:00:10. > :00:12.Royal Mail posts increased profits - but sends out a warning that
:00:13. > :00:14.competition could threaten doorstep deliveries in remote rural areas.
:00:15. > :00:16.Shares are down after the newly-privatised firm
:00:17. > :00:18.called on the regulator to look again at its obligation to post
:00:19. > :00:21.We'll be talking to our business editor.
:00:22. > :00:26.First pictures from the Atlantic Ocean where four British yachtsmen
:00:27. > :00:39.are missing - as a captain involved in the search reports seeing debris.
:00:40. > :00:45.A few debris which I have reported to the US Coast Guard with the
:00:46. > :00:52.position. There is a little bit of light at the end of the tunnel.
:00:53. > :00:54.Two days after imposing martial law, the military
:00:55. > :00:57.in Thailand says their action is a coup - and promises reforms.
:00:58. > :00:58.Police investigating Madeleine McCann's disappearance say
:00:59. > :01:01."a substantial phase of operational activity" will begin within weeks.
:01:02. > :01:04.Sucking heat from the sea - the new technology that can heat
:01:05. > :01:10.It's cheaper and kinder to the environment.
:01:11. > :01:14.Fury from house-buyers after a South London housing association puts up
:01:15. > :01:18.And thousands of bikers lead tributes to Fusilier Lee Rigby a
:01:19. > :01:41.Good afternoon and welcome to the BBC News at One.
:01:42. > :01:44.It's only seven months since the controversial privatisation
:01:45. > :01:47.of Royal Mail, and today it revealed how it's been faring.
:01:48. > :01:49.Over the last year, it's made an operating profit of
:01:50. > :01:55.And for the first time, its parcel service overtook
:01:56. > :02:01.But the company has warned that its promise to deliver post to all
:02:02. > :02:03.parts of the UK, six days a week, is under threat,
:02:04. > :02:06.because of competition from other businesses.
:02:07. > :02:19.At this central London delivery office today, there was little sign
:02:20. > :02:25.of the extraordinary changes that Royal Mail has faced in the past
:02:26. > :02:30.year. First came privatisation. Then a landmark industrial relations
:02:31. > :02:34.deal. Today it delivered solid results but warned of problems
:02:35. > :02:41.ahead. The huge business handled 14 billion items last year, boosting
:02:42. > :02:47.revenues to almost ?9.5 billion. Operating profits grew to ?671
:02:48. > :02:53.million, that is up 12%, a big turnaround on the losses it posted
:02:54. > :02:57.in the past. Royal Mail faces some big challenges. We are all sending
:02:58. > :03:02.fewer letters these days, so the amount of letters it carries is
:03:03. > :03:06.falling. And yet the parcels sector is booming, thanks to online
:03:07. > :03:11.retailing. And yet last year, the number of parcels carried by Royal
:03:12. > :03:17.Mail remained flat. Yesterday, Royal Mail said it would start delivering
:03:18. > :03:23.parcels on Sundays. Experts say that is about keeping up with its rivals.
:03:24. > :03:29.Parcels are vital for its future. It is a fast developing network with
:03:30. > :03:34.Internet fulfilment. It is a very, very competitive market. To stay
:03:35. > :03:39.ahead in the market, they need to be innovative and keep their costs
:03:40. > :03:43.down, basically. There is competition in letters as well. TNT
:03:44. > :03:48.operates in London, Manchester and of the pool. The company rejects
:03:49. > :03:54.claims it is cherry picking the most lucrative areas and it will
:03:55. > :03:59.undermine six of -- nationwide six days a week delivery. That is
:04:00. > :04:03.nonsense. Clearly, we are providing choice for our customers. Since we
:04:04. > :04:11.have started end delivery, we have only delivered 100 million items in
:04:12. > :04:15.a market of 14 billion. Investors know there are headwinds ahead but
:04:16. > :04:19.the shares are more than 60% above the float price, leading to fresh
:04:20. > :04:22.accusations that it was sold off on the cheap.
:04:23. > :04:26.Let's speak to our business editor, Kamal Ahmed.
:04:27. > :04:38.How seriously should we take this threat? It is for the future. TNT
:04:39. > :04:43.only delivers 100 million items of mail. The Royal Mail delivers 14
:04:44. > :04:49.billion. So these competitors at the moment are tiny. What the Royal Mail
:04:50. > :04:52.is saying is, if the competition continues at this level, then in the
:04:53. > :04:56.future it would undermine its business, because all the
:04:57. > :05:02.competitors want our London, Manchester, Liverpool, Edinburgh,
:05:03. > :05:05.the easy to deliver lucrative areas, leaving the Royal Mail to take the
:05:06. > :05:09.birthday card from Cornwall to Shetland which costs a lot of money.
:05:10. > :05:14.I think where the share prices today, it has gone down, is more to
:05:15. > :05:22.do with the parcels issue. Parcels is the big growth business. We all
:05:23. > :05:27.want the parcels to come for Christmas, all the things we'd order
:05:28. > :05:32.online now. That shows flat volumes. That is where the worry is. Royal
:05:33. > :05:36.Mail has got to perform up against Amazon and the other delivery
:05:37. > :05:40.companies in getting on top of that online revolution. Thank you.
:05:41. > :05:43.Debris has been found in the area of the North Atlantic,
:05:44. > :05:46.close to where a yacht disappeared, with four British sailors on board.
:05:47. > :05:49.The captain of a catamaran taking part in the search for the Cheeki
:05:50. > :05:52.Rafiki says he's now passed on the information to the US Coastguard.
:05:53. > :05:54.The first pictures have also emerged of the area where
:05:55. > :06:05.Let's cross to Southampton, and our correspondent, Duncan Kennedy.
:06:06. > :06:12.The weather is currently worse than it is in the Atlantic as we will see
:06:13. > :06:17.in a second, but you are right, some debris has been found by one of the
:06:18. > :06:23.vessels out there. It is described as manufactured wood, not driftwood.
:06:24. > :06:27.It could come from a yacht. It is all being assessed, the information
:06:28. > :06:30.is being assessed by the authorities in the United States. It will be
:06:31. > :06:36.another point of focus for the missing men's families. These are
:06:37. > :06:40.the first pictures from the search seen in the middle of the Atlantic
:06:41. > :06:44.Ocean. Taken on board a private yacht, they show a crew and the
:06:45. > :06:50.relative calm of the waves. Visibility also appears good. It was
:06:51. > :06:54.this vessel which found debris near to where the men went missing. The
:06:55. > :07:02.skipper says it includes a small piece of wood which has not been in
:07:03. > :07:05.the water long. We did see some debris which I have reported to the
:07:06. > :07:11.US Coast Guard with the times and positions. There is a little bit of
:07:12. > :07:18.light at the end of the tunnel. News of the debris found the macro find
:07:19. > :07:22.was passed to the relatives of the men this morning, including the
:07:23. > :07:26.family of Steve Warren. It is something that we are clinging on to
:07:27. > :07:32.that at the moment. Is he still out there? I hope he is still out there.
:07:33. > :07:36.I think he is still out there. Other families went to the Foreign Office
:07:37. > :07:42.today to get an official government update on the debris find. We have
:07:43. > :07:46.had news that it was wash boards or floorboards may be. The boat was
:07:47. > :07:50.unable to find it when they turned round for a look. The skipper has
:07:51. > :07:57.been searching and searching and we are very grateful to him. The US
:07:58. > :08:04.Coast Guard has been asked to assess the debris to see if it is from the
:08:05. > :08:08.Cheeki Rafiki. The four men have now been missing for more than a week.
:08:09. > :08:13.But the search operation is now huge. Already at the scene are three
:08:14. > :08:21.Hercules, two merchant ships and one sailing vessel. Whilst heading to
:08:22. > :08:28.the area, is one Coast Guard ship, two more merchant ships and another
:08:29. > :08:30.Hercules. These first grainy shots from the Atlantic showed the
:08:31. > :08:37.conditions are now right for a search. Last night, 9000 square
:08:38. > :08:44.miles 's had already been combed. The families will not rest until
:08:45. > :08:49.every inch has been covered. Those shots were taken in the past couple
:08:50. > :08:53.of hours or so. We understand the weather conditions are continuing to
:08:54. > :08:57.be good without the rain we have got going here. Also you saw all of
:08:58. > :09:03.those assets going in, huge resources being applied to this
:09:04. > :09:07.operation. It is still a vast job, 9000 square miles search with a lot
:09:08. > :09:10.more to go but at least all those resources going in and the fact they
:09:11. > :09:16.found some debris, now under pressure about what that is, but the
:09:17. > :09:19.fact they found some debris will provide some comfort to the families
:09:20. > :09:22.involved in this operation. Thank you.
:09:23. > :09:25.The army in Thailand says it is seizing power, as it put it, to
:09:26. > :09:29.The latest coup was announced on television, after two days
:09:30. > :09:31.of inconclusive talks between the country's rival political factions.
:09:32. > :09:33.This morning,soldiers surrounded the building where
:09:34. > :09:36.the talks were taking place and then took away the party leaders.
:09:37. > :09:43.Let's speak to our correspondent in Bangkok, Jonathan Head.
:09:44. > :09:52.Two days ago, this was not a coup, now it is. What has changed? The
:09:53. > :09:57.military has taken over completely. I can tell you it was a pretty tense
:09:58. > :10:03.scene where the talks were going on. Suddenly, we saw the exit blocked by
:10:04. > :10:07.trucks, soldiers running everywhere and the leaders bundled away. It was
:10:08. > :10:13.a very efficient way of carrying out a coup. The army had all the
:10:14. > :10:17.factions in the room so it was relatively easy to bundle them away.
:10:18. > :10:21.They are the people who could have roused their supporters to resist
:10:22. > :10:25.this coup and the army commander went on to announce he was taking
:10:26. > :10:29.this coup and the army commander full control of the country. We are
:10:30. > :10:34.now, in effect, under military law now. This is still a very
:10:35. > :10:38.politically divided country. We have had protests going on for the last
:10:39. > :10:42.seven months which have crippled the government. The army have given
:10:43. > :10:45.themselves the job of running the country and eventually having to
:10:46. > :10:49.deal with that political division. It is one the army commander said
:10:50. > :10:54.many times he did not want to take on but he says he has been driven to
:10:55. > :10:58.it because the two sides could not see I. Thank you.
:10:59. > :11:01.A Russian foreign ministry spokesman has said that if they're true,
:11:02. > :11:04.comments made by Prince Charles about Vladimir Putin, are
:11:05. > :11:10.Prince Charles, who is currently on a four day tour of Canada, is said
:11:11. > :11:13.to have likened some Nazi actions in Europe to Mr Putin's policies.
:11:14. > :11:17.Later today, a diplomat is to meet a Foreign Office official to ask for
:11:18. > :11:22.British detectives are to travel to Portugal for what Scotland Yard
:11:23. > :11:27.called "a substantial phase of operational activity
:11:28. > :11:30.in the investigation over the disappearance of Madeleine McCann.
:11:31. > :11:32.Police say they're following "many lines of inquiry".
:11:33. > :11:33.It's seven years since the three-year-old went
:11:34. > :11:48.It is seven years this month, since Madeleine McCann, then three years
:11:49. > :11:53.old, disappeared. Today, Scotland Yard announced that the police work
:11:54. > :11:58.is the sort undertaken in any major investigation. In this case, it is
:11:59. > :12:03.being carried out many years on. Madeleine was on holiday with her
:12:04. > :12:06.family in the resort of Praia da Luz in the Algarve. In recent weeks
:12:07. > :12:11.there has been talk of sites being dug up. Scotland Yard has also said
:12:12. > :12:16.that in the past, one line of enquiry is a series of reported sex
:12:17. > :12:20.attacks on young British girls in the Algarve. On the recent
:12:21. > :12:25.anniversary of their daughter's disappearance, Kate and Jeremy
:12:26. > :12:35.Campbell spoke to the BBC. I do go back. -- Kate and Gerry McCann. I'd
:12:36. > :12:41.do go back. That is the last place we were with Matalin. I walk those
:12:42. > :12:45.streets. It does help me, most of the time -- Madeleine. A senior
:12:46. > :12:49.police officer said he wanted to tell her parents that they had got
:12:50. > :12:52.to the bottom of Madeleine's disappearance or that they had
:12:53. > :12:57.turned over every stone and could not find an answer. British
:12:58. > :13:00.detectives in Portugal recently. Scotland Yard is stressing that the
:13:01. > :13:06.work on the ground will be led by the Portuguese police assisted by
:13:07. > :13:10.British officers. Diplomatic sensitivities have always played a
:13:11. > :13:15.part in this case. The disappearance of this little girl is a global
:13:16. > :13:20.story with masses of media interest. Today, Scotland Yard appealed to the
:13:21. > :13:22.media to behave responsibly in the coming weeks, as the Madeleine
:13:23. > :13:26.McCann enquiry moves into a new phase.
:13:27. > :13:29.Voting is underway in the European and local council elections, the
:13:30. > :13:32.final big test of public opinion before the 2015 general election.
:13:33. > :13:35.All 73 UK seats in the European Parliament, the EU's only directly
:13:36. > :13:38.The results will be announced on Sunday.
:13:39. > :13:41.Meanwhile 4,216 seats on local councils across England and Northern
:13:42. > :13:49.And David Dimbleby will be your guide to the local council results
:13:50. > :13:54.Join him and the BBC's team of experts from 11.35 on BBC One
:13:55. > :14:11.Our top story this lunchtime: Royal Mail has posted increased profits
:14:12. > :14:17.but said competition could threaten doorstep deliveries in room eight
:14:18. > :14:21.rural areas. Still to come, friend or foe? Has the reintroduction of
:14:22. > :14:25.the Beaver been good for the countryside?
:14:26. > :14:30.Later on BBC London: Hollywood star Kathleen Turner tells us why the
:14:31. > :14:33.capital fuelled her passion for theatre as a teenager.
:14:34. > :14:41.And probably the most famous drop kick in English rugby. We are at
:14:42. > :14:45.How are we going to heat and light our homes in the future
:14:46. > :14:47.as coal and gas become more scarce and the price increases?
:14:48. > :14:49.For some, nuclear energy is one option.
:14:50. > :14:51.For others, it's renewables like wind and wave power.
:14:52. > :14:53.But what about taking the heat from the sea
:14:54. > :14:58.Well, that's what a new scheme in Anglesey is examining.
:14:59. > :15:00.Our environment analyst Roger Harrabin has been to see how
:15:01. > :15:18.We are travelling to the past, and to the future. This plays in
:15:19. > :15:22.Anglesey had its heyday in the 18th century, with its wonderful views
:15:23. > :15:27.over Snowdon. But its new heating system is trend setting in the 21st
:15:28. > :15:34.century. Heat from sea water will keep this historic mansion warm. It
:15:35. > :15:37.is barely believable that this sea water has enough heat to heat
:15:38. > :15:41.anything. It is pretty chilly still at this time of year. But thanks to
:15:42. > :15:47.an extraordinary technology called a heat exchanger, it is the sea that
:15:48. > :15:51.is going to heat this house. Water pipes run 60 metres out into the
:15:52. > :15:55.straights. They are disguised by rocks when they reach the land. The
:15:56. > :16:02.water is pumped up to the boiler room. It is here that heat exchange
:16:03. > :16:06.equipment sucks out any warmth from the sea water. It is a similar
:16:07. > :16:12.technology to your fridge. And here is the result. Hot water pipes,
:16:13. > :16:17.which are, well, surprisingly hot. Visitors to the house come to see
:16:18. > :16:23.treasures like this mural by Rex Whistler. It needs to be kept at a
:16:24. > :16:26.steady temperature. We have an old oil boiler that was very inefficient
:16:27. > :16:32.and was coming to the end of its natural life. We needed a new
:16:33. > :16:37.solution that was long-term and. A Marine source heat was the obvious
:16:38. > :16:45.choice. Installing the heat pump was a major task. It cost over ?500,000,
:16:46. > :16:49.but it will save ?40,000 each year in fuel. It is subsidised from
:16:50. > :16:53.people's energy bills, because the government wants to encourage new
:16:54. > :16:58.forms of heating. For a typical UK households heat pumps are not the
:16:59. > :17:03.highest priority. But if you live off the mains gas grid or in a well
:17:04. > :17:07.insulated home, this could be an attractive technology for you and as
:17:08. > :17:10.we move into the future, with more and more energy from renewable
:17:11. > :17:14.sources, heat pumps will play a major role. Next month ministers
:17:15. > :17:16.will publish a map of where else in Britain you can suck heat from
:17:17. > :17:20.water. 31 people have died in a bomb
:17:21. > :17:23.attack in the north-west of China. Reports said two vehicles drove
:17:24. > :17:27.into a busy market in the regional capital of Xinjiang province and
:17:28. > :17:30.bombs were thrown into the crowd. The government called it a "serious
:17:31. > :17:42.violent terrorist incident". Within minutes of the attack,
:17:43. > :17:46.pictures that began appearing on Chinese Internet sights. Victims lie
:17:47. > :17:53.in the wreckage of market stalls. Many were elderly, out doing their
:17:54. > :17:58.shopping. The mostly ethnic Han live here in Urumqi. The president has
:17:59. > :18:02.said terrorists were responsible and must be punished severely. The
:18:03. > :18:10.attacks seem to be growing. Violence rippling out of Xinjiang is now the
:18:11. > :18:13.biggest security challenge facing China's communist leaders. The
:18:14. > :18:19.president finished -- visited last month. He talked of harmony, my fun
:18:20. > :18:21.bomb attacks on police and government workers are spreading
:18:22. > :18:30.across China, targeting civilians as well. Xinjiang's Muslim Uighurs are
:18:31. > :18:36.linked to Turkey and Central Asia by religion and language. A recent
:18:37. > :18:40.visit to an old city, we found Chinese security everywhere. Young
:18:41. > :18:45.Uighur men are fizzled out for ID checks. The authorities are on edge
:18:46. > :18:50.and violence has erupted in many towns. Because of the pervasive
:18:51. > :18:54.security, many people here are afraid to talk to us openly. It
:18:55. > :18:58.could be dangerous for them. What has been whispered to others is that
:18:59. > :19:02.tensions and mistrust are on the increase between Uighurs and
:19:03. > :19:06.Chinese. TRANSLATION:
:19:07. > :19:09.If somebody finds you have religious texts, they report you to the
:19:10. > :19:13.police, then you will be arrested. In another part of China today,
:19:14. > :19:18.police surround an aircraft. It was heading to Xinjiang but was
:19:19. > :19:21.grounded. Two passengers taken away. Chinese security forces fearful
:19:22. > :19:28.after this attack, more may be coming.
:19:29. > :19:31.There's been a rise in the number of people who came to live
:19:32. > :19:34.in the UK from other countries in the European Union.
:19:35. > :19:37.But, overall, levels of immigration were similar to the previous year.
:19:38. > :19:38.Our home affairs correspondent Naomi Grimley is here.
:19:39. > :19:44.How does this compare with government targets? Let's start with
:19:45. > :19:50.net migration, the numbers of people coming here minus the numbers
:19:51. > :19:54.leaving. But is staying at 212,000. The reason it is relevant is because
:19:55. > :19:58.David Cameron wants to see it cut by half, by this time next year. So
:19:59. > :20:03.Home Office officials are going to have to get a move on if they want
:20:04. > :20:07.to hit that target in time for the next election. What can they do?
:20:08. > :20:10.Well, when it comes to non-EU migration they have of course
:20:11. > :20:14.controlled things like student visas, EU migration there was much
:20:15. > :20:18.more difficult to influence. We have learned from these figures that
:20:19. > :20:24.93,000 Romanians and Bulgarians came here last year and it is not just
:20:25. > :20:27.them, also more poles and Italians are signing on here because they
:20:28. > :20:29.want to get jobs here which they think they can't get in the home
:20:30. > :20:37.countries -- 23,000. A woman who was kidnapped
:20:38. > :20:39.and held hostage for a decade has been speaking for
:20:40. > :20:42.the first time about her ordeal. She told police in the United States
:20:43. > :20:46.that when she was 15 she was taken prisoner
:20:47. > :20:47.by her mother's former boyfriend, Police say a 41-year-old man has
:20:48. > :20:58.been arrested on suspicion of An anonymous plot in a quiet
:20:59. > :21:03.suburban street, where a couple neighbours knew as Laura and Thomas
:21:04. > :21:09.lived and apparently unremarkable life. But Thomas was this man,
:21:10. > :21:13.Isadora Garcia, now accused of kidnapping, race and -- rape and
:21:14. > :21:17.false imprisonment. Ten years ago he and the girl lived with her mother
:21:18. > :21:22.in Santa Manor, 20 miles away. Garcia and the mother were in a
:21:23. > :21:26.relationship. But police say there was a fight. Garcia adapted the
:21:27. > :21:31.daughter, the start of the decade long are -- ordeal. There was
:21:32. > :21:37.repeated sexual assault. On two occasions she tried to escape. He
:21:38. > :21:42.caught her and beat her. She has told -- she was told that her family
:21:43. > :21:46.was not looking for her. She did not speak English. The young woman still
:21:47. > :21:53.has not been identified, but last night spoke for the first time. I
:21:54. > :22:03.was very afraid about everything, because I was alone. My family was
:22:04. > :22:07.with me. For years, the couple appeared to live a happy,
:22:08. > :22:11.hard-working life. Garcia, on the left, and his alleged victim, on the
:22:12. > :22:16.right, pictured in church with a daughter born two years ago. But
:22:17. > :22:19.there were tell-tale signs too. We would staff out and have
:22:20. > :22:25.conversations, she would go back inside her house. As if he did not
:22:26. > :22:30.let her socialise. But in another way, they acted like a normal couple
:22:31. > :22:35.and kissed in front of people. But it is very weird and crazy to me.
:22:36. > :22:37.Eventually the girl contacted her sister on Facebook, learning that
:22:38. > :22:43.her family had never given up on her. She went to the police.
:22:44. > :22:51.More from our correspondent David Willis, in Los Angeles. How did this
:22:52. > :22:55.emerge? This only really came to light after this young girl
:22:56. > :22:59.contacted her sister on Facebook and it was then that she learned that
:23:00. > :23:05.despite everything she had been told people were looking for her. People
:23:06. > :23:10.did care about her. She basically had been led to believe that they
:23:11. > :23:14.had all deserted her. This man, the suspects, Isidro Garcia, had
:23:15. > :23:18.initially been dating her mother. The mother became suspicious that he
:23:19. > :23:23.was sexually abusing a child. When she raised that with him he beat her
:23:24. > :23:27.and he then punched the child, fled with her to a house on the outskirts
:23:28. > :23:33.of Los Angeles, where she was kept in a garage. He changed her name and
:23:34. > :23:37.warned her that if she attempted to escape she would be deported, which
:23:38. > :23:41.is why despite having plenty of opportunities to do so she did not
:23:42. > :23:46.actually go to the police. Now, it is claimed that she was subjected to
:23:47. > :23:51.a decade of physical and sexual abuse and made to raise a child with
:23:52. > :23:55.this man. He is due to appear in court later today, charged with rape
:23:56. > :23:59.and kidnapping and Folsom prison mud.
:24:00. > :24:05.-- false imprisonment. Most patients who go to accident
:24:06. > :24:08.and emergency units do need urgent care, according to a study by A
:24:09. > :24:10.consultants. A report for NHS England last year
:24:11. > :24:13.had suggested that up to a quarter of people going to casualty could
:24:14. > :24:16.have been treated elsewhere. But this latest study showed only
:24:17. > :24:19.15% could have been treated by their GP - and many of those were children
:24:20. > :24:22.accompanied by worried parents. Our health correspondent
:24:23. > :24:31.Dominic Hughes reports. Accident and emergency departments
:24:32. > :24:35.have been under growing pressure. More patients, many with older
:24:36. > :24:39.people needing convex treatment. The question is how to ease that
:24:40. > :24:44.pressure. Now the doctors who run emergency departments seem -- say we
:24:45. > :24:48.need to rethink how they work. The ideal model of an accident and
:24:49. > :24:51.emergency department is one that has emergency department at its core,
:24:52. > :24:56.but associated with that general practitioners and other physicians
:24:57. > :25:02.seeing a proportion of the patients. Last year, and NHS England report on
:25:03. > :25:06.it shouldn't care found that a quarter of AMD patients could have
:25:07. > :25:10.been treated elsewhere, for example in a GP surgery. This figure is
:25:11. > :25:14.challenged by a new study which finds just 15% of patients could
:25:15. > :25:18.have been seen elsewhere. That difference amounts to about 1.4
:25:19. > :25:23.million NHS patients a year in England. Doctors say simply trying
:25:24. > :25:27.to redirect large numbers of patients away from A is not going
:25:28. > :25:31.to relieve the pressure is these departments are under. They say
:25:32. > :25:36.their research shows that the vast majority of patients who arrive at
:25:37. > :25:40.A really need to be here. There is no sign of a fracture. North
:25:41. > :25:45.Manchester General they are recruiting GPs to work as part of
:25:46. > :25:48.the A team, relieving a shortage of senior doctors and helping the
:25:49. > :25:54.department run more smoothly. This department ought to have about 16
:25:55. > :26:00.consultants. We have three. Adding four GPs into the mix, working at a
:26:01. > :26:06.senior doctor level, will enable us to better supervise the juniors as
:26:07. > :26:11.well as see the patients. NHS England says calculating how many
:26:12. > :26:15.AMD cases could be treated elsewhere is collocated. It maintains doing so
:26:16. > :26:20.will ease the pressure on stressed departments. But this boils down to
:26:21. > :26:24.an argument over where best to direct the limited resources of the
:26:25. > :26:25.NHS in England. To hospital emergency departments, or to
:26:26. > :26:31.community services. It's only in the last decade that
:26:32. > :26:34.beavers have been reintroduced into the wild in the UK after becoming
:26:35. > :26:37.extinct here 500 years ago. Whilst supporters say they make
:26:38. > :26:42.a positive contribution to the environment, farmers say they cause
:26:43. > :26:44.thousands of pounds worth of damage. Our Scotland correspondent
:26:45. > :26:55.James Cook reports. Captured on camera, a busy beaver
:26:56. > :26:59.flouting the law. There are at least 100 of the animals swimming wild and
:27:00. > :27:04.free in Tayside. They should not be here. They are unlicensed. But they
:27:05. > :27:11.don't seem that bother. This is a damn that was built in the course of
:27:12. > :27:15.2007. Paul Ramsay's captive Beavers went wild seven years ago. They set
:27:16. > :27:20.about transforming this landscape from Woodland wetland. There are
:27:21. > :27:26.enormous benefits on level of biodiversity, for one thing. We have
:27:27. > :27:30.lost an enormous amount of wetland over the centuries and we have the
:27:31. > :27:34.whole issue of the water purification that Beavers
:27:35. > :27:41.contributed with the management of weapons and the creation of dams.
:27:42. > :27:46.And the Beavers have been busy, building and breeding across
:27:47. > :27:50.Tayside's rivers. The first people to really notice the signs of
:27:51. > :27:55.Beavers here were canoeists and they now say those signs are appearing
:27:56. > :28:02.everywhere. The Beavers seem to be thriving, not just on this river.
:28:03. > :28:04.What we are looking at here is the consequences of Beavers coming my
:28:05. > :28:07.farm. But not consequences of Beavers coming my
:28:08. > :28:12.everyone is happy. They started tumbling in. This Pharma blames
:28:13. > :28:17.Beavers for bursting his flood defences. He says they have caused
:28:18. > :28:21.thousands of pounds worth of damage. I would like to get compensation out
:28:22. > :28:22.of the people that brought them in but that
:28:23. > :28:25.I would like to get compensation out of I am told is not feasible under
:28:26. > :28:29.the law at the moment. So if the government wants to keep them the
:28:30. > :28:34.government has to decide who is going to compensate for the damage.
:28:35. > :28:38.And to help make that decision, scientists are now studying the
:28:39. > :28:43.Beavers and weighing up the choices. We think there is probably three
:28:44. > :28:49.options, to remove all the Beavers, to leave them as they are at the
:28:50. > :28:55.moment, or to have re-introductions under strict licensing. In theory,
:28:56. > :29:00.the fate of these animals will be decided by politicians. But is --
:29:01. > :29:14.with past form as any other guide, the Beavers may have other ideas.
:29:15. > :29:20.There is more lively weather. The word showers is one you will get
:29:21. > :29:22.familiar with in the next few days. This is the radar picture from
:29:23. > :29:25.earlier today. It shows more persistent rain pushing out of
:29:26. > :29:29.northern England and sitting across eastern Scotland and further south
:29:30. > :29:33.you can see the showers, more broken up. There are drier interludes.
:29:34. > :29:39.Showers through this afternoon, pretty heavy and potent in one or
:29:40. > :29:42.two areas. For East of Scotland it is lingering, heavy outbreaks of
:29:43. > :29:47.rain and strong winds to contend with. Northern England, pretty grey
:29:48. > :29:51.with rain on and off. Hopefully a few drier interludes. 11 or 12
:29:52. > :29:56.Celsius. Heavy showers pushing into Lincolnshire and Yorkshire. A bit
:29:57. > :30:00.more scattered for East Anglia and the south-east but they could be
:30:01. > :30:03.heavy and thundery. The Midlands, Wales and the south-west catching
:30:04. > :30:08.the worst of them and road conditions could get bad thanks to
:30:09. > :30:11.surface water and spray. They will rattle on through much of the
:30:12. > :30:15.afternoon and into the evening. Across Northern Ireland, the showers
:30:16. > :30:19.are scattered but could be heavy and thundery. A few forced in Scotland.
:30:20. > :30:23.For eastern Scotland it is the heavier, more persistent rain that
:30:24. > :30:29.will stick around into the evening and strong winds gusting 50-55 mph.
:30:30. > :30:32.A rough end to the day as the heavy rain drifts northwards. Further
:30:33. > :30:36.south it calms down briefly through the evening but here we go again for
:30:37. > :30:40.tomorrow with the next batch of showers pushing up from the south by
:30:41. > :30:46.the end of the night. Overnight lows, 9-11dC. On Friday, lots of
:30:47. > :30:50.showers first thing, quite widely spread across England and Wales.
:30:51. > :30:54.Northern England should get off to a fine start. Much better in East.
:30:55. > :30:58.Northern Ireland, some scattered showers but tomorrow for northern
:30:59. > :31:02.England, Wales and the south-west, more lingering rain. The south-east
:31:03. > :31:09.and Anglia, in contrast to this afternoon, should be quieter. 19 or
:31:10. > :31:12.20 Celsius. Further north, ten or 11 Celsius. On Saturday, plenty of
:31:13. > :31:16.showers for England and Wales. Perhaps fewer as they push north of
:31:17. > :31:21.Scotland and Northern Ireland for Sunday. The bank holiday weekend, we
:31:22. > :31:25.will save the best until last. Saturday and Sunday are seeing some
:31:26. > :31:30.unsettled weather working across the British Isles. Bank Holiday Monday,
:31:31. > :31:34.hopefully the showers isolated and decent sunshine and some warmth for
:31:35. > :31:36.most of us. Hopefully that will be worth waiting for. More more on the
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