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A radical overhaul of Britain's banks - plans to protect taxpayers | :00:03. | :00:09. | |
from another multi-billion pound bail-out. It's the biggest shake-up | :00:09. | :00:12. | |
in the City for a generation, giving more choice on the high | :00:12. | :00:20. | |
street. But you will have to wait till 2019. Do they represent a | :00:20. | :00:24. | |
decisive moment when we take a step towards a new banking system that | :00:24. | :00:29. | |
works for Britain. We should not have to wait seven years for the | :00:29. | :00:33. | |
pro consumer parts of this package to go through, things like | :00:33. | :00:36. | |
competition on the high street and faster and easier switching for | :00:36. | :00:39. | |
customers. These are things the Government should get on with now. | :00:39. | :00:42. | |
We will ask whether customers will end up paying more. | :00:42. | :00:44. | |
Also tonight: Murder and kidnap on a paradise | :00:44. | :00:49. | |
isle - David Tebbutt was shot dead and his wife taken away by bandits. | :00:49. | :00:58. | |
We report from the resort. It is a crime scene at the moment. They are | :00:58. | :01:01. | |
investigating the murder. They are also trying to get clues as to | :01:01. | :01:04. | |
where the British woman could have been taken. | :01:04. | :01:07. | |
The tail-end of Hurricane Katia hits part of Britain, battering the | :01:07. | :01:12. | |
coastline. 70 miles an hour winds and heavy rain leave buildings | :01:12. | :01:15. | |
damaged and transport disrupted. Police question four after the | :01:15. | :01:18. | |
discovery of a modern day slave camp, but some of those freed | :01:18. | :01:23. | |
refuse to help the inquiry. And David Walliams beats the Thames | :01:23. | :01:33. | |
tummy bug and nears the finish line of his marathon charity swim. | :01:33. | :01:38. | |
I will be here with Sportsday later on the BBC News Channel, including | :01:38. | :01:42. | |
the loan move that Sunderland described as baffling, but too good | :01:42. | :01:52. | |
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Good evening. Welcome to the BBC News at Six. Plans for the most | :02:01. | :02:04. | |
comprehensive overhaul of Britain's banks in a generation have been | :02:04. | :02:07. | |
published today, and they should mean that taxpayers are never again | :02:07. | :02:10. | |
asked to spend tens of billions making up for the costly mistakes | :02:10. | :02:16. | |
of bankers. Under the proposals, which will come into effect over | :02:16. | :02:19. | |
the next eight years, there will be new protection for consumers, | :02:19. | :02:21. | |
keeping high street banking separate from more risky investment | :02:21. | :02:26. | |
operations. Measures to promote more competition, making it much | :02:26. | :02:30. | |
easier for us to switch bank accounts. And there will be | :02:30. | :02:34. | |
measures to prevent another banking crisis in the future. | :02:34. | :02:41. | |
Our Business Editor Robert Peston reports. | :02:41. | :02:46. | |
Our mighty banks, such as Royal Bank of Scotland, Barclays, Lloyds, | :02:46. | :02:50. | |
HSBC, perhaps facing their biggest ever shake-up because of this | :02:50. | :02:54. | |
unassuming economics professor, Sir John Vickers. The status quo is not | :02:54. | :02:59. | |
an option. Things have got to change. So what reforms have been | :02:59. | :03:03. | |
proposed by Vickers' Independent Commission on Banking has set up by | :03:03. | :03:07. | |
the Treasury? The most important one is the creation of a ring-fence | :03:07. | :03:11. | |
to protect the parts of banks that provide vital services to | :03:11. | :03:15. | |
individuals and smaller businesses. These retail banking operations | :03:15. | :03:20. | |
would be protected if the more speculative global investment | :03:20. | :03:24. | |
banking areas found themselves in a spot of bother. A former Royal Bank | :03:24. | :03:28. | |
of Scotland chairman says his old bank should not be too anxious. | :03:28. | :03:33. | |
separation of investment banking functions from what I would call | :03:33. | :03:38. | |
the commercial banking function, it is much more than retail, could be | :03:38. | :03:44. | |
for the good of the bank. Because of recurring financial crises | :03:44. | :03:48. | |
witnessed over the City's many centuries, the banks have to hold | :03:48. | :03:52. | |
more capital, more rainy-day money and borrow from those who can | :03:52. | :03:56. | |
afford to lose in bad times to make themselves more resilient. All | :03:56. | :04:01. | |
around me is the evidence of the great boom in banking and finance | :04:01. | :04:06. | |
over 20 years before the crash of 2007 to 2008. The skyscrapers of | :04:06. | :04:09. | |
the City of London and Canary Wharf. But the commission believes that | :04:09. | :04:14. | |
much of that boom was poisonous. So the question is, can the poison be | :04:14. | :04:19. | |
extracted without harming the patient, the British economy? What | :04:19. | :04:24. | |
is the problem that has to be fixed? That great banking crisis of | :04:24. | :04:28. | |
2007-eight saw massive costs heaped on taxpayers and the worst | :04:28. | :04:32. | |
recession for over 80 years in which the UK and much of the rich | :04:32. | :04:38. | |
West has still not recovered. Billions of pounds have been spent. | :04:38. | :04:42. | |
Hundreds of thousands of jobs have been lost as a result. It is this | :04:42. | :04:46. | |
coalition government that set up the banking commission not just to | :04:46. | :04:50. | |
ask the questions, but to provide the answers. What will be the | :04:50. | :04:54. | |
impact? The commission says there will be costs of perhaps �1 billion | :04:54. | :04:58. | |
a year for the British economy. But it estimates that the annual cost | :04:58. | :05:02. | |
of banking crises are a staggering �40 billion a year. So if the | :05:02. | :05:07. | |
reforms work, they would represent wonderful value for money. Even so, | :05:07. | :05:11. | |
the chief executive of a big bank said he regards the reforms as a | :05:11. | :05:18. | |
disaster. What does the commission think of that? Is neither a | :05:18. | :05:23. | |
disaster for a British bank nor for the British economy. It is also | :05:23. | :05:27. | |
about promoting competition, such as by making it easier for us to | :05:27. | :05:32. | |
switch accounts between banks. names like more competition on the | :05:32. | :05:34. | |
high street, easier and faster switching, these are things the | :05:34. | :05:40. | |
Government should get on with. new banking industry, not growing | :05:40. | :05:44. | |
as much, perhaps, but possibly more stable and less dangerous. | :05:44. | :05:47. | |
And Robert is with me now. What difference will today's changes | :05:47. | :05:56. | |
made to consumers? Well, there may -- it may be easier for us to | :05:56. | :06:00. | |
switch accounts and there may be more information provided to us by | :06:00. | :06:03. | |
banks to allow us to determine whether we are being provided with | :06:03. | :06:08. | |
services that are good value for money. The banks warned that | :06:08. | :06:11. | |
possibly, the prices charged to customers may have to go up a bit, | :06:11. | :06:15. | |
but that is likely to affect big businesses rather than ordinary | :06:15. | :06:19. | |
customers like you and me. What is much more important is whether or | :06:19. | :06:26. | |
not these reforms succeed in making the costs of Banking crises much | :06:26. | :06:31. | |
less than what we experienced in 2008. The economy has been | :06:31. | :06:36. | |
extremely weak for the last three to four years, and much of that is | :06:36. | :06:41. | |
to do with the boom-and-bust in the banking sector that we saw in the | :06:41. | :06:47. | |
early years of this decade. If the Banking Commission succeeds in | :06:47. | :06:51. | |
protecting taxpayers from that kind of boom-and-bust, and making sure | :06:51. | :06:56. | |
the shock to the economy is reduced, all of us should benefit. | :06:56. | :06:59. | |
And our political editor Nick Robinson is in Downing Street for | :06:59. | :07:07. | |
us now. There is a big but in all of this - a huge truck Royal | :07:07. | :07:11. | |
changes to banking, but we have to wait until 2019? For a long time, | :07:11. | :07:15. | |
we saw this as a sort of Judgement Day, the day that banks would learn | :07:15. | :07:18. | |
their fate, the day when we would be reassured that we will not pick | :07:18. | :07:23. | |
up the bill if the City of London messes up again. And yet there is | :07:23. | :07:27. | |
that long date. And one more and yet - there was not much political | :07:27. | :07:32. | |
fuss about it. The reason is that politicians on all sides accept the | :07:32. | :07:36. | |
verdict of today's report that that date is an end date. It does not | :07:36. | :07:44. | |
mean there will be no reform before then. In addition, they are nervy | :07:44. | :07:47. | |
because although they all want a safer banking system, they know a | :07:47. | :07:52. | |
save the bank may charge more and lend less. Now is not a good time | :07:52. | :07:57. | |
to be doing that. Above all, they are nervy for this reason - for all | :07:57. | :08:01. | |
the public anger about banks and for all the politicians' banker | :08:01. | :08:05. | |
bashing, for years politicians have spend vast sums of money that the | :08:05. | :08:13. | |
banks generator. They want to see the system reformed, not destroyed. | :08:13. | :08:17. | |
The Kenyan army has now joined the search for a British woman who was | :08:17. | :08:20. | |
kidnapped after her husband was shot dead at a luxury resort. David | :08:20. | :08:23. | |
Tebbutt and his wife Judith had just arrived at the Kiwayu Safari | :08:23. | :08:25. | |
Village, close to Kenya's border with Somalia. From there, our | :08:25. | :08:33. | |
correspondent sent this report. An idyllic setting on the Kenyan | :08:33. | :08:38. | |
coast, with its thatched cottages dotted along the beach. Kiwayu | :08:38. | :08:41. | |
Safari Lodge attracts tourists who want to get away from the crowds | :08:41. | :08:46. | |
and live the quiet life for a few days. But now soldiers patrol here | :08:46. | :08:50. | |
after the peace was shattered. In a midnight raid on the resort, a | :08:50. | :08:54. | |
group of armed men killed British tourist David Tebbutt, shooting him | :08:54. | :08:59. | |
in the back. They then abducted his wife Judith, who is still missing. | :08:59. | :09:04. | |
You can see that a yellow tape has been set up around the rooms. It | :09:04. | :09:08. | |
was in one of those rooms that David and Judith Tebbutt were | :09:08. | :09:11. | |
sleeping when they were struck in the middle of the night. That is | :09:11. | :09:14. | |
now a crime scene. The question is, what happened to Judith Tebbutt? | :09:15. | :09:21. | |
She was taken away in a speedboat heading north towards Somalia. The | :09:21. | :09:25. | |
Kenyan police are searching, but the gang may be out of reach. In a | :09:25. | :09:31. | |
boat like this, the Somali border is just 90 minutes away. In this | :09:31. | :09:36. | |
village just along the beach from the hotel, people complain that | :09:36. | :09:39. | |
banditry from Somalia has been a problem for some years. They are | :09:39. | :09:43. | |
worried that this latest attack will keep the tourists away. One | :09:43. | :09:47. | |
man told me the gunmen forced a Kenyan to lead them to the hotel. | :09:47. | :09:56. | |
He told me that they forced him to guide them to the hotel. Then they | :09:56. | :10:03. | |
did what they did and went back with the lady. To Somalia? Yeah, to | :10:03. | :10:08. | |
Somalia. The couple's home in Bishop's Stortford has been sealed | :10:08. | :10:12. | |
off by police. For friends, there is sadness and shock as they take | :10:12. | :10:16. | |
in what happened. He was such a gentle person that I cannot imagine | :10:16. | :10:22. | |
him putting up much resistance. However it happened, it seems very | :10:22. | :10:29. | |
out of character for him to fight, especially someone with a gun. | :10:29. | :10:33. | |
suspicion in Kenya is that either Somali pirates or the Al-Qaeda link | :10:33. | :10:37. | |
Islamist group Al-Shabab carried out the attack. The Foreign Office | :10:37. | :10:41. | |
says officials are focused on trying to ensure that Judith | :10:41. | :10:46. | |
Tebbutt's life is saved. Parts of Britain are being battered | :10:46. | :10:49. | |
by the remnants of Hurricane Katia, with Scotland, Wales and the north | :10:49. | :10:52. | |
of England bearing the brunt of 70 miles an hour winds and heavy | :10:52. | :10:58. | |
rainfall. Buildings have been damaged and transport disrupted. | :10:58. | :11:01. | |
For the latest, let's join Lorna Gordon in Saltcoats on the Ayrshire | :11:01. | :11:10. | |
coast. Yes, a gust of 72 miles an hour was | :11:10. | :11:14. | |
recorded at Glasgow Airport this afternoon. It is still pretty windy | :11:14. | :11:17. | |
here on the Ayrshire coast. We have been getting warnings for days | :11:17. | :11:23. | |
about this approaching bad weather. Preparations have been put in place. | :11:23. | :11:27. | |
There have been extra power staff on standby in case of power cuts. | :11:27. | :11:32. | |
Commuters in Scotland were advised to consider leaving work early. | :11:32. | :11:35. | |
People have been battering down the hatches. | :11:35. | :11:42. | |
The tail-end of a hurricane hitting Britain's assures. High seas, heavy | :11:42. | :11:47. | |
rain and some coastal trains battered by waves and wind. Storms | :11:47. | :11:54. | |
like this hit about once a year. And it is causing disruption to the | :11:54. | :11:58. | |
railways, roads and ferries. In low-lying coastal areas, there have | :11:58. | :12:03. | |
been warnings of possible flooding. People have been advised to stay | :12:03. | :12:07. | |
away from the shore. This is what is causing the problems, Hurricane | :12:07. | :12:10. | |
Katia, weakening as it travels across the Atlantic, but still | :12:10. | :12:14. | |
packing a punch and delivering an unseasonably early bout of bad | :12:14. | :12:23. | |
weather. You can see gusts of 60 to 70 mph, perhaps 80 mph locally. At | :12:23. | :12:27. | |
this time of year, you are looking at trees that are still in full | :12:27. | :12:32. | |
leaf, so we could see trees being blown over, and some distraction on | :12:32. | :12:38. | |
the bridges. In County Durham, a building collapsed in the high | :12:38. | :12:42. | |
winds, crashing nearby cars, although no one was hurt. People | :12:42. | :12:46. | |
travelling on the nearby A6 A Tait were not so lucky after a falling | :12:46. | :12:50. | |
tree crushed their car, trapping those inside and seriously injuring | :12:51. | :12:58. | |
the driver. Winds have been gusting to more than 70 miles an hour in | :12:58. | :13:01. | |
Wales. Bridges have been shut to high-sided vehicles and ferry | :13:01. | :13:06. | |
services between Holyhead and Ireland have also been badly hit. | :13:06. | :13:10. | |
Northern Ireland has also been buffeted by the Atlantic winds, | :13:10. | :13:13. | |
with exceptionally difficult driving conditions and the risk of | :13:13. | :13:18. | |
widespread coastal flooding. We are hearing that hundreds of homes in | :13:19. | :13:23. | |
Ayrshire and Humphries have been left without power, although it is | :13:23. | :13:27. | |
hoped that they will resume power services to those homes later this | :13:27. | :13:31. | |
evening. The winds are expected to ease off a little over the next | :13:31. | :13:41. | |
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couple of hours, but the breeze is will continue well until tomorrow. | :13:42. | :13:45. | |
David Cameron is visiting Moscow. It's the first visit by a British | :13:45. | :13:48. | |
prime minister since 2005. Relations between the UK and Russia | :13:48. | :13:50. | |
have been strained since the Russian dissident Alexander | :13:50. | :13:52. | |
Litvinenko was murdered in London in 2006. Russia has refused to | :13:53. | :13:55. | |
extradite the prime suspect. David Cameron raised the case at the | :13:55. | :13:58. | |
start of his visit today, but appealed for a new approach to | :13:58. | :14:07. | |
build bridges between the two countries. | :14:07. | :14:11. | |
This is the first time that Vladimir Putin has met David | :14:11. | :14:16. | |
Cameron. And it is the first time he has spoken to him, or any | :14:16. | :14:20. | |
British Prime Minister, since 2007. Today, you could see the years of | :14:20. | :14:25. | |
mistrust and tension on their faces. This is what soured relations for | :14:25. | :14:29. | |
so long. The rush and activist Alexander Litvinenko, was poisoned | :14:29. | :14:33. | |
to death in London in 2006. Britain wants his alleged killer extradited | :14:33. | :14:39. | |
to the UK for trial. Russia is saying no. Mr Cameron raised the | :14:39. | :14:42. | |
issue with the Russian President today, but also said he wanted to | :14:42. | :14:46. | |
work on Britain's relationship with Russia beyond the Litvinenko case. | :14:46. | :14:50. | |
How can you come here and bang the drum for British business while the | :14:50. | :14:54. | |
suspected killer of a Alexander Litvinenko is being protected by | :14:54. | :14:57. | |
the Russian state? How can you park the issue without being accused of | :14:58. | :15:02. | |
putting trade before human right? This issue has not been parked. The | :15:02. | :15:06. | |
fact is that the two governments do not agree. It remains an issue | :15:06. | :15:10. | |
between Britain and Russia, and we have not changed our position about | :15:10. | :15:14. | |
that. And the Russians have not changed their position. But I do | :15:14. | :15:24. | |
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not think that means that we freeze But Dmitry Medvedev said that | :15:26. | :15:30. | |
Russia's constitution meant that the main suspect, Andrei Lugovoi, | :15:30. | :15:34. | |
would never be extradited abroad. They also differed over | :15:34. | :15:40. | |
intelligence. Mr Cameron refused the request for both country's | :15:40. | :15:43. | |
spies to start co-operating again. But they did agree trade deals | :15:43. | :15:47. | |
worth more than �200 million. On a personal level, both men got on | :15:47. | :15:53. | |
well. Mr Cameron suggested this morning that the KGB tried to | :15:53. | :15:58. | |
recruit him on a visit here in 1985. Do you think he would have made a | :15:58. | :16:02. | |
good KGB agent? The answer to that last question, I think, is no. | :16:02. | :16:07. | |
Let's be clear about that. David Cameron came to Moscow not to end | :16:07. | :16:11. | |
all of the divisions between Russia and Britain, but to pay his | :16:11. | :16:16. | |
respects and get both sides talking again. On that modest gain, at | :16:16. | :16:21. | |
least, he seems to have succeeded. -- modest aim at. | :16:21. | :16:28. | |
Our top story: The big shake-up of Britain's banks. Plans to protect | :16:28. | :16:31. | |
tax payers from another multi- billion-pound bail out. Coming up: | :16:31. | :16:36. | |
He has braved cold water, aching muscles. We are live above the | :16:36. | :16:41. | |
Thames as David Walliams reaches the end of his charity swim. Later | :16:41. | :16:44. | |
on the BBC News Channel, a big report out on the future structure | :16:44. | :16:49. | |
of banking. But what does it mean for consumers? And renewed concerns | :16:49. | :16:59. | |
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of a Greek default sent local They have been described by police | :17:02. | :17:05. | |
as modern-day slaves. They were forced to live in squalor | :17:05. | :17:09. | |
conditions and work for no pay. But nine of the 24 men removed from a | :17:09. | :17:12. | |
travellers' site yesterday are now refusing to co-operate with the | :17:12. | :17:15. | |
investigation. It's thought that some of the men had been living at | :17:15. | :17:19. | |
the site, near Leighton Buzzard in Bedfordshire, for as long as 15 | :17:19. | :17:23. | |
years. Four people arrested yesterday are still being | :17:23. | :17:27. | |
questioned. Tucked away in rural Bedfordshire, | :17:27. | :17:32. | |
the Greenacre caravan site, where police believe an organised crime | :17:32. | :17:38. | |
family kept a group of slaves. This is a place local taxi drivers say | :17:38. | :17:42. | |
they refuse to come, for fear of being robbed. We had no trouble | :17:42. | :17:46. | |
walking around. Several travellers who live here told us that the | :17:46. | :17:49. | |
alleged slaves were free to come and go as they pleased. You think | :17:50. | :17:53. | |
there is no foundation to police allegations that these men was | :17:53. | :17:58. | |
laid? Total rubbish. They just don't like us here, that what it is. | :17:58. | :18:02. | |
It's just their way of trying to get us out. And it's not going to | :18:02. | :18:09. | |
work. This is the road that the police officers would have come | :18:09. | :18:13. | |
down early yesterday morning. The site is very isolated but it has a | :18:13. | :18:16. | |
real feeling of permanence. This is the area where it is understood | :18:16. | :18:21. | |
some of the men were kept. You can see the level of security. They | :18:21. | :18:25. | |
were vulnerable, homeless or alcoholic, near here, it is alleged, | :18:26. | :18:29. | |
with the promise of board and lodgings. Some were from the UK, | :18:29. | :18:39. | |
others from Eastern Europe. Police say that some were kept in sheds, | :18:39. | :18:42. | |
others in horseboxes. It's believed they were psychologically tormented, | :18:42. | :18:45. | |
kept in a state of such fear that they felt unable to leave or ask | :18:45. | :18:50. | |
for help. A number have chosen not to support the investigation. 15 | :18:50. | :18:53. | |
others are prepared to tell police what happened to them. I think it's | :18:53. | :18:56. | |
a traumatic set of circumstances. It's not something that in this | :18:57. | :19:00. | |
country, in this day and age, that we expect to find. Squalid | :19:00. | :19:06. | |
conditions, filthy caravans and small sheds, covered in faeces and | :19:07. | :19:12. | |
urine. It's more than 200 years since slavery was abolished. A | :19:12. | :19:15. | |
handful of suspects in custody are accused of reviving an ancient | :19:15. | :19:24. | |
Scotland Yard's acting deputy commissioner Bernard Hogan-Howe has | :19:24. | :19:27. | |
to be the new head of the Metropolitan Police, Britain's | :19:28. | :19:32. | |
biggest force. The former Merseyside chief constable said he | :19:32. | :19:35. | |
intended to make criminals fear the police and is committed to lowering | :19:35. | :19:41. | |
the crime worked. -- crime rate. Prison works. It has been the motto | :19:41. | :19:46. | |
for many that what tough sentencing. Community sentences, under which | :19:46. | :19:50. | |
convicts work as a punishment, are seen by some as a soft option. But | :19:50. | :19:53. | |
is that the case? A year-long inquiry has been looking at the | :19:53. | :19:58. | |
evidence and it has turned up some unexpected conclusions. | :19:58. | :20:03. | |
Government plans to cut prison numbers in England and Wales are | :20:03. | :20:05. | |
founded on the use of non-custodial sentences like this in | :20:05. | :20:09. | |
Leicestershire. Critics argue that such punishments are not tough | :20:09. | :20:13. | |
enough. But a year-long inquiry by criminal justice experts concludes | :20:13. | :20:18. | |
that, for low-level offenders, it's a lot more successful than jail. | :20:18. | :20:22. | |
The report suggests that seeing prison sentences as tough and | :20:22. | :20:27. | |
community sentences as soft misses the point. Not only are some | :20:27. | :20:31. | |
community punishments more demanding than custody, compared t | :20:31. | :20:34. | |
short jail terms they are significantly more effective at | :20:34. | :20:37. | |
turning persistent criminals into law-abiding citizens. They have to | :20:38. | :20:41. | |
address their alcohol and drug problems. They have to look at | :20:41. | :20:45. | |
their employment issues. They have to make reparation, they may have | :20:45. | :20:49. | |
to do something in the community to pay back what they have done. And | :20:49. | :20:54. | |
its five days a week. It can last up to year. The committee was | :20:54. | :20:57. | |
impressed by this project in Leicester, dealing with offenders | :20:57. | :21:02. | |
with drug and alcohol problems. As well as community payback and | :21:02. | :21:08. | |
curfews, criminals must undergo treatment for substance misuse. | :21:08. | :21:12. | |
There was concerns in custody about mental health... Police are tipped | :21:12. | :21:16. | |
off if staff suspect an offender has resorted to crime to feed a | :21:16. | :21:20. | |
habit. By first-time offender, maybe the prison gates might have | :21:20. | :21:23. | |
an effect. But for somebody that has been offended for many years, | :21:23. | :21:29. | |
it does not work. The right-leaning think-tank Policy Exchange recently | :21:29. | :21:32. | |
published a poll suggesting 60% of the public think community | :21:32. | :21:36. | |
sanctions are too soft or week. the moment, they are a joke. Half | :21:36. | :21:40. | |
of them are not completed. Many of them are things like working in a | :21:40. | :21:44. | |
charity shop, not real punishments. Cliff is not laughing. Once | :21:44. | :21:48. | |
described by police as a one-man crime wave, he's now held up as | :21:48. | :21:53. | |
living proof that community justice can change lives in ways that a few | :21:53. | :21:57. | |
months behind bars simply can't. Everything gets done for you. You | :21:57. | :22:01. | |
can go to the gym, you can get fit, you don't have to address any of | :22:01. | :22:06. | |
the issues that got you in jail. Going into a programme and doing | :22:06. | :22:09. | |
community work, it forces you to look at life from a different | :22:10. | :22:14. | |
perspective. Off drugs and out of crime, he feels so remorseful about | :22:14. | :22:18. | |
his previous behaviour that he now does his own voluntary version of | :22:18. | :22:21. | |
community paid at. The Ministry of Justice is among those who hope | :22:21. | :22:25. | |
that stories like his can convince the public that tough doesn't | :22:25. | :22:31. | |
always mean prison. Some of the biggest unions in the | :22:31. | :22:33. | |
country are calling for a major campaign of civil disobedience | :22:33. | :22:37. | |
against spending cuts and changes to employment laws. They have been | :22:37. | :22:42. | |
meeting at the TUC Congress. John Moylan is there for us now. We've | :22:42. | :22:45. | |
heard about the threat of strikes in the past. What would civil | :22:45. | :22:50. | |
disobedience mean? All they mean is non-violent forms of protest. An | :22:50. | :22:54. | |
example often given is the case of pensioners down in the West Country, | :22:54. | :22:58. | |
protesting against cuts. They walked back and forwards across a | :22:58. | :23:02. | |
zebra crossing, stopping traffic and getting their point across. The | :23:02. | :23:05. | |
unions believe there is a lot of opposition across the UK to the | :23:05. | :23:10. | |
spending cuts. Unions can and probably will, this autumn, call | :23:10. | :23:13. | |
strike action. But pensioners, students and church groups cannot | :23:13. | :23:18. | |
go on strike. That is where the other forms of protest may come in. | :23:18. | :23:21. | |
Brendan Barber was not talking about civil disobedience today, but | :23:21. | :23:24. | |
he did call for a mass movement against the cuts, which he said was | :23:24. | :23:31. | |
so severe they would make Margaret Thatcher look like a spendthrift. | :23:31. | :23:36. | |
He has braved aching muscles, cold and even raw sewage. But now David | :23:36. | :23:40. | |
Walliams has the end in sight. The start of Little Britain is about to | :23:40. | :23:46. | |
complete his epic 140 miles charity swim along the River Thames. Lizo | :23:46. | :23:54. | |
Mzimba has been following him all He famously swam the Channel five | :23:54. | :23:58. | |
years ago. This latest challenge is his most gruelling yet. For the | :23:58. | :24:01. | |
past week has been practically the equivalent of swimming the Channel | :24:01. | :24:06. | |
every single day. Here by the Thames, by the Houses of Parliament, | :24:06. | :24:16. | |
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he is due to finish his epic 140 The beginning of the end. David | :24:21. | :24:26. | |
Walliams started the final leg of his swim, spanning the length of | :24:26. | :24:31. | |
the Thames. Today's last stretch, a point which, early on, he feared he | :24:31. | :24:36. | |
might never reach. When I started, I didn't know it would be this hard. | :24:36. | :24:44. | |
You know, I got ill, we lost a lot of time. Yes, this started to look | :24:44. | :24:49. | |
like a long way off. Over the past eight days, his efforts have | :24:49. | :24:53. | |
captured the public's imagination. I think he is so inspirational to | :24:53. | :24:57. | |
lots of people. It makes us feel that we should actually get up and | :24:57. | :25:00. | |
do something ourselves. To start with it was such an amazing feat. | :25:00. | :25:05. | |
Then he had all of the problems he encountered. Absolutely capturing | :25:05. | :25:09. | |
the hearts and minds of the nation. The finish line at Westminster | :25:09. | :25:15. | |
heralds the end of an epic swim, venturing a total of 140 miles. It | :25:15. | :25:19. | |
began in the town of Lechlade in Gloucestershire. Wearing just a | :25:19. | :25:24. | |
pair of trunks, he first braved the Thames Water's. He had little idea | :25:24. | :25:34. | |
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of some of the difficulties that By day three he had reached | :25:34. | :25:37. | |
Abingdon in Oxfordshire. But he was suffering from vomiting and | :25:37. | :25:42. | |
diarrhoea, which seriously slowed his progress. It's very hard to | :25:42. | :25:46. | |
move your body through the water when you feel like you're going to | :25:46. | :25:51. | |
throw up. But by day five he was back on track and supported by some | :25:51. | :26:00. | |
celebrity friends. Just squeeze it, that way. I'm probably the real | :26:00. | :26:06. | |
hero here! But the final leg is one of the toughest. The Thames is tied | :26:06. | :26:10. | |
or, with strong and dangerous currents. Not to mention the 500 | :26:10. | :26:14. | |
cubic metres of sewage that have poured into the river over the past | :26:14. | :26:19. | |
seven days. Now, as he nears the end of his challenge, he says it is | :26:19. | :26:23. | |
particularly support from the public that has kept him going | :26:23. | :26:28. | |
almost to the end. This marks the end of David Walliams' journey. | :26:29. | :26:33. | |
It's also the perfect beginning for Sport Relief 2012 fund-raising | :26:33. | :26:37. | |
efforts. They have raised close to �1 million. A high-profile event | :26:37. | :26:42. | |
has increased public awareness of the charity and its work by a | :26:42. | :26:46. | |
significant amount. What an amazing achievement from | :26:46. | :26:53. | |
David Walliams. You can see him, just going up, I think. 140 miles | :26:53. | :26:58. | |
on the river Thames. Incredible. Time for the weather now. What | :26:58. | :27:04. | |
We are not done yet. For the next couple of hours the wind will be | :27:04. | :27:07. | |
very strong across central and northern Scotland and northern | :27:07. | :27:11. | |
England. We still have an amber warning in force for those winds. | :27:11. | :27:16. | |
We could see gusts of up to 70 mph. The worst has passed for Northern | :27:16. | :27:21. | |
Ireland, maybe. But along the north coast we could see gusts of 70 mph. | :27:21. | :27:24. | |
The main area is central and northern Scotland, parts of | :27:24. | :27:30. | |
northern England. 70 mph gusts could cause disruption. Wherever | :27:30. | :27:34. | |
you are, it is very windy. Overnight, the wind will ease, but | :27:34. | :27:40. | |
only a touch. It will still be very blustery. It's helping to keep the | :27:40. | :27:43. | |
temperatures up, not a cold night. It keeps reining in northern | :27:43. | :27:46. | |
Scotland, maybe the next cause for concern. Tomorrow it is still very | :27:46. | :27:51. | |
windy. There will be sunshine across northern England. Further | :27:51. | :27:56. | |
south, a host of heavy showers across England and Wales. Some | :27:56. | :27:59. | |
sunshine for Northern Ireland in the morning, but it will cloud over. | :27:59. | :28:03. | |
Still very windy, perhaps not as strong as today. Blustery across | :28:03. | :28:07. | |
Wales. Heavy showers in the morning, but the wind will chase the showers | :28:07. | :28:11. | |
away. The afternoon should season sunshine. The same for south-west | :28:11. | :28:14. | |
England, a heavy showers in the morning. The afternoon looks a good | :28:14. | :28:18. | |
deal drier. The travellers will be chased across the Midlands, into | :28:18. | :28:22. | |
East Anglia through the afternoon. Windy here as well, although not as | :28:22. | :28:27. | |
strong as the gusts have been today. The same for more than England. | :28:27. | :28:33. | |
Good spells of sunshine but very blustery. Also, windy across | :28:33. | :28:40. | |
Scotland. The rain is building a plant could cause some flooding | :28:40. | :28:45. |