11/11/2011 BBC News at Six

Millions of people mark Armistice Day with communities falling silent

In Afghanistan, British troops hold their own commemoration reflecting

on lives lost in a decade of conflict.

93 years on from the World War One armistice, we'll be looking at the

enduring appeal of the nation's remembrance.

Also tonight: Italy votes to adopt new austerity

measures, but the eurozone crisis remains a negative force on

Britain's jobs and growth. Police apologise to the relatives

of a mother and daughter murdered by a registered sex offender who

lived next door. Mike Tindall faces the end of his

international rugby career after losing his place on the England

squad. They are clearly sending out a message to the rest of the rugby-

playing public who are English- qualified that if you represent

your country, quite rightly you have to behave yourself.

And good news for London - the city wins through to host the World

I'll be here with sports day later. Down-and-out in Paris. Murray's

Good evening and welcome to the BBC News at Six.

Millions of people stopped what they were doing at precisely 11

o'clock this morning to take part in commemorations for Remembrance

Day. The two-minute silence came on the 11th hour of the 11th day of

the 11th month. This the 93rd anniversary of the armistice that

ended the First World War. Robert Hall reports on the day of

The sound of the bugle echoing across the parade ground at Camp

Bastion in Afghanistan. A reminder that today's act of remembrance

spanned conflicts stretching over more than nine decades. My thoughts

were quite obviously with everyone that has given their lives in past

conflicts as a soldier. But also as the brother of someone who made the

ultimate sacrifice in Afghanistan. I was thinking about my brother and

the sacrifice he made in 2008. the Defence Secretary paid his

tribute to the fallen, forts were focused on Private Matthew Thornton,

of 1st Battalion Yorkshire Regiment, the 345th soldier to die in this

operation. Painstakingly restored by the Imperial War Museum for this

anniversary, the stark images from the First World War battles on the

Somme which claimed more than 57,000 lives on the first day alone.

A four-year conflict which ended at the 11th hour of the 11th day of

the 11th month in 1918. The hour, when on a cloudy morning in 2011,

silence spread outwards from the There were moments of formality.

But the record number of copies sold this year, around 46 million,

suggested growing level of public engagement with this act of

remembrance. From shopping centres to railway stations to the gardens

of remembrance established at schools and local communities.

just feel like all of the soldiers that died were so brave. It is not

just a thought that people have served, it is affecting the

families as well. Two short minutes when new generations had time to

consider their links with the past. Two minutes when families and

friends could reflect on their own a more recent losses. The worst bit

was stood in front of so many crosses with photographs form of

people killed. I know their families very well. They were not

just photographs of lads, they were loved ones of the family's I've

come to know and love myself. the ceremonies in London ended,

police arrested 170 supporters of the English Defence League near the

Cenotaph amid concerns they were planning to target an anti-

capitalist camp in Westminster. But this was a day when the majority

took time out from the concerns of a hectic modern life to pay tribute.

To lay their poppies and crosses at a time when past and present are

forever intertwined. And we can talk to Robert at the

Cenotaph in central London now. A record number of poppies sold this

year, but how has the way we remembered changed over the years?

I think there's a number of factors at play. This Armistice silence was

only reinstated in the 1990s after a successful campaign by the Royal

British Legion. Since then we have seen conflicts in Iraq and

Afghanistan. Pictures of repatriations from Royal Wootton

Bassett and Brize Norton. We are losing service personnel in

theatres of operations in the present as we did in the past. Add

to that the internet, people's ability to research their own

family members, perhaps lost many years ago, to put names and faces

together, to hear personal stories. It increases that sense of relevant.

Part of the Armistice commemoration today took place on the internet.

Although this is something which derives from the past, it is a

ceremony or a series of ceremonies which is still evolving. Her thank

you. After another week of chaos in the

eurozone, there were signs today that tension might be easing.

Shares on the financial markets rose after news that Italy's senate

had approved a long-delayed economic reform package demanded by

the EU. In Greece, Lucas Papedemos has been sworn in as the interim

Prime Minister. He'll lead a new coalition government aiming to

implement the conditions for Greece's latest bail out. Here, the

Chancellor, George Osborne, has warned of continuing economic

danger, but said Britain is ready to weather the storm. Here's our

chief economics correspondent, Hugh At times this week the eurozone

crisis seemed to be spinning out of control. The mood has now can't do

little, but still there are big questions over what events in

Greece and Italy could mean for the rest of Europe, including the UK.

The Chancellor, today on a visit to a renewable energy project north of

Inverness, warned of the possible implications for the British

economy. It is a very, very difficult and dangerous situation

in the eurozone. Britain is impacted by what is happening,

there's no doubt growth and jobs in Britain have been hit by what is

going on in the eurozone. But the Labour leader, visiting a college

in Warwickshire, said the government should do a lot more to

help resolve Europe's problems. think what David Cameron needs to

do is say to Europe's leaders, we must meet urgently as 27 countries

and get this problem sorted out once and for all. Her financial

turmoil has had an impact on turmoil has had an impact on

pensions here. The Italian government's cost of borrowing has

soared, it is now just below 7% as investors decided it was risky.

Money has moved into other markets like the UK. The British

government's borrowing costs has government's borrowing costs has

fallen to just above 2%. That is good in many ways for the UK, but

it is bad news for many workers who I just about to retire. Their

annual pension income is closely linked to him -- interest rates

paid by the government. His how the eurozone crisis has hit pension

returns. Some workers retire having returns. Some workers retire having

built up a stand-alone pension pot. Let's say that his �50,000. In

November 2008, that would have guaranteed a pension of just over

�3,200 per year. Anyone retiring �3,200 per year. Anyone retiring

this month would only be offered around �2,600 for their annual

pension. One part of the UK economy especially vulnerable to a eurozone

slowdown is exports. Nearly half goes to continental Europe. This

business in Telford makes components for a range of

industries. They are doing well, but in the last month they have

seen European orders tailing off. We have just started to see a

softening. The interesting thing is yes, 25% of our business is in

Europe, mainly Germany, Benelux, France, Spain, but we are also

seeing a similar thing happening in other areas in the world. Markets

have rallied a bit today. There are hopes of more stability in Italy

and Greece, but everyone is agreed the eurozone crisis is far from

over. The England rugby captain, Mike

Tindall, has been kicked out of the national squad and fined �25,000 by

the Rugby Football Union. It comes after Tindall, who is married to

the Queen's granddaughter Zara Phillips, was caught on camera with

a woman at a bar during the team's ill-fated World Cup campaign. Our

sports correspondent Joe Wilson has For more than a decade, Mike

Tindall has been a figurehead of the England team, many of his 75

caps came as captain. The small matter of marrying the Queen's

granddaughter this year sent his profile into another dimension. So

it was that images of him in a New Zealand bar in the middle of the

World Cup attracted huge attention. A night out described by the

England manager at the time as rather ordinary. Other teams have

done the same thing in the same town and gone out for a few drinks.

If we get away from having that in the rugby World Cup, I don't think

that is for the best. But today the An example was being made. They are

clearly sending out a message to the rest of the rugby-playing

public who are English-qualified that if you represent your country,

quite rightly, you have to behave yourself otherwise we will deal

with you very severely. We don't care who you are and what service

you have done for the country. You will cockpit. It is here at

Twickenham that the RFU's decisions are made, but right now it is not

clear just who's in charge here with resignations and inquiries.

But clearly players must also protect the image of the game. Two

other England players, Chris Ashton and James Haskell, both received

suspended fines for an incident involving a hotel chambermaid

during the World Cup. And let's not forget man you tell a lengthy

jumping from a ferry. Do England players know how to behave?

need guys to go out there and enjoy things. Where you place that line

is up to the guys in charge and what they see as right and wrong.

It is also up to the players to make that decision. For me going

through the 2011 World Cup put me on constant and alert and that

still goes with me everywhere. Tindall will appeal against his

fine, but it still seems he has paid for his World Cup mistakes

with his England career. A nurse from east London has been

jailed for three years for killing her baby daughter through force-

feeding. 31-year-old Gloria Dwomoh was obsessed with her daughter's

weight and poured liquidised food down her throat while she was

weaning her onto solids. The ten- month-old child died from pneumonia

caused by food in her lungs. London will host the 2017 World

Athletics Championships. The sport's world governing body chose

London over the Qatari capital Doha and made the announcement this

afternoon in Monaco. Our sports editor, David Bond, is there for us

It has been one of the closest races in world athletics for years.

Even as late as lunchtime today, bid leaders from London were

telling me it was too close to call. But in the end it was a comfortable

victory for London. They got 16 votes to Doha's 10.

Her having twice pulled out of bids to stage the World Athletics

Championships, it was third time lucky for London today. London.

After months of campaigning, there was jubilation, but also a great

sense of relief among the winning bid team. It is the world's third

largest sporting event coming to London for nine days. We have the

Olympic Games in 2012, we now have the world athletics championships

in 2017. Despite Qatar's great wealth, London Bebo Park with its

promise to deliver big-money TV and commercial deals in one of the

world's most iconic cities. The bid also vowed to put on a

championships centred around the athletes. Back home at his training

camp in Loughborough, Britain's world champion hurdler Dai Greene

was waiting anxiously for news from Monaco. As an athlete it is

fantastic that we have won the bid. It is a great feeling to be

competing in front of your home fans and I will get an opportunity

next year, but to get it in another six years will be fantastic.

Failure to land the 2018 World Cup might have taken the shine off it,

but the next few years still promised a golden era for British

sport. First up the most prestigious, the London 2012

Olympics. Scotland will hope to keep the momentum going when

Glasgow hosts to the 2014 Commonwealth Games. In 2015 England

will be hoping to make up for its dismal showing in New Zealand when

it stages the Rugby World Cup. And now following today's vote, London

will again be at the centre of the sporting spotlight when it stages

the World Athletics Championships. Landing the 2017 event was crucial

to the future of this place, London's �500 million Olympic

Stadium for top West Ham were supposed to be moving in after 20

Guelph, but a legal challenge from Tottenham Hotspur Forster dramatic

U-turn. -- 2012. Ministers scrap to deal with West Ham last month to

boost the 2017 bid and reassure world athletics chiefs that track

and field remain central to the stadium's legacy plans after 2012.

Failure to secure the World Championships would have been

deeply embarrassing for the government and raised serious

questions about what happens next. We took quite a risk when we took

the stadium back into public ownership three weeks ago. Part of

the reason was to end the legal uncertainty, but to bring certainty

to the World Athletics Championships bid. Today's bit --

result would end the controversy over the stadium, but it will go

some way to delivering on the London impressed with its legacy

promises, particularly around the stadium after 2012 but this was

also a bid about hard cash. Doha promised around �150 million,

including �5 million in prize money. Now at the last minute London

offered to match that and that was clearly influential today and

underlined just how important it was for London to win.

Thank you. Our top story tonight: Communities

across the UK have marked Armistice Day, remembering those who died

serving their country. Coming up: This is Birdie, 15,

still at school with a first album coming out, we are looking at the

hopes and fears of the British music industry.

And on the BBC News channel Lewis Hamilton and Jenson Button set the

pace for McLaren ahead of the Grand It's often suggested that eating

more fibre is good for you but there's now evidence of exactly how

much you need in order to reduce your risk of cancer. Researchers

from Imperial College London say that an extra 10 grammes of fibre a

day would cut the risk of developing bowel cancer by 10%.

This report from our health correspondent Dominic Hughes. Just

how much fibre should we eat? Since the 1970s experts have suggested

that high fibre foods like cereals, pwrapb and wholemeal bread could

prevent bowel cancer but they lacked hard proof. Now a new study

suggests a high fibre diet could provide some protection to what is

the UK's second biggest cancer killer. Mark Davis developed bowel

cancer in his early 30s. He has made a full recovery but he

believes his poor diet was to blame. Diet was definitely a factor in me

getting cancer so early and young at 31. I was working very long

hours and I was eating the wrong foods at the wrong time, takeaways,

burgers, but all the time. Now post-cancer my diet's changed a lot.

Bowel cancer has been linked to a poor diet, too much red meat, for

example. But this study says that people who eat very little fibre

stand to benefit the most from increasing their intake of

wholegrain foods. If aud bowl of porridge for break fast this

morning it probably had under 3 grams of fibre. If you are starting

with a low fibre diet you can reduce your risk of bowel cancer by

up to 10% by increasing the amount of fibre to eat to ten grams a day,

the equivalent of three bowls of porridge.

This is a scan of... Bowel cancer experts say diet is just one factor

in a complicated disease. There are other very important risk factors

for bowel cancer, such as high consumption of meat, obesity, and

physical inactivity. That allows to us look at these in greater detail.

Finally, there's the question about screening and particularly for

bowel cancer there are new methods coming in forward and the future

will be able to reduce this cancer by up to 33%. People have long been

encouraged to eat plenty of fruit and vegetables as part of a healthy

lifestyle, this research found no evidence they helped guard against

bowel cancer in the same way as high fibre foods. Cancer charities

say fruit and veg should still play an important part in diet but the

role fibre can play in the fight against bowel cancer is becoming

clearer. Police have apologised to relatives

of a mother and daughter who were murdered by a registered sex

offender. Diane Fallon and her 10- year-old daughter, Holly, were

killed by Thomas Smith after he was found to be living in a flat next

door to them in Ayrshire. An independent review said police

missed several opportunities to intervene before the murders took

place. Lorna Gordon is in Ayrshire for us now. What else are they

saying? Well, this is the small hamlet where Thomas Smith lived,

when he moved here he was already on the sex offenders' register. He

had served a jail sentence for indecently assaulting a young child.

When he moved here he ended up living next door to Diane Fallon

and her ten-year-old daughter, Holly. He befriended the family.

Then he went on to subject them to an appallingly prolonged attack. He

raped ten-year-old Holly before killing both her and her mother.

Today, the police apologised to Holly and Diane Fallon's family and

said there were things they could and should have done better in

monitoring the movements of Thomas Smith.

This is uncomfortable for us. You know, much less so, of course, than

it is for the family of Diane and Holly Fallon. But when we have got

it wrong we will say we have got it wrong and we will make sure we put

things right for the future. Well, neighbours here have welcomed the

findings of this independent review. They've said if it helps the police

and other authorities who were involved in the monitoring of

Thomas Smith improve their proceed euros, then -- procedures, then

that will be a good thing. The review makes 34 recommendations in

total T says there should be improved sharing of intelligence

between the various authorities, it also says that perhaps the law

should be changed when it comes to monitoring sex offenders. It says

there should be increased powers for police to enter their homes if

they're high risk offenders. It also says it should have powers -

police should have powers to examine mobile phones and in this

case it might have found out Smith was in contact with the family with

the Fallons. In football, Frank Lampard will

captain England at Wembley for tomorrow's friendly against Spain.

The Manager, Fabio Cappello, has confirmed that John Terry will be

on the bench, but will get the captaincy against Sweden on Tuesday.

He's insisted the ongoing racism allegations and investigation have

had nothing to do with his decision. The recording arm of the British

record label EMI is being sold to the French-owned Universal Music

Group for �1.2 billion. EMI, the home of The Beatles, Coldplay and

Pink Floyd, was taken over by its main creditor, the American bank,

Citigroup, in February. Two severely disabled men from the

Isle of Wight have won a High Court action against their local

council's plans to cut its budget for adult social care. A judge

ruled that new criteria used to decide who was eligible for care

were unlawful. The council says it will now reconsider. Let's talk to

our social affairs correspondent Reeta Chakrabarti who's here now.

What are the implications of this? There are implications for local

authorities up and down the country who are looking to balance the

needs of vulnerable adults in their care, with having to make budget

cuts. Now in this particular case on the Isle of Wight the two men

involved had complex needs, they were both autistic, one had brain

damage. Their families challenged the way in which the council

decided to change its policy on funding care, limiting that funding

just to people whose needs were assessed as critical or at risk of

becoming critical and as you said the High Court supported the

families in judges that was unlawful. This isn't an isolated

case, there was another case in court this week, one in Birmingham

a few months ago. It's interesting these cases about cuts in care are

being challenged successfully in the courts. The local councils say

that the social care system is under great strain with less money

and more demand. The Government acknowledges that there is less

money, but it says that the best councils are managing.

It's the busiest week in the music calendar with Britain's biggest

bands timing their new releases for the Christmas rush. But today

brought a warning that the big earners are more likely to be

pensioners than young wannabes. The Performing Rights Society says the

number of new acts breaking through is plummeting. Our arts

correspondent David Sillito has the details.

It must be strange going to school and coming home and talking about

album deals? Yeah, it is. Today has been really weird, going from

science revision to recording. Birdy, still at school and this

week has gone into the top ten with her first album. And her ambition?

Travelling around the world and playing at huge concerts. That's

what I love, performing really. she's just 15 and it's looking good.

But what about 18, 21, 25? The music industry has real fears.

Because the real money is being made in live music and the body

that represents songwriters says there's a problem. Age. I think

it's right to point the imbalance dominating that sector and ask the

question who is going to be selling out stadiums and festivals in 2025.

The figures are startling. In the top tier touring over the last year

you have The Rolling Stones, Elton John, 40% of those top acts on the

circuit are over 60. 19% are like U2 and Madonna, now in their 50s.

In fact, 96% were over 40. Britney Spears was the only 20-something on

this list. X Factor for instance may create fame, but long-term

success? If you have a hit with your first single you are dropped,

it's all over. So it's extremely fickle, a quick turnaround.

number of songwriters is at a record high, but long-term just who

are going to be the heritage acts of tomorrow?

Let's look at the weekend weather Not shaping up too badly, which may

come as a surprise if you are under the rain clouds. It's been pouring

with rain across Northern Ireland and still across parts of the

south-west and Wales and south- western parts of Scotland. Nasty

conditions on the roads. This band of rain will move west to east

across most of the country, although the amounts of rain will

vary. Some of us seeing a lot, others not very much at all T will

stagger its way eastwards as we go through the night. Something drier

following on behind, although one or two sharp showers behind it

across parts of Wales and the south-west of England. No problems

with frost or anything t will be a mild Friday night. Might be a grey

start across eastern parts of England, still rain around but it's

getting better. Most of us will see increasing amounts of sunshine.

Mid-afternoon across Scotland, for example, I am hopeful that you will

see more blue sky than cloud. Still the odd shower left behind across

the western Highlands and islands but most of us will avoid these

with sunshine. Brighter too for Northern Ireland, light winds again.

Northern England should be dry with increasing amounts of sunshine.

Wales and the West Country, too. For eastern parts of England might

be a struggle, a cloudy start. Hopefully things will turn brighter

and in the sunshine it will feel mild. For Remembrance Sunday it

should be dry, that's good news. Again the sunshine will come and go,

probably the best across the more western areas. This is the picture

on Sunday. A fair bit of cloud towards some north-eastern coasts

of England and Scotland. But in the sunshine should feel pleasant.

Tomorrow Britain in a Day, that means go out and take a picture and

put it on the website, we will be interested to see it. Thank you

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