:00:15. > :00:18.The Government has said there is no evidence to recommend the urgent
:00:18. > :00:23.removal of substandard breast implants. It will cover the cost
:00:23. > :00:27.for the small minority of women who had their surgery on the NHS, but
:00:27. > :00:30.not if it was done privately. don't know where it's left me. I
:00:31. > :00:34.don't have the funds to have these removed, so now I have to walk
:00:35. > :00:39.around with ill health. Nobody knows. This could get worse. Also
:00:40. > :00:45.on tonight's programme: The parents of the murdered Indian
:00:45. > :00:48.student Anuj Bidve retrace their son's final steps. Anuj was our
:00:48. > :00:51.only son, and we cannot comprehend this terrible tragedy. We do not
:00:52. > :00:55.blame the people of this city for what happened. The only person we
:00:55. > :00:59.blame is the man responsible for taking Anuj away from us. David
:00:59. > :01:08.Cameron's new plans to improve nursing care in England including
:01:08. > :01:14.hourly ward rounds. And Amir Khan's appeal in his
:01:15. > :01:24.defeat. He asks who is the man in the hat, and did he interfere with
:01:25. > :01:44.
:01:44. > :01:54.Good evening. Welcome to the BBC News at 6.00pm. The Government has
:01:54. > :02:04.
:02:04. > :02:07.just announced it will pay for the That accounts for just 5% of the
:02:07. > :02:09.40,000 British women who have used the silicone implants. A Government
:02:09. > :02:12.review has concluded there's no evidence to recommend their routine
:02:12. > :02:14.removal. That contrasts with the stance of the French government
:02:14. > :02:16.which has agreed to fund the removal of the implants.
:02:16. > :02:18.These breast implants are being filled with medically tested
:02:18. > :02:25.silicone. The company in north Lanarkshire is the only British
:02:25. > :02:29.firm which makes them. By contrast, the French PIP implants had
:02:30. > :02:36.industrial-grade silicone and were banned. Health officials in the
:02:36. > :02:39.Czech Republic followed France's lead today recommending women have
:02:39. > :02:45.PIP implants removed as a precaution. The official line here
:02:45. > :02:48.is there is no need for removal, but the NHS will pay for
:02:49. > :02:52.replacement implants if cancer patients are suffering anxiety.
:02:52. > :02:56.What is rather important is not to exaggerate the reasons to be
:02:56. > :03:01.worried, but if women are worried, we'll support them. We expect - I
:03:01. > :03:07.expect - and the expert group want to see private providers offer that
:03:07. > :03:13.same standard of care. It's thought 40,000 or more women have PIP
:03:13. > :03:18.implants. 95% were done by private clinics, mostly for breast
:03:18. > :03:25.enlargement, 5% by the NHS for breast reconstruction after cancer.
:03:25. > :03:30.Karen Arthur is now desperate to have her PIP implants removed. One
:03:30. > :03:34.has ruptured. Ministers say private clinics have a moral obligation to
:03:34. > :03:37.help patients like her, but there are no legal powers to force them.
:03:37. > :03:41.I don't know where it's left me. I don't have the funds to actually
:03:41. > :03:45.have these removed, so now I have to walk around with ill health.
:03:45. > :03:51.Nobody knows. This could get worse. No-one can look into the future.
:03:51. > :03:58.This has only come out now. This comes down to an assessment of risk.
:03:58. > :04:00.Every woman undergoing implant surgery is told there is a danger
:04:00. > :04:05.of complications. Eventually, Theresa May all need to be replaced.
:04:05. > :04:09.The Government review group considered whether the PIP implants
:04:10. > :04:13.carried additional, unacceptable risks that would require their
:04:13. > :04:19.removal. They are very robust. surgeon says private clinics should
:04:19. > :04:24.pay for replacements, but women must not be abandoned by the NHS.
:04:24. > :04:29.They didn't know the risk that they'd be implanted with non-
:04:29. > :04:33.medical-grade implants. The NHS picks up the bill for smoking and
:04:33. > :04:37.alcohol-related diseases. We all know that smoking and alcohol can
:04:37. > :04:42.cause problems and yet the NHS still picks up the bill.
:04:42. > :04:47.The Government's decision means women who cannot persuade private
:04:47. > :04:51.clinics to help them will have to pay for replacements like these or
:04:51. > :04:55.simply live with their PIP implants. Fergus, this suggests one outcome
:04:55. > :04:59.for NHS patients and a different outcome for private patients, and
:04:59. > :05:03.women will just be wanting to know, where these safe or aren't they?
:05:03. > :05:07.The official line on safety hasn't changed. There is no need, say
:05:07. > :05:11.Ministers, for routine removal, no evidence of cancer no, specific
:05:11. > :05:17.safety concerns. What is new is the psychological impact. Ministers
:05:17. > :05:20.accept women are worried about this. There is deep anxiety. If NHS
:05:20. > :05:25.patients after seeing their surgeon say I want them replaced, the NHS
:05:25. > :05:30.will cover the costs. That covers one in 20 patients. The rest were
:05:30. > :05:35.done privately. What about those women? Well, lots of those clinics
:05:35. > :05:38.have shot down. These were largely cut-price clinics. Lots are not
:05:38. > :05:43.there anymore. There are one or two firms Whoa have said they'll pick
:05:43. > :05:49.up the bill. The rest will either have to pay for them or fight to
:05:49. > :05:52.have them replaced. Thank you. The parents of an Indian student
:05:52. > :05:55.who was shot dead in Salford on Boxing Day have paid an emotional
:05:55. > :05:58.visit to the scene of his murder. 23-year-old Anuj Bidve, who was
:05:58. > :06:01.studying at Lancaster University, was shot at point blank range while
:06:01. > :06:05.he was out with friends. Judith Moritz is in Salford. This was
:06:06. > :06:10.obviously a very traumatic day for his parents.
:06:10. > :06:14.Yes, it was. This unassuming Salford side street has become
:06:14. > :06:19.something of a focal point now for the community here. It's where Anuj
:06:19. > :06:24.Bidve was killed. It's where a mass of floral tributes have been left
:06:24. > :06:34.for him, and it's where today his parents came to see for themselves
:06:34. > :06:34.
:06:34. > :06:43.the spot where their son's life ended. Four,500 miles from home,
:06:43. > :06:47.Anuj Bidve's mother laid flowers where her son was had lain dead.
:06:47. > :06:50.It's 11 day since the 23-year-old student was killed, shot at close
:06:50. > :06:54.range. The family say it was important to come here.
:06:54. > :07:00.This has been an extremely difficult journey to make. Anuj
:07:00. > :07:05.left in September last year. He was full of hope and ambition for the
:07:05. > :07:08.future. We were all so very proud of him. Anuj was our only son, and
:07:08. > :07:12.we cannot comprehend this dreadful tragedy.
:07:12. > :07:20.REPORTER: It must have been a very emotional experience following your
:07:20. > :07:26.son's footsteps today. Can you put that into words for us? There are
:07:26. > :07:31.no words, ma'am. All our - the world is finished for us. That's
:07:31. > :07:35.what I can say. In the early hours of boxing day, Anuj was with a
:07:35. > :07:39.group of fellow student whence they were approached by two men. One
:07:39. > :07:42.spoke to him briefly and shot him in the head. 20-year-old Kieran
:07:42. > :07:46.Stapleton has been charged with murder. He told the court his name
:07:46. > :07:51.was "Psycho" Stapleton. During today's visit, the family spoke to
:07:51. > :07:55.local people who had come to offer support. We met him, and we said,
:07:55. > :08:01.you know, that it was an awful moment, and we are here to give
:08:02. > :08:07.full support to you. I just came just to give condolences to Anuj's
:08:07. > :08:11.family. The Bidve family say they have faith in the British justice
:08:11. > :08:15.system and the police investigation. Anuj's parents will now fly back
:08:15. > :08:20.with their son's body to take him back to the country he left just
:08:20. > :08:23.four months ago. Co-incidentally, David Cameron was also in Salford
:08:23. > :08:28.today promoting a Government health initiative. The Prime Minister
:08:28. > :08:31.didn't meet with the family in person, but this afternoon he did
:08:32. > :08:36.speak by phone to Subhash Bidve, and in that conversation, he
:08:37. > :08:40.promised Anuj's father that the police and the judiciary would do
:08:40. > :08:42.everything in their power to do justice for Anuj.
:08:42. > :08:46.Thank you. David Cameron says he wants to
:08:46. > :08:49.improve standards of nursing in the NHS in England. Among a number of
:08:49. > :08:52.proposals, the Prime Minister wants nurses to conduct hourly ward
:08:52. > :08:55.rounds to make sure patients are comfortable and have enough to eat.
:08:55. > :09:00.He's also backed the idea of patients having a role in hospital
:09:01. > :09:04.inspections.Our health correspondent Jane Hughes reports.
:09:05. > :09:08.No paperwork here at all - that's what we like to see. It's the bug
:09:08. > :09:11.bear of nurses everywhere - now David Cameron is calling for them
:09:11. > :09:16.to be freed of paperwork and given more time with patients. In a visit
:09:16. > :09:20.to Salford Royal Hospital, he called for a complete reset of the
:09:20. > :09:24.approach to care. Of course there is always pressure on NHS resources,
:09:24. > :09:27.but the hospital I'm standing in right now shows that with the right
:09:28. > :09:31.management, with the right standards, with the right level of
:09:31. > :09:35.hourly ward rounds by nurses you can have good standards of care.
:09:35. > :09:40.The Prime Minister promised that patients, not paperwork, would be
:09:40. > :09:44.nurses' top priority. He promised hourly nursing ward rounds in every
:09:44. > :09:47.hospital, patients and members of the public doing hospital
:09:47. > :09:52.inspections and a new watchdog body to promote best practising in
:09:52. > :09:57.nursing. For business Pryor, the changes can't come soon enough.
:09:57. > :10:04.When her mother went to hospital, she was denied even her most basic
:10:04. > :10:07.dignities, left to wet her bad, get badly dehydrated and to develop an
:10:07. > :10:13.infection. It was the basic nursing care that I was very upset by. The
:10:13. > :10:16.medical care was fine. It was the basics - TLC. What saddened me is
:10:16. > :10:24.that mum died two years ago, and still here I am talking to you
:10:24. > :10:29.about all these things. How are you this afternoon? Some ask why nurses
:10:30. > :10:36.should be told to do things which seem so central to their job? In
:10:36. > :10:41.North London, regular ward rounds are already routine. Over the years
:10:41. > :10:46.with the bureaucracy and administrative - that have been
:10:46. > :10:50.built up, nurses have been taken away from the bedside. This is to
:10:50. > :10:55.make sure nurses focus on their role and their job. For nurses,
:10:55. > :10:58.this all feels we'reingly familiar, another in a series of initiatives
:10:58. > :11:03.designed to improve patient care. Some are asking how it sits with
:11:03. > :11:06.the Government's commitment to end NHS targets and to take the
:11:06. > :11:09.politics out of health care. It was Labour Party which brought in
:11:09. > :11:14.targets. They say the Prime Minister's taking the wrong
:11:14. > :11:18.approach. How will it help improve nursing standards when we're seeing
:11:18. > :11:24.48,000 nursing posts cut on his watch in the NHS in England while
:11:24. > :11:27.at the same time he's spending �3.5 billion on a pointless back room
:11:27. > :11:30.reorganisation? And the question being asked by the Patients'
:11:30. > :11:35.Association is whether the Prime Minister's rhetoric today will be
:11:35. > :11:37.turned into reality tomorrow. Police investigating phone hacking
:11:37. > :11:40.have arrested a long-serving former assistant to the ex-News of the
:11:40. > :11:42.World Editor Rebekah Brooks. The woman's been questioned on
:11:42. > :11:45.suspicion of attempting to pervert the course of justice and released
:11:45. > :11:48.on bail. She's understood to be 47- year-old Cheryl Carter from Essex
:11:48. > :11:56.who'd worked for other news international executives and was
:11:56. > :11:59.also Beauty Editor at the Sun. The male nurse arrested at Stepping
:11:59. > :12:02.Hill Hospital in Stockport has been named locally as Victorino Chua.
:12:02. > :12:05.He's being questioned on suspicion of administering or causing a
:12:05. > :12:13.person to take a poisonous substance. Police are not linking
:12:13. > :12:16.his arrest with the deaths of four patients at the hospital. The 46-
:12:16. > :12:19.year-old worked on the same wards where the patients died last summer.
:12:19. > :12:23.A bomb attack in central Damascus has killed 26 people and wounded
:12:23. > :12:26.dozens more according to the Syrian Interior Ministry. Reports suggest
:12:26. > :12:31.a "powerful explosion" was caused by a suicide bomber in a heavily
:12:31. > :12:35.populated neighbourhood. It's the third such attack in the capital in
:12:35. > :12:37.a fortnight. The boxer Amir Khan has accused an
:12:38. > :12:40.unidentified man of "interfering" with officials and the judges'
:12:40. > :12:43.scorecards during his world title defeat by American Lamont Peterson.
:12:43. > :12:49.The mystery man can be seen talking to one of the match supervisors
:12:49. > :12:52.during the fight. Khan's appeal against the controversial result,
:12:52. > :13:00.which cost him his WBA and IBF light-welterweight titles, will be
:13:00. > :13:03.held later this month. Our sports correspondent Andy Swiss reports.
:13:04. > :13:08.Few sports do controversy quite like boxing. Last month Amir Khan
:13:08. > :13:14.thought he'd outclassed Peterson, but the judges thought otherwise.
:13:14. > :13:18.Peterson in front of his home crowd was awarded a narrow points win.
:13:18. > :13:23.Cue anger and deepening intrigue. The reason - an unidentified man in
:13:23. > :13:27.a hat who Khan believes interfered with the officials. At first he
:13:27. > :13:31.sits next to them in the front row. He's asked to move, but by the
:13:31. > :13:35.second round, the mystery man is back and stays this. In the second
:13:35. > :13:43.round he seems to pass a paper along the panel of judges. Come the
:13:43. > :13:47.11th round, he picks up a yellow slip, one of the score cards Khan
:13:47. > :13:51.believes and spoke with an official. He later celebrated with an
:13:51. > :13:56.official, all very curious. Khan told me he wants answers about what
:13:56. > :14:00.was going on. Whenever the judges are judging a fight and the
:14:00. > :14:02.commission, no-one is allowed to talk to them. No-one is allowed to
:14:02. > :14:08.handle paperwork and stuff like that. It's just a question I asked.
:14:08. > :14:13.I asked the commission, and they didn't get back to me, so I I put
:14:14. > :14:17.it on twitter so everyone gets to see it. It's big news. I just want
:14:17. > :14:22.to know who this person was and it would be nice know what his role
:14:22. > :14:26.was. This is a big issue in sport. If it was any other sport, it would
:14:26. > :14:32.have caused a big fuss. Now I am causing a big fuss about this
:14:32. > :14:36.because I don't want this to happen to any other fighters. Here at his
:14:36. > :14:46.training centre in Bolton, there is controversy about his defeat. Now
:14:46. > :14:51.the World Boxing Association says they'll investigate.
:14:51. > :14:55.The boxing authoritying insist the score card hadn't been tampered
:14:55. > :14:58.with. Others believe there was nothing sinister. That was a close
:14:58. > :15:03.fight. If Amir Khan could have won, I don't think you could have argued
:15:03. > :15:08.too much. If Mr Peterson won, you couldn't have argued too much.
:15:08. > :15:12.it dodgy scoring or just a bad case of sour grapes? Amir Khan's appeal
:15:12. > :15:17.against the decision will be formally heard later this month.
:15:17. > :15:21.The fisticuffs might have finished, but this battle certainly hasn't.
:15:21. > :15:26.The time is 6.15pm. Our top story tonight:
:15:26. > :15:30.The Government says there is no evidence for removing substandard
:15:30. > :15:35.breast implants but will remove the minority of implants provided on
:15:35. > :15:41.the NHS. Coming up:
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:16:05. > :16:08.singer following in the footsteps Despite the economic gloom, the
:16:08. > :16:13.number of cars made in Britain in the last 12 months has gone up
:16:13. > :16:16.significantly. But they're not being bought here. New car sales in
:16:16. > :16:24.Britain are down. The majority are being shipped abroad which is good
:16:24. > :16:29.news for British exports and the economy as John Moylan reports.
:16:29. > :16:34.He car-making is not what it used to be. This is the Formula One
:16:34. > :16:40.giant, McLaren's state-of-the-art plant in Surrey. The sports cars
:16:40. > :16:47.cost around �175,000 each. It is out of the reach of most of us, but
:16:47. > :16:51.the company's order book is full of overseas buyers. For any country
:16:51. > :16:56.economy having a manufacturing basis is a fund a melting building-
:16:56. > :17:00.block. You have history and Technology Inc all blended together
:17:00. > :17:06.and you can sell in the global marketplace. There is up on a
:17:06. > :17:12.normal amount of money globally and McLaren wants to be out there.
:17:12. > :17:17.likes of Bentley and Rolls-Royce have been taking their share. But -
:17:17. > :17:22.- across the board 2012 is likely to be a record year for car exports.
:17:22. > :17:27.It is not just McLaren doing well. Industry figures are expected to
:17:27. > :17:35.show the UK manufactured 1.3 5 million cars last year, and that's
:17:35. > :17:42.expected to rise to 1.45 million this year. It is a far cry from the
:17:42. > :17:45.1970s. We churned out a more cars and exported just over half of them.
:17:45. > :17:51.Now four out of five cars are made here go overseas and the big names
:17:51. > :17:55.are gearing up to meet that demand. In the past 12 months, Jaguar and
:17:55. > :18:00.Land Rover splashed out on a new plant and new jobs as sales took
:18:00. > :18:05.off. The owner of many committed half a billion pounds, securing
:18:05. > :18:09.production for years to come. Meanwhile, Nissan made almost half
:18:09. > :18:14.a million cars in Sunderland, a new record for a British plan. The UK
:18:14. > :18:19.car industry has done well, partly on the back of the depreciation of
:18:19. > :18:23.sterling which makes UK exports more attractive overseas. We are
:18:23. > :18:29.making premium cars that is attracted to a middle class
:18:29. > :18:35.emerging in China. If exports are booming. This car is off to Beverly
:18:35. > :18:37.Hills. As the Government seeks to rebalance the struggling economy,
:18:37. > :18:40.the motor industry is in pole position.
:18:40. > :18:43.The outdoor-clothing retailer Blacks looks set to be taken over
:18:43. > :18:46.by JD Sports, after the company announced it was going into
:18:46. > :18:50.administration with debts of �36 million. The new owner is expected
:18:50. > :18:56.to take on all 308 stores, which include branches of Millets. Blacks
:18:56. > :18:59.currently employs 3,500 staff. There have been more problems with
:18:59. > :19:02.the London Olympics ticket website today. Organisers have had to
:19:02. > :19:05.temporarily stop customers from putting up for sale any tickets
:19:05. > :19:08.they no longer want, after the site was slow to update sessions which
:19:08. > :19:12.had already sold out. Our sports correspondent, James Pearce, is at
:19:12. > :19:19.the Olympic Park in East London. It's not the first time there have
:19:19. > :19:23.been problems. Is this a bit embarrassing for the organisers?
:19:23. > :19:28.bit embarrassing is the understatement of the New Year. It
:19:28. > :19:34.is extremely embarrassing for London 2012 and for Ticketmaster.
:19:34. > :19:38.It should have been simple. It was a way to combat the ticket touts, a
:19:38. > :19:43.resale process. If you have a ticket you don't want, we should be
:19:43. > :19:47.able to log on, explain which tickets you did not once, click on
:19:47. > :19:51.a button and they would be put on sale. Once they were sold, the
:19:51. > :19:56.money you had originally paid would have been credited to your account.
:19:56. > :20:00.It ended up being more complicated. Initially those who put tickets are
:20:00. > :20:07.on sale got a message saying "you'll request cannot be
:20:07. > :20:11.processed". Some of them were put the sale when they have been sold
:20:11. > :20:15.hours before. The thousands of people were trying to buy tickets
:20:15. > :20:19.that did not exist. At theme from earlier in the week when
:20:19. > :20:23.synchronised swimming tickets were sold that did not exist. About
:20:23. > :20:29.10,000 of those tickets have to be exchanged. All in all a bad start
:20:29. > :20:31.for the year for London 2012. This year's Irish Open Golf
:20:31. > :20:35.Championship will be staged at Royal Port Rush in Northern Ireland
:20:35. > :20:37.- for the first time since 1947. It follows the phenomenal success of
:20:37. > :20:42.local golfing superstars such as Rory McIlroy, Darren Clarke and
:20:43. > :20:46.Graeme McDowell, with three major wins in little over a year. Mark
:20:46. > :20:56.Simpson, is at Royal Port Rush for us, this is a real boost the sport
:20:56. > :20:56.
:20:57. > :20:59.in Northern Ireland? No doubt about it. This is a big
:20:59. > :21:03.breakthrough for Northern Ireland Sports. One of the biggest
:21:03. > :21:09.tournaments in Europe is coming to the edge of Europe. This quiet
:21:09. > :21:13.little corner in north Antrim. My report does contain some flash
:21:13. > :21:18.photography. It is the silver lining for
:21:18. > :21:21.Northern Ireland's three major winners. Rory McIlroy, Graeme
:21:21. > :21:27.McDowell and Darren Clarke will get to play on home soil, when the
:21:27. > :21:30.Irish Open comes to Royal Port Rush in June. It is the biggest golf
:21:30. > :21:35.tournament in Northern Ireland for half a century. And it could
:21:35. > :21:40.attract some of the biggest names in the game. Fantastic for the fans.
:21:40. > :21:45.To bring it to one of the best courses in Ireland, the Irish Open
:21:45. > :21:51.is going to be brilliant. I hope we get the crowds and the support.
:21:51. > :21:55.Rory McIlroy will be there. The US Open champion, plays much of his
:21:56. > :22:00.golf in America, but he will be back for the Irish Open. It is nice
:22:00. > :22:04.to come home and support your home tournament and maybe bring a bit of
:22:04. > :22:09.joy back into some people's lives by playing your home event. I am
:22:09. > :22:15.looking forward to getting there and trying to win it.
:22:15. > :22:19.The Open golf Championship is held for the first time in Ireland.
:22:19. > :22:23.was in 1951. Since then, Northern Ireland has struggled to get big
:22:23. > :22:28.sporting events. The Irish Open coming here is a tribute to
:22:28. > :22:32.Northern Ireland's new political stability and golfing success. The
:22:32. > :22:37.timing of the tournament could hardly be better. Northern Ireland
:22:37. > :22:41.is currently going through a golfing boom. At the shop in Bangor,
:22:41. > :22:47.they sold more junior sets of clubs last year than in the previous 10
:22:47. > :22:54.years. It is where a young Rory McIlroy used to get his clubs and
:22:54. > :22:58.he is now starting a trend. We have got Rory McIlroy, Darren Clarke and
:22:58. > :23:04.they are local heroes. The young have grown up with that and it has
:23:04. > :23:09.made a massive impact on local golf, especially in the north. If the
:23:09. > :23:15.tournament goes well this summer, it could come back into contention
:23:15. > :23:20.for the Open Championship. Of course, that is the big prize.
:23:20. > :23:24.The Open Championship one day. But the Irish Open is a good start, and
:23:24. > :23:28.there's every golfer knows, a good start is very important.
:23:28. > :23:38.The radio and television presenter, Bob Holness, has died at the age of
:23:38. > :23:38.
:23:38. > :23:41.83. He had a career spanning 60 years but was best known as the
:23:41. > :23:45.host of the quiz show Blockbusters. Mr Holness' health deteriorated
:23:45. > :23:50.following a number of minor strokes. His family said he died peacefully
:23:50. > :23:54.in his sleep this morning. An unassuming soul singer from
:23:54. > :23:58.London has won the BBC's Sound of 2012 award. Michael Kiwanuka, came
:23:58. > :24:02.top of the poll of music industry insiders to find the most exciting
:24:02. > :24:06.new artist of the year. Previous winners include Adele, Jessie J and
:24:06. > :24:16.Ellie Goulding. The 23-three-year old singer said he felt "honoured
:24:16. > :24:21.and humble to have won". We have been to meet him.
:24:21. > :24:27.Michael Kiwanuka may have won the accolade of BBC Sound of 2012, but
:24:27. > :24:37.his music and timeless quality will probably feel as at home in the
:24:37. > :24:39.
:24:39. > :24:47.1970s, as it does today. I never expected to be the winner. It will
:24:47. > :24:54.be a great platform for me. It is a dream for any magician. I feel very
:24:54. > :25:04.happy and humble to be part of that. -- musician. Over the past few
:25:04. > :25:09.months, he has been winning some high-profile fans. And the North
:25:09. > :25:14.London singer, songwriter is earning favourable comparisons to
:25:14. > :25:21.artists like Marvin Gaye. In part, thanks to his use of digital
:25:21. > :25:27.recording equipment to achieve a vintage sound. The list is put
:25:27. > :25:33.together by asking more than 180 people, ranging from a music
:25:33. > :25:43.writers and DJs to name their favourite new artist. Recent winner
:25:43. > :25:48.
:25:48. > :25:53.-- winners include Jessie J. Ellie Golding. And an Adele.
:25:53. > :25:57.Some have accused us of becoming too mainstream at the expense of
:25:57. > :26:00.independent music, partially as a consequence of major record
:26:00. > :26:06.companies deliberately promoting a particular artist, when the list is
:26:06. > :26:12.being compiled. One palace disagrees. The record companies are
:26:12. > :26:16.were this could help and gives an enormous boost. The do push singers
:26:16. > :26:20.towards it. But to get to the top of the list people vote for things
:26:20. > :26:25.that are good. You have to be pretty good to get to the top of
:26:25. > :26:31.the list. With so many convinced of Michael's potential, great things
:26:31. > :26:41.are expected from him over the next 12 months and beyond.
:26:41. > :26:42.
:26:42. > :26:46.Bit of Sunshine, a bit of rain this weekend. Nothing to exceptional. We
:26:46. > :26:51.do have some week France crossing the country. They are producing
:26:52. > :26:57.outbreaks of rain, notably across the western parts of the UK. Damp
:26:57. > :27:02.and drizzly weather. No great amounts and bits and pieces will
:27:02. > :27:05.spread to other areas pushed on by the wind. Most of the rain will
:27:05. > :27:11.clear through in the night but showers will follow on to the north
:27:11. > :27:16.of Scotland. Not a desperately cold night. We should avoid a frost.
:27:16. > :27:25.Tomorrow is looking OK. Bright and breezy, nice for a walk. Sunshine
:27:25. > :27:29.just about every work. Cloud pushed on by the breeze. A few fleeting
:27:29. > :27:34.showers. The sharpest will be across the North of Scotland where
:27:34. > :27:37.there could be snow over the mountain tops. Most places, it will
:27:37. > :27:42.be reasonable with further spells of Sunshine persisting in the
:27:42. > :27:47.afternoon. There are the showers across the far north of Scotland,
:27:47. > :27:53.Chile in the wind. Working South, most of the cloud is towards more
:27:53. > :27:58.western coastal areas. Into the North Midlands, maybe Lincolnshire.
:27:58. > :28:03.They won't last long and many places will avoid them.
:28:03. > :28:07.Temperatures around 8, nine degrees. You may have her there have been
:28:07. > :28:11.copious amounts of the white stuff in the Alps. It has caused
:28:11. > :28:16.avalanches and problems to British tourists. The threat of snow pushes
:28:16. > :28:24.east across the Alps this weekend. All in all, a lot of snow for
:28:24. > :28:28.skiing. No snow at home on Sunday, but there will be rain pushing into
:28:28. > :28:33.the West. After a bright start it will be clouding over. But for most
:28:33. > :28:40.of us, it is looking good. More information about the snow
:28:41. > :28:44.conditions in the Alps can be found A reminder of the news: The