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David Cameron tells his party conference | :00:07. | :00:08. | |
a future Conservative government would bring in two major tax cuts. | :00:09. | :00:11. | |
Mr Cameron said 30 million people would be helped - | :00:12. | :00:14. | |
as he pledged to bring fairness back to the tax system. | :00:15. | :00:21. | |
Let the message go out with the Conservatives if you work hard and | :00:22. | :00:26. | |
do the right thing, we say you should keep more of your own money | :00:27. | :00:28. | |
to spend as you choose. Also this lunchtime: | :00:29. | :00:33. | |
Mr Cameron's speech. Police hunting | :00:34. | :00:36. | |
for teenager Alice Gross launch a murder inquiry after a body | :00:37. | :00:38. | |
in found in a river in west London. This is now a murder investigation. | :00:39. | :00:49. | |
And I need the public's help to find out whoever is responsible. | :00:50. | :00:53. | |
British Tornadoes carry out two more air strikes | :00:54. | :00:55. | |
An American is critically ill in hospital with Ebola - the first | :00:56. | :00:59. | |
And the end of the tax disc, as the road tax goes online. | :01:00. | :01:09. | |
We'll be live in Hanwell, with more on the discovery of a body | :01:10. | :01:13. | |
And a new report criticises the care received | :01:14. | :01:18. | |
Good afternoon and welcome to the BBC News at One. | :01:19. | :01:42. | |
In his final party conference speech before the next general election | :01:43. | :01:45. | |
David Cameron has been promising tax cuts for millions of people. | :01:46. | :01:50. | |
He said he would raise the threshold at | :01:51. | :01:52. | |
which people pay the higher rate of tax of 40% from just under ?42,000 | :01:53. | :01:55. | |
to ?50,000 if the Conservatives win the next general election. | :01:56. | :02:01. | |
The Prime Minister also pledged to increase the amount people can earn | :02:02. | :02:04. | |
before they pay tax by an extra ?2,000 to ?12,500. | :02:05. | :02:06. | |
Mr Cameron said he wanted to bring back fairness back to taxation. | :02:07. | :02:09. | |
From Birmingham here's our Political Correspondent Carole Walker. | :02:10. | :02:21. | |
A big moment for the Prime Minister after more than four years in power. | :02:22. | :02:29. | |
He strode towards the stage with his wife co-ordinated in blue to tell | :02:30. | :02:33. | |
voters why they should put him back in power at the coming election. He | :02:34. | :02:39. | |
knew they would be wanting some positive reasons to do so, after | :02:40. | :02:44. | |
tough messages this week on benefits cuts, economic challenges and the | :02:45. | :02:48. | |
threat from extremists. The Prime Minister said the Islamic State | :02:49. | :02:55. | |
militants are evil and said Britain could not opt out of the campaign | :02:56. | :03:00. | |
against them abroad and at home. As always with this party, we will do | :03:01. | :03:06. | |
whatever it takes to keep our country safe. And to those, to those | :03:07. | :03:12. | |
who have had all the advantages of being brought up in Britain, but who | :03:13. | :03:18. | |
want to go and fight for Isil, let me say this. If you try and travel | :03:19. | :03:24. | |
to Syria or Iraq, we will use everything at our disposal to stop | :03:25. | :03:29. | |
you. Taking away your passport, prosecute bg, imprison you and if | :03:30. | :03:33. | |
you're there already we may prevent you from coming back. You have | :03:34. | :03:37. | |
declared your allegiance. You are an enemy of the UK and you should | :03:38. | :03:58. | |
expect to be treated as such. David Cameron set out his commitment to | :03:59. | :04:04. | |
balance the books by 2018, saving ?25 billion through spending cuts | :04:05. | :04:09. | |
alone. Then a real crowd pleaser. A promise of more tax cuts. I can tell | :04:10. | :04:15. | |
you now... He promised to take more people out of the... We will raise | :04:16. | :04:25. | |
the allowance to ?12,500. That will take a million more of the lowest | :04:26. | :04:31. | |
paid workers out of income tax and give a tax cut to 30 million more. | :04:32. | :04:38. | |
So with us if you work 30 hours a week on minimum wage you will pay no | :04:39. | :04:45. | |
income tax at all. Nothing. Zero. Zilch. He promised to take more | :04:46. | :04:49. | |
people out of the higher 40 pence rate. David Cameron said his | :04:50. | :04:54. | |
personal experience of the NHS had helped shape his commitment to | :04:55. | :04:58. | |
increase its funding in real terms throughout the next Parliament. And | :04:59. | :05:04. | |
he turned on Labour. For me, this is personal. I'm someone who has relied | :05:05. | :05:10. | |
on the NHS and whose family knows how important it is and what it is | :05:11. | :05:13. | |
look to go to hospital night after night with a sick child, knowing | :05:14. | :05:16. | |
when you get there there will be people who will love that child and | :05:17. | :05:20. | |
care for that child just as like it was their own. And how dare they | :05:21. | :05:25. | |
suggest I would ever put that at risk for other people's children. | :05:26. | :05:28. | |
How dare they frighten those who rely opt NHS. The Prime Minister | :05:29. | :05:32. | |
knows many want a tough line on Europe. He promised a win back | :05:33. | :05:37. | |
powers from Brussels. Britain, I know you want this sorted. So I will | :05:38. | :05:42. | |
go to Brussels and I will not take no o' for an answer. When it comes | :05:43. | :05:48. | |
to free movement I will get what Britain needs. Anyone who thinks | :05:49. | :05:58. | |
reports s... Be Prime Minister said there was only one choice. The | :05:59. | :06:02. | |
Conservatives or Labour. Me in Downing Street or Ed Milliband in | :06:03. | :06:08. | |
Downing Street. If you vote UKIP, that is a vote for Labour. And | :06:09. | :06:15. | |
here's a thought. Here is a thought for you. On the 7th May you could go | :06:16. | :06:21. | |
to bed with Nigel Farage and wake up with Ed Milliband! He said he would | :06:22. | :06:26. | |
not claim to be a perfect leader, but a public servant with the right | :06:27. | :06:30. | |
track record and a plan for the future. For you, for your family, | :06:31. | :06:39. | |
for everyone. It was a speech peppered with optimistic messages, | :06:40. | :06:43. | |
telling the voters how they would benefit from a future Conservative | :06:44. | :06:45. | |
Government and staked out the territory for the tough battle | :06:46. | :06:56. | |
ahead. With me now is Simon Jack. On taxation, they sounded like bold | :06:57. | :07:00. | |
promises, but expensive ones. What will they cost? Raising the top rate | :07:01. | :07:07. | |
of tax to ?50,000 will take 800,000 people out of that band and cost | :07:08. | :07:12. | |
?1.6 billion by 2020. The more expensive one is raising the | :07:13. | :07:19. | |
personal allowance, to 12,500. That will take one million people out of | :07:20. | :07:26. | |
income tax and cost ?5.6 million. And together 7.2 billion. These are | :07:27. | :07:32. | |
Treasury numbers and the IFFS, the independent body, is eye balling | :07:33. | :07:37. | |
them and see no reason to disagree. Do we know where the money will come | :07:38. | :07:43. | |
from? They say there is no question there will not be any tax rises | :07:44. | :07:50. | |
elsewhere. That means savage cuts if they're going to come up with the | :07:51. | :07:54. | |
money on a squeezed deficit. Thank you. Our assistant political editor | :07:55. | :08:02. | |
Norman Smith is in Birmingham. This sounded like a preelection speech? | :08:03. | :08:08. | |
I'm tempted to say what we have is almost a tale of two conferences. We | :08:09. | :08:15. | |
started the week with the austere message about cuts and we end with | :08:16. | :08:21. | |
what is a clear tub-thumping conference speech from the Prime | :08:22. | :08:26. | |
Minister to galvanise his party and give them what they want. What they | :08:27. | :08:31. | |
crave - tax cuts. But more than that, giving an iconic message they | :08:32. | :08:36. | |
can go to the electorate with. Tax cuts not just for those on lower | :08:37. | :08:40. | |
incomes, but for middle England. People who David Cameron said were | :08:41. | :08:43. | |
not well off but who had been dragged into the 40 pence rate. | :08:44. | :08:48. | |
Teachers, nurses. Police officers. People many Tories regard as their | :08:49. | :08:54. | |
people. And there were other crowd pleasers. On Europe he said he would | :08:55. | :09:00. | |
overcome the obstruction of judges in Strasbourg by introducing a | :09:01. | :09:04. | |
British bill of rights to give supremacy to British courts and | :09:05. | :09:08. | |
urged the party to trust him on Europe. I won't take no for an | :09:09. | :09:14. | |
answer. And he said a Conservative Government would deliver English | :09:15. | :09:18. | |
votes on English laws. If anyone was in any doubt we are on the cusp of a | :09:19. | :09:22. | |
jebgs they can be -- general election they can be no doubt now. | :09:23. | :09:25. | |
David Cameron has in effect fired the starting gun on the general | :09:26. | :09:27. | |
election campaign. Thank you. Police investigating | :09:28. | :09:34. | |
the disappearance of 14-year-old Alice Gross have launched a murder | :09:35. | :09:35. | |
inquiry after a body was found last night in a river in west London, | :09:36. | :09:39. | |
following an extensive search. Detectives say significant efforts | :09:40. | :09:41. | |
had been made to conceal the body. Our Home Affairs correspondent | :09:42. | :09:44. | |
Tom Symonds is in Hanwell, The official confirmation came at | :09:45. | :09:59. | |
dawn from the police that this body had been found in the muddy canal | :10:00. | :10:07. | |
just through that path. It is 33 days since Alice Gross went missing. | :10:08. | :10:10. | |
There has been no identification of the body, but it is devastating news | :10:11. | :10:15. | |
for her family and for the supporters who mounted a huge | :10:16. | :10:21. | |
campaign to find her. On the toe path as the Tay dawned, two police | :10:22. | :10:27. | |
tents were visible. This has become the scene of a potential murder. | :10:28. | :10:31. | |
Forensics officers have been back and forth and the location has been | :10:32. | :10:36. | |
photographed from all angles. I can confirm that significant efforts | :10:37. | :10:42. | |
were made to conceal the body. For several reasons, including | :10:43. | :10:45. | |
protecting the investigation, I do not wish to comment any further at | :10:46. | :10:53. | |
this point on the circumstances. Alice Gross was finishing a walk on | :10:54. | :10:59. | |
28th August and was heading home. She was last seen passing this point | :11:00. | :11:04. | |
further down the canal. The body has been found on what would have been | :11:05. | :11:08. | |
her lightly route home. Not far away is another path where her bag was | :11:09. | :11:13. | |
found several weeks ago. For that reason this area has been more | :11:14. | :11:19. | |
heavily searched. A stretch of water examined by divers and in some | :11:20. | :11:23. | |
places drained. Yesterday, we watched this team from the London | :11:24. | :11:29. | |
Fire Brigade Guede supported by Welsh officers. The body was found | :11:30. | :11:34. | |
later further up the canal. This man has not been found. Arnis Zalkalns a | :11:35. | :11:41. | |
builder with a former murder conviction has gone missing. Today | :11:42. | :11:46. | |
police moved in on an area where people have told the BBC he has | :11:47. | :11:51. | |
worked in house renovations in recent months. Now, the police have | :11:52. | :11:56. | |
been criticised for the speed at which they have extended their | :11:57. | :12:02. | |
operations to Latvia, where Arnis Zalkalns may be. They have been | :12:03. | :12:06. | |
accused of not issuing a European arrest warrant in case he is spotted | :12:07. | :12:10. | |
there. They have said they can't do that under the law and there is not | :12:11. | :12:15. | |
enough evidence and today the local MP has backed that decision and said | :12:16. | :12:19. | |
he backs the family and the police are doing everything they can. What | :12:20. | :12:27. | |
happens now, well perhaps the focus moves back here. It is not going to | :12:28. | :12:30. | |
be the end of the search and the police will want to search again the | :12:31. | :12:34. | |
cordon they have put in here, the area surrounded by the tapes, | :12:35. | :12:37. | |
because they want to be sure they have done the tightest search they | :12:38. | :12:40. | |
can and it does take a great deal of time and effort to get right down on | :12:41. | :12:45. | |
the ground, finger tip searching. There may be forensic evidence and | :12:46. | :12:50. | |
we wait for the identification of that body. We we expect possibly | :12:51. | :12:52. | |
today. Thank you. The Ministry | :12:53. | :12:57. | |
of Defence has confirmed that the RAF has carried out two more | :12:58. | :12:58. | |
air strikes on so-called Two Tornadoes fired four missiles | :12:59. | :13:01. | |
at an armed pick-up truck, Yesterday RAF Tornados carried out | :13:02. | :13:08. | |
their FIRST strikes since Parliament approved military action in Iraq | :13:09. | :13:11. | |
last Friday. Clive Myrie is in Irbil in | :13:12. | :13:13. | |
Northern Iraq. Yes, those six RAF jits flying two | :13:14. | :13:31. | |
at a time on combat missions -- jets - are part of the military campaign | :13:32. | :13:37. | |
being gauged against Islamic State and their field of operations is | :13:38. | :13:41. | |
across the country. We saw strikes in the north-west and the latest | :13:42. | :13:46. | |
strikes over night took place just 50 miles north of Baghdad. The jets | :13:47. | :13:53. | |
are based in Cyprus and our defence correspondent is there. The Ministry | :13:54. | :13:59. | |
of Defence has released this video showing what it says was a | :14:00. | :14:03. | |
successful attack on Islamic State fighters in Iraq. It was the first | :14:04. | :14:07. | |
time that RAF Tornados have fired their weapons since they have been | :14:08. | :14:11. | |
authorised to engage targets on the ground. They say they hit an IS | :14:12. | :14:16. | |
machine gut post and an armed vehicle. Last night the RAF launched | :14:17. | :14:21. | |
their second set of air strikes. They flew to an area west of the | :14:22. | :14:27. | |
capital, Baghdad. The two Tornados returned here on Cyprus in the early | :14:28. | :14:31. | |
hours. Confirming the strikes, the Ministry of Defence said they had | :14:32. | :14:36. | |
been tasked to carry out surveillance on a Islamic State | :14:37. | :14:40. | |
centre. When they saw two vehicles leaving, one of which was armed, | :14:41. | :14:47. | |
they fired. They were among a number of strikes by coalition forces in | :14:48. | :14:53. | |
support of Kurdish fighters who have been taking ground from the | :14:54. | :14:58. | |
extremists. The fighting has been focussed near the Syrian border. The | :14:59. | :15:04. | |
Kurds say they now control the town. This war cannot just be won from the | :15:05. | :15:08. | |
air. With the promise that there will be no western boots on the | :15:09. | :15:12. | |
ground, the US and its allies have to rely on others to take on Islamic | :15:13. | :15:17. | |
State. This group of moderate rebels fighting in Syria have been supplied | :15:18. | :15:21. | |
with American weapons. But they still want more western help. | :15:22. | :15:27. | |
TRANSLATION: Maybe if they paid more attention to us and gave more | :15:28. | :15:31. | |
support to the moderate groups we could be in a different position. | :15:32. | :15:34. | |
But at least we are on a different track now. There is little pause in | :15:35. | :15:42. | |
the air campaign. In Cyprus Tornados once again took off for another | :15:43. | :15:46. | |
mission over Iraq. But it is still too early to judge how much of a | :15:47. | :15:48. | |
difference they're making. The last few days have seen some of | :15:49. | :16:02. | |
the most intense bombing of the last several weeks of the campaign. The | :16:03. | :16:06. | |
majority of the strikes have been in Syria without the involvement of the | :16:07. | :16:13. | |
RAF. Britain's involvement in this campaign only extends across Iraq. | :16:14. | :16:18. | |
Thank you very much. David Cameron tells | :16:19. | :16:22. | |
his party conference a future Conservative government | :16:23. | :16:28. | |
would bring in two major tax cuts. Pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong | :16:29. | :16:30. | |
spread to new areas with tens of thousands of demonstrators | :16:31. | :16:42. | |
on the streets. The danger of railway crossings - | :16:43. | :16:44. | |
police say people are risking lives And from today, | :16:45. | :16:50. | |
you may no longer need a tax disc in your car, but one Surrey schoolboy | :16:51. | :16:54. | |
will be sad to see them go. In Hong Kong, pro-democracy protests | :16:55. | :17:04. | |
have spread to new Communist Party. parts of the city as its leadership, | :17:05. | :17:09. | |
which supports Beijing, celebrated the anniversary | :17:10. | :17:13. | |
of the Communist Party's takeover Protesters booed | :17:14. | :17:15. | |
and turned their backs Thousands | :17:16. | :17:20. | |
of protesters have been occupying Martin Patience reports from | :17:21. | :17:22. | |
Hong Kong. It is supposed to be a day of | :17:23. | :17:38. | |
nationally and 80, one party, one people -- national unity. Marking | :17:39. | :17:44. | |
the 65th anniversary of the commonest party coming to power. | :17:45. | :17:48. | |
China's leaders want to project an image of peace and order -- | :17:49. | :17:53. | |
Communist Party. National celebrations were scrapped in Hong | :17:54. | :17:58. | |
Kong because of the protests. Demonstrators demanding Beijing | :17:59. | :18:02. | |
drops its ruling to screen candidates for the election of Hong | :18:03. | :18:08. | |
Kong's chief executive. These people are very determined and they know | :18:09. | :18:12. | |
that what they are asking for is very reasonable. We want to have | :18:13. | :18:17. | |
genuine democratic elections and we want the chief executive CY Leung to | :18:18. | :18:25. | |
step down. With thousands of the streets once again, they are showing | :18:26. | :18:30. | |
but the movement has momentum. There is no sign that the protesters are | :18:31. | :18:35. | |
willing to back down. Despite the defiance, there is an air of | :18:36. | :18:40. | |
civility. College student Jason is part of a recycling team. The | :18:41. | :18:45. | |
protesters want to be good neighbours, clearing up their mess. | :18:46. | :18:51. | |
But Jason is going home at night. Your parents worried? They do not | :18:52. | :18:56. | |
worry about my decision, they are concerned about my safety. They do | :18:57. | :19:01. | |
not want me to stay overnight, it is too dangerous. But they support | :19:02. | :19:07. | |
might decision of strike. There is a carnival-like atmosphere. But as the | :19:08. | :19:11. | |
protests grow, so will be pressure on Beijing to act. | :19:12. | :19:15. | |
A man in the United States has been diagnosed with Ebola, | :19:16. | :19:18. | |
the first case of a patient developing the virus on US soil. | :19:19. | :19:21. | |
The man is thought to have caught the disease in Liberia | :19:22. | :19:26. | |
before travelling to the US nearly two weeks ago. | :19:27. | :19:30. | |
Health officials in Dallas, Texas, said he was ill for four days | :19:31. | :19:33. | |
before he was admitted to hospital and they want to trace everyone he | :19:34. | :19:36. | |
This is the hospital where the unidentified man is critically | :19:37. | :19:40. | |
The authorities are trying to establish if anyone else has | :19:41. | :19:46. | |
We identified all people who may have had contact with the patient | :19:47. | :19:54. | |
Remember, Ebola does not spread from someone who is not infectious. | :19:55. | :20:02. | |
It does not spread from someone who does not have fever | :20:03. | :20:05. | |
It is only someone who is sick with Ebola who can spread the disease. | :20:06. | :20:12. | |
The man flew from Liberia to visit family in the US. | :20:13. | :20:15. | |
It is one of the countries worst affected by the Ebola outbreak. | :20:16. | :20:18. | |
More than 6,500 people have been affected in West Africa, | :20:19. | :20:23. | |
A poor health system has been blamed. | :20:24. | :20:28. | |
The virus only spreads by direct contact when | :20:29. | :20:31. | |
The man was not contagious while on the plane but he was the six | :20:32. | :20:38. | |
If a person has no symptoms, they can continue to work | :20:39. | :20:47. | |
and do their regular activities if they are monitored | :20:48. | :20:50. | |
And if they develop symptoms or temperature, that is when they | :20:51. | :20:54. | |
An experimental treatment ZMapp was developed in a lab in California | :20:55. | :20:58. | |
and used to treat two American aid workers who were infected | :20:59. | :21:01. | |
While there are vaccines and treatments being trialled, | :21:02. | :21:06. | |
Doctors are doing everything they can to help the first man to develop | :21:07. | :21:16. | |
Ebola on American soil and to ensure any further infections | :21:17. | :21:18. | |
A former Guantanamo Bay detainee, Moazzam Begg, who was accused | :21:19. | :21:26. | |
of providing terrorist training and funding terrorism overseas has | :21:27. | :21:30. | |
had the charges against him dropped after police received new evidence. | :21:31. | :21:34. | |
His trial was due to start on Monday. | :21:35. | :21:38. | |
Our home affairs correspondent June Kelly is at the Old Bailey. | :21:39. | :21:45. | |
How has this come about? This has been a controversial case from the | :21:46. | :21:52. | |
start. Moazzam Begg is the most high-profile of all the arrests that | :21:53. | :21:57. | |
took place in relation to alleged terrorism in Syria. Since his | :21:58. | :22:02. | |
release from Guantanamo Bay, he has been a vocal campaigner and activist | :22:03. | :22:06. | |
and his supporters say he may no secret of the fact he had been to | :22:07. | :22:12. | |
Syria. He was accused of attending a terrorism training camp. Although | :22:13. | :22:16. | |
not quite at the 11th hour, the case was going to open next week and | :22:17. | :22:19. | |
suddenly this morning the prosecution pulled the plug on the | :22:20. | :22:23. | |
whole thing. It was left to the assistant chief constable of the | :22:24. | :22:27. | |
West Midlands force to explain that in the past few months the police | :22:28. | :22:31. | |
and prosecutors have been passed evidence which undermined this | :22:32. | :22:36. | |
prosecution. They would not say where the evidence had come from. It | :22:37. | :22:40. | |
means Moazzam Begg will soon be a free man. Thank you very much. | :22:41. | :22:44. | |
The mother of a missing schoolgirl from Bristol has made an emotional | :22:45. | :22:47. | |
Police believe 15-year-old Yusra Hussien may have travelled to | :22:48. | :22:51. | |
Turkey with a 17-year-old girl from London and that they may be | :22:52. | :22:54. | |
Yusra's family insist there's no evidence that | :22:55. | :22:58. | |
Our correspondent, Jon Kay, is in Bristol. | :22:59. | :23:08. | |
Yusra Hussien's family said they decided to go public and release a | :23:09. | :23:15. | |
picture of the 15-year-old today because they wanted to do whatever | :23:16. | :23:19. | |
they can to try to find her wherever she is. They said she is atypical | :23:20. | :23:25. | |
bubbly, bright teenager who is into table tennis and running with her | :23:26. | :23:28. | |
brothers and sisters. They said there was nothing about her | :23:29. | :23:31. | |
behaviour in the days before she disappeared to make them suspicious | :23:32. | :23:35. | |
in any way. They said she went to bed as normal last Tuesday, talking | :23:36. | :23:40. | |
about going to school on Wednesday, but police believe she got on a | :23:41. | :23:44. | |
plane and flew to Turkey and was planning to head to Syria. Her | :23:45. | :23:47. | |
mother made this direct appeal to her daughter. | :23:48. | :23:50. | |
All your brothers and your sisters, we miss you so, so much. | :23:51. | :24:04. | |
She said that the house feel silent without her daughter. As for the | :24:05. | :24:20. | |
possibility that she might have been radicalised, as the police have | :24:21. | :24:24. | |
suggested, the family say there is no concrete evidence and for now | :24:25. | :24:27. | |
they want to focus on finding her rather than on the labels. | :24:28. | :24:32. | |
The Financial Conduct Authority has begun an investigation into Tesco | :24:33. | :24:34. | |
after the retailer overstated its estimated half-year profits | :24:35. | :24:36. | |
It comes as another supermarket, Sainsbury's, has announced that | :24:37. | :24:41. | |
its like-for-like sales have fallen for a third consecutive quarter. | :24:42. | :24:46. | |
They dropped almost 3% in the three months to September. | :24:47. | :24:48. | |
Our business correspondent, Emma Simpson, reports. | :24:49. | :25:00. | |
Growing sales, growing market share... The old boss's message was | :25:01. | :25:07. | |
always upbeat. He has gone and his right-hand man is now in charge and | :25:08. | :25:13. | |
things are getting tougher. Here is one of the reasons. A typical basket | :25:14. | :25:20. | |
of groceries now costs the same as it did a year ago. Sainsbury's | :25:21. | :25:27. | |
reckons food prices are falling, something that has not happened in a | :25:28. | :25:30. | |
generation. That is good news for us, but it is not helping the | :25:31. | :25:36. | |
supermarkets. With less cash coming through the tills, sales are in | :25:37. | :25:40. | |
decline and Sainsbury's says the next quarter is not likely to get | :25:41. | :25:44. | |
any better. Annual sales could fall for the first time in almost a | :25:45. | :25:49. | |
decade. It marks the end of a tremendous track record. Really it | :25:50. | :25:56. | |
is the end of an era, arguably for the entire supermarket industry. | :25:57. | :25:58. | |
Growth is almost impossible these days. Discount shops are taking an | :25:59. | :26:04. | |
increasing share and shoppers are moving to convenience and online. | :26:05. | :26:09. | |
We're changing the way we set our prices. The fightback has begun. | :26:10. | :26:15. | |
Sainsbury's has long campaigned on quality but it is now going on the | :26:16. | :26:22. | |
offensive of prices. Sainsbury's have an issue with price perception | :26:23. | :26:26. | |
so they have to move on price today and reduce prices to ensure they | :26:27. | :26:32. | |
have the universal appeal. But the troubles run far deeper at its | :26:33. | :26:38. | |
bigger rival Tesco with news today that Britain's financial watchdog is | :26:39. | :26:42. | |
launching a full investigation into its accounting scandal. The huge | :26:43. | :26:48. | |
error in its profits forecast has raised a question about whether this | :26:49. | :26:52. | |
could be happening anywhere else. Sainsbury's insisted today it was | :26:53. | :26:56. | |
100% confident in its accounting practices. | :26:57. | :26:59. | |
For the first time in almost 100 years, | :27:00. | :27:01. | |
drivers no longer need to display a paper tax disc in their windscreen. | :27:02. | :27:05. | |
To pay their road tax, motorists now need to register their car | :27:06. | :27:09. | |
at a post office or online, although the DVLA has this morning admitted | :27:10. | :27:13. | |
there's been unprecedented demand on its website, causing difficulty | :27:14. | :27:15. | |
Our transport correspondent, Richard Westcott, reports. | :27:16. | :27:25. | |
A little piece of history disappears from our windscreens today. The | :27:26. | :27:32. | |
Government says there is no point in having a piece of paper on show. The | :27:33. | :27:36. | |
reality is the authorities have not done this for years, check people's | :27:37. | :27:41. | |
tax discs by looking in the windscreen. Instead they use cameras | :27:42. | :27:47. | |
that take a photograph of your number plate and check it against a | :27:48. | :27:50. | |
database and if you have not paid your tax, it turns orange. On patrol | :27:51. | :27:58. | |
with the DVLA on this road in Essex. Around one in every 200 cars they | :27:59. | :28:04. | |
check is not taxed. We have just had a hit and that vehicle was showing | :28:05. | :28:09. | |
up as unlicensed. I would assume you are mainly catching people in older | :28:10. | :28:14. | |
cars are maybe even white vans. That is what a lot of people assume. It | :28:15. | :28:19. | |
could be anything and everything. A pink Rolls-Royce on the way to a | :28:20. | :28:25. | |
wedding, ambulances, three buses from the same company. If there is | :28:26. | :28:30. | |
time left on your disk, it is still valid. But you do not have to | :28:31. | :28:36. | |
display it. Used or renew online or at the Post Office. The website has | :28:37. | :28:39. | |
been swamped today. If you buy a second-hand car, you have to tax it | :28:40. | :28:46. | |
yourself. The seller gets a refund. The Government gets two lots of tax | :28:47. | :28:53. | |
for the monthly car is sold. The RAC has another worry. The absence of a | :28:54. | :28:58. | |
physical tax disc will encourage people to try to evade taxation | :28:59. | :29:03. | |
which will be lost revenue to the Exchequer and that will affect every | :29:04. | :29:06. | |
motorist because there is less money to spend on maintaining and | :29:07. | :29:11. | |
improving the road network. That is not true according to ministers who | :29:12. | :29:16. | |
say the changes will save millions. For drivers, there is one bit of | :29:17. | :29:20. | |
good news. No more trying to tear the tax disc from the perforations | :29:21. | :29:23. | |
without ripping the paper. The weather is about to get in June | :29:24. | :29:39. | |
with the calendar. Good news or bad news, it depends how you feel. After | :29:40. | :29:44. | |
the warmth of recent weeks, the warmth of late summer is about to be | :29:45. | :29:49. | |
squeezed out by autumn. There will be a few hints of automotive the | :29:50. | :29:54. | |
next few days. Generally we stick with largely dry weather. Sunny | :29:55. | :29:58. | |
spells with one or two showers. Temperatures still at or above | :29:59. | :30:02. | |
average. A few showers this afternoon. The old heavy shower. A | :30:03. | :30:07. | |
bit of brightness in between. Showers in the Channel Islands | :30:08. | :30:12. | |
clearing and a brighter and drier evening compared to this morning. We | :30:13. | :30:18. | |
will see a few showers in the Midlands pushing through northern | :30:19. | :30:21. | |
England as well. Followed by a sunny weather. A few showers in Scotland | :30:22. | :30:25. | |
and Northern Ireland. But most of the afternoon will be predominantly | :30:26. | :30:30. | |
sunny. Pleasant enough under the blue skies. But it is the blue skies | :30:31. | :30:34. | |
which translate to clear skies tonight and a distinct chill in the | :30:35. | :30:38. | |
air for the northern half of the UK. In the south, more cloud. Showers | :30:39. | :30:42. | |
possible. The odd patch of mist and fog. Single digits for towns and | :30:43. | :30:46. | |
cities further north. Rural areas could see a few degrees above | :30:47. | :30:52. | |
freezing. Autumn nip in the air for the northern half of the UK. | :30:53. | :30:58. | |
Pleasant start. Lovely and fresh with sunny weather before the breeze | :30:59. | :31:02. | |
picks up with more cloud later. More cloud across parts of England and | :31:03. | :31:05. | |
Wales. Sunny spells expected. Isolated showers. Temperatures at or | :31:06. | :31:11. | |
above where they should be for the time of year. At the end of the | :31:12. | :31:16. | |
week, autumn well and truly arrives. Deep area of low pressure to the | :31:17. | :31:20. | |
south of Iceland shoving this weather our way. That will be the | :31:21. | :31:27. | |
dividing line between late summer and autumn. The breeze picking up. | :31:28. | :31:30. | |
Blustery day on Friday with strong to gale force across parts of | :31:31. | :31:37. | |
Scotland and Northern Ireland. Persistent rain. The ugly side of | :31:38. | :31:42. | |
autumn. The weather front opening the door to autumn will push its way | :31:43. | :31:46. | |
across England and Wales on Friday night into Saturday morning. All | :31:47. | :31:51. | |
should see some rain. Rain lingering to start the weekend in the east. It | :31:52. | :31:55. | |
will eventually clear. The sunshine will be out. But you will all notice | :31:56. | :31:59. | |
the change. It will feel cooler than it has done and more like it should | :32:00. | :32:05. | |
Now a reminder of our top story this lunchtime. | :32:06. | :32:11. | |
David Cameron tells his party conference a future Conservative | :32:12. | :32:16. | |
government would bring in two major tax cuts. | :32:17. | :32:18. |