:00:00. > :00:08.Shipbuilding at Portsmouth, home of the British Royal Navy, is to end
:00:09. > :00:14.after more than five centuries as BAE cuts almost 1,800 jobs at
:00:15. > :00:21.shipyards across the UK. More than half of the cuts will be in
:00:22. > :00:25.Portsmouth. The rest will go at yards in Glasgow, Rosyth and Filton,
:00:26. > :00:28.near Bristol. We'll be live in Portsmouth and here in Glasgow with
:00:29. > :00:33.all the reaction to today's announcement. Also this lunchtime:
:00:34. > :00:35.Brought to court from prison. The veteran broadcaster Stuart Hall
:00:36. > :00:40.appears to face fresh allegations of sex offences, including rape.
:00:41. > :00:43.Victory for disability campaigners after a court battle against
:00:44. > :00:45.government plans to scrap a scheme they say helps them live a full
:00:46. > :00:51.life. The four year-old killed by a pet
:00:52. > :00:53.dog. Her family says she was a shining star who will never be
:00:54. > :00:58.forgotten. Not doing enough to find a job says
:00:59. > :01:00.the government. Almost half a million people have lost their
:01:01. > :01:05.Jobseeker's Allowance in less than a year.
:01:06. > :01:08.And, bulging Britain. How the UK's population is set to grow to 70
:01:09. > :01:09.million by 2027, thanks to immigration and an ageing
:01:10. > :01:14.population. Later on BBC London: The first
:01:15. > :01:17.segregated cycle superhighway opens in Stratford.
:01:18. > :01:19.And an inquest hears how an eight year-old girl died in a playground
:01:20. > :01:43.accident. Good afternoon, and welcome to the
:01:44. > :01:51.BBC News at One. Almost 1,800 jobs are being lost at shipyards across
:01:52. > :01:54.the UK. The defence giant, BAE Systems, is ending its shipbuilding
:01:55. > :01:57.operations in Portsmouth altogether next year with the loss of more than
:01:58. > :02:01.900 jobs. Another 800 jobs look set to go at two sites in Scotland,
:02:02. > :02:06.Govan and Rosyth, as well as Filton, near Bristol. The cuts are being
:02:07. > :02:09.made because of a drop in work once the Royal Navy's two new aircraft
:02:10. > :02:11.carriers have been completed. One union leader called it a
:02:12. > :02:14."devastating day" for the UK shipbuilding industry. Let's go to
:02:15. > :02:20.Portsmouth first and our correspondent, Duncan Kennedy.
:02:21. > :02:28.Sophie, today's news means an end of five centuries of naval shipbuilding
:02:29. > :02:32.at Portsmouth. As you said, 1000 or so jobs to go. Many we spoke to as
:02:33. > :02:36.they came out of the gate behind me were extremely angry and frustrated
:02:37. > :02:40.at the news, saying their jobs were being shipped up to Scotland for
:02:41. > :02:44.political reasons. Another man came out and could not speak. He was in
:02:45. > :02:48.tears at the news he would lose his job. In the words of one local MP
:02:49. > :02:55.here, this has been a disastrous day for the city. The employees filed in
:02:56. > :03:00.at 11am to be told they were no longer wanted. More than 900 jobs
:03:01. > :03:06.were to go, and an end to 500 years of shipbuilding in this historic
:03:07. > :03:09.dockyard. As they emerged, many were angry as to why their jobs had to go
:03:10. > :03:15.but other shipyards in Scotland are to be kept open. We build a better
:03:16. > :03:18.product than Govan. We have been told hands down we are better than
:03:19. > :03:23.them but they have pulled us out. But most of the managing directors
:03:24. > :03:27.are Scottish, so what can you do? I think it is mostly political. Most
:03:28. > :03:32.of the Scottish workers will be happy, but everything has been taken
:03:33. > :03:37.away from this yard. The city was built on shipbuilding, ship repair,
:03:38. > :03:41.basically. The future of Portsmouth's naval shipbuilding has
:03:42. > :03:45.been in discussion for a year. BAE Systems say there is not enough
:03:46. > :03:49.demand for new vessels. The decision to cut so many jobs has been
:03:50. > :03:51.described as devastating to the city with some saying it has become a
:03:52. > :03:58.victim of Scottish independence politics. Portsmouth is the last
:03:59. > :04:03.place in England where we can build advanced surface warships and now
:04:04. > :04:07.that won't exist. All of the advance warships will have to be built in
:04:08. > :04:11.Scotland. If Scotland becomes independent after the referendum in
:04:12. > :04:15.ten months time, the UK will have nowhere to be able to build advanced
:04:16. > :04:19.surface warships. Naval ships have been built in Portsmouth since the
:04:20. > :04:22.time of Henry VIII. Today's redundancies affect the
:04:23. > :04:27.shipbuilding, not the dockyard which stays open. The Prime Minister told
:04:28. > :04:31.the Commons that the decision was necessary for the future of
:04:32. > :04:34.Britain's naval needs. Under this government we will have aircraft
:04:35. > :04:38.carriers, type 45 destroyers, and submarines. If there was an
:04:39. > :04:45.independent Scotland we would not have any warships at all. BAE
:04:46. > :04:50.Systems says it will continue to invest in Portsmouth but the
:04:51. > :04:54.tradition and culture that stretches back to the Tudor times will now
:04:55. > :04:58.come to an end. The timescale on all of this is that the jobs at the base
:04:59. > :05:02.behind me will go towards the end of next year, and that will bring an
:05:03. > :05:06.end to the shipbuilding here. BAE Systems say there will be other jobs
:05:07. > :05:10.required for maintenance and repairs, not least for the two
:05:11. > :05:16.aircraft carriers at the centre of the story. They will come here when
:05:17. > :05:19.they are operational and will need workers to repair and maintain them.
:05:20. > :05:23.But there is no mistake that this is the end of a long line of not just
:05:24. > :05:28.many thousands of people employed in the dockyard, but a long line of
:05:29. > :05:31.maritime heritage here in Britain. Shipbuilding will continue at Govan
:05:32. > :05:35.in Glasgow, but 8,000 jobs will be lost from there and from Rosyth. Our
:05:36. > :05:44.Scotland correspondent James Cook is at Govan for us now. -- hundreds of
:05:45. > :05:47.jobs will be lost from there. Yes, that is right. Another famous
:05:48. > :05:50.shipbuilding River, another place with a proud history in this
:05:51. > :05:53.industry, and it has to be said that amongst the workers there is a great
:05:54. > :05:57.deal of sympathy for what is happening to their colleagues in
:05:58. > :06:01.Portsmouth. But they have their own troubles here as well. This is not a
:06:02. > :06:07.day of unbridled celebration, it is a day which has been very difficult
:06:08. > :06:12.for them here as well. The men and women of the Clyde arrived at work
:06:13. > :06:15.after a sleepless night. They were summoned to meetings to hear their
:06:16. > :06:19.fate. It did not take long. The workers came out after a few minutes
:06:20. > :06:23.having been told that around 800 jobs were going here and on the
:06:24. > :06:28.Firth of Forth. Not good news, obviously. Job losses are never good
:06:29. > :06:32.news, but I think we knew it was coming. There was a downturn in the
:06:33. > :06:37.work, so we will have to see what comes out in the next few weeks. We
:06:38. > :06:41.have had this before and we will come out the other side. We will try
:06:42. > :06:45.to retain the jobs that we can. We will not get off lightly, it will
:06:46. > :06:50.affect us badly, but it does mean there is a future of the two yards,
:06:51. > :06:55.so that is the good thing. The problem here is a gap in orders.
:06:56. > :06:59.They are building to aircraft carriers for the Royal Navy but that
:07:00. > :07:05.will end in 2015, then there is a pause before the type 26 global
:07:06. > :07:11.combat ship our build but that gap will be partly filled. On one hand
:07:12. > :07:15.it is good news for the Clyde. We have now secured a contract for the
:07:16. > :07:18.manufacture of three ocean patrol vessels for the Royal Navy which
:07:19. > :07:25.will take work through in this area, in these yards, two 2016. The
:07:26. > :07:28.company insists that this was a business decision but it is not
:07:29. > :07:32.stopped suspicion that it was influenced by next year's referendum
:07:33. > :07:37.on Scottish independence. Either way, everybody on this famous River
:07:38. > :07:43.hopes that the Clyde can survive this below and thrive again. There
:07:44. > :07:46.will now be a big row about independence. We heard it from
:07:47. > :07:50.Portsmouth and a little from here in Glasgow today as well. Many
:07:51. > :07:57.questions remain unanswered. Will this work continue if Scotland votes
:07:58. > :08:01.for independence? Would the UK Government be happy for that to
:08:02. > :08:04.happen? And would there be future work for the yards? The Scottish
:08:05. > :08:08.Government says it is nonsense to suggest there would never be a ship
:08:09. > :08:12.built again on this river, but as I say, many more questions than
:08:13. > :08:17.answers this lunchtime. Our chief political correspondent Norman Smith
:08:18. > :08:20.is in Westminster. A lot of questions over whether these cuts
:08:21. > :08:27.are being made with one eye on Scotland's referendum next year?
:08:28. > :08:30.And the most brutal question is whether English jobs have been
:08:31. > :08:34.sacrificed to appease Scotland, or put another way, whether it was
:08:35. > :08:38.decided ahead of the independence referendum that it would just be too
:08:39. > :08:44.politically explosive to close Govan, or load most of the pain on
:08:45. > :08:46.the Clyde. Ministers insist that the decision today was a commercial
:08:47. > :08:52.decision taken by the company because they believed that the Clyde
:08:53. > :08:56.shipyards are better equipped and placed to build new warships.
:08:57. > :08:59.Significantly, the Labour Party have not attacked this decision on those
:09:00. > :09:03.grounds, and there is a suspicion that today's decision would not have
:09:04. > :09:07.been that different if there had been a Labour government. However,
:09:08. > :09:11.when pressed this morning, the Prime Minister's spokesman was repeatedly
:09:12. > :09:15.unable to deny that the independence referendum had been a factor, and
:09:16. > :09:19.that will fuel the suspicions of those in Portsmouth that they have
:09:20. > :09:23.indeed paid a very heavy political price. There is one of the way in
:09:24. > :09:28.which the whole independence question is enmeshed in the
:09:29. > :09:31.decision, and that is, if Scotland votes yes to become an independent
:09:32. > :09:35.nation, that opens at the prospect that a Royal Navy warships, the very
:09:36. > :09:41.first time, will be built in a foreign country namely Scotland.
:09:42. > :09:47.However you try to hand pick it, it is almost impossible to disentangle
:09:48. > :09:52.the questions around independence in today's decision. -- unpick it. The
:09:53. > :09:55.veteran broadcaster Stuart Hall has appeared in court to face 15 charges
:09:56. > :09:58.of rape, and one of indecent assault, against two girls who were
:09:59. > :10:01.both under the age of 17 at the time. The 83-year-old was brought to
:10:02. > :10:03.court from prison where he is currently serving a 30-month
:10:04. > :10:06.sentence after admitting 14 charges of indecent assault earlier this
:10:07. > :10:07.year. Our correspondent Judith Moritz is outside Preston Crown
:10:08. > :10:18.Court. Yes, and this is the second set of
:10:19. > :10:22.legal proceedings brought against Stuart Hall. The first time around
:10:23. > :10:26.you might remember that he pleaded guilty to indecent assault, but in
:10:27. > :10:30.the wake of that case, fresh allegations of rape have been made.
:10:31. > :10:36.Today he came to court to answer those charges for the first time.
:10:37. > :10:39.Stuart Hall was led into court today in handcuffs, brought from prison,
:10:40. > :10:46.where he is serving a sentence of 30 months. In separate legal
:10:47. > :10:49.proceedings in May, he admitted 14 accounts -- counts of indecent
:10:50. > :10:54.assault and he was charged last month with a further 16 sex offences
:10:55. > :10:58.against two girls in the 1970s and 1980s. Today he stood in the dock as
:10:59. > :11:01.the list was read to him. He is accused of 15 counts of rape and one
:11:02. > :11:07.of indecent assault. The alleged victims were then aged between 11
:11:08. > :11:11.and 16. He craned forward to hear and ask the clerk to repeat herself,
:11:12. > :11:17.then spoke to give his personal details, including his full name of
:11:18. > :11:22.Stuart James Hall. Stuart Hall is best known for hosting the game show
:11:23. > :11:26.it's a knockout in the 1970s. He was later given an OBE for services to
:11:27. > :11:29.broadcasting and charity but was stripped of the honour last month
:11:30. > :11:37.for bringing the system into disrepute. Stuart Paul did not enter
:11:38. > :11:40.a plea today -- Stuart Hall. He was taken back 15 minutes later into
:11:41. > :11:47.custody and will appear in court again on November 29. You can see
:11:48. > :11:53.that behind me Stuart Hall has just left the court and has been taken
:11:54. > :11:56.into a prison van. He was told in court this morning that the charges
:11:57. > :12:02.he faces are too serious to be dealt with by magistrates, so when he next
:12:03. > :12:10.appears at court it will be at the Crown Court later this month.
:12:11. > :12:14.The family of a four-year-old girl who was mauled to death by a pet dog
:12:15. > :12:20.has been described as a shining star. The girl's mother fought to
:12:21. > :12:23.save her. They say Lexi Branson was attacked by the dog "for no apparent
:12:24. > :12:26.reason". The family had got the animal from a rescue centre two
:12:27. > :12:33.months ago, and had been assured it was safe around children.
:12:34. > :12:37.Lexi Branson, described as a bright, bubbly little girl. Her mother said
:12:38. > :12:41.she had fought for life after being bought -- born prematurely. She is
:12:42. > :12:46.said to be distraught after seeing her daughter being attacked by the
:12:47. > :12:49.family's pet dog. Police are continuing their investigations at
:12:50. > :12:54.the flat where the attack took place yesterday afternoon. Lexi Branson's
:12:55. > :12:59.mother fought to free her daughter from the grasp of the dog, but the
:13:00. > :13:01.four-year-old died in hospital. Glenys God saw the police arrived,
:13:02. > :13:08.and like other neighbours, she is deeply shocked. I said it was an
:13:09. > :13:13.enormous dog, and they'd only just got it from rescue. She said that
:13:14. > :13:18.they loved him to bits, and he looked so placid. Police have been
:13:19. > :13:21.talking to staff that this animal rescue centre a few miles away from
:13:22. > :13:27.the family home. They have not confirmed how the dog died but say
:13:28. > :13:32.they are carrying out tests to establish its exact breed. The
:13:33. > :13:35.manager of these kennels in Loughborough confirmed that the dog
:13:36. > :13:40.did come from here. But while the police investigation continues, he
:13:41. > :13:46.said, he's not able to comment further. There are thought to be 9
:13:47. > :13:50.million dogs in the UK. Each year around 6000 people needed hospital
:13:51. > :13:55.treatment after dog attacks. Since 2005, 17 people have been killed,
:13:56. > :14:00.ten of them children, including Lexi Branson. Four types of dogs are
:14:01. > :14:04.banned under the Dangerous Dogs Act. It is not thought that this dog is
:14:05. > :14:08.included on the list. It is not a good law and it does not work. We
:14:09. > :14:13.are no better off because of the Dangerous Dogs Act. It has not
:14:14. > :14:14.stopped this happening. On this estate, all thoughts are with the
:14:15. > :14:25.family of Lexi Branson. A decision by the government to
:14:26. > :14:28.close a scheme which prides -- supplies support and funding to
:14:29. > :14:35.disabled people has been quashed by the Court of Appeal. The Independent
:14:36. > :14:38.Living Fund, which is claimed by around 20,000 people, was due to be
:14:39. > :14:43.scrapped in 2015. Our Legal Correspondent Clive Coleman is at
:14:44. > :14:47.the Royal Courts of Justice for us. The fund does what it says on the
:14:48. > :14:51.tin, it's a fund of money for disabled people with very high
:14:52. > :14:54.support needs, so needing care pretty much around the clock. It
:14:55. > :14:58.enables them to do the initial all things in life that are so
:14:59. > :15:02.important, for instance, transportation costs to get to work
:15:03. > :15:05.-- additional things. In 2012 the government of the decision to close
:15:06. > :15:11.down the fund and evolve the money to local authorities. Claimants here
:15:12. > :15:15.and the supporters here felt that the money would no longer be ring
:15:16. > :15:20.fenced and subject to normal budgetary cuts and they simply would
:15:21. > :15:24.not get it. I spoke to one of the campaigners, Jenny Hurst, earlier,
:15:25. > :15:29.and she explained how the fund helped with her carers. I work
:15:30. > :15:33.full-time, so they take me to work, stay with me in case I need
:15:34. > :15:40.assistance, and they take me home. They accompany me to meetings, so I
:15:41. > :15:45.can be a trustee. And they help with the day-to-day things that most
:15:46. > :15:48.people take for granted. Getting up, washing and dressing, helped to use
:15:49. > :15:55.the toilet, down to feeding my cats for me. This morning, the Court of
:15:56. > :16:01.Appeal quashed that decision to close this fund and to devolve the
:16:02. > :16:05.money back to local authorities. It did so because it said the minister
:16:06. > :16:09.had not taken into account, in making the decision, some of the
:16:10. > :16:14.duties under the equality act, in particular the duty to encourage the
:16:15. > :16:18.full participation of disabled people in a full and public life.
:16:19. > :16:24.The government has said they will look at this judgement carefully.
:16:25. > :16:26.They may seek to appeal it. We will find that out in the next couple of
:16:27. > :16:29.days. Our top story this lunchtime:
:16:30. > :16:32.Shipbuilding at Portsmouth, home of the Royal Navy, is to end after more
:16:33. > :16:36.than five centuries as job losses are announced at shipyards across
:16:37. > :16:40.the UK. And still to come: Saved for the
:16:41. > :16:43.nation - the paintings that gave the British public their first glimpse
:16:44. > :16:49.of a kangaroo and a dingo almost 250 years ago.
:16:50. > :16:52.On BBC London: Turning sewage into fertiliser - how a new Slough
:16:53. > :16:55.treatment plant hopes to help guarantee global food supplies.
:16:56. > :17:09.And a new adaptation of Jeeves and Wooster hits the West End.
:17:10. > :17:13.In just 14 years' time, there will be around seven million more people
:17:14. > :17:16.living in the United Kingdom, according to the Office for National
:17:17. > :17:22.Statistics. It says the UK population will reach 70 million by
:17:23. > :17:26.2027. Most of that rise will be down to people simply living longer. The
:17:27. > :17:30.number of people aged 80 and over is expected to increase dramatically.
:17:31. > :17:39.But the rapid population growth is also expected to be driven by
:17:40. > :17:45.immigration. The population projections are an
:17:46. > :17:51.estimate of how the UK will go over the next 25 years. Its future size
:17:52. > :17:57.and its age structure. The figures show a continuing growth in
:17:58. > :18:00.population. By 2027, it is expected that 17 million people will be
:18:01. > :18:06.living in the UK. These figures tell us that the population of the UK is
:18:07. > :18:17.projected to grow from its current level of 63.7 million up to 73 point
:18:18. > :18:22.3 million by the end of 2037. A fair amount of growth. Migration into the
:18:23. > :18:28.UK will grow by about 165,000 a year, many of whom will have babies,
:18:29. > :18:32.adding to the birth rate. But we are also an ageing population. There are
:18:33. > :18:37.currently around 3 million people over the age of 80 in the UK. By
:18:38. > :18:43.2037, that figure is projected to have doubled to around 6 million.
:18:44. > :18:49.This is a dramatic change, one that we can celebrate - we have all got
:18:50. > :18:54.more potential years to live - but which puts stresses on society.
:18:55. > :18:57.These are just projections and not forecasts, but the figure is
:18:58. > :19:01.expected to be used by government departments and other organisations
:19:02. > :19:06.planning policies and services. Expect these figures to be most
:19:07. > :19:08.useful to those planning benefits, pensions and the number of school
:19:09. > :19:10.places needed. More than 400,000 people lost their
:19:11. > :19:14.job-seeker's allowance in less than a year because of new penalties
:19:15. > :19:17.introduced by the government. Ministers say the penalties are used
:19:18. > :19:29.only as a deterrent, and people who lose the allowance are not doing
:19:30. > :19:34.enough to find a job. Mark has been unemployed for four
:19:35. > :19:37.years. Two weeks ago, his job-seeker's allowance was cut after
:19:38. > :19:41.his job centre claimed he had failed to attend a mandatory course. He
:19:42. > :19:45.says he did go on the course, and the dispute will leave him with
:19:46. > :19:49.little money for a month. I am behind on rent and bill payments. I
:19:50. > :19:55.have to borrow money from friends and family to bridge the gap between
:19:56. > :20:01.the sanction starting and ending. Many others are in a similar
:20:02. > :20:05.position. Figures out today show that 580,000 penalties were handed
:20:06. > :20:10.out between October of last year and June this year. That is a 6%
:20:11. > :20:17.increase from the same period last year. In total, 397,000 people lost
:20:18. > :20:23.their benefit, most for four weeks. It is in your best interest to get a
:20:24. > :20:32.job. The people who get sanctions are wilfully reject tin support for
:20:33. > :20:35.no good reason. This is where an increasing number of those who lose
:20:36. > :20:41.their benefit are turning. Food banks are seeing soaring demand, and
:20:42. > :20:45.the country's biggest provider says the new sanction system has
:20:46. > :20:49.contributed. Historically, we have seen around a third of our client
:20:50. > :20:54.who have suffered welfare related issues. That has risen dramatically
:20:55. > :20:59.post-April to just over 50% of our clients. So clearly, more people are
:21:00. > :21:03.being sanctioned and are finding themselves in a short-term crisis,
:21:04. > :21:06.unable to put food on the table. With the economy now growing and
:21:07. > :21:10.jobs being created, the government is determined that people should
:21:11. > :21:14.move quickly off benefits and into work. If some need to be penalised
:21:15. > :21:17.to get that message, so be it, say ministers.
:21:18. > :21:19.A Conservative MP has denied allegations that he used his
:21:20. > :21:22.Parliamentary contacts for financial gain. The Daily Telegraph has
:21:23. > :21:27.accused Mark Pritchard of offering to set up business deals in return
:21:28. > :21:29.for hundreds of thousands of pounds. Mr Pritchard has referred himself to
:21:30. > :21:34.Parliament's Commissioner for Standards, saying he wants to clear
:21:35. > :21:36.his name. The Formula One boss, Bernie
:21:37. > :21:39.Ecclestone, has taken the stand at the High Court to defend himself
:21:40. > :21:45.against allegations that he made a "corrupt agreement" to protect his
:21:46. > :21:48.position running the sport. He and three other defendants are being
:21:49. > :21:50.sued by a German media group, which claims that Formula One was
:21:51. > :21:53.deliberately undervalued when a German bank sold its 47% stake in
:21:54. > :21:57.2005. Mr Ecclestone is accused of paying ?27 million to a banker to
:21:58. > :22:00.ensure that the stake was sold to a buyer of his choosing. He denies any
:22:01. > :22:03.wrongdoing. Our chief sports correspondent is at the High Court
:22:04. > :22:06.for us. The future of one of the most powerful men in sport,
:22:07. > :22:13.certainly the most powerful men in Formula One, is at stake here.
:22:14. > :22:17.Bernie Ecclestone arrived here at the Royal Courts of Justice this
:22:18. > :22:20.morning. It is a complex case and there were confusing scenes.
:22:21. > :22:26.Ecclestone was flummoxed by the revolving door, performing a 360
:22:27. > :22:32.degrees spin and stalling before he got his entry into the building. He
:22:33. > :22:38.faces accusations that he made a corrupt bar over the sale of Formula
:22:39. > :22:43.One in 2006. A German media group say they should have been owed
:22:44. > :22:47.around ?100 million worth of damages because Ecclestone deliberately
:22:48. > :22:51.undervalued the company when it was bought in order to remain in
:22:52. > :22:54.control. This is just one of a number of challenges that Ecclestone
:22:55. > :23:00.faces connected to that sale. A German court will soon decide
:23:01. > :23:03.whether he should stand trial on bribery charges over a payment he
:23:04. > :23:09.made to a jailed German banker. Ecclestone and mitts paying him, but
:23:10. > :23:15.said he only did so under coercion, because he was threatening to report
:23:16. > :23:19.him to the tax authorities. Much of the questioning today in court
:23:20. > :23:22.concerned that payment. There was a moment of humour, Ecclestone trying
:23:23. > :23:25.to explain how we will is particularly susceptible to
:23:26. > :23:28.blackmailers, and presented a scenario where he said someone may
:23:29. > :23:31.have falsely accused him of having an extramarital affair and that he
:23:32. > :23:36.would have a him off to buy his silence. The lit martial QC, acting
:23:37. > :23:40.on the half of the German company, said, why on earth would you pay off
:23:41. > :23:45.this hypothetical blackmailer if it was not true? Ecclestone simply
:23:46. > :23:48.said, you did not know my ex-wife. Ecclestone denies any wrongdoing and
:23:49. > :23:52.is expected to give evidence for the next two days, but if the challenges
:23:53. > :23:56.go against him, it could be the beginning of the end of his long
:23:57. > :23:58.tenure at the helm of Formula One. A BBC investigation has found that
:23:59. > :24:02.the number of catalytic converters being stolen from cars and vans has
:24:03. > :24:05.more than doubled in the last three years. Almost 25,000 have been taken
:24:06. > :24:11.by criminals after the metal they're made of. But the thefts can leave
:24:12. > :24:20.drivers with repair bills running into thousands.
:24:21. > :24:23.Midnight on an industrial estate in Nottinghamshire, and criminals are
:24:24. > :24:29.at work. In less than four minutes, the sleeves hack the catalytic
:24:30. > :24:32.converter of this van and walk off. They would have sold it for around
:24:33. > :24:39.?50, but the cost to the motorist would have been far higher. Jonathan
:24:40. > :24:44.Eldredge runs a business in Hull. His vans were targeted, and it cost
:24:45. > :24:52.him ?100,000 in lost sales and repairs. We had 15 vans, already for
:24:53. > :24:56.being loaded for delivering that evening. And the thief, within 45
:24:57. > :25:03.minutes, managed to hack Saudi catalytic converters off the
:25:04. > :25:08.vehicles. This is what criminal 's are after. Catalytic converters help
:25:09. > :25:13.clean the poisonous gases that come from a vehicle's exhaust. They are
:25:14. > :25:16.being cut out because this part here contains Russia's metals such as
:25:17. > :25:21.platinum and palladium. These vehicles have all been targeted
:25:22. > :25:26.before. They are most at risk because 4x4s and vans are easy to
:25:27. > :25:29.crawl under. The devices are being marked in acid with a unique serial
:25:30. > :25:34.number. If they are stolen again, the converter can be easily
:25:35. > :25:37.identified to their owner. A Freedom of Information request by the BBC
:25:38. > :25:44.has revealed that this sort of crime is on the increase. Thefts of
:25:45. > :25:48.catalytic converters have more than doubled over the past three years,
:25:49. > :25:53.and since 2010, there have been almost 25,000 thefts across the UK.
:25:54. > :25:58.It is a problem the police say they want to crack down on. We know
:25:59. > :26:03.people are involved in organised crime, because we have had depots
:26:04. > :26:06.and fleets being hit, which suggests a level of preplanning that is not
:26:07. > :26:14.involved in your spontaneous type of offending. For businesses like
:26:15. > :26:18.Jonathan's the cost of repairs and lost revenue can be significant.
:26:19. > :26:21.Some victims say they are reluctant to make insurance claims because of
:26:22. > :26:27.the effect on their premiums, so end up bearing the loss comic climate,
:26:28. > :26:33.it is a cost they claim they cannot afford.
:26:34. > :26:36.Nearly 250 years ago, the British public got their first glimpse of a
:26:37. > :26:39.kangaroo and dingo, thanks to two paintings by George Stubbs. They
:26:40. > :26:49.were based on specimens and sketches brought back from Captain Cook's
:26:50. > :26:52.first voyage to the Pacific. And now they've been saved for the nation -
:26:53. > :26:55.thanks to a donation of ?1.5 million.
:26:56. > :26:59.A kangaroo, looking back over its shoulder, and a dingo walking in the
:27:00. > :27:02.Australian landscape. Two animals previously unfamiliar to those
:27:03. > :27:06.living in the UK, including George Stubbs, a celebrated artist who
:27:07. > :27:11.painted them stop he worked from skins and information brought back
:27:12. > :27:15.on Captain Cook's Endeavour from his voyage of discovery. They were
:27:16. > :27:19.collected by the scientist Sir Joseph Banks. Stubbs, who was a very
:27:20. > :27:24.good and that missed, was presented with this dried, shrivelled skin of
:27:25. > :27:31.a kangaroo. And he simply could not make head or tail of it. So he sewed
:27:32. > :27:35.it up. He moistened it, so it was pliable, blew it up and then saw
:27:36. > :27:40.that it really did have these tiny, small arms and this huge tail and
:27:41. > :27:43.these whopping great legs. They were in a private collection, but have
:27:44. > :27:46.now been acquired by the National Maritime Museum in London, much to
:27:47. > :27:50.the annoyance of the National Gallery of Australia, who had been
:27:51. > :27:57.negotiating to buy the paintings for their sick litigant -- symbolic
:27:58. > :28:02.significance. But the British government placed an export stop on
:28:03. > :28:05.the pictures in January, giving the National Maritime Museum Time to
:28:06. > :28:09.raise the ?5.5 million needed to buy them. It will now put them on
:28:10. > :28:11.display along with the rest of its public collection relating to that
:28:12. > :28:18.uncooked's voyages. Now the weather.
:28:19. > :28:22.Our weather is staying in an unsettled mood at the moment. Today
:28:23. > :28:32.is no exception. Across England and Wales in particular, it will stay
:28:33. > :28:40.cloudy. Some fairly damp conditions. That streak of cloud is responsible
:28:41. > :28:40.for the damp weather, but it is also the dividing line between
:28:41. > :28:50.for the damp weather, but it is also and west of the British Isles and
:28:51. > :28:53.the very mild air further south. Temperatures are five degrees above
:28:54. > :29:02.normal for that half year in parts of the South. The weather front will
:29:03. > :29:06.get more active over the next couple of hours across southern and western
:29:07. > :29:11.areas of Wales. There could be unpleasant conditions for the
:29:12. > :29:17.commute home. For Northern Ireland, the weather brightens up this
:29:18. > :29:20.afternoon. But plenty of blustery showers running into the western
:29:21. > :29:30.side of Scotland. Some of them could be heavy. Maybe a bit of thunder and
:29:31. > :29:33.hail, too. Overnight, we are left with dull and damp conditions across
:29:34. > :29:37.the south-east of England. Not too cold for most of us, but
:29:38. > :29:42.temperatures will be low enough for a nipple frost across parts of
:29:43. > :29:46.sheltered Scotland. -- a nip of frost. The weather front finally
:29:47. > :29:53.clears away from the south-east in the morning. Then a better day for
:29:54. > :30:00.England and Wales, with just a few isolated showers in the north and
:30:01. > :30:05.west. There will be a fresher feel to the weather in England and Wales.
:30:06. > :30:12.On Friday, it is another unsettled and breezy day. Inland, some bright
:30:13. > :30:18.sunny spells after a chilly start the day. Temperatures will be
:30:19. > :30:23.similar to what we have seen over recent days across more northern
:30:24. > :30:27.parts. For the weekend, low pressure is still close by, so there will be
:30:28. > :30:33.blustery winds, bringing further showers. It will stay on the
:30:34. > :30:38.unsettled side. On Saturday, quite a few showers pushing from West to
:30:39. > :30:42.East across the country. In between those showers, there will be drier
:30:43. > :30:51.and brighter spells, whereas on Sunday, it is set to turn cloudy.
:30:52. > :31:00.A reminder of our main story: Shipbuilding at Portsmouth, home of
:31:01. > :31:04.the Royal Navy, is to end after more than five centuries as the defence
:31:05. > :31:07.giant BAe announces job losses at shipyards across the UK. That is all
:31:08. > :31:09.from