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An historic visit - David Cameron becomes the first British Prime | :00:05. | :00:10. | |
Minister to visit Burma. He meets the pro-democracy leader Aung San | :00:10. | :00:13. | |
Suu Kyi, and calls for sanctions to be suspended in recognition of | :00:13. | :00:23. | |
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political reform. But I think there are prospects for change in Burma. | :00:24. | :00:29. | |
And I think it is right for the rest of the world to respond. | :00:29. | :00:31. | |
Also on tonight's programme - a horrific case of domestic violence. | :00:31. | :00:34. | |
Shane Jenkin admits launching a 12- hour, vicious attack on his | :00:34. | :00:44. | |
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girlfriend, that left her blind. feel like a ghost. I can hear | :00:44. | :00:48. | |
everyone around me, and I cannot even see my own hand in front of my | :00:48. | :00:51. | |
face. A big price rise at the end of the | :00:51. | :00:54. | |
month - the Royal Mail is now rationing supplies to stop people | :00:54. | :00:57. | |
stockpiling stamps. Hailed as a moment of national | :00:57. | :01:00. | |
pride - North Korea's rocket launch ends in failure as it crashes into | :01:00. | :01:03. | |
the Yellow Sea. But the regime brushes off the embarrassment, | :01:03. | :01:06. | |
staging a mass rally to unveil colossal statues of the country's | :01:06. | :01:08. | |
founders. And they're off - it's Ladies day | :01:08. | :01:11. | |
at Aintree as preparations are under way for the world's greatest | :01:11. | :01:21. | |
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Good evening and welcome to the BBC News at Six. David Cameron made | :01:43. | :01:46. | |
history today as he became the first serving British Prime | :01:46. | :01:50. | |
Minister to visit Burma. He met the pro-democracy campaigner Aung San | :01:50. | :01:52. | |
Suu Kyi, who spent 15 years under house arrest during Burma's | :01:52. | :01:56. | |
dictatorship. Mr Cameron called for economic sanctions against the | :01:56. | :01:59. | |
country to be eased, in recognition of political reforms, and invited | :01:59. | :02:05. | |
Ms Suu Kyi to visit Britain in June. Our deputy political editor, James | :02:05. | :02:08. | |
Landale, is travelling with the Prime Minister. His report contains | :02:08. | :02:18. | |
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flash photography. This was the moment a British Prime Minister set | :02:19. | :02:24. | |
foot in Burma for the first time in more than 60 years, the moment he | :02:24. | :02:29. | |
met the woman whose confinement for more than 40 years captured the | :02:29. | :02:33. | |
attention of the world. But today, she was free to receive her guest, | :02:33. | :02:39. | |
no longer a political prisoner, instead, a new member of Parliament. | :02:39. | :02:43. | |
Her aim was to persuade Mr Cameron that her country's move towards | :02:43. | :02:50. | |
democracy is genuine. Mr Cameron said EU sanctions against Burma | :02:50. | :02:55. | |
should be suspended, although not lifted. Of course, we must respond | :02:55. | :02:59. | |
with caution, we must always be sceptical, because we want to know | :02:59. | :03:04. | |
that the changes are irreversible. But as we have discussed, I think | :03:04. | :03:08. | |
it is right to suspend the sanctions which there are against | :03:08. | :03:14. | |
Burma, to suspend them, not to lift them, and obviously not to include | :03:14. | :03:19. | |
the arms embargo. This suspension will have taken place because of | :03:19. | :03:23. | |
the steps taken by the President and other reformers, and it will | :03:24. | :03:28. | |
make it clear to those who are against reform that should they try | :03:28. | :03:32. | |
to obstruct the way of reform, then sanctions could come back. David | :03:32. | :03:36. | |
Cameron has never met Aung San Suu Kyi before, but the smiles and body | :03:36. | :03:42. | |
language show he was clearly inspired by what she said. You're | :03:42. | :03:47. | |
sitting in a garden where you were barely allowed to walk or to stand. | :03:47. | :03:52. | |
It used to be a jungle, anyway. Only three years ago, you were | :03:52. | :03:57. | |
threatened with prison. It is another example of David Cameron's | :03:57. | :04:03. | |
willingness to play a bold roll on the international stage. But for | :04:03. | :04:08. | |
all the symbolism, the real impact will only be known if reform | :04:08. | :04:12. | |
continues and sanctions are lifted. And all of that depends on the | :04:12. | :04:16. | |
military-backed government and how it responds. So, the Prime Minister | :04:16. | :04:20. | |
travelled along the often emptied 20 lane roads leading to the Palace | :04:20. | :04:25. | |
of the President. He went to meet a man once at the heart of the | :04:25. | :04:29. | |
dictatorship, and now, he hopes, part of the country's move towards | :04:29. | :04:33. | |
democracy. Along the way he was greeted by the traditional water | :04:33. | :04:38. | |
festivities, which are believed to wash away people's sins. The | :04:38. | :04:41. | |
meeting was more formal, but the Prime Minister welcomed the | :04:41. | :04:46. | |
decision to allow new elections, and urged the President to go | :04:46. | :04:49. | |
further in releasing political prisoners. He left the meeting | :04:49. | :04:53. | |
convinced that the former general was at least sincere. In this | :04:53. | :04:57. | |
country, one third of people live in poverty. They have waited | :04:57. | :05:02. | |
decades for change. Leaving the country today, David Cameron | :05:02. | :05:07. | |
believes that move is so deep- seated that he is inviting Aung San | :05:07. | :05:09. | |
Suu Kyi to London this summer. She has never felt confident enough to | :05:09. | :05:13. | |
take the risk of leaving her country before, but today she said | :05:13. | :05:17. | |
she just might. A man has admitted carrying out a | :05:17. | :05:27. | |
vicious attack on his ex-girlfriend, which left her blind. Shane Jenkin | :05:27. | :05:31. | |
set upon mother of two Tina Nash at her home last year. Today he | :05:31. | :05:35. | |
pleaded guilty, and he will be sentenced next month. Tina Nash | :05:35. | :05:40. | |
says she feels like she has been buried alive. You may find some of | :05:40. | :05:47. | |
Louise Hubball's report upsetting. Tina Nash was a confident young | :05:47. | :05:51. | |
mother, who loved dancing and being with her friends. But her life was | :05:51. | :05:55. | |
shattered when she was blinded at home in a brutal attack. The man | :05:55. | :05:59. | |
responsible was no intruder, it was her boyfriend, Shane Jenkin. After | :05:59. | :06:05. | |
the attack, he kept her imprisoned for nearly 12 hours. If I had seen | :06:05. | :06:09. | |
someone in that much pain, looking like that, then the first thing I | :06:09. | :06:12. | |
would do would be to get help, and he didn't, I cannot forgive him for | :06:12. | :06:21. | |
that. I do not understand why he would hurt someone that he was | :06:21. | :06:26. | |
supposed to care about. This was the house where Tina Nash lived. | :06:26. | :06:30. | |
She has now moved, because of the appalling memories. She lived here | :06:30. | :06:35. | |
with her children, and Shane Jenkin was a frequent visitor. It was a | :06:35. | :06:39. | |
turbulent relationship, and he had been violent in the past, but she | :06:39. | :06:42. | |
believed she could change him. Then, that night in April, everything | :06:42. | :06:48. | |
changed. Detectives described her ordeal as a premeditated, sustained | :06:48. | :06:54. | |
and vicious attack. It urged other victims of domestic violence to | :06:54. | :07:00. | |
come forward. A lot of people, whom we do not even know about, will not | :07:00. | :07:05. | |
come to us. But unfortunately, as we have seen today, this could be | :07:05. | :07:11. | |
the end result. People need to come to us. We will help. Tina Nash will | :07:11. | :07:13. | |
now have to live with the consequences of what happened for | :07:14. | :07:19. | |
ever. This makes me feel like I have been buried alive. I feel like | :07:19. | :07:24. | |
a ghost. I can hear everyone around me, but I cannot even see my own | :07:24. | :07:33. | |
hand in front of my face. When I hear my kids, I can't... Sorry. I | :07:33. | :07:37. | |
cannot see their faces. That's what does it to me. It could have been | :07:37. | :07:41. | |
anything else, but the fact that I am not going to see the faces of my | :07:41. | :07:48. | |
kids again, it is a bit harsh. He went too far this time. Shane | :07:48. | :07:53. | |
Jenkin will be sentenced next month. Meanwhile, Tina Nash now wants to | :07:53. | :08:01. | |
focus on being a mother to her two children. | :08:01. | :08:05. | |
The Royal Mail is limiting the number of stamps it issues before a | :08:05. | :08:09. | |
sharp increase in prices at the end of the month. Many customers are | :08:09. | :08:15. | |
unhappy, and have been trying to stockpile stumps. The first class | :08:15. | :08:20. | |
stamp will go up in price from 46p to 60p on 30th April, and second | :08:20. | :08:25. | |
class stamps will go up from 36p to 50p. Emma Simpson joins us from a | :08:25. | :08:31. | |
post office near Guildford, where supplies of stamps are running low. | :08:31. | :08:35. | |
You join me in one small village, with its own sub post office. The | :08:36. | :08:39. | |
counter at is tucked away at the back of the shop, like so many up | :08:39. | :08:44. | |
and down the country. Here, they have seen a lot of bulk buying in | :08:44. | :08:49. | |
the last few days. I guess it is not surprising - if you give | :08:49. | :08:55. | |
consumers a lot of notice about a big increase in prices. Whether it | :08:55. | :09:01. | |
is first class or second, for many of us, we have decided to stock up | :09:01. | :09:05. | |
before these stamps go up in price. Superdrug says supplies are running | :09:06. | :09:10. | |
low, and it cannot get any more stamps before the end of the month. | :09:10. | :09:14. | |
Tesco, Sainsbury's and Morrisons all told us today that they had | :09:14. | :09:18. | |
seen a significant increase in demand, although their supplies | :09:18. | :09:21. | |
were still good. It is small businesses like this one that are | :09:21. | :09:27. | |
most affected by the price rises. Richard Keys an eye specialist on | :09:27. | :09:33. | |
the Scottish borders. He relies on Royal Mail. It will have a huge | :09:33. | :09:37. | |
impact on our business. We will have to save the money, or pass the | :09:37. | :09:41. | |
cost on to customers. So, we're buying the stamps now to avoid | :09:41. | :09:47. | |
having to do that. No surprise, then, that he wants to stock up. | :09:47. | :09:52. | |
Today he is trying to buy 3.002nd class stamps, and more than double | :09:52. | :09:58. | |
that again Oving the coming days. It is too big an order for a small | :09:58. | :10:03. | |
local post office like this, but he does get a few hundred. Royal Mail | :10:03. | :10:09. | |
is trying to reassure customers. It's as it has enough stock, but it | :10:09. | :10:13. | |
has capped supplies to retailers this month. They cannot get more | :10:13. | :10:19. | |
than 20% of their annual allocation. Royal Mail says it does not want | :10:19. | :10:22. | |
retailers profiteering, by buying stamps at low prices and selling | :10:22. | :10:28. | |
them later. It also needs to protect its revenues. Royal Mail | :10:28. | :10:32. | |
are under great pressure, they are losing money, volumes are declining | :10:32. | :10:36. | |
rapidly, and consequently, something has to be done to retain | :10:36. | :10:40. | |
the service that we all cherish, which is the Six-Day War weak | :10:41. | :10:44. | |
delivery and collection service at a uniform price, anywhere across | :10:44. | :10:53. | |
the country. -- six-day a week. has been amazing, people have been | :10:53. | :10:59. | |
buying hundreds at a time. We get some in on a Monday, but I don't | :10:59. | :11:05. | |
know whether it is going to last us. So, the message from the Royal Mail | :11:05. | :11:10. | |
tonight is, we are not going to see a national shortage of stamps. But | :11:10. | :11:14. | |
it all goes to show how price- conscious consumers and businesses | :11:14. | :11:19. | |
are right now, that every saving accounts. | :11:19. | :11:23. | |
Activists in Syria says several people have been shot dead during | :11:23. | :11:27. | |
demonstrations after Friday prayers. Shots were fired into the air to | :11:27. | :11:31. | |
disperse crowds as they left Mosques, but in some cases, | :11:31. | :11:34. | |
demonstrators were killed or injured. Today's activities have | :11:34. | :11:38. | |
been seen as a major test of the ceasefire which came into force | :11:38. | :11:45. | |
earlier in the week. There has been international | :11:45. | :11:47. | |
condemnation after North Korea launched a long-range rocket this | :11:47. | :11:50. | |
morning, amid claims that it was a cover for testing missile | :11:50. | :11:57. | |
technology. But what was supposed to be a moment of national pride | :11:57. | :11:59. | |
turned into a national embarrassment, when the rocket | :11:59. | :12:05. | |
exploded shortly after blast-off and fell into the sea. This report | :12:05. | :12:12. | |
from Damian Grammaticas, from the capital, Pyongyang. The swagger of | :12:12. | :12:17. | |
a man bred for power. He is 29 years old. Today he was anointed | :12:17. | :12:26. | |
Supreme Leader. He is the third generation of the Kim dynasty. His | :12:26. | :12:33. | |
father and grandfather ruled before him. People in this country are | :12:33. | :12:39. | |
taught to revere them like gods. This celebration was meant to be a | :12:39. | :12:41. | |
company by the news that the country had put a satellite into | :12:41. | :12:46. | |
space. That achievement would help him reinforce his right to the | :12:46. | :12:50. | |
mantle of power. There was no mention here of the rocket blowing | :12:50. | :12:54. | |
up one minute into flight. There was just a brief statement earlier | :12:54. | :12:59. | |
in the day that things had not gone to plan. North Koreans have been | :12:59. | :13:03. | |
placing huge importance on the satellite launch. Its failure is | :13:03. | :13:09. | |
embarrassing. But what effect will it have on the regime and the young | :13:09. | :13:14. | |
Kim Jong Un? Toiling by hand, gangs of workers are lining the brood of | :13:14. | :13:18. | |
bards of Pyongyang. The rocket was meant to be a way of showing the | :13:19. | :13:23. | |
people that this socialist state is technologically advanced. America | :13:23. | :13:31. | |
said the launch was a disguised to test an intercontinental missile. | :13:31. | :13:36. | |
The young Kim's father also tested nuclear bombs. This is the last | :13:37. | :13:41. | |
place Kim Jong Il visited before dying. The tears are genuine. She | :13:41. | :13:47. | |
believes he is immortal. We visited before the rocket exploded. She | :13:47. | :13:53. | |
told us, we are grateful to Kim Jong Il for making our nation a | :13:53. | :13:57. | |
powerful and strong country. Strength and self-reliance - | :13:57. | :14:04. | |
virtues which are taught to all North Koreans. But now, this | :14:04. | :14:09. | |
country's neighbours fear that its young leader, who has suffered a | :14:09. | :14:14. | |
blow to his prestige, may be tempted to respond with a new show | :14:14. | :14:19. | |
of power, perhaps by testing a nuclear bomb. This is already a | :14:19. | :14:26. | |
deeply isolated place, under sanctions. Developing both missile | :14:26. | :14:33. | |
technology and nuclear weapons. Today there was only reverence for | :14:33. | :14:43. | |
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the Kim dynasty. North Koreans are either oblivious or unconcerned. | :14:45. | :14:50. | |
But America, Britain and others may now seek at the UN to isolate his | :14:50. | :15:00. | |
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country even further. We can speak Yes, very much so. This rocket, the | :15:02. | :15:06. | |
satellite, whatever you want to call it, was a clear failure. This | :15:06. | :15:10. | |
country does have nuclear weapons and in the past has tested them | :15:10. | :15:15. | |
twice. South Korea has said that satellite images suggest that North | :15:15. | :15:19. | |
Korea has been working on the tunnels at that test site where it | :15:19. | :15:25. | |
could carry out underground tests, and both his previous nuclear tests | :15:25. | :15:28. | |
happened after failed rocket launchers. America has turned round | :15:28. | :15:32. | |
and said today that the deal reached a few weeks ago with North | :15:32. | :15:35. | |
Korea to supply food aid to this country will be suspended, because | :15:35. | :15:43. | |
part of that deal, under which North Korea was going to suspend or | :15:43. | :15:48. | |
halt all rocket tests. This is in a country that cannot feed its people, | :15:48. | :15:52. | |
with a 29 year-old leader that may feel the need to prove himself. | :15:52. | :15:56. | |
Thank you. Our top stories tonight: David | :15:56. | :16:01. | |
Cameron becomes the first British Prime Minister to visit Burma. | :16:01. | :16:05. | |
Will wiping the brand names of cigarette packets put people off | :16:05. | :16:11. | |
smoking? Coming up in sport state on the BBC | :16:11. | :16:18. | |
News Channel, an historic treble in the Topham Chase as the Grand | :16:18. | :16:28. | |
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Formula One bosses say that the Bahrain Grand Prix will go ahead | :16:30. | :16:33. | |
next weekend despite calls from pro-democracy protesters in the | :16:33. | :16:38. | |
country for it to be cancelled. Last year's event was called off | :16:38. | :16:41. | |
following a crackdown by the Bahrain authorities and widespread | :16:41. | :16:47. | |
violence. Against a backdrop of continuing | :16:47. | :16:50. | |
political unrest in Bahrain, the pressure has been mounting for one | :16:50. | :16:53. | |
of the Middle East's most prized sporting spectacles to be called | :16:53. | :16:58. | |
off. As they practised in Shanghai, the drivers were told that while | :16:58. | :17:01. | |
they may not like it, the controversial Formula One race will | :17:01. | :17:05. | |
go ahead as planned next week. Some teams are apprehensive, but the | :17:05. | :17:11. | |
head of crunch talks at the Chinese from three, Bahrain was given the | :17:11. | :17:16. | |
green light. -- ahead of crunch talks. We should go into any | :17:16. | :17:21. | |
country. We are not political or religious. We enter the country to | :17:21. | :17:24. | |
perform with a contract that we have. It is not for us to decide | :17:24. | :17:30. | |
how people run the country. Bahrain bought the sport to the region for | :17:30. | :17:34. | |
the first time. But amid anti- government protests and a deadly | :17:34. | :17:38. | |
crackdown, the race was cancelled by the authorities last year. This | :17:38. | :17:43. | |
time they are in no mood to do so, and they insist that Bahrain is | :17:43. | :17:50. | |
saved, along with the FIA. We have to trust in the FIA, and when we | :17:50. | :17:54. | |
enter it, we signed up to doing 20 races and Bahrain is one of the | :17:54. | :17:59. | |
races that we will go into, trying to do the best of that we can. | :17:59. | :18:03. | |
Grand Prix is one of the most lucrative in the calendar. It is | :18:03. | :18:07. | |
worth an estimated �25 million to the sport and takes place on a | :18:07. | :18:11. | |
circuit that cost 92 million to build. The links go deeper still. | :18:11. | :18:20. | |
The country owns 50% of one of the leading teams, McLaren. There are | :18:20. | :18:23. | |
also fears that the tensions could be inflamed further by the race and | :18:23. | :18:28. | |
some are angry about the decision today. My husband was in prison for | :18:28. | :18:32. | |
10 months. I had to take to the streets to campaign for reforms in | :18:32. | :18:36. | |
the country, but we have seen no progress at all. Our message to | :18:36. | :18:40. | |
Formula One was always do not tarnish the reputation of this | :18:40. | :18:45. | |
noble sport. It is a car race, at the end of the day, in a country | :18:45. | :18:49. | |
that is repress in the majority of its people. With Bahrain, Formula | :18:49. | :18:53. | |
One had hoped to win new friends. Instead, the sport could provoke | :18:53. | :18:59. | |
further turmoil in an already troubled part of the world. | :18:59. | :19:02. | |
Should the bobby on the beat be replaced by community support | :19:02. | :19:06. | |
officers? South Yorkshire Police has a controversial plan to do | :19:06. | :19:10. | |
exactly that in some circumstances, at least. It has prompted sharp | :19:10. | :19:14. | |
criticism about how the police should be deployed. The man who has | :19:14. | :19:19. | |
put forward the changes says that it is just a storm in a teacup. | :19:19. | :19:23. | |
For many people, this is the traditional view of policing, a | :19:23. | :19:31. | |
bobby on the beach. Reassuring and high profile. -- a bobby on the | :19:31. | :19:34. | |
beat. Nowadays police numbers are generally in decline and in England | :19:35. | :19:38. | |
and Wales they are complemented by Police Community Support Officers. | :19:38. | :19:43. | |
In parts of South Yorkshire, they are a familiar sight. We do a very | :19:43. | :19:47. | |
different job to the police officers. We spend a lot of time in | :19:47. | :19:51. | |
the community. We have that time to spend in the community. Getting to | :19:51. | :19:56. | |
know people and finding out what the big issues are to the residence | :19:56. | :20:01. | |
in the areas that we cover. Police community support their offices do | :20:01. | :20:06. | |
not have the same powers of arrest as police officers. -- PCSOs do not | :20:06. | :20:10. | |
have the same powers of arrest as police officers but they can make a | :20:10. | :20:13. | |
citizen's arrest, like any member of the public, meaning they can | :20:13. | :20:17. | |
hold someone if they suspect someone of committing an offence. | :20:17. | :20:20. | |
They can also take the name and addresses of people behaving anti- | :20:20. | :20:24. | |
socialist. But in South Yorkshire they could have a new title of | :20:24. | :20:28. | |
local beat officer. Their role is changing as they are set to become | :20:28. | :20:31. | |
what the force describes as the first line of contact for the | :20:31. | :20:39. | |
public. What do people living here think? What can a PCSO do? What is | :20:39. | :20:43. | |
their ability to arrest people? think it is a good thing that there | :20:43. | :20:48. | |
is anybody on the street that you can contact if you need help. | :20:48. | :20:51. | |
Yorkshire's Chief Constable was keen to reassure people about the | :20:51. | :20:55. | |
plans today. If they have got police officers working in their | :20:55. | :20:59. | |
area now, they will still be working there in the future. If we | :20:59. | :21:02. | |
need a police officer to deal with an incident, that police officer | :21:02. | :21:06. | |
will be there. The same people that I used to dealing with the same | :21:06. | :21:10. | |
offices in their locality, their community, on their estates, will | :21:10. | :21:15. | |
still be working around there. one local MP is urging caution | :21:15. | :21:20. | |
about the changes to the role of the PCSO. If we are not careful, we | :21:20. | :21:25. | |
will go back to the said car days, where the uniformed police | :21:25. | :21:29. | |
themselves were in cars, detached from what was taking place in the | :21:29. | :21:35. | |
immediate community. -- and said card days. Because of squeezed | :21:35. | :21:38. | |
budgets, the fear is that other forces will follow the lead of | :21:38. | :21:42. | |
South Yorkshire and employ PCSOs to do the job that they have | :21:42. | :21:47. | |
traditionally done. Tobacco companies should have no | :21:47. | :21:50. | |
business in the UK according to the health secretary Andrew Lansley. | :21:50. | :21:54. | |
His comments came as the Government said they would examine whether | :21:54. | :21:58. | |
forcing firms to sell cigarettes in an branded packaging would deter | :21:58. | :22:03. | |
young people from smoking. -- unbranded packaging. | :22:03. | :22:08. | |
It is a habit under growing pressure. After bans on advertising, | :22:08. | :22:13. | |
on vending machines, on displays in big shops, will unbranded packaging | :22:13. | :22:17. | |
be the next restriction on cigarettes? Andrew Lansley thinks | :22:17. | :22:21. | |
it should, saying that attractive packaging helps to recruit smokers. | :22:21. | :22:25. | |
He went further, saying he wanted to reach the point where tobacco | :22:25. | :22:29. | |
companies have no business in this country. They have hit back, saying | :22:29. | :22:33. | |
that 5000 people in the UK are employed directly by the industry | :22:33. | :22:39. | |
and another 60,000 indirectly. Imperial Tobacco said it was not an | :22:39. | :22:42. | |
appropriate, and for a Government minister to make. They said they | :22:42. | :22:47. | |
were a legitimate business and they make a contribution to the economy. | :22:47. | :22:49. | |
The Tobacco Manufacturers' Association said that plain | :22:49. | :22:53. | |
packaging only serve to make counterfeiting of cigarettes easier. | :22:53. | :22:56. | |
The thinking is that brightly- coloured packets like these make | :22:56. | :23:00. | |
smoking more attractive, especially to young people. If they have | :23:00. | :23:04. | |
nothing but health warnings on them and in a drab coloured packet, the | :23:04. | :23:09. | |
habit could be less attractive. The question is whether that would work. | :23:09. | :23:14. | |
I think a lot of young people are swayed by packaging and by various | :23:14. | :23:18. | |
brands. I think if someone wants a cigarette, or whether there is a | :23:18. | :23:23. | |
picture of it or not, somebody will buy it. There is evidence that | :23:23. | :23:26. | |
plain packaging might make a difference among those that are | :23:26. | :23:31. | |
more likely to quit. The scientists in Bristol are using sensitive eye | :23:31. | :23:41. | |
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movement detection to see how much attention people paid to a health | :23:43. | :23:51. | |
messages on a plane a pack. -- on plain coloured packaging. We do not | :23:51. | :23:55. | |
see it in daily smokers because they seem able to override an | :23:55. | :23:58. | |
automatic process, which is that your attention is drawn to the most | :23:58. | :24:03. | |
salient thing on the packet. nationwide consultation on | :24:03. | :24:07. | |
cigarette packaging begins next week, but consultants say that even | :24:07. | :24:11. | |
if unbranded packaging does come in, the industry will find other ways | :24:11. | :24:16. | |
to promote its products. It has been a day of horseracing | :24:16. | :24:19. | |
and haute couture, stylish ads and fancy frocks. Ladies' Day at | :24:19. | :24:24. | |
Aintree has always attracted thousands of women and some men, as | :24:24. | :24:29. | |
excitement builds for the Grand National tomorrow. | :24:29. | :24:33. | |
Record crowds already at Aintree this week, I have to say, and a lot | :24:33. | :24:37. | |
of excitement about the big race tomorrow. Some soul-searching as | :24:37. | :24:42. | |
well, because two horses died last year. That prompted a review into | :24:43. | :24:45. | |
safety and welfare and there will be particular attention on that at | :24:46. | :24:51. | |
the Grand National tomorrow. Here it has been business as usual today. | :24:51. | :24:55. | |
On Ladies' Day, the dress code is uniquely Aintree. It is part of the | :24:55. | :25:00. | |
fund. Months of planning go into Friday's display. The serious side | :25:00. | :25:06. | |
is often unseen. We filmed animal welfare campaigners are inspecting | :25:06. | :25:09. | |
the Grand National course with the British Horseracing Authority. | :25:09. | :25:13. | |
Things have changed, to an extent. The entry rules are different. | :25:13. | :25:17. | |
Older, better horses will run, and in some places the ground where | :25:17. | :25:21. | |
they land has been levelled but most of the fences are just as big. | :25:21. | :25:25. | |
At the end of the day, one has to ask the simple question of whether | :25:25. | :25:29. | |
it is reasonable. Is there was prepared? As the jockey got the | :25:29. | :25:35. | |
ability? -- are the horses prepared? Have the jockeys got the | :25:35. | :25:40. | |
ability? Things are going towards that now. Ruby Walsh is the | :25:40. | :25:43. | |
outstanding jockey, having won twice in the last few years. This | :25:44. | :25:48. | |
time he is joined by his sister, Katie Walsh on Seabass. She has a | :25:48. | :25:52. | |
genuine hope of winning herself, but she cannot rely on brotherly | :25:52. | :25:56. | |
assistance. She was always tagging along behind me, and there are five | :25:56. | :26:01. | |
years between us. It would be great for this race to have a woman with | :26:01. | :26:05. | |
it. It would be absolutely fantastic. I don't know if that is | :26:05. | :26:10. | |
going to be the case that if it happens... If that was the case, it | :26:10. | :26:20. | |
would be unbelievable. Better story, me winning three, if you could not | :26:20. | :26:25. | |
catch that! The thing that will make things safer his reign. The | :26:25. | :26:32. | |
dress code can always be adapted. - - is rain. Organisers stress that | :26:32. | :26:36. | |
this field will be the best ever assembled for the Grand National. | :26:36. | :26:46. | |
Better horses mean that fewer will Thank you. Now the weather. | :26:46. | :26:49. | |
For the Grand National itself, I am not expecting a picture like the | :26:49. | :26:53. | |
one behind me. There will be lots of cloud and not much sunshine. | :26:53. | :26:59. | |
There will be cloud and the breeze, so hold on to your hats, ladies. A | :26:59. | :27:03. | |
chance of some rain, but not a deluge by any means, but showers | :27:03. | :27:10. | |
around Aintree. Sharp showers around today. Some thunder in | :27:10. | :27:15. | |
southern areas. Places becoming dry. Hill snow in north-eastern England | :27:15. | :27:23. | |
later on. Dampness in South West England. In between, clear skies | :27:23. | :27:29. | |
and a touch of frost. He also continues to move down between | :27:30. | :27:35. | |
parts of northern England. -- hill snow. Those showers lingering in | :27:35. | :27:39. | |
the South West but in between a better chance of staying dry once | :27:39. | :27:45. | |
again. Disappointing on Saturday in the far South West of England. | :27:45. | :27:51. | |
Cloud, dampness, and the breeze a feature wherever you are. Drier | :27:51. | :27:54. | |
weather in South Eastern England and parts of England and Wales. | :27:54. | :27:58. | |
Then that area of cloudy, damp weather with showers. Northern | :27:58. | :28:02. | |
Ireland will see the most reliable sunshine tomorrow. Scotland, cloudy | :28:02. | :28:09. | |
but some showers and some snow over higher ground. Sunday morning could | :28:09. | :28:12. | |
be very cold and frosty with potentially damaging frost for the | :28:12. | :28:17. | |
gardeners. That will lift, and it will be brighter and dry in most | :28:17. | :28:21. | |
places. Some showers in eastern part of England. Enjoy it because | :28:21. | :28:26. | |
it goes downhill next week. Clouding over from Monday with | :28:26. | :28:33. |