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The Royal Family is drawn into the News Of The World phone hacking | :00:09. | :00:12. | |
scandal. The BBC learns of internal emails suggesting the paper tried | :00:13. | :00:15. | |
to buy their confidential phone numbers from a royal protection | :00:15. | :00:25. | |
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officer. If, as is alleged, somebody has taken money to | :00:26. | :00:29. | |
disclose telephone numbers not only of the Royal Family but the people | :00:29. | :00:33. | |
who work with them and for them and for their friends, it is an | :00:33. | :00:36. | |
appalling breach of security. allegations that the former Prime | :00:36. | :00:38. | |
Minister, Gordon Brown, was targetted by two other News | :00:38. | :00:41. | |
International papers. As pressure mounts, Rupert Murdoch's bid to | :00:41. | :00:47. | |
takeover the satellite broadcaster, BSkyB is referred to the regulators. | :00:47. | :00:52. | |
I am now going to refer this to the Competition Commission with | :00:52. | :00:58. | |
immediate effect, and will be writing to them this afternoon. | :00:58. | :01:03. | |
Speaker, on BSkyB, this Government is in complete disarray. Also on | :01:03. | :01:05. | |
tonight's programme: One of the country's biggest care home | :01:05. | :01:07. | |
operators is closing down, but thousands of residents are assured | :01:08. | :01:12. | |
new landlords will be found. The humanitarian emergency in East | :01:12. | :01:21. | |
Africa - the UN asks Kenya to open up this unused camp to refugees. We | :01:21. | :01:26. | |
are live in Tahrir Square, where the Egyptian revolution is at a | :01:26. | :01:30. | |
crossroads. Protesters keep up the pressure, saying their uprising is | :01:30. | :01:40. | |
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Good evening, welcome to the BBC News at Six. The News Of The World | :02:03. | :02:05. | |
phone hacking scandal has widened dramatically, with new evidence | :02:05. | :02:07. | |
suggesting that senior royals, including the Queen, and former | :02:07. | :02:12. | |
Prime Minister Gordon Brown, were targeted. The BBC has learnt of | :02:12. | :02:15. | |
emails which reveal the paper tried to pay a royal protection officer | :02:15. | :02:25. | |
for confidential phone numbers of the Royal Family. It's also been | :02:25. | :02:30. | |
alleged that other News International papers targeted | :02:30. | :02:33. | |
Gordon Brown. Brown. This afternoon, following the latest allegations, | :02:33. | :02:35. | |
the Government intervened and referred Rupert Murdoch's bid for | :02:35. | :02:37. | |
overall control of the satellite broadcaster BSkyB to the | :02:37. | :02:39. | |
Competition Commission. Our business editor, Robert Peston, has | :02:39. | :02:45. | |
the latest. The head of state, the Royal Family, her and her | :02:45. | :02:50. | |
protection is the duty of the royal protection branch. The integrity of | :02:50. | :02:53. | |
those officers must sure I will be beyond doubt, but this morning I | :02:53. | :02:59. | |
learned that e-mails uncovered by News International uncovered as | :02:59. | :03:05. | |
long ago as 2007 but kept secret alleged that royal protection | :03:05. | :03:08. | |
officers were paid for private information about the Royal Family. | :03:08. | :03:12. | |
It emerged that the phones of Prince Charles and the Duchess of | :03:12. | :03:15. | |
Prince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall may have been hacked. | :03:15. | :03:20. | |
Clive Goodman, the paper's disgraced Royal Editor, was | :03:20. | :03:24. | |
requesting cash from the newspaper's editor Andy Coulson to | :03:24. | :03:28. | |
buy a confidential directory called the Green Book of the Royal | :03:28. | :03:32. | |
Family's landline telephones numbers and all the numbers of the | :03:32. | :03:36. | |
household staff. The e-mail implys that the police officer in the | :03:36. | :03:40. | |
royal protection branch had stolen the directory and wanted �1,000 for | :03:40. | :03:42. | |
the directory and wanted �1,000 for it. We don't know the full facts | :03:42. | :03:47. | |
but if as is alleged somebody has taken money to disclose telephone | :03:47. | :03:50. | |
numbers not only of the Royal Family but people who work with | :03:50. | :03:54. | |
them and for them and their friends, it is an appalling breach of | :03:54. | :03:58. | |
security. These latest disclosures about systemic wrongdoing at the | :03:58. | :04:02. | |
News Of The World couldn't have come at a worse time for News | :04:02. | :04:07. | |
Corporation, because it is trying to buy all of one of the most | :04:07. | :04:11. | |
important media businesses in the UK, BSkyB. Although Rupert Murdoch | :04:11. | :04:15. | |
is credited as the founder of sky scirks News Corporation owns just | :04:15. | :04:21. | |
39% of it. The reason he wants 100% is because BSkyB is a growing | :04:21. | :04:25. | |
business, generating huge amounts of cash. This year's profits are | :04:25. | :04:29. | |
expected to be close to �1 billion. Whereas revenues of his famous | :04:29. | :04:33. | |
newspapers, those left after the closure of the News Of The World, | :04:33. | :04:40. | |
are under pressure. For the past year Mr Murdoch has been arguing | :04:40. | :04:45. | |
his take-over should be allowed to go through without a lengthy | :04:45. | :04:52. | |
investigation by the Competition Commission. This afternoon, in a | :04:52. | :04:56. | |
dramatic volte-face, Mr Murdoch withdrew the undertakings, in | :04:56. | :05:01. | |
effect asking for the deal to go to the Competition Commission, because | :05:01. | :05:04. | |
the delay in the take-over is better for them than the | :05:04. | :05:08. | |
alternative of abandoning it. result of News Corporation's | :05:08. | :05:13. | |
announcement this afternoon, I am now going to refer this to the | :05:13. | :05:16. | |
Competition Commission with immediate effect and will be | :05:17. | :05:20. | |
writing to them this afternoon. the Leader of the Opposition didn't | :05:20. | :05:24. | |
want the hear from Mr Hunt. Prime Minister was wrong not to | :05:24. | :05:29. | |
come to the House of Commons today. As on every occasion during this | :05:29. | :05:34. | |
crisis, he has failed to show the necessary leadership the country | :05:34. | :05:38. | |
expects. Here's what the Prime Minister said out of earshot of Mr | :05:38. | :05:42. | |
Miliband. All I would say is this. If I was running that company right | :05:42. | :05:46. | |
now, with all of the problems and the difficulties and the mess | :05:46. | :05:49. | |
frankly that there is, I think they should be focused on clearing those | :05:49. | :05:53. | |
up rather than on the next corporate move. Earlier in the day | :05:53. | :05:57. | |
the Deputy Prime Minister met the family of the murdered schoolgirl | :05:57. | :06:02. | |
Dowler doubt. It was the disclosure that her phone had been hacked by | :06:02. | :06:07. | |
News Of The World that it's so much damage to the reputation of Mr | :06:07. | :06:13. | |
Murdoch's company. That's when I remembered the bit about picking up | :06:13. | :06:18. | |
the voicemail. Did it give you the hope that maybe something... Yes, | :06:19. | :06:23. | |
it did. For Rupert Murdoch a week has been an eternity in business | :06:23. | :06:27. | |
and why a long delay in the BSkyB bid is now for him perhaps the best | :06:28. | :06:32. | |
he can hope for. The BBC has learnt that two other | :06:32. | :06:35. | |
News International papers allegedly targeted the former Prime Minister, | :06:35. | :06:37. | |
Gordon Brown. Documents and a telephone recording suggest illegal | :06:37. | :06:40. | |
attempts were made by the Sunday Times to obtain his private | :06:40. | :06:44. | |
financial and property details while he was Chancellor. The Brown | :06:44. | :06:47. | |
family are also worried that The Sun newspaper may have tried to get | :06:47. | :06:51. | |
hold of medical records relating to their son, Fraser. This report by | :06:51. | :06:54. | |
our home affairs correspondent, Tom Symonds, contains some flash | :06:54. | :07:03. | |
photography. The allegations relate to the period before Gordon Brown | :07:03. | :07:07. | |
became Prime Minister, when he was Chancellor, The Guardian of the | :07:07. | :07:11. | |
nation's finances. In 1992 he bought a flat in this block in | :07:11. | :07:15. | |
Westminster. Eight years later the Sunday Times ran this story, | :07:15. | :07:20. | |
suggesting it was purchased for a knockdown price. Now the BBC's | :07:20. | :07:24. | |
received this tape of a phone call to a law firm which appears to | :07:24. | :07:34. | |
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reveal how the information was Mr Beardall, the man interestinged | :07:47. | :07:54. | |
in the flat, was Barry Beardall, who was adept at getting | :07:54. | :07:59. | |
information in for the newspapers. He claimed -- it is claimed he | :07:59. | :08:04. | |
worked for Sunday Times. Somebody called Abbey National in Bradford | :08:04. | :08:11. | |
six times pretending to be Gordon Brown. Letters obtained by the BBC | :08:11. | :08:15. | |
show the Abbey wrote to Gordon Brown raising concerns that someone | :08:15. | :08:18. | |
was masquerading as him. A letter was drafted to Sunday Times, | :08:18. | :08:22. | |
setting out detailed concerns, though the Abbey send it couldn't | :08:22. | :08:27. | |
prove the paper was involved. All this goes beyond the original phone | :08:27. | :08:31. | |
hacking allegations to another of the dark arts of journalism - so- | :08:31. | :08:36. | |
called blagging. It works like this. A newspaper pays someone to ring up | :08:36. | :08:39. | |
perhaps a Medical Center or a bank and get the person who answers the | :08:39. | :08:42. | |
phone to give out private information. Being a blagger | :08:42. | :08:47. | |
require as steady nerve and a degree of acting ability. Obtaining | :08:48. | :08:52. | |
personal data, personal information about another person from a company | :08:52. | :08:58. | |
that controls that data, that has that data, that is quite clearly a | :08:58. | :09:02. | |
criminal offence. What is unclear is the extent to which a journalist | :09:02. | :09:06. | |
can say I have a defence to that, because I'm doing this, I'm | :09:06. | :09:09. | |
obtaining that information in the public interest. One of the most | :09:09. | :09:14. | |
disturbing incidents for the Browns surrounded their son Fraser, here | :09:14. | :09:21. | |
in the arms of his fear in 2006. A Sun article revealed he had cystic | :09:21. | :09:26. | |
fibrosis. The Browns are understood to be worried that information was | :09:26. | :09:36. | |
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They were told Mr Brown's details were in the notebooks of | :09:41. | :09:43. | |
investigator Glenn Mulcaire. News International says it is | :09:43. | :09:48. | |
investigating the allegations. James Landale is at Westminster. | :09:48. | :09:53. | |
James, we've had more revelations today and this decision to send the | :09:53. | :09:57. | |
BSkyB take-over bid back to the regulators. Where does it leave the | :09:57. | :10:01. | |
Government? Is it off the hook? don't think it is off the hook but | :10:02. | :10:06. | |
it's got itself more breathing space today. The referral to the | :10:06. | :10:09. | |
Competition Commission creates an automatic six month-plus breathing | :10:09. | :10:14. | |
space. In the Government sitting on its hands looking at consultations | :10:14. | :10:18. | |
but a formal pause whereby any decision is taken out of its hands. | :10:18. | :10:21. | |
The Government has tried to give itself political space. The Prime | :10:21. | :10:24. | |
Minister said if he was Rupert Murdoch he was concentrate on | :10:24. | :10:27. | |
clearing up the mess of News International, not the next | :10:27. | :10:31. | |
corporate move. The Deputy Prime Minister saying more explicitly | :10:31. | :10:34. | |
that Rupert Murdoch should just drop the bid. The Government this | :10:34. | :10:37. | |
afternoon in the House of Commons came under the most extraordinary | :10:37. | :10:42. | |
political pressure. Above all the Labour leader, Ed Miliband, | :10:42. | :10:45. | |
questioning David Cameron's account of how he came to employ Andy | :10:45. | :10:49. | |
Coulson, the former editor of News Of The World, as his head of | :10:49. | :10:53. | |
communications. Mr Miliband said it beggars belief that Mr Cameron's | :10:53. | :10:58. | |
officials did not pass on warnings agent Andy Coulson to the Prime | :10:58. | :11:01. | |
Minister. He added this, issue goes to the heart of the Prime | :11:01. | :11:04. | |
Minister's integrity, which is parliamentary integrity for saying, | :11:04. | :11:09. | |
I don't believe you. The Conservatives said Labour had done | :11:09. | :11:13. | |
nothing about this in their years in office. But tonight it is Labour | :11:13. | :11:17. | |
MPs in the Commons who've got their tails up. | :11:17. | :11:21. | |
In other news: The Government is trying to reassure more than 30,000 | :11:21. | :11:24. | |
care home residents after the news that one of the country's biggest | :11:24. | :11:27. | |
care operators is closing down. Southern Cross owns more than 750 | :11:27. | :11:30. | |
residential homes. It says it hopes to transfer all of them to new | :11:31. | :11:33. | |
landlords. The Department of Health says no-one will be made homeless. | :11:33. | :11:41. | |
Here's our social affairs correspondent, Alison Holt. 31,000 | :11:41. | :11:44. | |
elderly and vulnerable people rely on Southern Cross for their care | :11:45. | :11:51. | |
and security. Its multi-million pound losss have led to months of | :11:51. | :11:55. | |
uncertainty about the future of the homes it runs in the UK. But today | :11:55. | :12:00. | |
it announced it is handing them back to the landlords who own them. | :12:00. | :12:04. | |
Brian's wife Doreen is in one of the homes. She has Alzheimer's. He | :12:04. | :12:08. | |
wants to know what today's announcement will mean for | :12:08. | :12:13. | |
individual residents. He is worried that some homes will close. | :12:13. | :12:18. | |
trauma if they had to move could have fatal consequences. It could | :12:18. | :12:24. | |
hasten their deaths. They are very unwell people. So, what will | :12:24. | :12:27. | |
today's announcement mean in practice for Southern Cross care | :12:27. | :12:32. | |
homes? The company runs 752 homes. They are owned by 80 landlords. A | :12:32. | :12:36. | |
few of the larger landlords already operate care homes, so they are | :12:36. | :12:41. | |
expected to take over the running of about 250 Southern Cross homes. | :12:41. | :12:45. | |
But that leaves just over 5 00 where decisions need to be made | :12:45. | :12:51. | |
about their future. The company insists there will be continuity of | :12:51. | :12:56. | |
care. Our obligation and our responsibility is to ensure that | :12:56. | :13:00. | |
every single member of staff has a safeguarded job going forward in | :13:00. | :13:05. | |
the care home, that every resident is well cared for. We will ensure | :13:05. | :13:10. | |
ta the process of transitioning homes to new operators very well | :13:10. | :13:12. | |
organised. Most people in care homes are funded by local | :13:12. | :13:17. | |
authorities. They now want to see what in means on a home by home | :13:17. | :13:22. | |
basis. Peter Hay has been representing the authorities during | :13:22. | :13:26. | |
negotiations with Southern Cross. This has been and remains an | :13:26. | :13:31. | |
anxious time for residents and relatives. Today really starts to | :13:31. | :13:36. | |
build a position where we'll have a clear idea of a timeline for | :13:36. | :13:40. | |
residents and relatives about knowing what the proposals are at | :13:40. | :13:49. | |
their care home. He insists that few homes will close but unions say | :13:49. | :13:52. | |
there is too much uncertainty to know. Our concern is that the | :13:52. | :13:56. | |
decision made by the landlords could mean out of the frying pan | :13:56. | :13:59. | |
and into the fire. There is very little-known about many of the | :13:59. | :14:02. | |
landlords. A number of them already have financial difficulties. | :14:02. | :14:07. | |
Government promises no-one will be left homeless or without care. Even | :14:07. | :14:10. | |
so, residents still want certainty about what will happen to their | :14:10. | :14:20. | |
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The Home Secretary, Theresa May, said the change didn't mean the | :14:20. | :14:23. | |
overall threat had gone away and that a terrorist attack remains a | :14:23. | :14:28. | |
strong possibility. There are five levels of threat, a raging from low | :14:28. | :14:34. | |
- meaning an attack is unlikely - to critical, - meaning one is | :14:34. | :14:40. | |
likely. An overloaded tourist boat sank on the Volga River in Russia. | :14:40. | :14:44. | |
More than 120 people are feared dead and dozens of children are | :14:44. | :14:48. | |
still missing, since the boat capsized on Sunday. Tomorrow will | :14:48. | :14:52. | |
be a day of mourning across Russia for the victims. There's been a | :14:52. | :14:55. | |
huge response from the British public to the drought in East | :14:55. | :15:01. | |
Africa, with �9 million donated in the last 48 hours. The UN says it's | :15:01. | :15:06. | |
a humanitarian emergency and it is urging Kenya to open up a refugee | :15:06. | :15:09. | |
camp completed last year but never used. The Kenyan government fears | :15:10. | :15:13. | |
the facilities might discourage refugees from returning home. At | :15:13. | :15:18. | |
the moment, more than 350,000 people are sheltering in the nearby | :15:18. | :15:26. | |
Dadaab Ref -- refugee camp. And still they come, the weary and | :15:26. | :15:31. | |
hungry. More than 1000 people turn up at the refugee camp every day. | :15:31. | :15:37. | |
Some having walked for weeks. This woman's story is tragic yet | :15:37. | :15:41. | |
depressingly familiar. The drought in Somalia drove her here but her | :15:41. | :15:47. | |
husband was too ill to travel. He told me, save yourself, save our | :15:47. | :15:52. | |
children, don't stay around here to die. Some in her village were | :15:52. | :15:56. | |
already dead. But too many refugees are now converging on this camp. | :15:56. | :16:03. | |
Built to hold 90,000 people, almost 400,000 have now called at home. | :16:03. | :16:08. | |
And yet a short drive away another refugee camps it's empty. The local | :16:08. | :16:12. | |
authority allowed the UN to build this place last year. There's | :16:12. | :16:17. | |
enough water on tap for 80,000 people. But the government in | :16:17. | :16:21. | |
Nairobi, fearing refugees might not want to return home, stopped | :16:21. | :16:26. | |
construction and shut the place. Meanwhile, at the Dadaab camp, the | :16:26. | :16:30. | |
woman has collected her sleeping bags, pots and pans and her little | :16:30. | :16:40. | |
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food. When she will see her husband again, no one knows. Our top story | :16:40. | :16:43. | |
- new evidence suggests that the personal details of senior royals | :16:43. | :16:48. | |
were sold to the News of the World by a royal protection officer. | :16:48. | :16:54. | |
Coming up... You can stick your Tory cats. Thousands of council | :16:55. | :16:59. | |
workers in Southampton have until tonight to accept a pay cut or face | :16:59. | :17:05. | |
redundancy. News Corp share price slides. Fresh allegations come to | :17:05. | :17:09. | |
light about wrongdoing at its papers. And the euro debt crisis | :17:09. | :17:19. | |
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spreads. There are now fears over It's now six months since the Arab | :17:21. | :17:25. | |
spring exploded across North Africa and the Middle East. The toppling | :17:25. | :17:30. | |
of Tunisia's President in January triggered a spring of uprisings. | :17:30. | :17:33. | |
But now many who took part are asking whether they've got the | :17:33. | :17:37. | |
change they wanted. We'll be hearing from them this week. We've | :17:37. | :17:44. | |
been gauging the mood in Cairo's famous Tahrir Square. | :17:44. | :17:48. | |
Good evening. This patch of hot, dusty land in the middle of Cairo | :17:48. | :17:53. | |
has come to symbolise the hopes and dreams of people, not just here in | :17:53. | :17:58. | |
this city but right across the region. In the last few days the | :17:58. | :18:01. | |
placards, slogans and protesters, they are back in their thousands, | :18:01. | :18:09. | |
because many believe their uprising is in the protest of being betrayed. | :18:09. | :18:13. | |
These people have been shouting the loudest. But what about those who | :18:13. | :18:18. | |
don't come to Tahrir Square? Those people who are just trying to earn | :18:18. | :18:23. | |
an honest day's living - what do they think about this revolution? | :18:23. | :18:29. | |
We travelled on a commuter bus across town to find out. Hot, dusty | :18:29. | :18:36. | |
and crowded. Life up for Cairo's 8 million people has always been | :18:36. | :18:42. | |
hectic. Now add to that political uncertainty. The daily commute has | :18:42. | :18:47. | |
become a daily debate. There is one man who ought to know what people | :18:47. | :18:51. | |
are talking about and thinking about, it's the bus conductor. I'm | :18:51. | :18:57. | |
going to see if we can talk to him. Five or six months ago, did you | :18:57. | :19:01. | |
even hear the word democracy on this bus? | :19:01. | :19:08. | |
TRANSLATION: It was all hush hush. Nobody wanted to talk about those | :19:08. | :19:15. | |
things. The state had eyes and ears everywhere, he said. Many people | :19:15. | :19:21. | |
look at a police officer and they link you to the old regime. Do you | :19:21. | :19:31. | |
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think that is fair? He says they were just doing their job. All | :19:31. | :19:38. | |
change at one of Cairo's many markets. The uprising has affected | :19:38. | :19:42. | |
the economy - prices are soaring and the new minimum wage is not | :19:42. | :19:52. | |
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keeping pace. The local cellars say takings are down. Nothing is | :19:53. | :19:59. | |
happening, he says, the market is empty and there's no work. My day, | :19:59. | :20:05. | |
and I joined the regulars at the nearby coffee house. The | :20:05. | :20:09. | |
conversation went from sport to politics. Many fear the revolution | :20:09. | :20:19. | |
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is being subverted, that fundamental change is slipping away. | :20:25. | :20:32. | |
The regime has gone now. No. Time to head back into town. I was left | :20:32. | :20:36. | |
feeling that ordinary Egyptians were losing patience. That change | :20:36. | :20:43. | |
will come slowly, says Fatma. hope all the problem will be solved. | :20:43. | :20:49. | |
So it's tough now but you hope it's going to get better? Insha Allah, | :20:49. | :20:57. | |
we hope for the best. The burned- out shell of the former party | :20:57. | :21:01. | |
headquarters towers over Tahrir Square. The Old and New Order. The | :21:01. | :21:07. | |
battle between them is still not over. That is why many people here, | :21:07. | :21:11. | |
even in Tahrir Square, are talking about their revolution being at a | :21:11. | :21:15. | |
crossroads. It's beginning to dawn on these thousands of protesters | :21:15. | :21:22. | |
that getting rid of Mubarak all those months of a -- ago may have | :21:22. | :21:25. | |
been the easy part. Rebuilding a new Egypt, that's turning out to be | :21:25. | :21:30. | |
a much bigger challenge than any of them imagined. I will have more at | :21:30. | :21:33. | |
Ten when Jeremy Bowen will be reporting from Tunisia, which is | :21:33. | :21:39. | |
the country where this great Arab uprising actually began. For now, | :21:39. | :21:45. | |
back to the studio. Here, David Cameron has been outlining the | :21:45. | :21:48. | |
Government's plans to reform public sector services, including those | :21:48. | :21:52. | |
provided by local councils. The Prime Minister says he wants the | :21:52. | :21:54. | |
public sector opened up to competitions from business, | :21:54. | :21:58. | |
charities and the voluntary sector, and that his plans were driven by a | :21:58. | :22:04. | |
determination to get things done. We want to see democracy on a | :22:04. | :22:07. | |
properly local scale. You on the people you know, the people you | :22:07. | :22:11. | |
waved to on your way to work, they are going to have genuine control | :22:11. | :22:15. | |
over the things that matter to you. Improvements to your streets, | :22:15. | :22:20. | |
Rhodes, local parks. Meanwhile, thousands of council workers in | :22:20. | :22:23. | |
Southampton have until tonight to accept a pay cut or face redundancy. | :22:23. | :22:27. | |
The council wants them to sign new employment contract, saying that | :22:27. | :22:31. | |
will save on the number of redundancies it will make. But the | :22:31. | :22:34. | |
unite union claims the council could be planning to sack up to a | :22:34. | :22:39. | |
quarter of its workforce anyway. Seven weeks into an increasingly | :22:39. | :22:43. | |
bitter dispute, they can be no ignoring the impact it is having on | :22:43. | :22:50. | |
daily life here. You can stick your Tory cats! Council staff have been | :22:50. | :22:55. | |
given until tonight to sign new contracts accepting pay cuts, which | :22:55. | :22:59. | |
their employers claim will save a 400 jobs and protect services. Most | :22:59. | :23:04. | |
are expected to sign but remain concerned at reports that wider and | :23:04. | :23:07. | |
deeper cuts are yet to come. It's not just for us, it's got up and | :23:07. | :23:12. | |
down the country. If we don't make a stand now, it makes us look weak | :23:12. | :23:16. | |
and makes all the other councils look weak. And at the policy | :23:16. | :23:19. | |
adopted by SAT Pontins conservative controlled council has been growing | :23:19. | :23:23. | |
since the proposal to cut pay was approved earlier this year. | :23:23. | :23:29. | |
those in favour. Against. Today's escalation of strike action has hit | :23:29. | :23:33. | |
virtually every department and could disrupt operations at the | :23:33. | :23:37. | |
city's docks. But the council leader maintains that the �25 | :23:37. | :23:40. | |
million reduction in Southampton's but it leaves him with no option. | :23:40. | :23:43. | |
think that people can see that people in work on slightly less | :23:43. | :23:47. | |
money is better than people being on the dole queue looking for a job. | :23:47. | :23:52. | |
Not only that, but those people who provide valuable services can | :23:52. | :23:56. | |
continue to provide valuable services to the taxpayer. Unions | :23:56. | :23:59. | |
and councillors are only too aware that others are taking a keen | :23:59. | :24:03. | |
interest in this dispute. Shropshire County Council, facing | :24:03. | :24:06. | |
�76 million worth of savings, has already followed Southampton's lead | :24:06. | :24:12. | |
- a strategy which may tempt yet more hard-pressed local authorities. | :24:12. | :24:17. | |
The moment two classic US fighter planes collided during an air | :24:17. | :24:19. | |
display in Cambridgeshire has been caught on video. One of the planes | :24:19. | :24:24. | |
plummeted to the ground after their wings touched, forcing the pilot to | :24:24. | :24:27. | |
parachute to safety. The pilot of the other plane managed to land | :24:27. | :24:31. | |
safely. No one was injured at the accident at an airshow near Duxford | :24:31. | :24:36. | |
at the weekend. More on our main news. The BBC learn today that the | :24:36. | :24:39. | |
News of the World e-mails suggest that the paper tried to buy the | :24:39. | :24:42. | |
confidential telephone numbers of senior royals from a royal | :24:42. | :24:46. | |
protection officer. There are also allegations that the former Prime | :24:46. | :24:49. | |
Minister, Gordon Brown, was targeted by two other News | :24:49. | :24:52. | |
International papers. Rupert Murdoch's bid to take over BSkyB | :24:52. | :24:58. | |
has now been referred to the regulators. With me is our business | :24:58. | :25:02. | |
editor, Robert Peston. The allegations continue. Where does | :25:02. | :25:06. | |
this leave News International? understand the full significance of | :25:06. | :25:10. | |
these events today, one has to go back a week. A week ago, Rupert | :25:10. | :25:13. | |
Murdoch was confident that within days he would get approval from | :25:13. | :25:19. | |
Jeremy Hunt brought his cherished desire to own all of British Sky | :25:19. | :25:23. | |
Broadcasting. And that 100 % of the UK's biggest broadcaster would be | :25:23. | :25:28. | |
his within a matter of a few short months. Then we have that shocking | :25:28. | :25:32. | |
disclosure that the News of the World had hacked into the mobile | :25:32. | :25:37. | |
phone of the dead schoolgirl, Milly Dowler. And then we had Gorry | :25:37. | :25:41. | |
revelation after Corey revelation about other malpractices at the | :25:41. | :25:44. | |
News of the World, culminating today in the disclosure that he | :25:44. | :25:48. | |
tried to buy confidential information about the Royal Family | :25:48. | :25:53. | |
from a police officer whose job it was to protect the Royal Family. So | :25:53. | :25:58. | |
what does Rupert Murdoch do today? He volunteers that the bid should | :25:58. | :26:01. | |
be referred to the Competition Commission, which means there will | :26:01. | :26:05. | |
be a delay of at least six months two years before the take up a can | :26:05. | :26:10. | |
happen. That is precisely what he'd been fighting against for the past | :26:10. | :26:13. | |
year. What does it tell you? It tells you quite what Dire Straits | :26:13. | :26:19. | |
he is in. For him, a delay in the takeover means there is still a | :26:19. | :26:23. | |
chance - maybe not a big chance -- he will get his dream of owning all | :26:23. | :26:26. | |
of BSkyB, but that is better than doing what many politicians wanted | :26:26. | :26:30. | |
him to do, which was to abandon that takeover altogether. What a | :26:30. | :26:40. | |
difference for Rupert Murdoch just Before we and the programme, let's | :26:40. | :26:49. | |
Most of us are having a delightful end to the day. But there are some | :26:49. | :26:52. | |
notable exceptions. A few sharp showers knocking about. Just to the | :26:52. | :26:56. | |
north of Glasgow are some heavy and thundery ones. They are lying down | :26:56. | :27:01. | |
into parts of north-east England as well. One of two patches of Mr and | :27:01. | :27:06. | |
low cloud through the night as temperatures he's down. We will | :27:06. | :27:10. | |
stay in double figures for the most part. Tomorrow will stay fine and | :27:10. | :27:17. | |
dry in many places. Again, there will be some local variations. In | :27:17. | :27:24. | |
south-east England you can see what is knocking on the door. As we get | :27:24. | :27:27. | |
into the middle of the afternoon across north east England, here we | :27:27. | :27:31. | |
will stay largely fine and dry with some good spells of sunshine. | :27:31. | :27:35. | |
Although there will be a few showers across Scotland, they won't | :27:35. | :27:38. | |
be with the intensity and as widespread as we've seen recently. | :27:38. | :27:43. | |
There's a good chance for Scotland and Northern Ireland to dodge the | :27:43. | :27:47. | |
showers and stay dry. For Wales, particularly southern areas, some | :27:47. | :27:51. | |
heavy showers getting going through the afternoon with the band and | :27:51. | :27:54. | |
lightning. You could see some torrential downpours. Just a few | :27:55. | :28:00. | |
miles away it stays entirely dry. Moving towards the south-east, more | :28:00. | :28:04. | |
generally cloudy and rain pushing up from France. Uncertainty about | :28:04. | :28:08. | |
how far north-west it gets. We could see quite a bit of rain into | :28:08. | :28:14. | |
Essex as well through tomorrow night and Wednesday. Most of us | :28:14. | :28:18. | |
will have another fine day on Wednesday. Broken cloud, sunshine | :28:18. | :28:26. | |
and a few showers. Beyond that, it stays largely fine through Thursday | :28:26. | :28:31. | |
but it looks as if things go downhill as we approach the weekend, | :28:31. | :28:39. |