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A Metropolitan Police officer admits misconduct in public office over the | :00:10. | :00:15. | |
plebgate affair. Good morning. Any response to today's news? Have you | :00:16. | :00:22. | |
seen the statement? PC Keith Wallis admitted falsely claiming to have | :00:23. | :00:25. | |
witnessed a row between Andrew Mitchell and police at the gates of | :00:26. | :00:28. | |
Downing Street. We will be live at the Old Bailey for the latest. Also | :00:29. | :00:32. | |
this lunchtime come on alert, residents along the River Thames are | :00:33. | :00:36. | |
warned of yet more rising waters over the weekend. And an angry | :00:37. | :00:40. | |
President Hollande says he's thinking of suing the French | :00:41. | :00:43. | |
magazine that claims he's having an affair with a 42-year-old actress. A | :00:44. | :00:48. | |
record amount of online shopping was done in the run-up to Christmas. | :00:49. | :00:53. | |
Latest figures show close to one in five non-food items was bought | :00:54. | :00:56. | |
online. It is going to be a doll and wet start to the day. Quite a lot of | :00:57. | :01:02. | |
rain, probably. Looking back at 60 years of looking ahead, celebrations | :01:03. | :01:07. | |
get under way to mark six decades of the TV weather forecast. Later on | :01:08. | :01:11. | |
BBC London, the Environment Agency warns people living by the Thames | :01:12. | :01:15. | |
west of London to brace themselves for more flooding. And Tube workers | :01:16. | :01:18. | |
vote to strike in protest at plans to close ticket offices. | :01:19. | :01:36. | |
Good afternoon and welcome to the BBC News At One. A police officer | :01:37. | :01:43. | |
who falsely claimed to have witnessed the so-called plebgate row | :01:44. | :01:46. | |
which led to the resignation of the then Chief Whip Andrew Mitchell has | :01:47. | :01:51. | |
pleaded guilty to misconduct in public office. PC Keith Wallis said | :01:52. | :01:55. | |
he had seen the argument in Downing Street between Mr Mitchell and | :01:56. | :01:58. | |
another officer, who accused the Conservative MP of using the word | :01:59. | :02:01. | |
pleb. Mr Mitchell said he was pleased that justice had been done. | :02:02. | :02:06. | |
Our home affairs correspondent Tom Symonds is outside the Old Bailey. | :02:07. | :02:08. | |
Tom. Yes, it may have been a brief and | :02:09. | :02:18. | |
angry encounter but it has led to massive repercussions and a police | :02:19. | :02:20. | |
investigation that saw more than 1000 statements taken and laptops | :02:21. | :02:22. | |
and mobile phones seized. That has all resulted in one criminal charge | :02:23. | :02:29. | |
and today, one plea of guilty. The murky images of the now infamous | :02:30. | :02:34. | |
incident in Downing Street in September 2012. The vested gators | :02:35. | :02:38. | |
studied these pictures and other CCTV footage and concluded there was | :02:39. | :02:42. | |
insufficient evidence to suggest the officer who spoke to Mr Mitchell | :02:43. | :02:47. | |
lied -- the investigators. Another officer it now turned out, did. PC | :02:48. | :02:52. | |
Keith Wallis, who serves with the diplomatic protection group, was not | :02:53. | :02:56. | |
on duty that night and did not see what happened. But he e-mailed his | :02:57. | :03:01. | |
MP, saying he did. And that's why he was prosecuted. His e-mail back to | :03:02. | :03:06. | |
the police log of the event, which had already been leaked and which | :03:07. | :03:10. | |
accused Andrew Mitchell of swearing and calling officers plebs. It | :03:11. | :03:12. | |
helped pile the pressure on the Chief Whip and he later resigned. | :03:13. | :03:18. | |
But this morning Keith Wallis has admitted he was lying. The case has | :03:19. | :03:24. | |
been adjourned before sentencing. In a statement the Metropolitan Police | :03:25. | :03:27. | |
Commissioner Bernard Hogan-Howe said, to lie about witnessing | :03:28. | :03:30. | |
something and provide a false account falls way below the | :03:31. | :03:35. | |
standards that I and PC Wallis's colleagues expect of police | :03:36. | :03:38. | |
officers. His actions have also negatively impacted upon public | :03:39. | :03:44. | |
trust and confidence in the integrity of police officers. | :03:45. | :03:48. | |
Morning. He also apologised to Andrew Mitchell, this morning at his | :03:49. | :03:52. | |
constituency office in Sutton Coldfield, who responded in his | :03:53. | :03:56. | |
statement, it is very sad and worrying for all of us that are | :03:57. | :03:59. | |
serving police officer should have behaved in this way. There remain | :04:00. | :04:03. | |
many questions unanswered, in particular why PC Wallis wrote this | :04:04. | :04:07. | |
e-mail and who else was involved in this process. PC Wallis is facing a | :04:08. | :04:12. | |
possible jail sentence and a police misconduct hearing but the conduct | :04:13. | :04:17. | |
of four was a Metropolitan Police officers is also being considered as | :04:18. | :04:23. | |
part of disciplinary proceedings. Now PC to be Rollins, the police | :04:24. | :04:26. | |
officer that spoke to Andrew Mitchell that night, is not facing | :04:27. | :04:30. | |
any disciplinary hearings but he is doing Andrew Mitchell, who accusing | :04:31. | :04:37. | |
him of lying and Andrew Mitchell is suing the sun, which covered the | :04:38. | :04:41. | |
initial story about the plebgate affair. So none of this really | :04:42. | :04:45. | |
resolves the who said what to who question and although we may be out | :04:46. | :04:48. | |
of the criminal courts we are likely to be in the civil courts in due | :04:49. | :04:53. | |
course. Back to you. Tom, thank you very much. That speaks our political | :04:54. | :04:56. | |
correspondent Alex Forsyth in Westminster. There are those who | :04:57. | :04:59. | |
feel this vindicates Andrew Mitchell, so does this create the | :05:00. | :05:03. | |
possibility of a comeback? It is certainly a step in that direction. | :05:04. | :05:08. | |
You remember that Andrew Mitchell resigned voluntarily, saying the | :05:09. | :05:16. | |
time of this case became so much he could not concentrate on doing his | :05:17. | :05:18. | |
job but he has always maintained he was the victim of a police | :05:19. | :05:21. | |
conspiracy and that is what he wanted to prove. This is -- he might | :05:22. | :05:24. | |
say this result helps his case but what it doesn't prove is whether or | :05:25. | :05:27. | |
not he'd used that crucial word, pleb. Now, as you have heard, that | :05:28. | :05:31. | |
will be the subject of libel cases which are still to go through the | :05:32. | :05:35. | |
courts and politically speaking it's vital that Mr Mitchell exonerates | :05:36. | :05:38. | |
himself from the use of that word if he wants to return to high office. | :05:39. | :05:41. | |
Now, he has always enjoyed much cross-party support and he still | :05:42. | :05:46. | |
does. Friends of his saying today that if you look at the line in his | :05:47. | :05:50. | |
statement saying he wants to support the Conservatives that the next | :05:51. | :05:53. | |
election, that is a clear indication of his determination to return to | :05:54. | :05:57. | |
the political fold. Today might help him do that but I guess there are | :05:58. | :06:01. | |
still further twists in this fairly convoluted tale before we see full | :06:02. | :06:06. | |
career revival. Thank you very much. It's feared that parts of | :06:07. | :06:09. | |
England are suffering the worst flooding in a decade with river | :06:10. | :06:13. | |
levels set to rise even further. There are still about 100 flood | :06:14. | :06:16. | |
warnings in place with communities along the Thames expected to be | :06:17. | :06:20. | |
worst hit. Insurers have warned the cost of the damage will run into | :06:21. | :06:24. | |
hundreds of millions of pounds. Fiona Irving is in Sunbury for us. | :06:25. | :06:31. | |
Yes, the river here is very swollen. You can see the floodwaters behind | :06:32. | :06:35. | |
me and the river is running very fast. The Environment Agency has | :06:36. | :06:39. | |
warned that river levels here haven't peaked yet. Around 100 flood | :06:40. | :06:43. | |
warnings are in place across England and Wales. The majority of those are | :06:44. | :06:47. | |
in the south-east and communities in Berkshire, Surrey and Oxfordshire | :06:48. | :06:51. | |
have been told to stay on alert. There may have been a respite from | :06:52. | :06:56. | |
the rain recently, but as water strains -- gain from the Thames | :06:57. | :06:59. | |
basin into the rivers there is no respite yet from the flooding is Ben | :07:00. | :07:04. | |
Geoghegan reports. In some places the River Thames is | :07:05. | :07:08. | |
not just at the end of the garden but flowing right through it. Here | :07:09. | :07:12. | |
in Rosebury, just west of Heathrow Airport, dozens of homes have been | :07:13. | :07:17. | |
flooded or are in danger of flooding in the next few hours. The last few | :07:18. | :07:22. | |
days it has risen two to three feet. Before that it was already | :07:23. | :07:28. | |
half in flood. It's been in semi-flood for a week and now for | :07:29. | :07:33. | |
the last two or three days it's really come on big-time. Have you | :07:34. | :07:38. | |
ever seen it like this? Never seen it like this. This is the River | :07:39. | :07:42. | |
Thames and it's usual to Revel is about eight feet below where I am | :07:43. | :07:45. | |
standing but it's been rising steadily over the last week during | :07:46. | :07:48. | |
the rain. It's still raising even though we've got blue skies and | :07:49. | :07:55. | |
sunshine. The rain may have stopped but water is pouring off the land | :07:56. | :07:58. | |
and into the River Thames, leading to flooding downstream. So many | :07:59. | :08:04. | |
areas in the Thames Valley are still facing flood alerts. Some residents | :08:05. | :08:08. | |
have no option but to wait for the water to recede and they just don't | :08:09. | :08:12. | |
know how long it's going to take. I just don't know how to deal with it. | :08:13. | :08:20. | |
I don't want to pump it out because obviously it's not very clean water, | :08:21. | :08:24. | |
is it? Hundreds of sandbags were still being delivered this morning. | :08:25. | :08:29. | |
In some places it's too late, but with the river level expected to | :08:30. | :08:33. | |
rise more properties are at risk. Here they say they were warned it | :08:34. | :08:38. | |
would be bad but not this bad. Each day we are getting ten or 20 more | :08:39. | :08:42. | |
houses flooded. We've now got people that are trapped in their houses. | :08:43. | :08:46. | |
They can't get out. We're trying to get milk and bread to them but we | :08:47. | :08:49. | |
can't. We are now losing electricity, losing sewerage, losing | :08:50. | :08:56. | |
mains water. The Environment Agency says these are the worst floods in | :08:57. | :08:59. | |
this part of England for a decade and on top of the rising river there | :09:00. | :09:03. | |
could be more rain to come this afternoon. | :09:04. | :09:08. | |
That was Ben Geoghegan reporting. Just to give you a sense of the | :09:09. | :09:11. | |
river levels here at Sunbury-on-Thames you can see behind | :09:12. | :09:15. | |
me a park bench just poking out of the water there and across the side | :09:16. | :09:20. | |
you can see trees under water. That would normally be the banks of the | :09:21. | :09:24. | |
river. People say their gardens and basements are flooded here and | :09:25. | :09:26. | |
they've been telling me they can only sit and wait and see if those | :09:27. | :09:32. | |
floodwaters cause any more serious damage. | :09:33. | :09:35. | |
Fiona Irving, thank you. Plans to force housing developers to build | :09:36. | :09:39. | |
flood prevention measures around new homes to avoid some of the scenes | :09:40. | :09:42. | |
we've witnessed in recent weeks are facing more delay because no one can | :09:43. | :09:46. | |
agree who should pay for it. The government was advised after the | :09:47. | :09:50. | |
floods in 2007 to make builders use landscaping around properties to | :09:51. | :09:54. | |
help water soak away. The Home Builders Federation has rejected | :09:55. | :09:57. | |
claims that building firms are holding up the prevention work. Our | :09:58. | :10:00. | |
environment analyst Roger Harrabin reports. | :10:01. | :10:07. | |
Does this look familiar? Not 2014, but 2007. The year of the great | :10:08. | :10:10. | |
floods, which led to a government review which led to the 2010 floods | :10:11. | :10:16. | |
act, which laid down rules which -- that developers should stop making | :10:17. | :10:20. | |
buildings in a way that makes flooding worse. The thinking behind | :10:21. | :10:23. | |
the act led to developments like this. It looks like a park and it | :10:24. | :10:29. | |
is, in Southeast Sheffield, but it's also a smart drainage system to | :10:30. | :10:32. | |
capture rainwater and prevent flooding. Normally rainfall from new | :10:33. | :10:38. | |
developments like this flows into the sewers, where it quickly swelled | :10:39. | :10:42. | |
rivers and makes flooding worse. Not here. The water is carried by pipe | :10:43. | :10:47. | |
to this pile of rocks, where it seeps slowly into the ground. | :10:48. | :10:52. | |
Capturing water on the surface from this housing development, the | :10:53. | :10:55. | |
pollution is removed because it goes through vegetation, it provides the | :10:56. | :10:59. | |
biodiversity and landscape developed -- benefits for the community but | :11:00. | :11:04. | |
also dividing flood prevention by controlling flow. The house-builders | :11:05. | :11:09. | |
say ponds like this take space and that costs money. They want to cap | :11:10. | :11:12. | |
the water in giant tanks underground. The experts say the | :11:13. | :11:17. | |
tanks will cause problems with maintenance and won't bring the | :11:18. | :11:21. | |
wider benefits that a scheme like this offers. County councils will do | :11:22. | :11:25. | |
the maintenance, then charge people living on new estates annual fee in | :11:26. | :11:29. | |
place of what they'd otherwise have paid on their water rates. The | :11:30. | :11:32. | |
government promised MPs to publish the rules by April this year but | :11:33. | :11:37. | |
this week it admitted it couldn't make that revised deadline. A | :11:38. | :11:41. | |
spokesman said the government still intended to go ahead with the plans. | :11:42. | :11:47. | |
Roger Harrabin, BBC News. There is a special programme on BBC One | :11:48. | :11:52. | |
tonight, counting the cost of more than a month of bad weather. Sophie | :11:53. | :11:55. | |
Raworth prevents Battered Britain: Storms, Tides And Floods at 7:30pm | :11:56. | :12:01. | |
tonight. Plans for a referendum on Britain's's membership of the EU are | :12:02. | :12:05. | |
back in Parliament today. Members of the House of Lords are debating a | :12:06. | :12:08. | |
bill which would see people getting a chance to have their say in 2017, | :12:09. | :12:13. | |
if the Tories win the next general election. Meanwhile the vice | :12:14. | :12:17. | |
president of the European Commission has accused the British government | :12:18. | :12:20. | |
of stoking fears about immigration by implying that foreigners were | :12:21. | :12:22. | |
draining health and welfare resources. Our political | :12:23. | :12:29. | |
correspondent Vicki Young reports. Whether its immigration or human | :12:30. | :12:33. | |
rights, David Cameron knows the influence of Brussels on UK life is | :12:34. | :12:37. | |
a contentious issue. He's promised a referendum on Britain's's EU | :12:38. | :12:40. | |
membership but his MPs want a law on the books now, to show voters they | :12:41. | :12:44. | |
are serious. But the Bill is likely to be blocked by the Lord where | :12:45. | :12:51. | |
today peers disagreed passionately over the need for a referendum. We | :12:52. | :12:54. | |
politicians have made a regular mess of it over decades. That's why we | :12:55. | :13:02. | |
need to get the people to decide. Stop grand and -- grandstanding to | :13:03. | :13:05. | |
the UKIP gallery. If you are really serious about European reform, you | :13:06. | :13:11. | |
have to go out and work for it and join with others in achieving it. My | :13:12. | :13:16. | |
Lords, this is an utterly unnecessary, indeed otiose bill. It | :13:17. | :13:23. | |
does serious damage to business and jobs in Britain and stability and | :13:24. | :13:26. | |
security in Europe. Many conservatives feel under pressure | :13:27. | :13:31. | |
from the UK Independence Party, fearing their Euro-sceptic stance is | :13:32. | :13:35. | |
striking a chord with voters in the run-up to European elections in May. | :13:36. | :13:38. | |
That debate about Britain's's relationship with the rest of the EU | :13:39. | :13:43. | |
has been dominated in recent months by increasingly heated exchanges | :13:44. | :13:47. | |
over the pros and cons of immigration. Net migration is the | :13:48. | :13:50. | |
difference between the numbers coming here each year from other EU | :13:51. | :13:55. | |
countries and those leaving the UK. It peaked in 2007 at 127,000. The | :13:56. | :14:04. | |
most recent figures from June and stand-up 106,000. A senior official | :14:05. | :14:08. | |
from the European Commission has criticised ministers for appearing | :14:09. | :14:11. | |
to stoke up fears about immigration. What is the leadership if you just | :14:12. | :14:18. | |
try with popular stick movements and populist speech to gain votes? You | :14:19. | :14:24. | |
are destroying the future of your people, actually. Despite the | :14:25. | :14:28. | |
attacks from some Mr Cameron believes the European Union has to | :14:29. | :14:31. | |
change and he's confident he can get support from other EU leaders. | :14:32. | :14:38. | |
The French President, Francois Hollande, says he deplores a breach | :14:39. | :14:42. | |
of his right to privacy and is contemplating legal action after a | :14:43. | :14:45. | |
magazine reported he's having an affair with the actress Julie | :14:46. | :14:50. | |
Gayet. Klose-macro -- Closer magazine says it has spread showing | :14:51. | :14:56. | |
the Palace -- showing the president emerging from near the palace. | :14:57. | :15:00. | |
Here's Hugh Schofield. A bombshell from what the French call the people | :15:01. | :15:04. | |
press, a seven page exclusive with photos to back up the claim that | :15:05. | :15:09. | |
their president is having a secret love affair. His alleged place with | :15:10. | :15:14. | |
Julie Gayet is no more than 100 yards from the Elysee Palace. | :15:15. | :15:19. | |
According to Closer magazine it is on the upper floor of this classic | :15:20. | :15:22. | |
town house that the pair have their assignations. According to the match | :15:23. | :15:26. | |
between the couple arrived separately. The actress Julie Gayet | :15:27. | :15:29. | |
and then later the president, normally wearing a helmet on the | :15:30. | :15:34. | |
back of a chauffeur driven motorcycle and quite regularly the | :15:35. | :15:37. | |
magazine says the couple are now spending the night here together. | :15:38. | :15:44. | |
Julie Gayet is not an especially well-known actress. One of her | :15:45. | :15:47. | |
nonprofessional roles was in the campaign video for the president at | :15:48. | :15:51. | |
the 2012 election. She said she found him modest, formidable. | :15:52. | :15:59. | |
President Hollande was apparently told a few days ago that Closer | :16:00. | :16:05. | |
would be publishing the story of one it went ahead he reacted. In a | :16:06. | :16:10. | |
statement he said he deplored the breach of his right to privacy and | :16:11. | :16:14. | |
was looking at what steps to take including legal ones. French | :16:15. | :16:16. | |
presidential love affairs are not exactly new. Since the selection | :16:17. | :16:20. | |
Francois Hollande has been living at the Elysee Palace with the | :16:21. | :16:23. | |
journalist, the woman from whom he left the mother of his children, | :16:24. | :16:27. | |
said Alan Royale. Most French would agree that what is private is | :16:28. | :16:30. | |
private and will back the President's right to do what he | :16:31. | :16:33. | |
wants in his love life. The problem is that these are extremely | :16:34. | :16:37. | |
difficult times for France and for the president, who has been plumbing | :16:38. | :16:41. | |
the depths of unpopularity. He needs to show he's got bold new ideas for | :16:42. | :16:46. | |
the economy. Instead it looks to some like his mind is on other | :16:47. | :16:49. | |
things. In a way what's most striking is how this story, though | :16:50. | :16:53. | |
gossiped about at Paris dinner tables, has taken so long to enter | :16:54. | :16:56. | |
the public domain. A sign perhaps that in the age of the tweet fans's | :16:57. | :17:02. | |
long tradition of protecting politicians' privacy is breaking | :17:03. | :17:09. | |
down. Our top story this lunchtime: A police officer who falsely claimed | :17:10. | :17:12. | |
to be a witness to the so-called Plebgate row admits misconduct in | :17:13. | :17:15. | |
public office. And still to come, Jess' next | :17:16. | :17:18. | |
challenge - why the Olympic medallist will miss out on the | :17:19. | :17:21. | |
Commonwealth Games. Later on BBC London: Tottenham | :17:22. | :17:24. | |
Hotspur confirm that England striker Jermaine Defoe is leaving the club | :17:25. | :17:29. | |
to play in Canada. And with 40 flood warnings in places | :17:30. | :17:32. | |
along the Thames and floodwaters set to peak over the weekend in many | :17:33. | :17:35. | |
places, we have a full weather forecast. | :17:36. | :17:44. | |
The mother of a British surgeon who died in a Syrian prison last month | :17:45. | :17:47. | |
has spoken of what she calls her failure to save her son. Fatima Khan | :17:48. | :17:52. | |
spent five months in the country trying to free Dr Abbas Khan after | :17:53. | :17:55. | |
he was arrested in a rebel controlled area in November 2012. | :17:56. | :18:00. | |
Just days before he was due to be released, Abbas died, and as Jenny | :18:01. | :18:03. | |
Hill reports, Fatima worries that she will never learn the full story | :18:04. | :18:08. | |
of what happened to him. Even as a child, his mother told us | :18:09. | :18:13. | |
Abbas Khan liked to help others. Why was he so compelled, do you think, | :18:14. | :18:16. | |
to go to Syria? Because, you know, it was everywhere on the internet | :18:17. | :18:20. | |
and in the news that people are dying, no doctors, no medicine. So | :18:21. | :18:25. | |
he thought, "It is my profession. Instead of giving money, I should | :18:26. | :18:30. | |
give my service as well". So once Abbas disappeared, you decided to | :18:31. | :18:36. | |
try and find him in Syria. Yeah. It is such a dangerous place to have | :18:37. | :18:40. | |
gone. Why did you feel you have to go? He is my son. There was no | :18:41. | :18:45. | |
danger for me. And I said to my other children and myself as well | :18:46. | :18:48. | |
that if I die, I will die for my son. So it is nothing strange. Any | :18:49. | :18:55. | |
mother would do it. And when you found him, can you describe the | :18:56. | :19:00. | |
circumstances he was in? Yeah. When they brought him, we learnt in the | :19:01. | :19:03. | |
meeting that they took me to a court of terrorism. Suddenly, I find that | :19:04. | :19:11. | |
somebody is there and I don't know how I got up and hugged him. He was | :19:12. | :19:17. | |
a skeleton and he was crying, he had tears. He said "Mummy, I'm sorry. | :19:18. | :19:21. | |
Take me from here, Mummy". I said "Don't worry, you will be released | :19:22. | :19:27. | |
in a few days". And I was checking. His hands were full of blood marks | :19:28. | :19:33. | |
as if electric shocks were given. They screw drill in his nail, and | :19:34. | :19:37. | |
the legs were full of cigarette marks. And they used to beat him up | :19:38. | :19:42. | |
for no reason, putting the eye band on his eyes. What for? Because he | :19:43. | :19:51. | |
helped women and children. But they said "No, you helped other | :19:52. | :19:53. | |
opposition". He didn't. He said "Mummy, I swear I didn't". Only | :19:54. | :20:00. | |
women and children. You have done so much to try and get him released. | :20:01. | :20:05. | |
You have done so much to try and free your son. It is a shock that | :20:06. | :20:13. | |
they killed him. And it's because it came in the media, and the British | :20:14. | :20:15. | |
government didn't do anything. Didn't want to do anything. When was | :20:16. | :20:21. | |
the last time you actually saw him? I saw him on 25th November. So at | :20:22. | :20:25. | |
this point, you really thought he was coming home? Yes. He said | :20:26. | :20:28. | |
"Mummy, this Christmas, I want in London. Last Christmas, I was in | :20:29. | :20:31. | |
prison, but this Christmas, I want in London". I said "Yes. As usual, I | :20:32. | :20:37. | |
will cook Christmas dinner". The Syrian government claim Abbas took | :20:38. | :20:41. | |
his own life in prison. Fatima, though, says a government official | :20:42. | :20:44. | |
there told her something very different. He said "Yes, we killed | :20:45. | :20:49. | |
your son". He knew. He wasn't surprised. I said "Why?" He said "Go | :20:50. | :20:56. | |
back to Britain and tell your British government that we kill the | :20:57. | :21:01. | |
British. And tell your government, don't send any more British." So | :21:02. | :21:06. | |
they knew. They wanted to kill, and they killed him. A mother has | :21:07. | :21:15. | |
failed. A mother is the loser. I failed to save my son. What can I | :21:16. | :21:23. | |
do? Fatima Khan, talking to our | :21:24. | :21:28. | |
reporter, Jenny Hill. It seems many of us decided to avoid | :21:29. | :21:32. | |
the hassle of hitting the high street to buy presents for | :21:33. | :21:34. | |
Christmas, with more shopping done online than ever before. According | :21:35. | :21:37. | |
to the British Retail Consortium, nearly one in five purchases last | :21:38. | :21:40. | |
month was made on the internet, as our business correspondent, Emma | :21:41. | :21:48. | |
Simpson, reports. We left it late, very late to hit | :21:49. | :21:55. | |
the shops this Christmas. Sniffing out the bargains. In the end, we did | :21:56. | :21:59. | |
spend, but it was not a bonanza for retailers. Christmas was OK. It was | :22:00. | :22:04. | |
a respectable business. We saw retail sales grow by about 2%, which | :22:05. | :22:11. | |
was a sort of indication that we are seeing a slow, but fragile growth | :22:12. | :22:18. | |
within the retail industry. That growth did not come from physical | :22:19. | :22:24. | |
stores. The real action has been online. Shopping on the internet has | :22:25. | :22:28. | |
been catching on for quite a few years now, but there has been a big | :22:29. | :22:33. | |
surge in sales this Christmas. They were up just over 19% in December, | :22:34. | :22:38. | |
compared with the previous year excluding food. That is nearly one | :22:39. | :22:42. | |
in five purchases being made online. Christmas has shown just how much | :22:43. | :22:46. | |
more on food and we are about buying stuff over the internet, especially | :22:47. | :22:50. | |
when we can click and then collect our purchases in store. Morrison's | :22:51. | :22:55. | |
shoppers won't have to lug the shopping bags home much longer. It | :22:56. | :23:00. | |
has started its own online delivery service in the Midlands to the, | :23:01. | :23:04. | |
catching up with its rivals, one reason why it had a dismal | :23:05. | :23:08. | |
Christmas. But it's been a challenging time for all the big | :23:09. | :23:14. | |
supermarkets. Underlying food sales fell in the last three months, as | :23:15. | :23:18. | |
cautious consumers hunt for deals in the aisles and on the high street. | :23:19. | :23:22. | |
It comes down to, as long as you can provide value to the consumer, there | :23:23. | :23:27. | |
is pent-up demand out there. It will have tightened their belts, but | :23:28. | :23:30. | |
inflation is still running high and people will be cautious. It is | :23:31. | :23:33. | |
important to have the right product at the right price. If you offer | :23:34. | :23:38. | |
that, shoppers are willing to spend. As ever, some retailers fared better | :23:39. | :23:41. | |
this Christmas than others. The big winners may have been us, the | :23:42. | :23:46. | |
consumers, bagging even bigger bargains than last year. | :23:47. | :23:54. | |
Britain's Olympic golden girl, Jessica Ennis-Hill, has revealed | :23:55. | :23:56. | |
that she is pregnant, and will therefore miss this summer's | :23:57. | :23:58. | |
Commonwealth Games in Glasgow. The 27-year-old heptathlete said the | :23:59. | :24:01. | |
news was "unexpected, but exciting" and stressed that she remained | :24:02. | :24:03. | |
committed to competing in the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. With | :24:04. | :24:06. | |
more, here's our Commonwealth Games reporter, Chris McLoughlin. | :24:07. | :24:13. | |
She was the poster girl who helped light up London in 2012. Jessica | :24:14. | :24:20. | |
Ennis is the Olympic champion! But her news today means she won't be | :24:21. | :24:24. | |
the golden girl of Glasgow. In a statement, the 27-year-old stared | :24:25. | :24:29. | |
"we are completely overwhelmed with excitement. My plans for 2014 have | :24:30. | :24:33. | |
been turned upside down. I am sorry I won't be in Glasgow for the, | :24:34. | :24:37. | |
games, but know it will be an amazing occasion. " The start of her | :24:38. | :24:42. | |
family does not signal the end of her career . She says she intends to | :24:43. | :24:46. | |
get back to training after the baby is born to prepare for the Olympics | :24:47. | :24:52. | |
in Rio in 2016. Where will you be when the world comes to Scotland? | :24:53. | :24:55. | |
With the majority of tickets for the games already sold, the news is | :24:56. | :25:00. | |
unlikely to affect in Glasgow, but it is a massive blow. Organisers say | :25:01. | :25:04. | |
they are delighted for her and she will continue her role as an | :25:05. | :25:08. | |
ambassador. They would much rather she was running, though. So, who is | :25:09. | :25:12. | |
going to Glasgow? Sir Chris Hoy has hung up his bike, so no home games | :25:13. | :25:18. | |
for him. Fellow Olympian Mo Farah is unlikely to be there. He says he has | :25:19. | :25:21. | |
other priorities. Underworld's fastest man, Usain Bolt, is so far | :25:22. | :25:27. | |
undecided. They are the key players and everybody wanted to see them, so | :25:28. | :25:31. | |
I don't know if it is right to say it will not be as exciting, but for | :25:32. | :25:34. | |
most people want to look for these people, it will be disappointing for | :25:35. | :25:41. | |
sure. It will be a big miss not having them there. But she will | :25:42. | :25:46. | |
bounce back. So a day of excitement for the Ennis-Hills, but | :25:47. | :25:50. | |
Commonwealth concern in Glasgow. Now, Peter Gibbs is here and he will | :25:51. | :25:53. | |
bring you the weather forecast in just a moment. | :25:54. | :25:55. | |
But tomorrow marks the anniversary of the first ever TV weatherman. | :25:56. | :25:59. | |
Yes, it's 60 years since my predecessor, George Cowling, | :26:00. | :26:01. | |
predicted the "perfect day for trying clothes". That is | :26:02. | :26:10. | |
coincidentally the perfect forecast for tomorrow! Well, Nick Higham has | :26:11. | :26:15. | |
been taking a look behind the scenes at how the faces and technology of | :26:16. | :26:18. | |
the daily weather forecast have changed. It is going to be a dull | :26:19. | :26:22. | |
and wet start to the day. 1953, and the man for the Met Office tries out | :26:23. | :26:25. | |
for a new job, television weather forecaster. Jack Armstrong later | :26:26. | :26:31. | |
became a familiar face, but it was his colleague who actually delivered | :26:32. | :26:35. | |
the first forecast. We had been briefed to try and be a bit human. I | :26:36. | :26:38. | |
mentioned that tomorrow was going to be a good day for hanging out the | :26:39. | :26:42. | |
washing. This was something that had never been said before, and the | :26:43. | :26:45. | |
press really took this up and thought that was a jolly good | :26:46. | :26:50. | |
thing. The forecasters became familiar. You swine! That is the | :26:51. | :26:59. | |
picture this morning. What out for ice. The first woman arrived in 1974 | :27:00. | :27:03. | |
and found being in the public eye disconcerting. It did get to me a | :27:04. | :27:08. | |
bit more all the criticism especially about clothes and hair. | :27:09. | :27:13. | |
Most of the letters and things I got were lovely, very complementary and | :27:14. | :27:18. | |
nice, but of course, it is the critical ones you remember. Some | :27:19. | :27:22. | |
forecasts became notorious. Apparently today a woman rang the | :27:23. | :27:25. | |
BBC and said she heard there was a hurricane on the way. If you're | :27:26. | :27:27. | |
watching, don't worry, there isn't. But there was and this terrible | :27:28. | :27:33. | |
storm that night in October 1987. It's not as easy as it looks, as the | :27:34. | :27:37. | |
amateur 's show went from time to time, they have a go. In the West, | :27:38. | :27:41. | |
rain will be lighting and patch. There may be a few drier interludes | :27:42. | :27:46. | |
of Dumfries and Ayrshire. Actually, he wasn't bad. This is one of the | :27:47. | :27:49. | |
weather studios at forecasting house. One thing that has not | :27:50. | :27:54. | |
changed in 60 years is that television forecasters have to be | :27:55. | :27:57. | |
able to talk for up to four minutes, precisely to time, without | :27:58. | :28:02. | |
any kind of script and in the studio at any rate, without a map behind | :28:03. | :28:06. | |
them, although they do see a chart if they look at themselves in the | :28:07. | :28:10. | |
screen. The thing that has changed completely is the technology | :28:11. | :28:14. | |
involved. Can bond charts gave way to Mike mystic symbols that stuck to | :28:15. | :28:19. | |
the charts, or sometimes didn't -- magnetic symbols. Let's do it | :28:20. | :28:24. | |
again. Computer graphics arrived in the 1980s. Today's forecast are more | :28:25. | :28:30. | |
details, and, they claim, more accurate than ever. It's been shown | :28:31. | :28:34. | |
that the four-day forecast today is more accurate than the one day | :28:35. | :28:37. | |
forecast was 30 years ago. You may not believe that! But that has been | :28:38. | :28:44. | |
shown. So forecasts have improved. Today's forecasters are still | :28:45. | :28:48. | |
employed by the Met Office. There is a team of 18. Just now, they are not | :28:49. | :28:51. | |
short of work. That was then, this is now. Here's | :28:52. | :28:59. | |
Peter Gibbs. I have got the pencil and brother | :29:00. | :29:02. | |
standing by just in case. But hopefully, if I press this button, | :29:03. | :29:07. | |
we can jump forward 60 years into a very similar forecast, with a | :29:08. | :29:09. | |
weather front coming in from the west, giving us some outbreaks of | :29:10. | :29:13. | |
rain gradually creeping in across most places through the day. Of | :29:14. | :29:17. | |
course, rain is the last thing we need across central and southern | :29:18. | :29:21. | |
parts of England at the moment. It is not going to help. Behind the | :29:22. | :29:30. | |
clear skies, colder air moves in. We also start to see some mist and fog | :29:31. | :29:33. | |
forming as those temperatures drop away, but we keep clear of the | :29:34. | :29:38. | |
frost, fax to the cloud lingering on. But a risk of ice on those damp | :29:39. | :29:46. | |
surfaces anywhere across western parts of the UK tomorrow. But you | :29:47. | :29:51. | |
will have some bright, blue skies to compensate for that. It is a nice | :29:52. | :29:55. | |
looking day for most of us. There is the risk of mist and fog across | :29:56. | :29:59. | |
Northern Ireland, the odd patch of ice likely here, along with parts of | :30:00. | :30:06. | |
Scotland. It is the remnants of that cold air that moved out of America, | :30:07. | :30:12. | |
but much modified by the time it got to us. Saturday will be one of the | :30:13. | :30:15. | |
better days we have seen for a long time. Lots of sunshine to come, | :30:16. | :30:19. | |
particularly England and Wales. Still a few showers feeding in to | :30:20. | :30:23. | |
the north-west of Scotland. Temperature is about right for early | :30:24. | :30:30. | |
January. As we go into Saturday night, clear skies mean temperatures | :30:31. | :30:33. | |
will drop away quickly and we will see widespread frost for a time, but | :30:34. | :30:37. | |
then cloud increasing from the West and some fog forming ahead of that. | :30:38. | :30:42. | |
Temperatures rise in the West as the wind starts to pick up. We end the | :30:43. | :30:47. | |
night fairly mild in these western areas. We do see a change as we go | :30:48. | :30:51. | |
into Sunday, with this weather front beginning to get wound up, pushing | :30:52. | :30:57. | |
in on the Atlantic once again. The dark blue colours mean that | :30:58. | :30:59. | |
initially, the rain will be heavy as it slowly edges it away in, breaking | :31:00. | :31:04. | |
up to some extent and becoming a bit lighter. Eventually, a wet day for | :31:05. | :31:08. | |
many Western parts. Further east, drier and quite chilly. Saturday is | :31:09. | :31:14. | |
your good day for getting out and about to enjoy some sunshine. Watch | :31:15. | :31:17. | |
out for overnight frost. On Sunday, the rain is increasing on the west, | :31:18. | :31:22. | |
so Sunday is not a good day for hanging out your watch -- | :31:23. | :31:24. |