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leaves the Parliamentary party over a BBC programme alleging that he had | :00:12. | :00:16. | |
broken lobbying rules. The MP says he's going to save the party | :00:16. | :00:19. | |
embarrassment. A spokesman for the Prime Minister says he's made the | :00:19. | :00:24. | |
right decision. Also this lunch time, the inquest is | :00:24. | :00:28. | |
opened and adjourned into the death of Drummer Lee Rigby. His family | :00:28. | :00:35. | |
issue a Lee that his death isn't used -- issue a ply that his death | :00:35. | :00:40. | |
isn't used as an excuse to carry out attacks on others. | :00:40. | :00:44. | |
Unemployment in the eurozone reaches a record high with warnings of a | :00:44. | :00:49. | |
lost generation in some countries. The April Jones murder - now there | :00:49. | :00:53. | |
are calls for internet search engines to do more to restrict | :00:53. | :00:57. | |
access to online pornography. And more chaos than carnival, as the | :00:57. | :01:01. | |
authorities in Rio decide the England friendly against Brazil can | :01:01. | :01:06. | |
go ahead at the weekend, after worries about stadium safety. | :01:06. | :01:10. | |
On BBC London: Cross-rail marks a milestone. Boris Johnson says it | :01:11. | :01:16. | |
would be insane not carrying on spending big. Competition for | :01:16. | :01:18. | |
apprenticeships in the capital apprenticeships in the capital | :01:18. | :01:28. | |
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apprenticeships in the capital Good afternoon. Welcome to the BBC | :01:39. | :01:43. | |
News at One. In the last hour, the Conservative MP, Patrick Mercer, has | :01:43. | :01:47. | |
announced that he is resigning from the Parliamentary party at | :01:47. | :01:51. | |
Westminster ahead a Panorama investigation into allegations of | :01:51. | :01:54. | |
inappropriate lobbying. He's also said that he won't be standing at | :01:54. | :01:59. | |
the next general election. The Newark MP says he would save the | :01:59. | :02:02. | |
party embarrassment. A Conservative Party spokesman said the Prime | :02:02. | :02:05. | |
Minister believes that Mr Mercer has done the right thing. Let's go live | :02:05. | :02:08. | |
to Westminster and our political correspondent is there for us. | :02:08. | :02:14. | |
Louise, tell us what this is all about. This is in relation to a BBC | :02:14. | :02:18. | |
Panorama programme which has been looking at lobbying and members of | :02:18. | :02:21. | |
the House of Commons and the House of Lords. The programme, which is | :02:21. | :02:24. | |
still being made, is due to air as soon as possible. During the course | :02:24. | :02:29. | |
of that investigation, they've contacted a number of people, | :02:29. | :02:31. | |
including Patrick Mercer and asked them for their response. That | :02:31. | :02:34. | |
investigation has led to Patrick Mercer making the statement a short | :02:34. | :02:39. | |
time ago, saying he was resigning as the party whip. In the statement he | :02:39. | :02:43. | |
said, " Panorama are planning to broadcast a programme alleging that | :02:43. | :02:48. | |
I have broken Parliamentary rules. I'm taking legal advice about these | :02:48. | :02:51. | |
allegations and I have referred myself to the Parliamentary | :02:51. | :02:54. | |
Commissioner for Standards. In the meantime, to save my party | :02:54. | :03:00. | |
embarrassment, I have resigned the Conservative whip and have informed | :03:00. | :03:04. | |
the Chief Whip, Sir George Young. I have also decided not to stand at | :03:04. | :03:08. | |
the next general election." What's the reaction been to this? As you | :03:08. | :03:12. | |
know, the news broke only a short time ago. The Prime Minister is | :03:12. | :03:15. | |
still on holiday. He's due back this weekend in. A statement, a | :03:15. | :03:18. | |
Conservative Party spokesman said, " The Prime Minister is aware. He | :03:19. | :03:23. | |
thinks Patrick Mercer has done the right thing in referring himself to | :03:23. | :03:26. | |
the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards and resigning the whip. | :03:26. | :03:32. | |
It's important that the dew -- due processes take their source." David | :03:32. | :03:35. | |
Cameron warned in 2010 following the expenses scandal, which ran for | :03:35. | :03:41. | |
weeks and weeks and involved so many MPs, that the next big scandal would | :03:41. | :03:45. | |
be lobbying. It would be the links between business, money, | :03:45. | :03:49. | |
politicians, Parliamentarians and said that he would clamp down on it. | :03:49. | :03:53. | |
The Conservative Party today has stressed it is in the coalition | :03:53. | :03:57. | |
agreement to introduce a registers lobby. They said they are going to | :03:57. | :04:01. | |
do that, but it would take time to get it right. It's obviously not | :04:01. | :04:04. | |
good news for David Cameron when a long-standing member of Parliament, | :04:04. | :04:09. | |
a backbencher who used to be a Shadow minister resigns. But | :04:09. | :04:13. | |
obviously, he's not resigned to go off to another party. He won't be | :04:13. | :04:17. | |
standing at the next election, he said, butt Conservative Party is | :04:17. | :04:19. | |
stressing there will not be a by-election. | :04:19. | :04:23. | |
Thank you very much. An inquest has been opened and | :04:23. | :04:27. | |
adjourned into the death of Drummer Lee Rigby, who was attacked near | :04:27. | :04:31. | |
Woolwich Barracks in south-east London last week. Southwark | :04:31. | :04:35. | |
Coroners' Court was told he died from multiple stab wounds and was | :04:35. | :04:39. | |
identified by dental records in. A statement Lee Rigby's family has | :04:39. | :04:42. | |
appealed for calm, saying he wouldn't want people to use his name | :04:42. | :04:50. | |
as an excuse to carry out attacks against others. | :04:50. | :04:56. | |
After nine days, there is just enough room for more flowers. At the | :04:56. | :05:03. | |
barracks where Lee Rigby served and the place he died, they carpet the | :05:03. | :05:09. | |
pavements and cover and -- the railings. There will be a full | :05:09. | :05:15. | |
increst into Lee Rigby's death. But once criminal proceedings are | :05:15. | :05:20. | |
completed. Giving brief details detective Chief Inspector, who is | :05:20. | :05:23. | |
leading the investigation said Lee Rigby had been returning to barracks | :05:23. | :05:27. | |
from the Tower of London, where he had been working, when a car swerved | :05:27. | :05:31. | |
across the road and hit him. The two occupants then got out and attacked | :05:31. | :05:38. | |
him with a meat cleaver and a knife. His body had to be identified by a | :05:38. | :05:43. | |
forensic dental expert. The tower is headquarters to Lee Rigby's | :05:43. | :05:47. | |
regiment, the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers. There have already been | :05:47. | :05:51. | |
protests at his death and this weekend, more are planned. But an | :05:51. | :05:55. | |
association for those who served with the royal fusiliers has warned | :05:55. | :06:00. | |
retired members that demonstrators are courting them and exploiting Lee | :06:00. | :06:03. | |
Rigby's death for their own ends. Today, the Rigby family released a | :06:03. | :06:06. | |
Today, the Rigby family released a new statement: " We would like to | :06:06. | :06:10. | |
emphasise that Lee would not want people to use his name as an excuse | :06:10. | :06:15. | |
to carry out attacks against others. We would not wish any other families | :06:15. | :06:18. | |
to go through this harrowing to go through this harrowing | :06:18. | :06:21. | |
experience." The Metropolitan Police have refuse | :06:21. | :06:24. | |
aid request by the British National Party to march from Woolwich | :06:24. | :06:29. | |
Barracks to a nearby Islamic centre. If anybody turned up in contrary to | :06:29. | :06:32. | |
the directions we have set, they are committing an offence for which they | :06:32. | :06:35. | |
can be arrested. That is an operational decision that will be | :06:36. | :06:41. | |
made on the day. The BNP leader promised to defy the police, though | :06:41. | :06:44. | |
he asked members to meet at a Westminster location, agreed with | :06:44. | :06:52. | |
the Met, as a first step. The Queen made a long scheduled visit to | :06:52. | :06:56. | |
Woolwich Barracks this morning, but changed plans so she could meet away | :06:56. | :07:00. | |
from the cameras officers an soldiers who knew drummer Lee Rigby, | :07:00. | :07:05. | |
a private acknowledgement of the events of last week. | :07:05. | :07:09. | |
The Queen is paying that visit. Our Royal Correspondent is there. Nick, | :07:09. | :07:15. | |
take us through who she's been meeting. A rather curious visit | :07:15. | :07:20. | |
really. A long-planned visit. The purpose of it in coming to Woolwich | :07:20. | :07:25. | |
Barracks is to see the headquarters of the royal horse artillery. She's | :07:25. | :07:29. | |
seen a lot of horses, demonstrations of riding. She's having lunch at the | :07:29. | :07:33. | |
moment. What she is not doing, we are told, is taking a few minutes to | :07:33. | :07:38. | |
go and see the many of hundreds of floral tributes to Drummer Lee Rigby | :07:38. | :07:41. | |
which rest just outside Woolwich Barracks a few hundred yards to my | :07:41. | :07:46. | |
left. That is a decision which I suspect some people, perhaps many | :07:46. | :07:50. | |
people, will find, well, a little surprising. Palace officials are at | :07:50. | :07:55. | |
a bit of a loss to explain it other than it is a long-planned visit to | :07:55. | :08:00. | |
the king's troop and that's pretty much it. She will meet privately | :08:00. | :08:05. | |
with about half a dozen people who were involved in the response last | :08:05. | :08:09. | |
week. These are people in the military chain of command, so | :08:09. | :08:14. | |
officers. The head of state, yes, here at Woolwich Barracks, but no | :08:14. | :08:17. | |
public acknowledgement of the tragic events of last week. | :08:17. | :08:23. | |
Thank you. Just to say, in the last few minutes, the Crown Prosecution | :08:23. | :08:31. | |
Service has said that Abu Nasiba a friend of Michael Adebolajo has been | :08:32. | :08:34. | |
charged with three terrorist offences. | :08:34. | :08:38. | |
The Foreign Office is investigating reports that a British man has been | :08:38. | :08:42. | |
killed in Syria along with two others. A UK-based monitoring group | :08:42. | :08:46. | |
says the man had a British passport but could not verify its | :08:46. | :08:50. | |
authenticity. The man was killed along with an American woman and | :08:50. | :08:57. | |
another man in Idlib province. There are also reportses from the | :08:57. | :09:02. | |
strategically city of Qusair that people are trapped in the rebel-held | :09:02. | :09:08. | |
district of the city with no access to medical assistance. | :09:08. | :09:13. | |
Three foreigners died when their car was riddled by gunfire. One has been | :09:13. | :09:16. | |
identified as an American woman, who converted to Islam. The Foreign | :09:16. | :09:21. | |
Office is trying to establish whether what appears to be a UK | :09:21. | :09:25. | |
passport, means a man who also died, was British. If so, he'd be the | :09:25. | :09:28. | |
second Briton killed in Syria this week. A young British doctor died | :09:28. | :09:34. | |
when the clinic he was working in was hit by a shell. All this came as | :09:34. | :09:39. | |
the battle for Qusair, further to the south was intensifying. | :09:39. | :09:43. | |
Government troops and Hezbollah fighters closed in around the town. | :09:43. | :09:49. | |
Rebels were trapped with supply lines cut, so too civilians and cash | :09:49. | :09:52. | |
well toys. Doctors say conditions are desperate. | :09:52. | :09:56. | |
TRANSLATION: The situation is very bad. We have more than wounded # 00 | :09:56. | :10:01. | |
people. We have no -- 600 people. We have no access to medical help. | :10:01. | :10:04. | |
Hezbollah has made a huge difference in the fighting. It has definitely | :10:04. | :10:11. | |
changed the balance and strengthened the Assad army. Western leaders are | :10:11. | :10:14. | |
frustrated by the opposition in-fighting and the apparently | :10:14. | :10:19. | |
open-ended flow of arms from Iran and Russia to the regime. This is | :10:19. | :10:29. | |
the most pressing crisis in world affairs today. The continued flow of | :10:29. | :10:36. | |
weapons to the regime, the difficulties and disagreements about | :10:36. | :10:41. | |
attending the Geneva talks don't help at all. So the battle for | :10:41. | :10:45. | |
Qusair and for Syria goes on. Even if the Peace Conference does get | :10:45. | :10:49. | |
under way, there's not much optimism that it will be able to come up with | :10:49. | :10:56. | |
a viable formula for halting the carnage. | :10:56. | :11:00. | |
Unemployment across the eurozone has risen to a new high. Another 95,000 | :11:00. | :11:03. | |
people joined the ranks of the jobless taking the total to one in | :11:04. | :11:08. | |
eight of the workforce. Italy is one of the hardest hit, where | :11:08. | :11:12. | |
unemployment is at the highest level for more than 36 years. There's been | :11:13. | :11:18. | |
slightly more positive signs from the UK. | :11:18. | :11:22. | |
The queues of job seekers across the eurozone are growing with the | :11:22. | :11:26. | |
percentage out of work now at 12. 2%, it's seen as a major social | :11:26. | :11:29. | |
problem as well as an economic one. In Greece, for example, school | :11:30. | :11:33. | |
leavers like these have not much to look forward to in an economy where | :11:33. | :11:39. | |
more than half of young people are out of work. A lot of unemployment. | :11:39. | :11:44. | |
A lot of not good payment, not good opportunities. So we have to go | :11:44. | :11:51. | |
abroad. It will be very difficult to find a job in my country, but I will | :11:51. | :11:55. | |
try. Spain, too, it's a gloomy picture, with more than a quarter of | :11:55. | :12:00. | |
the working-age population looking for work. These are troubled times | :12:00. | :12:03. | |
for many eurozone economies, but there's been a more positive outlook | :12:03. | :12:07. | |
for the UK today. The British Chambers of Commerce have revised | :12:07. | :12:13. | |
their growth forecast up from 0. 6% this year to 0. 9%. And look ago | :12:13. | :12:17. | |
head to next year, they've -- looking ahead to next year, it's up | :12:17. | :12:23. | |
from 1. 7% to 1. 9% growth. Consumer spending has been doing reasonably | :12:23. | :12:27. | |
well. In our view is likely to do well in the future, not | :12:27. | :12:30. | |
marvellously, but better than predicted. And from the housing | :12:30. | :12:35. | |
market this week, there's been news of faster price rises and a bigger | :12:36. | :12:39. | |
monthly increase in mortgage lending. We've seen some house price | :12:39. | :12:44. | |
measures nudge up in the last month. There does seem to be more | :12:44. | :12:47. | |
confidence in the market. Many people are reporting more levels of | :12:47. | :12:53. | |
activity. But over the longer term, the next five years or so, we | :12:53. | :12:59. | |
anticipate that prices won't rise significantly in real terms. The UK | :12:59. | :13:02. | |
isn't immune from what's happening in the eurozone. There was a police | :13:02. | :13:07. | |
barricade outside the European Central Bank in Frankfurt today as | :13:07. | :13:11. | |
demonstrators mounted a protest against austerity policies, given | :13:11. | :13:14. | |
the importance of trading links, a continued downturn in these | :13:14. | :13:19. | |
economies will get in the way of a UK recovery. | :13:19. | :13:23. | |
Police have been given more time to question a man on suspicion of the | :13:23. | :13:27. | |
murder of the missing Shropshire teenager Georgia Williams. Georgia | :13:27. | :13:30. | |
was last seen in Wellington on Sunday. The suspect, who is 22 and | :13:30. | :13:35. | |
from the town, was arrested in Glasgow three days ago. | :13:35. | :13:40. | |
The widow of one of six British hostages killed in January's siege | :13:40. | :13:45. | |
of an Algerian gas facility has said she's still had no explanation of | :13:45. | :13:48. | |
how her husband died. Lorraine Barlow described how her husband | :13:48. | :13:54. | |
rang her after he was taken hostage and had explosives strapped around | :13:54. | :13:59. | |
him. She sells she's shocked by the attitude of BP who jointly runs the | :13:59. | :14:01. | |
site. Lorraine Barlow shows me the most | :14:01. | :14:06. | |
recent photos of her husband, Garry, out at work in Algeria, days after | :14:06. | :14:11. | |
these pictures were taken on his 50th birthday he rang her. He told | :14:11. | :14:17. | |
me that I needed to stay very calm and I knew as soon as he said that | :14:17. | :14:21. | |
there was something really wrong. He proceeded to tell me he had been | :14:21. | :14:27. | |
taken hostage by Al-Qaeda mujahideen and they had made him wear | :14:27. | :14:36. | |
explosives. Heavily armed extremists had attacked Algeria's plant. Garry | :14:36. | :14:40. | |
Barlow was one of more than six Britons killed. He was employed by | :14:40. | :14:46. | |
an agency to work at the joint venture which includes BP. He | :14:46. | :14:52. | |
considered himself to be working for the company. His widow was | :14:52. | :14:56. | |
distressed by the company's attitude. They don't feel as though | :14:56. | :15:01. | |
they have any responsibility to tell using in. I find it quite shocking | :15:01. | :15:05. | |
and inhumane to the extreme. declined our request for an | :15:05. | :15:10. | |
interview in. A statement it says the plant is in a military zone, | :15:10. | :15:13. | |
under the control of the Algerian armed forces. How the terrorists got | :15:13. | :15:18. | |
through security to attack the plant is an unresolved question. It said | :15:18. | :15:22. | |
the investigation being carried out by the British police on behalf of | :15:22. | :15:26. | |
the Coroner will be more comprehensive than if BP had carried | :15:26. | :15:31. | |
out an internal inquiry. The Prime Minister went to Algeria within | :15:31. | :15:35. | |
weeks of the attack. The Algerian authorities are leading the | :15:35. | :15:38. | |
investigation and officers from Scotland Yard's antiterrorist squad | :15:38. | :15:42. | |
have been to the scene to gather evidence for the British inquests | :15:42. | :15:46. | |
which are due to start next year pt He received no protection. I'd like | :15:46. | :15:52. | |
to know why. I'd like to know exactly what happened. I'd like to | :15:52. | :15:56. | |
know who was responsible, who made decisions. Lawyers for the widow of | :15:56. | :16:00. | |
Garry Barlow and other British families say they want a full and | :16:00. | :16:02. | |
transparent investigation to get to transparent investigation to get to | :16:02. | :16:03. | |
transparent investigation to get to transparent investigation to get to | :16:03. | :16:13. | |
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the truth. The top story this lunchtime: The Conservative MP | :16:13. | :16:18. | |
Patrick Mercer leaves the Parliamentary party over a programme | :16:18. | :16:23. | |
on the BBC alleging he broke lobby rules. Later, we will have all the | :16:23. | :16:33. | |
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sport, where England were put into for your health? The Curiosity Rover | :16:47. | :16:53. | |
has found any astronaut on a Mars mission would be at Vics -- risk of | :16:53. | :17:03. | |
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getting cancer because of the high health warning. Using interests -- | :17:09. | :17:13. | |
instruments on the Curiosity Rover, scientists have measured the | :17:13. | :17:17. | |
radiation and astronaut would receive. They found the journey to | :17:17. | :17:21. | |
the red planet would be the most dangerous part of the mission, with | :17:21. | :17:25. | |
astronauts getting bombarded with dangerous particles from the sun as | :17:25. | :17:29. | |
well as cosmic rays from deep space. This would significantly increase | :17:29. | :17:33. | |
their chance of getting cancer and could damage tissue in the brain. | :17:33. | :17:37. | |
Even on earth, we are exposed to background radiation all the time. | :17:37. | :17:47. | |
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Each year, we receive many of them. If you have a CT scan, you are | :17:49. | :17:55. | |
exposed to ten millisievert. In space, the number goes up. For a | :17:55. | :18:01. | |
mission to Mars, it is estimated to be 640. That is about a lifetime's | :18:01. | :18:11. | |
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space travel has always been rescued. Many argue this should not | :18:17. | :18:24. | |
stand in the way. -- always been dangerous. Mars is definitely worse | :18:24. | :18:28. | |
bit -- worth the trouble. We have always done this as a species, and | :18:28. | :18:32. | |
there is nothing about this time in history that means we should not do | :18:32. | :18:40. | |
it. What is left to explore? only real solution is to improve the | :18:40. | :18:46. | |
shielding on the spacecraft or to get there much quicker. Current | :18:46. | :18:51. | |
rockets take six months to make the journey. New propulsion systems are | :18:51. | :18:56. | |
needed to do it in weeks. Private companies have now set their sights | :18:56. | :19:01. | |
on the red planet. They want the glory of being the first to set foot | :19:01. | :19:08. | |
on Mars. It could be a risk some are willing to take. There are renewed | :19:08. | :19:10. | |
calls for tighter restrictions on Internet pornography following the | :19:10. | :19:15. | |
conviction of Mark Bridger for the murder of April Jones. He was | :19:15. | :19:19. | |
sentenced to life imprisonment for kidnapping and killing her. A | :19:19. | :19:25. | |
government adviser has said Google and other search engines should make | :19:25. | :19:33. | |
it much more difficult for people to view images of child abuse. Mark | :19:33. | :19:39. | |
Bridger was well-known and well liked in the streets before he | :19:39. | :19:42. | |
abducted April Jones. Few could have believed he was capable of the | :19:42. | :19:47. | |
crime. During the trial, very different picture was revealed, of a | :19:47. | :19:50. | |
man who use the Internet to prey on vulnerable young children and who | :19:50. | :19:59. | |
deceived this community. Hours before he abducted April Jones, Mark | :20:00. | :20:03. | |
Bridger was viewing a graphic image of child abuse on his computer. | :20:03. | :20:08. | |
Please searching his home found a library of images downloaded from | :20:08. | :20:11. | |
the Internet. -- the police searching his home. Now they are | :20:11. | :20:18. | |
calls for tougher controls, forcing anyone who views pornography to | :20:18. | :20:25. | |
agree first. If the companies step up to the mark, we can do anything, | :20:25. | :20:30. | |
but they have to want to do it. Google has $35 billion in cash in | :20:30. | :20:37. | |
its bank account. April Jones's murder has opened a difficult debate | :20:37. | :20:40. | |
about how to prevent abuse, and whether anyone can police the | :20:40. | :20:48. | |
Internet. We have a zero tolerance policy for this imagery, we work | :20:48. | :20:51. | |
closely with organisations in the UK and around the world to fund them | :20:51. | :20:55. | |
and make sure when they send us information about these sites we | :20:55. | :20:59. | |
remove it quickly. We count on our billions of users around the world | :20:59. | :21:04. | |
to let us know if they find this material, we immediately remove it | :21:04. | :21:10. | |
and reported to the authorities. Mark Bridger claimed he was | :21:10. | :21:14. | |
collecting indecent images in order to complain about them. His lies | :21:14. | :21:20. | |
have sickened the community he lives in, as has his refusal to reveal | :21:20. | :21:26. | |
what he did with the body. When he gives not to the magnitude of his | :21:26. | :21:32. | |
offence, the horrific nature, he should definitely say what he did | :21:32. | :21:38. | |
with her. There can be no question about that. How can a man be so | :21:38. | :21:46. | |
unfeeling? The months since April Jones's disappearance have been | :21:46. | :21:51. | |
difficult to bear. Thoughts have to be for the future, making sure it is | :21:51. | :21:57. | |
one where children are protected. The trial also raised questions | :21:57. | :22:02. | |
about the use of social networking sites. He used Facebook to look at | :22:02. | :22:07. | |
pictures of local schoolgirls, put there by parents and viewed by a man | :22:07. | :22:15. | |
who harboured morbid fantasies. A badger cull will be underway into | :22:15. | :22:21. | |
test areas in West Somerset and West Gloucestershire tomorrow to try to | :22:21. | :22:25. | |
stop the spread of bovine TB, which costs dairy farmers thousands of | :22:25. | :22:32. | |
pounds. Wildlife groups say shooting badgers will not help. Badgers, they | :22:32. | :22:38. | |
are cute and curious, but they also carry bovine TB, and disease having | :22:38. | :22:42. | |
a devastating impact on cattle herds. News of the pilot badger cull | :22:42. | :22:49. | |
is has been welcomed by many farmers. We caught up with David | :22:49. | :22:54. | |
Batty last autumn. The vet was carrying out skin tests for bovine | :22:54. | :23:01. | |
TB, and time and time again, the news was bad. It was a positive | :23:01. | :23:11. | |
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test, dozens of his herd marked out to be killed within 24 hours. Still | :23:12. | :23:17. | |
today, bovine TB continues its impact on the herd. For him, the | :23:17. | :23:22. | |
Carl is essential. We can get rid of it in the cattle herd very quickly. | :23:22. | :23:27. | |
I keep getting clear of it and then it gets reinfected. Without being | :23:27. | :23:30. | |
able to control the badgers we will never get rid of it. In West | :23:30. | :23:39. | |
Gloucestershire, they aim to shoot up to 2932 badgers. In West Somerset | :23:39. | :23:46. | |
it is up to 2162 badgers. The government scientist suggest the | :23:46. | :23:49. | |
four-year programme will reduce the spread of TB in cattle in each zone | :23:49. | :23:57. | |
by fitting -- by 16%. 13 leading scientists have given their opinion | :23:57. | :24:02. | |
on this Carl and they -- they impose it -- they oppose it because it does | :24:02. | :24:12. | |
not make a meaningful difference to bovine TB in cattle. The opposing | :24:12. | :24:16. | |
sides of this polarised debate cannot begin to agree on how best to | :24:16. | :24:22. | |
tackle the problem. There is no question this is among the most | :24:22. | :24:25. | |
contentious issues facing the British countryside today. | :24:25. | :24:28. | |
Supporters of the cull is a similar measures in other countries | :24:28. | :24:31. | |
including Ireland have worked, but the opponents insist that there is | :24:31. | :24:38. | |
no scientific duster vacation for the killing of thousands of badgers. | :24:38. | :24:44. | |
-- scientific justification. The Office of Fair Trading has been | :24:44. | :24:51. | |
accused of being ineffective and timid in attempts to deal with | :24:52. | :24:59. | |
companies offering high interest loans. The OST said it had taken | :24:59. | :25:09. | |
:25:09. | :25:10. | ||
strong action. Debt, it is all a deal with at this helpline, and they | :25:10. | :25:13. | |
are now getting one call every seven minutes from people needing help | :25:13. | :25:23. | |
:25:23. | :25:24. | ||
with payday loans is top. It is a quick fix. People are quite able to | :25:25. | :25:28. | |
borrow this money for a short period of time, some of the people taking | :25:28. | :25:32. | |
out the money do not understand how soon the money needs to be paid | :25:32. | :25:41. | |
back. If you cannot pay it back, the debt can spiral out of control. MPs | :25:41. | :25:46. | |
say unscrupulous behaviour is costing borrowers at least �450 | :25:46. | :25:51. | |
million per year, and they are scathing about how this market is | :25:51. | :25:57. | |
police. The Office of Fair Trading do not know how many firms are | :25:57. | :26:03. | |
lending, they have never find a lender for exploiting individual | :26:03. | :26:10. | |
clients, and they very rarely revoke a licence. In a statement, the | :26:10. | :26:14. | |
Office of Fair Trading said far from being timid, they can take strong, | :26:14. | :26:24. | |
:26:24. | :26:38. | ||
consumer incomes are squeezed and they struggle to access credit | :26:38. | :26:45. | |
through mainstream lenders. Campaigners want better options. | :26:45. | :26:47. | |
need to see alternatives, affordable, sensible lending, good | :26:47. | :26:52. | |
debt advice. It is those things together that will mean the industry | :26:52. | :26:58. | |
will not be needed. With more than 2 million customers, payday loans are | :26:58. | :27:04. | |
filling a gap, but tougher action is being promised when a new regulator | :27:04. | :27:10. | |
takes over in April. England's friendly with Brazil is expected to | :27:10. | :27:15. | |
go ahead on Sunday despite safety concerns at the recently renovated | :27:15. | :27:25. | |
:27:25. | :27:25. | ||
stadium. A court order suspended the game but a few hours later that was | :27:25. | :27:33. | |
revoked. It will be the first match at the stadium. England's | :27:33. | :27:37. | |
footballers arrived in Brazil after a long transatlantic flight. Knowing | :27:37. | :27:41. | |
there had been concerns about stadium readiness, but unaware of | :27:41. | :27:46. | |
the match might be in jeopardy. have had reassurances from various | :27:46. | :27:52. | |
organisations. The main priority is to be here this week, to be as open | :27:52. | :27:59. | |
and accessible to people as we can be and enjoy the experience. As the | :27:59. | :28:03. | |
England players loosened up on the beach, a judge issued an injunction | :28:03. | :28:08. | |
suspending the game on Sunday. It is the first official match to be | :28:08. | :28:12. | |
played at the Maracana Stadium. The judge ruled there was not enough | :28:12. | :28:18. | |
public safety guaranteed at the stadium, which had just been | :28:18. | :28:25. | |
refurbished. Although the seating has been completed, the amount of | :28:25. | :28:32. | |
rubble and building the serial lying around was referred to by the judge. | :28:32. | :28:39. | |
Late last night, the state government said relevant safety | :28:39. | :28:43. | |
requirements had been satisfied and the game would go ahead. But this is | :28:43. | :28:51. | |
still a huge embarrassment ahead of the World Cup. Fever have | :28:51. | :29:01. | |
:29:01. | :29:09. | ||
consistently bemoaned the slow there is going to be sunshine! There | :29:09. | :29:18. | |
is. It is looking lovely. Depending how much cloud and sunshine we get, | :29:18. | :29:23. | |
for a lot of us, overall, looking at the UK it will be warm and sunny. It | :29:23. | :29:28. | |
has not been the case for many of us this morning. Look at the cloud | :29:28. | :29:33. | |
across central and eastern England. Very gloomy. The sun is strong at | :29:33. | :29:39. | |
this time of year, it burns the clouds away. Actually, the weather | :29:39. | :29:43. | |
across the bulk of England and Wales is looking fine. In the north, it is | :29:43. | :29:48. | |
more cloudy. We will get to that bit in a second. Over the next couple of | :29:48. | :29:53. | |
days we have the Derby. It is tomorrow. The weather is looking | :29:53. | :29:58. | |
pretty good. I would not concentrate on the temperature. If you get the | :29:58. | :30:03. | |
sunshine, regardless of whether it is 16 or 19 degrees, it will feel | :30:03. | :30:10. | |
warm. Looking across the South, temperatures could reach 22 degrees. | :30:10. | :30:17. | |
Very pleasant across the South. The coast of Wales will be colder. If we | :30:17. | :30:22. | |
hop across the Irish Sea, into Northern Ireland, the cloud is | :30:22. | :30:27. | |
bicker, there is rain, we have already had some this morning. What | :30:27. | :30:32. | |
you will find is as the afternoon progresses, the cloud and the rain | :30:32. | :30:37. | |
that we have across this part of the world will die down. For Yorkshire, | :30:38. | :30:41. | |
apart from a little shower across the Pennines, the weather is looking | :30:41. | :30:49. | |
good. This evening, quite good across the south of the country. The | :30:49. | :30:58. | |
weather should be dried forward most of the UK -- driver most of the UK. | :30:58. | :31:01. | |
Through Saturday at self, we have been promising you this in the last | :31:01. | :31:06. | |
few days, high pressure builds, this is the good weather coming in, this | :31:06. | :31:10. | |
is what we would like across the UK most of the time. That translates | :31:11. | :31:20. | |
into plenty of bright weather. Not necessarily everywhere, because | :31:20. | :31:26. | |
showers will be brewing across the North. It will be fresher. It should | :31:27. | :31:32. | |
feel fairly similar. Sunday, copycat conditions, about 19 in the London | :31:32. | :31:42. | |
:31:42. | :31:48. |