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Can the NHS in England claw its way back from being | :00:00. | :00:07. | |
The public spending watchdog says it's unclear that it can. | :00:08. | :00:13. | |
The National Audit Office says money problems are endemic in the NHS, | :00:14. | :00:15. | |
and the pledge of extra money from the government may not fix it. | :00:16. | :00:20. | |
But ministers say the Health Service has to improve efficiency and show | :00:21. | :00:23. | |
Unemployment falls to 5.2% - its lowest rate for nearly 10 years. | :00:24. | :00:33. | |
Treat dying patients as individuals and avoid a tick-box approach - | :00:34. | :00:36. | |
medical staff are told by the health watchdog. | :00:37. | :00:43. | |
The UK meets its target of housing 1,000 Syrian refugees before | :00:44. | :00:46. | |
We have the story of one family now living in the Midlands. | :00:47. | :00:49. | |
And the last batch of ?1 coins rolls off the press, | :00:50. | :00:53. | |
but what do the people think of the new look? | :00:54. | :01:01. | |
Coming up, we have the latest from England's first tour match of South | :01:02. | :01:07. | |
Africa, with the tourists well on top on the second day. | :01:08. | :01:27. | |
Good afternoon and welcome to the BBC News at One. | :01:28. | :01:30. | |
NHS trusts in England are facing financial difficulties that | :01:31. | :01:32. | |
are so acute that running a deficit is becoming normal practice, | :01:33. | :01:35. | |
according to the public spending watchdog. | :01:36. | :01:36. | |
The National Audit Office says that despite extra funding recently | :01:37. | :01:39. | |
promised by the government, money problems within the Health Service | :01:40. | :01:41. | |
are "endemic" and that it remains unclear how it might get | :01:42. | :01:44. | |
This year a deficit of more than ?2 billion is being forecast | :01:45. | :01:52. | |
by NHS trusts - that compares with an overspend | :01:53. | :01:54. | |
of just over ?840 million last year. | :01:55. | :01:56. | |
The government says the NHS has to be more efficient | :01:57. | :01:58. | |
and cut its spending on expensive agency staff. | :01:59. | :02:00. | |
Our Health Correspondent Dominic Hughes reports. | :02:01. | :02:13. | |
The NHS in England is facing financial pressures like never | :02:14. | :02:19. | |
before. The National Audit Office describes how increasing numbers of | :02:20. | :02:24. | |
NHS trusts are running up debts and needing emergency cash bailouts. | :02:25. | :02:28. | |
That cannot continue. We don't think the situation is sustainable, a | :02:29. | :02:32. | |
doubling in the deficits among hospitals and increasing reliance on | :02:33. | :02:36. | |
emergency cash, bailouts, that is not something that can be allowed to | :02:37. | :02:40. | |
continue. Auditors have tracked a sharp deterioration in the five | :02:41. | :02:45. | |
Raqqa kill finances of the NHS. The deficit last year was almost ?850 | :02:46. | :02:51. | |
million. This is set to reach more than ?2 billion this year. The | :02:52. | :02:56. | |
number of loss-making organisations has beamed up to 181. The NHS say | :02:57. | :03:02. | |
that pressures on the health service from an ageing population with more | :03:03. | :03:06. | |
long-term illnesses cannot be addressed in isolation. If you look | :03:07. | :03:10. | |
at what happens in a service and where the pressure comes from, it is | :03:11. | :03:13. | |
often from older people who have become frail and aren't getting the | :03:14. | :03:17. | |
support they need. They become more ill and end up in hospital. We know | :03:18. | :03:22. | |
social care funding is not going up as quickly as NHS funding, | :03:23. | :03:27. | |
especially next year, that must be addressed to help the NHS succeed. | :03:28. | :03:31. | |
The government has promised trusts in England and extra cash injection | :03:32. | :03:36. | |
of almost ?4 billion, but economists say that big changes are needed if | :03:37. | :03:40. | |
the long-term financial situation is to improve. The state of NHS | :03:41. | :03:45. | |
finances can only be described as dire. There are two problems, the | :03:46. | :03:52. | |
failure to recruit and retain staff, and problems improving productivity | :03:53. | :03:55. | |
at the rate needed. For both of those problems, the NHS needs a | :03:56. | :03:58. | |
radically different approach. Ministers say that they are | :03:59. | :04:01. | |
committed to the health service and extra cash will make a difference, | :04:02. | :04:05. | |
but hospitals must get a grip on their finances. | :04:06. | :04:07. | |
Health spending is very contentious - it came up in the last hour | :04:08. | :04:12. | |
What's your assessment of the financial state of the NHS? | :04:13. | :04:21. | |
Some robust exchanges in the Commons, with Jeremy Corbyn, | :04:22. | :04:28. | |
repeatedly raising health issues and the stability of the NHS, David | :04:29. | :04:34. | |
Cameron defended the amount invested in front line services in England, | :04:35. | :04:39. | |
but the National Audit Office report on the state of NHS finances makes | :04:40. | :04:44. | |
sobering reading. The report on the finances of England suggests there | :04:45. | :04:47. | |
has been a deterioration which is severe and worse than expected, and | :04:48. | :04:51. | |
efficiency plans, put in place by different health trusts, are | :04:52. | :04:56. | |
unsustainable in some cases. I think the most worrying aspect of it is | :04:57. | :05:01. | |
that it questions the ?22 billion of efficiency savings, the government | :05:02. | :05:05. | |
and NHS England says it is achievable by the year 2020. ?22 | :05:06. | :05:10. | |
billion annually, and the National Audit Office, that auditors of the | :05:11. | :05:14. | |
nation 's finances, so that they do not think it is achievable, not | :05:15. | :05:21. | |
enough detail has been provided. The government has come up with more | :05:22. | :05:24. | |
details today about next year 's finances? As PMQ 's was underway, | :05:25. | :05:29. | |
the Department of Health announced ?1.8 billion next year, that will be | :05:30. | :05:37. | |
put into "Helping hospitals get back on their feet". That comes out of | :05:38. | :05:42. | |
the ?3.8 billion of extra money announced by the Chancellor in the | :05:43. | :05:45. | |
spending review. The government say it is not a bailout but designed to | :05:46. | :05:50. | |
help transform services, but if you are using nearly half of your new | :05:51. | :05:53. | |
money to help hospitals keep going, that does not leave a lot of money | :05:54. | :05:56. | |
for other services. Thank you. UK unemployment has fallen | :05:57. | :06:00. | |
to nearly a 10-year low. Official figures show the jobless | :06:01. | :06:02. | |
total stood at 1.7 million in October - a fall of 110,000 over | :06:03. | :06:04. | |
the previous three months. The unemployment rate | :06:05. | :06:07. | |
is now at its lowest level Our Economics Correspondent | :06:08. | :06:09. | |
Andy Verity reports. A Christmas market in the centre of | :06:10. | :06:22. | |
Manchester, where you will see a tiny fraction of the record number | :06:23. | :06:26. | |
of people in work. A proportion of the population, more people are | :06:27. | :06:32. | |
working than at any time since 1971. That population has been growing. | :06:33. | :06:35. | |
You can guess how many applications we had on Christmas Day last year,. | :06:36. | :06:40. | |
At a recruitment event nearby, these graduates have a far better chance | :06:41. | :06:43. | |
of getting a good job than they would have done five years ago. It | :06:44. | :06:47. | |
is really encouraging, there are so many jobs out there, you just have | :06:48. | :06:52. | |
to go and get them. The tables have turned. We have recruiters calling | :06:53. | :06:57. | |
us. Do you want to come for interviews? We've been invited to a | :06:58. | :07:02. | |
lot of interviews. They are getting better. There are more opportunities | :07:03. | :07:04. | |
out there, big companies are expanding. They are always looking | :07:05. | :07:09. | |
for new people. The rate of unemployment is down to 5.2%, the | :07:10. | :07:14. | |
lowest since 2006. That is partly because the number of people working | :07:15. | :07:20. | |
brace to 31.3 million. But, earnings rose by just 2.0%. The smallest | :07:21. | :07:26. | |
average pay rise for months. What is odd about those numbers is that they | :07:27. | :07:30. | |
go against the theory the Bank of England has had for 18 months. | :07:31. | :07:34. | |
Namely, if an implement gets low enough, wages will begin to rise | :07:35. | :07:39. | |
faster, pushing up prices as well. That is exactly what is not | :07:40. | :07:43. | |
happening. When you get down to these levels of unemployment, 5.2%, | :07:44. | :07:48. | |
you would expect wages to be really going higher. We've added another | :07:49. | :07:53. | |
half a million people to the workforce, so I think there seems to | :07:54. | :07:57. | |
be plenty of supply of people, and that is probably one of the reasons | :07:58. | :08:02. | |
that wages are staying so low. Two years ago, the Bank of England | :08:03. | :08:06. | |
Governor Mark Carney indicated 7% unemployment was a danger mark. | :08:07. | :08:11. | |
Below that, you need to look out for signs of inflation. Now, with an | :08:12. | :08:14. | |
implement at just 5.2%, there is little sign it is pushing up wages | :08:15. | :08:17. | |
or prices. Andy Verity, BBC News. The care of people at the end | :08:18. | :08:21. | |
of their lives should be tailored to their needs, and medical staff | :08:22. | :08:24. | |
should avoid a tick-box approach, according to the health | :08:25. | :08:27. | |
watchdog NICE. The guidance for care in England | :08:28. | :08:28. | |
is intended to address misuse of the previous system - | :08:29. | :08:31. | |
the Liverpool Care Pathway - which left some patients heavily | :08:32. | :08:33. | |
sedated, and without food and water. Our Health Correspondent | :08:34. | :08:36. | |
Adam Brimelow reports. This guideline replaces the | :08:37. | :08:47. | |
Liverpool Care Pathway, designed to help staff provide the best possible | :08:48. | :08:50. | |
care in the last days of life, it fell into disrepute,. NICE said that | :08:51. | :09:01. | |
it became seen as a tech box exercise, it blanket approach that | :09:02. | :09:05. | |
did not meet the needs of individuals. The new guideline | :09:06. | :09:08. | |
emphasises communication with the person who is dying and their family | :09:09. | :09:13. | |
and friends, and between clinicians, to establish the patient's needs and | :09:14. | :09:16. | |
wishes. Care should be reviewed at least once a day, and if there is | :09:17. | :09:21. | |
any doubt, staff should turn to more experienced colleagues for advice. | :09:22. | :09:25. | |
NICE says more support is needed. It is important that they should have | :09:26. | :09:31. | |
access to someone who was more senior, and experienced. It could be | :09:32. | :09:34. | |
someone in their own department or someone they call, a local | :09:35. | :09:36. | |
specialist pallets to have care service. We need greater access to | :09:37. | :09:42. | |
experienced people 20 47 in the new NHS. Many care providers are pleased | :09:43. | :09:48. | |
with the guidelines, but say it should be followed up, with more | :09:49. | :09:56. | |
training for staff. We welcome the new NICE guidelines, it sets things | :09:57. | :09:59. | |
out clearly about what people should reasonably expect as they, or family | :10:00. | :10:04. | |
members, approach the end of life. But the devil is always in the | :10:05. | :10:08. | |
detail with these things. We have to make sure it is implemented in the | :10:09. | :10:14. | |
way that everybody wants. There is a challenge here, not only for doctors | :10:15. | :10:18. | |
and nurses, but wider society. For many of us, death remains a | :10:19. | :10:23. | |
difficult subject to discuss. Our hopes and expectations may change as | :10:24. | :10:27. | |
we near the end of life. It is hoped the new guidance will ensure staff | :10:28. | :10:32. | |
can respond to these changes and any unexpected improvement in the | :10:33. | :10:35. | |
patient's condition, so they get the right care at this difficult and | :10:36. | :10:37. | |
sensitive time. David Cameron confirmed this | :10:38. | :10:41. | |
lunchtime that the target of resettling 1,000 refugees | :10:42. | :10:43. | |
from Syria by Christmas They're the first of the 20,000 | :10:44. | :10:45. | |
vulnerable adults and children that the government's pledged | :10:46. | :10:48. | |
to accept here by 2020. Our correspondent Daniela Relph | :10:49. | :10:52. | |
is at Stansted airport, where another plane carrying | :10:53. | :10:54. | |
refugees is due to arrive this That plane carrying the Syrian | :10:55. | :11:08. | |
refugees has been slightly delayed, but we are expecting to see it land | :11:09. | :11:12. | |
here at Stansted Airport later this afternoon. We know that on board are | :11:13. | :11:16. | |
a number of Syrian families who have been living in refugee camps in | :11:17. | :11:20. | |
Jordan and Lebanon. They will, for now, make their home here in the UK. | :11:21. | :11:26. | |
Sian Lloyd has been to Coventry to visit one of the first families to | :11:27. | :11:30. | |
be welcomed here in the UK seven weeks ago. I should warn you that | :11:31. | :11:33. | |
some people may find images in her report distressing. | :11:34. | :11:35. | |
Preparing for Christmas in a new home, in a new country. | :11:36. | :11:40. | |
This family arrived in Coventry only seven weeks ago. | :11:41. | :11:43. | |
were badly hurt in a bomb blast in Syria and need further surgery | :11:44. | :11:48. | |
Seven-year-old Asuna last her sight in one eye. | :11:49. | :11:52. | |
I didn't believe they were my children. | :11:53. | :12:07. | |
I wished they were dead because they were suffering a lot. | :12:08. | :12:11. | |
And we had to take the immediate decision to leave the country | :12:12. | :12:18. | |
because they needed further medical support. | :12:19. | :12:23. | |
The family had joined others to celebrate a Kurdish spring | :12:24. | :12:26. | |
festival when a bomb exploded amongst the crowd. | :12:27. | :12:28. | |
Seven-year-old Asuna and four-year-old Lucia | :12:29. | :12:29. | |
It was 24 hours before their parents found them in the local hospital | :12:30. | :12:37. | |
and the family were taken to Iraq for further medical treatment. | :12:38. | :12:44. | |
They were registered as refugees by the United Nations and for six | :12:45. | :12:46. | |
months they waited to find out where they would be offered | :12:47. | :12:49. | |
a new home and the ongoing medical care the children needed. | :12:50. | :13:00. | |
This city has a long tradition of offering refuge | :13:01. | :13:03. | |
Meeting the needs of the current influx of people has not been | :13:04. | :13:10. | |
without its challenges, but lessons learnt here in Coventry | :13:11. | :13:12. | |
are being passed on to councils across the country as they prepare | :13:13. | :13:15. | |
for the thousands of refugees who will arrive next year. | :13:16. | :13:17. | |
We are actually going to test your English. | :13:18. | :13:19. | |
Lessons in language and culture are offered to new arrivals | :13:20. | :13:21. | |
by volunteers at the local migrant and refugee centre. | :13:22. | :13:27. | |
Integration is key because unless they feel integrated | :13:28. | :13:29. | |
and unless people establish meaningful interactions | :13:30. | :13:31. | |
with the local community, with the city, they will not be able | :13:32. | :13:34. | |
to start their journey of social and economic mobility. | :13:35. | :13:42. | |
These children are already settling in to their new home. | :13:43. | :13:46. | |
The family has been given a five-year humanitarian visa | :13:47. | :13:49. | |
We are now expecting to see the latest plane of Syrian refugees land | :13:50. | :14:05. | |
here at Stansted Airport towards the middle of the afternoon. When that | :14:06. | :14:09. | |
happens, the families on board will be taken to a number of different | :14:10. | :14:13. | |
locations. Across the South of England. | :14:14. | :14:17. | |
Jose Mourinho's future as Chelsea manager is under question - | :14:18. | :14:19. | |
as it emerges that the club has held discussions about his position | :14:20. | :14:22. | |
It follows the failure to get the team, who are reigning | :14:23. | :14:26. | |
Premier League champions, out of the slump in which they've | :14:27. | :14:29. | |
They're now just one point off the relegation zone, | :14:30. | :14:33. | |
after defeat at Leicester City on Monday night. | :14:34. | :14:36. | |
Our Sports Correspondent Joe Wilson is at Stamford Bridge for us now. | :14:37. | :14:44. | |
If we think back to August, we all assumed Chelsea, this would season, | :14:45. | :14:51. | |
be competing for another Premier League title. I'm sure Bremen | :14:52. | :14:55. | |
Abramovich did, but in mid-December we are talking about them fighting | :14:56. | :15:00. | |
against relegation -- Roman. This week, Chelsea discussed the option | :15:01. | :15:03. | |
of sacking Jose Mourinho. I think that is an important step, it | :15:04. | :15:09. | |
confirms they are thinking what seemed to be beyond thinkable. | :15:10. | :15:11. | |
On Monday night, a Chelsea manager celebrated. | :15:12. | :15:13. | |
But Claudio Ranieri has not been in charge there for a decade. | :15:14. | :15:16. | |
His Leicester had just beaten Jose Mourinho's Chelsea, | :15:17. | :15:18. | |
an occurrence which has become shockingly normal this season. | :15:19. | :15:21. | |
In the Premier League, Chelsea have played 16 | :15:22. | :15:23. | |
Speaking after Monday's defeat, Mourinho's approach seemed to be | :15:24. | :15:28. | |
Shifting it firmly towards his players. | :15:29. | :15:36. | |
I have to look at some players in the eyes for one more time | :15:37. | :15:43. | |
and to feel if they feel Chelsea the same way I do. | :15:44. | :15:48. | |
If they feel our job the same way I do. | :15:49. | :15:55. | |
the same way I do, for sure some of them, they have to react | :15:56. | :16:01. | |
Mourinho has embodied the modern Chelsea, representing the ambitions | :16:02. | :16:06. | |
and the wealth of their owner, Roman Abramovich. | :16:07. | :16:11. | |
Bringing them the league for the first time in 50 years | :16:12. | :16:14. | |
Eva Carneiro, in one infamous incident. | :16:15. | :16:32. | |
His ability to inspire instant loyalty and drive the players | :16:33. | :16:35. | |
on with his own strength of character seems to have gone. | :16:36. | :16:39. | |
Chelsea may well be counting the cost of a failure to develop | :16:40. | :16:44. | |
players, but the squad they have is far too good to be | :16:45. | :16:47. | |
Ultimately, Chelsea must decide if the man who has | :16:48. | :16:52. | |
always been their solution has become the biggest part | :16:53. | :16:55. | |
We understand that Jose Mourinho has been taking Chelsea training as | :16:56. | :17:04. | |
normal this morning. We should bear in mind that Chelsea are still in | :17:05. | :17:08. | |
Europe, in the Champions League. They have that play for. Their next | :17:09. | :17:12. | |
home game is in the leak, the next home matches to Sunderland and | :17:13. | :17:17. | |
Watford. -- league. Normally those games are straightforward, but the | :17:18. | :17:20. | |
Premier League season is changing our perception of what is normal. | :17:21. | :17:29. | |
The top story this lunchtime, can the NHS in England clawed its way | :17:30. | :17:35. | |
back from being in permanent deficit? The public | :17:36. | :17:40. | |
can. Still to come, we are here live for | :17:41. | :17:44. | |
the premiere of Star Wars, and after all of the hype, and the billions | :17:45. | :17:50. | |
spent, the answer to the important spent, the answer to the important | :17:51. | :17:54. | |
question... Is it any good? In sport, Steve Borthwick starts his | :17:55. | :17:58. | |
new job as the England forwards coach today, but Bristol say he | :17:59. | :18:02. | |
still has a long contract with them. And, the RFU should not have | :18:03. | :18:03. | |
approached him. A ceremony has been held in Peshawar | :18:04. | :18:11. | |
in Pakistan at the school where more than 150 people were massacred | :18:12. | :18:14. | |
exactly a year ago. There are claims from some survivors | :18:15. | :18:16. | |
that they haven't been given enough Teachers and students have been | :18:17. | :18:22. | |
speaking of their continuing trauma to our correspondent | :18:23. | :18:26. | |
in Peshawar, Shaimaa Khalil. The faces of those who survived, | :18:27. | :18:32. | |
and those who didn't. Pupils walked into today's ceremony | :18:33. | :18:34. | |
with pictures of the friends Today Pakistan marks the anniversary | :18:35. | :18:40. | |
of one of the deadliest attacks A year on, we went | :18:41. | :18:45. | |
back to the school. This is what used to be the school | :18:46. | :18:53. | |
auditorium and it is where Taliban gunmen walked in from the side, | :18:54. | :18:57. | |
came up the steps, and started shooting pupils | :18:58. | :19:00. | |
inside at close range. It is when a normal school day | :19:01. | :19:02. | |
turned into carnage. I remember very vividly blood spots | :19:03. | :19:16. | |
on those very steps as we came up. Inside, there were scenes very | :19:17. | :19:22. | |
difficult to forget and some that | :19:23. | :19:25. | |
are very gruesome Schoolbooks scattered on the floor | :19:26. | :19:27. | |
and children's shoes. Everything in that place spoke | :19:28. | :19:37. | |
of the terror that took A year on, the building has been | :19:38. | :19:40. | |
completely refurbished. Half of it is now a library | :19:41. | :19:45. | |
and the other half is a sports hall. The building itself might have | :19:46. | :19:49. | |
changed, but memories of what happened that day | :19:50. | :19:52. | |
are still very vivid for students Life seems to be going back | :19:53. | :19:54. | |
to normal here in the Army public school and watching the children | :19:55. | :20:03. | |
play, it is very difficult to imagine that only a year ago, | :20:04. | :20:06. | |
a massacre took place not very far But there is a real determination | :20:07. | :20:09. | |
here among the students and teachers to move on and try and | :20:10. | :20:15. | |
forget about that day. Students have been coming to classes | :20:16. | :20:19. | |
only a few weeks after the actual attack and they have been coming | :20:20. | :20:22. | |
to classes ever since. They want to move on | :20:23. | :20:28. | |
with their daily life. As pupils gather every morning | :20:29. | :20:31. | |
to start a new school day, many are still haunted | :20:32. | :20:34. | |
by what happened last year. Scotland's Finance Secretary is to | :20:35. | :20:48. | |
deliver his annual budget today. For the first time, he'll have | :20:49. | :20:55. | |
to set an income tax rate but it's expected he'll keep it in line | :20:56. | :20:58. | |
with the rest of the UK. Our Scotland Correspondent Kevin | :20:59. | :21:01. | |
Keane is in Edinburgh. He is not expected to make changes | :21:02. | :21:06. | |
to income tax, how significant is that? It would be a very brave | :21:07. | :21:11. | |
finance secretary indeed, who announces tax rises less than five | :21:12. | :21:16. | |
months before an election. In May of next year, voters will go to the | :21:17. | :21:20. | |
polls to elect a whole new set of MSP is to sit here. Today, he has to | :21:21. | :21:26. | |
make the decision about the first 10p in the pound of income tax. The | :21:27. | :21:30. | |
new Scottish rate of income tax. He could decide to increase it, that is | :21:31. | :21:36. | |
unlikely. He may decide to reduce it to 9p, or 8p. We already know that | :21:37. | :21:42. | |
John Swinney is concerned about cuts to the budget because of the UK | :21:43. | :21:45. | |
Government's austerity programme, meaning he has less money to spend. | :21:46. | :21:51. | |
You may voluntarily opt to have less money. That is unlikely. The | :21:52. | :21:55. | |
prediction is he will keep the rate the same. We are likely this | :21:56. | :22:00. | |
afternoon to hear his priorities and exactly where any cuts will fall. We | :22:01. | :22:05. | |
know the priorities are in policing, education, and health. They have | :22:06. | :22:09. | |
already been set out, we won't know until he gets to his feet later this | :22:10. | :22:13. | |
afternoon exactly where the cuts will fall, and how deep they will | :22:14. | :22:15. | |
be. Thank you. A man accused of taking part | :22:16. | :22:18. | |
in the Hatton Garden burglary has denied being part of the team that | :22:19. | :22:21. | |
drilled into the vault on the night Carl Wood was shown a CCTV image | :22:22. | :22:24. | |
of one of the men entering the building - but insisted | :22:25. | :22:28. | |
it was not him. Our home affairs correspondent | :22:29. | :22:31. | |
Daniel Sanford is at It has been a morning of good | :22:32. | :22:43. | |
old-fashioned cross-examination by the prosecutor, Philip Evans, | :22:44. | :22:47. | |
putting intense pressure on Carl Wood, accusing him again and again | :22:48. | :22:51. | |
of lying in his evidence. Four men have pled guilty to the biggest | :22:52. | :22:56. | |
burglary at seen in Britain. Of the men on trial here, only Carl Wood is | :22:57. | :22:59. | |
accused of being part of the gang that broke into the Hatton Garden | :23:00. | :23:00. | |
faults. The prosecution say the man seen | :23:01. | :23:07. | |
here on the left, carrying a backpack on the first night of the | :23:08. | :23:12. | |
Hatton Garden burglary is Carl Wood. He says it is a case of mistaken | :23:13. | :23:17. | |
identity. He denies the man at the backing these pictures with the | :23:18. | :23:26. | |
white facemask Makkah -- is him. He denies being one of the men who | :23:27. | :23:30. | |
drilled into the vault, denying being in the passenger seat of the | :23:31. | :23:34. | |
getaway van, and going back on the second night before losing his | :23:35. | :23:39. | |
nerve. Your story of an alibi is a lie, isn't it? I disagree, he | :23:40. | :23:45. | |
replied. He said he was at home in Hertfordshire on the second night of | :23:46. | :23:48. | |
the burglary having a barbecue with his family, he said his wife and | :23:49. | :23:54. | |
daughter would back his story. He has admitted knowing Danny Jones, | :23:55. | :23:58. | |
one of the ringleaders, who pleaded guilty to the burglary. He described | :23:59. | :24:02. | |
him as an eccentric who wears his mother 's dressing gown and a Tommy | :24:03. | :24:07. | |
Cooper phase in bed. Carl Wood denied again and again that he was | :24:08. | :24:14. | |
part of the team who drilled into the vault at the start of the East | :24:15. | :24:21. | |
back -- Easter bank holiday weekend, he said he was in bed with his wife. | :24:22. | :24:24. | |
His wife said that he has not spent a night away from home since his | :24:25. | :24:32. | |
20s. She said on the night of the burglary, he was at home with her, | :24:33. | :24:37. | |
and on the second night, he was at home having a barbecue and watching | :24:38. | :24:38. | |
television. The first full reviews | :24:39. | :24:41. | |
for the new Star Wars film have hailed it as "a triumph" | :24:42. | :24:44. | |
and "a classic." The Force Awakens is premiered | :24:45. | :24:45. | |
in the UK this evening - and our correspondent David Sillito | :24:46. | :24:48. | |
is in Leicester Square for us now. It sounds like the fans have a treat | :24:49. | :25:00. | |
in store? Well, if you've been able to escape the hype for Star Wars, | :25:01. | :25:04. | |
you are a better person than I! The premier says it all, a massive | :25:05. | :25:08. | |
engineering operation. The red carpet goes three quarters of the | :25:09. | :25:12. | |
way around Leicester Square, it goes on forever. If you have, in your | :25:13. | :25:16. | |
wardrobe, a storm trooper outfit, and have wondered when you would | :25:17. | :25:20. | |
have the chance to wear it, you can do that today. There are more of | :25:21. | :25:29. | |
them than you can shake a stick at. A 6-foot Ewok walked past me just | :25:30. | :25:33. | |
now. Last night, at the press screening, it was like metrical | :25:34. | :25:38. | |
unlike anything I had been to. The reviews this morning, 100% from the | :25:39. | :25:47. | |
Rotten Tomatoes website so far. And comments from The Daily Telegraph, | :25:48. | :25:54. | |
the Guardian, five stars, adults will be floored by tearful | :25:55. | :25:59. | |
nostalgia. It is a triumph of escapism, the hype continues. Why | :26:00. | :26:06. | |
does it matter? Disney paid George Lucas ?4 billion for the rights of | :26:07. | :26:10. | |
this. These films have been coming out, year after year, -- the rights. | :26:11. | :26:16. | |
It is the beginning of one of the biggest bets ever in movie history, | :26:17. | :26:22. | |
is not as riding on this film. Thank you. -- a lot is riding. | :26:23. | :26:27. | |
The Royal Mint has begun producing the final batch | :26:28. | :26:29. | |
It's more than 30 years since the gold-coloured coins first | :26:30. | :26:33. | |
started rolling off the presses, with over 2.2 billion of them made. | :26:34. | :26:36. | |
The new-look replacement will be brought into circulation in 2017 - | :26:37. | :26:38. | |
with the Queen's head on one side - and the winning design from a public | :26:39. | :26:42. | |
Time's nearly up for the old ?1 coin. | :26:43. | :26:48. | |
Struck at up to 400 a minute, these are among the final few. | :26:49. | :26:56. | |
Ticket machine operators are especially | :26:57. | :26:57. | |
Since the round pound arrived in 1983, | :26:58. | :27:01. | |
more than 2 billion of them have been issued. | :27:02. | :27:03. | |
But now they are not fit for purpose. | :27:04. | :27:05. | |
You can see the designs on the front and back are supposed to be in line, | :27:06. | :27:17. | |
but flip it around and the back one does not line up. | :27:18. | :27:20. | |
Look at the side and you will see the lettering is amateurishly struck | :27:21. | :27:24. | |
One in 30 are counterfeit, so the new coins will | :27:25. | :27:29. | |
be multisided like the threepenny bit. | :27:30. | :27:35. | |
And in two metals and colours to make them harder to copy. | :27:36. | :27:40. | |
They will also be distinctive because the backs of the coins | :27:41. | :27:43. | |
will be from schoolboy David Pearce, who | :27:44. | :27:44. | |
But the changeover creates a headache for businesses | :27:45. | :27:55. | |
machinery, including amusement arcades. | :27:56. | :27:57. | |
There are something like 310,000 machines in the UK, | :27:58. | :28:02. | |
all of which will have to be changed and we | :28:03. | :28:05. | |
know already it will cost tens of millions of pounds to do this. | :28:06. | :28:13. | |
The very last being struck in the next few days | :28:14. | :28:16. | |
and the new version arriving in 2017. | :28:17. | :28:22. | |
It does not feel like December? Not at all, the mild weather continues. | :28:23. | :28:35. | |
It was so mild last night, a number of areas in the south of England set | :28:36. | :28:42. | |
December temperature records. Although no national temperature | :28:43. | :28:46. | |
records were broken, 13.2 degrees is half a degree away from the English | :28:47. | :28:49. | |
temperature record for a December night. Air is coming up from the | :28:50. | :28:55. | |
Azores, mild winds wafting across the UK. Over the next few days. | :28:56. | :29:01. | |
Winds bring in a lot of cloud, that is on the satellite picture here, | :29:02. | :29:05. | |
bouncing over the top of Welsh mountains, with breaks in the cloud, | :29:06. | :29:08. | |
across eastern England, with breaks every now and then, and across the | :29:09. | :29:12. | |
north-east of Scotland. There will be a lot of cloud here, damp weather | :29:13. | :29:17. | |
around western coasts and hills, some spots of rain on and off. For | :29:18. | :29:22. | |
most, it stays cloudy, but these temperatures show highs of 14 or 15, | :29:23. | :29:27. | |
those temperatures aren't out of place in May, we should not be | :29:28. | :29:32. | |
getting them at this time of year. Averages in London normally 9 | :29:33. | :29:35. | |
degrees. During the evening, shower was work up from the south-west, | :29:36. | :29:39. | |
some heady, and overnight, this weather front moves in, bringing | :29:40. | :29:46. | |
outbreaks of -- heavy. Working into West Scotland. It will be an | :29:47. | :29:49. | |
exceptionally mild night with temperatures not far off those | :29:50. | :29:59. | |
tempter record levels. On Thursday, this wet band comes in. -- | :30:00. | :30:02. | |
temperatures. Then, the chance of seeing | :30:03. | :30:02. | |
the South of England. Damp weather ends the day, rainfall totals of | :30:03. | :30:11. | |
about 20-30 millimetres over high grounds of Cumbria and the South | :30:12. | :30:15. | |
West of Scotland. Keep an eye on that. We do not expect significant | :30:16. | :30:19. | |
impact. Heavy rain on Friday, the wettest weather in Scotland, a mild | :30:20. | :30:25. | |
day with temperatures of 12 to 14 degrees. The marketing continues | :30:26. | :30:31. | |
into the weekend, there will be wet weather around, Sunday sees a mix of | :30:32. | :30:34. | |
sunshine and showers, but things were cool, -- things will cool. This | :30:35. | :30:42. | |
band of rain crosses the country, rain heaviest in the north and west | :30:43. | :30:47. | |
of the UK, following in, we see showers coming into Sunday. The | :30:48. | :30:51. | |
biggest change we will see over the weekend is these temperatures will | :30:52. | :30:55. | |
be falling away, 9 degrees in Edinburgh and Belfast by Sunday, but | :30:56. | :30:58. | |
you must remember these are a couple of degrees above average for the | :30:59. | :31:02. | |
time of year, not as mild as it has been over the last few days. The | :31:03. | :31:14. | |
government said it is not clear of the NHS can claw back from being | :31:15. | :31:19. | |
permanently in deficit. Now it is time for the news where you are. | :31:20. | :31:24. | |
Have a good afternoon. Buy. -- goodbye. | :31:25. | :31:25. |