:00:06. > :00:09.A police investigation into allegations of child abuse at care
:00:09. > :00:18.homes in North Wales has found the abuse to be more widespread - and
:00:18. > :00:22.to have lasted longer than previously thought.
:00:22. > :00:24.They say 140 people have contacted them to say they were abused. The
:00:24. > :00:26.Chief Constable of North Wales Police had this message for
:00:27. > :00:29.offenders whose activities hadn't yet come to light. Defenders quite
:00:29. > :00:34.rightly should have to look over their shoulders for the rest of
:00:34. > :00:37.their lives. We'll be talking to Mark Easton
:00:37. > :00:40.about the investigation in North Wales. Also this lunchtime:
:00:40. > :00:44.Three British men who say they were tortured by police in Dubai have
:00:44. > :00:51.been jailed for drug offences. Syria's Prime Minister survives an
:00:51. > :00:54.assassination attempt in a car bomb attack on his convoy in Damascus.
:00:54. > :00:58.Six days after the collapse of an eight-story building in Bangladesh,
:00:58. > :01:02.rescuers say there's no hope of finding more survivors.
:01:02. > :01:06.Tackling the collapsing bee population. EU states vote on a
:01:06. > :01:13.proposal to restrict the use of certain pesticides.
:01:13. > :01:18.And Sir Bradley Wiggins eyes up a new title. This time, his sights
:01:18. > :01:24.are on the Italian road race title. On BBC London, regular closures for
:01:24. > :01:34.they Jubilee Line. And a former monastery opens to the
:01:34. > :01:43.
:01:43. > :01:48.public after more than six and and Good afternoon and welcome to the
:01:48. > :01:51.BBC News at One. Police say they're investigating
:01:51. > :01:55.140 allegations of historical child abuse at 18 care home in North
:01:55. > :01:58.Wales. They say the allegations cover a period of four decades
:01:58. > :02:04.going back to 1963 and they had uncovered significant fresh
:02:04. > :02:07.evidence of "systematic and serious sexual and physical abuse". The
:02:07. > :02:10.number of alleged victims and care homes, and the duration of the
:02:10. > :02:13.period involved, is much wider than previously thought. The Chief
:02:13. > :02:16.Constable of North Wales warned the perpetrators that they would be
:02:16. > :02:25.caught and they would be looking over their shoulders for the rest
:02:25. > :02:30.of their lives. Before the children who once lived
:02:30. > :02:34.here, it was home, -- for the children. But some were subjected
:02:35. > :02:40.to systematic abuse by the very people paid to look after them. The
:02:40. > :02:43.former residential centres have now been put to other use, but their
:02:43. > :02:49.names will never be forgotten by the victims whose childhoods were
:02:49. > :02:53.destroyed. A police investigation more than 20 years ago led to seven
:02:53. > :02:57.convictions, but in a Newsnight report last November which led to a
:02:57. > :03:01.Tory peer being falsely accused of being involved in paedophilia, it
:03:01. > :03:06.was also claimed that child abuse in North Wales had been more
:03:06. > :03:10.widespread. De Home Secretary Theresa May set up an investigation
:03:10. > :03:16.into the abuse, and this morning, its preliminary findings were made
:03:16. > :03:19.public. 140 people have no contacted the Operation Pallial
:03:19. > :03:23.investigation team. The complainants were aged between
:03:23. > :03:31.seven and 19 at the time of the alleged abuse. The allegations date
:03:31. > :03:36.back as far as 1963, and most recently, 1992. They relate to 18
:03:36. > :03:43.care homes in North Wales. So far, the allegations involved 84 named
:03:43. > :03:46.individuals. People who commit serious sexual offences should live
:03:46. > :03:51.with the knowledge that we will always examining new information
:03:51. > :03:54.and evidence and seek to bring them to justice for their crimes.
:03:54. > :04:00.Offenders quite rightly should have to look over their shoulders for
:04:00. > :04:03.the rest of their lives. This inquiry was also set up to look at
:04:03. > :04:05.how North Wales Police handled the original investigation. This
:04:05. > :04:11.preliminary report finds no evidence of systemic or
:04:11. > :04:14.institutional misconduct by members of the force. Last week, police
:04:14. > :04:17.working on Operation Pallial made their first arrest, a man in
:04:17. > :04:24.Suffolk was questioned about allegations of serious sexual
:04:24. > :04:26.offences. It is expected that more arrests will follow.
:04:26. > :04:31.And Mark Easton is outside North Wales Police headquarters in Colwyn
:04:31. > :04:35.Bay. This investigation, as we were
:04:35. > :04:42.hearing, is much bigger than police previously thought.
:04:42. > :04:45.And that is quite a surprise, isn't it? We have had a huge police
:04:45. > :04:48.investigation in the 1990s, a public inquiry led by a former
:04:48. > :04:53.judge and other inquiries conducted as well and here we are all these
:04:53. > :04:58.years later, we look at this again and we discover that it is, as you
:04:58. > :05:04.say, far more widespread, other four decades, going back to the
:05:04. > :05:09.early 1960s. We thought it was from a period of the mid-70s, not just
:05:09. > :05:12.covering three all four children's homes, but 18. We are talking about
:05:13. > :05:17.systemic abuse, serious sexual and physical abuse, it would appear
:05:17. > :05:23.conducted by a large number of people. 84 names, most of those men,
:05:23. > :05:27.75, but including nine women. If the allegations are true, it is an
:05:27. > :05:33.appalling scandal and a scandal that, as some victims have been
:05:33. > :05:36.saying, was left unresolved for far too long.
:05:36. > :05:39.The Syrian Prime Minister is reported to have survived a bomb
:05:39. > :05:43.attack on his convoy in the capital Damascus. His bodyguard is
:05:43. > :05:50.understood to have been killed and his driver seriously injured. Our
:05:50. > :05:55.Middle East Correspondent Jim Muir reports.
:05:55. > :05:59.Another big bomb in a heavily secured part of Damascus, patrolled
:05:59. > :06:04.by government forces. It wasn't as massive as some of the recent bombs,
:06:04. > :06:09.but it was enough to Wrexham vehicles and set others on fire. --
:06:09. > :06:14.Rick. State television said there were casualties, including
:06:14. > :06:21.civilians passers-by. But it is that the main target of what it
:06:21. > :06:26.called a terrorist explosion, the convoy of Wael Al-Halki. He escaped
:06:26. > :06:29.unscathed. That version seem to be borne out by later footage on State
:06:29. > :06:32.TV showing the Prime Minister at an important economic meeting. He is
:06:32. > :06:37.reported to have told them that what he called such terrorist
:06:37. > :06:41.attacks only showed the desperation and bankruptcy of the rebels and
:06:41. > :06:44.their backers, after recent successes by government forces.
:06:44. > :06:50.This is far from the first time there has been a big explosion
:06:50. > :06:54.inside government controlled central Damascus. In December, a
:06:54. > :06:57.suicide attack caused heavy damage and casualties at the Interior
:06:57. > :07:01.Ministry. Officials said then that nobody senior was hurt, but it
:07:01. > :07:06.later turned out that the minister himself was seriously wounded. This
:07:06. > :07:10.time, it does seem that the reported target of the attack, the
:07:10. > :07:13.Prime Minister himself, has survived. But what it shows is that
:07:13. > :07:17.the violent and bloody confrontation between rebels and
:07:17. > :07:20.regime drags on, the rebels do seem, if indeed it was then, to be able
:07:20. > :07:25.to slip through the net and strike in the very heart of the Government
:07:25. > :07:28.controlled areas. Up to 40 people have been injured
:07:28. > :07:32.in a powerful explosion in a building in the Czech capital
:07:32. > :07:35.Prague. Police say that the blast, which blew the windows out of
:07:35. > :07:38.nearby buildings, was likely to have been caused by a gas leak. The
:07:38. > :07:43.popular tourist area has now been sealed off and people have been
:07:43. > :07:47.evacuated from nearby houses. Three British men have been found
:07:47. > :07:50.guilty of drug offences in Dubai and jailed for four years each.
:07:50. > :07:55.Suneet Jeerh, Grant Cameron and Karl Williams, who are all from
:07:55. > :07:58.London, claim to have been tortured by police after they were arrested.
:07:58. > :08:06.David Cameron says he will raise the issue with the president of the
:08:06. > :08:10.UAE, who starts a visit to Britain tomorrow. Richard Galpin reports.
:08:10. > :08:15.The more than nine months after arriving on holiday here in Dubai,
:08:15. > :08:20.Grant Cameron, along with Karl Williams and Suneet Jeerh, finally
:08:20. > :08:25.found out what their fate would be. Inside this court, they were found
:08:25. > :08:30.guilty of taking illegal drugs, and they were sentenced to four years
:08:30. > :08:34.in prison. Grand's mother Tracy Cameron have little hope they would
:08:34. > :08:38.be released, despite the allegations they had been tortured
:08:38. > :08:42.by the Dubai police. She told me how Karl Williams had allegedly
:08:42. > :08:48.been singled out for the worst treatment. He was laid out on the
:08:48. > :08:54.bed, his trousers were stripped down and electric shocks were
:08:54. > :08:58.administered to his testicles while he was blindfolded. I believe all
:08:59. > :09:04.of them had guns held to their head. They were told they were going to
:09:04. > :09:07.die. The dream holiday last July soon went wrong when the police
:09:07. > :09:11.arrested the three men, saying they had drugs on them. Human rights
:09:11. > :09:16.campaigners say there is evidence to back up the torture allegations
:09:16. > :09:20.and the men should be released immediately. Given the horrific
:09:20. > :09:26.allegations of torture, the President and the shake up to buy
:09:26. > :09:31.need to work together to pardon the men as soon as possible. They have
:09:31. > :09:34.been imprisoned for nine months, in prison for all of that time, they
:09:34. > :09:39.have not receive proper medical attention and it is time to send
:09:39. > :09:44.them home. -- received. Here at the Embassy of the United Arab Emirates,
:09:44. > :09:49.they are making final preparations for the visit of their President to
:09:49. > :09:54.Britain, which starts tomorrow. David Cameron has indicated that
:09:54. > :09:59.the torture allegations will be raised during the visit.
:09:59. > :10:04.So the issue threatens to overshadow the state visit. As the
:10:04. > :10:08.authorities in United Arabs have denied all the allegations. --
:10:08. > :10:11.United Arab Emirates. There is much at stake, the country is an
:10:11. > :10:15.important trading partner for Britain. Now these three men must
:10:15. > :10:20.be hoping the talks in London will convince the President to pardon
:10:20. > :10:23.them. A massive shake-up in the UK
:10:23. > :10:25.benefits system has begun, with the first claims made for the new
:10:25. > :10:29.universal credit, which merges several benefits and tax credits
:10:29. > :10:32.into one monthly payment. The scheme is being piloted with a
:10:32. > :10:34.small number of new claimants in Greater Manchester, but the
:10:34. > :10:43.Government says it could eventually affect nearly eight million
:10:43. > :10:49.households. Our Local Government Correspondent Mike Sergeant reports.
:10:49. > :10:51.If this is a welfare revolution, it is getting off to a slow start. One
:10:51. > :10:55.JobCentre in one town and a tiny number of new claimants will be
:10:55. > :10:59.losing -- using Universal Credit, but for the Government, this is the
:10:59. > :11:04.beginning of a radical overhaul of the benefits system which ministers
:11:04. > :11:07.say, people will always be better off in work. It is a big change, a
:11:07. > :11:10.big positive and it saves money through fraud and error and get
:11:10. > :11:15.people back to work making them taxpayers, and Britain will grow
:11:15. > :11:18.and be a strong nation. Government's plan is to combine six
:11:18. > :11:22.benefits, including Jobseeker's Allowance, tax credits and housing
:11:22. > :11:25.benefit, into one payment. The process begins today in Greater
:11:25. > :11:31.Manchester. In October, new claimants in other parts of the
:11:31. > :11:33.country will start using the system and by 2017, around 8 million
:11:33. > :11:37.households will be claiming Universal Credit. It Ashton under
:11:37. > :11:41.Lyne, there has been no press conference or fanfare for the
:11:41. > :11:44.launch of Universal Credit. Ministers and local officials want
:11:44. > :11:47.this to be a low-key beginning, so any problems with the new benefit
:11:47. > :11:53.can be sorted out as it is gradually introduced across England,
:11:53. > :11:56.Scotland and Wales. Labour says the Government plans are not as bold or
:11:56. > :12:00.ambitious as ministers claim. were promised a great big welfare
:12:00. > :12:04.shake-up, what we have is a small scheme starting in the north-west,
:12:04. > :12:09.three years into this Parliament. Meanwhile, the social security
:12:09. > :12:13.budget is up more than �20 billion than forecast. So what do residence
:12:13. > :12:19.in the first time to -- in the first town to try Universal Credit
:12:19. > :12:23.think? It is a bit confusing, but it will help get people into work.
:12:23. > :12:27.You need an incentive, you need to get encouraged to work. Some people
:12:27. > :12:31.do not have enough money, they need various things and they will spend
:12:31. > :12:35.it on those other things before they probably by what they actually
:12:35. > :12:39.need for the children to survive. Some concerns have been raised
:12:39. > :12:42.about whether a new on-line system for claiming the benefit is going
:12:42. > :12:50.to work, but the Government says there will be plenty of time to
:12:50. > :12:54.resolve any issues. Norman Smith is in Westminster. It
:12:54. > :13:00.may be a small scheme to start with, but the stakes are rather high.
:13:00. > :13:02.The stakes are huge, Simon, that is why Iain Duncan Smith is so
:13:02. > :13:07.cautiously proceeding, dipping his toe in the water with a limited
:13:07. > :13:14.trial, because he knows this is not some sort of one mind tweet, this
:13:14. > :13:18.is -- week, kisses responsible for 5 million claimants, real families
:13:18. > :13:23.and real claimants and if it goes wrong, there will be a real tales
:13:23. > :13:26.of hardship and woes and media backlash. The stakes are also high
:13:26. > :13:30.because Iain Duncan Smith has raised the bar so high, talking
:13:30. > :13:34.about reshaping the entire benefits system, and we know successive
:13:34. > :13:39.secretaries of state have talked B on welfare reform, but delivered
:13:39. > :13:43.little. -- talk to beat. Why? Because of the complexities of
:13:43. > :13:49.people's lives and the quagmire of reform. But the stakes are high
:13:49. > :13:53.overall because the success is predicated on the IT system working
:13:53. > :13:58.and we know, Whitehall is littered with the detritus of the failed
:13:58. > :14:01.schemes. Iain Duncan Smith says this will be different, saying
:14:01. > :14:06.there is a universal jobs scheme already on Lyne, receiving 6
:14:06. > :14:10.million hits a day. But the Universal Credit and the fate of
:14:10. > :14:15.Iain Duncan Smith may hinge not on politics, politicians will benefit
:14:15. > :14:20.groups or even us in the media, but on the IT department.
:14:20. > :14:23.Norman Smith, thank you very much. And you can find out more about the
:14:23. > :14:33.new Universal Credit and how the changes might affect you on the BBC
:14:33. > :14:42.
:14:42. > :14:45.raping a 14-year-old boy, who was attacked in the toilets of a
:14:46. > :14:49.Debenhams store in Manchester City Council. The court heard how the men
:14:49. > :14:57.approached the teenager when he was visiting the Arndale centre last
:14:57. > :15:06.year. This attack took place during a busy
:15:06. > :15:10.shopping day right in the city centre of Manchester. Once inside,
:15:10. > :15:15.the two men came and approached him. They stood either side of the
:15:15. > :15:19.teenager, threatened and grabbed his arm. They said to him, you are
:15:19. > :15:22.coming with us and you will do what we say. He was marched from the
:15:22. > :15:26.Arndale Centre over market Street, one of the busiest streets in
:15:26. > :15:31.Manchester, and into the Debenhams store, where he was sexually
:15:31. > :15:36.assaulted and raped. The men who carried out the attack work
:15:36. > :15:43.42-year-old Alex Wilson Fletcher and an Iraqi attack -- Iraqi asylum
:15:43. > :15:47.seeker. The judge said that both men would expect substantial sentences
:15:47. > :15:52.in June this year. Before then there will be a presentence report carried
:15:52. > :15:56.out to assess how dangerous these men are and what threat they pose to
:15:56. > :15:59.teenage boys. Before the end of proceedings, the judge turn to the
:15:59. > :16:05.jury and thanked a free single member for their consideration
:16:05. > :16:12.during this very difficult case -- and thanked every single member.
:16:12. > :16:17.Our top story: An investigation into allegations of child abuse at care
:16:17. > :16:22.homes in North Wales has found the abuse to be more widespread than
:16:22. > :16:26.previously thought. Will an EU vote to ban pesticides
:16:26. > :16:31.halt the decline of the European bee population?
:16:31. > :16:38.I will have the sport on the BBC News Channel, including former Black
:16:38. > :16:48.and Rovers manager Henning Berg has won over �2 million in compensation
:16:48. > :16:50.
:16:50. > :16:53.against the club. Rescue work on a collapsed building
:16:53. > :16:58.in Bangladesh has entered a sixth day. Officials say they no longer
:16:58. > :17:04.expect to find any survivors. At least 380 people are known to have
:17:04. > :17:09.died when the factory complex caned our money outskirts of the capital,
:17:09. > :17:15.Dhaka, and huge cranes have been used to remove the debris. Anbarasan
:17:16. > :17:19.Ethirajan is there for us. The heavy machinery was suppressed
:17:19. > :17:23.into service to remove the rubble from the building behind me after
:17:23. > :17:27.rescue workers lost hope of finding any survivors after midnight.
:17:27. > :17:33.Still, there are hundreds of people thought to be trapped inside and
:17:33. > :17:38.this has generated widespread anger in this country.
:17:38. > :17:44.The eight story building fell like a pack of cards last week, trapping
:17:44. > :17:50.hundreds inside. The country years yet to recover from the shock. For
:17:50. > :17:55.the first time, the Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina wet --
:17:55. > :18:01.witnessed the disaster site in person. Her government has been
:18:01. > :18:08.under intense pressure. Five days after the disaster, the
:18:08. > :18:12.owner of the building was arrested on charges of negligence. Rescue
:18:12. > :18:20.teams have been frantically working to find survivors, but the price of
:18:20. > :18:24.those trapped became weaker through the night. -- the tri- -- the cries
:18:24. > :18:28.of those trapped. Fire broke out as the rescue workers were attempting
:18:28. > :18:36.to free a girl. It started from the sparks of cutting equipment, forcing
:18:36. > :18:44.rescuers to pull out. Heavy lifting gear has been brought in to aid the
:18:44. > :18:49.clear up, effectively signalling the end of rescue operation. Anguished
:18:49. > :18:53.relatives are waiting for news of those still trapped.
:18:53. > :18:56.TRANSLATION: I was on the third floor. After the accident I was
:18:56. > :19:01.inside the building for three days unconscious lying on the floor, then
:19:01. > :19:08.I was rescued and taken to hospital. When I got my senses back I saw my
:19:08. > :19:13.mother was missing. She was working alongside me in the factory.
:19:13. > :19:17.Officials say they don't expect to find more survivors. Bangladesh's
:19:17. > :19:26.worst ever industrial disaster has come as a wake-up call for the
:19:26. > :19:31.clothing exporters and the authorities.
:19:31. > :19:34.As the renovation work and clearing workers going on, hundreds are
:19:34. > :19:39.waiting to hear about friends and relatives in the building, like
:19:39. > :19:43.these people. They were working inside the building earlier and they
:19:43. > :19:47.still have no answer and they don't know how long they have to wait to
:19:47. > :19:51.hear about their loved ones who were working in this building.
:19:51. > :19:56.Anbarasan Ethirajan, thank you. The Greek parliament has approved a
:19:56. > :20:01.bill which will see 15,000 state employees lose their jobs by the end
:20:01. > :20:04.of next year. Greece had to introduce the new law to receive 9
:20:04. > :20:11.billion euros, the latest instalment of an international bailout, but it
:20:11. > :20:15.has prompted protests outside the parliament in Athens.
:20:15. > :20:20.Civil servant in the line of fire. They burned an effigy of the public
:20:20. > :20:25.sector worker, protesters angry at plans to lay off 15,000. The
:20:25. > :20:29.demonstrator was smaller and -- demonstration was smaller and more
:20:29. > :20:34.peaceful than before, but passions were still high. Inside parliament,
:20:34. > :20:39.the bill was passed with a clear majority. It is the first time that
:20:39. > :20:42.the sacred cow of the Greek constitution, civil service jobs for
:20:42. > :20:47.life, will end, a condition for more bailout money. The Prime Minister
:20:47. > :20:51.was visibly relieved. We are going through a very difficult patch. This
:20:51. > :20:58.will be a success story. Less so are those who think they will be laid
:20:58. > :21:03.off. This town Hall worker already has a salary of just 600 euros a
:21:03. > :21:10.month. With a family to support, she is worried she will be among those
:21:10. > :21:15.sacked. Of course I am fearful. My contract is not you for renewal for
:21:15. > :21:20.three years. My family will be starving. On a political level,
:21:20. > :21:24.Greece is, than last year. The talk of a Euro exit has faded and the
:21:24. > :21:29.country no longer feels like it is falling off a cliff, but the
:21:29. > :21:33.situation is dire, with unemployment over 27 %, one in three below the
:21:33. > :21:39.poverty line, and many say the new measures will make things worse. The
:21:39. > :21:46.public sector is already tearing up the seams, the cuts have hit
:21:46. > :21:51.hospitals hard, a vital resource. Conditions are very harsh at the
:21:51. > :21:57.moment, the impact of the austerity on public hospitals is a matter of
:21:57. > :22:02.life and death, meaning we have had a shortage in wound dressings and
:22:02. > :22:07.medical gloves and the doctors need to inform patients they need to buy
:22:07. > :22:11.them themselves from the pharmacies. The government says tackling an
:22:11. > :22:17.unwieldy public sector is long overdue. It now expects almost 9
:22:17. > :22:21.billion euros of bailout money within the next few weeks, but that
:22:21. > :22:26.won't calm the social unrest as Greece desperately seeks a way out
:22:26. > :22:33.of its pain. The Chief Inspector of Constabulary
:22:33. > :22:37.for England and Wales, Tom Winsor, is calling for police to focus more
:22:37. > :22:41.on preventing crime than catching criminals. He wants them to target
:22:41. > :22:45.would-be offenders and crime hotspot 's, saying such a strategy would
:22:45. > :22:50.save the criminal justice system money.
:22:50. > :22:54.A European commission spokesman has confirmed that the commission will
:22:54. > :22:58.go ahead with the temporary ban on neonicotinoids, the pesticides
:22:59. > :23:04.linked to a dramatic decline in the numbers. But a formal decision will
:23:04. > :23:09.only be made in a few weeks time. John Maguire is at an apiary in
:23:09. > :23:14.Chippenham. This apiary has eight living hives
:23:14. > :23:20.going into the winter, but only two survived intact. I would not be able
:23:20. > :23:24.to get so close to a hive were the bees inside still alive and flying.
:23:24. > :23:29.Bees are famously industrious, busy, hard-working but they are says that
:23:29. > :23:32.double to their environment, to changes in the weather, to
:23:32. > :23:39.infections and diseases like any other farm animals. The key is
:23:39. > :23:44.whether this group of pesticides is making the bees' life even tougher
:23:44. > :23:48.than it already is. In common with so many of the
:23:48. > :23:53.beekeepers, Pete Douglas has seen his colonies on this organic form in
:23:53. > :23:58.Wiltshire declined drastically -- organic farm. This is one of the
:23:58. > :24:06.colonies which has died over the winter. If we look on this frame,
:24:06. > :24:11.usually this would be absolutely covered in bees, there is a very old
:24:11. > :24:18.patch here of brood where some of the bees should have emerged, they
:24:18. > :24:21.are just dead. We know bad weather and disease have hit hard, and some
:24:21. > :24:26.believe the pesticides called neonicotinoids are making matters
:24:26. > :24:31.worse. Many of the scientists are showing that there is a huge problem
:24:31. > :24:38.in terms of the impact of neonicotinoids on particularly
:24:38. > :24:42.honeybees but also wild bees as well. At the food and environment
:24:42. > :24:47.research agency near York, they say the issues are more complex. Weather
:24:47. > :24:51.conditions play the most important role, the impact of pestilent
:24:51. > :24:57.diseases, colony management. The more stresses you add to colonies,
:24:57. > :25:01.the worse it will be. Despite concerns raised by the European Food
:25:01. > :25:04.Safety Authority, the belief is that far more research is needed. They
:25:04. > :25:10.have studied bumblebees and found no adverse effect. There is more work
:25:10. > :25:15.to be done. If we can't find the harmful effects in the real world,
:25:15. > :25:19.we know we will not be able to measure any benefits resulting from
:25:19. > :25:23.a ban on neonicotinoids. And these are a very useful group of
:25:23. > :25:30.pesticides for farmers and growers used to control a Hugh -- a whole
:25:30. > :25:34.range of pest. Honey production was devastated last year. The bees are
:25:34. > :25:39.vital pollinators. Look at the pollen caked on their legs as they
:25:39. > :25:44.return. It is a huge help to the very farms that those supporting a
:25:44. > :25:50.ban believe are worsening the plight of the honey bee.
:25:50. > :25:55.So this is a complex issue and there is little agreement, really. No real
:25:55. > :25:59.consensus. The EU ministers voting this morning did not manage to reach
:25:59. > :26:04.a qualified majority. Because the European commission is minded to
:26:04. > :26:09.bring forward this ban, it will take place. It will come in across Europe
:26:09. > :26:14.later this summer, proudly in July. The moratorium will take two years.
:26:14. > :26:20.The key thing will be to make sure there is more and more research, the
:26:20. > :26:25.ultimate objective being to better protect such a vital pollinators.
:26:25. > :26:30.Last year Sir Bradley Wiggins became the first Briton to win the Tour de
:26:30. > :26:33.France, catapulting him to global fame. Olympic Lawrie follows, a
:26:33. > :26:38.knighthood and the BBC Sports Personality of the Year. This year
:26:39. > :26:44.he is hoping to add another honour, by winning the Giro d'Italia. Andy
:26:44. > :26:49.Swiss is in Wigan. For Sir Bradley Wiggins, his journey
:26:49. > :26:56.starts in Wigan but it will finish on the streets of Naples. The tour
:26:56. > :27:01.of Italy, his first big race of the summer. Can the man who wrote to
:27:01. > :27:07.glory last year rise to his latest challenge? He is Britain's knight in
:27:07. > :27:13.shining like red, Sir Bradley Wiggins, for many the man who
:27:13. > :27:18.defined 2012, a world of speed and sideburns who captured the Tour de
:27:18. > :27:24.France, Olympic gold and the public imagination. How on earth do you
:27:24. > :27:32.follow that? You go for the next biggest prize, the tour of Italy, a
:27:32. > :27:37.relief to get back to Britain. My saving grace is I have not gone out
:27:37. > :27:42.and tried to cash in on the Olympics and got my face everywhere. Gone on
:27:42. > :27:48.game shows and all this stuff like most of them have done, dancing
:27:48. > :27:52.programmes. I went back to work on the 1st of January, that has been my
:27:53. > :27:56.fate -- my saving grace. Wiggins was expected to support Chris Froome --
:27:56. > :28:02.Chris Frew in the Tour de France. Today Bradley Wiggins said he is
:28:02. > :28:08.also still out to win it. The Giro d'Italia comes first, then it is not
:28:08. > :28:15.a case of getting fat, it is getting back them to it, where will we be?
:28:15. > :28:22.Then into the tour. The challenge is the Giro d'Italia. It will be a long
:28:22. > :28:27.and intriguing summer, last year's king of the road has no intention of
:28:27. > :28:32.giving up his crown. The two of Italy starts on Saturday,
:28:32. > :28:38.interesting to hear him say that he still wants to win the Tour de
:28:38. > :28:44.France, too. A remarkable double is still on the cards.
:28:44. > :28:49.If you think spring has been slow to get going, spare a thought for the
:28:49. > :28:52.people of Spain, who have been blanketed in snow for the last few
:28:52. > :28:56.days. 18 provinces have extreme weather warnings, with temperatures
:28:56. > :29:06.hovering around freezing. Some smaller roads have been blocked, and
:29:06. > :29:14.
:29:15. > :29:21.near Valencia, the coastal region is one of the many faces of spring that
:29:21. > :29:26.we will see. We will see sunshine at times in the South, but rain at
:29:26. > :29:31.times in the North. We will all season quite chilly nights. Here is
:29:31. > :29:34.the satellite from so far today, 20 of sunshine across southern areas,
:29:34. > :29:41.some fair-weather cried -- fair-weather cloud developing. The
:29:41. > :29:44.best of the sunshine is across areas of southern England and South Wales.
:29:45. > :29:51.Fair-weather cloud developing, but you will be unlucky if you catch a
:29:51. > :29:57.shower. Temperatures not feeling bad in the sunshine. Some showers in a
:29:57. > :30:01.fuel areas, across Scotland some of them will be heavy with hail and
:30:01. > :30:06.thunder and a little bit of snow over the highest ground. The showers
:30:06. > :30:10.have blown in on a pretty brisk north-westerly wind. Showers across
:30:10. > :30:16.Scotland continue. In some spots we could see some snow to quite low
:30:16. > :30:21.levels. It should not be too disruptive, just for the far north
:30:21. > :30:25.of Scotland. Elsewhere, Shell is fading away, largely clear night.
:30:25. > :30:31.Towns and cities are not so far away from freezing, out in the
:30:31. > :30:35.countryside, some countryside areas in England could get close to
:30:35. > :30:41.freezing, some sheltered glens of Scotland even a bit below. A
:30:41. > :30:46.widespread ground frost and some as frost tomorrow morning, but then
:30:46. > :30:50.better weather. There will be extra cloud through Northern Ireland,
:30:50. > :30:54.Scotland and northern and eastern areas of England, producing the odd
:30:54. > :31:04.isolated shower but Shell is nothing like as heavy as today. The highest
:31:04. > :31:05.
:31:05. > :31:08.temperatures are in the South. That sets us up for what looks like a
:31:08. > :31:11.north-south split for the middle of the week. High pressure keeping
:31:11. > :31:17.things largely settled. Cloud and patchy rain across Northern Ireland,
:31:17. > :31:21.Scotland and northern England across Wednesday. Temperatures at 15 or 16
:31:21. > :31:26.Celsius in the south, you will be lucky to get that in the north. The
:31:26. > :31:31.north-south contrast to continue. Just six degrees in Fort William on
:31:31. > :31:36.Friday, parts of the South could get up to 15 or 16 with more sunshine
:31:36. > :31:40.and more dry weather. Many different faces offspring as we head to the
:31:40. > :31:45.next few days. The driest, brightest weather will probably be in the
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