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missing three year-old boy from Edinburgh. A police helicopter, | :00:09. | :00:11. | |
sniffer dogs and coastguard teams are also involved in the search. | :00:12. | :00:16. | |
Mikaeel Kular hasn't been seen since his mother put him to bed on | :00:17. | :00:22. | |
Wednesday evening. I remain optimistic, of course I do, but as | :00:23. | :00:25. | |
time passes, I become deeply concerned. We'll be live there in a | :00:26. | :00:28. | |
moment. Also this lunchtime: Ed Miliband outlines his plans to | :00:29. | :00:35. | |
break up the big high street banks if Labour wins the next election. An | :00:36. | :00:43. | |
alleged rape victim of Coronation Street star William Roache tells the | :00:44. | :00:47. | |
court she was so humiliated by the attack that she kept it a secret | :00:48. | :00:53. | |
time. A woman has told the court how the DJ Dave Lee Travis put his hand | :00:54. | :00:57. | |
up her skirt while he was presenting an episode of Top of the Pops. Not | :00:58. | :01:01. | |
only a bumper Christmas, but also a bumper year on our High Streets | :01:02. | :01:04. | |
according to new figures released today. The Japanese soldier who | :01:05. | :01:07. | |
wouldn't believe the Second World War had ended and spent nearly 30 | :01:08. | :01:11. | |
years hiding in the jungle has died at the age of 91. | :01:12. | :01:14. | |
Later on BBC London: The police watchdog promises to interview | :01:15. | :01:19. | |
officers in the Duggan case that haven't spoken before. And the | :01:20. | :01:22. | |
Government will fight a ruling stopping a London school becoming an | :01:23. | :01:23. | |
academy. Hello, and welcome to the BBC news | :01:24. | :01:54. | |
one. -- the BBC News at one o'clock. It has become a massive ground, sea | :01:55. | :01:58. | |
and air search, as hundreds of local people join the emergency services | :01:59. | :02:00. | |
in the hunt for three year-old Mikaeel Kular. He was last seen when | :02:01. | :02:04. | |
his mother put him to bed at their Edinburgh flat on Wednesday night. | :02:05. | :02:07. | |
But despite a systematic search of the area, there is still no trace of | :02:08. | :02:11. | |
the little boy, and police say they are deeply concerned. Our | :02:12. | :02:13. | |
correspondent Kevin Keane is in Edinburgh. Yes, this is the centre | :02:14. | :02:21. | |
of the search for this missing boy, the flat behind me, which has been | :02:22. | :02:25. | |
entered by more police officers this morning. They have also been taping | :02:26. | :02:31. | |
off areas of dustbins, looking for clues as to where he is. Most of the | :02:32. | :02:35. | |
attention is now focusing away from the street and into the vicinity | :02:36. | :02:39. | |
where he could be. There are huge numbers of people in small and large | :02:40. | :02:46. | |
groups. You can see the scene from our helicopter. People are combing | :02:47. | :02:50. | |
the area, looking for clues, and more importantly, seeing if they can | :02:51. | :02:52. | |
find this missing boy. It is a community which is coming | :02:53. | :03:06. | |
together. Residents from all across Edinburgh gathered to help police in | :03:07. | :03:11. | |
the search. Despite the passing hours, there is determination, | :03:12. | :03:16. | |
energy and fear. The community spirit here has been fantastic. That | :03:17. | :03:21. | |
is absolutely recognised by ourselves, and our sincere thanks to | :03:22. | :03:25. | |
everyone who's come out and help so far. It's great to see that | :03:26. | :03:30. | |
continuing today. Hundreds of people have come to join the search for | :03:31. | :03:34. | |
varying reasons. Someone here yesterday, some I hate the first | :03:35. | :03:38. | |
time, like Magnus. Why are you here? -- some are here for first time. I | :03:39. | :03:43. | |
am a parent so I'm naturally concerned. My children have grown | :03:44. | :03:48. | |
up, but you have to do, because it is a child. I am a father and | :03:49. | :03:55. | |
grandfather. If my grandson had gone I like to think people would come | :03:56. | :04:00. | |
out and search for the lad. Mikaeel Kular was last seen at 9pm on | :04:01. | :04:03. | |
Thursday when his mother put him to bed. He was reported missing the | :04:04. | :04:08. | |
next morning when his bed was found empty at 7:15am. By 5pm, the UK had | :04:09. | :04:13. | |
opened a hotline. At 10am this morning the police responded to a | :04:14. | :04:17. | |
police request for help. Every possible method is being applied to | :04:18. | :04:23. | |
search for Mikaeel, from the air, water, even on horseback. Police are | :04:24. | :04:27. | |
looking everywhere and asking residents to do the same. We are | :04:28. | :04:33. | |
very open-minded and follow all lines of enquiry open to us, but | :04:34. | :04:35. | |
please help us with the search. Check your local premises, your | :04:36. | :04:40. | |
garden, your sheds, your cars, anywhere a small three-year-old who | :04:41. | :04:45. | |
might have been out and about would find some shelter. After some cold | :04:46. | :04:51. | |
nights and a day and a half of searching, concern is growing, but | :04:52. | :04:54. | |
so is this community's determination to bring the boy home. These | :04:55. | :05:01. | |
volunteers have been out throughout the night, in all weathers. It has | :05:02. | :05:05. | |
been cold, and are quite a few hours it was raining heavily as well. The | :05:06. | :05:08. | |
weather is now favouring them, but it is still quite close to zero, and | :05:09. | :05:15. | |
that will be of concern to the police and the family in terms of | :05:16. | :05:21. | |
the little boy's safety. They will continue searching through the | :05:22. | :05:24. | |
course of the afternoon, and as far as the volunteers are concerned, as | :05:25. | :05:28. | |
long as possible, until the boy is returned. The Labour leader Ed | :05:29. | :05:35. | |
Miliband has outlined his plans to break-up Britain's high street banks | :05:36. | :05:38. | |
if he wins the next election. He says it's time for a "reckoning" | :05:39. | :05:42. | |
with the industry, and that a Labour government would create at least two | :05:43. | :05:44. | |
so-called challenger banks, by forcing some of the Big Five to sell | :05:45. | :05:47. | |
off branches. Our political correspondent Carole Walker reports. | :05:48. | :05:52. | |
Ed Miliband says the banking market, dominated by five big players, is | :05:53. | :05:59. | |
broken and it is the root cause of many of the problems in our economy. | :06:00. | :06:04. | |
Last year he took on the energy giants. This year, it is the banks. | :06:05. | :06:08. | |
Mr Miliband set out his plans to break up a system in which four | :06:09. | :06:13. | |
banks control 85% of small business lending. That is one of the most | :06:14. | :06:18. | |
concentrated patterns of ownership in the world and it means there is | :06:19. | :06:23. | |
just not a spur to competition that we need. So we end up with small | :06:24. | :06:27. | |
firms not getting the lending, with poor customer service and high | :06:28. | :06:33. | |
charges. Under Labour's banking reforms, the competition and market | :06:34. | :06:36. | |
authority would tell the big banks to sell branches, oversee the | :06:37. | :06:39. | |
creation of at least two new Challenger banks, and at least set a | :06:40. | :06:46. | |
maximum size for banks. The Prime Minister, at a road improvement | :06:47. | :06:49. | |
project in Norfolk, dismissed Labour's proposals. What we need is | :06:50. | :06:56. | |
an entire economic plan that builds roads and railways, helps small | :06:57. | :06:59. | |
businesses, creates jobs, cuts taxes. That is what this government | :07:00. | :07:02. | |
is delivering and it is what the country needs. All the parties agree | :07:03. | :07:07. | |
on the need for more competition in the banking system and more lending | :07:08. | :07:11. | |
to small businesses, but bankers warn of big problems in the Labour | :07:12. | :07:15. | |
Party plan. They point out if a bank is told to cut the size of its | :07:16. | :07:18. | |
business to make way for a new rival, it could simply shared its | :07:19. | :07:25. | |
least profitable customers. If the bank is near the cap on customers | :07:26. | :07:28. | |
allowed by the government, you go into the bank and they will have to | :07:29. | :07:31. | |
say we cannot serve you, we have reached the number of customers and | :07:32. | :07:34. | |
you have to go somewhere else. It's not good for customers, competition | :07:35. | :07:38. | |
or the country. There are warnings that the plan will create | :07:39. | :07:42. | |
uncertainty over the future of Lloyds and RBS, making it harder for | :07:43. | :07:45. | |
the government to sell off its shares and return the bank to | :07:46. | :07:49. | |
private ownership. Taking on the banks could be a popular move, but | :07:50. | :07:54. | |
voters only believe it will work as part of a wider plan to rebuild the | :07:55. | :07:55. | |
economy. Let's speak to our chief political | :07:56. | :08:03. | |
correspondent Norman Smith. Norman, on the face of it, it sounds like a | :08:04. | :08:06. | |
major policy announcement. How significant is this? I think this | :08:07. | :08:13. | |
was a big moment for Ed Miliband and labour as he seeks to reignite the | :08:14. | :08:16. | |
argument on the economy and their offensive over the cost of living, | :08:17. | :08:21. | |
to regain some of the momentum after his party conference pledge to | :08:22. | :08:25. | |
freeze energy prices. Over recent months, the offensive over the cost | :08:26. | :08:29. | |
of living has floundered in the face of better economic news on jobs, | :08:30. | :08:34. | |
inflation and growth. Today Ed Miliband's pitch was to say a few | :08:35. | :08:41. | |
months at a news will not solve the cost of living crisis, this is a | :08:42. | :08:47. | |
long-term, generational problem -- months of good news. He wants to | :08:48. | :08:52. | |
give space to smaller banks so they can lend to small and medium-size | :08:53. | :08:56. | |
businesses to create new, decent, long-term jobs. That is how you | :08:57. | :09:00. | |
tackle the cost of living crisis. He also tried to refrain some of the | :09:01. | :09:05. | |
language and the mood music. Less emphasis on the cuts and hardships, | :09:06. | :09:09. | |
but talking about the families who are doing OK but felt they and the | :09:10. | :09:12. | |
country should be doing better. It is a move that comes with huge | :09:13. | :09:17. | |
risks. The first is breaking up the banks simply doesn't work. Already | :09:18. | :09:21. | |
the governor of the Bank of England, Mark Carney, has expressed | :09:22. | :09:25. | |
scepticism. Labour have hit back suggesting he does not get involved | :09:26. | :09:28. | |
in politics. But they have had to concede that their move would damage | :09:29. | :09:34. | |
shares in Lloyds and RBS, making it harder to solve. But above all it is | :09:35. | :09:38. | |
a risk, because Ed Miliband is taking a gamble on the mood and | :09:39. | :09:43. | |
tempo of the British public. He is gambling that they are in the mood | :09:44. | :09:47. | |
for radicalism, for reckoning. Rather than for the slow, patient | :09:48. | :09:48. | |
grind of plan A. An alleged rape victim of Coronation | :09:49. | :09:56. | |
Street star William Roache has told a court she was so "humiliated" at | :09:57. | :10:00. | |
the attack that she kept it a secret at the time. Preston Crown Court has | :10:01. | :10:04. | |
been told she was a "gullible kid" who was raped twice in 1967 at the | :10:05. | :10:07. | |
actor's then home in Lancashire, the first time when she was 15. Roache, | :10:08. | :10:12. | |
who has played Ken Barlow since the launch of the ITV soap, denies the | :10:13. | :10:16. | |
charges against him. Our correspondent Daniel Boettcher | :10:17. | :10:17. | |
reports. William Roache arrived at court for | :10:18. | :10:27. | |
the fourth day of his trial accompanied by members of his | :10:28. | :10:32. | |
family. The 81-year-old actor faces seven charges, including two | :10:33. | :10:35. | |
allegations of rape. The court heard evidence from a woman, now aged 62, | :10:36. | :10:39. | |
who said she was raped when she was a teenager at this bungalow in | :10:40. | :10:44. | |
Lancashire which, at the time, belongs to William Roache but is now | :10:45. | :10:47. | |
owned by somebody else. She also alleges he raped her again at a | :10:48. | :10:52. | |
different property that he owned. Today the woman was cross-examined | :10:53. | :10:55. | |
by the defence barrister representing William Roache. The | :10:56. | :10:58. | |
witness, whose identity is protected, appeared by video link on | :10:59. | :11:02. | |
and was asked why she did not tell her family or friends at school what | :11:03. | :11:06. | |
had happened. She said she was so shocked she would never have | :11:07. | :11:08. | |
mentioned it because I had been so gullible to have been caught in the | :11:09. | :11:13. | |
situation, and added, I was humiliated, disgusted and ashamed. | :11:14. | :11:17. | |
Asked about the second alleged rape, the witness said she agreed to | :11:18. | :11:20. | |
go into the cottage because she thought somebody else was inside, | :11:21. | :11:22. | |
but she said she knew straightaway that something wasn't right. She was | :11:23. | :11:27. | |
asked by the defensive she tried to stop William Roache. | :11:28. | :11:39. | |
William Roache denies two counts of rape and five indecent assault. The | :11:40. | :11:43. | |
trial is expected to last for four weeks. | :11:44. | :11:48. | |
A woman has told a court how the DJ Dave Lee Travis put his hand up her | :11:49. | :11:54. | |
skirt while he was presenting an episode of Top of the Pops. The | :11:55. | :11:57. | |
woman, who can't be named for legal reasons, said she was 17 when Travis | :11:58. | :12:00. | |
indecently assaulted her at the BBC studios in Shepherd's Bush in 1978. | :12:01. | :12:04. | |
He denies 13 counts of indecent assault and one of sexual assault. | :12:05. | :12:06. | |
Our correspondent June Kelly reports. | :12:07. | :12:13. | |
Under scrutiny in this trial is Dave Lee Travis's behaviour in his long | :12:14. | :12:20. | |
career both inside and out of the BBC. He is pleading not guilty to 13 | :12:21. | :12:25. | |
charges of indecent assault and one of sexual assault over a period of | :12:26. | :12:29. | |
more than 30 years. Today in court, the focus was on one of the earlier | :12:30. | :12:34. | |
counts against him, dating back to the late 1970s. Good evening, it's | :12:35. | :12:39. | |
Thursday, and time for some of the best music around on another edition | :12:40. | :12:44. | |
of Top of the Pops. At the time he was a regular presenter of one of | :12:45. | :12:47. | |
the BBC's biggest shows. It's claimed that on this edition, Dave | :12:48. | :12:51. | |
Lee Travis assaulted the teenager on the right of the screen as he | :12:52. | :12:55. | |
introduced the next record. Today she became the latest of his alleged | :12:56. | :12:59. | |
victims to testify or stop like the others, she gave her evidence from | :13:00. | :13:04. | |
behind a screen -- to testify. She told the court how he put his hand | :13:05. | :13:06. | |
up her skirt. The woman said she and her friend | :13:07. | :13:22. | |
were told by one of the Top of the Pops crew that the DJ had asked for | :13:23. | :13:27. | |
them to stand next to him. She said she could not watch the show when it | :13:28. | :13:31. | |
was broadcast. Dave Lee Travis was also a regular on the radio one Road | :13:32. | :13:38. | |
show. Today a woman said she assaulted her when the road show was | :13:39. | :13:40. | |
in the West Country and she was working at a local hotel. Throughout | :13:41. | :13:45. | |
the evidence from both women, the former presenter shook his head when | :13:46. | :13:48. | |
he listened to the accounts. The court has now adjourned for the | :13:49. | :13:52. | |
week. Dave Lee Travis is due back in the dock on Monday. | :13:53. | :13:58. | |
The French president, Francoise Hollande has made his first visit to | :13:59. | :14:02. | |
hospital to see his partner. She was admitted a week ago after reports | :14:03. | :14:06. | |
emerged that the President's affair with the actress Julie Gayet. An | :14:07. | :14:12. | |
inquest has heard that a man lay dying at home waiting for paramedics | :14:13. | :14:15. | |
while an ambulance was outside a hospital for nearly five hours | :14:16. | :14:22. | |
dropping off a patient. Fred Pring, aged 74 and from Flintshire, died 42 | :14:23. | :14:25. | |
minutes after his wife had first called 999. She had rung four times | :14:26. | :14:29. | |
but there was not an ambulance available. Our correspondent Cemlyn | :14:30. | :14:30. | |
Davies reports. Pictured by his wife on his | :14:31. | :14:42. | |
birthday, Fred Ping was 74 when he died at his home near mould, he | :14:43. | :14:46. | |
suffered with heart trouble but, in the early hours last March one | :14:47. | :14:50. | |
morning, his condition deteriorated. Fred died at quite severe chest | :14:51. | :14:56. | |
pains. I asked him if it was bad enough to call the ambulance. He | :14:57. | :15:02. | |
said yes. I dialled 999, and explained what his condition was. | :15:03. | :15:06. | |
They said help would be coming. Joyce called for an ambulance for | :15:07. | :15:12. | |
times, but 40 minutes after first dialling 909, the paramedics still | :15:13. | :15:17. | |
hadn't arrived. Eventually, he couldn't take any more, and he just | :15:18. | :15:22. | |
passed away. The inquest heard recordings of the calls. The first | :15:23. | :15:27. | |
made at 1:09pm. Ten minutes later, she rang again and said: After | :15:28. | :15:37. | |
dialling 99 93rd time, the operator told her, this service has been very | :15:38. | :15:42. | |
busy in the area but an ambulance would be down as soon as possible. | :15:43. | :15:51. | |
The final call made at 152, began with, this is my fourth call, I | :15:52. | :15:56. | |
think my husband has died. Today a member of the Welsh ambulance | :15:57. | :15:59. | |
service said and added should have arrived within eight minutes but | :16:00. | :16:04. | |
there wasn't one available. That was because several ambulances were | :16:05. | :16:08. | |
being held up outside accident and emergency departments waiting for | :16:09. | :16:13. | |
patients to be admitted. Once spent nearly five hours waiting at Wrexham | :16:14. | :16:17. | |
Maelor Hospital. The ambulance service chief executive is due to | :16:18. | :16:19. | |
give evidence this afternoon. Our top story this lunchtime. | :16:20. | :16:28. | |
Hundreds of people have joined the search for the missing | :16:29. | :16:30. | |
three-year-old Mikaeel Kular from Edinburgh. A police helicopter, | :16:31. | :16:33. | |
sniffer dogs and coastguard teams are also involved in the hunt. | :16:34. | :16:38. | |
And, still to come: Counting the cost of the winter storms. | :16:39. | :16:42. | |
The bill could run into the hundreds of millions. | :16:43. | :16:45. | |
Later on BBC London: A charity criticises staff shortages on the | :16:46. | :16:49. | |
Tube, saying disabled people are being shut out. | :16:50. | :16:51. | |
And we visit Saracens in training, as they bid to become the only | :16:52. | :16:54. | |
London rugby club to make the Heineken Cup quarterfinals. | :16:55. | :17:07. | |
Shops on the High Street not only had a bumper Christmas, but new | :17:08. | :17:12. | |
figures this morning say it was a bumper year too, with the fastest | :17:13. | :17:14. | |
annual sales growth for more than nine years. Retail sales in December | :17:15. | :17:21. | |
were up 5.3% on a year ago, much higher than many analysts had | :17:22. | :17:25. | |
predicted. Online shopping is still expanding, and demand for the latest | :17:26. | :17:28. | |
technology and clothing drove sales. Our correspondent Tim Muffett looks | :17:29. | :17:38. | |
at our changing shopping habits. Yet another convenience store, but | :17:39. | :17:42. | |
one that illustrates the changing face of food shopping. This is | :17:43. | :17:49. | |
Sainsbury 's 594 smaller shop which has just opened in Balsall Common | :17:50. | :17:54. | |
near Coventry. Like Tesco, this supermarket giant now has more | :17:55. | :18:00. | |
convenient stores than supermarkets. There has been a lifestyle change in | :18:01. | :18:04. | |
the way people shop. People want to make sure they can shop more | :18:05. | :18:07. | |
regularly and frequently which is what we have seen, in the | :18:08. | :18:12. | |
convenience area. It allows customers to control how much they | :18:13. | :18:16. | |
spend. Figures released today showed retail sales were up 5.3% compared | :18:17. | :18:23. | |
to one year ago, better than many predicted. In the grocery sector, | :18:24. | :18:27. | |
growth was smaller. The challenges and opportunities facing food | :18:28. | :18:32. | |
retailers seem to be ever-changing. The convenience store sector is | :18:33. | :18:36. | |
predicted to grow by a third over four years according to some | :18:37. | :18:42. | |
analysts. It is worth ?35 billion annually. The other big area of | :18:43. | :18:47. | |
growth is online grocery shopping. That has led some supermarkets to | :18:48. | :18:52. | |
open stores with a difference. No checkouts, no customers, this | :18:53. | :18:56. | |
so-called dark store is run by Waitrose. The only people in it are | :18:57. | :19:01. | |
staff picking products for customers who have ordered online. We don't | :19:02. | :19:07. | |
have sufficient capacity to meet the demand from customers. So we create | :19:08. | :19:10. | |
a dedicated operation like this one here which is purely for our | :19:11. | :19:16. | |
customers to order online. Waitrose plans to open another dark store | :19:17. | :19:21. | |
soon. Tesco already has six. Changes to the way we live mean supermarkets | :19:22. | :19:25. | |
are having to transform the way they do business. | :19:26. | :19:33. | |
Tim off, BBC News. A former soldier has been sentenced | :19:34. | :19:37. | |
after he had admitted causing or allowing the death of his daughter. | :19:38. | :19:39. | |
Liam Culverhouse's 19-month-old daughter Khloe Abrams died in a | :19:40. | :19:42. | |
hospice in November 2012, 18 months after he assaulted her. The | :19:43. | :19:48. | |
25-year-old had previously survived being shot by a rogue policeman in | :19:49. | :19:52. | |
Afghanistan in 2009 during an attack which left five of his colleagues | :19:53. | :19:55. | |
dead. Let's speak to our defence correspondent Jonathan Beale. | :19:56. | :19:57. | |
Take us through what has happened in court this morning? | :19:58. | :20:01. | |
As you say, this is all about Liam Culverhouse who was a soldier | :20:02. | :20:08. | |
serving, he did three tours, Barack, and Afghanistan. Severely injured in | :20:09. | :20:14. | |
November 2009. This case is all about what happened in May 2011 when | :20:15. | :20:18. | |
his seven-week-old daughter Khloe was taken to hospital. We have been | :20:19. | :20:23. | |
hearing about some of the injuries to Khloe who died 18 months later in | :20:24. | :20:29. | |
care. She had injuries to her brain, including haemorrhage, to her body | :20:30. | :20:34. | |
including fractures, internal bleeding, consistent we hear from | :20:35. | :20:39. | |
medical experts with shaking. When he was arrested, Liam told -- said | :20:40. | :20:45. | |
he had been heavy-handed but said he had never hurt her. He admitted he | :20:46. | :20:51. | |
had a tempter -- temper. When he was asked if he had changed because of | :20:52. | :20:54. | |
his experience in Afghanistan, he said, no, I have changed a bit but I | :20:55. | :20:58. | |
am still the same person. We will hear his mitigating circumstances | :20:59. | :21:04. | |
about PTSD later, before he is sentenced. | :21:05. | :21:07. | |
The recent storms and floods have caused hundreds of millions of | :21:08. | :21:11. | |
pounds-worth of damage to the road network, according to estimates | :21:12. | :21:13. | |
released by the Local Government Association. It says the bill's | :21:14. | :21:16. | |
likely to be at least ?400 million in England and Wales alone. The | :21:17. | :21:27. | |
Environment Agency has issued a flood warning for Gatwick our | :21:28. | :21:30. | |
correspondent Mike Sergeant is in Ashford in Surrey. Airport. | :21:31. | :21:38. | |
Over to you. Here, they are replacing the entire surface of the | :21:39. | :21:42. | |
road, part of the long term work to make these roads stronger and more | :21:43. | :21:47. | |
resilient. Councils affected by the floods are also engaged in thousands | :21:48. | :21:52. | |
of repair jobs, reinforcing bridges, mending flood defences, fixing | :21:53. | :21:57. | |
potholes. All of that is proving very expensive. | :21:58. | :22:02. | |
As the deluge continues in some parts of the UK, they are counting | :22:03. | :22:07. | |
the cost. All that water seeping into roads, eroding and cracking | :22:08. | :22:12. | |
surfaces. Mary has a giant pothole right opposite her Surrey home. | :22:13. | :22:20. | |
My yard is filled with water, no drivers could see it. One car has | :22:21. | :22:26. | |
had its wheels damaged. Anyone on a bicycle would be in serious trouble. | :22:27. | :22:31. | |
Council repair teams came out to fix this section of road today. But an | :22:32. | :22:36. | |
overnight downpour made the job impossible for now. Until we get rid | :22:37. | :22:41. | |
of the water problem and it subsides, then we will come back and | :22:42. | :22:44. | |
repair the pothole. If it keeps raining, you can't fix it. All we | :22:45. | :22:49. | |
can do is make it safe. Today there were flood warnings again in parts | :22:50. | :22:53. | |
of Surrey and Sussex. Estimates for the damage of recent weeks are | :22:54. | :22:57. | |
expected to rise. Surrey says it will probably spend ?5 million | :22:58. | :23:01. | |
repairing roads this year. North Norfolk is facing costs of ?3 | :23:02. | :23:21. | |
million. Call zero says it has ?2 million of millions, insurance | :23:22. | :23:23. | |
problems, that lies alongside it. It is a bad situation. | :23:24. | :23:29. | |
Some of the biggest expense is in coastal towns battered by giant | :23:30. | :23:35. | |
waves, where seaside roads were ripped up and turned to rubble. Most | :23:36. | :23:42. | |
of the money local authorities spend will be automatically reimbursed by | :23:43. | :23:45. | |
central government under an existing scheme. But councils say they need | :23:46. | :23:50. | |
an extra emergency fund to meet the rising cost of the winter storms. | :23:51. | :23:57. | |
Within the last half an hour, the local government Minister Brandon | :23:58. | :24:02. | |
Lewis has confirmed an additional ?7 million will be made available to | :24:03. | :24:03. | |
councils with the repair efforts. A Japanese soldier who refused to | :24:04. | :24:10. | |
surrender after World War Two ended, and spent 29 years continuing the | :24:11. | :24:14. | |
fight, has died aged 91. Lieutenant Hiroo Onoda finally accepted the war | :24:15. | :24:18. | |
was over in 1974, but only after he was persuaded to come out of the | :24:19. | :24:21. | |
Philippine jungle in by his former commanding officer. Our | :24:22. | :24:26. | |
correspondent Rupert Wingfield Hayes sent this report from Tokyo. | :24:27. | :24:42. | |
NEWSREEL: Japan's surrender delegates are received in Manila | :24:43. | :24:44. | |
with cold formality. 20 August 1945. In Manila, Japanese | :24:45. | :24:48. | |
generals have arrived at the end of the war. | :24:49. | :24:50. | |
These envoys from Emperor Hirohito are here to get their surrender | :24:51. | :24:52. | |
orders. In the dense jungles of the | :24:53. | :24:55. | |
Philippines, small groups fight on. Gradually, they are killed or die, | :24:56. | :24:59. | |
or give themselves up. All except one. | :25:00. | :25:09. | |
It is not until 1974 that Lieutenant Hiroo Onodo finally walks out of the | :25:10. | :25:12. | |
jungle. Still in his battered uniform, still with his Samurai | :25:13. | :25:16. | |
sword at his side. At Tokyo Airport, huge crowds welcome him home. At the | :25:17. | :25:21. | |
bottom of the steps, his elderly father and mother await him. Thank | :25:22. | :25:27. | |
God you have come back alive, she says. The last time she saw her | :25:28. | :25:34. | |
son, he was 22. Now, he is 52. His return made headlines around the | :25:35. | :25:37. | |
world, and he was welcomed in Japan as a hero. The Japan he came back to | :25:38. | :25:46. | |
had completely changed. The Emperor no longer a god, Tokyo a booming | :25:47. | :25:49. | |
metropolis of 20 million. He did not like it at all. A year later, he | :25:50. | :25:54. | |
headed to Brazil where he bought a ranch and raised cattle. But he came | :25:55. | :25:58. | |
back to Japan often and, even at the age of 90, was still giving speeches | :25:59. | :26:04. | |
about loyalty and survival. Lieutenant Onodo was the last relic | :26:05. | :26:07. | |
of another age. Part hero, part fanatic. | :26:08. | :26:19. | |
A 16-year-old schoolboy from Bristol is close to becoming the youngest | :26:20. | :26:22. | |
person ever to get to the South Pole. Lewis Clarke has spent the | :26:23. | :26:25. | |
last few weeks trekking through the Antarctic. He's expected to finish | :26:26. | :26:28. | |
his journey this weekend. Jon Kay reports. | :26:29. | :26:36. | |
After years of dreaming and months of training, Lewis Clarke is nearly | :26:37. | :26:41. | |
there. He has checked for 700 miles through the toughest terrain, and is | :26:42. | :26:47. | |
almost at the South Pole. Hello, Lewis. Fantastic to hear from you! | :26:48. | :26:53. | |
Before the final slog, the 16-year-old called his classmates | :26:54. | :26:57. | |
back in Bristol to answer their questions. George from the junior | :26:58. | :27:00. | |
school says, is it an experience he will never forget? This last week, | :27:01. | :27:12. | |
my body is just telling me to stop. Lewis has spent more than 40 days, | :27:13. | :27:18. | |
sometimes at -40 Celsius, heading to the South Pole with just one adult | :27:19. | :27:22. | |
guide accompanying him. I think when I get there, there will be relief, | :27:23. | :27:30. | |
not having to slog it out nine hours a day, skiing, I will be happy being | :27:31. | :27:38. | |
there. His taste for adventure began when he was just 12. He was part of | :27:39. | :27:42. | |
the youngest team ever to swim the English Channel. To prepare for his | :27:43. | :27:49. | |
South Pole adventure, Lewis had to put on three stone to protect his | :27:50. | :27:53. | |
body in the extreme cold. After all the waiting, I just want to go now. | :27:54. | :28:00. | |
Well, do it, he nearly has. His family back home can't quite believe | :28:01. | :28:05. | |
his determination. Obviously there was Captain Scott, Shackleton, in | :28:06. | :28:10. | |
more recent times, brand of fines. There is a British session with the | :28:11. | :28:15. | |
polar wastes, Everest as well. You feel like Lewis is now in that | :28:16. | :28:19. | |
group. Really proud he is my brother, and that he has done all | :28:20. | :28:26. | |
this stuff. And he is raising money for charity too. So, as he comes to | :28:27. | :28:30. | |
the end of this challenge, what is your next task after this one? | :28:31. | :28:38. | |
Probably getting my GCSEs. Well, at least, geography and PE won't be a | :28:39. | :28:40. | |
problem. Time for a look at the weather. | :28:41. | :28:50. | |
Here's Louise Lear. Some nuisance showers today, | :28:51. | :28:54. | |
particularly across south-east Wales and South East England, they caused | :28:55. | :28:58. | |
disruption this morning to the south of London. Weather warnings have | :28:59. | :29:01. | |
been issued, still in force for the next hour, but they will ease away. | :29:02. | :29:07. | |
In fact, sunny spells and scattered showers remained the headline for | :29:08. | :29:11. | |
the afternoon. Hopefully the showers should ease in intensity. Where we | :29:12. | :29:16. | |
saw the worst, we should get sunshine coming through for Northern | :29:17. | :29:20. | |
Ireland, north-west England and Wales. Miserable for the far north | :29:21. | :29:25. | |
of Scotland across Shetland, gales, rain, some sleet at lower levels. | :29:26. | :29:30. | |
Generally, for most of us, up to 10 degrees. This evening and overnight, | :29:31. | :29:37. | |
those showers should continue to ease for a time across England and | :29:38. | :29:43. | |
Wales. Clearer skies further north. It stays wet and windy to the | :29:44. | :29:49. | |
extreme north. In the South West, we seek wet weather, accompanied by a | :29:50. | :29:52. | |
southerly breeze. Seven degrees first thing. Three degrees in | :29:53. | :29:59. | |
Scotland. It is the intensity of the rain which causes concern in the | :30:00. | :30:03. | |
south-west, particularly Devon, Somerset, Dorset and south-east | :30:04. | :30:10. | |
Wales. Another inch of rain, already falling on saturated ground. River | :30:11. | :30:15. | |
levels are high, the potential for localised flooding. That rain will | :30:16. | :30:20. | |
continue to move further north through the morning into north-west | :30:21. | :30:22. | |
England and Northern Ireland for a time. Some of it again quite | :30:23. | :30:28. | |
intense. Elsewhere on Saturday, starting rather cloudy and grey. | :30:29. | :30:33. | |
Quieter, particularly through eastern England. The rain will shift | :30:34. | :30:42. | |
north and east, patchy and light. Highs on Saturday similar to today, | :30:43. | :30:48. | |
up to 10 degrees. The weather front continues north and east overnight | :30:49. | :30:52. | |
into Sunday morning. Allowing things to quieten down on Sunday. We pick | :30:53. | :30:58. | |
up a southeasterly breeze which will make it feel cooler. The winds are | :30:59. | :31:02. | |
still a feature in the far north-east of Scotland. Elsewhere, | :31:03. | :31:08. | |
patchy frost and Fog, some dents in places. Some sunshine, a few sharp | :31:09. | :31:14. | |
showers to the north and west. If you want to know more about the rain | :31:15. | :31:18. | |
we see today and we have got to come, more details on our website. | :31:19. | :31:21. | |
Now a reminder of our top story this lunchtime. In the last few moments, | :31:22. | :31:28. | |
Police Scotland have asked the public for help after a potential | :31:29. | :31:32. | |
sighting of a child matching the description of the | :31:33. | :31:34. |