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to recruit local staff. Chris Bryant criticises what he sees as an over

reliance on cheap labour from Eastern Europe. We will have

reaction from Westminster. Also this lunchtime. Considering legal action.

The government says it is very disappointed with Spain. About extra

checks at the border with Gibraltar. And man is arrested in connection

with the disappearance of 13-year-old Erika Kacicova who

hasn't been seen for one week. Higher water bills for 14 million

households. Thames Water says it wants an increase to meet unexpected

costs. On your bike. Cycling gets a �94 million boost in England to

encourage us to ride in our cities and national parks. A flourishing

morning in Durham for England's cricketers has left Australia

needing 299 to win the fourth test. Coming up in sport on BBC News,

Britain's athletes make the grade in Moscow. Perri shakes Drayton

qualifying fast for the 400 meter BBC News at 1pm. The shadow

Immigration Minister Chris Bryant has attacked what he is called

unscrupulous employers who recruit large numbers of migrant workers

from low-wage countries. He says the practice makes it impossible for

workers and settled in the UK to compete. Earlier he was forced to

make clear that he wasn't accusing two big retailers, Next and Tesco of

being unscrupulous after they protest about extracts of his speech

which were released yesterday. A Tesco distribution centre. After

the retail giant opened a new one in ethics, Labour wanted to attack the

firm but instead it made a mess. It's immigration spokesman claimed

Tesco was targeting foreign workers to undercut UK wonder -- workers.

Labour plans to name and shame Next famed for its seasonal sales. It was

recruiting directly from Poland because it was cheaper, they said.

Both companies rejected the claims which were given to a newspaper in

advance. It pointed out factual errors, as well. The confusion

distracted from criticisms of the government and business which did

eventually emerge. I want to see more companies providing assurances

and demonstrating what they're doing to recruit staff particularly the

youth unemployed. Even for temporary posts. Rather than using agencies

are only bring workers in from abroad. The criticism was more tepid

in the end. Labour shadow Immigration Minister managed to

praise Tesco and expressed sympathy for Next but on that fundamental

criticism, there was support from conservative. I do think Tesco in my

own area of Harlow have behaved quite ruthlessly enclosing a major

distributional centre which was incredibly productive and saying to

the workers, yes, you can have a job in the new Dagenham plant, but you

have to accept lower pay. Everyone knows immigration is a potent issue.

Whether you think there's been too much of it or not enough, but Labour

's problem today if it has tried to come up with positive proposals in

the traditional quiet summer period and now it's involved in a big row

with two of the biggest retailers over facts and figures. Neither

company are accused of doing anything illegal and any EU national

can work here. Some independent immigration voices say it's not

simply about the money. We've seen a sharp increase in the number of EU

workers in employment at low skilled jobs, but the single cost and wages

would be to ignore the bigger reasons which are work ethics and

skills. British jobs for British workers proved a briefly popular

slogan for Labour 's last election campaign but was illegal in

practice. The party knows it can't avoid tackling the problem of an

increase in immigration which it oversaw. Let's hear more from Robin

at Westminster. How embarrassing is this by Chris Bryant? I think it was

sloppy and there was misinformation here. What we saw was a hasty

rewrite. We saw two huge retailers, Tesco is seeking to protect their

reputation. They reject outright the allegations laid at their door and

pointed out some factual errors. That is highly problematic for the

Labour Party and when Chris Bryant gave the speech he sought to call

them a good employer and was sympathetic towards Next but there

has been a big muddle up and there is no doubt it has distracted from

what Labour would want to see as a positive proposal to deal with

immigration and the Borders. One of the lessons here is, when you have

the policy idea, make sure you get the communication and the facts and

figures right, first. For a while, Labour had made the running because

there's been so much debate and criticism in many quarters of the go

home fans of the government implemented, the investigation into

those, this was a chance for Labour to make some headway.

Conservatives particularly in the coalition are very sensitive at the

moment on immigration because they know the UK Independence Party are

nipping away at their support in the polls. And Labour is aware, as well,

it's a very, very potent issue. It is tied to come to the debate with

some positive ideas and they fail to do that today, and the problem is

this plays into a sensible recent weeks that the party is slightly

rudderless. Where are its policies about what it will do at the next

general election? Not necessarily what it would do now if it was in

government. Andy Burnham, a front bench at the weekend, he is in the

Shadow Cabinet, and he was the first to speak from the front bench about

real concerns about whether Labour is shouting loud enough and what the

chances are it is a good chance come the general election in 2015.

you. The government says it is seriously considering taking legal

action against Spain in connection with extra checks at the border with

Gibraltar. A Downing Street spokesman called Spain 's action in

a dispute about fishing rights disproportionate and politically

motivated. Roger smitten Dhani is outside the Foreign Office. What

more has been said this morning? This is the latest in what has been

a tit-for-tat row brewing over the summer between Britain and Spain.

Stoked by those very long delays people have been experiencing trying

to get in and out of Gibraltar. In the last hour, number ten spokesman

issued a statement saying clearly the Prime Minister is disappointed

by the failure of Spain to remove the additional border checks this

weekend and you're considering what legal action is open to us. This was

after David Cameron spoke to his counterpart about this very issue.

This would be an unprecedented step and we want to consider carefully

before making a decision to pursue it. I think that last line tells us

number ten doesn't really know what it's going to do. Except it's very

angry about this. There's a formal letter of complaint being written

today and it's going to be given to Spanish authorities to register

Britain's displeasure. What are the options open to the British

government? They could take this to the International of justice, that

is set up to administer arbitrate disputes between member states. More

likely they will want to do something within the EU framework

and there's the European Court of Justice and EU laws which govern how

people across borders between member states. Gibraltar, of course, would

be governed by that because its external relations are done by

Britain. It could be along the lines of the European Court of Justice,

which talks about freedom of access of citizens of member states between

countries but at the moment, the British government is not really

sure where it's going but this is an escalating row. Thank you very

much. Police investigating the disappearance of the Sheffield

schoolgirl Erika Kacicova have arrested a 37-year-old man. The

13-year-old has not been seen for one week. Officers at issued a plea

for her to get in touch to let them know she is safe.

Where is Erika Kacicova? It is now one week since the 13-year-old went

missing. In that time, she hasn't spoken to her family once. Today the

schoolgirl 's father and younger sister, Slovakian remedies, pleaded

with her to come home. Please, Erika, please come back to mum and

dad, sister and brother. Comeback. Erica, are you OK? We love you so

much. Comeback. We want to. She was last seen leaving her home on Monday

the 5th of August. Four days later, 22-year-old man was arrested in

Bradford and has been released on police bail. This morning,

detectives arrested a second man in Bradford, 37-year-old, questioned

about child abduction. Detectives believe she is still alive and have

focused their searches away from her home town of Sheffield and towards

Bradford where police say she has a number of friends. This

investigation now involves 50 detectives and two police forces in

Yorkshire. Her family say they have no idea where she is or why she is

missing. They also say they just want her home. Britain's biggest

water company, Thames Water, says it wants to increase every household

bill by �29 to cover what it says are unexpected extra costs. The

company, which has 40 million customers, is asking permission from

the water regulator OFWAT to charge more to pay for maintenance work,

and costs associated with a major new sewer, the Thames Tideway

tunnel. We don't get to choose the company

that we pay for water, so every five years the industry and regulators

agree on prices. Now, 40 million customers are facing the prospect of

an unexpected price rise. And what the company claims are unforeseen

costs. When prices were set in 2009, a small number of things, we did

know how much they would cost, no allowance was made for them, on the

understanding we did know how much we spent. We are now making an

application, we don't want to claim it all back in one year, and spread

it over several years to avoid a one-off spike in bills. The biggest

single cost the company has encountered is linked to the fact

that almost 39 million tonnes of raw sewage pour into the Thames every

single year. So the company spent almost �300 million buying land for

a planned London super sewer. There are other costs, too. The economic

downturn has meant more people can't or won't pay their bills. The

company says is having to look after tens of thousands of kilometres of

previously private sewers. And costs linked to taking water out of rivers

and the ground are also up. They are the biggest water company and

recently faced criticism for paying no corporation tax despite posting

revenues of �1.8 billion. Last joke of it paid out �231 million to

shareholders on the back of more than half �1 billion in operating

profits. So today the main industry consumer group argued that the firm

should be able to absorb more of these extra costs. We believe in

this current climate, an increase of that size, plus the already

inflation increase, and a 1.4% increase on top of that already

accepted, would take a bills from �354 on average, to nearly �400.

Thames Water insists it's saving money, too, and its bills remain the

second lowest in England and Wales. The industry regulator has three

months to decide whether the proposed �29 hike in bills is

justified or not. The paedophile who was convicted last week of a sexual

offence against a 13-year-old girl and of possessing indecent

photographs has had his suspended prison term increased. Neil

Wilson's senders has been changed from eight months to a year but that

doesn't relate to the offence against the girl. Explain what

happened here, June. Jane, this is a controversial case because both the

judge in the case and the prosecuting barrister used the word

predatory to describe this 13-year-old girl for the judges back

in court this morning but the prosecuting barrister wasn't because

he has now been suspended from appearing in such sex offence

cases. When he appeared in court last week, the offender at the heart

of all this, Neil Wilson, he admitted that he had committed an

offence against this young girl and was given an eight-month suspended

jail term, and he admitted possessing pornographic images. For

that, he was given a community sentence and the judge today said

that was a mistake and he should have been given a jail term. He's

been given another four months suspended, so he's now got one-year

suspended. He wasn't actually in court and gave evidence by video

link, clearly having problems standing because he was allowed to

sit throughout the hearing and he had a walking stick beside him. The

original eight-month sentence handed down for the offence against a child

is under review, so his sentence could be changed again. Thank you.

There's an estimated 6 million CCTV camera in Britain. Following

concerns about the potential for their misuse, a new code of conduct

has come into force in England and Wales. It means public bodies like

the police and local authorities must use them for a specific purpose

and when there is a pressing need. More details from our home affairs

correspondent. CCTV cameras are familiar sight. They can be vital in

solving crime like in this case of the 16-year-old who was stabbed to

death outside a club in the west Midlands. Police trawled through

CCTV and found the moment he was surrounded by a gang and attacked.

The footage led to their convictions. There is no definitive

figure for the number of cameras in the UK, estimates range up to 5.9

million, around one for every 11 people. Their use is already

governed by the data protection act, now the Government has drawn up

a new code of best practice for public to ensure cameras are there

to protect us and not spy will stop the code says cameras must have a

legitimate aim and meet a pressing need, and it says people in public

places must be aware they are being monitored, who is doing it and why,

and any images should only be kept for as long as they are needed. The

Commissioner will oversee it, but he can only encourage police and local

councils to stick to the code. Campaign groups say it doesn't go

far enough. Public authorities will have to pay attention to the code,

but individuals will not, so where we need to assess the system is

really working is if the commission can influence those people not

directly covered by the code. Recently police were told that using

a camera to record registration plates coming in and out of areas

was not permitted. The top story this lunchtime: Labour

calls on companies to do more to recruit local staff. Chris Bryant

has criticised what he sees as an over reliance on cheap Labour from

Eastern Europe. Delta come, high hopes of a second gold at the world

athletics Championships when Christine Ohuruogu runs in the final

of the 400 metres. Later on BBC London, Thames Water says people who

don't pay their bills are partly to blame for its application to

increase prices. We look at the ever-increasing deer population and

its impact on the environment. The success of British cyclists like

Sir Bradley Wiggins, Victoria Pendleton and Sir Chris Hoy at last

year's Olympics may have inspired some of us back onto our bikes. Now

the Government is hoping to encourage even more people to get

pedalling, as it invests �94 million in England's cycle routes. The money

will be shared among a number of cities and national parks, and and

will be used both to improve existing cycle paths and fund new

ones. Here's our sports correspondent, Dan Roan.

British cycling is riding high like never before, the wheels of success

continuing to turn at the elite of the sport. Putting two wheels at the

head of the transport policy is yet to succeed however. Four National

Parks will receive �17 million of funding to include cycling

provision. Many local authorities are adding to that money, meaning a

total of �148 million will be spent between now and 2015. Our European

neighbours take cycling much more seriously as a transport choice and

they are spending more. My understanding is that a lot of extra

money will come from local funding, but in a local transport plan they

are only planning 75p per person per year on spikes in -- on cycling.

Manchester has been given the most money and you can see why there is a

need for investment. This is Deansgate, one of the busiest roads

in the city, and yet there is no cycle lane. Many cycle lanes carry

on and run out, and then people are parked in them. They are full of

obstruction, not cleaned, with rubble and broken glass. I think it

is probably fear for most people, and who can blame them. You see the

amount of people out on a bike on a nice day, there is no reason those

people could not go to work and back if it was safer. The aim is to

emulate London where the number of cyclists has doubled in the last ten

years but nationally just 2% of journeys in Britain work by bike and

the numbers of people injured on the roads is increasing. When people

turn left, they don't count on you being there so they will knock you

off, but in the Netherlands they are more careful. Much more money is

spent per head in European countries than here, and the funding is an

attempt to address that, but the road to a true cycling revolution is

a long one. The Foreign Office in London and its

Irish counterpart in Dublin has said it's offering assistance to two

women who've been arrested in south America on suspicion of trafficking

cocaine. Michaella McCollum Connolly, who is Irish, and Melissa

Reid, who is British, were arrested in Lima on Tuesday, while trying to

board a flight to Madrid. As far as their families were aware, Michaella

McCollum Connolly and Melissa Reid were spending the summer in I'd be

earning a living in the resorts and clubs. Today they are languishing in

a Peruvian jail, accused of being drug smugglers. They were arrested

in the capital Lima last Tuesday, while checking in at the airport

before a flight back to Spain. The authorities alleged that between

them they were carrying 11 kilos of cocaine with a street value of �1.5

million. They are being held at the Santa Monica women's prison on the

outskirts of Lima where the conditions are said to be very poor.

The prison system in the room will be like anything you can compare to

in the UK. The overcrowding is currently running at 200%, so people

are sleeping in the corridors, in the stairwells and in the toilets.

Per room is now the world 's biggest exporter of cocaine. Last year alone

248 alleged drug mules were arrested at the main airport in Lima, trying

to smuggle out a total of 1600 kilos of class a drugs. At Melissa Reid's

home, her family said they had not had a chance to speak to their

daughter yet and they have been told by the foreign office she is well

cared for. Whether guilty or innocent, the women potentially face

a long time in custody. It could be another year before their case goes

to trial. The Duke of Edinburgh is carrying

out his first official engagement in nearly two months today. Prince

Philip has been handing out medals at the Royal Society of Edinburgh to

scientists and businessmen who have excelled in their fields. It's the

first time the 92-year-old will be seen in public since his operation

in June. Great Britain have high hopes of a second gold at the World

Athletics Championships, when Christine Ohuruogu runs in the final

of the 400 metres this evening. Last night Usain Bolt set the stadium

alight, when he won his sixth world title. Andy Swiss is in Moscow.

It was a night in Moscow thunderstorm met a lightning bolt.

Not even the weather could rein on his parade. From miming umbrellas to

beating his rivals, Usain Bolt was once again the supreme entertainer.

Another dazzling display, another gold medal. 9.78! Unbeatable.For a

sport beset by problems of the track, it was the perfect tonic. The

world 's fastest man had done it again. It is a great show as always.

They came out and supported, there were a lot of Jamaicans in the crowd

so it was just great. This morning there has already been a lot of

British interests, with Jessica Ennis-Hill injured, Katarina Johnson

Thompson came fourth in the -- after the first two events. In the women's

event, Perri Shakes-Drayton confirmed her status as a medal

contender, fastest in the heats. Later, all eyes will be on Christine

Ohuruogu in the 400 metres final. Post a medal contender, fastest in

the heats. Later, all eyes will be on Christine Ohuruogu in the 400

metres final. Her stormy finish and if she is within striking distance

we just don't know, it could be a gold medal. Christine Ohuruogu has

won the world title before in 2007, if she can do this she might win it

again. Her final gets under way at 6:15pm British time. After Mo

Farah's victory on Saturday, Britain will be hoping for another gold

medal in these championships. It is going to be an exciting evening,

Andy. It will be a hugely exciting and nerve wracking evening, yes,

with all eyes on Christine Ohuruogu. She looked impressive in the

semifinals, in fact it was her best time of the year so far and if she

can repeat that form, anything is possible. She won the world to title

-- world title, and will it be gold again for Christine Ohuruogu? 60 --

6:15pm on BBC Two. Play has resumed on Day four of the fourth Ashes Test

at Chester-le-Street. Ian Bell built on his overnight score but was

bowled out on 113. Matt Prior was then bowled out immediately for a

duck. Don't be too alarmed by the sight of

this umbrella, we are hoping this is a mere light shower. We have had a

dry morning session, leaving Australia needing 299 to win.

Entertainment for the Durham Q. If there is one less on Australian

cricket fans have had to learn in recent times, it is how to accept

sympathy with good humour. Faced with Ian Bell in this series coming

up to either laugh or cry. He reached his highest score this

summer with this four. He may be incredible, he is not infallible.

Beating on 113 by Ryan Harris. When Ian Bell departed, England were only

219 ahead, and Harris had not finished. Stuart Broad put on his

pads in a panic, but batted the ball away. Tim Bresnan had more in mind

than simple defence, England needed to extend their need. Back came

Harris to bounce out Stuart Broad. Bresnan was enjoying himself,

pushing England on with a growing range of boundaries. England versus

Harris, who was now doing the bowling and capturing, as Bresnan

went for 45. Graeme Swann made 30, swinging at everything and getting

away with it. A session that began with balloon making spread to

juggling without raising an Australian smile. They need 299 to

win. Australia 11 without loss at lunch, we will have a thrilling

conclusion, weather permitting. Let's catch up on the weather

Let's catch up on the weather prospects wherever you are. It is an

important week for the farmers at harvest time and this time of year

ideally they want a week of dry weather. As far as the next few days

is concerned, it is looking like there will be some sunshine and

hefty showers. You have just seen one at the cricket. On the satellite

picture, there is this mishmash of weather across the UK. The cloud

across the south-east gave this cloudy start of the day, and now

clouds have been bubbling up, especially across eastern parts.

They are producing those downpours and cracks of thunder. We will start

with the northern portion across Northern Ireland and Scotland, this

is where the rain will be coming and going this afternoon. There will be

that particular strip to the eastern areas where most of the showers will

occur. On the other hand, southern parts of the UK from mid Wales

South, all the way from Plymouth to Dover, it looks like it will be fine

for most of the afternoon with predominantly dry weather and some

good sunny spells around. For the rest of the afternoon we have had

some showers already, but the chance continues through the rest of the

afternoon, and also through tomorrow, but less of a chance

tomorrow compared with today. This evening the showers clear away so it

will become clear across the majority of the UK and as a result

the temperatures will be pretty low in rural spots. Then this area of

cloud and rain you can see drifting out across the Irish Sea will give a

cloudy afternoon, eventually inland, so anywhere from Birmingham

to London, it looks like it will be a cloudy day. There will be some

spots of rain. In the north it is around 17 degrees with some spots of

rain lurking. Wednesday, again it is that mix of cloud, bits and pieces

of rain nagging here and there. Not cold, 21 degrees, and from Thursday

onwards there will be a portion of warm, muggy air coming from France