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A row over taxing the rich - leading economists say the top rate | :00:07. | :00:12. | |
must go. They tell the Chancellor that paying 50p in the pound is | :00:12. | :00:19. | |
doing lasting damage to Britain's ailing economy. I think the 50p | :00:19. | :00:25. | |
rate is frankly an own goal for Britain. It says we are not really | :00:25. | :00:28. | |
very interested in attracting or keeping talented hard-working | :00:28. | :00:33. | |
people in this country, we don't mind if they go abroad. In the City, | :00:33. | :00:38. | |
many agree, but Labour says the rich must pay their fair share. | :00:38. | :00:44. | |
People in the real world looking at this, people will say if they have | :00:44. | :00:48. | |
over �150 ,000 they should be paying a bit more tax. Ministers | :00:48. | :00:51. | |
have ordered a review of the tax and say it's only temporary. | :00:51. | :00:54. | |
Also on tonight's programme: Shafilea Ahmed was the victim of a | :00:54. | :00:57. | |
suspected honour killing eight years ago. Now her parents are | :00:57. | :00:59. | |
charged with her murder. The childcare bills pushing | :00:59. | :01:02. | |
families into debt. Nearly half those surveyed say it costs as much | :01:02. | :01:10. | |
as the rent. Childcare is a major financial burden that you have to | :01:10. | :01:14. | |
consider. It takes a hell of a lot of organising, and the money is | :01:14. | :01:17. | |
just not there. Jail for the woman who drove more | :01:17. | :01:20. | |
than 20 miles up the M5 in the wrong direction. | :01:20. | :01:24. | |
And the Saturday night battle lines are drawn - the BBC's Strictly and | :01:24. | :01:34. | |
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Simon Cowell's latest ITV shows go head to head. Later in the hour, | :01:38. | :01:43. | |
I'll be here with Sports Day, including a grand finish at the | :01:43. | :01:53. | |
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race from the British rider Chris Good evening, welcome to the BBC | :02:02. | :02:06. | |
News at Six. Some of Britain's most influential | :02:06. | :02:09. | |
economists have called for the 50p tax rate on the country's richest | :02:09. | :02:14. | |
people to be scrapped. They say it's doing lasting damage to the | :02:14. | :02:17. | |
economy and putting off people thinking of investing in Britain. | :02:17. | :02:21. | |
The Chancellor says the tax is only temporary. But Labour says any tax | :02:21. | :02:24. | |
cuts should go to families struggling to make ends meet. Our | :02:24. | :02:33. | |
chief economics correspondent, Hugh Pym, reports. Taxing the rich 50 | :02:33. | :02:37. | |
pence in the pound. How long will the Chancellor carry on with with | :02:37. | :02:40. | |
the policy? It's a big political and economic question. With today a | :02:40. | :02:45. | |
group of economists writing to the financial times, saying it was | :02:45. | :02:50. | |
doing lasting damage and was self defeating, in their view. I think | :02:50. | :02:54. | |
the 50p rate is frankly an own goal for Britain. It says we are not | :02:54. | :02:57. | |
really very interested in attracting or keeping talented | :02:57. | :03:00. | |
hard-working people this this country. We don't mind if they go | :03:00. | :03:07. | |
abroad. So how does the top tax rate work? Up until April 2010 on | :03:07. | :03:14. | |
anything earned above �44,000 many in that tax year you paid �40p in | :03:14. | :03:19. | |
the pound however high your earnings. From April 2010 it still | :03:19. | :03:23. | |
applied up to �150 ,000 but in every pound above thaw paid �50 | :03:23. | :03:27. | |
pence in tax. The policy was brought in by Labour and continued | :03:27. | :03:31. | |
under the coalition. It is estimated around 320,000 people are | :03:31. | :03:36. | |
paying this rate. That's the richest 1% of all adults. The | :03:36. | :03:39. | |
Treasury said the measure was temporary and there was a review | :03:39. | :03:44. | |
under way of how effective it was, but most Liberal Democrats feel it | :03:44. | :03:47. | |
shouldn't be scrapped. So too Labour. Of course as a politician, | :03:47. | :03:51. | |
as an economist, I would always rather see taxes lower rather than | :03:51. | :03:55. | |
higher, but at this time the economy has flat lined, | :03:55. | :03:59. | |
unemployment is up. Everybody is feeling the squeeze? Their incomes, | :03:59. | :04:03. | |
do you think the right way to get the economy moving is only to cut | :04:03. | :04:10. | |
taxes for the richest? How much money does the 50p tax bring in. It | :04:10. | :04:14. | |
is hard to say right now. We don't know how many people are trying to | :04:14. | :04:21. | |
avoid it by leaving the country. The Government when it introduced | :04:21. | :04:24. | |
the 50 pence rate doesn't know how much it would raise or how much | :04:24. | :04:29. | |
damage it what do to the economy. That's not a great way of helping | :04:29. | :04:33. | |
the economy. They took a punt, a chance, and we've yet to see what | :04:33. | :04:40. | |
the effect will be. The City of London feelings are running high. | :04:40. | :04:44. | |
Investors believe economic growth would be boosted by a tax cut. So | :04:44. | :04:49. | |
the 50p rate is causing headaches for the Chancellor. He is trying to | :04:49. | :04:52. | |
keep his Liberal Democrat coalition partners happy and support business | :04:52. | :04:56. | |
in the quest for growth. Our deputy political editor, James | :04:56. | :05:02. | |
Landale, is in Downing Street for us now. We know what Ed Balls for | :05:02. | :05:06. | |
Labour thinks is. The coalition agreed on what to do about this | :05:06. | :05:12. | |
tax? Well, George Osborne says this is a temporary tax. He's asked | :05:12. | :05:17. | |
Revenue and Customs to find out how much or how little it is raising. | :05:17. | :05:21. | |
Many Conservative MPs agree with economists who argue it is damaging | :05:21. | :05:24. | |
the economy. But privately Ministers accept that the economic | :05:24. | :05:28. | |
arguments for getting rid of the 50p tax rate are outweighed by the | :05:28. | :05:31. | |
political argument for keeping it. The coalition agreement says if | :05:31. | :05:36. | |
there are going to be any tax cuts they should be wort lest-well-off. | :05:36. | :05:41. | |
Many Liberal Democrats want to keep the 50p rate unless it is replaced | :05:41. | :05:44. | |
with another tax on wealth and property. Ministers don't want to | :05:44. | :05:47. | |
be accused of favouring the rich at a time of austerity. I don't think | :05:47. | :05:52. | |
we are going to see a big change on this soon. What's significant about | :05:52. | :05:56. | |
this letter, an illustration of the pressure the Government is doing, | :05:56. | :06:03. | |
to do more to help growth. The Chancellor said he would support it | :06:03. | :06:06. | |
by printing more electronic money but at the moment George Osborne | :06:06. | :06:09. | |
knows he has to do more. He is promising more but not delivered it | :06:09. | :06:12. | |
yet. Shafelia Ahmed was described as a | :06:13. | :06:15. | |
bright young woman with an ambition to become a lawyer. She disappeared | :06:16. | :06:19. | |
from her home in Warrington in 2003 and her body was found a few months | :06:19. | :06:22. | |
later, the victim of a suspected honour killing. Today, eight years | :06:22. | :06:25. | |
later, her parents have been charged with her murder. Ed Thomas | :06:25. | :06:35. | |
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is in Warrington for us now. It is nearly eight years to the day since | :06:36. | :06:40. | |
Shafilea Ahmed went missing from her home in Warrington. Ever since | :06:40. | :06:44. | |
her parents have protested their innocence. They say they had | :06:44. | :06:48. | |
nothing to do with any suspected honour killing. But today they | :06:48. | :06:53. | |
appeared in court to face one charge - that on 11th September | :06:53. | :07:01. | |
2003 they murdered their daughter. Shafilea Ahmed was just 17 when she | :07:01. | :07:05. | |
died, the victim of a suspected honour killing. Today friends and | :07:05. | :07:10. | |
family arrived in court to see her parents accused of murder. A charge | :07:10. | :07:15. | |
their solicitor said they would deny. They have today been charged | :07:15. | :07:18. | |
with allegations of murder concerning the death of their | :07:18. | :07:22. | |
daughter, Shafilea Ahmed. Both Mr and Mrs Ahmed deny the allegations | :07:23. | :07:26. | |
and these will be contested in court. But this story begins in | :07:26. | :07:31. | |
2004 at the River Kent in Cumbria, where Shafilea Ahmed's body was | :07:32. | :07:37. | |
found. When police launched their murder investigation. Shafilea's | :07:37. | :07:41. | |
body was obscured by overgrowth and was found by workmen who were at | :07:41. | :07:47. | |
the location after floodwaters recede. Detectives had already | :07:47. | :07:52. | |
arrested Iftikhar and Farzana Ahmed on suspicion of kidnap. They turned | :07:52. | :07:57. | |
up at the press conference unannounced. Their solicitor at the | :07:57. | :08:01. | |
end they were innocent. They strenuously deny any direct or | :08:01. | :08:04. | |
indirect involvement in their daughter's untimely demise. If | :08:04. | :08:10. | |
called upon to do so they will not hesitate to defend their good and | :08:11. | :08:17. | |
unplem Britished names in any court in this -- unblemished names in any | :08:17. | :08:22. | |
court in this land. The teenager had drank bleach on a family | :08:22. | :08:26. | |
holiday to Pakistan. Schoolfriends said she became unhappy, but | :08:26. | :08:30. | |
detectives never charged her parents 2004 they were released | :08:30. | :08:34. | |
from bail, leaving the couple angry about what they had gone through. | :08:34. | :08:39. | |
After nine months of hell, what do you expect? Sorry, we are just too | :08:39. | :08:46. | |
upset to talk about it yet. Seven years on after this interview | :08:46. | :08:50. | |
police again searched their Warrington home 2010, for a second | :08:50. | :08:54. | |
time, Iftikhar and Farzana Ahmed were arrested. Now though they've | :08:54. | :08:59. | |
been remanded in custody, accused of killing their daughter. | :08:59. | :09:03. | |
And this is just the start of a long legal process. The couple will | :09:03. | :09:09. | |
appear in court on Friday, via video link, to once again face | :09:09. | :09:11. | |
accusations they killed their daughter. | :09:11. | :09:14. | |
Ed, thank you. A florist who fatally stabbed a | :09:14. | :09:17. | |
suspected robber during a raid at his shop in July will not face | :09:17. | :09:19. | |
criminal charges. The Crown Prosecution Service said Cecil | :09:19. | :09:22. | |
Coley, who's 72, had acted in "reasonable self defence" when he | :09:22. | :09:28. | |
killed 30-year-old Gary Mullings in Old Trafford in Manchester. | :09:28. | :09:30. | |
A 35-year-old man arrested by officers investigating phone | :09:30. | :09:33. | |
hacking is thought to be the sports journalist, Raoul Simons. He was | :09:33. | :09:36. | |
appointed deputy football editor of The Times in 2009 after moving from | :09:36. | :09:39. | |
the London Evening Standard. Mr Simons is the 15th person to be | :09:39. | :09:49. | |
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investigated over the scandal. Paying for childcare has left | :09:51. | :09:55. | |
thousands of families struggling with debt. A new survey by Save The | :09:55. | :09:58. | |
Children and the Daycare Trust found that 4 out of 10 families | :09:58. | :10:02. | |
said that the cost of childcare was on a par with their mortgage of | :10:02. | :10:10. | |
rent. -- or rent. Childcare. Earning | :10:10. | :10:16. | |
enough to pay for it is an increasingly big issue for many | :10:16. | :10:23. | |
parents. Take Karri Byrne. She and her husband work full time but | :10:23. | :10:28. | |
their total childcare bill for three-year-old Josie and six-month- | :10:28. | :10:32. | |
old Beatrix is double the mortgage. It is incredibly frustrating. We | :10:32. | :10:36. | |
have good jobs and this is how we live? We live hand-to-mouth every | :10:36. | :10:40. | |
month. It doesn't make sense. It doesn't feel right. What are you | :10:40. | :10:46. | |
working for if you can't have an enjoyable weekend and rest a bit? | :10:46. | :10:51. | |
Here's how the cost of childcare Here's how the cost of childcare | :10:51. | :10:55. | |
has risen. In 2002 the average amount was �120 per week. This year | :10:55. | :11:00. | |
it is �180. It's the poorest who it is �180. It's the poorest who | :11:00. | :11:03. | |
are struggling most. 41 % of those on low incomes say they may have to | :11:03. | :11:08. | |
give up work. One reason was the recent changes to benefits and the | :11:08. | :11:12. | |
campaigners agreement It is the impact of this change to the | :11:12. | :11:15. | |
working tax credit rule which will go directly against that. It will | :11:15. | :11:19. | |
make it much harder for families to make work pay. Even more so the | :11:19. | :11:23. | |
poorest families, who are the very families we need to encourage as | :11:23. | :11:27. | |
much as we can and help as much as we can to get back into work. | :11:27. | :11:32. | |
parents of all incomes it seems are finding it harder to cover costs. | :11:32. | :11:37. | |
I'm still on maternity leave with this one but it raises big issues | :11:38. | :11:41. | |
about whether I'm going to be able to afford to go back to work. | :11:41. | :11:46. | |
to give up full-time work to go to part-time because of childcare. | :11:46. | :11:51. | |
there are also some who question the need for the taxpayer to | :11:51. | :11:56. | |
further subsidise parents. question facing us is, should the | :11:56. | :12:00. | |
taxpayer be expected to fund the cost of a family which decides to | :12:00. | :12:06. | |
go out two parents to work rather than stay at home? Work and | :12:06. | :12:09. | |
parenthood are always a difficult balancing agent. The Government | :12:09. | :12:14. | |
insists that working tax credits are still fair and generous, but | :12:14. | :12:19. | |
many believe it should be investing more in childcare for a better more | :12:19. | :12:24. | |
rounded society. In Libya the hunt for Colonel | :12:24. | :12:29. | |
Gaddafi goes on, and more harrowing stories are emerging about his | :12:29. | :12:33. | |
regimes last days in Tripoli. At least a thousand former loyalists | :12:33. | :12:37. | |
have been detained since the city fell. Some have been telling the | :12:37. | :12:40. | |
BBC how they were forced to commit appalling crimes to defend their | :12:41. | :12:45. | |
leader. Ian Pannell sent this report. | :12:45. | :12:50. | |
This is where the enemies of Colonel Gaddafi were silenced. A | :12:50. | :12:54. | |
place of detention and abuse. Now the new Government holds its | :12:54. | :13:00. | |
enemies here. More than 700 men and women suspected of crimes against | :13:00. | :13:06. | |
the revolution. We are restricted on what we are allowed to film | :13:06. | :13:08. | |
inside the prison, so let me describe the conditions here. First | :13:08. | :13:13. | |
of all the floor is filthy. There is litter, there is dirt, water, | :13:13. | :13:17. | |
cigarette ends. The cells themselves, I guess there are three | :13:17. | :13:21. | |
on this side and three on that side, very cramped and very, very hot. | :13:21. | :13:26. | |
They are probably about 7 metres by 6 or 5 metres deep. Inside each one | :13:26. | :13:33. | |
there are the marks of about 30 prisoners. To a man and a woman, | :13:33. | :13:36. | |
surprisingly they proclaim their innocence, and they are keen to | :13:36. | :13:42. | |
tell their story. Five men from Africa accused of being mercenaries | :13:42. | :13:46. | |
for Gaddafi. They were let out of their cell to talk to us. They say | :13:46. | :13:50. | |
they were labourers dragged from their homes because they are black. | :13:50. | :13:54. | |
We are told they'll get a fair trial and if there is no evidence | :13:54. | :13:59. | |
they will be freed. But for now the rule here is guilty until proven | :13:59. | :14:03. | |
innocent. Have you ever workinged for the military, for Colonel | :14:03. | :14:07. | |
Gaddafi? No, I never done such a thing at all. I swear to my | :14:07. | :14:13. | |
Heavenly father. If I want to do a military man I had better do it in | :14:13. | :14:19. | |
my country, I'm 53 years old. girls, the yoings 16. They don't | :14:19. | :14:23. | |
want to to show their faces because they were part of Gaddafi's | :14:23. | :14:26. | |
National Guard. But just listen to their explanation. They claim they | :14:26. | :14:33. | |
weren't motivated by loyalty but fear. TRANSLATION: When our family | :14:33. | :14:36. | |
was against the regime, the soldiers came to our house. They | :14:36. | :14:42. | |
threw us out. They killed my uncle and my brother. We thought if we | :14:42. | :14:48. | |
joined them they wouldn't suspect us or hurt us. One teenager accused | :14:48. | :14:54. | |
of executing 11 rebel prisoners. She was recruited to a feared | :14:54. | :14:59. | |
brigade of ruthless fighters, where she claimed she was rapedly Colonel | :14:59. | :15:02. | |
Gaddafi's security chief, the man who has just escaped to Niger she | :15:02. | :15:06. | |
says she was forced to shoot prisoners with a rifle. Unable to | :15:06. | :15:15. | |
watch, she turned her head and pulled the trigger. Five men, three | :15:15. | :15:19. | |
girls, and one teenager. It will be for the new courts to | :15:19. | :15:24. | |
decide their fate, to judge who is a victim and who is an offender, to | :15:24. | :15:27. | |
set the standard for truth and just in this the new Libya. But they | :15:27. | :15:37. | |
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Our top story tonight: Some of Britain's most influential | :15:41. | :15:50. | |
economists say the 50p tax rate Has the X Factor got the wow | :15:50. | :15:54. | |
factor? As the BBC launches Strictly, the battle for Saturday | :15:54. | :16:04. | |
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It is nearly ten years to the day since the shocking images of the | :16:20. | :16:24. | |
9/11 terror attacks were beamed around the world. In Britain, the | :16:24. | :16:27. | |
decade that followed has seen the London Underground atrocities and a | :16:27. | :16:28. | |
huge shake-up of counter-terrorist policing, intelligence and | :16:28. | :16:34. | |
community relations. Our security correspondent, Frank Gardner, has | :16:34. | :16:44. | |
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been assessing whether we are any The day they said the world changed. | :16:53. | :17:03. | |
9/11, Al-Qaeda hit America and later other targets. In July, 2005 | :17:03. | :17:08. | |
it was the turn of London. 52 commuters blown-up on their way to | :17:08. | :17:13. | |
work. What sort of terrorist threat does Britain faced today? The | :17:13. | :17:18. | |
Government has set the current threat level at substantial - the | :17:18. | :17:23. | |
third highest out of five. It means an attack is still thought a strong | :17:24. | :17:31. | |
possibility. The threat reins from Al-Qaeda to have lists to rub -- | :17:31. | :17:36. | |
Republicans or extremists. The police and security service have | :17:36. | :17:43. | |
had to adapt. We have become more accustomed to making high risk | :17:43. | :17:47. | |
decisions on assessed intelligence, often within rapidly declining time | :17:47. | :17:51. | |
friends. There has been immediate increase in police firepower to | :17:51. | :17:55. | |
cope with large-scale hostage taking. How effective has the | :17:55. | :18:01. | |
response to terrorism been? Most obvious is the boosting of physical | :18:01. | :18:05. | |
protection around government. When police anti-terrorist crash | :18:06. | :18:09. | |
barriers went up around parliament in 2003, a lot of people were shot. | :18:09. | :18:15. | |
We have got used to them. There is no clear answers as to whether we | :18:15. | :18:19. | |
are safer in Britain from terrorism there we were 10 years ago. We know | :18:19. | :18:24. | |
more about the threat we are facing but those threats have multiplied | :18:24. | :18:28. | |
and diversified. Private security companies like this one now offer | :18:28. | :18:36. | |
anti- kidnapped devices to their customers on the move. The alarm | :18:36. | :18:41. | |
gets raised, the client gets trapped and the police get alerted. | :18:41. | :18:47. | |
Counterterrorism is also about foreign policy. Britain'as part in | :18:47. | :18:53. | |
the Iraq invasion increased the danger to Britain. In the East End | :18:53. | :18:58. | |
of London, this man is one of those trying to stop people being drawn | :18:58. | :19:02. | |
into terrorism. To say that young people would not want to express | :19:02. | :19:09. | |
their anger by launching terrorist attacks, I think it would be very | :19:09. | :19:14. | |
naive. We still have a problem. Huge efforts have gone into | :19:14. | :19:20. | |
preventing people from becoming radical eyes. You have got to be | :19:20. | :19:26. | |
tough on terrorism, tough on the causes. You have to have special | :19:26. | :19:31. | |
programmes. You need to look at the wider foreign policies. Soon | :19:31. | :19:35. | |
Britain will face its biggest peacetime security challenge. | :19:36. | :19:40. | |
Planning for the London Olympics is being made on the basis that an | :19:40. | :19:46. | |
attempted terrorist attack is highly likely. The Scottish | :19:46. | :19:50. | |
government wants to merge the country's eight police forces into | :19:50. | :19:56. | |
one. It is one of 15 new bills as part of the first programme for | :19:56. | :20:01. | |
government since the SNP landslide election victory in May. This | :20:01. | :20:06. | |
report from Glen Campbell. It is four months since Alex Salmond | :20:06. | :20:11. | |
celebrated re-election as the Scottish First Minister. He set at | :20:11. | :20:15. | |
some early priorities for his second term. Making Scotland better | :20:15. | :20:21. | |
is the focus of this government. It is one reason why we won an | :20:21. | :20:25. | |
historic victory. It was a record of proven competence and commitment. | :20:25. | :20:31. | |
It was about Scotland and the nation's future. What has the | :20:31. | :20:34. | |
nationalist leader got in mind? Police reform is at the centre of | :20:34. | :20:39. | |
law-making plans for the year ahead. The eight forces are to merge into | :20:39. | :20:45. | |
one - the largest in the UK outside of London. Instead of officer | :20:45. | :20:53. | |
numbers and police pay and can in - - conditions, changes are coming in | :20:53. | :20:59. | |
England and Wales. We will restructure and remove a lot of | :20:59. | :21:03. | |
inefficiencies. Hopefully we can preserve the terms and conditions | :21:03. | :21:07. | |
of police officers and staff. Another key measure is on alcohol | :21:07. | :21:13. | |
misuse. Ministers hope setting a minimum price per unit will reduce | :21:13. | :21:17. | |
consumption. A proposal voted down at Holyrood before the SNP won its | :21:17. | :21:24. | |
unprecedented mandate. Alex Salmond could get almost anything approved | :21:24. | :21:28. | |
by the Scottish Parliament. His party won an overall majority of | :21:28. | :21:33. | |
the seats at Holyrood. He has chosen not to use that unrivalled | :21:33. | :21:40. | |
power to bring forward an early referendum on independence for | :21:40. | :21:47. | |
Scotland. He has a majority in this Parliament. He has a draft bill. He | :21:47. | :21:52. | |
has no credible excuse for not bringing that Bill forward. John | :21:52. | :21:56. | |
Curtis things the reasons are obvious. He is playing the long | :21:56. | :22:01. | |
game for two reasons. It indicates he would not win a referendum if it | :22:01. | :22:06. | |
were held tomorrow. People in Scotland are not convinced. | :22:06. | :22:10. | |
Secondly, he is leaving the door open for that referendum not to be | :22:10. | :22:15. | |
just about independence but about increasing the powers of the | :22:15. | :22:20. | |
Scottish Parliament. They will pop the independence question tours the | :22:20. | :22:28. | |
end of the five year term. A woman who drove 23 miles the wrong way up | :22:28. | :22:34. | |
the M5 has been jailed for nine months. Deborah Hunt was over the | :22:34. | :22:37. | |
drink-drive limit when she did a U- turn macro and started to dodge | :22:37. | :22:47. | |
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oncoming vehicles. Can you imagine driving at speed head on into this | :22:49. | :22:53. | |
kind of motorway traffic? Not just for a couple of minutes but for | :22:53. | :22:58. | |
more than 20 minutes. That is what Deborah Hunt did on this stretch of | :22:58. | :23:03. | |
the M5. It is a miracle that no one was killed. They could not believe | :23:03. | :23:09. | |
what they were watching on motorway cameras. It appears to be a normal | :23:09. | :23:17. | |
night on the M5. Look closely. This car is travelling the wrong way. | :23:17. | :23:23. | |
Going north on the southbound carriageway. Straight into oncoming | :23:23. | :23:28. | |
traffic. It carried on like this for more than 20 miles - travelling | :23:28. | :23:34. | |
at 60 miles an hour. The driver was Deborah Hunt, a mother of three. | :23:34. | :23:39. | |
She was drunk and uninsured. Today the court heard she had caused | :23:39. | :23:44. | |
terror among other motorists who had had to swerve to avoid her. | :23:44. | :23:49. | |
What do you say to the people on the motorway that night? Inside the | :23:49. | :23:52. | |
judge told Deborah Hunt it was unbelievable she had not caused a | :23:52. | :23:57. | |
massive loss of life. She had been more than twice the drink-drive | :23:57. | :24:02. | |
limit. So drunk she had not been able to explain to officers how she | :24:02. | :24:08. | |
had made such a mistake. She performed two you turns on the | :24:08. | :24:13. | |
carriageway and police say she only stopped when she ran out of fuel. | :24:13. | :24:19. | |
It is an outrageous act. It was very serious. It could have ended | :24:19. | :24:23. | |
up in death or serious injury. court heard Deborah Hunt was | :24:23. | :24:27. | |
struggling with alcoholism at the time after splitting from her | :24:27. | :24:31. | |
partner and losing her job as a financial adviser. The judge said | :24:31. | :24:37. | |
he had to jail her. He also banned her from driving until she can | :24:37. | :24:42. | |
prove she had stopped drinking. Deborah Hunt wept uncontrollably as | :24:42. | :24:48. | |
she was given that sentence earlier today. She was jailed for nine | :24:48. | :24:53. | |
months. She is expected to be freed after about half that time. The | :24:53. | :24:57. | |
latest battle for Saturday-night television audiences has begun. The | :24:57. | :25:00. | |
line-up for the new series of Strictly Come Dancing has been | :25:00. | :25:06. | |
announced and Simon Callow's two new television shows are already up | :25:06. | :25:13. | |
and running. -- Simon Cowell. This report does contain flash | :25:13. | :25:20. | |
photography. Strictly come Dancing and it the X Factor. BBC One and | :25:20. | :25:25. | |
ITV one's Saturday-night giants. They rarely directly compete but | :25:25. | :25:30. | |
each broadcaster keeps more than a wary eye on its rivals flagship | :25:30. | :25:36. | |
because of its shows importance to a particular channel. X Factor is | :25:36. | :25:42. | |
giving ITV a huge chunk of its profits during the year. Strictly | :25:42. | :25:47. | |
shows it can appeal to a big mainstream audience and show that | :25:47. | :25:54. | |
the BBC is still in touch. Today is the launch of strictly. The stars | :25:54. | :25:58. | |
are no doubt well aware that despite the absence of Simon Cowell | :25:58. | :26:06. | |
and cherub Kohl, be expected has continued to be strong. Series | :26:06. | :26:12. | |
launch shows are crucial with the overnight viewing figures able to | :26:12. | :26:17. | |
affect public perception of the show's success or failure. It is | :26:17. | :26:23. | |
more than two shows - it is about the whole evening's show dole. | :26:23. | :26:29. | |
Neither broadcaster is taking a risk. ITV is saving his biggest | :26:29. | :26:35. | |
hitters for Nature -- for later and putting on Family fortunes. Red Or | :26:35. | :26:41. | |
Black is on. The lottery takes on the ever-popular X Factor. Saturday | :26:41. | :26:48. | |
nights a really important for BBC One. It has to inform, educate and | :26:48. | :26:52. | |
entertain. Saturday night is the key moment for us. This Saturday | :26:52. | :26:57. | |
night will certainly give the taster. The final audience marks | :26:57. | :27:07. | |
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I do hope those sequins are on tight because it could be quite | :27:11. | :27:16. | |
blustery. It is breezy out there tonight. It will be damp for many | :27:16. | :27:22. | |
of us, particularly in Northern Ireland. It to be went in north- | :27:22. | :27:28. | |
west England. The rain will continue to affect Wales. The wind | :27:28. | :27:33. | |
will die down a touch through the early hours. Eight degrees in | :27:34. | :27:42. | |
Aberdeenshire. In the south, 12-14 Celsius. Outbreaks of rain in Wales | :27:42. | :27:49. | |
and southern England. There will be showers in southern Scotland. There | :27:49. | :27:53. | |
could be sunshine in England. In the south it will be quite gloomy. | :27:53. | :27:59. | |
A bit of a breeze blowing. Not as strong as the last couple of days. | :27:59. | :28:04. | |
Through the day the rain will be on the light side. It could increase | :28:04. | :28:14. | |
later on. In north-west England and North Wales it could be brighter. | :28:14. | :28:19. | |
The rain in Northern Ireland will track northwards. Showers will | :28:19. | :28:25. | |
continued to pepper parts of Scotland. In the east, not too many | :28:25. | :28:34. | |
showers. There could be showers in Scotland. On Friday the, the north- | :28:34. | :28:40. |