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