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Six people are to be charged in connection with the Hillsborough | :00:07. | :00:08. | |
football stadium disaster, 28 years ago. | :00:09. | :00:13. | |
Following these thorough investigations and our careful | :00:14. | :00:17. | |
review of the evidence in accordance with the Code for Crown Prosecutors, | :00:18. | :00:21. | |
I have decided there is sufficient evidence to charge six individuals | :00:22. | :00:23. | |
The senior police officer at the match - former Chief | :00:24. | :00:30. | |
Superintendent David Duckenfield - will be charged with | :00:31. | :00:32. | |
Relatives of some of those who died at Hillsborough say | :00:33. | :00:39. | |
We've got today everything that we could have asked for. | :00:40. | :00:47. | |
We'll have all the reaction from Warrington. | :00:48. | :00:48. | |
After the Grenfell Tower fire, the Prime Minister tells MPs it | :00:49. | :00:54. | |
appears the cladding used wasn't compliant with building regulations. | :00:55. | :01:02. | |
As of this morning in the cladding from 120 tower blocks across the | :01:03. | :01:10. | |
country in 37 local authorities have been tested and failed the | :01:11. | :01:14. | |
combustibility test. If you don't give me a permanent accommodation | :01:15. | :01:15. | |
and not going to accept it. Survivors of the Grenfell Tower fire | :01:16. | :01:19. | |
challenge the Housing Minister And, the end of flu | :01:20. | :01:21. | |
jabs may be in sight - researchers in America develop | :01:22. | :01:26. | |
a vaccine patch. And coming up in the | :01:27. | :01:29. | |
sport on BBC News: Defending champion Andy Murray is | :01:30. | :01:33. | |
named number one seed for Wimbledon. It's the first time in 12 grand | :01:34. | :01:36. | |
slams that the big four Good afternoon and welcome | :01:37. | :01:39. | |
to the BBC News at One. The senior police officer | :01:40. | :02:04. | |
at the Hillsborough disaster, Chief Superintendent David | :02:05. | :02:08. | |
Duckenfield, is to be charged with the manslaughter, | :02:09. | :02:10. | |
by gross negligence, The Crown Prosecution Service says | :02:11. | :02:12. | |
it has enough evidence to charge a further five people in connection | :02:13. | :02:19. | |
with the crush at the FA The former Chief Constable | :02:20. | :02:22. | |
Sir Norman Bettison will face four charges - | :02:23. | :02:27. | |
relating to alleged lies he told in the aftermath | :02:28. | :02:30. | |
about the culpability of fans. A solicitor who acted | :02:31. | :02:34. | |
for South Yorkshire Police is charged with Perverting | :02:35. | :02:37. | |
the Course of Justice The families of many | :02:38. | :02:39. | |
of those who died were told about the decision at a meeting | :02:40. | :02:45. | |
in Warrington - from where our correspondent | :02:46. | :02:49. | |
Judith Moritz sent this report. They've had enquiries, inquests and | :02:50. | :03:08. | |
investigations but the Hillsborough families have never seen in public | :03:09. | :03:13. | |
criminal prosecutions against anyone involved in the 1989 disaster. They | :03:14. | :03:18. | |
have waited almost 30 years for this moment. This morning they arrived | :03:19. | :03:23. | |
full of hope and anxiety to be told that six people are to face | :03:24. | :03:27. | |
prosecution. They include David Duckenfield who was in charge of | :03:28. | :03:32. | |
policing the match. And Sir Norman Bettison who is alleged to have lied | :03:33. | :03:38. | |
about fans after the disaster. There is sufficient evidence to charge | :03:39. | :03:42. | |
former Chief Superintendent David Duckenfield with the manslaughter by | :03:43. | :03:46. | |
gross negligence of 95 men, women and children. He was the match | :03:47. | :03:50. | |
commander on the day of the disaster. David Duckenfield, seen | :03:51. | :03:57. | |
here in 1989, is being charged with the manslaughter of all but one of | :03:58. | :04:03. | |
the 96 Liverpool fans who died in the disaster. We are unable to | :04:04. | :04:10. | |
charge the manslaughter of Tony Bland, the 96 casualties who died | :04:11. | :04:14. | |
almost four years Labour. This is due to time limitations imposed by | :04:15. | :04:19. | |
the law implied at the time. The Liverpool fans were killed when the | :04:20. | :04:23. | |
terraces at the Sheffield ground became overcrowded during the 1989 | :04:24. | :04:30. | |
FA Cup final. David Duckenfield ordered the opening of an exit gate | :04:31. | :04:33. | |
through which fans poured into the ground. In the years after | :04:34. | :04:37. | |
Hillsborough Sir Norman Bettison rose through the ranks to become | :04:38. | :04:42. | |
Chief Constable of Merseyside and later West Yorkshire. Given his | :04:43. | :04:45. | |
seniority prosecutors will ask jurors to find he abused the public | :04:46. | :04:50. | |
's trust. Former Chief Constable Norman Bettison is charged with four | :04:51. | :04:54. | |
offences of misconduct in public office. This relates to alleged lies | :04:55. | :04:59. | |
he told by his involvement in the aftermath of Hillsborough and the | :05:00. | :05:04. | |
culpability of vans. The bereaved families emerged from their meeting | :05:05. | :05:08. | |
with the CPS having worked there will be prosecutions. I am | :05:09. | :05:12. | |
absolutely delighted. We've got today everything we could have asked | :05:13. | :05:18. | |
for. The decisions by the CPS in my opinion were correct, are correct. | :05:19. | :05:23. | |
And we look forward to the due process through a court of law. | :05:24. | :05:28. | |
Graham Mackrell was Sheffield Wednesday company secretary and | :05:29. | :05:32. | |
safety officer in 1989, he is accused of failing to carry out his | :05:33. | :05:35. | |
duties charged under health and safety law and the safety of sports | :05:36. | :05:40. | |
ground act. Peter Metcalf was the solicitor acting for South Yorkshire | :05:41. | :05:43. | |
Police who is charged with perverting the course of justice in | :05:44. | :05:45. | |
relation to amendments made to witness statements. Former officers | :05:46. | :05:52. | |
Chief Superintendent Donald Denton in the middle and DCI Alan Foster | :05:53. | :05:56. | |
who is not shown are charged with the same offence, Donald Denton is | :05:57. | :06:00. | |
said to have overseen the process of altering statements. No one from the | :06:01. | :06:04. | |
Ambulance Service is being prosecuted and no organisation will | :06:05. | :06:08. | |
face corporate charges. It's the culmination of more than four years | :06:09. | :06:12. | |
of work by hundreds of investigators, they have looked | :06:13. | :06:15. | |
through thousands of documents including police notebooks from 1989 | :06:16. | :06:19. | |
which were recovered from lofts, garages and offices and comb through | :06:20. | :06:23. | |
page by page. Investigations have cost in the region of ?100 million | :06:24. | :06:28. | |
and expectations of prosecutions were high. Donna Miller lost her | :06:29. | :06:34. | |
brother Paul Carlyle, today is a hard day, her mother did not live to | :06:35. | :06:38. | |
see the prosecutions announced. The fact my mum is not here, this is the | :06:39. | :06:44. | |
first big event she's not here, she died on the 26th of April this year | :06:45. | :06:47. | |
and this was a day she was determined to be here for. So it's | :06:48. | :06:53. | |
sad for me without my mum. The youngest to die was just ten years | :06:54. | :06:59. | |
old, the oldest pensioner. They were all and lawfully killed. There have | :07:00. | :07:03. | |
long been calls for justice, now almost 30 years after they were | :07:04. | :07:07. | |
killed those said to be responsible will face trial and the prospect of | :07:08. | :07:08. | |
jail. Give us more of the sense of what | :07:09. | :07:19. | |
people have been saying to you, as you say after so many years? I think | :07:20. | :07:28. | |
there is an undercurrent here of satisfaction. Quiet satisfaction in | :07:29. | :07:32. | |
some respects and that is because the families know they are at a | :07:33. | :07:38. | |
difficult stage. Nobody wants to endanger the forthcoming | :07:39. | :07:40. | |
prosecutions from a legal point of view so we have heard in the last | :07:41. | :07:45. | |
few minutes in fact from some of the lawyers representing the families | :07:46. | :07:48. | |
who have said to us that they have welcomed these announcements today, | :07:49. | :07:53. | |
that the families always knew they had justice at the inquest but | :07:54. | :07:57. | |
accountability was going to be harder to achieve. They have gone on | :07:58. | :08:00. | |
to say that because they want to make sure they preserve the process | :08:01. | :08:05. | |
which will lie ahead and not endanger it that they will not | :08:06. | :08:09. | |
speculate about the outcome of any trial. It's a similar tone taken by | :08:10. | :08:16. | |
various organisations. We have had responses this morning from South | :08:17. | :08:20. | |
Yorkshire Police for example saying similar things, they understand it's | :08:21. | :08:24. | |
a decision for the Crown Prosecution Service but don't want to speculate | :08:25. | :08:30. | |
or get involved in the detail. Also the lawyer representing David | :08:31. | :08:32. | |
Duckenfield and Donald Denton has said it's not for them to make | :08:33. | :08:37. | |
comment at this time. In terms of wider reaction within the House of | :08:38. | :08:44. | |
Commons, we have heard at Prime Minister's Questions, the Prime | :08:45. | :08:47. | |
Minister welcoming the decision and praising the exemplary campaign by | :08:48. | :08:54. | |
the Hillsborough families and others and also Jeremy Corbyn similarly | :08:55. | :08:59. | |
praising the campaign work. There is reaction to this, it has been | :09:00. | :09:03. | |
welcomed but within careful boundaries. Everybody now having | :09:04. | :09:06. | |
their eyes on these court appearances we heard about today, | :09:07. | :09:10. | |
five of the six dependents will appear before magistrates here in | :09:11. | :09:15. | |
Warrington in early August. -- five of the six defendants. | :09:16. | :09:17. | |
Let's speak to our Legal Correspondent Clive Coleman. | :09:18. | :09:21. | |
Let's focus on the charge of gross negligence, this is a charge where | :09:22. | :09:28. | |
the bar is set high. This is a serious criminal offence carrying a | :09:29. | :09:33. | |
maximum sentence of life imprisonment. The prosecution have | :09:34. | :09:37. | |
to prove first of all a duty of care was awed by David Duckenfield to | :09:38. | :09:40. | |
those who did, they have to prove that duty was breached and proved it | :09:41. | :09:46. | |
was breached by gross negligence. What is gross negligence? The bar is | :09:47. | :09:50. | |
set high, it is more than just a bad mistake. In one case it is described | :09:51. | :09:55. | |
as behaviour which is reprehensible but that gives you an illustration | :09:56. | :09:59. | |
of the bar is set. In the past it's proved challenging offence to | :10:00. | :10:06. | |
prosecute. And a thought as well that we are hearing today about | :10:07. | :10:08. | |
individuals, some people might have expected groups, organisations to be | :10:09. | :10:14. | |
involved? Three were considered, Sheffield Wednesday were considered | :10:15. | :10:19. | |
but that company only exists on paper now really, no directors could | :10:20. | :10:22. | |
give instructions or enter a plea. The punishment would have been a | :10:23. | :10:30. | |
fine and it has no assets to pay. Similarly South Yorkshire | :10:31. | :10:32. | |
Metropolitan Ambulance Services cannot be prosecuted because it was | :10:33. | :10:36. | |
part of the Trent regional health authority and that has ceased to | :10:37. | :10:39. | |
exist and the criminal responsibility has not been passed | :10:40. | :10:43. | |
on to the successor organisation so there was no possibility of | :10:44. | :10:48. | |
prosecuting that organisation. The football Association was also | :10:49. | :10:52. | |
considered in relation to health and safety charges but in that instance | :10:53. | :10:59. | |
the CPS said there was insignificant -- insufficient evidence to say the | :11:00. | :11:02. | |
FA was responsible for the breach of a safety certificate at the ground | :11:03. | :11:06. | |
or that the FA contributed to a material risk to safety. Thank you. | :11:07. | :11:10. | |
The government says 120 tower blocks in 37 local authority areas | :11:11. | :11:13. | |
in England have now failed fire safety tests. | :11:14. | :11:15. | |
Theresa May gave the update as she faced MPs in her first | :11:16. | :11:18. | |
Prime Minister's Questions since she lost her parliamentary | :11:19. | :11:20. | |
Our political correspondent Iain Watson reports from Westminster. | :11:21. | :11:30. | |
They say a week is a long time in politics so the eight weeks since | :11:31. | :11:37. | |
the last Prime Minister's Questions must seem like a lifetime for | :11:38. | :11:42. | |
Theresa May. She is putting on a brave face but the Prime Minister | :11:43. | :11:46. | |
has lost majority. Labour gained rather than shared seats, a third of | :11:47. | :11:52. | |
the SNP's contingent have gone and the ten DUP MPs from Northern | :11:53. | :11:57. | |
Ireland hugely influential. But an even more dramatic event dominated | :11:58. | :12:03. | |
things, the Grenfell Tower tragedy. Jeremy Corbyn began by asking when | :12:04. | :12:07. | |
the public enquiry will begin and was told a judge will be appointed | :12:08. | :12:10. | |
soon. The Prime Minister set out the scale of the wider problem with the | :12:11. | :12:15. | |
cladding of tower blocks. The cladding of 120 tower blocks this | :12:16. | :12:20. | |
morning across the country in 37 local areas have been tested and | :12:21. | :12:24. | |
Philby combustibility test. Given the 100% failure rate we are very | :12:25. | :12:29. | |
clear with local authorities and housing associations that they | :12:30. | :12:31. | |
should not wait for test results but get on with the job of fire safety | :12:32. | :12:36. | |
checks and they are doing that. The exchanges became more robust when | :12:37. | :12:41. | |
the Labour leader when the tragedy to spending cuts. Under her | :12:42. | :12:47. | |
predecessor... Under her predecessor fire safety audit and inspections | :12:48. | :12:51. | |
were cut by a quarter. Fire authority budgets were cut by a | :12:52. | :12:55. | |
quarter. Can the Prime Minister give an assurance to the house that the | :12:56. | :13:01. | |
further 20% cuts to the Fire Service planned by 2020 will now be halted? | :13:02. | :13:08. | |
She said it wasn't the issue. The question is why is it despite that | :13:09. | :13:14. | |
we have seen in local authority area after local authority area materials | :13:15. | :13:19. | |
being put up that we see not complying with building regulations? | :13:20. | :13:26. | |
When you cut local authority budgets by 40% we all pay a price in public | :13:27. | :13:32. | |
safety. What the tragedy of Grenfell Tower has exposed is the disastrous | :13:33. | :13:39. | |
effects of austerity. This should be an issue that across this house we | :13:40. | :13:45. | |
recognise is a matter that has been developing over decades, is a matter | :13:46. | :13:50. | |
that has occurred under governments of both colours, under councils of | :13:51. | :13:56. | |
all political persuasions. Jeremy Corbyn's critics will accuse him of | :13:57. | :14:00. | |
politicising this tragedy but he believes it is already highly | :14:01. | :14:04. | |
political, a symbol of social inequality and poor housing | :14:05. | :14:07. | |
policies. This afternoon here in the House of Commons he will broaden his | :14:08. | :14:12. | |
attack, not just asking for more cash for the emergency services but | :14:13. | :14:16. | |
calling for the public sector pay cap to be lifted. The badges worn | :14:17. | :14:21. | |
are from the nurses union calling from a pay rise. Jeremy Corbyn will | :14:22. | :14:25. | |
hope he has caught the mood of a nation but the Conservatives say or | :14:26. | :14:28. | |
maybe can deliver the strong economy necessary to fund public services. | :14:29. | :14:32. | |
Our Assistant political editor Norman Smith is in Westminster. | :14:33. | :14:36. | |
It came across as a pretty charged atmosphere. Yes, I think there has | :14:37. | :14:45. | |
been a reluctance amongst many MP's and main party leaders up until now | :14:46. | :14:50. | |
not to make direct political points are arguments out of the Grenfell | :14:51. | :14:55. | |
Tower tragedy. That came to a shuddering halt this lunchtime and | :14:56. | :14:59. | |
we do seem to be in something of a blame game with Jeremy Corbyn | :15:00. | :15:03. | |
directly suggesting cuts caused Grenfell Tower, saying the tragedy | :15:04. | :15:10. | |
exposed the disastrous effects of austerity, pointing in particular to | :15:11. | :15:15. | |
a 40% reduction in council funding which reduced their ability to cart | :15:16. | :15:19. | |
a odd safety inspection and building regulation. That in turn seemed to | :15:20. | :15:25. | |
sting Theresa May who hit back by almost blaming the last Labour | :15:26. | :15:28. | |
government and Tony Blair saying it was under Tony Blair this cladding | :15:29. | :15:33. | |
had gone up in the first place and it was under his government which | :15:34. | :15:38. | |
the rules were changed on inspections and building | :15:39. | :15:39. | |
regulations, transferring responsibility from the Fire Service | :15:40. | :15:44. | |
to local councils. At that .1 Tory MP got up and said we have got to | :15:45. | :15:51. | |
have a calm, nonpartisan debate. I think Theresa May realised it had | :15:52. | :15:55. | |
got out of hand and said we will not get anywhere pointing the finger of | :15:56. | :15:58. | |
blame. The difficulty is that until this public enquiry gets up and | :15:59. | :16:04. | |
running there is something of a vacuum and in that vacuum inevitably | :16:05. | :16:07. | |
the political arguments and acrimony begins to intrude. But we are still | :16:08. | :16:12. | |
waiting for the judge to be appointed to chair the enquiry and | :16:13. | :16:16. | |
two weeks on we still don't know who that is going to be or when he she | :16:17. | :16:20. | |
will be appointed. Norman, thank you. | :16:21. | :16:24. | |
There were strong exchanges this morning when survivors | :16:25. | :16:26. | |
of the Grenfell Tower fire confronted the Housing | :16:27. | :16:28. | |
Residents told Alok Sharma that authorities had failed to provide | :16:29. | :16:33. | |
adequate accommodation since the disaster. | :16:34. | :16:36. | |
Two weeks ago, the nation looked on in horror at the worst fire | :16:37. | :16:43. | |
It took days for an official estimate of 79 dead to emerge | :16:44. | :16:50. | |
and it is a number most on this estate believe is far too low. | :16:51. | :16:54. | |
The council was overwhelmed, the relief effort too slow. | :16:55. | :16:58. | |
But for the survivors, every day is a new challenge. | :16:59. | :17:06. | |
You receive a call from the council saying your hotel is booked. | :17:07. | :17:09. | |
You go down to breakfast the next morning, they ask you what time | :17:10. | :17:12. | |
You ring them up, no one seems to know what is going on. | :17:13. | :17:16. | |
They have offered us high-rise towers and I have expressed to them | :17:17. | :17:19. | |
that we're petrified, traumatised and so are the kids. | :17:20. | :17:25. | |
It is very hard when you do not say goodbye to someone, | :17:26. | :17:28. | |
but it is even worse when you do not even know you should | :17:29. | :17:31. | |
The Housing Minister met residents today on the BBC | :17:32. | :17:35. | |
If you do not give me permanent accommodation, | :17:36. | :17:45. | |
The government is still struggling to convince survivors | :17:46. | :17:49. | |
Anyone whose home has been destroyed will be housed by next Wednesday | :17:50. | :17:54. | |
in good accommodation and in housing that is acceptable to them. | :17:55. | :18:02. | |
So what we are not going to do is if you're offered a home, | :18:03. | :18:06. | |
you do not like it, and you are still asked to go in, | :18:07. | :18:09. | |
68 families will be housed locally in these apartments, | :18:10. | :18:13. | |
But there are almost 400 households still in hotels. | :18:14. | :18:17. | |
Government money is being distributed, almost | :18:18. | :18:19. | |
Including ?5,000 emergency payments to more than 100 households. | :18:20. | :18:28. | |
Grenfell is a national disaster with national repercussions. | :18:29. | :18:31. | |
It is now confirmed that cladding from 120 buildings in 37 local | :18:32. | :18:34. | |
authority areas has failed fire safety tests. | :18:35. | :18:36. | |
Talks to restore Northern Ireland's devolved administration | :18:37. | :18:46. | |
are continuing, with just one full day left to reach an agreement. | :18:47. | :18:50. | |
Discussions have been taking place between the five main parties | :18:51. | :18:52. | |
and the British and Irish governments to try to restore | :18:53. | :18:54. | |
Our Ireland Correspondent Chris Buckler is at Stormont, | :18:55. | :19:00. | |
In just over 24 hours the Northern Ireland Assembly is supposed to | :19:01. | :19:17. | |
meet, a first and Deputy First Minister supposed to be appointed | :19:18. | :19:20. | |
and months of political crisis supposed to be over. That was the | :19:21. | :19:23. | |
plan but it does not seem like a certainty at this juncture. The | :19:24. | :19:28. | |
Democratic Unionist Party and Sinn Fein are still deeply divided on a | :19:29. | :19:31. | |
range of issues but there is one in particular causing a lot of | :19:32. | :19:36. | |
disagreement. That is about an Irish language act. I is the first | :19:37. | :19:42. | |
language of just over a quarter of 1% of the population here but it is | :19:43. | :19:46. | |
deeply important to nationalists and republicans and as a result they're | :19:47. | :19:49. | |
pushing for official status for it. But the DUP are against that and | :19:50. | :19:53. | |
what a much wider legislation that would look at languages and culture | :19:54. | :19:58. | |
more generally. As a result we had something of a stand-off and last | :19:59. | :20:03. | |
night angry words from Sinn Fein in response to the DUP, talking about | :20:04. | :20:08. | |
having a parallel process, trying to get back into government and | :20:09. | :20:11. | |
continue talking. That gives you no indication that a deal is likely any | :20:12. | :20:15. | |
time soon. But there has been a warning from the Northern Ireland | :20:16. | :20:19. | |
Secretary James Brokenshire today of serious implications for Northern | :20:20. | :20:22. | |
Ireland if no deal is agreed. The clock is ticking was not long to | :20:23. | :20:24. | |
find out if the deadline is met. The supermarket chain Tesco has | :20:25. | :20:27. | |
announced it is to cut 1,200 jobs It comes a week the loss of up | :20:28. | :20:30. | |
to 1,100 jobs was announced Our Business Correspondent | :20:31. | :20:45. | |
Emma Simpson is here. Tesco says it needs to make money | :20:46. | :20:56. | |
and supply business. If you are a retailer one of your biggest costs | :20:57. | :21:00. | |
and staff. So it announced what it calls a significant step by cutting | :21:01. | :21:05. | |
numbers at its headquarters, across all centralised functions from | :21:06. | :21:09. | |
buying and marketing to finance and property. Of course staff at | :21:10. | :21:13. | |
headquarters have faced job losses before because they closed the old | :21:14. | :21:17. | |
HQ so the news today will be very hard indeed. Since in two dozen 14 | :21:18. | :21:25. | |
this business has cut at least 10,000 jobs across the board and I | :21:26. | :21:28. | |
do not think this is the end of it because like other retailers it is | :21:29. | :21:34. | |
grappling with a whole host of challenges. Rising wage bills thanks | :21:35. | :21:38. | |
to the new minimum wage, rising costs partly due to the slump in the | :21:39. | :21:42. | |
pound and of course changing shopping habits. It is having to pay | :21:43. | :21:49. | |
the costs and investment in online. So these job losses are happening | :21:50. | :21:53. | |
right across the industry but of course with Tesco, the biggest | :21:54. | :21:56. | |
retailer in the UK, these numbers are pretty big. Emma Simpson. | :21:57. | :21:59. | |
Six people are to be charged in connection with the Hillsborough | :22:00. | :22:05. | |
football stadium disaster, 28 years ago. | :22:06. | :22:08. | |
The senior police officer at the match - former Chief | :22:09. | :22:11. | |
Superintendent David Duckenfield - will be charged with | :22:12. | :22:13. | |
Mixed news for Britain at the World Taekwondo | :22:14. | :22:20. | |
Heavyweight Mahama Cho has guaranteed the British | :22:21. | :22:23. | |
team a second medal, but Lutalo Muhammad is out. | :22:24. | :22:37. | |
If you're not keen on needles, research from the United States | :22:38. | :22:40. | |
Scientists there are developing a skin patch | :22:41. | :22:44. | |
to deliver the flu vaccine - it's similar to a plaster, | :22:45. | :22:46. | |
and contains hair-like needles which penetrate the skin | :22:47. | :22:48. | |
The patch has been described as a potential "game changer" | :22:49. | :22:53. | |
for vaccination campaigns in developing countries. | :22:54. | :22:56. | |
Vaccines save millions of lives around the world but getting them to | :22:57. | :23:14. | |
people in remote parts of developing countries is a major challenge. Some | :23:15. | :23:17. | |
vaccines must be kept refrigerated, and train staff must administer them | :23:18. | :23:21. | |
and needles must be disposed of safely. But what if you could | :23:22. | :23:28. | |
vaccinate people as simply as this. It might look like a plaster for a | :23:29. | :23:36. | |
small cut but zoom in and you will see 100 microscopic hairlike needles | :23:37. | :23:39. | |
containing the flu vaccine. They penetrate the skin surface and | :23:40. | :23:44. | |
dissolve. A small study in the US found that they are just as | :23:45. | :23:48. | |
effective as the regular injectable vaccine. This is potentially a game | :23:49. | :23:54. | |
changer that we have. We have a technology that potentially we could | :23:55. | :23:59. | |
use not just for the flu vaccine but vaccines more generally. We could do | :24:00. | :24:03. | |
away with needles. The vaccines appear to be stable at 40 degrees | :24:04. | :24:11. | |
for a year or more which is really good. So potentially it could be a | :24:12. | :24:15. | |
lot cheaper than current technology and you do not need train staff to | :24:16. | :24:20. | |
administer them. Here in the UK you can get a flu jab quite easily by | :24:21. | :24:24. | |
coming to your local pharmacy but many people still choose not to. | :24:25. | :24:27. | |
Sometimes because they're worried about needles. Some participants in | :24:28. | :24:33. | |
the trial were scared of needles and excited about having a technology | :24:34. | :24:39. | |
that will help them go through their phobia. Most people in the study | :24:40. | :24:45. | |
said that the patch was painless but some experienced mild side effects | :24:46. | :24:49. | |
for a few days such as redness and itching. Researchers at Emory | :24:50. | :24:53. | |
University and the Georgia Institute of technology say it will be some | :24:54. | :24:56. | |
years before the patch is widely available and more studies are | :24:57. | :24:59. | |
needed. The ultimate goal is for people to buy their vaccine | :25:00. | :25:03. | |
off-the-shelf and even immunise themselves. | :25:04. | :25:05. | |
The Co-op Bank has agreed a rescue package with shareholders worth | :25:06. | :25:10. | |
It should mean the bank - which almost collapsed in 2013 - | :25:11. | :25:14. | |
Our Business Editor Simon Jack is here. | :25:15. | :25:20. | |
How secure is its future? This is good news for a bank which had | :25:21. | :25:27. | |
little of that over the last few years, it has been walking would | :25:28. | :25:31. | |
ever since 2013 when it almost collapse, discovering a huge hole in | :25:32. | :25:36. | |
its finances. A bunch of American investors said it then and since | :25:37. | :25:38. | |
then it has been limping along unable to earn its way out of | :25:39. | :25:41. | |
trouble, they could not find a buyer when I wanted to do so those same | :25:42. | :25:45. | |
investors have doubled down and written off some | :25:46. | :26:01. | |
of the money in. That will mean that their shareholding is almost not | :26:02. | :26:04. | |
entirely owned by US investors. The Co-op Group will now own just 1%. So | :26:05. | :26:12. | |
it will be very different, their branding will stay and the ethical | :26:13. | :26:14. | |
values will also stay. But the agreement between the Co-op Group | :26:15. | :26:15. | |
which does Gross restores and funeral services and Co-op Bank will | :26:16. | :26:16. | |
terminate. So it is a big change from 1872 when it was founded. To be | :26:17. | :26:19. | |
almost majority-owned by hedge funds. It will be interesting to see | :26:20. | :26:23. | |
how 4 million of their customers, who have been very loyal, will be | :26:24. | :26:27. | |
when there are no longer part of the group. Simon Jack, thank you. | :26:28. | :26:32. | |
Services which provide support for older people with complex | :26:33. | :26:35. | |
needs face more cuts, even though extra money | :26:36. | :26:37. | |
is being put into the system - that's according to a survey of more | :26:38. | :26:40. | |
than 150 adult social services directors in England. | :26:41. | :26:42. | |
The report found that three quarters of council directors are worried | :26:43. | :26:44. | |
Here's our social affairs correspondent Alison Holt. | :26:45. | :26:51. | |
They are packing the room at the University of the Third Age | :26:52. | :26:54. | |
A third of the population here is aged 65 or over, | :26:55. | :26:59. | |
the highest proportion in the country. | :27:00. | :27:01. | |
Today's report warns despite the growing demand | :27:02. | :27:03. | |
for support as people get older, councils are still | :27:04. | :27:06. | |
I don't think it's a matter of what side of the political | :27:07. | :27:12. | |
But to me the main question is, what's going to happen to me | :27:13. | :27:17. | |
Essentially people have got to pay more taxes. | :27:18. | :27:21. | |
You can't carry on relying on ad hoc sticking plaster solutions. | :27:22. | :27:29. | |
I think it's terribly important that this age group is remembered, | :27:30. | :27:39. | |
I'm not going to say looked after is difficult, because I don't | :27:40. | :27:42. | |
Nearly all of the directors who run council care services in England | :27:43. | :27:46. | |
They expect to make more than ?820 million in savings this year. | :27:47. | :27:54. | |
Most councils had to use their reserves to pay for last | :27:55. | :27:56. | |
Companies providing care are still handing back local | :27:57. | :28:01. | |
And three quarters of council directors worry about | :28:02. | :28:05. | |
Cliff edge, tipping point, I think nearly every organisation | :28:06. | :28:11. | |
that has an interest in social care in the last year has used | :28:12. | :28:14. | |
And certainly in my number of years of working in this industry, | :28:15. | :28:20. | |
I have not seen a situation like this before. | :28:21. | :28:27. | |
This care company provides support for people across the South. | :28:28. | :28:30. | |
Much of it funded by local authorities. | :28:31. | :28:33. | |
The government has put extra money in to ease the pressures, | :28:34. | :28:36. | |
but here they say it is not reaching the front line. | :28:37. | :28:40. | |
We certainly have not seen any material increase in fee rates, | :28:41. | :28:42. | |
In-home care actually in some cases the fee rates have gone down. | :28:43. | :28:51. | |
We have had to hand back further local authority contracts, | :28:52. | :28:54. | |
we are just in the process of handing two more back right now. | :28:55. | :28:57. | |
And we have closed another care home unfortunately. | :28:58. | :29:00. | |
How we pay for support as we get older became a particularly toxic | :29:01. | :29:03. | |
issue for the Conservatives during the election. | :29:04. | :29:06. | |
But in places like this there is an increasing demand | :29:07. | :29:09. | |
Which underlines why this is an issue that | :29:10. | :29:13. | |
The government says as well as additional | :29:14. | :29:18. | |
money in the short term, it will be consulting on how | :29:19. | :29:21. | |
to improve care and put it on a firm financial footing. | :29:22. | :29:24. | |
The creator of Paddington Bear, author Michael Bond, has died aged | :29:25. | :29:47. | |
91. He proved to be a favourite ever since he went into print. We look | :29:48. | :29:57. | |
back at the life of Michael Bond. Paddington, charming, Peruvian, | :29:58. | :30:03. | |
accident prone. The creation of a former BBC cameraman, Michael Bond. | :30:04. | :30:09. | |
And modelled on his father. Good afternoon, he said, coming help you. | :30:10. | :30:14. | |
My father was a very polite man and always wore a hat in case he met | :30:15. | :30:19. | |
someone. And Paddington has a lot of him in it. He wrote the first or | :30:20. | :30:23. | |
after it bought the toy bear. He never thought it would be published | :30:24. | :30:26. | |
but it was just the beginning, millions were sold and translated | :30:27. | :30:30. | |
into more than 30 languages. There was of course the TV programme. 32 | :30:31. | :30:37. | |
Winter Gardens. Paddington musical. Paddington film. Mrs Bird made very | :30:38. | :30:47. | |
good stew. Friendly, polite, fond of marmalade. There have been many | :30:48. | :30:50. | |
fictional bearers but none quite like Michael Bond's Paddington Bear. | :30:51. | :30:59. | |
The author Michael Bond who died at the age of 91. Let's turn to the | :31:00. | :31:06. | |
weather prospects. More rain to come. Yesterday I was | :31:07. | :31:13. | |
soaked to the skin. Not because I forgot my umbrella but the car went | :31:14. | :31:18. | |
by and I'm sure other people had similar experiences. A lot of large | :31:19. | :31:24. | |
puddles out there. More rain is on the way but not necessarily in the | :31:25. | :31:27. | |
same places. Let's look at the rain in the past 24 hours, south-eastern | :31:28. | :31:33. | |
and eastern areas got most of that yesterday was an absolute deluge | :31:34. | :31:37. | |
across the south-east. One particular spot in Suffolk got 90 | :31:38. | :31:43. | |
millimetres of rain. That is a lot of water, more than a month in under | :31:44. | :31:50. | |
a day. And hence those big puddles. As far as this afternoon is | :31:51. | :31:53. | |
concerned the heavy rain has moved away from the south-east and east | :31:54. | :31:58. | |
Anglia. A little further north. But also some rain communion across | :31:59. | :32:04. | |
south-western areas. It has been raining quite heavily across parts | :32:05. | :32:08. | |
of Cornwall and also clipping parts of Wales. We are seeing most of the | :32:09. | :32:19. | |
rain to the east of the Pennines. But Northern Ireland and Scotland, a | :32:20. | :32:22. | |
different story. It is dry with some sunshine around. Some blue skies off | :32:23. | :32:30. | |
the coast of Aberdeenshire. It looks as though the weather front will | :32:31. | :32:35. | |
painfully slowly overnight move further north. So back into Easter | :32:36. | :32:40. | |
Scotland and into the lowlands as well. The second arm of rain curling | :32:41. | :32:44. | |
backing into central and southern England. So the low pressure if it | :32:45. | :32:50. | |
moves slowly, the rain clouds will move slowly as well. So tomorrow | :32:51. | :32:54. | |
across Scotland, into Northern Ireland, the heavier rain as well. | :32:55. | :32:58. | |
Some of that tipping Wales and the south-west. Across the south east | :32:59. | :33:02. | |
and central areas the weather is going to dry out and maybe even some | :33:03. | :33:08. | |
brightness. This low pressure still with us on Thursday, moving a little | :33:09. | :33:12. | |
further north. Then moving down south again. All that action across | :33:13. | :33:18. | |
these western areas so it is not in a hurry to go. On top of that we | :33:19. | :33:23. | |
have a wind blowing as well, quite strong. Sunshine perhaps developing | :33:24. | :33:30. | |
across the south-east, up to 23 degrees possible but also some | :33:31. | :33:34. | |
showers around. So we still have some more days to go in the week but | :33:35. | :33:39. | |
just like yesterday, I promised some sunshine and I think Sunday is | :33:40. | :33:40. | |
looking good. Thank you very much. A reminder of our main | :33:41. | :33:43. | |
story this lunchtime. Six people are to be charged | :33:44. | :33:45. | |
in connection with the Hillsborough football stadium disaster, | :33:46. | :33:48. | |
28 years ago. Former Chief Superintendent David | :33:49. | :34:00. | |
Duckenfield will be charged with the manslaughter of 95 people. | :34:01. | :34:01. | |
That's all from the BBC News at One - so it's goodbye from me - | :34:02. | :34:04. |