:00:08. > :00:14.The jury in the phone hacking trial hears evidence from the first
:00:15. > :00:17.prosecution witness. They hear transcripts of Milly Dowler's
:00:18. > :00:21.voicemails and how the messages were hacked after she went missing. We'll
:00:22. > :00:26.be live at the Old Bailey. Also this lunchtime: Payday lenders come under
:00:27. > :00:28.fire at Westminster, as Ed Miliband says the 'Wonga economy' symbolises
:00:29. > :00:35.the squeeze on living standards facing ordinary families.
:00:36. > :00:39.The sting that caught out over 100 British men who offered money to a
:00:40. > :00:44.virtual child to perform a sex act on a webcam.
:00:45. > :00:46.India blasts off into space, with a rocket heading for Mars, though
:00:47. > :00:47.questions arise about priorities when so many Indians live in
:00:48. > :00:53.poverty. Champion Jockey Tony McCoy could
:00:54. > :00:54.notch up a record breaking 4,000th win this afternoon when he rides at
:00:55. > :01:04.Exeter. Hundreds of people are summonsed to
:01:05. > :01:08.court this morning in Brent for failing to pay their council tax.
:01:09. > :01:09.And an eight-year-old boy shoots a five-year-old in Essex, leaving him
:01:10. > :01:39.in hospital with serious injuries. Good afternoon and welcome to the
:01:40. > :01:42.BBC News at One. The jury in the phone hacking trial against former
:01:43. > :01:44.News International staff have heard transcripts of the desperate
:01:45. > :01:50.voicemails left on Milly Dowler's phone. The court also heard that, in
:01:51. > :01:53.2002, the News of the World changed a story in its second edition to
:01:54. > :01:55.remove references to a message on the murdered schoolgirl's 'phone.
:01:56. > :01:58.All eight defendants deny the charges. Our home affairs
:01:59. > :02:08.correspondent Tom Symonds is at the Old Bailey. Yes, the hacking of
:02:09. > :02:12.Milly Dowler's phone is the most notorious episode in the phone
:02:13. > :02:17.hacking affair. News International has admitted that it happened, and
:02:18. > :02:21.the hacker has admitted accessing the voice mails. The question for
:02:22. > :02:25.the jury is did Rebekah Brooks, the editor at the time, Andy Coulson,
:02:26. > :02:36.the deputy editor, or Stuart Kuttner, the managing editor, know
:02:37. > :02:40.it was going on. Milly Dowler went missing in 2002, and in the days
:02:41. > :02:44.that followed, friends and relatives left increasingly desperate messages
:02:45. > :02:48.on her mobile phone voice mail, but they were being listened to by the
:02:49. > :03:18.News of the World. the News of the World believed that
:03:19. > :03:22.the message addressing her as Mandy, suggested she might be alive and
:03:23. > :03:27.applying for a job. Reporters wrote stories in several editions of the
:03:28. > :03:30.Sunday newspaper. The paper's managing editor, Stuart Kuttner,
:03:31. > :03:34.also charged with being involved in phone hacking, had told police that
:03:35. > :03:39.News of the World had a tape recording of the employment
:03:40. > :03:42.agency's message. But detectives, busily searching for Milly Dowler,
:03:43. > :03:46.warned that the message might be a hoax. The prosecution says what
:03:47. > :03:50.happened next proved that Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson were aware
:03:51. > :03:54.that phone hacking was the source of the story. She was on holiday in
:03:55. > :03:58.Dubai, but the prosecution says phone records show that she was in
:03:59. > :04:03.constant contact with Andy Coulson to get the story changed for a later
:04:04. > :04:09.edition, which permitted mention of the phone messages -- omitted. But
:04:10. > :04:13.Rebekah Brooks's representation said it was not clear if the records or
:04:14. > :04:19.in Dubai time or UK time and it did not prove who she had been in
:04:20. > :04:24.contact with or what was discussed. Much of the evidence discussed this
:04:25. > :04:26.morning came from paper records, especially from phone billing
:04:27. > :04:31.records and lists of the stories that the newspapers -- newspaper was
:04:32. > :04:34.pursuing. There were interjections from a police witness to confirm
:04:35. > :04:37.some of that, but there will be further witnesses this afternoon.
:04:38. > :04:42.Thank you, Tom, at the Old Bailey. Payday loan companies have been
:04:43. > :04:47.defending their record before a committee of MPs this morning.
:04:48. > :04:49.Senior executives of the short-term, high interest lending industry say
:04:50. > :04:53.the majority of their customers are happy with the service, and pay back
:04:54. > :04:54.their loans on time. Our personal finance correspondent Simon Gompertz
:04:55. > :05:05.reports. The outcry over high interest payday
:05:06. > :05:08.lenders is intensifying. MPs said the lenders had not taken account of
:05:09. > :05:11.what people could afford and accused the industry of having an unsavoury
:05:12. > :05:19.element which exploited loopholes in the rules. Do you think that your
:05:20. > :05:24.charges are extortionate? That you are a rapacious organisation? Of
:05:25. > :05:28.course we don't accept that. Wonga and two other leading lenders said
:05:29. > :05:31.they had cleaned up their act, and a spokesman claimed that Wonga was
:05:32. > :05:38.cheaper than some unauthorised overdrafts from banks. The 30 day
:05:39. > :05:47.charges run-up to ?115. That is the most expensive loan, over 30 days,
:05:48. > :05:51.comes to ?37. I love my girlfriend. It was love at first sight. Longer
:05:52. > :05:56.produced a film this week portraying its customers as people who can use
:05:57. > :06:01.loans to achieve their dreams -- longer produced a film. Last year I
:06:02. > :06:07.asked her to marry me. It admitted last year that 40,000 customers had
:06:08. > :06:12.serious problems repaying. Lauren in districts -- illustrates the side of
:06:13. > :06:16.the payday culture that causes concern as she got trapped in debt
:06:17. > :06:20.by taking out new loans to pay off the old ones. It was really, really
:06:21. > :06:27.bad. I did not sleep at night. I remember afterwards when my parents
:06:28. > :06:30.found out, when everything was consolidated, and I think I had
:06:31. > :06:37.forgotten what it was to actually have a night of sleep where I did
:06:38. > :06:43.not have the pangs of feeling ill. One cause of worry in these kind of
:06:44. > :06:48.cases is that lenders cannot check if new customers have picked up
:06:49. > :06:52.multiple loans from other providers. That is probably the biggest
:06:53. > :06:55.downside as a lender, not knowing in real-time what other loans the
:06:56. > :07:01.customer has at the time of applying. What is to happen now is
:07:02. > :07:05.for the MPs, the minister and the regulators to agree what they can do
:07:06. > :07:07.quickly to protect the 1 million households that will probably take
:07:08. > :07:12.out a payday loan to get through Christmas this year. Advertising
:07:13. > :07:16.controls and tighter limits on rolling over loans are coming in.
:07:17. > :07:18.But whether that will be enough is the question.
:07:19. > :07:22.The Labour leader Ed Miliband has called for a 'living wage' to help
:07:23. > :07:28.hard-pressed families out of poverty. Mr Miliband accused a
:07:29. > :07:32.coalition of shrugging their shoulders about low wages and rising
:07:33. > :07:35.prices. He also renewed his attack on energy firms and urged water
:07:36. > :07:43.companies to offer special tariffs for the low paid. The comments came
:07:44. > :07:48.as ministers wrote to water firms to urge them to keep bills at
:07:49. > :07:52.affordable levels. From energy bills to groceries, prices are rising, but
:07:53. > :07:55.most people 's wages are not keeping up. Labour is calling it a cost of
:07:56. > :08:01.living crisis, and now the government is echoing the language.
:08:02. > :08:03.The focus now is on water bills and negotiations are underway between
:08:04. > :08:08.the regulator and water companies about the next round price rises.
:08:09. > :08:12.The Environment Secretary has written a letter urging them to keep
:08:13. > :08:15.increases as small as possible. This is just a warning shot to the water
:08:16. > :08:19.companies that given the fact they have done well with low interest
:08:20. > :08:22.rates in recent years that they are going into the next price round and
:08:23. > :08:27.we want to see investment, but we want to see them being fair to
:08:28. > :08:32.customers and passing on the benefit with either level prices or,
:08:33. > :08:36.preferably, reduced prices. Average increases in water bills have been
:08:37. > :08:40.in line with inflation and firms are more heavily regulated and energy
:08:41. > :08:43.companies, but the Labour Party has ridiculed the government response.
:08:44. > :08:47.The truth is that David Cameron has shown no interest in this until it
:08:48. > :08:51.was raised by Ed Miliband last week. All of a sudden we have had a
:08:52. > :08:54.panicked letter. If you read it carefully it sets out the same old
:08:55. > :08:59.voluntary approach which has not worked so far. In a speech today,
:09:00. > :09:04.the Labour leader continued his attack on David Cameron over living
:09:05. > :09:08.standards. The link between growth and living standards is broken.
:09:09. > :09:13.Growth without national prosperity is not economic success. Ministers
:09:14. > :09:19.insist they are not just talking about fixing the economy and point
:09:20. > :09:24.to the freeze on council tax bills and duty that have eased the burden
:09:25. > :09:28.on hard-pressed families. Let's speak to Norman Smith at
:09:29. > :09:31.Westminster. Norman, first it was the energy bills, now it is water
:09:32. > :09:37.bills. It really does seem as though the cost of living is the centre of
:09:38. > :09:41.political debate. Yes, and the row over water bills is the new frontier
:09:42. > :09:45.in the tussle over the cost of living. There is an extraordinary
:09:46. > :09:48.symmetry with the bust up over energy bills, only this time the
:09:49. > :09:52.government is trying to get on the front foot via this letter to the
:09:53. > :09:56.energy companies accusing them of making unexpectedly high profits.
:09:57. > :09:59.Labour say letter is indicative of government inaction and they are on
:10:00. > :10:03.the side of the companies rather than the customers. It is not just
:10:04. > :10:13.the rhetoric that is similar to the energy row, the from both sides are
:10:14. > :10:15.also similar with the government suggesting there needs to be more
:10:16. > :10:17.competition. Maybe businesses could be allowed to shop around for water
:10:18. > :10:20.supplies. Labour say government action is needed and that if they
:10:21. > :10:24.were in power they would offer more social tariffs, and similarly the
:10:25. > :10:28.response of the companies is similar to that of the energy firms saying
:10:29. > :10:33.they need to invest in new pipes and sewers which is driving up costs.
:10:34. > :10:37.And even some of the proposed price rises are similar with Thames water
:10:38. > :10:41.pressing for an 8% rise, very similar to some of the price rises
:10:42. > :10:48.we have seen from the energy companies -- Chems Water. -- Thames
:10:49. > :10:52.Water. The names of more than 100 British men who offered money to a
:10:53. > :10:55.child to perform sex acts in front of a webcam have been handed to
:10:56. > :10:58.police by a charity in the Netherlands. The group carried out a
:10:59. > :11:00.sting operation over several months posing online as "Sweetie", a
:11:01. > :11:03.ten-year-old Filipino girl. To make it even more realistic, they used a
:11:04. > :11:06.computer generated animation of a fake child. BBC News is the only
:11:07. > :11:11.broadcaster to see inside the charity's operations room. You might
:11:12. > :11:16.find Angus Crawford's report disturbing.
:11:17. > :11:24.At a secret location on the outskirts of Amsterdam, researcher
:11:25. > :11:28.poses as parade to catch a predator. -- as some prey to catch. This is
:11:29. > :11:33.who he becomes, Sweetie, a ten-year-old girl from the
:11:34. > :11:38.Philippines. Researchers could not have possibly used a real child, so
:11:39. > :11:42.they created Sweetie. But tens of thousands of men who contacted her
:11:43. > :11:45.thought they really were talking to a ten-year-old girl in the
:11:46. > :11:52.Philippines. The researcher wants to remain anonymous because of the
:11:53. > :12:00.paedophiles he's exposing. Here we go. Do like the older men?
:12:01. > :12:04.Sometimes. -- do you like older men. Here he logs into a chat room, and
:12:05. > :12:11.within seconds, like sharks, men are circling. It is terrifying. It is
:12:12. > :12:15.really scary. It breaks sure stereotypical image of the predator,
:12:16. > :12:20.because before I thought they were all 45-year-old males with very long
:12:21. > :12:26.coats and a little bit dodgy, but now it appears that these guys have
:12:27. > :12:33.normal jobs, normals families, are around my age, can be older,
:12:34. > :12:39.younger. The diversity is enormous. I am not real. I am a computer
:12:40. > :12:45.model. The charity which created Sweetie has launched a global
:12:46. > :12:48.campaign to try and stop this abuse. WebCam child sex tourism is a
:12:49. > :12:53.phenomenon spreading like a phenomenon spreading like an
:12:54. > :12:57.epidemic. 20,000 men contacted Sweetie and 1000 were identified.
:12:58. > :13:02.110 of them were British. All of those details have been handed to
:13:03. > :13:07.police. We are now dealing with tens of thousands of children who are
:13:08. > :13:14.victims of this new phenomenon, so there is definitely an increase. Two
:13:15. > :13:18.or three years ago, it was virtually none, it is growing, and we have no
:13:19. > :13:22.reason to believe that this phenomenon is restricted to the
:13:23. > :13:27.Philippines only. Sweetie will not be used again. She has done her job.
:13:28. > :13:31.Showing the predators that they too can easily become prey.
:13:32. > :13:37.High Street retailer Marks and Spencer has announced a drop in
:13:38. > :13:44.profits. They fell by 8.9% to ?261 million for the six months to the
:13:45. > :13:47.end of September. Meanwhile the owners of Primark say it has enjoyed
:13:48. > :13:49.a "remarkable year" with increased sales and profits. Here's our
:13:50. > :13:55.business correspondent, Emma Simpson.
:13:56. > :14:01.It is a star-studded advertising campaign, as Marks Spencer is
:14:02. > :14:04.enlisted a cast of leading lazy -- leading ladies to boost their
:14:05. > :14:09.women's clothing line, but there is no revival in sales yet. Although
:14:10. > :14:14.food is doing really well with sales up 2.5% in the first half of the
:14:15. > :14:18.year, general merchandise, which includes clothing, was down 1.5%.
:14:19. > :14:23.But there was a slight improvement more recently. The hope was that
:14:24. > :14:26.this autumn /winter collection would kick-start a turnaround in women's
:14:27. > :14:34.clothing. But it is still early days. This complete range has only
:14:35. > :14:39.been trading for around three weeks within these results. I think the
:14:40. > :14:43.jury is still out as to whether this will be a big turnaround, and maybe
:14:44. > :14:47.it is a case of that you will never get MMS with a 16% market share
:14:48. > :14:52.again. It is a very fragmented market in the clothing market --
:14:53. > :14:58.Marks Spencer with a 16% market share. But this retailer, different
:14:59. > :15:02.story, as Primark found sales up by more than a fifth. Back at Marks
:15:03. > :15:10.Spencer 's, the pressure is on this man, Marc Bolan -- Mark Bolland, to
:15:11. > :15:15.deliver. I think Christmas will be crucial. If they don't have good
:15:16. > :15:18.figures, investors will be unhappy. By the end of March they will have
:15:19. > :15:24.come to the end of the three-year investment plan and the pressure
:15:25. > :15:28.will be on them. Marks and Spencer's Christmas advert is about
:15:29. > :15:35.to hit the screens, a glossy, winter fairy tale. Love the shoes. The
:15:36. > :15:40.company says things are moving in the right direction. I believe this
:15:41. > :15:46.is yours. But Marks Spencer needs to conjure up a better story going
:15:47. > :15:48.into the New Year. Two police officers accused of giving
:15:49. > :15:51.misleading answers to Parliament during recent evidence relating to
:15:52. > :15:54.the so-called "Plebgate" affair are to face MPs again. The Home Affairs
:15:55. > :15:56.Committee wants the two officers from the Police Federation to
:15:57. > :15:59.apologise. The former Chief Whip, Andrew Mitchell, lost his job in
:16:00. > :16:02.government after he was accused of calling police officers in Downing
:16:03. > :16:06.Street "plebs", something he has always denied. Our Political
:16:07. > :16:15.Correspondent Chris Mason is at Westminster.
:16:16. > :16:22.Can these police officers be forced to apologise if they believe they
:16:23. > :16:25.didn't mislead MPs? The committee can't themselves force an apology
:16:26. > :16:30.from these police off severs but they have made it very clear that is
:16:31. > :16:33.what they expect this afternoon. Last week, three police officers
:16:34. > :16:39.appeared before them and a matter of days later two of them are back, so
:16:40. > :16:42.we will hear from Detective Sergeant Stuart Hinton, from Warwickshire
:16:43. > :16:48.Police and Sergeant Chris Jones, they are accused of giving
:16:49. > :16:52.misleading and contradictory answers a week ago, this relate ocean a
:16:53. > :16:57.meeting they had with Andrew Mitchell shortly after that row in
:16:58. > :17:02.Downing Street. Now, if they don't apologise, they could be referred to
:17:03. > :17:05.the House authorities, they could be found to be in contempt of
:17:06. > :17:10.Parliament. Technically that carries a jail term. That hasn't happened
:17:11. > :17:14.for ages and we are a long away of that. It gives you an idea of the
:17:15. > :17:18.scale of the anger among MPs. There is a sense that the police trieded
:17:19. > :17:22.to get rid of Andrew Mitchell for political ends. Regardless of what
:17:23. > :17:25.happens this afternoon, they face further questions from the
:17:26. > :17:30.Independent Police Complaints Commission, these officer, and none
:17:31. > :17:33.of this relates to what happened specifically in Downing Street,
:17:34. > :17:41.where eight people have been arrested and bailed, and the process
:17:42. > :17:48.of discovering whether they will be charged is still going on.
:17:49. > :17:51.Time now, it is 17 minutes past one. The top story.
:17:52. > :17:55.The jury in the phone hacking trial hears transcripts of Milly Dowler's
:17:56. > :18:00.voice mail, and how the messages were hacked after she went missing.
:18:01. > :18:04.And still to come. Previously unknown masterpieces by Picasso,
:18:05. > :18:10.Chagall and Renoir are among the works of heart found in a trove of
:18:11. > :18:15.Nazi looted art in Germany. Later on BBC London. We look at a school in
:18:16. > :18:20.Essex which has developed a radical way of teaching children with
:18:21. > :18:24.autism. And the mayor launches London's poppy day appeal which aims
:18:25. > :18:36.to raise ?1 million in one day. Now India has successfully launched
:18:37. > :18:40.its first rocket mission bound for Mars, the most ambitious project for
:18:41. > :18:45.the country's Space Agency to date. It is hoped the craft will reach its
:18:46. > :18:50.destination in September next year, and will orbit the Red Planet
:18:51. > :19:00.looking for signs it could support life. 3, 2, 1. Final countdown for
:19:01. > :19:06.India's first mission to Mars. This the first stage of a ten month
:19:07. > :19:09.journey to the Red Planet. At India's space centre there were
:19:10. > :19:13.celebrations for a text book launch. If all goes well, the Mars probe
:19:14. > :19:17.will start work next September, searching for signs of life.
:19:18. > :19:24.Critics say it won't achieve anything new because it will only
:19:25. > :19:28.orbit the planet and not land. India is more interested, they say
:19:29. > :19:34.in leaping ahead of China, its main rival in a growing Asian space race.
:19:35. > :19:38.There are questions too about the $73 million cost of the mission for
:19:39. > :19:42.a country with millions in poverty. By comparison the US spends nearly
:19:43. > :19:47.ten times as much on similar programmes. In total, India spends
:19:48. > :19:51.round $1 billion a year on the space programme and has 20 satellites in
:19:52. > :19:55.orbit for communications and weather forecasting.
:19:56. > :20:00.And defenders of the Mars mission say it will not just be good for the
:20:01. > :20:07.country's image but boost its development prospects too.
:20:08. > :20:13.The former deputy Director General of the BBC Mark Byford has defended
:20:14. > :20:19.accepting a redundancy deal worth nearly ?1 million. He insisted that
:20:20. > :20:24.he had done nothing wrong. I appreciate obviously and understand
:20:25. > :20:31.it was a lot of money, and I appreciate the concern and criticism
:20:32. > :20:36.about the executive pay offs, I absolutely don't think it was greed
:20:37. > :20:42.on my part at all. I lost my job, I was made redundant, I was given the
:20:43. > :20:48.terms I was given by the BBC. Our media correspondent is here, so Mark
:20:49. > :20:51.Byford's line seems to by was accepted what I was offered. You
:20:52. > :20:56.have to remember what this is about. This is the settlement that
:20:57. > :20:59.attracted most publicity, made three years ago, this is the first time we
:21:00. > :21:06.have heard him speak, his defence is, well, he didn't negotiate, he
:21:07. > :21:10.didn't ask for anything, he was given "What I was given." The
:21:11. > :21:15.criticism has been that the BBC could have perhaps paid him ?316,000
:21:16. > :21:20.less if they had been strict. He was asked do you or should you in any
:21:21. > :21:28.way give some of that back? Do you feel he ought to. He said he said
:21:29. > :21:31.was as much as he was going to say which Victoria Derbyshire said she
:21:32. > :21:35.would take as a no. A court has heard how three careers bullied
:21:36. > :21:40.vulnerable elderly residents at a care home near Lancaster. The abuse
:21:41. > :21:43.is alleged to have taken place at Hillcroft Nursing Home in
:21:44. > :21:46.Slyne-with-Hest. The prosecution claim that eight residents suffering
:21:47. > :21:51.from dementia were abused, the defendants deny all the charges
:21:52. > :21:57.against them. Ed, take us through what happened in
:21:58. > :22:01.court. The abuse allegedly involves one resident being tipped out of a
:22:02. > :22:05.wheelchair, another resident allegedly being slapped in the face,
:22:06. > :22:10.the court was told that the defendants played football in the
:22:11. > :22:15.care home, and laughed as they threw bean bags at the elderly residents.
:22:16. > :22:20.Eight people in total who were being cared for at the Hillcroft Nursing
:22:21. > :22:23.Home were allegedly abused. All of those residents were being treated
:22:24. > :22:27.within the homes challenging behaviour unit. This is for people
:22:28. > :22:36.with advanced Alzheimer's. The careers on trial today are Carol
:22:37. > :22:40.Moore, 54, Katie Cairns, 27, and Gemma Pearson, 28. The prosecution
:22:41. > :22:44.said the defendants told one witness they were bored than they were
:22:45. > :22:48.throwing bean bags at the elderly residents for entertainment. This is
:22:49. > :22:54.something the three people on trial here deny. They say they were
:22:55. > :22:57.throwing bean bags for therapeutic reasons to help the patient, this is
:22:58. > :23:02.expected to last for four weeks. Thank you.
:23:03. > :23:07.Now, immigrants to the UK since 2000 have made a substantial contribution
:23:08. > :23:12.to public finance, that is according to a major new report. The study by
:23:13. > :23:16.University College London said cent immigrants were less likely to claim
:23:17. > :23:21.benefits and live in social housing than people born in Britain. Our
:23:22. > :23:27.Home Affairs correspondent reports. -- cent. The debate about
:23:28. > :23:32.immigration has been fuelled by claims of benefit tourism. It is a
:23:33. > :23:36.aer Goued they come to live off the state. This report suggests those
:23:37. > :23:40.claims may not be true. Rather than being a drain on Britain's finance,
:23:41. > :23:45.the contribution of migrants who have arrived since 2000 has been
:23:46. > :23:49.consistently positive and remarkably strong.
:23:50. > :23:54.The study found that migrants were 45% less likely to receive state
:23:55. > :23:59.benefits or tax credits than people already living in wherein. They were
:24:00. > :24:05.3% less likely to live in council homes or other social house, their
:24:06. > :24:09.net contribution to public finances was estimated to be ?25 billion,
:24:10. > :24:16.over a period of ten years. Immigrants who came after 1999 and
:24:17. > :24:22.over the period between 2000 and 2011 have substantially contributed
:24:23. > :24:27.more to, in terms of taxes than they have taken out in terms of benefit.
:24:28. > :24:31.There was different findings from a separate analysis of immigrants
:24:32. > :24:36.living in Britain since 1995. It found that people from outside the
:24:37. > :24:41.European Economic Area, that is the EU, plus plea other European states
:24:42. > :24:45.claimed more in benefits than they paid in tax, the listen was they
:24:46. > :24:50.tended to have more children. There are different types of migrant. You
:24:51. > :24:55.have those who come from work reason, their have high employment
:24:56. > :24:59.rate, they don't make or low use of social housing and they make a
:25:00. > :25:03.positive contribution. You have our groups who are more depending on
:25:04. > :25:07.benefits. The Government said it welcomed people who contributed to
:25:08. > :25:12.the economy, but it needed strict rules to ensure the benefits system
:25:13. > :25:15.wasn't abused. The Department for Work and Pensions pointed out that
:25:16. > :25:19.the number of foreign nationals claiming working age benefits has
:25:20. > :25:26.risen by 100,000 over the past five years.
:25:27. > :25:29.German authorities have confirmed that masterpieces by Picasso,
:25:30. > :25:33.Chagall and Renoir are among the works of art found in a flat in
:25:34. > :25:38.Munich that are believed to have been looted by the Nazis. 1,500
:25:39. > :25:50.pieces were found, including some previously unknown works.
:25:51. > :25:54.Not just modern gentleman art which Hitler deemed degenerate because it
:25:55. > :26:00.was painted by Jewish artists but older works looted in occupied
:26:01. > :26:05.country, particularly France. I am a specialist for modern art and of
:26:06. > :26:11.course it is a very emotional thing to see that all these works of art
:26:12. > :26:16.still exist, and were not destroyed. Only when this flat in Munich was
:26:17. > :26:19.raided did this secret collection come to light.
:26:20. > :26:27.The works had been hoarded by the son of a wartime art dealer. Experts
:26:28. > :26:31.have been examining the artist tick treasures.
:26:32. > :26:35.At a press conference tax and customs investigators said they
:26:36. > :26:38.questioned the man who hoarded the paintings, but now they didn't know
:26:39. > :26:43.where he was. They defended the delay in bringing
:26:44. > :26:47.the matter to light. The investigators in this building
:26:48. > :26:52.say it has taken so long because it is very complex, and detailed and
:26:53. > :26:57.they want to be meticulous in order to find out who has a right to those
:26:58. > :27:02.pictures. Any gallery in the world would want these pictures.
:27:03. > :27:07.But the law in Germany makes it complicated for the descendants of
:27:08. > :27:10.original owners to get the works back easily. The German
:27:11. > :27:17.investigators are expecting claimants to get in touch.
:27:18. > :27:26.The record breaking jump jockey Tony McCoy is two wins away from the
:27:27. > :27:31.milestone of 4,000 winners, he has three rides booked today at Exeter,
:27:32. > :27:34.the first one in less than half an hour, Tony McCoy total us he was
:27:35. > :27:40.looking forward to the races later on. I have always been one that
:27:41. > :27:44.liked to challenge myself, and so I think any landmark is, you know that
:27:45. > :27:49.I have been lucky enough to achieve is something I have been proud of. I
:27:50. > :27:55.never thought I would be able to get anywhere near 4,000 winner, but, as
:27:56. > :28:00.I said hopefully in the next few days I will do.
:28:01. > :28:06.Our sports correspondent is in Exeter for us now. What is the
:28:07. > :28:10.prospects in Tony McCoy has been edging towards this landmark John.
:28:11. > :28:16.Two winners yesterday, as you say, two more today at Exeter and he will
:28:17. > :28:20.get to that magic 4,000 milestone, he looked relaxed when he arrived
:28:21. > :28:24.here round about an hour ago and spoke to the media. He is a man who
:28:25. > :28:29.has turned winning into a way of life over his 20 year career, he has
:28:30. > :28:33.been champion jockey 18 time, he has won the Grand National in 2010, he
:28:34. > :28:36.has been voted BBC Sports Personality of the Year, but this
:28:37. > :28:42.would be arguably his greatest achievement yet. No other jump
:28:43. > :28:47.jockey has won 3,000 race, yet alone 4,000. It won't be easy for him, he
:28:48. > :28:51.has only three rides here, he need to web two of them but the fans here
:28:52. > :28:57.are hoping for a moment of history. The first race is at 1.50. Thank
:28:58. > :29:00.you. Let us get you up-to-date with the
:29:01. > :29:05.weather. The weather is in an unsettled mood.
:29:06. > :29:10.The weather shows signs of improving, yes, as the cloud that
:29:11. > :29:14.brought the rain continues to clear out into the North Sea. To be
:29:15. > :29:19.followed by speckled cloud, showers clouds. However, zooming further out
:29:20. > :29:22.into the Atlantic, we are watching this next bump of cloud developing.
:29:23. > :29:28.This is the next area of low pressure that will drive across the
:29:29. > :29:32.Atlantic to bring more wet weather overnight tonight and into tomorrow.
:29:33. > :29:36.At least the weather shows signs of improving today as the rain
:29:37. > :29:39.continues to clear, few heavily showers are forecast, the showers
:29:40. > :29:43.reasonably well scattered in Wales and south-west England, so it may
:29:44. > :29:47.stay dry, often there will be a lot of cloud, so a few limited bright or
:29:48. > :29:52.sunny spells. There should be some sunshine getting through, but fairly
:29:53. > :29:55.slow to arrive. Meanwhile for Northern Ireland and Scotland we are
:29:56. > :29:59.looking at heavy shower, and with the winds remaining light in
:30:00. > :30:03.Scotland, a a cold night, there is nothing really to stir the cold air
:30:04. > :30:08.that is sitting in the valley, low down in Scotland, from mixing, so
:30:09. > :30:16.the temperatures will stay low. If you are off for bonfire celebrations
:30:17. > :30:19.to celebrate that, there will be heavy showers in but the south-east
:30:20. > :30:24.should stay fine and dry, but with a cold wind. The rest of the night,
:30:25. > :30:29.the winds stay on the light side in eastern Scotland so here where the
:30:30. > :30:34.clear skies it will be every bit as cold as last night with temperatures
:30:35. > :30:39.plummeting to minus five or six. A frost-free night for most of us, by
:30:40. > :30:43.dawn, lit become mild in the south-west, with temperatures of 15,
:30:44. > :30:48.so another night where we will have a 20 degree temperature contrast,
:30:49. > :30:53.north to south. En into Wednesday, outbreaks of
:30:54. > :30:56.rain, there is still a little uncertainty about how far this line
:30:57. > :31:01.of rain will get. At the moment we think it will push across Wales, the
:31:02. > :31:07.Midland and East Anglia. To the north we have fresh air, a mixture
:31:08. > :31:11.of sunny spells and blustery showers. On through Wednesday night
:31:12. > :31:17.the rain band continues to slip away southwards, then we will start to
:31:18. > :31:23.see the skies clearing. A chilly start across large swathes of the
:31:24. > :31:27.country. Temperature wise, again we are into
:31:28. > :31:29.double figures in the south. 14 in the Channel Islands but fresh
:31:30. > :31:34.further north, with temperatures round seven or eight. You can check
:31:35. > :31:41.the latest forecast where you live, there is more on the website.
:31:42. > :31:47.And a reminder of our main story this lunchtime. The jury in the
:31:48. > :31:51.phone hacking trial hears transcripts of Milly Dowler's voice
:31:52. > :31:52.mails and how the messages were hacked after she went missing.