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A victory to remember for football manager Harry Redknapp - he's | :00:10. | :00:13. | |
cleared of tax evasion. The jury threw out charges that he | :00:13. | :00:23. | |
tried to hide nearly �200,000 from the tax man. It really has been a | :00:23. | :00:26. | |
nightmare. I've got to be honest - it's been five years, and this is a | :00:26. | :00:29. | |
case that should never have come to court because it's unbelievable | :00:29. | :00:32. | |
really. Harry for England - could the | :00:32. | :00:38. | |
verdict pave the way for him to take on the national team? Redknapp | :00:38. | :00:42. | |
will be a very, very good choice. He's English. He knows his football, | :00:42. | :00:45. | |
no doubt about that. He's doing a great job with Tottenham. | :00:45. | :00:49. | |
We'll look at what the case tells us about money and football. | :00:49. | :00:52. | |
Also tonight: More big pay-outs in the phone | :00:52. | :00:55. | |
hacking scandal - comedian Steve Coogan is among those who get tens | :00:55. | :01:05. | |
of thousands. This has never been about money. Like others who sued I | :01:05. | :01:10. | |
was determined to do my part to show the depths which the press can | :01:10. | :01:12. | |
sink in sharing private information. The RBS boss speaks to the BBC | :01:13. | :01:16. | |
about giving up his bonus - he says he considered quitting during the | :01:16. | :01:19. | |
uproar. The one-kilo chunk of rock that could hold the secrets of Mars | :01:19. | :01:29. | |
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- it's a meteorite that crashed to Good evening. Welcome to the BBC | :01:55. | :01:58. | |
News at 6.00pm. Tottenham manager Harry Redknapp was close to tears | :01:58. | :02:01. | |
when he came out of court today moments after he was cleared of tax | :02:01. | :02:05. | |
evasion. The jury accepted that Mr Redknapp had not tried to conceal | :02:05. | :02:09. | |
nearly �200,000 in a Monaco account. The payments relate to a period | :02:09. | :02:15. | |
when he was manager at Portsmouth. The club's chairman at the time, | :02:15. | :02:19. | |
Milan Mandaric, was also cleared. Our sports correspondent James | :02:19. | :02:26. | |
Pearce is at Southwark Crown Court. When the verdicts were announced, | :02:26. | :02:30. | |
the two men turned to each other in the dock and embraced. It was the | :02:30. | :02:35. | |
end of an ordeal that had good gan back in 2007 when they were first | :02:35. | :02:38. | |
arrested, the most successful English football manager of his | :02:38. | :02:45. | |
generation had been found not guilty of tax evasion. | :02:45. | :02:49. | |
Congratulations from waiting supporters as Harry Redknapp left | :02:49. | :02:53. | |
the court having finally cleared his name. I am really just looking | :02:53. | :02:57. | |
forward to getting home and seeing my wife Sandra and, you know, | :02:57. | :03:00. | |
getting away from all this. It really has been a nightmare. I've | :03:01. | :03:04. | |
got to be honest - it's been five years, and this is a case which | :03:04. | :03:09. | |
should never have come to court because it's unbelievable really. | :03:09. | :03:13. | |
Relief too from Milan Mandaric, who had been Redknapp's boss when he | :03:13. | :03:16. | |
was with Portsmouth football club. I always believed in the truth and | :03:16. | :03:24. | |
also believe in the British justice system. I'm very appreciative of | :03:24. | :03:29. | |
that. Harry Redknapp had managerial success at Bournemouth and also at | :03:29. | :03:33. | |
West Ham. I'm so proud of everyone here. Before he took Portsmouth | :03:33. | :03:37. | |
into the Premiere League - that's where the allegations arose. The | :03:37. | :03:41. | |
case centred around the transfer in 2002 of Peter Crouch. Harry | :03:41. | :03:45. | |
Redknapp had believed that he was entitled to 10% of the profit from | :03:45. | :03:50. | |
the sale and was unhappy when he only received a payment of 5%. He | :03:50. | :03:54. | |
asked his chairman to sort it out. The allegation was that Milan | :03:54. | :03:58. | |
Mandaric had eventually given in to Harry Redknapp's demands and agreed | :03:58. | :04:03. | |
to pay him an extra �100,000. The prosecution, though, claimed that | :04:03. | :04:07. | |
the money wasn't going to go through the club's accounts here in | :04:07. | :04:10. | |
Portsmouth. It was to come directly from Mr Mandaric's personal account | :04:10. | :04:17. | |
in Monaco. So Redknapp set up an account in Monaco named Rosie 47, | :04:17. | :04:22. | |
after his dog, the one on the left. That provided plenty of laughter in | :04:22. | :04:26. | |
court, but the two men repeatedly explained that the money was an | :04:26. | :04:31. | |
investment, and they had nothing to hide. The former News of the World | :04:31. | :04:34. | |
reporter Rob Beasley was the Crown's key witness. He'd recorded | :04:34. | :04:38. | |
a phone call in which Redknapp had said that it was a bonus, not an | :04:38. | :04:48. | |
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Police questions soon followed. Redknapp said he'd lied to the | :05:01. | :05:06. | |
reporter to get him off the phone. The payment was an investment, not | :05:06. | :05:16. | |
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a bonus, and it was his accountant He had told the jury that despite | :05:26. | :05:30. | |
those limitations, he is a fantastic football manager. Now the | :05:30. | :05:35. | |
trial is over, that Tottenham club jacket could soon be swapped for | :05:35. | :05:38. | |
his country's whenever Fabio Capello is replaced. I think | :05:38. | :05:46. | |
Redknapp will be a very, very good choice. He's English. He knows his | :05:46. | :05:51. | |
football, no doubt about that. He's doing a great job with Tottenham, | :05:51. | :05:56. | |
and he's been doing a great job with every team he had in the past, | :05:56. | :06:03. | |
so I would guess it will be him. Tottenham's White Hart Lane, fans' | :06:03. | :06:08. | |
joy at the verdicts was tempered by concern of their manager's future. | :06:08. | :06:12. | |
If the England job comes, he's going, but to be honest, if he | :06:12. | :06:15. | |
stays, we can be up there and challenging for the title. Just | :06:15. | :06:19. | |
what we wanted, perfect timing. All of this hanging over him has | :06:19. | :06:22. | |
affected the team a little bit, but now it will be back to normal, | :06:22. | :06:26. | |
business as usual. Come on, Redknapp! The police investigation | :06:26. | :06:30. | |
into Redknapp had been criticised since the day in 2007 when officer | :06:30. | :06:34. | |
first arrived at Redknapp's house to arrest him, which some | :06:34. | :06:37. | |
photographers had been tipped off alongside them. There appeared to | :06:37. | :06:42. | |
be a leak at the heart of the inquiry which was defended by those | :06:42. | :06:47. | |
who ran it. We accept the verdict of the jury but I would like to | :06:47. | :06:52. | |
remind those who are evading tax by using offshore tax havens it always | :06:52. | :06:55. | |
makes sense to come talk to us before we come to talk to you. | :06:56. | :06:59. | |
Thank you. As Harry Redknapp left, it wasn't quite the size of a | :06:59. | :07:05. | |
football crowd, but he doesn't have this sort of problem getting to his | :07:05. | :07:09. | |
manager's dugout, a man used to winning on the pitch, but achieved | :07:09. | :07:15. | |
a significant victory in court. It's estimated that the inquiry | :07:15. | :07:18. | |
into football corruption cost �8 million. There were nine arrest. | :07:18. | :07:21. | |
What we couldn't tell you until today is there was another trial | :07:21. | :07:24. | |
last autumn also involving staff from Portsmouth. Again, they were | :07:24. | :07:28. | |
found not guilty. The question for those who ran the inquiry this | :07:28. | :07:32. | |
evening - should the charges have been brought in the first place? | :07:32. | :07:34. | |
James, thank you. Our sports editor David Bond is at | :07:34. | :07:38. | |
Wembley for us tonight, David. As James was suggesting there, David, | :07:38. | :07:42. | |
this is going to add to speculation that Harry Redknapp could become | :07:42. | :07:48. | |
England manager. Well, George, even before today, the bandwagon was off | :07:48. | :07:51. | |
and rolling for Harry Redknapp to take over as England manager from | :07:52. | :07:57. | |
Fabio Capello, and with today's acquittals, clearly no legal or | :07:57. | :08:00. | |
ethical obstacle to him taking the job whenever Capello does move on. | :08:00. | :08:04. | |
Of course, he does have two years left on his Tottenham contract, so | :08:04. | :08:08. | |
his club may have something to say about it, but of course sweet | :08:08. | :08:12. | |
timing that as Redknapp was being cleared at Southwark Crown Court, | :08:12. | :08:16. | |
Fabio Capello was inside Wembley seeing his bosses following his | :08:16. | :08:20. | |
comments about the decision to strip John Terry of the England | :08:20. | :08:22. | |
captaincy last week. We're still waiting for news to emerge about | :08:22. | :08:31. | |
what happened at that meeting. The most likely outcome is that an | :08:31. | :08:36. | |
uneasy truce will develop between the two parties, then the | :08:36. | :08:40. | |
Championships in the summer, then it will be clear for Redknapp to | :08:40. | :08:45. | |
take over. Briefly, people watching this case - it seems there is an | :08:45. | :08:50. | |
awful lot of money sloshing around in football. Of course, Mandaric | :08:51. | :08:55. | |
and Redknapp cleared of those charges, but the case shone a | :08:55. | :09:00. | |
murkier side of the game - hundreds of thousands of pounds between the | :09:00. | :09:04. | |
two, net profit transfer deals and cuts in that way - really, many | :09:04. | :09:08. | |
people will be surprised at this. But as James was pointing out, I | :09:08. | :09:11. | |
think there have to be serious questions about the way this | :09:11. | :09:15. | |
investigation was handled. Six years ago this started with an | :09:15. | :09:20. | |
inquiry into Premiere League bungs and has ended today - clearly, a | :09:20. | :09:23. | |
lot of money and time has been spent and that's come up with | :09:23. | :09:25. | |
nothing. David, thank you. More high-profile figures have | :09:25. | :09:28. | |
settled their claims for damages over the News of the World phone- | :09:28. | :09:31. | |
hacking scandal. Comedian, Steve Coogan and the former footballer | :09:31. | :09:34. | |
Paul Gascoigne are among the latest people to accept compensation worth | :09:34. | :09:41. | |
tens of thousands of pounds. June Kelly reports. It does contain some | :09:41. | :09:46. | |
flash photography. Some are from the world's of | :09:46. | :09:50. | |
showbiz and sport. Others, like George Galloway, have made their | :09:50. | :09:55. | |
names in politics. They've all made headlines in the News of the World. | :09:55. | :09:58. | |
Now they've each got payout from the paper's owners and an apology. | :09:58. | :10:01. | |
This has never been about money. Like other people who sued, I was | :10:01. | :10:05. | |
determined to do my part to show the depths to which the press can | :10:05. | :10:10. | |
sink in pursuit of private information. It was established | :10:10. | :10:12. | |
early on that the Lib Dem Deputy Leader Simon Hughes was a victim. | :10:12. | :10:19. | |
It was criminal behaviour on an industrial scale. Sadly, the | :10:19. | :10:23. | |
deficiencies of the original police inquiries which failed to | :10:23. | :10:26. | |
investigation the clear evidence of much of the criminal behaviour of | :10:26. | :10:29. | |
one of the most important businesses in our country are also | :10:29. | :10:32. | |
all too apparent. The former footballer Paul Gascoigne had | :10:32. | :10:36. | |
suffered mental harm and distress, the court was told. He blamed | :10:36. | :10:39. | |
relatives and friends for leaking stories about him. His pay-out is | :10:39. | :10:45. | |
one of the largest. And it's not just famous names who | :10:45. | :10:48. | |
have suffered. An undisclosed amount is going to the mother of | :10:48. | :10:51. | |
one of the victims of the 7/7 bombings. Sheila Henry's son | :10:51. | :10:57. | |
Christian Small was one of the 52 who died. Her ex-directory landline | :10:57. | :11:01. | |
number was discovered in the notebooks of Glenn Mulcaire, the | :11:01. | :11:05. | |
private investigator employed by the News of the World. And an | :11:05. | :11:08. | |
undisclosed amount too for Alastair Campbell - for years at the heart | :11:08. | :11:12. | |
of the Labour Government as Tony Blair's right-hand man. Importantly | :11:12. | :11:15. | |
for me, they've left open the door to further action because they've | :11:15. | :11:18. | |
said they're looking at other material that may be in their | :11:18. | :11:23. | |
possession, and they've said that they may then be liable in certain | :11:23. | :11:26. | |
circumstances to further damages. This is the second big wave of | :11:26. | :11:30. | |
settlements by the Murdoch empire. By paying out, they're avoiding | :11:30. | :11:32. | |
what could have been highly damaging court cases. This way, the | :11:32. | :11:37. | |
damage is limited to their bank balance. Can we have a quick word? | :11:37. | :11:41. | |
The singer Charlotte Church is the only famous name who, for the | :11:41. | :11:46. | |
moment, is not settling. Her court case against the News of the | :11:46. | :11:50. | |
World's owners is due to start at the end of the month. | :11:50. | :11:53. | |
European air safety officials are to inspect the entire fleet of | :11:53. | :11:56. | |
Airbus A380 super jumbos - more than 60 aircraft - for cracks in | :11:56. | :11:59. | |
their wings. Cracks have been found in several planes following a | :11:59. | :12:02. | |
decision by the European Aviation Safety Agency last month to order | :12:02. | :12:11. | |
checks on the 20 planes with the highest mileage. | :12:11. | :12:14. | |
The Court of Appeal has ruled that Milly Dowler's killer cannot appeal | :12:14. | :12:16. | |
against his conviction for her abduction and murder. Levi | :12:16. | :12:18. | |
Bellfield, a former nightclub doorman, was jailed for life | :12:18. | :12:26. | |
without parole last June. Syrian forces have continued | :12:26. | :12:29. | |
shelling the city of Homs. Opposition activists say 50 people | :12:29. | :12:32. | |
were killed overnight in what they describe as the heaviest shelling | :12:32. | :12:35. | |
in five days. Our correspondent Paul Wood has spent several days | :12:35. | :12:43. | |
inside the city where the government artillery appears. -- to | :12:43. | :12:48. | |
be targeting areas which oppose the government. He sent this report | :12:48. | :12:51. | |
about conditions inside the besieged city. | :12:51. | :12:58. | |
It began at dawn, and for a fifth day, Homs is pounded. | :12:58. | :13:02. | |
Some said it was the worst day of shelling - the casualties are | :13:03. | :13:07. | |
mounting. SOUND OF GUNFIRE | :13:07. | :13:12. | |
The people here both fear and expect those tanks and ground | :13:12. | :13:20. | |
troops will move in at some point. Allah Hu Akbar. Most of the people | :13:21. | :13:24. | |
who died here were killed because they went out on to the street. | :13:24. | :13:29. | |
It's not clear what exactly the Syrian Army is targeting, but | :13:29. | :13:32. | |
certainly civilians are bearing the brunt, and most of them are inside | :13:32. | :13:41. | |
They haven't been out to play since the uprising began, their mothers | :13:42. | :13:50. | |
in despair. "The outside world won't help us, but God's vengeance | :13:50. | :13:54. | |
will come down on the Syrian President," she says. The | :13:54. | :13:59. | |
Kalashnikovs of the Free Syria Army can do little against tanks. They | :13:59. | :14:09. | |
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hope the regime's forces will crumble from the inside. The Syrian | :14:10. | :14:14. | |
Army's morale has collapsed, as an officer who defected just a week | :14:14. | :14:18. | |
ago - they know they're killing civilians, and they want this | :14:18. | :14:24. | |
bloodbath to stop. SOUND OF GUNFIRE | :14:24. | :14:29. | |
The prevailing mood here is one of despair. People feel trapped, and | :14:30. | :14:39. | |
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they believe no-one is coming to Our top story tonight: Harry | :14:40. | :14:44. | |
Redknapp is cleared of tax evasion. He said the case should never have | :14:44. | :14:51. | |
come to court. Coming up: What can a meteorite from 100 million years | :14:51. | :15:00. | |
ago tell us about life on Mars? Later on the News Channel, but debt | :15:01. | :15:05. | |
worries of Greece continued to halt the world's financial markets. What | :15:05. | :15:15. | |
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does the future hold for Thomas The chief executive of the Royal | :15:16. | :15:19. | |
Bank of Scotland, Stephen Hester, has told the BBC he thought about | :15:19. | :15:24. | |
resigning during the uproar over his bonus. Mr Hester said he was | :15:24. | :15:28. | |
not a robot and there had been some deeply depressing moments. He was | :15:29. | :15:31. | |
speaking in his first broadcast interview since he turned down a | :15:31. | :15:38. | |
bonus of almost �1 million. Here is our business editor. Stephen Hester, | :15:38. | :15:44. | |
the face, the symbol of the allegedly overpaid banker. Today, | :15:44. | :15:49. | |
the boss of Royal Bank of Scotland admitted on the BBC he paid a big | :15:49. | :15:54. | |
personal price for accepting and then rejecting a �1 million bonus. | :15:54. | :16:00. | |
I am certainly not a robot. There have been some deeply depressing | :16:00. | :16:04. | |
moments, by the way not just now, but over the last three years. In | :16:04. | :16:09. | |
the end, in the intensity of it, I came to the conclusion that I | :16:09. | :16:18. | |
thought it would be indulgent for me to resign. What I ought to do | :16:18. | :16:22. | |
was to draw, if you like, on the reserves of strength I have and | :16:22. | :16:32. | |
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tried to make RBS a success. Stephen Hester he had the biggest | :16:34. | :16:40. | |
banking time bomb in history. Stephen Hester said the money to | :16:40. | :16:45. | |
rescue the bank had been lost. He meant the cost of fixing the Bank, | :16:45. | :16:52. | |
writing off bad loans and making RBS more efficient, have so far | :16:52. | :16:58. | |
been �38 billion. It will not be long before those costs exceed �45 | :16:58. | :17:03. | |
billion. As long as RBS can be nursed back to profits, at one day | :17:03. | :17:09. | |
tax payers may get their money back but it will take years. How can | :17:09. | :17:15. | |
banks and bankers be rehabilitated? The man credited with fixing | :17:15. | :17:20. | |
laureates has some advice. Bankers need to see themselves as being of | :17:20. | :17:24. | |
service to the public. They should be providing the finance and | :17:24. | :17:29. | |
working for the companies they deal with, and not just come up all the | :17:29. | :17:35. | |
time, tried to make huge bonuses for themselves. Take them on and | :17:35. | :17:40. | |
expect them to do the job as everyone else does. The bonus of | :17:40. | :17:45. | |
Stephen Hester is widely condemned in part because RBS is semi | :17:45. | :17:49. | |
nationalised. Barclays is not owned by taxpayers so can Bob Diamond | :17:49. | :17:56. | |
received huge pay and not be pilloried? We will know soon enough. | :17:56. | :17:59. | |
The controversial bill to reform the NHS is back in the House of | :18:00. | :18:02. | |
House of Lords, where it has already run into opposition. The | :18:02. | :18:05. | |
Government's proposals would mean the biggest shake-up of the service | :18:05. | :18:09. | |
since it was founded - giving GPs control over much of the budget. | :18:09. | :18:11. | |
Earlier, it dominated a fiery session of Prime Minister's | :18:11. | :18:21. | |
Questions. This is a matter of trust in the Prime Minister. Can he | :18:21. | :18:24. | |
honestly look people in health service in the eye and say he has | :18:24. | :18:30. | |
kept his promise of no more top- down reorganisation? What we're | :18:30. | :18:37. | |
doing is cutting the bureaucracy in the NHS. We're taking out for �0.5 | :18:37. | :18:41. | |
billion of bureaucracy which we ploughed into patient care. If you | :18:41. | :18:45. | |
do not support the reform, you are not see the money going to | :18:45. | :18:50. | |
operations, doctors, nurses, hospitals, health care assistants. | :18:50. | :18:54. | |
That is what is happening in the NHS. Our political correspondent is | :18:54. | :19:01. | |
in the House of Lords for us. How much of a headache is this Bill | :19:01. | :19:06. | |
becoming for the Government and David Cameron in particular? It may | :19:06. | :19:10. | |
need an aspirin to cure. Before the election David Cameron said he | :19:10. | :19:16. | |
could sum up his priorities in three letters, NHS. Now he has said | :19:16. | :19:21. | |
the NHS needs to be reformed. He expects opposition from Labour. | :19:21. | :19:26. | |
What concerns him of his opposition from some of his coalition partners, | :19:26. | :19:31. | |
Lib Dem peers and Conservatives in the House of Lords. They have | :19:31. | :19:34. | |
defeated the Government this afternoon over proposals for mental | :19:34. | :19:40. | |
health. It has had to put down 136 changes to his proposals to get it | :19:40. | :19:45. | |
through Parliament. Professional medical bodies and the Royal | :19:45. | :19:51. | |
College of GPs and the faculty for public health have also opposed | :19:51. | :19:54. | |
debt. Here is the big political problem for David Cameron. If | :19:54. | :19:58. | |
anything goes wrong in the health service in the future, the danger | :19:58. | :20:03. | |
will be that it will be blamed on his reforms. It could be as | :20:03. | :20:07. | |
uncomfortable for him as an internal examination. It is | :20:07. | :20:11. | |
designed to get a million people off welfare and into jobs over the | :20:11. | :20:13. | |
next two years, without costing the taxpayer a penny. The first | :20:13. | :20:15. | |
official figures for the Government's flagship Work | :20:15. | :20:18. | |
Programme show that only one in five people, who originally signed | :20:18. | :20:21. | |
up to it, have been found a job. But BBC research suggests that in | :20:21. | :20:25. | |
some places the number is significantly lower than that. Mark | :20:25. | :20:28. | |
Easton has been following the project in Liverpool to see if it | :20:28. | :20:36. | |
is starting to make a difference. Liverpool, a city where today there | :20:36. | :20:42. | |
are seven times as many jobseekers as the job vacancies. 21-year-old | :20:42. | :20:47. | |
Cheryl Cole has been looking for work for a year. Having left school | :20:47. | :20:53. | |
at 16, the economic downturn left her stranded on welfare. She | :20:53. | :20:56. | |
praised the Government work programme can rescue her. What you | :20:56. | :21:02. | |
hope the work programme will do For You? Hopefully get me into a stable | :21:02. | :21:08. | |
job and keep me there. I am willing to take anything on. When you've | :21:08. | :21:13. | |
worked in the hotel how long were you there? About two and a half | :21:13. | :21:19. | |
months. This programme in Liverpool is run by A4e. They only make a | :21:19. | :21:25. | |
profit if they find permanent jobs for the City's long-term unemployed. | :21:25. | :21:30. | |
It is early days. Just one in seven of their clients have found any | :21:30. | :21:40. | |
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kind of work. Dave has been on the BACS of A4e since last summer. He | :21:41. | :21:46. | |
has been given some basic advice on improving his chances of the job in | :21:46. | :21:54. | |
a local biscuit factory. Clean hands, clean nails, clean clothes. | :21:54. | :22:00. | |
How worried I knew that it will be impossible for you to get a job? | :22:00. | :22:06. | |
You do worry. There are that many people now looking. The jobless | :22:06. | :22:11. | |
beget seems to be going up at the moment. Factory bosses will need to | :22:11. | :22:15. | |
be persuaded to recruit someone who has not worked for years rather | :22:15. | :22:21. | |
than someone fresh from another job. Jacobs has been employing people in | :22:21. | :22:26. | |
Liverpool for almost a century. A4e have dozens of people they hope to | :22:26. | :22:32. | |
get a job for. It does not get treated any differently from other | :22:32. | :22:38. | |
employment agencies when it tries to find jobs in the biscuit factory. | :22:38. | :22:42. | |
There are only so many jobs out there. You are in competition with | :22:42. | :22:47. | |
other agencies. It is always going to be a competitive market place to | :22:47. | :22:52. | |
get people into work. We have to work with our people to secure | :22:52. | :22:57. | |
those positions over other companies. That is the nature... | :22:57. | :23:01. | |
That does not get the job figures. That means one of your people | :23:01. | :23:07. | |
rather than someone else. OK. I do not control the labour market or | :23:07. | :23:13. | |
job creation. They cannot create jobs but they can create job ready | :23:13. | :23:17. | |
workers which might attract or expand businesses in the city. | :23:17. | :23:27. | |
Cheryl has been centre with a pile of CDs to deliver to hotels and | :23:27. | :23:37. | |
:23:37. | :23:38. | ||
shops. Can I just hand in my CV? Yes. You have all the details? | :23:38. | :23:41. | |
Improving the work readiness of the long-term unemployed in Liverpool | :23:41. | :23:47. | |
may boost the prospects of the city. The work programme cannot create | :23:47. | :23:50. | |
work. What the unemployed in Liverpool need most is not more | :23:50. | :23:55. | |
schemes, it is more jobs. Downing Street has rejected claims by | :23:55. | :23:58. | |
Argentina that Britain is engaged in a military build-up in the | :23:58. | :24:01. | |
Falklands. The Argentine government is to make a formal complaint to | :24:01. | :24:03. | |
the United Nations about the deployment of Prince William and | :24:03. | :24:08. | |
one of the Royal Navy's newest warships to the South Atlantic. | :24:08. | :24:10. | |
Number Ten insisted the despatch of HMS Dauntless didn't change the | :24:10. | :24:18. | |
UK's military posture. Members of Parliament are to have their pay | :24:18. | :24:24. | |
frozen for the next financial year. It will stay at �65,738. Their | :24:24. | :24:30. | |
pension contributions will rise by 1.85%. The decision has been made | :24:30. | :24:33. | |
by the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority - the body set | :24:33. | :24:41. | |
up in wake of the expenses scandal. A meteorite that could help unravel | :24:41. | :24:44. | |
the mysteries of Mars is being examined by scientists at the | :24:44. | :24:48. | |
Natural History Museum. The rock fell in a shower of meteors over | :24:48. | :24:51. | |
Morocco last summer, and the museum says it offers a unique insight | :24:51. | :25:01. | |
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They hurtle across space and then blazed through the atmosphere like | :25:04. | :25:10. | |
falling stars before they crashed to the ground. This one is from the | :25:10. | :25:15. | |
planet Mars. It is described as one of the most scientifically | :25:15. | :25:20. | |
important need to rights ever to have fallen to earth. This is one | :25:20. | :25:26. | |
of the most exciting me to write I have come across. It was recovered | :25:26. | :25:31. | |
from the Moroccan desert. It was uncontaminated by earth. We think | :25:31. | :25:37. | |
it may have samples of the Martian atmosphere trapped in it. Every | :25:37. | :25:42. | |
clue we can get from this rock hopefully will help us to | :25:42. | :25:48. | |
understand whether life may have existed on Mars in the past. | :25:48. | :25:55. | |
Researchers used CT's Dan-Air's. They are searching for microscopic | :25:55. | :26:04. | |
bubbles of Martian air. -- CT scanners. We note that the Martian | :26:04. | :26:08. | |
surface is to try to support life. The terrain is covered with craters | :26:08. | :26:13. | |
and dust. Hundreds of millions of years ago the meteorite may help to | :26:13. | :26:20. | |
show it had an atmosphere, water, and even plants and animals. At | :26:20. | :26:26. | |
auction houses, it is this intrigue that makes Martian meteorites much | :26:26. | :26:31. | |
sought after by collectors. It is terribly interesting when you get | :26:31. | :26:37. | |
things that have come to us from the universe. In general, meat | :26:37. | :26:45. | |
rights cell from between �10,000.20 �1,000. -- meteorites. If you have | :26:45. | :26:51. | |
something terribly rare, it can make a quarter of a million pounds. | :26:51. | :26:55. | |
Scientifically it is priceless. Researchers may discover whether | :26:55. | :27:05. | |
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the red planet may once have been Now time for the weather. This | :27:07. | :27:12. | |
picture behind me was taking it yesterday. More interesting photo | :27:12. | :27:18. | |
opportunities in the next 24 hours. Let me take you to what is | :27:18. | :27:23. | |
happening at the moment. Rain in Northern Ireland and western | :27:23. | :27:27. | |
Scotland. As it falls across Scotland and northern England, | :27:27. | :27:34. | |
freezing rain could occur. There could be ice and it could be | :27:34. | :27:40. | |
potentially treacherous. Most of England and Wales will be dry and | :27:40. | :27:45. | |
cloudy. A widespread frost. Wherever you are it will be a cold | :27:45. | :27:53. | |
start and generally grey. Maybe a bit of sunshine across Kent. We | :27:53. | :27:57. | |
could have freezing rain still causing problems across the far | :27:57. | :28:01. | |
north of England and the South of Scotland as well. Outbreaks of rain | :28:01. | :28:09. | |
coming and going in Scotland but they will ease from the north. That | :28:09. | :28:13. | |
rain starts to push its way southwards through the day but it | :28:13. | :28:20. | |
will be slow. Still the risk of ice and eventually snow across the | :28:20. | :28:23. | |
north-east of England and the Midlands. Temperatures still | :28:23. | :28:30. | |
struggling to get above freezing in a few spots but much milder across | :28:30. | :28:35. | |
the North of Ireland and Scotland. Tomorrow and tomorrow night, the | :28:35. | :28:39. | |
main risk of snow it is from Yorkshire, through the Midlands and | :28:39. | :28:47. |