:00:00. > :00:18.about the way staff are treating residents. You are such a nasty old
:00:19. > :00:21.lady. One staff member has been sacked and seven are suspended from
:00:22. > :00:30.the Old Deanery care home in Essex after a Panorama investigation. I
:00:31. > :00:34.feel like I have let everybody down that trusted me. I fought like a
:00:35. > :00:38.tiger to get the funding to get her in there. We'll be asking what this
:00:39. > :00:39.says about the state of care in the UK. Also this lunchtime... UKIP
:00:40. > :00:42.leader UK. Also this lunchtime... UKIP
:00:43. > :00:45.opportunity to stand in the forthcoming Newark by-election.
:00:46. > :00:54.Controlling the number of betting shops on the high street. Police
:00:55. > :01:06.stop-and-search powers are to be overhauled. And when Harry said
:01:07. > :01:14.goodbye to Cressida - the couple have split up, but are said to
:01:15. > :01:15.remain the best of friends. On BBC London, the second day
:01:16. > :01:24.remain the best of friends. On BBC strikes, London Underground says
:01:25. > :01:26.remain the best of friends. On BBC put an end to strikes which have
:01:27. > :01:38.been voted for on a low turnout. put an end to strikes which have
:01:39. > :01:41.Good afternoon and welcome to the BBC News at One. Secret filming by
:01:42. > :01:45.BBC Panorama has uncovered evidence of abuse at one of the largest care
:01:46. > :01:47.homes in England - showing some residents being pulled about,
:01:48. > :01:54.goaded, and even on one occasion, slapped. One care worker has been
:01:55. > :02:00.sacked and seven others suspended from the Old Deanery residential
:02:01. > :02:02.home in Essex. The care home says it apologises unreservedly and is
:02:03. > :02:06.carrying out an independent investigation. Our social affairs
:02:07. > :02:22.correspondent, Alison Holt, reports. A care worker at the Old Deanery
:02:23. > :02:28.residential home in Essex dresses and elderly woman with early-stage
:02:29. > :02:31.dementia, but seems to Shola to understanding. An undercover
:02:32. > :02:37.Panorama reporter, working as a care assistant, did see good care and
:02:38. > :02:40.smart facilities, but also witnessed the upset of some residents who
:02:41. > :02:49.waited too long for help, or who had been treated roughly. A different
:02:50. > :02:58.care assistant's handling of the same elderly woman just escalates
:02:59. > :03:02.the situation. Then, she slaps her. Consultant nurse Lynne Phair is an
:03:03. > :03:07.expert at protecting vulnerable older people. Until we have every
:03:08. > :03:11.single care home and care setting working to the standard of a zero
:03:12. > :03:16.tolerance of abuse, and that is what this is, we have to keep saying,
:03:17. > :03:23.this is not acceptable. The woman who was slapped is called Joan. She
:03:24. > :03:30.is paralysed down her right side. Her daughter is shocked by what the
:03:31. > :03:35.secret filming shows. I feel like I have let everybody down that trusted
:03:36. > :03:42.me. I begged, I pleaded, I fought like a tiger to get her in there.
:03:43. > :03:46.The Old Deanery says it is shocked and saddened by the allegations
:03:47. > :03:53.against some staff. At another care home, a secret camera put in by a
:03:54. > :03:57.family shows just how much distress poor care caused their late
:03:58. > :04:04.grandmother. She called nurse 321 times before anyone came. Unable to
:04:05. > :04:08.walk, she was desperate for somebody to help her to get to the toilet,
:04:09. > :04:16.but it was 2.5 hours before she was taken. She said, I just do not want
:04:17. > :04:20.to be here any more. I knew that something was not quite, but exactly
:04:21. > :04:25.what, I did not know, until I put in the camera. Two care assistants were
:04:26. > :04:32.convicted of common assault for their treatment of Yvonne. Her care
:04:33. > :04:38.were described as totally unacceptable. The home has since
:04:39. > :04:43.increased training and staffing, and now meets all essential standards.
:04:44. > :04:48.In England, the regulator says most homes to meet necessary standards,
:04:49. > :04:50.but in the past three years, 1200 homes have been issued warning
:04:51. > :04:56.notices for serious failures in care. We are expecting people who
:04:57. > :05:00.are managing these services to deliver. People should not be
:05:01. > :05:09.getting into this business if they do not care. With an ageing
:05:10. > :05:17.population, the pressures on the care system will increase. And we
:05:18. > :05:21.can speak to Alison now. First off, we need to say that there is very
:05:22. > :05:27.good care, and some very good carers, care workers, who do a good
:05:28. > :05:33.job, day in, day out, and it is challenging but also rewarding. But
:05:34. > :05:36.as the regulator highlighted, there is a hard-core, if you like, of
:05:37. > :05:42.homes where they want to see improvement, so they all measure up
:05:43. > :05:47.to the best standards. In the last three years, they have issued more
:05:48. > :05:54.than 1200 care homes with warning notices. This is a major step, it is
:05:55. > :05:57.a serious step to take because it is the starting point of legal action,
:05:58. > :06:02.and it is saying there are failings there. Some of those homes have
:06:03. > :06:09.closed as a result. Of those that remain open, 406, more than a third,
:06:10. > :06:16.still do not meet all standards. When you look at the effect this has
:06:17. > :06:20.on people, in terms of bed numbers, that is 15,500 beds, so, we are
:06:21. > :06:26.talking about a substantial number of people in those homes. Now, one
:06:27. > :06:31.person who is not getting the care that they are entitled to is one
:06:32. > :06:40.person to many. You can see the full report in Panorama. That's Behind
:06:41. > :06:44.Closed Doors: Elderly Care Exposed, tonight at nine o'clock on BBC One.
:06:45. > :06:48.The UKIP leader, Nigel Farage, has confirmed he will not be standing in
:06:49. > :06:51.the Newark by-election next month. The contest was triggered by the
:06:52. > :06:53.resignation of the former Conservative MP Patrick Mercer over
:06:54. > :06:59.a cash-for-questions scandal. Mr Farage says he wants to concentrate
:07:00. > :07:09.on the upcoming European elections. Our political correspondent Carole
:07:10. > :07:15.Walker reports. Coffee required, after a night of deliberation. Nigel
:07:16. > :07:21.Farage she had not bottled out of standing in shelf read, but you can
:07:22. > :07:26.pick your battles. If I had stood for the by-election, we could have
:07:27. > :07:31.kissed goodbye to our European campaign. You guys would have been
:07:32. > :07:39.hassling me, to talk about Newark. And that would have been a massive
:07:40. > :07:44.destruction. Last night, Patrick Mercer resigned his seat after he
:07:45. > :07:48.was suspended from the Commons for six months. What has happened has
:07:49. > :08:01.happened, I am ashamed of it. He was caught by BBC Panorama, apparently
:08:02. > :08:04.accepting money. Newark should be a safe seat for the Conservatives, who
:08:05. > :08:12.had a majority of more than 16,000 at the last election. It was frankly
:08:13. > :08:16.too much of a if he were to stand in Newark and lose, then the damage to
:08:17. > :08:23.his own personal credibility, and that of his party, would be
:08:24. > :08:26.critical. The truth is, Newark did not look a really attractive
:08:27. > :08:34.prospect. Some say he would have been risking a litigant suicide if
:08:35. > :08:38.he had decided to stand. Firstly it reveals what a one-man band the
:08:39. > :08:45.party is. It is really just froth on the surface of politics. He prefers
:08:46. > :08:47.to keep parading around the media. UKIP say they still intend to throw
:08:48. > :08:52.the kitchen sink at the by-election campaign, but it is now less likely
:08:53. > :08:56.to bring them that coveted seat in Parliament. Our chief political
:08:57. > :09:04.correspondent Norman Smith is in Westminster. It would have been a
:09:05. > :09:14.high risk, potentially high reward gamble, but Mr Farage has chosen not
:09:15. > :09:20.to take it? Yes, and he reminded me that he used to be a City broker,
:09:21. > :09:23.where it was all about risk. He said the risks of potentially losing in
:09:24. > :09:32.Newark outweighed the potential of winning. If he had lost, he feared
:09:33. > :09:36.it would be good night for him and UKIP, politically speaking. You
:09:37. > :09:43.listen to ministers, they say he bottled it. But here is a revealing
:09:44. > :09:48.thing. At Prime Minister's Questions just now, during the whole half an
:09:49. > :09:55.hour, there was not a single mention of Mr Farage. That is because they
:09:56. > :10:02.know, even though he is not standing, he is still a serious
:10:03. > :10:04.threat. Two polls this lunchtime suggest UKIP is actually increasing
:10:05. > :10:06.its lead ahead of the European elections.
:10:07. > :10:11.The Home Secretary, Theresa May, has announced she is to revise
:10:12. > :10:14.guidelines covering the way police officers in England and Wales use
:10:15. > :10:17.stop-and-search powers. She told the Commons that an inquiry had found
:10:18. > :10:21.that more than a quarter of searches may have been illegal and more than
:10:22. > :10:29.a half of all forces were ignoring some rules. Our home affairs
:10:30. > :10:34.correspondent Matt Prodger is here. How significant is it, what Theresa
:10:35. > :10:38.May has said? Perhaps what is most significant is that we have got this
:10:39. > :10:42.announcement at all. It has taken nine months to get to this stage.
:10:43. > :10:47.There have been a lot of talks about how far to go with reform on
:10:48. > :10:51.stop-and-search. Now, she has announced it, she says there will be
:10:52. > :10:55.no change in the law, but she says she wants to continue to improve the
:10:56. > :11:00.arrest rate, which is very poor, about 10%, in England and Wales. It
:11:01. > :11:04.falls disproportionately on young black males, and she says that
:11:05. > :11:09.undermines confidence in the police. She says she wants to
:11:10. > :11:13.improve the code of practice. Police officers must have good grounds. In
:11:14. > :11:17.searching people. But this is essentially a voluntary code, in
:11:18. > :11:21.terms of the police forces which will sign up to it. The Labour Party
:11:22. > :11:27.is saying, it does not go far enough. What we will see is whether
:11:28. > :11:38.that arrest rate continues to improve, that would show that they
:11:39. > :11:45.were doing it properly. So, we have to wait and see whether the results
:11:46. > :11:46.justify these reforms. There could possibly be primary legislation
:11:47. > :11:53.further down the line, we will see. Police have been given extra time to
:11:54. > :11:57.question a 15-year-old school boy over the fatal stabbing of a teacher
:11:58. > :12:00.in Leeds. Anne Maguire, who was 61 and due to retire in September, had
:12:01. > :12:03.served 40 years on the staff at Corpus Christi Catholic College. Our
:12:04. > :12:14.correspondent Danny Savage is at the school. West Yorkshire Police were
:12:15. > :12:19.granted that extension to question that 15-year-old boy by magistrates
:12:20. > :12:23.here in Leeds yesterday evening. So, that process continues. Meanwhile,
:12:24. > :12:27.here at the school, people are dropping by all of the time to have
:12:28. > :12:33.a look at the messages and to read the tributes left for Anne Maguire.
:12:34. > :12:38.Behind closed doors and drawn curtains, there are traumatised
:12:39. > :12:42.children in Leeds who witnessed what happened to Anne Maguire. Until
:12:43. > :12:47.Monday morning she was the firm but fair teacher, adored by many of her
:12:48. > :12:52.pupils. But since then, she is the woman who was killed in their
:12:53. > :12:55.school. Close to here lives the child who was standing shoulder to
:12:56. > :12:59.shoulder with Mrs Maguire when she was stabbed to death in her
:13:00. > :13:03.classroom. I have been speaking to her mother today, who herself was
:13:04. > :13:07.taught by Anne Maguire when she was in school. Both of them have been
:13:08. > :13:12.left deeply upset by what has happened. And that child's clothes
:13:13. > :13:20.have been taken away for forensic examination. Most pupils were back
:13:21. > :13:26.in class this morning. The police guard the number of tributes outside
:13:27. > :13:32.continues to grow. She was so beautiful, a wonderful smile, a
:13:33. > :13:37.wonderful personality. She just radiated this love for everybody.
:13:38. > :13:41.She was just such a wonderful, wonderful, special person. Today, a
:13:42. > :13:46.police patrol guards the house where the 15-year-old boy, under arrest on
:13:47. > :13:51.suspicion of killing Mrs Maguire, lives with his mother. Neighbours
:13:52. > :13:57.cannot believe what has happened. He was as quiet as a mouse. You see him
:13:58. > :14:02.in the street walking home from school and that is it. You do not
:14:03. > :14:09.see him anywhere else. To, here's a lovely kid. The death of Mrs Maguire
:14:10. > :14:17.was also what has happened to her has reached far beyond Leeds. And
:14:18. > :14:20.inside the school they have been getting messages from all over the
:14:21. > :14:24.country, retired staff have been coming in to help with the process
:14:25. > :14:28.of getting the school going again. It is a really big community effort.
:14:29. > :14:39.Our top story this lunchtime... One staff member has been sacked and
:14:40. > :14:42.seven suspended from a care home in Essex after a Panorama investigation
:14:43. > :14:46.into the way that staff treat residents. Still to come,
:14:47. > :14:50.zero-hours, more than a million people do not know if they have a
:14:51. > :14:56.job from one week to the next. Later on BBC London News - how a British
:14:57. > :15:03.military dock two from Afghanistan is now using his skills in London's
:15:04. > :15:05.hospitals. -- doctor. And we have a special report on stars and shows in
:15:06. > :15:15.London. The proliferation of betting shops
:15:16. > :15:19.on our high streets could soon be curbed as a result of new powers
:15:20. > :15:21.being given to local authorities. Councils will be able to refuse a
:15:22. > :15:25.planning application if they're worried about the number of shops in
:15:26. > :15:29.their area. There are also set to be restrictions on fixed odds betting
:15:30. > :15:32.machines where you can bet up to as much as ?100 every 20 seconds. Our
:15:33. > :15:41.correspondent Duncan Kennedy is in Southampton.
:15:42. > :15:47.Well this is one of those machines. A fixed odds betting machine. You
:15:48. > :15:51.can win hundreds of pounds but also lose hundreds. It is easy to put
:15:52. > :15:56.hundreds of pounds into these machines in just the space of a few
:15:57. > :16:00.minutes and that is why the government said it had to act to
:16:01. > :16:06.protect vulnerable people who might be losing too much money on these
:16:07. > :16:13.machines. I odds, high-stakes. The gambling machines where you can win
:16:14. > :16:19.and lose large sums of money. Some allow you to bet ?100 every 20
:16:20. > :16:24.seconds. They can pay out ?500. The government fears that some punters
:16:25. > :16:27.will be sucked in over their limits. So today it has come up with
:16:28. > :16:33.new proposals to tighten controls. It wants to stop betting chains
:16:34. > :16:39.opening lots of new premises on high streets. It wants a ?50 limit on
:16:40. > :16:44.those fixed odds betting terminals and it calls for a mandatory player
:16:45. > :16:49.protection code. Not everyone is convinced that they will work. They
:16:50. > :16:56.are the most differential forms of gambling. They are called the crack
:16:57. > :16:59.cocaine of gambling. I do not think these proposals will help. We need
:17:00. > :17:06.to see the maximum stake come down to about ?2 per stake. We have to
:17:07. > :17:13.ask if the industry are responsible offering this product and the answer
:17:14. > :17:17.is no. Bookies like Sean Gallagher also have their doubts. They already
:17:18. > :17:23.operate an industrywide voluntary system limiting time and money spent
:17:24. > :17:29.on next odds machines. They feared that they will now have to control
:17:30. > :17:35.people 's Mike private lives. It makes us a bit like policemen in a
:17:36. > :17:40.way. If they do what to continue gambling they could move on to
:17:41. > :17:48.another machine or another bookies or casino. The big betting chains
:17:49. > :17:54.say most punters only put on around ?7 steaks at a time and all these
:17:55. > :18:02.changes could cause a loss of jobs. We're heavy -- heavily regulated and
:18:03. > :18:06.jobs are on the line and for me it is a big worry that a lot of us
:18:07. > :18:09.could be out of jobs. But the government thinks this is about
:18:10. > :18:15.protecting vulnerable people and the majority would be left to gamble
:18:16. > :18:22.responsibly. The industry also points out that it is not just these
:18:23. > :18:24.machines but people are also gambling on phones and tablets which
:18:25. > :18:29.do not come under the new controls. But the government says it has to
:18:30. > :18:36.act when it comes to these sheens to protect the vulnerable minority. --
:18:37. > :18:40.these machines. A report into a baby ashes scandal
:18:41. > :18:42.at a crematorium in Edinburgh says many parents will be left with a
:18:43. > :18:45."lifetime of uncertainty" about their child's final resting place.
:18:46. > :18:48.The inquiry into Mortonhall crematorium followed the discovery
:18:49. > :18:52.that staff had been scattering the ashes for decades without telling
:18:53. > :19:00.the families. Our Scotland Correspondent Lorna Gordon is in
:19:01. > :19:08.Edinburgh. What more can you tell us? These parents face the almost
:19:09. > :19:12.unimaginable pain of having to cremate their stillborn or very
:19:13. > :19:16.young babies at the time. They were told that there had been no ashes
:19:17. > :19:21.left to scatter at the time of the cremations. Now after an
:19:22. > :19:26.investigation it was confirmed that they were like two by staff at the
:19:27. > :19:29.crematorium. Bosses there are thought it would be too distressing
:19:30. > :19:34.to tell the parents that they are aware remains after all and not only
:19:35. > :19:38.that but in many incidences the ashes of their babies were in all
:19:39. > :19:43.likelihood mixed up with the remains of a noble cremation which followed
:19:44. > :19:47.and for many families it would be impossible to say where the remains
:19:48. > :19:52.of their babies ended up. It is a damning report, critical of
:19:53. > :19:55.practices and senior staff at the crematorium and the council. It is
:19:56. > :20:01.there was a long-term failure to provide an acceptable service to
:20:02. > :20:07.most -- to some of the most vulnerable next of kin. The report
:20:08. > :20:12.makes 22 recommendations to change practices. Some of the families
:20:13. > :20:17.involved have been speaking this morning. One woman told us she was
:20:18. > :20:24.very angry. She said she would now never find out where her daughter's
:20:25. > :20:26.remains were laid to rest. Another said it was a roller-coaster of
:20:27. > :20:33.emotions and the staff had no right to play God with their rabies. --
:20:34. > :20:36.babies. Labour is calling for a more
:20:37. > :20:38."coherent" way of running the different types of state-funded
:20:39. > :20:40.schools in England. The Government argues that free schools and
:20:41. > :20:43.academies are already held to account more rigorously than
:20:44. > :20:46.council-run schools. The former Education Secretary David Blunkett
:20:47. > :20:57.has published a report proposing the appointment of local Directors of
:20:58. > :21:00.School Standards to monitor schools. An execution in America has gone
:21:01. > :21:03.wrong and had to be stopped half-way through because the injection of a
:21:04. > :21:05.new combination of drugs was botched. Clayton Lockett, a
:21:06. > :21:07.convicted murderer, was still shaking uncontrollably when the
:21:08. > :21:12.procedure was halted. He later died of a heart attack. A second
:21:13. > :21:18.execution has been postponed and a review of procedures ordered, as
:21:19. > :21:23.Richard Lister reports. Clayton Lockett was convicted of
:21:24. > :21:27.shooting a 19-year-old woman and watching as his friends buried
:21:28. > :21:31.alive. Last night he suffered his own gruesome death. His was to have
:21:32. > :21:35.been the first of two executions by lethal injection on the same evening
:21:36. > :21:39.at this Oklahoma prison. But something went badly wrong. After
:21:40. > :21:46.being strapped to the Gurney, a doctor injected him with a
:21:47. > :21:49.sensitive. At six 30 3pm he was declared unconscious and injected
:21:50. > :21:55.with two more drugs to end his life. But at 6:36pm he began writing,
:21:56. > :22:02.breathing heavily and trying to speak. At 6:39pm he was still
:22:03. > :22:10.lifting his shoulders and head, grimacing. And appeared to be in
:22:11. > :22:13.distress. The prison official had been expected to confirm his
:22:14. > :22:21.execution to waiting journalists but as the time passed, it became clear
:22:22. > :22:27.there was a problem. I notified the office of the Attorney General and
:22:28. > :22:31.Governor of my intent to stop the execution and requested a state for
:22:32. > :22:36.the second execution. But minutes later Clayton Lockett died from a
:22:37. > :22:40.massive heart attack. Lethal injection is now the most commonly
:22:41. > :22:43.used execution method in America but sourcing the drugs has become
:22:44. > :22:49.difficult. The European Union banned their export and American drugs
:22:50. > :22:54.companies demand anonymity. Moore lost a legal battle with the state
:22:55. > :22:58.to deal with drug supplier. But Clayton Lockett's slow death has put
:22:59. > :23:03.the executioner -- the execution of Charles Warner on hold and could
:23:04. > :23:09.trigger more lawsuits as to whether lethal injections are humane.
:23:10. > :23:12.Iraqis are going to the polls today in the first national election since
:23:13. > :23:15.US troops left the country in 2011, with Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki
:23:16. > :23:18.seeking a third term. There is heavy security across the country. Iraq is
:23:19. > :23:21.experiencing its worst unrest since 2008, with 160 people killed in the
:23:22. > :23:33.past week alone. Our correspondent Quentin Somerville is in Baghdad.
:23:34. > :23:38.What is the mood there? Let me just give you a sense of what it is like
:23:39. > :23:41.to vote here, it is an act of courage in itself. 12 people were
:23:42. > :23:46.killed today as they try to exercise their democratic right. At that
:23:47. > :23:50.violence is nothing especially unusual. 1000 people are dying here
:23:51. > :23:56.every month as sectarian and ethnic divisions just grow. About an hour
:23:57. > :24:00.from where I am in Fallujah, the city has fallen to Al-Qaeda inspired
:24:01. > :24:06.militants. The Sunni opposition there have left in their droves. And
:24:07. > :24:11.the majority Shia population are suffering also attacks. So many save
:24:12. > :24:17.his country could be on the brink of civil war. Today Iraq is a
:24:18. > :24:20.democracy, something unusual here in the Middle East. Whether this boat
:24:21. > :24:30.will resolve its problems is far from certain. -- this boat.
:24:31. > :24:34.-- vote. The SNP European elections campaign has begun today in a bid to
:24:35. > :24:36.increase their number of MEPs. Alex Salmond and SNP candidates have
:24:37. > :24:39.visited the Pentlands Science Park near Edinburgh to launch their
:24:40. > :24:42.campaign. Mr Salmond has said that Scotland needs to have its "own
:24:43. > :24:45.voice in Europe" and that being an active part of the EU has helped to
:24:46. > :24:53.create thousands of jobs in Scotland. Meanwhile the English
:24:54. > :24:58.Democrats have launched their election campaign with a pledge to
:24:59. > :25:03.promote English identity. It is fielding candidates under the
:25:04. > :25:06.slogan, led the English revolt begin.
:25:07. > :25:08.Officials statistics show that nearly 1.5 million people in the UK
:25:09. > :25:11.are on so-called "zero-hours" contracts. The estimate suggests
:25:12. > :25:14.more people are on the agreements, under which people are not
:25:15. > :25:16.guaranteed work from one week to the next, than previously thought. Our
:25:17. > :25:25.industry correspondent John Moylan reports.
:25:26. > :25:28.Dale King from Surrey wanted more flexibility about how he worked so
:25:29. > :25:32.he chose to give up full-time employment and now he has two jobs
:25:33. > :25:37.on contracts that are not guarantee him a minimum number of hours. I'm
:25:38. > :25:44.not guaranteed any employment but I get to take the time off when I need
:25:45. > :25:49.to so I can be there for my children at school plays or sports days or
:25:50. > :25:51.whatever, hospital appointments. New figures suggest there are 1.4
:25:52. > :25:56.million of these contracts in use across written now at some people
:25:57. > :26:01.have than one, it it is still not clear exactly how many people are on
:26:02. > :26:07.them. Several big high-street names including McDonald's made no secret
:26:08. > :26:09.of the fact that they use zero hours contracts. McDonald's for example
:26:10. > :26:15.says it allows the company to offer staff flexible working arrangements.
:26:16. > :26:18.But some say the sheer number of these contracts now in operation
:26:19. > :26:23.around Britain is leading to a growing insecure workforce. The
:26:24. > :26:28.problem with these contracts is that individuals often have no idea how
:26:29. > :26:31.many hours they will get per week and how much pay they will take home
:26:32. > :26:34.at the end of the week. They often do not know if they will be able to
:26:35. > :26:40.pay their household bills and they find difficult to organise
:26:41. > :26:42.childcare. Workers in bars and hotels, catering and tourism are
:26:43. > :26:47.more likely to be on these contracts, as are women and the
:26:48. > :26:51.under 25 's. Business groups insist they have helped boost employment by
:26:52. > :26:56.giving firms the confidence to take on staff. Employers value them and
:26:57. > :27:02.employees value them. Two thirds of people on them say they do not
:27:03. > :27:05.require any more hours. Just 11% of people on the contract said they
:27:06. > :27:10.would like another job. Critics warn that people can remain on zero hours
:27:11. > :27:14.contracts for years and can be prevented from working elsewhere. It
:27:15. > :27:19.is clear they are becoming an increasing part of working life.
:27:20. > :27:22.Prince Harry and his girlfriend Cressida Bonas have split up, but
:27:23. > :27:26.are said to remain "the best of friends". The couple had been dating
:27:27. > :27:29.for two years and were widely tipped to be on the verge of an engagement.
:27:30. > :27:32.Rumours that Cressida and Harry would get married gathered pace in
:27:33. > :27:35.March when she joined the Prince at one of his official engagements for
:27:36. > :27:40.the first time. Our royal correspondent Nicholas Witchell
:27:41. > :27:44.reports. They had been together almost two years and there was
:27:45. > :27:48.commitment on both sides although perhaps rather more from him. In
:27:49. > :27:52.recent months they had looked relaxed together in public. But when
:27:53. > :27:58.it came to it are realised they were not ready to take it to the next
:27:59. > :28:03.step. A public can wind and an engagement. And the principal
:28:04. > :28:07.reason, a the bonus has never had any particular ambition to marry a
:28:08. > :28:11.prince. Or to be a member of the British Royal Family. Right now the
:28:12. > :28:15.midget priorities are to further her creative ambitions in dance and
:28:16. > :28:20.musical theatre. Of the two of them Harry was the one who was more ready
:28:21. > :28:24.to settle down. He will be 30 later this year. He is no longer able to
:28:25. > :28:29.pursue the job he loved in the Army Air Corps. He now effectively have a
:28:30. > :28:35.desk job in the military. It is a moment in his life when he had hoped
:28:36. > :28:37.to be able to settle down. Yet Harry is only too aware of the
:28:38. > :28:42.difficulties of finding a partner able to withstand the particular
:28:43. > :28:47.pressures of being a member of his family. He talked of those pressures
:28:48. > :28:51.during his deployment in Afghanistan. If you find the right
:28:52. > :28:56.person and it feels right it takes time. Especially for myself and my
:28:57. > :29:00.brother. You will never find someone to jump into the position that they
:29:01. > :29:03.would hold. Harry had undoubtedly hoped that Cressida Bonas was the
:29:04. > :29:08.right person. Her aristocratic background was impeccable, her sense
:29:09. > :29:12.of fun complement lamented his. Yet she is only 25 and teens it is too
:29:13. > :29:18.soon for her to give up her relatively carefree way of life for
:29:19. > :29:22.marriage to the fourth in line to the throne. The realisation of the
:29:23. > :29:26.time was not right was arrived at jointly by Harry and Cressida, we
:29:27. > :29:30.are told. The decision to part was mutual and amicable. They remain
:29:31. > :29:37.friends but now with more space to consider the future. And in the past
:29:38. > :29:43.few months it has been announced that actor Bob Hoskins has died
:29:44. > :29:51.following -- following pneumonia. He enjoyed a career spanning four
:29:52. > :30:01.decades. Time for a look at the weather. Here's Phil Avery.
:30:02. > :30:06.It has been a week of mixed fortunes across the British Isles. There is
:30:07. > :30:16.some sunshine around and temperatures are really responding
:30:17. > :30:17.to that. But for a good part of Scotland, temperatures just around
:30:18. > :30:22.to that. But for a good part of seven or nine degrees. Some
:30:23. > :30:27.thunderstorms around through the afternoon. Further south there is
:30:28. > :30:36.still some sunshine with the odd rogue shower. For Wales and the
:30:37. > :30:42.South West of England we have a band of rain coming in. That
:30:43. > :30:45.South West of England we have a band set out the stall for the mid-to
:30:46. > :30:53.late afternoon. Some of those showers could be quite torrential.
:30:54. > :30:56.Through the night we have a band of cloud and rain and even some snow
:30:57. > :31:00.further north over the higher ground in Scotland. We have cooler and
:31:01. > :31:10.fresher weather waiting in the wings. Then we're off and running
:31:11. > :31:17.into Thursday and it looks like hefty showers developing as the day
:31:18. > :31:21.gets going. Some sunshine coming through in the afternoon. Then a
:31:22. > :31:30.swathe of cloud and rain further north. Brighter skies in the far
:31:31. > :31:35.north. And it is that cold air that through the course of Friday, behind
:31:36. > :31:42.the weather front, gradually comes further south. Not especially
:31:43. > :31:45.right. But the change is the feel and you will certainly noticed that
:31:46. > :31:50.come Friday night. Southwest Scotland to south-west England,
:31:51. > :31:57.widespread ground frost. Some error frost for some. And on into the bank
:31:58. > :32:03.holiday weekend, both overnight frosts will be quite prevalent
:32:04. > :32:05.especially in England and Wales. For the north and West, some cloud and
:32:06. > :32:07.rain.