24/07/2012 BBC News at Six

Senior executives and top journalists at the News of the

World have been charged over the phone hacking scandal. Rebekah

Brooks and Andy Coulson, David Cameron's former communications

chief, are among the eight accused. I have concluded that in relation

to eight of those 13 suspects, there is sufficient evidence for

there to be a realistic prospect of conviction. The charges against

them include hacking into the phone of the murdered schoolgirl Milly

Dowler - an accusation Mr Coulson says he'll fight. Anyone who knows

me or has worked with me would know that I wouldn't, more importantly

didn't, do anything to damage the Milly Dowler investigation.

Also on tonight's programme. A search and rescue emergency in

Dorset - fears that a holidaymaker is trapped under a landslide.

issued cloud of yellow dust from the cliffs. It landed on the beach,

a huge cloud. Here at the Olympic Park, another

1,200 troops deployed for London 2012 - ministers say they're

leaving nothing to chance. Team GB is welcomed into the

Olympic Village - we have a sneak preview of their home from home.

And what do Orkney Islanders have that the rest of us don't? A study

says they're the UK's happiest The British Olympic Association

awaits a response from injury-hit triple-jumper Phillips Idowu before

deciding whether he will compete at Good evening, welcome to the BBC

News at Six from the Olympic Park. David Cameron's former

communications chief, Andy Coulson, and Rebekah Brooks, the former News

International chief executive, are among eight people who are to be

charged over phone hacking. The pair are accused of knowing about

the extent of the phone hacking carried out while they were both

editors of the News of the World. There were hundreds of victims,

including the murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler. The pair have denied

any involvement. Here's our home It has taken 19 months and the

labours of up to 100 police officers. They have raided the

homes of reporters, editors and executives, but for the accused,

today was D-Day. All the evidence has been carefully considered.

Applying the two stage Test and the Code for Crown Prosecutors, I've

concluded that in relation to eight of those 13 suspects, there is

sufficient evidence for there to be a realistic prospect of conviction

in relation to one or more offences. in relation to one or more offences.

In all, there are 19 charges of illegally intercepting

communications for top Rebekah Brooks, the former chief executive

of News International, is facing three charges related to phone

hacking. She said she was distressed and angry. Andy Coulson,

once editor of the News of the World and David Cameron as

communications chief, faces �5. They are among those accused of

hacking Milly Dowler's phone-in 2002 while police were searching

for her. At his south London home, an angry Andy Coulson said he would

fight the charges. Anyone who knows me or has worked with me will know

that I would not and that I did not do anything to damage the Milly

Dowler investigation. The News of the World, we worked on behalf of

the victims of crime, particularly violent crime, and the idea that I

would sit in my office dreaming up schemes to undermine investigations

schemes to undermine investigations is simply untrue. He had veteran

reporter Neville Thurlbeck faces and denies the same month

accusations. As does Glenn Mulcaire, the original phone hacker, charged

again, this time for conspiring to intercept a voicemails. He said he

was extremely disappointed. Today's charge-sheet named specific victims

of hacking, international celebrities like Brad Pitt and

Angelina Jolie. And politicians, Charles Clarke, John Prescott and

David Blunkett among them. They have been waiting for these charges.

It had to come because truth will out and basically for five years

and more I've been fighting to get a proper examination of it. I

wasn't satisfied with a parliamentary one because I don't

think the truth was told. Leveson Inquiry is part way their. Now they

are in the courts and the charges have been laid and they have a

chance to tell the real story. is likely to be months before

tabloid journalism is good in the dock at a trial, though at a

magistrates' court hearing is expected shortly. The maximum

possible sentence for intercepting to his two years in prison.

Let's go live now to Downing Street and join our political

correspondent Gary O'Donoghue, who's there. Both Rebekah Brooks

and Andy Coulson are close to David Cameron. How politically

embarrassing is this for him? embarrassing and it is embarrassing

for this reason. It raises those questions of judgment. Andy Coulson

was hired by David Cameron after he had resigned as editor of the News

of the World and he was taken into David Cameron Skinner circle. When

David Cameron came to Downing Street, he was brought him, too. He

accepted the assurances from Mr Coulson and carried on and six

months later he had to lose him for topped with Rebekah Brooks, they

are neighbours, friends, they socialise together, they tasted

each other, they had supper together. For problem is there will

be months of trials and in the public's mind, the connection will

be there. In Downing Street, there's nothing they can do about

that. Specialist search and rescue teams

have been called to a landslide at a beach in Dorset. One person,

possibly a holidaymaker, is believed to be trapped after 400

tonnes of rock and sand fell away. It happened near the Freshwater

Beach Holiday Park at Burton Bradstock. Let's go live there now

Tonight rescue workers are still sifting through tonnes of rubble

for the missing person. This incident happened in just a split

second. Hundreds of tonnes of rubble fell

from the coast path on to this beach near Burton Bradstock. It is

a popular resort for tourists, the area was packed on this hot day for

top it all happened so suddenly, and there's a sense of shock.

Coastguard rescue teams are painstakingly searching through the

debris after the person who made the initial emergency call toll

then someone was trapped. For landslip happened after 12:30pm

today, just around the corner from a busy caravan park. A huge cloud

of yellow dust from the rocks. It landed on the beach, a huge cloud.

A massive cliff fall had happened and we were hoping no one was under

it. Fire service, police and ambulance are at the St as the

search continues. Police are asking people on land and at sea to stay

away from the area as the Cliff remains unsafe. The causes of the

landslide are being investigated. That search is still very much on

going behind me and we are just nine miles from bare Minster, which

is where just two weeks ago, to pensioners were killed when a

tunnel collapsed on their car. -- two pensioners.

Syrian government forces have used war planes to attack the country's

second city in a further escalation of the conflict. There were fierce

clashes in Aleppo, where rebel fighters launched an offensive at

the weekend in an attempt to wrest control of the city from the army.

Reports say fighting has been taking place at the entrance to the

Old City, which is a world heritage site.

1,200 military personnel who were on standby to bolster security here

at London 2012 are now to be deployed. Ministers say they want

to leave nothing to chance. This is on top of an extra 3,500 who have

been brought in since the private company G4S said they were short of

staff. Our defence correspondent, Yet more military personnel will

soon be landing -- lending a helping hand. The extra forces will

include several hundred Royal Marines as well as troops from 16

Air assault Brigade and others from the first Armoured Division based

in Germany. Olympic organisers insisted it wasn't due to any new

security threat of failure, but at -- but that it was better to be

safe than sorry. I'm grateful to the military who have done a great

job. I'm grateful to the police who have worked with us in a terrific

way to make sure the overall co- ordination around the venues is

taken care of. I'm very grateful to the existing G4S security force,

6,000 of them. If they are now under pressure. Her at least some

of the key extra troops will be housed here at Tobacco Dock, which

will ultimately be home to 2,300 of the military personnel while they

work at the Olympics. It is not clear exactly where the extra

military staff will work, but they will be filling in whatever gaps

remain. 23,500 staff are involved in securing and helping with the

Olympics. Of those, 18,200 will now be military doesn't melt after G4S

failed to provide the promised number of civilian staff on their

roles will include guarding sites, keeping athletes, VIPs and the

public safe and secure a. Her I'm confident we will have a save games.

We have the military, the police, the guards. There has been a need

to put in more police officers around the country, but in London

it was 60 officers. It will not cause us to fail. Today the Olympic

organising committee said it was disappointed with G4S's original

failure to deliver what was promised, but said Doug review of

what had gone wrong and must wait until after the Games, but they

also stressed that having more men and women from the armed forces

involved should make for even say for venues. -- stay for venues.

Part of the job of the security operation is to guard the Olympic

Village behind me, and right now that's where Team GB athletes are

being welcomed into their London 2012 home. Our sports correspondent,

James Pearce, is there. This is such a big evening for Team

GB. Their welcome ceremony is under way. Some of the biggest stars of

the team I hear. I have just picked up Andy Murray in the crowd. A

performance by the National Youth Theatre. This is the evening when

the Games begin for many athletes. The inside the athletes village,

home to 16,000 people. One of them is Team GB hockey player Ian Lewis.

How do you do? Welcome to my home. Happy to show us around? No problem.

First stop, the dining hall. This is an important place for you. This

is where you get your food. It is enormous. Yes, this is where we

refuel, morning, noon and night. What choices do you have? A large

variety. I mainly keep to the best of Britain section and the European

and American section. Mainly for avoidance of any unwanted illness.

Then on to the living quarters for top Team GB has been allocated one

of the quieter corners of the village. This is my accommodation

for the next three weeks. Here are some of my team-mates. The so-

called intellectual in the corner reading a book! How many of you?

And nine of us in a block. This is my personal residence over the next

three weeks. Everything you need, really. Whitbread is yours? The

Maint bed or the unmade bed? made bed. Pride of place is your

wardrobe. This will come in handy over the next couple of weeks.

Elsewhere, one man struggling to make it to the village. Beijing

silver medallist at Phillips Idowu was pulled out of the training camp

in Portugal, injured, and the British Olympic Association have

asked for his medical records. chief medical officer has written

to him. Once we receive that information, we can make a judgment

about whether he is fit to compete. For others, it will continues to go

according to plan. Team GB swim has even had time to pose for the

cameras when they arrived in London this afternoon. One person I have

just plucked from the crowd, former star of big brother, Anthony Ogogo.

You have just arrived in the village today, what do you make of

it? It is amazing. The atmosphere, the other countries are here, the

flags are up. It is amazing. These are your fast Olympics, put into

words what it is like to be here. Representing Team GB, I am so proud.

Wearing a tracksuit, doing something I love doing in London,

the sun is out. I can't wait to get going and perform on a massive

stage. Inside his village, every corner there's someone famous. Who

are you most looking forward to seeing? Up I saw Andy Murray. I am

going to keep my head down, keep focused, think about the gold medal.

If I see anybody famous, I will get a bit excited, but keep it under

wraps. Best of luck. Win that gold for Team GB! You can see more about

this on the BBC website. The Home Office has said it is

seeking a High Court injunction to prevent border staff from going on

strike on Thursday. The PCS union has threatened to take a striker

action on the eve of the Olympics, the planned walkout is in a row

over jobs and pay. Spain is facing deeper financial

trouble after several of its regions went bust. They're now

looking to the Madrid government to bail them out. Public sector

workers are continuing a series of walk-outs. And today there's been

another spike in Spain's borrowing costs. Our Europe correspondent,

Matthew Price, is in Brussels for How can the Spanish government

help? It has got enough problems of its own. That is true. Investors

are asking exactly the same question, George. You have regional

governments who are billions of euros in debt, Spanish banks

billions of euros in debt, a worsening recession, and the

markets do not seem to believe that Spain can survive for much longer

without some form of national bailout. Now, what would that mean

for the single currency? Well, Spain is the eurozone's 4th largest

economy. There would be questions about how much money was needed,

and it would come out of the eurozone bail-out fund. There would

be questions about how much money would be left in those funds to

help other potential countries in difficulty. There is a political

question, Aap Germans willing to sign another cheque for one of the

southern countries which is in so much debt? I have been talking to

senior eurozone officials here. They said they thought they had

bought themselves some weeks before they needed to work on this crisis,

but not many of them have got Olympic tickets, I suspect rather

than be able to attend games, they will be stuck in his building

Our top story tonight: Rebekah Brooks and David Cameron's former

communications chief, Andy Coulson, are among eight people to be

charged over phone-hacking. Coming up: The heat is on, how Olympic

athletes and organisers have been coping on the hottest day of the

year. In the business news, as Europe's

biggest economy loses caste, Moody's lowers its outlook on

Germany's triple A rating. And HSBC's former chairman and CEO says

he regrets the Bank's role in Now, how would you rate your well-

being, not just a standard of living but how happy you feel?

After the biggest ever study into the subject, it turns out that

people of Shetland, Orkney and the Hebrides seem to have the secret

for a contented life. Home editor Mark Easton reports on whether the

findings could ever find their way into government policy.

How happy were yesterday? How anxious on a scale of 1 to 10? How

would you rate your life satisfaction? The most detailed

survey of Britain's well-being ever conducted reveals that the country

is actually a pretty chipper sort of place with records of people

scoring their overall satisfaction at over seven out of 10, but not

everyone is brimming with joy. Asked if they were happy yesterday,

11% rated them at below five out of 10, and 22% said their anxiety

levels were high. For most contented part of the country is

the furthest 0, Shetland, Orkney and the Hebrides, where 83% of

people reported high levels of happiness. It is not about money,

and it is not always sunny here, but the five least anxious areas in

the UK are all in the north of Scotland. So what do the islanders

put it down to? I have lived all over the world and I chose to come

back here, best place to be. can still walk up under the street

and say eye and feel as if you really belong in the place. Farmers

have a reputation for being a bit gloomy, but data finds that people

who work on the land are actually among the happiest. In Lancashire,

I met a dairy farmer who refuses to let the current row over milk

prices getting down. New line at one with nature, you feel the

elements are in-your-face. -- you are at one with nature. I am here

all the time, I like it. At the other end of the scale, the former

industrial areas of the South Wales valleys score very poorly.

Unemployment is seriously bad for happiness. Whitehall departments

will be scouring the numbers for the secrets of the feel-good factor.

Policymakers are now obliged to consider well-being when

calculating value for money. Public policy needs to get behind those

figures and understand why those differences exist, so for example

is it just about the types of jobs that people had in those areas? Is

it about the public services on offer? This local Post Office may

not make economic sense, but the evidence is that places like this

make the communities they are in happier, so when considering

whether the Government should subsidise the village post office,

well-being statistics may well swing the argument. Just as post

offices are about a lot more than stamps, so well being is about a

lot more than money. The challenge is to work out what the numbers

tell us about human happiness. There has been an outbreak of

legionnaire's disease in Stoke-on- Trent. Seven confirmed cases are

being treated at the University Hospital of North Staffordshire.

Five of the patients are said to be improving. The other two, both men

in their 70s, are in a stable condition.

The son of the late comedian Ronnie Barker has appeared before

magistrates accused of making indecent images of children. Adam

Barker, who had been on the run for eight years, was charged this

morning after going to a police station in west London.

Now, to you pay your cleaner or gardener cash in hand? Many of us

do, but now the government has described the practice as morally

wrong if the point is to avoid paying VAT. The Treasury says that

other people and that having to pay more tax. Shia Danny Savage. --

here is. Cleaning, gardening and plumbing,

just some of the jobs that people K cash-in-hand to have done. There's

nothing wrong with paying cash, but a government minister says it is

morally wrong to do so if it is done to avoid paying tax. But how

right is it? This Yorkshire-based building materials supplier knows

what can happen. If the customer is specifically asking you to knock

the vat of in return for a lower price, that is very difficult, if

you are trying to run an honest business, and yet you know you are

competing against other people who are in such circumstances that they

are prepared to do so. But Alan Dowd, an electric in Leeds, says he

would rather be paid in cash, but it is certainly nothing to do with

avoiding tax. You are not waiting for money. A lot of time you are

waiting three months to actually get paid, bills, invoices from big

places. You're just constantly waiting all the time, and you

cannot buy parts for other jobs. The Government says paying

tradesmen in cash means a lot of tax is not being paid and fuels the

black economy, but how many of us can honestly say that we have not

been offered a discount for cash or asked for one? I think it is quite

agreeable for people to be paid cash, especially when it is a one-

man band, it makes the world go wrong. If somebody will do

something on the side for a bit less money, I'm sure they would do

it, because we are British! inevitably, questions are being

asked in high places. I have paid a lot of cash in hand, I will tell

you that! But will people listen to a moral message about tax

avoidance? It is morally wrong, but not half as serious as major

scandals we have seen in recent months and years, so yes, it is

wrong, but it may also be wrong to put too much emphasis on it.

Measuring the extent of lost revenue is difficult. But tax-

paying tradesmen, like these year, say it leads to unfair competition.

The message for the Treasury is that cash in hand to avoid tax is

robbing the nation. Now, here in East London, it has

been the hottest day of the year so far, but it has not been like that

in every part of the UK. For the Olympic organisers and athletes,

the heat is a blessing and a curse. Jon Kay is sweltering at Tower

Bridge. Jon. Yeah, George, I know it has not

been great everywhere, but in London at least tonight it does

finally feel like the summer is here, temperatures nudging 30

degrees Celsius tonight, and in fact the Olympic host city seems to

have been getting hotter and hotter from the moment the torch arrived

here at the weekend. London's warm-up is under way. At

Eton Dorney, the world's top rowers are acclimatising to of our unique

conditions. One week ago, they would have been in thermals here,

but suddenly the capital feels like it is hosting the summer Olympics,

rather than the winter Games. In Hackney, two miles from the Olympic

Park, they are making up for lost sunshine. It is the best weather

ever! It is beautiful! Everyone smiles, no miserable faces.

obviously had not been on the A12, where Olympic traffic meant long

delays and short tempers. I think it is going to be a bit chaotic

over these couple of weeks, to say the least. How has it affected you?

It is stressful. The Olympics has not even started and we are

experiencing this. It is terrible, but I'm not going to moan because

we could be sitting in traffic and it is raining! The Olympic flame

travelled by Tube this morning. This commuter journey was bang on

time, but last night there were long delays on the underground near

the Olympic Park, and today the heat caused more problems. Some

trains heading into London from East Anglia. These foreign visitors

spent much of the day perfecting the British Board of queueing,

collecting Olympic tickets from an agency. -- British sport. Athletics,

beach volleyball, handballed, tennis. A frustrating wait, but

many were just a relieved that it is no longer raining. It is better

than last week, when it was drizzly, cold, and all the sudden the summer

is here! It is good. Everyone seems happy and excited about the

Olympics now. Whoever was in charge of planning the weather on the

Olympic Committee, they got it right on. At Horse Guards Parade,

where soldiers normally Trooping the Colour, the elite Australian

beach volleyballers are trying out their Olympic arena. A bit of

sunshine, and suddenly Bondi Beach Now, if those Australians were back

home right now, it would be seven degrees Celsius on Bondi Beach,

compared with 30 degrees here. Of course, it is winter there, and

before we get too smug, the word on the street is that as we get closer

to the opening ceremony, this is not necessarily going to last much

longer. George, I think you have news on that for us.

I know a man who can tell us whether it will last longer or not,

Alex Deakin is out there, enjoying It is going to change, but only

gradually, there is the possibility of rain for the opening ceremony,

but just a possibility. For the next couple of days of the southern

half of the country, it is more of the same, perhaps getting hotter

and more humid. Today we had 30 degrees Celsius, the hottest day of

the year so far across the south- east, but further north a lot of

cloud, temperatures in the high teens and that cloud for central

Scotland and Northern Ireland, which is making for a pretty soggy

evening here. Heavy bursts of rain as that wet weather drifts across

central and southern Scotland through the course of the evening,

gradually fizzling out overnight. Most places dry by morning. It is a

warm night, shimmied across the south, temperatures in the high

teens, more comfortable further north. A subtle change tomorrow,

brighter across the central belt of Scotland and Northern Ireland. Much

cloud through northern England, parts of the Midlands and just the

possibility in the Midlands of one showers. A pleasant stay in Glasgow,

21 Celsius, 70 Fahrenheit. For the football tomorrow evening, looking

hot and sticky at the Millennium Stadium, perhaps a little bit more

cloud in Coventry, but it does look fairly hot as the sport gets under

way. Then into Thursday, again, hot and sunny across the south, more

cloud around, perhaps not quite as hot, still ploughed across central

areas. -- cloud. Into Friday, we see more of a change. At the moment

it is just a possibility of a shower at the opening ceremony, the

message is they tuned to the fore cast over the next couple of days,

A reminder of the main news: Rebekah Brooks and David Carmen's