 branches but | :06:04. | :06:11. | |
there is no doubt it is a setback to try to create a more diverse | :06:11. | :06:14. | |
banking sector. What'll really hurt them is the reason the Co-op have | :06:14. | :06:17. | |
given for not going ahead with this decision that is they're worried | :06:17. | :06:21. | |
about the prospects for economic growth, and that just 24 hours | :06:21. | :06:25. | |
ahead of those crucial economic growth forecasts, and the problem I | :06:25. | :06:29. | |
think is this - although the Government has tried to rebalance | :06:29. | :06:34. | |
the economy, what we learn from today's announcement is that trying | :06:34. | :06:39. | |
to kick start any sort of growth is absolutely dependent on a | :06:39. | :06:43. | |
flourishing and thriving banking sector, and yet we see with the | :06:43. | :06:46. | |
decision by the Co-op and the decision by the Government to | :06:46. | :06:50. | |
revamp its funding for lending scheme that the banking sector is | :06:50. | :06:52. | |
still struggling. Thank you very much. For more on | :06:52. | :06:57. | |
this story, you can go to the BBC News website and read analysis from | :06:57. | :07:02. | |
our business editor Robert Peston. The Government has signed a new | :07:02. | :07:04. | |
mutual assistance treaty with Jordan designed to ensure that the | :07:04. | :07:09. | |
radical cleric Abu Qatada can finally be extradited. The Home | :07:09. | :07:13. | |
Secretary, Theresa May, told the Commons it should satisfy concerns | :07:13. | :07:17. | |
that Abu Qatada would not receive a fair trial in Jordan if deported. | :07:17. | :07:20. | |
The Government's latest legal challenge failed yesterday when the | :07:20. | :07:23. | |
Court of Appeal rejected attempts to bring the case before the | :07:23. | :07:30. | |
Supreme Court. Jon Brain reports. Over a decade Abu Qatada has foiled | :07:30. | :07:34. | |
the efforts of five Home Secretaries to deport him. Theresa | :07:34. | :07:38. | |
May is determined not to be the sixth. Today she told the Commons | :07:38. | :07:42. | |
that a new treaty signed with Jordan would ensure the radical | :07:42. | :07:47. | |
preacher receives a fair trial in that country, and she criticised a | :07:47. | :07:51. | |
legal system which had allowed him to stay for so long. As any sane | :07:51. | :07:56. | |
observer of this case will conclude, it is absurd for the deportation of | :07:56. | :08:01. | |
a suspected foreign terrorist to take so many years and cost the | :08:01. | :08:05. | |
taxpayer so much money. That is why we need to make sense of our human | :08:05. | :08:09. | |
rights laws, and it's why we need to remove the many layers of | :08:09. | :08:12. | |
appeals available to foreign nationals we want to deport. | :08:12. | :08:16. | |
want to work with her to make this process work and so that Abu Qatada | :08:17. | :08:21. | |
can be deported as soon as possible, but in the past, the Home Secretary | :08:21. | :08:24. | |
has overstated the evidence, overstated her legal position and | :08:24. | :08:28. | |
overstated her legal strategy which has not worked. None of us want | :08:28. | :08:33. | |
that to happen again. Abu Qatada has already been | :08:33. | :08:38. | |
convicted in Geordan of terrorism offences. Home Office officials | :08:38. | :08:44. | |
believe the new treaty will effectively change Jordanian law to | :08:44. | :08:49. | |
make evidence obtained by torture inadmissible at any retrial even if | :08:49. | :08:53. | |
the courts decide this new treaty means he should be deported, it's | :08:53. | :08:58. | |
unlikely to happen for many more months. | :08:58. | :09:01. | |
Our Home Affairs correspondent Tom Seimoneds is outside the Home | :09:01. | :09:04. | |
Office. The Home Secretary says the treaty would give the Government | :09:04. | :09:09. | |
every chance of succeeding. Will Well, this is a Home Secretary that | :09:09. | :09:13. | |
once said he'd be on a plane within days, and that isn't going to be | :09:13. | :09:17. | |
the case, even now. The problem the Government had was that the Special | :09:17. | :09:21. | |
Immigration Appeals Commission said that he couldn't be deported to | :09:21. | :09:26. | |
Jordan because if he went there he'd face trial based on evidence | :09:26. | :09:30. | |
obtained from, they say, accomplices through torture. They | :09:30. | :09:34. | |
say unless Jordanian law was effectively changed or changed | :09:34. | :09:37. | |
through case law that couldn't be allowed. What the officials here | :09:37. | :09:41. | |
have told me is effectively they have. If the Jordanian Parliament | :09:41. | :09:45. | |
ratifys this treaty - and they expect that'll happen - they have | :09:45. | :09:48. | |
changed Jordanian law, and this agreement will allow him to go back | :09:49. | :09:52. | |
to Jordan, but they're not putting the champagne on ice here because | :09:52. | :09:55. | |
what is likely to happen is the whole case goes back to that | :09:55. | :09:57. | |
Special Immigration Appeals Commission, and then goes all the | :09:57. | :10:03. | |
way up through the British courts again with this new treaty being | :10:03. | :10:07. | |
considered at each stage. Abu Qatada has very - a very big legal | :10:07. | :10:10. | |
team who have worked very hard on this case, and it is likely they'll | :10:10. | :10:14. | |
look for loopholes in the Government's new strategy, but | :10:14. | :10:19. | |
there is a change of feeling here. They believe they have changed the | :10:19. | :10:23. | |
game, that and one debut bu will be on a plane. | :10:23. | :10:26. | |
Thank you very much -- Abu Qatada will be on a plane. | :10:26. | :10:29. | |
At least 80 people have been killed and many more have been trapped | :10:29. | :10:32. | |
after an eight-storey building collapsed in Bangladesh near the | :10:32. | :10:35. | |
capital, Dhaka. Rescue workers say 600 have been pulled from the | :10:35. | :10:38. | |
rubble so far, and they're trying to reach many more still at the | :10:38. | :10:42. | |
building. We'll be live at the scene in a few moments, but first | :10:42. | :10:44. | |
our world affairs correspondent Mike Wooldridge has sent this | :10:44. | :10:47. | |
report. The eight-storey complex housed | :10:47. | :10:51. | |
garment factories and a shopping centre. There are estimates up to | :10:51. | :10:55. | |
2,000 people could have been inside the building at the time. | :10:55. | :11:00. | |
The upper floors collapsed in on each other, reducing the building | :11:00. | :11:05. | |
to a pancaked heap of rubble little more than one storey high. One | :11:05. | :11:09. | |
onlooker compared to it kind of damage inflicted by an earthquake. | :11:09. | :11:14. | |
Some survivors were brought out with the help of makeshift slides | :11:14. | :11:18. | |
using cloth which would have been cut into shirts or trousers for | :11:18. | :11:21. | |
export. 500 soldiers and local volunteers struggled throughout the | :11:21. | :11:26. | |
day to locate and extract the trapped and injured. | :11:26. | :11:33. | |
"We sent two people inside the building" says Mohammed, a factory | :11:33. | :11:37. | |
supervisor. "Rerescued at least a hundred people alive. They told us | :11:37. | :11:41. | |
at least 50 people are injured, and the there are 50 dead still on this | :11:41. | :11:45. | |
floor". Workers said the building had developed severe cracks | :11:45. | :11:49. | |
yesterday, and they were reluctant to enter it this morning, but they | :11:49. | :11:55. | |
were assured there was no problem. It was another tragic demonstration | :11:55. | :12:02. | |
of the safe -- safety fears in Bangladesh. Only last November a | :12:02. | :12:07. | |
hundred workers were killed in a blaze at this fact Iry. Pressure to | :12:07. | :12:10. | |
tighten regulations and raise safety standard sons likely to | :12:11. | :12:15. | |
increase even as the latest rescue efforts continue. | :12:15. | :12:18. | |
We can go live to the scene now. Our correspondent Anbarasan | :12:18. | :12:22. | |
Ethirajan is at the scene for us now. What is the latest on the | :12:22. | :12:31. | |
The eight-storey commercial building just behind me collapsed | :12:31. | :12:35. | |
all of a sudden in the morning rush hour. Hundreds of people were | :12:35. | :12:40. | |
inside this building. This building, it contained a bank, several shops | :12:40. | :12:45. | |
and a clothing factory. It is still not clear how many people are | :12:45. | :12:50. | |
trapped inside. As you can see, the soldiers, the Fire Service | :12:50. | :12:53. | |
officials and other Government officers are trying to rescue | :12:53. | :12:57. | |
people, and a short while ago I was very close to this building, and I | :12:57. | :13:00. | |
could see the officials dropping water bottles through the gaps in | :13:00. | :13:05. | |
the rubble so that it can reach the people trapped inside. Just a few | :13:05. | :13:09. | |
seconds ago a girl was pulled out. She was seriously injured. She was | :13:09. | :13:14. | |
taken to the nearest hospital here, and people here are asking | :13:14. | :13:18. | |
questions how a clothing factory was allowed to operate in this | :13:18. | :13:21. | |
building. It was an eight-storey building, and you can see that only | :13:21. | :13:27. | |
a couple of floors are still intact, and people are angry. Thousands of | :13:27. | :13:30. | |
people are across the road from here waiting to know about their | :13:30. | :13:34. | |
friends and relatives, but officials say they still don't know | :13:34. | :13:37. | |
the reason for this building collapse, and they're investigating. | :13:37. | :13:40. | |
But there was talk yesterday of cracks appearing in the building | :13:40. | :13:48. | |
and people being told they shouldn't perhaps go in? I think we | :13:48. | :13:51. | |
seem to have lost our sound there, our connection. Thank you very much | :13:52. | :13:55. | |
there, live from the scene there in Bangladesh. | :13:55. | :13:58. | |
A 38-year-old man has admitted causing the deaths of a husband and | :13:59. | :14:03. | |
wife who were riding a tandem bike. Ross and Clare Simons, who were | :14:03. | :14:09. | |
both in their early 30s died after he collided with them earlier this | :14:09. | :14:15. | |
year. Nicholas Lovell pleaded guilty to causing death by | :14:15. | :14:18. | |
dangerous driving. His girlfriend pleaded guilty to perverting the | :14:18. | :14:22. | |
course of justice. Jon Kay is at Bristol Crown Court for us. | :14:22. | :14:27. | |
The families of Ross and Clare Simons were here in court to hear | :14:27. | :14:31. | |
these guilty pleas a little bit earlier. Afterwards Avon and | :14:31. | :14:38. | |
Somerset Police said they hoped this would provide the families | :14:38. | :14:41. | |
with some sort of comfort though obviously wouldn't bring the couple | :14:41. | :14:44. | |
back. Just married and planning to start | :14:44. | :14:48. | |
a family, Ross and Clare Simons, killed together when they were | :14:48. | :14:53. | |
knocked off their new tandem. In the car that hit them this couple - | :14:53. | :14:58. | |
Nicholas Lovell and Louise Cox. Today he admitted causing the two | :14:58. | :15:02. | |
deaths by driving dangerously. She pleaded guilty to perverting the | :15:02. | :15:06. | |
course of justice. The deaths of Ross and Clare Simons horrified | :15:06. | :15:13. | |
their friends, families and neighbours in the Hannam area of | :15:13. | :15:17. | |
Bristol. They were described as the perfect couple who were about to | :15:17. | :15:22. | |
start IVF treatment. They were cycling to visit relatives for | :15:22. | :15:26. | |
Sunday lunch when their tandem bike was hit. At the time of their | :15:26. | :15:30. | |
funeral, their bodies were carried together past the spot where they | :15:30. | :15:34. | |
died. Today their families left Bristol Crown Court without making | :15:34. | :15:37. | |
comment. Inside they heard that Nicholas Lovell was disqualified | :15:37. | :15:40. | |
from driving at the time of the collision and that he then ran away | :15:40. | :15:45. | |
from the scene. He has been remanded in custody. His girlfriend, | :15:45. | :15:50. | |
in the grey top here, has been released on bail. Police say she | :15:50. | :15:53. | |
deliberately misled them about what had happened after the crash. | :15:53. | :16:02. | |
She'll be sentenced with Lovell The judge said he was released | :16:02. | :16:05. | |
Louise Cox because he wanted pre- sentence reports carried out. The | :16:05. | :16:09. | |
fact that she was walking out of here today was not an indication of | :16:09. | :16:12. | |
the sentence she would receive next movement that sentencing will take | :16:12. | :16:20. | |
place in Bristol on the 22 May. It's just after 1.15pm. The top | :16:20. | :16:23. | |
story: Concerns that the collapse of a deal by the Co-operative bank | :16:23. | :16:28. | |
to buy more than 600 branches of Lloyds could be bad for consumers. | :16:28. | :16:31. | |
And still to come - why the number of people in Britain using food | :16:31. | :16:38. | |
banks more than doubled last year. Later on BBC London: 30 years after | :16:38. | :16:42. | |
its first flight, the Doctor Who invented the Air Ambulance is | :16:42. | :16:47. | |
retiring. And how you could be crossing the finishing line at the | :16:47. | :16:57. | |
:16:57. | :16:58. | ||
Olympic Stadium this summer. Tighter rules for cosmetic surgery | :16:58. | :17:01. | |
are being promised by the Government after an independent | :17:01. | :17:06. | |
review said procedures like breast implants and anti-wrinkle | :17:06. | :17:09. | |
treatments have been trivialised. Some providers are accused of | :17:09. | :17:13. | |
putting profit ahead of patient care. The recommendations include | :17:13. | :17:17. | |
requiring anyone who injects fillers or botox to have formal | :17:17. | :17:21. | |
qualifications. Legislation so that fillers become prescription only. A | :17:21. | :17:26. | |
ban on special financial offers for surgery and a requirement that | :17:26. | :17:28. | |
patients' procedures must be approved by a surgeon not a | :17:28. | :17:35. | |
salesperson. This review was commissioned | :17:35. | :17:42. | |
following the PIP breftd implants scandal. The same was to ensure | :17:42. | :17:46. | |
something similar never happens again. It was non-surgical | :17:46. | :17:50. | |
procedures like dermal fillers which have shocked experts because | :17:50. | :17:54. | |
of the almost total lack of controls. We don't know what's in | :17:54. | :17:58. | |
these fillers. There are approaching 200 of them around. | :17:58. | :18:00. | |
Secondly, if you're going to be injecting things which stay | :18:01. | :18:05. | |
permanently in someone's face, you need to really understand the | :18:05. | :18:09. | |
anatomy of the face and the pe ten shall complication that's arise | :18:09. | :18:12. | |
from injecting -- potential complications that arise from | :18:12. | :18:16. | |
injecting into the face. I'm a heart surgeon and I wouldn't dream | :18:16. | :18:21. | |
of injecting dermal fillers. present anyone can inject dermal | :18:21. | :18:28. | |
fillers. The review team say in future all those doing the | :18:29. | :18:33. | |
procedures should be qualified, properly insured in case things go | :18:33. | :18:38. | |
wrong. Today we start doing some fillers... Karen Rowing's dermal | :18:38. | :18:42. | |
fillers are being injected by a doctor. The aim is to plump up the | :18:42. | :18:47. | |
skin and remove wrinkles. The effects can last around a year. | :18:47. | :18:51. | |
Everybody wants to prevent age, especially in women of our age | :18:52. | :18:57. | |
group. I think nowadays it's become like an essential part of life. | :18:57. | :19:01. | |
Karen is happy with the results, but the review team is worried many | :19:01. | :19:06. | |
patients don't realise the risk of side effects and have too casual | :19:06. | :19:10. | |
and approach to -- an approach to cosmetic procedures. The report | :19:10. | :19:14. | |
calls for tighter controls on advertising with a complete ban on | :19:14. | :19:18. | |
special offers for surgery. Some of the recommendations would require | :19:18. | :19:21. | |
legislation, but the review team believes there is political will to | :19:21. | :19:29. | |
implement them. The Crown prosecution service says | :19:29. | :19:36. | |
the Sun's royal editor dun can Larkam should be charged with | :19:36. | :19:46. | |
:19:46. | :19:50. | ||
conspiracy to commit misconduct in In the public. | :19:50. | :19:55. | |
Jord Hardy and his wife Clare face charges. The number of people in | :19:55. | :19:59. | |
Britain using food banks more than doubled last year. The Government | :19:59. | :20:04. | |
says there are adequate safety nets in the benefit system for those | :20:04. | :20:10. | |
needing help. Campaigners describe the figures as shocking. | :20:10. | :20:15. | |
A foodbank in Salisbury and volunteers are packing bags, three | :20:15. | :20:18. | |
days of emergency supplies. As we're filming, a number of people | :20:18. | :20:23. | |
come in, but are too ashamed to talk to us on camera. You can't | :20:23. | :20:27. | |
just turn up to a foodbank like this and collect a parcel. You need | :20:27. | :20:32. | |
to be referred by a doctor, social worker, the Jobcentre and the | :20:32. | :20:35. | |
number of rereferrals in the last year has more than doubled, to a | :20:35. | :20:43. | |
third of a million people. One of them was Vicky Charles. After her | :20:43. | :20:47. | |
maternity pay ran out in January, there was a gap before her benefits | :20:47. | :20:51. | |
kicked in. She was surviving on a bag of rice until the food parcel | :20:51. | :20:55. | |
arrived. It was amazing, because they turned up with a box of food | :20:55. | :20:59. | |
and it wasn't just, well you're skint and you need our help so | :20:59. | :21:03. | |
here's a can of soup. It was lots of cans of all sorts of different | :21:03. | :21:07. | |
things and there were nappies in there and wipes and chocolate. So I | :21:07. | :21:12. | |
was literally like wow, thank you. Vicky is now back at work and | :21:12. | :21:18. | |
providing for her and her daughter. A local church and June Rouse is | :21:18. | :21:22. | |
dropping off a bag of food. She tries to donate as much as she can. | :21:22. | :21:26. | |
I do realise that people are struggling. It worries me because | :21:26. | :21:34. | |
people are out of work and there's not the jobs about for people. | :21:34. | :21:38. | |
warehouse in Salisbury and another donation. The fast majority of the | :21:38. | :21:43. | |
food here, 90%, comes not from supermarket cast-offs but from | :21:43. | :21:46. | |
ordinary members of the public. So what's the bigger picture here? For | :21:46. | :21:51. | |
some, people donating food and giving their time volunteering is | :21:51. | :21:54. | |
evidence that the Big Society is working well. But for others, the | :21:54. | :21:58. | |
fact that the number of people literally going hungry in this | :21:58. | :22:01. | |
country has more than doubled in a year seems to suggest that | :22:01. | :22:05. | |
something has gone terribly wrong with the Welfare State. It is | :22:05. | :22:08. | |
shocking. It's disturbing. More people are falling through the | :22:08. | :22:14. | |
safety net. But the bottom line is clear, there are more bem in this - | :22:14. | :22:18. | |
- people in this country living in a precarious way and food banks are | :22:18. | :22:22. | |
picking up the pieces more often than any of us would like. | :22:22. | :22:26. | |
Government says the benefits system does provide a safety net for | :22:26. | :22:30. | |
essentials like food and it says its welfare reforms will improve | :22:30. | :22:35. | |
the lives of the poorest families. Others say it's too easy to blame | :22:35. | :22:38. | |
cuts in benefits for the rise in demand for food banks. You look at | :22:38. | :22:42. | |
the reasons, they are deeper than a reduction in benefits. There are | :22:42. | :22:46. | |
things like benefit delays, domestic abuse, debt, unemployment, | :22:47. | :22:50. | |
those things are what we need to tackle. Even here in Salisbury, as | :22:50. | :22:54. | |
the cost of food, energy, rent continues to rise, charities are | :22:54. | :23:02. | |
expecting even more people to turn to food banks in the coming year. | :23:02. | :23:06. | |
The UK has become a significantly less dangerous place over the last | :23:06. | :23:10. | |
decade, according to an international study. In that time, | :23:10. | :23:13. | |
the manslaughter rate has halved and violent crime is down by a | :23:13. | :23:18. | |
fifth. The most peaceful place in the UK, | :23:18. | :23:25. | |
according to the UK Peace Index, is here, dn broadland in Norfolk, | :23:25. | :23:29. | |
where the most aggressive behaviour on display is a swan demanding | :23:29. | :23:33. | |
bread. In the last year there were just eight violent crimes recorded | :23:33. | :23:36. | |
by police. The least peaceful is Lewisham, a borough in south London, | :23:36. | :23:41. | |
which has been scarred by gang violence. Overall the capital is | :23:41. | :23:45. | |
markedly more peaceful than it was with some of the biggest drops in | :23:45. | :23:49. | |
murder and weapons crime. London's homicide rate is far lower than New | :23:49. | :23:52. | |
York, Amsterdam, Brussels and Prague. The index finds that in the | :23:52. | :23:57. | |
last decade in the UK, the homicide rate has halved, violent crime is | :23:57. | :24:02. | |
down a fifth, weapons crime has fallen by a third. The analysis by | :24:02. | :24:07. | |
the institute for economics and peace notes that 60% of people | :24:07. | :24:12. | |
think crime is rising in Britain but they stand by their data. | :24:12. | :24:17. | |
figures, on all probability, are very real. There might be small | :24:17. | :24:21. | |
amount of statistical error in there, in the way the police report | :24:21. | :24:25. | |
or some other abnormality, but generally, the trends really are | :24:25. | :24:29. | |
real. As for why the UK is becoming more peaceful, the index finds | :24:29. | :24:33. | |
falls in violence across the developed world and points out that | :24:33. | :24:37. | |
despite the economic downturn, peacefulness levels continue to | :24:37. | :24:42. | |
increase. In short - we don't know why. | :24:42. | :24:49. | |
The Liverpool striker Louis Suarez will find out what punishment he | :24:49. | :24:56. | |
will receive for biting a Chelsea player at weekend. What punishment | :24:56. | :25:03. | |
is expected? The FA's three-man panel are meeting via videolink we | :25:03. | :25:06. | |
understand. Suarez won't appear before them in person. In fact, | :25:06. | :25:09. | |
earlier on this morning, he arrived for training at Liverpool's | :25:09. | :25:14. | |
training ground, as per normal, as he awaits to find out what their | :25:14. | :25:19. | |
decision will be about how long his ban will be. Suarez has accepted | :25:19. | :25:24. | |
the charge of violent conduct, but he says he should only get the | :25:24. | :25:29. | |
standard three-match ban for biting. What the FA say that is clearly | :25:29. | :25:33. | |
insufficient in their words in this case and that he should get a much | :25:33. | :25:36. | |
longer ban because of the extraordinary nature of this | :25:36. | :25:38. | |
extraordinary nature of this incident. What he will perhaps | :25:38. | :25:43. | |
argue is that he has apologised repeatedly and been fined by huz | :25:43. | :25:47. | |
club. His club have said they will help him with his behaviour. This | :25:47. | :25:50. | |
incident has shocked the world of football, even Downing Street have | :25:50. | :25:54. | |
been wading in, pointing out the fact that Suarez is a role model | :25:54. | :25:58. | |
for thousands of children. Suarez has been banned for biting in the | :25:58. | :26:02. | |
past. He has served a ban last season for racially abusing a | :26:02. | :26:06. | |
Manchester United player. He may yet receive another long ban which | :26:06. | :26:10. | |
could see him not just miss the end of next season, but possible lit | :26:10. | :26:13. | |
of next season, but possible lit start of next season. Australia has | :26:14. | :26:17. | |
unveiled its squad for the fourth coming Ashes series which begins in | :26:17. | :26:23. | |
July. The team cab tin Daryl Clark believes they can become the first | :26:23. | :26:27. | |
Australian side to one the ashes in England since 2001. One Australian | :26:27. | :26:30. | |
cricket writer has joked that most of the players are still unknown | :26:30. | :26:38. | |
they'll need name tags. Cricket Australia chose the old | :26:38. | :26:42. | |
Sydney mint to unveil the squad for the Ashes. The venue with some | :26:42. | :26:47. | |
negative sybolism for the Aussies. Michael Clarke's Australian outfit | :26:47. | :26:51. | |
is no longer the global gold standard. This is a building from | :26:51. | :26:55. | |
an age when Britain was very much in charge. Australia hasn't won the | :26:55. | :27:02. | |
Ashes on English soil for over a decade, which the legendary Steve | :27:02. | :27:06. | |
Wah was captain. They go into the series the underdogs. They're going | :27:06. | :27:10. | |
to be tough, playing against a very experienced team in their own | :27:10. | :27:14. | |
backyard. That's the stage you want to be on. You want to play against | :27:14. | :27:17. | |
the best in their own conditions. It will take every one of us to | :27:17. | :27:21. | |
have success. Absents from the squad are the recent test retiries | :27:21. | :27:31. | |
:27:31. | :27:32. | ||
Rickie ponting and Michael Hussie. A number of veterans make a return, | :27:32. | :27:38. | |
Haden is back. Jackson Bird is promising. Many of the players are | :27:38. | :27:43. | |
unknown in Britain. Some aren't well known here. There will be many | :27:43. | :27:46. | |
Brits looking at this squad and thinking it's the weakest Ashes | :27:46. | :27:51. | |
team to tour in decades. I'd love to answer that, John. We've heard | :27:51. | :27:56. | |
that so many times before, we'll see. I agree with John. I think | :27:56. | :28:01. | |
since I've taken over the captaincy, I think I've heard that every tour. | :28:01. | :28:07. | |
England are being urged to avoid a great pit fall in world sport, | :28:07. | :28:10. | |
underestimating an Australian. are going through difficult periods | :28:10. | :28:14. | |
at this time. They will bring a competitive team over. There will | :28:14. | :28:18. | |
be a couple of players to surprise England. Overnight the Australian | :28:18. | :28:21. | |
population reached a new landmark of 23 million people. The joke here | :28:21. | :28:26. | |
is that they still can't find a decent spinner. This will be | :28:26. | :28:30. | |
regarded as the weakest Ashes squad to leave these shores since 1989. | :28:30. | :28:34. | |
But a cautionary reminder for English fans. That was a team that | :28:34. | :28:39. | |
won. Now some lovely weather for a lot | :28:39. | :28:43. | |
of people today. Guess what, it's of people today. Guess what, it's | :28:43. | :28:45. | |
not going to last. Here's Darren. It isn't. We're all looking forward | :28:45. | :28:49. | |
to the summer, and for some of us there is a taste of summer today. | :28:49. | :28:53. | |
That's where we have the sunnier skies across the south-east of the | :28:53. | :28:56. | |
UK, where temperatures are already higher than they were at this stage | :28:56. | :28:59. | |
yesterday. But there is more cloud coming in. It won't be as sunny. | :28:59. | :29:03. | |
Further north it is colder. We have fresher air for northern parts of | :29:03. | :29:06. | |
the UK. In Scotland that's where we may have the sunniest weather this | :29:06. | :29:09. | |
afternoon. The cloud continuing to thin and break. One or two showers | :29:09. | :29:12. | |
dotted about. But many places in the country will be dry. Those | :29:13. | :29:16. | |
temperatures have just about levelled off at around ten or 11 | :29:16. | :29:24. | |
degrees. Chilly under the cloud. Some breaks in the cloud, brighter | :29:24. | :29:28. | |
skies across parts of the Midlands, East Anglia and the south. Along | :29:28. | :29:32. | |
the south coast it is colder. We have a lot of low cloud just | :29:32. | :29:36. | |
lapping onto coastal areas. Here temperatures struggling around 10 | :29:36. | :29:41. | |
or 11 degrees. Maybe a few spots of drizzle. Cloud into Wales as well. | :29:41. | :29:44. | |
A few showers in the west and brighter skys in the eastern side | :29:44. | :29:47. | |
of the country p we may get late sunshine in the north of Northern | :29:47. | :29:50. | |
Ireland. Temperatures have peaked already. It will feel colder from | :29:50. | :29:53. | |
the north. We'll see it turning wetter this evening in Northern | :29:53. | :29:57. | |
Ireland. Rain comes in again overnight. It bushes into southern | :29:57. | :30:01. | |
Scotland and northern England. To the south of that, low cloud, some | :30:01. | :30:04. | |
mist and fog around coasts and hills in the south and west. At | :30:05. | :30:08. | |
least it should be mild, whereas to the north of that rain, it will be | :30:08. | :30:10. | |
colder with a few showers in the North West of Scotland. And | :30:10. | :30:14. | |
tomorrow that colder air is going to come pushing its way southwards, | :30:14. | :30:17. | |
behind our band of cloud and rain. The rain becoming lighter and more | :30:17. | :30:21. | |
patchy as it works its way into the Midlands, squeezing the sunshine | :30:21. | :30:25. | |
into that south-eastern corner. For most of us, temperatures will | :30:25. | :30:29. | |
struggle to around 10 to 12 degrees. It's cooler through the Midlands, | :30:29. | :30:32. | |
for example. The warmth is getting pushed into the south-eastern | :30:32. | :30:39. | |
corner. Around London to the north of London, we could get 21 or but | :30:39. | :30:43. | |
make the most of that. This is the last of the warm air. We have | :30:43. | :30:49. | |
changing the -- we are changing the wind direction. The colder air is | :30:49. | :30:52. | |
pushed across the country bit end of the week. It comes in behind | :30:52. | :30:54. | |
what's left of the rain in the south-east corner. Then after, that | :30:54. | :30:58. | |
we get sunshine and showers. Some of those showers will be heavy and | :30:58. | :31:02. | |
possibly wintry over the hills. Temperatures only nine or ten | :31:02. | :31:06. | |
degrees. If we look ahead to the weekend, there'll be more showers | :31:06. | :31:09. | |
around, particularly on Saturday. Patchy rain in the north on Sunday | :31:09. | :31:13. | |
but it's colder for all of us and gardener, beware, there may be some | :31:13. | :31:15. | |
frosty weather on Friday night and frosty weather on Friday night and | :31:15. | :31:22. | |
Saturday night as well. A reminder of our main story this | :31:22. | :31:25. |