:00:00. > :00:08.The dementia time bomb - politicians from around the world meet in London
:00:09. > :00:13.amid warnings that the number of cases is set to soar. An ageing
:00:14. > :00:16.population - 44 million people around the globe already have
:00:17. > :00:21.dementia, but by the middle of this century, it is predicted that that
:00:22. > :00:24.number will have trebled. Let us focus on three areas of
:00:25. > :00:28.action for this summit - first, to redouble our efforts to find a drug
:00:29. > :00:42.that can halt or cure the brain decay caused by dementia. We will be
:00:43. > :00:46.at the conference, asking how much of a difference it could make. Also
:00:47. > :00:49.this lunchtime: A record ?28 million fine for Lloyds banking group for
:00:50. > :00:51.putting too much pressure on staff to sell financial products.
:00:52. > :00:54.England's schools are like two nations, says Ofsted, as its head
:00:55. > :00:57.calls for a "battle against mediocrity" to improve standards
:00:58. > :01:00.everywhere. Lying in state - hundreds of people
:01:01. > :01:05.queue up to file past Nelson Mandela's body to pay their last
:01:06. > :01:08.respects. Found in a skip - two rarely seen
:01:09. > :01:11.films starring Peter Sellers are about to be screened publicly for
:01:12. > :01:16.the first time in more than 50 years.
:01:17. > :01:19.Later on BBC London News: Barclays is to drop its sponsorship of the
:01:20. > :01:23.Mayor's cycle hire scheme in 2015, three years earlier than expected.
:01:24. > :01:26.And the Supreme Court rules that churches of Scientology are places
:01:27. > :01:47.of worship. Good afternoon and welcome to the
:01:48. > :01:50.BBC News at One. It's the first time a conference of its kind has been
:01:51. > :01:53.held. Health ministers from the G8, the world's wealthiest countries,
:01:54. > :01:58.are meeting in London to decide how to tackle what is being called a
:01:59. > :02:01."dementia time bomb". It already affects 44 million people across the
:02:02. > :02:04.globe, but there are warnings that that figure could treble over the
:02:05. > :02:09.next 40 years as life expectancy continues to rise. The government
:02:10. > :02:14.has pledged to double the money spent on research by 2025. Our
:02:15. > :02:24.medical correspondent is at the conference.
:02:25. > :02:29.This is a big day for dementia, and we have come a long way from just a
:02:30. > :02:33.generation ago, when dementia was something that was rarely talked
:02:34. > :02:38.about and got little funding. The government is going to announce a
:02:39. > :02:43.doubling of its intended funding by 2025. To put that in perspective,
:02:44. > :02:48.that will still be half what it currently spends on cancer. There is
:02:49. > :02:54.also a lot that the public can do, because public giving to charities
:02:55. > :03:00.on dementia is a tiny fraction of what they give to cancer charities.
:03:01. > :03:11.Our reporter has been talking to one dementia sufferer called Tom. I
:03:12. > :03:14.started having panic attacks, and it frightened me. Tom Coppins was a
:03:15. > :03:21.truck driver for 30 years until he was diagnosed with dementia. He was
:03:22. > :03:25.just 57. It felt like my whole world had changed. It makes you very
:03:26. > :03:29.angry, but you don't know who you are angry at. It is an incurable
:03:30. > :03:37.disease, so there is no one to blame for it. A busy Sunday lunch at home.
:03:38. > :03:43.Tom is one of 800 thousand people in the UK with some form of dementia.
:03:44. > :03:46.There has been a change in my personality. I shouted at a woman in
:03:47. > :03:50.the supermarket. I felt really annoyed that she was whizzing this
:03:51. > :03:54.stuff out faster than I could act it. I know why I am getting
:03:55. > :03:59.frustrated, it is the dementia that is doing it, but you can't switch it
:04:00. > :04:03.off. The government says it will double research funding on
:04:04. > :04:08.dementia, but critics say it is still a drop in the ocean. With no
:04:09. > :04:13.cure, Tom knows his condition will only get worse. I have seen people
:04:14. > :04:18.further down the line than me, and it is scary, but I block it out. I
:04:19. > :04:30.have adopted the attitude of living for today. A support group run by
:04:31. > :04:33.the Alzheimer's Society. Tom has found great comfort in talking to
:04:34. > :04:40.other people with the same condition. We need help with what we
:04:41. > :04:45.have got. The easiest way to come to terms with it is to be with someone
:04:46. > :04:51.who has already got it. Today's summit will focus world attention on
:04:52. > :04:53.the inadequacies -- inadequacies of diagnosis and the challenges of
:04:54. > :05:00.continuing care. For Tom, the need is urgent. His concern is that world
:05:01. > :05:05.leaders are simply paying lip service to growing crisis. If I have
:05:06. > :05:09.dementia for the last 20 years of my life, I will need a lot of care, and
:05:10. > :05:14.it is not just me. There are thousands of us. Not wishing to
:05:15. > :05:24.frighten anybody, but somebody has got to wake up soon and do
:05:25. > :05:28.something. Tom's old life has gone for ever. He is at the dementia
:05:29. > :05:36.summit in London today, and like thousands of others, he is looking
:05:37. > :05:39.for answers. The author Terry Pratchett has
:05:40. > :05:44.Alzheimer's disease. Our reporter asked him what he thought about
:05:45. > :05:55.current levels of funding for research. It has been left behind.
:05:56. > :06:06.And the reason for that is because... It is witchcraft. People
:06:07. > :06:14.don't want to go near it. Or at least, many don't want to think
:06:15. > :06:18.about it. I do think about it. That is why it does not have me in its
:06:19. > :06:23.thrall. Often, you see the men in the white coats saying we are doing
:06:24. > :06:29.well, but we need more. I would like them to see how well they are doing
:06:30. > :06:37.before they get given any more. Not just push the money in just in
:06:38. > :06:48.case. Finding out what is wrong might be a good thing. We can't do
:06:49. > :06:57.this, we can't try that. I would just like to hope that the money
:06:58. > :07:03.that is spent is spent properly. The author Terry Pratchett. The real
:07:04. > :07:07.scale of the challenge over dementia can be told if you compare it with
:07:08. > :07:11.two other major killers, cancer and heart disease. There are hundreds of
:07:12. > :07:16.treatments which can extend the life of those patients by years, even
:07:17. > :07:20.decades. With dementia, there are just one or two treatments that can
:07:21. > :07:25.ease symptoms, but there is nothing that can reverse this disease or
:07:26. > :07:31.cure it. That will be the focus of research in the decades ahead.
:07:32. > :07:35.Tomorrow on BBC Breakfast, one of the country's leading dementia
:07:36. > :07:38.experts will be revealing the latest treatments for the illness.
:07:39. > :07:41.Lloyds banking group has been fined ?28 million after serious failings
:07:42. > :07:46.were found in its incentive schemes for sales staff. The financial
:07:47. > :07:48.conduct authority says workers were under pressure to sell products such
:07:49. > :07:55.as ISAs and insurance protection even if customers didn't need them.
:07:56. > :08:03.Lloyd says it has now made major changes to the schemes. Our personal
:08:04. > :08:07.finance correspondent is here. What were they doing? At the heart of
:08:08. > :08:12.this is a decision by Lloyds, which takes in Halifax and Royal Bank of
:08:13. > :08:16.Scotland, two double its insurance sales. That means things like
:08:17. > :08:24.critical illness, life insurance and income protection. It meant that
:08:25. > :08:28.people could cripple their wages -- triple their wages by reaching sales
:08:29. > :08:32.targets, but could also have their pay halved if they failed to do
:08:33. > :08:36.that. That put people under a lot of pressure. They cite the example of
:08:37. > :08:41.one employee who ended up selling himself and his wife insurance
:08:42. > :08:44.simply to meet targets. But of course, customers are put under
:08:45. > :08:50.pressure as well and there is a redress scheme to look at 690,000
:08:51. > :08:55.customers and if they lost out. What are they now doing? We are all
:08:56. > :08:59.familiar with sales incentives on the high street, but the financial
:09:00. > :09:02.sales authority has decided they are not appropriate for banks. They say
:09:03. > :09:08.they should reward places where customer service is good. That will
:09:09. > :09:10.be the major thing that Lloyds and other banks will have to reward
:09:11. > :09:13.people for. The story of England's education
:09:14. > :09:16.system is "a tale of two nations". That's the new warning from the
:09:17. > :09:19.schools watchdog, Ofsted. It says children from similar backgrounds
:09:20. > :09:22.and of similar abilities can end up with different prospects, just
:09:23. > :09:25.because of the quality of the school they attend. To improve the
:09:26. > :09:27.situation, the chief of schools is recommending the reintroduction of
:09:28. > :09:41.formal tests for seven and 14-year-olds.
:09:42. > :09:45.This school in Norwich has in the last five years turned itself
:09:46. > :09:48.around. Its pupils are largely white and from working-class backgrounds,
:09:49. > :09:52.and it was in special measures but is now rated a good school. But the
:09:53. > :09:56.picture in the east of England overall is poor, according to
:09:57. > :09:59.Ofsted, with younger pupils in primary school already having one of
:10:00. > :10:05.the lowest chance is in the country of attending a good or outstanding
:10:06. > :10:08.school. Why? In most cases, their parents and even grandparents have
:10:09. > :10:11.not succeeded themselves in education, so they may have
:10:12. > :10:17.difficulties with literacy or just knowing how to help their children.
:10:18. > :10:23.So you get this cycle that we have to break. Today's annual report from
:10:24. > :10:27.Ofsted says English education is a tale of two nations. Nearly eight
:10:28. > :10:30.out of ten schools are now good or outstanding, but nearly a quarter of
:10:31. > :10:34.a million children are languishing in inadequate schools. In 13 local
:10:35. > :10:41.authorities, more than half of secondary pupils are in schools that
:10:42. > :10:45.need to improve. Last week, East Asian countries like South Korea
:10:46. > :10:48.were seen to be top performers in international league tables, with
:10:49. > :10:51.the UK somewhere in the middle. The chief inspector of schools says
:10:52. > :10:58.raising standards in England should include reintroducing formal testing
:10:59. > :11:05.at seven and 14. Our international competitors are showing that greater
:11:06. > :11:09.accountability, more assessment is delivering better outcomes. If we
:11:10. > :11:13.have any ambition to join the top performing nations, we must do the
:11:14. > :11:18.same . Contrast the picture in Norfolk with that in the London
:11:19. > :11:22.borough of Tower Hamlets. 16 years ago, it schools were rated the worst
:11:23. > :11:26.in the country. Now they are all good or outstanding. They say they
:11:27. > :11:30.have focused on getting high quality teachers and monitoring pupils'
:11:31. > :11:32.progress. There may be lessons for other areas of the country which are
:11:33. > :11:35.not doing so well. The number of ten and 11-year-olds
:11:36. > :11:40.who are obese or overweight has fallen very slightly for the first
:11:41. > :11:43.time in six years. A third of year six pupils were obese or overweight
:11:44. > :11:48.in the past year, compared to 33.9% the year before. The report also
:11:49. > :11:51.showed that obesity among children in the most deprived parts of
:11:52. > :11:54.England was almost double that of the least deprived.
:11:55. > :11:57.Housing costs, which include rent, heating and electricity but not
:11:58. > :12:00.mortgages, have overtaken transport as the most expensive part of the
:12:01. > :12:07.family budget, according to new figures from the Office for National
:12:08. > :12:11.Statistics. The ONS says the change is partly down to increased energy
:12:12. > :12:15.prices. Police killer Dale Cregan's mother
:12:16. > :12:17.and a police call handler have gone on trial, accused of conspiracy to
:12:18. > :12:21.commit misconduct in a police office. Anita Cregan and Kathryn
:12:22. > :12:27.Smith, a Greater Manchester police employee, are charged alongside
:12:28. > :12:34.Smith's boyfriend, Sean Booth. Our correspondent is at Manchester Crown
:12:35. > :12:41.Court. What happened in court? As you see,
:12:42. > :12:45.there are three people in the dock of courtroom number seven here.
:12:46. > :12:49.Kathryn Smith, 25 and a call handler for Greater Manchester police, we
:12:50. > :12:53.heard is responsible for dealing with 999 calls from the public and
:12:54. > :12:59.nonurgent calls. Alongside her, her boyfriend, Sean Booth. We heard that
:13:00. > :13:03.he is a close friend of the creek and family. The third person in the
:13:04. > :13:06.dock is a close friend of the creek and family. The third person in the
:13:07. > :13:12.dock is Anita Cregan, who you may remember murdered four people last
:13:13. > :13:15.year, two of them police officers from Greater Manchester. Kathryn
:13:16. > :13:21.Smith, the call handler, is accused of misconduct in a public office. In
:13:22. > :13:23.other words, it is said that she misused the computer systems at
:13:24. > :13:30.Greater Manchester police to pass on restricted information about the
:13:31. > :13:34.manhunt for Dale Cregan. There was a ?50,000 reward on Dale Cregan's head
:13:35. > :13:38.last year. The police were trying to find him. It is said that she was
:13:39. > :13:45.passing on restricted information to her boyfriend, Sean Booth, and in
:13:46. > :13:47.turn onwards to Anita Cregan. Sean Booth and Anita Cregan are charged
:13:48. > :13:54.with aiding and abetting Kathryn Smith. The prosecution opened the
:13:55. > :13:59.case by detailing how those computer systems were used. We have just
:14:00. > :14:03.heard about one occasion last September when there was a possible
:14:04. > :14:07.sighting of Dale Cregan which the police were dealing with. Kathryn
:14:08. > :14:14.Smith, the jury were told, had seen the details on the computer about
:14:15. > :14:17.the possible sighting. After having looked at the information around it,
:14:18. > :14:22.she made a phone call to her boyfriend, Sean Booth, to pass on
:14:23. > :14:26.that information. The prosecution will continue this afternoon. The
:14:27. > :14:33.three defendants deny the charges against them.
:14:34. > :14:36.Our top story: A warning that more than 130 million people around the
:14:37. > :14:40.globe could have dementia by the middle of the century as politicians
:14:41. > :14:51.and experts gather in London to try to tackle the disease. Coming up:
:14:52. > :14:55.recently discovered sitcoms starring Peter Sellers before he hit the
:14:56. > :14:59.Hollywood big time will be seen for the first time in more than 50
:15:00. > :15:02.years. Later on BBC London, the memorial
:15:03. > :15:05.service in central London remembering Nelson Mandela. His
:15:06. > :15:13.lawyer and friend of 50 years pays tribute to Madiba. And A* for Tower
:15:14. > :15:14.Hamlets - how the borough's secondary schools went from some of
:15:15. > :15:27.the worst to some of the best. With four days to go until his
:15:28. > :15:30.funeral, hundreds of people have been queuing to pay their last
:15:31. > :15:33.respects to Nelson Mandela. His body was brought through the streets of
:15:34. > :15:36.Pretoria this morning to the Union Buildings - South Africa's seat of
:15:37. > :15:39.government. The former president will lie in state there for three
:15:40. > :15:47.days. Clive Myrie is in Pretoria now. Here at the Union Buildings, in
:15:48. > :15:52.that structure behind me, lies the body of this country's first
:15:53. > :15:57.democratically elected president. South African naval officers are
:15:58. > :16:03.providing the honour guard inside. A succession of family members, VIPs,
:16:04. > :16:08.dignitaries, and finally, ordinary members of the public, have filed
:16:09. > :16:15.past the open glass casket to pay their final respects. Earlier, I was
:16:16. > :16:20.on part of the route which the funeral cortege took, and I was
:16:21. > :16:23.surrounded by scores of people, hoping to get a final glimpse of the
:16:24. > :16:29.man they call the father of the nation. Will Ross reports. A chance
:16:30. > :16:34.to say a personal farewell to Nelson Mandela. People were lining the
:16:35. > :16:48.route, forming a guard of honour. Some were in an excitable mood. It
:16:49. > :16:52.made me feel unity amongst South Africans, as everyone is here to
:16:53. > :16:56.support him. I just wanted to see him passing for the last time. For
:16:57. > :17:00.the next three days, Nelson Mandela's body will be driven from
:17:01. > :17:05.the military hospital to the seat of government, where the anti-apartheid
:17:06. > :17:10.hero will lie in state. The coffin passes significant landmarks, like
:17:11. > :17:15.the austere Palace of Justice, where he stood trial in the 1960s, and was
:17:16. > :17:22.then sentenced to life imprisonment. The cortege came to a stop at the
:17:23. > :17:26.Union Buildings. Nelson Mandela's grandson was there to receive the
:17:27. > :17:34.coffin, which was draped in the South African flag. A military band
:17:35. > :17:37.played the national anthem. This is a far more sombre occasion than the
:17:38. > :17:41.previous days of mourning, which have at times featured lively
:17:42. > :17:47.celebrations of his life. It was at this exact spot where Nelson Mandela
:17:48. > :17:53.was sworn in as president after the first multiracial elections in 1994.
:17:54. > :17:57.Close relatives, including his former wife Winnie
:17:58. > :18:04.Madikizela-Mandela, were the first to view the embalmed body.
:18:05. > :18:08.Mandela's grieving widow Graca Machel left clearly distressed.
:18:09. > :18:12.Later on, members of the general public were allowed to pay their
:18:13. > :18:19.respects. Relatives were moved by the show of affection. Today, going
:18:20. > :18:23.through from the military hospital to the Union Buildings, seeing the
:18:24. > :18:28.amount of people there are, it touched my heart, to be honest with
:18:29. > :18:34.you. I had a moment of silence. That for me was very emotional. A long
:18:35. > :18:37.goodbye, for the man who was instrumental in helping so many
:18:38. > :18:43.South Africans make the Long Walk To Freedom.
:18:44. > :18:51.With me is the BBC's Milton Nkosi. You were here in 1994 on this very
:18:52. > :18:57.spot where Nelson Mandela was inaugurated as president, just down
:18:58. > :19:00.there, where he now lives. As a South African, how important is it
:19:01. > :19:05.for ordinary people to be able to get a last lives of his body? This
:19:06. > :19:10.is very, very important. It is the full cycle of South African history,
:19:11. > :19:17.insofar as Mr Mandela's life is concerned, because we were here on
:19:18. > :19:19.10th May 1994, celebrating him become the first democratically
:19:20. > :19:24.elected president of this country, after the end of apartheid. As you
:19:25. > :19:29.can see here, millions and millions of South Africans are coming here in
:19:30. > :19:34.very dignified, very quiet cues, coming to see him lying in state. I
:19:35. > :19:38.got a chance to go through myself, and I filed past the coffin, and I
:19:39. > :19:45.saw Mr Mandela lying there, wearing one of his famous, colourful, Madiba
:19:46. > :19:52.colourful shirts, looking dignified as he has always done. Many thanks
:19:53. > :19:57.for that. The body will lie in state here for another two days. We have
:19:58. > :20:02.got another hour and a half or so where the public can go past, and
:20:03. > :20:03.then it will fly on to Qunu in the Eastern Cape for a private burial
:20:04. > :20:11.ceremony on Sunday. David Cameron and Ed Miliband have
:20:12. > :20:15.again opposed the idea of MPs receiving an 11% pay rise, at a time
:20:16. > :20:17.of public sector pay restraint. The body which sets their salaries has
:20:18. > :20:20.recommended introducing the increase after the next election, but cutting
:20:21. > :20:27.pensions and allowances. Our political correspondent Ben Wright
:20:28. > :20:30.reports. Once again, MPs are agonising over their own pay and
:20:31. > :20:35.perks. Tomorrow, the independent watchdog tasked with setting
:20:36. > :20:44.salaries is expected to say MPs will get a pay rise of ?7,500 in 2015.
:20:45. > :20:48.But in the Commons, party I think it would be wrong for MPs to get a big
:20:49. > :20:55.pay rise at a time of public sector pay restraint. All three party
:20:56. > :20:58.leaders agree on this point. The body will review pay again after the
:20:59. > :21:06.election, but the Labour leader said action was needed now. Can I urge
:21:07. > :21:10.him to work with me to find a way of making IPSA think again, and to stop
:21:11. > :21:14.this package happening at events I am always happy to discuss this or
:21:15. > :21:19.any other issue. I would stress that this is not a final recommendation,
:21:20. > :21:22.and I think if the three party leaders can unite behind a position
:21:23. > :21:27.of saying it would not be right, then I think that is the strongest
:21:28. > :21:34.message we can give. Currently, an MP earns just the pay watchdog says
:21:35. > :21:42.that should rise to ?74,000 after the election, a jump of 11%. To
:21:43. > :21:46.balance the cost, MPs' pensions will be squeezed. It is not clear what
:21:47. > :21:50.cross-party talks can be achieved, because setting pay is now the job
:21:51. > :21:57.of the independent watchdog, and not Parliament. Party leaders are
:21:58. > :22:01.mindful of their own MPs, most of whom feel they are underpaid, even
:22:02. > :22:03.though only a handful will say so publicly. Unless IPSA changes its
:22:04. > :22:11.mind, the pay rise will go ahead. Hundreds of anti-government
:22:12. > :22:14.protesters inside City Hall in the Ukrainian capital, Kiev, have pushed
:22:15. > :22:17.back riot police trying to dislodge them. Clashes erupted hours after
:22:18. > :22:20.police moved in to clear protesters from nearby Independence Square. The
:22:21. > :22:23.protests were sparked by the government's refusal to sign a deal
:22:24. > :22:26.on closer ties with the European Union. Steve Rosenberg reports from
:22:27. > :22:38.Kiev. They had been given orders to clear
:22:39. > :22:42.the main square in Kiev, and Ukrainian police were out in force.
:22:43. > :22:50.With riot shields, they pushed their way past protesters. Pro-Europe
:22:51. > :22:54.demonstrators had barricaded themselves in the square, furious
:22:55. > :22:59.that their government had rejected those ties with the European Union.
:23:00. > :23:02.The barricades were swept aside. The police have broken down the
:23:03. > :23:06.barricades here, at what is the very heart of the anti-government
:23:07. > :23:08.protests. I are now pouring onto Independence Square, and the
:23:09. > :23:15.protesters are powerless to stop them. -- they are now... The
:23:16. > :23:20.protesters sent for urgent reinforcements. The swelling crowd
:23:21. > :23:25.was able to slow the police advance, but other police units moved in from
:23:26. > :23:29.another side. Several police officers and demonstrators were
:23:30. > :23:37.injured, and parts of the protest camp were pulled down. Only hours
:23:38. > :23:41.before, the EU's foreign affairs chief, Catherine Ashton, had visited
:23:42. > :23:46.the protest camp. Today, she condemned the crackdown. The most
:23:47. > :23:49.effective way to increase the numbers on the square is this kind
:23:50. > :23:53.of action. That is what I said to the Foreign Minister this morning.
:23:54. > :23:57.If you thought that by trying to remove the blockades in the middle
:23:58. > :24:02.of the night, fewer people would be out today, you were wrong. There
:24:03. > :24:06.have also been clashes at City Hall, which was seized by protesters more
:24:07. > :24:12.than today they sprayed water down on the police to try to prevent the
:24:13. > :24:14.building being stormed. For now, the police have retreated from
:24:15. > :24:18.Independence Square, and protesters have flooded back in. They are now
:24:19. > :24:32.rebuilding the barricades, making them even bigger than before,
:24:33. > :24:37.Two rare films starring Peter Sellers are to be screened next year
:24:38. > :24:40.for the first time in half a century. The sitcoms - which were
:24:41. > :24:43.discovered in a skip in London - showcase the late British actor
:24:44. > :24:46.before he hit the Hollywood big-time, with films like The Pink
:24:47. > :24:52.Panther and Being There. Our arts editor, Will Gompertz, has been
:24:53. > :25:01.looking through the archives. Peter Sellers, in 1957, as a hapless
:25:02. > :25:05.salesman, in Dearth Of A Salesman, a 25 minute short film which has not
:25:06. > :25:13.been seen for over half a century in public. I am known as the Peter
:25:14. > :25:19.Ouston off of East Acton... It was clearly made for him and to show off
:25:20. > :25:23.his talents. It was in 1957, this film was made. Up until the early
:25:24. > :25:32.50s, he had only been a radio star. In 1954, he made The Lady Killers,
:25:33. > :25:40.with Alec Guinness, his idol, but nothing happened after that. The
:25:41. > :25:43.ambitious Peter Sellers made Insomnia Is Good For You, also
:25:44. > :25:49.thought lost, at the same time. Both films were a showcase for his comic
:25:50. > :26:00.acting, the physical gags... A variety of accents and other
:26:01. > :26:04.features. They were found in a skip outside this property on London's
:26:05. > :26:08.Park lane back in 1996. Initially, I did not really want the films, I was
:26:09. > :26:15.only interested in the cans, to put all of the other films I had been. I
:26:16. > :26:20.was thinking about throwing the film away and just keeping the cans, but
:26:21. > :26:24.then I thought, hang on, I had better not do that, just in case it
:26:25. > :26:27.is something important. No one seemed that interested, until he
:26:28. > :26:32.offered them earlier this year to the Southend Film Festival. This is
:26:33. > :26:34.the small viewing room in Southend-on-Sea weather significance
:26:35. > :26:40.of these early Peter Sellers films was finally realised, 17 years after
:26:41. > :26:48.they were first discovered I'm Robert Farrow in that skip in
:26:49. > :26:52.London. The two films see Sellers at a crossroads, before he became an
:26:53. > :26:56.international movie star, when he perhaps had the intention of
:26:57. > :27:01.creating a TV sitcom to rival that of Tony Hancock . and finally, as
:27:02. > :27:05.world leaders lined up to address Nelson Mandela's memorial service
:27:06. > :27:09.yesterday, there was one man, the sign language interpreter, who was
:27:10. > :27:12.standing next to them in full view throughout. But now questions are
:27:13. > :27:17.being raised about who he really was, after South Africa's def
:27:18. > :27:24.Federation complained that the signs made no sense at all. Richard Lister
:27:25. > :27:28.reports. But first glance, the man signing a translation for deaf
:27:29. > :27:32.people at yesterday's ceremony did not seem out of place, but South
:27:33. > :27:38.Africans who can read sign language new immediate that something was
:27:39. > :27:43.wrong. The signs he was using are obviously ones which are not being
:27:44. > :27:46.used in the deaf community in South Africa or in the world. They do not
:27:47. > :27:51.make sense at all. Around the world, deaf viewers went on the social
:27:52. > :27:56.networking sites to question the authenticity of the signer. He would
:27:57. > :27:59.not be the first person at a high-profile ceremony to cause
:28:00. > :28:02.controversy, like this man who rocked up at Prince William's
:28:03. > :28:08.birthday party, dressed as Osama bin la. And also, the woman in red who
:28:09. > :28:13.made headlines after she joined the Indian team in last year's Olympic
:28:14. > :28:17.opening ceremony. Neither had been invited, but yesterday's signer
:28:18. > :28:22.appeared to have an official pass, as he stood alongside some of the
:28:23. > :28:31.world's most powerful leaders. The South African government has
:28:32. > :28:40.promised an donation. -- promised an explanation. Time for a look at the
:28:41. > :28:43.weather, with Chris Fawkes. We had really poor visible to due to the
:28:44. > :28:50.fog earlier today. This was Canary Wharf earlier on. An amazing picture
:28:51. > :28:58.which was sent to us earlier on to day. For the rest of the afternoon,
:28:59. > :29:02.the fog will continue to go away. But the fog has had a massive impact
:29:03. > :29:07.on temperatures locally. Right now in Surrey, temperatures are very
:29:08. > :29:14.low, just a couple of degrees above freezing, whereas in the north-west
:29:15. > :29:18.Highlands of Scotland, temperatures are up to 15 Celsius, so, a massive
:29:19. > :29:23.contrast there. For the rest of this afternoon, across England and Wales,
:29:24. > :29:30.the majority will keep sunny spells. The fog will continue to disappear.
:29:31. > :29:46.But some will remain around The Wash. Overnight tonight, it gets
:29:47. > :29:53.windy across Scotland, with the winds really becoming quite gusty.
:29:54. > :30:03.Gusts could reach 60mph, possibly even more. For East Anglia and the
:30:04. > :30:11.south-east of England, we will start tonight with clear skies, but once
:30:12. > :30:29.again we are likely to see more dense fog developing again
:30:30. > :30:34.overnight. Moving into Thursday, the breeze picks up, which should move
:30:35. > :30:43.the fog away pretty quickly. We will be left with a lot of cloud for most
:30:44. > :30:55.areas. Moving into Thursday night, most of us will see a band of rain
:30:56. > :31:02.overnight. For most of us, temperatures still in double figures
:31:03. > :31:07.on Friday. For more information, you can go to the BBC weather website.
:31:08. > :31:16.At half past one a reminder of our main story this lunchtime. A warning
:31:17. > :31:24.that more than