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