:00:06. > :00:14.One of the big six energy suppliers announces its raising its prices
:00:14. > :00:19.again this autumn. Average bill for millions of SSE's customers will go
:00:19. > :00:21.up by about 8% from next month, roughly £2 more per week. Downing
:00:21. > :00:26.Street says the prime Minister will be looking at what can be done to
:00:26. > :00:30.help struggling families. Also this lunchtime, privatising the Royal
:00:30. > :00:34.Mail, why small investors look set to be favoured over those wanting to
:00:34. > :00:38.buy large numbers of shares. A step closer to finding a drug to stop
:00:38. > :00:44.diseases like Alzheimer's, but British scientists say it is still
:00:44. > :00:49.more than a decade away. The Desert Rats head to Helmand to help pack up
:00:49. > :00:55.the last sizeable British forced to go to Afghanistan before the
:00:55. > :00:57.pull-out next year. And India's record-breaking batsman Sachin
:00:57. > :01:04.Tendulkar announces he will be calling it a day next month after he
:01:04. > :01:07.plays his 200th test match. Later on BBC London, the latest from
:01:07. > :01:12.the Mark Duggan inquest as a firearms officer is questioned on
:01:12. > :01:14.his role. And London's lost bikes, thousands recovered from thieves but
:01:14. > :01:38.never reclaimed by their owners. Good afternoon and welcome to the
:01:38. > :01:41.BBC News at one. The energy supplier SSE has become the first of the big
:01:41. > :01:44.six companies to announce that their prices will go up in the autumn.
:01:44. > :01:48.Millions of their customers will find the average bills rising by
:01:48. > :01:54.about £2 a week from the middle of next month. The company is blaming
:01:54. > :01:58.development fees and a jump in wholesale costs. Downing Street says
:01:58. > :02:01.the prime minister understands the pressure family budgets are under
:02:01. > :02:04.and will look at what more can be done.
:02:04. > :02:09.It is the news households have been dreading. Just as the cold weather
:02:09. > :02:15.arrives, millions of SSE's customers are now facing higher bills. As the
:02:15. > :02:19.company responds to rising costs. 85% of the bill is actually outside
:02:19. > :02:22.of most energy companies' control. There are three main reasons, the
:02:23. > :02:26.cost of getting energy to people was Matt Holmes, the cost of buying
:02:26. > :02:31.energy and the government charges. It means that from the middle of
:02:31. > :02:39.next month SSE is back tariffs will rise by 8.2% on average. Making an
:02:39. > :02:44.average Yule fuel bill around £1380, up more than £100 a year. But there
:02:44. > :02:48.will be regional variations, with a 7% rise for customers in northern
:02:48. > :02:50.England and southern Scotland and almost 10% rise for those in the
:02:50. > :02:54.England and southern Scotland and south-east of England. That is bad
:02:54. > :02:59.news for Gary watch it, and SSE customer in the West Country. I am
:02:59. > :03:03.not angry at the price rise, I am angry at the size of it and the
:03:03. > :03:10.timing of it. The most expensive time of year for gas bills. With
:03:10. > :03:15.energy costs high on the political agenda, today, the blame baying --
:03:16. > :03:18.the blame game began. SSE pointed to the growing impact of the
:03:18. > :03:22.government's green and social policies. Labour has promised to
:03:22. > :03:27.freeze prices to tackle what it calls cost of living crisis but
:03:27. > :03:31.ministers insist is not the answer. People are not falls. They know that
:03:32. > :03:34.you can't freeze prices and not bear a consequence. If you want real
:03:34. > :03:38.investment to change the face of British energy and get a better deal
:03:38. > :03:43.for consumers, that requires sensible long-term policies which we
:03:43. > :03:46.are putting in place. The companies are putting up prices because we
:03:46. > :03:49.have a broken energy market and they are ripping off consumers and this
:03:49. > :03:54.latest scandal, this latest example, shows why the government needs to
:03:54. > :03:57.act. The companies are trying to blame everybody else, the government
:03:57. > :04:01.is trying to blame everybody else, they are responsible, they are not
:04:01. > :04:04.getting a grip. With experts are warning that rival firms are likely
:04:04. > :04:07.to increase prices soon, consumer groups today urged customers to shop
:04:07. > :04:10.around for the best deal but groups today urged customers to shop
:04:10. > :04:14.millions of families are now likely to be paying more for their energy
:04:15. > :04:18.this winter. That speaks our chief political
:04:18. > :04:22.correspondent Norman Smith, who is in Westminster. This is all going to
:04:22. > :04:26.fuel arguments about controlling the cost of living. Yes, it is if you
:04:26. > :04:30.like the equivalent of just dropping a hand grenade into the whole cost
:04:30. > :04:35.of living debate. What has been fascinating has been the response
:04:35. > :04:39.from Number Ten. It has been a very carefully calibrated response. We
:04:39. > :04:41.are told simply that the Prime really understands the pressure on
:04:41. > :04:46.family business Wash budgets. What really understands the pressure on
:04:46. > :04:49.he has not been doing is slamming his fist on the table, picking up
:04:49. > :04:52.the blower to the boss of Southern his fist on the table, picking up
:04:52. > :04:56.Electric and demanding to know what is going on. Why? Because the view
:04:56. > :05:00.in is the energy companies are having to compete in a global market
:05:00. > :05:04.by wholesale prices are going up driven by ever rising demand from
:05:04. > :05:09.China and although Downing Street say they are going to look at coming
:05:09. > :05:14.forward with some sort of palliatives to curb rising prices,
:05:14. > :05:17.these are long-term proposals they are looking at. Possible easing the
:05:17. > :05:23.green taxes on energy companies, may be ensuring smaller companies pay a
:05:23. > :05:27.lower rate of green levy, encouraging more into the market. It
:05:27. > :05:31.is a hard-headed strategy but a very high risk strategy because the
:05:31. > :05:37.danger as it can be presented of out of touch, it enables Labour to ride
:05:37. > :05:40.a wave of public indignation and I expect that indignation is going to
:05:40. > :05:43.get an awful lot worse over the next few days, when more energy companies
:05:43. > :05:46.get an awful lot worse over the next make their announcements and when
:05:46. > :05:52.people start to get the higher bills landing on their doormats.
:05:52. > :05:55.Small investors are expected to be favoured in the privatisation of the
:05:55. > :05:58.Royal Mail at the expense of those who want a larger number of shares.
:05:58. > :06:03.It is thought that anyone who applied for the minimum entitlement
:06:03. > :06:08.of £750 worth will be successful, but large applications worth more
:06:08. > :06:13.than £10,000 could be turned down. The BBC understands that the shares
:06:13. > :06:18.will be priced at £3 30 when they go on sale, the maximum possible under
:06:18. > :06:22.the terms of the flotation. The mail sale has turned into a
:06:22. > :06:26.the terms of the flotation. stampede with as much as £15 billion
:06:26. > :06:30.thought to be chasing Royal Mail shares. And a whiff of the
:06:30. > :06:36.privatisation fever which once surrounded BT and British Gas.
:06:36. > :06:37.You've probably got to go back to the big privatisations of the 80s
:06:37. > :06:41.and 90s to compare anything of this the big privatisations of the 80s
:06:41. > :06:44.size but interestingly that generation of investors who have
:06:44. > :06:48.missed out on privatisations are now tending to come back for the Royal
:06:48. > :06:52.Mail one. Sorting and delivering this share sale has taken time but
:06:52. > :06:58.all the while the likely proceeds have been creeping up. The minimum
:06:58. > :07:01.you could apply for was £750 worth each and with a price likely to be
:07:01. > :07:06.at the top of the advertised range the value put on Royal Mail looks
:07:06. > :07:10.like hitting £3.3 billion in total. Of course, everyone has a view.
:07:10. > :07:14.Yellow baboon I think it is a good idea. I think companies like this
:07:14. > :07:20.should be run by the private sector. It is outrageous they are applying
:07:20. > :07:25.-- that they are advertising it. I wish it was nationalised. If you
:07:25. > :07:30.want to hold onto the shares it is probably a good investment. It is a
:07:30. > :07:34.good idea, I am hoping to make a few quid. Staff are being given £2000 of
:07:34. > :07:39.free shares while they and other investors decide whether to sell the
:07:39. > :07:45.price jumps or hold on, ministers are facing criticism for not raising
:07:45. > :07:49.enough. The rush for the shares and the possibility that the price might
:07:49. > :07:53.shoot up has raised the question again as to whether Royal Mail is
:07:53. > :08:00.being sold off to cheap and whether the taxpayer is being short-changed.
:08:00. > :08:04.Yet another well respected analyst in the city has said they think that
:08:04. > :08:06.Royal Mail has been undervalued by up to 80%. This is increasingly
:08:06. > :08:10.looking like a botched up to 80%. This is increasingly
:08:10. > :08:13.privatisation. I don't think we can have bungled the sell-off if lots of
:08:13. > :08:16.people want to buy the shares but let me be very clear. I have already
:08:16. > :08:21.said the smaller investors are going to be treated fairly when we come to
:08:21. > :08:25.make the allocation of shares before trading begins. They will soon hear
:08:25. > :08:28.precisely how many Royal Mail shares they will get and tomorrow the
:08:29. > :08:34.nailbiter, do they go up question but what -- but more likely, by how
:08:34. > :08:39.much? Why is it small investors looked likely to be favoured?
:08:39. > :08:42.700,000 private investors have gone for this, which is many times more
:08:42. > :08:48.than the amount of shares that can be allocated and when they are
:08:48. > :08:52.looking at divvying up they have taken the view that it is those
:08:52. > :08:57.people who have the lowest of money who should be rewarded, so if you
:08:57. > :09:00.put in £750, which is the minimum investment, then that is what you
:09:00. > :09:03.are likely to get, but we are also hearing the suggestion that if you
:09:03. > :09:07.put in over £10,000 you may get nothing at all. In between those two
:09:07. > :09:11.you would get a proportion of what you applied for. This will be
:09:11. > :09:14.confirmed later on and as to when you can actually sell them if that
:09:14. > :09:20.is what you want to do, dealing starts tomorrow morning hopefully by
:09:20. > :09:22.then and hopefully by the end of today you will hear how much you are
:09:22. > :09:25.likely to get but some people who have applied online to the
:09:25. > :09:30.government rather than to a broker or by post might have to wait a few
:09:30. > :09:34.days. The Home secretary Theresa May says
:09:34. > :09:38.new laws will make it much harder for illegal immigrants to set up
:09:38. > :09:42.home in the UK. The Immigration Bill will require banks and landlords to
:09:42. > :09:45.check the immigration status of people who want to open an account
:09:45. > :09:48.or rent a home. But Labour says the bill will not address some of the
:09:48. > :09:56.biggest problems in the immigration area. Tom Symons reports.
:09:56. > :09:59.It is a get tough policy that has often been controversial. Finding
:10:00. > :10:04.suspected illegal immigrants and removing them. Now the government is
:10:04. > :10:09.trying to make the everyday environment for those here without
:10:09. > :10:13.permission more hostile. What this bill does is make it harder for
:10:13. > :10:18.people who are here illegally to be able to carry on living in the UK,
:10:18. > :10:21.so access to the things that people have and use on a day-to-day basis,
:10:21. > :10:25.like driving licences and bank accounts, will become harder and the
:10:26. > :10:30.proposals. The fifth Immigration Bill since the year 2000 will force
:10:30. > :10:35.those with temporary visas seeking health care to pay a contribution.
:10:35. > :10:40.Banks will have to check immigration records before opening accounts. A
:10:40. > :10:44.driving licence will depend on immigration status. As will
:10:44. > :10:47.accommodation and landlords will be required to make the checks. They
:10:47. > :10:51.are not happy. Landlords will not have any training on this or
:10:51. > :10:56.support. No helpline to ring. There could be a fine of £3000 for getting
:10:56. > :10:59.it wrong. We feel it is very unjustified to put this burden on
:10:59. > :11:06.landlords. The government has managed to deport the radical cleric
:11:06. > :11:09.Abu Qatada but still says 70,000 appeals against deportation are made
:11:09. > :11:15.each year. So it is reducing the categories where appeals are allowed
:11:15. > :11:21.from 17 to four. This immigration lawyer says most successful appeals
:11:21. > :11:24.fall into those four categories. He questions whether this change will
:11:24. > :11:28.make any difference. The perception is that there is a lot of former --
:11:28. > :11:31.foreign criminals roaming our streets and they get to stay here if
:11:31. > :11:34.they have cats and that kind of thing but there are a very small
:11:34. > :11:37.number of people who are bringing these challenges and a very small
:11:37. > :11:42.number of those people actually succeed. Fewer foreign criminals
:11:42. > :11:48.will be allowed to live amongst us, while fighting immigration battles.
:11:48. > :11:51.They will be deported first. Labour says shambolic border controls and
:11:52. > :11:56.immigration enforcement should be more of a priority. Ministers insist
:11:56. > :11:59.there are -- they are one third of their way towards their target of
:11:59. > :12:04.cutting net migration into Britain to below 100,000. But this policy is
:12:04. > :12:08.not just about numbers. It is about politics. Theresa May simply
:12:08. > :12:16.believes most voters will agree with heard crackdown on immigration.
:12:16. > :12:21.British scientists believe they have come closer to developing a drug
:12:21. > :12:22.which can stop Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and other degenerative
:12:22. > :12:25.brain diseases. In experiments on Parkinson's and other degenerative
:12:25. > :12:30.mice they have shown for the first time that a chemical can completely
:12:30. > :12:33.hold the death of brain cells. The study, published in the journal
:12:33. > :12:37.Science Translational Medicine has been hailed as exciting and
:12:37. > :12:43.historic, although it can be more than a decade before a medicine is
:12:43. > :12:48.available. Pallab Ghosh has more. This is a normal brain. And here,
:12:48. > :12:54.one eaten away by Alzheimer's disease. For decades scientists have
:12:54. > :12:57.tried to find a cure. Today, there are reports that researchers have
:12:57. > :13:03.made an important step forward. Some even described it as historic. For
:13:03. > :13:06.the first time scientists have stopped brain degeneration in mice
:13:06. > :13:12.by giving them a drug that blocks one of the signals thought to start
:13:12. > :13:15.the process off. If it stops brain degeneration in its tracks it will
:13:15. > :13:21.halt disease in people who have already got it and if we can detect
:13:21. > :13:26.early disease than it could prevent a lot of generation, so the hope for
:13:26. > :13:32.something like this is that we are able to arrest the process of cell
:13:32. > :13:37.death, of brain cell death -- degeneration. That is what is so
:13:37. > :13:40.exciting. Hundreds of thousands of people in Britain sulphur from
:13:40. > :13:43.Alzheimer's and other degenerative brain disorders such as Parkinson's
:13:43. > :13:48.and Huntington's disease. So what could this development mean for
:13:48. > :13:51.them? The human brain is far more complex and -- than those of mice
:13:51. > :13:54.and the drug used on the mice have unacceptable side effects, so
:13:54. > :13:58.scientists will need to find a similar one that works the same way.
:13:58. > :14:02.Any treatment for Alzheimer's and any other brain diseases would
:14:02. > :14:06.therefore be at least ten years away. We must be quite cautious
:14:06. > :14:10.because this is really early stage research and we need to do a whole
:14:10. > :14:13.lot more research to really understand what this means, but to
:14:13. > :14:20.turn it into a potential new drug, testing Chronicle -- testing with
:14:20. > :14:23.trials to see if it is safe for the conditions. Some scientists have
:14:23. > :14:27.described the development as a turning point which will provide
:14:27. > :14:31.researchers with an important newly in their search for a cure for
:14:31. > :14:39.Alzheimer's and other debate -- debilitating brain diseases. Euan
:14:39. > :14:42.the Libyan Prime Minister Ali Zeidan has been released by gunmen who
:14:42. > :14:48.kidnapped him early this morning. A militia group said his warrant for
:14:48. > :14:49.his arrest had been issued for his alleged financial misdemeanours but
:14:49. > :14:53.his arrest had been issued for his that was denied. It is thought his
:14:53. > :14:59.abduction may have been linked to the seizure by US forces the Libyan
:14:59. > :15:03.terrorist at the weekend. A graphic illustration of Libya's
:15:03. > :15:08.continued uncertainty outside Tripoli hotel where the prime
:15:08. > :15:11.minister lives for his own safety, all is apparently normal. Which in
:15:11. > :15:14.the early hours of the morning this was the scene of an audacious raid
:15:14. > :15:19.by dozens of militiamen. The kidnapping masquerading as an
:15:19. > :15:22.arrest. TRANSLATION:
:15:22. > :15:25.People came assigned with a paper from the prosecutor general with an
:15:25. > :15:31.order for the arrest of the Prime Minister. No shots were fired as
:15:31. > :15:34.government from a group calling itself the Libyan operations
:15:34. > :15:40.revolutionaries room to Ali Zeidan from his room. On its Facebook page
:15:40. > :15:41.the group said it had arrested him for financial misdemeanours. A
:15:41. > :15:44.the group said it had arrested him picture of a dishevelled prime
:15:44. > :15:48.minister appeared later on a satellite channel but many observers
:15:48. > :15:53.see another motive. It has been five days since American special forces
:15:53. > :15:57.captured a senior Al-Qaeda leader. He was also taken from his home in
:15:57. > :16:01.Tripoli. Some Libyans were outraged and felt sure someone in government
:16:01. > :16:05.must have known. There have been quite a lot of incidents of this
:16:05. > :16:09.kind. Why? Because there are in Libya now a large number of these
:16:09. > :16:13.so-called militias which are groups of people who took up arms against
:16:13. > :16:21.Gaddafi and -- in 2011 and have remained in existence and never
:16:21. > :16:25.fully accepted Desmond authority. Libya's euphoria which David Cameron
:16:25. > :16:28.and Nicolas Sarkozy celebrated two years ago has gone.
:16:28. > :16:31.Post-Revolutionary Libya is a chaotic, dangerous place. Full of
:16:32. > :16:35.competing loyalties and power centres. The fact the prime minister
:16:35. > :16:39.acknowledged himself in a recent interview.
:16:39. > :16:42.TRANSLATION: We are in a state of revolution so
:16:42. > :16:46.we have no choice. The Libyan state has no control over the implications
:16:47. > :16:53.of the revolution, because the state is weak. Ali Zeidan was released
:16:53. > :16:56.after just a few hours, a chaotic end to a messy, embarrassing
:16:56. > :17:11.incident and another sign of Libya's continued instability. One
:17:11. > :17:15.of the big six energy suppliers is raising its prices. The average bill
:17:15. > :17:21.for SSE customers will go up by around 8%. These are the boys of
:17:21. > :17:25.Dunstable grammar school out on fire practice. And still to come,
:17:25. > :17:30.challenges designed to challenge young people. The Duke of Edinburgh
:17:30. > :17:34.awards celebrate the 500th gold presentation. They choose the things
:17:34. > :17:41.they want to do, and very often they are the things that might interest
:17:41. > :17:45.them. Later on BBC London: The family of this community worker
:17:45. > :17:52.plead for help to solve his murder. And she is one of London's top
:17:52. > :17:59.skiers, so why is she struggling to secure her place at the Winter
:17:59. > :18:03.Olympics? The last sizeable British forced to go to Helmand province in
:18:03. > :18:07.Afghanistan debate -- begin their deployment today, the 7th Armoured
:18:07. > :18:10.Brigade, also known as the Desert rats are expected to do little
:18:10. > :18:13.fighting now that Afghan forces are leading the way, but their main role
:18:13. > :18:17.will be to pack equipment ahead of the final pull-out next year. Some
:18:17. > :18:19.of the troops starting today will be in Helmand for nine months rather
:18:19. > :18:31.than the usual six. These operations from the beginning
:18:31. > :18:37.have been called Herrick, the codename, but as it becomes the 19th
:18:37. > :18:42.operation today it feels very different to other handovers in
:18:42. > :18:47.Afghanistan, because the fighting on the ground is being done by
:18:47. > :18:51.Afghans. It is a very different place, as more than two thirds of
:18:51. > :19:01.the bases in central Helmand have been handed over and Helmand itself
:19:01. > :19:06.is a different place. A lone piper in the Afghan desert heralding the
:19:06. > :19:11.arrival of the desert Rats, after they won their name in the sands of
:19:11. > :19:21.North Africa. We have been working with the brigade for in excess of
:19:21. > :19:25.seven years. The outgoing Brigadier who said that foreign troops
:19:25. > :19:28.according to the president of Afghanistan, brought only problems
:19:28. > :19:33.was not what he thought was actually the case. The country is
:19:33. > :19:37.unrecognisable from a decade ago, and we cannot gaze into a crystal
:19:37. > :19:39.ball, but I am optimistic that the security forces can deliver
:19:39. > :19:45.sustainable security into the future. Can the British Army look
:19:45. > :19:49.back and be proud of the legacy? Very definitely. It is an important
:19:49. > :19:52.point. The British public are proud of the courage and sacrifice of the
:19:52. > :19:57.British forces in Afghanistan and they should also be proud of the
:19:57. > :20:01.achievement. The plaques on the wall mark the brigade to have been here
:20:01. > :20:08.and/or a memorial to the 439 British lives lost since the decision was
:20:08. > :20:10.made to send troops to Helmand over a decade ago. Soldiers who have been
:20:10. > :20:14.here before now face a very a decade ago. Soldiers who have been
:20:14. > :20:19.different country. This time it is a very different deployment. For nine
:20:19. > :20:22.months we will be in Camp Bastion working alongside the national
:20:22. > :20:27.security forces and the Afghan army, showing them how to instruct
:20:27. > :20:31.and to give them new techniques and how to develop their soldiers so
:20:31. > :20:34.they can fight the enemy themselves. Much of the task over the winter
:20:34. > :20:39.will be packing what they can bring home and disposing of what they
:20:39. > :20:47.cannot, as Britain's Long war ends next year. So the days patrolling on
:20:47. > :20:52.the ground in Helmand are really over. Most of the troops who arrived
:20:52. > :20:56.now will spend most of time here on in Camp Bastion, where I am speaking
:20:56. > :21:00.from. But some of them, rather than being here for just six months could
:21:00. > :21:06.be here for eight or nine and not going back to Britain until next
:21:06. > :21:12.June. Thank you, David. The first of 86 defendants have appeared in court
:21:12. > :21:15.after being charged under a so-called crash for cash fraud
:21:15. > :21:20.investigation in South Wales. A special all-day sitting is taking
:21:20. > :21:26.place before a district judge. Our Welsh correspondences at the court
:21:26. > :21:31.for us. That is at the court. We've seen a constant stream of people
:21:31. > :21:37.arriving at the core to have had to open extra doors to deal with the
:21:37. > :21:40.extra defendants all jointly tart -- charged in this investigation which
:21:40. > :21:44.is one of the largest ever into insurance fraud. They started
:21:44. > :21:50.arriving early, some in groups, others on their own. Many were keen
:21:50. > :21:56.to disguise their faces. All 86 defendants were charged in one of
:21:56. > :21:58.Britain's biggest ever cash for crash investigations. This
:21:59. > :22:04.reconstruction shows the type of scam they are accused of taking part
:22:04. > :22:08.in. Where accidents are staged to make fraudulent insurance claims.
:22:08. > :22:14.Across the UK, it is estimated that this fraud is worth £392 million per
:22:14. > :22:19.year, with one in seven personal injury claims linked to suspected
:22:19. > :22:25.scams. Among the defendants appearing today were members of this
:22:25. > :22:30.family who were accused of multiple attempts to defraud as well as theft
:22:30. > :22:31.and money-laundering charges. The police investigation centred around
:22:31. > :22:36.and money-laundering charges. The a garage on this industrial estate.
:22:36. > :22:40.Officers worked for two years to gather evidence. The garage is now
:22:40. > :22:43.under new management. The constant traffic outside of the Magistrates'
:22:43. > :22:47.Court is set to continue through the day. Defendants will be bailed to
:22:47. > :22:58.appear again next month. At times the defendants had to stand
:22:58. > :23:03.five abreast in the dock. The youngest was a 23-year-old woman,
:23:03. > :23:09.the oldest 871-year-old woman. All of the defendants are from South
:23:09. > :23:12.Wales and will appear in court again in November. The Duke of Edinburgh
:23:12. > :23:16.awards were launched more than 50 years ago. Since then more than 8
:23:16. > :23:20.million young people have taken on the challenges designed to inspire,
:23:20. > :23:24.guide and support them. This afternoon Prince Philip will attend
:23:24. > :23:30.the 500th gold award presentation at St James's Palace as our
:23:30. > :23:34.correspondence reports. These are the boys of Dunstable grammar school
:23:34. > :23:39.out on fire practice. Taking on a challenge, testing yourself,
:23:39. > :23:42.providing a service. 57 years after it was started, they remain the
:23:42. > :23:45.enduring themes of the Duke of Edinburgh award. They choose the
:23:45. > :23:48.things they want to do and very often they are things that they
:23:48. > :23:57.think might interest them. Nearly always it is a new experience. Any
:23:57. > :24:01.about? Close to me. Helen is 16 years old, from Berkshire, and
:24:01. > :24:06.teaching sailing as part of a silver award. It has helped me with my
:24:06. > :24:11.sailing because I can break it down easier. It has helped me learn how
:24:11. > :24:13.to teach people and talk to people and explain things to people. And
:24:13. > :24:18.to teach people and talk to people also to be part of a team with the
:24:18. > :24:21.instructors here as well. Young women like hell and are now active
:24:21. > :24:26.participants in the scheme, but the Duke of Edinburgh award -- like
:24:26. > :24:28.Helen, but the Duke of Edinburgh award was initially for the boys,
:24:28. > :24:33.and when the girls eventually joined they did not do the physical stuff.
:24:33. > :24:36.Can you tell me how we can get instructors and adjudicators to
:24:36. > :24:42.teach things like marriage and make up and all of the other schemes you
:24:42. > :24:47.mentioned? Make up we can do, marriage might be more difficult.
:24:47. > :24:51.That it did not take the women on to shake off the stereotypes. Over the
:24:51. > :24:56.years, the Duchess of Cambridge was one of 2000 people to have the gold
:24:56. > :25:02.award. And later today the Duke will be at his 500th gold award
:25:02. > :25:05.presentation. At 92, he still takes a keen interest in the programme
:25:05. > :25:09.which is built very much in his image.
:25:09. > :25:15.It's a subject discussed by football fans for years, just how many
:25:15. > :25:19.English players should be in club teams? Research by the BBC reveals
:25:19. > :25:24.that out of all of the minutes played in Premier league football so
:25:24. > :25:25.far this season less than a third of them involve English players. Our
:25:25. > :25:31.chief sports reporter is here. them involve English players. Our
:25:31. > :25:36.England may have given the world football but for more than half a
:25:36. > :25:40.century the Premier league has gone from strength to strength, but on
:25:40. > :25:42.the international stage the country has not met expectations, and now
:25:42. > :25:46.the international stage the country there is evidence that prospects
:25:46. > :25:48.could continue to slide. A study for BBC sport found that English
:25:48. > :25:52.footballers account for less than one third of minutes played in the
:25:53. > :25:57.Premier League, significantly lower than the rest of the European
:25:57. > :26:01.leagues. More than 60% are footballers outside of the UK,
:26:01. > :26:08.although there are opportunities at a lower level as the time played is
:26:08. > :26:13.up by 7% in the Championship. We live in a global world. Competition
:26:13. > :26:19.is not avoidable any more. The real question is for English football are
:26:19. > :26:24.to produce of the needed quality, and let's go to the heart of the
:26:24. > :26:27.problems. It's no wonder England are interested in the Belgian born
:26:27. > :26:33.Januzaj, whose eligibility to play interested in the Belgian born
:26:33. > :26:38.for the national team has sparked debate. Greg Dyke has set up a task
:26:38. > :26:42.force to investigate the reduction of Englishmen playing in the league,
:26:42. > :26:48.but one man says that the trend will continue. 68% of the top league is
:26:48. > :26:52.foreign players. That is too much, and it looks as though it could get
:26:52. > :26:55.worse and worse. England arriving for training this morning as they
:26:55. > :26:59.prepare to face Montenegrin tomorrow night, and Poland on Tuesday with
:26:59. > :27:04.the next year 's World Cup in Brazil on the line. As usual, England find
:27:05. > :27:07.themselves under huge pressure to deliver, but they go into these
:27:07. > :27:13.matches knowing that the opportunities for home-grown players
:27:13. > :27:17.to break into the countries top teams are limited like never before.
:27:17. > :27:21.Roy Hodgson could soon have a World Cup to look forward to, but the job
:27:21. > :27:28.of future England managers looks certain to become even harder. And
:27:28. > :27:31.finally, the legendary batsmen Sachin Tendulkar is retiring from
:27:31. > :27:36.cricket after he plays his 200th test match next month. The
:27:36. > :27:40.40-year-old former captain of India, who holds the record for the most
:27:40. > :27:42.runs scored in test match history, will end his career with two matches
:27:42. > :27:50.against the West Indies. No man has ever done more with a
:27:50. > :27:54.simple cricket bat. Quite simply, Sachin Tendulkar has scored more
:27:54. > :27:59.runs than anybody else in the international game ever. In India,
:27:59. > :28:03.his status is more than statistical. The devotion of his followers
:28:03. > :28:07.crosses into the spiritual, and those who know him well admire not
:28:07. > :28:13.just his cricket talent, but his ability to ignore the adoration.
:28:13. > :28:16.Just his idea about the game, the way he held together his cricket and
:28:16. > :28:21.led his life, all very simple. Never got carried away with the adoration
:28:21. > :28:25.from India and overseas. I have seen the best of Sachin Tendulkar, for 14
:28:25. > :28:29.years we play together. We were together in school cricket and I was
:28:29. > :28:37.captain of him for six years, which was an honour. He made his first
:28:37. > :28:41.century for India in August 1990 against England aged just 17. By the
:28:41. > :28:45.mid-30s he had made himself a celebrity and statesman. When India
:28:45. > :28:49.reeled after the attacks in Mumbai in 2008, he appeared on television
:28:49. > :28:52.telling his country that he played for India now more than ever. In
:28:52. > :28:59.pure batting terms, there is always debate about who is the greatest.
:28:59. > :29:02.It's easy to forget Brian Lara. He did not play as long as Sachin
:29:02. > :29:06.Tendulkar, he went out earlier, but those are the best two players by a
:29:06. > :29:12.long white in the last 20 years. For many, especially in India, he is
:29:12. > :29:14.unsurpassable and the two test matches that remain in his career
:29:14. > :29:17.will be an opportunity for an matches that remain in his career
:29:17. > :29:23.outpouring of emotion which will make this seem rather tame. Time for
:29:23. > :29:27.a look at the weather with Ben. And it has all changed.
:29:27. > :29:32.It feels like we've been put in the fridge very suddenly and in eastern
:29:32. > :29:37.areas it feels like somebody has switched on a fan as well, and it is
:29:37. > :29:41.cold, and also very windy in the East. Having said that, there are
:29:41. > :29:44.some sunny spells. As you can see from the satellite, quite a lot of
:29:44. > :29:48.clear, bright sky, particularly in western parts. But further east,
:29:48. > :29:53.notice how quickly the cloud start along. That is because they are
:29:53. > :29:58.being blown along on a brisk and strong northerly wind. It piles into
:29:58. > :30:01.the east coast of England through the rest of the afternoon, 50 up to
:30:01. > :30:06.60 mph gusts. The wind is strong enough to give some big waves
:30:06. > :30:09.crashing on to the seafront and even some local flooding. And some
:30:09. > :30:14.showers as well, increasingly confined to the extreme east coast.
:30:14. > :30:17.With the wind, cloud and showers are not feeling anything like the 11 or
:30:17. > :30:21.12 degrees I showed you. Further west, lighter winds, more sunshine
:30:21. > :30:25.will stop although temperatures struggling a little, 12 or 13
:30:25. > :30:29.degrees. If you get into shelter it won't actually feel too bad. But
:30:29. > :30:33.this evening and tonight the wind will continue to blow, especially
:30:33. > :30:36.across the south-east. As we go through the night they will switch
:30:36. > :30:40.into the north-easterly direction which will bring training across
:30:40. > :30:45.parts of the south-east and towards the Midlands. Further west, clear
:30:45. > :30:48.skies, and where the wind is light across Northern Ireland and Scotland
:30:48. > :30:54.in one or two places it will be cold enough for a touch of Frost with
:30:54. > :30:56.temperatures between five and eight degrees. Milder across the
:30:56. > :30:58.south-east because of the cloud, and the wind will continue to blow
:30:58. > :31:01.south-east because of the cloud, and during tomorrow. The wind bringing a
:31:01. > :31:06.lot of cloud across the bulk of England and Wales. Some of it quite
:31:06. > :31:09.heavy across the south-east. Holding onto brighter skies on western
:31:09. > :31:11.fringes and brighter skies for Northern Ireland and Scotland, but
:31:11. > :31:16.temperatures are little below the average for the time of year,
:31:16. > :31:20.between ten or 15 degrees. Into the weekend, we develop a two-way split.
:31:20. > :31:26.To the north, high-pressure tries to hold on, but in the south-east the
:31:26. > :31:29.low pressure tries to muscle in. The squeeze in the isobars indicates
:31:29. > :31:32.that we will seek a brisk north-easterly wind and some
:31:32. > :31:37.outbreaks of rain pushing across parts of England and Wales.
:31:37. > :31:40.Scotland, drier than some places but still on the chilly side. More of
:31:40. > :31:45.the same for Sunday across England and Wales. Lots of cloud, outbreaks
:31:45. > :31:48.of rain. By this stage the winds will be lighter. Further north in
:31:48. > :31:50.Northern Ireland and Scotland, a lot of cloud, but a chance of some
:31:50. > :31:55.Northern Ireland and Scotland, a lot brightness for the western parts and
:31:55. > :32:00.temperatures still around 12 or 13 degrees. Although the wind will ease
:32:01. > :32:01.a little through the next few days, it stays very chilly. That is