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Good news on the UK economy. Unemployment falls again, and the | :00:00. | :00:08. | |
Bank of England predict that things will get better faster than they | :00:09. | :00:12. | |
thought. In his quarterly report, the Bank's | :00:13. | :00:15. | |
Governor, Mark Carney, left question marks about interest rate rises, but | :00:16. | :00:18. | |
says there is no doubting the pace of the economic recovery. For the | :00:19. | :00:26. | |
first time in a long time, you don't have to be an optimist to see that | :00:27. | :00:31. | |
the glass is half all. The recovery has finally taken hold. | :00:32. | :00:33. | |
We will have reaction to the governor's optimism and what it | :00:34. | :00:36. | |
could mean for you. The other headlines this lunchtime: A plea for | :00:37. | :00:39. | |
water, food and medicines, as survivors of the Philippines | :00:40. | :00:41. | |
hurricane grow increasingly desperate. | :00:42. | :00:46. | |
With aid beginning to arrive, ?13 million has been raised in the first | :00:47. | :00:51. | |
24 hours of the DEC appeal. A race against time - doctors warn | :00:52. | :00:54. | |
that without urgent medical supplies, many more could die. | :00:55. | :01:01. | |
Plans for a two-tier accident and emergency system, put forward in | :01:02. | :01:04. | |
response to the growing pressures on casualty departments in England. | :01:05. | :01:07. | |
Charging ahead - a spending watchdog warns that households are facing | :01:08. | :01:10. | |
another 17 years of above inflation pieces in energy and water bills. | :01:11. | :01:16. | |
Back from a six-month tour of duty in Afghanistan, Captain Heather | :01:17. | :01:18. | |
Stanning prepares for the next challenge, going for Olympic rowing | :01:19. | :01:28. | |
gold in Rio. Later on BBC London, another cyclist | :01:29. | :01:33. | |
dies at a roundabout at the fourth to lose their life in a few days. | :01:34. | :01:38. | |
And police defend the rise of Taser incidents. They have doubled their | :01:39. | :01:40. | |
use in the capital in the last year. Good afternoon and welcome to the | :01:41. | :02:01. | |
BBC News at ten one. There was good news on the UK | :02:02. | :02:04. | |
economy today. The Governor of the Bank of England says the UK recovery | :02:05. | :02:07. | |
has "taken hold". His comments came as the bank upgraded its growth | :02:08. | :02:10. | |
forecast for the economy this year and next. That could herald a sooner | :02:11. | :02:14. | |
than expected rise in interest rates. And unemployment has fallen | :02:15. | :02:21. | |
again. In the three months to September, the number was down | :02:22. | :02:24. | |
48,000 to just under 2.5 million. The Office for National Statistics | :02:25. | :02:27. | |
said the number of people in work reached almost 30 million, the | :02:28. | :02:37. | |
highest figure since records began. A big power in steering the | :02:38. | :02:42. | |
economy, the Bank of England has changed its view about how fast it | :02:43. | :02:46. | |
is recovering. Stronger optimism is backed up by jobs increasing and | :02:47. | :02:52. | |
unemployment falling. Amazon in Swansea is one employer which has | :02:53. | :02:55. | |
been taking people on at a faster rate than last year, starting in | :02:56. | :03:00. | |
temporary jobs, some of them then moving up to full time. I came | :03:01. | :03:05. | |
straight from university, so I wanted to use my degree. I came in | :03:06. | :03:11. | |
here, not thinking I could use it, but thankfully, Amazon have grown | :03:12. | :03:16. | |
around me and I have enabled to use my experiences inside. Unemployment | :03:17. | :03:20. | |
has dropped to 7.6% of the workforce, down from 7.7. Youth | :03:21. | :03:27. | |
unemployment is down nine hours, long-term unemployment down 19,000. | :03:28. | :03:32. | |
The Bank of England's keep power is to change interest rates to spur or | :03:33. | :03:36. | |
hold back the economy. That now depends on the unemployment figures. | :03:37. | :03:41. | |
The governor, Mark Carney, framed a new policy in the summer called | :03:42. | :03:45. | |
forward guidance, one thing the world's financial markets when UK | :03:46. | :03:50. | |
interest rates would be raised from their rock bottom rate of 0.5%. He | :03:51. | :03:54. | |
said it would happen when the percentage of the workforce who were | :03:55. | :03:57. | |
unemployed fell to seven, and the forward guidance was that the | :03:58. | :04:02. | |
threshold would be reached in 2016. Now it looks like we will get their | :04:03. | :04:06. | |
year earlier. Jobs are being created at a rate of 60,000 per month. The | :04:07. | :04:12. | |
economy is growing at its fastest pace in six years. For the first | :04:13. | :04:15. | |
time in a long time, you don't have to be an optimist to see the glass | :04:16. | :04:20. | |
is half full. The recovery has finally taken hold. On the ground | :04:21. | :04:24. | |
and out what of the whole of the UK economy, the forecast for this year | :04:25. | :04:29. | |
is raised to 1.6% from 1.4. Next year is predicted to be 2.8%, an | :04:30. | :04:35. | |
even bigger upgrade. The economy is moving faster, and without the sort | :04:36. | :04:40. | |
of price rises that many fear, there is still a long way to go to make up | :04:41. | :04:44. | |
for what we lost in the recession, with the Bank of England saying it | :04:45. | :04:47. | |
is a lot better than in the summer. There are 100 thousand more people | :04:48. | :04:53. | |
in work than expected, so a return to higher interest rates is a relief | :04:54. | :04:57. | |
for savers, but a worry for homeowners with mortgages could | :04:58. | :05:01. | |
happen sooner. Our chief economics correspondent is | :05:02. | :05:08. | |
here. Listening to the governor and the change of tone, Houston is the | :05:09. | :05:16. | |
economy? I was struck by his tone. The Bank of England has not all | :05:17. | :05:21. | |
castes like this for a while . For the government to talk about the | :05:22. | :05:25. | |
glass being half full is quite something. Mark Carney criticised | :05:26. | :05:30. | |
the Mervyn King, who did not have many opportunities to say that. He | :05:31. | :05:34. | |
is saying it had taken hold, a crucial statement to make, that it | :05:35. | :05:38. | |
is not a flash in the pan. As we heard, unemployment is falling, the | :05:39. | :05:42. | |
biggest drop in the numbers claiming jobseeker's allowance since 2008. | :05:43. | :05:49. | |
But the governor did add that to be sure of a sustained recovery, you | :05:50. | :05:53. | |
need more business investment. You need real wages to pick up, in other | :05:54. | :05:59. | |
words, to be above the rate of inflation. So it could take time for | :06:00. | :06:04. | |
things to be absolutely certain, but he is up beat. So that is good news. | :06:05. | :06:11. | |
But perversely, many will be concerned that that may herald a | :06:12. | :06:17. | |
sooner than expected rise in interest rates. And the picture is | :06:18. | :06:21. | |
even more confusing than it was. Back in August, they set out forward | :06:22. | :06:27. | |
guidance that they would not even consider raising interest rates | :06:28. | :06:31. | |
until unemployment got to 7% of the workforce, which looked unlikely | :06:32. | :06:35. | |
before 2016. So it looks like three years of record low interest rates. | :06:36. | :06:39. | |
Under their projections now, at 7% could even be reached by the end of | :06:40. | :06:42. | |
next year. So they may consider raising interest rates possibly as | :06:43. | :06:47. | |
soon as in a year's time. But Mark Carney and his colleagues may not | :06:48. | :06:51. | |
raise interest rates than. There could be other factors, like low | :06:52. | :06:56. | |
inflation. So there is no increased certainty about interest rates, and | :06:57. | :06:59. | |
lots of mortgage payers and savers will still be wondering where it | :07:00. | :07:06. | |
leaves them. Survivors of Typhoon Haiyan in the | :07:07. | :07:09. | |
Philippines are growing increasingly desperate for food, water and | :07:10. | :07:13. | |
medical supplies, as aid agencies struggle to get vital supplies to | :07:14. | :07:16. | |
those who need it. Eight people were crushed to death after acute crowd | :07:17. | :07:23. | |
stormed a rice warehouse on Leyte island. Here, the Disasters | :07:24. | :07:25. | |
Emergency Committee has announced that more than ?13 million has been | :07:26. | :07:30. | |
donated in the first 24 hours of its appeal. Thousands have died in the | :07:31. | :07:34. | |
disaster. The Philippines government estimates around 2000, but the death | :07:35. | :07:38. | |
toll could be much higher. More than nine merely unpeople -- 9 million | :07:39. | :07:45. | |
people are in urgent need of aid. We will have reports from our | :07:46. | :07:49. | |
correspondents on the ground in Tacloban, one of the worst hit | :07:50. | :07:52. | |
areas, looking at whether any aid is managing to get through and how the | :07:53. | :07:55. | |
hospitals are trying to cope. First, this report on how thousands of able | :07:56. | :07:59. | |
spend yet another night in temporary shelter. | :08:00. | :08:03. | |
There is not much left with a roof in Tacloban. The Astrodome arena was | :08:04. | :08:07. | |
one of the few buildings big enough to withstand Typhoon Haiyan. It is | :08:08. | :08:13. | |
now a shelter for hundreds of families who have lost everything. | :08:14. | :08:18. | |
Thousands of people are camped here in filthy conditions. Seven families | :08:19. | :08:24. | |
are living in this 110. Finally, there is a team of doctors, one of | :08:25. | :08:30. | |
the first signs of help beginning to arrive. A stair landing is now home | :08:31. | :08:37. | |
to this family. Lee managed to get his wife Jessica and his seven | :08:38. | :08:40. | |
children here in hours before the typhoon hit. They have one-month-old | :08:41. | :08:49. | |
twin boys. Lee tells me they have enough baby formula to last just | :08:50. | :08:56. | |
four more days. He says only God is giving him the strength to carry on | :08:57. | :09:00. | |
and that he is lucky his family is still alive. Thousands of people | :09:01. | :09:07. | |
were seeking shelter here at the Astrodome when the typhoon struck. | :09:08. | :09:12. | |
This was one of the main evacuation centres, but such was the size of | :09:13. | :09:15. | |
the storm surge coming in from the ocean that the water came right up | :09:16. | :09:24. | |
to this balcony. People can see aid is now being flown in in greater | :09:25. | :09:28. | |
amounts. But little has arrived here yet. Jose is a schoolteacher. Like | :09:29. | :09:37. | |
many, he feels abandoned. People of the world, come to my city. We need | :09:38. | :09:44. | |
you. Please, come to my city. We need you. We need help. But until it | :09:45. | :09:57. | |
comes, people likely are having to comfort their families as best they | :09:58. | :10:07. | |
can. Many communities have no means of | :10:08. | :10:10. | |
making contact with the rest of the country, making it difficult to | :10:11. | :10:12. | |
build a clear picture of exactly where the need is greatest. The | :10:13. | :10:16. | |
worst hit areas are also impossible to reach by road, so delivering aid | :10:17. | :10:28. | |
by air has become essential. This is what the people of Tacloban | :10:29. | :10:32. | |
have been waiting for. Finally, we are starting to see assignment of | :10:33. | :10:37. | |
aid. These are high-energy biscuits brought by the world food programme. | :10:38. | :10:41. | |
They have been delivered to the airport, but until now, there has | :10:42. | :10:45. | |
not been the logistics, security or organisation to deliver them to the | :10:46. | :10:50. | |
200,000 people of the city. Finally, we are seeing food but from this | :10:51. | :10:53. | |
airport in these military trucks and head out towards the city. Behind | :10:54. | :11:00. | |
here, you can see these US Osprey heavy-lift helicopter aircraft, | :11:01. | :11:03. | |
ideal for taking aid from here to outline the village is which have | :11:04. | :11:08. | |
been completely wiped up and have up to now received no assistance at | :11:09. | :11:13. | |
all. All these people are trying to leave Tacloban. The lack of food, | :11:14. | :11:18. | |
water my shelter and security is driving more and more to find any | :11:19. | :11:22. | |
way they can out of the city. Flights are few and far between. | :11:23. | :11:27. | |
They have the waiting many hours. And remember, a lot of these people | :11:28. | :11:30. | |
have families and young children with them and have had to walk to | :11:31. | :11:34. | |
get here. There is no fuel, no transport. They are exhausted. | :11:35. | :11:41. | |
As desperation grows over a lack of food and water, doctors are also | :11:42. | :11:45. | |
facing a shortage of medical supplies. Casualties are continuing | :11:46. | :11:47. | |
to flock to the main hospital in Tacloban, where doctors say they are | :11:48. | :11:53. | |
short of essentials. This is the main hospital in the | :11:54. | :12:00. | |
middle of Tacloban. It is near the sea front. It was completely flooded | :12:01. | :12:04. | |
during the storm surge. You can still see the mud on the ground, but | :12:05. | :12:08. | |
they are getting it back up and running. This is where the | :12:09. | :12:11. | |
casualties come when they are first admitted. You can see this young | :12:12. | :12:15. | |
girl was brought in half an hour ago. She has a serious cut on her | :12:16. | :12:21. | |
head. You can see that it is operating. It is typical of the | :12:22. | :12:25. | |
laceration that has been left for a few days and starting to get septic. | :12:26. | :12:28. | |
Behind us is where they bring the babies in. This little girl has a | :12:29. | :12:38. | |
fever and diarrhoea. Again, typical of the symptoms of what happens when | :12:39. | :12:42. | |
babies drink dirty water in an un-sanitary place. She has a high | :12:43. | :12:46. | |
fever and is on a drip. They literally don't have enough water to | :12:47. | :12:50. | |
give her to drink. There is medicine here, but it is very basic and the | :12:51. | :12:55. | |
doctors we have been talking to say they need everything. | :12:56. | :13:02. | |
Tim Willcox is in Cebu. Time is crucial? It is. I am at eight is to | :13:03. | :13:10. | |
be sure centre here in downtown Cebu, run by the charity world | :13:11. | :13:14. | |
vision. Volunteers have been coming from local depots with rice, food, | :13:15. | :13:18. | |
water, cooking oil and other essentials. These will then be taken | :13:19. | :13:24. | |
by boat to the worst affected areas, or flown in. They are not taking the | :13:25. | :13:28. | |
risk of road convoys with lorries because of the security situation. | :13:29. | :13:32. | |
Let's speak to lose from world vision. How dangerous is it for your | :13:33. | :13:38. | |
teams on the ground? In Tacloban, it is dangerous. We had a team go in | :13:39. | :13:43. | |
and it took them two days to get there on a trip by road which would | :13:44. | :13:48. | |
normally take two hours. But are they being attacked or threatened by | :13:49. | :13:52. | |
people who are so best that they are prepared to descend on aid convoys | :13:53. | :13:56. | |
and take what they need? This team wasn't, but reports of that | :13:57. | :14:01. | |
happening have increased. Why has it taken so long to get aid in? The | :14:02. | :14:05. | |
typhoon was on Friday. People are still sleeping in the open and do | :14:06. | :14:10. | |
not have enough water or food now. There are a few reasons. The | :14:11. | :14:13. | |
Philippines was hit by a super-tight which knocked out the infrastructure | :14:14. | :14:19. | |
and telecoms. It is an Archipelago, so access is difficult. But | :14:20. | :14:25. | |
shouldn't law and order have been imposed earlier? It is easier to say | :14:26. | :14:31. | |
that with hindsight. This brought people behave in desperate ways. It | :14:32. | :14:35. | |
is easy to underestimate the desperation people quickly feel when | :14:36. | :14:43. | |
they don't have food or water. We have been reporting on what has been | :14:44. | :14:48. | |
happening ten miles away from Tacloban, where eight people were | :14:49. | :14:51. | |
crushed in that desk at rush for food in a rice warehouse. People are | :14:52. | :14:57. | |
really now wanting food and aid as quickly as possible. There is | :14:58. | :15:10. | |
comprehensive, coverage on the BBC website. You will find detailed maps | :15:11. | :15:18. | |
showing the extent of the damage and video reports filed by our | :15:19. | :15:26. | |
correspondence on the ground. A serious case review into the death | :15:27. | :15:33. | |
of Hamzah Khan - the four-year-old boy who was starved to death by his | :15:34. | :15:37. | |
mother -- says he was let down by the systems supposed to protect him. | :15:38. | :15:40. | |
It also found that Hamzah's death could not have been predicted. His | :15:41. | :15:44. | |
body was found in his cot in 2011, nearly two years after he died. The | :15:45. | :15:47. | |
Department for Education said the report left too many questions | :15:48. | :15:49. | |
unanswered. Ed Thomas has the details. Four-year-old Hamzah Khan | :15:50. | :15:56. | |
was starved to death by his mother, an alcoholic known to police, social | :15:57. | :16:02. | |
workers and health visitors. She hid her abuse from all those agencies | :16:03. | :16:05. | |
while she slowly killed her child. Today, eight senior executives said | :16:06. | :16:13. | |
his death was not preventable and refused to say sorry. This is not a | :16:14. | :16:17. | |
whitewash. I am in independent person and my home -- whole career | :16:18. | :16:27. | |
is based on that. The children's minister said he was not satisfied | :16:28. | :16:30. | |
with the serious case review and said... The father of Hamzah Khan | :16:31. | :16:48. | |
was criticised in the report. He was separated from his wife at the time | :16:49. | :16:58. | |
of the death. We live in a society where our children are registered | :16:59. | :17:00. | |
with doctors and schools. They are failed. They are failed big-time. | :17:01. | :17:10. | |
Nobody chased anything up. Amanda Hutton was last month after a court | :17:11. | :17:19. | |
heard she left Hamzah Khan in a travel cot for many months, when she | :17:20. | :17:26. | |
drank whiskey. Pictures were shown of her home and one senior detective | :17:27. | :17:30. | |
said he had never seen anything like it. Hamzah Khan would be left in a | :17:31. | :17:35. | |
dark room as punishment. Neighbours could hear children crying and | :17:36. | :17:40. | |
shouting next door. Nobody realised that the four-year-old was starving | :17:41. | :17:46. | |
to death. The serious case review blamed systems, and not people, for | :17:47. | :17:52. | |
Amanda's hidden neglect. It said that lessons had been learned. Too | :17:53. | :17:56. | |
late for Hamzah Khan. The child that pleaded for help which never came. | :17:57. | :18:06. | |
The top story this lunchtime... Good news on the UK economy. Unemployment | :18:07. | :18:12. | |
is falling and the Bank of England addict things will get better faster | :18:13. | :18:18. | |
than they thought. Coming up, we will be here at a barracks where an | :18:19. | :18:24. | |
army captain receives a middle of a different kind. On BBC London... A | :18:25. | :18:31. | |
scheme which tries to keep girls out of trouble in Tottenham. South | :18:32. | :18:38. | |
London singer Gabrielle tells us why she is ready to rise again. | :18:39. | :18:51. | |
We have been reporting concerns about the growing pressure on | :18:52. | :18:54. | |
accident and emergency. A major review on emergency care has called | :18:55. | :19:00. | |
for a two tier system of departments. Under the changes, | :19:01. | :19:04. | |
expertise dealing with heart attacks would be concentrated in up to 70 | :19:05. | :19:08. | |
hospitals and that seems crucial because 40% of people who attend | :19:09. | :19:13. | |
accident and emergency do not need treating there. The A department | :19:14. | :19:21. | |
at Bradford Royal infirmary is one of the busiest, seeing more and more | :19:22. | :19:26. | |
patients. It has been acknowledged that they are under stress. Medical | :19:27. | :19:34. | |
science has advanced, the demographics have changed. The | :19:35. | :19:40. | |
review of emergency care has said many people could be treated closer | :19:41. | :19:46. | |
to home. Last year there were 1 million avoidable emergency | :19:47. | :19:50. | |
admissions. It is thought 50% of 999 calls could be managed at the scene, | :19:51. | :19:56. | |
and 40% of A patients are discharged, requiring no treatment. | :19:57. | :20:02. | |
Review requires power medics -- paramedics to take more care at | :20:03. | :20:10. | |
scene. At present, patients face a confusing array of out of hours and | :20:11. | :20:15. | |
emergency services. The frail and elderly make up a significant number | :20:16. | :20:20. | |
of patients being admitted at accident and emergency departments. | :20:21. | :20:22. | |
In Bradford, they are trying new ways to deal with older patients. | :20:23. | :20:30. | |
The key issue to combat this is to rapidly diagnose what the problem is | :20:31. | :20:35. | |
and ensuring that those who need to stay doomsday and those who do not | :20:36. | :20:40. | |
are supported at home. This review warns there is no simple solution to | :20:41. | :20:47. | |
the crisis but the kind of ideas they are trying in Bradford to | :20:48. | :20:53. | |
relieve pressure on hard-pressed emergency departments and the good | :20:54. | :20:58. | |
for patients as well. This is the kind of scheme the review once more. | :20:59. | :21:03. | |
A team in Bradford comes to see this 88-year-old and his wife in their | :21:04. | :21:13. | |
home. It keeps him out of hospital. They are wonderful. They are. 24 | :21:14. | :21:20. | |
hour care. Specialist emergency care centres would deal with serious | :21:21. | :21:27. | |
problems and A department 's words have more basic services. This | :21:28. | :21:30. | |
review is clear and the current system is not sustainable. | :21:31. | :21:37. | |
There is bad news for people who think they are paying too much for | :21:38. | :21:39. | |
their energy. The public spending watchdog says we could face 17 more | :21:40. | :21:45. | |
years of above inflation increases in energy and water bills. | :21:46. | :21:52. | |
A powerful political row has ignited over the price of energy. For the | :21:53. | :21:59. | |
government, gas and electricity companies, it is said, cannot treat | :22:00. | :22:04. | |
customers as cash cows. Ed Miliband is promising a 21 month price | :22:05. | :22:11. | |
freeze. A shock to the system, never mind 20 months, a report from the | :22:12. | :22:14. | |
government's spending watchdog says prices could rise for 20 years. The | :22:15. | :22:22. | |
Department for energy and climate change is predicting that energy | :22:23. | :22:26. | |
bills will rise by 18% by 2030. One of the recommendations is that the | :22:27. | :22:31. | |
government is as transparent as it can be about the likely impact on | :22:32. | :22:37. | |
bills. A report for the National Audit Office says... If all of that | :22:38. | :22:56. | |
is putting your gas at peak, big energy companies said today that | :22:57. | :23:02. | |
tariffs could rise by 50% by the end of the decade, and they say it is | :23:03. | :23:07. | |
high time that politicians at Westminster starts discussing how we | :23:08. | :23:10. | |
can have secure energy supplies at an affordable cost. If we are going | :23:11. | :23:15. | |
to make large-scale investment, whether in renewable or an renewable | :23:16. | :23:20. | |
energy, nuclear or gas, large-scale investment is required. That is | :23:21. | :23:27. | |
going to have an effect on the bills. The reason why prices are | :23:28. | :23:31. | |
going up right now is because the energy companies are earning large | :23:32. | :23:37. | |
profits, paying big dividends, paying big salaries to their chief | :23:38. | :23:41. | |
executives, rather than focusing on consumers. It is clear. No matter | :23:42. | :23:46. | |
who is in power, the pressure on energy prices will remain high. The | :23:47. | :23:51. | |
political decision will be how the cost can be made more affordable for | :23:52. | :23:56. | |
the less well off. Olympic gold medallist Heather Stanning has | :23:57. | :23:59. | |
returned from a six month tour of duty in Afghanistan - and is already | :24:00. | :24:02. | |
focused on the 2016 Games. Captain Stanning maintained her punishing | :24:03. | :24:05. | |
exercise regime during the time she spent in Helmand Province - she's | :24:06. | :24:08. | |
now preparing for the Team GB rowing trials later this month as she aims | :24:09. | :24:11. | |
to compete in Rio. Our defence correspondent Caroline Wyatt is at | :24:12. | :24:14. | |
Baker Barracks on Thorney Island in Hampshire. Heather Stanning was one | :24:15. | :24:24. | |
of 150 troops at this parade ground here, receiving their Afghanistan | :24:25. | :24:28. | |
medals, their post-operational tour medals. Their families were watching | :24:29. | :24:33. | |
proudly, and for Heather Stanning and her family this will have | :24:34. | :24:38. | |
brought back memories of that emotional moment at the summer 2012 | :24:39. | :24:44. | |
Games. The Olympic champion, great wooden! The moment is that Heather | :24:45. | :24:49. | |
Stanning and her rowing partner powered to victory. It was their | :24:50. | :24:56. | |
first gold of the Olympic Games. The result of years of hard work and | :24:57. | :25:04. | |
training. Today, the moment that Captain Heather Stanning and her | :25:05. | :25:08. | |
colleagues were awarded their medals for a different type of service to | :25:09. | :25:14. | |
the country. Six months in Helmand province on operational tour. We | :25:15. | :25:19. | |
filmed with Heather in Afghanistan at Camp Bastion, where the Olympian | :25:20. | :25:26. | |
was just another officer. Even there, she managed to squeeze in | :25:27. | :25:32. | |
several hours of training every day, fitted around her work and the | :25:33. | :25:35. | |
austere surroundings of the British camp. You even knew they were | :25:36. | :25:42. | |
sharing the place with a 2012 sporting champion. -- few people. I | :25:43. | :25:49. | |
do not think people realise who she is. To most people, she is a normal | :25:50. | :25:57. | |
army officer in Afghanistan. For Heather Stanning and her team, it | :25:58. | :26:03. | |
was a gruelling six-month, working in a Portakabin, hardly the way most | :26:04. | :26:06. | |
Olympians will have spent a year. It is the path she chose. Lots of | :26:07. | :26:16. | |
people ask me what I learned at Sandhurst. The stuff I learned as a | :26:17. | :26:23. | |
sports person has deftly helped me. Her task was to run one of the | :26:24. | :26:29. | |
team's surveillance plants which keep British troops safe in Helmand | :26:30. | :26:40. | |
province. A demanding task and a lapse in concentration can mean the | :26:41. | :26:44. | |
difference between life and death. A time of enormous pride for the | :26:45. | :26:48. | |
families and friends here during that medals Parade. Enormous relief | :26:49. | :26:54. | |
that they are back safely from province, and for Heather Stanning, | :26:55. | :27:00. | |
the start of another training regime and the hope that she will add to | :27:01. | :27:05. | |
her medals collection. More now on the devastating typhoon that's hit | :27:06. | :27:07. | |
the Philippines. A special conference is being held in London | :27:08. | :27:10. | |
to try to ensure that humanitarian aid gets through to those who need | :27:11. | :27:16. | |
it. The DEC appeal - launched last night - says that more than | :27:17. | :27:22. | |
?13-million has been donated so far. More than 600,000 people have been | :27:23. | :27:25. | |
displaced and many of their relatives in this country have had | :27:26. | :27:28. | |
no contact with them since the typhoon struck. Sophie Hutchinson | :27:29. | :27:31. | |
reports. Lily Matthews has been desperate for | :27:32. | :27:35. | |
news of her family back in the Philippines. Today, for the first | :27:36. | :27:39. | |
time since the typhoon, she spoke to a cousin. My brother is missing. My | :27:40. | :27:50. | |
nephew and his family have survived but they are hungry right now. They | :27:51. | :27:57. | |
are asking for food, shelter and water. At Heathrow Airport this | :27:58. | :28:04. | |
morning, the first registered medical team prepared to set for the | :28:05. | :28:08. | |
Philippines. It was made up 12 volunteer doctors and nurses, all | :28:09. | :28:14. | |
expert at operating in emergency situations. With the terrible | :28:15. | :28:20. | |
destruction and the affect on the health service, there will be many | :28:21. | :28:25. | |
people who are injured, and you have wounds which have not been treated. | :28:26. | :28:30. | |
Millions of lives wrecked within a matter of hours. The challenge of | :28:31. | :28:34. | |
bringing help to these people is colossal. The disasters and | :28:35. | :28:38. | |
emergencies committee has impaired the typhoon to the tsunami in 2004. | :28:39. | :28:46. | |
Their appeal, launched yesterday, has already raised ?13 million. The | :28:47. | :28:52. | |
level of need in the Philippines is immense. We need resources so we can | :28:53. | :28:58. | |
respond to the food, water and shelter needs on the ground. In | :28:59. | :29:06. | |
addition, the UK Government has pledged up to ?15 million but that | :29:07. | :29:12. | |
is a long way off from the estimated total needed according to the UN to | :29:13. | :29:20. | |
help rebuild these people's lives. If you want to donate money to the | :29:21. | :29:25. | |
disaster emergency committee, you can | :29:26. | :29:25. | |
If you want to donate money to the disaster call them... | :29:26. | :29:38. | |
Now I look at the weather. Here is Elizabeth. . We have some fine | :29:39. | :29:43. | |
weather outdoors and some sunshine for many of us. It is mainly across | :29:44. | :29:49. | |
southern and eastern parts of the UK. For others, it is a different | :29:50. | :29:55. | |
story. There is a band of clouds moving across northern and western | :29:56. | :29:59. | |
parts of the UK, and it is producing heavy rain and the wind is | :30:00. | :30:03. | |
increasing, reaching gale force across northern Scotland. As we go | :30:04. | :30:09. | |
through this evening, the band of rain will break up but there will be | :30:10. | :30:14. | |
some heavy, prolonged showers across north-western parts, driven by the | :30:15. | :30:20. | |
strong north westerly wind. It will not be as cold as last night with | :30:21. | :30:24. | |
temperatures staying up at five, six or seven degrees. Let's take a look | :30:25. | :30:29. | |
at tomorrow morning in more detail. The first thing you might notice is | :30:30. | :30:35. | |
it will feel chilly, despite the lack of frost. There will be some | :30:36. | :30:38. | |
bright weather, possibly in southwestern England. There will | :30:39. | :30:43. | |
still be some cloud in the South East for a time, and there will be | :30:44. | :30:47. | |
some showers blowing down from Manchester and the Midlands. The | :30:48. | :30:53. | |
showers across north-west Scotland will start to fade away and any | :30:54. | :30:56. | |
wintry showers will disappear. That is the set-up for the morning, | :30:57. | :31:01. | |
strong north-westerly winds throughout the day so it will feel | :31:02. | :31:08. | |
chilly. Showers in the north and west but many eastern parts will | :31:09. | :31:11. | |
have a fine day with good spells of sunshine. Temperatures, on the face | :31:12. | :31:18. | |
of it, will be similar to today, around nine or 10 degrees. Taking | :31:19. | :31:22. | |
into account the strength of the wind, it will feel chilly. For | :31:23. | :31:27. | |
Friday, we are looking at the change in the weather. An area of high | :31:28. | :31:31. | |
pressure coming in starting to settle things down. Winds will be | :31:32. | :31:36. | |
lighter, but still chilly across the South East. It should be a fine day | :31:37. | :31:41. | |
with the best of sunshine towards the eastern areas. More persistent | :31:42. | :31:48. | |
rain towards the far north-west. The weekend is mixed. Rain at times, | :31:49. | :31:53. | |
mainly in the north. You may want to spend some time over the weekend | :31:54. | :31:58. | |
preparing yourself for next week. We are expecting it to be much colder | :31:59. | :32:02. | |
and we are talking about frost, ice and maybe some snow. Thank you. That | :32:03. | :32:05. | |
is all | :32:06. | :32:06. |