:00:07. > :00:11.The England and Chelsea captain John Terry is to be charged with
:00:12. > :00:15.racial abuse. He will be in court by February. He is accused of
:00:15. > :00:21.making a racist remark to another player during his match in October.
:00:21. > :00:27.His club manager says he will stand by him. We know exactly his
:00:27. > :00:31.personality. For me, they are never in doubt. Also tonight: Yesterday,
:00:31. > :00:37.Piers Morgan denied he knew about phone hacking at his paper. Today,
:00:37. > :00:40.a former reporter says he almost certainly did. Given his standard
:00:40. > :00:45.of editorship, I would say that it is very unlikely that he did not
:00:45. > :00:48.know it was going on. Health fears over tens of thousands of breast
:00:48. > :00:52.implants found to have a risk of rupturing.
:00:52. > :00:56.The women who stole hundreds of pounds worth of supermarket booze,
:00:56. > :00:59.but their car ran out of petrol in the car-park.
:00:59. > :01:03.And Prince William takes his new wife to visit a homeless charity
:01:03. > :01:07.close to his heart and that of his mother.
:01:07. > :01:11.Later in the hour on the BBC News Channel, I will be here with
:01:11. > :01:21.Sportsday on a massive night in the Premier League with both City and
:01:21. > :01:33.
:01:33. > :01:36.United are playing. We will find Good evening. Welcome to the
:01:36. > :01:40.programme. The England and Chelsea football captain John Terry is to
:01:40. > :01:43.be charged with racially abusing a fellow player. The 31-year-old will
:01:43. > :01:48.be prosecuted air Criminal Court after being filmed during a match
:01:48. > :01:52.appearing to shout a racist remark that Anton Ferdinand of Queens Park
:01:52. > :01:55.Rangers in October. It is the first time a criminal charge of this type
:01:55. > :01:59.has been brought against a Premier League footballer. John Terry
:01:59. > :02:05.denies he was racist and his club, Chelsea, say they are standing by
:02:05. > :02:07.him. John Terry. One of the most
:02:07. > :02:15.prominent footballers in the country and the man fiercely proud
:02:15. > :02:19.of his status as England and Chelsea captain. But all of that
:02:19. > :02:23.now hinges on what he said to QPR player Anton Ferdinand back in
:02:23. > :02:27.October. Today, the CPS took the extraordinary step of announcing
:02:27. > :02:33.they will charge him with a racially aggravated public-order
:02:33. > :02:38.offence. Police went to his house to issue a summons to him in person,
:02:38. > :02:48.to appear at West London magistrates on February 1st. In a
:02:48. > :02:53.
:02:53. > :03:00.statement, Terry denied the claims, The Chelsea manager said that he
:03:00. > :03:04.would stand by his captain. We know exactly his human values and his
:03:04. > :03:08.personality. For me, they are never in doubt. So I will fully support
:03:08. > :03:12.him, whatever the outcome. With a busy Christmas period coming up,
:03:12. > :03:16.John Terry is trying to focus on his role as Chelsea captain. The
:03:16. > :03:21.last few months have been dominated by these allegations of racism,
:03:21. > :03:25.claims which could yet have big implications for England's Euro
:03:25. > :03:29.2012 campaign. The England manager, Fabio Capello, stripped him of the
:03:29. > :03:33.captaincy before, following allegations he had an affair with
:03:34. > :03:37.the ex-girlfriend of a Chelsea team-mate. Today's charge is far
:03:37. > :03:42.more serious. But one former England captain says he can handle
:03:42. > :03:45.it. It's not going to be easy for him, but he has sought not been
:03:45. > :03:49.there before, in different matters. Obviously they are not related to
:03:49. > :03:54.this one. But there are other circumstances where he has had to
:03:54. > :03:57.concentrate on matters on the field. He tends to do that remarkably well,
:03:57. > :04:02.under trying circumstances. But the John Terry case raises issues much
:04:02. > :04:06.more significant than his career or England's chances next summer.
:04:06. > :04:10.Whatever the outcome, it will once again test English football's
:04:10. > :04:17.attitude towards racism. David Bond joins us now. What does
:04:17. > :04:20.this mean for John Terry and the England team? More by had lines --
:04:20. > :04:25.bad headlines. This issue will now dominate the start of 2012 and
:04:25. > :04:28.beyond. We at the start of the process, not the end. John Terry
:04:29. > :04:31.may be found innocent of all charges. More significant is what
:04:31. > :04:35.the FA decide to do. They have issued a short statement saying
:04:35. > :04:39.they cannot comment. They have to wait until the CPS has run its
:04:39. > :04:42.course before they do anything. Whatever the outcome, they have to
:04:42. > :04:46.investigate this. They have their own disciplinary process and they
:04:46. > :04:51.have to ask if they can have an England captain involved in these
:04:51. > :04:55.sort of allegations leading a team with many, many black players in it.
:04:55. > :04:58.Yesterday we saw Luis Suarez banned for eight matches for racially
:04:58. > :05:04.abusing an opponent. The FA cannot afford to be seen to be weak on
:05:04. > :05:07.this issue. It was very unlikely that the
:05:07. > :05:10.former editor of the Daily Mirror, Piers Morgan, didn't know that
:05:10. > :05:15.phone hacking was going on at his paper. That is what a former
:05:15. > :05:18.reporter at the paper has told the Leveson Inquiry into press ethics.
:05:18. > :05:22.He did say he could not prove it. Yesterday, Piers Morgan told the
:05:22. > :05:27.inquiry he knew nothing about it. James Hipwell said it was a
:05:27. > :05:31.standard journalistic tour at the paper. James Hipwell was jailed in
:05:31. > :05:36.2006 for insider trading when he worked at the Daily Mirror.
:05:36. > :05:40.The Daily Mirror in the late 1990s, under editor Piers Morgan. It had a
:05:40. > :05:45.column called City slickers. One of its writers was a financial
:05:45. > :05:50.journalist, James Hipwell. He made a big mistake. He bought shares in
:05:50. > :05:54.companies he wrote about. In 2005 he was tried and convicted of
:05:54. > :05:59.insider dealing. Today, he gave evidence about his time at the
:05:59. > :06:07.Daily Mirror and the influence of its editor, Piers Morgan. He was
:06:07. > :06:10.the Dear Leader. The newspaper was edited and produced with the cult
:06:10. > :06:16.of his personality. According to James Hipwell, one of the things
:06:16. > :06:20.that happened on Piers Morgan's Merapi was phone hacking. Council
:06:20. > :06:24.quoted a sentence from James Hipwell's written statement.
:06:24. > :06:28.openness and frequency of hacking activity gave me the activity --
:06:28. > :06:34.impression that it was considered a bog-standard journalistic tool for
:06:34. > :06:39.gathering information. It seemed to me that what they were doing was
:06:39. > :06:43.entirely accepted by the senior editors of the newspaper. Yet in
:06:43. > :06:47.evidence by video link yesterday, Piers Morgan insisted that he had
:06:47. > :06:57.known nothing about phone hacking. Did you see this sort of thing
:06:57. > :06:57.
:06:58. > :07:02.going on? No. Are you sure about that? 100%. That, to James Hipwell,
:07:02. > :07:05.seemed inconceivable. Looking at his style of editorship, I would
:07:05. > :07:11.say that it was very unlikely that he did not know what was going on
:07:11. > :07:16.because, as I have said, there was not very much he did not know about.
:07:16. > :07:20.As I think he said yesterday in his testimony, he took a very keen
:07:20. > :07:24.interest in the work of his journalists. After five weeks, this
:07:24. > :07:28.part of Lord Leveson's inquiry is at the halfway point. Five weeks,
:07:29. > :07:32.during which witnesses, ordinary citizens and celebrities, have
:07:32. > :07:37.given voice to their grievances. There have been memorable moments.
:07:38. > :07:45.It just felt like such an intrusion into a really, really private
:07:45. > :07:50.moment. There is also Oakleigh spend being put on a lot of this
:07:50. > :07:55.stuff because it sells papers better. -- ugly Spain. I felt such
:07:55. > :08:00.a sense of invasion. I desperately wanted to shout out, it's not true.
:08:00. > :08:05.But when it is your voice against powerful media... At that powerful
:08:05. > :08:09.media, the editors and possibly some proprietors, will be summoned
:08:09. > :08:16.here in the new year to put their arguments that tighter restrictions
:08:16. > :08:19.A serving officer with the Metropolitan Police has been
:08:19. > :08:24.arrested as part of an investigation into alleged illegal
:08:24. > :08:29.payments from journalists. The 52- year-old woman is the first police
:08:29. > :08:31.officer arrested as a result of Operation Elveden, running
:08:31. > :08:35.alongside the criminal investigation into phone hacking.
:08:35. > :08:38.The UK's medicine watchdog has moved to reassure around 40,000
:08:38. > :08:43.women in Britain who have had French breast implants that they do
:08:43. > :08:46.not have an increased -- increased risk of cancer. It says its own
:08:46. > :08:52.tests on implants by manufacturer PIP have not shown any problems.
:08:52. > :09:00.The French government will announce on Friday whether Rick will pave of
:09:00. > :09:04.30,000 women are there to have the This is one of the French PIP
:09:04. > :09:09.silicone implants intact. Here is what it looks like when it is
:09:09. > :09:15.ruptured. They were banned last year. By then, 40,000 British women
:09:15. > :09:19.had then implanted. Among them, Rachel Jack Campbell on the left
:09:19. > :09:22.and her twin sister. One of Rachel's implants split and she
:09:22. > :09:27.ended up needing part of her right breast removed, as well as the
:09:27. > :09:34.implants. It had a huge effect. Holidays, swimming, the children
:09:34. > :09:39.found it hard to look at me, with my top off. It has affected my life
:09:39. > :09:43.majorly. I've just had a little girl, four week today. Breast-
:09:43. > :09:48.feeding has been a nightmare. I can't breast-feed on my right
:09:48. > :09:51.breast probably. It had an impact in all aspects of life. The French
:09:51. > :09:56.PIP in plants differ from its conventional product in two key
:09:56. > :10:00.respects. The gel fellow was not medical grade, but cheaper
:10:00. > :10:05.industrial silicone, used in products like mattresses. They may
:10:05. > :10:10.have been missing a protective coating, meaning they are more
:10:10. > :10:13.likely to split. In Paris, the issue led to street demonstrations.
:10:14. > :10:18.There was also the claim that a woman's death from cancer was lent
:10:18. > :10:22.to faulty implants. A review by cancer experts will be published on
:10:22. > :10:28.Friday. There are hints that the French government may offer to pay
:10:28. > :10:33.for the implants to be removed, on a purely precautionary basis. Here,
:10:33. > :10:37.the medicines watchdog the MHRA has sought to reassure women, saying
:10:37. > :10:40.that it has found no safety issues whatsoever with implants. British
:10:40. > :10:47.women do not need to be worried. We have looked extensively, with
:10:47. > :10:51.experts, at an association with cancer, at the toxicity and breast
:10:51. > :10:56.feeding and we can find no safety issues. This surgeon says he never
:10:56. > :11:00.used the French in plants and he had this advice for women. I would
:11:00. > :11:04.suggest that in India they make an appointment to revisit their
:11:04. > :11:07.plastic surgeon. They need to be examined and they need to have any
:11:07. > :11:09.appropriate investigations. Then they need to discuss with their
:11:09. > :11:15.surgeon whether there is a reason for them to have a surgical
:11:15. > :11:18.procedure. They must not be hustled into doing something urgently.
:11:19. > :11:24.than 250 British women, many of whom suffered ruptured implants,
:11:24. > :11:29.are launching legal action. The company PIP has shut down, so it is
:11:29. > :11:32.not clear who might pay compensation.
:11:32. > :11:36.The jury in the Stephen Lawrence murder trial has heard that traces
:11:36. > :11:41.of blood and textile fibres found on one of the defendant's jacket
:11:41. > :11:46.and cardigan do not prove that he killed the teenager. Gary Dobson's
:11:46. > :11:51.defence counsel told the court, from a very few fibres the
:11:51. > :11:57.prosecution has done a long yarn. Both defendants deny murder.
:11:57. > :12:01.Four teenagers have been sentenced for the murder of a 15-year-old boy.
:12:01. > :12:06.Zac Olumegbon was stabbed four times as part of a revenge attack
:12:06. > :12:10.by a rival gang in July last year. Teenagers were handed a life
:12:10. > :12:13.sentence, a 5th was given a life sentence for manslaughter.
:12:13. > :12:16.Propose changes to the planning system in England have been
:12:16. > :12:20.criticised by a group of MPs. They say there is a danger that too much
:12:20. > :12:23.emphasis can be given to economic growth at the expense of
:12:23. > :12:25.environmental and social concerns in the streamlined proposals. The
:12:25. > :12:28.Government wants new buildings to be built as long as they are
:12:29. > :12:32.sustainable. Hundreds of eurozone banks have
:12:32. > :12:36.taken advantage of cheap loans being offered by the European
:12:36. > :12:39.Central Bank worth hundreds of billions of pounds. The take-up was
:12:39. > :12:45.far higher than expected, but it is uncertain how it will affect the
:12:45. > :12:49.eurozone economy. With me is Robert Peston. With the banks having all
:12:49. > :12:52.of this money, are they on a more Secure food in question are it is
:12:52. > :12:56.certainly the case that in the past few weeks there has been a very
:12:56. > :13:01.major banking crisis in the eurozone. Eurozone banks are
:13:01. > :13:05.finding it very hard to borrow up. When I cannot borrow, they cannot
:13:05. > :13:10.lend. There is the spectre of a renewed credit crunch. When banks
:13:10. > :13:20.cannot borrow, they cannot repay their own debt. They could go bust.
:13:20. > :13:23.The European Central Bank to ride to the rescue. It has provided 489
:13:23. > :13:27.billion euros of emergency loans. That takes to one trillion Euros
:13:27. > :13:31.the amount of emergency support that the European Central Bank is
:13:31. > :13:36.providing to banks in general. What that means is that the risk of a
:13:36. > :13:40.bank going bust has receded. We should be grateful for that. If a
:13:40. > :13:45.eurozone bank goes bust, that would cause great damage to British banks.
:13:45. > :13:48.The fundamental cause of the euro- zone crisis has not yet been solved.
:13:48. > :13:52.That fundamental cause is the perception that a number of
:13:52. > :13:58.countries, of governments, have borrowed far too much. Greece,
:13:58. > :14:01.Ireland, Spain, Portugal and Italy. Until the solvency of those
:14:01. > :14:06.governments is restored, I am afraid we cannot breathe a sigh of
:14:06. > :14:10.relief and say that the eurozone crisis is over.
:14:10. > :14:13.New figures show that the Government borrowed less in
:14:13. > :14:16.November and the City had expected, partly because tax receipts were
:14:16. > :14:20.higher. Public sector borrowing stood at 18.1 billion last month,
:14:20. > :14:24.down from more than 20 billion in November last year. The Treasury
:14:24. > :14:29.said it showed good progress was being made in reducing the deficit.
:14:29. > :14:33.Now, it was probably not the best plant of robberies. Two women from
:14:33. > :14:36.Manchester stole hundreds of pounds worth of alcohol from a supermarket,
:14:36. > :14:40.only to breakdown in the car-park because they ran out of petrol.
:14:40. > :14:44.They were caught on CCTV, pushing the car with alcohol limit to a
:14:44. > :14:47.nearby petrol station to refuel. Today, one woman was given a
:14:47. > :14:57.suspended jail sentence. The other had already pleaded guilty and had
:14:57. > :14:59.
:14:59. > :15:03.What to buy and how much to spend? The weekly shop can be a pain. No
:15:03. > :15:06.such worries, though, for Rose Devlin and Denise Egan. They know
:15:06. > :15:11.exactly what they are after and fill their trolley with all the
:15:11. > :15:16.alcohol they want to steal. Without paying they walk out of the store.
:15:16. > :15:22.But they have taken so much the boot won't shut. The next problem -
:15:22. > :15:27.no petrol. So they get out of the car and push. All the way to the
:15:27. > :15:32.station. At least in here they decide to pay for their fuel. The
:15:32. > :15:36.women weren't arrested here, but running out of petrol was their
:15:36. > :15:41.downfall, because security became so suspicious about what was going
:15:41. > :15:45.on that they decided to go back inside the store and check the CCTV
:15:45. > :15:51.again. It was then that they realised what the two women had
:15:51. > :15:56.been doing. They stole �400 worth of alcohol. Denise Egan admitted
:15:56. > :16:02.theft and was fined. Today Rose Devlin was given a suspend jail
:16:02. > :16:07.sentence after she also aet stealing. This was her reaction.
:16:07. > :16:12.I'm just a shoplifter. Did you regret what you've done? Not really
:16:12. > :16:16.no. I've done it all my life. you think you should have gone to
:16:17. > :16:21.jail? Yeah, but the judge gave me a chance. Will you take this chance
:16:21. > :16:25.and stay out of jail? I can't say that. I never know what's around
:16:25. > :16:29.the corner, do I? So you might steal again? I don't know. No
:16:29. > :16:33.comment on that one. Asda said no- one was available for interview
:16:33. > :16:43.today because their staff was too busy serving the customers who
:16:43. > :16:46.actually pay. Our top story tonight. The England
:16:46. > :16:53.Captain, John Terry, is charged with racially abusing an another.
:16:53. > :17:00.He will be in court by February. Coming up: Jean Genie... It was
:17:00. > :17:05.thought lost but this rare footage of one of the David Bowie's
:17:05. > :17:08.greatest hits has resurfaced after 40 years. The European central bank
:17:08. > :17:18.boosts lending but investors say it is not enough. And why the
:17:18. > :17:19.
:17:19. > :17:22.Government is cutting subsidies for People living homeless on the
:17:22. > :17:26.streets can expect to die 30 years earlier than those who have a roof
:17:26. > :17:29.over their heads. New research by the charity, Crisis, shows that
:17:29. > :17:34.homeless men are dying at an average of 47 and women at 43. The
:17:34. > :17:37.national average for deaths is aged 77. Family disputes, drug or
:17:37. > :17:46.alcohol addiction and unemployment are among the reasons that people
:17:46. > :17:50.are on the streets. Mike Sergeant reports. For whatever reason,
:17:50. > :17:54.Tracey keeps finding herself back on the streets. I met her today
:17:54. > :18:01.pushing bags and blankets around central London. She says she
:18:02. > :18:07.doesn't drink or take drugs but has suffered from cancer. What's the
:18:07. > :18:14.biggest problem being on the streets? People stealing off each
:18:14. > :18:19.other. Food-wise. And people just being nasty. And the cold. And the
:18:19. > :18:24.cold. Very, very cold. But I've got plenty of blankets and stuff to
:18:24. > :18:28.keep me warm at night. So where did you sleep? Anywhere I can get my
:18:28. > :18:32.head down. 20 years ago many more people were sleeping rough in our
:18:32. > :18:35.cities. Now most find somewhere to stay, however temporary.
:18:35. > :18:40.Homelessness is a less visible problem than it used to be but that
:18:40. > :18:43.doesn't mean it has gone away. Today at the Crisis warehouse
:18:43. > :18:47.volunteers were preparing for Christmas. Loading up food and
:18:47. > :18:51.other supplies to keep people warm and safe. As the charity issued its
:18:51. > :18:55.dire warning about the health of the homeless. They are dying 30
:18:55. > :19:00.years young you are than the average. This highlights that
:19:00. > :19:04.homeless people are not getting the healthcare they need and we need to
:19:04. > :19:08.do more to prevent homelessness in the first place. So that when
:19:08. > :19:13.people get into trouble they get help from their councils so they
:19:13. > :19:17.don't have to be suffering from these leaf-threatening conditions.
:19:17. > :19:21.It is quiet now because it is the end of the eating time... Those who
:19:21. > :19:27.manage to get away from that chaotic world may see a dramatic
:19:27. > :19:30.improvement in their prospects. In a hostel I met a former alcoholic,
:19:30. > :19:37.now sober. She may soon have somewhere permanent to live, a
:19:37. > :19:40.chance to escape. Very seen quite a few friends in here die through
:19:40. > :19:45.alcohol-related problems, drug addiction. But you remain upbeat
:19:45. > :19:53.with hope that you are going to move on to your own accommodation.
:19:53. > :19:57.Every night outreach teams look for rough sleepers. Are from abroad and
:19:57. > :20:02.usually have specific issues - drink, drugs, mental illness. Is it
:20:02. > :20:05.because of drugs that you are here? Yes. An extra �20 million has been
:20:05. > :20:09.promised today to help individuals. The Government says homelessness
:20:09. > :20:15.protection is a strong here as anywhere in the world, but it's a
:20:15. > :20:21.safety net that doesn't catch everyone.
:20:21. > :20:26.In the last half-hour the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge arrived at the
:20:26. > :20:32.homeless charity Centrepoint. He and his brother were introduced to
:20:32. > :20:37.it by their late mother princess dine na. William has been patron of
:20:37. > :20:41.Centrepoint for the last six years. What are the Duke and Duchess of
:20:41. > :20:45.Cambridge going to be doing there? At the moment they are taking part
:20:45. > :20:49.in a healthy living cookery class, one of the life skills that the
:20:49. > :20:57.young people here are introduced to as they try get back on their feet
:20:57. > :21:04.after a spell of homelessness. They will also be sitting in on an
:21:04. > :21:09.employment work shop and a Centrepoint's Got Talent contest.
:21:09. > :21:12.It was the first charity he was patron of, following in the
:21:12. > :21:16.footsteps of his mother, princess dine na. A couple of years ago he
:21:16. > :21:20.spent a night sleeping rough himself to publicise the cause. And
:21:20. > :21:23.now he is introducing his wife to the project. The Duchess herself is
:21:23. > :21:26.looking for charities will to get involved in. So this is another
:21:26. > :21:31.part of her research. It's been a momentous year for William and Kate.
:21:31. > :21:35.They will be spending their first Christmas as a married couple in
:21:35. > :21:37.the comfort of Sandringham but the message they are putting across is
:21:37. > :21:44.they are well aware that many people will be spending this
:21:44. > :21:47.Christmas without a roof over their heads. More than 10,000 people have
:21:47. > :21:50.lined the streets of Prague to mourn the former Czech President,
:21:50. > :21:53.Vaclav Havel. He became the symbol of the fight for democracy in the
:21:53. > :21:57.former Czechoslovakia. His body will lie in state at Prague Castle
:21:57. > :21:59.until his funeral tomorrow. The Education Secretary, Michael
:21:59. > :22:02.Gove, has said he is contemplating large-scale reform of the exam
:22:02. > :22:05.system in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. It's in response
:22:05. > :22:07.to errors in exam papers and recent allegations that exam boards have
:22:07. > :22:11.been discussing the contents of future exams with teachers during
:22:11. > :22:13.special seminars. As a result, a GCSE computing paper due to be sat
:22:13. > :22:23.in January has been withdrawn. Our education correspondent, Reeta
:22:23. > :22:26.
:22:26. > :22:33.Chakrabarti, reports. The integrity of the exam system is under
:22:33. > :22:37.question as never before. Today one board, WJEC, has admitted an
:22:37. > :22:45.examiner revealed details of questions on a GCSE paper. That
:22:45. > :22:49.paper's been pulled. It happened because of these secret recording s
:22:49. > :22:52.by the Daily Telegraph. It was claimed these examiners gave much
:22:52. > :22:56.more detail about possible questions than the guidelines
:22:56. > :23:01.allowed. Today the board cleared these two but discovered problems
:23:01. > :23:05.in another exam. The exams watchdog compiling an urgent report to
:23:05. > :23:09.Ministers says examiners shared inappropriate information about
:23:09. > :23:14.that particular paper. We found one examination compromised and we are
:23:14. > :23:18.focused very much on the January 2012 examination series. So far no
:23:18. > :23:22.other exam has been put at risk. We will know by the end of the week
:23:22. > :23:26.and expect to make an announcement in the new year. As Ofqual makes
:23:26. > :23:30.clear, its report today isn't the end of the story. It is still to
:23:30. > :23:35.finish viewing 54 hours of secret filming passed to it by the Daily
:23:35. > :23:40.Telegraph. As we know, that's led to one January exam being pulled.
:23:40. > :23:45.Ofqual says of the 13 seminars filmed by the paper, 11 relate to
:23:45. > :23:49.exams to be taken next month. But it won't give all January exam as
:23:49. > :23:53.clean bill of health until the new year, meaning uncertainty for
:23:53. > :23:57.thousands of pupils. It has led Michael Gove so say large-scale
:23:57. > :24:00.reform may be needed. One expert thinks the problem is competition
:24:00. > :24:05.and there should be fewer exam boards. We are now teetering on the
:24:05. > :24:09.edge of saying that there should be a single Examination Board. To hear
:24:09. > :24:13.what the Secretary of State says and what Ofqual is continuing
:24:13. > :24:18.investigation say, but it is a major question that's going to have
:24:18. > :24:24.to be answered in the near future. In a separate report in errors in
:24:24. > :24:28.exam papers in the summer, Ofqual said exam boards had been too lax
:24:28. > :24:30.and threatened to fine them if they did it again.
:24:30. > :24:34.A rediscovered TV performance by David Bowie singing his classic
:24:34. > :24:37.song, Jean Genie live on Top Of The Pops is being shown tonight for the
:24:37. > :24:41.first time in nearly 40 years. It was thought the broadcast had been
:24:41. > :24:51.lost for good, until a cameraman who was filming on the day revealed
:24:51. > :24:56.
:24:56. > :25:05.he'd kept a copy of the show. Will This is vintage David Bowie, when
:25:05. > :25:15.the pop star was putting the glam into rock. He looks fantastic. And
:25:15. > :25:16.
:25:16. > :25:19.sounds even better. That performance by Bowie of his hit,
:25:19. > :25:25.Jean Genie, was filmed here in Studio 8 of BBC Television Centre.
:25:25. > :25:29.There was no miming or backing tracks. It it was real thing. They
:25:29. > :25:34.recorded it on 3rd January 1973 and it was broadcast a day later on Top
:25:34. > :25:42.Of The Pops. That was the last time it was seen on television. Until
:25:42. > :25:46.today. The recording was lost, presumed deleted, until a few weeks
:25:46. > :25:51.ago when the cameraman you can see here mentioned that he had a copy
:25:51. > :25:55.at home. It was never lost. I always knew I had it. I just didn't
:25:55. > :25:58.know that other people wanted it, because it had been wiped by the
:25:58. > :26:08.BBC, and nobody realised it was an iconic performance which would be
:26:08. > :26:09.
:26:09. > :26:12.wonderful to have all those years on. John Henshall had made a
:26:12. > :26:15.special camera lens to create this visual effect, which is why he kept
:26:15. > :26:19.a copy, so he could demonstrate his work to other potential customers.
:26:19. > :26:29.And thank goodness he did, because what we see here is something very
:26:29. > :26:32.
:26:32. > :26:35.rare and very special. I think as a cultural artefact it really does
:26:35. > :26:45.show a lot of young bands up for really quite flat performances.
:26:45. > :26:46.
:26:46. > :26:49.When you see this, it is utterly thrilling. This performance will
:26:49. > :26:53.delight Bowie fans the world over, and there may be more musical
:26:53. > :27:03.treasures to come. The man who kept the tape says he has another 100
:27:03. > :27:07.recordings from the same era. And if you want to watch David
:27:07. > :27:09.Bowie's performance of Jean Genie in full, it's on the Top Of The
:27:09. > :27:16.Pops Christmas special on BBC Two at 7.30pm.
:27:16. > :27:20.Let's take a look at the weather now with Alex Deakin. It seems to
:27:20. > :27:23.now with Alex Deakin. It seems to be getting warmer. Yes, I have some
:27:23. > :27:28.changes for you on the way. Overnight tonight not a whiff of
:27:28. > :27:32.frost. It will be a mild night, thanks to a lot of cloud and a
:27:32. > :27:36.brisk breeze. Not completely dry everywhere. There'll be wet weather
:27:36. > :27:41.in western Scotland. Drizzle in western England and the West Coast
:27:41. > :27:47.of Wales. A few breaks in the cloud here and there. It will turn misty
:27:47. > :27:53.in some spots, but not turning cold. 6-9 degrees. Another mild day on
:27:53. > :28:00.nurse. There'll be more rain across the Highlands of Scotland, at times
:28:00. > :28:04.through parts of Cumbria. England and Wales, always the threat of
:28:04. > :28:12.drizzle. We could get sunshine on the South Coast of didn't. Overall
:28:12. > :28:19.Devon and Cornwall will be quite gloomy. West Wales, cloudy at times
:28:19. > :28:24.but central England it should clear up. Temperatures reaching double
:28:24. > :28:29.figures. Parts of Cumbria - it will feel milder in north-east Scotland.
:28:29. > :28:32.In the west of Scotland we keep the cloud and some rain, which will
:28:32. > :28:35.turn heavier in the evening. That will continue south on Thursday
:28:35. > :28:40.night across Scotland and Northern Ireland. On Friday it works its way
:28:40. > :28:48.across England and Wales. Some of that rain could be heavy. To the
:28:48. > :28:52.north it brightens up on Friday. But it starts chilly. A cold start
:28:52. > :28:57.to the weekend. A frost on Christmas Eve morning but by
:28:57. > :28:59.Christmas Day temperatures have risen. In northern parts of the UK