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AstraZeneca rejects a final takeover attempt by the American drug's | :00:09. | :00:14. | |
company Pfizer. Billions are wiped off the share prize. The company | :00:15. | :00:18. | |
says the deal would threaten the development of new drugs. We've | :00:19. | :00:23. | |
rejected it because we think the value in itself is less than we can | :00:24. | :00:29. | |
do as an independent company in quickly delivering drugs to the | :00:30. | :00:33. | |
market. A Premier League committee discusses | :00:34. | :00:38. | |
the future of Richard Scudamore as Chief Executive as the row about | :00:39. | :00:42. | |
sexism continues. Ben Ainslie is among thousands of | :00:43. | :00:48. | |
people urging the US Coastguard to continue its search for four British | :00:49. | :00:52. | |
sail errs missing since Friday. A woman tells the Rolf Harris trial | :00:53. | :00:57. | |
he assaulted her when she was just 11. | :00:58. | :01:02. | |
Sir Jack Brabham, one of the greatest ever racing drivers, has | :01:03. | :01:06. | |
died. He won three Formula One championships. One in a car he | :01:07. | :01:13. | |
designed himself. On BBC London, detectives launch a | :01:14. | :01:16. | |
murder investigation after a man found dead at a flat fire suffered | :01:17. | :01:21. | |
multiple stab wounds. House building in London is at its lowest level for | :01:22. | :01:23. | |
more than six years. Hello. Welcome to the BBC News at | :01:24. | :01:43. | |
one. There have been more dramatic | :01:44. | :01:49. | |
developments in Pfizer's attempt to takeover the UK pharmaceutical | :01:50. | :01:52. | |
company AstraZeneca. Pfizer said it was making its fourth and final bid | :01:53. | :01:59. | |
offering ?55 a share valuing the company at ?69 million. But | :02:00. | :02:04. | |
AstraZeneca rejected the offer saying the deal would threaten the | :02:05. | :02:09. | |
production of new drugs. That caused shares in AstraZeneca to plunge by | :02:10. | :02:16. | |
14% in early trading. Pfizer's plan to take over AstraZeneca could | :02:17. | :02:20. | |
create the world's biggest drug company. But last night, Pfizer | :02:21. | :02:25. | |
raised its offer but AstraZeneca said no. We've rejected it because | :02:26. | :02:31. | |
we think the value in itself a less than we can do as an independent | :02:32. | :02:35. | |
company in quickly delivering drugs to the market. | :02:36. | :02:41. | |
To sweeten the deal, Pfizer committed to maintaining a | :02:42. | :02:45. | |
significant presence at this plant in Macclesfield and keeping 20% of | :02:46. | :02:49. | |
research jobs in Britain. That didn't satisfy MPs who grilled the | :02:50. | :02:54. | |
companies last week. Pfizer's boss admitted overall research funding | :02:55. | :02:59. | |
would be cut and jobs would go. I'm not sitting here saying we can | :03:00. | :03:05. | |
become more efficient without some reduction in jobs. I cannot tell you | :03:06. | :03:11. | |
how much, how many or where. The saying Ga began on January 5th | :03:12. | :03:18. | |
Pfizer met AstraZeneca bosses in New York for secret talks and proposed a | :03:19. | :03:27. | |
bid of ?46.62 per share. On May 2nd, Pfizer said it would offer ?50 per | :03:28. | :03:33. | |
share. On may 16th the company said it would go to ?53.50 but | :03:34. | :03:40. | |
AstraZeneca said this underwool Ood the company. Jed, it upped the bid | :03:41. | :03:49. | |
proposal to ?55 per share but it was rejected by as sister Zeneca's | :03:50. | :03:55. | |
board. The offer's never been put to AstraZeneca's shareholders. They saw | :03:56. | :04:01. | |
the value in their company fall as its share price plummeted. Pfizer | :04:02. | :04:05. | |
needed to go further. The offer from Pfizer this time round is an | :04:06. | :04:10. | |
improved offer but not been improved enough to really make anybody who | :04:11. | :04:16. | |
was waiverering before change their minds. -- wavering. | :04:17. | :04:26. | |
The row has raised questions about foreign takeovers of strategically | :04:27. | :04:33. | |
important UK firms. Labour says it woulden rules but the Government | :04:34. | :04:37. | |
insisted any takeover matters is for the company themselves. | :04:38. | :04:42. | |
Our Business Editor is with me. Is the deal dead? I think it is on life | :04:43. | :04:47. | |
support. These are drugs company, if nothing else. | :04:48. | :04:51. | |
Pfizer said it will not go hostile. It will not put an aggressive bid | :04:52. | :04:59. | |
straight to the shareholders, owners of AstraZeneca who would then force | :05:00. | :05:04. | |
the board to the negotiating table. That's too politically difficult. | :05:05. | :05:08. | |
Pfizer is the big American firm. It would find that very, very | :05:09. | :05:10. | |
difficult. So, today, the only thing that could | :05:11. | :05:17. | |
happen would be AstraZeneca shareholders decide ?55 is a lot | :05:18. | :05:22. | |
better than they would get if they stuck with as sfra Zeneca as a | :05:23. | :05:26. | |
company. They would force the board to start negotiations. I think | :05:27. | :05:31. | |
that's unlikely. They would have to wait six months for another chance | :05:32. | :05:35. | |
to bid under takeover panel rules. At that stage, the tax advantages | :05:36. | :05:39. | |
they get at the moment may have been closed off by the US Government. So, | :05:40. | :05:44. | |
on life support to the point of the life support being turned off. | :05:45. | :05:49. | |
What now for AstraZeneca itself? It is talking a lot about new drug | :05:50. | :05:55. | |
development? The big test for them is let us stay independent, we'll do | :05:56. | :06:02. | |
very well on drugs on diabetes, on cancer, cardiovascular. The proof | :06:03. | :06:05. | |
with now be can they actually deliver on those drugs as an | :06:06. | :06:08. | |
independent company. Thank you. | :06:09. | :06:12. | |
A Premier League committee is discussing the future of its Chief | :06:13. | :06:17. | |
Executive Richard Scudamore. He's under pressure to resign for making | :06:18. | :06:24. | |
sexist comments in emails sent from his work accounts. Dan ran is | :06:25. | :06:29. | |
outside the league's headquarters in London. | :06:30. | :06:37. | |
This has meant more scrutiny on how the committee handle proceed usual. | :06:38. | :06:43. | |
Some say Richard Scudamore's future is being decided by four men who | :06:44. | :06:49. | |
approved a 2 million salary. Others say the issue isover lone. Scudamore | :06:50. | :06:55. | |
should be judged on the fact he's supported and promoted women's | :06:56. | :06:59. | |
football in the past. This is a con trophy very uncomfortable for those | :07:00. | :07:05. | |
on top of the game. Richard Scudamore transformed | :07:06. | :07:09. | |
football. Today, the game's most powerful figure faces his greatest | :07:10. | :07:15. | |
challenge to date. He faces mounting pressure over sexist emails he sent | :07:16. | :07:22. | |
to a friend. Bruise Burke, Dave gill and Stoke City chairman Peter coats | :07:23. | :07:25. | |
are meeting this morning to decide what action to take. Meanwhile, the | :07:26. | :07:31. | |
personal assistant who leaked the emails has gone public. I felt | :07:32. | :07:37. | |
humiliated demeaned, I felt I didn't want to Rae them. They were sexist, | :07:38. | :07:44. | |
very degrading to women. I feel he should resign. Scudamore's | :07:45. | :07:51. | |
apologised. But FA board member Heather Rab at said he should | :07:52. | :07:56. | |
resign. A Super League match yesterday between Arsenal and | :07:57. | :07:59. | |
Manchester City at a time when women's football has never been more | :08:00. | :08:04. | |
popular, it is clear the scandal's sparked a wide ranging debate. He | :08:05. | :08:08. | |
said some strong statements. He should be given a chance to answer | :08:09. | :08:14. | |
for himself. If his answer is not satisfactory or if he's not showing | :08:15. | :08:16. | |
any willingness to satisfactory or if he's not showing | :08:17. | :08:20. | |
behaviour, there's a decision to be made. It is a poor show. I agree he | :08:21. | :08:29. | |
has to consider his position. Scudamore's one of football's great | :08:30. | :08:33. | |
survivors. His reputation is under scrutiny over a case which raises | :08:34. | :08:37. | |
questions about the game's commitment to equality. | :08:38. | :08:41. | |
Tomorrow, the FA Inclusion Advisory Board will respond to whatever the | :08:42. | :08:46. | |
Premier League committee decide to do. Richard Scudamore is there in | :08:47. | :08:50. | |
person. One of the members of the committee said he'd be surprised if | :08:51. | :08:56. | |
Scudamore host his job but they have to bare in mind the concerns of | :08:57. | :09:02. | |
sport's minister, FA and others. Thank you. | :09:03. | :09:08. | |
The Olympic yachts man Sir Ben Ainslie's joined calls for the US | :09:09. | :09:14. | |
Coastguard to resume the search for four British sailors. Contact with | :09:15. | :09:19. | |
the boat was lost after it reported running into difficulties off the | :09:20. | :09:27. | |
coast of Cape Cod. On online call for the search to rest has more than | :09:28. | :09:35. | |
13,000 signatures. Andrew Bridge, 22, but an | :09:36. | :09:40. | |
experienced yachts skipper. One friend who sailed with him you was | :09:41. | :09:46. | |
captaining the cheek yes Rafiky as it set out from home for Antiga. | :09:47. | :09:51. | |
He's been sailing small boats since the age of nine. Ian an accident in | :09:52. | :09:59. | |
mid-Atlantic would not dampen his enthusiasm. If he comes back to us | :10:00. | :10:03. | |
I'm sure he'll resume sailing. I would imagine. He's not easily down. | :10:04. | :10:15. | |
Quite spirited. But Cheeki Rafiki had been taking part in the sailing | :10:16. | :10:20. | |
week before setting outs for Southampton. Boats like these are | :10:21. | :10:27. | |
well equipped with rife laugheds. Contact with the boat was last on | :10:28. | :10:32. | |
Friday. One personal radio beacon was act vetted. When its battery ran | :10:33. | :10:40. | |
out a second beacon switched on. They are four strong, physically | :10:41. | :10:45. | |
strong and mentally strong men. They would have had provisions in the | :10:46. | :10:48. | |
life raft to keep them going for a few days. We believe they are still | :10:49. | :10:51. | |
out there. We've no evidence to show they are not out there. | :10:52. | :10:57. | |
A passing container ship spotted what's thought to be the Cheeki | :10:58. | :11:02. | |
Rafiki's upturned hull but there was no sign of anyone aboard. Planes | :11:03. | :11:08. | |
from the US and Canada spent two days searching off Cape Cod. But the | :11:09. | :11:12. | |
search was called off yesterday. The families want the research started | :11:13. | :11:16. | |
convinced there's a strong likelihood the men are still afloat | :11:17. | :11:20. | |
and alive. The trial of Rolf Harris has been | :11:21. | :11:24. | |
hearing from a girl who alleges she was assaulted by the entertainer | :11:25. | :11:32. | |
when she was 11. Rolf Harris denies 12 counts of indecent assault. This | :11:33. | :11:37. | |
incident does not form part of the charges against him. | :11:38. | :11:44. | |
Let's go to Southwark Crown Court. As you say, we've heard this morning | :11:45. | :11:48. | |
from three so-called bad character witnesses. These are all women who | :11:49. | :11:52. | |
claimed Rolf Harris assaulted them when they were young women abroad. | :11:53. | :11:57. | |
As a result, he cannot be prosecuted for those alleged crimes. What the | :11:58. | :12:01. | |
prosecution is saying today, if you take all of those stories in total, | :12:02. | :12:06. | |
they paint a picture of a man who used his fame to assault young | :12:07. | :12:11. | |
girls. By the late 19600s. Rolf Harris was | :12:12. | :12:19. | |
a fixture on TV screens in Britain and Australia. Today, the | :12:20. | :12:23. | |
prosecution claim the entertainer used his fame to assault girls here | :12:24. | :12:29. | |
and abroad. He arrived at court supporteds by his doctor Bindi and | :12:30. | :12:34. | |
wife Alwen to hear evidence of alleged crimes for which he is not | :12:35. | :12:39. | |
being prosecuted but which, it is claimed show a pattern of behaviour. | :12:40. | :12:44. | |
Inside court, the 84-year-old listened via headphones to a witness | :12:45. | :12:47. | |
who claimed she was assaulted in the home of a mutual family friend in | :12:48. | :12:54. | |
1969 69. She told the court she was 11 years old, off sick from school | :12:55. | :13:01. | |
when she was confront the entertainer. When I came downstairs | :13:02. | :13:08. | |
he asked hold I was. He said good, I want to be the first to intro deuce | :13:09. | :13:15. | |
to to a tong kiss. I just stood there, froze. The inquest was told | :13:16. | :13:22. | |
the incident took place in the basement of the house. She | :13:23. | :13:26. | |
continued, he came up around the side of my body holding me. He put | :13:27. | :13:33. | |
his tong in my mouth. How did that feel ask the prosecutor? I was | :13:34. | :13:39. | |
repulsed by it, absolutely repulsed. Rolf Harris was so well known, said | :13:40. | :13:44. | |
the within, when she told schoolfriends they didn't believe | :13:45. | :13:48. | |
her. It was only in 2013 following press reports of Ore ledged assaults | :13:49. | :13:53. | |
that she contacted the police. Rolf Harris is charged with 12 counts of | :13:54. | :14:00. | |
indecent assaults against women he denies the charges. | :14:01. | :14:04. | |
In the last hour, the court heard from a a woman who claims he met her | :14:05. | :14:11. | |
in 1970. She says she was around 16 years of age at the time. This | :14:12. | :14:15. | |
restaurant had dancing. He asked her to dance. She says at that point he | :14:16. | :14:20. | |
assaulted her in the fuel view of other people on the dance floor. She | :14:21. | :14:25. | |
said I saw the dark side of a man I thought could be trusted. I was in a | :14:26. | :14:31. | |
public place. He slid his hand down by back, against my bottom. He put | :14:32. | :14:36. | |
his hand up my skirt. Rolf Harris denies the charges. | :14:37. | :14:42. | |
In the last few minutes, police have said they have found a convicted | :14:43. | :14:49. | |
murderer who disappeared while on day release from an open prison. | :14:50. | :14:56. | |
Arnold Pickering went on the run from a prison in Merseyside. What | :14:57. | :15:18. | |
are the In the past 15 minutes, Arnold Pickering was found in Oldham | :15:19. | :15:24. | |
just before day-to-day. Older was the place where he killed a 15 -- | :15:25. | :15:30. | |
59-year-old man in 1990. We do not know what he was trying to do in | :15:31. | :15:37. | |
Oldham this time, but he has been found. This comes just weeks after | :15:38. | :15:42. | |
the disappearance of another man, in London, known as the skull crusher. | :15:43. | :15:53. | |
And we have heard from the Justice Secretary today that they will be | :15:54. | :15:59. | |
changes to the day release system. Prisoners will be vetted, there will | :16:00. | :16:02. | |
be tighter rules on who can be released and who cannot, and also, | :16:03. | :16:05. | |
some prisoners will have to wear tags if they go out on day release. | :16:06. | :16:10. | |
The latest from Merseyside Police is that Arnold Pickering has been found | :16:11. | :16:12. | |
and is now in police custody. AstraZeneca rejects the fourth and | :16:13. | :16:24. | |
final takeover bid by the American The roses of no-man's land come to | :16:25. | :16:28. | |
this year's Chelsea Flower Show. We'll have a special preview from | :16:29. | :16:33. | |
the grounds of the Royal Hospital. Later on BBC London News, we will be | :16:34. | :16:46. | |
looking at the Hertfordshire district which could see a dramatic | :16:47. | :16:49. | |
change in the upcoming European elections. | :16:50. | :16:57. | |
One of the greatest ever racing drivers, Sir Jack Brabham, | :16:58. | :17:00. | |
He died peacefully at home after a long battle with liver disease. | :17:01. | :17:06. | |
The Australian driver won the Formula 1 Championship three times - | :17:07. | :17:11. | |
He died peacefully at home after a long battle with liver disease. | :17:12. | :17:16. | |
The Australian driver won the Formula 1 Championship three times - | :17:17. | :17:19. | |
once in a car that he'd designed and built himself, something no | :17:20. | :17:22. | |
Australian prime minister Tony Abbott said | :17:23. | :17:26. | |
Our sports correspondent Andy Swiss looks back at his life. | :17:27. | :17:39. | |
Sir Jack Brabham, the man who built his own car and raised it to a world | :17:40. | :17:47. | |
title. He began his career on dirt tracks in Australia, before moving | :17:48. | :17:51. | |
to Britain to pursue his racing ambitions. He began with the | :17:52. | :17:55. | |
Cupertino and won his first Grand Prix in Monaco in 1959. Now | :17:56. | :17:59. | |
challenging for the Championship, on the final lap of the final race, his | :18:00. | :18:03. | |
car ran out of fuel, but Brabham got out, pushed it across the line and | :18:04. | :18:10. | |
clinched the title. I am very, very pleased to I owe a lot to John | :18:11. | :18:14. | |
Cooper and the Cooper car company and all of my mechanics. it has been | :18:15. | :18:22. | |
a great effort. After retaining his title in 1960, Brabham embarked on a | :18:23. | :18:25. | |
new challenge, setting up his own team. He had once been a flight | :18:26. | :18:28. | |
mechanic for the Australian air force and his passion for design was | :18:29. | :18:32. | |
clear. Success, however, was not immediate. Brabham even considered | :18:33. | :18:38. | |
retiring. But in 1966, driving his own car for his own team, he was | :18:39. | :18:44. | |
once again champion -1 motorsport's most remarkable achievements. I | :18:45. | :18:49. | |
think he will be remembered as the man that built his own car and won a | :18:50. | :18:53. | |
World Championship in it. Nobody has done it before or since and I do not | :18:54. | :18:58. | |
think it will ever happen again. Rab eventually retired in 1970 and | :18:59. | :19:01. | |
became the first rider to receive a knighthood. His team continued to | :19:02. | :19:07. | |
flourish. Nelson Piquet won two world titles for the team in the | :19:08. | :19:14. | |
1980s. Brabham's appetite for motorsport was undimmed. At the age | :19:15. | :19:19. | |
of 73, he drove at the festival in Sussex. He remained a revered figure | :19:20. | :19:23. | |
throughout the racing world. In a statement today, his son saved he | :19:24. | :19:25. | |
had lived an incredible life. The racing driver Jack Brabham, | :19:26. | :19:30. | |
who has died, aged 88. Local council and European | :19:31. | :19:32. | |
parliamentary elections take place And in the latest | :19:33. | :19:36. | |
of our leader profiles, our chief political correspondent, | :19:37. | :19:39. | |
Norman Smith, has been travelling Welcome to a sun-kissed Harlow, | :19:40. | :19:57. | |
where the Prime Minister has been visiting the local college. | :19:58. | :20:00. | |
Politically it should really be raining heavily, because | :20:01. | :20:05. | |
conventional wisdom is that Mr Cameron is heading towards doom and | :20:06. | :20:09. | |
disaster at these elections are to be pushed into a humiliating third | :20:10. | :20:12. | |
place behind UKIP in the European elections. But having been out and | :20:13. | :20:18. | |
about with Mr Cameron today, I detect the very slightest lift in | :20:19. | :20:22. | |
his step, a sense that maybe it is not going to be so bloody,, the | :20:23. | :20:27. | |
night, and if it is, it will be eminently survivable. And that is | :20:28. | :20:31. | |
not just for my benefit, it is because there is a view that the | :20:32. | :20:35. | |
economy is recovering fast, which is putting political wind in his | :20:36. | :20:43. | |
sales. What he does not know is how damaged he is going to be by UKIP. | :20:44. | :20:48. | |
But UKIP do not know how damaged they are going to be by the spate of | :20:49. | :20:52. | |
stories about racist remarks. This morning, I asked Mr Cameron if he | :20:53. | :20:57. | |
believed Nigel Farage was a racist. I will leave others to judge, but | :20:58. | :21:01. | |
what I have heard from some of the candidates, some of the donors to | :21:02. | :21:05. | |
the party, is a succession of pretty appalling things. I would say to | :21:06. | :21:08. | |
people, what we need in Britain is not the politics of anger, we need | :21:09. | :21:13. | |
the politics of the answer, how do we get migration under control, | :21:14. | :21:16. | |
reform welfare, get the relationship right with Europe? I am offering | :21:17. | :21:22. | |
solutions, I'll offering a plan which is working. People should | :21:23. | :21:26. | |
steer away from some of these statements. Do you think that UKIP | :21:27. | :21:31. | |
are a protest phase, or a fundamental change in the political | :21:32. | :21:36. | |
landscape? I think what they reflect is that we have had a very difficult | :21:37. | :21:40. | |
time in Britain with a very long and deep recession, and it is taking | :21:41. | :21:44. | |
time to recover. And people want answers. And people want answers | :21:45. | :21:46. | |
just people want action. I share their frustration. One other thing I | :21:47. | :21:53. | |
learned from the Prime Minister this morning, which is that he will not | :21:54. | :21:57. | |
resign if Scots vote for independence. There has been a lot | :21:58. | :22:01. | |
of Westminster chitchat that that would be such a shattering blow to | :22:02. | :22:05. | |
his authority, that no, he says, he will carry on. | :22:06. | :22:08. | |
Ed Miliband has been setting out plans to tackle low pay. | :22:09. | :22:11. | |
He said a future Labour government would establish a | :22:12. | :22:14. | |
"clear link" between the minimum wage and average hourly earnings. | :22:15. | :22:16. | |
Both the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats have | :22:17. | :22:19. | |
already said they want a rise in the minimum wage. | :22:20. | :22:22. | |
A massive international aid operation is under way in Bosnia | :22:23. | :22:25. | |
and Serbia to help thousands of people hit by the region's worst | :22:26. | :22:28. | |
Rescue helicopters from the EU, America and Russia have been | :22:29. | :22:32. | |
lifting people to safety, but Serbia says it needs more assistance. | :22:33. | :22:36. | |
Three months' worth of rain fell in the area in just a few days - | :22:37. | :22:40. | |
causing massive floods and killing at least 35 people. | :22:41. | :22:57. | |
The western Balkans under water. These are the worst floods the | :22:58. | :23:02. | |
region has seen in living memory. The deluge has forced tens of | :23:03. | :23:05. | |
thousands of people from their homes. Three months' worth of rain | :23:06. | :23:10. | |
fell in just three days last week, and this is the result. | :23:11. | :23:16. | |
International aid is coming in for people without power and freshwater. | :23:17. | :23:21. | |
TRANSLATION: My house has been flooded up to the roof. It is an old | :23:22. | :23:26. | |
house, we will really need help. In Serbia, at least the floodwater has | :23:27. | :23:31. | |
been receding, as fears of a surge in the river have eased. But it is | :23:32. | :23:34. | |
too late for the towns which have already been swamped. Many people | :23:35. | :23:39. | |
are still cut off and food and water supplies are scarce. Just like the | :23:40. | :23:43. | |
rest of the town, the hotel here is underwater. Going by boat is really | :23:44. | :23:49. | |
the only sensible way of getting around. There are some people | :23:50. | :23:52. | |
remaining, his rescue workers are bringing in emergency supplies. | :23:53. | :24:01. | |
There are hundreds and hundreds of people trying to help the situation | :24:02. | :24:05. | |
here. Agriculture has been hit badly. Officials say it might take | :24:06. | :24:10. | |
five years to recover. Livestock have been left to fend for | :24:11. | :24:13. | |
themselves. For the many uninsured farmers, it is a disaster. The aid | :24:14. | :24:19. | |
effort flies a multitude of flags. There are rescue helicopters from | :24:20. | :24:22. | |
the European Union, the United States and Russia. The sandbags | :24:23. | :24:28. | |
remain in place, with concerns that river levels may yet rise later in | :24:29. | :24:32. | |
the week. At least the rain has stopped, but there will be fresh | :24:33. | :24:35. | |
challenges once the water recedes. It is 300 years since the British | :24:36. | :24:40. | |
government challenged the scientific world to work out how | :24:41. | :24:42. | |
to pinpoint a ship's precise John Harrison won that competition | :24:43. | :24:45. | |
with his now famous time pieces. Three centuries later, | :24:46. | :24:52. | |
members of the public are being asked to vote on what is | :24:53. | :24:55. | |
the major scientific challenge of our times in areas ranging | :24:56. | :24:58. | |
from healthcare to the environment. Once that's decided, | :24:59. | :25:01. | |
scientists will be asked to come up with the solution, | :25:02. | :25:04. | |
as our science correspondent What is the biggest scientific | :25:05. | :25:19. | |
challenge of the 21st century? To cure paralysis, provide clean | :25:20. | :25:22. | |
drinking water, help dementia sufferers, feed the world, or create | :25:23. | :25:27. | |
pollution free air travel? It is up to the public to decide which one of | :25:28. | :25:31. | |
these areas will be the focus of a new ?10 million prize. The answer to | :25:32. | :25:34. | |
these questions is extremely important, and the journey to the | :25:35. | :25:39. | |
prize itself is important, because it should engage people in a | :25:40. | :25:43. | |
conversation and allow them to learn. That is in a way, I do not | :25:44. | :25:48. | |
care who wins, but the romantic in me... Can you imagine if somebody | :25:49. | :25:53. | |
sold the world's food problems from a shared? This prize is inspired by | :25:54. | :25:59. | |
another great challenge, 300 years ago. Back then, the most pressing | :26:00. | :26:03. | |
problem was for sailors to calculate their longitudinal a Yorkshire | :26:04. | :26:07. | |
clockmaker came up with the solution, a timepiece which allowed | :26:08. | :26:12. | |
mariners to accurately pinpoint their position at tea. It | :26:13. | :26:17. | |
revolutionised navigation and saved countless lives. The hope is that | :26:18. | :26:20. | |
this new prize will have the same impact. One method of solving a | :26:21. | :26:25. | |
scientific problem is to go to universities and top scientists, but | :26:26. | :26:29. | |
over the years, and this was something pioneered by the original | :26:30. | :26:32. | |
price, we have learned that it is often better to open up to anyone to | :26:33. | :26:36. | |
come up with a solution. The challenge which wins the public's | :26:37. | :26:41. | |
vote will be after that, anyone can submit their ideas with an | :26:42. | :26:45. | |
innovation which could potentially change the world. | :26:46. | :26:50. | |
The annual Chelsea Flower Show is getting under way, | :26:51. | :26:52. | |
and fittingly for the home of the Chelsea Pensioners, the centenary of | :26:53. | :26:55. | |
the Great War means that conflicts from the Somme to Afghanistan figure | :26:56. | :26:58. | |
Some of the displays have been designed by veterans of recent | :26:59. | :27:02. | |
In this centenary year of the First World War, Chelsea is remembering | :27:03. | :27:21. | |
the fallen, with a reading from the actor whose role as Blackadder | :27:22. | :27:24. | |
reminded audiences of the senseless losses on the battlefield. | :27:25. | :27:30. | |
What passing bells for these who die as cattle... ? This garden was | :27:31. | :27:36. | |
designed by a lady whose grandmother received a medal for bravery in the | :27:37. | :27:39. | |
war. The landscape is reminiscent of the Somme. All I am trying to do in | :27:40. | :27:45. | |
show that after conflict, when the landscape gets completely churned | :27:46. | :27:50. | |
up, it can heal. That is the metaphor for the human body and the | :27:51. | :27:54. | |
human spirit. This is another garden which evokes memories of the First | :27:55. | :27:56. | |
World War. It has been built by Birmingham City Council. But this | :27:57. | :28:00. | |
year the show is not just about commemorating the past. It is about | :28:01. | :28:03. | |
looking forward to the future as well. Harry and David are among a | :28:04. | :28:08. | |
crop of young designers bringing in original ideas. Their night sky | :28:09. | :28:14. | |
garden, with stars and symbolic black holes, has impressed one | :28:15. | :28:18. | |
judge. I think it is great that young designers are having a go. | :28:19. | :28:24. | |
They have fresh ideas, new ideas, and this one is a great example. | :28:25. | :28:29. | |
Watts of places to rest your weary legs! One big theme this year is | :28:30. | :28:35. | |
Britain in Bloom, and one person has designed his first garden here for | :28:36. | :28:41. | |
30 years. This is the Paris catwalk, everybody comes here. There are | :28:42. | :28:44. | |
other shows, very good ones, Malvern, Hampton Court, but this is | :28:45. | :28:50. | |
the apex of perfection. On the catwalk this year, a new type of | :28:51. | :28:55. | |
daffodil. It has been named in honour of Prince George. His | :28:56. | :28:58. | |
great-grandmother will be here to see it later today. | :28:59. | :29:07. | |
Let's have a look at the weather. The record breaking temperatures of | :29:08. | :29:20. | |
the last few days have been remarkable, but none of them | :29:21. | :29:23. | |
occurred in Northern Ireland or Scotland. Over the next couple of | :29:24. | :29:27. | |
days, you can see the warm and cold air. Come the end of the week, we | :29:28. | :29:34. | |
can see the two mixing. So, the first part of the week, | :29:35. | :29:35. | |
can see the two mixing. So, the first part of the yes, very warm, | :29:36. | :29:38. | |
but things will be turning very much more unsettled. The reason for that | :29:39. | :29:42. | |
is that we will have a low pressure close by for a good part of the | :29:43. | :29:45. | |
week, just churning those air masses. Once you mix warm and cool, | :29:46. | :29:51. | |
well, we have already seen the result of that. Out towards the west | :29:52. | :29:55. | |
we have already had thunderstorms today. Out towards the east, dry and | :29:56. | :30:01. | |
fine and very warm indeed. But there could be some showers here as well. | :30:02. | :30:17. | |
We have already made 25, 20 six Celsius, easily the warmest day of | :30:18. | :30:19. | |
the year. -- 26. A lot cooler across parts of | :30:20. | :30:32. | |
Scotland and Northern Ireland. Out towards the eastern side of | :30:33. | :30:38. | |
Scotland, dry, fine and sunny. Overnight, there are warnings for | :30:39. | :30:46. | |
potential very heavy downpours. Some of those might get down to the | :30:47. | :30:49. | |
south-west of England as well. It will be a mild night to come. Then, | :30:50. | :31:02. | |
we are off and running. Dry enough out towards the east, but those | :31:03. | :31:05. | |
hefty showers getting going through the course of the day. Come the end | :31:06. | :31:10. | |
of the day, the northern parts of England could see some torrential | :31:11. | :31:15. | |
downpours. Not quite as warm. If you are heading towards Chelsea, Tuesday | :31:16. | :31:21. | |
and Wednesday, it could be quite cloudy, quite wet as well. | :31:22. | :31:27. | |
Wednesday, it could be that a good portion of the southeastern quarter | :31:28. | :31:30. | |
of the British Isles sees something cooler, with the prospect of some | :31:31. | :31:33. | |
torrential downpours. Our main headline... The British | :31:34. | :31:45. | |
pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca has rejected a fourth and final takeover | :31:46. | :31:49. | |
offer from the US firm Pfizer. That is | :31:50. | :31:50. |