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Two companies which provide electronic tagging are accused of | :00:10. | :00:15. | |
overcharging the Government by tens of millions of pounds. | :00:15. | :00:18. | |
The Justice Secretary says that G4S and Serco charged for people in | :00:18. | :00:23. | |
prison, who had left the country and even for people who were dead. | :00:23. | :00:29. | |
Also this lunch time: MPs' pay and independent body, says that their | :00:29. | :00:34. | |
salary should go up to �74,000. The Prime Minister disagrees. | :00:34. | :00:38. | |
Warnings of a �30 billion funding gap for the NHS in England by the | :00:38. | :00:44. | |
end of the decade, unless changes are made. | :00:44. | :00:51. | |
Stuart Hall's prison sentence of 15 months for indecent assault is to be | :00:51. | :00:55. | |
revealed -- reviewed after complaints from members of the pub. | :00:55. | :00:59. | |
OPERATOR: We're you on the plan, ma'am? PASSENGER: Yes, I was on the | :00:59. | :01:02. | |
plane. There are people laying on the tarmac with critical injuries, | :01:02. | :01:05. | |
head injuries. We're almost losing a woman here. We're trying to keep her | :01:05. | :01:15. | |
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Francisco Bay. And the Ashes and England standing | :01:20. | :01:25. | |
firm. Later on BBC London: Six women scale the Shahhed. | :01:25. | :01:31. | |
A Greenpeace protest. And how can the Mayor help air | :01:31. | :01:41. | |
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krault in the capital? -- air Welcome to the BBC News at One. | :01:49. | :01:56. | |
In the last hour, the Justice Secretary, Chris Grayling, accused | :01:56. | :02:00. | |
two private companies, G4S and Serco of overcharging the Government by | :02:00. | :02:04. | |
tens of millions of pounds for electronic tagging contracts. He | :02:04. | :02:08. | |
said that it emerged that the firms were charging for people in prison, | :02:08. | :02:12. | |
who had left the country and for people who were dead. Here is some | :02:12. | :02:16. | |
of what he told MPs. This audit confirmed that the | :02:16. | :02:19. | |
circumstances in which the department was billed for services. | :02:19. | :02:24. | |
This has included instances where our suppliers were not in fact | :02:24. | :02:28. | |
providing electronic monitoring. It included charges for people in | :02:28. | :02:33. | |
prison, that had had tags removed. For people who had left the country, | :02:33. | :02:37. | |
and those who had never been tagged in the first place but who had | :02:37. | :02:41. | |
instead been returned to court. There are a small number of cases | :02:41. | :02:44. | |
where charging continued for a period when the subject was known to | :02:44. | :02:47. | |
have died. In some instances, charging | :02:47. | :02:52. | |
continued for a period of many months, indeed years after active | :02:52. | :02:57. | |
monitoring had creased. The House will share my view that this is a | :02:57. | :03:02. | |
wholly indefensible and unacceptable state of affairs. | :03:02. | :03:07. | |
So, the Justice Secretary there in the Commons in the last hour. Let's | :03:07. | :03:11. | |
get more details. Those are eye watering figures. What more do we | :03:11. | :03:16. | |
know? Yes, potentially, the department, the Ministry of Justice | :03:16. | :03:21. | |
was overcharged by an amount in the low tens of millions of pounds. To | :03:21. | :03:25. | |
explain, Serco and G4S are responsible for fitting the tags to | :03:25. | :03:29. | |
offenders. Often they are released from prison, they are on probation. | :03:29. | :03:33. | |
They charge for that and the monitoring of them it seems that the | :03:33. | :03:38. | |
Ministry of Justice was carrying out a review in the way it arranges the | :03:38. | :03:42. | |
contracts and discovered this anom lee running into the tens of | :03:42. | :03:46. | |
millions of pounds. You heard of people not wearing tags, the | :03:46. | :03:50. | |
department being charged for the tags being fitted it goes back we | :03:50. | :03:55. | |
are told to months and years, in some cases, possibly back to 1999. | :03:55. | :03:59. | |
Chris Grayling was saying that there was a failure in his own department | :03:59. | :04:04. | |
to discover that this was going on, that nothing was done to address the | :04:04. | :04:09. | |
problems, he says, now the question is, were the mistakes made in the | :04:09. | :04:14. | |
companies, or is there a degree of dishonesty? Have we heard anything | :04:14. | :04:18. | |
from either of the companies mentioned? Nothing officially. | :04:18. | :04:23. | |
Serco, as he said agreed to the independent audit of what went on. | :04:23. | :04:27. | |
So that will happen. G4S did not agree to that. The Government said | :04:27. | :04:32. | |
that was a concern to them. Nothing official from G4S but I have heard | :04:32. | :04:37. | |
from a source there, that they are co-operating fully. They have done | :04:37. | :04:42. | |
their review and discovered no evidence of any sort of dishonesty. | :04:42. | :04:48. | |
That review has . They say that they warned the department, the Ministry | :04:48. | :04:52. | |
of Justice, some years ago, that there may be anomalies in the | :04:52. | :04:56. | |
contracting process. They say that they followed their contract with | :04:56. | :05:00. | |
the Ministry of Justice in full, but those are unofficial comments from | :05:00. | :05:05. | |
somebody I have spoken to but no official comment from G4S. Thank you | :05:05. | :05:08. | |
very much. The Prime Minister says he believes | :05:08. | :05:12. | |
that MPs should not receive a large pay rise while the pay of public | :05:12. | :05:16. | |
sector workers is being frozen or restrained. | :05:16. | :05:20. | |
An independent body, IPSA, recommended an increase of more than | :05:20. | :05:25. | |
11%, taking an MPs' salary to �74,000 after the next general | :05:25. | :05:31. | |
election. IPSA's chairman, Sir Ian Kennedy, defended his proposals. | :05:31. | :05:35. | |
Saying that suggestions from successive poi bodies were rejected | :05:35. | :05:41. | |
by previous governments for political reasons and sewn the seeds | :05:41. | :05:46. | |
of the political scandal. MPs used to decide their own | :05:46. | :05:50. | |
salaries but decisions are taken now by IPSA. While many face a salary | :05:50. | :05:55. | |
increase of 1%, they are proposing to give politicians an increase of | :05:55. | :06:00. | |
about 10% in 2015. This is not just pay but talking | :06:00. | :06:07. | |
about modernising the system of remunerating MPs' pace, pensions, | :06:07. | :06:11. | |
golden goodbyes, a range of things. Why do it now? Well, there is never | :06:11. | :06:15. | |
a good time. That is the reason it has never been done, that is the | :06:15. | :06:20. | |
reason we are in the mess we are in. So, under the Independent | :06:20. | :06:24. | |
Parliamentary Standards Authority proposals, the MPs' pay goes up from | :06:24. | :06:31. | |
about �66,000, to �74,000 in to 15, costing the taxpayer more than �4. 5 | :06:31. | :06:35. | |
million, but the savings are that of a less generous pension saving | :06:35. | :06:40. | |
nearly �2. 5 million. Ending some expenses, including covering the | :06:40. | :06:43. | |
costs of meals and reducing pay-offs. | :06:43. | :06:49. | |
But when the costs and the savings are added up, the price we pay for a | :06:49. | :06:54. | |
police will be half a million pounds higher in 2015 be that now, but | :06:54. | :06:58. | |
these are proposals, there will be consultations with the wider public | :06:58. | :07:02. | |
in the summer, but from my own consultations in the heart of the | :07:02. | :07:06. | |
Commons, I could not find any MPs to support them. | :07:06. | :07:11. | |
It is laughable. To be even considering accepting a pay rise of | :07:11. | :07:17. | |
that magnitude when so many other people are on no increases. This | :07:17. | :07:19. | |
organisation, ip ip -- Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority, | :07:19. | :07:23. | |
it is a bit of a silly organisation. The pay rise, as far as I am | :07:23. | :07:28. | |
concerned, they can stick it. I don't think we should be getting a | :07:28. | :07:35. | |
pay rise when nurses, teachers are facing low pay increases or not at | :07:35. | :07:43. | |
all. A head teacher outside of London is paid about �48,000 -- | :07:43. | :07:51. | |
78,000. A Chief Superintendent has been �78,000. A senior civil | :07:51. | :07:56. | |
servient about �88,000. Here in Swansea there is a higher | :07:56. | :08:01. | |
number of modestly paid public servants and not much sympathy for | :08:01. | :08:04. | |
the MPs. This is unfair the amount that the | :08:04. | :08:08. | |
salaries could go up. I think that selfish is the word. | :08:08. | :08:12. | |
It was the unpopular expenses scandal that led to an independent | :08:12. | :08:17. | |
body setting the MPs' pay, but this could replace one problem with | :08:17. | :08:20. | |
another. Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority said that they | :08:20. | :08:24. | |
found the issue of MPs' pay thorny and controversial. Well if they are | :08:24. | :08:28. | |
right about one thing, they are right about that. | :08:28. | :08:32. | |
Let's head to our Political Correspondent Norman Smith outside | :08:32. | :08:37. | |
now at Westminster. Lots of disquiet expressed there, Norman but will | :08:37. | :08:42. | |
this go through, still? Well, the sense, is that the only thing set to | :08:42. | :08:47. | |
rise faster than MPs' pay is public indig nation, but what the MPs don't | :08:47. | :08:53. | |
know is what to do about this. Parliament seems impotent, because | :08:53. | :08:55. | |
Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority is an independent body. In | :08:55. | :08:59. | |
order to ensure that MPs can no get their hands in the cash till, it | :09:00. | :09:04. | |
would seem that the only real option is for individual MPs themselves to | :09:04. | :09:09. | |
decide not to take the money. Now we know that Ed Miliband and Nick Clegg | :09:09. | :09:14. | |
have said that they will not take the money. David Cameron has sa so | :09:14. | :09:19. | |
far remained silent on the issue, but in the next election, in | :09:19. | :09:25. | |
constituencies up and down the country, we could be facing y Monty | :09:25. | :09:29. | |
Python Spanish inquisition style scenario when candidates are placed | :09:29. | :09:35. | |
on the rack by Cardinal Hack, and told to repent if they wish for a | :09:35. | :09:39. | |
chance to ere-elected, but then Independent Parliamentary Standards | :09:39. | :09:41. | |
Authority are still saying that there is no way for the MPs to pay | :09:41. | :09:46. | |
the money back. At the end of the day it could come down to individual | :09:46. | :09:51. | |
MPs deciding to write out a cheque to their favourite charity. | :09:51. | :09:55. | |
Norman, thank you. NHS England is warning that it could | :09:55. | :10:00. | |
face a �30 billion funding gap by the end of the decade unless changes | :10:00. | :10:05. | |
are made to the way that services are provided. Its chief executive, | :10:05. | :10:10. | |
Sir David Nicholson says there should be an honest and realistic | :10:10. | :10:15. | |
debate involving members of the public, staff and politicians. | :10:15. | :10:20. | |
Hospitals in England are being asked to find a share of savings, the | :10:20. | :10:24. | |
demand for healthcare is growing constantly with more elderly | :10:24. | :10:28. | |
patients with many health problems and new treatments and technologies. | :10:28. | :10:33. | |
Now there is is a warning that hospital care has to change with | :10:33. | :10:35. | |
services delivered in fewer hospitals. | :10:35. | :10:39. | |
The man running the NHS in England says it is the only way to keep | :10:39. | :10:43. | |
giving patients good care. The alternative is to try to spread the | :10:43. | :10:49. | |
money too thinly over the NHS. It is a really stark choice, to go | :10:49. | :10:54. | |
for service change, change in the way to deliver services to the | :10:54. | :10:57. | |
patients or sleep walking in to a position where we reduce the | :10:57. | :11:02. | |
quality? The pressures on A&E are part of a picture of rising demand, | :11:02. | :11:07. | |
but the department here is having to double in size just to cope. Today | :11:07. | :11:11. | |
there is a further stark warning of the financial pressures ahead. | :11:11. | :11:16. | |
. In England the NHS funding gap between its budget and the rising | :11:16. | :11:25. | |
costs adds up to �20 billion by 2014/2015. The budget forecast to go | :11:25. | :11:33. | |
up by 0. 01%. In 2016. That is leaving the health service finding | :11:33. | :11:39. | |
an extra �30 worth of savings. This is the biggest challenge that | :11:39. | :11:42. | |
the National Health Service is facing in its history. They will | :11:42. | :11:47. | |
have to be brave to engage with the public to talk about why the changes | :11:47. | :11:52. | |
have to take place to deliver better care within the resources. | :11:52. | :11:56. | |
Moving services from some local hospitals is controversial. Many | :11:56. | :12:00. | |
medical organisations accept it may be the best solution but it often | :12:00. | :12:03. | |
meets strong opposition from politicians and from local | :12:03. | :12:11. | |
communities, not convinced that it will improve the care. | :12:11. | :12:15. | |
England have been fighting back on the second day of the first Ashes | :12:15. | :12:23. | |
Test at Trent Bridge, but after an early loss of wickets, Australia are | :12:23. | :12:29. | |
193-9. Yesterday England were bowl outside out for 2015. | :12:29. | :12:33. | |
Well, it is all going on here. This is Test Match cricket but not as we | :12:33. | :12:38. | |
know it. We have had four sessions of the match by now. England should | :12:38. | :12:45. | |
have started their second innings. Today a five wickets play and a bit | :12:45. | :12:49. | |
of a teenage sensation. A morning of cricket you could not take your eyes | :12:49. | :12:53. | |
off. A lazy summer morning alongside the | :12:53. | :12:58. | |
Trent. Here the pace of life matches the environment. If time, why not | :12:58. | :13:03. | |
take it? Try telling the batsmen. At the cricket, things were moving | :13:03. | :13:08. | |
quicker than anyone expected, unless it was Stuart Broad's injured | :13:08. | :13:12. | |
shoulder. In this Test Match of wickets, batting seemed almost | :13:12. | :13:18. | |
impossible. It should not be. A 50 for Steve Smith. A batsman known to | :13:18. | :13:23. | |
favour of flushing drive. It was no surprise when he edged | :13:23. | :13:29. | |
Anderson to the wicketkeeper out for 53, but it is not quick bowling to | :13:29. | :13:37. | |
deceive, watch Graeme Swann here. The England total of 215 was seem | :13:37. | :13:41. | |
seeming to sizzle out. But hang on, eight down. | :13:41. | :13:46. | |
This wicket was the fifth of the innings from for James Anderson. | :13:46. | :13:53. | |
England best fast bowler, only two have taken more Test wickets.erson | :13:53. | :14:00. | |
looking good. Graeme Swann giving the same impression. Lbw, guilty. | :14:00. | :14:05. | |
When you are 1 on the Test Match debut, what do you have to lose? | :14:05. | :14:09. | |
Ashton Agar started to enjoy himself. Philip Hughes had been | :14:09. | :14:15. | |
watching the wickets fall but he is aggressive. Australia headed past | :14:15. | :14:21. | |
150, when they thought they were at their mercy. Next Ashton Agar | :14:21. | :14:25. | |
walloped Graeme Swann for six. The cheek of it. Why was batting so | :14:25. | :14:30. | |
difficult for everyone else? That young man, Ashton Agar is 56 not | :14:30. | :14:34. | |
out. He was a surprise pick for the bowling. He is now the top scorer in | :14:34. | :14:39. | |
the match. Stuart Broad has not bowled a ball for England with his | :14:39. | :14:45. | |
dodgy shoulder. They are operating with three bowlers. Australia 202-9, | :14:45. | :14:50. | |
so they are in sight of a first innings lead. Don't ask me what will | :14:50. | :14:54. | |
happen next but I think it will be worth ing. | :14:54. | :15:02. | |
Thank you very much. The top story: The Justice Minister | :15:02. | :15:06. | |
says two companies, G4S and Serco have been overcharging the | :15:06. | :15:12. | |
Government by tens of millions of pounds for electronic tagging | :15:12. | :15:18. | |
contracts. Still to come: By royal appointment, the companies invited | :15:18. | :15:21. | |
to celebrate with the Queen at Buckingham Palace. | :15:21. | :15:27. | |
Later on BBC London: Top tennis tips from Andy's mum. Judy helps | :15:27. | :15:30. | |
schoolchildren in Aldgate to take up tennis. | :15:30. | :15:38. | |
And a Prom for everyone, including a Sci-Fi symphony for the Doctor Who | :15:38. | :15:48. | |
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fans. A service of g has taken place at | :15:48. | :15:52. | |
Westminster Abbey to remember those who fought in the Korean war. | :15:52. | :15:58. | |
British and Commonwealth troops served on the Korean peninsula after | :15:58. | :16:03. | |
North Korean troops invaded the south in June 1950. By the time an | :16:03. | :16:08. | |
arm sties was signed more than 1,000 British servicemen had been killed | :16:08. | :16:18. | |
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and 1,000 more taken prisoner. The veterans that due applause came | :16:22. | :16:26. | |
outside the abbey. They set sail for a country they knew little of, to | :16:26. | :16:31. | |
fight alongside nations who were members of the fledging UN n a war | :16:31. | :16:36. | |
that, at that time, was perceived as a war against the advance of | :16:36. | :16:41. | |
communism. It was a three-year conflict, which in the end bore no | :16:41. | :16:45. | |
resolution, but which was fought at enormous sacrifice. As many here | :16:45. | :16:54. | |
will tell you, it was a conflict, which in a way, has been forgotten. | :16:54. | :16:57. | |
Parading under brilliant blue skies, the men who remembered their service | :16:57. | :17:03. | |
in a conflict so often overshadowed by the Second World War. | :17:03. | :17:08. | |
As young conscripts, they sailed for Korea to fight in extreme | :17:08. | :17:13. | |
temperatures across hostile terrain and often hugely outnumbered. | :17:13. | :17:17. | |
There were Chinese all around us. We were surrounded. They gave us really | :17:17. | :17:23. | |
a pasting because there were so many of them. In actual fact their | :17:23. | :17:26. | |
crossfire was probably killing their own men, because they were all | :17:26. | :17:30. | |
around us, you see. ??FORCEWHITE | :17:30. | :17:35. | |
NEWSREEL: These are the last newsreel pictures... 15 nations | :17:35. | :17:41. | |
fought under the UN flag to combat a perceived comun Nis threat from the | :17:41. | :17:45. | |
-- Communist threat from the north. It was fought under the auspices of | :17:45. | :17:50. | |
the UN. The only time the UN fought a full-scale war and Britain's | :17:50. | :17:52. | |
contribution was the important part. ??FORCEWHITE | :17:53. | :17:59. | |
NEWSREEL: It is all aboard for Korea... | :17:59. | :18:04. | |
Of the 100,000 British troops who travelled east, more than 1,000 were | :18:04. | :18:07. | |
killed. Roughly the same number taken | :18:07. | :18:12. | |
prisoner. We were told we weren't prisoners of war, we were students | :18:12. | :18:18. | |
of the truth. I was tied up and thrown into an underground bunker. | :18:18. | :18:22. | |
They kept me in that position for some 28 days. Difficult to keep | :18:22. | :18:27. | |
time. You don't have a calendar, they took my watch off me. They used | :18:27. | :18:31. | |
telephone cable, which they put around the fingers and then they | :18:31. | :18:36. | |
took it around your neck, up to a beam, stand you on one foot and | :18:36. | :18:41. | |
wound it around your other ankle. In fact they told me, should my leg | :18:41. | :18:48. | |
give way I hadn't been murdered, I would have committed suicide. | :18:48. | :18:52. | |
is an occasion for regimental pride and an opportunity to remind the | :18:52. | :18:57. | |
world that nearly two million lives were lost, most of them civilians, | :18:57. | :19:01. | |
yet two armies still face each other across the ceasefire line. The | :19:01. | :19:05. | |
sacrifices remembered here did not bring the peace which still proves | :19:05. | :19:10. | |
so elusive. Of course the two halves of Korea watch each other. We saw a | :19:10. | :19:15. | |
flare up recently. There is another side to it. The veterans spoke of | :19:15. | :19:21. | |
going back to a prosperous South Korea. While a lot will be | :19:21. | :19:25. | |
disappointed that the loss of their friends, the loss of so many | :19:25. | :19:30. | |
civilians has not brought a real, long-lasting resolution, there is | :19:30. | :19:35. | |
pride in that on so many occasions they managed to hold the line. | :19:35. | :19:40. | |
Thank you. An investigation is under way in | :19:40. | :19:43. | |
Manchester into the death of a 23-year-old man who was stunned by a | :19:44. | :19:50. | |
police Taser. Police say the man, who has been named locally as Jordan | :19:50. | :19:54. | |
Begly, suffered a medical episode. Officers used the Taser after being | :19:54. | :19:58. | |
called to the Gorton area of the city last night, where a man was | :19:58. | :20:01. | |
reported to be armed with a knife. The prison sentence given to the | :20:01. | :20:05. | |
former BBC presenter, Stuart Hall, after he admitted sex offences is to | :20:05. | :20:11. | |
be reviewed by the Court of Appeal. Hall pleaded guilty totted 14 counts | :20:11. | :20:15. | |
of inde-- guilty to 14 counts of indecent assault and was sentenced | :20:15. | :20:20. | |
to 15 months. There have been complaints that was too lenient. | :20:20. | :20:25. | |
There were a lot of complaints. There were around 150 people who | :20:25. | :20:28. | |
contacted the Attorney General's office. We have this very open, | :20:28. | :20:34. | |
democratic, if you like, system where anybody, you, I, it does not | :20:34. | :20:39. | |
have to be anyone connected with the case, can complain about the | :20:39. | :20:43. | |
sentence. When sentenced, the judge had some stern comments obviously | :20:43. | :20:47. | |
for Stuart Hall, talked about his darker side, talked about the fact | :20:47. | :20:53. | |
that his public display of innocence added to the distress of his | :20:53. | :20:58. | |
victims, one of whom was aged just nine. 150 people complained. Today | :20:58. | :21:02. | |
the Attorney General has said that considering the matter, he considers | :21:02. | :21:08. | |
it unduly lenient. He is referring it back to the Court of Appeal. | :21:08. | :21:11. | |
Three judges will look at that sentence. For it to be unduly | :21:11. | :21:14. | |
lenient it has to be outside the reasonable range of sentences which | :21:14. | :21:19. | |
was available to the judge in Stuart Hall's case. If they decide it was, | :21:19. | :21:24. | |
then they can increase the sentence. Thank you. | :21:24. | :21:28. | |
The NHS is considering whether family members should be prevented | :21:28. | :21:32. | |
from overriding the wishes of relatives who have agreed to be an | :21:32. | :21:36. | |
organ donor. It wants to ensure an individual's views are honoured in | :21:36. | :21:46. | |
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the event of their death. Matthew Dodd was giving a | :21:49. | :21:54. | |
life-saving liver transplant 18 years ago. Since then he has | :21:54. | :21:58. | |
represented Britain at the international transport games. His | :21:58. | :22:03. | |
sister, who had the same condition, died, because there was no liver | :22:03. | :22:07. | |
available. She was a lovely little girl who was full of life. We look | :22:07. | :22:11. | |
at Matthew and we are grateful we still have one of our children and | :22:12. | :22:15. | |
encourage him to do anything he wants to do in life. Almost everyone | :22:15. | :22:20. | |
would accept a transplant organ if they needed one, but only 57% of | :22:20. | :22:25. | |
families agree to donation when asked. NHS NHS Blood and Transplant | :22:25. | :22:31. | |
says it wants a revolution in public behaviour, so organ donation is seen | :22:31. | :22:35. | |
as a natural outcome and people will be proud to support it. It is | :22:35. | :22:39. | |
considering whether families should be prevented from overriding | :22:39. | :22:44. | |
existing consent. People tell us there's no point signing the | :22:44. | :22:47. | |
register if their family can overrule their wishes. They can be | :22:47. | :22:52. | |
upset by that. If you have decided you want to be a donor, we want to | :22:52. | :22:55. | |
make your wish come true. We want to make it happen for you. We want to | :22:55. | :23:00. | |
work with families to help them accept that was your wish and we | :23:00. | :23:04. | |
should fulfil it. The strategy document asks for a public debate to | :23:04. | :23:08. | |
see whether people would support a system similar to the one in Israel | :23:08. | :23:12. | |
and Singapore, where those on the Organ Donor Register get higher | :23:13. | :23:18. | |
priority if they ever need a transplant. | :23:18. | :23:24. | |
A 65-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of indecent assault by | :23:24. | :23:28. | |
detectives investigating historic abuse at the Royal Northern College | :23:29. | :23:33. | |
of Music and the Chetham's School of Music in Manchester. It relates to | :23:33. | :23:38. | |
the sexual assault of a 15-year-old girl in the late 1970s. The man has | :23:38. | :23:42. | |
been bailed until September. More details have emerged about the | :23:42. | :23:46. | |
crash-landing of a plane at San Francisco airport at the weekend. | :23:46. | :23:52. | |
There was a delay to evacuating the jet after it skidded to a stot | :23:52. | :23:58. | |
because passengers were fish -- stop because passengers were initially | :23:58. | :24:08. | |
:24:08. | :24:17. | ||
call after the dramatic crash of the Asiana Airlines plane last week. | :24:17. | :24:21. | |
There are people on the tarmac with critical injuries. There is a woman | :24:21. | :24:25. | |
here, we are trying to keep her alive. Questions are swirling around | :24:25. | :24:31. | |
about how the Boeing 777 came to crash. Most experts believe the | :24:32. | :24:40. | |
pilots were approaching too slowly and too low. | :24:40. | :24:44. | |
A passenger's recollection seems to back up the theory. We were so close | :24:44. | :24:50. | |
to the water. We were praying, through my window and that is when I | :24:50. | :24:55. | |
realised, this is wrong. I realised we would miss the runway. Questions | :24:55. | :24:59. | |
remain about whether evacuation rules were followed properly. Some | :24:59. | :25:04. | |
reports suggest the pilots didn't want to evacuate the plane when it | :25:04. | :25:10. | |
crashed to a standstill, despite the pleadings of the flight attendants. | :25:10. | :25:13. | |
Investigators will look at why there was a delay. A manufacturer has to | :25:13. | :25:18. | |
show that a fully-loaded aircraft can be fully evacuated within 90 | :25:18. | :25:22. | |
seconds. What we saw here was the first doors and slides were not | :25:22. | :25:30. | |
opened for about 90 seconds. Some of the cabin crew have been appearing | :25:30. | :25:36. | |
in public clearly traumatised. Three staff remain in hospital having been | :25:36. | :25:40. | |
flung from the wreckage as the Boeing crashed. It remains something | :25:40. | :25:46. | |
of a miracle that only two of the 307 people on board were killed in | :25:46. | :25:54. | |
Thousands of people are expected to visit Buckingham Palace in the next | :25:55. | :25:59. | |
few days to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Queen's | :25:59. | :26:03. | |
coronation. A four-day festival gets under way today and is showcasing | :26:03. | :26:08. | |
more than 200 companies granted the Royal Warrant of appointment. Our | :26:08. | :26:14. | |
royal correspondent is at the palace. | :26:14. | :26:18. | |
Rather an unusual event this. It has been compared to a very upmarket | :26:18. | :26:25. | |
trade fair, to mark the 60 years since the Queen's coronation. The | :26:25. | :26:29. | |
Royal Warrant holders association is selling their goods here in the | :26:29. | :26:33. | |
grounds of Buckingham Palace and promoting British business. | :26:33. | :26:37. | |
They are the grounds of Buckingham Palace as they have rarely, perhaps | :26:37. | :26:43. | |
never, been seen before. Dotted across the lawns are scores of | :26:43. | :26:46. | |
stands selling exclusive merchandise. They are all companies | :26:46. | :26:51. | |
which hold the Royal Warrant. In other words, companies which supply | :26:51. | :26:55. | |
goods to the Queen, her husband or eldest son. They will be selling as | :26:55. | :26:59. | |
much as their merchandise as possible to ticket-holding guests. | :26:59. | :27:06. | |
Everything from a smart limousine to top hats and silk ties. Store | :27:06. | :27:11. | |
holders are hoping for a profitable few days. 12,000 people a day are | :27:11. | :27:16. | |
coming to this. People hope to do good business. I am sure they are. | :27:16. | :27:21. | |
All this begs the question - whether it is an appropriate thing to do in | :27:21. | :27:26. | |
the palace grounds? The organisers say it is. It has to be commercial | :27:26. | :27:31. | |
because nobody can afford to put this on. It is an appropriate use of | :27:31. | :27:35. | |
the gardens because the greater aim is to build exports. | :27:35. | :27:39. | |
This demonstration of British craftsmanship and commercial | :27:39. | :27:43. | |
endeavour is nomally to mark the Queen's 60 years since the | :27:43. | :27:48. | |
coronation. In reality it is a moment when the Queen has brought | :27:48. | :27:53. | |
efforts to promote British commerce right into her back garden and the | :27:53. | :27:58. | |
Queen will go around her back garden with other members of the Royal | :27:58. | :28:02. | |
Family, no doubt trying out some of the stands. She will attend a | :28:02. | :28:12. | |
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concert here tonight. That will be Sunny in that particular back | :28:16. | :28:22. | |
garden. What it is like for everybody? | :28:22. | :28:27. | |
A lot of good weather over the next few days. The theme is | :28:27. | :28:31. | |
straightforward - for most spells of sunshine at times. For most it will | :28:32. | :28:36. | |
stay warm. Some subtle changes in where the very warmest weather of | :28:36. | :28:39. | |
all is going to be. At the moment Northern Ireland is the warmest of | :28:39. | :28:44. | |
all. Already we have got to 26 sellsy yuss. By the end of the week | :28:44. | :28:49. | |
-- Celsius. By the end of the weekend it will be southern England | :28:50. | :28:53. | |
that will see the warmest conditions. Plenty of sunshine to be | :28:53. | :28:57. | |
had. Different for the far north of Scotland. Mist and murk around the | :28:58. | :29:03. | |
coast here. There is a small chance, just a small chance, that we will | :29:03. | :29:08. | |
catch a shower over the Grampian Grampians. For the bulk of England | :29:08. | :29:15. | |
and Wales it is fine as well. A bit more cloud for some of the coasts of | :29:15. | :29:19. | |
Lincolnshire, Yorkshire and Lincolnshire as well. Pleasantly | :29:19. | :29:24. | |
warm here, with temperatures 21-24 Celsius. That should feel nice. A | :29:24. | :29:28. | |
good deem of sunshine at Trent Bridge for the cricket. More | :29:28. | :29:32. | |
sunshine again by the time we get to tomorrow, when the temperatures will | :29:32. | :29:37. | |
be on the rise as well. We have a lot of cloud in the North Sea. That | :29:37. | :29:47. | |
:29:47. | :29:49. | ||
will roll inland, getting as far tomorrow, we do it all again. Some | :29:49. | :29:52. | |
eastern areas will start off cloudy. Most of that should burn back | :29:52. | :29:56. | |
through the coast. We will see spells of sunshine developing. There | :29:56. | :29:59. | |
is a small chance of a shower through Northern Ireland and | :29:59. | :30:04. | |
southern Scotland. If you catch one it will be heavy. Most places will | :30:04. | :30:08. | |
stay dry. Where we have cloud across the east coast, temperatures peg | :30:08. | :30:14. | |
back to 19-20 Celsius. The warmest in the west. That will start to | :30:14. | :30:18. | |
change a little bit as we head through Friday night. This cold | :30:18. | :30:21. | |
front starts to work into the picture. That will start to squash | :30:21. | :30:27. | |
all of the heat down into the south and the south east. Here we will see | :30:27. | :30:31. | |
the highest temperatures. I would not be surprised if somewhere got to | :30:31. | :30:35. | |
30 Celsius. In Northern Ireland, where we have got used to warm | :30:35. | :30:39. | |
conditions, things will feel cooler as we see more cloud working in, | :30:39. | :30:42. | |
maybe the odd spot of rain and perhaps a heavy shower as well over | :30:43. | :30:46. | |
northern England. A small chance of a shower further south. Southern | :30:46. | :30:52. | |
areas will be sunny and hot, as I mention 28-30 Celsius is possible. | :30:52. | :30:57. | |
Fine and sunny for most of us. The warmest weather of all will move | :30:57. | :31:02. | |
further south. Lovely! Sound good! . Thank you. A | :31:02. | :31:06. | |
reminder of our main story: The Justice Minister has said two | :31:06. | :31:11. | |
companies, G4s and Serco have been overcharging the Government by tens | :31:11. | :31:15. |