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The parents of the missing girl Madeleine McCann hit out at months | :00:08. | :00:13. | |
of media intrusion. Kate and Gerry McCann say some reporting of their | :00:13. | :00:18. | |
case was sinister and totally untrue. | :00:18. | :00:21. | |
We desperately wanted to shout out it's not true but when it's your | :00:21. | :00:28. | |
voice against a powerful media, it just didn't hold weight. | :00:28. | :00:31. | |
Also tonight: Abused and stripped of their dignity, a report on how | :00:31. | :00:36. | |
care provided in the home can amount to a breach of human rights. | :00:36. | :00:40. | |
Should pregnant women be allowed to choose a Caesarean birth, even if | :00:40. | :00:44. | |
there's no medical need? Running battles continue on the | :00:44. | :00:49. | |
streets of Cairo as Egypt's pro- democracy protesters vow to fight | :00:49. | :00:54. | |
on against military rule. rioters have control of a good | :00:54. | :00:59. | |
chunk of the city centre now and they show no desire to leave. | :00:59. | :01:02. | |
And you have heard of flying into trouble, but not like this. The | :01:02. | :01:08. | |
pilot who lived to tell the tale. I will be here with Sportsday later | :01:08. | :01:13. | |
on the BBC News channel, including the World Cup blame game. A leaked | :01:13. | :01:23. | |
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RFU report blows the lid off their Good evening, welcome to the BBC | :01:33. | :01:38. | |
News at Six. Kate and Gerry McCann have appeared before the inquiry | :01:38. | :01:42. | |
into press press standards and described months of intrusion into | :01:42. | :01:44. | |
their lives, following the disappearance of their daughter, | :01:44. | :01:49. | |
Madeleine. They say the media coverage turned sinister soon after | :01:49. | :01:52. | |
her abduction. Kate McCann also told the inquiry she felt violated | :01:52. | :01:57. | |
when her private diary was published. Nicholas Witchall's | :01:57. | :01:59. | |
report contains some flash photography. | :01:59. | :02:04. | |
Few people have endured the shaming excesses of the media in the | :02:04. | :02:08. | |
anguished circumstances that Gerry and Kate McCann faced in the summer | :02:08. | :02:12. | |
of 2007. They had been on holiday at a resort in Portugal, one | :02:12. | :02:15. | |
evening their daughter Madeleine disappeared from their apartment. | :02:15. | :02:19. | |
Her parents were desperate to find her. The media were desperate for | :02:19. | :02:22. | |
stories. The McCanns said they had never | :02:22. | :02:25. | |
given evidence before, they had come for this reason. A system has | :02:25. | :02:29. | |
to be put in place to protect ordinary people from the damage | :02:29. | :02:34. | |
that the media can cause. Initially after Madeleine's disappearance the | :02:34. | :02:39. | |
media was supportive but then the Portuguese police named the McCanns | :02:39. | :02:42. | |
as arguido meaning they could be asked questions in the presence of | :02:42. | :02:45. | |
a lawyer but the media portrayed them as suspects and the worst of | :02:46. | :02:50. | |
the coverage began. The clear message that was going out | :02:50. | :02:54. | |
nationally throughout Europe and internationally was that there was | :02:54. | :02:58. | |
very strong evidence that our daughter was dead and we were | :02:58. | :03:02. | |
somehow implicated in her disappearance. These were desperate | :03:02. | :03:06. | |
times. We were having to try and find our daughter ourselves, we | :03:06. | :03:10. | |
needed all the help we could get and faced with, we will come on to | :03:10. | :03:16. | |
headlines, but corpse in the car, I don't know how many times I read | :03:16. | :03:22. | |
body body tphraoupbdz in -- tphraoupbdz in the -- fluids in the | :03:22. | :03:27. | |
car. When it's your voice against a powerful media, it just doesn't | :03:27. | :03:31. | |
hold weight. We are desperately shouting out internally please stop | :03:31. | :03:34. | |
what you are doing. We are trying to find our daughter and you are | :03:34. | :03:38. | |
stoppingous chances of finding her. Among the worst offenders were | :03:38. | :03:42. | |
newspapers owned by the Express Group, story after story which | :03:42. | :03:46. | |
implied, falsely, that the McCanns were involved in Madeleine's | :03:46. | :03:50. | |
disappearance. They were shown some of the headlines. Their reaction. | :03:50. | :03:57. | |
Nothing short of disgusting. think this same journalist, if | :03:57. | :04:00. | |
memory serves right, said we stored her body in a freezer. And then | :04:01. | :04:07. | |
more than a year after Madeleine's disappearance the News of the World | :04:07. | :04:10. | |
obtained a copy of Kate McGann's private diary, probably from the | :04:10. | :04:14. | |
police T published her without telling her. I felt totally | :04:14. | :04:19. | |
violated. I had written these words and thoughts that were most | :04:19. | :04:22. | |
desperate time in my life, most people don't have to experience | :04:22. | :04:26. | |
that and it was my only way of communicating with Madeleine and | :04:26. | :04:29. | |
for me, you know, there was absolutely no respect shown for me | :04:29. | :04:32. | |
as a grieving mother or a human being. And all the while at their | :04:32. | :04:36. | |
home in Leicestershire they were under almost continual surveillance | :04:36. | :04:40. | |
by photographers, even when they went out with their young twins. | :04:40. | :04:43. | |
Photographers would either spring out from behind a hedge to give I | :04:43. | :04:47. | |
guess a startled look they could attach, I don't know, fragile, | :04:47. | :04:51. | |
furious, whatever they wanted to put with a headline. But there were | :04:51. | :04:55. | |
several occasions where they would bang on the windows sometimes with | :04:55. | :05:02. | |
a camera lens and Amelia said several times, mummy I am scared. | :05:02. | :05:06. | |
From Kate and Gerry McCann five years after Madeleine's | :05:06. | :05:08. | |
disappearance and their mistreatment by the media a simple | :05:08. | :05:14. | |
plea, something has to change. And we can talk to Nick at the Royal | :05:14. | :05:16. | |
Courts of Justice. We have concentrated on the McCanns, but | :05:16. | :05:20. | |
who else appeared at the inquiry today? Indeed, powerful testimony | :05:20. | :05:23. | |
of course from the McCanns. Two of the other witnesses today, Sheryl | :05:23. | :05:28. | |
Gascoigne, she's the former wife of the England footballer Paul and | :05:28. | :05:31. | |
Mark Lewis, the solicitor who acts for many of the victims of phone | :05:31. | :05:35. | |
hacking. Sheryl Gascoigne said that she was scared of the repercussions | :05:35. | :05:38. | |
of giving evidence but believed it was the right thing to do, she | :05:38. | :05:41. | |
talked of harassment she received, mostly from photographers. Mark | :05:42. | :05:46. | |
Lewis, he knows the twist and turns of the phone hacking story as well | :05:46. | :05:49. | |
as anybody and he said that he was convinced that it wasn't only the | :05:49. | :05:53. | |
News of the World that was involved in phone hacking, that's today. | :05:53. | :05:58. | |
Tomorrow among the witnesses the actress Sienna Miller and the | :05:58. | :06:01. | |
author JK Rowling. Stkpwhrp. | :06:01. | :06:04. | |
The latest report into the standard of care provided to people in their | :06:04. | :06:08. | |
own home says it can be so bad that in some cases it amounts to a | :06:08. | :06:12. | |
breach of human rights. Researchers at the Equality and Human Rights | :06:12. | :06:14. | |
Commission found that some people had been subjected to physical | :06:14. | :06:18. | |
neglect, such as being left in the toilet because staff were too busy. | :06:18. | :06:23. | |
In many cases there was a disregard for dignity, like leaving people | :06:23. | :06:28. | |
unwashed. And the report also found examples of patronising behaviour, | :06:28. | :06:33. | |
carers making phone calls while tending to their clients. | :06:33. | :06:36. | |
Rita Anderson, who has multiple sclerosis, has been cared for at | :06:36. | :06:44. | |
home for the last 14 years. I have some lamb chops in the | :06:44. | :06:48. | |
freezer we can have. They will be nice. Rita has her husband, Graham, | :06:48. | :06:52. | |
by her side. Though there are times when she relies on carers. But she | :06:52. | :06:57. | |
can't always count on seeing the same one every day. | :06:57. | :07:01. | |
You feel very insecure. You don't feel that you have any relationship | :07:01. | :07:07. | |
with the people. You don't feel that you can rely on them to do | :07:07. | :07:10. | |
care properly. Carers would often turn up two hours late in the | :07:10. | :07:17. | |
morning. That means by the time you are up and dressed it will be | :07:17. | :07:21. | |
lunchtime. You don't want to be getting up for lunch. You know, you | :07:21. | :07:24. | |
really should be eating breakfast on a morning. Rita said more than | :07:24. | :07:32. | |
anything she longed to be treated as a woman, an individual. You feel | :07:32. | :07:38. | |
very much like a piece of meat, they don't show any care at all. My | :07:38. | :07:45. | |
clothes weren't on properly. I was feeling really, I don't know, as if | :07:45. | :07:51. | |
I wasn't important to anybody. That is not how you like to feel. It's | :07:51. | :07:58. | |
not always about physical care. felt very much as if I was being | :07:58. | :08:03. | |
patronised, and not treated correctly as a person. No respect | :08:03. | :08:08. | |
for my dignity. That is very important, that you need to feel | :08:08. | :08:14. | |
that people respect what you are. But it's not all doom and gloom. | :08:14. | :08:19. | |
Things are better now she's changed to a single private care company. | :08:19. | :08:26. | |
She's very good. Brilliant, in fact. She just wants to do it right, do | :08:26. | :08:33. | |
it correctly. She's a high standard. She's very nice. She does do her | :08:33. | :08:37. | |
job well. Well that was Rita Anderson's experience of care in | :08:37. | :08:41. | |
the home. With me now is our social affairs correspondent. This isn't | :08:41. | :08:44. | |
the first time we have sat here and talked about care in the home, is | :08:45. | :08:48. | |
it? No, you could say we have sat here too often doing this. There | :08:48. | :08:51. | |
are things happening. The Government has announced in the | :08:51. | :08:54. | |
last week that there will be a code of conduct, a minimum training for | :08:54. | :08:57. | |
care workers. They say there will be a voluntary register, although | :08:58. | :09:01. | |
plans for a compulsory register were scrapped this year. And there | :09:01. | :09:05. | |
will be inspections of home care providers. Also in the spring we | :09:05. | :09:10. | |
are expecting a White Paper on social care funding. But these are | :09:10. | :09:12. | |
deep-rooted problems because I don't think there's much argument | :09:12. | :09:17. | |
over the fact that adult social care in general is under pressure | :09:17. | :09:20. | |
and generally underfunded. There are some good dedicated workers, | :09:20. | :09:24. | |
but there are some very poorly paid, poorly trained people who probably | :09:24. | :09:29. | |
are in the wrong job. And squeezed local authority budgets means that | :09:29. | :09:32. | |
people have less time for visits, so it raises uncomfortable | :09:32. | :09:37. | |
questions for us as a society, as how much we want to invest in the | :09:37. | :09:41. | |
quality of care for older people. Thank you. | :09:41. | :09:44. | |
A police lab worker has admitted that she wasn't concentrating when | :09:44. | :09:48. | |
she wrote the wrong case number on an evidence form in the Stephen | :09:49. | :09:53. | |
Lawrence murder investigation. Yvonne Turner told the Old Bailey | :09:53. | :09:56. | |
that she wasn't focused at that stage, but got to grips with the | :09:56. | :10:00. | |
case after that. Gary Dobson and David Norris deny murder. Tom | :10:00. | :10:06. | |
Symonds report from the Old Bailey contains some flash photography. | :10:06. | :10:09. | |
For Stephen's parents arrived in blacked out car this is morning | :10:09. | :10:12. | |
last week's harrowing descriptions of their son's death have been | :10:12. | :10:19. | |
replaced by a focus on forensic procedures. In May 1993 police | :10:19. | :10:23. | |
raided the house of Gary Dobson. They seized his jacket and card | :10:23. | :10:26. | |
began. The clothes were taken to Eltham police station where the | :10:26. | :10:31. | |
court heard again today they were stored in a disused cell, which had | :10:31. | :10:34. | |
previously held Stephen's bloody clothes. They were then sent to | :10:34. | :10:38. | |
forensic scientist who is cut open the paper bags in which they had | :10:38. | :10:43. | |
been kept, and subjected them to a series of laboratory tests. Various | :10:43. | :10:47. | |
procedures were carried out including what's 19 as taping, | :10:47. | :10:51. | |
similar to this, to pick up loose debris or fibres. Forensic | :10:51. | :10:55. | |
scientist Yvonne Turner carried out those examinations and was called | :10:55. | :10:59. | |
to court to discuss the possibility one set of clothes contomorrow | :10:59. | :11:03. | |
Nated -- contaminated another. She said keeping evidence separate was | :11:03. | :11:08. | |
intrinsic to her job. She did examine instead of and's black | :11:08. | :11:12. | |
jacket but in the months that followed she also looked at Gary | :11:12. | :11:17. | |
Dobson's jacket and cardigan. Today she admitted losing concentration | :11:17. | :11:21. | |
and putting the wrong code on the paperwork. It made records and tape | :11:21. | :11:26. | |
samples difficult to keep track of. And she told the court she also | :11:26. | :11:32. | |
recorded that she hadn't made the tapes when, in fact, she had. Under | :11:32. | :11:36. | |
cross-examination she agreed it was highly irregular. She also said | :11:36. | :11:40. | |
that it was common practice for sealed packages containing | :11:40. | :11:45. | |
suspects' clothes to be bagged up with those containing victims. | :11:45. | :11:49. | |
Stephen Lawrence was just 18 when he was killed at this bus stop. | :11:49. | :11:55. | |
Gary Dobson and David Norris deny murdering him. | :11:55. | :11:57. | |
The European Commission has put forward proposals for countries in | :11:57. | :12:03. | |
the eurozone to issue a new joint bond. Under the scheme, each | :12:03. | :12:06. | |
eurozone country would guarantee the debt of the others in the hope | :12:06. | :12:09. | |
of stablising the current crisis. The plan has met stiff opposition | :12:09. | :12:12. | |
from Germany, which believes it will reduce pressure on troubled | :12:12. | :12:18. | |
states to tackle their debt. Should pregnant women be allowed to | :12:18. | :12:25. | |
have a Caesarean delivery even if there is there is no medical need? | :12:25. | :12:30. | |
New guidelines say they should. The advice has been issued by NICE. | :12:31. | :12:36. | |
What's the thinking behind this? It's about making the advice on | :12:36. | :12:38. | |
Caesarean births clearer so women are aware of the risks and benefits | :12:39. | :12:42. | |
and doctors know when a C-section should be offered. At the moment | :12:42. | :12:45. | |
nearly one in four births in the UK are by planned or emergency | :12:45. | :12:50. | |
Caesarean section. A planned Caesarean costs the NHS about �700 | :12:50. | :12:55. | |
more on average than a normal birth. And the pros and cons vary from | :12:55. | :12:58. | |
woman to woman but the main drawback is that the recovery time | :12:58. | :13:04. | |
is usually longer. Christine Johnson desperately | :13:04. | :13:08. | |
wanted a Caesarean, she found giving birth to her son Sam so | :13:08. | :13:11. | |
traumatic she was terrified of going through it again. But when | :13:11. | :13:16. | |
she became pregnant she had to battle for a planned C-section. | :13:16. | :13:19. | |
Midwives eventually agreed she should have the operation and | :13:19. | :13:22. | |
counselling to help her through labour. There were no medical | :13:22. | :13:28. | |
reasons for me to have a Caesarean, I completely accept that. But there | :13:28. | :13:33. | |
were emotional reasons for me to have a Caesarean section. Once she | :13:33. | :13:36. | |
referred me to that counselling that made a huge difference. | :13:36. | :13:40. | |
that's the kind of experience more women should be able to have in the | :13:40. | :13:44. | |
future, but what's actually changed? The NHS used to say | :13:44. | :13:49. | |
doctors in England and Wales could decline a C-section if there was no | :13:49. | :13:53. | |
identifiable reason to have one. The new guidelines say if mums to | :13:53. | :13:57. | |
be want a Caesarean they should be offered one, but they should be | :13:57. | :14:02. | |
talked through all the pros and cons. Experts say a woman should | :14:02. | :14:06. | |
think very hard about what a major procedure it is. Do you have health | :14:07. | :14:10. | |
problems that may make recovery a lot harder afterwards? Because | :14:10. | :14:14. | |
everyone assumes you have had a baby you should be up and about, | :14:14. | :14:19. | |
but actually you need caring for yourself. Because you have had a | :14:19. | :14:22. | |
big surgery, an operation. number of women having that kind of | :14:22. | :14:25. | |
operation is higher in Northern Ireland than it is anywhere else in | :14:25. | :14:29. | |
the UK. Ministers there want to see Caesarean rates lowered and don't | :14:29. | :14:33. | |
plan to change guidelines. Women in Scotland are already given the | :14:33. | :14:36. | |
chance to talk through all their options. | :14:36. | :14:40. | |
Some people are wondering whether these guidelines will mean more | :14:40. | :14:43. | |
Caesareans are carried out in England and Wales, but the experts | :14:43. | :14:48. | |
who wrote them don't expect an increase if women have all the pros | :14:48. | :14:55. | |
and cons explained. Our top story: | :14:55. | :14:59. | |
The the parents of Madeleine McCann have hit out at months of media | :14:59. | :15:02. | |
intrusion. Coming up: | :15:02. | :15:09. | |
It's the future of the mobile phone, but how long before 4 G-Tech tpholg | :15:09. | :15:11. | |
gets Britain in the information fast lane. | :15:11. | :15:15. | |
In business on the news channel: A plan for euro bonds is back on the | :15:15. | :15:19. | |
table to try to help solve the euro debt crisis. And Lloyds says it | :15:19. | :15:29. | |
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will step up lending to small and For the fourth day in a row there | :15:31. | :15:33. | |
have been running battles between protesters and security forces in | :15:33. | :15:36. | |
the Egyptian capital, Cairo. Military police fired tear gas on | :15:36. | :15:41. | |
stone-throwing demonstrators and fired guns into the air. This | :15:41. | :15:44. | |
evening Tahrir Square - the symbol of the uprising - is filling up | :15:44. | :15:53. | |
with protesters. Our Middle East Editor Jeremy Bowen is there. | :15:53. | :15:57. | |
square is once again fall with tens of thousands of people behind me | :15:57. | :16:07. | |
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there this evening. -- fall. -- full. It follows quite a bit of | :16:08. | :16:16. | |
violence in the square itself. That is where I spent the day. This has | :16:16. | :16:21. | |
been the front line since Saturday. The fight has been led by organised | :16:21. | :16:31. | |
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football fans with long experience The Gas keeps them back from the | :16:35. | :16:43. | |
Interior Ministry, a symbol of how the old regime was involved in New | :16:43. | :16:46. | |
Egypt. Life has not offered these men many favours, this is not about | :16:46. | :16:49. | |
the politics of next week's election for them, the gas slows | :16:49. | :16:56. | |
them but does not stop them because they are in a rage about the system | :16:56. | :17:02. | |
that they believe was meant to benefit a them. We have got good | :17:02. | :17:05. | |
control of a -- they have good control of a chunk of the city | :17:05. | :17:09. | |
centre. Short of the army stepping down I cannot see a political deal | :17:09. | :17:14. | |
that will get them out of very easily. He said these were wins | :17:14. | :17:24. | |
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from police shot guns. -- wins. -- wounds. On the streets, some of the | :17:28. | :17:38. | |
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young, poor and angry increasingly We were marched out. One man | :17:39. | :17:49. | |
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threatened if anyone films on my Just of Mohammed Mahmud Street, a | :17:51. | :17:55. | |
businessman was clearing his warehouse. The disturbance is mean | :17:55. | :18:02. | |
more damage for an economy battered by revolutionary turmoil. They | :18:02. | :18:05. | |
carried out some of the stock through the tear-gas, many | :18:05. | :18:10. | |
Egyptians yearn for quiet and certainty. They are just dreams | :18:10. | :18:18. | |
these days. Then suddenly in mid- afternoon a truce was declared. It | :18:18. | :18:27. | |
felt like a victory. The protesters left there from Lin and move back | :18:27. | :18:32. | |
towards Tahrir Square, like conquering heroes. -- their front | :18:32. | :18:37. | |
line. They do not like being filmed. The crowds are emotional and quick | :18:37. | :18:41. | |
to anger. The Paul's lasted until dusk, then the violence started | :18:41. | :18:47. | |
again. -- the quiet. Not all Egyptians like what is going on | :18:47. | :18:51. | |
here and they do not all support the people in Tahrir Square. This | :18:51. | :18:56. | |
time round, if you listen to radio and TV phone-in programmes people | :18:56. | :19:00. | |
are tending to say we paid tribute to the fact some of them were | :19:00. | :19:03. | |
killed, they are martyrs, but must they do this? The stock market and | :19:03. | :19:08. | |
economy is in turmoil, the tourist trade is in ruins, why not wait | :19:08. | :19:12. | |
until the elections on Monday and then see what happens? But these | :19:12. | :19:20. | |
people here say they are determined to keep on going until the army | :19:20. | :19:24. | |
steps down. One woman on one of those phone-ins said they are the | :19:24. | :19:30. | |
new dictators of Egypt. That is what she called them. | :19:30. | :19:33. | |
Thank you. It's the future of the mobile phone, offering faster and | :19:33. | :19:36. | |
cheaper downloads and now it's being tried out in London and | :19:36. | :19:39. | |
Cornwall. But 4G won't be widely available in the UK until 2013 at | :19:39. | :19:41. | |
the earliest and, as our Technology Correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones | :19:42. | :19:44. | |
reports, some of the web's biggest names say Britain is languishing in | :19:45. | :19:54. | |
:19:55. | :19:56. | ||
The future of mobile phones is coming, it is called 4G and | :19:56. | :20:01. | |
promises to make life on the move faster. In the UK the technology is | :20:01. | :20:05. | |
still at the testing stage. In London, oh to have set up a trial | :20:05. | :20:11. | |
network. You can plug a dongle into a computer to put it through its | :20:11. | :20:16. | |
paces. That is going up over 90 makes. At that speed Downloading a | :20:16. | :20:24. | |
TV programme takes no time. That is 10 times what you can get on a | :20:24. | :20:29. | |
traditional network. So to get hold of an episode of a programme took | :20:29. | :20:33. | |
us about a minute on the 4G network. On a typical home broadband | :20:33. | :20:39. | |
connection that could be up to 10 minutes. On 3 G, what you use on a | :20:39. | :20:42. | |
modern smart phone, you could wait 80 minutes for the programme to | :20:42. | :20:47. | |
download. Another trial in Cornwall run by BT and the mobile firm | :20:47. | :20:51. | |
Everything Everywhere is looking at whether Forgie could help in rural | :20:51. | :20:57. | |
areas where there is no good fixed- line broadband -- 4G could help. It | :20:57. | :21:01. | |
will be 2013 at the earliest before 4G rise in the UK. In the meantime | :21:01. | :21:06. | |
many struggle to get even a decent normal signal. Many other countries | :21:06. | :21:12. | |
are moving ahead much faster. In Sweden, for instance, 4G was up and | :21:12. | :21:16. | |
running. Other countries have auctioned the airwaves needed for | :21:16. | :21:20. | |
the new network. In the UK businesses are worried. EBay, which | :21:20. | :21:24. | |
now get many customers through mobile phones, so the UK cannot | :21:24. | :21:27. | |
afford to fall behind. desperately want better, faster | :21:27. | :21:34. | |
internet coverage on mobiles. That is what we hope 4G is about. More | :21:34. | :21:38. | |
than one in four of us now when Britain has a smart phone so we | :21:38. | :21:43. | |
must not fall any further behind. We are using the 4G network in this | :21:43. | :21:47. | |
London square to broadcast pictures live to Television Centre. The | :21:47. | :21:51. | |
technology could change how we do many things but it will be a while | :21:51. | :21:57. | |
before it arrives. Now, final preparations are | :21:57. | :22:00. | |
underway for a major announcement next Tuesday by the Chancellor, | :22:00. | :22:07. | |
George Osborne. His Autumn statement on how he intends to get | :22:07. | :22:10. | |
the British economy growing will be under intense scrutiny. The | :22:10. | :22:12. | |
Scottish Government says it's blazing a trail which the rest of | :22:12. | :22:15. | |
the UK could follow by investing big money in major infrastructure | :22:15. | :22:17. | |
projects. Our Scotland Correspondent Lorna Gordon reports | :22:18. | :22:27. | |
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from North Queensferry on what's It is an ambitious programme to | :22:29. | :22:33. | |
build a recovery and it is called Plan MacB, the largest of the | :22:33. | :22:37. | |
Scottish government's projects to boost growth is a new bridge still | :22:37. | :22:42. | |
in the early stages but which will eventually saw across the waters of | :22:42. | :22:44. | |
the 4th. 1200 people will be involved in the construction, many | :22:44. | :22:50. | |
more in other big developments like the new railway line to the Borders. | :22:50. | :22:53. | |
Scotland's budget is set by the Treasury, spending cuts here were | :22:53. | :22:59. | |
delayed by one year, but the pot of money is now shrinking. Ministers | :22:59. | :23:04. | |
here have made one of their priorities encouraging investment | :23:04. | :23:07. | |
and finding money to make these infrastructure projects happen. | :23:07. | :23:12. | |
way we have addressed the public spending reductions has been in a | :23:12. | :23:16. | |
fashion to sustain employment and economic activity, which gets us to | :23:16. | :23:20. | |
the position where we now have higher levels of employment, lower | :23:20. | :23:24. | |
levels of unemployment and low levels of economic inactivity in | :23:24. | :23:31. | |
Scotland and in the rest of the UK. Lee and her husband are both | :23:31. | :23:34. | |
teachers, they are not happy about the idea of the bridge being funded | :23:34. | :23:39. | |
in part by a freeze on many people's are paid. It will affect | :23:39. | :23:42. | |
their family. But they are more angry about pensions and say they | :23:42. | :23:45. | |
are looking to Westminster to solve this dispute. If that is not, this | :23:45. | :23:51. | |
time next week they would you -- joined a UK wide walkout. I do not | :23:51. | :23:55. | |
want to be on strike. I am a teacher because I Kerem on the kids | :23:55. | :23:59. | |
to do well. We do not believe our pensions are unsustainable. We pay | :23:59. | :24:03. | |
huge contributions and we deserve them. The Scottish government | :24:03. | :24:07. | |
insists when it comes to pensions their hands are tied. But they 0.2 | :24:07. | :24:15. | |
other things, among them a promise of no compulsory redundant -- | :24:15. | :24:21. | |
compulsory redundancies. -- the indicate. But will make a | :24:21. | :24:28. | |
difference? I do not think when we look back we will have seen a | :24:28. | :24:31. | |
dramatic difference in what happened to Scotland as compared to | :24:31. | :24:34. | |
what happened to the UK average. Scotland follows closely what | :24:34. | :24:39. | |
happens in the UK. With spending cuts here now under way their | :24:39. | :24:44. | |
impact is still not clear. The Scottish government insists big | :24:44. | :24:48. | |
build projects like this replacement crossing are necessary | :24:48. | :24:52. | |
to keep the economy growing and prevent a return to recession. They | :24:52. | :24:58. | |
are urging the Treasury to follow a similar route. We will find out | :24:58. | :25:04. | |
next week whether the Chancellor agrees. | :25:04. | :25:07. | |
A Now, helicopter missions don't get more routine than helping to | :25:07. | :25:10. | |
install a Christmas tree. But when pilot Greg Gribble flew his chopper | :25:10. | :25:13. | |
onto Auckland's waterfront, he was heading for disaster. He was unhurt | :25:13. | :25:16. | |
but his helicopter has landed for the last time, as Luisa Baldini | :25:16. | :25:26. | |
:25:26. | :25:26. | ||
Hovering is a challenge for helicopter pilots, but for those | :25:26. | :25:30. | |
with 20 years' experience like Greg Gibble in the cockpit here, it | :25:30. | :25:34. | |
becomes second nature. However, as his colleagues stand below the | :25:34. | :25:38. | |
chopper, nobody seems to have spotted his blades are about to hit | :25:38. | :25:48. | |
:25:48. | :25:52. | ||
In slow-motion you can see how Greg is tossed around, his head gear | :25:52. | :25:55. | |
thrown from the cabin as the tale snaps and the helicopter plummets | :25:55. | :26:00. | |
to the ground. Greg nearly falls out but incredibly, Rolls back | :26:00. | :26:09. | |
There was a sound of the Blades exposing, then an almighty thump as | :26:09. | :26:14. | |
the helicopter hit the ground. was a massive whack, a power sound, | :26:14. | :26:19. | |
I turned around and saw it drop. It was halfway down already, so we | :26:19. | :26:24. | |
just crashed. Security got straight to it. Greg walked away without | :26:24. | :26:30. | |
serious injury. His son, also a pilot, spoke of his shock. Pretty | :26:30. | :26:39. | |
nerve-racking actually, to see my father like that and habit come | :26:39. | :26:45. | |
crashing down around him. It was nerve-racking. The Civil Aviation | :26:45. | :26:48. | |
Authority is now investigating the crash which left a wreckage of | :26:48. | :26:58. | |
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twisted metal, testament to what a And now the weather... We have a | :27:03. | :27:06. | |
developing storm out in the Atlantic, and almost ahead of | :27:06. | :27:13. | |
cloudier. We could see winds of up to 100 miles an hour -- almost head | :27:13. | :27:21. | |
of cloud. -- a mysterious head of cloud. Further south, the winds | :27:21. | :27:26. | |
will be lighter, dry but not as cold as last night. Possibly some | :27:26. | :27:31. | |
frost across the far south-east. Increasingly windy tomorrow, | :27:31. | :27:35. | |
particularly across the far north- west where gales will develop. The | :27:35. | :27:39. | |
wind will push the rain northwards through Scotland. Further south, | :27:39. | :27:44. | |
most of the sunshine, although there will be a breeze, it will not | :27:44. | :27:49. | |
be excessive. Broken cloud, sunshine, a reasonable day and yet | :27:49. | :27:52. | |
again temperatures will be higher than they should be this time of | :27:52. | :27:58. | |
year. Some sunshine for south- western parts, cloud will come and | :27:58. | :28:04. | |
go but apart from the odd bit of rain it will stay dry. Sunshine, | :28:04. | :28:10. | |
too, for eastern parts of Wales, further west, cloudy and windy. | :28:10. | :28:15. | |
Some runners for parts of Northern Ireland but rain will move out West | :28:15. | :28:19. | |
and it is the Outer Hebrides which will be buffeted by the severe | :28:19. | :28:23. | |
gales. Brightness across East and Scotland for a time but then winds | :28:23. | :28:26. | |
will develop across Scotland with rain pushing down from the north- | :28:26. | :28:35. | |
west. By Friday it the sunshine returns, it will be cooler and | :28:35. | :28:39. | |
chilly across the north. Showers will turn wintery up over the high | :28:39. | :28:45. | |
ground of Scotland. An unsettled weekend coming up, sunshine, rain, | :28:45. | :28:49. | |
blustery winds. The stormy spell of weather later in the weekend across | :28:49. | :28:54. | |
weather later in the weekend across A reminder of the main news... Kate | :28:54. | :28:58. | |
and Gerry McCann had hit out at months of media intrusion following | :28:58. | :29:03. |