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From the Cabinet to the courtroom - Chris Huhne resigns. | :00:12. | :00:16. | |
He's to be charged with perverting the course of justice along with | :00:16. | :00:19. | |
his ex-wife for trying to avoid a driving ban. | :00:19. | :00:25. | |
There is sufficient evidence to bring criminal charges against both | :00:25. | :00:30. | |
Mr Huhne and Ms Pryce for perverting the course of justice. | :00:30. | :00:34. | |
Ms Pryce and Mr Huhne will appear in court in just under a fortnight. | :00:34. | :00:38. | |
He insists he will clear his name. I am innocent of these charges and | :00:39. | :00:43. | |
I intend to fight this in the court and I am confident a jury will | :00:43. | :00:47. | |
agree. Also tonight: How the row over | :00:47. | :00:50. | |
these words mean John Terry has been stripped of the England | :00:50. | :00:54. | |
captaincy for a second time. Three Britons are known to have | :00:54. | :00:59. | |
died in an outbreak of legionnaires' disease at a hotel in | :00:59. | :01:02. | |
Spain. Is the Arctic? No, it is the Peak | :01:02. | :01:08. | |
District as the big freeze grips the UK. | :01:08. | :01:13. | |
On Sportsday on BBC News: Blink and you missed them - the batsmen were | :01:13. | :01:17. | |
falling like flies on a fast-paced opening day between England and | :01:17. | :01:27. | |
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Welcome to the BBC News at Six. The Energy Secretary, Chris Huhne, has | :01:38. | :01:41. | |
resigned from the Cabinet after learning that he and his ex-wife | :01:41. | :01:45. | |
will both face charges of perverting the course of justice. | :01:45. | :01:50. | |
It is claimed the Liberal Democrat Minister got his then wife to | :01:50. | :01:53. | |
accept penalty speeding points on his behalf ten years ago to escape | :01:53. | :01:57. | |
a driving ban. The accusation only emerged last year, shortly after | :01:58. | :02:01. | |
the couple separated. Chris Huhne insisted again that he was innocent | :02:01. | :02:08. | |
and said he would fight the charges in court. | :02:08. | :02:11. | |
It began with their marriage breaking up, it could end in prison. | :02:11. | :02:18. | |
Today, Chris Huhne lost his job in the Cabinet. In a fortnight, he and | :02:18. | :02:22. | |
the wife he left will see each other in court. The man who heads | :02:22. | :02:26. | |
the Crown Prosecution Service today gave his verdict on the evidence of | :02:26. | :02:31. | |
an eight-month police investigation. All the available evidence, | :02:31. | :02:36. | |
including the new material, has now been carefully considered by the | :02:36. | :02:42. | |
CPS. And we have concluded that there is sufficient evidence to | :02:42. | :02:47. | |
bring criminal charges against both Mr Huhne and Ms Pryce for | :02:47. | :02:52. | |
perverting the course of justice. The Prime Minister and his Deputy | :02:52. | :02:55. | |
made clear to Chris Huhne this his fight to clear his name would have | :02:55. | :03:00. | |
to be pursued outside the Cabinet. I'm innocent of these charges and I | :03:00. | :03:04. | |
intend to fight this in the courts and I am confident that a jury will | :03:04. | :03:09. | |
agree. So as to avoid any distraction to either my official | :03:09. | :03:16. | |
duties or my trial defence, I am standing down and resigning as | :03:16. | :03:19. | |
Energy and Climate Change Secretary. It must feel a long time since | :03:19. | :03:24. | |
Chris Huhne issued these election leaflets asking "where he would be | :03:24. | :03:28. | |
without his family" and telling voters that he had been married for | :03:28. | :03:33. | |
26 years. His wife was with him at the count on Election Night in 2010. | :03:33. | :03:37. | |
There too was the woman he was having an affair with, his media | :03:37. | :03:41. | |
adviser. Huhne would go on to win his seat but to lose his wife and | :03:41. | :03:47. | |
soon face allegations about who had done what many years before. | :03:47. | :03:52. | |
In 2003, when he was a Member of the European Parliament, Huhne flew | :03:52. | :03:56. | |
into Stansted Airport from Brussels. His car was caught by speedcameras | :03:56. | :04:01. | |
on the M11. His wife, Vicky Pryce, received three penalty points for | :04:01. | :04:07. | |
the speeding offence. Eight years later, in the aftermath of their | :04:07. | :04:10. | |
divorce, The Sunday Times asked Pryce about rumours that Huhne had | :04:10. | :04:16. | |
persuaded somebody to accept speeding points for him. "Oh gosh, | :04:16. | :04:20. | |
yes, he did" she was reported to have said, before pointing out | :04:20. | :04:25. | |
"there is such huge pressure on politicians to be everywhere at | :04:25. | :04:33. | |
once and he does drive a bit like a maniac." Days later, the police | :04:33. | :04:39. | |
opened an investigation. Today, Vicky Pryce issued a written | :04:39. | :04:43. | |
statement saying she wanted to see a quick resolution of the case. | :04:43. | :04:47. | |
sorry, I can't comment. Chris Huhne's absence will be noticed | :04:47. | :04:52. | |
most around the Cabinet table. He was the coalition's most muscular | :04:52. | :04:55. | |
Liberal Democrat. Twice staging angry confrontations with the Prime | :04:55. | :04:59. | |
Minister about the treatment of his party as embarrassed colleagues | :04:59. | :05:06. | |
looked on. Nick Clegg may be sorry, but perhaps a little nervous, too. | :05:06. | :05:10. | |
He only just beat Chris Huhne to become his party's leader and knows | :05:10. | :05:15. | |
that if he is cleared Mr Huhne could cause real political trouble. | :05:15. | :05:19. | |
I totally understand and respect why Chris Huhne has stood down from | :05:19. | :05:23. | |
his position in Government. If he clears his name, as he wishes to, I | :05:23. | :05:27. | |
have made it clear that I would like to see him back in Government | :05:27. | :05:32. | |
in a key position. But politics doesn't wait for the slow-turning | :05:32. | :05:36. | |
wheels of justice. Another Liberal Democrat, Ed Davey, is the new | :05:36. | :05:41. | |
Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change. Chris Huhne did | :05:41. | :05:46. | |
eventually lose his driving licence. He lost his wife and today his | :05:46. | :05:51. | |
Cabinet career. Now he's fighting to save not just his reputation, | :05:51. | :05:54. | |
but his freedom. Nick Robinson is at Westminster | :05:54. | :05:58. | |
this evening. This appears to be a political crisis for Mr Huhne that | :05:58. | :06:03. | |
has grown out of a personal one? is extraordinary. It began so | :06:03. | :06:07. | |
personally, Fiona, then it became political, then it became legal and | :06:07. | :06:12. | |
if Mr Huhne cannot convince a court of his innocence, it will end up | :06:12. | :06:16. | |
custodial. He is far from the only person who has a messy or an | :06:16. | :06:20. | |
acrimonious divorce. He is far from the only person who then has | :06:20. | :06:25. | |
arguments about who did what when in the past. But being a Cabinet | :06:25. | :06:29. | |
Minister it meant that those accusations made their way into the | :06:29. | :06:32. | |
newspapers, into the headlines and one of his political opponents took | :06:32. | :06:38. | |
them up and took them to the police. That is what makes this personal | :06:38. | :06:41. | |
crisis for him such an extraordinary one. What are the | :06:41. | :06:44. | |
wider political implications of this? There is no doubt that if | :06:44. | :06:50. | |
Chris Huhne were to win his case and prove his innocence, he would | :06:50. | :06:54. | |
become a powerful Liberal Democrat figure. No wonder Nick Clegg said | :06:54. | :06:57. | |
he wanted to see him back in Government. The last thing this | :06:57. | :07:01. | |
coalition would want is a revived Mr Huhne on the backbenches picking | :07:01. | :07:05. | |
a fight over this policy and that. If he loses his case, if he were in | :07:05. | :07:10. | |
the end to end up in prison, there would be a by-election in his seat | :07:10. | :07:15. | |
which has long been a Tory-Lib Dem marginal, not very helpful for the | :07:15. | :07:18. | |
coalition. I think it is fair to say the man who has always loved | :07:18. | :07:25. | |
Government will not be thinking about the political tonight, he | :07:25. | :07:29. | |
will be thinking of the personal. John Terry has been sacked as | :07:29. | :07:32. | |
captain of the England football team. He is due to stand trial in | :07:32. | :07:36. | |
July on charges of racial abuse. The Football Association said it | :07:36. | :07:41. | |
had taken the decision as it didn't want the case to dominate England's | :07:41. | :07:45. | |
performance in the Euro 2012 Championships. Dan Roan is at FA | :07:45. | :07:51. | |
headquarters at Wembley. This is a controversial decision? It is, yes. | :07:51. | :07:54. | |
John Terry's passion, commitment and focus has never been called | :07:54. | :07:57. | |
into question. With serious allegations hanging over his head | :07:57. | :08:01. | |
for the next five months there have been growing concerns about his | :08:01. | :08:05. | |
ability to lead this team and today the FA finally agreed. He was | :08:05. | :08:09. | |
informed of the decision to suspend him by the FA chairman in a phone | :08:09. | :08:13. | |
call this morning. It was this incident at Loftus Road | :08:13. | :08:17. | |
last year that today led to John Terry being stripped of the | :08:17. | :08:22. | |
captaincy for a second time. The defender denies racially abusing | :08:23. | :08:27. | |
Anton Ferdinand during the match with QPR. With the court case | :08:27. | :08:37. | |
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adjourned until after this summer's European Championships, the FA's | :08:37. | :08:42. | |
chairman explained why Terry had to go. This decision has been taken | :08:42. | :08:48. | |
due to the high-profile nature of the England captaincy on and off | :08:48. | :08:54. | |
the pitch. Terry became England captain in 2006. Four years later, | :08:54. | :08:57. | |
after allegations surrounding his private life, he lost the armband | :08:57. | :09:04. | |
to Rio Ferdinand. 13 months on, Terry was back. Then just before | :09:04. | :09:09. | |
Christmas, he was charged with racial abuse. And with a trial | :09:09. | :09:14. | |
scheduled a week after the end of the European Championships, the FA | :09:14. | :09:18. | |
feared Terry's troubled would prove too great a distraction. Club and | :09:18. | :09:21. | |
country once again disagree. It is the FA's decision. I have nothing | :09:21. | :09:25. | |
to say about it. I don't agree with it. You have to ask the FA about it | :09:25. | :09:29. | |
and the people responsible for the decision. Terry's international | :09:29. | :09:33. | |
manager had also backed his former captain but ultimately the decision | :09:33. | :09:38. | |
was taken out of Capello's hands. The Italian must decide whether | :09:38. | :09:42. | |
Terry merits selection at all and who to replace him with as captain. | :09:42. | :09:50. | |
The man England turned to last time isn't interested. Honestly, no. | :09:50. | :09:55. | |
don't want to be England captain again? No. I have been England | :09:55. | :10:00. | |
captain before for a brief period. It was taken away from me, so I | :10:00. | :10:05. | |
want to concentrate on playing for Manchester United. Despite being | :10:05. | :10:07. | |
suspended pending the outcome of the trial, Terry is considering | :10:07. | :10:11. | |
whether to turn his back on the national team altogether. Once | :10:11. | :10:15. | |
again, just months before a major tournament England have seen their | :10:15. | :10:19. | |
plans derailed by events off the field. | :10:19. | :10:23. | |
Some will argue the FA should have made a decision earlier. Others | :10:23. | :10:27. | |
will say they shouldn't have made it at all and John Terry has been | :10:27. | :10:32. | |
treated unfairly. In a season that's been beset by various racism | :10:32. | :10:36. | |
controversies, a revamped FA board wanted to show decisive leadership. | :10:36. | :10:39. | |
Unfortunately, in doing so, they may have undermined the manager's | :10:39. | :10:45. | |
authority and given Fabio Capello a whole new set of problems. | :10:45. | :10:48. | |
The Royal College of GPs has called on the Government to cancel its | :10:48. | :10:52. | |
plans to overhaul the NHS in England because it threatens to | :10:52. | :10:56. | |
cause "irreparable damage" to care. It represents 34,000 family doctors | :10:57. | :11:01. | |
and it is the first of the medical Royal Colleges to oppose the | :11:01. | :11:06. | |
reforms outright. The Government says it's baffled by the criticisms. | :11:07. | :11:11. | |
A trip to your local surgery may not look different but behind-the- | :11:11. | :11:15. | |
scenes, fundamental changes are afoot giving groups of GPs the | :11:15. | :11:19. | |
power to decide how Health Services will be run and crucially what | :11:19. | :11:24. | |
patient care the NHS can and can't afford. It's been controversial | :11:24. | :11:27. | |
from the start. Today the Royal College of GPs said it will be | :11:27. | :11:32. | |
harmful to patients and withdrew its support. GPs are very worried | :11:32. | :11:36. | |
about what this is going to do for the care of their patients. They | :11:36. | :11:41. | |
are very worried about how services are going to join up and they are | :11:41. | :11:46. | |
very worried about then having to be the rationers of care. This | :11:47. | :11:56. | |
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isn't the first group to come out in opposition to the Bill. This is | :11:57. | :12:02. | |
the first professional medical body to call for the Bill to be scrapped | :12:02. | :12:05. | |
altogether. It's coming from GPs who are central to how these | :12:05. | :12:12. | |
changes will work. At the Allum Medical Centre, they are already | :12:12. | :12:16. | |
happening. Doctors have grouped together to commission care so that | :12:16. | :12:23. | |
patients get more treatment closer to home. We have been able to | :12:23. | :12:28. | |
reshape services around the needs of the patient achieving high | :12:28. | :12:32. | |
quality of care, better patient satisfaction but also value for | :12:32. | :12:37. | |
money and if we continue to focus on improving patient care, then I | :12:37. | :12:41. | |
think we will deliver and we will have a successful health system. | :12:41. | :12:48. | |
The Health Bill puts much of the NHS budget in the hands of groups | :12:48. | :12:53. | |
of GPs. It opens the way to more competition in the NHS, private or | :12:53. | :12:58. | |
voluntary companies will be able to provide Health Services. So the | :12:58. | :13:01. | |
long-term diabetes care this patient needs could be done | :13:01. | :13:06. | |
privately. It is that that worries the Royal College of GPs most and | :13:06. | :13:09. | |
this afternoon, physiotherapists joined their opposition. The | :13:09. | :13:14. | |
Government says the changes are needed to help the NHS meet growing | :13:15. | :13:20. | |
demand. The real challenge is to get in there and help to make sure | :13:20. | :13:25. | |
they work so that patients get first-class, high quality care | :13:25. | :13:31. | |
which is what is at the heart of this programme. The Health Bill is | :13:31. | :13:35. | |
due back in the Lords next week. But already in surgeries across | :13:35. | :13:41. | |
England changes to the NHS are under way. | :13:41. | :13:46. | |
The time is 6.13. The Energy Secretary, Chris Huhne, has | :13:46. | :13:49. | |
resigned from the Cabinet after being charged with perverting the | :13:49. | :13:52. | |
course of justice along with his former wife. | :13:52. | :13:56. | |
Coming up: It may look pretty, but the weather is said to be pretty | :13:56. | :14:01. | |
grim this weekend. We will have the latest. | :14:01. | :14:07. | |
Coming up in Sportsday: It's been a long 12 months in rugby union. We | :14:07. | :14:12. | |
are looking ahead to the start of the Six Nations Championship this | :14:12. | :14:19. | |
The chairman of Royal Bank of Scotland has admitted that bankers' | :14:20. | :14:23. | |
salaries are too high and need to come down, but Sir Philip Hampton | :14:23. | :14:26. | |
defended the decision to pay a near �1 million bonus to the bank's | :14:26. | :14:32. | |
chief executive, Stephen Hester, a bonus he eventually turned down. | :14:32. | :14:34. | |
Sir Philip did say RBS underestimated what the reaction | :14:34. | :14:38. | |
would be to the proposed payout. He has been speaking to Robert Peston. | :14:38. | :14:41. | |
Royal bank of Scotland, if it could go wrong, it did in the past nine | :14:41. | :14:47. | |
days. First a tidal wave of complaints after Stephen Hester was | :14:47. | :14:52. | |
awarded a bonus of under �1 million, complaints so forceful he chose not | :14:52. | :14:57. | |
to take the reward. Then The Queen stripped Fred Goodwin of his | :14:57. | :15:01. | |
knighthood because of the way that RBS's reckless growth damaged both | :15:01. | :15:08. | |
the bank and the British economy. Chaired by Sir Philip Hampton, RBS | :15:08. | :15:14. | |
which is 82% owned by taxpayers, has a bit of explaining to do. | :15:14. | :15:20. | |
Sir Philip Hampton, given that there was such an extraordinary | :15:20. | :15:25. | |
back lash to Stephen Hester's bonus, was it a mistake to award it to | :15:25. | :15:29. | |
him? No, I don't think so. We evaluate his performance. We think | :15:29. | :15:33. | |
he is doing a good job. It is part of the terms of his employment that | :15:33. | :15:37. | |
he is entitled to a bonus. Did you simply not anticipate the public | :15:37. | :15:43. | |
and political outcry? We knew it would receive quite a lot of public | :15:43. | :15:47. | |
criticism. Frankly, we underestimated the scale of the | :15:48. | :15:50. | |
criticism and that's something we have got to think about. | :15:50. | :15:53. | |
But you are in an intriguing position because you have said to | :15:53. | :15:59. | |
me in the past that you think in general bankers were payed more | :15:59. | :16:05. | |
than justified in relation to rewards for shareholders? I agree. | :16:05. | :16:09. | |
I think banker pay is too high. It has been too high for too long and | :16:09. | :16:16. | |
that's an important business issue. The share of the cake between the | :16:16. | :16:19. | |
shareholders and the banks has been wrong and it needs correcting. | :16:19. | :16:24. | |
There will be a reduction in bonuses paid to RBS's investment | :16:24. | :16:31. | |
bankers, sir Philip confirmed from �950 million last last year to �1.3 | :16:31. | :16:34. | |
billion in the previous year. But there will be many RBS bankers | :16:34. | :16:40. | |
taking over �1 million each. Which is why Labour's leader argued at | :16:40. | :16:44. | |
the cancellation of Mr Hester's bonus isn't enough. | :16:44. | :16:48. | |
Anyone will find it hard to believe that actually market discipline is | :16:48. | :16:51. | |
preventing runaway bonuses. The answer is to change the rules and | :16:51. | :16:57. | |
change the culture. I hope that can be learned by the | :16:57. | :17:00. | |
the banking sector. It is what the House of Commons will debate on | :17:00. | :17:04. | |
Tuesday. The Government too has expressed | :17:04. | :17:10. | |
its concerns about bonuses and and that's why Sir Philip says he fear | :17:10. | :17:14. | |
as worrying gulf maybe opening between big businesses and | :17:14. | :17:23. | |
Three pensioners died in an outbreak of legionnaires' disease | :17:24. | :17:28. | |
in Spain. They were all men in their 70s. Nine other Britons have | :17:28. | :17:32. | |
been treated in hospital. Several victims returned home to the UK. | :17:32. | :17:40. | |
Jon Kay has been talking to one of The the beach in the resort of | :17:40. | :17:45. | |
Spain. Popular with British tourists seeking sunshine here, but | :17:45. | :17:52. | |
now this four-star hotel is the focus of a major health scare. | :17:52. | :17:58. | |
British pensioner Isabella Clarke said there in January. Here she is | :17:58. | :18:03. | |
in the ballroom and here she is now. I am not able to do anything. | :18:03. | :18:07. | |
in Bristol tonight, recovering from legionnaires' disease and being | :18:07. | :18:11. | |
cared for by her family. So when you have been lying here, | :18:11. | :18:14. | |
hearing now about the deaths at the hotel, what's that been like to | :18:14. | :18:21. | |
hear? Well, it just bear thinking about. It really doesn't. I mean I | :18:21. | :18:29. | |
am the lucky one. The other people that died, I don't know what their | :18:29. | :18:33. | |
family is going through. It is bad enough and I'm here what they are | :18:33. | :18:39. | |
going through. Isn't it? Absolutely. Isabella was hospitalised with | :18:39. | :18:43. | |
double pneumonia when she returned to Britain. Doctors say her illness | :18:43. | :18:48. | |
was caused by the legionella bacteria. She happened to take this | :18:48. | :18:51. | |
photo notice her hotel bathroom, and it is the water system here | :18:51. | :18:55. | |
that is suspected to have carried the bug. The UK Health Protection | :18:55. | :18:59. | |
Agency says in all, 11 British tourists developed illnesses | :18:59. | :19:03. | |
associated with this outbreak. Some have been treated in the resort | :19:03. | :19:06. | |
itself, others have only become ill after getting home. | :19:06. | :19:10. | |
A little better. I still feel a bit wiped out. | :19:10. | :19:17. | |
The the travel company Isabella booked with, Sag ga, told the BBC | :19:17. | :19:20. | |
they are upset by what happened. They have moved their guests out of | :19:20. | :19:24. | |
the hotel while changes are made. There have been no new cases | :19:24. | :19:32. | |
Computer hackers have released a recording of a conference call | :19:32. | :19:35. | |
between the FBI and the Metropolitan Police in which they | :19:35. | :19:39. | |
discuss their efforts against cyber hacking. The conversation revealed | :19:39. | :19:45. | |
dates of planned arrests and details of evidence held by police. | :19:45. | :19:47. | |
The hackers, known as Anonymous, also published an e-mail apparently | :19:47. | :19:50. | |
from the FBI, showing the e-mail addresses of those taking part in | :19:50. | :19:55. | |
the call. At the beginning of the recording officers are heard joking | :19:55. | :20:01. | |
about attending a policing conference. I have never been to | :20:01. | :20:11. | |
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We can get more detail from Frank Gardner. | :20:13. | :20:18. | |
That extract doesn't sound serious. The people of Sheffield won be | :20:18. | :20:22. | |
chuffed about it -- won't be chuffed about it. There are serious | :20:22. | :20:28. | |
parts of this conversation? It is a 17 minute recording. A lot of it | :20:28. | :20:33. | |
goes into detail about people the FBI and the police are trying to | :20:33. | :20:37. | |
prosecute who are alleged hackers, they are accused of hack nothing | :20:37. | :20:44. | |
major corporations. There are two questions here. One is how did aye | :20:44. | :20:47. | |
did Anonymous get hold of this. The very people who these detectives | :20:47. | :20:53. | |
are trying to track, were able to intercept this and the most likely | :20:53. | :20:57. | |
explanation is that it was from a hacked e-mail which contained | :20:57. | :21:01. | |
either the number of the conference call or perhaps a recording of it | :21:01. | :21:05. | |
posted as a link. The bigger issue is the Government is pouring huge | :21:05. | :21:08. | |
amounts of money into cyber security. They are concerned about | :21:08. | :21:14. | |
it. �650 million was put in at the end of last year and if this sort | :21:14. | :21:18. | |
of thing can be compromised it is a worry because the Government is | :21:18. | :21:21. | |
trying to secure businesses, institutions and individuals. This | :21:21. | :21:31. | |
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is a bad day for them. Businesses in Wales are calling for | :21:32. | :21:36. | |
urgent in Wales after a report found a fifth of children starting | :21:36. | :21:43. | |
secondary education education can't read properly. | :21:43. | :21:50. | |
The future of Wales, a journey that starts in the classroom and ends | :21:50. | :21:55. | |
with entry into an increasingly competitive job market. But an | :21:55. | :21:59. | |
official report this week suggests too many children in this corner of | :21:59. | :22:05. | |
the UK are struggling. Headteacher Martin Matthews has | :22:05. | :22:09. | |
just started a new job in Cardiff after years working in England. He | :22:09. | :22:12. | |
says lack of money is part of the problem. | :22:12. | :22:15. | |
Now in England, there would be strategies that I could put in | :22:16. | :22:19. | |
place that will lift those results for the the individual students and | :22:19. | :22:23. | |
therefore for the school itself. That does involve interventions | :22:23. | :22:28. | |
with with individual staff. It does involve mentoring and extra time | :22:28. | :22:31. | |
for teachers, all of which has a price tag attached to it. | :22:31. | :22:36. | |
The annual budget per pupil per year in Wales is over �600 less | :22:36. | :22:42. | |
than in England. 20% of pupils in Wales arrive at secondary school | :22:42. | :22:47. | |
functionally illiterate. 40% have a reading age below their actual age. | :22:47. | :22:51. | |
In England, it is 16%. Ministers in Wales emphasise that | :22:51. | :22:54. | |
learn through play programmes for three to seven-year-olds have been | :22:55. | :22:59. | |
highly effective and will bring wider improvements. This, they say, | :22:59. | :23:02. | |
is not about funding. Countries that spend more than | :23:02. | :23:05. | |
Wales are doing worse than Wales. Countries that spend less than | :23:05. | :23:08. | |
Wales are doing better. It is not about funding, it is about the | :23:08. | :23:12. | |
application of funding. The reasons for all of the problems | :23:12. | :23:18. | |
here are, of course, complex. As well as the funding gap, Wales set | :23:18. | :23:21. | |
itself apart from England by scrapping SATs and school league | :23:21. | :23:26. | |
tables, but whatever the reasons, the need for action here is obvious | :23:26. | :23:33. | |
and it is pressing. The Crib in Wales says the -- -- | :23:34. | :23:38. | |
CBI says the Government here must take action. For potential | :23:38. | :23:39. | |
employers there is room for improvement. | :23:39. | :23:44. | |
You see so many CVs that it is clear that they are struggling to | :23:44. | :23:48. | |
put a sentence together. Unfortunately, nearly always, they | :23:48. | :23:52. | |
will be moved to the listened pile and you don't get to -- left-hand | :23:52. | :23:56. | |
pile and you don't get to the interview stage. | :23:56. | :24:02. | |
The Welsh Government says it has methods in place to improve | :24:02. | :24:08. | |
There was an extraordinary day's play in England's final Test | :24:08. | :24:13. | |
against Pakistan which say no less than 16 wickets tumble during play. | :24:13. | :24:17. | |
England bowled out Pakistan for 99 all out, only to fall apart when | :24:17. | :24:24. | |
they took to the crease. England finished on 140 for six. A lead of | :24:24. | :24:28. | |
just five runs which leaves the match finally balanced. Now, it | :24:28. | :24:32. | |
probably hasn't escaped your notice, it is cold. It is very cold. | :24:32. | :24:36. | |
Britain is caught between an icy blast between Russia and warmer air | :24:36. | :24:39. | |
to the West and that's likely to mean snow across lots of the UK. | :24:39. | :24:43. | |
Daniel Boettcher is at a gritting station in Norwich. Daniel, are | :24:43. | :24:45. | |
they getting ready for action there? | :24:45. | :24:50. | |
Yes, they are just loading aupt moment here -- up at the moment | :24:50. | :24:54. | |
here. They have been gritting here for the last week or so and we have | :24:54. | :24:57. | |
seen fresh supplies of salt brought in during the day. The problem has | :24:57. | :25:01. | |
been the low temperatures, but now they are expecting snow as well. | :25:01. | :25:04. | |
The Peak District in the grip of bitter conditions that show little | :25:04. | :25:08. | |
sign of easing, while the snow settled here, it is expected to | :25:08. | :25:13. | |
move further south and east in the coming days and there are concerns | :25:13. | :25:17. | |
about what that might mean for those vun vulnerable to the cold. | :25:17. | :25:20. | |
We are getting a frost tonight and you are already sorted for tomorrow. | :25:20. | :25:23. | |
In the West Midlands, Richard is checking on his mother, gritting | :25:23. | :25:30. | |
the steps of her home. He is one of 2,500 volunteers volunteers given | :25:30. | :25:36. | |
salt and a shovel by the council. In In London, in family have no | :25:36. | :25:39. | |
central heating. The boiler is broken and they can't afford to | :25:39. | :25:43. | |
replace it. All ten are in one room around the only heater they have. | :25:43. | :25:48. | |
When you leave the room, it is really cold and you have to wear | :25:48. | :25:55. | |
your coat. Some of us complain to leave the room. | :25:55. | :26:00. | |
Sub-zero temperatures lasting marathon seven days -- more than | :26:00. | :26:04. | |
seven days trigger cold weather weather payments for the vulnerable. | :26:04. | :26:07. | |
Freezing temperatures have put an extra strain on tight budgets as | :26:08. | :26:12. | |
some families struggle to keep warm. There are simple precautions, but | :26:12. | :26:16. | |
they could have life-saving. If you can, stay in a warm place when the | :26:16. | :26:23. | |
weather is very severe. Wrap up warm even inside the house, but now, | :26:23. | :26:26. | |
we advice people to keep their temperatures at between 18 Celsius | :26:26. | :26:31. | |
and 21 Celsius -- 18 and 21 centigrade. | :26:31. | :26:34. | |
The snow will be a challenge for local authorities, but they say | :26:34. | :26:38. | |
they are ready and have enough salt to cope as they try to keep roads | :26:38. | :26:41. | |
clear. Motoring organisations warn drivers should be prepared. | :26:41. | :26:47. | |
Some of the things, you know, might sound extreme at times, but shovels, | :26:47. | :26:53. | |
blankets, flask of tea, an extra layer of o clothing, a -- of | :26:53. | :26:58. | |
clothing. A mobile phone fully charged. Some areas expect up to | :26:59. | :27:02. | |
ten centimetres of snow up until Sunday. The hope is the worst will | :27:02. | :27:06. | |
One of the problems has been anticipating when and where the | :27:06. | :27:09. | |
snow will fall. The weather forecast has been changing | :27:09. | :27:12. | |
throughout the day so they have had to adapt their plans here, but they | :27:12. | :27:17. | |
are leaving one by one to start Daniel in Norwich, thank you very | :27:17. | :27:22. | |
much. Alex Deakin is here. Come on, you | :27:22. | :27:27. | |
heard Daniel saying the weather heard Daniel saying the weather | :27:27. | :27:30. | |
forecast has been changing. We are confident that we are going | :27:30. | :27:34. | |
to get significant snow fall. Central and eastern areas are | :27:34. | :27:38. | |
likely to be affected. Yes, we are expecting problems. It won't snow | :27:38. | :27:42. | |
everywhere. In many western areas, it will be rain that we see. We | :27:42. | :27:46. | |
will start to get the rain across Northern Ireland later tonight. One | :27:46. | :27:51. | |
or two snow showers across East Anglia and Kent. It is cold again. | :27:51. | :27:57. | |
Temperatures in towns and cities minus 5 Celsius. | :27:57. | :28:00. | |
A bitterly cold start to what will be a very wintry day. The wet | :28:00. | :28:04. | |
weather will start to work across Scotland. Some snow here, mostly up | :28:04. | :28:07. | |
over the hills, but it will start to come to lower levels as it | :28:07. | :28:11. | |
pushes across Northern England and parts of the Midlands. It will be a | :28:11. | :28:15. | |
cold day, but it does turn milder in the West. Many eastern counties | :28:15. | :28:18. | |
will have a fine day on Saturday. However, here, things will change | :28:18. | :28:22. | |
and change significantly. It is from tomorrow afternoon and through | :28:22. | :28:26. | |
the evening and overnight into sun, we are expecting heavy snow fall | :28:26. | :28:29. | |
across the central and eastern counties of England. How much? | :28:29. | :28:33. | |
Certainly a few centimetres, possibly ten centimetres in some | :28:33. | :28:38. | |
places. Yes, that is expected to cause problems. So we have weather | :28:38. | :28:42. | |
warnings in force. We have an amber warning for that heavy snow fall, | :28:42. | :28:44. | |
but there are other warnings covering ice across large parts of | :28:44. | :28:48. | |
the country. So stay tuned to the forecast. A good place to do that | :28:48. | :28:53. | |
if you are having travel issues this weekend is your local BBC | :28:53. | :28:56. | |
Radio station. By the time we get to Sunday, the problems start to | :28:56. | :29:05. | |
lessen. Still some snow across East Anglia and the the South East. Rain | :29:05. | :29:09. | |
coming into western areas. Still cold across the eastern areas and | :29:09. | :29:14. | |
it will stay cold into the early part of next week. Stay tuned to | :29:14. | :29:17. | |
the forecast, we are live every half-hour on the news channel. You | :29:17. | :29:25. | |
can read more about the warnings on The news main: | :29:25. | :29:28. |