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emotion as he was cleared of rape and indecent assault but his family | :00:20. | :00:20. | |
broke down in tears. This is what he had to say as left court. In these | :00:21. | :00:29. | |
situations, there are no winners and I think we should all be much kinder | :00:30. | :00:33. | |
to ourselves. We'll have the latest from Preston Crown Court. Also this | :00:34. | :00:36. | |
lunchtime. Another big storm on its way - severe weather warnings issued | :00:37. | :00:39. | |
for parts of southern Britain with more than 1.5 inches rain expected | :00:40. | :00:42. | |
in some places. There are serious concerns for communities, | :00:43. | :00:44. | |
particularly in Somerset and the South West, already dealing with | :00:45. | :00:48. | |
heavily flooded and saturated land. A big boost for British | :00:49. | :00:51. | |
manufacturing as Bombardier wins a billion pound contract to provide | :00:52. | :00:53. | |
trains for the London Crossrail project. They're off. Britain's | :00:54. | :00:59. | |
Billy Morgan is first up at the Sochi Winter Olympics. And why the | :01:00. | :01:05. | |
Government's plans for a 5p charge on plastic carrier bags in England | :01:06. | :01:11. | |
are being branded a complete mess. More services are running on the | :01:12. | :01:15. | |
Tube on day two of the strike. And teachers walk out at a North London | :01:16. | :01:18. | |
secondary in the first-ever industrial action at a free school. | :01:19. | :01:40. | |
Good afternoon and welcome to the BBC News at One. The Coronation | :01:41. | :01:49. | |
Street star William Roache has been cleared of all sexual abuse charges | :01:50. | :01:54. | |
by a jury at Preston Crown Court. After a month-long trial, the jury | :01:55. | :01:56. | |
dismissed claims that the 81-year-old had assaulted five | :01:57. | :01:59. | |
teenagers in the 1960s and 70s - claims the actor had always denied. | :02:00. | :02:04. | |
As he left court he made a brief statement and finished by saying | :02:05. | :02:07. | |
he'd like to get back to work. ITV say they'll be talking to the actor | :02:08. | :02:10. | |
about his return. Danny Savage has been following the trial. He's there | :02:11. | :02:19. | |
now. Just before the jury returned its verdict, Bill Roache was told to | :02:20. | :02:23. | |
stand and he did so with hands find his back and faced the jury. The six | :02:24. | :02:28. | |
charges were read out and after each one, not guilty was heard. Bill | :02:29. | :02:34. | |
Roache showed no emotion as those verdicts were returned but his | :02:35. | :02:39. | |
family did. They are tears and sobs could be heard across the courtroom | :02:40. | :02:46. | |
as their father's name was cleared. Cleared of all charges, Bill Roache | :02:47. | :02:51. | |
left court today with the words not guilty ringing in his ears. A | :02:52. | :02:57. | |
statement of calm relief followed. In these situations, there are no | :02:58. | :03:02. | |
winners. I think we should all be much kinder to ourselves. But now, | :03:03. | :03:07. | |
if you will excuse me, I would like to get back to work. The world 's | :03:08. | :03:12. | |
longest serving soap star was cleared of a string of sexual | :03:13. | :03:16. | |
offence allegations against girls aged 16 or under the twin the | :03:17. | :03:23. | |
mid-1960s and early 1970s. The image of respectability painted by his | :03:24. | :03:28. | |
defence team was upheld. If someone has done something wrong, the law | :03:29. | :03:32. | |
will take its course. Some of the claims came to light because of this | :03:33. | :03:36. | |
television interview. He suggested victims of sex crimes were paying | :03:37. | :03:43. | |
for actions in past lives. Everything that happens to us is the | :03:44. | :03:46. | |
result of what we have been in previous lives or whatever. But this | :03:47. | :03:51. | |
was a reflection on anything he had done and he later apologised for his | :03:52. | :03:58. | |
remarks. I would ever say that victims of sexual offences are | :03:59. | :04:01. | |
responsible for the abuse they suffered and I apologise profusely | :04:02. | :04:05. | |
if I have been misunderstood. If you will join me... Too many people, | :04:06. | :04:11. | |
Bill Roache is Ken Barlow, one of the stars of Coronation Street but | :04:12. | :04:15. | |
he has been written out since the allegations were made. But | :04:16. | :04:20. | |
Coronation Street came to court to defend one of its own. Members of | :04:21. | :04:25. | |
his on-screen family and other colleagues described him as lovely, | :04:26. | :04:29. | |
kind and a perfect gentleman. The jury dismissed claims that he | :04:30. | :04:33. | |
assaulted teenage girls at Granada's Studios in Manchester, | :04:34. | :04:38. | |
houses in Lancashire and in his Rolls-Royce. A handwritten police | :04:39. | :04:42. | |
statement by the actor last year summed up his feelings about the | :04:43. | :04:47. | |
claims. It ends... I would like to reiterate that I have not, nor would | :04:48. | :04:52. | |
I ever, was any person to engage in a sexual act against their will. In | :04:53. | :04:56. | |
particular, I would not seek to force a young girl to do so. Claims | :04:57. | :05:02. | |
nearly 50 years old saw a pensioner dragged through the courts and to | :05:03. | :05:05. | |
the brink of disgrace. They could have ruined a brilliant career in | :05:06. | :05:09. | |
show business but the man who plays Ken Barlow was today declared | :05:10. | :05:16. | |
innocent. There has been a statement from ITV about his future at | :05:17. | :05:20. | |
Coronation Street and they say they look forward to talking to him about | :05:21. | :05:23. | |
his return to work. What about the bigger picture? About high profile | :05:24. | :05:29. | |
cases like this? In the words of the defence barrister, she said in the | :05:30. | :05:33. | |
post-Jimmy Savile crisis of conscience, when someone makes an | :05:34. | :05:37. | |
allegation, it has to go to court. It made and Bill Roache was cleared. | :05:38. | :05:45. | |
Thank you very much. Another big storm is predicted to hit much of | :05:46. | :05:49. | |
Britain this afternoon. The Met Office has issued severe weather | :05:50. | :05:52. | |
warnings for southern and South West England and south Wales from this | :05:53. | :05:55. | |
afternoon. In some places, more than an inch-and-a-half of rain is | :05:56. | :05:57. | |
expected to fall on already saturated ground. This morning the | :05:58. | :06:00. | |
Government announced another ?30 million for flood repairs on top of | :06:01. | :06:03. | |
the ?100 million announced by the Prime Minister yesterday. In a | :06:04. | :06:06. | |
moment we'll be hearing from Duncan Kennedy, who's by the Thames in | :06:07. | :06:10. | |
Berkshire. But first to our correspondent at Moorland in | :06:11. | :06:16. | |
Somerset, Simon Clemison. Good afternoon. There has been a break in | :06:17. | :06:22. | |
the weather overnight and into today, a chance for the Environment | :06:23. | :06:27. | |
Agency to get this flood area up to hold the waters back but this is | :06:28. | :06:32. | |
only a brief break. More rain is expected later on. That has led to | :06:33. | :06:41. | |
some difficult decisions. How long can one community go on fighting the | :06:42. | :06:44. | |
weather? Today, the people of moral and have to decide. Do they stay or | :06:45. | :06:50. | |
go? We have been working all morning with sandbags, so we do not want the | :06:51. | :06:55. | |
water in our house. We will stay as long as we can but if we are forced, | :06:56. | :07:02. | |
we will go. The official advice is to leave now. The floodwater has not | :07:03. | :07:08. | |
done its worst yet but the early warning signs were enough to | :07:09. | :07:11. | |
persuade this family to load their car. We had to leave that. It is in | :07:12. | :07:23. | |
the house. As you can see. We got the kids out. People are offering | :07:24. | :07:32. | |
each other places to stay, cattle are being taken to auction and you | :07:33. | :07:36. | |
get the sense that the time is up. The water is encroaching that bit | :07:37. | :07:40. | |
further all the time. Some people will sit beside but it is getting | :07:41. | :07:44. | |
that little bit quieter all the time. -- said this out. Quiet on one | :07:45. | :07:51. | |
of the main railways. The line at Dawlish has been destroyed and local | :07:52. | :07:55. | |
businesses believe it could cost millions of pounds. Homeowners have | :07:56. | :08:01. | |
been left in a perilous state. The wall was filled by sand so we are | :08:02. | :08:05. | |
looking at an innovative technique using a tunnel between Tiverton and | :08:06. | :08:14. | |
Taunton, Bray -- spraying concrete and we want to bring that machine | :08:15. | :08:18. | |
here today to see if we can add some protection. The days are turning | :08:19. | :08:23. | |
into weeks and months in this nonstop flooding. And there is no | :08:24. | :08:30. | |
end in sight. Not yet, anyway. There are plenty of people still here and | :08:31. | :08:35. | |
the levels have fallen this morning but this is only a brief respite. | :08:36. | :08:39. | |
More rain is expected later and then it will be worse on Saturday. A | :08:40. | :08:44. | |
destructive pattering that people here would like to see an end to. | :08:45. | :08:47. | |
Whether that is saying is another matter. Thank you. -- that is soon. | :08:48. | :08:54. | |
There are more than 300 flood warnings across the UK, many along | :08:55. | :08:57. | |
the River Thames. Duncan Kennedy is at Pangbourne in Berkshire. It is | :08:58. | :09:04. | |
raining here yet again, just like everywhere around here. It could | :09:05. | :09:07. | |
mean the flood story heads east, back to the Thames Valley. It has | :09:08. | :09:14. | |
also been raining upstream in Oxfordshire and that what has only | :09:15. | :09:17. | |
got one place to go. The River Thames, to the lower reaches in | :09:18. | :09:20. | |
places like Berkshire, which is why the people here are bracing | :09:21. | :09:30. | |
themselves for more flooding. The waters are rising here and the | :09:31. | :09:35. | |
gardens are filling up. Home owners steeling themselves for more | :09:36. | :09:40. | |
flooding. It is coming up. They have made some preparations with the | :09:41. | :09:44. | |
pumps but who knows? The last time it was up to our waste. We will see. | :09:45. | :09:55. | |
Tomorrow, I'm sure the flood level will go up. In places, the Thames is | :09:56. | :10:02. | |
creeping up to the levels it reached two weeks ago, when hundreds of | :10:03. | :10:05. | |
homes were inundated. The Environment Agency say it takes | :10:06. | :10:11. | |
between two and seven days for rainwater to translate into swollen | :10:12. | :10:14. | |
rivers like here in Berkshire. It has not stopped raining over the | :10:15. | :10:18. | |
past few weeks, which is why these levels are so high and why the | :10:19. | :10:21. | |
residents here are pretty evenly worried about what will happen over | :10:22. | :10:30. | |
the next 48 hours. -- pretty worried. Another weather system has | :10:31. | :10:34. | |
its sights on Britain this weekend and forecasters say this might need | :10:35. | :10:39. | |
another rewriting of the record books. We are only starting February | :10:40. | :10:44. | |
but statistics have brought us the wettest December and January since | :10:45. | :10:48. | |
records began so we could possibly be shaping up for the wettest winter | :10:49. | :10:54. | |
on record. Eric Pickles. The government updated MPs today on the | :10:55. | :10:57. | |
extent of the damage done by the winter storms. It said it did not | :10:58. | :11:01. | |
yet have all of the information. The full picture of the damage caused | :11:02. | :11:06. | |
has not yet emerged and the weather conditions have proven to be so | :11:07. | :11:11. | |
savage. The government will therefore carry out a rapid review | :11:12. | :11:16. | |
of the additional work needed to restore our flood defences and | :11:17. | :11:21. | |
return them in target condition. Environment Agency staff are making | :11:22. | :11:26. | |
sure pumps and people are being primed for the forthcoming weather. | :11:27. | :11:30. | |
Coast or inland community, summer seems a long way off. Those | :11:31. | :11:36. | |
Environment Agency people are all over this area, they have seen the | :11:37. | :11:40. | |
warnings and they must put preparations in place. It would not | :11:41. | :11:44. | |
take much for this what to come over the edge and flood these houses, | :11:45. | :11:48. | |
some of which are still flooded from last time. Which is why the next 48 | :11:49. | :11:53. | |
hours, as we always say, are absolutely crucial for the people of | :11:54. | :11:57. | |
this area. Thank you very much. Let's speak to our Chief Political | :11:58. | :12:03. | |
Correspondent, Norman Smith. More money promised by the government and | :12:04. | :12:07. | |
the Prime Minister will check the Cobra committee for the second time | :12:08. | :12:11. | |
in two days. And still be political right about how this is being | :12:12. | :12:16. | |
handled rumbles on. And that tells us that although we are a long way | :12:17. | :12:20. | |
from the flooding at Westminster, it dominate the agenda with the Prime | :12:21. | :12:24. | |
Minister defending his government's handling of the agenda, saying it | :12:25. | :12:29. | |
was proactive and having to defend Owen Paterson. And again, deciding | :12:30. | :12:36. | |
to chair another meeting. We have had more money, that extra ?30 | :12:37. | :12:41. | |
million, we will get a review of the overall flood strategy and there | :12:42. | :12:44. | |
will be greater use of the monetary and more meetings with council | :12:45. | :12:47. | |
leaders to discuss what they want and more of everything. And this | :12:48. | :12:53. | |
frenzy of activity is designed obviously in part to get on top of | :12:54. | :12:58. | |
this crisis but also to be seen to be doing something. It is almost | :12:59. | :13:03. | |
like the hurricane Katrina factor, when you remember President Bush, | :13:04. | :13:08. | |
his reputation was profoundly damaged by the perception that he | :13:09. | :13:12. | |
was not on top of this issue and he was slow to respond. Ministers want | :13:13. | :13:17. | |
to make sure they do not fall into the same trap. Norman Smith in | :13:18. | :13:24. | |
Westminster. Thank you very much. For all the latest on the weather, | :13:25. | :13:27. | |
you can visit our website: It has updates on the situation across the | :13:28. | :13:31. | |
UK and you can find out information for your local area. The Derby-based | :13:32. | :13:38. | |
company Bombardier has won ?1 billion contract to build the trains | :13:39. | :13:43. | |
to be used on the new crossrail route. The Canadian owned company | :13:44. | :13:49. | |
will build 65 trains, helping create and secure hundreds of jobs at its | :13:50. | :13:52. | |
plant in Derby. London's Mayor said the new trains would revolutionise | :13:53. | :13:55. | |
rail travel in the capital. Here's our Business Correspondent, John | :13:56. | :14:03. | |
Moylen. A happy and building rolling stock for railways here in Derby | :14:04. | :14:08. | |
since the 1840s. Now, this historic site has a secure future. -- they | :14:09. | :14:13. | |
have been building. Workers have faced uncertainty over jobs in | :14:14. | :14:19. | |
recent years but not any more. Absolutely ecstatic, I was in the | :14:20. | :14:23. | |
office when the announcement came and it was a joyous moment. All of | :14:24. | :14:28. | |
the guys who work here have been waiting to hear this news and it is | :14:29. | :14:33. | |
great. Brilliant, I have been here since an apprentice, five years. It | :14:34. | :14:39. | |
has secured my future. It saves me looking for a job. The new trains | :14:40. | :14:45. | |
will be needed for crossrail, Europe's largest construction | :14:46. | :14:50. | |
project. 12018, it will carry millions of passengers across London | :14:51. | :14:53. | |
and the South East and Bombardier will build the trains as part of a | :14:54. | :14:59. | |
?1 billion contract. There will be 65, a total of 600 carriages, and it | :15:00. | :15:06. | |
will safeguard up to 840 jobs, of which 340 or new jobs. Its future | :15:07. | :15:13. | |
was thrown into doubt when it lost out on a major contract that went to | :15:14. | :15:18. | |
Siemens in Germany. Unions launched a campaign to save the firm and that | :15:19. | :15:24. | |
led to the government to review the procurement of major projects but | :15:25. | :15:26. | |
today the government insisted that Bombardier offered the right price. | :15:27. | :15:32. | |
There is a competitive process, there has to be. Legally required. | :15:33. | :15:38. | |
It was one on its merits and I am delighted they are buying British | :15:39. | :15:42. | |
and supporting a very good company. And they will support 800 jobs. That | :15:43. | :15:47. | |
is vital for the recovery of the economy. This is one of several | :15:48. | :15:53. | |
crossrail station 's currently under construction in London. This project | :15:54. | :15:57. | |
has been criticised by some as evidence that too much public money | :15:58. | :16:01. | |
is spent on transport infrastructure in the South East. Today's news | :16:02. | :16:07. | |
means will be a lasting legacy for Derby and British Korean | :16:08. | :16:13. | |
manufacturing also. They write over Bombardier raised fundamental | :16:14. | :16:18. | |
questions about how the government supports the manufacturing base and | :16:19. | :16:21. | |
the first trains will leave as planned in three years. Hospitals in | :16:22. | :16:39. | |
England are still under severe financial pressure making it more | :16:40. | :16:40. | |
difficult for them to put patients first. That's according to the | :16:41. | :16:41. | |
health think-tank the Nuffield Trust. Their findings come a year | :16:42. | :16:43. | |
after a scathing report into the scandal at Stafford hospital, which | :16:44. | :16:44. | |
declared that public and patients had been "betrayed" by the NHS. Our | :16:45. | :16:47. | |
health correspondent, Jane Dreaper, reports. | :16:48. | :16:53. | |
Shocking failings in the care of frail, older patients. The problems | :16:54. | :16:59. | |
at Stafford Hospital show England's NHS is needed to make the changes. | :17:00. | :17:06. | |
What has happened in the past year? This is new research suggests | :17:07. | :17:10. | |
hospitals are listening to patients and their complaints, but also says | :17:11. | :17:15. | |
managers are under pressure to keep costs under control. It feels very | :17:16. | :17:20. | |
difficult for the people running the hospitals at the moment. Some of | :17:21. | :17:24. | |
them think there is still some savings, but bad quality care needs | :17:25. | :17:28. | |
to be eradicated and we will save money. But others say we need more | :17:29. | :17:35. | |
nurse nurses and the money needs to come from somewhere. We need to | :17:36. | :17:38. | |
speak up and say we cannot do this within the financial limit. | :17:39. | :17:44. | |
Hospitals are doing more work to manage basic care on wards. But the | :17:45. | :17:49. | |
man who report cause shock waves says it will take time to turn | :17:50. | :17:54. | |
around NHS culture. It is disturbing and there is still this feeling of | :17:55. | :17:59. | |
pressure, feeling that if I don't meet a target or balance the books, | :18:00. | :18:05. | |
then my job is at stake. I feel that needs to be looked at. There are now | :18:06. | :18:12. | |
3500 extra nurses on hospital wards in England. More NHS whistle-blowers | :18:13. | :18:18. | |
are ringing a special hotline, over 700 this year. Seven reviews have | :18:19. | :18:24. | |
reported back to ministers who insist the health service is turning | :18:25. | :18:28. | |
a corner. I think the public will draw comfort from the fact that a | :18:29. | :18:33. | |
year on from the reports, far from gathering dust, it says hospitals | :18:34. | :18:42. | |
are taking on the lessons. 80% say those actions have already started. | :18:43. | :18:46. | |
The government points out the best hospital deliver fantastic care | :18:47. | :18:52. | |
within budget. More are predict ting deficit this year, but the lessons | :18:53. | :18:55. | |
of Stafford is that patients come first. | :18:56. | :19:06. | |
Our top story this lunchtime: The Coronation Street actor, Bill Roache | :19:07. | :19:09. | |
has been found not guilty of two rapes and four indecent assaults | :19:10. | :19:13. | |
against women in the 1960s and 70s. And still to come: One of the new | :19:14. | :19:16. | |
men in charge of English cricket speaks to the BBC about the future | :19:17. | :19:20. | |
for the team and the decision to drop Kevin Pieterson. | :19:21. | :19:22. | |
Later on BBC London: Unregulated and bad for your health - why the | :19:23. | :19:26. | |
authorities are cracking down on the use of Shisha in the capital. | :19:27. | :19:30. | |
And bracing ourselves for more heavy rain - we'll have the forecast for | :19:31. | :19:40. | |
the next 24 hours. There's still a day to go before the | :19:41. | :19:43. | |
Winter Olympics officially begin in Sochi but the sporting events are | :19:44. | :19:47. | |
already underway. And a Briton, the snowboarder Billy Morgan, was the | :19:48. | :19:53. | |
first competitor out there. Nearly 3,000 athletes are competing for 98 | :19:54. | :19:57. | |
gold medals over the next two weeks. And Team GB are hoping for a record | :19:58. | :20:01. | |
medal haul. But The Games in southern Russia are still being | :20:02. | :20:04. | |
overshadowed by security concerns. Our sports correspondent, Andy | :20:05. | :20:12. | |
Swiss, is in Sochi. Welcome to the Olympic Park in | :20:13. | :20:18. | |
Sochi. Behind me you can see the stadium where the opening ceremony | :20:19. | :20:24. | |
will take place tomorrow night. There has been a difficult build-up | :20:25. | :20:28. | |
to these games with more concerns about security this morning. Up in | :20:29. | :20:35. | |
the mountains, about 30 miles away, the action is already underway. | :20:36. | :20:40. | |
Getting The Games off to a flying start, Britain's Billy Morgan, the | :20:41. | :20:44. | |
first competitor in the first event, qualifying for the snowboarding. | :20:45. | :20:50. | |
Blue skies, snow, almost picture perfect. Away from the sport there | :20:51. | :20:56. | |
are still concerns. With thousands arriving, the US are warning | :20:57. | :21:00. | |
explosives could be hidden in toothpaste tubes and smuggled on | :21:01. | :21:05. | |
aeroplanes to Russia. Security is tight, but the British team say they | :21:06. | :21:11. | |
are satisfied. Our threat level has not changed since we came out. We | :21:12. | :21:14. | |
are not aware of any of the threat you have just mentioned and we are | :21:15. | :21:18. | |
in constant dialogue and monitoring the situation. Britain has 56 | :21:19. | :21:26. | |
athletes, among them skaters, Nick Upland and Penny Combs and they say | :21:27. | :21:31. | |
it is only sport that is on their minds. I feel very safe. The village | :21:32. | :21:35. | |
is very quiet at the moment. Obviously a lot of teams coming. We | :21:36. | :21:40. | |
have our accreditations and cannot go anywhere without them. We have to | :21:41. | :21:45. | |
go through airport security to get into the village. I feel very safe, | :21:46. | :21:49. | |
and it is great so I can concentrate on my skating. Nine closed doors, | :21:50. | :21:53. | |
rehearsals have been taking place for the opening serried where | :21:54. | :21:58. | |
Britain's flag bearer will be this man, now at his third games. To be a | :21:59. | :22:04. | |
leader of a team and lead the team in performance would be great. To | :22:05. | :22:10. | |
see Chris Hoy, at the last Olympics in London was fantastic. To see his | :22:11. | :22:18. | |
emotion and what it meant to him. I can see how much it means to carry | :22:19. | :22:22. | |
the flag and it is fantastic. These Olympics are already testing the | :22:23. | :22:26. | |
best. That is a big hit. This Norwegian | :22:27. | :22:32. | |
lady lucky to walk away from this. But Britain's Jamie Nicholls was | :22:33. | :22:39. | |
among the first star performance, safety through to Saturday's final. | :22:40. | :22:43. | |
The organisers say they hope it is the athlete that sees the headlines. | :22:44. | :22:48. | |
This afternoon we have the first action in the Olympic Park which is | :22:49. | :22:53. | |
hosting the indoor events. The figure skating is just underway. | :22:54. | :23:00. | |
Candidates are into the final week of campaigning for a by-election in | :23:01. | :23:03. | |
Wythenshawe and Sale in Greater Manchester. It was triggered by the | :23:04. | :23:07. | |
death of the Labour MP Paul Goggins. It is a safe Labour seat but the UK | :23:08. | :23:10. | |
Independence Party is determined to give them a run for their money, as | :23:11. | :23:14. | |
Chris Mason reports. It is time for a pint in the | :23:15. | :23:21. | |
Fairbank pub in Wythenshawe. Had a good day, mate? Time to meet the man | :23:22. | :23:29. | |
who will be our guide to this spot politicians are scrapping over. | :23:30. | :23:33. | |
Lived in the area all my life, had as Mrs in the area all my life. | :23:34. | :23:40. | |
Passionate about Wythenshawe. It is improving and over the last three | :23:41. | :23:43. | |
years it has got better and better. There is a feel-good feeling about | :23:44. | :23:49. | |
my business at the moment. The area is getting better and people are | :23:50. | :23:54. | |
spending. Not everyone here is so optimistic. How are the party is | :23:55. | :24:01. | |
likely to fare? It is a micro-chrism of what we are seeing in national | :24:02. | :24:08. | |
politics. Two, two party politics. Labour will be looking to recruit | :24:09. | :24:14. | |
Liberal Democrat support. Over on the right you have the battle | :24:15. | :24:17. | |
between the Conservatives and UKIP. This is the 17th by-election race in | :24:18. | :24:22. | |
the last three and a half years and in five of those, the UK | :24:23. | :24:26. | |
Independence party has finished second. And the overall winner is | :24:27. | :24:32. | |
pretty predict the ball, but they still set hearts racing at | :24:33. | :24:36. | |
Westminster because they are real votes in real ballot boxes and | :24:37. | :24:41. | |
giving the party is a real sense of whether they are popular or not. | :24:42. | :24:48. | |
This time next week, voters will decide which party's candidate is | :24:49. | :24:52. | |
smiling most and heading to Westminster. | :24:53. | :24:59. | |
If you want more information on the candidates running the Wythenshawe | :25:00. | :25:01. | |
and Sale by-election, details of all seven of them can be found on the | :25:02. | :25:08. | |
BBC website. Life goes on for England's | :25:09. | :25:10. | |
beleaguered cricket team with the latest squad announced in the past | :25:11. | :25:13. | |
hour. Kevin Pietersen's name is of course absent and the fall out after | :25:14. | :25:17. | |
his sacking continues to dominate English cricket. Our sports | :25:18. | :25:19. | |
correspondent, Joe Wilson is with me. Are we any nearer to finding out | :25:20. | :25:32. | |
why he was dropped? The national selector, James Whittaker was almost | :25:33. | :25:37. | |
forced to come and speak to the media. In the past few minutes he | :25:38. | :25:41. | |
has done an interview. Asked directly why he got rid of Kevin | :25:42. | :25:46. | |
Pietersen, his ancestor was because of a legal position he was not at | :25:47. | :25:51. | |
liberty to say. What James Whittaker talked about in more general terms | :25:52. | :25:56. | |
was needing new players to re-evaluate the culture and values | :25:57. | :26:00. | |
of the team. I suppose we can infer that in some way Kevin Pietersen | :26:01. | :26:06. | |
infringed culture and values. It is an intense period of cricket for | :26:07. | :26:11. | |
England. Go to the West Indies, then they play in the Twenty20 World Cup. | :26:12. | :26:18. | |
Amongst the players, we have a young man, potentially very exciting but | :26:19. | :26:22. | |
it is Kevin Pietersen's absence which still dominated. David Cameron | :26:23. | :26:28. | |
said he was an enormous fan and said there was a powerful argument for | :26:29. | :26:32. | |
Kiki him -- keeping him in the side. Then he added that he should stay | :26:33. | :26:38. | |
out of it. But it is Kevin Pietersen and nobody wants to stay out of it. | :26:39. | :26:44. | |
Plans to introduce a 5p charge for carrier bags in England next year | :26:45. | :26:47. | |
are a "complete mess", that's according to a committee of MPs. | :26:48. | :26:50. | |
They say there are so many exemptions, for example there'll be | :26:51. | :26:53. | |
no charge for paper or biodegradable bags and that people are likely to | :26:54. | :26:56. | |
get confused. Here's our Business Correspondent, Emma Simpson. | :26:57. | :27:03. | |
We may not use them for long, but we do use an awful lot of them, over | :27:04. | :27:07. | |
eight billion disposable plastic bags in England each year. This is | :27:08. | :27:13. | |
where too many of them end up, the government hopes that by getting us | :27:14. | :27:16. | |
to pay 5p a bag will help reduce waste. But a group of MPs says the | :27:17. | :27:24. | |
government's plans are a mess. There will be exemptions for biodegradable | :27:25. | :27:32. | |
bags, there is going to be an exemption for paper bags. It is also | :27:33. | :27:38. | |
going to bring in an exemption for small businesses. It sends out mixed | :27:39. | :27:44. | |
messages. MPs said the scheme should be simple, like the one introduced | :27:45. | :27:49. | |
in Wales. There is a flat at 5p levy on all carrier bags. That has led to | :27:50. | :27:55. | |
a 75% reduction in their use. They started charging for all plastic | :27:56. | :28:00. | |
bags in Northern Ireland last April, Scotland will follow suit | :28:01. | :28:05. | |
this year. There are still plenty of bags on the streets of Belfast, but | :28:06. | :28:08. | |
the scheme is working so well they are planning to double the charge to | :28:09. | :28:14. | |
10p. I work in a clothes shop and a lot of people do use their own bags. | :28:15. | :28:20. | |
It is only 5p. It does not make a difference to me. There is less | :28:21. | :28:27. | |
plastic bags litter, so there is. How best to bin the bags? England | :28:28. | :28:32. | |
will soon catch up with the rest of the UK. MPs are worried the | :28:33. | :28:37. | |
exemptions will be too confusing for consumers, but the government | :28:38. | :28:40. | |
insists its plans will reduce their use that they should not come at the | :28:41. | :28:46. | |
cost of burdening small businesses. The Met office is saying we could be | :28:47. | :28:51. | |
headed for the wettest winter on record. Now the weather. | :28:52. | :28:59. | |
Whoever came up with the phrase, it never rains but it pours, has a lot | :29:00. | :29:08. | |
to answer for. It is stormy as we move towards the weekend. If we look | :29:09. | :29:15. | |
at this cloud in the satellite picture, that is Saturday's storm. A | :29:16. | :29:20. | |
brief lull before it is, but another area of low pressure moving in | :29:21. | :29:25. | |
bringing more rain. Light and patchy at the moment but we will see the | :29:26. | :29:32. | |
rain intensified for the rest of the afternoon and through the evening. | :29:33. | :29:36. | |
Further north across Northern Ireland, northern England, eastern | :29:37. | :29:41. | |
Scotland, not a bad afternoon with sunny spells coming through. A few | :29:42. | :29:46. | |
spells into the North West. It is this rain down to the South that is | :29:47. | :29:53. | |
the next cause for concern. Amber weather warnings, be prepared for | :29:54. | :29:55. | |
further disruption. We could potentially see another 40 | :29:56. | :29:59. | |
millimetres falling to higher ground. Those amber warnings will | :30:00. | :30:04. | |
remain in force into the weekend. If you are travelling away from London | :30:05. | :30:08. | |
at 6pm there will be a lot of rain around, surface water and spray. | :30:09. | :30:14. | |
Same across the Midlands and into North Wales. At 7pm, it intensifies. | :30:15. | :30:21. | |
Despite the lull in Somerset we saw earlier, we will see the rain | :30:22. | :30:26. | |
pepping up in the latter stages of the evening. Pulses of wet weather | :30:27. | :30:31. | |
pushing in across England and Wales throughout the night. Breezy, but | :30:32. | :30:34. | |
not the strong winds we saw from the last storm. Towards the end of the | :30:35. | :30:38. | |
night across the North Cornish coast, the winds will pick up. Under | :30:39. | :30:46. | |
clearer skies we could see a touch of frost as temperatures for just | :30:47. | :30:49. | |
below freezing. We start off with wet weather to clear away from the | :30:50. | :30:54. | |
East. Snow across the Pennines for a time, but a brief lull in | :30:55. | :30:57. | |
proceedings on Friday. Sunny spells coming through. Highs around five to | :30:58. | :31:03. | |
10 degrees. I hope you can make the most of Friday's weather because | :31:04. | :31:06. | |
Friday night, towards Saturday, almost a repeat the four months of | :31:07. | :31:11. | |
the store we saw on Tuesday into Wednesday. Heavy rain and severe | :31:12. | :31:18. | |
winds. It will focus its attention into the North on Saturday with | :31:19. | :31:22. | |
showers across England and Wales. You can always look on our website. | :31:23. | :31:29. | |
A reminder of our top story this lunchtime: the Coronation Street | :31:30. | :31:35. | |
actor, William Roache has been found not guilty of all rape | :31:36. | :31:36. |