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