:00:12. > :00:16.floods. The Environment Secretary visits the South West and promises
:00:17. > :00:22.action. Eye had a good meeting this morning with two local MPs working
:00:23. > :00:25.on a plan which I hope will sort out this problem over the next 20
:00:26. > :00:28.years. With more bad weather predicted, local people say they've
:00:29. > :00:34.waited too long and are yet to be convinced. It has been like this for
:00:35. > :00:39.three weeks, going on and on. And that is why he is here today. That
:00:40. > :00:43.is why we got extra pumps today and that is why it is so tidy. This time
:00:44. > :00:46.last night, it did not look like this. We'll explore some of the
:00:47. > :00:49.proposed solutions as we report live from one of the UK's worst hit
:00:50. > :00:52.areas. Also this lunchtime, the actor Jude Law tells the
:00:53. > :00:55.phone-hacking trial the media had "an unhealthy amount of information"
:00:56. > :00:57.about his life. Cutting red-tape, thousands of rules
:00:58. > :01:02.for small businesses are to be scrapped or amended. David Cameron
:01:03. > :01:08.says it'll save more than ?850 million a year And another honour
:01:09. > :01:11.for Dame Helen Mirren. She's to be awarded with the British Academy of
:01:12. > :01:22.Film and Television Arts' highest award, the BAFTA fellowship.
:01:23. > :01:27.And coming up in the sport, Leighton Baines signs a four-year contract at
:01:28. > :01:28.Everton. The England defender was twice a transfer target for David
:01:29. > :01:50.Moyes at Manchester United. Good afternoon and welcome to the
:01:51. > :01:52.BBC News at One. The Environment Secretary, Owen Paterson, has faced
:01:53. > :01:55.angry criticism from flood victims on a visit to Somerset where large
:01:56. > :02:01.areas remain under water and a "major incident" has been declared.
:02:02. > :02:04.Mr Paterson was visiting a pumping facility when some residents took
:02:05. > :02:07.the opportunity to voice their anger at the lack of regular dredging on
:02:08. > :02:11.the Somerset Levels. More flooding is expected in parts of England and
:02:12. > :02:16.Scotland. The Environment Agency still has 14 flood warnings in
:02:17. > :02:28.place. Our correspondent Jon Kay is in Northmoor Green.
:02:29. > :02:31.Things are definitely moving here on the Somerset Levels. 1 million
:02:32. > :02:38.tonnes of floodwater is being pumped off the fields and into the rivers.
:02:39. > :02:42.The Environment Secretary has told us in the last few minutes that this
:02:43. > :02:46.is just the start. He says he now wants a long-term plan, a programme
:02:47. > :02:51.in place to make sure that this kind of flooding that we have seen this
:02:52. > :02:54.winter does not happen again. People around here have told us that they
:02:55. > :02:58.are glad to hear that and they welcome the visit but they say it is
:02:59. > :03:04.too little and too late. Why was this not done ages ago?! This was
:03:05. > :03:08.never going to be an easy visit for Owen Paterson. There is a real anger
:03:09. > :03:11.in this part of Somerset, not just that the flooding has happened but
:03:12. > :03:17.that sense that this community has been ignored. Why was this not done
:03:18. > :03:22.last year when it happened? Why have we only just had pumps Putin now?
:03:23. > :03:26.Why?! It has been like this for three weeks and that is why he is
:03:27. > :03:31.here today. That is why we got extra pumps yesterday. That is why it
:03:32. > :03:36.looks so tidy. The Secretary of State saw the pumping equipment that
:03:37. > :03:39.has been brought in to get rid of 10,000 tonnes of floodwater every
:03:40. > :03:43.second. But many people believe it should have happened much earlier.
:03:44. > :03:49.The main concern is the state of the river. Clogged up with silt from a
:03:50. > :03:52.lack of dredging. Today, Mr Patterson announced the dredging
:03:53. > :03:58.would almost certainly resume as part of a wider rescue strategy. It
:03:59. > :04:05.appears that we need to dredge these rivers but also we need to do more
:04:06. > :04:09.with suds, and holding what are back. We need to do more with soap
:04:10. > :04:16.and planting. And there could be significant investment in a sluice
:04:17. > :04:20.further down to hold Bridgewater. All that is a package and it is a
:04:21. > :04:24.partnership. The agencies and authorities have
:04:25. > :04:28.been given six weeks to come up with a plan which Mr Patterson says he
:04:29. > :04:31.will sign off if it is viable. For years, people here have been told
:04:32. > :04:35.the dredging is not affordable or affected some relief today that it
:04:36. > :04:41.may happen but regret that it has not happened sooner. The pain,
:04:42. > :04:47.sometimes it is too much. We have lived here a long time and we have
:04:48. > :04:52.for me experience this last year and this year. I do not want to be there
:04:53. > :04:56.again. Owen Paterson did not criticise the Environment Agency,
:04:57. > :05:00.saying that the body had protected 1 million homes from flooding across
:05:01. > :05:04.the UK this winter. But he said he did understand that this strength of
:05:05. > :05:10.anger here on the Somerset Levels and he promised there would be
:05:11. > :05:12.action. The Environment Agency said in a
:05:13. > :05:17.statement this lunchtime that they had been working hard,
:05:18. > :05:20.round-the-clock four weeks to try to prevent these problems and deal with
:05:21. > :05:23.problems that have occurred. They point out that as far as dredging is
:05:24. > :05:27.concerned, it is not a magic will it, not something that automatically
:05:28. > :05:32.solves every problem. They say it has to be done continually and it is
:05:33. > :05:35.very expensive. It might happen here but it is unclear whether it will
:05:36. > :05:41.happen once or it will go on and on as people would like. The actor Jude
:05:42. > :05:44.Law has told a jury that the media had "an unhealthy amount of
:05:45. > :05:47.information" about his life and that packs of photographers would follow
:05:48. > :05:49.him around even when he made secret arrangements for family events.
:05:50. > :05:52.He was giving evidence at the phone hacking trial at the Old Bailey. Our
:05:53. > :06:02.Political Correspondent Robin Brant is at court.
:06:03. > :06:07.This time in the witness box lasted just one hour and 15 minutes,
:06:08. > :06:12.Bierley the length of your average movie these days. Jude Law came to
:06:13. > :06:16.court to see Andy Coulson in the dark. The man that the prosecution
:06:17. > :06:20.says was in charge of the News of the World at the time when Jude Law
:06:21. > :06:29.and his ex-wife, even a nanny, was targeted. And all for the benefits
:06:30. > :06:32.of numerous stories in the tabloids. Just a warning, this report contains
:06:33. > :06:35.flash photography. It was a rare moment when the Oscar-nominated
:06:36. > :06:40.actor did not want to play to the cameras. Jude Law arrived at the Old
:06:41. > :06:44.Bailey, the latest in the long line of hacking victims called to give
:06:45. > :06:47.evidence. The prosecution says it was this man, former News of the
:06:48. > :06:51.World editor Andy Coulson, who was in charge when the actor was
:06:52. > :06:56.targeted. For well over a decade, he has been a tabloid favourite. His
:06:57. > :07:00.field marriage to Sadie Frost, his relationship with Sienna Miller. The
:07:01. > :07:04.jury has previously heard that all three were targeted by News of the
:07:05. > :07:08.World investigator, Glenn Mulcaire. All sides in this trial agreed that
:07:09. > :07:12.it happened but they disagree on who at the newspaper knew that it was
:07:13. > :07:19.happening. No costume, or cameras. Jude Law sat in the witness box as
:07:20. > :07:24.he asked -- and questions. For the first time in weeks, the courtroom
:07:25. > :07:28.was full. For the five years between 2001 and 2006, he described how he
:07:29. > :07:31.commuted from the US to the UK but under questioning, he said that he
:07:32. > :07:35.did not read the stories about him in the paper. The only awareness
:07:36. > :07:38.that eye had was that there seems to be an unhealthy amount of
:07:39. > :07:43.information, that people had access to my life and whereabouts and where
:07:44. > :07:48.I was going and to lie was worth. It fell to Andy Coulson's barrister to
:07:49. > :07:51.introduce a hint of drama. As Timothy Langdale QC questioned the
:07:52. > :07:55.actor, he passed him a piece of paper with a name on it. Were you
:07:56. > :07:59.aware that this person, a member of your family, was selling information
:08:00. > :08:04.to the News of the World? Only recently, Jude Law said, and not for
:08:05. > :08:09.money. As the evidence came to close, the prosecutor asked him, as
:08:10. > :08:12.far as you are concerned, did anything going to the News of the
:08:13. > :08:18.World as a result of you putting it there, causing it to appear?
:08:19. > :08:23.Andy Coulson's legal team tried to show that there were other ways that
:08:24. > :08:29.information about Jude Law was getting out, not just acting. The
:08:30. > :08:32.jury will have to decide. Andy Coulson denies all the charges
:08:33. > :08:37.he faces as do the other six defendants in this trial. We are
:08:38. > :08:40.into week 12 of the Old Bailey, probably only halfway through these
:08:41. > :08:44.proceedings but the prosecution is approaching the end of its case.
:08:45. > :08:47.Sometime in February, we are expecting the defence to start and
:08:48. > :08:52.that will begin with Rebekah Brooks, formerly editor of the sun
:08:53. > :08:54.and editor of the News of the World, formerly in charge of all of the
:08:55. > :08:59.Rupert Murdoch's papers in this country before she quit.
:09:00. > :09:03.The Prime Minister says he will save small businesses ?850 million a year
:09:04. > :09:06.by cutting red tape. The Prime Minister says he'll save small
:09:07. > :09:09.businesses hundreds of millions of pounds a year by cutting red tape.
:09:10. > :09:11.David Cameron says he's already amended or scrapped 800 rules
:09:12. > :09:14.affecting them. Among those being dropped are hundreds of pages of
:09:15. > :09:18.guidance on the movement of cattle and rules on hedgerows. Separately,
:09:19. > :09:20.Labour says it would create a new quango to support small companies in
:09:21. > :09:27.their dealings with the government. Our business correspondent Emma
:09:28. > :09:32.Simpson reports. Small firms are the lifeblood of our
:09:33. > :09:38.economy. This one got a visit by the Prime Minister this morning. With
:09:39. > :09:41.business shaping up as a big political battle ground, today David
:09:42. > :09:45.Cameron wanted to show that the Conservatives were on their side.
:09:46. > :09:50.This is going to be the first government in modern history that at
:09:51. > :09:54.the end of its parliamentary term has less regulation and placed under
:09:55. > :09:57.was at the beginning. We have now identified those 3000 regulations
:09:58. > :10:04.that we are going to scrap and we have already got rid of them. What
:10:05. > :10:08.are some of the unnecessary regulations that have been cut or
:10:09. > :10:14.simple fight? Well, there is the 640 pages of guidance on the movement of
:10:15. > :10:20.cattle. 286 pages of rules on hedgerows, and 380 pages of
:10:21. > :10:27.regulations on waste management for golf courses. Plenty of politicians
:10:28. > :10:31.have pledged to tackle red tape over the years, so what did small
:10:32. > :10:36.businesses make of the Prime Minister's promise? In common with a
:10:37. > :10:42.lot of politicians who try to deal with this issue, they have found it
:10:43. > :10:45.is more difficult when they try to do it in practice. We have no
:10:46. > :10:49.problem with red tape. We have found the government very supportive. If
:10:50. > :10:52.you employ a company of less than five people and you have a deal with
:10:53. > :10:56.all the employment legislation that goes with it and all of the
:10:57. > :11:01.potential problems that you have got if you do not follow it, you are in
:11:02. > :11:04.trouble. Labour were also keen to assert business credentials today
:11:05. > :11:08.despite criticism of the 50p tax plan. If they win power, they will
:11:09. > :11:11.set up a small business Administration inside government. We
:11:12. > :11:17.need governments to be a better servant and customer of our small
:11:18. > :11:22.businesses and to make sure that entrepreneurs' voices are heard at
:11:23. > :11:27.the top table. With small businesses vital to the recovery, both parties
:11:28. > :11:32.are pushing to pitch themselves as their champion.
:11:33. > :11:39.Let's find out how well they are doing it with our chief Political
:11:40. > :11:41.Correspondent, Norman Smith, in Westminster. The parties are really
:11:42. > :11:45.asserting their business credentials.
:11:46. > :11:49.And let me hearty back to Napoleon part, who famously described us as a
:11:50. > :11:54.nation of shopkeepers. Although we may no longer be in the year of
:11:55. > :12:00.carcasses and cannonballs, we are still a nation of small traders. --
:12:01. > :12:04.era. 90% of businesses are small businesses and 60% of us are
:12:05. > :12:06.employed in small companies. What we learned today was that the battle
:12:07. > :12:12.for the business vote is well and truly underway. It was ignited in
:12:13. > :12:18.the weekend when Ed Balls suggested raising the top rate of tax to 50p,
:12:19. > :12:22.printing a backlash from some of Britain's's top tycoons. Today,
:12:23. > :12:26.Labour sought to present itself as on the side of ordinary businesses
:12:27. > :12:29.by suggesting they would set up a small business Administration to
:12:30. > :12:32.speak up for small businesses and reminding us that Ed Miliband would
:12:33. > :12:37.break open the big banks so banks would lend more to small businesses.
:12:38. > :12:42.The counteroffer from David Cameron is that he has cut 800 regulations
:12:43. > :12:47.and is on course to cut 20,000. He has got rid of 80,000 pages of
:12:48. > :12:51.environmental guidance. My sense, talking to businessmen, is that they
:12:52. > :12:55.are instantly cautious about the blandishments of politicians. They
:12:56. > :12:58.remember requires time talking about the bonfire of regulations and Tony
:12:59. > :13:03.Blair chomping his way through the prawn cocktails of the city. In
:13:04. > :13:05.spite such caution will not be in no doubt that the battle for the
:13:06. > :13:09.business vote is well and truly underway.
:13:10. > :13:13.The Syrian peace talks in Geneva are today focusing on the search for a
:13:14. > :13:15.political solution to end the bitter civil war. Representatives of the
:13:16. > :13:17.western-backed opponents of President Assad say they want to
:13:18. > :13:22.talk about a transition from dictatorship to democracy. But
:13:23. > :13:27.discussions are also expected to continue on aid convoys reaching the
:13:28. > :13:35.besieged area of Homs. Our diplomatic correspondent Bridget
:13:36. > :13:40.Kendall reports from Geneva. The heart of Syria's third biggest
:13:41. > :13:46.city, now in ruins. But the problem in the old city of Homs is not just
:13:47. > :13:51.physical devastation. Rebel held areas here have for months been cut
:13:52. > :13:53.off by Syrian government forces. And activists say that for the old and
:13:54. > :14:01.weak and vulnerable, the situation is critical. We have at least 3000
:14:02. > :14:08.or 4000 innocent civilians inside the city. It is so bad. After 600
:14:09. > :14:15.days in a row under siege, there is no food. In Geneva, it was back to
:14:16. > :14:17.the negotiating table for the two sides in the peace talks. On the
:14:18. > :14:23.agenda this morning, a future transitional government for Syria.
:14:24. > :14:26.And exchanges between rival delegations have, it seems, been
:14:27. > :14:33.quite calm possible. It also won everyone's lines, easing the Homs
:14:34. > :14:37.siege and whether Damascus will give a green light for UN convoys. Not
:14:38. > :14:40.yet, according to the Syrian opposition. The regime is saying
:14:41. > :14:47.that it is going to allow the convoys. There are 12 trucks at
:14:48. > :14:52.present waiting there for the regime to allow them in. But they are not
:14:53. > :15:01.allowed yet. We will judge the regime but what it does, not by what
:15:02. > :15:04.it says. From early on in this three-year conflict, Homs has been
:15:05. > :15:07.bombarded. According to activists, it is still being shelled daily.
:15:08. > :15:12.There have been efforts before to get blockades lifted to allow
:15:13. > :15:15.humanitarian aid in. A process of negotiation with the Syrian
:15:16. > :15:18.government has always been complex. And it is not clear whether the
:15:19. > :15:21.talks in Geneva are helping or hindering. Yesterday, the Syrian
:15:22. > :15:28.government announced women and children but not men were free to
:15:29. > :15:33.leave the city. But it's convoys, -- it is convoys the US wants to see go
:15:34. > :15:37.in, not an evacuation. Getting aid convoys into Homs was supposed to be
:15:38. > :15:40.an easy thing for President Assad to say yes two, a test of his
:15:41. > :15:44.co-operation. But if he does not agree and the political talks in
:15:45. > :15:48.Geneva this morning have run into deadlock, well, then hopes of early
:15:49. > :15:57.progress for the Syrian peace process may have been too ambitious.
:15:58. > :16:05.Richard Campbell, BBC News, Geneva. With less than two weeks to the
:16:06. > :16:14.winter Olympics, officials here are warning terrorist events are likely.
:16:15. > :16:19.The slopes of Sochi are ready for the games. Russia's show piece venue
:16:20. > :16:26.has been under preparation for years. But there is a problem. The
:16:27. > :16:30.militant group that carried out this attack last month has vowed to
:16:31. > :16:35.attack the games. A British assessment of the threat says
:16:36. > :16:40.attacks in Russia during the games are hily likely. But attacking the
:16:41. > :16:47.venue itself will not be easy. Sochi is at the western end of the
:16:48. > :16:52.caucuses, Russia's most volatile area. The main threat is from a
:16:53. > :16:56.group in Dagestan. But the Olympic venue has been under lock down for
:16:57. > :17:01.weeks and is flooded with security staff and there will be drones in
:17:02. > :17:06.the air and co-operation with America. The Olympic games
:17:07. > :17:13.themselves are probably going to be well protected. The security forces
:17:14. > :17:19.numbering in the 30,000s. So that is almost double what we saw in London
:17:20. > :17:26.at the UK Olympics. However, there is security around the games
:17:27. > :17:30.extending to a 65-mile perimeter. The groups intending to target it
:17:31. > :17:34.are more lightly to target other hubs around Russia. Airports,
:17:35. > :17:40.transport hubs. As we have seen before. Among those being sought by
:17:41. > :17:49.the Russians is this woman, one of several suspected suicide bombers.
:17:50. > :17:54.Dagestan, where the group is based has been racked by violence. But the
:17:55. > :17:58.group is at war with Russia, not the west. And there is no suggestion
:17:59. > :18:04.that British or other international teams will be targeted. With the
:18:05. > :18:07.winter Olympics only days away, Russian officials have played down
:18:08. > :18:18.talk of threats. They're promising the world a safe and secure games.
:18:19. > :18:21.It is now 18 minutes past 1. Our top story this lunchtime: Anger and
:18:22. > :18:23.criticism of the Government by those affected by the floods - the
:18:24. > :18:26.Environment Secretary visits the South West and promises action. And
:18:27. > :18:29.still to come: Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr play together at the
:18:30. > :18:39.Grammy's - 50 years after they first performed in America.
:18:40. > :18:44.Later on BBC London: Part demonstration and part experiment -
:18:45. > :18:46.the new Royal Academy exhibition that insists on audience
:18:47. > :18:51.participation. And the gym that helps you get fit by doing good - we
:18:52. > :19:01.find out how it could be about to go nationwide.
:19:02. > :19:06.Police say more than 140 men have come forward to claim they were
:19:07. > :19:09.physically or sexually abused while being held at a young offenders
:19:10. > :19:15.institution in County Durham in the 1970s and 80s. Medomsley closed more
:19:16. > :19:20.than 20 years ago, but the scale of the abuse is only now becoming
:19:21. > :19:23.apparent. A BBC investigation has tracked down some of the men who
:19:24. > :19:30.were victims there. Our correspondent Danny Savage reports.
:19:31. > :19:36.Medomsley detention centre in the 1980s. At the time, the Conservative
:19:37. > :19:41.Government talked about a short, sharp shock for young law breakers.
:19:42. > :19:44.These will be no holiday camps. And I sincerely hope that those who
:19:45. > :19:50.attend them will not ever want to go back there. That translated into
:19:51. > :19:56.lots of military-style physical activity. But in the village in the
:19:57. > :20:01.hills of County Durham, there was also terrible physical and sexual
:20:02. > :20:08.abuse of inmates. Much of it at the hands of a prison officer called
:20:09. > :20:11.Neville Husband. He got ahold of me throat and pushed his body against
:20:12. > :20:15.me and he was telling me that, you know, you will do it, because you
:20:16. > :20:21.can just disappear. Nobody would care. You're just scum, you know? I
:20:22. > :20:26.could feel myself losing consciousness and the next thing I
:20:27. > :20:29.remember was him raping me. Ray was sent here for stealing biscuits.
:20:30. > :20:34.Many of the other inmates were also in for relatively minor crimes. At
:20:35. > :20:42.any time one around 70 young men were held here. But the detention
:20:43. > :20:48.centre closed in the late 1980s, but by that time many lives had been
:20:49. > :20:51.blighted by the brutality here. All efforts were made by the police to
:20:52. > :20:54.make sure that I did not make a complaint, I was threatened with
:20:55. > :21:01.re-arrest and to be sent back to Medomsley. I feel betrayed. I feel
:21:02. > :21:05.let down. And I'm angry. Ten years ago prison officer Neville Husband
:21:06. > :21:09.was jailed for abusing inmates. He would single out individuals and
:21:10. > :21:14.keep them back at the end of their duties. He has since died. But that
:21:15. > :21:17.wasn't the end of the police inquiry. It re-opened last year when
:21:18. > :21:21.more allegations were made by former prisoners. 143 men have now come
:21:22. > :21:28.forward to say they were physically or sexually abused at Medomsley
:21:29. > :21:31.detention centre. We have seen a huge amount of people that have come
:21:32. > :21:35.forward that have been physically assaulted. When they went to this
:21:36. > :21:41.place they were faced with what was effectively a brutal regime. New
:21:42. > :21:53.charges may now follow. 30 years on, the horror of what happened here is
:21:54. > :21:58.yet to fully emerge. David Cameron says the numbers of Romanians and
:21:59. > :22:04.Bulgarians since restrictions were lifted are at a reasonable level.
:22:05. > :22:09.But he said he shared the frustration of Tory MPs who want
:22:10. > :22:12.controls on migration extended. But he said there was nothing the
:22:13. > :22:19.government could do. Our correspondent is in Westminster for
:22:20. > :22:24.us. Before the restrictions working in the UK were lifted, there was
:22:25. > :22:29.much speculation about how many would come. We didn't have a figure
:22:30. > :22:35.then, we don't have a figure now. But David Cameron has given an
:22:36. > :22:40.indication, based on anecdotal evidence. He said he thinks the
:22:41. > :22:44.levels are reasonable. This is ahead of Thursday when the MPs will
:22:45. > :22:50.discuss immigration. A number of Conservatives have said they want to
:22:51. > :22:55.see the controls reinstated. David Cameron said that under EU laws he
:22:56. > :23:01.has done what he can, but he said in his view that when new EU countries
:23:02. > :23:04.join down the line there should be tougher controls. That is still some
:23:05. > :23:09.way off. This is about David Cameron wanting with the European elections
:23:10. > :23:13.looming to make sure he doesn't look weak on immigration, particularly in
:23:14. > :23:30.front of his MPs, but more crucially in front of voters. Thank you. TV
:23:31. > :23:33.chef Nigella Lawson will face no criminal charges after she told a
:23:34. > :23:35.court that she had taken drugs. Scotland Yard said there were
:23:36. > :23:38.serious public interest concerns about the message any prosecution
:23:39. > :23:41.would send to potential witnesses. A specialist team concluded that no
:23:42. > :23:44.further action would be taken. The jury in the trial of DJ Dave Lee
:23:45. > :23:47.Travis has been hearing evidence from police interviews, in which he
:23:48. > :23:53.said the stress caused by the allegations had made him cry at
:23:54. > :23:57.night. The 68-year-old denies 13 charges dating back to 1976. Our
:23:58. > :24:03.correspondent is at Southwark Crown Court with more. The jury heard that
:24:04. > :24:07.in the interviews, Dave Lee Travis told police about the toll this
:24:08. > :24:13.investigation was taking on his life. He said he had no means of
:24:14. > :24:18.earning money. He said his wife had had breast cancer and he had to sell
:24:19. > :24:25.his house to cover his legal fees. He said that he was ruined. Although
:24:26. > :24:29.used a different word to that. The police heard from the last of the
:24:30. > :24:34.women who says that he assaulted her. This was a journalist who went
:24:35. > :24:41.to interview him in 2005 and she said he put his hand on her shoulder
:24:42. > :24:47.and ran it down her back and repsed his hand -- rested his hand on her
:24:48. > :24:53.bottom. She said I thought it was sleazy and inappropriate. She said
:24:54. > :24:57.she fell embarrassed for himself and for him. Now Dave Lee Travis will be
:24:58. > :25:03.going into the witness box this afternoon to begin the defence case.
:25:04. > :25:10.He now will be answering his accusers and he is pleading not
:25:11. > :25:13.guilty to all the charges. Thank you. Conservationists at Chester Zoo
:25:14. > :25:17.have developed an unusual way to keep track of critically endangered
:25:18. > :25:19.frogs - by making them glow. The researchers inject the tiny
:25:20. > :25:23.creatures with harmless strips of fluorescent silicon and plan to use
:25:24. > :25:36.the method to try to work out how to conserve them. Our science reporter
:25:37. > :25:51.Victoria Gill has been to the zoo to watch the very delicate procedure
:25:52. > :25:54.carried out. Stars of the music industry have been in Los Angeles,
:25:55. > :25:57.for the biggest night in the music calendar - the Grammy Awards. The
:25:58. > :26:00.two surviving members of The Beatles - Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr -
:26:01. > :26:03.received a lifetime achievement award and played together, 50 years
:26:04. > :26:06.after they first performed in America. But the night also turned
:26:07. > :26:09.into the big day for 33 couples as Madonna led a mass wedding ceremony
:26:10. > :26:12.in a celebration of gay marriage. Alastair Leithead was at the awards
:26:13. > :26:15.ceremony in Los Angeles and his report contains flash photography.
:26:16. > :26:18.Music royalty always make a big show of it at the Grammys. Pink in red.
:26:19. > :26:21.Katie Perry in white. Dance music and country sharing the same red
:26:22. > :26:25.carpet. It's the music industry's Oscars, their biggest night of year.
:26:26. > :26:28.Yes, it is about awards, but it is also about putting on a great live
:26:29. > :26:32.show with some of music's biggest names. And it was a great show.
:26:33. > :26:39.Music's power couple - Beyonce and Jay-Z - singing together to open the
:26:40. > :26:45.night. Then a show-stopper from Katie Perry - being burnt at the
:26:46. > :26:52.stake! And Pink singing while performing a trapeze act with a bit
:26:53. > :26:59.of audience participation. As for the prizes, it was the night of the
:27:00. > :27:05.robots. Stevie Wonder sang with Daft Punk. The French duo won best pop
:27:06. > :27:09.group, record of the year and album of the year. The robot would like to
:27:10. > :27:13.thank. Speaking for them Pharrell Williams, who won four Grammies,
:27:14. > :27:22.including best music producer. France is really proud. And it was
:27:23. > :27:25.also an amazing night for Lord. The 17-year-old New Zealander won song
:27:26. > :27:31.of the year for Royal and best performance. Then there was the
:27:32. > :27:35.much-talked about reunion of Sir Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr. A
:27:36. > :27:39.lifetime achievement award for the Beatles, 50 years after they first
:27:40. > :27:48.played America. And best rock song for Sir Paul's Cut Me Some Slack.
:27:49. > :27:51.The best newcomer was Macklemore and Lewis with the anthem of a huge
:27:52. > :27:58.shift in American society over same sex marriage. We are gathered here
:27:59. > :28:03.to celebrate... And a mass wedding to show Grammy support. Gay and
:28:04. > :28:21.straight, old and young and who else would be the wedding singer, but
:28:22. > :28:25.Madonna? Well another British star to be honoured for their lifetime's
:28:26. > :28:28.work is Dame Helen Mirren - who's to be given the British Academy of Film
:28:29. > :28:31.and Television Arts' highest award - the Bafta fellowship. Dame Helen's
:28:32. > :28:33.career, which has included critically-acclaimed roles in Prime
:28:34. > :28:38.Suspect and The Madness Of King George, has seen her win four
:28:39. > :28:45.BAFTAs. BAFTA described her as one of the most outstanding actresses of
:28:46. > :28:50.her generation. Time for a look at the weather, here's Susan Powell. We
:28:51. > :28:56.have seen a lot of showers today, plenty more to come tonight and on
:28:57. > :29:03.into tomorrow. And they're rattling in on a fair old wind. A deep area
:29:04. > :29:09.of low pressure has been feeding the showers into us. This is the radar
:29:10. > :29:16.image. If you look, you can make out the showers coming in in bands, so
:29:17. > :29:22.some areas are not seeing much wet weather and other areas are picking
:29:23. > :29:25.up a real soaking. The yellow triangle in eastern Scotland is
:29:26. > :29:28.because we are concerned with showers this afternoon and into
:29:29. > :29:32.tomorrow and Wednesday. There could be some issues with localised
:29:33. > :29:35.flooding. There will be some decent sunny spells between the showers
:29:36. > :29:40.today, particularly the further east you are. A lot of showers in the
:29:41. > :29:47.south coast, getting driven inland on the wind and into western Wales.
:29:48. > :29:53.The wind stays keen tonight and so more showers packing in. A soggy
:29:54. > :29:58.story in many areas. But it will be a milder night. Still cold enough to
:29:59. > :30:05.the north for the risk of icy stretches on roads in Scotland.
:30:06. > :30:09.First thing tomorrow, more yellow triangles, still in eastern Scotland
:30:10. > :30:13.concern and further south as the showers band across southern England
:30:14. > :30:16.we could see some localised flooding. We have seen how
:30:17. > :30:21.vulnerable the situation is in the Somerset levels. You can almost make
:30:22. > :30:27.out the lines of showers. But they should be interspersed with
:30:28. > :30:34.sunshine. If we leave the winds you can see how western Scotland is more
:30:35. > :30:39.sheltered from the showers as they rattled across the British Isles. It
:30:40. > :30:43.will take something to shift them and that is the low pressure sinking
:30:44. > :30:48.south on Wednesday. Then the weather becomes quieter, but we start to
:30:49. > :30:52.open the flood gates for air from the east and that is a cold
:30:53. > :30:58.direction and Wednesday is chilly and with some rain on Thursday. More
:30:59. > :31:05.cloud and maybe some snow in the east. But you will struggle to hide
:31:06. > :31:12.from the easterly wind. This week, average temperatures blustery with
:31:13. > :31:18.showers and from the middle of week turning colder. Now a reminder of
:31:19. > :31:21.our top story this lunchtime: Criticism of the Government by those
:31:22. > :31:28.affected by the floods. The Environment Secretary visits the
:31:29. > :31:29.South West and promises action. That's all from us - now on BBC