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Former bosses of the construction

giant Carillion apologise

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for its collapse, but deny

they were asleep at the wheel.

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Carillion executives have been

appearing before MPs to explain why

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they let it slide into liquidation.

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I too would like to say how deeply

saddened and how sorry I am

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for what's happened to the business.

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It was a great business,

it delivered hundreds and hundreds

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of projects very successfully.

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We'll have the latest

from our business editor.

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Also this lunchtime...

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Stock markets around the world

plummet after big falls in America.

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The IRA Hyde Park bombing -

relatives of the victims get legal

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aid for a civil action

against the main suspect.

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Clogged up Britain -

new research says we spend more

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a day a year sitting

in rush hour traffic.

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In 1918, votes for women became a

reality.

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And it's a hundred years

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today that women got the vote -

but even then only if they were over

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30 and owners of property.

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And coming up in the sport on BBC

News, Chelsea captain Gary Cahill

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has backed manager Antonio Conte,

saying the players need

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to look in the mirror

after their 4-1 loss at Watford.

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Good afternoon and welcome

to the BBC News at One.

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Former bosses of the construction

and outsourcing company Carillion

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have apologised for the firm's

collapse - but denied claims by MPs

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that they were asleep at the wheel.

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The firm - which provided

services for schools,

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hospitals and prisons -

went into liquidation

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in the middle of January.

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It employed more than 40,000 people

worldwide. This morning MPs have

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been cross the company's executives

about how they are loaded to

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collapse with debts of over £1

billion and a huge pension deficit.

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Our business correspondent

Simon Gompertz reports.

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The senior figures in charge of

Carillion in its final months. Keith

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Cochrane, chief executive during the

collapse. REPORTER: Would you say

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sorry to employees?

And Zafar Khan, the finance director

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ousted after commissioning an

internal investigation. Also among

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them Richard Howson, he was sacked

as chief executive after having to

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warn last year that profits were

plummeting.

I too would like to say

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how deeply saddened and how sorry I

am for what has happened to the

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business.

Mr Harrison received £1.5 million in

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2016 and continue to get his salary

after he left, even though the

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company failed to get a key Middle

Eastern company to pay up for 18

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months.

If we had completed the contract...

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How much were you owed.

£200

million.

I would like you to answer

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the questions I'm asking, not the

ones you would like to answer. How

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much to cut Ahn over the business

when you left it?

Around £200

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million.

-- how much did Kat Ahn oh

the business?

The opening of the

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Royal Liverpool Hospital is set to

be put off indefinitely. There was a

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drastic shortage of cash coming in.

Despite that pressure, the man

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brought in as caretaker chief

executive was accused of getting

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priorities wrong by paying more to

shareholders than the stricken

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pension scheme.

I understood it to

be an agreed arrangements between

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the pension funds...

If I have to

children and I pay one of their £1 a

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week and the other 50p a week in

pocket money, and the one who gets

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50 Pete says I think your priority

is the other child, you are paying

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her twice as much as me, and I say I

don't think that is the right way to

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look at it, dear? Do you think the

child getting 50p has a point? Or do

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you think they don't?

That is an

interesting perspective.

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With money leaking away, Carillion

desperately needed new contracts to

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keep going. But former finance

director Zafar Khan said that new

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work has begun to dry up.

We had

some contracts we were the preferred

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bidders for but they continued to

drift out to the right because of

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the Brexit uncertainty. That was

amplified by the general election

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announcement.

Along the way MPs were

told by Carillion had in George

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tenet 's final to McGrady is in

aggressive accounting, effectively

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booking payments as income and they

had not commend -- were told that

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Carillion had indulged in its final

two years in aggressive accounting,

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effectively booking payments as

income and they had not come in.

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Our business editor

Simon Jack is here.

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How did a company which got a clean

bill of health from the executives

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of the company and its auditors

suddenly almost collapse four months

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after that in July? The executives

said today they were genuinely

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surprised by how quickly some

contracts deteriorated. Some in the

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Middle East, some in Canada and some

key ones in the UK. And given the

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amount of debt the company had,

which they admitted was too hi, they

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did not have the wiggle room. It was

a surprise to us, everyone today

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said it was a complete surprise.

Real consequences from this

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collapse, we are hearing more today?

The Royal Liverpool Hospital has

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released a statement today saying

because of the problems with

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subcontractors, many of whom face

financial difficulties, they cannot

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get the work started on this major

hospital and it was meant to open in

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February 2018, this month, they are

saying it would be very unlikely it

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will be finished before the end of

the year. A critical bit of public

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servers delayed by Carillion, in

addition to all the jobs we know

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will be lost.

Thank you, Simon Jack,

our business editor.

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Wall Street is bracing itself

for more turbulence today

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after yesterday's near record

stock market falls.

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This morning prices have been

tumbling in the Far East and Europe.

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The FTSE opened sharply down before

recovering slightly.

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Well, the sell-off began last week

when strong economic data in the us

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sparked fears of an early rise

in interest rates.

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Yogita Limaye is at

the New York Stock Exchange.

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The fall started in America, what do

we expect from the markets open?

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Markets will open in about an hour

and 20 from now, that is the New

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York Stock Exchange behind me. All

of this started on Friday. Traders

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started worrying that interest rates

would rise rapidly on the back of

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strong wage growth in the US. On

Friday you saw the Dow Jones

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industrial average fell more than

650 points, yesterday it was the

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worst fall in history in terms of

points. Even in terms of percentage

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the worst since the financial

crisis. You have seen that impact

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across markets across the world,

markets have been turned around 2%

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but in the Far East, Japan, Hong

Kong, Taiwan, they have fallen as

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much as four or 5%. When traders get

inside today they will be anxious,

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but the word on Wall Street, even

after the closing yesterday, people

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have said there is no need to panic

just yet. The fundamentals of the

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economy remains strong, there is

still strong growth in America.

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Unemployment is low. They are

essentially saying that the markets

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were inflated and to some extent

everyone was expecting a correction.

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When there was some trigger for the

correction, that is the reason you

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have seen this kind of sell-off

happening.

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Here in America you have seen

President Trump repeatedly taking

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credit for record stock market

highs. Yesterday he was out in Ohio,

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he did not say anything about the

markets. The White House said the

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president continues to focus on

long-term fundamentals, which remain

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strong.

Many thanks indeed.

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Relatives of the victims of the1 982

IRA Hyde Park bombing have been

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granted legal aid for a civil action

against the main suspect.

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The case against John Downey,

who denies involvement,

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collapsed at the Old Bailey four

years ago when it emerged that

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Government officials had mistakenly

given him a letter telling him

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he would not face

arrest or prosecution.

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Four soldiers of the Royal

Household Cavalry and seven

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horses died in the attack.

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Keith Doyle reports.

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Four soldiers of the Royal Household

Cavalry died when a car bomb

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detonated as they made their way to

Buckingham Palace in July 19 82.

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Dozens were injured and seven

cavalry horses died. Another horse

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was critically injured, but

recovered enough to return to

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service. A recovery which was

closely followed by the public.

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John Downey, who was convicted of

IRA membership in the 1970s, was the

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prime suspect and was charged with

the bombing in 2014.

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That case collapsed when it emerged

that government officials had

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assured him in writing in 2007 that

he would not face arrest or

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prosecution.

He was one of around 180

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Republicans, so called on the runs,

suspected of involvement in

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terrorist crimes, but who had never

been charged.

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As part of the Good Friday Agreement

they received letters from the

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Government assuring them they were

not being sought by police. There

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was severe criticism of this scheme,

which was described as secretive and

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a catastrophic mistake. Tony Blair,

whose government implemented it,

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sought to defend it.

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sought to defend it.

Without having

to Matt, we would not have a

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Northern Ireland peace process in

place today.

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Well John Downey was not wanted by

police in Northern Ireland, he was

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wanted by the Met Police. But a

judge ruled that even though his

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letter was sent by mistake it would

be an abuse of process for him to

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stand trial for the Hyde Park

bombing.

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While the families of those killed

in the Hyde Park bombing can now

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pursue a civil case, there is no

guarantee that it will be

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successful.

It is great news for them, they have

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gone through all the agonies of the

original bomb and then waiting to

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see if anyone would ever be caught

for it, then someone has been put

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forward as possibly being the bomb,

to see that collapse, to then have

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five different types of legal aid

agency. It has been a roller-coaster

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and a really hard one for them, it

does not show up our legal system

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particularly well.

35 years on a Northern Ireland is

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still trying to come to terms with

the violence of the past.

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the violence of the past. Pressure

is mounting on President Jacob Zuma

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to step down after the Speaker of

Parliament and adds that the state

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of the nation address, which the

president was due to deliver on

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Thursday, had been postponed.

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The Nelson Mandela Foundation has

called on South Africa's President

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to step down,

saying he has abused

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the trust of South Africans

and is not fit to govern.

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His deputy has replaced him as the

leader of the African National

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Congress, but he remains the

president of the country.

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The Health Secretary has announced a

review of the legal treatment of

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errors by doctors.

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The doctor was convicted after the

death of a six-year old boy in her

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care, but it provoked anger in the

medical profession because it said

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she had been under intense pressure

due to understaffing. What has the

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Health Secretary had to say?

A short time ago Jeremy Hunt told

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the Commons that was very widespread

concern about this whole situation.

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Just to remind you, it was a very

tragic case, the death of

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six-year-old Jack Adcock which

resulted in the conviction of

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resulted in the conviction of Doctor

Dr Bawagaba. A tribunal met last

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year to decide her future as a

doctor following the conviction,

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they said she should be suspended

for just 12 months. The General

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Medical Council decided to appeal

against that. They went to the High

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Court and a couple of weeks ago a

house Democrat High Court ruling was

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she should be struck off the

register completely, she should not

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practice again -- and a couple of

weeks ago the High Court ruling was.

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The doctor was under intense

pressure because of understaffing,

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Jeremy Hunt has responded to that

statement and says there will be a

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review of where you draw the line

between gross negligence,

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manslaughter and how you treat

doctors who have committed errors

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and mistakes, and secondly how you

should allow them to be open in

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their reflections in the paperwork

that they do. And finally any

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lessons to be learned by the General

Medical Council.

What has been the

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reaction from doctors to this?

They

have said it is exactly the right

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thing. One campaigner who worked

with this doctor told me she thought

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it was exactly the right thing to

do. It was a very tragic case, a

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young boy died, careers were ruined

by this and there were of lessons to

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be learned. This review could reach

some answers on bar.

Thank you very

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much, Hugh Pym, our health editor.

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Our top story this lunchtime:

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Former bosses of the construction

giant Carillion apologise for its

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collapse but denied they were asleep

at the wheel.

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And still to come: Changing weather.

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We'll take a sneak peek at the BBC's

new weather graphics.

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Coming up in sport: Leeds United

have announced the appointment

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of Barnsley boss Paul Heckingbottom

as their new Head Coach.

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He's their tenth manager

in the last five years.

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It's 100 years ago today that women

first got the right to vote,

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provided they were over 30

and owners of property.

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To mark the centenary

of that historic reform,

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campaigners are calling

for posthumous pardons to be given

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to women who were jailed

in the fight for universal suffrage.

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Meanwhile, the Prime Minister

will mark the anniversary by warning

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that online intimidation of women

is threatening democracy.

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Jane Hill is in Westminster.

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Hello, Ben.

Welcome to Central

Lobby, to the absolute heart of

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parliament he won this very, very

significant day. The lobby is

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particularly noisy and busy. There

is an awful lot of school groups

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around here today on this very

significant anniversary. Boys and

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girls, I should stress, being

reminded of what today is all about.

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Our correspondent Adina Campbell

takes a look first ball and gives us

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this reminder of the suffragette

movement -- first.

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White the campaign started off with

peaceful intentions, but progress

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was slow, and after years of

conflict free campaigning, some

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women were not prepared to wait any

longer. Emmeline Pankhurst, along

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with her daughter Christabel,

founded the women's social and

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political union in 1903. Otherwise

known as the suffragettes.

It seemed

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like a mad idea then. And I think it

took a long time, that's why the

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campaign was so long, because they

had to change people attitudes

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towards women and what they could

do.

But this new wave of

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suffragettes were bowled. Women were

seen chaining themselves to

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railings, smashing windows, and

shouting at politicians, all

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unprecedented behaviour. Some were

arrested. But rather than pay a

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fine, they were sent to prison. But

their protest didn't stop there.

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Some of those locked up refused to

eat, whilst others on the outside

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continued the violence, vandalising

churches and burning down buildings.

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They said, there's a suffragette

round the corner speaking. So, I

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went round the corner and I thought

myself, those so my quiz woman is

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talking sense.

When I actually

joined, I went to an open-air

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meeting and heard the speaker say,

lunatics, criminals, paupers and

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women may not vote. Well, I hadn't

joined before then although all of

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my instincts had been that way, but

I joined them and then.

Dawai

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charming women who were in it, and

they were absolutely smothered with

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eggs, rotten tomatoes, and you never

saw anything like what we looked

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like at the end.

But this was one of

the most shocking and memorable

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moments of the campaign. In 1913,

Emily Davison, one of the leading

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suffragettes, was knocked down by

the King's was at Epsom racecourse.

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And she died of her injuries four

days later. Then came a

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breakthrough. On February the 6th

1918, some women were given the

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right to vote for the very first

time. But at this stage, women were

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only allowed to vote if they were

over the age of 30 and owned

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property.

During the First World

War, we did a man's job, we worked

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in the factories, we worked in the

fields, we did a man's drop. So why

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can't we have a vote? As with equal

rights, why cold we have a vote? But

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men are, by nature, control freaks.

It wasn't until 1928 when all women

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had the same voting rights as men.

And, over time, we've seen a growing

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number of women in Parliament and

become Prime Minister. Harriet

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Harman is the longest continuing

serving female MP, first elected in

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1982.

I was one of only 23 MPs out

of 650 when I started. Now over 200.

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But we are still outnumbered by men

2-1.

But 100 years on, women women

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are still fighting. Most recently,

the gender pay gap, sexual

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harassment, and the Me Too movement

have all made headlines around the

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world. And the campaigns continue.

There's so much that still needs to

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be done, I think they would be

urging us on and saying, you know,

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don't just accept where we are at,

we can be so much better, so much

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richer as a society and an economy

if women and men were allowed to do

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whatever they want to, if the

genders were not divided up in this

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progress, outdated idea about what a

man is and what a woman is.

There

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are now calls for the Government to

pardon suffragette who committed

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crimes such as arson during their

fight for the right to vote. 100

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years may have passed, but some say

there is still a long way to go.

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Adina Campbell, BBC News.

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Vicky Young is with me here in the

lobby. It would have been an awful

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lot more rowdy than this, this is

the real heart of where some of

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those protests would have taken

place.

It was noisy and sometimes

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violent as well, women like Emmeline

Pankhurst used to come here and

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stand on the streets shouting, votes

for women. It is incredible that

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women, even to watch proceedings in

malls of common tag, had to watch it

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behind these grills, they had to

peer through, they said

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peer through, they said it was

smelly and dark and disgusting. They

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chained themselves to those in

protest. The grills were removed,

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and around the House of Commons here

in the Central Lobby they are now

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adorning the windows around here. It

definitely was a place where they

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came off, they were blacklisted and

eventually banned from coming here

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for 11 years until it all changed.

This rather remarkable act of

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Parliament was brought in, it is on

display here today in Central Lobby.

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We normally don't see it. It's

incredibly precious, of course.

It

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is many inches thick, it's worth

pointing out.

This was for men as

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well as women, it wasn't all women,

but it did make a big difference, of

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course.

In terms of where we are

today, Theresa May might not do this

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in her speed and a little while,

this is not just about women in

0:21:080:21:11

public life -- Theresa May might nod

to this. We have to refer at an all

0:21:110:21:17

women, across all professions and

walks of life -- we have to reflect.

0:21:170:21:21

Theresa May will talk about that in

particular. Here, there are fewer

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than 500 women who have ever been

elected to be an MP. At the moment,

0:21:240:21:29

one third of the holes of Commons is

female. Things have obviously

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changed. When I first came here,

there were hardly any women in

0:21:320:21:36

newspapers or in the House of

Commons. It is changing. But the day

0:21:360:21:42

Theresa May will also block about

social media abuse. She is concerned

0:21:420:21:45

that is putting off not just men but

women from going into public life.

0:21:450:21:50

We will have to see whether that

encourages more women to go into

0:21:500:21:54

public life.

For now, that is all

from here on a very significant day

0:21:540:21:57

here in the House of Commons. Ben,

back to you.

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The trial of three former senior

managers at Tesco who are accused

0:22:050:22:08

of accounting fraud has been

discontinued after one of the

0:22:080:22:10

defendants suffered a heart attack.

0:22:100:22:11

The jury at Southwark Crown Court

has been discharged

0:22:110:22:13

and the Serious Fraud Office

is considering whether

0:22:130:22:15

a retrial is appropriate.

0:22:150:22:16

Our business correspondent Emma

Simpson is at Southwark Crown Court.

0:22:160:22:24

British drivers wasted more than 30

hours in rush-hour traffic last

0:22:260:22:29

year, according to new research.

0:22:290:22:30

The report from traffic information

company Inrix found the UK

0:22:300:22:32

is the tenth most congested country

in the world, while London

0:22:320:22:35

is Europe's second

most gridlocked city.

0:22:350:22:36

The study's authors are calling

for new technology to be used

0:22:360:22:39

to tackle congestion.

0:22:390:22:44

They say congestion is harming the

economy.

0:22:440:22:45

Charlotte Gallagher reports.

0:22:450:22:48

There is nothing more frustrating

for drivers than being stuck in

0:22:480:22:51

this. The bad news is, those delays

are getting worse. British motorists

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spent an average of 31 hours stuck

in congestion last year. London is

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Europe's second most congested city

after Moscow. With drivers spending

0:23:020:23:07

the government of three days every

year in traffic jams. Something

0:23:070:23:10

these drivers headed into central

London no wall about.

Two hours per

0:23:100:23:16

day, I come to London every day, so

it's about ten hours per week, 40

0:23:160:23:20

hours per month, you do the maths.

Oh, hours, I was. Per week? Hours.

0:23:200:23:27

Manchester, Birmingham, Luton and

Edinburgh have also been singled out

0:23:270:23:31

as gridlock hotspots. That extra

time behind the wheel is costing

0:23:310:23:35

drivers more than £1000 per year.

Not just in wasted fuel, but also

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because some household goods are

becoming

0:23:400:23:48

becoming more expensive, as higher

freighting fees are passed on to

0:23:490:23:51

consumers. Inrix, which carried out

the research, says the cost to the

0:23:510:23:53

UK economy is astonishing.

It's

really a big concern. Ultimately,

0:23:530:23:56

this means there is a decrease in

productivity from the business side.

0:23:560:24:00

But also quite a big cost is being

passed down to the driver, whether

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that is through direct costs like

fuel wasted sitting in traffic, or

0:24:040:24:07

just the time you are losing. There

is also cost on businesses which

0:24:070:24:12

ultimately get passed to household.

And there are implications for our

0:24:120:24:15

health.

We not just concerned about

the time and money that drivers are

0:24:150:24:19

wasting stuck in traffic, but also

the potential damage to their

0:24:190:24:23

health. Drivers are spending time

behind other vehicles and breathing

0:24:230:24:28

in dangerous levels of air

pollution, which can actually be

0:24:280:24:32

higher inside vehicles than outside.

The Department for Transport says it

0:24:320:24:36

has invested £23 billion on road

schemes, which will help reduce

0:24:360:24:40

traffic jams, and is giving local

councils record amounts of funding

0:24:400:24:44

to upgrade roads. Charlotte

Gallagher, BBC News.

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21 people have been arrested

in raids aimed at disrupting

0:24:480:24:50

a people-smuggling network run

by suspected Kurdish gangsters.

0:24:500:24:52

Police raided around 20

addresses across England,

0:24:520:24:55

including in Middlesbrough,

Hartlepool, Newcastle and London.

0:24:550:24:58

The gang is suspected of charging up

to £10,000 per head to smuggle

0:24:580:25:03

migrants in the back of lorries

across the Channel.

0:25:030:25:08

Public Health England says it wants

e-cigarettes to be prescribed

0:25:080:25:11

on the NHS within the next 2-3 years

because they're an effective way

0:25:110:25:15

to help smokers quit.

It says vaping poses

0:25:150:25:18

only a small fraction

of the risk of smoking tobacco,

0:25:180:25:21

and it's calling for the UK's drug

regulator to help manufacturers

0:25:210:25:25

get their products approved.

0:25:250:25:30

The NHS is trying hard to recruit

more staff from abroad,

0:25:300:25:33

but an Egyptian doctor says she's

devastated after being refused

0:25:330:25:36

a visa for her daughter

to join her in the UK.

0:25:360:25:41

Amany Abdel-Meguid came to Britain

over a year ago to work

0:25:410:25:43

in a hospital in Birmingham,

but the Home Office

0:25:430:25:46

won't let her daughter

join her on the grounds her husband

0:25:460:25:51

wasn't in the UK when

the application was made.

0:25:510:25:53

Our correspondent

Sima Kotecha reports.

0:25:530:26:01

Amany Abdelmeguid and her

three-year-old daughter, Lily. Amany

0:26:060:26:11

came to Britain after she heard

there was a shortage of doctors in

0:26:110:26:14

the UK. Now she's struggling to get

a visa for her daughter, who is

0:26:140:26:18

currently living with her

grandparents in need of.

I graduated

0:26:180:26:22

in Egypt, and I wanted to train as a

doctor in the UK to -- her grand

0:26:220:26:26

parents in Egypt. I took certain

exams and I got to the GMC for

0:26:260:26:30

registration, then I got recruited

to fill in a gap.

She came on a tear

0:26:300:26:37

two visa. Workers. A husband is in

Saudi Arabia practising medicine.

0:26:370:26:40

But the Government will not give the

daughter permission to come here,

0:26:400:26:46

saying her application will not be

the criteria. It would be very

0:26:460:26:51

irresponsible of the Government not

to make checks and balances. What

0:26:510:26:53

would you say to that argument?

I

need somebody to explain to me, why

0:26:530:26:58

am I allowed to be a doctor in the

UK and are not allowed to bring my

0:26:580:27:02

child? While I'm perfectly capable

of funding her care, it's not a

0:27:020:27:05

burden at all on the British

Society.

The immigration rules say

0:27:050:27:10

both parents must be living in the

UK or have permission to live in the

0:27:100:27:14

UK when the child arrives. Amany

says her husband is planning to move

0:27:140:27:19

here later this year. The Royal

College of GPs recently wrote to the

0:27:190:27:24

Government asking for doctors

trained outside the EU to be given

0:27:240:27:27

extra help to tackle the doctor

shortages.

I talk to her every day,

0:27:270:27:30

but I miss the details. It's just

too hard to bear...

0:27:300:27:41

I don't understand the reason for

it. Like, why?

It's not clear

0:27:420:27:47

whether there is more to why the

application was rejected, but what

0:27:470:27:51

is clear is how much I Amany misses

her daughter. Sima Kotecher, BBC

0:27:510:27:57

News, Birmingham.

0:27:570:27:59

The actor John Mahoney,

best known for playing Martin Crane

0:27:590:28:02

in the American sitcom Frasier,

has died at the age of 77.

0:28:020:28:05

He was being cared for in

a hospice in Chicago.

0:28:050:28:07

John Mahoney, who was born

in Lancashire, starred

0:28:070:28:09

in Frasier for 11 years -

playing a grumpy retired policeman

0:28:090:28:14

who often outwitted his

two pretentious sons.

0:28:140:28:19

Hey, look who I found

at the airport.

0:28:190:28:21

Oh!

0:28:210:28:22

Welcome home, Dad.

0:28:220:28:23

So, how was Florida?

0:28:230:28:25

Oh, it was a whirlwind.

0:28:250:28:28

Duke and I hit the dog track

and then we met the Michael Jordan

0:28:280:28:34

of jai alai players at the Red

Lobster.

0:28:340:28:37

But the place I went back to most of

all was Captain Peter's Gator Farm.

0:28:370:28:41

Ah.

0:28:410:28:42

Did you go and see

the Hemingway home?

0:28:420:28:44

Well, you know, Fras',

you can't squeeze everything in.

0:28:440:28:46

John Mahoney, who has died aged 77.

0:28:460:28:52

Starting this lunchtime,

there's a new look to BBC Weather.

0:28:520:28:54

MeteoGroup will be providing us

with the latest data,

0:28:540:29:01

and there's a fresh design

to the way our forecasts

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are displayed on TV,

online and in the BBC's weather app.

0:29:040:29:06

Sarah Keith Lucas explains.

0:29:060:29:09

It's here in the BBC Weather Centre

where the new look forecasts have

0:29:100:29:13

been developed over recent months.

0:29:130:29:16

We know how important clear

and accurate forecasts are for you,

0:29:160:29:19

so we've been working closely

with our partners MeteoGroup

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to bring you the new graphics using

more data, as well as the latest

0:29:260:29:29

innovations in design technology

and forecasting science.

0:29:290:29:31

Simon Hunt is our creative director.

0:29:310:29:32

Now, Simon, talk us

through what the viewers can expect

0:29:320:29:35

to see with our new graphics?

0:29:350:29:37

What they will notice straightaway

is that the map looks different.

0:29:370:29:41

It's a high-resolution

map, and it's green.

0:29:410:29:48

If you go in closer on that, you can

see we've also got high-resolution

0:29:480:29:51

data for the weather.

0:29:510:29:52

We also have the ability to show

a 3D globe with weather on it,

0:29:520:29:56

which the presenters can move around

quite easily to create the editorial

0:29:560:29:59

story that they want to tell.

0:29:590:30:00

Some of the graphics

as well we're using,

0:30:000:30:02

so the outlook, for instance,

here shows quite clearly that

0:30:020:30:04

temperatures rise to the weekend

and then fall away afterwards.

0:30:040:30:07

So how's it all going

to look on the big screen?

0:30:070:30:09

Well, it'll look clean and fresh.

0:30:090:30:11

And one of our main concepts

when developing these graphics

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was the idea of a window

on the weather, so behind this

0:30:130:30:16

window you can see not only

the weather in the distance,

0:30:160:30:19

you can also see drops of rain

sitting on the pane of glass, here.

0:30:190:30:23

And as Simon was showing us,

we can now look at the weather

0:30:230:30:26

on a very localised scale.

0:30:260:30:27

For instance, let's zoom

into northern England,

0:30:270:30:29

and in this example you can see

quite clearly the showers falling

0:30:290:30:32

as rain, but also of snow over

the higher ground, too.

0:30:320:30:34

And it's not only on a smaller scale

that things are changing,

0:30:340:30:38

but also on the global scale, too.

0:30:380:30:40

We can now look at satellite data

from right around the world.

0:30:400:30:44

We can also add on pressure fields

and frontal systems, too.

0:30:440:30:48

We can even give you an indication

of when and where you might be

0:30:480:30:51

likely to see the Northern Lights.

0:30:510:30:53

And, of course, it's not only on TV

that things are changing.

0:30:530:30:55

We've also redeveloped our weather

app and our website, too.

0:30:550:30:58

Now, one of the main changes

is that our ten day forecast has

0:30:580:31:01

been replaced by a 14 day forecast.

0:31:010:31:03

We've also introduced the percentage

chance of rain by the hour.

0:31:030:31:10

This is going to help you keep up

to date with the latest weather,

0:31:100:31:13

and we hope you enjoy our new look.

0:31:130:31:20

So, it is all change with our

weather graphics, but the weather in

0:31:200:31:23

itself is not changing in a hurry.

We've still got this cold and wintry

0:31:230:31:27

theme that has been with us since

the beginning of the month. We've

0:31:270:31:31

had some great pictures in from all

weather watchers today. This comes

0:31:310:31:35

from Penrith in Cumbria, where there

has been about four centimetres of

0:31:350:31:38

snow, and it is edging further south

across the country. This afternoon,

0:31:380:31:42

we will continue with the cold

theme, and there will be some

0:31:420:31:53

theme, and there will be some more

wintry flurries. Let's start with

0:31:530:31:55

the satellite image, this is the

view from space looking down at the

0:31:550:31:57

club UK, you can see this band of

cloud is a slow-moving weather

0:31:570:31:59

front. That is producing quite a bit

of snow. This is the recent snowfall

0:31:590:32:03

radar showing where we have had snow

over the past few hours, tracking

0:32:030:32:05

south across parts of northern

England into Wales and the West

0:32:050:32:08

Country. We will continue to see

this band of cloud and snow showers.

0:32:080:32:13

It will feel cold if you are

underneath that frontal system, with

0:32:130:32:16

temperatures struggling to get much

above freezing. Either side of the

0:32:160:32:19

front, it is a bit milder. There is

still a mix of bright

0:32:190:32:30

still a mix of bright spells and

wintry showers. If we zoom in and

0:32:300:32:31

take a look at the regional detail,

first across Scotland you can see

0:32:310:32:34

the snow showers packing in from the

North West. Watch out for the icy

0:32:340:32:37

conditions, and a similar picture

across Northern Ireland. Sunshine in

0:32:370:32:39

southern Scotland, cloud from

northern England down towards the

0:32:390:32:41

Midlands, Wales and the south-west

of England, with snow showers likely

0:32:410:32:45

here and icy conditions. It is dry

and clearer towards the south-east.

0:32:450:32:49

You could see one or two flurries of

snow almost anywhere. In the

0:32:490:32:53

evening, the main bulk of cloud and

snow shift across East Anglia and

0:32:530:32:58

the south-east, a couple of

centimetres in East Anglia and a

0:32:580:33:01

dusting in London. Look at those

temperatures, as low as -6 or minus

0:33:010:33:06

seven degrees, even in the towns and

cities. Colder in the front that

0:33:060:33:09

brought us choose they's snow eases

towards the near continent --

0:33:090:33:16

Tuesday's snow. A very cold, icy

start to your Wednesday morning.

0:33:160:33:21

Sunshine for England and Wales, but

sky is clouding over Fort Scotland

0:33:210:33:27

and Northern Ireland, we will see

rain and hill snow here.

0:33:270:33:30

Temperatures a degree or so less

cold than they are today, but

0:33:300:33:33

certainly that wintry theme days

with us towards the end of the week.

0:33:330:33:36

It's going to be cold, there will be

further rain and Hillsdale and a

0:33:360:33:41

little but of sunshine. Remember,

you can keep up-to-date with the

0:33:410:33:44

weather by checking our updated

weather website and by attacking the

0:33:440:33:47

BBC weather app.

0:33:470:33:49

weather website and by attacking the

BBC weather app. Very snazzy new

0:33:490:33:53

graphics, Sarah,

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