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The police in Manchester demand an end to the feuding between two | :00:07. | :00:11. | |
criminal families. As police mourn their colleagues killed in the | :00:12. | :00:16. | |
grenade and gun attack, a call for the violence to stop. Enough is | :00:16. | :00:22. | |
enough. This has to end. That's why we have been working with | :00:22. | :00:28. | |
individuals. That's why we have had such an intensive policing | :00:28. | :00:32. | |
operation in place. Another arrest of a man who | :00:32. | :00:37. | |
glorified the main suspect, Dale Cregan, as a legend on Facebook. | :00:37. | :00:41. | |
Also on tonight's programme: How Government money aimed at helping | :00:41. | :00:45. | |
the poorest schoolchildren in England isn't being spent on them. | :00:45. | :00:48. | |
An inquest into the poisoning of a former Russian spy will examine | :00:48. | :00:52. | |
whether he was killed by the Russian Government. | :00:52. | :00:55. | |
A baby born at Camp Bastion - the first time a British soldier has | :00:55. | :01:01. | |
given birth in a war zone. Over �1 million worth of watches | :01:01. | :01:05. | |
stolen from a department store in full view of customers. | :01:05. | :01:13. | |
Coming up on the BBC News Channel. Grand National organisers announce | :01:13. | :01:20. | |
changes to improve safety for jockeys and horses, but there's no | :01:20. | :01:30. | |
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Good evening. Welcome to BBC News at Six. Police investigating the | :01:36. | :01:39. | |
deaths of two of their colleagues have appealed to two criminal | :01:39. | :01:44. | |
families in the community to end their feuding saying "enough is | :01:44. | :01:51. | |
enough". It was revealed the police have had to issue a number of so- | :01:51. | :01:56. | |
called Osman warnings in the area. Detectives have been given until | :01:56. | :01:59. | |
tomorrow morning to continue questioning Dale Cregan about the | :01:59. | :02:04. | |
murders of Nicola Hughes and Fiona Bone. Danny Savage is at the scene. | :02:04. | :02:07. | |
What detectives will not be drawn on at the moment is who exactly | :02:07. | :02:11. | |
they have given those warnings about death or serious injury to. | :02:11. | :02:14. | |
Here at the scene of the murders tonight, the area remains sealed | :02:14. | :02:17. | |
off. You will probably notice the big pile of flowers that have been | :02:17. | :02:20. | |
building up behind us here. It's been moved further down the street. | :02:20. | :02:29. | |
This cordon is expected to be partially lifted this evening as | :02:29. | :02:32. | |
more details have begun to emerge. The place where two unarmed | :02:32. | :02:39. | |
officers were killed is not only a murder scene, but it is becoming an | :02:39. | :02:41. | |
unofficial memorial. Today the neighbourhood police team paid | :02:41. | :02:46. | |
their respects. These were friends, as well as colleagues. Fiona Bone's | :02:46. | :02:50. | |
family have travelled here from the Isle of Man. There have been tens | :02:50. | :02:54. | |
of thousands of messages of support for both her and Nicola Hughes, who | :02:54. | :02:59. | |
were killed in a gun and grenade attack. One local woman, who | :02:59. | :03:03. | |
doesn't want her identity revealed, heard what happened. I was going | :03:03. | :03:10. | |
out to put some rubbish out and I heard gunshots. It was like boom, | :03:10. | :03:17. | |
boom, boom, BOOM - one big one, it was like a grenade. Then I heard a | :03:17. | :03:23. | |
woman cry out screaming. It was pain. Someone had been hurt bad. I | :03:23. | :03:28. | |
can still hear the screaming now. Police now say what happened here | :03:28. | :03:34. | |
was possibly the result of an ongoing interfamily feud and have | :03:34. | :03:39. | |
called for it to stop. Enough is enough. This has to end. We were | :03:39. | :03:43. | |
investigating a feud between two criminal families. We continue to | :03:43. | :03:47. | |
do that. The link between that and Tuesday's events is still part of | :03:47. | :03:51. | |
an active investigation. Dale Cregan, the man under arrest in | :03:51. | :03:55. | |
connection with Tuesday's double murder, may have been part of that | :03:55. | :03:58. | |
feud. He's also being questioned about the murders of father and son | :03:58. | :04:03. | |
David and Mark Short. They were killed in separate incidents | :04:03. | :04:07. | |
earlier this year. The Shorts are understood to be one of the | :04:07. | :04:11. | |
families today's police statement was aimed at. Quite how two | :04:11. | :04:15. | |
officers then ended up being targeted is still unclear. But | :04:15. | :04:19. | |
detectives say certain individuals may still be at risk from a batch | :04:19. | :04:27. | |
of hand grenades used here and in previous incidents. Those deemed at | :04:27. | :04:34. | |
being at risk have been given a so- called Osman warning. Police have | :04:34. | :04:36. | |
very credible intelligence that someone's life is in danger, not | :04:36. | :04:41. | |
only in danger but someone has the ability to carry out that threat | :04:42. | :04:46. | |
and their life is in imminent danger. A 22-year-old man has been | :04:46. | :04:53. | |
arrested after a Facebook site was set up describing Dale Cregan as "a | :04:53. | :04:58. | |
legend". To tastelessly add derogatory comments to think they | :04:58. | :05:02. | |
are poking fun at such a tragic situation will always cause a great | :05:02. | :05:06. | |
deal of emotion. This afternoon, the Chief Constable of Greater | :05:06. | :05:09. | |
Manchester police came to the murder scene for the first time to | :05:09. | :05:14. | |
lay his own tribute. Here, the painstaking work goes on as | :05:14. | :05:18. | |
elsewhere detectives have been given more time to question Dale | :05:18. | :05:22. | |
Cregan. We have also had more details about | :05:22. | :05:24. | |
the 28-year-old man arrested yesterday on suspicion of | :05:24. | :05:32. | |
conspiracy to commit murder. His name is Steven Garvey. The BBC | :05:32. | :05:35. | |
understands his arrest concerns the phone call to report a burglary, | :05:35. | :05:38. | |
the phone call that lured the two police officers here prior to the | :05:38. | :05:42. | |
shooting. That is one of the many avenues this investigation is | :05:42. | :05:48. | |
following at the moment. Money intended to improve the | :05:48. | :05:52. | |
education of students from poor families in England isn't being | :05:52. | :05:58. | |
spent properly according to the schools watchdog, Ofsted. Some of | :05:58. | :06:03. | |
the �1.25 billion "pupil premium" is being used to plug holes in | :06:03. | :06:12. | |
school budgets instead of being targeted at the most needy. | :06:12. | :06:19. | |
A big divide - the pupil premium was brought in to bridge that gap. | :06:19. | :06:24. | |
But the regulator says in too many schools it's failing to make a | :06:24. | :06:30. | |
difference. Schools are not using the pupil premium money effective | :06:30. | :06:35. | |
li. 50% of schools surveyed said -- effectively. 50% of schools | :06:35. | :06:38. | |
surveyed said it's made no difference to the way they operate. | :06:38. | :06:43. | |
That is fine if they demonstrate those poor children are catching up | :06:43. | :06:50. | |
with their prosperous counterparts. The pupil premium is is a flagship | :06:50. | :06:54. | |
Government policy with a big budget. Sit worth �600 per pupil in England | :06:54. | :06:59. | |
this -- it is worth �600 per pupil in England this year. It is given | :07:00. | :07:03. | |
to schools for any child eligible to free school meals in the past | :07:03. | :07:11. | |
six years. A smaller sum is given to those whose parents serve in the | :07:11. | :07:17. | |
Armed Forces. The New North Academy has been given the pupil premium | :07:17. | :07:21. | |
for two-thirds of its children. The head here has used the money to | :07:21. | :07:26. | |
employ extra staff and to reduce class sizes for ten-year-olds. | :07:26. | :07:31. | |
class is a very small class. We've got two small classes of 17 in Year | :07:31. | :07:35. | |
5 because we are seeing that as a pivotal year in moving the children | :07:35. | :07:40. | |
forward to Year 6. This is a pilot and we are using the pupil premium | :07:40. | :07:46. | |
to explore that pilot. Schools can use the pupil premium as they wish, | :07:46. | :07:49. | |
meaning it can be absorbed into their budget. One teaching union | :07:49. | :07:54. | |
said other cuts to funding meant it wasn't really extra money. Schools | :07:54. | :07:58. | |
are doing their very best to maintain provision that they had | :07:58. | :08:03. | |
previously. The fact is, they have had cuts to their base budget. So | :08:03. | :08:07. | |
the pupil premium is not really new money, it's money that is | :08:07. | :08:11. | |
supporting existing school budgets. Ministers need the pupil premium to | :08:12. | :08:16. | |
be a winner. They say it is extra funding and shows they are serious | :08:16. | :08:20. | |
about social mobility. Ofsted wants to see results. They will criticise | :08:20. | :08:23. | |
schools during inspections if they can't show any and say the money | :08:23. | :08:27. | |
may have to be ringfenced so it is more targeted at those who really | :08:27. | :08:32. | |
need it. An inquest into the death of the | :08:32. | :08:35. | |
former Russian spy, Alexander Litvinenko, will examine claims | :08:35. | :08:39. | |
that the Russian Government were involved. Mr Litvinenko, who was a | :08:39. | :08:45. | |
British citizen, died after being poisoned by the radioactive | :08:45. | :08:49. | |
substance polonium six years. Any Russian involvement would amount to | :08:49. | :08:57. | |
an act of state-sponsored nuclear terrorism on the streets of London. | :08:57. | :09:03. | |
Alexander Litvinenko met a slow, painful death in a London hospital, | :09:03. | :09:06. | |
poisoned by radiation. He was a fierce critic of the Kremlin, but | :09:06. | :09:11. | |
was it behind his killing? Today, a lawyer for his widow, said it was | :09:11. | :09:14. | |
vital to establish whether the killing had been a targeted | :09:14. | :09:18. | |
assassination by agents of a foreign state. If it was, he said | :09:18. | :09:22. | |
it would be an act of state- sponsored nuclear terrorism on the | :09:22. | :09:27. | |
streets of London. Do you believe the Russian state was behind your | :09:27. | :09:35. | |
husband's murder? Till now, I believe it. Again, what I say, | :09:35. | :09:42. | |
polonium was used, a high level of radioactive material, what you | :09:42. | :09:47. | |
can't buy, you can't find anywhere because it is all under state- | :09:47. | :09:51. | |
control. In 2006, police followed a radioactive trail. They found | :09:51. | :09:59. | |
traces of polonium at a bar in Piccadilly, in offices in Mayfair | :09:59. | :10:03. | |
and also at the Millennium Hotel in Grosvenor Square. It was here, at | :10:03. | :10:07. | |
the Pine Bar of the Millennium Hotel that Alexander Litvinenko | :10:07. | :10:12. | |
drank tea with some Russian visitors. That's the moment police | :10:12. | :10:16. | |
believe the radioactive poison was administered. They followed its | :10:16. | :10:20. | |
trial all the way back to Moscow. The Crown Prosecution Service says | :10:20. | :10:25. | |
it has enough evidence to charge two men - one this former security | :10:25. | :10:30. | |
officer - Andrei Lugovoi, now a Russian MP. Another confirmed today | :10:30. | :10:33. | |
as Dmitry Kovtun. Both deny involvement and remain in Russia. | :10:33. | :10:38. | |
Britain and Russia's leaders have been trying to patch up relations, | :10:38. | :10:43. | |
including at the Olympic judo. It will Litvinenko's murder led to a | :10:43. | :10:49. | |
major row, diplomats expelled. An inquest may aggravate relations | :10:49. | :10:55. | |
further and may not get all the answers. Any sort of definitive | :10:55. | :10:58. | |
answer will be extremely difficult to ascertain without Russian | :10:58. | :11:01. | |
Government co-operation. That is unlikely to be forthcoming. | :11:01. | :11:06. | |
Coroner indicated he would look at Russia's role. Material on possible | :11:06. | :11:09. | |
links between Mr Litvinenko and British intelligence may not be | :11:10. | :11:15. | |
released. The full inquest begins in the new year. | :11:15. | :11:19. | |
A baby has been born at Camp Bastion in Afghanistan. It's | :11:19. | :11:22. | |
believed to be the first time a British soldier has given birth in | :11:22. | :11:26. | |
a combat zone. The mother, a gunner in the Royal Artillery, didn't | :11:26. | :11:29. | |
realise she was pregnant. The Ministry of Defence says it does | :11:29. | :11:33. | |
not allow pregnant women to serve on the frontline. | :11:34. | :11:37. | |
In a place more used to dealing with death than with new life, it | :11:38. | :11:42. | |
was here at the field hospital at Camp Bastion that the baby was born. | :11:42. | :11:47. | |
The soldier, who is originally from Fiji, was close to the end of her | :11:47. | :11:50. | |
six-month tour. She's in the Royal Artillery and had been deployed | :11:50. | :11:57. | |
with the 12th Mechanised Brigade. She went to medics complaining of | :11:57. | :12:00. | |
stomach pains. It was only then that she learnt she was pregnant. | :12:00. | :12:04. | |
On Tuesday the baby was born five weeks premature. The soldier | :12:04. | :12:08. | |
conceived her child before being sent to Afghanistan. The MoD says | :12:08. | :12:11. | |
mother and child are in stable condition and are receiving the | :12:11. | :12:16. | |
best possible care. The statement goes on to say, "It is not military | :12:16. | :12:20. | |
policy to allow servicewomen to deploy on operation if they are | :12:20. | :12:24. | |
pregnant. In this instance, the MoD was unaware of the pregnancy." This | :12:24. | :12:28. | |
is the first time a British soldier is known to have given birth on the | :12:28. | :12:31. | |
frontline. Although more than 170 servicewomen have been sent home | :12:31. | :12:35. | |
from Iraq and Afghanistan after discovering they were pregnant. | :12:35. | :12:40. | |
Doctors say there are some women who don't realise they are pregnant. | :12:40. | :12:44. | |
I remember when I was first qualified and I looked after a | :12:44. | :12:48. | |
young 16-year-old girl who had actually presented to hospital, she | :12:48. | :12:53. | |
had been sent to do her GCSE exams in the morning and she came along | :12:53. | :12:57. | |
at 11.00pm and had her baby and didn't realise she was pregnant. | :12:57. | :13:02. | |
This unusual case has fuelled debate over whether more medical | :13:02. | :13:06. | |
checks are needed before women are deployed to the frontline. | :13:06. | :13:12. | |
soldier in question was extremely lucky that she was actually at Camp | :13:12. | :13:16. | |
Bastion when she gave birth. There, there is a properly-established | :13:16. | :13:21. | |
medical facility which could look after her properly. If she had been | :13:21. | :13:25. | |
sent out on patrol, it may well have been a different story indeed | :13:25. | :13:29. | |
and the outcome might have not been what it is. A team of medics is on | :13:29. | :13:33. | |
its way to Camp Bastion to help care for the soldier and her baby | :13:33. | :13:39. | |
on their RAF flight home. BSkyB will be allowed to continue | :13:40. | :13:44. | |
to hold its broadcasting licences despite its former chairman being | :13:44. | :13:48. | |
strongly criticised in the report into the phone hacking affair by | :13:48. | :13:58. | |
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the media regulator, Ofcom. It says his failure to investigate the | :13:59. | :14:02. | |
allegations is "difficult to comprehend and ill-judged". | :14:02. | :14:05. | |
A court has been told that the man whose death sparked the riots | :14:05. | :14:08. | |
across England last year had pulled a handgun from his waistband | :14:08. | :14:14. | |
moments before he was shot dead by police. The claim about Mark Duggan | :14:14. | :14:22. | |
came during evidence given by a police firearms officer. No gun was | :14:22. | :14:29. | |
found on his body. Matt Prodger was in court. What else was said today? | :14:29. | :14:33. | |
Well, this officer gave evidence from behind a screen to protect his | :14:33. | :14:40. | |
anonymity. He said that he was within five metres of the taxi | :14:40. | :14:46. | |
containing Mark Duggan. He saw Mr Duggan inside, he said with his | :14:46. | :14:51. | |
hand underneath his jacket. He said that arm came out to reveal a gun. | :14:51. | :14:55. | |
Two shots were fired. Mark Duggan clutched his chest before falling | :14:55. | :14:59. | |
to his knees. This officer said that he was then the first person | :14:59. | :15:03. | |
to search Mark Duggan, but he found no sign of the gun either on his | :15:03. | :15:08. | |
body or underneath his body. The prosecution alleges that a gun was | :15:08. | :15:11. | |
later found some ten feet away on the other side of railings. This | :15:12. | :15:16. | |
officer was also asked why he had made no mention of the claim that | :15:16. | :15:20. | |
Mark Duggan was holding a gun when he provided a statement a few hours | :15:20. | :15:27. | |
later to which he replied, "I don't know." The officer denies having | :15:27. | :15:31. | |
supplied the gun to Mark Duggan. An inquest will not be held until next | :15:31. | :15:41. | |
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Our top story tonight: Police investigating the deaths of two of | :15:46. | :15:49. | |
their colleagues in Greater Manchester have appealed to two | :15:49. | :15:56. | |
criminal families in the area to end their feuding. Could the | :15:57. | :16:02. | |
Premier League hold the key to improving's health. Surprising bad | :16:02. | :16:07. | |
figures from the eurozone, as the Euro-crisis continues. We hear how | :16:07. | :16:10. | |
more UK employers will be forced to enrol their workers in a pension | :16:10. | :16:20. | |
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The Government has defended its controversial reform to the welfare | :16:23. | :16:28. | |
system, which will see multiple benefits rolled into one, known as | :16:28. | :16:30. | |
the Universal Credit. Iain Duncan Smith said he would not be deterred | :16:30. | :16:34. | |
by criticism that his reforms are unachievable or that they are a | :16:34. | :16:40. | |
cover for cuts. He was speaking to our political editor Nick Robinson. | :16:40. | :16:44. | |
Imagine a change affecting 19 million people. A change which will | :16:44. | :16:49. | |
see the end of six different benefits. A change to a new online | :16:49. | :16:54. | |
system, delivering just one - Universal Credit. Starting for some | :16:54. | :17:00. | |
as early as next year. That is exactly what the welfare secretary, | :17:00. | :17:05. | |
Iain Duncan Smith, spends his time doing. Tax credits, jobseeker's | :17:05. | :17:10. | |
allowance. If they are on income support and a lone parent - so | :17:10. | :17:15. | |
pages... The plan is for all those forms to go and be replaced by this | :17:15. | :17:20. | |
- a screen designed to look like a monthly pay slip. It is a change | :17:20. | :17:24. | |
because it changes the nature of how people go from being out of | :17:24. | :17:30. | |
work to back in work. It makes it simpler, which is a huge thing. It | :17:30. | :17:33. | |
makes it easier and it rewards those who make the right decision | :17:33. | :17:38. | |
to go back to work. Those who work with people who depend on benefits | :17:38. | :17:41. | |
have heard the sales pitch, but they are growing worried about what | :17:41. | :17:46. | |
it will mean for the people who need their help. There will be a | :17:46. | :17:50. | |
lot at a loss, who have nevered used a computer in their life. | :17:50. | :17:55. | |
fear is just one held by organisations like the Citizens | :17:56. | :17:59. | |
Advice Bureau. Politicians often talk about what they are doing | :17:59. | :18:01. | |
being the biggest change since the start of the welfare state. This | :18:01. | :18:10. | |
time it is. For the 2,000 -- 2,000 volunteers we are feeling: Iain | :18:10. | :18:14. | |
Duncan Smith turned down a new job in the Cabinet reshuffle in part | :18:14. | :18:19. | |
because he wanted to prove the doubters wrong, including those who | :18:19. | :18:22. | |
mutter about him inside Government. I think they say Iain Duncan Smith | :18:22. | :18:27. | |
- he's a dreamer. I don't sleep enough to dream, to be frank with | :18:27. | :18:32. | |
you. It is a job that takes me so many hours. It is not about | :18:32. | :18:36. | |
dreaming - this is about caring. Honestly, I know people think | :18:36. | :18:42. | |
caring is about saying "Have some more money." Real changing is | :18:42. | :18:47. | |
saying "I want to change your life with you, so you take control to be | :18:47. | :18:53. | |
a better person." Changing lives by stopping the system treating | :18:53. | :18:59. | |
claimants like children. So in the future those unemployed will get | :18:59. | :19:04. | |
their benefits once a month. This is a project running late. It is | :19:05. | :19:07. | |
�100 million over budget. There are organisations all over the country | :19:07. | :19:11. | |
that are screaming out for decisions that need to be made if | :19:11. | :19:17. | |
this is to land on time. When you hear the criticisms, the doubters - | :19:17. | :19:22. | |
are you demoralised? I am never demoralised these days. I have been | :19:22. | :19:26. | |
leader of the Conservative Party - it doesn't get worse than that. | :19:26. | :19:29. | |
Government insist their welfare revolution is on time, on budget | :19:29. | :19:34. | |
and will be fair. If they are wrong, millions will notice, even though, | :19:34. | :19:42. | |
for now, very few have even heard the words - Universal Credit. | :19:42. | :19:45. | |
The bodies of three British servicemen killed in Afghanistan in | :19:45. | :19:48. | |
the last week have been brought back to Britain. Families, friends | :19:48. | :19:53. | |
and members of the public paid respects in Carterton in | :19:54. | :19:59. | |
Oxfordshire as the cortege went by. Those who died were Lance Corporal | :19:59. | :20:02. | |
Duane Groom from the Queen's Company, 1st Battalion Grenadier | :20:02. | :20:05. | |
Guards. Sergeant Gareth Thursby and Private Thomas Wroe from 3rd | :20:05. | :20:09. | |
Battalion The Yorkshire Regiment. Watches worth more than �1 million | :20:09. | :20:13. | |
have been stolen from a department store in Manchester City centre in | :20:13. | :20:18. | |
full view of customers. Three men used an axe and crowbar to smash | :20:18. | :20:23. | |
display cabinets. The men were in the store for less than two minutes | :20:23. | :20:29. | |
before making off with the watches. As masked men stormed into | :20:29. | :20:33. | |
Selfridges yesterday they kpwhited an audacious daylight robbery, | :20:33. | :20:38. | |
smashing cases with crowbars. In less than two minutes more than 100 | :20:38. | :20:45. | |
watches were stuffed into a holdall. More than �1 million was gone. The | :20:45. | :20:50. | |
showroom at Selfridges offered the thieves rich pickings. Now police | :20:50. | :20:58. | |
say the jewellery taken is likely to be sold off in less luxurious | :20:58. | :21:02. | |
surroundings. We don't encourage anyone who is offered a high-value | :21:02. | :21:07. | |
watch for a cut-down price to take up the offer, whether in the pub or | :21:07. | :21:12. | |
local shop or anyone on their estate. Give us a shout and we can | :21:12. | :21:15. | |
then make the necessary enquiries to see if these are the watches | :21:15. | :21:20. | |
which have been taken. When they grabbed what they could, the men | :21:20. | :21:24. | |
swept out of the shop to a waiting getaway car. It was later found | :21:24. | :21:28. | |
abandoned. Today, it was business as usual at the store, apart from | :21:28. | :21:34. | |
the empty cases. The watch department here is closed today. | :21:34. | :21:39. | |
The staff inside are clearing up and assessing the damage. Some of | :21:39. | :21:44. | |
the watches they sell retail for more than �20,000 each. The police | :21:44. | :21:47. | |
say the thieves were very particular about which timepieces | :21:47. | :21:51. | |
they took. The shop was open and busy at the time of the smash and | :21:51. | :21:54. | |
grab raid. Detectives have asked anyone with information to get in | :21:54. | :22:01. | |
touch. There's going to be an end to the | :22:01. | :22:04. | |
pay freeze for many public sector workers in Scotland. The | :22:05. | :22:11. | |
announcement was made by John Swinney in Holyrood as part of | :22:11. | :22:15. | |
their spending plans. Tell us more of what he had to say. Well, this | :22:15. | :22:19. | |
thaw in the pay freeze, it's not a particularly warming one. It will | :22:19. | :22:25. | |
be set at 1% from next year, broadly in line with the Chancellor, | :22:25. | :22:27. | |
George Osborne's plans for the public sector's workers under his | :22:28. | :22:32. | |
control as well. Here in Scotland those on the higher salaries will | :22:32. | :22:36. | |
get no rise at all. Those on the lowest will get a little extra. | :22:36. | :22:41. | |
John Swinney is trying here to boost economic growth. That is what | :22:41. | :22:45. | |
it's about, to boost confidence. Other measures include bringing | :22:45. | :22:49. | |
forward a programme of building more schools and also construction | :22:49. | :22:53. | |
work as well that he's talking about, spending more on affordable | :22:53. | :22:58. | |
homes, for example. The opposition parties here at Holyrood are | :22:58. | :23:04. | |
underwhelmed. They say the SNP could have done far more if it | :23:04. | :23:09. | |
wanted this. This is the lowest settlement in real terms since | :23:09. | :23:12. | |
devolution in 1999. John Swinney says he could do more if he | :23:12. | :23:18. | |
controls all the levers of power. Thank you. There'll be changes made | :23:18. | :23:20. | |
to the Grand National course following the deaths of two horses | :23:20. | :23:25. | |
in the race this year. The start is being moved and the design of some | :23:25. | :23:32. | |
of the fences altered. There'll be no reduction in the size of the 40- | :23:32. | :23:36. | |
horse field. Becher's Brook will still be the same size w the same | :23:36. | :23:40. | |
drop. Football clubs could hold the | :23:40. | :23:44. | |
answer to improving men's health, according to researchers. A three- | :23:44. | :23:52. | |
year project funded by the Premier League surveyed 4,000 male fans and | :23:52. | :24:02. | |
found most were overweight and The glamour and excitement of | :24:02. | :24:04. | |
Premier League football. Many believe it's the greatest league in | :24:04. | :24:10. | |
the world. It certainly draws in some of the | :24:10. | :24:15. | |
best and fittest footballers on the planet. The same can't be said for | :24:15. | :24:19. | |
many of the tens of thousands of fans, mostly men, who watch the | :24:19. | :24:29. | |
:24:29. | :24:30. | ||
game every weekend. OK, welcome... Three years ago tour guide and | :24:30. | :24:39. | |
Liverpool Super fan looked like this. He changed his diet and saved | :24:39. | :24:43. | |
his life. Having a massive heart attack at the age of 40, you know | :24:43. | :24:47. | |
something is not right. Then of course you want to do | :24:47. | :24:51. | |
something about it. You've got to do something about it, because if | :24:51. | :24:56. | |
you don't, then obviously the next step is you could be six foot under. | :24:56. | :25:00. | |
Three years ago, the Premier League set out to improve men's health. | :25:00. | :25:04. | |
The project involved attracting 10,000 men from across England to | :25:04. | :25:08. | |
work on their health and fitness. Initially they found 80% of men | :25:09. | :25:13. | |
were leading risky lifestyles. Today's report shows three years | :25:13. | :25:17. | |
later, at least one-quarter of them have improved their fitness, diet | :25:17. | :25:24. | |
and weight. Wfrpblgts the LFC badge we can attract men to -- With the | :25:24. | :25:29. | |
LFC badge we can attract men and get important messages to them. | :25:29. | :25:34. | |
of the most decorated English footballers of all time discovered | :25:34. | :25:38. | |
he had high blood pressure during a Liverpool health event. It was | :25:38. | :25:42. | |
discovered here on a health kick and basically I was given the | :25:42. | :25:47. | |
information, I went straight to my doctor and he did something about | :25:47. | :25:53. | |
my high blood pressure. So, you know, I'm eternally grateful. | :25:53. | :25:59. | |
is how Liverpool is attracting these hard-to-reach men. 15 other | :25:59. | :26:02. | |
Premier League and championship clubs have been able to get across | :26:02. | :26:06. | |
the kind of messages health professions can't. The overall | :26:06. | :26:10. | |
scheme cost �1.6 million. Today's report recommends all football | :26:10. | :26:16. | |
clubs should get involved. Yesterday, we told you how the | :26:16. | :26:20. | |
Deputy Prime Minister, Nick Clegg, issued a pub lib apoll Jay for | :26:20. | :26:23. | |
breaking the Liberal Democrats election pledge to increase any | :26:23. | :26:29. | |
tuition fees. Well, today it has been set to music. | :26:29. | :26:34. | |
People who are disappointed and angry, that we couldn't keep all | :26:34. | :26:39. | |
our promises. We couldn't keep all our promises... Mr Clegg agreed to | :26:39. | :26:47. | |
this video being on The Poke and to the release of his apology is a | :26:48. | :26:57. | |
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charity single, on the basis that any funds are given to his chosen | :26:58. | :27:02. | |
charity. There's no easy way to say I'm | :27:02. | :27:08. | |
sorry. I'm sorry. Let's take a look at the weather now. | :27:08. | :27:11. | |
at the weather now. Follow that, Peter! | :27:11. | :27:16. | |
I will not sing it! I am not singing the praise of the weather | :27:16. | :27:20. | |
across northern parts today. It has been miserable over Northern | :27:20. | :27:23. | |
Ireland and central and southern Scotland. That wet weather will | :27:23. | :27:27. | |
ease away, but it will take time. It will turn wet for a time over | :27:27. | :27:31. | |
northern England and later in the night eventually findsing its way | :27:31. | :27:38. | |
across the Midlands and into North Wales. Colder and clearer for | :27:38. | :27:43. | |
Scotland. Further south it will stay milder, around 11-12 Celsius. | :27:43. | :27:47. | |
Scotland, Northern Ireland and much of northern England will end die | :27:47. | :27:51. | |
drier, brighter, with good spells of sunshine. A spell of rain | :27:51. | :27:54. | |
through the Midlands, pushing down towards the south-east. Not much | :27:54. | :27:59. | |
rain getting into the south-west. Plymouth could stay dry through | :27:59. | :28:04. | |
much of the afternoon. I think one or two heavy showers from Oxford | :28:04. | :28:07. | |
into East Anglia. The rain threatening to move into the London | :28:07. | :28:12. | |
area as well. Further north one or two showers around. The manester | :28:12. | :28:21. | |
area, for example. -- the Manchester area, for example. A | :28:21. | :28:27. | |
cold and crisp start to Saturday as well. It will be a beautiful day - | :28:27. | :28:32. | |
bright blue skies pretty much everywhere. Temperatures near the | :28:32. | :28:36. | |
mid-September average. It should not feel too bad. A big question | :28:36. | :28:43. | |
mark. It hinges on this low the southern part of the UK. To sum | :28:43. | :28:49. | |
up the weekend, we start on a dry and bright note. Sunday the rain | :28:49. | :28:53. | |
threatening to move in from the south. It is a complex story. If | :28:53. | :29:01. |