02/10/2013 BBC News at One

The prime minister promises to create a land of opportunity for all

as he brings the Conservative Party conference to a close. He criticised

Labour 's record and says he wants his party to finish what it started.

The struggle will only be worth it if we as a country finish the job we

have started. And finishing the job means understanding this. Our

economy may be turning the corner and of course that is great, and we

still haven't finished paying for Labour 's debt crisis. We will get

the latest from Manchester. Also: A teenager goes on trial accused of

preparing terrorist attacks in Loughborough. A random attack on a

bus. 23-year-old man is detained indefinitely after admitting to

death a teenager on her way to school.

Supermarket wars - Tesco reveals a sharp drop in profits, while its

rival Sainsbury enjoys better than expected results. How non-league

football has been rocked by allegations of match fixing. I think

it's really good and shocking that it's here, because I never actually

saw one in real life. Old Masters in the classroom - how

world famous artworks are being brought to schools to teach children

more about great paintings. And a new drug trial for skin and

lung cancer is launched at two London hospitals.

Good afternoon. David Cameron says he wants Britain

to be "a land of opportunity for all". As he brought the Conservative

Party conference to a close, the prime minister appealed to voters to

allow his party to finish the job it started in coalition. He repeatedly

criticised Labour 's record on health, education and the economy

and said that while they bashed business, the Conservatives would

build a business. They have been waiting more than 20 years for the

Conservatives to win an election. Party members long for a majority to

govern alone but many doubt it can be done. So David Cameron 's task

was to rally his party and more critically, to convince voters he

should stay in Downing Street beyond the next election. This speech was

his vision for Britain pulling out of recession, a Briton of growth and

opportunity instead of cuts and austerity. I didn't come into

politics to strip fix what went wrong but we don't dream of deficits

and dry fiscal plans, our dreams are about helping people to get on in

life. Aspiration, opportunity, these are our words, our dreams. So today,

I want to talk about our one abiding mission. I believe it is the great

Conservative mission that as our economy starts to recover, we build

a land of opportunity in our country today. And that would be built on

these conservative principles. We know that profit, wealth creation,

tax cuts, these are not dirty, elitist words. They are not the

problem, they are the solution because it is not the government

that creates jobs, it is businesses. His message, don't risk the economy

by returning to Labour. We still haven't finished paying for Labour

's debt crisis. If anyone thinks that is over, they are living in a

fantasyland. The country 's debt crisis is not over. And he was

dating about Ed Miliband 's policies last week. -- skating. Promising

free childcare and then saying you have to pay for it yourself, and in

energy promised they admitted they might not be able to keep. It is all

sticking plasters and quick fixes, cobbled together for the TV cameras.

But there was a pause to reflect warmly on a party leader the

Conservatives had lost. Margaret Thatcher made our country stand tall

again, at home and abroad, she was the greatest peacetime Prime

Minister our country has ever had. And he too wants to be a

Conservative Prime Minister, freed from the constraints of coalition.

Together, we have made it this far. Together, we will finish the job we

started and together, we will build that land of opportunity. Tax cuts,

enterprise, business. Buzzwords to delight this whole. Let us finish

the job was his message. This was a pitch to voters very different to

Labour 's. The battle ground for the next election has now been drawn.

Let's go to Manchester now and speak to our political correspondent. What

was the verdict? I think it was by and large a bit of a holding speech,

and deliberately so. There were no new announcements, new policies, not

even new themes. We got a familiar assist -- recitation of the global

race and the need to give the government time. It was, in essence,

an appeal for patients, the people to hang on in there while the

economy returned but that was going to take time. It was the equivalent

of the dad on the motorway moment, when the kids are screaming in the

back, are we nearly there? You have to turn around and say, no we're not

but when we get there, it will be lovely. The difficulty is, that is a

hard political sell, because although he tried to lighten it by

saying we would reach this land of opportunity, he is in effect talking

about the British people sticking with austerity for maybe seven

years, up to the middle of the next Parliament. If you think of Mrs

Thatcher, who he compared himself to, she imposed austerity for three

years. David Cameron could be trying to impose it for seven years. To

return to the motoring analogy, it is the difference between keeping

the kids quiet between London and Leeds, and going between London and

Inverness, it is an awfully long journey even if it is nice when you

get there. A 17-year-old has gone on trial accused of preparing terrorist

acts in Loughborough. Gerry at the Old Bailey was told that the

teenager, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was found in a

session of a crossbow, rifles and pipe bombs. He is accused of making

a plan based on the mass shootings at Columbine high school in America,

with targets including a mosque, a school and a cinema. Sitting quietly

in court room number six today, a shy looking boy who we were told has

Asperger's syndrome, but is accused of planning to carry out an

extensive series of attacks on the public. The jury had been told they

have to decide whether he is just a misfit or something altogether more

sinister. Loughborough in the East Midlands was the intended target for

a 17-year-old boy 's alleged campaign of terror. Today a court

was told the teenager plotted to carry out attacks on schools and

colleges here as well as council carry out attacks on schools and

offices, a mosque and a cinema. The boy, who can't be named for legal

reasons, is appealing at -- appearing at the Old Bailey. He has

Asperger's so an intermediary is sitting with him to help explain

what is happening. You listened as the court heard that when police

officers searched the home where he lives with his mother, they

discovered nine partially assembled petrol bombs, several pipe bombs,

other improvised expressive devices as well as guns and ammunition. It's

claimed they also found a copy of the matured Ina poisons Handbook.

The jury was told there could be no excuse for having such a document.

The prosecutor said he believed they were too many Muslims in the UK and

The prosecutor said he believed they wanted to rise up against what he

described as Islamic fascism, but he also had personal grudges against

teachers and fellow pupils. He recorded his thoughts on a

dictaphone, making reference to high school massacres in the US.

The court was told the boy from Loughborough was a would-be

terrorist, happily stopped before he Loughborough was a would-be

could go any further. It's a claim he denies. Although the teenager

denies any terrorist activity, he has admitted two charges of

possessing explosives as have two of his friends, also aged 17. The trial

continues. A 23-year-old man has been detained indefinitely under the

continues. A 23-year-old man has Mental Health Act after admitting

the manslaughter of a teenager. Christina Edkins was stabbed to

death on a bus in Birmingham as she travelled to school. Her family say

questions need to be asked about whether Phillip Simelane had been

properly supervised on his release from prison at the end of 2012.

Christina Edkins was a daughter, a sister, and the promising pupil who

wanted to be a nurse. Two weeks after her 16th birthday, she was

killed by a stranger. Her parents are still struggling to understand

what happened. They have always deliver the fact that that Christina

is no longer with them. It's one thing to say that, it is another to

wake up every morning and remember again that she is not there. This is

the root Christina regularly took to school from her home in Birmingham

the root Christina regularly took to city centre. She frequently made the

journey by bus. And there was nothing to suggest that this day

would be any -- unlike any other. But after travelling to a couple of

stops, Christina was stabbed and died from a single wound inflicted

by Phillip Simelane. This CCTV picture shows how he calmly waited

for the doors to open before getting off the bus stop the bike he is

holding contained the kitchen knife he used to stab her. -- the bag.

This woman was one of the passengers who heard Christina cry for help.

She is still traumatised and wants to remain anonymous. She tried to

resuscitating the teenager but it was too late. I got somebody to help

me to get her on the floor and started giving CPR, but I am trained

to do. It's something I will never, ever forget. My thoughts are with

her family. Phillip Simelane Krist -- killed her in March this year,

three months after being released from prison and was then diagnosed

with paranoid schizophrenia. He was charged with murder but today

pleaded guilty to manslaughter. Police say the agencies involved are

carrying out independent review is to look at what happened. They will

be important to Christina 's family in their continued search for

answers. Phillip Simelane has been detained indefinitely under the

Mental Health Act but questions will now be asked about his release from

prison. Absolutely, those questions are being asked by Christina Edkins

's family and also by the judge at this hearing. She sentenced Phillip

Simelane to a hospital order and a restriction order, she said he would

not be released without the consent of the Secretary of State and said

that was because of the seriousness of this offence, it is of his mental

health problems and because he is a continued danger to the public. She

said that he and anyone else hearing the evidence in court would be

concerned that he had been released from prison to live in the

community, with the serious mental health problems he is suffering. We

heard in court that an independent review will be carried out, we

haven't been told yet when that will be reporting. To end, the judge paid

tribute to Christina Edkins 's family, many of them were in court,

including her parents. She praised them for their dignity throughout

the terrible six months that have followed the tragic loss of their

daughter. She said she was a girl that had everything to live for, she

would take the world by storm, she said, and she paid tribute to her

family. And 's biggest retailer Tesco has reported a sharp drop in

profits. The supermarket giant revealed half yearly profits for the

group dropped by almost a quarter to just over one point £4 billion.

Tesco blamed the results on restructuring costs and a massive

slide in its international sales but its rival Sainsbury had better news.

It said sales were up over the last three months.

And it comes to groceries, there is a battle for our pounds. Today we

got an update on how to love our biggest supermarkets are faring.

Tesco has been busy refreshing stores like this one as part of a

recovery plan. Today's figures for the first six months of this year

show it's still a work in progress, with sales down half a percent. But

the boss says things have been improving since May. We have been

making quite a number of changes, we have seen customers respond

positively to them, and we are growing sales and profits in our

most important market, the UK, which is a reversal of the trend we have

seen in the last couple of years. These figures are a mixed bag for

Tesco. There are some signs of improvement here in the UK. But it's

a long road to recovery. Tesco has been hit by a slump in sales abroad,

especially in Europe, where profits have tumbled by nearly 70%. Tesco

still has its work cut out at home, its most important business. Here,

Tesco is still losing market share and its smaller rival is doing

better. Sainsbury's local stores and its own brand label have helped

drive sales up 2% over the last three months. Of the major grocery

supermarkets, we are the only one growing faster than the market, we

are growing our market share and that's a long-term trend for us. We

are growing our market share and have 30 five quarters of sales

growth behind us now. But discount at all these growing a lot faster,

it added a million new shoppers and posted record figures this week by

adding new premium products to attract more well-to-do customers. I

think people want to spend better and more, but they are being more

sophisticated. They have a better understanding of what constitutes

value for money. The competition over where we fill our shopping

basket is as fierce as ever. The big over where we fill our shopping

names have to work hard to make sure their products continue to stand

out. Our top story: The Prime Minister

promises to create a land of opportunity for all as he brings the

Conservative Party conference to a close.

And still to come: The benefits of being active - how exercise may be

just as effective as drugs for treating common diseases. Later on

BBC London: One of the last remaining ice rinks in the capital

is threatened with closure in Hemel Hempstead.

And 20 years on from the success of the film, The Commitments hits the

London stage. They may be small town games with

just a handful of supporters, but non-league football has been rocked

by allegations of match-fixing. The concerns follow suspicious betting

patterns last season, including one game in Essex that attracted bets of

several hundred thousand pounds, with most of the money placed in

Asia. Our chief sports correspondent Dan Roan has the story.

Fans arriving for this match last night. Life at this level of

football can be tough, but recently the club have had more to worry

about than usual. On the other side of the world, several former players

are facing match fixing charges in Australia. Back at Hornchurch they

are the trying to make sense of it all. I truly hope they are

innocent. A couple of lads who played with us for two or three

seasons. Good lads, to footballers. This is not just about one church.

Last season, the FA said it had become aware of suspicious betting

activity involving some matches in the conference South. Two bookmakers

stopped taking bets on games involving Hornchurch and two other

clubs here in Essex, Chelmsford and this one. The club 's match against

Welling last season may of been watched by just a handful of

spectators, but the BBC has learned that, remarkably, hundreds of

thousands of pounds was being gambled on the game in Asia. There

is no suggestion any of the players shown here were involved, but it is

an example of the type of thing that has been noticed. There was more

being bet on that game than the Barcelona game, which is amazing.

Nobody ever contacted us, I don't believe anybody contacted

Hornchurch, either. How would you describe that lack of contact? I

find it amazing. You know, now is the time it has to be done. There

has to be an investigation right now by the FA to find out if there was

match fixing last year. The FA says it takes the matter of integrity

extremely seriously. Some are not satisfied. I am surprised there was

no contact from the FA. I think if that is the case and the information

you've been given is correct, that they would make the specific contact

with clubs at that level to try to address that issue. I think it is

quite frankly a disgrace and dereliction of their duty. The FA is

sharing information with authorities in Australia and there is no doubt

that allegations of match fixing our challenge for football authorities.

But the fact that none of the three clubs potentially involved were not

contacted by the authority will lead to questions over the robustness of

the enquiry. An inquest into the death of a man

who was shot dead by police has been hearing evidence from a police

firearms commander who was there when he died. The officer told the

inquest that he searched behind a wall after hearing officers say they

could not find a gun that Mark Duggan was allegedly brandishing

when he was shot. Our home affairs correspondent Matt Prodger is at the

Royal Courts of Justice. This was officer Z51, that is the

name by which she is known to the jury. He was the tactical person in

charge on the ground. The jury was shown a video which also showed Z51

in the shot comedy was marked with a blue Arrow that video and he is seen

wandering close to the scene where Mark Duggan is lying on the ground

being given first aid by police officers. He is seen moving to the

left and briefly out of shot, then he returns. At this point, you told

the jury he heard police officers saying they could find no evidence

of a gun they had allegedly seen Mark Duggan holding and pointing out

them. So he said he went behind a wall. He wondered if anybody had

looked behind the wall. He found an illegal handgun some ten to 20 feet

from where Mark Duggan was shot dead. The reason this testimony is

significant is the jury has been told that during this inquest it

will hear claims that a police officer in fact retrieve the handgun

from the minicab and planted it on the grass where Z51 said he found

it. The inquest continues and Z51 will continue giving evidence this

afternoon. Staff at Scotland's largest health

board are still trying to fix a major computer problem which has led

to hundreds of appointments and several operations being postponed.

NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde says they're working "flat out" to

resolve a glitch that affected its clinical and administrative systems.

It said emergency services in the region would not be affected.

Police are trying to identify a cyclist who narrowly missed being

hit by a train on a level crossing in Cambridge. They have released

footage showing the woman riding through barriers. She breaks seconds

before the train passes through. The driver of the train was also forced

to apply the emergency brake. Channel 4 have been defending their

decision to sack racing pundit John McCririck. An employment tribunal

was told that his pantomime style was one of the reasons they had

dropped him. The presenter says he was unfairly sacked because of his

age, a claim denied by Channel 4. Today we've been hearing from

Channel 4 about the background to that decision, and they've been

explaining it was last year that Channel 4 were given exclusive

rights to broadcast on to wrest real TV all horse racing fixtures, so

very much an expanded remit which included the so-called crown jewels

of Royal Ascot and the grand national. Clearly, Channel 4 felt

this was an opportunity to grow their audience and change the look

of their horse racing programme. We heard from the head of sport at the

channel who explained that, until that point, he felt that horse

racing on the channel was too niche and non-inclusive. They wanted to

branch out to a wider audience. They gave a statement to the tribunal

where he talks about his thoughts regarding John McCririck's

presenting style. He said he was considered to have a pantomime style

of exaggerated delivery which did not fit in with the more serious

journalistic kind of programme that they were aiming for. He also said

his propensity to offend with out of step with their vision for the new

programme, his style, he said, gave programmes a farcical tone at times.

We also heard from Philip Davies, a Conservative MP involved with a

parliamentary committee on betting in Parliament. He said that getting

rid of John McCririck was a catastrophic mistake.

Exercise could be just as effective as drug treatments for some patients

suffering from heart disease and stroke. That's the finding of a

study published in the British Medical Journal, which looked at

hundreds of trials involving more than 300,000 patients. But

researchers warn that more investigation is needed, as our

health correspondent Dominic Hughes explains.

The benefits of exercise are well-known, and yet fewer than one

in five adults in the UK exercises on a regular basis. Many people at

this weight loss class have been referred by their GP after worries

about their health. You know from family history and so on that you

are putting yourself at risk. My BP is perfectly fine. I've lost nearly

one stone in weight. High blood pressure and cholesterol were -- run

one stone in weight. High blood in the family. Now, researchers have

found that when it comes to prolonging the life of people who

had heart disease, stroke or diabetes, taking exercise regularly

like this might be as beneficial as taking medication. When comparing

mortality data, they found patients who exercised and had heart disease

or risked having diabetes live just as long as those prescribed drug

treatments. The results were even better stroke patients. Drugs were

treatments. The results were even more effective that those suffering

heart failure. Drugs are an essential part of treatment for

heart conditions and you should continue to take medication as

described prescribed by your doctor. But look at how you can increase

your exercise levels, because this will also be beneficial to your

health. Researchers say there is still a big gap in the evidence for

exercise and its impact on drugs. If you cast your mind back to art

exercise and its impact on drugs. lessons in school, you probably

think of poster paint and papier mache. But now thousands of children

are getting something much more special. Something like this. Valued

at £1.6 million, this is LS Lowry's Market Scene, Northern Town. It's

one of dozens of masterpieces that have been taken from galleries and

museums, to be lent to schools all over the UK. John Maguire has been

to see how classic paintings are inspiring the next generation of

artists. They are justifiably proud of their

art here at this primary school in Shropshire. Alan Nore, year six.

William, year six. Isabel, year five. And Claude Monet, year 1882.

The masterpiece was a mystery arrival, and once the children

worked at exactly what was visiting their small school, they had a

chance to get up very close dashboard no touching. -- - but no

touching. This is all part of a scheme to take valuable, important

works of art into the classroom for a day. Really amazing we've had an

opportunity to have one of Claude Monet's paintings in our school. I

think it is really good and shocking that it's come here, because I never

actually saw one in real life. Teachers can use a BBC website to

plan lessons based around the paintings. Here, they are doing

everything, from art, to picture hanging, to French cooking. The

painting is on loan from an art gallery. We are in a rural community

and they are really quite far away from a major museum or art gallery.

In a sense, it is slightly easier to bring the painting to the school

than to take the whole school to the painting. Now it is here, was it

worth it? It is just amazing to have it. One of his real paintings, just

there in front of us. I can tell my friends that when I was young, I

actually saw Claude Monet's pictures. His works have been

admired by millions around the world the generations. Doubtless, this

visit will live long in the memories of these children for years to come.

And you can explore the UK's national collection of paintings,

take a celebrity guided tour and even make your own electronic

gallery on the special BBC website. Now, the weather. We're seeing some

changes today. So far we've had high-pressure settling things down

across Scandinavia, but the next two days, low-pressure moves across the

country. These weather front spring days, low-pressure moves across the

rain, and some of that will be heavy. We've already had one band of

rain today. It is giving way to patchy showers, but through the rest

of the afternoon still the risk of some heavy showers. Staying pretty

breezy and feeling fairly humid as well. The showers really focused

across parts of South West England for this afternoon. We could see

some torrential downpours here and Wales. Temperatures are still 17 to

18 degrees. Not too many showers further west in Northern Ireland,

but further east, looking cloudier. Some brightness the northern

Scotland, cloud sitting elsewhere. Further south, we pick up overcast

skies the northern England with patchy rain. Cloudy for the

south-east corner, but generally dry with a breeze coming in. We could

see highs of 18 to 19 Celsius. This evening, those showers are still

around, but by the end of the night, this heavy rains sits across parts

of Scotland and Northern Ireland. The showers begin to spread across

south-west England and eventually the south-east by the end of the

day. Some torrential and thundery downpours, we could see up to one

inch falling in a very short space of time. The rain is persistent for

the West of Scotland and could be up of time. The rain is persistent for

to 80 millimetres by the end of tomorrow. The Met office have a

to 80 millimetres by the end of number of warnings in force for the

next 24 hours. There is a risk of localised flooding and potential

disruption to travel. You will notice this slice of eastern England

escaping the worst of the wet weather. Through this evening and

overnight, Thursday into Friday, the rain crosses the country. On Friday,

cloudy and damp. By the afternoon, some brighter skies, but still

keeping a scattering of showers. You notice those temperatures stay up.

By the weekend, things settle down, with high pressure building. Some

early morning mist and fog but some bright spells by the afternoon.

Before we get to that, there is the rain to come. You can find more

details about those weather warnings online, or there is more details

coming up in an hour.