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