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A man who confessed to two murders is jailed for one but can't be | :00:10. | :00:15. | |
prosecuted for the other because of a police blunder. Taxi driver, | :00:15. | :00:17. | |
Christopher Halliwell, is jailed for life today for the murder of | :00:17. | :00:23. | |
22-year-old, Sian O'Callaghan, last year. But the mother of Becky | :00:23. | :00:33. | |
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Godden, says her battle for justice goes on. Shone Halliwell's family | :00:34. | :00:38. | |
today had just does for the Madonna of their beautiful daughter. | :00:38. | :00:44. | |
However, our family's fight for justice for Becky Godden has only | :00:44. | :00:47. | |
just begun. This evening the Independent Police Watchdog has | :00:47. | :00:49. | |
announced it will investigate where the case went wrong. Also on | :00:50. | :00:51. | |
tonight's programme: The Jimmy Savile inquiry becomes a | :00:52. | :00:59. | |
criminal investigation into other possible abusers still living. | :00:59. | :01:03. | |
It is not surprising that over the last 30 years there has been | :01:03. | :01:09. | |
chronic abuse by Jimmy Savile on children. He is one of the most | :01:09. | :01:12. | |
prolific sex offenders we had come across. | :01:12. | :01:15. | |
Panic on a flight at Glasgow Airport after the cabin fills with | :01:15. | :01:18. | |
smoke. New proposals from the energy | :01:18. | :01:20. | |
regulator to force suppliers to tell customers about their cheapest | :01:20. | :01:24. | |
prices. British and Greek police begin a | :01:24. | :01:32. | |
new search for a British toddler who went missing 21 years ago. Ben | :01:32. | :01:36. | |
Needham vanished without trace on the island of Kos when he was just | :01:36. | :01:39. | |
21 months old. And how doctors will have to prove | :01:39. | :01:49. | |
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that they are still fit to practise Good evening and welcome to the BBC | :02:17. | :02:20. | |
News at Six. A taxi driver who confessed to two | :02:20. | :02:23. | |
murders has been jailed for one but not prosecuted for the other | :02:23. | :02:25. | |
because of a police blunder. Christopher Halliwell has been | :02:25. | :02:27. | |
jailed for life after admitting killing 22-year-old, Sian | :02:27. | :02:30. | |
O'Callaghan. She was last seen leaving a nightclub in Swindon in | :02:30. | :02:32. | |
March last year. Christopher Halliwell had confessed to | :02:32. | :02:35. | |
Yorkshire police about the murder of another woman, Becky Godden, but | :02:35. | :02:38. | |
the case against him had to be dropped after an alleged failure in | :02:38. | :02:41. | |
police procedure. The Independent Police Watchdog has launched an | :02:41. | :02:50. | |
investigation. John Kay is outside Bristol Crown Court. | :02:50. | :02:55. | |
This all comes down to what Wiltshire police did when they | :02:55. | :02:59. | |
arrested Christopher Halliwell. Instead of taking him straight to a | :02:59. | :03:03. | |
police station and giving him access to a lawyer, they put him in | :03:03. | :03:07. | |
a police car and drove him around for nearly four hours. A judge said | :03:07. | :03:12. | |
that was a substantial breach of the rules and for that reason, one | :03:12. | :03:15. | |
of the murder charges has been dropped. | :03:15. | :03:19. | |
Taxi driver, Christopher Halliwell. Last year he confessed to a | :03:19. | :03:23. | |
policeman he had killed both of these young women. He led officers | :03:23. | :03:28. | |
to both their bodies. But now, because of the way the police | :03:29. | :03:33. | |
handled the investigation, one of the murder charges has been dropped | :03:33. | :03:38. | |
and the family of victim, Becky Godden, theatre they won't see | :03:38. | :03:46. | |
justice. They charged him with her murder, then they dropped it. Why? | :03:46. | :03:50. | |
Someone has made a terrible, terrible mistake and they have got | :03:50. | :03:56. | |
to break. It seems to me, come to Swindon and commit a murder and you | :03:56. | :04:02. | |
will get away with it. I will never trust the police again. What went | :04:02. | :04:08. | |
wrong? It's was the disappearance of John O'Callaghan that sparked | :04:08. | :04:13. | |
this investigation. She went missing in March last year after | :04:13. | :04:18. | |
leaving a nightclub in Swindon. CCTV saw her walking towards the | :04:18. | :04:23. | |
lights of a mini cab and she was never seen alive again. The vehicle | :04:23. | :04:29. | |
belonged to Chris Halliwell, it of of three and local man. After the | :04:29. | :04:32. | |
disappearance, he was paying close attention to the case and was | :04:32. | :04:37. | |
arrested outside the supermarket, and his taxi, in which he had | :04:37. | :04:42. | |
displayed missing posters, was taken away goals stop whenever | :04:42. | :04:46. | |
officers make an arrest, they are supposed to follow strict | :04:46. | :04:50. | |
guidelines. Take the suspect to a police station and give him access | :04:50. | :04:54. | |
to a lawyer. In this case, involving will Je police, that did | :04:54. | :05:01. | |
not happen. Instead, they drove him into the Wiltshire countryside and | :05:01. | :05:05. | |
did not take him to a police station for more than three hours. | :05:05. | :05:11. | |
Even though he repeatedly asked for a lawyer, he was not given one. He | :05:11. | :05:17. | |
did take the officers to shone Holywell's body, and then to | :05:17. | :05:21. | |
Becky's body in a field 20 miles weight. But because police did not | :05:21. | :05:25. | |
follow the guidelines, the evidence could not be used in a court of law. | :05:25. | :05:30. | |
In the case of John and well, there was enough evidence to go ahead. | :05:30. | :05:35. | |
But in the case of Becky, so many years earlier, there was nothing | :05:35. | :05:38. | |
and that charge has been dropped. The detective who led the case has | :05:38. | :05:43. | |
been suspended, while other allegations are investigated. At | :05:43. | :05:48. | |
the time he told the BBC why he delayed taking him to the police | :05:48. | :05:52. | |
station. We were in a particular moment together and any | :05:52. | :05:56. | |
intervention could have broken that moment and he could have changed | :05:56. | :06:01. | |
his mind and take in another course of action. I thought we would be in | :06:01. | :06:05. | |
a different position now. To night, the two families have left court | :06:05. | :06:10. | |
with different outcomes. Justice has been done to date. It has been | :06:10. | :06:17. | |
an arduous journey, but we have got there. Sian O'Callaghan's relatives | :06:17. | :06:23. | |
had got the conviction, but Becky's mother is only left with answers | :06:23. | :06:27. | |
will stop I would like the support of you all to help me get justice | :06:27. | :06:36. | |
for my daughter, Becky. Will chip police say their investigation into | :06:36. | :06:42. | |
Becky's murder remains open. This whole investigation has raised | :06:42. | :06:46. | |
interesting questions about the way police would like to do things, but | :06:46. | :06:53. | |
the rules that exist he tried to protect a suspect. It will be up to | :06:53. | :06:56. | |
the independent Police Complaints Commission to look at the way will | :06:56. | :07:01. | |
Je police handle this case. The inquiry into the late BBC | :07:01. | :07:04. | |
presenter, Jimmy Savile, has now widened into a criminal | :07:04. | :07:06. | |
investigation into allegation of child abuse against other | :07:06. | :07:09. | |
individuals still living. Scotland Yard says it has so far identified | :07:09. | :07:13. | |
200 potential victims. Today the children's charity, the NSPCC, said | :07:13. | :07:16. | |
it was possible that Jimmy Savile was one of the most prolific sex | :07:16. | :07:26. | |
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offenders the charity had ever come across. Nick Higham reports. | :07:28. | :07:31. | |
Police investigating Jimmy Savile say they are dealing with | :07:31. | :07:39. | |
allegations of abuse on a President its Gael. Their inquiries have | :07:39. | :07:41. | |
developed in two criminal investigation. In the past | :07:41. | :07:46. | |
fortnight, the police have assessed more than 400 lines of inquiry and | :07:47. | :07:51. | |
over 200 potential victims had been identified, most alleging abuse by | :07:51. | :07:57. | |
Savile, but some by other people. It is involving 14 police forces. | :07:57. | :08:01. | |
Scotland Yard says it has empowered a staggering number of victims to | :08:01. | :08:08. | |
come forward. Many Annie Mac feel comfortable to speak out. The | :08:08. | :08:15. | |
NSPCC's a Savile may have had a compasses. He is one of the most | :08:15. | :08:19. | |
prolific sex offenders we had come across. You can either do that on | :08:19. | :08:23. | |
your own or you may have some assistance. It is not surprising | :08:23. | :08:29. | |
the police are now investigating other victims. His activities took | :08:29. | :08:33. | |
him to locations across the country, where he was trusted and in many | :08:33. | :08:38. | |
cases given his own room and status. It included the BBC, an approved | :08:38. | :08:43. | |
school in Staines, Leeds General Infirmary, Stoke Mandeville | :08:43. | :08:48. | |
Hospital and the Broadmoor psychiatric hospital. Police looked | :08:48. | :08:55. | |
into allegations he abused children at a children's home in Jersey. He | :08:55. | :09:01. | |
abused victims in many places over many years, but no one spotted the | :09:01. | :09:07. | |
pattern of behaviour. He worked in hospitals, worked with children, | :09:07. | :09:11. | |
created great programmes where he could get close to children. When I | :09:11. | :09:16. | |
think of him, I think of a perfect pattern of behaviour that would | :09:16. | :09:22. | |
stick all the boxes, to highlight the behaviour of a sex offender. | :09:22. | :09:26. | |
The BBC confirmed a Panorama investigation into his activities | :09:26. | :09:31. | |
will be transmitted on Monday, possibly as an hour-long special. | :09:31. | :09:35. | |
It has been given the go-ahead by the police to start an internal | :09:35. | :09:41. | |
inquiry, headed by a former judge, danger and it's no, into Jimmy | :09:41. | :09:45. | |
Savile's conduct and the customs and practices of the BBC at the | :09:45. | :09:51. | |
time. The BBC's director-general will give evidence to MPs the day | :09:51. | :09:54. | |
after the programme is broadcast, in a scandal that just keeps up the | :09:55. | :09:58. | |
ring used. Passengers on a plane from Glasgow | :09:58. | :10:00. | |
Airport bound for Alicante described "sheer panic" after smoke | :10:00. | :10:03. | |
in the cabin forced an emergency stop. 20 people were injured | :10:03. | :10:05. | |
escaping from the aircraft, which had been about to take-off. James | :10:06. | :10:13. | |
Cook has the story. Panic and confusion just before | :10:13. | :10:18. | |
dawn to. The Boeing 737 was going down the runway when smoke filled | :10:18. | :10:24. | |
the cabin. At 90 mph, the pilot slammed on the brakes and ordered | :10:24. | :10:31. | |
everyone ask. It is crazy coming of that wing. It was scary. This man | :10:31. | :10:37. | |
and his wife were among those who jumped on the wing. It was hideous. | :10:37. | :10:44. | |
It could have been a lot worse. had 10 stitches in need. You smell | :10:44. | :10:49. | |
the smoke and then saw it coming from the side of the plane will | :10:49. | :10:52. | |
stop this tour s and everybody to make eight the plaintiffs up but | :10:52. | :10:58. | |
then it was hurry, hurry, hurry. What happened is now the focus of | :10:58. | :11:02. | |
an investigation will stop but here at Glasgow airport they are pleased | :11:02. | :11:06. | |
with how well the emergency procedures worked. They said it was | :11:06. | :11:10. | |
textbook, everything they trained for. They said it was easy because | :11:10. | :11:13. | |
the passengers were very co- operative and helped other | :11:13. | :11:18. | |
passengers to get off as well. afternoon, almost all of the | :11:18. | :11:23. | |
passengers eventually left for Spain, hoping to put a terrifying | :11:23. | :11:33. | |
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stop to their holiday behind them. A man has been arrested after a | :11:34. | :11:37. | |
series of hit and run incidents in Cardiff which has left a number of | :11:37. | :11:40. | |
people injured. They've been taken to the University Hospital of Wales | :11:40. | :11:43. | |
and our reporter is there. What more can you tell us? Police say | :11:43. | :11:46. | |
they were called to a series of incidents at at least four | :11:46. | :11:51. | |
different locations across Ely areas of Cardiff. Eyewitnesses say | :11:51. | :11:57. | |
they saw and number of pedestrians involving one young child being hit | :11:57. | :12:01. | |
by a white van. Police had come there and, 11 people are being | :12:01. | :12:07. | |
treated a injuries at the University of Wales Hospital. Those | :12:07. | :12:11. | |
include children as well as adults. Some reports do suggest the total | :12:11. | :12:15. | |
number of injured people may be higher than that. In response to | :12:16. | :12:21. | |
the scale of the incident, the A&E department has been closed to | :12:21. | :12:26. | |
everyone but those involved. A 31- year-old man has been arrested. The | :12:27. | :12:31. | |
ban has been seized and police continued to take statements in the | :12:31. | :12:36. | |
west of Cardiff by the many eyewitnesses that saw the incident. | :12:36. | :12:38. | |
The energy regulator has unveiled plans to force suppliers to tell | :12:38. | :12:41. | |
customers about their cheapest gas and electricity tariffs. Ofgem | :12:41. | :12:44. | |
wants to make the market clearer and more competitive by vastly | :12:44. | :12:49. | |
reducing the number of tariffs available. Earlier this week the | :12:49. | :12:51. | |
Prime Minister appeared to go further, saying the government | :12:52. | :12:54. | |
would pass a law to ensure customers get the lowest rates, as | :12:55. | :13:03. | |
John Moylan reports. With energy bills heading higher, it is more | :13:03. | :13:07. | |
important to be on the best deal. But with more than 400 and there, | :13:07. | :13:13. | |
finding the right one is not easy. This man from Warrington went out | :13:13. | :13:17. | |
of his way to get the best prize, but then found his supplier had not | :13:17. | :13:25. | |
been straight with him. I signed up to everything, Jule full, -- dual | :13:25. | :13:32. | |
fuel, online billing. Only when I looked on the comparison website I | :13:32. | :13:37. | |
found there was a lower tariff. Ofgem plans to make this more | :13:38. | :13:43. | |
straight forward. A simple unit plies for gas and electricity plus | :13:43. | :13:47. | |
the standing charge. They will offer four tariffs per fuel, | :13:47. | :13:51. | |
depending on how you paid. Providers will have to inform | :13:52. | :13:57. | |
customers if they could be on a cheaper deal. In cases says -- some | :13:57. | :14:07. | |
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cases they might have to recommend a rival's deal. This means they can | :14:08. | :14:11. | |
have no choice they can understand. These proposals have been welcomed | :14:12. | :14:17. | |
today. They should be in place by the middle of next year in time to | :14:17. | :14:22. | |
help households ahead of next winter. But they do fall short of | :14:22. | :14:25. | |
what the Government has been promising this week. We will be | :14:26. | :14:29. | |
legislating so energy companies have to give the lowest tariff to | :14:29. | :14:33. | |
their customers. That announcement on Wednesday took many in | :14:33. | :14:38. | |
Government by surprise. Two days on, senior ministers seem reluctant to | :14:38. | :14:43. | |
repeat the pledge. I want to look at these proposals often had got, | :14:43. | :14:47. | |
to see it I can help by legislating putting in the new Energy Bill I | :14:47. | :14:51. | |
will be bringing to Parliament next month. So we can get tough on | :14:51. | :14:56. | |
behalf of people who are struggling with their bills. The industry says | :14:56. | :15:00. | |
these plans will be challenging, but there could be more people. | :15:00. | :15:04. | |
Tonight Labour turned up the heat on the Government calling for all | :15:04. | :15:08. | |
over 75 to be put on the lowest tariff and the market to be opened | :15:08. | :15:18. | |
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up to greater competition. Our top story tonight: A man who | :15:21. | :15:25. | |
confessed to two murders is jailed for one but can't be prosecuted for | :15:25. | :15:27. | |
the other because of the police failed to follow correct procedure. | :15:27. | :15:34. | |
Coming up: the hall universe depends on everything fitting | :15:34. | :15:38. | |
together just right. The actress tipped to become the | :15:38. | :15:42. | |
youngest ever to be nominated for an Oscar. | :15:42. | :15:47. | |
Coming up in Sportsday: Freddie Flintoff talks about his new | :15:47. | :15:51. | |
passion in the ring, and also the infighting in England's cricket | :15:51. | :16:01. | |
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Doctors will have to prove every five years that they are fit to | :16:02. | :16:07. | |
look after patients. It has been described as the biggest change in | :16:07. | :16:11. | |
medical regulation in 150 years. The new system will be in force | :16:12. | :16:14. | |
across the UK, and is compulsory, unlike the local checks currently | :16:14. | :16:24. | |
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There was a time when a doctor's judgment was never questioned, but | :16:28. | :16:32. | |
that age of deference has long gone. Modern medicine is highly complex | :16:32. | :16:39. | |
and specialised. We want to know our doctors are up to the job. Emma, | :16:39. | :16:44. | |
who had cerebral palsy, died after what a coroner said was inadequate | :16:44. | :16:48. | |
care. A series of errors led to a blood infection untreated, and her | :16:48. | :16:52. | |
father hopes mistakes may be avoided in future by more regular | :16:52. | :16:58. | |
checks on DRS. I am pleased that these have come in, and that the | :16:58. | :17:02. | |
family -- another family does not have to go through what we have | :17:02. | :17:09. | |
been through. It is a pity it was not implemented 20 months previous. | :17:09. | :17:13. | |
It was the scandal of deaths at a children's heart unit that began | :17:13. | :17:18. | |
this process. Surgeons were attempting operations that were too | :17:18. | :17:21. | |
difficult. The questions raised then have led directly to the | :17:21. | :17:26. | |
Czechs now been introduced. Under the new system, doctors will have | :17:26. | :17:31. | |
to show they are keeping up-to-date with new developments in medicine, | :17:31. | :17:35. | |
not going beyond their training to try things that are too difficult | :17:35. | :17:39. | |
and listening to feedback from patients and colleagues. All of | :17:39. | :17:44. | |
this is on top of the system that already exists, to investigate | :17:44. | :17:49. | |
serious complaints against doctors. The kind of decisions they are | :17:49. | :17:53. | |
making our life and death. The same sort of trust to put in a pilot | :17:53. | :17:57. | |
when he is flying an aeroplane is the trust to put in your doctor, | :17:57. | :18:01. | |
and subjecting them to a regular system of checking is good so that | :18:01. | :18:06. | |
doctors and provide extra assurance for patience. Doctors will not be | :18:06. | :18:11. | |
able to opt out of the system. Patients' organisations say the | :18:11. | :18:15. | |
real test will be in how it is implemented. We need guarantees | :18:15. | :18:21. | |
that not only patient feedback but hard data about complaints and | :18:21. | :18:28. | |
litigation about DRS is used in their appraisal process. By 2016, | :18:28. | :18:33. | |
most doctors in the UK we had been through their first check-up. -- | :18:33. | :18:36. | |
will have been. At least eight people have | :18:36. | :18:39. | |
reportedly been killed and more than 70 others injured, after a car | :18:39. | :18:43. | |
bomb exploded in the Lebanese capital of Beirut. The blast | :18:43. | :18:45. | |
happened in a predominantly Christian neighbourhood, during | :18:45. | :18:47. | |
rush hour, when many parents were picking up their children from | :18:47. | :18:51. | |
school. A top Lebanese security official was one of those killed in | :18:51. | :18:55. | |
the explosion. A majority of delegates at the | :18:55. | :18:58. | |
SNP's annual conference have voted to change a long standing defence | :18:58. | :19:02. | |
policy and support an independent Scotland remaining in NATO. The SNP | :19:02. | :19:05. | |
has traditionally opposed membership of the nuclear alliance. | :19:05. | :19:08. | |
Our Scotland correspondent reports from the party's conference in | :19:08. | :19:13. | |
Perth. They had got the referendum they | :19:13. | :19:18. | |
had longed for, now the SNP faithful gathering in Perth have to | :19:19. | :19:22. | |
convince the wider Scottish electorate about their vision. The | :19:22. | :19:27. | |
man leading them into battle, Alex Salmond. His party membership is up, | :19:27. | :19:35. | |
the mood among delegates is buoyant. Not everything in this conference | :19:35. | :19:40. | |
is plain sailing. The problem for Alex Salmond and his party's | :19:40. | :19:47. | |
leadership is defence. A U-turn on NATO has left some people unhappy. | :19:47. | :19:52. | |
This is a policy they have always had and they are willing to scrap | :19:52. | :20:01. | |
it. The most important point... ith the prone NATO guys win, or I | :20:01. | :20:05. | |
will be leaving it no longer a member. Faced with that level of | :20:05. | :20:12. | |
feeling, the SNP leadership laid out their case. An overwhelming 75% | :20:12. | :20:17. | |
of respondents want an independent Scotland to remain in NATO and a | :20:17. | :20:23. | |
clear majority want Scotland to be a non-nuclear country. This was the | :20:23. | :20:27. | |
most divisive debate the SNP has had for many years. It is | :20:27. | :20:31. | |
hypocritical to say we should not have nuclear weapons and we want to | :20:31. | :20:37. | |
belong to NATO! If you vote to join NATO, you will not get rid of | :20:37. | :20:42. | |
Trident. The in the end, the vote past. With the referendum getting | :20:42. | :20:47. | |
nearer, could there be more arguments to come? There are a lot | :20:47. | :20:51. | |
of details that will have to be worked out. It is a question of how | :20:51. | :20:56. | |
long we keep the sterling and when we get the euro. It is getting | :20:56. | :21:00. | |
close and things are hitting home to people, things that have been | :21:00. | :21:04. | |
discussed over the years not very open lake. One challenge for the | :21:04. | :21:10. | |
SNP may be bringing back debates and their answers into the open. | :21:10. | :21:14. | |
A new search has begun on the Greek island of Kos for Ben Needham, the | :21:14. | :21:17. | |
British toddler who went missing from his family's farmhouse over | :21:17. | :21:21. | |
two decades ago. Police are focussing on what was an area of | :21:21. | :21:25. | |
rubble at a building site near where the he was last seen. Danny | :21:25. | :21:29. | |
Savage is in Kos and has sent this report. | :21:29. | :21:33. | |
Blue and white British police take cordons off a field on a Greek | :21:33. | :21:39. | |
hillside. This may mark the spot where the body of the British | :21:39. | :21:44. | |
toddler lies. Ben Needham vanished here in 1991 but was he abducted or | :21:44. | :21:47. | |
the victim of a tragic accident? Special sniffer dogs have been | :21:47. | :21:52. | |
driven here all the way from the UK to follow up long-running concerns | :21:52. | :21:56. | |
that Ben was buried under rubble and soil being moved during | :21:56. | :22:03. | |
building work at the time. We have got substantially more technology, | :22:03. | :22:07. | |
access to better equipment, better facilities, better-trained staff, | :22:07. | :22:11. | |
and we are in a position where we can do a far more in debt search | :22:11. | :22:17. | |
today than what we have been able to do back in 1991 -- in depth. | :22:17. | :22:22. | |
This is the exact spot where Ben was seen alive 21 years ago. Police | :22:22. | :22:28. | |
have come here for the first time in two decades. Can they solve the | :22:28. | :22:32. | |
mystery of Ben Needham's disappearance? Ben was with his | :22:32. | :22:37. | |
grandparents, who were living on Kos. He was playing alone win in | :22:37. | :22:42. | |
the afternoon, he went quiet and was never seen again. His mum was | :22:42. | :22:45. | |
waitressing at a local restaurant. She was told by her mother later | :22:46. | :22:52. | |
that night that name -- that Ben was missing. Ben's grandfather was | :22:52. | :22:57. | |
renovating the house he disappeared from and this is where the search | :22:57. | :23:03. | |
today is focused. His mother was just 19 when Ben vanished. Ever | :23:03. | :23:08. | |
since then, she has been convinced he is still alive somewhere. | :23:08. | :23:11. | |
will come back and then I will watch him grow up for the rest of | :23:11. | :23:17. | |
his life, it is the only thing I can do. Just keep waiting. Artists' | :23:17. | :23:23. | |
impressions of what Ben may look like have also been released. There | :23:23. | :23:26. | |
have been hundreds of suppose it sightings across Europe but they | :23:26. | :23:32. | |
have led to nothing, and on the popular tourist island of Kos, his | :23:32. | :23:36. | |
disappearance has haunted some local people. A lot of people still | :23:36. | :23:40. | |
wonder what happened to Ben and did you come to the airport, his | :23:40. | :23:47. | |
picture is still there -- if you come to the airport. If they find | :23:47. | :23:52. | |
Ben's body, it would shatter the family's hopes of him being alive. | :23:52. | :23:59. | |
If it doesn't, they will be left baffled about what happened. | :24:00. | :24:03. | |
We are being told that Andrew Mitchell has resigned, news just | :24:03. | :24:07. | |
coming in. I have just come off the phone from | :24:07. | :24:11. | |
Andrew Mitchell. He is that the Prime Minister's country residence. | :24:11. | :24:18. | |
He asked to see David Cameron. Dot dot when the Prime Minister returns | :24:18. | :24:22. | |
from Brussels. He says he has reached a conclusion that that | :24:22. | :24:32. | |
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after a week, he simply could not be an effective chief whip. He has | :24:32. | :24:36. | |
been dogged by the story of shouting at a policeman at Downing | :24:36. | :24:39. | |
Street for day after day, the allegation he swore at a police | :24:39. | :24:44. | |
officer, that he told him to know his place and that he called him a | :24:44. | :24:48. | |
pleb. He has always insisted they were not the exact words he used. | :24:48. | :24:52. | |
He and the Prime Minister had insisted he apologised and that the | :24:52. | :24:57. | |
apology was accepted, but he is now, it seems to me, except in the | :24:57. | :25:02. | |
inevitable, that he does not only lack confidence in the public, but | :25:02. | :25:05. | |
crucially for the Chief Whip, the job of actually organising and | :25:05. | :25:09. | |
managing discipline among Conservative MPs, he does not have | :25:09. | :25:13. | |
the confidence of his colleagues, so after several days talking to | :25:13. | :25:16. | |
colleagues, he has concluded that he has to go. | :25:16. | :25:22. | |
A Nick Robinson there. Let's take a look at the weather | :25:22. | :25:30. | |
Believe it or not, the weather is looking pretty well-behaved. We | :25:30. | :25:35. | |
have a lot of dry weather to come and many of us will see some | :25:35. | :25:40. | |
sunshine as well, once we get rid of early-morning mist and fog. | :25:40. | :25:46. | |
There is this weather front to the east of the UK, and it has made for | :25:46. | :25:50. | |
a wet afternoon in the South East of England and East Anglia. It will | :25:50. | :25:56. | |
not quite go away. Overnight, I am confident most of the rain will die | :25:56. | :26:00. | |
away and there are patches of mist and fog will develop across England | :26:00. | :26:06. | |
and Wales, perhaps even in Northern Ireland as well. Scotland will keep | :26:06. | :26:10. | |
more cloud and some pretty heavy rain in the north. It could be a | :26:10. | :26:20. | |
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gloomy start in some areas. Most of us will finally see some sunshine. | :26:21. | :26:30. | |
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It looks like we will see this weather front pushing heavy rain in | :26:53. | :27:00. | |
the latter part of Saturday and barely Sunday. Hopefully, I am | :27:00. | :27:05. | |
hopeful we will have a lot of sunshine on Sunday. The | :27:05. | :27:08. | |
temperatures there should reach their mid-teens. It is a pretty | :27:08. | :27:15. | |
positive outlet. Even as we go into next week, a fairly settled story. | :27:15. | :27:22. | |
We could get some lingering mist and fog, but overall, a not too bad. | :27:22. | :27:26. |