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The backlash over the bonus - politicians line up to criticise | :00:08. | :00:13. | |
the Royal Bank of Scotland payout. The bank's chief executive, Stephen | :00:13. | :00:16. | |
Hester, is under pressure to turn down his bonus of just under �1 | :00:16. | :00:25. | |
million. Now there's a row over who approved the deal. This pay for | :00:26. | :00:29. | |
Stephen Hester, the bonus, was sets by the board of RBS under the | :00:29. | :00:34. | |
arrangements that were put in place by the previous Government. It's a | :00:34. | :00:38. | |
disgraceful failure of leadership by the Prime Minister. He's been | :00:38. | :00:42. | |
promising for months action against excessive bonuses and pay and now | :00:42. | :00:44. | |
he's nodded through a �1 million bonus. | :00:44. | :00:46. | |
Also on tonight's programme: Passengers on the ship that ran | :00:46. | :00:51. | |
aground off Italy are offered �9,000 each in compensation. | :00:51. | :00:54. | |
Six months to go until the Olympics and a first glimpse of how the | :00:54. | :01:02. | |
opening ceremony will look. We will want to make something that touches | :01:02. | :01:05. | |
people, in a way that feels important to us and feels like it | :01:05. | :01:09. | |
will transfer to people and they will remember us by. | :01:09. | :01:12. | |
And Murray gets so close but just fails to win through at the semis | :01:12. | :01:18. | |
in the Australian Open. I'll be here with Sportsday later in the | :01:18. | :01:23. | |
hour on the BBC News charge with an in-depth look at the Australian | :01:23. | :01:33. | |
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Open. Plus Monty takes three Good evening, welcome to the BBC | :01:42. | :01:44. | |
News at Six. There's growing pressure on the | :01:45. | :01:47. | |
Royal Bank of Scotland boss, Stephen Hester, to turn down his | :01:47. | :01:51. | |
bonus, following a political backlash. Yesterday it emerged Mr | :01:51. | :01:54. | |
Hester would receive shares worth �963,000 on top of his salary at | :01:54. | :02:00. | |
the bank, which is mainly owned by taxpayers. The Labour Leader, Ed | :02:00. | :02:03. | |
Miliband, called it a "disgraceful failure of leadership by the Prime | :02:03. | :02:06. | |
Minister" and called on him to explain why he'd allowed it to | :02:06. | :02:10. | |
happen. But the Government is blaming Labour for drawing up the | :02:10. | :02:13. | |
deal when it was in power. Here's our chief economics correspondent, | :02:13. | :02:22. | |
Hugh Pym. Royal Bank of Scotland, its future matters to all of us. | :02:22. | :02:26. | |
There is �45 billion of taxpayers' money invested in the bank | :02:26. | :02:30. | |
following the bail-out in 2008. That's why there's a big row over | :02:30. | :02:35. | |
the boss, she'ser, being awarded a bonus of �963,000 in shares on top | :02:35. | :02:40. | |
of a bid 1 million salary. People will not understand how somebody | :02:40. | :02:44. | |
can get a whacking great bonus like that when they are baigsically | :02:44. | :02:50. | |
running a state-owned concern. a disgraceful failure of leader by | :02:50. | :02:54. | |
the Prime Minister. He's been promising action against excessive | :02:54. | :02:59. | |
bonuses and excessive pay and now he's nodded through a �1 million | :02:59. | :03:03. | |
bonus. Stephen Hester was brought in to head Royal Bank of Scotland | :03:04. | :03:08. | |
by Alistair Darling after the bank had nearly collapsed. He had worked | :03:08. | :03:13. | |
his way up to the top of the ladder. A country house is amongst the | :03:13. | :03:18. | |
fruits of his success. A year ago the RBS share price was 40p. Now it | :03:18. | :03:23. | |
is around 27p, partly because of the eurozone crisis. He's reduced | :03:23. | :03:27. | |
risky lending by �600 billion since he took the job. He oversaw �68 | :03:27. | :03:30. | |
billion in lending to UK companies in the first nine months of last | :03:31. | :03:35. | |
year and successfully sold off 16 businesss to reduce the size of RBS. | :03:35. | :03:40. | |
Stephen Hester's bonus this time is half what was awarded to him a year | :03:40. | :03:44. | |
ago. It is all in shares and he won't be able to sell them for | :03:44. | :03:48. | |
another couple of years. There are some in the City who feel this is a | :03:48. | :03:53. | |
sensible way to reward and incentivise a boss in an industry | :03:53. | :03:57. | |
as competitive as banking. There was a range of opinion among City | :03:57. | :04:01. | |
workers I spoke to today. These people are in a powerful position. | :04:01. | :04:05. | |
They can create jobs and put the bank on track, so I think it is | :04:05. | :04:12. | |
worth it. They want to get talent to do that job, so there had to be | :04:12. | :04:16. | |
an incentive for that. It is a controversial issue and he probably | :04:16. | :04:21. | |
didn't deserve it given that it is a state-owned bank and hasn't been | :04:21. | :04:24. | |
performing well. The Chancellor was consulted on the award. He | :04:24. | :04:27. | |
explained the Government's thinking on the decision. The arrangements | :04:27. | :04:31. | |
for paying the bonus were determined by the contract he | :04:31. | :04:34. | |
signed is with the previous Government. They were determined by | :04:34. | :04:38. | |
the board of RBS under is arrangements said up by the | :04:38. | :04:41. | |
previous Governments. The alternatives of either a larger | :04:41. | :04:44. | |
bonus of the kind he would have got a couple of years ago or the | :04:44. | :04:48. | |
British Government taking over the running of RBS and putting even | :04:48. | :04:52. | |
more taxpayers' money at risk would have been worse for British people. | :04:52. | :04:56. | |
The decision was made by the RBS board but it had to take on board | :04:56. | :04:59. | |
the views of shareholders, and they are dominated by the Government | :04:59. | :05:03. | |
other banks will be announcing their bonuses soon. It remains to | :05:03. | :05:09. | |
be seen how generous RBS has been with Stephen Hester. The Government | :05:09. | :05:12. | |
and Labour are blaming each other for this deal. Who is responsible? | :05:12. | :05:17. | |
It is undoubtedly true that the overall pay structure for Mr Hester | :05:17. | :05:21. | |
was set up under Labour. They recruited him. But it is down to | :05:21. | :05:24. | |
the board to make the final decision. This time they are only | :05:24. | :05:28. | |
paying out 60% of their entitle. That's their judgment. They have to | :05:29. | :05:32. | |
act on behalf of all shareholders, including the Government. There | :05:32. | :05:35. | |
would have been a two-way conversation. The Prime Minister | :05:35. | :05:40. | |
made it pretty clear he wanted Mr He's tore get a lower bonus, of | :05:40. | :05:43. | |
below �1 million, and that's happened. The Chancellor feels he | :05:43. | :05:47. | |
couldn't have gone further. But he is left with a highly contentious | :05:47. | :05:52. | |
situation. A Government headed bay Prime Minister who has gone out of | :05:52. | :05:57. | |
his way to say the boardroom should behave responsibly and we have a | :05:57. | :06:01. | |
state-controlled bank with a highly controversial beens payout. Hugh, | :06:01. | :06:03. | |
thank you. Passengers on the cruise liner | :06:03. | :06:06. | |
which ran aground off Italy earlier this month are each being offered | :06:06. | :06:09. | |
around �9,000 in compensation, plus a full refund for their holiday. | :06:09. | :06:12. | |
But many who were on board are likely to reject the offer, saying | :06:12. | :06:15. | |
they can't yet put a cost on the trauma they endured. Alan Johnston | :06:15. | :06:23. | |
reports from Italy. The cruise ship has just capsized and now each of | :06:23. | :06:29. | |
those tiny figures is scrambling for their lives. Terrified women, | :06:29. | :06:35. | |
children, old people, all hoping they will reach the boats. And out | :06:35. | :06:40. | |
of sight down in the dark flooded depths of the hull some passengers | :06:40. | :06:47. | |
are drowning. At least 16 people will die. Scenes from a little | :06:47. | :06:53. | |
earlier. The ship's only starting to sink but already the faces tell | :06:53. | :07:00. | |
the story. People realising that disaster is coming. Now all the | :07:00. | :07:06. | |
drama is over, but if you had been on that ship, if you had lived | :07:06. | :07:10. | |
through that night, how much compensation do you think you would | :07:10. | :07:17. | |
deserve? The cruise operator is offering 11,000 euros, just over | :07:17. | :07:22. | |
�9,000. TRANSLATION: There are 3,000 passengers and they should | :07:22. | :07:25. | |
take advantage of this offer. The big plus is they can get an | :07:25. | :07:28. | |
immediate response and they will incur no legal expenses. They can | :07:28. | :07:34. | |
put this whole thing behind them. Italians remain fascinated by this | :07:34. | :07:38. | |
story and today they watched the ship's operators try to deal with | :07:39. | :07:44. | |
the compensation question as fast as possible. The company will be | :07:44. | :07:47. | |
desperate for its passengers to accept its offer, because it knows | :07:47. | :07:51. | |
that around the world lawyers are urging the survivors to press for | :07:52. | :07:59. | |
much, much more money. We are very, very keen to ensure that our | :07:59. | :08:02. | |
clients receive full and fair compensation for their claims and | :08:02. | :08:07. | |
that needs to be carefully assessed. It is just too early to do that | :08:07. | :08:12. | |
assessment at this stage. The Costa Concordia's disastrous final voyage | :08:12. | :08:18. | |
only lasted a few hours. But for her operators a much longer journey | :08:18. | :08:25. | |
through the courts may lie ahead. Harry Redknapp told police he's | :08:25. | :08:29. | |
paid "fortunes in income tax" and was a "giver not a taker". A taped | :08:29. | :08:31. | |
interview with detectives was played to Southwark Crown Court | :08:31. | :08:34. | |
today, where the Spurs boss is accused of receiving untaxed | :08:34. | :08:38. | |
payments during his time at Portsmouth. Both he and former | :08:38. | :08:41. | |
Portsmouth chairman Milan Mandaric deny charges of tax evasion. Our | :08:41. | :08:51. | |
correspondent, James Pearce, was in court. This evening he will be | :08:51. | :08:54. | |
leading his Tottenham team in the FA Cup but this morning Harry | :08:54. | :08:59. | |
Redknapp was back to court for the end of the first week's evidence in | :08:59. | :09:04. | |
his trial. The charges date back to 2002 when Redknapp was working at | :09:04. | :09:09. | |
Portsmouth with the former chairman, Milan Mandaric. Mandaric paid money | :09:09. | :09:13. | |
into an account that Redknapp had opened in Monaco. He named it | :09:13. | :09:17. | |
"Rosie 47" after his dog. The prosecution claim that the offshore | :09:17. | :09:21. | |
bank was used to avoid tax on a bonus paid by the chairman to his | :09:21. | :09:25. | |
bonus paid by the chairman to his manager. The jury heard recordings | :09:25. | :09:35. | |
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of Harry Redknapp's interviews with The jury was told that Harry | :09:40. | :09:46. | |
Redknapp's a man of hithser to good character. They heard him conceive | :09:46. | :09:50. | |
during one of his police interviews he should have told his accountant | :09:50. | :09:54. | |
about the existence of "Rosie 47" but he hadn't omitted the | :09:54. | :09:58. | |
information on purpose. He had thought there wasn't any tax to pay | :09:58. | :10:01. | |
thought there wasn't any tax to pay on it. Redknapp told police that he | :10:01. | :10:07. | |
had paid �1 million in tax the previous year and that saving | :10:07. | :10:10. | |
another �20,000 or �30,000 would make little difference to him. I'm | :10:10. | :10:15. | |
not the cleverest, he said, but I'm not stupid. The trial will continue | :10:15. | :10:21. | |
on Monday. Around 350 workers at a steel firm | :10:21. | :10:24. | |
in Kent are to be made redundant, after the company went into | :10:24. | :10:27. | |
administration. Attempts are still being made to find a buyer for the | :10:27. | :10:29. | |
Thamesteel plant in Sheerness. The GMB union said it was disastrous | :10:29. | :10:34. | |
news for the UK economy. The founder of the French company | :10:34. | :10:37. | |
at the centre of the health scare over sub-standard breast implants | :10:37. | :10:40. | |
has been charged with causing involuntary injury, and has been | :10:40. | :10:43. | |
released on bail. Around 40,000 British women had PIP implants, | :10:43. | :10:49. | |
which were filled with industrial grade silicone. | :10:49. | :10:52. | |
Police have released an e-fit likeness of a man who helped a | :10:52. | :10:54. | |
prisoner escape while being transported to hospital. The gunman | :10:54. | :10:57. | |
helped Andrew Farndon flee after threatening prison guards as he | :10:57. | :10:59. | |
arrived at West Suffolk Hospital from Highpoint Prison on Wednesday | :10:59. | :11:06. | |
evening. With exactly six months to go until | :11:06. | :11:08. | |
the London Olympics, organisers of the Games have offered a | :11:08. | :11:12. | |
tantalising glimpse of how the opening ceremony will look. The | :11:12. | :11:15. | |
film director, Danny Boyle, who is behind the showcase event, has | :11:15. | :11:20. | |
revealed the theme will be Isles of Wonder. Our correspondent, Dan Roan, | :11:20. | :11:27. | |
is in the Olympic Park. Dan, what more can you tell us about it? This | :11:27. | :11:31. | |
is the point when the Games begin to feel very real indeed. The | :11:31. | :11:37. | |
details of Olympic opening ceremonies traditionally are kept | :11:37. | :11:41. | |
secret but today London decided to give us something of a sneak | :11:41. | :11:44. | |
preview. The aim it was ramp up the excitement. As the Games draw | :11:44. | :11:50. | |
closer so the pressure to deliver on what's come before intensifies. | :11:50. | :11:54. | |
This is what London has to live up to, opening ceremonies at the last | :11:54. | :11:59. | |
few Olympic Games have reached the highest of standards for an event | :11:59. | :12:03. | |
which sets the tone for the greatest show on earth. Auditions | :12:03. | :12:07. | |
are already under way and we now it will feature local schoolchildren, | :12:07. | :12:13. | |
NHS nurss and a 27 tonne specially commissioned giant bell in an | :12:13. | :12:16. | |
opening ceremony ambitiously entitled Isles of Wonder. You stand | :12:16. | :12:20. | |
on the shoulder of giants, your predecessors and you hope to | :12:20. | :12:26. | |
inherit some of their best features and to put your own unique spin on | :12:26. | :12:30. | |
it. It is intimidating but it doesn't get you anywhere being too | :12:30. | :12:33. | |
intimidate. You have to just get on and hope that you are in a position | :12:33. | :12:37. | |
now in your own career and with the right team around you that you will | :12:37. | :12:41. | |
be able to reflect something about the country and that they'll all be | :12:41. | :12:46. | |
pleased today. The film director has a huge job on his hands but | :12:46. | :12:50. | |
hopes the spectacle will provide a few laughs. The most difficult | :12:50. | :12:54. | |
thing to do is show a sense of humour but it is unique about it. | :12:54. | :12:57. | |
With much of the infrastructure in the Olympic park already in place | :12:57. | :13:01. | |
it's the finishing touches which remain to be applyed. Today the | :13:01. | :13:06. | |
athletes village was formally handed over to organisers as the | :13:06. | :13:09. | |
build-up enters its final phase. This is where the result of all | :13:09. | :13:13. | |
that planning and preparation will be unveiled to the world, the | :13:13. | :13:16. | |
Olympic stadium where in exactly six months the opening ceremony | :13:16. | :13:20. | |
will get under way and London's moment will finally have arrived. | :13:20. | :13:23. | |
The budget for the opening and closing ceremonies of the Olympics | :13:23. | :13:28. | |
and par Olympics was doubled last month. 15,000 volunteers will be | :13:28. | :13:34. | |
involved, for whom 23,000 costumes are being made. A combined global | :13:34. | :13:40. | |
television audience of 4 billion people is anticipated. The opening | :13:40. | :13:44. | |
ceremony can reintroduce a city and country to the world, like Sydney | :13:44. | :13:51. | |
did. It can reaffirm the world's perception of a place, like Beijing | :13:51. | :13:59. | |
- or reinvent itself like Athens. The last time London staged the | :13:59. | :14:04. | |
Games in 1948 the opening ceremony was a modest affair. The Olympics | :14:04. | :14:07. | |
return here in another age of austerity but the expectations will | :14:07. | :14:11. | |
be that much higher. When that giant bell rings at 9 | :14:11. | :14:17. | |
o'clock in the evening on July 27th to mark the beginning of the Isles | :14:17. | :14:23. | |
of Wonder opening ceremony, the ambition many must be to impress | :14:23. | :14:26. | |
the 80,000 spectators and many more watching on television around the | :14:26. | :14:32. | |
world and to justify the �27 million price tag. Danny Boyle's | :14:32. | :14:37. | |
films may have won Oscars but this production promises to be his | :14:37. | :14:46. | |
Donors backlash, and Labour and the Conservatives blame each other for | :14:46. | :14:48. | |
approving the payout to the boss of RBS. | :14:48. | :14:52. | |
Steely determination from Andy Murray, but not enough to get him | :14:52. | :14:55. | |
through to the final of the Australian Open. I started really | :14:55. | :15:01. | |
well. It's a disappointing way to finish the Australian Open. But in | :15:01. | :15:09. | |
terms of my game, it is meaning that there are still things I can | :15:09. | :15:15. | |
improve on. On the BBC News Channel: Contentious FA Cup clashes. | :15:15. | :15:18. | |
Anton Ferdinand will come face-to- face with John Terry this weekend | :15:18. | :15:28. | |
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for the first time since Terry was A team of researchers say they have | :15:30. | :15:34. | |
taken the first step towards detecting autism as a much his -- | :15:34. | :15:37. | |
earlier age than previously thought. The condition is usually spotted | :15:37. | :15:42. | |
between the ages of one and two. A new study has identified | :15:42. | :15:45. | |
differences in the brain waves of much younger babies, later found to | :15:46. | :15:55. | |
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be autistic. What have they found? Autism is a broad ranging condition | :15:57. | :16:02. | |
that affects the way that people relate to others. Born in 100 | :16:02. | :16:07. | |
people have the condition in the UK, including 88,000 school children. | :16:07. | :16:11. | |
The average age of formal diagnosis is as late as eight years. This | :16:11. | :16:14. | |
research wanted to see if signs could be spotted in infancy. | :16:14. | :16:19. | |
This is how you test the brain patterns of babies. Isaac is eight | :16:19. | :16:23. | |
months old and developing normally. These electrodes will painlessly | :16:23. | :16:29. | |
pick up his responses. There was a big difference in his brain | :16:29. | :16:32. | |
activity between the periods when the faces on the screen were | :16:32. | :16:37. | |
looking straight towards him, compared to when they looked away. | :16:37. | :16:41. | |
This suggests normal social interaction. 100 babies were tested | :16:41. | :16:46. | |
in all. With some of those that later developed autism, there was | :16:46. | :16:50. | |
little difference in brain patterns. It is a first step, we are wanting | :16:50. | :16:54. | |
to be cautious. But it is showing something that we didn't know | :16:54. | :16:57. | |
before in the different ways that infants as young as six months seem | :16:57. | :17:00. | |
to be processing the social world around them in a different way. | :17:00. | :17:05. | |
would be a mistake to read too much into this small study. The test | :17:05. | :17:09. | |
predicted autism correctly some of the time. But it also got it wrong | :17:09. | :17:16. | |
several times as well. The prospect of diagnosing autism in infancy is | :17:16. | :17:20. | |
hugely attractive because the earlier it is spotted and support | :17:20. | :17:26. | |
begins, the better the outcome for children. But this research is | :17:26. | :17:29. | |
really in a very early stages. The test would need to be a lot more | :17:29. | :17:34. | |
accurate before it could be used routinely. Nine-year-old Jed seemed | :17:34. | :17:39. | |
to develop normally until about 18 months. Then his speech stopped. | :17:39. | :17:43. | |
His mother says, as with any health condition, in early diagnosis is | :17:43. | :17:49. | |
vital. He went from a child that was very sociable, very interactive, | :17:49. | :17:54. | |
responding to his name, talking, to none of the above. Perhaps if we | :17:54. | :17:58. | |
had known at six months, which is what the study would suggest, we | :17:58. | :18:01. | |
might be able to pick that up and could have done something even a | :18:01. | :18:06. | |
earlier. A lot more babies are going to be studied in a wider | :18:06. | :18:11. | |
trial at Birkbeck College in London, a move that has been welcomed by | :18:11. | :18:15. | |
autism charities. This research marks a useful starting point which | :18:15. | :18:20. | |
might eventually lead to earlier diagnosis of autism. But we are not | :18:20. | :18:26. | |
there yet. In Syria, activists claimed that | :18:26. | :18:30. | |
the army has launched renewed assault on several cities. More | :18:30. | :18:33. | |
than 130 people are believed to have been killed in the country in | :18:33. | :18:37. | |
the last 48 hours. United Nations Security Council meets this evening | :18:37. | :18:41. | |
to discuss a draft resolution that could result in President Assad | :18:42. | :18:46. | |
standing down. Jeremy Bowen reports from Damascus suburb of Saqba, | :18:46. | :18:53. | |
another area where the Government's grip appears to be weakening. | :18:53. | :18:58. | |
To find out the strength of the opposition, drive in to the suburbs | :18:58. | :19:05. | |
of Damascus. We had no idea what we had discovered. We found the Free | :19:05. | :19:09. | |
Syria Army, deserters from the President's forces and local men, | :19:09. | :19:15. | |
securing Saqba, a port district in the city. They said they were | :19:15. | :19:19. | |
protecting the people that were about to hold a funeral. They | :19:19. | :19:25. | |
looked well-established here, with sandbag firing positions. Everyone | :19:25. | :19:30. | |
was on edge. For 10 months, regime forces have been cracking down hard | :19:30. | :19:35. | |
on Friday protests. This commander said that he had been a general in | :19:35. | :19:41. | |
the Syrian government forces. A man interrupted to praise the Syria | :19:42. | :19:49. | |
Free Army. Then, something nobody wanted to hear. Security are here! | :19:49. | :19:57. | |
Security? Don't be afraid, said the general. Our resistance is strong. | :19:57. | :20:03. | |
Some of them got ready to fire. Stay with me, said the general, do | :20:03. | :20:11. | |
not be afraid. Sentries were sending information by phone. They | :20:11. | :20:15. | |
all seemed to know what their jobs were, going to their positions and | :20:15. | :20:25. | |
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others moving deeper into Saqba, It felt as if every man in Saqba | :20:30. | :20:40. | |
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was there. A big send-off for the man killed by the security forces. | :20:43. | :20:51. | |
Across Syria, funerals are a focus for opposition. They chanted, God, | :20:51. | :21:01. | |
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you are all that we have. God, we This is another suburb of Damascus | :21:02. | :21:07. | |
that has set out of control of President Assad. The only way he | :21:07. | :21:10. | |
can enforce his authority is by sending in his men and using their | :21:10. | :21:16. | |
guns and bullets. And, for a moment, that is what they thought was about | :21:16. | :21:22. | |
to happen. It shows the tension. Even with the Free Syria Army close | :21:22. | :21:31. | |
by. It was time for us to go. He warned about snipers ahead. Getting | :21:31. | :21:38. | |
out was not easy. The Free Syria Army control a surprisingly big | :21:38. | :21:42. | |
area, but it was surrounded. All of this does not mean that the | :21:42. | :21:46. | |
President is about to fall. He has his own strong support and heavy | :21:46. | :21:50. | |
weapons. But regime forces cannot be everywhere at once. The power of | :21:50. | :21:59. | |
A Nottinghamshire farmer has been jailed for a year after being found | :22:00. | :22:04. | |
guilty of mistreating and neglecting livestock. A concerned | :22:04. | :22:07. | |
member of the public alerted trading standards officers, who | :22:07. | :22:11. | |
found 30 dead animals on Keith Littlewood's Farm, near the village | :22:11. | :22:15. | |
of Bestwood. Officers described it as the most horrific case of animal | :22:15. | :22:18. | |
cruelty they had dealt with. You may find some of the images in this | :22:18. | :22:25. | |
report upsetting. The stench is quite disgusting. | :22:25. | :22:29. | |
Trading standards officers, with years of experience, were clearly | :22:29. | :22:36. | |
shaken by what they saw. She is not moving. Emaciated animals, left to | :22:36. | :22:41. | |
roam around the carcasses. And there were scores of them. The | :22:41. | :22:44. | |
inspectors filmed themselves picking their way through Keith | :22:44. | :22:48. | |
Littlewood's yard. They walked about the dead and dying. He | :22:48. | :22:51. | |
arrived at Nottingham Crown Court to watch the footage being played | :22:51. | :22:56. | |
in front of a judge. I think it is the worst case that Nottingham | :22:56. | :22:59. | |
County Council have dealt with. It was quite horrific. As you can see | :22:59. | :23:04. | |
from video footage, it did shock the officers involved. This is | :23:04. | :23:09. | |
White Haven Farm. Trading Standards came here after a member of the | :23:09. | :23:12. | |
public reported seeing a dead animal in a field. But nothing | :23:12. | :23:17. | |
could have prepared them for what they found. The judge said that | :23:17. | :23:22. | |
there was no excuse for treating animals like this and that Keith | :23:22. | :23:26. | |
Littlewood had virtually abandoned them. He jailed the 47-year-old for | :23:26. | :23:30. | |
one year, formal double offences of cruelty and failing to dispose of | :23:30. | :23:35. | |
scores of carcasses. It is something animal welfare experts | :23:35. | :23:39. | |
say needs better regulation. Currently, the situation is that | :23:39. | :23:44. | |
there is no legal requirement for this type of inspection on annual | :23:44. | :23:50. | |
or any other basis. It may be hope for in the future, this type of | :23:50. | :23:56. | |
inspection system may become mandatory for farms within the UK. | :23:56. | :24:00. | |
Many of the pigs, cattle and poultry found here had to be | :24:00. | :24:05. | |
destroyed. While there are still animals on the farm, Trading | :24:05. | :24:08. | |
Standards hope he will be banned from keeping them at a hearing next | :24:08. | :24:18. | |
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Tennis, and Andy Murray is out of the Australian Open, losing a | :24:19. | :24:21. | |
thrilling five-set semi-final against defending champion Novak | :24:21. | :24:26. | |
Djokovic. He took an early lead in a roller-coaster match which lasted | :24:26. | :24:31. | |
nearly five hours. But Djokovic finally won through, to Secure a | :24:31. | :24:36. | |
place in the final against Rafael Nadal on Sunday. | :24:36. | :24:42. | |
So the air, and yet agonisingly so far. -- so near. Andy Murray Pot | :24:43. | :24:45. | |
Black request for a Grand Slam title has always ended in | :24:45. | :24:50. | |
frustration, but never in such extraordinary drama. Murray was | :24:50. | :24:55. | |
frankly walloped here last year, at first another walloping beckoned. | :24:55. | :25:00. | |
His new coach Ivan Lendl's face said it all. From the depths, his | :25:00. | :25:05. | |
game scaled the heights. A slam dunking smash and he seemed re- | :25:06. | :25:09. | |
energised. He swash buckled his way to the second set and then the | :25:09. | :25:14. | |
third, which lasted an ally and a half on its own. Murray, with a | :25:14. | :25:18. | |
remarkable win now firmly in his sights. But back came Djokovic, to | :25:18. | :25:22. | |
set up a nerve-shredding decider, as both players pushed themselves | :25:22. | :25:28. | |
to the physical brink. What a break of serve! From 5-2 down, Murray | :25:28. | :25:32. | |
came roaring back. But after nearly five hours of pure theatre, he | :25:32. | :25:40. | |
finally faltered. For Djokovic, a blend of exhaustion and elation. | :25:40. | :25:43. | |
For Murray, another Grand Slam disappointment. But he believes he | :25:43. | :25:48. | |
is getting closer. That is probably the main thing I take away tonight. | :25:48. | :25:53. | |
It was a great performance from him. He was so dominant in the Slams | :25:53. | :25:59. | |
last year. I'm happy with that. Murray Pozzato misfortune is to be | :25:59. | :26:04. | |
up against three of the greatest- ever players. He laughs -- lost to | :26:04. | :26:08. | |
Rafael Nadal at Wimbledon, Roger Federer at the 2010 Australian | :26:08. | :26:11. | |
final and to Djokovic in last year's. Will he ever get his hands | :26:11. | :26:17. | |
on that elusive grand-slam trophy? Mentally he was up, he was never | :26:17. | :26:20. | |
moping or whining like he does sometimes. I thought it was a | :26:20. | :26:24. | |
tremendous performance. Watching that performance today has | :26:24. | :26:29. | |
convinced me he will win a Grand Slam. So, it was no choke, but the | :26:29. | :26:32. | |
gutsiest of defeats. You expect right now that that will not be | :26:32. | :26:41. | |
huge consolation. There is all sorts of talk in the | :26:41. | :26:43. | |
papers about a Siberian winter on the way. Is it? | :26:43. | :26:48. | |
It is going to get colder, Siberian probably pushes it too much. We are | :26:48. | :26:50. | |
getting back to the levels we normally see in winter, rather than | :26:51. | :26:54. | |
the conditions of the last few days. Tonight will be another wintry | :26:54. | :26:58. | |
night. Still some showers around. A mixture of rain, sleet and snow. | :26:58. | :27:03. | |
They will be fading and then it will turn increasingly icy. Some | :27:03. | :27:06. | |
showers will push across the Midlands, producing snow on higher | :27:06. | :27:12. | |
ground for a time. Sleet and hail on lower levels. Skies will clear | :27:12. | :27:17. | |
for the majority. Across England and Wales, and ice risk after the | :27:17. | :27:22. | |
showers. Temperatures could get as low as minus seven in Scotland. In | :27:22. | :27:27. | |
Scotland, it will be a chilly start, but dry and bright for the majority. | :27:27. | :27:34. | |
One or two mist and fog porches -- patches. A little bit more cloud | :27:35. | :27:39. | |
pushing in on the west, but still dry and bright. Across much of | :27:39. | :27:44. | |
England, it is going to be a dry and bright start. Some fog in the | :27:44. | :27:48. | |
north-west and the south-east corner. A grey, misty start. We | :27:48. | :27:52. | |
will have a legacy of cloud and fog to get rid of during the morning. | :27:52. | :27:58. | |
One or two showers across Kent, Suffolk, maybe Norfolk and Essex. | :27:58. | :28:01. | |
For the majority of the country it will be a dry, bright Saturday. | :28:01. | :28:05. | |
Feeling cold, even with the sunshine. A chilly might well | :28:05. | :28:09. | |
follow, with widespread frost. Temperatures below freezing in many | :28:09. | :28:13. | |
areas. The exception will be Northern Ireland, temperatures are | :28:13. | :28:17. | |
holding up because we are seeing cloud and rain spreading across | :28:17. | :28:21. | |
Ireland during the day. Outbreaks of rain initially, but on that | :28:21. | :28:26. | |
leading edge, as it pushes into the cold air, a dry and bright day. We | :28:26. | :28:29. | |
should see some snow, which might become an issue on Monday. The | :28:29. | :28:33. | |
exact position of the Snow Band and exactly how much will fall is open | :28:33. | :28:38. | |
to a little bit of uncertainty. The best advice I can give in Monday's | :28:38. | :28:47. | |
rush-hour is to keep watching the The main news: Bonus backs -- | :28:47. | :28:50. |