:00:00. > :00:09.Under scrutiny - hospitals in England are ordered to publish
:00:10. > :00:13.details of staffing levels on wards. The number of nurses on duty will be
:00:14. > :00:16.counted from next April - it's in response to the hospital scandal in
:00:17. > :00:20.Mid Staffordshire. Also on the programme this
:00:21. > :00:23.lunchtime: Co-op in crisis - the chairman of the Co-operative Group
:00:24. > :00:27.has quit over the scandal involving its former banking chairman. Now the
:00:28. > :00:36.new boss says an investigation is under way. The whole back story is
:00:37. > :00:40.very shocking to everybody, it is not something I can comment on. It
:00:41. > :00:43.is out of our hands, being dealt with thoroughly, we need to wait for
:00:44. > :00:47.that to be exposed. Swept away - a powerful cyclone
:00:48. > :00:50.kills at least 17 people on the Italian island of Sardinia Calls for
:00:51. > :00:52.people to donate their relatives' pacemakers after they die to help
:00:53. > :00:59.save thousands of lives in the developing world.
:01:00. > :01:05.And why the selfie has been named as word of the year.
:01:06. > :01:09.Later on BBC London: After six cyclists die in a fortnight, the
:01:10. > :01:12.mayor says he is now considering a ban on HGVs during rush hour.
:01:13. > :01:14.And the police say the body of a man found in a well in Surrey could have
:01:15. > :01:35.been there for two years. Good afternoon and welcome to the
:01:36. > :01:38.BBC News at One. Hospitals in England will soon have to publish
:01:39. > :01:42.figures showing how many nurses should be working on each ward
:01:43. > :01:45.compared to how many are actually on duty. It's part of a drive to
:01:46. > :01:48.improve patient safety following the mistreatment of hundreds of people
:01:49. > :01:53.at the Mid Staffordshire NHS Trust, some of whom died. The Government
:01:54. > :01:58.said it was determined that the NHS should become a world leader in
:01:59. > :02:00.patient safety. Labour called the changes long overdue. Here's our
:02:01. > :02:02.health correspondent, Dominic Hughes.
:02:03. > :02:09.Let's speak to our chief political correspondent, Norman
:02:10. > :02:14.Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has been undertaking work experience in
:02:15. > :02:18.the health service to get a better understanding of life on the NHS
:02:19. > :02:23.front line, part of his own response to the Francis Report, which exposed
:02:24. > :02:27.an appalling collapse of care at Stafford Hospital. He is providing
:02:28. > :02:30.the Government 's broader response today, which aims to transform the
:02:31. > :02:35.culture across the entire health service in England. The Francis
:02:36. > :02:39.Inquiry into the Mid Staffordshire Trust was one of the biggest ever in
:02:40. > :02:46.the NHS, running for one year and loss... Costing ?30 million. It took
:02:47. > :02:50.evidence from 160 witnesses and made 290 recommendations, including a
:02:51. > :02:57.Code of Conduct for managers and a duty of conduct for staff when
:02:58. > :03:03.things go wrong. For the family of this 20 year-old who died in 2006
:03:04. > :03:10.after Stafford Stafford failed to diagnose a ruptured spleen, they say
:03:11. > :03:14.this is the Government's big chance. When things go wrong, the majority
:03:15. > :03:19.of families wants to be told, wants the truth. Not for everything to be
:03:20. > :03:23.brushed under the carpet. That causes more grief, heartache and
:03:24. > :03:28.pain. Let's have an open and honest NHS culture. The Government proposes
:03:29. > :03:34.that every hospital in England will publish data on safe staffing
:03:35. > :03:39.levels, including the number of nurses on every shift. Sometimes
:03:40. > :03:44.nurses go home in tears because they cannot fulfil the role they want to
:03:45. > :03:47.do. It will make a huge difference in their lives if they have enough
:03:48. > :03:53.people to do the job that they want to do. The impact of the terrible
:03:54. > :03:57.events at Stafford Hospital is being felt across the health service in
:03:58. > :04:00.England. But achieving the kind of transformation of culture called for
:04:01. > :04:08.by the Francis Report will be my very easy nor break. -- will be
:04:09. > :04:13.neither easy nor quick. How do you change NHS leadership, the cultures
:04:14. > :04:19.of care, to make sure this never happens again? You can't stick tape
:04:20. > :04:24.that from Whitehall and Westminster. -- you can't dictate that. Ministers
:04:25. > :04:28.have accepted the vast majority of measures made by Robert from 's and
:04:29. > :04:32.the culture is already changing. They want the response to the
:04:33. > :04:37.Stafford scandal to be seen as a significant moment in the health
:04:38. > :04:41.service. Let's speak to our chief political correspondent, Norman
:04:42. > :04:44.Smith. Health Secretary is making a
:04:45. > :04:49.statement to the Commons, but will this be enough to reassure the
:04:50. > :04:54.public? He has just told MPs he wants to create a new culture of
:04:55. > :05:00.honesty in the NHS, part of that is honesty about staffing levels. When
:05:01. > :05:05.you look at reports into hospital failings, again and again, one of
:05:06. > :05:10.the key reasons is a lack of staff. In the future, if our relative goes
:05:11. > :05:12.into hospital, under these proposals, we can look down the
:05:13. > :05:17.figures and see whether on a particular night on a particular
:05:18. > :05:23.ward there were sufficient staff on duty. That of itself will not magic
:05:24. > :05:28.up more nurses on Matt Ward, nor does it create a ratio of nurses to
:05:29. > :05:35.patients, some are suggesting it should be one to eight, nor does it
:05:36. > :05:39.enable us to enforcement staffing levels. But the hope is that if we
:05:40. > :05:44.find out that on a particular night on a particular ward, our mum or dad
:05:45. > :05:48.did not have adequate nurses on duty, we can get on the blower to
:05:49. > :05:52.the hospital and ask what is going on. The hope is that will force
:05:53. > :05:59.hospitals to take on more staff. Mr Hunt is not creating a nurse to
:06:00. > :06:05.patient ratio in the law, but the hope is that he may go some way to
:06:06. > :06:10.creating it in practice because of patient pressure. Thank you.
:06:11. > :06:13.The head of the Co-Operative Group, Len Wardle, has resigned after the
:06:14. > :06:15.bank's former chairman, Reverend Paul Flowers, was secretly filmed
:06:16. > :06:18.allegedly buying drugs. Mr Wardle said he was stepping down with
:06:19. > :06:20.immediate effect because the scandal had raised serious questions about
:06:21. > :06:29.his appointment. Simon Gompertz reports.
:06:30. > :06:34.Scandal on top of a financial crisis. This is the judge of the
:06:35. > :06:40.Co-op bank, Paul Flowers, apparently buying hard drugs, propelled the
:06:41. > :06:46.Co-op peers problems back to the front page. There were more Lou Reed
:06:47. > :06:52.allegations about the Methodist minister 's antics in today's
:06:53. > :06:55.tabloids. The chairman of the Co-op group resigned this morning, saying
:06:56. > :07:00.the recent revelations have raised a number of serious questions for both
:07:01. > :07:04.the bank and the group. I led the board that appointed Paul Flowers.
:07:05. > :07:09.His replacement was asked about the scandal. The whole story is very
:07:10. > :07:13.shocking, it is not something I can comment on. It is out of our hands
:07:14. > :07:21.and being dealt with thoroughly, we need to wait for that to be exposed.
:07:22. > :07:26.I don't want to comment. Clearly, things have gone disastrously wrong.
:07:27. > :07:31.MPs were tackling the former chief executive of the Co-op 's banking
:07:32. > :07:37.arm over the ?1.5 billion hole in the bank 's accounts. It tends to be
:07:38. > :07:43.a series of things coming together to create the outcome, rather than
:07:44. > :07:51.one. How much damage has Paul Flowers done to the reputation of
:07:52. > :07:58.the bank? What was the reaction to the mess in Manchester?
:07:59. > :08:01.I was shocked. It is a shame that one which has been associated with
:08:02. > :08:08.ethical banking and one for the people has done that. You put all
:08:09. > :08:12.your faith in banks, which is not always bright. These allegations
:08:13. > :08:18.mean there will be more to look at in the Co-op ours internal enquiry
:08:19. > :08:22.into what it calls inappropriate behaviour and to how well it's
:08:23. > :08:26.structure of running itself democratically is working. The Co-op
:08:27. > :08:30.and its practices were once held up as an antidote to poisonous
:08:31. > :08:33.behaviour in the City of London, but no longer.
:08:34. > :08:40.Well, with me is our business editor, Robert Peston. What a mess.
:08:41. > :08:49.You have been talking to the new boss, can the Co-op recover? What
:08:50. > :08:52.you have to run that here is that the Co-op trades on somehow being
:08:53. > :09:00.better, more ethical, than mainstream companies. And,
:09:01. > :09:07.therefore, the revelations of what many people would regard as bad or
:09:08. > :09:12.unethical behaviour by the until recently chairman of the Co-op bank
:09:13. > :09:19.is damaging to the brand. -- chairman of the Co-op Bank. This
:09:20. > :09:27.comes on top of the conspicuous mismanagement of the bank, a bank
:09:28. > :09:33.disclosed to have a ?1.5 billion deficit which had to be rescued. The
:09:34. > :09:37.rescuers still going on. It is this twin problem of incompetence and not
:09:38. > :09:45.behaving terribly well, which would be a challenge for any
:09:46. > :09:47.organisation. Now, the new, temporary chairman, Ursula
:09:48. > :09:51.Lidbetter, who replaced the chairman of the group, he fell on his door
:09:52. > :09:56.today and broadly admitted he had made a mistake in appointing Paul
:09:57. > :10:01.Flowers to be chairman, and therefore felt he had to resign, she
:10:02. > :10:08.is brimming with confidence. She runs a very successful part of the
:10:09. > :10:17.wider Co-op group, its operations in Lincolnshire. The message she sent
:10:18. > :10:21.out to the members was that the group is learning the lesson. This
:10:22. > :10:25.is an organisation with an enormously long history, it would be
:10:26. > :10:29.astonishing if it didn't recover. But the recovery will not be quick
:10:30. > :10:32.and it will be painful. At least 17 people have been killed
:10:33. > :10:34.after a powerful cyclone hit the Mediterranean island of Sardinia
:10:35. > :10:38.overnight. Among the dead was a family of four and a police officer
:10:39. > :10:42.who drowned when his car was swept away. Nearly 18 inches of rain fell
:10:43. > :10:44.in just an hour and a half. The Italian government has declared a
:10:45. > :10:55.state of emergency. Our world affairs correspondent Emily Buchanan
:10:56. > :11:00.reports. This was a deluge no one here had
:11:01. > :11:07.ever seen before. Overnight, months of rainfall in just one and a half
:11:08. > :11:12.hours. The streets of Olbia became muddy rivers. Houses and cars were
:11:13. > :11:17.completely submerged. Most fled but, tragically, some people became
:11:18. > :11:25.trapped. One family four drowned in their ground floor flat. -- family
:11:26. > :11:31.of four. Rivers and roads were still treacherous by morning, bridges have
:11:32. > :11:34.been swept away, making access even more precarious. The government
:11:35. > :11:39.declared a state of emergency and an immediate fund of 20 million euros
:11:40. > :11:47.to help the rescue effort. This man said he was eating when his feet
:11:48. > :11:50.were suddenly covered in water. This woman said she was trapped on a bus
:11:51. > :11:56.for three hours and has still not been able to reach her house. Many
:11:57. > :12:00.have been rescued, but residents here say the toll of dead and
:12:01. > :12:04.injured could have been lower if there had been better warnings.
:12:05. > :12:09.Although even the meteorologists have been surprised at the strength
:12:10. > :12:13.of the cyclone. They have had a biblical amount of rainfall in
:12:14. > :12:17.Sardinia, something like over 400 millimetres in less than a day. The
:12:18. > :12:22.weather in the Mediterranean has been very bad for the last week or
:12:23. > :12:25.so. We are watching the Adriatic in Venice, where they have gale force
:12:26. > :12:29.winds and potentially a storm surge developing.
:12:30. > :12:36.In isolated villages across Sardinia, the scenes are certainly
:12:37. > :12:38.dramatic. Animals and people are having to fend for themselves.
:12:39. > :12:43.Hundreds of residents have been evacuated, but no one knows how many
:12:44. > :12:46.others are still trapped in their flooded homes.
:12:47. > :12:49.The private security firm G4S has agreed to pay back more than 24
:12:50. > :12:51.million pounds of taxpayers' money after admitting the way it billed
:12:52. > :12:55.the Government for tagging offenders was not appropriate. An audit
:12:56. > :12:57.revealed the Government was billed for monitoring offenders who were in
:12:58. > :13:02.prison, who'd left the country, or who were even dead. The Serious
:13:03. > :13:05.Fraud Office has begun an investigation. Let's speak to our
:13:06. > :13:11.home affairs correspondent, Danny Shaw.
:13:12. > :13:16.This seems to have dated back some years? This is a huge tagging
:13:17. > :13:22.contract awarded to G4S and another firm, Serco, stretching back seven
:13:23. > :13:26.or eight years. What the Justice Secretary, Chris Grayling, revealed
:13:27. > :13:31.earlier this year was that a review found that these two companies had
:13:32. > :13:33.been overcharging the Government by tens of millions of pounds for
:13:34. > :13:41.monitoring offenders who, essentially, weren't tagged. We have
:13:42. > :13:45.heard from G4S that, for the first time, they have admitted what they
:13:46. > :13:50.did was wrong, that it was wrong for them to build the government, to
:13:51. > :13:55.monitor people not on a tag. They said it was not consistent with the
:13:56. > :14:03.contract or the company 's values. They have offered 24 point million
:14:04. > :14:09.pounds -- ?24.1 million in credit notes by way of a refund. There is
:14:10. > :14:12.no warranty the Government will accept this. I understand the
:14:13. > :14:17.Ministry of Justice has not accept this. It is working with G4S and
:14:18. > :14:21.Serco to try to establish how much the government is owed. And we still
:14:22. > :14:25.have the serious fraud office investigation looking at whether
:14:26. > :14:29.there is any criminal conduct. G4S there is no evidence that there was.
:14:30. > :14:31.Two bombs have exploded in the Lebanese capital, Beirut, killing
:14:32. > :14:35.more than 20 people and wounding nearly 150. The devices went off
:14:36. > :14:37.near the Iranian embassy - the country's cultural attache is among
:14:38. > :14:40.the dead. The attacks happened in an area dominated by the Hezbollah
:14:41. > :14:43.group, which has been fighting in Syria in support of President
:14:44. > :14:54.Assad's government. From Beirut, our correspondent Paul Wood has just
:14:55. > :14:59.sent this report. Lebanese officials say they have put together what
:15:00. > :15:05.happened from security camera footage. They say a man rushed
:15:06. > :15:10.towards the outer wall and detonated a suicide bomb. Lebanese officials
:15:11. > :15:15.say a second blast was caused by a car bomb. The damage was extensive.
:15:16. > :15:21.It extended from the gates of the embassy all the way up the street.
:15:22. > :15:28.The casualties are substantial. This is the worst attack in southern
:15:29. > :15:34.Beirut since the conflict began. The attack could be linked to this,
:15:35. > :15:39.Syrian refugees flee over the border into Lebanon. The Syrian army of
:15:40. > :15:45.carrying out a major offensive, trying to cut off the rebel's last
:15:46. > :15:51.supply route into Lebanon. The Syrian rebels -- for Syrian rebels,
:15:52. > :15:56.these are desperate times. The number of Syrian rebel groups have
:15:57. > :16:01.threatened to target Shi'ite groups in Lebanon in retaliation for
:16:02. > :16:05.Iran's support for President Assad. There is no doubt the Iranians
:16:06. > :16:14.government is the major foreign backer of the Syria regime. This is
:16:15. > :16:16.not the first time the Civil War in Syria appears to have reached over
:16:17. > :16:23.the border to cause mayhem in the Lebanon. Everybody in Lebanon knows,
:16:24. > :16:26.an attack on an Iranian target is something different. Everyone will
:16:27. > :16:39.be waiting and watching anxiously to see what the consequences might be.
:16:40. > :16:43.Our top story this lunchtime: Hospitals in England will have to
:16:44. > :16:53.make public how many nurses are on duty each year.
:16:54. > :16:56.Kevin Pietersen prepares to play his 100th test match of his career.
:16:57. > :16:59.Later on BBC London. Open to the public, Tate Britain
:17:00. > :17:01.re-opens after its ?45 million revamp, with ten refurbished
:17:02. > :17:03.galleries of British art. And going that extra mile.
:17:04. > :17:05.Non-League Borehamwood prepare for their 600-mile round trip to League
:17:06. > :17:22.One Carlisle in the FA Cup. Tens of thousands of pacemakers are
:17:23. > :17:26.thrown away every year after people die in Europe, even though they
:17:27. > :17:30.still function perfectly well. A British charity says thousands of
:17:31. > :17:33.lives in developing countries could be saved if relative allowed
:17:34. > :17:39.pacemakers to be donated after people died. Pace4Life says 2
:17:40. > :17:46.million people die every year because they cannot afford the
:17:47. > :17:49.life-saving device. Thousands of these life-saving
:17:50. > :17:52.devices asked that in boxes in funeral directors like this one in
:17:53. > :17:59.Leicester, right across the country, gathering dust. Pacemakers are
:18:00. > :18:05.manufactured a single use devices, and EU rules mean they cannot be
:18:06. > :18:09.used again within Europe. But the charity, Pace4Life with the support
:18:10. > :18:13.of the charity of Allied and independent funeral directors, is
:18:14. > :18:18.now collecting them for reuse for poor patients in developing
:18:19. > :18:23.countries. We are taking consent forms, we are getting patients and
:18:24. > :18:28.family members to donate these devices. If they are fit for human
:18:29. > :18:34.use, we are getting them sterilised and looking to get them implanted.
:18:35. > :18:41.Mumbai, the economic powerhouse of India. But tens of millions of
:18:42. > :18:47.people across the country cannot afford basic health care. One third
:18:48. > :18:53.of India's population live below the poverty line in slums just like this
:18:54. > :19:06.one, earning around 80p a day. A pacemaker costs 2.5 thousand --
:19:07. > :19:11.?2500. This 68-year-old man has a dangerously slow natural heartbeat.
:19:12. > :19:15.Left untreated he could have died. But he has just had his second
:19:16. > :19:20.pacemaker donated from the US implanted. He earned just ?6 a month
:19:21. > :19:29.and could never have afforded new ones. He tells me, I do not care who
:19:30. > :19:35.use this pacemaker before me, it has saved my life and I am thankful for
:19:36. > :19:40.that. We do not even know the meaning of the word pacemaker, we
:19:41. > :19:44.just knew a machine existed that was fitted in the heart. If I met the
:19:45. > :19:51.person who donated this pacemaker, I would fall at his feet and pray for
:19:52. > :19:55.him and his family. This cardiologist reimplanted the
:19:56. > :19:58.pacemaker, he is now calling on the world health organisation to
:19:59. > :20:04.officially endorse the practice. I feel sad. It can make such a
:20:05. > :20:07.difference to people 's lives, and on the other hand you are just
:20:08. > :20:13.putting it into the waste paper basket. The WHO is discussing the
:20:14. > :20:20.wider feasibility of the idea at a conference this month at -- this
:20:21. > :20:27.month. The device, however imperfect, has given this man extra
:20:28. > :20:30.time with his family. Hundreds of police in Paris are
:20:31. > :20:35.hunting a gunmen who attacked the head offices of a newspaper and a
:20:36. > :20:39.bank leaving one man critically wounded. The man disappeared after
:20:40. > :20:43.forcing a motorist help them escape. He is thought to have also
:20:44. > :20:48.threatened journalists at a television station last Friday.
:20:49. > :20:54.A new photograph, and a clearer picture of the man police are
:20:55. > :21:00.hunting. Here is another, the gunman sitting at a Metro station. Police
:21:01. > :21:05.have had 400 calls from the public. 120, said the prosecutor, they are
:21:06. > :21:12.taking seriously. This is Friday's film. The suspect pumped his gun,
:21:13. > :21:18.threatening staff, but without firing. Yesterday at the offices of
:21:19. > :21:20.the National newspaper liberation, he shot a 23-year-old photographer
:21:21. > :21:36.twice in the back. -- Liberation. He is very comfortable using a
:21:37. > :21:40.powerful shot gun. He is someone very at ease with weapons. The way
:21:41. > :21:46.he threatens people with violence is very worrying. In the business
:21:47. > :21:53.district, the gunmen fired wildly at the offices of the French National
:21:54. > :21:56.bank. Then he hijacked a car. The 65-year-old driver said his
:21:57. > :22:01.assailant told he had just been released from jail and he claimed to
:22:02. > :22:04.have a hand grenade. The gunman was last seen here yesterday, police
:22:05. > :22:12.have been circulating throughout the morning. Those who came into contact
:22:13. > :22:18.with the gunman described the intensity and anger on his face. It
:22:19. > :22:24.is fair to assume, they say, that he meant to kill. Had his rifle not
:22:25. > :22:27.jammed, we could have been talking about multiple fatalities. Which
:22:28. > :22:32.explains the discernible sense of urgency on the part of the
:22:33. > :22:37.authorities. Memories are fresh in front of a similar manhunt last
:22:38. > :22:43.year. On that occasion the gunman killed seven people in ten days.
:22:44. > :22:47.An independent Scotland would boost economic growth according to
:22:48. > :22:51.Scotland's First Minister Alex Salmond. He has been outlining the
:22:52. > :22:58.economic benefits of a break with the UK.
:22:59. > :23:01.Does Scotland do as well as it could, no says supporters of
:23:02. > :23:07.independence, arguing that staying in the UK is holding the country
:23:08. > :23:12.back. Today, Scotland's First Minister toured a new life sciences
:23:13. > :23:15.Centre in Dundee. They were here to publish a new document setting out
:23:16. > :23:21.their case for transforming the Scottish economy. It is a menu of
:23:22. > :23:24.how we can harness the great national resources of Scotland,
:23:25. > :23:34.resources that other countries would give their eye teeth for. This is a
:23:35. > :23:40.blueprint for a better Scotland. This document does not plan for any
:23:41. > :23:44.specific policies, but it does layout possibilities. It includes a
:23:45. > :23:50.suggestion that a 3% cut in corporation tax could lead to a 1.4%
:23:51. > :23:55.increase in economic output. This, it argues, with see 27,000
:23:56. > :24:01.additional jobs created. Opponents are unimpressed. Yesterday the
:24:02. > :24:05.Institute for Fiscal Studies, one of the most respected bodies, said an
:24:06. > :24:09.independent Scotland would face a situation where either our taxes
:24:10. > :24:15.would have to go up, or are public spending would have to go down. That
:24:16. > :24:21.raises serious questions. This week has seen the fight of the forecasts.
:24:22. > :24:27.Yesterday IFS suggested Scotland could struggle in the long term if
:24:28. > :24:31.it were independent. The voters have ten months to decide which, if any
:24:32. > :24:39.of these forecasts, is the right one. England's cricketers start
:24:40. > :24:43.their campaign to retain the Ashes against Australia in Brisbane
:24:44. > :24:51.tomorrow night. It will be Kevin Pietersen's 100th test match.
:24:52. > :24:55.Some sportsmen glide through careers, from stomp their own path.
:24:56. > :25:02.Kevin Pietersen has never gone quietly. He will play his 100th test
:25:03. > :25:06.for England this weekend. He left South Africa believing the racial
:25:07. > :25:09.quotas were blocking his career. When you get to Nottingham and one
:25:10. > :25:14.of the first songs you hear in the dressing room is, I have never met a
:25:15. > :25:19.nice South African. You hear it day in and day out. Then a young kid
:25:20. > :25:26.from South Africa comes in and steal the headlines, doing well. I had to
:25:27. > :25:31.have the self drive, the self ambition and self-confidence to
:25:32. > :25:35.achieve what I wanted. That drive has brought big runs and big
:25:36. > :25:41.wrists. He lasted just six months as England's captain. I would like to
:25:42. > :25:47.take this opportunity to apologise to my team-mates. When I bump my
:25:48. > :25:53.head, I learn. I would not be sitting here on the eve of my 100th
:25:54. > :25:57.test match if I had not learned. Since he arrived in Brisbane this
:25:58. > :26:02.week, Kevin Pietersen has been an irresistible target for the regional
:26:03. > :26:06.media. Today, the local media counters his suggestion that this is
:26:07. > :26:12.a dull part of Australia by dressing him in the region's rugby league
:26:13. > :26:18.shirt. He is celebrating the Queensland pineapple industry.
:26:19. > :26:23.Amongst Australia's players there is more admiration than mockery for
:26:24. > :26:29.Kevin Pietersen. He always comes out and plays how he wants to. That has
:26:30. > :26:34.probably helped him. If he goes into his shell a little bit, it probably
:26:35. > :26:38.does not help his cricket. Kevin Pietersen says he has been another
:26:39. > :26:42.couple of years left in him. You never quite know what he will do,
:26:43. > :26:52.but you always sends it is worth watching. They have all done it, but
:26:53. > :26:56.have you ever taken a selfie? It is a self-portrait taken using a
:26:57. > :27:01.smartphone or a webcam then uploaded onto a social media websites. It is
:27:02. > :27:05.the latest craze to sweep the internet and the word has now been
:27:06. > :27:13.made the official word of 2013 by the Oxford English dictionary.
:27:14. > :27:22.It is the portrait of choice for the internet age. Everyone has done it
:27:23. > :27:26.from presidents, Prime Minister is, to the Pope. Celebrities use them to
:27:27. > :27:31.stay famous and fans use them to show they have been close to them.
:27:32. > :27:36.Few can resist the lure of the selfie. It is defined by Oxford
:27:37. > :27:41.dictionaries as a photograph that one has taken of oneself. Typically
:27:42. > :27:46.one taken with a smartphone or a webcam and uploaded to a social
:27:47. > :27:52.media website. It was chosen as their word of the year after its use
:27:53. > :27:56.grew by 17,000% in 12 months. When we choose the word of the year, we
:27:57. > :28:01.all get together and discuss the merits of the words on our short
:28:02. > :28:04.list. Then we choose one which we feel has summed up the year or has
:28:05. > :28:10.particularly gained traction in the last 12 months. It used to be if you
:28:11. > :28:15.wanted an instant self-portrait you had to go to one of these. But these
:28:16. > :28:26.only take four or five pictures at a time and they cost. The first use of
:28:27. > :28:31.the word online was thought to have been on this Australian website back
:28:32. > :28:36.in 2002. Someone posted a picture of injuries they got in a drunken
:28:37. > :28:43.accident. Laurie about the focus, he said, it is a selfie. Vanessa from
:28:44. > :28:53.New York has taken 10,000 pictures of herself posing with some of the
:28:54. > :29:00.world's biggest stars. I just got a photo with a member of Ellie
:29:01. > :29:11.Golding's band. I like taking selfie's. -- I like taking selfies.
:29:12. > :29:16.Let's have a look at the latest weather.
:29:17. > :29:23.The wintry chill has arrived and it is going to remain cold for the rest
:29:24. > :29:31.of the week. Especially as the wind picks up again. Pretty cold out
:29:32. > :29:41.there this afternoon. Most places will remain dry and funny. There is
:29:42. > :29:49.some cloudy, wet weather in the Northwest. Temperatures will drop
:29:50. > :29:56.sharply during this evening. A few days ago it was chilly at Wembley,
:29:57. > :30:04.temperatures not far away from freezing today. Temperatures are
:30:05. > :30:10.tumbling Jude to light winds. Wet and windy weather overnight from the
:30:11. > :30:16.Northwest. The temperatures will lift in most places, but still cold
:30:17. > :30:21.later in the night. Temperatures may get a double dip in eastern Scotland
:30:22. > :30:27.and north-east England in time for the rush hour. After the rain there
:30:28. > :30:30.may well be some icy roads. Across Scotland and Northern Ireland a
:30:31. > :30:34.stronger wind will keep the temperatures. For England and Wales
:30:35. > :30:44.we still have some rain to come. As the rain clears, there will be some
:30:45. > :30:49.short, sharp bursts to come. To the south, the rain at this stage still
:30:50. > :30:55.quite light and patchy. Temperatures listing eventually in the south-east
:30:56. > :30:59.of England. Tomorrow, that band of wet and windy weather sweeping down
:31:00. > :31:06.across the country. And Sharon will follow from the north. Clumps of
:31:07. > :31:14.showers driven on by those winds. -- showers will follow. The wet and
:31:15. > :31:19.windy weather around this area of low pressure, that reinforces all
:31:20. > :31:26.the wet weather from the Mediterranean. We are finding high
:31:27. > :31:33.pressure building in across the UK. Initially on Thursday it will be
:31:34. > :31:38.windy. Maybe a few light showers. Fewer showers and less windy during
:31:39. > :31:43.Friday. Further west, the wind will not be quite as strong and a better
:31:44. > :31:47.chance of staying dry. Wherever you are, by the end of the week, it will
:31:48. > :31:52.be cold and there will be more frost.
:31:53. > :31:57.Patients and relatives can monitor staffing levels in hospitals in
:31:58. > :31:58.England next