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Crisis in England's home care. With a low-wage system encouraging | :00:08. | :00:14. | |
neglect. No-one's here. They forgot me, | :00:14. | :00:19. | |
haven't they? The Government warning comes as the BBC is shown CCTV | :00:19. | :00:24. | |
footage of the neglect experienced by one 83-year-old woman. | :00:24. | :00:29. | |
Also: Shares in the Royal Bank of Scotland, fall sharply, amid rumours | :00:29. | :00:34. | |
that the chief executive, Stephen Hester, was forced out of his job. | :00:34. | :00:38. | |
The death toll in Syria is now thought to be more than 93,000. A | :00:38. | :00:45. | |
report by the United Nations says that 6,500 of them are children. | :00:45. | :00:52. | |
England's cleverest children are being let down by a mediocre | :00:52. | :00:58. | |
approach in state secondary schools. Google's tax affairs, high pressure | :00:58. | :01:02. | |
MPs are not convinced by the explanation for the low tax bill. | :01:02. | :01:08. | |
And about to. Be launched on the voyage of moth arehood, the Duchess | :01:08. | :01:11. | |
of Cambridge, makes her last solo public appearance before becoming a | :01:11. | :01:17. | |
parent. On BBC London: Essex Police is told | :01:17. | :01:23. | |
to do more to protect domestic violence victims. Land owners call | :01:23. | :01:33. | |
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for new laws to stop people dumping Good afternoon. | :01:41. | :01:46. | |
Welcome to the BBC News at One. There is is a crisis in the home | :01:46. | :01:51. | |
care system for the elderly and the disabled in England. The warning | :01:51. | :01:55. | |
comes from the social Care Minister, Norman Lamb, who fears there could | :01:55. | :02:02. | |
be an abuse scandal as the -- as serious as the problems at staffed | :02:02. | :02:08. | |
hospital. The BBC was given access to CCTV footage, filmed by the | :02:08. | :02:13. | |
family of one 83-year-old woman, showing the treatment she received | :02:13. | :02:17. | |
at the hands of her home care company over a month. You may find | :02:17. | :02:22. | |
this report distressing. No-one is here. They forgot me, | :02:22. | :02:28. | |
haven't they? The career should have been here 45 minutes ago. Muirial is | :02:29. | :02:32. | |
incontinent. She has been in bed for 13 hours. | :02:32. | :02:40. | |
Now look at me. Lying in bed at 4.00pm in the afternoon. It is not | :02:40. | :02:44. | |
good enough. They have to sort out the home careers. I will have to do | :02:44. | :02:54. | |
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something. I can't put up with it much longer. It is awful... Yeah, we | :02:55. | :03:00. | |
used to walk here a lot, your dad and I at one time. Your granddad and | :03:01. | :03:07. | |
I, yeah. Muriel, in happier times with her | :03:07. | :03:14. | |
grandson. The son installed the cameras incase she fell. He did not | :03:14. | :03:18. | |
expect to see his mother in such distress. Over the months of the | :03:18. | :03:23. | |
footage that we have seen, the careers turned up late, not at all, | :03:23. | :03:25. | |
on at least a dozen separate occasions. | :03:25. | :03:30. | |
You ring them up. They say they are sending someone along but they never | :03:30. | :03:35. | |
did. It was terrible. The way that they treat old people. | :03:35. | :03:39. | |
I'm lucky I have a family to look after me. Those that haven't got a | :03:39. | :03:44. | |
family, God help them, the poor devils. | :03:44. | :03:47. | |
While some careers were professional, the footage shows | :03:47. | :03:51. | |
others who were not. This career uses her fingers to test the | :03:51. | :03:57. | |
temperature of the food. Another change changes pads in full view of | :03:57. | :04:01. | |
the street, they are incontinence pads. | :04:01. | :04:06. | |
To see someone in your family treated with no respect, no | :04:06. | :04:10. | |
dignity... It is, you question yourself. You think in a way you | :04:10. | :04:14. | |
feel guilty. I showed the footage to the Care | :04:14. | :04:18. | |
Minister. He was holding a summit with care providers today, to | :04:18. | :04:21. | |
discuss concerns in the industry as a whole. | :04:21. | :04:26. | |
It is shocking and depressing, really. This is neglect in your own | :04:26. | :04:32. | |
home. We know that this is not an isolated case. | :04:32. | :04:37. | |
There is also very good care, we should celebrate that but where poor | :04:37. | :04:43. | |
care exists, we should not tolerate This is the company that was paid to | :04:43. | :04:48. | |
look after Muriel. The community care is based in Preston. The family | :04:48. | :04:53. | |
say that they complained to them repeatedly about the service that | :04:53. | :04:57. | |
they were providing, but in a statement, the company said: At no | :04:57. | :05:02. | |
time were issues raised by the family. Any concerns would have been | :05:02. | :05:09. | |
dealt with via the appropriate channels. We go bo and beyond the | :05:09. | :05:12. | |
legal requirements when employing careers. The care of patients is | :05:12. | :05:16. | |
important to us. Despite the shocking level of care | :05:16. | :05:20. | |
provided, the company insisted that the family owe them more than �4,000 | :05:20. | :05:24. | |
in fees. They started court proceedings against them, but on the | :05:25. | :05:29. | |
day that the case was due to be heard, the company never showed up. | :05:29. | :05:38. | |
The case was dismissed. The house is now for sale to help | :05:38. | :05:42. | |
pay for Muriel's care costs. She is happy now but the memory of what | :05:42. | :05:46. | |
happened behind this door will long linger. | :05:46. | :05:51. | |
Michael is with me now. Michael, Norman Lamb spoke about this being a | :05:51. | :05:59. | |
scandal on the scale of the Staffordshire hospital but this is | :05:59. | :06:03. | |
happening behind homes behind their closed doors? That is the concern. | :06:03. | :06:07. | |
Trying to get a grip on what is happening here. We know that | :06:07. | :06:12. | |
hundreds of thousands of people in England are getting domiciliary care | :06:12. | :06:16. | |
and that figure is set to rise as the population is ageing. There are | :06:16. | :06:19. | |
reports indicating that there are problems in the industry over the | :06:20. | :06:23. | |
last couple of years. The Care Quality Commission looked at it, | :06:23. | :06:28. | |
saying that the care does not support the dignity of those | :06:28. | :06:33. | |
receiving the care or their autonomy. Which? Looked into the | :06:33. | :06:42. | |
industry, they described some of the care as disgraceful. The CQC said | :06:42. | :06:47. | |
that most cases good cases were provided but 25% were failing to | :06:47. | :06:52. | |
meet standards. So there is clearly an issue here. | :06:52. | :06:55. | |
The outgoing chief executive of the Royal Bank of Scotland, Stephen | :06:55. | :06:59. | |
Hester, has denied being forced from his job by the Treasury. Shares in | :06:59. | :07:04. | |
the bank fell by 6% in early trading. The bank confirmed this | :07:04. | :07:07. | |
morning it is cutting 2,000 jobs worldwide in the investment | :07:07. | :07:11. | |
division. Hugh Pym has this report. | :07:11. | :07:16. | |
Did he go willingly or was he pushed because of a clash with the | :07:16. | :07:20. | |
Treasury? Speculation about Stephen Hester, impending departure from | :07:20. | :07:23. | |
Royal Bank of Scotland has intensified. The line is that the | :07:23. | :07:27. | |
bank needs a new boss for the process of privatisation but Stephen | :07:27. | :07:31. | |
Hester hint #d he would have liked to have stayed. | :07:31. | :07:36. | |
I am torn. On the one hand I feel a huge loyalty to the company, the | :07:36. | :07:40. | |
people who have been with me in the trenches for years. Of course I want | :07:40. | :07:47. | |
to see it through for them. For my own pride, I guess, but on the other | :07:47. | :07:51. | |
hand, for me that would be the ending of a job. I think that there | :07:51. | :07:54. | |
is an argument to say that in a perfect world it should be the | :07:54. | :07:56. | |
beginning of a future for Royal Bank of Scotland. | :07:56. | :08:01. | |
Today in the Commons, a Treasury Minister paid tribute to Stephen | :08:01. | :08:05. | |
Hester's work, saying it was time for a new chapter at Royal Bank of | :08:05. | :08:07. | |
Scotland. Having brought Royal Bank of | :08:07. | :08:12. | |
Scotland back from the brink, now is the time to move on from the rescue | :08:12. | :08:17. | |
phase to the focus on Royal Bank of Scotland being a UK bank to provide | :08:17. | :08:22. | |
support to the British economy. But Labour said many questions | :08:22. | :08:27. | |
needed to be answered. Did Stephen Hester go voluntarily, or was he | :08:27. | :08:31. | |
push?ed what role did the Chancellor have in prompting this departure? | :08:31. | :08:34. | |
With a fall in the Royal Bank of Scotland share price this morning, | :08:34. | :08:38. | |
there was criticism in the City of the Government's handling of the | :08:38. | :08:42. | |
issue, with so much taxpayer money on the line. | :08:42. | :08:47. | |
I think it has been messy. It is a surprise to see someone who led a | :08:47. | :08:53. | |
successful repair job removed at the behest of the Treasury. Secondly, do | :08:54. | :08:58. | |
so without having a clear plan for succession is negligent. | :08:59. | :09:04. | |
The debate on Stephen Hester's at departure is continuing on a day | :09:04. | :09:07. | |
when Royal Bank of Scotland announces cutbacks in the investment | :09:07. | :09:10. | |
banking operations. Including here in the City of London. It is seeking | :09:10. | :09:15. | |
to focus more on the UK-based corporate and household lending. | :09:15. | :09:21. | |
Roiks say that there will be 2,000 job losses a % cut in investment | :09:21. | :09:25. | |
bank staff. Across the bank there have been 41,000 job losses since | :09:25. | :09:29. | |
2008. With the chairman's side-stepping questions about his | :09:29. | :09:32. | |
future this morning, there is uncertainty hanging over Royal Bank | :09:32. | :09:37. | |
of Scotland, bust on the question of who will be running it and when the | :09:37. | :09:42. | |
taxpayers may get some money back. Let's speak to Norman Smith at | :09:42. | :09:47. | |
Westminster for us. I guess it is the perennial political question, | :09:47. | :09:53. | |
did he jump or was he pushed? the Treasury say that their hands | :09:53. | :09:57. | |
were clean. It was not them that done in the nice Mr Hester. They say | :09:57. | :10:01. | |
that the decision was taken by the Royal Bank of Scotland board with no | :10:01. | :10:06. | |
involvement from the Chancellor. Yet if this were a game of political | :10:06. | :10:11. | |
Cleudo, I suspect that many will suspect that Stephen Hester had | :10:11. | :10:16. | |
indeed been done in. We learn that the two men have not met each other | :10:16. | :10:20. | |
for three months, that suggests a certain coolness that their | :10:20. | :10:27. | |
relationship. Also no replacement has been pencilled in. The Number | :10:27. | :10:32. | |
Ten spokesperson when asked, if the Treasury pressurised Stephen Hester | :10:32. | :10:38. | |
to go, said that they would not put it in those terms. That the | :10:38. | :10:44. | |
Chancellor could want to pave the way for the RBS sell-off, the | :10:44. | :10:49. | |
Treasury deny that, saying there is no fixed price, nothing's been | :10:50. | :10:54. | |
pencilled in. Yet, you can see how attractive it would be for the | :10:54. | :10:59. | |
Chancellor to go into the next election with an eye-catching policy | :10:59. | :11:03. | |
like an RBS share give away. Interesting stuff. Thank you very | :11:03. | :11:06. | |
much. The school's watchdog is warning | :11:06. | :11:11. | |
that the brightest children are being let down by many of England's | :11:11. | :11:16. | |
state secondary schools. In a report, Ofsted is blaming a culture | :11:16. | :11:21. | |
of low expectations. Head teachers have disputed some of the evidence, | :11:21. | :11:24. | |
while arguing that league tables push schools into focussing on the | :11:24. | :11:32. | |
middle ground. We have more on this. At Forefoot School in York, they do | :11:32. | :11:36. | |
their best to stretch the brightest pupils, identifying the able | :11:36. | :11:42. | |
children as soon as they arrive from primary school. Those who cope get | :11:42. | :11:44. | |
tougher assignments to push themselves further. | :11:44. | :11:51. | |
I am happy to be pushed. In some subjects it is challenging. It a is | :11:51. | :11:56. | |
a good helping hand to say to you can do well, to try thinking about | :11:56. | :12:02. | |
it for the future it is good. But Ofsted says in England's | :12:02. | :12:06. | |
non-selective secondary schools, this is not the norm. Looking at | :12:06. | :12:10. | |
pupils getting above the expected standards in English and maths test. | :12:10. | :12:18. | |
Last year two thirds of the pupils, 65,000, failed to get an A* or A at | :12:18. | :12:24. | |
GCSE maths and English. Over a quarter, 27,000, failed to get a B. | :12:24. | :12:28. | |
Ofsted says that last year a fifth of all schools teaching A-levels | :12:28. | :12:33. | |
failed to produce a single pupil with the top grades expected by | :12:33. | :12:38. | |
leading universities, why is this happening? Low expectations of what | :12:38. | :12:43. | |
the youngsters can do and achieve. That is critical. We have to improve | :12:43. | :12:47. | |
by ensuring that teachers and leaders of the schools have higher | :12:48. | :12:51. | |
expectations. But teaching unions say that you | :12:51. | :12:58. | |
cannot assume that pupils scoring above expectations get top marks in | :12:58. | :13:03. | |
GCSE. Students students with a level five | :13:03. | :13:09. | |
have often been taught to pass that test. A child just past that test by | :13:09. | :13:14. | |
being taught precisely what they need to do is the not the same as a | :13:14. | :13:18. | |
child with top marks in the test and is one of the brightest. | :13:18. | :13:22. | |
This is a confusing time for parents. Today they are told not | :13:22. | :13:27. | |
enough bright pupils are getting high grades. Ministers took actions | :13:27. | :13:32. | |
to toughen up exams because of too many high grades, but the Department | :13:32. | :13:36. | |
for Education is agreeing that measuring the progress of pupils at | :13:36. | :13:43. | |
school is essential. A group of MP is accusing guying of | :13:43. | :13:45. | |
aggressive tax avoidance as it conducts its UK business from | :13:45. | :13:48. | |
Ireland. The Public Accounts Committee is calling on the company | :13:48. | :13:54. | |
to pay its fair share of tax. Google say it is complies with all tax | :13:54. | :14:00. | |
rules in the UK. The biggest search engine is facing | :14:00. | :14:06. | |
searching questions about tax. MPs say that the way that Google | :14:06. | :14:11. | |
gets advertisers to send payments to Ireland is a ruse to avoid UK | :14:11. | :14:16. | |
Corporation Tax. We looked at how they have this very | :14:16. | :14:22. | |
complex web of companies over all sorts of countries where the sole | :14:22. | :14:27. | |
purpose appears to be to avoid paying their fair share of tax on | :14:27. | :14:32. | |
the profits that they make from the business that they do in the UK. | :14:32. | :14:39. | |
The Public Accounts Committee says that Google had UK sales of �11. 5 | :14:39. | :14:45. | |
billion between 2006 and 2011. It claims that the profits on that | :14:45. | :14:49. | |
would have been enormous. Though there is no figure but it says that | :14:49. | :14:55. | |
Google paid just �10 million in UK Corporation Tax over that period. | :14:55. | :15:01. | |
I want to start by reminding you that it is a serious offence to | :15:01. | :15:05. | |
mislead a parliamentary select committee... Last month, MPs grilled | :15:05. | :15:09. | |
Google for a second time after a whistleblower told them that UK | :15:09. | :15:14. | |
sales were completed in the UK. We hire people with sales skills, | :15:14. | :15:18. | |
they are encouraging people to spend money but what is clear is that | :15:18. | :15:24. | |
no-one in the UK team can execute a transaction, no money changes hands. | :15:24. | :15:29. | |
The whistleblower, Barney Jones, worked for Google and believed that | :15:29. | :15:34. | |
they should have paid more tax. Matt Brittin wanted to defend the | :15:34. | :15:39. | |
tax that they were paying by saying that they did not sale, but I worked | :15:39. | :15:43. | |
for the sales team, selling is what we did. | :15:43. | :15:47. | |
Google issued a statement, saying it complies with the tax rules in the | :15:47. | :15:51. | |
UK, that it is the politicians who make the rules, but the Public | :15:51. | :15:53. | |
Accounts Committee wants HM Revenue & Customs to launch an | :15:53. | :15:57. | |
investigation. We investigate multinationals, | :15:57. | :16:02. | |
recovering �23 billion from large businesses over three years, | :16:02. | :16:06. | |
including multinationals but we can only enforce the rules. We cannot | :16:06. | :16:12. | |
collect tax that is not due. The Prime Minister's promised to | :16:12. | :16:17. | |
give top billing to tax avoidance when leaders meet for the G 8 | :16:17. | :16:22. | |
summit, but MPs want him to push for multinationals to pay a fair share | :16:22. | :16:27. | |
of tax in the companies countries where they do business. | :16:27. | :16:34. | |
The top story: A crisis in England's home care system with a low-wage | :16:34. | :16:38. | |
system that encourages poor care and neglect. | :16:38. | :16:44. | |
Later on BBC London: A famous drama school fears for funding after the | :16:44. | :16:48. | |
council demands that they take down advertising boards. | :16:48. | :16:56. | |
And back from the nine tis, we speak to one of the boyband's Mark Easton, | :16:56. | :17:06. | |
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on going solo. -- East 17. There are six | :17:08. | :17:13. | |
candidates, all bar one is from a conservative background. Whoever | :17:13. | :17:16. | |
wins faces huge challenges. The country is feeling effects of | :17:16. | :17:23. | |
sanctions because of a nuclear programme the West fears is more | :17:24. | :17:27. | |
about developing nuclear weapon, something which Tehran denies. | :17:27. | :17:34. | |
On the eve of this election, Iran faces an acute economic crisis. | :17:34. | :17:37. | |
International sanctions imposed because of its nuclear programme, | :17:37. | :17:42. | |
leading to a collapse in the currency, with prices of food and | :17:42. | :17:49. | |
other essential goods shooting up. And this has been a big issue in the | :17:49. | :17:53. | |
election campaign. Some candidates have been questioning the cost to | :17:53. | :17:57. | |
the country of the Government's uncompromising approach in | :17:57. | :18:01. | |
negotiations with the international community. In the run-up to this | :18:01. | :18:07. | |
election, the ultraconservative establishment has stopped hundreds | :18:07. | :18:12. | |
of candidates from running, leaving just six still in the race, all | :18:12. | :18:18. | |
regarded as loyalists. Amongst the frontrunner frontrunners Hassan | :18:18. | :18:23. | |
Rowhani has turned out to be more of a moderate N the recent Presidential | :18:23. | :18:30. | |
debates Mr Row row has talked about changing ir-- Rowhani has called for | :18:30. | :18:34. | |
press freedom at home. Reformist groups are rallying around him. | :18:34. | :18:40. | |
the last eight years we've had Mr Ahmadinejad, who has been denying | :18:40. | :18:45. | |
the Holocaust and speaking about eliminating Israel from the face of | :18:45. | :18:53. | |
the world. If a moderate candidate wins then you will see a change of | :18:53. | :18:59. | |
attitudes towards the outside world. After the last election, four years | :19:00. | :19:04. | |
ago, there were huge demonstrations. Many voters believing the | :19:04. | :19:09. | |
authorities had rigged the vote to ensure a reformist candidate did not | :19:09. | :19:16. | |
win. In the crackdown by the authorities, dozens were killed. | :19:16. | :19:21. | |
Now there are just hours to go before the people of Iran vote once | :19:21. | :19:27. | |
again for a new President. What had seemed a very predictable election, | :19:27. | :19:32. | |
with an easy victory for the ultraconservatives has become much | :19:32. | :19:38. | |
more uncertain. Just to say, there's much more on | :19:38. | :19:43. | |
the Iranian elections, including profiles of the candidates on the | :19:43. | :19:48. | |
BBC website. Some breaking news coming into us | :19:48. | :19:52. | |
now and verdicts are being returned in the case of the man who murdered | :19:53. | :19:57. | |
two women police officers, Dale Cregan admitted murdering Fiona Bone | :19:57. | :20:00. | |
and Nicola Hughes, as well as a father and son in Manchester. He has | :20:00. | :20:05. | |
been found not guilty of attempting to murder another woman in the city. | :20:05. | :20:10. | |
Let's go to Ed Thomas with all the details at Preston Crown Court for | :20:10. | :20:16. | |
us. Ed? Yes, the final verdict on Dale | :20:16. | :20:20. | |
Cregan is now in. The full story of his four murders and three attempted | :20:20. | :20:24. | |
murders can be told. The last bit of business for the jury concerning | :20:24. | :20:30. | |
Dale Cregan was an attempted murder charge on shah ran Hart. The jury | :20:30. | :20:36. | |
found him not guilty of that. He admitted the murders of Mark and | :20:36. | :20:45. | |
David Short and PC Nicola Hughes huge and PC Fiona Bone. | :20:45. | :20:49. | |
Ef every police officer in the -- every police officer in the city was | :20:49. | :20:55. | |
on the look-out for him, but Cregan stayed hidden, until he created a | :20:55. | :21:01. | |
trap to lure the police to him. He dialled 999 and pretended his house | :21:01. | :21:11. | |
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officers were asked to drive over to look at the reported burglary. | :21:31. | :21:36. | |
32-year-old PC Fiona Bone was sent out with her shift partner that day, | :21:36. | :21:39. | |
23-year-old Nicola Hughes. They knocked on the door and met a hail | :21:39. | :21:46. | |
of bullets. Then Cregan threw a grenade at them. PCs Nicola Hughes | :21:46. | :21:52. | |
and Fiona Bone were sent out from their base here to respond to | :21:52. | :21:56. | |
Cregan's 999 call. Within an hour both women had been shot dead and | :21:56. | :22:01. | |
the man who murdered them was on his way here to their police station to | :22:01. | :22:07. | |
hand himself in. He walked inside and approached the counter. He said | :22:07. | :22:14. | |
"I am wanted by the police. I have just done two coppers." The officer | :22:14. | :22:19. | |
leapt over the desk to arrest him. In May, last year, Mark Short was | :22:19. | :22:24. | |
assassinated when Cregan ran into a pub in East Manchester and shot him | :22:24. | :22:28. | |
at the pool table. In June, he was arrested on suspicion of murder and | :22:28. | :22:33. | |
then released. In August, Mark Short's father was shot dead by | :22:33. | :22:38. | |
Cregan, who also threw a grenade at him. He threw a grenade at another | :22:38. | :22:42. | |
house nearby. He went on the round. A reward was offered for his | :22:42. | :22:50. | |
capture, but he evaded police for five weeks until the murder. He said | :22:50. | :22:53. | |
he shot the officers because the police had hounded his family. | :22:53. | :22:58. | |
fact is he was a very wanted man. We were very, very concerned, sadly as | :22:58. | :23:03. | |
it turned out, he would kill other people. We were constantly visiting | :23:03. | :23:07. | |
his family, his girlfriend, his relatives, absolutely, to discover | :23:07. | :23:11. | |
where he was and encourage them to give up information. The impact of | :23:11. | :23:19. | |
the shooting was enormous and mediate. Officers who had worked | :23:19. | :23:25. | |
alongside PC -- PCs Fiona Bone and Nicola Hughes found themselves | :23:25. | :23:28. | |
investigate investigating their murders. To go, I am going to kill a | :23:28. | :23:36. | |
police officer today because I don't like them seems unreal. It is a | :23:37. | :23:44. | |
level of callousness and no empathy with anybody - is beyond really my | :23:44. | :23:49. | |
comprehension. Their funerals drew large crowds. | :23:49. | :23:54. | |
Police officers from around the country came to pay their respects. | :23:54. | :23:59. | |
I think, as a parent, you have that expectation that your children will | :23:59. | :24:06. | |
be there for when you die. So, you couldn't... It is really difficult | :24:06. | :24:12. | |
to imagine it and it's even more difficult to describe it. Dale | :24:12. | :24:17. | |
Cregan's trial was conducted amongst high security. He and his | :24:17. | :24:21. | |
codefendants brought to court each day by armed convoy. Now he faces | :24:21. | :24:29. | |
life in prison for a crime the Prime Minister described as, "Pure evil." | :24:29. | :24:33. | |
Yes, Dale Cregan was not alone in the dock. There were nine other | :24:33. | :24:41. | |
codefendants. Four of those men will walk free from this court. They were | :24:41. | :24:44. | |
found not guilty of all the charges they were facing. When those | :24:45. | :24:49. | |
verdicts were read out, there were grasps in the courtroom. And sat | :24:49. | :24:57. | |
yards away from Dale Cregan was the father and family of PC Fiona Bone | :24:57. | :25:01. | |
and PC Nicola Hughes. We expect them to make a statement once they leave | :25:01. | :25:05. | |
this courtroom. As for Dale Cregan, we can tell you, he was seen | :25:05. | :25:09. | |
laughing and joking in a break between proceedings when the | :25:09. | :25:13. | |
verdicts were being read out. His own barrister has admitted he will | :25:13. | :25:17. | |
die in jail for what he's done. We expect him to be sentenced later | :25:17. | :25:22. | |
today. OK, thanks very much for that. Thank you. More than two years | :25:22. | :25:27. | |
after the start of the conflict in Syria, a new UN report says the full | :25:27. | :25:31. | |
scale of the deaths is likely to be far higher than previously thought. | :25:32. | :25:36. | |
It says at least 93,000 people have been killed since the conflict | :25:37. | :25:41. | |
began. That is 30,000 more than the UN's last estimate around the end of | :25:41. | :25:44. | |
last year. 5,000 deaths have been documented each month since last | :25:44. | :25:51. | |
July. The UN says the real number is likely to be much higher. Some 6, | :25:51. | :25:56. | |
500 children have died since March, 2011. A quarter of those were under | :25:56. | :26:00. | |
the age of 10. Our Middle East correspondent has | :26:00. | :26:04. | |
recently returned from Syria and joins me now. And Paul, when you | :26:04. | :26:09. | |
look at these figures, do they surprise you? No, if you visits | :26:09. | :26:16. | |
Syria it is obvious it has fallen into an abyss of violence. What is | :26:16. | :26:21. | |
interesting about these figures is the UN's analysts were careful only | :26:22. | :26:25. | |
to count those they were certain of. It may be 40,000 on top of that. | :26:25. | :26:29. | |
What they do not say is how many are combatants and how many are | :26:29. | :26:32. | |
civilians. One of the groups contributing came up with a | :26:32. | :26:36. | |
surprising idea, which was the largest single group may be the | :26:36. | :26:40. | |
regime's soldiers and the militias attached to it, with the civilians | :26:40. | :26:44. | |
coming second. That is a controversial finding which may give | :26:44. | :26:48. | |
western Governments a pause while they debate about what to do. The | :26:48. | :26:52. | |
scale of it, 5,000 people a month are now being killed. That is worse | :26:52. | :26:58. | |
than say Iraq at the height of the sectarian violence there in 2006. | :26:58. | :27:02. | |
Thank you. The Australian cricketer David | :27:03. | :27:06. | |
Warner has been suspended from the side until the first Ashes next | :27:06. | :27:11. | |
month. He is alleged to have attacked Joe Root in a bar in | :27:11. | :27:15. | |
Birmingham on Saturday night. He has been fined �7,000 and will miss the | :27:15. | :27:21. | |
remainder of his country's champion's trophy campaign. | :27:21. | :27:27. | |
The Duchess of Cambridge has named a new cruise liner - her last soe lo | :27:27. | :27:33. | |
engagement before the birth of her baby. Royal Princess will carry 3, | :27:33. | :27:42. | |
500 passengers and will set sail ??FORCEWHITE In about a month's time | :27:42. | :27:45. | |
the Duchess of Cambridge will become a mother, but this lunch time she | :27:45. | :27:50. | |
has become a godmother - a godmother to this huge cruise liner, | :27:50. | :27:55. | |
appropriately named Royal Princess. She came here to name it in her last | :27:55. | :27:59. | |
solo engagement as a member of the Royal Family, before she gives | :27:59. | :28:05. | |
birth. She looked calm, well, relaxed. If a little chilly at times | :28:05. | :28:09. | |
in the Southampton summer breeze. Several ladies in the audience | :28:09. | :28:15. | |
remarked to me she looked very elegant - eight months' pregnant, in | :28:15. | :28:19. | |
high-heeled shoes as she climbed on to the podium for her big moment. | :28:20. | :28:25. | |
name this ship Royal Princess. May God bless her and all who sail in | :28:25. | :28:35. | |
:28:35. | :28:44. | ||
Of course Kate was in hospital with acute morning sickness during the | :28:44. | :28:49. | |
early stages of her pregnancy. Since then, she has kept a full diary of | :28:49. | :28:53. | |
engagements. She has one more official function - that is this | :28:53. | :28:58. | |
weekend at Trooping the Colour in London. After that her maternity | :28:58. | :29:03. | |
leave, as you might call it, will begin. She will begin a Vogue into | :29:03. | :29:09. | |
motherhood, which will involve naming her own Royal Princess or | :29:09. | :29:12. | |
Prince. Thank you very much for that. Now | :29:12. | :29:22. | |
:29:22. | :29:23. | ||
time for the weather. Cold in An unsettled picture out there. The | :29:23. | :29:33. | |
wettest place so far today has been Wales - a clump of hef -- heavy | :29:33. | :29:39. | |
downpours there. It is heavy, gusty winds with these | :29:39. | :29:44. | |
as well. All that moving east. It is pretty windy just about wherever you | :29:44. | :29:50. | |
are. Let's look at 4pm this afternoon and we have heavy downpour | :29:50. | :29:58. | |
possibly in excess of 50 miles per hour in the worst of these. You will | :29:58. | :30:03. | |
know about it if you catch one of these. Fewer further south. It is | :30:03. | :30:06. | |
windy, mind you. It is brightening up. One or two showers passing | :30:06. | :30:10. | |
through on the strength of that wind. Also some sunshine coming | :30:10. | :30:14. | |
through, increasingly so now into south-west England. And the clump of | :30:14. | :30:17. | |
the heaviest downpours working from Wales. Here actually brightening up | :30:17. | :30:20. | |
a bit. Some showers around. In Northern Ireland this afternoon, it | :30:20. | :30:25. | |
is sunshine and showers. We are dodging the downpours, blue sky one | :30:25. | :30:29. | |
minute, a heavy shower the next. In Scotland the odd show tore the south | :30:29. | :30:34. | |
and west. Most of us with a fine afternoon. A bit of rain in the | :30:34. | :30:37. | |
Northern Isles. This evening the showers clear from eastern England. | :30:37. | :30:40. | |
A spell of fine weather overnight. It is a shame it is not happening | :30:41. | :30:47. | |
during the day. When we are asleep, largely dry and the temperatures | :30:47. | :30:52. | |
dipping down into single figures A touch cooler than recent nights. | :30:52. | :30:56. | |
Into Friday and the sign of things, already in western areas, as more | :30:56. | :31:00. | |
rain comes in, with a strengthening wind. All that spreading | :31:00. | :31:04. | |
north-eastwards. Turning more showery in the afternoon, the | :31:04. | :31:07. | |
Midlands. Missing most of the rain in south-east England, with some | :31:07. | :31:12. | |
sunshine. Gales on western coasts. Warmth in the south-east. | :31:12. | :31:16. | |
More rain to Northern Ireland by the end of the afternoon. That rain | :31:16. | :31:20. | |
Friday night will push across all areas. On Saturday we have low | :31:20. | :31:24. | |
pressure close by. It will be the future for showers, but sunshine | :31:24. | :31:27. | |
between the showers on Saturday. Not a washout, but there'll be | :31:27. | :31:30. | |
persistent rain at times to Northern Ireland and Scotland in particular. | :31:30. | :31:35. | |
It is still windy. For part two of the weekend, on Sunday, actually | :31:35. | :31:40. | |
many of us escape with a fine day. Rain into the south-west. | :31:40. | :31:44. | |
Uncertainty about timing. Keep checking the forecast and you can do | :31:44. | :31:50. | |
that any time on BBC weather online. The wind will stay up. More bad hair | :31:50. | :31:56. | |
weather on the way over the next couple of days. Thank you for that. | :31:56. | :32:02. |