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provider of the NHS nonemergency telephone service in England seeks | :00:14. | :00:18. | |
to pull out of its contract. The helpline service has been beset with | :00:18. | :00:24. | |
problems. Now NHS Direct says the regional contracts are financially | :00:24. | :00:27. | |
unsustainable and we will assess the impact on the NHS helpline and what | :00:27. | :00:33. | |
it means for patients. At least 39 people are killed after a coach | :00:33. | :00:39. | |
ploughs into cars and then plunges off a flyover in southern Italy. Not | :00:39. | :00:42. | |
doing enough. MPs criticise the energy regulator for keeping | :00:42. | :00:48. | |
customers in the dark over company profits. The road to nowhere. Queues | :00:48. | :00:51. | |
of up to six hours as Spanish authorities are accused of | :00:51. | :00:57. | |
deliberately delaying motorists in Gibraltar. A warning to walkers and | :00:57. | :01:03. | |
sunbathers as more of the Jurassic coastline falls into the sea. Coming | :01:03. | :01:07. | |
up in the sport, Olympic heptathlon champion Jessica Ennis-Hill has a | :01:07. | :01:10. | |
good chance of competing at next month 's world championships | :01:10. | :01:20. | |
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according to the UK athletics News at one o'clock. The guest | :01:35. | :01:40. | |
single provider of the NHS 111 helpline service has announced its | :01:40. | :01:45. | |
to pull out of its remaining contracts. NHS Direct which one | :01:45. | :01:49. | |
about a quarter of the 46 local services across England said the | :01:49. | :01:52. | |
deal was financially unsustainable. The scheme has been plagued with | :01:52. | :02:02. | |
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problems since it began. NHS 111.It was set up to provide help for | :02:04. | :02:07. | |
urgent medical problems across England and in some areas like the | :02:07. | :02:10. | |
north-east where 111 is run by the local ambulance service, it seems to | :02:10. | :02:14. | |
be working well but elsewhere, there have been significant problems. And | :02:14. | :02:18. | |
now the biggest single supplier of services is pulling out of its | :02:18. | :02:25. | |
contract. NHS Direct initially won 11 out of 46 contract, earlier this | :02:25. | :02:28. | |
month pulling out two of them and has now announced the remaining nine | :02:28. | :02:38. | |
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will also be cancelled. In a have complained of unanswered calls | :02:53. | :02:58. | |
and poor advice. NHS England, who pays for 111, says the service has | :02:58. | :03:05. | |
now improved in most areas. I am confident the 90% operating now is | :03:05. | :03:07. | |
operating too much improved standards. There are still some | :03:07. | :03:11. | |
places where the need to seek a further improvement to make sure | :03:11. | :03:17. | |
that the response times to patients are really, really very fast indeed. | :03:17. | :03:22. | |
Many agree the idea behind an urgent care helpline to ease pressure on | :03:22. | :03:26. | |
NHS emergency services is a good one. In Scotland, the comparator | :03:26. | :03:29. | |
will helpline seems to be well regarded. Critics say the | :03:29. | :03:35. | |
introduction of the 111 service in England was poorly managed. | :03:35. | :03:40. | |
augmentation has been an abject failure. At the heart of this, has | :03:40. | :03:44. | |
been the drive by government to enforce a competitive tendering | :03:44. | :03:50. | |
approach in the NHS. NHS England will now look for other providers to | :03:50. | :03:55. | |
fill the considerable gap which will be left by NHS Direct. Local | :03:55. | :03:58. | |
ambulance trusts are likely to take over the contracts about the | :03:58. | :04:02. | |
collapse of the services run by NHS Direct will do nothing to improve | :04:02. | :04:08. | |
patient confidence. If you want more information on the changes to the | :04:08. | :04:13. | |
NHS Direct service there was a question-and-answer section on the | :04:13. | :04:22. | |
BBC website. At least 30 people have been killed after coach hit several | :04:22. | :04:26. | |
cars and crashed into a ravine in southern Italy. The bus came off a | :04:26. | :04:30. | |
viaduct near Naples and fell 100 feet down a steep slope. It's | :04:30. | :04:33. | |
thought the coach had been taking about 50 people including children, | :04:33. | :04:43. | |
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rescue survivors in what is Italy 's worst road accident for decades. The | :04:48. | :04:51. | |
crash happened at nightfall on Sunday. Traffic on the viaduct | :04:52. | :04:57. | |
through the mountains that slowed to a crawl as Neapolitans were | :04:57. | :05:00. | |
returning home after a day in the country. According to one of the | :05:00. | :05:04. | |
survivors, the bus driver, among the dead, appears to have lost control | :05:05. | :05:10. | |
of the vehicle as he went downhill. The bus careered into a queue of | :05:10. | :05:16. | |
cars leaving them battered and strewn across the road. | :05:16. | :05:22. | |
TRANSLATION: All of a sudden we heard some bangs behind us. And then | :05:22. | :05:26. | |
we were crashed into and we didn't even see the coach at all. It was | :05:26. | :05:29. | |
here it broke through the guardrail plunging 30 metres into a wooded | :05:29. | :05:36. | |
ravine. TRANSLATION: Speaking as someone who | :05:36. | :05:40. | |
drives, not as a technician of the fire brigade, I would think that the | :05:40. | :05:44. | |
barriers on the viaduct and bridge should prevent this type of accident | :05:44. | :05:47. | |
but evidently, it seems the impact was so strong, even the barrier gave | :05:47. | :05:54. | |
way. Relatives of the victims gathered at a makeshift morgue at a | :05:54. | :06:00. | |
local school. TRANSLATION: I saw what the doctors | :06:00. | :06:03. | |
and firefighters did who worked so hard to recover the bodies. I saw | :06:04. | :06:08. | |
the doctors with blankets full of blood. It was something truly | :06:08. | :06:12. | |
remarkable. Accident victims, including children, had been | :06:12. | :06:15. | |
visiting an area known for its hot streams and had been on their way | :06:15. | :06:24. | |
back to Naples when the bus left the road. Exactly what happened is | :06:24. | :06:30. | |
unclear but an investigation has just begun. | :06:30. | :06:35. | |
? la correspondence is at the scene of the crash near Monteforte Irpino. | :06:35. | :06:41. | |
Have they established yet what happened? Well, let me just say that | :06:41. | :06:45. | |
at the scene of this horrific crash, what strikes you most | :06:45. | :06:50. | |
forcibly is just how far this bus fell, how hard it must have landed. | :06:50. | :06:54. | |
I think you might be able to see where the road is here, at this | :06:54. | :07:03. | |
point, high above this ravine that I'm standing in. Up there, the bus | :07:03. | :07:07. | |
hammered its way through a string of basically stationary, moving very | :07:07. | :07:12. | |
slowly, cars, and then rammed against the guardrail which gave way | :07:12. | :07:16. | |
and then the bus plunge down through the trees you see behind me, coming | :07:16. | :07:21. | |
to rest on the earth just over there. Through the night, the rescue | :07:21. | :07:25. | |
workers were to try to find survivors to tender to the injured | :07:25. | :07:29. | |
and to gather up the dead but, by dawn, their work had been done and | :07:29. | :07:33. | |
most of the wreck is now being taken away but if you step over there, you | :07:33. | :07:38. | |
can see some of the interior of the bus, rows of seats and so on, and in | :07:38. | :07:44. | |
among the debris, very much more personal items. I saw a pair of | :07:44. | :07:47. | |
women's silver shoes, some flip-flops, and a child's stuffed | :07:47. | :07:51. | |
toy, the kind of thing you would expect a family to take with them on | :07:51. | :07:56. | |
an excursion like this, a weekend away in the country for a bit of | :07:56. | :08:00. | |
fun. Along with a shock in the morning, people are asking how could | :08:00. | :08:06. | |
this possibly have happened? Why was the bus so badly out of control? Why | :08:06. | :08:11. | |
didn't it just join the queue of cars? There are no real answers yet. | :08:11. | :08:15. | |
It's possible it's down to the driver, there could be mechanical | :08:15. | :08:20. | |
fault, maybe a tyre burst. We just don't know but that enquiry is | :08:20. | :08:25. | |
underway as I speak. Allen, thank you very much. The driver of the | :08:25. | :08:29. | |
Spanish train that derailed last week killing 79 people, could face | :08:29. | :08:32. | |
multiple charges of negligent homicide. Francisco Jose Garzon has | :08:32. | :08:36. | |
been released from his custody pending further enquiries and must | :08:36. | :08:40. | |
now appear in court once a week. He is forbidden from leaving Spain and | :08:41. | :08:47. | |
his train drivers license has been withdrawn. Energy companies are | :08:47. | :08:50. | |
keeping consumers in the dark when it comes to explaining their | :08:50. | :08:54. | |
pockets, the claim from MPs who warn that customers are losing trust in | :08:54. | :09:01. | |
the big six energy companies as a result. They have been urged to do | :09:01. | :09:08. | |
more to restore confidence, off Gemma. -- off Gemma. How much money | :09:08. | :09:12. | |
do the big six energy supplies rarely make and are the prices they | :09:12. | :09:16. | |
charge us fair? MPs have been investigating this for months to | :09:16. | :09:23. | |
work out if the industry is making excessive profits. Their answer? | :09:23. | :09:26. | |
always have to say probably because you don't know for certain what they | :09:26. | :09:30. | |
are making. They tell you what they make in retail but never in the | :09:30. | :09:37. | |
generation part of it. We think it's about 20% on generation and about 2% | :09:38. | :09:43. | |
- 5% on retail. That sounds quite excessive to me. The main energy | :09:43. | :09:45. | |
companies don't just generate electricity but traded on wholesale | :09:45. | :09:50. | |
markets and sell it to us, too. MPs say it makes it difficult to work | :09:50. | :09:55. | |
out where they make their money. But the big six firms insist they | :09:55. | :09:59. | |
publish all necessary financial information and the profit margin | :09:59. | :10:04. | |
supplying gas and electricity are low. A relatively small amount of | :10:04. | :10:09. | |
the total bill that actually is profit, on an average deal fuel | :10:09. | :10:14. | |
energy bill, it's only about �8 a month is profit. So I don't think | :10:14. | :10:18. | |
that's unreasonable, especially when you consider how much we have got to | :10:18. | :10:22. | |
invest in new power generators and all the other things this country | :10:22. | :10:26. | |
needs so it energy secure. report lays much of the blame here | :10:26. | :10:31. | |
at the door of the energy regulator Ofgem, accused of failing consumers | :10:31. | :10:36. | |
by not taking all possible steps to improve openness and increase | :10:36. | :10:41. | |
competition. The committee has asked us today to reconsider the costs and | :10:41. | :10:45. | |
benefits equation. We have received a full report from the committee. We | :10:45. | :10:48. | |
want to absorb that and we absolutely want to look at the | :10:48. | :10:52. | |
recommendations the committee has made. Labour argues ever higher | :10:52. | :10:56. | |
household bills are evidence that Ofgem should be scrapped by the | :10:56. | :10:58. | |
government insists it's given the regulator more teeth to strengthen | :10:58. | :11:03. | |
competition. There is greater transparency so there's more trust | :11:04. | :11:08. | |
for consumers but also, on peoples bills, were actually pay, gas and | :11:08. | :11:12. | |
electors of the bills, they are simpler and fairer and clearer and | :11:12. | :11:17. | |
the government has been acting Ofgem to get that done. But there was | :11:17. | :11:21. | |
criticism of the government to for reducing spending to help low-income | :11:21. | :11:25. | |
households in England at a time when energy bills are becoming | :11:25. | :11:30. | |
increasingly unaffordable for many. John is here with me now and | :11:30. | :11:33. | |
something else the report highlighted was the fact all a bill | :11:33. | :11:39. | |
payers, including the poorer bill payers, are also having to pay | :11:39. | :11:42. | |
subsidised renewable energy? Yes, in the autumn looks like we're going to | :11:42. | :11:46. | |
see another round of energy price rises and, interestingly, it's not | :11:46. | :11:50. | |
because gas and electricity is going up, they are relatively flat. The | :11:50. | :11:55. | |
reason is because firms are having to pay more towards the social costs | :11:55. | :12:00. | |
of energy efficiency etc, and we are paying more towards subsidies for | :12:00. | :12:03. | |
renewable energy. This has been a policy of successive governments | :12:03. | :12:08. | |
started under Labour. By 2020, 30% of our bills could be these extra | :12:08. | :12:12. | |
levies and what the committee is asking is, is it fair the poorest | :12:12. | :12:15. | |
households should have to pay towards all of this? Might it be | :12:15. | :12:20. | |
fairer and more progressive if these green levies for example are paid | :12:20. | :12:25. | |
through direct taxation as well? John, thank you. A man has been | :12:25. | :12:29. | |
killed and a 13-year-old girl critically ill following a double | :12:29. | :12:33. | |
stabbing at a house in Manchester. The incident happened in Austin area | :12:33. | :12:39. | |
last night. Our correspondent Danny Savage has this report. It was late | :12:39. | :12:43. | |
last night that police were called to this end of terrace house in | :12:43. | :12:48. | |
North Manchester. Here they found the body of a 41-year-old man, named | :12:48. | :12:52. | |
locally as Robert Jackson. Also inside, his 13-year-old daughter, | :12:52. | :12:55. | |
with critical injuries. Both had been stabbed. Today, neighbours | :12:55. | :13:00. | |
spoke of their shock. We are trying to put two and two together, | :13:00. | :13:04. | |
41-year-old man and a 13-year-old girl, so my daughter walked around | :13:04. | :13:08. | |
to where he used to live and asked the officers if that is where it was | :13:08. | :13:12. | |
and they confirmed it. So, you know, my daughter came back and I felt | :13:12. | :13:18. | |
sick. He was the nicest man you could ever meet. He would bend over | :13:18. | :13:22. | |
backwards to help anybody. events here were not in isolation. | :13:22. | :13:25. | |
Three hours after police discovered as murder scene, there was an | :13:25. | :13:30. | |
incident at a pub a few miles away in Harpurhey after a reported | :13:30. | :13:34. | |
carjacking. When officers approached the car, the driver sped off and | :13:34. | :13:38. | |
ploughed straight into the side of the building. He was taken to | :13:38. | :13:42. | |
hospital with injuries from the crash and a stab wound. He died a | :13:42. | :13:49. | |
short time later. But why were a father and child of the target of | :13:49. | :13:54. | |
such violence? It's left people here fearful. My kids want to move full | :13:54. | :13:58. | |
survey don't like it. It's getting closer and closer, especially people | :13:58. | :14:03. | |
you know, as well. Nobody else is being sought in connection with what | :14:03. | :14:13. | |
happened here. The question is now focus on the motive. Senior | :14:13. | :14:15. | |
Palestinian and Israeli officials are to meet in Washington later | :14:15. | :14:18. | |
today for the first time in three years to discuss resuming peace | :14:19. | :14:23. | |
talks. The meeting comes after six months of intense diplomacy by the | :14:23. | :14:27. | |
US Secretary of State, John Kerry, who praised both sides for making | :14:27. | :14:34. | |
difficult decisions. So far, every attempt to reach a | :14:35. | :14:39. | |
peace deal between the Israelis and the Palestinians has failed. But | :14:39. | :14:45. | |
now, thanks to intense diplomacy by the US Secretary of State John | :14:45. | :14:48. | |
Kerry, the two sides are trying again to take steps towards a two | :14:48. | :14:55. | |
state solution. Today negotiations will happen in Washington to work | :14:55. | :15:01. | |
out a way forward. But they are not tackling the big issues yet. | :15:01. | :15:03. | |
TRANSLATION: It's been 20 years since the Oslo agreement and the | :15:04. | :15:07. | |
final settlement should have come years ago but the Israelis have | :15:07. | :15:11. | |
increased settlement building and confiscated our land. For now, the | :15:11. | :15:16. | |
leaders on saying much. This was when they last met three years ago. | :15:16. | :15:21. | |
Neither wants to be blamed for blocking talks. But the issues at | :15:21. | :15:25. | |
stake have alluded solutions for years. One of the most difficult is | :15:25. | :15:29. | |
this place. The old city of Jerusalem with its holy sites. | :15:29. | :15:34. | |
Claimed by both sides. And other complicated issues are at stake. | :15:34. | :15:39. | |
Whether future borders will be. Jewish settlement in the occupied | :15:39. | :15:45. | |
West Bank and what happens to Palestinian refugees? There's other | :15:45. | :15:49. | |
complicated issues. Whether future borders should be, the question of | :15:49. | :15:52. | |
Jewish settlement building in the occupied West Bank, and what happens | :15:53. | :16:00. | |
to Palestinian refugees. The Palestinians wanted Israel to agree | :16:00. | :16:04. | |
to release Palestinian prisoners before the talks began. The release | :16:04. | :16:08. | |
was approved but the votes split the Israeli cabinet. Some of the | :16:08. | :16:13. | |
prisoners have been held for years for killing Israelis. Before the | :16:13. | :16:18. | |
vote, Israel's Prime Minister made an impassioned plea for support. | :16:18. | :16:22. | |
TRANSLATION: This moment is not easy for me. It's not easy for the | :16:22. | :16:25. | |
ministers. It is not easy especially for the families, the bereaved | :16:25. | :16:30. | |
families whose hurt I understand. But there are moments in which tough | :16:30. | :16:34. | |
decisions must be made for the good of the country. And this is one of | :16:34. | :16:44. | |
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sceptical about whether their leaders will be able to reach a | :16:44. | :16:53. | |
peace deal or even start talking. Our correspondent Kim Ghattas joins | :16:53. | :16:57. | |
bee now from Washington, DC, these are talks about talks, how much | :16:57. | :17:03. | |
optimism is there really? There is always cynicism when it comes to | :17:03. | :17:07. | |
Middle East peace talks, but we have now this announcement, or this | :17:07. | :17:12. | |
beginning of negotiations between the Israelis and Palestinians for | :17:12. | :17:17. | |
the first time in three years. John Kerry, the Secretary of State, will | :17:17. | :17:21. | |
be hosting negotiators sent to Washington by Mahmoud Abbas and | :17:21. | :17:26. | |
Benjamin Netanyahu. They have been sent to Washington, and he will be | :17:26. | :17:29. | |
hosting them for dinner this evening in Washington at the State | :17:29. | :17:33. | |
Department, and this will be the formal start of direct negotiations | :17:33. | :17:39. | |
between the two sides for the first time in three years. Now, that in | :17:39. | :17:43. | |
itself is quite an achievement, and it shows that John Kerry is | :17:43. | :17:48. | |
determined to try to get some kind of success out of this. Now, as we | :17:48. | :17:52. | |
saw in my colleague's report, there is a lot of apprehension on both | :17:52. | :17:57. | |
sides. The Palestinians say, we have been here before, and the Israeli | :17:57. | :18:01. | |
Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has spent the weekend trying to | :18:01. | :18:06. | |
convince his Cabinet to back the peace process. When the two sides | :18:06. | :18:11. | |
have not spoken for so long, there is a lot to be cleared up first. In | :18:11. | :18:15. | |
Washington, they will begin by talking about procedural issues, the | :18:15. | :18:20. | |
schedule, the format and the length and format and location of the | :18:20. | :18:23. | |
negotiations. If all goes well, at the end of Tuesday, they will go | :18:23. | :18:27. | |
home and they will agree on the next round of talks to be held in the | :18:27. | :18:32. | |
region. It is coming up to 20 past one, our | :18:32. | :18:39. | |
top story this lunchtime: Is the number of 4111? A major provider of | :18:39. | :18:43. | |
the service seeks to pull out of its contracts. And still to come, good | :18:43. | :18:46. | |
motorists soon be allowed to park on double yellow lines? It is a | :18:46. | :18:50. | |
proposal to bring back life to the high street, but some are seeing red | :18:50. | :19:00. | |
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The Government has raised serious concerns with Spain about long | :19:16. | :19:20. | |
delays caused by the rise in vehicle searches at its border with | :19:20. | :19:23. | |
Gibraltar. At the weekend, as temperatures soared, motorists have | :19:23. | :19:28. | |
to endure queues of up to six hours, waiting for documents and | :19:28. | :19:31. | |
vehicles to be checked. There are bought the delays could be linked to | :19:31. | :19:37. | |
a fishing dispute between Spain and Gibraltar and the long-standing | :19:37. | :19:39. | |
question of sovereignty. Diplomatic correspondent Bridget Kendall | :19:39. | :19:44. | |
reports. Trapped for hours in traffic in the | :19:44. | :19:49. | |
sweltering heat, the ordeal at the crossing into Spain in this weekend. | :19:49. | :19:56. | |
Six hours, this is chaos. It has been held, to be honest. | :19:56. | :19:59. | |
tailbacks brought Gibraltar to a standstill. We have got elderly | :19:59. | :20:04. | |
people, diabetics, pregnant women, people going to weddings, people | :20:04. | :20:10. | |
catching flights. You know, not everybody is happy, we cannot keep | :20:10. | :20:15. | |
everybody happy all the time. But unfortunately, you know, this is the | :20:15. | :20:18. | |
situation. It was lengthy border checks on the Spanish side that | :20:18. | :20:23. | |
caused the logjam. Just Spain fulfilling its duty to stop | :20:23. | :20:26. | |
smuggling, the Foreign Ministry in Madrid told us today, but the | :20:26. | :20:30. | |
Gibraltar government called the weekend border chaos bullying amid | :20:30. | :20:35. | |
concerns that the long-standing row over Spain's claim of sovereignty | :20:35. | :20:42. | |
over the rock and its waters is escalating. When last week boats | :20:42. | :20:47. | |
from Gibraltar tipped concrete blocks into the Bay of Gibraltar as | :20:47. | :20:49. | |
part of a plan to create an artificial reef to encourage marine | :20:49. | :20:57. | |
life, Spain was infuriated. Spanish boats nearly collided with Royal | :20:57. | :21:03. | |
Gibraltar Police vassals, and Madrid formally complained to London that | :21:03. | :21:08. | |
what it sees as its rightful fishing waters were being interfered with. A | :21:08. | :21:12. | |
tiny outcrop near Spain's southernmost tip, the Rock of | :21:12. | :21:18. | |
Gibraltar has been a British colony since 1713, exactly 300 years ago. | :21:18. | :21:22. | |
This weekend's border crisis was resolved when William Hague rang the | :21:22. | :21:28. | |
Spanish Foreign Minister directly to express his concern, but Spain's | :21:28. | :21:32. | |
claim of sovereignty over Gibraltar and the underlying tensions remain. | :21:32. | :21:39. | |
More border incidents, whether on land or sea, are likely. | :21:39. | :21:42. | |
Political correspondent Carole Walker is at the Foreign Office, and | :21:42. | :21:46. | |
as Bridget was saying, this tickle episode seems to have been resolved | :21:46. | :21:51. | |
but the row continues. That is right, Simon. I think there is some | :21:51. | :21:53. | |
relief that these political delays have been sorted out, but everyone | :21:53. | :21:58. | |
here knows that there have been these flare-ups in the past, and | :21:58. | :22:02. | |
they could easily recur in the future. As you heard in that report, | :22:02. | :22:07. | |
there is this ongoing dispute about fishing rights, about the rights | :22:07. | :22:12. | |
over who controls the waters around Gibraltar, and the sovereignty of | :22:12. | :22:15. | |
Gibraltar itself. I understand that the point that William Hague was | :22:15. | :22:19. | |
making any phone call to his Spanish counterpart at the weekend was that | :22:19. | :22:24. | |
these sort of disputes should not be used to inconvenience hundreds of | :22:24. | :22:26. | |
families going around their legitimate business, wanting to | :22:26. | :22:31. | |
cross that busy border. Clearly, this has paid off in this instance, | :22:31. | :22:35. | |
and I think that both the British and Spanish governments are keen to | :22:35. | :22:39. | |
make it clear that although there are these long-running sensitivities | :22:39. | :22:43. | |
over Gibraltar, that will not affect the wider good relations between | :22:43. | :22:49. | |
Spain and Britain. Controversial fees are being | :22:49. | :22:52. | |
introduced for workers who take their employers to court. Some | :22:52. | :22:57. | |
lawyers are warning that the new charges will dissuade many employees | :22:57. | :23:00. | |
from making legitimate claims about discrimination in the workplace. It | :23:00. | :23:03. | |
is the first time these have been introduced since employment tribunal | :23:03. | :23:11. | |
is were created in the 1960s. Emma Simpson reports. | :23:11. | :23:17. | |
Say no to fees! These changes are contentious. This morning, a small | :23:17. | :23:20. | |
union protest outside an employment tribunal office to deliver a simple | :23:21. | :23:26. | |
message. This ultimately removes justice for significant numbers of | :23:26. | :23:29. | |
British workers. It is going to leave them less secure, it is going | :23:29. | :23:32. | |
to be bad for the economy, and it is bad for the good businesses who | :23:32. | :23:37. | |
treat their staff well. It is nearly 50 years since employment tribunal | :23:37. | :23:44. | |
is began, and up until now workers have not have to pay to make a claim | :23:44. | :23:46. | |
against their bosses. From today, new legislation means that it will | :23:46. | :23:53. | |
cost. The fee will be �1200 to fight the most complex cases, like unfair | :23:53. | :23:59. | |
dismissal or discrimination. There are more than 190,000 cases dealt | :23:59. | :24:03. | |
with by employment tribunal is last year. It all adds up to an annual | :24:03. | :24:09. | |
cost of �74 million. The Government says it is not fair on the taxpayer | :24:09. | :24:14. | |
to put this entire bill. The move has been welcomed by small | :24:14. | :24:18. | |
businesses. We believe that the introduction of employment tribunal | :24:18. | :24:24. | |
fees will go some way to deterring more speculative claims before going | :24:24. | :24:28. | |
to a tribunal, and therefore, in doing so, it will reduce some of the | :24:28. | :24:32. | |
perceived risks of taking on staff on small businesses. There are | :24:32. | :24:36. | |
strong feelings on both sides. The Government says workers on the | :24:36. | :24:41. | |
lowest pay or on some benefits will not have to pay the new fees. But | :24:41. | :24:46. | |
one big union, Unison, has been back in court today to challenge the | :24:46. | :24:52. | |
controversial new legislation. The local governor Secretary Eric | :24:52. | :24:55. | |
Pickles has suggested that motorists could park on double yellow lines | :24:56. | :24:59. | |
for short periods without the risk of being fined. The change could | :24:59. | :25:03. | |
help struggling high streets. The move has been opposed by Liberal | :25:03. | :25:08. | |
Democrats, who say the idea is unworkable. Mike Sergeant has this | :25:08. | :25:13. | |
story. Yes, this is Eric Pickles' own | :25:13. | :25:16. | |
constituency, and you can see a double yellow line runs the length | :25:16. | :25:20. | |
of most of the high street, and locals tell us that traffic wardens | :25:20. | :25:24. | |
come pretty quickly if anyone stops here. The communities secretary | :25:24. | :25:29. | |
wants the rules relaxed so that people can pull up, pop into pick up | :25:29. | :25:32. | |
some groceries, 15 or 20 minutes, get back in their car and drive off. | :25:33. | :25:39. | |
So what do people here think about the idea? Well, for a few minutes, | :25:39. | :25:43. | |
ten minutes or so, it sounds like a good idea. Double yellow lines, | :25:43. | :25:48. | |
there is a reason for it. Unless they have got a problem, they should | :25:48. | :25:52. | |
make other arrangements. Outside shops probably, because people are | :25:52. | :25:55. | |
struggling to make a living, especially outside grocers and | :25:55. | :26:02. | |
things like that. But in general, I would say there should be. | :26:02. | :26:05. | |
Conservative ministers think the idea can happen and that many local | :26:06. | :26:10. | |
councils are trying to raise too much money out of motorists, but | :26:10. | :26:14. | |
their Liberal Democrat coalition partners have deep reservations and | :26:14. | :26:18. | |
say that the idea is probably unworkable. The motoring group the | :26:19. | :26:22. | |
AA has also come out against the plan on the grounds of safety, | :26:22. | :26:26. | |
saying that motorists want clear rules on the roads. So many | :26:26. | :26:29. | |
different issues and a political divide to bridge before this or | :26:29. | :26:37. | |
anything like it comes into being. Coastguards in England are urging | :26:37. | :26:41. | |
people to take care on coastal path after a large landslip in Dorset | :26:41. | :26:45. | |
over the weekend. There is now a dangerous cliff overhang at East | :26:45. | :26:48. | |
Cliff and the nearby beach has been closed. Duncan Kennedy has this | :26:48. | :26:53. | |
report. Unpredictable, unstoppable, and | :26:53. | :26:57. | |
almost unimaginable. The sheer downward. Nature ripping another | :26:58. | :27:03. | |
section out of this beautiful cliff, the junking of the Jurassic | :27:03. | :27:07. | |
Coast complete in just a few seconds. Experts say this is turning | :27:07. | :27:11. | |
into a record year for landslides, the result of extreme winter, spring | :27:11. | :27:17. | |
and summer conditions. That rock as got to come down at some time or | :27:17. | :27:21. | |
other, and it will just occur spontaneously. You cannot predict it | :27:21. | :27:25. | |
or tell when it is going to happen, it is the inherent nature of the | :27:25. | :27:30. | |
coast. Last year, and just 500 metres away, and other more deadly | :27:30. | :27:34. | |
landslide. A 22-year-old woman was killed when this stretch of coast | :27:35. | :27:41. | |
collapsed. 400 Suns came down, impossible to escape. -- 400 tonnes. | :27:41. | :27:45. | |
The south-west has seen ten times the number of incidents like it in | :27:45. | :27:49. | |
just one year. With the school is broken up, the dangers are obvious. | :27:49. | :27:54. | |
Many Patsy are now closed, the warnings, unlike some clips, now | :27:54. | :28:00. | |
firmly in place. Lets get a look at the weather, Shia | :28:00. | :28:10. | |
:28:10. | :28:11. | ||
some sunny spells in the forecast, but also heavy showers, not only | :28:11. | :28:15. | |
heavy showers, but thundering ones as well. Now, this chart shows us | :28:15. | :28:19. | |
where we have already seen lightning strikes, and you can see one line of | :28:19. | :28:22. | |
storms that has been working out of the West Country, the reddish | :28:22. | :28:25. | |
colours showing us where the storms have been most recently. Other | :28:25. | :28:30. | |
storms working out of Wales and into the Midlands, and we are going to | :28:30. | :28:33. | |
see storms continuing in similar places through the afternoon, so a | :28:33. | :28:36. | |
line of storms running out of the West Country up through parts of the | :28:37. | :28:41. | |
South Midlands into East Anglia, and another line through it Wales into | :28:41. | :28:45. | |
the Midlands and parts of northern England. That is not to say other | :28:45. | :28:48. | |
areas will stay completely dry, but a better chance of seeing Sunnis | :28:48. | :28:53. | |
bells. Where we get showers in the south, quite breezy, so they should | :28:53. | :28:56. | |
move through pretty quickly. Whereas for Northern Ireland, and western | :28:56. | :29:01. | |
Scotland, the breezes lighter, so were we get thunderstorms, they | :29:01. | :29:05. | |
could hang around for a lot of time, giving you a lot of rain in a | :29:05. | :29:09. | |
short period of time. Showers continue this evening for some | :29:09. | :29:14. | |
northern parts, dying away further south, and we will see clear spells, | :29:14. | :29:18. | |
13-16. Another lump of rain is starting to work its way in towards | :29:18. | :29:23. | |
the south-west. This rain is tied in with his string of weather fronts. | :29:23. | :29:27. | |
Notice the wave, the king on these fronts - where we see these wavering | :29:27. | :29:31. | |
fronts, always a little bit tricky to forecast where the rain is going | :29:31. | :29:34. | |
to end up, but it looks like southern coastal counties of England | :29:34. | :29:39. | |
will be cloudy as it works eastwards tomorrow. Elsewhere, another day of | :29:39. | :29:44. | |
sunny spells and heavy, thundery showers. Quite a cool, fresh feel to | :29:44. | :29:49. | |
the day, top temperature of 18-20. Remember those waving weather | :29:49. | :29:53. | |
fronts? They are moving northwards again on Wednesday, bringing heavy | :29:53. | :29:56. | |
rain to western parts, patchy rain further east, and a decent amount of | :29:57. | :30:01. | |
dry weather to the North and South. Southern parts beginning to feel | :30:01. | :30:05. | |
quite humid at this stage. Through Wednesday into Thursday, this warm | :30:05. | :30:08. | |
fronts continues to push its way northwards. It will bring the rain | :30:08. | :30:12. | |
northwards, but as the name suggests, there is warm air behind | :30:13. | :30:17. | |
it. That is going to waft from the near continent, and parts of the | :30:17. | :30:21. | |
south-east on Thursday could see highs of around 30 degrees. It is | :30:21. | :30:24. | |
that Italy southern parts of the England and where that will see that | :30:24. | :30:28. | |
heat. Further north and west, single and pressure. The cool, fresh air | :30:28. | :30:35. | |
and looks like heading west again. Maybe some thundery downpours, but | :30:35. | :30:45. | |
:30:45. | :30:47. |