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Emergency Committee. As some parts of the country remain underwater, | :00:17. | :00:20. | |
the armed forces are called in with amphibious vehicles and equipment to | :00:21. | :00:23. | |
help deal with flooded homes and businesses. With more rain forecast, | :00:24. | :00:27. | |
the Environment Secretary will chair another meeting of the Government's | :00:28. | :00:29. | |
Emergency Committee this afternoon. Also this lunchtime: David Cameron | :00:30. | :00:33. | |
faces a Commons rebellion as Tory MPs call for tougher measures in the | :00:34. | :00:37. | |
Immigration Bill. Anger as a serious case review | :00:38. | :00:40. | |
decides that the killing of a pregnant woman and her young son by | :00:41. | :00:44. | |
the boy's father could not have been prevented. | :00:45. | :00:46. | |
Hopes of a treatment for peanut allergy. Doctors say a new clinical | :00:47. | :00:50. | |
trial has transformed the lives of children taking part. | :00:51. | :00:53. | |
And, flying for the last time over Afghanistan. The RAF's 617 squadron, | :00:54. | :00:58. | |
better known as the legendary "Dambusters". | :00:59. | :01:04. | |
Later on BBC London: 700 police swoop on one of the capital's most | :01:05. | :01:10. | |
notorious gangs. 29 people are arrested. And the | :01:11. | :01:15. | |
reunion between a man and the stranger who saved his life by | :01:16. | :01:16. | |
talking him down from a bridge. Good afternoon, and welcome to the | :01:17. | :01:49. | |
BBC News at One. Figures just released reveal what many of us have | :01:50. | :01:53. | |
already suspected - January was the wettest month in parts of the | :01:54. | :01:55. | |
country since records began over 100 years ago. The Met Office says some | :01:56. | :01:59. | |
parts of England had already seen twice the average rainfall for | :02:00. | :02:02. | |
January by midnight on Tuesday. And it is warning of more rain for much | :02:03. | :02:06. | |
of the UK in the coming days. The Government's Emergency Committee, | :02:07. | :02:08. | |
COBRA, will meet this afternoon as the military arrives in Somerset to | :02:09. | :02:11. | |
help some of the most-severely flooded areas. Jon Kay is there. | :02:12. | :02:19. | |
Good afternoon, Simon. An island that has been surrounded by water | :02:20. | :02:22. | |
since the New Year, they have relied on boats to get backwards and | :02:23. | :02:24. | |
forwards. You might expect, therefore, they would be full of joy | :02:25. | :02:28. | |
and relief to hear the military are on their way, but people here are | :02:29. | :02:33. | |
rather cynical about it. They say it is too little, too late, and they | :02:34. | :02:37. | |
think this is more about politics and saving face rather than saving | :02:38. | :02:46. | |
them. Humanitarian assistance arrives in the Somerset | :02:47. | :02:49. | |
countryside. This lunchtime, the Red Cross turned up, bringing relief in | :02:50. | :02:54. | |
the form of firewood. How important was this? Incredibly important | :02:55. | :03:01. | |
because we live in this draughty, ancient house. We need the logs. | :03:02. | :03:04. | |
It's what we're running out of. Next it is the military expected to | :03:05. | :03:08. | |
arrive in similar amphibious vehicles. But villagers who were | :03:09. | :03:12. | |
asking for help three weeks ago seem rather bemused now. Dare I say | :03:13. | :03:21. | |
anything? It's a bit over the top. We are managing. It's going to start | :03:22. | :03:24. | |
going down soon, I'm sure. We just get on with it. We are used to it. | :03:25. | :03:30. | |
So why do you suspect they are being sent in? I suppose it's because | :03:31. | :03:34. | |
we've had so much media coverage this time. The thing is, after four | :03:35. | :03:39. | |
weeks of being cut off, Muchelney can be reached by road, so people | :03:40. | :03:46. | |
wonder what the armed forces will do the charities and emergency services | :03:47. | :03:50. | |
aren't doing already. A few of the residents have said to me that it's | :03:51. | :03:55. | |
all a little bit late. Crowe blew its been four weeks that they have | :03:56. | :03:58. | |
been underwater or cut off and it seems only now has the patent button | :03:59. | :04:06. | |
hit. It is not just Muchelney. Other communities are affected. The Royal | :04:07. | :04:09. | |
Marines have been seen nearby this morning apparently carrying out a | :04:10. | :04:14. | |
recce on the Somerset Levels ahead of more heavy rainfall this weekend. | :04:15. | :04:18. | |
It's hard to tell at the moment. We were tasked with this last night. At | :04:19. | :04:23. | |
the moment we are concentrating on understanding the situation, and | :04:24. | :04:27. | |
very much supporting the local council planning. It is early days | :04:28. | :04:33. | |
and we've just been on the ground a couple of hours. According to the | :04:34. | :04:35. | |
latest statistics from The Met office, so far this month 175 | :04:36. | :04:38. | |
millimetres of rain has fallen in southern and central England, nearly | :04:39. | :04:43. | |
seven inches. Nationally, there has been 35% more than the long-term | :04:44. | :04:48. | |
average. But it's not the same throughout the UK. Northern | :04:49. | :04:52. | |
Scotland, for example, has only received 85% of its expected | :04:53. | :04:56. | |
rainfall. So why has it been so wet for so many of us? What is causing | :04:57. | :05:02. | |
it is having westerly winds through the window -- Winter, which has | :05:03. | :05:05. | |
brought us the stormy weather and the big Atlantic weather systems | :05:06. | :05:08. | |
that have come in and given us all this rain. Those weather systems | :05:09. | :05:12. | |
have come in from the South first, which is why southern areas have | :05:13. | :05:18. | |
been particularly wet. Some areas of Britain have been soaking since | :05:19. | :05:21. | |
Christmas. Yalding has still not recovered. For many of us, January | :05:22. | :05:25. | |
is set to end as it started, with yet more heavy rain and some very | :05:26. | :05:32. | |
high tides. You see it here on the island of Muchelney there is still a | :05:33. | :05:38. | |
significant amount of Warner -- water. It's gone down by about a | :05:39. | :05:41. | |
foot and a half in the last few days. That is why people think the | :05:42. | :05:44. | |
help would have been much more useful a week or two or three ago | :05:45. | :05:49. | |
rather than now when they are a bit cynical about it. Having said that, | :05:50. | :05:52. | |
they're still a lot more rain coming and we will get the full forecast | :05:53. | :05:56. | |
late in the hour. A lot more rainfall in the weekend combined | :05:57. | :05:59. | |
with high tides, which is why people here might be cynical, but they | :06:00. | :06:08. | |
don't feel full of relief just yet. Aberystwyth was one of the hardest | :06:09. | :06:11. | |
hit places by the storms in the New Year. Huge waves caused considerable | :06:12. | :06:14. | |
damage to the historic seafront. Our Wales correspondent Hywel Griffith | :06:15. | :06:18. | |
is there. One eye on the work being done, but also an eye on the | :06:19. | :06:24. | |
forecast. Yes, absolutely. Work here is happening brick by brick, trying | :06:25. | :06:29. | |
to rebuild the historic Victorian prom. On the front of Aberystwyth | :06:30. | :06:34. | |
they have had heavy machinery in this morning to try and move the | :06:35. | :06:38. | |
stones. Some people might remember a few weeks ago that much of the beach | :06:39. | :06:42. | |
was up on top of the Marine Terrace, then it hit some of the | :06:43. | :06:46. | |
houses. Now it has taken several weeks to bring it back to this | :06:47. | :06:50. | |
condition and will cost the local council something like ?1.5 million | :06:51. | :06:54. | |
to do the immediate repairs. In the future they face a bill of something | :06:55. | :06:58. | |
like ten times that as they look for a way to build bigger and better | :06:59. | :07:04. | |
flood defences to protect the town. They are even considering some sort | :07:05. | :07:07. | |
of offshore system that would break the waves before they come in. That | :07:08. | :07:11. | |
is much further into the future. The immediate concern is what the | :07:12. | :07:15. | |
weather will bring this weekend. The university told us this morning they | :07:16. | :07:18. | |
are planning to evacuate some 600 students who live in the houses | :07:19. | :07:23. | |
along the seafront here. They are even offering to reimburse their | :07:24. | :07:27. | |
train fares home to go and see their mothers and fathers so they can be | :07:28. | :07:31. | |
much further away from the seafront, safely at home, in case of the storm | :07:32. | :07:36. | |
surges hitting this weekend. We expect high tide to reach north and | :07:37. | :07:40. | |
west Wales on Sunday morning, but ahead of that, high winds might mean | :07:41. | :07:44. | |
we see bigger waves hitting this weekend and we saw a few weeks ago. | :07:45. | :07:51. | |
And just a reminder that, throughout the afternoon, the BBC News Channel | :07:52. | :07:54. | |
has a special day of coverage of how the bad weather has been battering | :07:55. | :08:00. | |
Britain. David Cameron faces a significant backbench rebellion | :08:01. | :08:02. | |
later with Conservative MPs calling for tougher measures on Immigration. | :08:03. | :08:06. | |
A debate is underway now in the House of Commons after the Home | :08:07. | :08:09. | |
Secretary Theresa May tabled a last-minute amendment to the | :08:10. | :08:11. | |
Immigration Bill. The change would enable her to strip foreign-born | :08:12. | :08:14. | |
terrorism suspects of their British citizenship, even if it leaves them | :08:15. | :08:17. | |
stateless. But other Tory MPs want to go further. Our Political | :08:18. | :08:19. | |
Correspondent Ross Hawkins reports. It is a debate about authority and | :08:20. | :08:33. | |
power. Over Britain's borders and government policy. The debate in | :08:34. | :08:37. | |
part between Tory rebels on the Home Secretary. It is a bill that will | :08:38. | :08:41. | |
ensure we have greater ability as a government to make it harder for | :08:42. | :08:44. | |
people to live here in the United Kingdom illegally, make it easier | :08:45. | :08:48. | |
for us to be able to remove people who are here illegally. Ministers | :08:49. | :08:54. | |
want tougher powers to strip people who have become British of their | :08:55. | :08:58. | |
citizenship, even if it means they end up with no nationality at all. | :08:59. | :09:01. | |
The plans would affect just a few people but have made headlines, | :09:02. | :09:05. | |
which is helpful, because Conservative rebels have plans of | :09:06. | :09:10. | |
their own. I am not trying to bring the walls down or crack the | :09:11. | :09:13. | |
coalition, and I suspect what will happen is that we will have a big | :09:14. | :09:17. | |
debate and it will pass in the end. He wants to make it much harder for | :09:18. | :09:21. | |
foreign criminals arguing right they have a family like to avoid being | :09:22. | :09:25. | |
deported. It's a popular idea at Westminster where over 100 MPs are | :09:26. | :09:30. | |
prepared to back him. As the debate went on, it emerged that | :09:31. | :09:33. | |
Conservative ministers would not oppose his amendment. They would | :09:34. | :09:37. | |
abstain, meaning the Prime Minister could not bring himself to disagree | :09:38. | :09:42. | |
with his own rebel. Liberal Democrats are expected to vote | :09:43. | :09:46. | |
against that amendment, but now it is a backbencher who is dictating | :09:47. | :09:49. | |
the terms of this argument. We will have a better idea by the end of the | :09:50. | :09:53. | |
day what that means for migration laws and for the authority of | :09:54. | :09:54. | |
ministers. Our chief Political Correspondent | :09:55. | :10:05. | |
Norman Smith is in Westminster. Ross was implying this was as much about | :10:06. | :10:08. | |
politics within the Tory party as immigration. It has been an | :10:09. | :10:15. | |
extraordinary morning of twists and turns at Westminster. Scrollback 45 | :10:16. | :10:19. | |
minutes, here is David Cameron and his backbenchers, and this was what | :10:20. | :10:23. | |
was about to happen. Major showdown with up to 100 Tory MPs signing this | :10:24. | :10:29. | |
critical motion barring foreign criminals from using European human | :10:30. | :10:33. | |
rights legislation to avoid being deported, in defiance of Mr Cameron, | :10:34. | :10:38. | |
which is in defiance of the call from Michael Howard to show | :10:39. | :10:41. | |
self-discipline and unity. And yet, in the past half an hour, we learn | :10:42. | :10:46. | |
that Mr Cameron is not going to vote against that motion. Now, that might | :10:47. | :10:53. | |
be seen as a very clever way of avoiding headlines about yet another | :10:54. | :10:59. | |
Tory revolt over Europe. But it opens up some significant risks. One | :11:00. | :11:04. | |
is, it opens up a coalition split, because we understand Mr Clegg and | :11:05. | :11:07. | |
the Liberal Democrats are still going to vote against that backbench | :11:08. | :11:14. | |
Tory motion. It also risks headlines about Mr Cameron caving into his | :11:15. | :11:18. | |
backbenchers over Europe. So, yes, Mr Cameron may manage to avoid those | :11:19. | :11:23. | |
damaging headlines about yet another Tory revolt over Europe, but the | :11:24. | :11:26. | |
danger is, he is perceived as giving into his backbenchers. | :11:27. | :11:30. | |
A serious case review has decided that the killing of a pregnant woman | :11:31. | :11:35. | |
and her young son by the boy's father could not have been | :11:36. | :11:40. | |
prevented. The Derbyshire Safeguarding Children's Board said | :11:41. | :11:43. | |
the stabbings of Rachel Slack and her son, Auden, could not have been | :11:44. | :11:45. | |
"reasonably predicted". But the woman's partner, Robert Barlow, has | :11:46. | :11:48. | |
said more should have been done to warn Rachael Slack of the danger | :11:49. | :11:51. | |
posed by Andrew Cairns. Sian Lloyd reports. | :11:52. | :11:59. | |
Rachel and Gordon were stabbed more than 40 times. After killing his | :12:00. | :12:04. | |
former partner and young son, Andrew Cairns took his own life. He had a | :12:05. | :12:10. | |
long history of mental illness, and in the days leading up to the | :12:11. | :12:13. | |
tragedy had been arrested for making threats to kill Rachel. He had also | :12:14. | :12:17. | |
been sectioned under the Mental Health Act and released. The report | :12:18. | :12:21. | |
published today says that their deaths could not have been predicted | :12:22. | :12:25. | |
or prevented. Rachel had been expecting a baby with her new | :12:26. | :12:28. | |
partner, and he disagrees with the findings of the report. You cannot | :12:29. | :12:33. | |
say it would have been prevented until everything was done. All | :12:34. | :12:37. | |
information was not shared through the agencies. So, they could not | :12:38. | :12:47. | |
make whole judgements within any decision-making process they had to | :12:48. | :12:53. | |
do. An inquest jury found that Rachel and Auden had been an auld -- | :12:54. | :12:58. | |
illegally killed and police contributed to their deaths. The | :12:59. | :13:01. | |
serious case review does not go far enough. There is a discordance | :13:02. | :13:07. | |
between the two findings, and this discordance needs to be resolved, | :13:08. | :13:11. | |
and one way to do that is to have a public enquiry and look at the | :13:12. | :13:14. | |
failings of state agencies across England and Wales. When Andrew | :13:15. | :13:20. | |
Cairns arrived here at Rachel Slack's home in the village of | :13:21. | :13:24. | |
Holbrooke he was in breach of his conditions on police bail, but | :13:25. | :13:28. | |
officers from the Derbyshire force had not warned Rachel that there was | :13:29. | :13:30. | |
a significant risk that he could kill her. Derbyshire police say | :13:31. | :13:37. | |
victims are now told of the risks. If we identify a victim of high risk | :13:38. | :13:40. | |
of domestic violence, and therefore we would argue high risk of domestic | :13:41. | :13:47. | |
homicide, that is explicit. We talk about protective measures, we asked | :13:48. | :13:51. | |
the victim to understand what we are telling them, because this is an | :13:52. | :13:55. | |
emotional time. The Independent Police Complaints Commission has yet | :13:56. | :14:02. | |
to report its findings. Two people are believed to have died on the M1 | :14:03. | :14:09. | |
motorway this morning. Two ambulances and an air ambulances | :14:10. | :14:12. | |
attended the scenes between junctions five and six. It's one of | :14:13. | :14:17. | |
the most common food allergies and it can be life threatening, but | :14:18. | :14:20. | |
researchers in Cambridge believe they've made a breakthrough in | :14:21. | :14:22. | |
developing a potential treatment for peanut allergy. A group of sufferers | :14:23. | :14:25. | |
were given tiny amounts of peanut protein, which was gradually | :14:26. | :14:27. | |
increased. After six months, a significant number were able to eat | :14:28. | :14:30. | |
up to five peanuts without a reaction. But experts say more | :14:31. | :14:33. | |
research is needed. Our Health Correspondent Sophie Hutchinson has | :14:34. | :14:37. | |
been to meet one child who took part in the study. Elizabeth Tooley used | :14:38. | :14:48. | |
to have a potentially life-threatening allergic reaction | :14:49. | :14:52. | |
to peanuts, the day after her fifth birthday she was rushed to hospital | :14:53. | :14:55. | |
with severe swelling after eating peanut butter. But since taken part | :14:56. | :15:01. | |
in a trial she can eat peanuts safely and now has to eat them every | :15:02. | :15:04. | |
day. She prefers them chocolate coated. I am happy I am able to eat | :15:05. | :15:11. | |
the peanuts and there is a trial to help me not be allergic any more. It | :15:12. | :15:17. | |
is life transforming. The worry that it has removed from our life. The | :15:18. | :15:24. | |
trial published in the Lancet and carried out at Addenbrooke's | :15:25. | :15:26. | |
Hospital involved 99 children with the allergy. They were given tiny | :15:27. | :15:30. | |
amounts of powdered peanut protein to eat, and the dose was slowly | :15:31. | :15:35. | |
increased. After a few months, the vast majority, 80 to 90% of the | :15:36. | :15:39. | |
children, were able to eat five peanuts a day. This study carried | :15:40. | :15:44. | |
out in Cambridge is the largest and most successful of its kind in the | :15:45. | :15:50. | |
world. Scientists here are describing it as a breakthrough and | :15:51. | :15:53. | |
are saying that for the first time ever, a treatment for peanut allergy | :15:54. | :16:00. | |
is a possible to. We do mainly clinical research and to be able to | :16:01. | :16:03. | |
see something that you might be able to take into real-life treatment, | :16:04. | :16:09. | |
and hugely benefit patient care, is, for us, the pinnacle. Some | :16:10. | :16:14. | |
experts are urging caution and say more research is needed to assess | :16:15. | :16:19. | |
the long-term risks. Researchers in Cambridge say this is the first time | :16:20. | :16:24. | |
this type of treatment, known as desensitisation, has been successful | :16:25. | :16:27. | |
for a food allergy. They say it could be used in trials for other | :16:28. | :16:31. | |
allergies such as eggs, wheat and milk. The study was tightly | :16:32. | :16:36. | |
monitored and should not be attempted a loan. It has, her family | :16:37. | :16:40. | |
say, given the freedom to live without constant worry. The doctors | :16:41. | :16:46. | |
who treated her hope it will eventually be available to others on | :16:47. | :16:49. | |
the NHS. Our top story this lunchtime. | :16:50. | :16:54. | |
The wettest January since records began. 100 years ago. And more rain | :16:55. | :17:00. | |
forecast. Still to come, why, if you suffer | :17:01. | :17:03. | |
from addiction, depression, or diabetes, it could be down to the | :17:04. | :17:06. | |
behaviour of your ancestors hundreds of thousands of years ago. | :17:07. | :17:13. | |
Later on BBC London, grown under a street near you, subterranean farm | :17:14. | :17:19. | |
taking root beneath south London. And reinventing itself after 150 | :17:20. | :17:23. | |
years, the Cutty Sark transforms from tea clipper to theatre. | :17:24. | :17:29. | |
International troops were sent to Afghanistan after the Taliban were | :17:30. | :17:33. | |
ousted in 2001 - following the 9/11 attacks in the United States. The | :17:34. | :17:39. | |
number of NATO-led forces in Afghanistan peaked at about 140,000 | :17:40. | :17:42. | |
in 2011 - 100,000 of them from the US and 10,000 from the UK. But it's | :17:43. | :17:51. | |
been a costly mission. There have been over 3,400 military fatalities | :17:52. | :17:54. | |
- of which 447 have been British servicemen and women. There are now | :17:55. | :18:00. | |
around 5,200 British troops there -including one of the RAF's most | :18:01. | :18:03. | |
famous squadrons - the Dambusters - who have just flown their final | :18:04. | :18:06. | |
mission before temporarily disbanding. This report from our | :18:07. | :18:12. | |
defence correspondent, Caroline Wyatt. | :18:13. | :18:22. | |
Soaring through the Afghan skies for one of the final missions for the | :18:23. | :18:29. | |
Dambusters. This is one of their Tornado GR4s being refuelled by an | :18:30. | :18:35. | |
American tank while in the air, a move that requires precision while | :18:36. | :18:40. | |
travelling at 450 mph. This is a beautiful country, there are | :18:41. | :18:43. | |
mountains, Greenlands, snowcapped hills. On a day like this when the | :18:44. | :18:47. | |
sun is shining, it is a beautiful place to look at. The view from my | :18:48. | :18:51. | |
office is one of the best in the world. Even when the weather is not | :18:52. | :18:55. | |
nice, when things are not going right and it becomes hard work, it | :18:56. | :18:59. | |
is not about what we are doing, we are here to support the guys on the | :19:00. | :19:02. | |
ground who are in a far more vulnerable position. Day and night | :19:03. | :19:08. | |
for the past four months, Ben and his fellow aviators have provided | :19:09. | :19:12. | |
air cover for NATO troops. They will move on to new jobs with different | :19:13. | :19:19. | |
squadrons. The planes will be handed on to 2 Squadron who are taking over | :19:20. | :19:24. | |
from 617. For the men and women of the Dambusters it is the end of an | :19:25. | :19:27. | |
era, it is the last time they will fly these Tornado GR4s. For most, if | :19:28. | :19:34. | |
not all of the squadron, it is a last tour of Afghanistan. Sergeant | :19:35. | :19:41. | |
Adam Croxall is on his third tour of Afghanistan and home is just days | :19:42. | :19:46. | |
away. It is was good to go home at the end of it, happy. It will be | :19:47. | :19:52. | |
good to not come back here again. This fighter jets have been in | :19:53. | :19:55. | |
service for some three decades now. Future runways are likely to be | :19:56. | :20:02. | |
dominated by unmanned aircraft. But not for a while. 617 Squadron will | :20:03. | :20:09. | |
be back again when the UK's newest jets come into service. Until then, | :20:10. | :20:13. | |
Ben and several other pilots will continue to fly tornadoes, albeit | :20:14. | :20:22. | |
with another squadron. The positive news is there is a very bright | :20:23. | :20:26. | |
future. Later this decade the Dambusters will reform, 617 will be | :20:27. | :20:34. | |
the UK's first Lightning II squadron and it will reform with a new | :20:35. | :20:38. | |
aircraft at RAF Marnham. There will be sadness as they fly their | :20:39. | :20:44. | |
separate ways. Formed from just one task in 1943, the Dambusters have | :20:45. | :20:49. | |
endured. One day they will fly again. | :20:50. | :20:59. | |
Michael Adebolajo, one of the two men found guilty of the murder of | :21:00. | :21:03. | |
soldier Lee Rigby, has lodged an application to appeal against | :21:04. | :21:07. | |
conviction. Add a blah Joe and Michael Adebowale were convicted in | :21:08. | :21:11. | |
December of murdering Lee Rigby outside Woolwich Barracks last May. | :21:12. | :21:16. | |
The former News of the World reporter Dan Evans has told the Old | :21:17. | :21:18. | |
Bailey he may have been mistaken when he told the court he | :21:19. | :21:22. | |
intercepted a voice mail message from Sienna Miller to Kelly Hoppen. | :21:23. | :21:28. | |
Mr Evans, who has admitted phone hacking during his time at the | :21:29. | :21:31. | |
newspaper, says he now leads it may have been Sienna Miller's sister who | :21:32. | :21:36. | |
left the message -- he now believes it may have been. | :21:37. | :21:38. | |
Investigators say a father and daughter, who were killed in a | :21:39. | :21:41. | |
speedboat accident in Cornwall, died after he took control of the | :21:42. | :21:44. | |
steering from his wife. Nick Milligan and eight-year-old Emily | :21:45. | :21:47. | |
were hit by the boat in Padstow last May. A report said Mrs Milligan | :21:48. | :21:52. | |
should have been wearing a kill-chord safety device to shut off | :21:53. | :21:56. | |
the boat's engine. Duncan Kennedy reports. This was the moment the | :21:57. | :22:01. | |
Milligan family boat was left spinning out of control. It was at | :22:02. | :22:05. | |
Padstow in Cornwall in May last year, when they were enjoying a day | :22:06. | :22:09. | |
by the sea. All six members of the family were thrown into the water. | :22:10. | :22:14. | |
Nick and age old Emily were killed when the vessel ran over them. Mum | :22:15. | :22:18. | |
Victoria and four-year-old kit suffered serious injuries. Two older | :22:19. | :22:23. | |
children suffered minor ones. The official report into the accident | :22:24. | :22:28. | |
concluded that Nick Milligan had lent over his wife to take control | :22:29. | :22:32. | |
of the rig and powered up to guide the boat away from a beach, action | :22:33. | :22:38. | |
that tipped everyone overboard. Unfortunately the kill-cord, which | :22:39. | :22:40. | |
should have stopped the engine, was not being worn and so it continued | :22:41. | :22:45. | |
to circle over the family, resulting in the tragic death and two other | :22:46. | :22:52. | |
family members being injured. Kill-cord is our standard issue in | :22:53. | :22:55. | |
smaller boats, designed to be simple and quick -- kill-cords are | :22:56. | :23:02. | |
standard. This is the kind of Rigby family was in. Each time a a vessel | :23:03. | :23:11. | |
goes out they should have a skipper attached to one of these | :23:12. | :23:13. | |
kill-cords, so that this does not happen. Not everyone supports calls | :23:14. | :23:21. | |
to make them compulsory. We don't believe legislation is the answer, | :23:22. | :23:24. | |
we believe making sure people are aware of the hazards and better | :23:25. | :23:28. | |
educating, but are promoting the use of kill-cords is the way forward. | :23:29. | :23:50. | |
The family had been trained before using their vessel. Today's report | :23:51. | :23:57. | |
says kill-cords should become second nature when taking the helm at | :23:58. | :24:00. | |
powerboats. Doctors in France are to begin | :24:01. | :24:05. | |
brining the former Formula 1 racing champion, Michael Schumacher, out of | :24:06. | :24:08. | |
his medically induced coma. He's been in hospital since a skiing | :24:09. | :24:11. | |
accident at the end of last year - in which he hit his head against a | :24:12. | :24:15. | |
rock. The driver's agent say doctors have now decided to start lowering | :24:16. | :24:23. | |
his sedation. Researchers have discovered that | :24:24. | :24:25. | |
many modern afflictions, such as addiction to smoking, depression, | :24:26. | :24:28. | |
and diabetes are linked to early humans interbreeding with | :24:29. | :24:29. | |
Neanderthals hundreds of thousands of years ago. The research by | :24:30. | :24:35. | |
Harvard Medical School suggests that our species also acquired | :24:36. | :24:38. | |
Neanderthal genes that helped us adapt to the colder climes of Europe | :24:39. | :24:41. | |
and Asia, as the first humans of our species emerged. Our science | :24:42. | :24:47. | |
correspondent, Pallab Ghosh, has more. | :24:48. | :24:54. | |
In the distant past, our ancestors left Africa and populated the rest | :24:55. | :24:59. | |
of the world. On the way, they met another species of human called the | :25:00. | :25:04. | |
Neanderthals, with whom they coexisted until they died out 30,000 | :25:05. | :25:10. | |
years ago. Recently, and ours is of DNA taken from the bones of | :25:11. | :25:15. | |
Neanderthals has shown modern humans have inherited some of their genes | :25:16. | :25:22. | |
-- analysis of the DNA. When the first humans of our species left | :25:23. | :25:26. | |
Africa, they encountered and interbred with Neanderthals. As a | :25:27. | :25:29. | |
result, all non-African people living today have a little bit of | :25:30. | :25:34. | |
Neanderthal DNA in them. Some of these Neanderthal genes we have | :25:35. | :25:37. | |
inherited from our ancestors are linked to diseases that afflict us | :25:38. | :25:42. | |
such as addiction to smoking, depression, diabetes and Crohn's | :25:43. | :25:46. | |
disease. So what is the explanation for these modern-day diseases having | :25:47. | :25:51. | |
their origins in Neanderthal DNA? This might be because that DNA is | :25:52. | :25:57. | |
quite foreign to our body system. We are talking about a population that | :25:58. | :26:01. | |
is much more different to how people are today. Perhaps that is | :26:02. | :26:05. | |
triggering immune reactions, some autoimmune diseases may be affected | :26:06. | :26:10. | |
by this presence of alien, if we call it, alien DNA. The research, | :26:11. | :26:18. | |
published in the journal Nature, also suggested humans have inherited | :26:19. | :26:20. | |
genes from Neanderthal that helped them to adapt to the colder climate | :26:21. | :26:26. | |
outside of Africa. It is another step in getting to know ourselves | :26:27. | :26:30. | |
better. Until recently we did not know that our ancestors interbred | :26:31. | :26:35. | |
with Neanderthals at all. We found out that they did, we found out that | :26:36. | :26:39. | |
we all carry a very small percentage of Neanderthal genomics. Future | :26:40. | :26:45. | |
studies are likely to find many more Neanderthal genes that have both | :26:46. | :26:49. | |
positive and negative effects on the modern-day population. | :26:50. | :26:53. | |
The Canadian pop star Justin Bieber has turned himself in to police in | :26:54. | :26:56. | |
Toronto and been charged with an assault. | :26:57. | :26:59. | |
It relates to an alleged attack on a limousine driver in December. | :27:00. | :27:02. | |
Officials say he'll appear in court in March. The 19-year-old singer has | :27:03. | :27:08. | |
been involved in a series of bizarre incidents recently. This report from | :27:09. | :27:10. | |
Sarah Campbell contains some flash photography. | :27:11. | :27:19. | |
Still the centre of attention, and leaving his clean cut image even | :27:20. | :27:24. | |
further behind. Justin Bieber handed himself into in Toronto, where he | :27:25. | :27:28. | |
has been charged with assaulting a limousine driver. We are here to | :27:29. | :27:34. | |
support him, we are his family. You want to be there for them. Fans have | :27:35. | :27:40. | |
had several chances to be there for their idol recently. Last week he | :27:41. | :27:47. | |
was in court in Miami. He has pleaded not guilty to charges | :27:48. | :27:51. | |
related to alleged involvement in an illegal drag race. The press say he | :27:52. | :27:57. | |
swore at an officer and admitted to taking marijuana. On January the | :27:58. | :28:07. | |
14th his LA mansion was investigated by police on a vandalism charge. It | :28:08. | :28:16. | |
might help explain why more than 180,000 people have signed an online | :28:17. | :28:19. | |
petition to have him deported from the US. So many, in fact, that the | :28:20. | :28:24. | |
White House must review and comment on the matter. He remains one of the | :28:25. | :28:30. | |
world's best-known artists, but flagging album sales suggest he is | :28:31. | :28:36. | |
becoming in danger -- in danger of becoming known more for his bad boy | :28:37. | :28:40. | |
image than his music. Time for a look at the weather. | :28:41. | :28:47. | |
Let's go straight out into the Atlantic because things are on the | :28:48. | :28:51. | |
move. It is not so much this finger of cloud which loses its gusto, it | :28:52. | :28:59. | |
is what is lurking further out that will be a problem. This afternoon, | :29:00. | :29:05. | |
leaden skies for many, some sunshine around. Western side of Scotland, | :29:06. | :29:10. | |
one or two spots in the north-west of Wales. Cold air has become | :29:11. | :29:16. | |
further north towards Birmingham and Norwich and you will see wintry mess | :29:17. | :29:18. | |
about your showers. -- wintry the top end of the Pennines into | :29:19. | :29:31. | |
Scotland, a cold night, a touch of frost in rural spots, might even be | :29:32. | :29:35. | |
fog across the South. The area of low pressure doesn't stay in the | :29:36. | :29:40. | |
Atlantic. After a pretty quiet start to the day, wet and windy weather. | :29:41. | :29:46. | |
There is still an amber warning for the Somerset Levels, 30 millimetres | :29:47. | :29:50. | |
of rain, 40 across the high ground in Wales and the south-west of | :29:51. | :29:54. | |
England. It takes a while before we get into the far east and East | :29:55. | :29:57. | |
Anglia, blustery showers following on behind. Just when you might be | :29:58. | :30:02. | |
thinking about leaving work on Friday, the top end of the M6, maybe | :30:03. | :30:08. | |
into the Scottish roads, there will be a conversion of rain into snow | :30:09. | :30:12. | |
and that could cause real travel problems. Transient on the snow | :30:13. | :30:18. | |
front but there will be a lot of surface water around. Saturday, the | :30:19. | :30:25. | |
low pressure is much closer and it will reduce an awful lot of wind. 60 | :30:26. | :30:32. | |
mph gusts through the Channel coasts, up into the Bristol Channel | :30:33. | :30:37. | |
and the Irish Sea. That is one part of the triple whammy, the waves will | :30:38. | :30:41. | |
be high, the tides are high through the course of the weekend. | :30:42. | :30:45. | |
Potentially up to 70 mph on the western side of Wales. There could | :30:46. | :30:50. | |
be a risk of flooding around about those coastal areas. That goes on | :30:51. | :30:55. | |
through Saturday, into the first part of Sunday. That low pressure is | :30:56. | :30:58. | |
not moving very fast. Saturday is a blustery day. We will continue that | :30:59. | :31:04. | |
theme into the heart of Sunday because that low pressure is going | :31:05. | :31:08. | |
nowhere fast. I know that is a lot to take in. You can do it at your | :31:09. | :31:11. | |
speed on the BBC weather website. Now a reminder of our top story this | :31:12. | :31:22. | |
lunchtime. The wettest January since records began 100 years ago, and | :31:23. | :31:27. | |
more rain is forecast. That's all from us. Now on BBC One | :31:28. | :31:28. |