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France and Germany agree to a new treaty to tackle the eurozone | :00:06. | :00:11. | |
crisis, with or without Britain. Merkel and Sarkozy, Europe's double | :00:11. | :00:14. | |
act, say they want a deal within months, prompting calls for a | :00:14. | :00:24. | |
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referendum here. British people should know there is a safeguard. | :00:25. | :00:29. | |
If power goes from Britain to Brussels, they get to say so first, | :00:29. | :00:34. | |
and quite right too. The markets like what they hear - plans for | :00:34. | :00:37. | |
tough rules to punish countries that run up big debts. | :00:37. | :00:39. | |
Also on tonight's programme: The bank admits mis-selling investments | :00:39. | :00:42. | |
to the elderly - a record fine for HSBC. It is extremely disappointing | :00:42. | :00:45. | |
that HSBC failed their customers in this case, and it doesn't do | :00:45. | :00:50. | |
anything for trust in the financial services industry. | :00:50. | :00:53. | |
On the run - police launch a manhunt for Barry Morrow after an | :00:53. | :01:03. | |
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elderly mother and her daughter found dead. | :01:04. | :01:09. | |
This is a bigger pack, better value, but if I got two of the smaller | :01:09. | :01:12. | |
ones, it is cheaper. supermarket special offers that are | :01:12. | :01:15. | |
not quite what they seem - a special report from Sophie Raworth. | :01:15. | :01:18. | |
Winter's here with a vengeance - traffic disrupted and schools | :01:18. | :01:27. | |
closed in Scotland as the Met Office issues a weather warning. In | :01:27. | :01:31. | |
Sportsday, spending on security at the London Olympics has doubled, | :01:31. | :01:41. | |
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while an extra �41 million goes on Good evening and welcome to the BBC | :01:50. | :01:55. | |
News at six. There are going to be major changes in the way Europe is | :01:55. | :01:58. | |
run. The leaders of France and Germany, under intense pressure to | :01:58. | :02:01. | |
solve the Eurozone debt crisis, say they will push for a new treaty | :02:01. | :02:04. | |
that would mean countries that run up huge budget deficits would face | :02:04. | :02:09. | |
punishment from Brussels. Nicolas Sarkozy and Angela Merkel say they | :02:09. | :02:12. | |
would like Britain to be part of the new treaty but are prepared to | :02:12. | :02:17. | |
go ahead with just the eurozone members. Our Europe Editor Gavin | :02:17. | :02:25. | |
Hewitt reports from Paris. This was the start of a crucial week for the | :02:25. | :02:31. | |
eurozone, with key summits. The curtain raiser was here in Paris, | :02:31. | :02:35. | |
with a meeting between the leaders of France and Germany, the two most | :02:36. | :02:40. | |
powerful countries in the eurozone. They called for a new treaty that | :02:40. | :02:45. | |
would make sure overspending never happened again, with automatic | :02:45. | :02:49. | |
sanctions for countries who broke the rules. The leaders wanted to | :02:49. | :02:59. | |
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distress their determination to fix The German Chancellor said she | :03:13. | :03:23. | |
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would prefer the -- all the countries would sign up, but she | :03:24. | :03:34. | |
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would accept it if just the 17 countries in the eurozone joined. | :03:36. | :03:41. | |
The two leaders want agreement on this by March. They hope that by | :03:41. | :03:48. | |
signing up, it will make it a -- easier for the European Central | :03:49. | :03:53. | |
Bank to help those struggling to pay their debt. The leaders are set | :03:53. | :03:58. | |
on arguing for a new EU treaty, although many details remain | :03:58. | :04:02. | |
unclear. There will be strict budget limits, deficit will not be | :04:02. | :04:08. | |
able to exceed 3% of GDP, and there will be automatic sanctions for | :04:08. | :04:13. | |
those that break the rules. In France, there is concern these | :04:13. | :04:16. | |
changes will impinge on national sovereignty, that sanctions will | :04:16. | :04:21. | |
apply on the recommendations of Brussels. The opposition fears that | :04:21. | :04:25. | |
any oversight of budgets by European courts will weaken the | :04:25. | :04:29. | |
role of Parliament in France. in the euro, respecting some | :04:29. | :04:34. | |
discipline, doesn't mean that we lose any control on our own economy | :04:34. | :04:39. | |
policy. If a European summit decides on Friday to seek treaty | :04:39. | :04:44. | |
change with the backing of all 27 members, then Britain will have to | :04:44. | :04:49. | |
give its support. Some countries may decide to hold referendums. | :04:49. | :04:53. | |
Asked about the likelihood of holding a red the Prime Minister | :04:53. | :04:58. | |
said he didn't think the issue would arise. Our approach is simple. | :04:58. | :05:02. | |
We have legislated now so it is impossible for a British government | :05:02. | :05:07. | |
to pass power from Britain to Brussels without asking people in a | :05:07. | :05:11. | |
referendum first. In a summit later this week, the French and Germans | :05:11. | :05:15. | |
will seek approval from other European Union members for treaty | :05:15. | :05:20. | |
change. The big question is how long this will take and whether it | :05:20. | :05:29. | |
addresses the fundamental problem of debt and low growth. | :05:29. | :05:35. | |
I am sorry, we lost the translation on Angela Merkel's comments. In a | :05:35. | :05:37. | |
moment the view from Downing Street with our Deputy Political Editor | :05:38. | :05:40. | |
James Landale, but first our Business Editor Robert Peston is | :05:40. | :05:43. | |
with me here. The markets have been going up to date - do they like | :05:43. | :05:48. | |
what they are hearing? Investors are more optimistic. The price that | :05:48. | :05:53. | |
Italy would have to pay to borrow money for 10 years has fallen below | :05:53. | :06:00. | |
6%, that is well clear of the 7% danger zone, the first time that | :06:00. | :06:04. | |
its borrowing costs have been well clearer prohibitive levels for | :06:04. | :06:09. | |
about six weeks. The reason investors are feeling a bit less | :06:09. | :06:13. | |
miserable is because these plans to penalise countries that borrowed | :06:13. | :06:18. | |
too much, that spend recklessly, they may persuade the European | :06:18. | :06:22. | |
Central Bank to be more aggressive in helping countries that are | :06:22. | :06:27. | |
struggling to borrow, and perhaps most importantly of all, Germany is | :06:27. | :06:32. | |
no longer insisting that private sector lenders to countries should | :06:32. | :06:38. | |
suffer a significant losses in a bail-out. So lenders to Italy are | :06:38. | :06:45. | |
feeling less anxious this evening. Very good news for the UK because, | :06:45. | :06:50. | |
if the eurozone is further away from meltdown, that big sword of | :06:50. | :06:55. | |
Damocles hanging over Britain has receded a bit. | :06:55. | :07:00. | |
James, the markets appear to be happy, but politically does this | :07:00. | :07:05. | |
leave David Cameron in an awkward place? There is probably another | :07:05. | :07:08. | |
sword of Damocles hanging over the Prime Minister, politically at | :07:08. | :07:13. | |
least, because some ministers think this treaty should be put to | :07:13. | :07:20. | |
referendum. They Lincoln -- think it will transform Britain's | :07:20. | :07:26. | |
relationship with the EU. There are other MPs who thinks the Prime | :07:26. | :07:32. | |
Minister should try to get something back from Brussels. They | :07:32. | :07:35. | |
fear the other countries may start agreeing things that are | :07:35. | :07:40. | |
potentially against our national interest, such as a new tax on | :07:40. | :07:44. | |
financial transactions. They are looking to the Prime Minister to | :07:44. | :07:48. | |
give them assurances on this and protections against it happening. | :07:48. | :07:53. | |
Today, the Prime Minister said that he will try to get something in | :07:53. | :07:58. | |
order to enhance, protect, defend and promote our national interest. | :07:58. | :08:03. | |
When he comes back at the end of the week, I think his MPs will hold | :08:03. | :08:06. | |
him to those words. HSBC has been fined �10.5 million | :08:06. | :08:09. | |
for mis-selling products to elderly customers. The investments were | :08:09. | :08:12. | |
meant to help with paying for care home costs but hundreds of those | :08:12. | :08:17. | |
who bought into the scheme were too old to benefit fully from it. It's | :08:17. | :08:21. | |
the biggest ever fine for a retail banking offence. Today, HSBC's boss | :08:21. | :08:31. | |
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said he was profoundly sorry, as Simon Gompertz reports. Going into | :08:32. | :08:39. | |
a care home, it is a crucial time for financial decisions and HSBC | :08:39. | :08:43. | |
admits it has given thousands the wrong advice on paying fees. The | :08:43. | :08:48. | |
bank had a subsidiary based outside Oxford which led the market in | :08:48. | :08:54. | |
selling investment plans to cover care home fees. HSBC closed it down | :08:54. | :08:59. | |
after it emerged customers were the only three years to live were | :08:59. | :09:02. | |
receiving an adequate income from the plans and paying penalty | :09:02. | :09:08. | |
charges for access to more of their money. We thought HSBC led down at | :09:08. | :09:11. | |
a vulnerable group of customers. Many of them were elderly, the | :09:11. | :09:16. | |
average age was 83, they came to HSBC looking for advice and they | :09:16. | :09:22. | |
were sold completely unsuitable product in many cases. Those 83 | :09:22. | :09:28. | |
year-old customers invested typically �115,000 each. HSBC will | :09:28. | :09:34. | |
pay compensation of around �12,000 each to over 2000 of them who are | :09:35. | :09:41. | |
likely to have lost out. On this website, one reason why so many | :09:41. | :09:44. | |
people were affected, charities like this were recommending the | :09:44. | :09:51. | |
company. Help the aged did work with the company, but when the two | :09:51. | :09:56. | |
charities merged to become age UK, we decided this was not an area of | :09:56. | :10:01. | |
business we wanted to be in and we ended the contract with them. | :10:01. | :10:11. | |
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This record punishment for HSBC comes hard on the heels of fines on | :10:17. | :10:21. | |
other banks, and lost banks are in the midst of paying out billions of | :10:21. | :10:25. | |
pounds of compensation for mis- selling insurance on loans, there | :10:25. | :10:29. | |
is a worry customers will lose trust in the very institutions they | :10:29. | :10:34. | |
have relied on for years to look after their money. HSBC says it is | :10:34. | :10:38. | |
writing to the care home residents who have lost money. It is not yet | :10:38. | :10:42. | |
clear how many of those victims have already died. | :10:42. | :10:45. | |
An international murder hunt is under way tonight for the killer of | :10:45. | :10:48. | |
two women found dead in Southport. Today, a post mortem confirmed that | :10:48. | :10:52. | |
Angela Holgate and her mother Alice Huyton had been asphyxiated. Police | :10:52. | :10:54. | |
are trying to find Mrs Holgate's lodger, Barry Morrow, and believe | :10:54. | :11:03. | |
he may be in France or Spain, as Ed Thomas reports. | :11:03. | :11:09. | |
Angela Holgate was 54 and had brought up two daughters. Friends | :11:09. | :11:13. | |
say her mother, Alice Huyton, seen here with her husband, lived for | :11:13. | :11:18. | |
her family but both their bodies were found here on Saturday and | :11:18. | :11:22. | |
boat had been asphyxiated. The lodger has gone missing and friends | :11:22. | :11:28. | |
are left devastated. She was lovely and friendly. Up you know, her | :11:28. | :11:34. | |
family was her life. That is all I can say really about her. How has | :11:34. | :11:41. | |
this left you feeling? I couldn't believe it. Here raised the missing | :11:41. | :11:47. | |
loggia, Barry Morrow. He is a local tradesman and recently carried out | :11:47. | :11:52. | |
work on the driveway. Recently he spoke to this neighbour. I said you | :11:52. | :11:56. | |
have done a good job. He said thanks, would you like anything | :11:56. | :12:02. | |
doing. I said I might actually. I said how do I get hold of you? He | :12:02. | :12:07. | |
said you can get hold of me here. But Barry Morrow is now believed to | :12:07. | :12:12. | |
be in France after leaving the country in Angela Holgate's car. | :12:12. | :12:17. | |
was cited in Southport on Saturday morning. Potentially he is the last | :12:18. | :12:22. | |
person who has seen her alive. We know he has connections in Spain | :12:22. | :12:28. | |
but we have no idea where he is. can also confirmed Barry Morrow was | :12:28. | :12:31. | |
known to police. Last year he pleaded guilty to assaulting a | :12:31. | :12:36. | |
woman in Southport, but the victim was not Alice Huyton or Angela | :12:36. | :12:42. | |
Holgate. Tonight, flowers have been laid outside the house, while | :12:42. | :12:46. | |
police say Barry Morrow was last seen in France on Saturday night. | :12:46. | :12:49. | |
The multi-million pound budget for the opening and closing ceremonies | :12:49. | :12:52. | |
at the Olympics and Paralympics has now been doubled after the Prime | :12:52. | :12:56. | |
Minister intervened personally. Security costs for the Games are | :12:56. | :12:59. | |
also going up dramatically. Our sports correspondent James Pearce | :12:59. | :13:09. | |
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reports. The opening of the Beijing Games, the most impressive | :13:12. | :13:16. | |
extravagant Olympics ceremony yet. We had always been told London | :13:16. | :13:21. | |
would not even try to compete with this. In 2012, we would see the | :13:21. | :13:24. | |
austerity version, but now after an intervention from the Prime | :13:24. | :13:29. | |
Minister, the budget for next year's ceremonies has been doubled. | :13:29. | :13:35. | |
The total cost of the ceremonies had been due to be around �40 | :13:35. | :13:39. | |
million. The government is putting in extra �41 million to bring the | :13:39. | :13:45. | |
total to more than �81 million. It is the Government's responsibility | :13:45. | :13:49. | |
to fund the construction of the Olympic venues. It is the | :13:49. | :13:53. | |
organising committee's duty to pay for the shows inside them so there | :13:53. | :13:57. | |
wasn't meant to be a single penny of taxpayers' money spent on the | :13:57. | :14:01. | |
opening and closing ceremonies. The cost should have been covered by | :14:01. | :14:05. | |
ticket sales and sponsorship. The Olympic park is already attracting | :14:05. | :14:10. | |
visitors. Today's announcement means they, the taxpayers, will be | :14:10. | :14:15. | |
contributing to the ceremonies. is unbelievable they have doubled | :14:15. | :14:20. | |
the Budget on the opening ceremony, which only lasts a few hours, when | :14:20. | :14:25. | |
they should be investing the money in our young athletes and in school | :14:25. | :14:28. | |
sports which have been dramatically cut, and it is really an investment | :14:28. | :14:34. | |
for life. The government insists that, with an estimated global | :14:34. | :14:38. | |
television audience of billions, it would be foolish not to maximise | :14:39. | :14:42. | |
the opportunity of advertising our country to the world. The better | :14:42. | :14:48. | |
the show, the argument goes, the bigger the return on the investment. | :14:48. | :14:52. | |
This is a moment next summer when the eyes of the world will be | :14:53. | :14:57. | |
looking at us. It is incumbent on us in government to maximise that | :14:57. | :15:02. | |
opportunity, to drive the maximum benefit for the economy. | :15:02. | :15:07. | |
government is also paying an extra �271 million for their security. | :15:07. | :15:17. | |
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The overall budget remains the same David Cameron has attacked plans to | :15:18. | :15:21. | |
give NHS patients faster access to new treatments and to encourage | :15:21. | :15:26. | |
more clinical trials in the UK. There are plans to share NHS data | :15:26. | :15:30. | |
with research companies. Patient groups say anonymity must be | :15:30. | :15:36. | |
ensured. Clinical trials at the heart of the | :15:36. | :15:41. | |
NHS. This unit at Manchester's Christie Hospital is developing new | :15:41. | :15:48. | |
cancer treatments. And attracting volunteers. Can I check your name? | :15:48. | :15:52. | |
Peter Jones travels every two weeks from the Isle of Man for | :15:53. | :15:57. | |
experimental bowel cancer therapy. I feel well in myself, and I am | :15:57. | :16:07. | |
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glad I am on it. The latest drugs, first-class treatment, I could not | :16:08. | :16:14. | |
do better. But it can take 20 years from a discovery of a truck to | :16:14. | :16:18. | |
getting it to patients. The Government wants to fast track | :16:18. | :16:23. | |
these life-saving medicines. In future, all NHS patients, unless | :16:23. | :16:28. | |
they opt out, will be part of research, because anonymous medical | :16:28. | :16:32. | |
data will be handed over to scientists. Let me be clear. This | :16:32. | :16:37. | |
does not threaten privacy, it does not think anybody can look at your | :16:37. | :16:41. | |
health records, but it does mean using anonymous data to make new | :16:41. | :16:45. | |
medical breakthroughs. That is something we should want to see | :16:45. | :16:49. | |
happen right here in our country. These are difficult times for the | :16:49. | :16:53. | |
life sciences sector. Earlier this year, this company said it was | :16:53. | :16:58. | |
closing its research centre in Kent, where Viagra was developed. The | :16:58. | :17:01. | |
number of clinical trials being carried out in the UK has fallen | :17:01. | :17:08. | |
sharply. In 2000, 6% of the world's trials were conducted here. By last | :17:08. | :17:14. | |
year, just 1.4%. Cost is one factor, many trials have moved to countries | :17:14. | :17:19. | |
like India. A crucial hurdle is bureaucracy. It can be slower to | :17:19. | :17:24. | |
get permission here compared to Germany. The regulatory processes, | :17:24. | :17:30. | |
we need those to be robust, but we also need them to be slick, so that | :17:30. | :17:34. | |
we can move through from the protocol to the first patient into | :17:34. | :17:39. | |
the trial as quickly as possible. The key test will be with their new | :17:39. | :17:43. | |
drugs are brought to market more quickly and whether NHS patients | :17:43. | :17:52. | |
get access to them. The time is 6:17pm. The top story. | :17:52. | :17:56. | |
France and Germany are pushing for a new EU treaty to deal with the | :17:56. | :18:01. | |
eurozone debt crisis. Coming up, is this the most | :18:01. | :18:05. | |
expensive pile-up in history? Nobody badly hurt, but eight | :18:05. | :18:10. | |
Ferraris are reduced to scrap. Later on the BBC News channel, I | :18:11. | :18:15. | |
will have the latest market reaction to France and Germany's | :18:15. | :18:19. | |
proposals for 80 average European treaty and more and HSBC's record | :18:19. | :18:29. | |
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The UK's big four supermarkets are accused of misleading shoppers with | :18:32. | :18:37. | |
confusing and untrue claims about their special offers, which could | :18:37. | :18:42. | |
potentially leave them open to prosecution. A report for Panorama | :18:42. | :18:47. | |
has uncovered a series of pricing floors at ASDA, Morrisons, Tesco | :18:47. | :18:52. | |
and Sainsbury's. Experts say some are in breach of consumer | :18:52. | :18:55. | |
protection regulations. The offers and discounts are | :18:55. | :19:00. | |
everywhere you look in the big four supermarkets. They now control 68% | :19:00. | :19:03. | |
of the UK grocery market. Competition between there is | :19:03. | :19:10. | |
fiercer. What is the reality behind the so-called price war? If there | :19:10. | :19:14. | |
was a war going on at the moment, we would have seen profits fall. | :19:14. | :19:18. | |
That is not happening. The name of the game is to be as clever as | :19:18. | :19:22. | |
possible in how you promote and how you use your discounts, how do you | :19:22. | :19:28. | |
attract the customers. How are they doing this? Take Tesco. They | :19:28. | :19:33. | |
slashed the price of this fresh chicken from �5 to �4 in their bid | :19:33. | :19:36. | |
price drop. What they do not tell customers is that the chicken | :19:36. | :19:41. | |
actually cost �4 for most of this year. It only went up to �5 in July, | :19:42. | :19:45. | |
stay for just over two months, before being dropped back down to | :19:45. | :19:49. | |
its original price. Tesco claims this sort of practice does not | :19:49. | :19:55. | |
break any rules, but is it misleading? I went secret shopping | :19:55. | :20:00. | |
to find out what kind of promotions the big four are peddling in store | :20:00. | :20:04. | |
and I discovered mistakes and misleading claims at all of them. I | :20:04. | :20:07. | |
found Biggar Park, better-value offers, which turned out to be | :20:07. | :20:12. | |
bigger pack, more expensive. Like this type of spread. You would have | :20:13. | :20:18. | |
saved 20 p if you had bought the two small ones. The better-value, | :20:18. | :20:23. | |
put that one back, take these two. After just a few hours in as the, | :20:23. | :20:28. | |
Morrisons, Tesco and Sainsbury's, I found 17 examples of bigger packs | :20:28. | :20:33. | |
being presented as better value, when they were not. The | :20:33. | :20:37. | |
supermarkets told us the labels are often put on by the manufacturers | :20:37. | :20:41. | |
and they displayed unit prices so shoppers can compare. They say when | :20:42. | :20:45. | |
smaller packs of on promotion, they may sometimes be cheaper than the | :20:45. | :20:51. | |
bigger pack, better-value bonce. Experts said that is no defence. | :20:51. | :20:56. | |
The law on this area is really very clear. It is unlawful to make | :20:56. | :21:02. | |
claims that are misleading or actually false and that are | :21:02. | :21:06. | |
persuading consumers to make the wrong choice. So there is a | :21:06. | :21:11. | |
potential for prosecutions to be brought against all of them. | :21:11. | :21:14. | |
four chains deny misleading customers and say they work hard to | :21:14. | :21:19. | |
keep prices down. They also point to recent official research, | :21:19. | :21:23. | |
showing that promotional campaigns contributed to a fault in inflation. | :21:23. | :21:30. | |
But in this price war, is truth the first casualty? | :21:30. | :21:37. | |
You can see the full story on Panorama tonight. | :21:37. | :21:41. | |
At the Stephen Lawrence trial, another forensics experts says | :21:41. | :21:44. | |
there is extremely persuasive evidence linking the weather of a | :21:44. | :21:49. | |
jacket to his murder. The jacket was seized from one of the accused, | :21:49. | :21:53. | |
Gary Dobson. The jury has been told that the forensic evidence is | :21:53. | :21:59. | |
crucial to the case. The evidence of scientist Roy Green | :21:59. | :22:03. | |
centred on a jacket seized from the House of one of the defendants, | :22:03. | :22:06. | |
Gary Dobson. He told the court it had been re-examined in the | :22:06. | :22:11. | |
forensics lab as part of a court case review. Scientists found 16 | :22:11. | :22:16. | |
clothing fibres among samples taken from the jacket or the back was | :22:16. | :22:20. | |
captain. They found one piece of dried blood, with two blue threads | :22:20. | :22:25. | |
running through it. These fibres came, the court heard, from this | :22:25. | :22:31. | |
jumper, belonging to Stephen. More evidence was found. Rare fibres | :22:31. | :22:34. | |
could it -- coloured red and pink, one stained with what appeared to | :22:34. | :22:38. | |
be blurred. The scientists said they matched the material of the | :22:38. | :22:48. | |
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The jury heard that that conclusion could only stand if the evidence | :23:00. | :23:05. | |
had not been contaminated over the years. The defence has claimed that | :23:05. | :23:09. | |
mishandling of evidence backs has resulted in blood and fibres from | :23:09. | :23:12. | |
Stephen's clothes getting evidence that back getting mixed up with | :23:12. | :23:17. | |
those belonging to the suspects. A barrister for Gary Dobson asked Mr | :23:17. | :23:21. | |
Green has some of the fibres could have escaped from clothes Stephen | :23:21. | :23:27. | |
Moss wearing under an outer jacket. Did he have it unzip? If so, how | :23:27. | :23:32. | |
could the Scientist no? It is a theory, the response. More forensic | :23:32. | :23:39. | |
evidence about the killing will be heard tomorrow. | :23:39. | :23:43. | |
It could be one of the priciest pile-ups in history, eight Ferraris, | :23:43. | :23:47. | |
three Mercedes, a Lamborghini and two others involved in a motorway | :23:47. | :23:52. | |
collision in Japan to stop one of the drivers, part of a car club, | :23:52. | :24:00. | |
were seriously injured, but the bill is likely to be hefty. | :24:00. | :24:06. | |
A fleet of expensive cars, reduced to scrap in a single accident. The | :24:06. | :24:09. | |
sports car enthusiasts were on their way to a motor festival in | :24:09. | :24:14. | |
western Japan, driving in convoy, when they crashed into which are | :24:14. | :24:19. | |
there. Eight Ferraris, three Mercedes Benz, and a Lamborghini, | :24:19. | :24:26. | |
all ruined. The wreckage was spread along the highway. This is possibly | :24:26. | :24:30. | |
the only time, said a tow truck driver, we will see such a pile-up | :24:30. | :24:36. | |
of luxury cars. When it happened, it was raining heavily. The police | :24:36. | :24:40. | |
say a Ferrari driver at the front hit the central reservation and | :24:40. | :24:46. | |
span across the carriageway. It set off a chain reaction of collisions. | :24:46. | :24:50. | |
10 people were taken to hospital with cuts and bruises, but nobody | :24:50. | :24:54. | |
was seriously hurt. The damage to the cars, though, has been | :24:54. | :25:02. | |
estimated at up to 2000 -- �2.5 million. | :25:02. | :25:06. | |
Severe weather warnings have been issued for most of Scotland as well | :25:06. | :25:09. | |
as parts of Northern Ireland and northern England following the | :25:09. | :25:13. | |
first major snow of the winter. In Scotland, schools were closed and | :25:13. | :25:17. | |
there was destruction on the roads, but the authorities insist they are | :25:17. | :25:23. | |
prepared for whatever the weather brings. | :25:23. | :25:28. | |
It may be later than last year, but winter has finally arrived. This | :25:28. | :25:32. | |
was the morning rush-hour on the motorway to England. H Clark lorry | :25:32. | :25:37. | |
blocked the road for nearly three hours. But most Brits and remained | :25:37. | :25:44. | |
open. -- but most routes remained open. We had sometimes two | :25:44. | :25:49. | |
treatments on the trunk roads, and we have patrols when necessary. | :25:49. | :25:55. | |
the side roads of south manager, it was a different story. -- South | :25:55. | :25:59. | |
Lanarkshire. A lot of problems getting to and from places. My | :25:59. | :26:04. | |
sister goes to nursery, a big problem to get there. This tree was | :26:04. | :26:07. | |
brought down by the storms last week, but the snow will make it | :26:07. | :26:11. | |
more difficult to shift. It adds up to make life in the countryside | :26:11. | :26:16. | |
that much tougher, and this is just the beginning of winter. At least | :26:16. | :26:20. | |
the trains should run more smoothly this year. This tunnel cuts the | :26:20. | :26:28. | |
time it takes to be frost from six Alastair just two. -- time it takes | :26:28. | :26:35. | |
to defrost. We have heaters. It retains the heat inside. Horsepower | :26:35. | :26:38. | |
is even more reliable in the snow, but he seems more impressed than | :26:38. | :26:48. | |
his owner. I do not see any worries. -- any lorries. At least it looks | :26:48. | :26:51. | |
spectacular, but this was just the flavour of last winter. The real | :26:51. | :27:01. | |
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Here we go again. Fun and games for some, a headache for others. This | :27:05. | :27:10. | |
was a beautiful shop in Derbyshire earlier. Derbyshire has had a lot | :27:10. | :27:15. | |
of snow over the high ground, which has caused problems. The | :27:15. | :27:22. | |
temperatures are falling away, and ice is a major concern. The DAB | :27:22. | :27:29. | |
services will freeze overnight, hence the yellow warning. -- damp | :27:29. | :27:35. | |
surfaces. It is more drive further south and east, but everywhere, it | :27:35. | :27:40. | |
will be cold. It should be dry across the Midlands, the East | :27:40. | :27:44. | |
Anglia and south-east, although things will cloud up more than we | :27:44. | :27:50. | |
saw today. Showers further west. These will be of rain, it may be | :27:50. | :27:56. | |
some sleet over the highest moors. For Wales, a packet of showers in | :27:57. | :28:01. | |
the West, and some snow over the highest ground. It would have been | :28:01. | :28:06. | |
an icy start across Northern Ireland. Be aware of that. Further | :28:06. | :28:10. | |
went to a showers from the West. A lot of snow over ground for | :28:10. | :28:15. | |
Scotland. For the far north-east, we could see a lot of snow for the | :28:15. | :28:25. | |
Northern Isles. Orkney is getting a pasting. A win to restart, plenty | :28:25. | :28:29. | |
of practice across the more eastern parts, but it will tend to cloud | :28:29. | :28:39. | |
over -- win to restart, plenty of brightness. Nonetheless, it will be | :28:39. | :28:45. | |
cold. Tomorrow night, be aware, we could see another period of more | :28:45. | :28:49. | |
prolonged snow for a time, pushing across Scotland, which could cause | :28:49. | :28:54. |