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Hundreds of thousands of students get their A-level results. | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
Overall, there's a slight rise in the top grades | :00:00. | :00:10. | |
Loser fall in those grades in England alone for the first time | :00:11. | :00:30. | |
since those exams underwent major form. We will be live from clearing | :00:31. | :00:32. | |
centre. The government is to withdraw | :00:33. | :00:34. | |
funding from one of the largest private training companies in the UK | :00:35. | :00:37. | |
after a damning report by Oftsed. A surge in the number of migrants | :00:38. | :00:40. | |
crossing from Morocco to Spain. Nearly three times as many people | :00:41. | :00:46. | |
are now attempting the journey. A large fire broke out | :00:47. | :00:50. | |
in the early hours at a Glasgow fruit and veg market - | :00:51. | :00:53. | |
firefighters say they expect to be The first ever Day/Night Test match | :00:54. | :00:55. | |
in England is about to get And coming up in the sport on BBC | :00:56. | :01:13. | |
News, the FA facing questions after England head coach Mark Sampson is | :01:14. | :01:16. | |
cleared of making racist remarks about one of his players. | :01:17. | :01:33. | |
Good afternoon and welcome to the BBC News at One. | :01:34. | :01:39. | |
The wait for A-level results is over for hundreds of thousands | :01:40. | :01:41. | |
of young people in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. | :01:42. | :01:46. | |
This year's results show a slight rise in A and A-star grades, | :01:47. | :01:49. | |
The results in England are the first since major changes were made | :01:50. | :01:56. | |
to the qualifications, which mean students now | :01:57. | :02:00. | |
sit their exams at the end of two years of study, | :02:01. | :02:03. | |
instead of taking modules halfway through. | :02:04. | :02:11. | |
In top grades, boys have moved ahead of girls. | :02:12. | :02:14. | |
Our reporter Chi Chi Izundu has been with students opening their results | :02:15. | :02:17. | |
Results day. Years of studying and nervous expectation even to find out | :02:18. | :02:29. | |
what you have got. For the first time in six years those getting top | :02:30. | :02:32. | |
marks at a level has increased and that is despite reforming the | :02:33. | :02:41. | |
system. Really, really good. Hopefully going on to studying | :02:42. | :02:47. | |
accounting. Are you happy? Very happy. Have you broken the news to | :02:48. | :02:55. | |
your mum and dad? My mum, yes. She started screaming! She was screaming | :02:56. | :03:06. | |
a lot, yes. As part of the reform, AS modules coursework will not be | :03:07. | :03:09. | |
part of the final grade. Students must study for two years and sit an | :03:10. | :03:14. | |
exam at the end. This year, 13 subjects are affected, including | :03:15. | :03:18. | |
chemistry, biology and English literature, and universities have a | :03:19. | :03:22. | |
input to the changes. It is challenging to be the first year to | :03:23. | :03:26. | |
do a new exam, but the new exams reflect the needs of universities | :03:27. | :03:29. | |
and employers. Universities were very clear that they wanted to see | :03:30. | :03:33. | |
students arrive for their first year better prepared to cope with the | :03:34. | :03:38. | |
challenges of that difficult first year. The new changes to the system | :03:39. | :03:41. | |
do not apply to schools in Wales, which are still coupling macka one | :03:42. | :03:48. | |
and A-level grades. We were concerned that the old AS | :03:49. | :03:51. | |
qualification disappeared and there was a narrowing of the curriculum. | :03:52. | :03:55. | |
It was looking like subjects in the creative arts, like music and drama, | :03:56. | :04:00. | |
those are starting to disappear, and the same but modern foreign | :04:01. | :04:03. | |
languages. And this is a time when the what young people to be | :04:04. | :04:06. | |
celebrating creativity but looking to be global citizens, so those are | :04:07. | :04:12. | |
areas of real concern. In a A* grades and A grades, boys have moved | :04:13. | :04:16. | |
ahead of girls compared to last year's results. For those who did | :04:17. | :04:21. | |
better than expected or even those that didn't, they will be checking | :04:22. | :04:25. | |
whether they are onto their course at their university of choice. One | :04:26. | :04:34. | |
very happy student is 20-year-old Malala, who tweeted news of her | :04:35. | :04:35. | |
place at Oxford. The number of university places | :04:36. | :04:40. | |
allocated has fallen with tens of thousands | :04:41. | :04:42. | |
of places still available. UCAS, the Universities | :04:43. | :04:44. | |
and Colleges Admissions Service, says that 416,000 places have so far | :04:45. | :04:47. | |
been confirmed, down 2% on last year, reflecting a dip in the number | :04:48. | :04:52. | |
of 18-year-olds in the UK. This is expected to mean a "buyers' | :04:53. | :04:59. | |
market", with more options available to students looking for university | :05:00. | :05:02. | |
places through the clearing process. Phil Mackie is at the | :05:03. | :05:06. | |
Admissions Service's You mentioned the fact that there is | :05:07. | :05:18. | |
a dip in a number of 18-year-olds are applying, who were available to | :05:19. | :05:23. | |
apply this year, but also fewer mature students and 3% fewer EU | :05:24. | :05:30. | |
students, we don't know quite yet, maybe it's because Brexit, maybe it | :05:31. | :05:34. | |
is because of rising costs and debt that you face if you choose to go to | :05:35. | :05:39. | |
university. For the many people who got results this morning, whether | :05:40. | :05:42. | |
they got better or worse results, they are not interested in the | :05:43. | :05:45. | |
statistics but in what is happening to them. For tens of thousands of | :05:46. | :05:52. | |
teenagers, their parents and teachers, this is the place they | :05:53. | :05:55. | |
dread calling on results day. This year if you have not quite got the | :05:56. | :06:00. | |
grades, the advice is, don't panic. There are more places are available | :06:01. | :06:04. | |
through clearing land usual and you never know who will pick up the | :06:05. | :06:10. | |
phone. It is Lenny Henry. I'm the Chancellor of Birmingham city | :06:11. | :06:14. | |
University. What is your name? Although it is expensive, University | :06:15. | :06:17. | |
remains the main choice for 18-year-olds. My mum used to say you | :06:18. | :06:22. | |
must get them education so that you have something to fall back on. And | :06:23. | :06:27. | |
she was right. And for young people out there, that is what you have got | :06:28. | :06:32. | |
to do. Take advantage of this. It is a life transforming thing. 40% of | :06:33. | :06:36. | |
the student body are mature students. It is never too late. Not | :06:37. | :06:41. | |
everyone agrees. Writing The Daily Telegraph, Nick Timothy, the former | :06:42. | :06:44. | |
chief of staff of the Prime Minister said... | :06:45. | :06:58. | |
Today there are more options available to those put off by the | :06:59. | :07:03. | |
cost of higher education. More people are choosing to do | :07:04. | :07:07. | |
apprenticeships because you can make money while learning. A lot of | :07:08. | :07:12. | |
people think it is quite costly now, because the costs of University have | :07:13. | :07:16. | |
obviously gone up. You must put the cost of university in context. | :07:17. | :07:21. | |
Students pay a portion of it, so does the general taxpayer. It is | :07:22. | :07:24. | |
right that there was some shelling out of that cost. It would be unfair | :07:25. | :07:28. | |
on the general taxpayer, many of whom have not had a chance to | :07:29. | :07:32. | |
benefit from the higher lifetime earnings that come with higher | :07:33. | :07:36. | |
education to bear the entire post. Here, clearing will remain part of | :07:37. | :07:39. | |
the annual results day ritual for those who have not done as well as | :07:40. | :07:44. | |
expected, as will trading up for those with better grades. Clearing | :07:45. | :07:50. | |
itself doesn't start until 3pm. They have been in a process called | :07:51. | :07:53. | |
adjustment since nine o'clock this morning. The figures will go up from | :07:54. | :07:59. | |
3 million who have been in touch. It will be a busy 48 hours for those | :08:00. | :08:02. | |
students who are still waiting to hear where they are going to go to | :08:03. | :08:05. | |
university next year. The government is to stop funding | :08:06. | :08:09. | |
one of the largest private training companies in the UK, | :08:10. | :08:12. | |
after a damning report Learndirect Ltd, which provides | :08:13. | :08:18. | |
apprenticeships and adult training to more than 70 thousand people, | :08:19. | :08:20. | |
has been rated inadequate Learndirect Ltd, which provides | :08:21. | :08:22. | |
apprenticeships and adult training to more than 70,000 people, | :08:23. | :08:28. | |
has been rated inadequate The Department for Education will | :08:29. | :08:30. | |
withdraw all funding by next July, and has stopped the firm taking | :08:31. | :08:34. | |
on new apprentices. Insufficient training, lack of | :08:35. | :08:43. | |
planning and poor quality teaching. Just some of the findings in the | :08:44. | :08:48. | |
Ofsted report today which inspected Learndirect Ltd earlier this year. | :08:49. | :08:54. | |
The company, one of the largest learning providers in the UK, was | :08:55. | :08:58. | |
given the lowest possible rating for its training and performance. And | :08:59. | :09:05. | |
those in the industry have described it as a scandal. It is very clear | :09:06. | :09:09. | |
the senior leaders and directors haven't really played the attention | :09:10. | :09:12. | |
they need to quality. Quality doesn't just happen by chance. You | :09:13. | :09:17. | |
have to work at it all the time. Unfortunately it is learners and | :09:18. | :09:21. | |
apprentices who will be losing out. On the Learndirect Ltd Facebook page | :09:22. | :09:24. | |
reviews have been mixed. One said it was a huge waste of time. Another | :09:25. | :09:28. | |
claimed that staff were on the train. Someone else complained of no | :09:29. | :09:34. | |
support or communication -- staff were under train. Another said staff | :09:35. | :09:39. | |
had been very helpful, inspirational, even. Learndirect Ltd | :09:40. | :09:45. | |
didn't want to appear on camera. But they did send as a statement. It | :09:46. | :09:50. | |
says the Ofsted report is not an accurate reflection of their | :09:51. | :09:55. | |
performance. They also say that they are financially stable and will | :09:56. | :09:57. | |
continue to meet the needs of their learners. Learndirect Ltd was | :09:58. | :10:05. | |
privatised in 2011. Since then, it is estimated it has received ?600 | :10:06. | :10:09. | |
million of public funding. That money has come from the government. | :10:10. | :10:14. | |
Due to the nature of this latest report, the contract is now going to | :10:15. | :10:18. | |
be wound up. But that will not happen until next July. It is a | :10:19. | :10:23. | |
particularly big scandal. The response from the government has | :10:24. | :10:25. | |
been to give them special treatment. Absolutely no doubt about that. In | :10:26. | :10:33. | |
fact, Learndirect said they expected to get three months termination on | :10:34. | :10:36. | |
the contract which would put them into Administration. Instead, | :10:37. | :10:40. | |
special treatment, those termination notices are not being served and | :10:41. | :10:44. | |
they will continue to offer apprenticeships under a company that | :10:45. | :10:47. | |
they have set up last year. The company tried to block publication | :10:48. | :10:50. | |
of this critical report in court, but failed. It is now hoped changes | :10:51. | :10:56. | |
will strewn be made to ensure that more trainees get the guidance and | :10:57. | :10:59. | |
support they need to improve their futures. | :11:00. | :11:02. | |
An NHS chief executive has been sacked for gross misconduct, | :11:03. | :11:05. | |
following an investigation into allegations of | :11:06. | :11:07. | |
Sir Leonard Fenwick, has been at | :11:08. | :11:12. | |
Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust for 40 years. | :11:13. | :11:16. | |
The Trust said allegations relating to inappropriate behaviour, | :11:17. | :11:19. | |
use of resources and a range of governance issues | :11:20. | :11:21. | |
Firefighters have been dealing with a large blaze | :11:22. | :11:31. | |
The fire broke out in the early hours of the morning. | :11:32. | :11:35. | |
Flames and smoke could be seen rising | :11:36. | :11:37. | |
from the building in the north-east of the city. | :11:38. | :11:39. | |
Hundreds of traders work at the market, supplying produce | :11:40. | :11:41. | |
to shops and restaurants in the west of Scotland. | :11:42. | :11:43. | |
In the early hours of the morning, a fire at the largest wholesale fresh | :11:44. | :11:57. | |
fruit market in Scotland. The flames spread quickly and sent smoke | :11:58. | :12:01. | |
billowing across Glasgow. At its height, more than 70 firefighters | :12:02. | :12:07. | |
tackled the blaze. Conditions were difficult for officers working to | :12:08. | :12:11. | |
bring the fire under control. The first-floor unit in the building you | :12:12. | :12:16. | |
can see behind us, it has panels which make the building pretty | :12:17. | :12:23. | |
dangerous for firefighters, and also assist with pretty quick, rapid | :12:24. | :12:29. | |
spread of fire along its length. Blochairn fruit market supplies | :12:30. | :12:34. | |
fruit and vegetables and other goods throughout Scotland, the North of | :12:35. | :12:37. | |
England and Northern Ireland. Hundreds of millions of pounds of | :12:38. | :12:40. | |
produce passes through this market every year. It operates 24 hours a | :12:41. | :12:46. | |
day. In the morning, when this fire took hold, these buildings would | :12:47. | :12:48. | |
normally be full of hundreds of workers processing orders and | :12:49. | :12:53. | |
filling bands. Fortunately, no one was injured in this fire, but it is | :12:54. | :12:58. | |
not yet clear what will happen to the companies which operate here, or | :12:59. | :13:03. | |
the people that they employ. My father has been working for 36 years | :13:04. | :13:08. | |
at the market. I was brought up at the market. It is heartbreaking for | :13:09. | :13:15. | |
me to see it that way. We still need to wait and find out what is | :13:16. | :13:18. | |
happening. Woke up this morning and the kids could see from the window. | :13:19. | :13:22. | |
It is devastating. I don't know if I have got the job. Work has started | :13:23. | :13:27. | |
to try to get the market up and running as soon as possible. | :13:28. | :13:31. | |
Specialist fire investigators will try to establish what caused this | :13:32. | :13:32. | |
huge blaze. The number of front-line prison | :13:33. | :13:36. | |
officers in England and Wales has risen to its highest level | :13:37. | :13:39. | |
in since 2013. Government figures show more | :13:40. | :13:41. | |
than 650 extra staff were working in the service compared to last | :13:42. | :13:50. | |
year, but the overall number of officers | :13:51. | :13:52. | |
is well below the peak The Justice Secretary has said he | :13:53. | :14:02. | |
wants to see a fall in the prison population. | :14:03. | :14:03. | |
Our Home Affairs correspondent June Kelly reports. | :14:04. | :14:10. | |
Violence is at record levels, there are staff | :14:11. | :14:12. | |
Drug abuse is rife and some jails have been written by unrest. | :14:13. | :14:16. | |
Reformers would like to see fewer people sent to prison | :14:17. | :14:18. | |
and two months into the job, so would the Justice Secretary. | :14:19. | :14:21. | |
We do need to make sure that our judges and magistrates have | :14:22. | :14:30. | |
confidence in the community centred alternatives to prison | :14:31. | :14:32. | |
because I think everybody wants to make sure that people who go | :14:33. | :14:34. | |
to prison really deserve to go there because of the seriousness | :14:35. | :14:37. | |
of their crime or the threat they would pose | :14:38. | :14:39. | |
Would you like to see the population come down? | :14:40. | :14:42. | |
I want to see the population come-down but we have to make sure | :14:43. | :14:46. | |
that we do that in a way that protects public safety. | :14:47. | :14:51. | |
Obviously this is somebody's house... | :14:52. | :14:58. | |
Meanwhile, ministers are on a mission to recruit | :14:59. | :15:02. | |
These new officers are learning the ropes at Coldingley Prison | :15:03. | :15:05. | |
in Surrey as part of a graduate recruitment programme. | :15:06. | :15:07. | |
I saw it as a stepping stone into me going into forensic psychology | :15:08. | :15:11. | |
with my psychology background and that is how I saw it. | :15:12. | :15:13. | |
But at the minute I am enjoying what I'm doing. | :15:14. | :15:16. | |
Today, it has been announced that there has been a rise | :15:17. | :15:19. | |
of 665 prison officers over the past 12 months. | :15:20. | :15:24. | |
So now there are 18,755 officers in England and Wales. | :15:25. | :15:33. | |
25% down on the number of officers there were in 2010. | :15:34. | :15:40. | |
The format MP Jonathan Aitken became a prison reformer after | :15:41. | :15:42. | |
There is a qualified welcome from him to the uplift in officers. | :15:43. | :15:48. | |
Through too excessive cuts, and lots of experienced | :15:49. | :15:49. | |
And they are not going to be replaced by new rookie | :15:50. | :15:55. | |
prison officers who haven't been on the wings for ten years. | :15:56. | :15:58. | |
So there is going to be a loss of quality whatever happens. | :15:59. | :16:01. | |
But at least we are now addressing the basic need | :16:02. | :16:04. | |
Staff cuts contributed to the volatile environment in some jails. | :16:05. | :16:19. | |
So too have the large numbers locked up. | :16:20. | :16:21. | |
While ministers say they want fewer people in prison, | :16:22. | :16:27. | |
they say they believe there has to be more evidence that | :16:28. | :16:31. | |
community sentences work and will prevent reoffending. | :16:32. | :16:35. | |
have been getting their A level results in England, Wales | :16:36. | :16:49. | |
There's a slight rise in the top grades for | :16:50. | :17:02. | |
And coming up: the diamond ring that gained an extra carrot, | :17:03. | :17:06. | |
how a woman was reunited with her wedding ring 13 years | :17:07. | :17:09. | |
Coming up in sport, England and Ireland eyeing the victories that | :17:10. | :17:13. | |
they need to stop violence take on France, England take on the United | :17:14. | :17:18. | |
States. -- victories they need to progress. Ireland take on France. | :17:19. | :17:23. | |
We've been talking about A level results, and among those | :17:24. | :17:26. | |
receiving theirs this morning were young people caught up | :17:27. | :17:28. | |
Many of those who lived in the block attended | :17:29. | :17:31. | |
which sits beneath from the site of the disaster. | :17:32. | :17:35. | |
Gillian Hargreaves has been to meet the school's head teacher. | :17:36. | :17:40. | |
VOICEOVER: Following months of hardship, a good day for students | :17:41. | :17:42. | |
Fifty lost their homes, five others lost their lives, | :17:43. | :17:50. | |
in his first broadcast interview, their principal, David Benson, | :17:51. | :17:52. | |
described the chaos to the BBC, not least having to rearrange | :17:53. | :17:55. | |
an AS-Level maths exam that morning. | :17:56. | :17:58. | |
There was the emotion of the situation, of deep concern | :17:59. | :18:03. | |
that we had for the members of the school community, | :18:04. | :18:07. | |
but there was also a whole lot of practical challenges, | :18:08. | :18:09. | |
children have one chance in life at an education, | :18:10. | :18:14. | |
these were important examinations, we have to keep going. | :18:15. | :18:18. | |
Our instincts were, my team and I said, | :18:19. | :18:20. | |
we've got to bring the children together into one place, | :18:21. | :18:23. | |
we are not sure exactly how that will feel when we come together | :18:24. | :18:26. | |
as a community but at least it will allow us to address what has | :18:27. | :18:30. | |
happened and begin to move forward and resume the education. | :18:31. | :18:50. | |
Pupils do die from time-to-time, children are involved in road | :18:51. | :18:52. | |
accidents, serious illness, but to lose five pupils, | :18:53. | :18:54. | |
four all at once, two in one year group, that is immense | :18:55. | :18:58. | |
Yes. And it is very difficult. | :18:59. | :19:04. | |
I'm incredibly proud of my staff and what they have done. | :19:05. | :19:11. | |
What I saw after Grenfell was incredible, because they had | :19:12. | :19:21. | |
the bravery and the courage to come back in, feeling very confused | :19:22. | :19:24. | |
and uneasy about what had happened, and they had the maturity to listen | :19:25. | :19:27. | |
And then they supported each other through it. | :19:28. | :19:32. | |
So, you know, you should assume the best about children, | :19:33. | :19:34. | |
and in a challenge like this, we saw the children rise to that. | :19:35. | :19:38. | |
After all of that, today is a good day for you. | :19:39. | :19:40. | |
That report from education correspondent Gillian Hargreaves. | :19:41. | :19:54. | |
There's been a surge in illegal migrant crossings | :19:55. | :19:56. | |
Nearly 600 people were rescued yesterday on what coastguards | :19:57. | :19:59. | |
Some people have attempted the short journey in children's paddle boats. | :20:00. | :20:03. | |
So far this year there've been almost 9,000 arrivals, | :20:04. | :20:05. | |
that's three times as many as in the same period in 2016. | :20:06. | :20:09. | |
Gavin Lee sent this report from Spain. | :20:10. | :20:20. | |
VOICOEVER: In the mist of the Mediterranean, | :20:21. | :20:22. | |
number of migrant boats which sail for Morocco in the early hours. | :20:23. | :20:27. | |
One by one, the rescuers arrive, first with some Moroccans, | :20:28. | :20:29. | |
exhausted and likely to be deported in days. | :20:30. | :20:35. | |
sub-Saharan Africans making journeys in larger numbers now. | :20:36. | :20:44. | |
One-year-old Lena from Cameroon is the youngest rescued. | :20:45. | :20:46. | |
Her mother, Helen, says they were at sea | :20:47. | :20:48. | |
for six hours waiting in the dark for help. | :20:49. | :20:50. | |
"We were so scared and cold," she says. | :20:51. | :20:52. | |
Here is another rescue boat with another 120 migrants on board. | :20:53. | :21:07. | |
We are told this is the fourth boat today. | :21:08. | :21:10. | |
This is Spain, back in the front line of the migration crisis | :21:11. | :21:14. | |
One hour later, six more migrant boats have called for help. | :21:15. | :21:20. | |
It's now the busiest day of the year for rescuers in what has been | :21:21. | :21:23. | |
the busiest year since the start of the migration crisis. | :21:24. | :21:25. | |
The aim for most here is to make it halfway, | :21:26. | :21:28. | |
then float in Spanish waters and alert the coastguard. | :21:29. | :21:55. | |
TRANSLATION: Sometimes they call us and send | :21:56. | :21:57. | |
We are constantly dealing with overcrowded boats, | :21:58. | :22:00. | |
which makes it all the more dangerous. | :22:01. | :22:02. | |
Boats like this one, a children's toy craft, | :22:03. | :22:03. | |
Ben from Ivory Coast paid 20 euros to board a similar tiny boat. | :22:04. | :22:08. | |
TRANSLATION: This man paid 20 euros to board a tiny boat. | :22:09. | :22:10. | |
This was a suicidal journey, 11 of us on a boat | :22:11. | :22:13. | |
We travelled for 14 hours, and I was so exhausted I couldn't | :22:14. | :22:17. | |
At the moment, authorities here say they are coping but Spain is now | :22:18. | :22:21. | |
receiving more migrants than Greece, with no sign | :22:22. | :22:23. | |
STUDIO: The South Korean president Moon Jae-in has said he can | :22:24. | :22:37. | |
guarantee there will be no war on the Korean peninsula. | :22:38. | :22:39. | |
He was speaking at a news conference to mark his first 100 days in office | :22:40. | :22:43. | |
Yogita Limaye reports from close to the border with North Korea. | :22:44. | :22:48. | |
VOICEOVER: This is the demilitarised zone between North and South Korea, | :22:49. | :22:55. | |
a four kilometre Wright that wide strip of land which is a buffer | :22:56. | :23:01. | |
between the two countries. -- white. A North Korean soldier there, facing | :23:02. | :23:05. | |
soldiers from South Korea, strange that they are so close to each other | :23:06. | :23:09. | |
but no of communication actually open between these two sides. -- | :23:10. | :23:14. | |
wide. In light of recent hostilities, sharp words coming in | :23:15. | :23:17. | |
from Pyongyang, you would have imagined things here would be more | :23:18. | :23:21. | |
tense but actually, things here are quiet and as normal. And around 50 | :23:22. | :23:27. | |
kilometres away, in Seoul, the president, Moon Jae-in, is doing his | :23:28. | :23:34. | |
best to calm down the rhetoric between the US and North Korea. At a | :23:35. | :23:39. | |
press conference to mark 100 days in office he said strong remarks from | :23:40. | :23:42. | |
the US president were intended to put pressure on North Korea. He did | :23:43. | :23:47. | |
not believe Donald Trump meant to indicate that military action | :23:48. | :23:50. | |
against Pyongyang was imminent. People in South Korea who are used | :23:51. | :23:53. | |
to aggression from their northern neighbour have been getting worried, | :23:54. | :23:57. | |
as they watch the US making similar statements. And their president | :23:58. | :24:05. | |
sought to reassure them. TRANSLATION: The United States and | :24:06. | :24:07. | |
President Trump have promised that they will consult and get our | :24:08. | :24:13. | |
agreement before taking any kind of military actions towards North | :24:14. | :24:17. | |
Korea. From here in South Korea, the offer of dialogue with the North is | :24:18. | :24:22. | |
open. If these talks ever happen, they will take place in this room in | :24:23. | :24:25. | |
the demilitarised zone around this table. But so far there has been no | :24:26. | :24:30. | |
response from Pyongyang. Jon Beason Mountains near the border, North | :24:31. | :24:35. | |
Korea presses on with the nuclear programme. -- and beyond these | :24:36. | :24:46. | |
mountain sneer the border. -- beyond these mountains near the | :24:47. | :24:53. | |
A leading geologist has suggested that the UK's rock formations | :24:54. | :25:00. | |
are unlikely to hold large supplies of shale gas. | :25:01. | :25:02. | |
Professor John Underhill, from Heriot-Watt University, | :25:03. | :25:03. | |
says the shale rock deposits were formed 55 million | :25:04. | :25:05. | |
years too late to trap substantial amounts of gas | :25:06. | :25:08. | |
and that the future role of fracking in this country has | :25:09. | :25:10. | |
Our Environment Analyst Roger Harrabin explains: | :25:11. | :25:13. | |
VOICEOVER: The shale gas revolution in the USA. | :25:14. | :25:15. | |
Energy prices there tumbled after engineers discovered how to crack | :25:16. | :25:18. | |
shale rocks to release gas trapped inside. | :25:19. | :25:19. | |
The central part of the USA has vast amounts of shale gas. | :25:20. | :25:22. | |
In the UK, firms have started seeking | :25:23. | :25:24. | |
hoping for an American-style energy miracle. | :25:25. | :25:39. | |
But a leading geologist says they might be disappointed. | :25:40. | :25:42. | |
What are the reserves? Can it be got out? | :25:43. | :25:44. | |
Does the geology work or not? That is the key question. | :25:45. | :25:46. | |
So it may work on local scales but it isn't likely to give | :25:47. | :25:50. | |
us the amount of gas production that we need | :25:51. | :25:52. | |
to make a difference in terms of UK wide gas needs. | :25:53. | :25:54. | |
The problem, he says, is an event 55,000,000 years ago. | :25:55. | :25:57. | |
These great underground layers of rock that | :25:58. | :26:00. | |
shift and float under the surface directly affected the UK. | :26:01. | :26:02. | |
Disrupting and disrupting the shale rocks where gas could form. | :26:03. | :26:07. | |
The UK is very different from the USA, the professor warns. | :26:08. | :26:09. | |
Shale gas firms are still optimistic, though. | :26:10. | :26:11. | |
I would argue that it is better to take the scientific steps to | :26:12. | :26:19. | |
understand the potential resource for the benefit of the UK | :26:20. | :26:23. | |
jobs and a resource that we are declining in in the UK. | :26:24. | :26:35. | |
This may seem like a purely technical issue but it is not. | :26:36. | :26:41. | |
Almost all of us heat our homes with gas, so is the | :26:42. | :26:51. | |
-- if the UK can't get as much shale gas as it thought, | :26:52. | :26:54. | |
it is going to have to import more and that would be | :26:55. | :26:57. | |
is already struggling with energy policy. | :26:58. | :27:00. | |
STUDIO: A judgment is due later today in two landmark legal | :27:01. | :27:08. | |
challenges against Northern Ireland's ban on same sex marriage. | :27:09. | :27:14. | |
It's currently the only part of the UK which does not permit | :27:15. | :27:17. | |
a marriages between two men or two women, and does not | :27:18. | :27:20. | |
recognise same-sex marriages from other parts of the UK. | :27:21. | :27:22. | |
The ruling due to be made at Belfast High Court is on two | :27:23. | :27:25. | |
separate cases that were heard together due to the similarities | :27:26. | :27:28. | |
Now, in just over half an hour, the first ever Day/Night Test | :27:29. | :27:32. | |
match in England gets underway, in Birmingham. | :27:33. | :27:33. | |
England's cricketers take on the West Indies in the first | :27:34. | :27:36. | |
What can cricket fans expect? Well, interesting, there is a degree of | :27:37. | :27:49. | |
the unexpected, the novelty, the attraction, Warwickshire, the | :27:50. | :27:52. | |
organisers, have been pleased with the way ticket sales have gone, they | :27:53. | :27:57. | |
reckon there is a sense of new people attracted to the mat, 2pm to | :27:58. | :28:02. | |
9pm, there is a pink cricket ball used, we have talked about that, | :28:03. | :28:06. | |
that will be durable and visible under the floodlights. Actually, | :28:07. | :28:10. | |
those lights will not come into their own until 8pm, northern | :28:11. | :28:14. | |
hemisphere conditions very different from southern hemisphere, we have | :28:15. | :28:19. | |
long evenings. One of the reasons England is so keen to play this | :28:20. | :28:22. | |
match is because they will be playing Australia in the winter's | :28:23. | :28:28. | |
Ashes in Adelaide in day night conditions, so a bit of practice. | :28:29. | :28:31. | |
There is no guarantee this will ever happen again, could be the first and | :28:32. | :28:38. | |
last day night match in England, and the main concern is how they will | :28:39. | :28:42. | |
keep warm come 9pm, for the spectators coming in this evening. | :28:43. | :28:49. | |
We will get a weather forecast in a moment but one more story before | :28:50. | :28:50. | |
that. A Canadian woman has been reunited | :28:51. | :28:51. | |
with her diamond ring, 13 years after she lost it | :28:52. | :28:54. | |
while weeding in her garden. Mary Grams' daughter-in-law | :28:55. | :28:56. | |
picked a carrot out and found its growth had been | :28:57. | :28:58. | |
restricted by the ring. had been too embarrassed | :28:59. | :29:01. | |
to tell her husband she'd lost it, I thought I'd have to go | :29:02. | :29:05. | |
to the jeweller today, 13 years ago, Mary's diamond ring | :29:06. | :29:24. | |
fell off in her garden, lost, she thought for ever. | :29:25. | :29:27. | |
I went to the garden for something and, I don't know, | :29:28. | :29:29. | |
I saw this big weed and I don't know why I had to pull it, | :29:30. | :29:33. | |
I should have left it alone or at least pulled it | :29:34. | :29:36. | |
It must've got caught in here somewhere and it pulled the ring out | :29:37. | :29:40. | |
I've got a big knuckle that it got over somehow. | :29:41. | :29:43. | |
I cried so many times and I thought, "Oh, surely I'll find it," | :29:44. | :29:48. | |
Then I finally went to the jeweller and bought a cheap ring, | :29:49. | :29:52. | |
She never told her husband, who died five years ago, but Mary Sun -- | :29:53. | :30:00. | |
Mary's son, knew the story and when he found it, knew exactly whose it | :30:01. | :30:01. | |
was. My granddaughter first | :30:02. | :30:08. | |
brought it this morning. They found it yesterday, | :30:09. | :30:10. | |
when my daughter-in-law was digging carrots for supper and she said, | :30:11. | :30:12. | |
"What's this?" She asked Brian, my son, | :30:13. | :30:14. | |
and he says, "Oh, yeah." He knew, but he knew | :30:15. | :30:16. | |
that I lost something. I don't know if he said | :30:17. | :30:18. | |
something or if he did say From Canada to Sweden, this ring was | :30:19. | :30:26. | |
lost 16 years, in Germany, a wedding ring was pulled up three years after | :30:27. | :30:28. | |
going missing, it may take some time, but clearly, the crop of | :30:29. | :30:30. | |
choice for gardeners looking for heirlooms, is the humble carrot(!) | :30:31. | :30:34. | |
as promised, let's catch up with the weather forecast. I can dangle the | :30:35. | :30:41. | |
carrot of better weather this afternoon(!) | :30:42. | :30:45. | |
the rain that has been affecting east England has been moving out of | :30:46. | :30:51. | |
the way, following behind that, if they're bit of sunshine, further | :30:52. | :30:54. | |
north in Northumberland, the skies, just a few hours ago, looking like | :30:55. | :30:59. | |
this, similar scenes at some point in the day, across wide parts of the | :31:00. | :31:06. | |
British Isles. A closer look at the afternoons whether, if you | :31:07. | :31:08. | |
thunderstorms working across Lincolnshire, and a fair few | :31:09. | :31:12. | |
downpours expected today across Northern Ireland, western Scotland, | :31:13. | :31:15. | |
away from these areas, showers relatively few and far between, | :31:16. | :31:20. | |
sunshine compared with yesterday, 25 degrees in London, if we get that, | :31:21. | :31:23. | |
we have equalled the highest temperature we have got since | :31:24. | :31:26. | |
August, not that that is particularly high for August. | :31:27. | :31:31. | |
Overnight, heavy downpours, scale and under is a possibility, and it | :31:32. | :31:40. | |
will be a cool night. -- hailstones and thunder is a possibility. With a | :31:41. | :31:46. | |
difference tomorrow, cold blustery wind blowing showers through, more | :31:47. | :31:50. | |
prolonged rain across north-east Scotland, localised surface water | :31:51. | :31:54. | |
flooding possible, wind becoming very gusty, across a swathe of | :31:55. | :31:59. | |
Northern Ireland, gusts could reach about 50 mph around the coastal | :32:00. | :32:03. | |
districts, that could be enough to bring down one or two tree branches, | :32:04. | :32:06. | |
some localised disruption, temperature wise, knock 4 degrees of | :32:07. | :32:10. | |
what we have today, it will feel cooler. For the start of the | :32:11. | :32:15. | |
weekend, cooler conditions still with us, showers around, not quite | :32:16. | :32:20. | |
as many. In the sunshine, not feeling too bad towards the | :32:21. | :32:23. | |
south-east, temperatures into the low 20s, little bit cool in the | :32:24. | :32:26. | |
wind, further north and west. Talking of wind, across the western | :32:27. | :32:30. | |
side of the Atlantic at the moment, talking about this yesterday, a | :32:31. | :32:36. | |
hurricane, winds of 120 mph in gusts, this storm is going to | :32:37. | :32:39. | |
combine with this area of low pressure across eastern Canada. This | :32:40. | :32:47. | |
normal area is going to gobble up Gert and what we will be left with | :32:48. | :32:51. | |
is an area of rain right Racing across the Atlantic, tropical | :32:52. | :32:53. | |
moisture, the rain will be heavy by the time it lands on our shores. We | :32:54. | :32:58. | |
still have a bit of uncertainty as to where the heaviest rain will be, | :32:59. | :33:02. | |
it could bring localised flooding. A reminder of our main story this | :33:03. | :33:21. | |
lunchtime. Hundreds of thousands of students get their A level results | :33:22. | :33:23. | |
in England, Wales and northern Ireland - there's a slight rise in | :33:24. | :33:27. | |
the top grades for the first time in six years. -- six years. | :33:28. | :33:28. |