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The veteran broadcaster, Stuart Hall, appears in court | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
charged with rape and sexual assault involving young girls. | :00:07. | :00:09. | |
He pleads guilty to one count of indecent assault against a young | :00:10. | :00:13. | |
girl in 1978, but denies all other charges including 15 counts of rape. | :00:14. | :00:18. | |
Also this lunchtime: Spotted in south west London - the | :00:19. | :00:23. | |
Spotted in south west London - the armed robber known | :00:24. | :00:25. | |
as "Skull Cracker", who's absconded from an open prison. | :00:26. | :00:27. | |
Unnecessary deaths from asthma - the first national study in the UK | :00:28. | :00:30. | |
says medical staff and patients have become complacent. | :00:31. | :00:34. | |
MPs summon the bosses of the British firm Astrazeneca and the American | :00:35. | :00:37. | |
company Pfizer amid concerns over the impact of a takeover. | :00:38. | :00:42. | |
Ukraine's government claim that more than 30 pro-Russian fighters have | :00:43. | :00:46. | |
been killed in the rebel stronghold of Sloviansk. | :00:47. | :00:49. | |
Nigeria's abducted schoolgirls - Britain offers assistance to | :00:50. | :00:54. | |
Nigeria in the search for around 300 pupils taken by Islamist militants. | :00:55. | :01:05. | |
??PREVSUB ??NEWSUB on BBC London, strike action | :01:06. | :01:08. | |
the Underground is suspended. But what next for London Underground and | :01:09. | :01:12. | |
Where does this leave the threat of future action? | :01:13. | :01:28. | |
Good afternoon and welcome to the BBC News at One. The veteran | :01:29. | :01:31. | |
broadcaster Stuart Hall has pleaded guilty at Preston Crown Court to one | :01:32. | :01:34. | |
charge of indecent assault in 1978 against a girl under 16. But he | :01:35. | :01:39. | |
denies all the other charges he is facing, including 15 counts of rape. | :01:40. | :01:44. | |
But he denies all the other charges he is facing, | :01:45. | :01:46. | |
Our correspondent Judith Moritz joins us from Preston now. | :01:47. | :01:52. | |
??PREVSUB ??NEWSUB yes, the guilty plea came from Stuart Hall first | :01:53. | :02:03. | |
thing. He has accepted the claim of indecent assault against a girl in | :02:04. | :02:11. | |
1979. He made that admission standing here in the dock room of | :02:12. | :02:14. | |
Court number one, wearing a dark so and striped tie and a pair of | :02:15. | :02:17. | |
headphones so that he could hear the proceedings. The 84 you wrote was | :02:18. | :02:20. | |
asked whether he could hear what was going on. He answered that he could | :02:21. | :02:25. | |
and he confirmed his full name of James Stuart Hall before entering | :02:26. | :02:27. | |
that plea. But the veteran broadcaster denies a further 20 | :02:28. | :02:38. | |
charges. They involve two girls. The first, the prosecution say, was | :02:39. | :02:46. | |
under the age of 16, both -- between 19 76 and 1978. Stuart Hall is | :02:47. | :02:49. | |
charged with raping her on five occasions, five of them when she was | :02:50. | :02:55. | |
under 16, sometimes as young as 14. He is also accused of indecently | :02:56. | :02:58. | |
assaulting her twice. And then a second girl who is involved in these | :02:59. | :03:03. | |
charges, the prosecution say she was raped eight times, they allege | :03:04. | :03:09. | |
between 1976 and 1981, and indecently assaulted three times by | :03:10. | :03:12. | |
the broadcaster when she was as young as 11. The prosecution say | :03:13. | :03:18. | |
that happened at various locations around Greater Manchester, Stockport | :03:19. | :03:25. | |
and Cheshire. The broadcasters that through the rest of proceedings this | :03:26. | :03:29. | |
morning. He is of course known for his time as a broadcaster presenting | :03:30. | :03:34. | |
the irreverent game show it's a knockout and was also the face of | :03:35. | :03:37. | |
regional television here in the north-west. He was a football | :03:38. | :03:42. | |
summariser at BBC radio. When he reaches trial, it is expected that | :03:43. | :03:46. | |
that case will last for around a week. | :03:47. | :04:00. | |
The entertainer Freddie Starr will not be prosecuted for any offence | :04:01. | :04:02. | |
following allegations of indecent assault. | :04:03. | :04:04. | |
The Crown Prosecution Service said there is insufficient evidence to | :04:05. | :04:06. | |
prosecute him in relation to allegations of sexual | :04:07. | :04:08. | |
by 13 individuals. Mr Starr, who's 71, was first arrested in November | :04:09. | :04:11. | |
Mr Starr, who's 71, was first arrested in November 2012 | :04:12. | :04:14. | |
another three times over additional claims unrelated to the late DJ. | :04:15. | :04:19. | |
MPs are to launch an investigation into the planned takeover of the | :04:20. | :04:22. | |
the planned takeover of the British pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca | :04:23. | :04:25. | |
Pfizer. The bosses of both companies will appear in front of the Business | :04:26. | :04:28. | |
Select Committee next week. There are concerns that if Pfizer's ?63 | :04:29. | :04:31. | |
billion pound bid went through, it could lead to a loss of jobs in the | :04:32. | :04:35. | |
Our Business Correspondent John Moylan reports. | :04:36. | :04:43. | |
It is an ambitious plan to create the world's biggest drug company. | :04:44. | :04:50. | |
Pfizer has proposed a ?63 billion deal to take over one of our prized | :04:51. | :04:53. | |
scientific firms, AstraZeneca. But now the plan looks to be examined in | :04:54. | :04:58. | |
microscopic detail by Parliament. Here we have a situation by | :04:59. | :05:04. | |
successful AstraZeneca is potentially being taken over in a | :05:05. | :05:08. | |
hostile bid I accompanied has a long history of predatory merger | :05:09. | :05:13. | |
behaviour and closing down companies in host countries. This is a really | :05:14. | :05:20. | |
serious issue that the committee will be examining very closely. | :05:21. | :05:23. | |
AstraZeneca is one of the world's leading pharmaceuticals firms. It | :05:24. | :05:29. | |
employs around 50,000 staff worldwide, some 6700 are in the UK. | :05:30. | :05:35. | |
Its sales topped 15 billion pounds last year. Little wonder some are | :05:36. | :05:39. | |
seeking cast-iron guarantees that these high skilled jobs and | :05:40. | :05:43. | |
investment and research will be protected if the takeover goes | :05:44. | :05:48. | |
ahead. Many recall craft's takeover of Cadbury in 2010, when assurances | :05:49. | :05:53. | |
not to close a plant near Bristol came to nothing when the deal | :05:54. | :05:56. | |
finally went through. The government can't just the cheerleading for this | :05:57. | :06:02. | |
takeover. We need a proper, independent assessment of whether | :06:03. | :06:04. | |
this is in our national interest. David Cameron should stop being a | :06:05. | :06:07. | |
cheerleader for this takeover and start being a champion for British | :06:08. | :06:14. | |
business. Today, AstraZeneca stepped up its defence, outlining its | :06:15. | :06:16. | |
strategy to grow revenue in the years ahead. Major shareholders say | :06:17. | :06:20. | |
the firm is well placed to go it alone. The present management have | :06:21. | :06:27. | |
turned it round. And I think they have a lot of good drugs in the | :06:28. | :06:31. | |
pipeline. If Pfizer are serious, they do have to look at increasing | :06:32. | :06:38. | |
things significantly because of the significant tax breaks they get from | :06:39. | :06:43. | |
relocating to the UK. The government insists that the proposed takeover | :06:44. | :06:48. | |
is a matter for the company 's honour their boards and | :06:49. | :06:49. | |
shareholders, but says it is is a matter for the company 's | :06:50. | :06:50. | |
honour their boards continuing to engage with both the companies to | :06:51. | :06:57. | |
protect British jobs and skills. Our chief political correspondent is | :06:58. | :07:00. | |
in Westminster for us now. This is a business deal. How unusual is it for | :07:01. | :07:04. | |
politicians to get involved? The truth is that in other EU | :07:05. | :07:10. | |
countries, it is not at all unusual. They tend to be more proactive in | :07:11. | :07:13. | |
defending key industries. Here, it is unusual. As lunchtime, and the | :07:14. | :07:18. | |
ten worst receive that a final decision is entirely a matter for | :07:19. | :07:22. | |
the companies. But I do detect a hardening of opinion at Westminster | :07:23. | :07:26. | |
against the planned buyout. We now have two separate all-party select | :07:27. | :07:31. | |
committee enquiries into the proposed deal. We have a | :07:32. | :07:35. | |
conservative mayor of London, Boris Johnson, warning politicians against | :07:36. | :07:39. | |
standing aloof from the deal. We have an urgent question in the | :07:40. | :07:42. | |
Commons from Vince Cable this afternoon on the deal, and talking | :07:43. | :07:45. | |
to senior Conservative MPs, I detect a real resistance to this going | :07:46. | :07:50. | |
ahead. One said to me that keeping AstraZeneca was in our national | :07:51. | :07:54. | |
economic interest. The question is, what actually can be done? In terms | :07:55. | :07:58. | |
of specific levers to halt the deal, it is hard to see what the | :07:59. | :08:05. | |
government can do. But if there is sufficient political disquiet, would | :08:06. | :08:09. | |
that be sufficient to force Pfizer to back off or to encourage | :08:10. | :08:12. | |
AstraZeneca's shareholders to stand firm, or to force the prime minister | :08:13. | :08:15. | |
to intervene more directly? Scotland Yard says the missing armed | :08:16. | :08:18. | |
robber known as the "Skull Cracker" has been spotted in London. Michael | :08:19. | :08:21. | |
Wheatley, who's serving 13 life sentences, went on the run after | :08:22. | :08:24. | |
being given day release from an open prison on the Isle of Sheppey in | :08:25. | :08:27. | |
Kent on Saturday. Police say Police say Wheatley was seen | :08:28. | :08:30. | |
in Twickenham last night. Michael Wheatley, a career criminal | :08:31. | :08:43. | |
who is violent robberies of tanks and building societies earned him | :08:44. | :08:46. | |
the nickname "Skull Cracker". His spree in 2001 began weeks after | :08:47. | :08:50. | |
completing another print and sentence for robbery and he had | :08:51. | :08:54. | |
absconded before. This time, he failed to return to some band that | :08:55. | :08:58. | |
Hill open prison in Kent after being allowed out at the weekend. Although | :08:59. | :09:03. | |
given 13 life sentences, he had served his minimum tariff and was | :09:04. | :09:08. | |
being prepared for release. His escape has prompted an urgent review | :09:09. | :09:13. | |
in the justice department. I am asking serious questions internally | :09:14. | :09:16. | |
about whether we got this right. We are in the middle of changing the | :09:17. | :09:19. | |
system so that in future, people who are in the middle of changing the | :09:20. | :09:20. | |
system so that in released on temporary licence will be tagged and | :09:21. | :09:25. | |
there will be a tighter risk assessment to ensure they are fit to | :09:26. | :09:30. | |
be out there. Until now, GPS tags have not been thought necessary for | :09:31. | :09:34. | |
prisoners so close to release, but a series of escapes has caused a | :09:35. | :09:37. | |
rethink. In her garden, Claire Townsend worries about the threat | :09:38. | :09:41. | |
posed by Wheatley, as she recalls how he put a gun to her head during | :09:42. | :09:47. | |
a raid in south London. At two points, I thought he was going to | :09:48. | :09:50. | |
kill me, at the beginning and when my mobile phone went off. I do have | :09:51. | :10:01. | |
to say that as his raids went on, because there were several more | :10:02. | :10:04. | |
after that, he was becoming more and more violent. Last night, police | :10:05. | :10:09. | |
went to a house in Twickenham after reports that Wheatley had been seen | :10:10. | :10:14. | |
there, but they found nothing. Rest assured, the Metropolitan Police, | :10:15. | :10:17. | |
the Kent police and other officers who get intelligence and information | :10:18. | :10:20. | |
around the country will work tirelessly to bring this man back | :10:21. | :10:25. | |
into custody. I guess the citizen will be raising an eyebrow at a man | :10:26. | :10:28. | |
who received 13 life sentences being prepared for release 12 years on. | :10:29. | :10:32. | |
Michael Wheatley is still on the run. Police have warned the public | :10:33. | :10:38. | |
not to approach him, but to dial 99 with any information. Richard | :10:39. | :10:38. | |
Lister, BBC News. Asthma sufferers are dying | :10:39. | :10:41. | |
unnecessarily, first national study of asthma | :10:42. | :10:43. | |
deaths in the UK. The Royal College of Physicians found that complacency | :10:44. | :10:45. | |
from patients and medical staff was often to blame. There were more than | :10:46. | :10:48. | |
1200 deaths in the UK linked to There were more than 1200 deaths in | :10:49. | :10:52. | |
the UK linked to asthma in 2012 - Correspondent Dominic Hughes | :10:53. | :10:55. | |
reports. The family of 12-year-old Holly | :10:56. | :11:09. | |
knows how deadly asthma can be. Last October should, she died after | :11:10. | :11:13. | |
suffering a severe asthma attack. Now her mum wants people to wake up | :11:14. | :11:17. | |
to the dangers. I never thought you could buy of it. I suffered asthma, | :11:18. | :11:24. | |
and so does my sister. If you go about your daily life, you don't | :11:25. | :11:29. | |
thing you are going to die of it. It is something quite shocking. Nearly | :11:30. | :11:35. | |
five and a half million people in the UK live with asthma. But while | :11:36. | :11:38. | |
it is a potentially life-threatening condition, a new study of as the | :11:39. | :11:44. | |
deaths says it is not being taken seriously enough. Too few patients | :11:45. | :11:47. | |
are receiving the right specialist care or taking their medication | :11:48. | :11:52. | |
properly. The report's authors say complacency is costing lives. Many | :11:53. | :11:55. | |
people think that asthma does not need further intervention. But we | :11:56. | :12:01. | |
have seen from this report, with a high number of preventable deaths, | :12:02. | :12:07. | |
that action does need to be taken. The National review of asthma deaths | :12:08. | :12:10. | |
is the largest study of its kind ever undertaken. It involved a | :12:11. | :12:14. | |
detailed examination of nearly 200 asthma deaths in the UK. It found | :12:15. | :12:17. | |
nearly half of those who died received no medical help during | :12:18. | :12:22. | |
their fatal asthma attack. Eight of the ten cases involving children | :12:23. | :12:27. | |
were dead before they reached hospital. The number of asthma | :12:28. | :12:30. | |
deaths has been falling, but there were still more than 1220 12, | :12:31. | :12:35. | |
meaning the UK has one of the highest asthma death rates in | :12:36. | :12:39. | |
Europe. Today's report calls for better monitoring and training for | :12:40. | :12:43. | |
both doctors and nurses as well as patients and their carers. Dominic | :12:44. | :12:45. | |
Hughes, BBC News. Fighting has intensified in parts | :12:46. | :12:47. | |
of the Ukraine, with the Ukrainian government claiming that more than | :12:48. | :12:50. | |
30 pro-Russian fighters have been killed during an assault on the | :12:51. | :12:52. | |
eastern city of Sloviansk. Meanwhile, the separatists say they | :12:53. | :12:55. | |
shot down a Ukrainian helicopter the same area on Monday. It's also | :12:56. | :12:57. | |
emerged that the airport in nearby Donetsk has been closed. Our World | :12:58. | :13:01. | |
Affairs Correspondent Mike Yesterday, these pro-Russian | :13:02. | :13:12. | |
separatist were in a tough firefight with Ukrainian government troops. | :13:13. | :13:15. | |
Today, guarding this railway crossing in Sloviansk ma they were | :13:16. | :13:18. | |
braced for any further government action to seize back control of this | :13:19. | :13:23. | |
key town, the stronghold of the rebels. Although the government says | :13:24. | :13:25. | |
the latest fighting was costly for the separatists, they are defiant. | :13:26. | :13:34. | |
We will fight to the very end, this man says. None of us in the militia | :13:35. | :13:39. | |
planned to leave, and we will not leave. The very name of the town of | :13:40. | :13:44. | |
Sloviansk speaks for itself. Slavs, and they do not surrender. Civilian | :13:45. | :13:52. | |
life goes on among the makeshift barricades in Sloviansk, but the | :13:53. | :13:57. | |
government says it now has the town of 120,000 surrounded. This man | :13:58. | :14:03. | |
says, we hope the authorities in Kiev will hear the people and stop | :14:04. | :14:09. | |
attacking and there will be no casualties and at last, there will | :14:10. | :14:12. | |
be a referendum. The whole country in the world will know what we want. | :14:13. | :14:18. | |
In Vienna, where the Council of Europe has met to discuss the | :14:19. | :14:21. | |
crisis, one of the main issues was Ukraine's intention of holding | :14:22. | :14:24. | |
presidential elections on May the 25th. Britain is among dishes that | :14:25. | :14:31. | |
believe Russia is trying to thwart these elections. Borussia Park my | :14:32. | :14:33. | |
Foreign Minister argued that constitutional reforms must come | :14:34. | :14:39. | |
first. Holding presidential elections would be unusual, Sergei | :14:40. | :14:44. | |
Lavrov said, while the government is trying to deploy the army against | :14:45. | :14:47. | |
some of its people. He also said progress at talks would be possible | :14:48. | :14:51. | |
only if representatives of Russian speaking areas of Ukraine were | :14:52. | :14:57. | |
involved. And for now, events on the ground. This unverified video is | :14:58. | :15:01. | |
apparently showing pro-Russian activist on the move, overshadowed | :15:02. | :15:08. | |
the diplomacy. This seems to be increasingly what passes for normal | :15:09. | :15:10. | |
life in the contested regions of eastern Ukraine. | :15:11. | :15:14. | |
Mike Wooldridge, BBC News. Our top story this lunchtime: the veterinary | :15:15. | :15:20. | |
broadcaster Stuart Hall has pleaded guilty in court to one charge of | :15:21. | :15:23. | |
indecent assault against a girl aged under 16. | :15:24. | :15:26. | |
He denies a further 20 charges, including 15 counts of rape. | :15:27. | :15:32. | |
Coming up, I will be live here at the famous stadium in Oxford, where | :15:33. | :15:37. | |
60 years ago today, Roger Bannister broke the four-minute mile. | :15:38. | :15:43. | |
Later on BBC London, stopping the spread of disease - copper pyjamas | :15:44. | :15:47. | |
go on trial at a south London hospital. | :15:48. | :15:54. | |
Plus: After forming squeeze in the 70s, Glenn Tilbrook is going back, | :15:55. | :15:56. | |
going solo on tour. Britain has joined the United States | :15:57. | :16:01. | |
in offering assistance to Nigeria in trying to find as many as 300 | :16:02. | :16:04. | |
schoolgirls who were kidnapped by the Islamist group Boko Haram three | :16:05. | :16:07. | |
weeks ago. The leader of the extremist group | :16:08. | :16:09. | |
released a video yesterday in which The White House has described the | :16:10. | :16:12. | |
kidnappings as an "outrage". Tomi Oladipo has the latest from the | :16:13. | :16:17. | |
Nigerian capital Abuja. A chilling video released three | :16:18. | :16:28. | |
weeks after the schoolgirls went missing. The man in the centre | :16:29. | :16:37. | |
standing in front of the armoured vehicle is this man. "I abducted | :16:38. | :16:41. | |
your girls. I will sell the women in the market. There is a market for | :16:42. | :16:46. | |
selling humans. Allah commands me to sell." He is the leader of Boko | :16:47. | :16:53. | |
Haram, an extremist group whose name means "Western education is | :16:54. | :16:56. | |
forbidden". The sect has used violence in its campaign to | :16:57. | :17:01. | |
establish an Islamist state. The girls' families are in agony and the | :17:02. | :17:05. | |
government seems unable to ease their pain. This has prompted public | :17:06. | :17:09. | |
outrage and now daily demonstrations calling for more action. Nigeria's | :17:10. | :17:14. | |
Finance Minister has defended the government's efforts. For the past | :17:15. | :17:18. | |
three weeks, the government has been following up every lead using aerial | :17:19. | :17:23. | |
surveys, using all the things at its disposal. The problem was that we | :17:24. | :17:27. | |
never communicated it well. The shortcomings within the Nigerian | :17:28. | :17:31. | |
government are increasingly evident and now the international community | :17:32. | :17:35. | |
is offering help. We view what has happened there as an outrage. The | :17:36. | :17:41. | |
President has been briefed. His national security team continues to | :17:42. | :17:44. | |
monitor the situation there closely. The State Department has been in | :17:45. | :17:47. | |
regular touch with the Nigerian government about what we might do to | :17:48. | :17:51. | |
help support its efforts to find and free these young women. The Foreign | :17:52. | :17:56. | |
Secretary also condemned the kidnapping. We are offering | :17:57. | :18:00. | |
practical help. What has happened here that the actions of Boko Haram | :18:01. | :18:05. | |
in using girls as the spoils of war, the spoils of terrorism, is | :18:06. | :18:11. | |
disgusting, it is immoral. It should show everybody across the world they | :18:12. | :18:15. | |
should not give any support to such a vile organisation. It's been three | :18:16. | :18:19. | |
weeks since the girls were taken from their school and the priority | :18:20. | :18:23. | |
for now must be to return them to their families. | :18:24. | :18:29. | |
The Government has said jobseekers could lose their benefits | :18:30. | :18:31. | |
temporarily, if they turn down certain "zero-hour contracts" | :18:32. | :18:34. | |
Until now, people on Jobseeker's Allowance could say no to such | :18:35. | :18:38. | |
But under the new universal credit, job seekers may have to | :18:39. | :18:41. | |
take certain zero-hour jobs, or risk losing their benefits. | :18:42. | :18:45. | |
Our Political Correspondent Iain Watson is in Westminster for us now. | :18:46. | :18:51. | |
Yes, the rules are set to change. At the moment, if you are in job | :18:52. | :18:58. | |
keekers allowance and you refuse to take a zero hours contract job, you | :18:59. | :19:03. | |
wouldn't lose your benefits because those contracts offer no guarantee | :19:04. | :19:08. | |
of regular work. In 2017, the Government wants to introduce a more | :19:09. | :19:11. | |
sophisticated way of paying benefits. If you are to be offered a | :19:12. | :19:17. | |
zero hours contract, then your local Jobcentre may insist that you take | :19:18. | :19:21. | |
that job and that's because if an employer were to offer you little or | :19:22. | :19:27. | |
no work in any given week, the new benefits system would top up your | :19:28. | :19:30. | |
income. Labour say this is unfair. These contracts are unsuitable for | :19:31. | :19:35. | |
some people, people with childcare responsibilities. What the | :19:36. | :19:37. | |
Government are saying is there will be exemptions, if there are problems | :19:38. | :19:41. | |
with childcare, you wouldn't necessarily lose your benefit. If an | :19:42. | :19:46. | |
employer were to insist on exclusivity, that you have to work | :19:47. | :19:51. | |
for them and no-one else, then you could turn that down, too without | :19:52. | :19:53. | |
any loss of benefit. A lack of psychiatric beds in | :19:54. | :19:58. | |
England is leading to some mental health patients being forced to seek | :19:59. | :20:01. | |
emergency care hundreds of miles An investigation by BBC News and the | :20:02. | :20:04. | |
online journal, Community Care, has found that the number of patients | :20:05. | :20:09. | |
travelling long distances for treatment has more than doubled over | :20:10. | :20:12. | |
the past two years. The Care Minister Norman Lamb says | :20:13. | :20:14. | |
the situation is "unacceptable". Here's our Social Affairs | :20:15. | :20:17. | |
Correspondent, Michael Buchanan. We seem to have a few problems | :20:18. | :20:31. | |
bringing you that report. The Economic forecasting group, the | :20:32. | :20:38. | |
OECD says action should be taken to In its latest report, it suggests | :20:39. | :20:41. | |
limiting access to the Government's Help to Buy scheme by asking buyers | :20:42. | :20:45. | |
for larger deposits The bodies of five British | :20:46. | :20:47. | |
servicemen killed in a Lynx helicopter crash in southern | :20:48. | :20:58. | |
Afghanistan, last month, are being The Ministry of Defence says the | :20:59. | :21:00. | |
crash was a tragic accident and not It's the worst incident involving a | :21:01. | :21:02. | |
British military helicopter in Afghanistan since the war began | :21:03. | :21:06. | |
there in 2001. Jon Kay joins us from RAF Brize | :21:07. | :21:08. | |
Norton in Oxfordshire. Yes, this will be the largest | :21:09. | :21:21. | |
repatriation the base has seen in a couple of years. In the next few | :21:22. | :21:24. | |
minutes, the plane carrying the bodies of the five servicemen will | :21:25. | :21:29. | |
fly into RAF Brize Norton and one by one, the coffins will be carried | :21:30. | :21:34. | |
from the plane by fellow members of the Armed Services. Then, later this | :21:35. | :21:40. | |
afternoon, families of the dead men, their friends, colleagues and | :21:41. | :21:44. | |
strangers, members of the public, will gather here to hold a | :21:45. | :21:48. | |
two-minute silence. I can tell you more about the five men who died | :21:49. | :21:52. | |
when that Lynx helicopter crashed ten days ago. They were from left to | :21:53. | :22:00. | |
right Captain Thomas Clarke, he was 30. Flight Lieutenant Rakesh | :22:01. | :22:09. | |
Chauhan, who was based at RAF Odiham. Warrant Officer Spencer | :22:10. | :22:15. | |
Faulkner, he was 38, married with two young children. Corporal James | :22:16. | :22:23. | |
Walters, 36, described by his colleagues as a consummate | :22:24. | :22:27. | |
professional. Lance Corporal Oliver Thomas, he was 26. The deaths of | :22:28. | :22:36. | |
those five servicemen in Kandahar takes the total number of British | :22:37. | :22:41. | |
servicemen to be killed in Afghanistan to 453. Thank you. | :22:42. | :22:49. | |
60 years ago, on a cold windy day in Oxford, Roger Bannister | :22:50. | :22:51. | |
became the first man to run a mile in under four minutes. | :22:52. | :22:54. | |
Sir Roger went on to become a neurosurgeon and now aged 85, he's | :22:55. | :22:56. | |
revealed that he is suffering from Parkinson's disease. | :22:57. | :22:59. | |
His remarkable feat of athletics remains vivid to him and he's been | :23:00. | :23:03. | |
sharing his memories of that day with Duncan Kennedy, | :23:04. | :23:06. | |
It is hard to believe that it was 60 years ago today that that famous | :23:07. | :23:17. | |
race took place here and not much has changed since then. They rebuilt | :23:18. | :23:27. | |
the stadium and replaced the cinders that Roger Bannister ran on. | :23:28. | :23:38. | |
NEWREEL: 25-year-old Roger Bannister, third from the left, gets | :23:39. | :23:39. | |
under way at the Iffley Ground, Oxford, for the race of his life. | :23:40. | :23:41. | |
May 6th, 1954, Roger Bannister is less than four minutes | :23:42. | :23:45. | |
He's decided this is the right moment. | :23:46. | :23:49. | |
Now 85, we asked Sir Roger to relive that remarkable race 60 years on. | :23:50. | :23:55. | |
At this point it becomes quite painful. | :23:56. | :24:00. | |
He recalls every step in the running spikes he had sharpened himself. | :24:01. | :24:05. | |
Despite the slight wind, he is clocking a great time. | :24:06. | :24:08. | |
He was now less than a minute from victory. | :24:09. | :24:11. | |
I overtake Chris Chataway and begin the finish. | :24:12. | :24:18. | |
And Bannister has done it. The mile in three minutes 59.4 seconds. | :24:19. | :24:23. | |
For a country ready for post-war success, this was a tonic to | :24:24. | :24:30. | |
Did you do it for yourself or your country? I think I did it for both. | :24:31. | :24:38. | |
I don't think I could distinguish. There was certainly a feeling of it | :24:39. | :24:42. | |
being a national event and something of a landmark for the country. But | :24:43. | :24:48. | |
it had to be me attempting it, so it was entangled with my own effort. | :24:49. | :24:56. | |
Peeking over the shoulder of Roger Bannister that day was a 15-year-old | :24:57. | :25:01. | |
boy in his school cap. That boy was Robin Winstone. | :25:02. | :25:07. | |
He was one of just 1,500 people to witness the mile milestone. | :25:08. | :25:17. | |
It probably took almost as long as the race to come up with the | :25:18. | :25:20. | |
timekeepers. The announcer - and he announced the result - very formal | :25:21. | :25:25. | |
in those days, he said, "Here's the result of the one mile. First, RG | :25:26. | :25:28. | |
Bannister. In a time of three..." And nothing was heard after that! | :25:29. | :25:34. | |
The record that Sir Roger Bannister set here on May 6th, 1954, did not | :25:35. | :25:40. | |
last long. In fact it was beaten just 46 days later by his great | :25:41. | :25:45. | |
Australian rival John Landy. But like Everest before him, and the | :25:46. | :25:50. | |
moon landings after, Bannister was one of those greats who did it | :25:51. | :25:54. | |
first, and because of that he'll always be remembered. | :25:55. | :25:58. | |
You once said that a man who can drive himself further once the | :25:59. | :26:04. | |
effort gets painful is the man who will win. | :26:05. | :26:08. | |
Roger Bannister, the man who created a brief time in history. I must tell | :26:09. | :26:24. | |
you about that flag pole. It played a very important part on that day 60 | :26:25. | :26:34. | |
years ago. It is on the Church of account Steven's House. -- Church of | :26:35. | :26:42. | |
St Steven's House. He was able to judge from the flag the speed of the | :26:43. | :26:45. | |
wind. When he came down that back straight, he saw the flag drop and | :26:46. | :26:49. | |
he knew that the record was on. He came round the he corner and came | :26:50. | :26:57. | |
in. It is one of the things that's marking this day today. The college | :26:58. | :27:01. | |
has put a flag back up today to mark the 60th anniversary. A number of | :27:02. | :27:06. | |
events taking place here in Oxford. This morning, we had a team of | :27:07. | :27:09. | |
schoolchildren who ran a relay around this track to go sub-four | :27:10. | :27:14. | |
minutes. They did it in four minutes and two seconds. An idea of how hard | :27:15. | :27:19. | |
it is and quite what an achievement it was for Roger Bannister to go | :27:20. | :27:24. | |
sub-four minutes 60 years ago today. Indeed. Thank you. Disqualified | :27:25. | :27:30. | |
drivers who kill or seriously injure people are to be given longer prison | :27:31. | :27:38. | |
sentences. Banned drivers in Scotland, England and Wales could | :27:39. | :27:42. | |
face up to ten years in prison. Ministers say the longer sentences | :27:43. | :27:46. | |
reflect the devastating impact on victims and their families. It is | :27:47. | :27:49. | |
appropriate the most significant sentences are available for those | :27:50. | :27:53. | |
people and I think - and I know many other will think - two years isn't | :27:54. | :27:57. | |
enough for people who do that. That is why we are making this | :27:58. | :28:00. | |
significant increase. I hope people who are considering getting in their | :28:01. | :28:06. | |
car when they are disqualified will think carefully indeed. | :28:07. | :28:10. | |
Manchester City is facing a fine of around ?50 million for breaching | :28:11. | :28:12. | |
UEFA's financial fair play rules. | :28:13. | :28:14. | |
The club - one of nine across Europe being investigated for spending more | :28:15. | :28:16. | |
than it earns - could also face a wage cap and a limit on the size of | :28:17. | :28:19. | |
Let's have a look at the weather. Many places will probably dodge the | :28:20. | :28:43. | |
showers altogether. It was certainly a sunny start. Notice the way the | :28:44. | :28:48. | |
clouds have been building up. Large clumps of cloud heading towards | :28:49. | :28:51. | |
northern ire lanld. This area is starting to see some of the showers. | :28:52. | :28:56. | |
We are expecting to see showers popping up across the South West of | :28:57. | :29:00. | |
England and Wales. One or two heavy ones developing over the next couple | :29:01. | :29:05. | |
of hours. To the south of that, probably | :29:06. | :29:09. | |
staying dry and to the east staying dry for a good few hours yet. Decent | :29:10. | :29:14. | |
temperatures, up into the high teens. Similar temperatures across | :29:15. | :29:21. | |
the North East of England. It will turn wetter here later on. For | :29:22. | :29:25. | |
Scotland, the showers are a bit hit-and-miss. Across Northern | :29:26. | :29:31. | |
Ireland, already the showers are getting going. They will turn | :29:32. | :29:40. | |
heavier as the afternoon goes on. We have to talk about the increasing | :29:41. | :29:45. | |
risk of heavy showers across Wales. Those showers will push eastwards. | :29:46. | :29:50. | |
In fact, we will see a spell of wetter weather running in across | :29:51. | :29:53. | |
Northern England, Scotland, clearing from Northern Ireland. But further | :29:54. | :29:59. | |
showers coming along on those brisk south-west early winds. -- | :30:00. | :30:07. | |
south-westerly winds. Wednesday - let's talk sunshine and showers. | :30:08. | :30:11. | |
Actually, some more persistent rain is in the frame for Northern | :30:12. | :30:16. | |
Ireland, southern Scotland and Northern England. Brighter skies to | :30:17. | :30:20. | |
the south of that. For northern Scotland, too, but through that | :30:21. | :30:23. | |
central belt of Scotland, it could be quite a cool afternoon. | :30:24. | :30:31. | |
If we look further ahead through into Thursday, this developing | :30:32. | :30:35. | |
weather system means potential for a fairly unpleasant day for many of us | :30:36. | :30:39. | |
on Thursday. Some more general rain across a good part of Northern | :30:40. | :30:42. | |
Ireland, England and Wales. That will keep temperatures down a little | :30:43. | :30:47. | |
bit. Brighter skies for Scotland. A mix of sunshine and showers almost | :30:48. | :30:50. | |
anywhere for Friday. All the signs are that that unsettled weather is | :30:51. | :30:52. | |
set to continue into the weekend. The veteran broadcaster Stuart Hall | :30:53. | :30:57. | |
has pleaded guilty in court to one charge of indecent assault against a | :30:58. | :31:03. | |
girl aged under 16. Police say the armed robber, known | :31:04. | :31:06. | |
as the Skull Cracker, who absconded from prison, has been spotted in | :31:07. | :31:09. | |
London. | :31:10. | :31:13. |