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G4S suspends nine members of staff, after complaints about conduct | :00:00. | :00:08. | |
at an immigration removal centre at Gatwick Airport. | :00:09. | :00:13. | |
The private security firm responds to undercover filming | :00:14. | :00:15. | |
It says there is no place in its company for poor behaviour. | :00:16. | :00:22. | |
I'm absolutely disgusted by the alleged behaviour. | :00:23. | :00:26. | |
It is totally unacceptable to me, to the organisation, | :00:27. | :00:28. | |
to anyone else who would work in this kind of vocation. | :00:29. | :00:35. | |
The company says it's begun an investigation - | :00:36. | :00:37. | |
Britain's Trade Secretary warns that the UK won't be blackmailed | :00:38. | :00:43. | |
into paying a high price to leave the EU. | :00:44. | :00:47. | |
It's clear that businesses, not just in Europe but investors | :00:48. | :00:49. | |
in places like here in Japan, are getting impatient | :00:50. | :00:52. | |
and want to see what that final shape of that arrangement's | :00:53. | :00:56. | |
President Trump is to ask Congress for ?4.5 billion to help people | :00:57. | :01:03. | |
The Birmingham bin strike is back on - some workers have | :01:04. | :01:10. | |
received redundancy notices, and there are fears the rubbish | :01:11. | :01:12. | |
At last, the lady can make light of the house work. | :01:13. | :01:27. | |
And, customers are told to "suck it up", as the EU bans vacuum cleaners | :01:28. | :01:30. | |
Gordon Strachan says it's not a must-win, | :01:31. | :01:35. | |
but that's still how his Scotland side will approach tonight's crucial | :01:36. | :01:37. | |
Good afternoon and welcome to the BBC News at One. | :01:38. | :02:02. | |
The private security company G4S has suspended nine employees, | :02:03. | :02:05. | |
following claims of abuse and assaults on detainees | :02:06. | :02:09. | |
An undercover investigation by the BBC's Panorama programme | :02:10. | :02:14. | |
appears to show staff mocking, abusing and threatening violence | :02:15. | :02:19. | |
against detainees at Brook House, near Gatwick Airport. | :02:20. | :02:22. | |
G4S says there is "no place for the type of conduct described | :02:23. | :02:25. | |
in the allegations", and that it has immediately | :02:26. | :02:29. | |
Our social affairs correspondent Alison Holt has the details. | :02:30. | :02:36. | |
Just metres from the runway at Gatwick Airport is Brook House, | :02:37. | :02:39. | |
an immigration removal centre run by the global security firm G4S. | :02:40. | :02:44. | |
Here, foreign national prisoners facing deportation at the end | :02:45. | :02:47. | |
of their sentence are detained alongside asylum seekers, | :02:48. | :02:50. | |
illegal migrants and those who have overstayed their visas. | :02:51. | :02:55. | |
A secret world of drugs, violence and abuse... | :02:56. | :03:02. | |
Undercover filming as part of a Panorama investigation to be | :03:03. | :03:04. | |
broadcast this Monday alleges that some staff at Brook House, mock, | :03:05. | :03:07. | |
It exposes a place awash with drugs, with self-harm commonplace | :03:08. | :03:12. | |
The company says it's waiting to see the footage but has suspended nine | :03:13. | :03:21. | |
My initial reaction is absolutely disgusted by the alleged behaviour. | :03:22. | :03:28. | |
It's totally unacceptable to me, to the organisation, | :03:29. | :03:31. | |
to anyone else who would work in this kind of vocation. | :03:32. | :03:36. | |
It is the Home Office that decides who is detained | :03:37. | :03:39. | |
at centres like Brook House, whilst their immigration | :03:40. | :03:41. | |
It says in a statement: We condemn any action that is put the safety | :03:42. | :03:48. | |
or dignity of immigration removal centre detainees at risk. | :03:49. | :03:53. | |
It also says that G4S needs to ensure there is a thorough | :03:54. | :03:56. | |
investigation into the allegations at the centre and that it | :03:57. | :03:58. | |
What sort of issues are likely to be thrown up by this investigation? We | :03:59. | :04:17. | |
are going to know the detailed allegations on Monday, when the | :04:18. | :04:20. | |
programme is broadcast, and that is bound to raise issues about the | :04:21. | :04:24. | |
culture within a place such as Brook House. But there are wider, broader | :04:25. | :04:29. | |
issues around immigration detention, for instance, in Brook House, as | :04:30. | :04:33. | |
with other detention sentence, they have a mix of ex-offenders who are | :04:34. | :04:38. | |
being difficult -- deported from the country, along with asylum seekers, | :04:39. | :04:41. | |
others who may not have had experience of a prison type | :04:42. | :04:47. | |
environment before. The description of life inside Brook House is of it | :04:48. | :04:52. | |
being a toxic mix. So there are questions around that. But places | :04:53. | :04:56. | |
like this were built to house people for 72 hours before they were | :04:57. | :05:00. | |
removed for the country -- from the country. Across the board we are | :05:01. | :05:04. | |
seeing the length of stay in such places increasing. Brook House, it's | :05:05. | :05:08. | |
48 days is the average we are told by inspectors. Some people have been | :05:09. | :05:13. | |
there for more than two years. That in itself raises issues about the | :05:14. | :05:16. | |
efficiency of the system and the impact that Ben has on at times | :05:17. | :05:21. | |
vulnerable individuals. Alison Holt, thank you. | :05:22. | :05:23. | |
And you can see the Panorama documentary Undercover - | :05:24. | :05:25. | |
Britain's Immigration Secrets, on Monday evening on BBC One at 9pm. | :05:26. | :05:32. | |
The International Trade Secretary Liam Fox has accused | :05:33. | :05:34. | |
the European Union of trying to blackmail Britain into accepting | :05:35. | :05:37. | |
The EU insists issues arising from the UK's withdrawal must be | :05:38. | :05:42. | |
dealt with before any talks can begin about future trade relations. | :05:43. | :05:46. | |
Our political correspondent Iain Watson reports. | :05:47. | :05:58. | |
Liam Fox exchanging a memorandum of understanding with Japan on trade, | :05:59. | :06:04. | |
but he isn't as delighted with the EU Commission. He accused them of | :06:05. | :06:08. | |
trying to exact a price for moving on from the first stage of Brexit | :06:09. | :06:11. | |
negotiations. We can't be blackmailed into paying a price on | :06:12. | :06:16. | |
the first part. We think that we should begin discussions on the | :06:17. | :06:19. | |
final settlement, because that's good for business. At issue is the | :06:20. | :06:23. | |
divorce bill for leaving the EU. But Hitachi press conference in Brussels | :06:24. | :06:29. | |
yesterday, the European Commission's chief | :06:30. | :06:39. | |
negotiator argued that wider trade talks could begin only after Britain | :06:40. | :06:43. | |
gave an indication of how much it was willing to pay. Liam Fox told | :06:44. | :06:46. | |
the BBC that businesses were getting frustrated. What we need to do is to | :06:47. | :06:49. | |
begin in parallel talk about what the final solution to the trading | :06:50. | :06:51. | |
relationship is going to look like and it's very clear that businesses, | :06:52. | :06:54. | |
not just in Europe, but investors in places like here in Japan, are | :06:55. | :06:56. | |
getting impatient. Liam Fox gave a series of broadcast interviews in | :06:57. | :07:01. | |
Japan but only made the accusation of EU blackmail once. That suggests | :07:02. | :07:05. | |
it wasn't a pre-scripted attack. Nonetheless it could be a sign of | :07:06. | :07:10. | |
frustration that the government was Mac strategy, to put more pressure | :07:11. | :07:13. | |
on the European Commission to deliver trade talks this autumn, so | :07:14. | :07:17. | |
far hasn't succeeded. And some in Brussels are blaming Britain for any | :07:18. | :07:21. | |
delay. I'd like to remind Mr Fox that the referendum happened in June | :07:22. | :07:25. | |
20 16. It took nine months for the British government to trickle | :07:26. | :07:31. | |
Article 50, so nine months to shape its positions and now it's been six | :07:32. | :07:34. | |
months and we've yet to make any serious progress. And some | :07:35. | :07:38. | |
opposition politicians here are claimed -- claiming that Liam Fox's | :07:39. | :07:42. | |
talk of blackmail will simply make matters worse. His language is | :07:43. | :07:48. | |
intensely unhelpful. This is sabre rattling from the trade secretary | :07:49. | :07:51. | |
who is twiddling his thumbs, because he cannot do anything until the | :07:52. | :07:56. | |
trade position of the UK has been resolved with the EU. There's been a | :07:57. | :08:00. | |
lot of talk about what businesses want from Brexit. Well, they say | :08:01. | :08:05. | |
less of a slanging match and more substance, please. This is politics | :08:06. | :08:09. | |
so there will always be a bit of bluster and gameplaying by both | :08:10. | :08:12. | |
sides. I think businesses would like to see both sides maybe tone it down | :08:13. | :08:16. | |
a little bit and get back to focusing on those issues which | :08:17. | :08:20. | |
matter so much to both sides. This week the government | :08:21. | :08:32. | |
focused on its trading relationship with Japan. But it's our future | :08:33. | :08:36. | |
trade link across the channel that is proving harder to negotiate. Iain | :08:37. | :08:37. | |
Watson, BBC News. Our correspondent Gary O'Donoghue | :08:38. | :08:39. | |
is in Washington. In the next few minutes you will | :08:40. | :08:48. | |
listen to a speech from David Davis? Hotfooting after the bruising | :08:49. | :08:51. | |
encounter with Michel Barnier, David Davis will think he's more among | :08:52. | :08:56. | |
friends. He's promised a speech that is optimistic, that sets out what he | :08:57. | :09:00. | |
sees as a potential deepening of the relationship between Britain and the | :09:01. | :09:04. | |
United States post-Brexit. It's worth remembering that the amount of | :09:05. | :09:08. | |
foreign investment in Britain, from America and vice versa, really | :09:09. | :09:11. | |
dwarfs that from most other countries, most other individual | :09:12. | :09:15. | |
countries. So there's quite a lot at stake. Donald Trump said in the last | :09:16. | :09:19. | |
few weeks that there are discussions ongoing, when he was asked that | :09:20. | :09:22. | |
directly. He says there would be a major deal with Britain after | :09:23. | :09:27. | |
Brexit, but it's worth noting that at the moment what actually is | :09:28. | :09:30. | |
occupying the American government is discussions over the north of North | :09:31. | :09:35. | |
American Free Trade Agreement, Nafta, renegotiating that, and big | :09:36. | :09:39. | |
rows with China on trade. Whether Britain will get as good looking | :09:40. | :09:43. | |
quite so soon I think is up for debate. Gary O'Donoghue, thank you, | :09:44. | :09:47. | |
in Washington. Chris Morris from BBC | :09:48. | :09:48. | |
Reality Check has been looking at where the negotiations go | :09:49. | :09:51. | |
from here, at the end There's a lot of frustration about | :09:52. | :10:03. | |
because the UK Cosmo mail -- main goal in the Brexit negotiations is | :10:04. | :10:06. | |
to move on as quickly as possible from talking about past obligations | :10:07. | :10:08. | |
to talking about a future partnership with the EU. But there's | :10:09. | :10:12. | |
a long road ahead and it's going to get bumpy. The EU's chief negotiator | :10:13. | :10:17. | |
Michel Barnier said yesterday there had been no decisive progress on any | :10:18. | :10:20. | |
of the main issues. In other words, for | :10:21. | :10:23. | |
the moment, it's no go. So a quick reminder about the issues | :10:24. | :10:25. | |
on which the EU says progress has to be made before it will talk more | :10:26. | :10:29. | |
about the futur First, the status of EU citizens in the UK | :10:30. | :10:32. | |
and UK citizens elsewhere in Europe. There was some progress this week - | :10:33. | :10:35. | |
confirmation that after Brexit these citizens will still be able | :10:36. | :10:38. | |
to use their EHIC There's no agreement on that, | :10:39. | :10:40. | |
though, for the rest of us. And here's the overall sticking | :10:41. | :10:44. | |
point - who would have legal authority over any deal | :10:45. | :10:46. | |
on citizens' rights. The UK says that's not | :10:47. | :10:48. | |
acceptable after Brexit. The second major focus | :10:49. | :10:54. | |
at the moment is the border between Northern Ireland | :10:55. | :10:56. | |
and the Irish Republic. The UK says it wants to maintain | :10:57. | :10:58. | |
an "invisible border" after Brexit, with no physical infrastructure, | :10:59. | :11:01. | |
and there were, we're told, "good But while the EU understands | :11:02. | :11:04. | |
the sensitivities on the border, it says frictionless trade | :11:05. | :11:10. | |
is impossible once the UK leaves the single market | :11:11. | :11:12. | |
and the customs union. The toughest issue of all, money. | :11:13. | :11:25. | |
What are the UK's financial obligations to the EU when it | :11:26. | :11:29. | |
leaves. The EU could be looking for a net amount after some money comes | :11:30. | :11:33. | |
back to the UK of as much as 60 billion euros is, that is based | :11:34. | :11:36. | |
largely on commitments the UK has already made. But the UK questioned | :11:37. | :11:40. | |
the legal basis of these calculations and it went through | :11:41. | :11:43. | |
them line by line this week. It is not prepared to pay nearly as much. | :11:44. | :11:49. | |
So to get to whether UK wants to be, talking about this future trade | :11:50. | :11:53. | |
relationship, a lot of progress will have to be made in the next few | :11:54. | :11:56. | |
weeks before the leaders of the other 27 EU countries meet for a | :11:57. | :12:00. | |
summit in Brussels. That will take place on the 19th and 20th of | :12:01. | :12:04. | |
October, when they'll make a decision one way or another. If they | :12:05. | :12:08. | |
don't think sufficient progress is being made, they won't meet again | :12:09. | :12:11. | |
until just before Christmas. That would make substantive talks on | :12:12. | :12:15. | |
trade not beginning until well into the New Year come with time ticking | :12:16. | :12:17. | |
away. Chris Morris, thank you. President Trump is expected to ask | :12:18. | :12:21. | |
Congress for the equivalent of ?4.5 billion, to help people | :12:22. | :12:23. | |
affected by Storm Harvey in Texas. The total cost of repairing | :12:24. | :12:27. | |
the damage, and compensating residents whose homes have been | :12:28. | :12:30. | |
flooded, is estimated In Houston, Texas, and beyond, | :12:31. | :12:32. | |
there is little sign After more than four feet of rain | :12:33. | :12:42. | |
in less than a week, it could be days before the water | :12:43. | :12:51. | |
levels fully recede. Thousands of people have now been | :12:52. | :12:54. | |
rescued from their homes, grabbing what they can carry | :12:55. | :12:57. | |
and getting out. Overnight, the storm moved | :12:58. | :13:01. | |
on to Tennessee, bringing more I was walking in the grass | :13:02. | :13:09. | |
and I was walking, and I stepped down, and something just | :13:10. | :13:17. | |
swept me up under. My head was hit, I seen | :13:18. | :13:20. | |
light up under there, and I came out and I tried to grab | :13:21. | :13:23. | |
a tree, and it's And I grabbed onto another tree, | :13:24. | :13:26. | |
and I asked the Lord to help me, and I just started pulling myself up | :13:27. | :13:31. | |
out of there. The Vice-President, Mike Pence, | :13:32. | :13:34. | |
flew into Texas to see This is a key moment | :13:35. | :13:36. | |
for the embattled and historically We are here today, we will be | :13:37. | :13:43. | |
here tomorrow, and we will be here every day, until this city | :13:44. | :13:56. | |
and this state and this region rebuild bigger | :13:57. | :14:00. | |
and better than ever before. But this level of devastation | :14:01. | :14:09. | |
is going to take vast Later today, the White House | :14:10. | :14:12. | |
is expected to ask Congress for an initial $5.9 billion | :14:13. | :14:17. | |
in emergency funding. But the authorities in Texas alone | :14:18. | :14:22. | |
say the state might eventually need People here are | :14:23. | :14:25. | |
vulnerable and in need. Recovery and rebuilding is going | :14:26. | :14:33. | |
to take months, if not years. Aid agencies are describing flooding | :14:34. | :14:38. | |
across South Asia as one of the worst regional crises | :14:39. | :14:47. | |
in recent years. More than 1200 people have died | :14:48. | :14:49. | |
in India, Bangladesh and Nepal, Many people are sleeping on | :14:50. | :14:53. | |
roadsides and in makeshift shelters. The only traffic now, | :14:54. | :14:59. | |
makeshift canoes and boats. It almost disappears | :15:00. | :15:07. | |
under the waters. Across Bangladesh, almost a third | :15:08. | :15:12. | |
of the country has been affected. Heavy monsoon rains making this | :15:13. | :15:17. | |
the worst flooding in decades. The whole region has been hit, | :15:18. | :15:22. | |
with more than 1200 dead, and more than 40 million forced | :15:23. | :15:26. | |
to leave their homes, affecting India, Nepal, | :15:27. | :15:30. | |
Bangladesh, and now Pakistan. The level of devastation | :15:31. | :15:36. | |
is horrible and it's massive. Millions of children have been | :15:37. | :15:40. | |
affected, and as we know, throughout the region there's | :15:41. | :15:45. | |
40 million people overall, So right now the rains have subsided | :15:46. | :15:47. | |
and people are starting In Mumbai, on India's west coast, | :15:48. | :15:52. | |
33 people were killed when this building collapsed under the weight | :15:53. | :15:59. | |
of heavy rain. The youngest victim | :16:00. | :16:03. | |
a 20-month-old baby. 500 miles away, Pakistan's | :16:04. | :16:08. | |
biggest city, Karachi, was brought to a standstill, | :16:09. | :16:10. | |
streets submerged, more In Bangladesh, millions made | :16:11. | :16:14. | |
homeless have gone to higher ground. Vulnerable to disease, they count | :16:15. | :16:23. | |
the cost and hope to rebuild. The private security firm G4S | :16:24. | :16:29. | |
suspends nine members of staff, after complaints about conduct | :16:30. | :16:42. | |
at an immigration centre Coming up: a summer of spending - | :16:43. | :16:45. | |
we look at the players and money changing hands, | :16:46. | :16:51. | |
as the football There's a good start | :16:52. | :16:53. | |
to the Italian Grand Prix weekend Fastest in the first practice | :16:54. | :17:03. | |
session, over a second quicker than his title rival, | :17:04. | :17:08. | |
Sebastian Vettel. The long-running strike affecting | :17:09. | :17:19. | |
bin collections in Birmingham has resumed this morning | :17:20. | :17:22. | |
after redundancy notices The industrial action was suspended | :17:23. | :17:24. | |
last month after seven weeks, during which time rubbish piled up | :17:25. | :17:29. | |
on many of the city's streets. Our Midlands correspondent | :17:30. | :17:32. | |
Sima Kotecha reports. It looks bad and it | :17:33. | :17:35. | |
smells even worse. A bin strike that's been | :17:36. | :17:40. | |
going on for weeks and people I mean, there's bags | :17:41. | :17:42. | |
dumped everywhere. Bags which have opened up and just | :17:43. | :17:52. | |
scattered all across the road and we have to walk through it | :17:53. | :17:55. | |
every single day. They need to sort something | :17:56. | :17:58. | |
out between themselves That smell, it's so awful that | :17:59. | :18:05. | |
you would rather do this The council and the refuse workers | :18:06. | :18:11. | |
are arguing about shift patterns, This strike started | :18:12. | :18:15. | |
at the end of June. The council claims that it's been | :18:16. | :18:20. | |
costing them around ?40,000 per day to hire agency staff to clean up | :18:21. | :18:23. | |
all this rubbish. Then the industrial action | :18:24. | :18:26. | |
was suspended in the middle of August as the two sides held | :18:27. | :18:32. | |
talks to figure out what to do next. Then at 7.30am this morning | :18:33. | :18:39. | |
the strike was back on. And that's because the council | :18:40. | :18:42. | |
confirmed last night it The Unite union says they won't let | :18:43. | :18:44. | |
that happen and will carry on striking for three | :18:45. | :18:48. | |
hours every day. Paid officers of the council want | :18:49. | :18:49. | |
to make cuts and they want to damage trade unionism within the council | :18:50. | :19:01. | |
and they've taken a decision to sabotage an honourable settlement | :19:02. | :19:03. | |
that was reached at Acas to do so. The row's got worse because the | :19:04. | :19:09. | |
council's leader had said in principle there would be no | :19:10. | :19:12. | |
redundancies but he's come under pressure from his Cabinet to change | :19:13. | :19:16. | |
his stance because some of them say no job losses are unaffordable. | :19:17. | :19:20. | |
Redundancy notices have been issued but everyone still has a job. Who | :19:21. | :19:23. | |
has been given those redundancy notices. They can either have a job | :19:24. | :19:27. | |
at exactly the same level, somewhere else in the council, or they still | :19:28. | :19:32. | |
have a job on the bins. So the posts have gone, but actually the actual | :19:33. | :19:36. | |
employees are still there. Nobody is losing their job. | :19:37. | :19:40. | |
Birmingham City Council is the largest local authority in Europe | :19:41. | :19:42. | |
and it's under pressure to make savings. But the longer this strike | :19:43. | :19:47. | |
goes on, the more expensive it gets for them and for those on strike. | :19:48. | :19:55. | |
The Supreme Court in Kenya has overturned the result | :19:56. | :19:57. | |
of the country's presidential election because of irregularities | :19:58. | :19:59. | |
The ruling is being seen as a victory for the opposition | :20:00. | :20:04. | |
leader and veteran politician Raila Odinga, who called | :20:05. | :20:11. | |
this an historic day for the people of Africa. | :20:12. | :20:13. | |
Let's talk to our correspondent Anne Soy in Nairobi. | :20:14. | :20:17. | |
What happens now? Well, the Electoral Commission is back to the | :20:18. | :20:22. | |
drawing board. They have to organise another election within 60 days, | :20:23. | :20:26. | |
that's the amount of time provided by the constitution. But already the | :20:27. | :20:31. | |
opposition says that it does not have faith in the current Commission | :20:32. | :20:34. | |
and therefore it will be interesting to see what they demand next. | :20:35. | :20:38. | |
Important to note that this Commission was put in place after | :20:39. | :20:49. | |
weeks of protests, sometimes daily protests. The judges told to look at | :20:50. | :20:52. | |
the entire electoral process, it's not just what happened on voting day | :20:53. | :21:01. | |
and the count. They concluded the Electoral Commission did not follow | :21:02. | :21:06. | |
the law in conducting the election from the voter registration | :21:07. | :21:09. | |
throughout for the voting. So it is a very interesting precedent that's | :21:10. | :21:13. | |
been set and a very high threshold they have set for the conduct of | :21:14. | :21:16. | |
elections. Thank you very much. | :21:17. | :21:22. | |
Nearly half of young, low paid parents are struggling | :21:23. | :21:25. | |
to juggle childcare with work, according to a survey for the TUC. | :21:26. | :21:28. | |
Researchers found that irregular hours were to blame, | :21:29. | :21:30. | |
with many working parents feeling at the mercy of employers. | :21:31. | :21:33. | |
Our business correspondent Emma Simpson reports. | :21:34. | :21:34. | |
Kiera's just got back from work, and all her kids | :21:35. | :21:42. | |
A precious few minutes before they are off to bed. | :21:43. | :21:51. | |
Kiera is self-employed and works in IT. | :21:52. | :21:54. | |
She and her partner, from Hertfordshire, | :21:55. | :21:56. | |
earn between them less than ?28,000 per year. | :21:57. | :21:58. | |
Juggling childcare and work is a daily battle. | :21:59. | :22:02. | |
I can be at home with my children, enjoying my life with them. | :22:03. | :22:07. | |
When instead, I'm planning it around trains, hoping and praying | :22:08. | :22:10. | |
that my train isn't late or delayed or cancelled. | :22:11. | :22:12. | |
And then you look at your bank balance and you think, | :22:13. | :22:14. | |
Kiera's experience isn't unique, judging by today's survey, | :22:15. | :22:24. | |
Nearly half of low-paid young parents are struggling | :22:25. | :22:28. | |
42% felt penalised at work when they asked for flexibility. | :22:29. | :22:37. | |
Some were given fewer hours, or even lost their jobs as a result. | :22:38. | :22:42. | |
Nearly a third had resorted to taking annual leave | :22:43. | :22:45. | |
Achieving a good work-life balance can be hard for any parent. | :22:46. | :22:50. | |
This survey highlights just how difficult it is for families | :22:51. | :22:54. | |
on lower incomes, many of whom don't even know what their | :22:55. | :22:58. | |
So, could and should employers do more? | :22:59. | :23:02. | |
Employers can certainly do more to communicate the rights | :23:03. | :23:06. | |
I think Government also has a role to play, to do more | :23:07. | :23:12. | |
I think the broad issue around flexibility, in that quite | :23:13. | :23:18. | |
a lot of flexibility can be quite exclusive. | :23:19. | :23:20. | |
For example, home-working quite often applies only to senior | :23:21. | :23:22. | |
So employers really need to review their flexible working practices, | :23:23. | :23:26. | |
be a bit more innovative about how they apply them. | :23:27. | :23:30. | |
Kiera's shift pattern is regular, although she is still often working | :23:31. | :23:35. | |
The TUC wants everyone at work to get the same parental | :23:36. | :23:39. | |
Emma Simpson, BBC News, Hertfordshire. | :23:40. | :23:52. | |
Last night, football's summer spending spree came to an end. | :23:53. | :23:55. | |
The most expensive football transfer window ever closed, | :23:56. | :23:59. | |
with Premier League clubs parting with an eyewatering ?1.4 billion. | :24:00. | :24:04. | |
Our sports correspondent David Ornstein has been | :24:05. | :24:06. | |
The culmination of a summer of unprecedented spending. Although | :24:07. | :24:18. | |
transfer deadline day may largely be remembered for huge deals that | :24:19. | :24:23. | |
didn't quite happen, there was still plenty of significant bits of | :24:24. | :24:31. | |
business done. The most high profile look Alex Oxlade Chamberlain to | :24:32. | :24:34. | |
Liverpool for ?35 million. The same figure was spent by Chelsea to sign | :24:35. | :24:40. | |
Danny Drinkwater from the previous champions Leicester. Finally | :24:41. | :24:45. | |
confirmed two-and-a-half hours after the 11pm deadline. It was a mixed | :24:46. | :24:57. | |
night for Chelsea. They were beaten to the signing of Swansea's Fernando | :24:58. | :25:04. | |
Llrrente. According to figures released by Deloitte, clubs spent | :25:05. | :25:10. | |
?1. 4 billion on players this summer, including a record ?210 | :25:11. | :25:14. | |
million on deadline day alone. The transfer spending has grown well in | :25:15. | :25:18. | |
line with revenues the clubs have at disposal. In any given year they | :25:19. | :25:23. | |
spend between a fifth and a third of their revenue on transfers. Among | :25:24. | :25:28. | |
those whose moves failed to materialise were Sanchez from | :25:29. | :25:32. | |
Arsenal to Manchester City, and Ross Barkley from Everton to Chelsea. But | :25:33. | :25:36. | |
fear not, they'll soon have another chance to resolve their futures | :25:37. | :25:39. | |
because the transfer window reopens on 1st January. | :25:40. | :25:46. | |
A man's been convicted of trying to rob the England | :25:47. | :25:49. | |
and West Ham footballer, Andy Carroll. | :25:50. | :25:50. | |
Basildon Crown Court heard that convicted burglar, Jack O'Brien, | :25:51. | :25:55. | |
who's 22 and from Romford, pulled up alongside the striker | :25:56. | :25:58. | |
as he drove home from training, and demanded he hand | :25:59. | :26:00. | |
England's men are in World Cup qualifying action | :26:01. | :26:05. | |
Manager Gareth Southgate has confirmed Joe Hart | :26:06. | :26:07. | |
Scotland and Northern Ireland are also playing this evening. | :26:08. | :26:14. | |
Our sports correspondent Natalie Pirks is in | :26:15. | :26:16. | |
Well it might be smaller than the Isle of Wight but 17,000 people will | :26:17. | :26:32. | |
pack into the stadium tonight, it's a sellout, more than 3,000 are | :26:33. | :26:35. | |
travelling England fans. It will feel louder for England such is | :26:36. | :26:39. | |
their popularity here. One player who won't be playing for England | :26:40. | :26:44. | |
tonight is Wayne Rooney. He announced hisser in retirement but | :26:45. | :26:47. | |
is still making headlines. He was arrested near his Cheshire home last | :26:48. | :26:51. | |
night for drink driving. He has been charged, released on bail and will | :26:52. | :26:54. | |
appear in court later this month. More on that when we have it. Gareth | :26:55. | :26:58. | |
Southgate made it clear last night he is in no rush to try to appoint a | :26:59. | :27:03. | |
permanent replacement as captain for Wayne Rooney. He has tried five | :27:04. | :27:06. | |
different players as captain in his time in charge. He wants to make it | :27:07. | :27:10. | |
clear that he wants all players to step up, shoulder the responsibility | :27:11. | :27:14. | |
of perhaps being captain and be leaders. If fans were hoping to see | :27:15. | :27:17. | |
new faces tonight they might be disappointed. As you said, he has | :27:18. | :27:22. | |
confirmed that Joe Hart will continue as England's goalkeeper. He | :27:23. | :27:25. | |
feels he is the best player in that position despite conceding ten goals | :27:26. | :27:29. | |
in his first three games for West Ham. Elsewhere in the group, | :27:30. | :27:36. | |
Scotland are away to Lithuania in a must-win game. They have a chance or | :27:37. | :27:41. | |
hope of making that play-off spot. Northern Ireland are looking to | :27:42. | :27:46. | |
strengthen their hand in Group C with a win away against San Marino. | :27:47. | :27:53. | |
Gareth Southgate started his England career with a 2-0 win over Malta. He | :27:54. | :27:56. | |
is hoping that will continue but there will be strong questions | :27:57. | :27:59. | |
coming his way. Now the humble vacuum cleaner | :28:00. | :28:03. | |
is causing something of a stir. Sales of the noisiest and most | :28:04. | :28:05. | |
powerful devices are, from today, Machines using more than 900 watts | :28:06. | :28:08. | |
of power and emitting more than 80 decibels will be banned from sale | :28:09. | :28:14. | |
when the existing stocks run out. Our environment analyst | :28:15. | :28:20. | |
Roger Harrabin explains. Until London's Hoover | :28:21. | :28:23. | |
factory in 1934 applied VOICEOVER: And at last, the lady can | :28:24. | :28:32. | |
make light of her housework... A lifetime later, and | :28:33. | :28:36. | |
we have other worries. We're trying to cut | :28:37. | :28:42. | |
emissions from electricity, So, new EU rules are forcing | :28:43. | :28:44. | |
the most energy-hungry of these Cleaners like this Sebo | :28:45. | :28:51. | |
automatic gobble 1100 watts. That's too high to meet | :28:52. | :28:59. | |
new European standards, Anti-EU campaigners say Europe | :29:00. | :29:01. | |
should have no say in the sort But experts say households can | :29:02. | :29:08. | |
save a small fortune on electricity bills if only the least efficient | :29:09. | :29:18. | |
machines can be driven EU efficiency standards | :29:19. | :29:21. | |
have improved most of Already, the rules have contributed | :29:22. | :29:24. | |
to a 17% drop in our use of energy. Our energy bills are ?290 | :29:25. | :29:33. | |
lower than they would be Now vacuum cleaners | :29:34. | :29:36. | |
must play their part. People think that if it's a very | :29:37. | :29:43. | |
high wattage than it's going to be a super-duper cleaner, | :29:44. | :29:47. | |
but that's not necessarily the case. Manufacturers have known for a long | :29:48. | :29:49. | |
time that this has been coming, so they will have been working very | :29:50. | :29:52. | |
hard on design and technology to make sure that the new generation | :29:53. | :29:57. | |
of vacuum cleaners will come up On the streets of Leeds, | :29:58. | :30:01. | |
opinions are divided. I think it's required, | :30:02. | :30:08. | |
anything that uses less I'll believe it when | :30:09. | :30:13. | |
I see it, anyway. No, I think it'll be a good idea, | :30:14. | :30:20. | |
you know, to make it... You know, if it's making it | :30:21. | :30:23. | |
better for people, yeah. Before the Brexit referendum, the EU | :30:24. | :30:26. | |
postponed new standards on toasters. The Government says it | :30:27. | :30:30. | |
supports energy efficiency, but it won't say if EU rules | :30:31. | :30:33. | |
will still apply after Brexit. Time for a look at the weather | :30:34. | :30:54. | |
prospects. Nick Miller has joined me. | :30:55. | :30:59. | |
Hi, you may have noticed a chill in the air this morning. The start of | :31:00. | :31:03. | |
meet logical autumn. We have started to have problems with the pictures | :31:04. | :31:07. | |
behind me, we will sort those out. This is one picture from one of our | :31:08. | :31:10. | |
weather watchers showing plenty of sunshine. Yes, it's a chilly start | :31:11. | :31:13. | |
but there has been some sunshine around there to compensate and here | :31:14. | :31:17. | |
is a view from Pembrokeshire, as well. Glorious blue sky. We are | :31:18. | :31:20. | |
seeing cloud building here and there. More especially across parts | :31:21. | :31:24. | |
of Scotland, and Northern Ireland so far today. North-west England and | :31:25. | :31:28. | |
Wales there have been a few showers. Some of these will fade. They'll | :31:29. | :31:33. | |
remain isolated here. But we are watching south-east Scotland and | :31:34. | :31:37. | |
across the Pennines, north-east England and down through the | :31:38. | :31:40. | |
Midlands for maybe a few heavier ones to get going this afternoon. | :31:41. | :31:44. | |
But the most of us across southern England, Wales into the Midlands | :31:45. | :31:47. | |
will continue with good sunny spells. It feels pleasantly warm in | :31:48. | :31:50. | |
some sunshine with light winds. Eastern parts of England, could be | :31:51. | :31:55. | |
the odd heavy and maybe thundery shower. North-west England, after a | :31:56. | :31:59. | |
dull start it may stay cloudy in Northern Ireland, mainly dry across | :32:00. | :32:03. | |
Scotland. A chance of a shower in the south-east. I have talked about | :32:04. | :32:07. | |
showers, but please most places are going to be dry with sunny spells | :32:08. | :32:11. | |
around. If you get a shower in eastern England it could linger into | :32:12. | :32:14. | |
the night for some but elsewhere it will be dry and clear and chilly | :32:15. | :32:18. | |
again overnight. These are town city centre temperatures. You don't have | :32:19. | :32:24. | |
to go too far away to get something lower than this. Single figures in | :32:25. | :32:29. | |
places and some places flirting with freezing into Saturday morning. This | :32:30. | :32:33. | |
takes us on to the weekend. For Saturday, although it will be chilly | :32:34. | :32:36. | |
again to begin the day, good sunny spells coming through. A bit of | :32:37. | :32:41. | |
cloud building here and there. Odd light showers especially into | :32:42. | :32:43. | |
eastern England but the vast majority will have a fine dry start | :32:44. | :32:47. | |
to the weekend, although you will later notice the breeze picking up | :32:48. | :32:52. | |
in Northern Ireland and temperatures fairly similar. No excessive heat | :32:53. | :32:57. | |
but in the sunshine it will feel pleasant. The later you are going | :32:58. | :33:00. | |
out on Saturday night in Northern Ireland, you might see rain coming | :33:01. | :33:05. | |
in, things are changing from the west. Weather fronts are moving in, | :33:06. | :33:11. | |
but it's a slow process, the wind picking up. So a wet start to | :33:12. | :33:17. | |
Sunday, Northern Ireland, the rain pushing into Wales, south-west | :33:18. | :33:19. | |
England. Gales through the Irish sea. Rain moving into western | :33:20. | :33:23. | |
Scotland too. Some eastern Scotland, eastern England, although it clouds | :33:24. | :33:26. | |
over and the breeze picks up, will stay dry during the day. It's a | :33:27. | :33:33. | |
weekend of two halves. An east-west split on Sunday. There is a forecast | :33:34. | :33:39. | |
for where you are or where you will be this weekend online. | :33:40. | :33:43. |