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The Prime Minister praises the courts for handing out stiff | :00:05. | :00:09. | |
sentences to rioters despite concerns about the severity of some | :00:09. | :00:13. | |
jail terms. After the worst violence in England | :00:13. | :00:17. | |
for decades, David Cameron defends the courts as some are accused of | :00:17. | :00:21. | |
knee-jerk reactions to satisfy the public's anger. What happened on | :00:21. | :00:24. | |
our streets was absolutely appalling behaviour and to send a | :00:24. | :00:27. | |
clear message is wrong that it won't be tolerated is what our | :00:27. | :00:30. | |
criminal justice system should be doing. Some are tougher than others. | :00:30. | :00:33. | |
A three-month curfew are to this teenager but these men get four | :00:33. | :00:37. | |
years in jail for trying to incite riots on Facebook. Now the appeals | :00:37. | :00:46. | |
begin. He was having a laugh on Facebook, | :00:46. | :00:51. | |
and it's only a group on Facebook. A Royal visit for London, Prince | :00:51. | :00:55. | |
Charles pace tribute to the communities affected. It's a small | :00:55. | :00:59. | |
minority that created this mayhem which has shocked so many people. | :00:59. | :01:03. | |
But there are wonderful characters out there who do such fantastic | :01:03. | :01:08. | |
work. Also: An unexpected rise in the number of people out of work. | :01:08. | :01:12. | |
Almost 2.5 million now unemployed. Killed by a shark on his honeymoon | :01:12. | :01:16. | |
in the Seychelles, Ian Redmond's wife pays a moving tribute to her | :01:16. | :01:20. | |
husband. And the experts trying to breathe | :01:20. | :01:25. | |
fresh life into Britain's vanishing lowland meadows. | :01:25. | :01:30. | |
Coming later in sport: A blow for the England rugby team because | :01:30. | :01:33. | |
scrum-half Danny Kay is injured and will miss the rugby World Cup | :01:33. | :01:43. | |
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starting in three weeks in New Good evening, welcome to the BBC | :01:51. | :01:55. | |
News at Six. The Prime Minister has praised the courts for handing out | :01:56. | :01:58. | |
tough sentences to some of those involved in last week's riots. | :01:58. | :02:03. | |
Yesterday two men were jailed for four years for using Facebook to | :02:03. | :02:07. | |
try to incite rioting and another was given 18 months in prison for | :02:07. | :02:12. | |
having a stolen TV in his car. But concerns have been raised about the | :02:12. | :02:15. | |
severity of some some jail terms with some lawyers and campaigners | :02:15. | :02:19. | |
calling it a knee-jerk reaction leading to bad sentences. Tonight | :02:19. | :02:23. | |
one of those jailed has said he plans to appeal. Our correspondent | :02:23. | :02:28. | |
Chris Buckler reports. This teenager tried to start a riot, | :02:28. | :02:32. | |
but he walked free from court in Suffolk today having been given a | :02:32. | :02:36. | |
night time curfew. However, yesterday these two Cheshire men | :02:36. | :02:39. | |
were jailed for four years for the same crime, using the football | :02:39. | :02:44. | |
website to try -- football website to try to incite violence. There | :02:44. | :02:47. | |
There were different circumstances but the longer jail terms have | :02:47. | :02:51. | |
proved controversial. Including here in Northwich. Online Jordan | :02:51. | :02:55. | |
Blackshaw threatened to smash down this town. But his friends say the | :02:55. | :02:57. | |
courts have ignored that the trouble didn't happen. He was | :02:57. | :03:03. | |
having a laugh on Facebook, and the police, really for nothing, it's a | :03:03. | :03:08. | |
little group on Facebook. People haven't got big sentences that have | :03:08. | :03:12. | |
got caught for it, done the riots. And he is getting four years for | :03:12. | :03:16. | |
nothing. According to sentencing guidelines inciting violent | :03:16. | :03:20. | |
disorder carries a maximum sentence of five years. The minimum could be | :03:20. | :03:23. | |
a non-custodial sentence. But if a guideline prevents the correct | :03:23. | :03:28. | |
sentence from being given, in an exceptional case the judge can | :03:28. | :03:32. | |
sentence outside of that guideline. Some solicitors claim the usual | :03:32. | :03:36. | |
weight is not being given to mitigating factors such as having a | :03:36. | :03:40. | |
clean record, showing remorse, or pleading guilty at an early stage | :03:40. | :03:44. | |
in court proceedings. And judges here have made clear that there | :03:44. | :03:48. | |
will be longer sentences because of the aggravating factor that the | :03:48. | :03:52. | |
offences were committed during widespread disturbances. What | :03:52. | :03:54. | |
happened on our streets was absolutely appalling behaviour and | :03:54. | :03:59. | |
to send a clear message is wrong that it won't be tolerated is what | :03:59. | :04:01. | |
our criminal justice system should be doing. But those who have | :04:01. | :04:04. | |
already been sentenced could return to court, some are planning to | :04:04. | :04:08. | |
appeal the jail terms they've been given. I would expect the Court of | :04:08. | :04:12. | |
Appeal to be asked very soon to provide a guideline case or cases | :04:12. | :04:17. | |
so that judges can provide consistent if severe sentences | :04:17. | :04:21. | |
around the country. Perry Sutcliffe-Keenan went to prison | :04:21. | :04:26. | |
after calling online for a riot. It did cause some of the town shops to | :04:26. | :04:32. | |
close early. There's little simple fee for -- sympathy for his | :04:32. | :04:35. | |
sentence. You can't start affecting people's lives and businesses and | :04:35. | :04:39. | |
scaring innocent people. With many still to be sentenced, there are | :04:39. | :04:43. | |
families worried, including this mother whose 14-year-old boy has | :04:43. | :04:47. | |
been remanded in custody. He admitted stealing a baseball cap. | :04:47. | :04:50. | |
Those people who instigated the thing, people who were making | :04:50. | :04:54. | |
people go down there, people like that definitely treated more harsh | :04:54. | :04:58. | |
but not people who got caught up in it all, maybe just, I don't know, a | :04:58. | :05:03. | |
moment of madness. In the city's damaged by by riots there are many | :05:03. | :05:06. | |
families shocked at the swift harsh justice that the Government | :05:06. | :05:08. | |
promised and they've questioned whether there should be any | :05:08. | :05:14. | |
pressure from the politicians. Joining us now from Westminster is | :05:14. | :05:18. | |
our political correspondent Vicky Young. One man already tonight | :05:18. | :05:21. | |
saying he is going to appeal his sentence. We have heard tough words | :05:21. | :05:24. | |
from David Cameron, but does he have the political backing in this? | :05:24. | :05:27. | |
Up to a point. All the politicians agree that the courts are | :05:27. | :05:30. | |
independent, the riots were exceptional circumstances, so it's | :05:30. | :05:34. | |
not surprising that the sentences were pretty tough but there's a | :05:34. | :05:36. | |
definite difference on emphasis between the Conservatives and | :05:36. | :05:39. | |
Liberal Democrats in particular. David Cameron there openly | :05:39. | :05:42. | |
welcoming these tougher sentences. Today we have been starting to get | :05:42. | :05:45. | |
gentle words of warning from Liberal Democrats, if you listen to | :05:45. | :05:48. | |
what they've been saying, sentences should be proportionate and | :05:48. | :05:53. | |
appropriate. There should be no knee-jerk reactions and Sir Menzies | :05:53. | :05:57. | |
Campbell saying politicians shouldn't be booing or cheering | :05:57. | :06:01. | |
sentences. Yes punishment is important, they also want to look | :06:01. | :06:04. | |
at rehabilitation and Nick Clegg is concentrating on the communities | :06:04. | :06:08. | |
saying that's where the damage has been done, those who have done the | :06:08. | :06:11. | |
damage should go back, look at victims and apologise and clean up | :06:11. | :06:13. | |
the mess. There are some Conservatives who would agree with | :06:13. | :06:17. | |
that, but you won't hear many of them making that argument at the | :06:17. | :06:20. | |
moment. Thank you. The Prince of Wales and the Duchess | :06:20. | :06:24. | |
of Cornwall have been visiting areas of London hit by the riots. | :06:24. | :06:27. | |
Prince Charles said his charity, The Prince's Trust, is to double | :06:27. | :06:33. | |
its spending on youth projects in riot affected areas. The couple met | :06:33. | :06:39. | |
some of the residents who have lost homes and businesses. | :06:39. | :06:42. | |
They broken off from the Royal Family's holiday in Scotland for | :06:42. | :06:45. | |
the day to see for themselves what the riots had done to London. | :06:45. | :06:50. | |
In Croydon they saw the ruins of small businesses, mostly shops run | :06:50. | :06:57. | |
by families destroyed by the rioters. His most striking | :06:57. | :07:01. | |
impression? The sheer terror people experienced and still the unease is | :07:01. | :07:05. | |
there wondering what might happen at any stage, but I think the other | :07:05. | :07:11. | |
thing is important to remember is, many were saying, it's a small | :07:11. | :07:19. | |
minority created this mayhem. Tottenham in north London, where | :07:19. | :07:23. | |
the spark had first been ignited, they met some of the 45 families | :07:23. | :07:28. | |
who lost their homes. Have you lost everything? Everything. All your | :07:28. | :07:33. | |
clothes? Clothes, jewellery and artwork. They met members of the | :07:33. | :07:36. | |
emergency services, the policemen and women who had done their best | :07:36. | :07:41. | |
against what had often been impossible odds. And the ambulance | :07:41. | :07:47. | |
and firecrews who also found themselves on the frontline. And | :07:47. | :07:51. | |
then in Hackney the Prince sat down with youth leaders to discuss what | :07:51. | :07:57. | |
had gone wrong. First, the problem of gangs. Half the problem is | :07:57. | :08:01. | |
people join gangs because it's a cry for help. They're looking for a | :08:01. | :08:06. | |
framework, a sense of belonging and meaning. Too many young people had | :08:06. | :08:10. | |
too much undirected energy and aggression, he said. The challenge | :08:10. | :08:14. | |
was to use it positively. I have been trying the last 30 years to | :08:14. | :08:16. | |
suggest we should have a national community service, which would | :08:16. | :08:21. | |
allow a series of options for young people to do all sorts of things | :08:21. | :08:26. | |
depending on their own skills and abilities and talents. It was time | :08:26. | :08:31. | |
the Prince said to get to the heart of the problem. All we have been | :08:31. | :08:34. | |
doing is tinkering with the symptoms for a lot time and not | :08:34. | :08:40. | |
getting to the root cause. Make no mistake, these are matters the | :08:40. | :08:45. | |
Prince of Wales cares deeply about and on which he is not afraid to | :08:45. | :08:49. | |
intervene. The problems of the inner cities, the problems of | :08:49. | :08:52. | |
disadvantaged young people are precisely what the Prince's | :08:52. | :08:56. | |
charities were set up to tackle in the first place. And The Prince's | :08:56. | :09:00. | |
Trust in particular is responding to what happened last week. The | :09:00. | :09:04. | |
response to the riots of The Prince's Trust is to double its | :09:04. | :09:11. | |
spending on projects in London, Birmingham and Manchester. | :09:11. | :09:15. | |
Britain's lacklustre recovery is taking its toll on the job market | :09:15. | :09:20. | |
with the number of people out of work up by 38,000 between April and | :09:20. | :09:23. | |
June. Just under 2.5 million people are now unemployed. The figures | :09:23. | :09:28. | |
also show that the number of women out of work has risen by 21,000, | :09:28. | :09:31. | |
taking the total to just over a million, that's the highest level | :09:31. | :09:36. | |
for more than 23 years. Here's our chief economics correspondent Hugh | :09:36. | :09:39. | |
Pym. Economic headlines haven't brought | :09:39. | :09:43. | |
much cheer recently. Slugish growth was reported for April, May and | :09:43. | :09:48. | |
June. The eurozone crisis saw shares plunge and today we have | :09:48. | :09:54. | |
learned unemployment is up. The number of young people out of work | :09:54. | :09:56. | |
has increased. This group is getting advice on how to prepare | :09:56. | :10:00. | |
for job interviews. It's part of the Government's work programme for | :10:00. | :10:05. | |
the long-term unemployed. Perry Godfrey has been signing on for two | :10:05. | :10:08. | |
years, getting his break just hasn't happened yet. I have applied | :10:08. | :10:14. | |
for loads of jobs, I have lost count to be honest. But I walk in | :10:14. | :10:20. | |
personally, hand in CVs and apply online. What response do you get? | :10:20. | :10:24. | |
go online and there's no work. do you feel about that? I feel | :10:25. | :10:28. | |
frustrated but I keep plugging away, keep my head up and hopefully | :10:28. | :10:32. | |
something will come out of it. Growth will help create jobs and | :10:32. | :10:35. | |
today the Chancellor was at looking for it. He was launching new | :10:35. | :10:41. | |
enterprise zones, designed to boost new employment. Today's | :10:41. | :10:44. | |
unemployment figures are disappointing, I have to say with | :10:44. | :10:48. | |
what's going on ined world and the world markets they're not entirely | :10:48. | :10:51. | |
unexpected. There's some good news, that employment, in other words, | :10:51. | :10:54. | |
people in work, that number is still going up. We are creating | :10:54. | :10:58. | |
jobs in this economy. And that was borne out with Scottish Power today | :10:58. | :11:02. | |
announcing a major investment programme which it says will | :11:02. | :11:06. | |
generate 1500 jobs. It's great news for Scotland because we are | :11:06. | :11:09. | |
creating new highly skilled jobs in Scotland and these are jobs that | :11:09. | :11:12. | |
are going to be there for the long- term and in addition to that I | :11:12. | :11:16. | |
think the whole energy sector is going through an investment boom. | :11:16. | :11:20. | |
Over there at the Bank of England they've become more concerned in | :11:20. | :11:23. | |
recent weeks about the subdued outlook for growth and we learned | :11:23. | :11:27. | |
today that two members of the key policy-making committee at the | :11:27. | :11:30. | |
recent meeting changed their minds and instead of voting to increase | :11:30. | :11:35. | |
interest rates as before, opted to leave them on hold. On that, the | :11:35. | :11:39. | |
committee was unanimous. Most leading economies are facing a | :11:39. | :11:42. | |
growth and unemployment problem and there could be more gloomy | :11:42. | :11:47. | |
headlines to come, if the economy doesn't gain some momentum. | :11:47. | :11:54. | |
A man has died after being arrested by police using a taser stun gun. | :11:54. | :11:58. | |
Dale Burns who was 27 was detained yesterday evening in Cumbria and | :11:58. | :12:01. | |
died later in hospital. An investigation is now under way by | :12:01. | :12:03. | |
the Independent Police Complaints Commission. | :12:04. | :12:07. | |
The Crown Prosecution Service has asked Essex Police to carry out | :12:07. | :12:10. | |
further inquiries into allegations that the Energy Secretary, Chris | :12:10. | :12:14. | |
Huhne, escaped a driving ban by asking someone else to accept | :12:14. | :12:16. | |
speeding points for him. The Liberal Democrat Minister faces | :12:16. | :12:22. | |
claims that he persuaded his then wife, Vicky Pryce, to take a three- | :12:22. | :12:26. | |
point penalty on his behalf in March 2003. He denies the | :12:26. | :12:29. | |
allegation. The wife of a British man killed by | :12:29. | :12:35. | |
a shark while on honeymoon in the Seychelles says she's devastated by | :12:35. | :12:38. | |
his loss. 30-year-old Ian red manned from Lancashire was -- | :12:38. | :12:42. | |
Redmond was attacked yesterday while he was snorkelling. He is the | :12:42. | :12:45. | |
second person to be killed in a shark attack in the waurs off | :12:45. | :12:50. | |
Praslin -- waters off Praslin island this month. | :12:50. | :12:55. | |
The smiles of Ian and Gemma Redmond said it all. Friends say their | :12:55. | :12:59. | |
perfect wedding day was meant to be followed by the perfect honeymoon, | :12:59. | :13:03. | |
here on the Seychelles island of Praslin. But as Ian swam just 20 | :13:03. | :13:06. | |
kwrordz from the shore -- yards from the shore he was attacked by a | :13:06. | :13:10. | |
shark while his wife could hear his skraoeupls -- screams. He was | :13:10. | :13:17. | |
viciously attacked to theams and leg. There were two people close by, | :13:17. | :13:21. | |
they tried to - they did remove him from the sea but unfortunately he | :13:21. | :13:25. | |
passed away. Tonight Ian Redmond's father said the whole family had | :13:25. | :13:30. | |
been left traumatised by his death. Only 11 days ago they were | :13:30. | :13:34. | |
celebrating his marriage. This is the Church where the couple were | :13:34. | :13:38. | |
married. It's St Michael's near Wigan and tonight Gemma Redmond has | :13:38. | :13:43. | |
paid this tribute to her husband, she said he was strong and brave, a | :13:43. | :13:49. | |
remarkable man who will be deeply missed. And friends too have been | :13:49. | :13:53. | |
left devastated. Barbara Keen still has the order of service from the | :13:53. | :13:57. | |
wedding. The service was beautiful. We all wished them very best of | :13:57. | :14:02. | |
luck in their lives together. is 11 days afterwards. 11 days | :14:02. | :14:06. | |
after. How are you feeling now? Very empty, very shocked. It's | :14:07. | :14:12. | |
horrific. It's believed this, a tiger shark, killed Ian Redmond, | :14:12. | :14:16. | |
although attacks are rare, a French diver was killed in the same waters | :14:16. | :14:20. | |
16 days ago but there were no warning signs on the beach and the | :14:20. | :14:25. | |
Seychelles head of tourism is now calling this a rogue shark, | :14:25. | :14:28. | |
something experts here find difficult to understand. In the | :14:28. | :14:32. | |
case of a snorkeller on the surface, the right signals, splashing | :14:32. | :14:36. | |
signals might have been given out but two attacks in broadly speaking | :14:36. | :14:40. | |
the same piece of water in a short time I would be looking for some | :14:40. | :14:45. | |
trigger or cause. While those questions remain, the Seychelles | :14:45. | :14:48. | |
Government Government has finally issued a swimming ban but that's | :14:48. | :14:58. | |
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Our top story tonight, the Prime Minister praises the courts for | :15:00. | :15:05. | |
handed out stiff sentences to riot is despite the concerns about the | :15:06. | :15:10. | |
severity of the sentences. And coming up, seeds of Change, a | :15:10. | :15:13. | |
new hopes for Britain's banishing wild flower meadows. | :15:13. | :15:17. | |
And later on the news channel, is poor training to blame for the | :15:17. | :15:22. | |
rising rate of youth unemployment? And TJ Hughes close another 12 | :15:22. | :15:32. | |
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stores, with the loss of 585 jobs. A home for people with learning | :15:34. | :15:37. | |
disabilities in the Midlands is to be closed. The authorities have | :15:37. | :15:40. | |
announced that Arden Vale in Solihull is to be shut within a | :15:40. | :15:45. | |
week. The home is run by Castlebeck, the same company that operated the | :15:45. | :15:48. | |
care home near Bristol where the BBC's Panorama programme exposed | :15:48. | :15:53. | |
the shocking abuse of patients. The BBC has also learned the Care | :15:53. | :15:56. | |
Quality Commission had been told of the mistreatment at Winterbourne | :15:56. | :15:59. | |
View up to two years before the alleged abuse of patients was | :15:59. | :16:04. | |
exposed by the Panorama investigation. Here is Alison Holt. | :16:05. | :16:09. | |
The shocking treatment of the most vulnerable of people. It took an | :16:10. | :16:13. | |
undercover Panorama camera to expose the abuse at Winterbourne | :16:13. | :16:17. | |
View near Bristol. A home for people with learning disabilities. | :16:17. | :16:21. | |
The home is now empty, closed by the regulators, the Care Quality | :16:21. | :16:25. | |
Commission, after the programme. But details released under Freedom | :16:26. | :16:28. | |
of Information show how much it and local safeguarding authorities | :16:29. | :16:34. | |
already knew about Winterbourne View. Last year alone, the CQC | :16:34. | :16:37. | |
received nine report about incidents and complaints, compared | :16:37. | :16:42. | |
to four in the two years before. Most of the incidents detailed in | :16:42. | :16:45. | |
this document are official notification that something has | :16:45. | :16:48. | |
happened at Winterbourne View. That means they were investigated | :16:48. | :16:52. | |
locally. But what is striking is that Bath -- that time and again, | :16:52. | :16:58. | |
concerns are raised about the way in which patients are restrained. | :16:58. | :17:06. | |
Reports include this complaint made by a patient. It was alleged that | :17:06. | :17:10. | |
the patient had had his neck squeezed during restraint and had | :17:10. | :17:15. | |
difficulty swallowing after the incident. The patient also said | :17:15. | :17:18. | |
that the support worker gets rough when angry. | :17:18. | :17:21. | |
Another is reported for slapping a patient. But staff were disciplined. | :17:21. | :17:26. | |
A man also rang the CQC directly saying he was concerned about the | :17:26. | :17:29. | |
use of restraint and staffing levels. It took three months for | :17:29. | :17:34. | |
someone to call him back. We showed the details to a former care homes | :17:34. | :17:38. | |
inspector. She has asked to remain anonymous, as she is still involved | :17:38. | :17:41. | |
in the field. She believes further investigation should have been | :17:41. | :17:46. | |
triggered. It is the level of the violence, seeing the abuse within | :17:46. | :17:50. | |
the incident, and the use of restraint and techniques which are | :17:50. | :17:55. | |
not common practice for an organisation which is not high | :17:55. | :18:00. | |
security. These are not the most dangerous or difficult patients to | :18:00. | :18:06. | |
manage. The CQC says that incidents were reported and investigated | :18:06. | :18:16. | |
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appropriately. In a statement, it For campaigners like Eileen Chubb, | :18:24. | :18:27. | |
who requested the information, it raises questions about what role | :18:27. | :18:33. | |
the regulator place. She maintains the warnings were there. You don't | :18:33. | :18:37. | |
have to be a regulator, you don't have to be, you know, a social | :18:37. | :18:41. | |
worker, to see that something is really, really wrong here. And that | :18:42. | :18:46. | |
all of these cries for help have gone unheard. The last time there | :18:46. | :18:50. | |
was a scandal around a learning disability home, Rob Greig advised | :18:50. | :18:54. | |
the Government. But a sense, there has been reorganisation across the | :18:54. | :18:59. | |
system -- since. He thinks lessons need learning again. The key is | :18:59. | :19:03. | |
having your bottom line that you are always asking the question, | :19:03. | :19:05. | |
what is life like for people receiving these services? And my | :19:06. | :19:10. | |
listening to the voice of those people? If you have that as a | :19:10. | :19:13. | |
starting point instead of is a particular policy being followed, | :19:13. | :19:18. | |
you're more likely to get to the root of the issues. The role played | :19:18. | :19:21. | |
by all organisations involved with Winterbourne View is being examined | :19:21. | :19:28. | |
as part of a serious case review. The Scotland Yard police chief who | :19:28. | :19:30. | |
resigned over the phone hacking scandal have all been cleared of | :19:30. | :19:34. | |
misconduct. The allegations against the former Metropolitan Police | :19:34. | :19:38. | |
Commissioner Sir Paul Stephenson and his assistant John Yates and | :19:38. | :19:41. | |
two others have been dismissed by the police watchdog. So why did | :19:42. | :19:47. | |
they resign? Just one month ago, four men who | :19:47. | :19:51. | |
will want some of the most senior figures in the Metropolitan Police | :19:51. | :19:55. | |
were fighting for their reputations. Sir Paul Stephenson had resigned as | :19:55. | :19:58. | |
head of the Met. At a later, Assistant Commissioner John Yates | :19:58. | :20:03. | |
followed. -- a day later. And retired officers Peter Clarke and | :20:03. | :20:07. | |
Andy Hayman were facing tough questioning from MPs. Did you ever | :20:07. | :20:11. | |
receive payment from any news organisations? Good God, absolutely | :20:11. | :20:18. | |
not. I can't believe you suggested that. Now the IPCC has dropped its | :20:18. | :20:24. | |
near Bath News Of The World hacking investigations into all but one. | :20:24. | :20:28. | |
Officer Paul Stephenson, the IPCC says it does not believe he | :20:28. | :20:34. | |
committed a misconduct events when he admitted -- receive �12,000 of | :20:34. | :20:37. | |
hospitality when -- which employed this man, a former deputy editor of | :20:37. | :20:41. | |
News Of The World. Then there is John Yates, whose decision two | :20:41. | :20:46. | |
years ago not to reopen eight police investigation into News | :20:46. | :20:50. | |
International did not result in disciplinary proceedings. The | :20:50. | :20:53. | |
watchdog is looking at an allegation that he secured a job | :20:53. | :20:58. | |
for the daughter of Neil Wallis, who had APR contract with the map. | :20:58. | :21:03. | |
John Yates believes this has ruined his career and is considering legal | :21:03. | :21:07. | |
action. The IPCC did say that while there is no evidence of any | :21:07. | :21:11. | |
impropriety by any of the men involved, serious issues need to be | :21:11. | :21:14. | |
scrutinised about the relationship between serious police officers and | :21:14. | :21:18. | |
the press. And at least one member of the Metropolitan Police | :21:18. | :21:23. | |
Authority said it had been right to refer the men to the IPCC. There | :21:23. | :21:26. | |
are still question marks about some of the decision and their behaviour. | :21:26. | :21:31. | |
While they may not about -- have been involved in anything criminal | :21:31. | :21:33. | |
or underhand, there were misjudgments and some poor | :21:33. | :21:39. | |
decisions. On the day this episode closed, so too did applications to | :21:39. | :21:43. | |
replace Sir Paul Stephenson at the top of the Met. A tough task in the | :21:43. | :21:49. | |
toughest of times. Libyan rebels have launched an | :21:49. | :21:53. | |
assault on an oil refinery in the key town of Zawiya up to dry bed | :21:53. | :21:58. | |
the last remaining troops learned not to Colonel Gaddafi -- the last | :21:58. | :22:01. | |
of the remaining troops. The Libyan leader is looking isolated, with | :22:01. | :22:06. | |
rebel forces making significant gains in Zawiya in the West and | :22:06. | :22:10. | |
Gharyan in the south. Matthew Price is the only British broadcasting | :22:10. | :22:14. | |
journalist in Tripoli, from where he sent this report. | :22:14. | :22:19. | |
Each night in Tripoli's main square, loyalists gather, wrapped in | :22:19. | :22:23. | |
Gaddafi green. The rebels have advanced to within 30 miles of here, | :22:23. | :22:27. | |
but there is no sign of support crumbling. | :22:27. | :22:31. | |
Are you worried about these reports that the rebel fighters are closing | :22:31. | :22:36. | |
in on Tripoli? TRANSLATION: We are not worried, we know what is going | :22:36. | :22:40. | |
on. We talk to our brothers on the frontline and if the battle comes | :22:40. | :22:44. | |
here, we will fight. That is exactly what State television has | :22:44. | :22:49. | |
been calling for. It wants Gaddafi supporters to take up weapons and | :22:49. | :22:59. | |
defend the city. So in this cafe, and an espresso and a shrug. | :22:59. | :23:05. | |
TRANSLATION: I am not concerned, it is all fine. Morale is high. It is | :23:05. | :23:09. | |
now six months since the first protests against Colonel Gaddafi | :23:09. | :23:12. | |
and he is looking more vulnerable than ever. The rebels insist that | :23:12. | :23:18. | |
they can win this war by the end of August. And yet, here it, the | :23:18. | :23:22. | |
Government remained stuck fast. It says Tripoli will not fall. At -- | :23:22. | :23:25. | |
the Government remains stuck fast. They could be weeks or months of | :23:25. | :23:33. | |
Telford and Wrekin area a head. The key battle right now is for Zawiya. | :23:33. | :23:37. | |
Capture the town and the rebels will cut off Tripoli. Gaddafi | :23:37. | :23:42. | |
forces are hitting back hard. To the east as well, the rebels are | :23:42. | :23:51. | |
taking casualties as they fight for Sirte's oil terminals. -- Brega's | :23:51. | :23:55. | |
Britain and the rest of NATO is hoping that Gaddafi will fall soon, | :23:55. | :23:59. | |
but already some are warning of the dangerous power vacuum if that does | :23:59. | :24:05. | |
happen. They are some of Britain's most | :24:05. | :24:10. | |
vulnerable habitats and today, a project has been lodged to help | :24:10. | :24:13. | |
wild flower meadows. Experts from Kew's Millennium Seed Bank have | :24:13. | :24:19. | |
been stockpiling seeds that could help restore threatened landscapes. | :24:19. | :24:22. | |
This is where it starts, collecting seeds from a meadow that this still | :24:23. | :24:27. | |
rich in species. These researchers are part of a new project that will | :24:27. | :24:30. | |
produce large quantities of native seeds that can be used to restore | :24:31. | :24:35. | |
this kind of landscape. While this nature reserve in Sussex is | :24:35. | :24:40. | |
protected, lowland meadows need all the help they can get. This type of | :24:40. | :24:45. | |
habitat has decreased dramatically over the last 70 years. There is | :24:45. | :24:50. | |
about 2% left of what was recorded in the 1930s. So it is getting | :24:50. | :24:57. | |
rarer. Restoring meadows is not new. In England alone, 45,000 head tears | :24:57. | :25:01. | |
of semi-natural grassland have been created through a government funded | :25:01. | :25:04. | |
conservation schemes -- her care. But it is difficult to recreate the | :25:04. | :25:08. | |
full diversity and that is what they are working on. Some of the | :25:08. | :25:12. | |
seeds come to production bed like this one. The focus is not | :25:12. | :25:15. | |
necessarily on plants that are rare, but species that are difficult to | :25:15. | :25:21. | |
grow. In laboratories close to the production bed, they are looking at | :25:21. | :25:25. | |
the kind of conditions that help different plants germinate and | :25:25. | :25:29. | |
thrive, and that science is part of a long-established programme. | :25:29. | :25:33. | |
Because all of this is taking place at Kew's Millennium Seed Bank, | :25:33. | :25:36. | |
where, over a decade, they have built up a huge collection from all | :25:36. | :25:41. | |
over the world, and 96% of the UK's flowering plant species are kept in | :25:41. | :25:45. | |
cold storage. That experience is now being used to create native | :25:45. | :25:50. | |
seeds for conservation. At the moment, there is a limited range of | :25:50. | :25:54. | |
species available commercially for restoration, so we want to find out | :25:54. | :25:58. | |
which ones are desirable, currently not in a seed mixes, and work with | :25:59. | :26:04. | |
the industry to try and solve both problems to increase that diversity. | :26:04. | :26:08. | |
While the work here is about lowland meadows for now, the plan | :26:08. | :26:12. | |
is for researchers to turn their attention to other habitats as well. | :26:12. | :26:18. | |
40 in all, including would glance and chalk grasslands. | :26:18. | :26:21. | |
-- woodlands. Time now for a look at the weather | :26:21. | :26:24. | |
with Matt Taylor. This time tomorrow, we could be | :26:24. | :26:28. | |
talking about significant rain in some parts of the country, as we | :26:28. | :26:31. | |
see it turn increasingly wet. But see it turn increasingly wet. But | :26:31. | :26:34. | |
for the time being, the rain is limited in the next few hours to | :26:34. | :26:38. | |
south-east England and East Anglia. One or two showers in Scotland, but | :26:38. | :26:44. | |
for most, a fairly dry night. Like last night, on the cool side, as we | :26:44. | :26:49. | |
going to tomorrow morning. We start tomorrow with some sunny spells. | :26:49. | :26:54. | |
Already, though, the side of some rain developing in the South West. | :26:54. | :26:57. | |
Dorset is especially wet. That rain will push up through London into | :26:57. | :27:01. | |
the Midlands and into parts of Lincolnshire and Norfolk. This | :27:01. | :27:07. | |
could cause a lot of surface water. By some, it will still say fine. | :27:07. | :27:12. | |
Northern Ireland, one of the better places. At sunny spells on and off. | :27:12. | :27:15. | |
For Wales, after some sunshine, the cloud will build up into the | :27:15. | :27:20. | |
afternoon, and it will be there for the evening rush hour, the library | :27:20. | :27:25. | |
downpours. Towards the far South West, a little bit brighter. Across | :27:25. | :27:29. | |
Dorset and Hampshire and the South meadows towards East Anglia, and | :27:29. | :27:33. | |
north west of London, where we could see significant rain. They | :27:33. | :27:38. | |
could be some problems on the roads with a lot of surface water. Scott | :27:38. | :27:41. | |
Dann starts off with sunny spells but by the end of the afternoon and | :27:41. | :27:44. | |
into the evening, some of slow- moving and potentially thundery | :27:44. | :27:49. | |
downpours -- Scotland. These could cause some flooding problems into | :27:49. | :27:52. | |
the first part of tomorrow night. It'll all he's in the early hours | :27:52. | :27:57. | |
of Friday morning and we are back into the clearer conditions. Some | :27:57. | :28:02. | |
hazy sunshine, but most places will be dry. The cloud and rain will | :28:02. | :28:05. | |
march into the North West later which pushes us into a weekend of | :28:05. | :28:09. | |
sunshine and showers. Some could be heavy and thundery. | :28:10. | :28:13. | |
heavy and thundery. Thank you very much. The Prime | :28:13. | :28:17. |