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These celebrity chef Nigella Lawson says her ex-husband, Charles | :00:09. | :00:12. | |
Saatchi, tried to destroy her name by spreading false allegations of | :00:13. | :00:17. | |
drug use. She tells the fraud trial of two personal assistants that her | :00:18. | :00:21. | |
ex-husband is using the case to destroy her after a long summer of | :00:22. | :00:25. | |
bullying and abuse. The latest from our correspondent in court. RBS is | :00:26. | :00:32. | |
one of eight banks find almost ?1.5 billion by the European Commission | :00:33. | :00:36. | |
for rigging interest rates. A man is arrested after a policewoman was | :00:37. | :00:39. | |
shot in the early hours of the morning in Leeds. The police officer | :00:40. | :00:43. | |
at the centre of the so-called plebgate row says he is suing the | :00:44. | :00:48. | |
former Cabinet minister Andrew Mitchell for libel. Almost ?400 | :00:49. | :00:52. | |
billion over 20 years, the Government outlines plans for public | :00:53. | :00:56. | |
and private investment in energy, transport and other building | :00:57. | :00:59. | |
projects. And all eyes on Adelaide as England try to get the Ashes back | :01:00. | :01:02. | |
contract in the second test. Good afternoon and welcome to the | :01:03. | :01:38. | |
BBC News At One. Nigella Lawson has told a court that her ex-husband, | :01:39. | :01:42. | |
Charles Saatchi, is using the fraud trial of two former assistants to | :01:43. | :01:46. | |
destroy her name by spreading allegations of drug use. She is | :01:47. | :01:50. | |
giving evidence at the trial of her two former PAs accused of spending | :01:51. | :01:56. | |
more than ?685,000 of the couple's money on themselves. The sisters | :01:57. | :02:01. | |
both deny the charges. Sangita Myska is outside Isleworth Crown Court for | :02:02. | :02:04. | |
us now. Well, this trial has generated huge | :02:05. | :02:10. | |
press interest in the personal lives of Nigella Lawson and her | :02:11. | :02:13. | |
ex-husband, Charles Saatchi. Today Nigella Lawson told the course that | :02:14. | :02:16. | |
she felt she was facing trial by the media but that was her duty to turn | :02:17. | :02:24. | |
up today to give evidence. Met by a frantic media scrum, | :02:25. | :02:28. | |
Nigella Lawson today arrived at court knowing she would face tough | :02:29. | :02:32. | |
questions about her alleged drug use and her former marriage to Charles | :02:33. | :02:38. | |
Saatchi. In court, Ms Lawson was asked why she had previously not | :02:39. | :02:42. | |
wish to give evidence. She claimed it was because of a breakdown in her | :02:43. | :02:46. | |
relationship with Mr Saatchi. She alleged that he threatened her. If | :02:47. | :02:51. | |
you don't come back to me and clear my name, I will destroy you. She | :02:52. | :02:57. | |
went on that she had feared her ex-husband would use the case to | :02:58. | :03:01. | |
savage her reputation by spreading false allegations of drug use. | :03:02. | :03:08. | |
Although it is incredibly simple... Nigella Lawson once appeared to lead | :03:09. | :03:10. | |
a charmed life, a celebrated television chef, and her then | :03:11. | :03:15. | |
husband, Charles Saatchi, a multimillionaire art collector. Then | :03:16. | :03:21. | |
these paparazzi photos appeared, showing Mr Saatchi holding Ms | :03:22. | :03:26. | |
Lawson's neck and pinching her nose. The couple divorced acrimoniously | :03:27. | :03:29. | |
shortly afterwards. Ms Lawson told the jury it was after a long summer | :03:30. | :03:33. | |
of bullying and abuse that she had initially decided not to appear in | :03:34. | :03:38. | |
court. She said she had now changed her mind about giving evidence | :03:39. | :03:43. | |
against her former PAs, Elizabeth and Francesca Grillo, who are on | :03:44. | :03:48. | |
trial for allegedly defrauding her by ?500,000. It is their defence | :03:49. | :03:52. | |
that they were allowed to spend on the company credit card because they | :03:53. | :03:55. | |
had a tacit understanding that they would not reveal Ms Lawson's alleged | :03:56. | :04:04. | |
use of drugs. She was later asked to describe her ex-husband, Charles | :04:05. | :04:06. | |
Saatchi, who she said had a temper and did not like to take part in | :04:07. | :04:11. | |
family life. The Grillos deny the charges, the case continues. | :04:12. | :04:16. | |
The cross-examination of Nigella Lawson by the defence counsel has | :04:17. | :04:20. | |
already begun, and we are expecting that to continue well into the | :04:21. | :04:24. | |
afternoon. RBS is one of eight big banks that | :04:25. | :04:29. | |
have been fined a total of ?1.4 billion by the European Commission | :04:30. | :04:34. | |
for forming illegal cartels to rig interest rates. Business | :04:35. | :04:36. | |
correspondent Ben Thompson is here now. | :04:37. | :04:41. | |
Another embarrassing day for RBS, when it is trying to draw a line | :04:42. | :04:44. | |
under the worst of the banking scandals. Once again, the rate | :04:45. | :04:48. | |
rigging scandal is rearing its ugly head, but this time these fines | :04:49. | :04:53. | |
imposed by the European Commission. This is a record fine with eight | :04:54. | :04:58. | |
global banking giants facing penalties of 1.7 billion euros, that | :04:59. | :05:03. | |
is ?1.4 billion. The previous record was just 1.2 billion. These fines | :05:04. | :05:10. | |
from the EU, and top of previous penalties. RBS has already paid ?390 | :05:11. | :05:16. | |
million to readily did in the UK and the US over the same allegations. -- | :05:17. | :05:20. | |
to regulators. This is the result of a separate investigation by the EU. | :05:21. | :05:26. | |
Barclays also paid ?290 million to regulators, but it will not be fined | :05:27. | :05:31. | |
today by the EU, and that is because it blew the whistle on the whole | :05:32. | :05:35. | |
affair. The banks named today did comply with the investigation. They | :05:36. | :05:40. | |
had their fines reduced by 10%. Two banks are contesting the fines and | :05:41. | :05:44. | |
have refused to settle. They will face sanctions next year. But all of | :05:45. | :05:49. | |
this is deeply damaging for the banks and their reputations. They | :05:50. | :05:52. | |
are keen to put these scandals behind them, but before they can do | :05:53. | :05:56. | |
that, there is another investigation under way, this time into currency | :05:57. | :06:01. | |
market manipulation. That could also result in massive fines. | :06:02. | :06:06. | |
Ben, thank you very much. A man has been arrested in connection with the | :06:07. | :06:10. | |
shooting of a female police officer in Leeds. The officer and a male | :06:11. | :06:13. | |
colleague were attending a routine callouts to a disturbance at an | :06:14. | :06:16. | |
address in the Headingley area in the early hours of the morning. A | :06:17. | :06:21. | |
37-year-old man was arrested a few hours later after a police manhunt. | :06:22. | :06:27. | |
Judith Moritz is in Headingley now. Yes, soapy, and when the police were | :06:28. | :06:33. | |
called out overnight, it was to a low level disturbance. They classed | :06:34. | :06:37. | |
it as routine, and so the two officers who were sent were unarmed. | :06:38. | :06:43. | |
They had not expected the gunfire which met them. | :06:44. | :06:48. | |
It was the early hours of this morning when the police were called | :06:49. | :06:52. | |
to this house in the Headingley area of Leeds. Two officers were sent to | :06:53. | :06:57. | |
respond to a reporter disturbance. When they arrived, they were | :06:58. | :07:00. | |
confronted by a man who opened fire. Neighbours were awoken by the noise. | :07:01. | :07:05. | |
About half three I heard a couple of shots or something, like fireworks, | :07:06. | :07:09. | |
and I thought, it can't be anything, it is just going to be fireworks. | :07:10. | :07:14. | |
Then the police came and told us what had happened, we put two and | :07:15. | :07:18. | |
two together and worked out it is obviously a guy who shot a police | :07:19. | :07:23. | |
officer. A female police officer was seriously hurt and taken to | :07:24. | :07:27. | |
hospital. Her male colleague was not injured. West Yorkshire Police | :07:28. | :07:31. | |
launched a hunt for 37-year-old James Leslie, who was last seen | :07:32. | :07:35. | |
cycling away from the scene. The public were warned not to approach. | :07:36. | :07:45. | |
Just after ten o'clock, James was arrested half a mile away. The | :07:46. | :07:47. | |
police confirmed they had recovered a firearm and the public were no | :07:48. | :07:50. | |
longer at risk. The female officer has sustained serious injuries to | :07:51. | :07:54. | |
her face, her neck and her right hand. Her condition is described as | :07:55. | :08:02. | |
poorly but stable and not life-threatening. The female officer | :08:03. | :08:06. | |
pressed her panic button when she was shot, which some and other | :08:07. | :08:10. | |
officers to the scene. A male colleague was able to give a good | :08:11. | :08:15. | |
description of what happened to detectives. -- which summoned. | :08:16. | :08:20. | |
James Leslie is in custody and will be questioned by detectives today. | :08:21. | :08:23. | |
Although West Yorkshire Police say they are not looking for anyone else | :08:24. | :08:27. | |
in connection with this shooting, they also say that they are still | :08:28. | :08:30. | |
appealing for witnesses, anybody who saw anything, to come forward and | :08:31. | :08:36. | |
help them. The police officer at the centre of | :08:37. | :08:40. | |
the so-called plebgate row is to sue the former Cabinet minister Andrew | :08:41. | :08:44. | |
Mitchell for libel. Easy to be Rowland was involved in a heated | :08:45. | :08:48. | |
confrontation with Mr Mitchell at the gates of Downing Street last | :08:49. | :08:53. | |
year. -- PC to be Roland. Last week Mr Mitchell accused the police | :08:54. | :08:55. | |
officer of lying about what happened. What more do you know | :08:56. | :09:00. | |
about this? Just to take people back to the beginning of this | :09:01. | :09:06. | |
long-running saga, Toby Rowland said that there was an altercation in | :09:07. | :09:12. | |
which he said, you do not run this expletive government, you are | :09:13. | :09:19. | |
expletive pleb is. Mr Mitchell denies using the word pleb. The | :09:20. | :09:22. | |
Crown Prosecution Service recently said that there was no evidence that | :09:23. | :09:26. | |
the officer had lied, no evidence to justify a criminal prosecution, and | :09:27. | :09:30. | |
last week Mr Mitchell said at a press conference that he had told | :09:31. | :09:33. | |
the truth about the incident and that it was the police who were | :09:34. | :09:38. | |
lying. Today the next development is that Toby Rowland has issued what | :09:39. | :09:42. | |
are called letters before action, effectively writing to Mr | :09:43. | :09:46. | |
Mitchell's lawyers saying, he has libelled me and I will take action | :09:47. | :09:51. | |
against him. That is policed by the Police Federation, that legal | :09:52. | :09:54. | |
advice, but the Police Federation says it itself is not suing Mr | :09:55. | :10:00. | |
Mitchell. Mr Mitchell says he would like the officer to say what he said | :10:01. | :10:05. | |
on oath, just to test out whether he is indeed lying. There may be an | :10:06. | :10:10. | |
opportunity for that, because Andrew Mitchell is suing the Sun in a | :10:11. | :10:14. | |
separate application, and so this might all come to court. The fact | :10:15. | :10:18. | |
that there has been some criminal allegations made but no charges, it | :10:19. | :10:21. | |
has moved into the civil courts, I think. | :10:22. | :10:27. | |
A serving British soldier has been arrested under the terrorism act | :10:28. | :10:30. | |
after a suspicious device was found at a house in Salford. The device, | :10:31. | :10:35. | |
understood to be a nail bomb, was discovered last week. The | :10:36. | :10:39. | |
19-year-old soldier was arrested on Monday by military police in Germany | :10:40. | :10:43. | |
and brought back to Britain to be questioned. The BBC understands he | :10:44. | :10:50. | |
has been questioned about suspected links to right wing extremism. | :10:51. | :10:55. | |
Roads and railways, power stations, flood defences, communications, all | :10:56. | :10:58. | |
part of a government plan to boost infrastructure spending over the | :10:59. | :11:05. | |
next two decades. Projects totalling ?375 billion have been detailed in a | :11:06. | :11:08. | |
National Infrastructure Plan which includes selling of the government | :11:09. | :11:12. | |
stake in Eurostar and other assets. Chief economic correspondent Hugh | :11:13. | :11:19. | |
Pym reports. The Government hopes projects like | :11:20. | :11:22. | |
this will help generate long-term economic growth. The Treasury Chief | :11:23. | :11:27. | |
Secretary, Danny Alexander, visited a National Grid tunnelling scheme | :11:28. | :11:31. | |
designed to boost London's electricity transmission network. He | :11:32. | :11:34. | |
wanted to highlight plans of the next two decades aimed at upgrading | :11:35. | :11:38. | |
UK infrastructure. Some will be privately funded, some public. It is | :11:39. | :11:43. | |
a plan that will lead to sustainable, long-term growth and | :11:44. | :11:46. | |
help us build a stronger economy in a fairer society where everyone can | :11:47. | :11:51. | |
get on. There is no new government money pledged today, but a ?25 | :11:52. | :11:55. | |
billion commitment by insurance companies to invest in | :11:56. | :11:58. | |
infrastructure has been unveiled. Plans for a new nuclear power | :11:59. | :12:01. | |
station for Anglesey have been confirmed, and rail investment will | :12:02. | :12:04. | |
include the development of the station at Gatwick. Sales of | :12:05. | :12:10. | |
government assets, including a stake in Eurostar, the Channel Tunnel rail | :12:11. | :12:15. | |
operator, also formed part of the announcement today. The government | :12:16. | :12:18. | |
idea is to sell off investments which are considered surplus to | :12:19. | :12:21. | |
requirements and reallocate the cash to infrastructure investment. Labour | :12:22. | :12:27. | |
argues the Government's track record on major investment has not been | :12:28. | :12:31. | |
good so far and action is needed, rather than words. Ultimately, if | :12:32. | :12:36. | |
you think just issuing press releases and making announcements | :12:37. | :12:38. | |
brings forward is that delivery and make sure we get shovels in the | :12:39. | :12:43. | |
ground, they are living on a different planet. Business | :12:44. | :12:47. | |
organisations gave only a cautious welcome to today's statement. For | :12:48. | :12:51. | |
them, the detail, rather than broad ambition, is what will count. We are | :12:52. | :12:59. | |
getting more detail about what projects will be built, more detail | :13:00. | :13:02. | |
about how it will be paid for, but it still feels a little bit too much | :13:03. | :13:05. | |
like long and quite hopeful Christmas lists, rather than a | :13:06. | :13:11. | |
really clear set of priorities. Business leaders will be watching | :13:12. | :13:14. | |
George Osborne's Autumn Statement tomorrow, hoping for measures which | :13:15. | :13:17. | |
support the recovery. The BBC understands that moves to support | :13:18. | :13:21. | |
struggling high street will be unveiled. Many retailers believe the | :13:22. | :13:27. | |
business rate system is a burden. Rate increases will be capped with | :13:28. | :13:30. | |
an extension of relief for small firms. | :13:31. | :13:36. | |
Meanwhile, the BBC has learned that ministers are changing the way they | :13:37. | :13:41. | |
subsidise renewable energy. The Government is cutting support for | :13:42. | :13:44. | |
onshore wind and solar projects but increasing the amount it will pay | :13:45. | :13:48. | |
energy companies for offshore wind power. Political correspondent Vicki | :13:49. | :13:53. | |
Young reports. For some, these wind farms mean | :13:54. | :13:57. | |
cleaner, cheaper energy, but opponents call them and expensive | :13:58. | :14:01. | |
eyesore. Every year, around 2% of our energy bills is used to | :14:02. | :14:05. | |
subsidise renewable energy, something many MPs oppose. The | :14:06. | :14:08. | |
Liberal Democrats want to encourage green projects. Now they say the | :14:09. | :14:13. | |
cost of onshore turbines has fallen, so the focus can shift to offshore | :14:14. | :14:17. | |
wind farms instead. It will mean we will have to 1000 jobs across the | :14:18. | :14:22. | |
country, so this is great news for jobs, and it is good news for | :14:23. | :14:26. | |
consumers. We want to make sure we get good value for money for | :14:27. | :14:30. | |
consumers, and the fact that. Onshore wind is going down and solar | :14:31. | :14:33. | |
going down, that means we can reduce the subsidies. -- the fact that the | :14:34. | :14:45. | |
costs of onshore wind. Some say that Britain risks failing to create | :14:46. | :14:49. | |
thousands of jobs in the sector. If we see constant sniping, it makes | :14:50. | :14:52. | |
investors nervous. The investors are then going to leave the market, or | :14:53. | :14:57. | |
it is going to cost us more to borrow the money, and that only help | :14:58. | :15:01. | |
the consumer in the long run. -- hurts. The issue of subsidies for | :15:02. | :15:04. | |
renewable energy has divided the coalition. This announcement brings | :15:05. | :15:08. | |
a kind of truce with Conservatives and Liberal Democrats saying it | :15:09. | :15:12. | |
makes sense to switch more money to offshore wind farms, and politically | :15:13. | :15:16. | |
it pleases Tories who feel they have been under pressure from the UK | :15:17. | :15:21. | |
Independence Party. UKIP has described today's cuts to onshore | :15:22. | :15:26. | |
subsidies as a political stunt to buy off voters opposed to turbines | :15:27. | :15:31. | |
in the countryside. They are a disaster, the Government says there | :15:32. | :15:35. | |
is nothing it can do about energy prices apart from fiddling at the | :15:36. | :15:39. | |
margin. It should not be involved with intermittent renewables like | :15:40. | :15:43. | |
solar or wind. It should be focusing on grown-up technologies like coal, | :15:44. | :15:48. | |
gas and nuclear. The industry predicts that plans for some onshore | :15:49. | :15:52. | |
wind farms will be shelved because of today's announcement. What it | :15:53. | :15:57. | |
will not do is reduce our gas and electricity bills this winter. | :15:58. | :16:05. | |
Tomorrow, the Chancellor gives his Autumn Statement, detailing the | :16:06. | :16:08. | |
Government's financial plans for the next few years. | :16:09. | :16:11. | |
David Cameron, on a visit to China, has given the BBC a flavour of what | :16:12. | :16:16. | |
we can expect. We have been working to a long-term plan and what you are | :16:17. | :16:19. | |
going to see in this Autumn Statement the next steps in that | :16:20. | :16:22. | |
long-term plan, a plan to turn the country around, to get us out of our | :16:23. | :16:27. | |
difficulties with debt and deficit and to secure jobs and recovery for | :16:28. | :16:38. | |
all of our people, recovery for all. That is what we want to see. David | :16:39. | :16:41. | |
Cameron speaking in China. Let's turn now to Norman Smith. Tell us | :16:42. | :16:43. | |
more about what we are expecting. Welcome what we have learned is that | :16:44. | :16:46. | |
the Government want the Autumn Statement to be all about growth and | :16:47. | :16:50. | |
how they are retooling the British economy with this ambitious project | :16:51. | :16:56. | |
of infrastructure spending. A word of warning, though. If you think you | :16:57. | :16:59. | |
have heard this before, you probably have, because this is the fourth | :17:00. | :17:03. | |
national infrastructure plan and they are a bit like the proverbial | :17:04. | :17:10. | |
dad DIY to do list. They look very impressive on paper and contain a | :17:11. | :17:15. | |
very important list of things you ought to do, but it doesn't | :17:16. | :17:18. | |
necessarily mean they are all going to happen and that has been the | :17:19. | :17:23. | |
Government's difficulty, turning the to-do part into the delivery part. | :17:24. | :17:28. | |
One peculiarity, cutting subsidies for onshore wind farms does not mean | :17:29. | :17:32. | |
there will be fewer onshore wind farms, it could mean the opposite. | :17:33. | :17:37. | |
Why? Because the Energy Secretary says the cut is not because wind | :17:38. | :17:41. | |
farms have proved unpopular and a Tory MPs are unhappy about them, but | :17:42. | :17:45. | |
because they are proving efficient and cost-effective and therefore, | :17:46. | :17:49. | |
despite the cut in subsidies, there are actually going to be more | :17:50. | :17:53. | |
onshore wind forms. -- wind farms. The time is coming up | :17:54. | :18:01. | |
to 1:20pm. The top story this lunchtime: | :18:02. | :18:03. | |
Nigella Lawson tells a court her ex-husband Charles Saatchi is trying | :18:04. | :18:06. | |
to destroy her name by spreading false allegations of drug use. | :18:07. | :18:09. | |
And still to come: THEY SING "JERUSALEM". | :18:10. | :18:13. | |
THEY SING "JERUSALEM". THEY SING "JERUSALEM". | :18:14. | :18:17. | |
Hoping to sing England to success. The Barmy Army are in full voice | :18:18. | :18:22. | |
ahead of tonight's second Test in Adlelaide. | :18:23. | :18:24. | |
Later on BBC London: Doctors at the Royal Free Hospital say a new device | :18:25. | :18:28. | |
could help liver disease patients avoid needing a transplant. | :18:29. | :18:29. | |
And the Stratford sixth-formers making music with east London rapper | :18:30. | :18:31. | |
Tinchy Stryder. The rise of social media has meant | :18:32. | :18:40. | |
that conversations about criminal cases, once just had with friends, | :18:41. | :18:43. | |
are now instantly published online and can be shared with millions of | :18:44. | :18:49. | |
people. And it's got some people into trouble. Tweets from the | :18:50. | :18:53. | |
comedian Alan Davies, the speaker's wife Sally Bercow, and Peaches | :18:54. | :18:56. | |
Geldof have all landed them in legal difficulties after they took to | :18:57. | :19:00. | |
Twitter to express their views. Now the Attorney General, Dominic | :19:01. | :19:02. | |
Grieve, is publishing legal advice to help social media users avoid | :19:03. | :19:05. | |
getting into trouble by commenting on court cases. Clive Coleman | :19:06. | :19:14. | |
reports. Peaches Geldof, the latest person to | :19:15. | :19:18. | |
get into potential trouble with a tweet, when she published to her | :19:19. | :19:24. | |
168,000 followers the identities of two mothers who allowed their | :19:25. | :19:29. | |
children to be targeted by sex offender Ian Watkins, singer with | :19:30. | :19:33. | |
the rock band Lostprophets. She tweeted after the names had | :19:34. | :19:37. | |
accidentally been posted briefly on a court website. But it is a crime | :19:38. | :19:41. | |
to publish any material which could identify the victim of a sexual | :19:42. | :19:47. | |
offence. So how much does social media -- to social media users know | :19:48. | :19:53. | |
about how the law applies Chris Rock people sometimes don't understand | :19:54. | :19:56. | |
the consequences of their actions. -- how the law applies to them? | :19:57. | :20:02. | |
Sometimes you don't know what you are and are not allowed to tweet. | :20:03. | :20:06. | |
The rising social media means that conversations once had down the pub | :20:07. | :20:10. | |
or even out shopping are not allowed to tweet. The rising social media | :20:11. | :20:13. | |
means that conversations once had down the pub or even a shopping now | :20:14. | :20:15. | |
published online and who comments about a criminal case or a defendant | :20:16. | :20:19. | |
in a way that could prejudice a trial could be prosecuted for | :20:20. | :20:25. | |
contempt and could go to prison. That is why the Attorney General is | :20:26. | :20:29. | |
going to start publishing advice to the public via his website and | :20:30. | :20:33. | |
Twitter feed. This is not to interfere with freedom of | :20:34. | :20:36. | |
expression, it is to ensure that their trials can take place and it | :20:37. | :20:40. | |
is one of my responsibilities to make sure that happens. Nobody wants | :20:41. | :20:44. | |
a situation where a trial collapses because it has been made impossible | :20:45. | :20:48. | |
by virtue of what has been said on a Twitter feed or a Facebook entry. | :20:49. | :20:53. | |
But some experts believe that internet users need additional help. | :20:54. | :20:57. | |
We are learning the difference between the digital world and the | :20:58. | :21:00. | |
real world and where they cross over. We need help. We need help | :21:01. | :21:04. | |
from the authorities and we also need help from the education system. | :21:05. | :21:10. | |
As the law stands, we tweet, blog or post on Facebook at our peril. Now | :21:11. | :21:15. | |
we will be able to get some advice on how even 140 characters could | :21:16. | :21:19. | |
land us in court for contempt. The Royal Mail says the threat of a | :21:20. | :21:23. | |
postal strike over the Christmas period seems to have been averted. | :21:24. | :21:30. | |
They say an agreement has been reached in principle with the | :21:31. | :21:32. | |
Communication Workers Union over changes to pay and pensions for | :21:33. | :21:35. | |
staff, though it still needs to be ratified. | :21:36. | :21:38. | |
The jury in the trial of two men accused of murdering a British | :21:39. | :21:41. | |
soldier has heard that one of the alleged killers showed "no regret or | :21:42. | :21:46. | |
remorse". A police interview with Michael Adebolajo has been played to | :21:47. | :21:49. | |
the court during which he criticised British politicians and said he was | :21:50. | :21:52. | |
upset about the deaths of people in Muslim lands. June Kelly is outside | :21:53. | :22:00. | |
the Old Bailey. It was a long interview, as well, wasn't it? | :22:01. | :22:04. | |
That is right, and throughout, Michael Adebolajo had a blue blanket | :22:05. | :22:09. | |
over his head. So for much of it, you couldn't see his face at all. He | :22:10. | :22:13. | |
tells the police he wants to be known by his muslin name of Mujahid | :22:14. | :22:21. | |
Abu Hamza and said he does not know any one of the name Michael | :22:22. | :22:27. | |
Adebowale, saying he is Ishmael. He says it brings him little joy to | :22:28. | :22:30. | |
approach anybody and slay them. He is not a person who enjoys watching | :22:31. | :22:34. | |
horror movies. He says the only reason he has decided to conduct the | :22:35. | :22:40. | |
interview is to prevent such incidents occurring on the streets | :22:41. | :22:43. | |
of Britain again. He says there is a war going on between Britain and | :22:44. | :22:47. | |
Muslims and he rails against politicians. He says he is disgusted | :22:48. | :22:51. | |
by the likes of David Cameron, the Miliband Brothers and Nick Clegg, | :22:52. | :22:56. | |
and when it comes to Tony Blair, he says the wickedness and corruption | :22:57. | :22:59. | |
of this man. In a later interview, he is asked about what happened to | :23:00. | :23:03. | |
Lee Rigby and he says he was struck in the neck with a sharp implement, | :23:04. | :23:08. | |
and it was soared until his head became almost detached. And then he | :23:09. | :23:15. | |
said, "May Allah forgive me if I have acted in a way that is | :23:16. | :23:18. | |
displeasing to him". The trial continues. | :23:19. | :23:21. | |
Young people in care in England will now be able to stay with foster | :23:22. | :23:25. | |
families until the age of 21 instead of 18. Ministers say they will | :23:26. | :23:29. | |
increase funding to councils, and make it a legal duty for authorities | :23:30. | :23:32. | |
to provide financial support for foster children after their 18th | :23:33. | :23:44. | |
birthday. Mike Sergeant reports. David has fostered a number of | :23:45. | :23:48. | |
children in the past five years. Rhiannon came to live with the | :23:49. | :23:51. | |
family when she was 16 and is now studying for A-levels, but as her | :23:52. | :23:55. | |
18th birthday approached, she was not sure how much longer she would | :23:56. | :24:00. | |
be able to stay, a situation that has thankfully been resolved. The | :24:01. | :24:04. | |
run-up to my 18th birthday was not very nice, not knowing what was | :24:05. | :24:07. | |
happening. It was very stressful and I was crying quite a lot to David | :24:08. | :24:13. | |
and Lisa in the evenings about what was going to happen. But now I know | :24:14. | :24:18. | |
that they are here for me and I have got the support, it is brilliant. | :24:19. | :24:23. | |
After much discussion with the local authority, Rhiannon will now be able | :24:24. | :24:27. | |
to stay here until she is through university. David welcomes the news | :24:28. | :24:31. | |
that councils and England will be required to support all children in | :24:32. | :24:35. | |
foster care until they are 21. I think it is fantastic. A child is | :24:36. | :24:40. | |
not ready at 18 to be independent. There are some that go into the army | :24:41. | :24:44. | |
and other jobs, but the majority stay at home until 22, 23 and even | :24:45. | :24:48. | |
up to 26, so for the Government to allow a child to stay at home until | :24:49. | :24:52. | |
22, 23 and even up to 26, so for the Government to allow a child is taken | :24:53. | :24:56. | |
care up to 21 shortage of suitable carers. If more and more people stay | :24:57. | :25:05. | |
until they are 21, that will create strain on families. Council say the | :25:06. | :25:08. | |
money must not come out of their hard pressed budgets, something the | :25:09. | :25:12. | |
ministers say will be addressed. We have worked hard with other people | :25:13. | :25:23. | |
to find out what the cost will be to do this for other councils and we | :25:24. | :25:26. | |
have come up with a generous figure which will mean that 400,000 | :25:27. | :25:29. | |
children who leave foster care every year will now have the opportunity | :25:30. | :25:34. | |
to stay on. Fostering charities are thrilled that thousands of young | :25:35. | :25:37. | |
children in England like Rhiannon will now have more certainty about | :25:38. | :25:41. | |
the future, but say the issue has still not been resolved in Wales and | :25:42. | :25:45. | |
England. The second Ashes Test gets underway | :25:46. | :25:56. | |
tonight in Adelaide. England will be looking to get back on level terms | :25:57. | :26:00. | |
after the beating they took in the first match. As ever, the Barmy | :26:01. | :26:02. | |
Army, their loyal band of travelling supporters, will be there to give | :26:03. | :26:06. | |
them a lift. As Joe Wilson reports, it was almost 20 years ago in | :26:07. | :26:09. | |
Adelaide that the fans first got together to voice their support for | :26:10. | :26:11. | |
England. Fresh footage has emerged of an | :26:12. | :26:12. | |
unlikely Hollywood star - THEY SING "JERUSALEM". | :26:13. | :26:22. | |
From Abu Dhabi to Adelaide, you will hear them. Wherever England play, | :26:23. | :26:27. | |
the Barmy Army follows. In Adelaide in 1994, this Test match seemed like | :26:28. | :26:36. | |
the perfect reason for an anniversary. Back then, singing even | :26:37. | :26:41. | |
when England were losing, they were first dubbed barmy by the media. Now | :26:42. | :26:46. | |
England lose. We want more people to come along and enjoy the sport and | :26:47. | :26:52. | |
is all done with humour and wit and banter and is a fantastic addition | :26:53. | :26:57. | |
to what is a great day. The Barmy Army are boost to the local economy, | :26:58. | :27:02. | |
they enjoy a friendly drink. Australia is hoping that the England | :27:03. | :27:06. | |
fans will spend over ?150 million all in all over the ashes. The | :27:07. | :27:10. | |
problem is, Australia is expensive. ?8 per point is possible. Fewer | :27:11. | :27:17. | |
people can afford to come. No disrespect to the people who have | :27:18. | :27:22. | |
come before, but the number is quality. The people who are here to | :27:23. | :27:26. | |
have a track here to have a great time and will squeeze the value out | :27:27. | :27:30. | |
of everything they do. The real theory of the Barmy Army is that | :27:31. | :27:34. | |
their presence in the seat he inspires the England players out | :27:35. | :27:40. | |
there. So does it work? Some of the people spend thousands and thousands | :27:41. | :27:43. | |
of pounds to come to Australia and watch every Test match, it is | :27:44. | :27:46. | |
phenomenal. And we love to have them around. The Barmy Army has evolved | :27:47. | :27:54. | |
into a tour company. The style may never be to everybody's case, but if | :27:55. | :27:59. | |
they come, they sing and they spend. | :28:00. | :28:08. | |
Australia will not be complaining. Fresh footage has emerged of an | :28:09. | :28:12. | |
unlikely Hollywood star, a mountain lion living in a Los Angeles city | :28:13. | :28:15. | |
Park. The big cat was first spotted last year. It's thought it must have | :28:16. | :28:19. | |
had to cross two busy freeways to get into Griffith Park, which is | :28:20. | :28:22. | |
also home to the famous Hollywood sign. Scientists have now fitted him | :28:23. | :28:26. | |
with a tracking collar. Time for a look at the weather. | :28:27. | :28:30. | |
Here's Tomasz Schafernaker. And the storm is on the way. It is, | :28:31. | :28:35. | |
it will come roaring in and the Met Office have issued an amber warning. | :28:36. | :28:40. | |
The main issue with the storm will be the strength of the wind, nothing | :28:41. | :28:45. | |
absolutely extraordinary but still severe enough. If you live in this | :28:46. | :28:48. | |
amber warning area, you may be impacted in a number of different | :28:49. | :28:52. | |
ways, either directly from the damaging winds, disruption to | :28:53. | :28:56. | |
transport potentially coastal flooding along the North Sea coast | :28:57. | :29:04. | |
particularly the storm this --. The storm at the moment is still a long | :29:05. | :29:09. | |
way away but will impact Scotland early tomorrow morning. Before that | :29:10. | :29:12. | |
happens, we have a decent day, for at least most of us. Sunshine is | :29:13. | :29:17. | |
around, it is pretty chilly and the south of the country has had some | :29:18. | :29:21. | |
cloud but the most of us, it is a fairly pleasant afternoon. Showers | :29:22. | :29:24. | |
are already starting to get into Scotland, it is fairly chilly, the | :29:25. | :29:28. | |
temperatures are dropping and there is some snow across the hills and | :29:29. | :29:32. | |
mountains but we really are talking about just the hills and mountains. | :29:33. | :29:36. | |
Let's take a little zoom into Scotland and see what we can | :29:37. | :29:39. | |
expect. The wind is increasing, some showers, and this is just the very, | :29:40. | :29:43. | |
very beginning of what is coming our way. Through tonight, the wind | :29:44. | :29:50. | |
strengthens to Gayle and severe galeforce conditions. Mountain and | :29:51. | :29:54. | |
hill snow, occasional blizzards to the south of the and at the same | :29:55. | :30:01. | |
time, relatively clear in the London area, and then the winds get going | :30:02. | :30:07. | |
tomorrow morning. These are the kinds of gusts we are going to get. | :30:08. | :30:12. | |
Very strong through the low lands, Northern Ireland getting gales as | :30:13. | :30:17. | |
well. These sorts of winds could cause problems on the roads because | :30:18. | :30:23. | |
of the debris and trees that have been blown down, bridges could be | :30:24. | :30:26. | |
closed, and some of those strong winds will transfer southwards to | :30:27. | :30:30. | |
the east of the Pennines. Lincolnshire is an area that could | :30:31. | :30:34. | |
be impacted, they could be interruptions to power, and on top | :30:35. | :30:37. | |
of that, there will be a storm surge which, combined with the waves, may | :30:38. | :30:43. | |
overtop the sea defences for, example -- for example across the | :30:44. | :30:50. | |
Lincolnshire coast. Very blustery across the South but nowhere near as | :30:51. | :30:53. | |
bad. Then it suddenly quiet and stand by the time we get to Friday, | :30:54. | :31:03. | |
the wind is really easing down. Stay tuned to the focus, because the | :31:04. | :31:07. | |
weather looks pretty serious. Now a reminder of our top story this | :31:08. | :31:09. | |
lunchtime: Nigella Lawson tells a court her | :31:10. | :31:12. | |
ex-husband Charles Saatchi is trying to destroy her name by spreading | :31:13. | :31:17. | |
false allegations of drug use. That's all from us. Now on | :31:18. | :31:18. |