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Let down by the legal system - after the Savile scandal David | :00:07. | :00:12. | |
Cameron calls for a change in the way abuse victims are dealt with. | :00:12. | :00:14. | |
The cases of four women who complained to the police about | :00:14. | :00:17. | |
Jimmy Savile before he died will be reviewed, but should other agencies | :00:17. | :00:25. | |
have been told? The Government will do everything it can do. Other | :00:25. | :00:28. | |
institutions must do what they can do to make sure we learn the | :00:28. | :00:30. | |
lessons of this and it can never happen again. | :00:30. | :00:33. | |
Charities say their help lines haven't stopped ringing since the | :00:33. | :00:39. | |
Savile scandal went public - hundreds of new claims about abuse. | :00:39. | :00:43. | |
It has only been in the past few weeks that I have really spoken | :00:43. | :00:46. | |
about it. In fact, it's only then that my husband knows exactly what | :00:46. | :00:49. | |
happened. Also in tonight's programme: | :00:49. | :00:51. | |
A police chief embroiled in the Hillsborough controversy resigns. | :00:51. | :00:54. | |
Victims' families claim Sir Norman Bettison took part in a cover-up - | :00:55. | :00:59. | |
a charge he denies. Cutting through the confusion over | :01:00. | :01:03. | |
what's good and not so good in our food - a new labelling system. | :01:03. | :01:07. | |
The funeral for a mother and five children killed in a house fire - | :01:07. | :01:14. | |
hundreds of mourners join her husband who survived alone. | :01:14. | :01:17. | |
An angry Bradley Wiggins hits out at the damage done to cycling by | :01:18. | :01:22. | |
the drugs cheats. We're the ones picking the pieces up now very much | :01:22. | :01:26. | |
so, and - and having to, I suppose, convince people that the sport has | :01:26. | :01:36. | |
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changed, and - it's difficult to Good evening. Welcome to the BBC | :01:59. | :02:03. | |
News at 6.00pm. David Cameron has called for a re-think in the way | :02:03. | :02:06. | |
sex abuse cases are dealt with in the wake of the Jimmy Savile | :02:06. | :02:14. | |
scandal. The Director of Public Prosecutions is to look at whether | :02:14. | :02:16. | |
other agencies, such as social services, should be alerted when | :02:16. | :02:20. | |
sex abuse complaints are made but not taken to court. A file covering | :02:20. | :02:22. | |
four women who did take their allegations against Jimmy Savile to | :02:22. | :02:26. | |
the police three years ago is to be reviewed. Our home editor Mark | :02:26. | :02:31. | |
Easton has this report. Three years ago four women found | :02:31. | :02:34. | |
the courage to tell police how Jimmy Savile had sexually abused | :02:34. | :02:38. | |
them in the 1970s. Two had been children at the Duncroft Approved | :02:38. | :02:43. | |
School in Surrey. Another was a young teenage patient at Stoke | :02:43. | :02:46. | |
Mandeville Hospital. Officers in Surrey sent a file to prosecutors. | :02:46. | :02:49. | |
Jimmy Savile was still alive, but because the victim felt unable to | :02:49. | :02:55. | |
talk about their experiences in court, the matter was dropped. | :02:55. | :02:58. | |
think my honourable friend makes a very important point. Today in the | :02:58. | :03:01. | |
Commons, the Prime Minister demanded prosecutors look back at | :03:01. | :03:05. | |
exactly what happened to the victims and why their stories ended | :03:05. | :03:09. | |
up forgotten in a file. Director of Public Prosecutions | :03:09. | :03:12. | |
specifically is going to consider what more can be done to alert | :03:12. | :03:15. | |
relevant authorities where there are concerns that a prosecution is | :03:16. | :03:19. | |
not taken forward. Government will do everything it can do. Other | :03:19. | :03:21. | |
institutions must do what they can do to make sure we learn the | :03:22. | :03:27. | |
lessons of this and it can never happen again. Another of Savile's | :03:27. | :03:31. | |
victims raped as a young girl in 1970 has revealed how she also | :03:31. | :03:34. | |
summoned up the nerve to tell police what happened, but nothing | :03:34. | :03:39. | |
ever came of it. They were not very interested, really. They just | :03:39. | :03:44. | |
thought I was - they didn't call me a nutter exactly because I didn't | :03:44. | :03:48. | |
appear to be, but I didn't feel I was believed. It has sort of | :03:48. | :03:53. | |
haunted me, quite literally. It's depressed me. It's made me feel | :03:53. | :03:57. | |
disgusted with myself. Today the Director of Public Prosecutions, | :03:57. | :04:00. | |
Keir Starmer, confirmed he was ready to look at how his | :04:00. | :04:10. | |
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organisation can ensure victims The scandal has encouraged victims | :04:20. | :04:23. | |
of sexual abuse to come forward. This help line has received | :04:23. | :04:28. | |
thousands of calls, and Scotland Yard's own inquiry into Savile has | :04:28. | :04:30. | |
now identified over 200 potential victims. | :04:30. | :04:34. | |
TRANSLATION: It has only been in the past few weeks that I've really | :04:34. | :04:39. | |
spoken about it. In fact, it's only then that my husband actually knows | :04:39. | :04:43. | |
exactly what's happened. The Savile scandal has spawned a whole series | :04:43. | :04:46. | |
of inquiries and investigations - at Scotland Yard, within the NHS | :04:46. | :04:50. | |
and of course here at the BBC, and today despite suggestions that she | :04:50. | :04:54. | |
was questioning the independence of the BBC, the Culture Secretary | :04:54. | :04:58. | |
stood by a statement that there are real public concerns about trust in | :04:58. | :05:03. | |
the corporation. These are very serious allegations, and it's | :05:03. | :05:06. | |
absolutely right that the Government reflects the deep level | :05:06. | :05:12. | |
of public concern. What's important now is that the inquiries that are | :05:12. | :05:15. | |
already working in look at these allegations are able to continue to | :05:15. | :05:21. | |
do so and get to the bottom of these problems. A Savile scandal | :05:21. | :05:24. | |
has forced some British institutions to shine a light on to | :05:24. | :05:28. | |
the dark corners of their past and presence. One consequence may be a | :05:28. | :05:32. | |
change in the way we treat those who say they have been victims of | :05:32. | :05:36. | |
sexual abuse. And mark's with me now. Mark, you | :05:36. | :05:39. | |
talked about forgotten files in your report. How much of a change | :05:39. | :05:44. | |
is David Cameron asking for? course, systems do already exist. | :05:44. | :05:47. | |
Certainly in England and Wales since the Soham tragedy a decade | :05:47. | :05:49. | |
ago police, for instance, are already required to pass on | :05:50. | :05:53. | |
allegation that are made to them even if they don't go to court to | :05:53. | :05:56. | |
social services and to other agencies, but I think what we're | :05:57. | :06:01. | |
seeing now is a determination that where you have an individual who | :06:01. | :06:04. | |
has hundreds of victims - a predatory sex offender with | :06:04. | :06:08. | |
hundreds of victims across the country, crimes over several | :06:08. | :06:12. | |
decades, that that individual cannot slip through the fingers of | :06:12. | :06:17. | |
the system, and I think what we're seeing here is a determination that | :06:17. | :06:20. | |
we must do everything we can to ensure the systems are in place, | :06:20. | :06:23. | |
and if there's one good thing that might come out of this ghastly | :06:23. | :06:26. | |
affair, it is that victims feel they have the confidence to tell | :06:26. | :06:30. | |
their stories. All right, Mark, thank you very much. Thank you. | :06:30. | :06:32. | |
The Chief Constable of West Yorkshire, Sir Norman Bettison, has | :06:32. | :06:35. | |
resigned. Sir Norman has been under pressure since an independent | :06:35. | :06:38. | |
report accused police of trying to cover-up their failings in the | :06:38. | :06:42. | |
aftermath of the Hillsborough disaster. He was Chief Inspector of | :06:43. | :06:45. | |
South Yorkshire Police at the time and has always denied any | :06:45. | :06:47. | |
wrongdoing. Our correspondent Judith Moritz is at the West | :06:48. | :06:53. | |
Yorkshire Police Authority in Wakefield. | :06:53. | :06:57. | |
Judith? Yes, that's right, and George, the Police Authority here | :06:58. | :07:00. | |
were planning to meet this afternoon too discuss the future of | :07:00. | :07:05. | |
their Chief Constable in the event that meeting was unnecessary | :07:05. | :07:08. | |
because Sir Norman Bettison pre- empted it when he resigned this | :07:08. | :07:12. | |
morning. He's been in the spotlight in recent weeks since the | :07:12. | :07:15. | |
publication of the Hillsborough independent report. Today he said | :07:15. | :07:19. | |
that having resigned, he will continue to cooperate with the | :07:19. | :07:25. | |
investigations which are ongoing into his behaviour. Until today, | :07:25. | :07:28. | |
Sir Norman Bettison was the most senior serving police officer to | :07:28. | :07:32. | |
have been connected with Hillsborough. There's been much | :07:32. | :07:36. | |
recent criticism about his role in the disaster's aftermath. Today he | :07:36. | :07:40. | |
resigned, saying that had become a distraction to policing in West | :07:40. | :07:43. | |
Yorkshire. There was no sign of Sir Norman at his home earlier | :07:43. | :07:47. | |
following news that the county's Police Authority had accepted his | :07:47. | :07:52. | |
decision to go. As an individual, he's led the command team with | :07:52. | :07:56. | |
distinction, so in that sense, he's done everything right. This | :07:56. | :07:59. | |
business of Hillsborough - the problems of Hillsborough - is | :07:59. | :08:02. | |
something which we didn't really know a lot about, but it's come | :08:02. | :08:08. | |
back, and it's come back and bitten him. 96 Liverpool supporters were | :08:08. | :08:12. | |
fatally crushed at the Hillsborough ground in Sheffield in 1989. A | :08:12. | :08:16. | |
recent independent report found that South Yorkshire Police ran a | :08:16. | :08:19. | |
campaign to blame the fans, and it revealed that Sir Norman, who was | :08:19. | :08:23. | |
then a Chief Inspector, was involved in that mission. He's | :08:23. | :08:25. | |
always denied this, but he is now the subject of two investigations | :08:25. | :08:30. | |
by the Independent Police Complaints Commission. This week at | :08:30. | :08:34. | |
a parliamentary debate on Hillsborough, Merseyside MP Maria | :08:34. | :08:38. | |
Eagle alleged that in 1989 Sir Norman had told a night school | :08:38. | :08:43. | |
course mate that he was involved in a smear campaign. "He told me he'd | :08:43. | :08:47. | |
been asked by senior officers to put together the South Yorkshire | :08:47. | :08:51. | |
Police evidence for the forthcoming inquiry." He said that, and I quote, | :08:51. | :08:55. | |
"We are trying to concoct a story that all the Liverpool fans were | :08:55. | :08:59. | |
drunk, and we were afraid they were going to break down the gates, so | :08:59. | :09:04. | |
we decided to open them." Today Sir Norman said he refutes that report | :09:04. | :09:14. | |
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of a conversation 23 years ago, The Hillsborough campaign groups | :09:19. | :09:23. | |
have long wanted Sir Norman Bettison to go. In 1998 they | :09:23. | :09:26. | |
protested when he was made Chief Constable of Merseyside. Today they | :09:26. | :09:30. | |
welcomed his decision to resign, but would like to see further | :09:30. | :09:34. | |
sanctions. If the allegations that we have made against him - if they | :09:34. | :09:38. | |
are found to be true, that he loses his knighthood and also his | :09:38. | :09:42. | |
fellowship from Liverpool University. Sir Norman may have | :09:42. | :09:45. | |
left public office, but as several high-profile investigations now get | :09:45. | :09:48. | |
under way, he'll continue to be linked with the Hillsborough | :09:48. | :09:54. | |
disaster. Britain is heading for a | :09:54. | :09:56. | |
confrontation with the European Court of Human Rights tonight over | :09:56. | :09:59. | |
the controversial issue of votes for convicted prisoners. It follows | :09:59. | :10:02. | |
David Cameron's insistence today that he remains opposed to the idea. | :10:02. | :10:05. | |
Earlier, the Attorney General, Dominic Grieve, had warned of the | :10:05. | :10:07. | |
potential damage to the UK's international reputation if it | :10:07. | :10:16. | |
defies the court. Here's our deputy political editor James Landale. | :10:16. | :10:19. | |
When you're thrown in here for your crime, you lose your freedom, but | :10:19. | :10:22. | |
should you lose your vote as well? Today the Prime Minister said yes, | :10:22. | :10:27. | |
and it should stay that way. House of Commons has voted against | :10:27. | :10:30. | |
prisoners having the vote. I don't want prisoners to have the vote, | :10:30. | :10:34. | |
and they shouldn't get the vote. I'm very clear about that. No-one | :10:34. | :10:38. | |
should be in any doubt - prisoners are not getting the vote under this | :10:38. | :10:42. | |
Government. His problem is that the European Court of Human Rights | :10:42. | :10:46. | |
thinks otherwise. The judges here in Strasbourg say the UK's blanket | :10:46. | :10:51. | |
ban on prisoner voting breachs the European Convention on Human Rights, | :10:52. | :10:54. | |
and they have given the Government until next month to say how it's | :10:54. | :10:58. | |
going to change the law. The trouble for David Cameron is if he | :10:58. | :11:02. | |
refuses prisoners the vote his chief legal officer says Britain's | :11:02. | :11:04. | |
reputation will be damaged. United Kingdom has always been seen | :11:04. | :11:09. | |
as a role model in years of international law as to how we go | :11:09. | :11:13. | |
about our business. The issue, it seems to me is whether the United | :11:13. | :11:17. | |
Kingdom wishes to be in breach of its international obligations, and | :11:17. | :11:22. | |
what that does reputationly for the United Kingdom. But most MPs here | :11:23. | :11:26. | |
are much less worried about breaking international law. There | :11:26. | :11:29. | |
is overwhelming opposition to giving prisoners the vote on all | :11:29. | :11:32. | |
sides of the Commons, and David Cameron may try to use that | :11:32. | :11:35. | |
opposition in a fresh vote to give himself political cover for defying | :11:35. | :11:41. | |
the court. But that could come at some cost. John Hurst was jailed | :11:41. | :11:45. | |
for 25 years for killing a woman with an axe, but when the European | :11:45. | :11:49. | |
Court ruled he should have had the right to vote, thousands of other | :11:49. | :11:51. | |
prisoners lodged claims for compensation. These measures may | :11:52. | :11:56. | |
well be popular, but in the end, the Prime Minister will be forced | :11:56. | :12:00. | |
to give some prisoners the vote, and in the interim, he'll be forced | :12:00. | :12:05. | |
to pay compensation and get his chequebook out. The bottom line is, | :12:05. | :12:07. | |
who should make policy in this country - the Parliament in | :12:07. | :12:10. | |
Westminster or a court in France? And for now, the Prime Minister | :12:10. | :12:15. | |
appears to have made his choice. The threat of a terror attack on | :12:15. | :12:17. | |
Great Britain from dissident Republican groups in Northern | :12:17. | :12:20. | |
Ireland has been downgraded. The Home Office now says an attack from | :12:20. | :12:24. | |
groups like the Real IRA is possible, but not likely. However, | :12:24. | :12:27. | |
the threat from such groups within Northern Ireland remains severe, | :12:27. | :12:34. | |
meaning an attack there is highly likely. | :12:34. | :12:37. | |
A 17th person has been convicted in connection with the killing of 15- | :12:37. | :12:41. | |
year-old Sofyen Belamouadden at a London station. Junior Bayode, who | :12:41. | :12:46. | |
is 19, was found guilty of manslaughter. Sofyen was stabbed to | :12:46. | :12:51. | |
death during a gang fight in Victoria station in 2010. | :12:51. | :12:55. | |
A ruling by the Supreme Court could pave the way for thousands of women | :12:55. | :12:59. | |
to bring equal pay claims. The court decided that a group of | :12:59. | :13:01. | |
former Birmingham City Council employees, including cooks, | :13:01. | :13:04. | |
cleaners and care staff, could have their cases heard in the civil | :13:04. | :13:07. | |
courts. The council had argued that their case should have been heard | :13:07. | :13:09. | |
at an employment tribunal. Here's our industry correspondent John | :13:09. | :13:18. | |
Moylan. Equal pay for equal work - it's | :13:18. | :13:23. | |
been the law for decades, but too often women's remuneration has been | :13:23. | :13:28. | |
out of step with men. In recent years councils have faced a wave of | :13:28. | :13:36. | |
equal pay claims. Now there could be more to come. These women worked | :13:36. | :13:41. | |
for Birmingham City Council. Today they won the right to challenge its | :13:41. | :13:45. | |
pay regime, despite having retired years ago. One of them, Joan Clulow, | :13:45. | :13:49. | |
spent most of her working life caring for the elderly and the ill | :13:49. | :13:55. | |
as a home help. She believes she was unfairly treated. Upset, | :13:55. | :13:59. | |
obviously, you know, and gutted because, I mean, we worked as hard | :13:59. | :14:03. | |
as they probably did. You can't blame the men. I don't blame the | :14:03. | :14:07. | |
men at all. It's the council at the end of the day how they treat | :14:07. | :14:10. | |
people. It's wrong. You know, we should all be equal. In the Supreme | :14:10. | :14:15. | |
Court, Birmingham City Council argued that equal pay cases should | :14:15. | :14:20. | |
be heard in Employment Tribunals where your right to claim expires | :14:20. | :14:24. | |
six months after leaving your job, but the court disagreed, which | :14:24. | :14:27. | |
means the claims may now be heard in civil courts, which have a six- | :14:27. | :14:31. | |
year time limit. Previously when they have tried to make an equal | :14:31. | :14:33. | |
pay claim they have been told they're out of time because the | :14:33. | :14:37. | |
time limit was six months. This judgment means they can wait six | :14:37. | :14:41. | |
years to bring their claim. If they find out within that period they | :14:41. | :14:44. | |
can get the compensation they're owed. The council already faces a | :14:44. | :14:48. | |
liability of hundreds of millions of pounds linked to pay cases. In a | :14:48. | :14:52. | |
statement, it said that it was reviewing the judgment in detail | :14:52. | :14:55. | |
before considering its options going forward. So this decision by | :14:55. | :15:00. | |
the Supreme Court should mean that thousands more people can take | :15:00. | :15:05. | |
equal pay cases against their former employer. If, of course, | :15:05. | :15:15. | |
:15:15. | :15:18. | ||
they can prove that they were paid At top story. After the Jimmy | :15:18. | :15:22. | |
Savile scandal, David Cameron calls for a change in the way abuse | :15:22. | :15:27. | |
victims are dealt with. And how we could benefit from a Belgian scheme | :15:27. | :15:32. | |
to low energy bills. In the business news, is it the end | :15:32. | :15:38. | |
of the road for a motoring icon? Ford plans to close a factory. And | :15:38. | :15:48. | |
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Argos ditches catalogues to go A new food labelling system is set | :15:51. | :15:56. | |
to be introduced next year to provide shoppers with information | :15:56. | :16:01. | |
on the fat, sugar and salt content of food. The system will be | :16:01. | :16:04. | |
voluntary but the Government says it is confident most supermarkets | :16:04. | :16:10. | |
are wrong board. For shoppers deciphering food | :16:10. | :16:14. | |
labels can be confusing and frustrating, but after years of | :16:14. | :16:18. | |
discussions, the Government has decided to introduce a single | :16:18. | :16:23. | |
standard label for foods across the UK. It is ridiculous it has taken | :16:23. | :16:28. | |
this long to get in place but if it is done right with tough standards, | :16:28. | :16:32. | |
the labels will make it easier for customers to choose the healthier | :16:32. | :16:38. | |
options. It has not been decided how the label will look but the | :16:38. | :16:40. | |
proposal is for it to include information on guideline daily | :16:40. | :16:48. | |
amounts, a colour-coded traffic- light system and the words high, | :16:48. | :16:58. | |
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medium and low in terms of calories. We have seen problems of obesity | :17:00. | :17:04. | |
linked to heart disease. Diet plays an important part in preventing | :17:04. | :17:10. | |
disease and the treatment of those conditions. The fight to have the | :17:10. | :17:15. | |
labels has been won with the supermarket signing up to it for | :17:15. | :17:19. | |
their own brands but convincing manufacturers of foods like this to | :17:19. | :17:25. | |
do the same is where the toughest battle lies. The manufacturers | :17:25. | :17:29. | |
objected and dragged their feet and it is not acceptable. The | :17:29. | :17:33. | |
Government must make sure they fall in line. Why the manufacturers are | :17:33. | :17:37. | |
not going there traffic-light labels may have something to do | :17:37. | :17:42. | |
with the fact they do not want the public to know how unhealthy their | :17:42. | :17:49. | |
products might be. The food and drink association insists members | :17:49. | :17:53. | |
provide clear nutritional information and answer UK-wide | :17:53. | :17:57. | |
scheme might not be suitable for a European and global brands. For | :17:57. | :18:02. | |
many shoppers like David in Scotland, it is not the label that | :18:02. | :18:06. | |
counts but the price. You might want to have something healthy but | :18:06. | :18:10. | |
if it costs more, and you do not have the money to buy it, you eat | :18:10. | :18:15. | |
something that might have something you might not want to put in your | :18:15. | :18:19. | |
body or not eat at all. The Government is determined to push | :18:19. | :18:24. | |
ahead. It says it is confident a new easy to resist and will be | :18:24. | :18:28. | |
brought in by next summer. There are fears that hundreds of | :18:29. | :18:32. | |
workers at the Ford Transit factory in Southampton could lose their | :18:32. | :18:38. | |
jobs. An announcement about the plant's future is likely tomorrow. | :18:38. | :18:42. | |
This form -- this morning, Ford announced a factory in Belgium will | :18:42. | :18:52. | |
close with the loss of 4000 jobs as part of restructuring. This is a | :18:52. | :18:57. | |
difficult few hours for the workers, what can you tell us? | :18:57. | :19:03. | |
Ford made no comment on plans for this factory. It is expected | :19:03. | :19:08. | |
workers will be told there are proposals to close it. Unions will | :19:08. | :19:13. | |
meet the company tomorrow. Ford will tomorrow set out details about | :19:13. | :19:18. | |
restructuring plans for Europe, which lies behind this. We know | :19:18. | :19:22. | |
they want to close a plant in Belgium with the loss of over 4000 | :19:22. | :19:28. | |
jobs. This plant is the last in the UK to build complete vehicles. They | :19:28. | :19:34. | |
have made the Transit van since 1972 A. In recent years capacity | :19:34. | :19:40. | |
has been scaled back. There is one shift working and 500 employees and | :19:40. | :19:44. | |
the question now is for how much longer? | :19:44. | :19:48. | |
The funeral of a doctor and her five children who died in a house | :19:48. | :19:52. | |
fire has taken place in Essex. Sabah Usmani and three children | :19:52. | :19:57. | |
were killed in a fire, the other two died in hospital. Their father, | :19:57. | :20:03. | |
Dr Abdul Shakoor, who survived, was joined by hundreds of mourners at | :20:03. | :20:07. | |
the Harlow Islamic Centre. The grief of a husband and father. | :20:07. | :20:12. | |
Dr Abdul Shakoor at the head of a procession to the cemetery to bury | :20:12. | :20:17. | |
his family. Hundreds from the community came to support him. They | :20:17. | :20:24. | |
followed behind six hearses carrying the bodies of his wife and | :20:24. | :20:31. | |
five children. Their mother, Sohaib, 11, and Rayyan, six, and daughter | :20:31. | :20:36. | |
Hira, 13 and Muneeb, nine, and daughter Maheen, three dying as a | :20:36. | :20:41. | |
result of the fire that swept through their home. Members of the | :20:41. | :20:45. | |
emergency services who attended what was described as an horrific | :20:45. | :20:49. | |
scene also came to pay their respects. Among the turnout one | :20:49. | :20:54. | |
many who had not even met the family. It is a demonstration of | :20:54. | :21:00. | |
how moved people have been by this tragedy. Any family, in Harlow, | :21:00. | :21:05. | |
London, where we are, we are touched by this. This could happen | :21:05. | :21:11. | |
to us, and the loss of family members, that is something we can | :21:11. | :21:18. | |
share and understand. Wednesday lunchtime prayers usually attract a | :21:18. | :21:22. | |
handful to the Islamic Centre. Today it was packed for a special | :21:22. | :21:30. | |
service. Muslims and some of those who tried to save the wife and | :21:30. | :21:39. | |
children. It is not known what caused the fire. Investigators are | :21:39. | :21:45. | |
awaiting results of forensic analysis. | :21:45. | :21:49. | |
How would you like to save several hundred pounds here on your energy | :21:49. | :21:54. | |
bill? Consumer groups believe a scheme in Belgium and Netherlands | :21:54. | :22:04. | |
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could work for households in the UK. In peace for historic Bruges, there | :22:06. | :22:12. | |
is an uprising going on. -- peaceable. People are challenging | :22:12. | :22:18. | |
energy companies to bring down prices. This mother and her family | :22:18. | :22:23. | |
are leading the charge. A few months ago, their energy bill was | :22:23. | :22:31. | |
400 euros, about �320 a month. Now it is a fraction of that. This is | :22:31. | :22:39. | |
your old Bill? Mike Oldfield, 402 euros, I paid every month -- that | :22:39. | :22:47. | |
is my old Bill. And I went to pay and 79.8 T8 every month. A massive | :22:47. | :22:55. | |
difference. -- 79.88. A out on the streets, groups like this one and | :22:55. | :22:58. | |
local authorities encourage householders to negotiate together. | :22:58. | :23:04. | |
In meetings across Belgium, they have helped thousands signed up to | :23:04. | :23:08. | |
collective switching. This person got together with thousands of | :23:08. | :23:12. | |
others to demand the cheapest rate. And then they switched to the | :23:13. | :23:18. | |
energy company offering the best deal. This energy revolution was | :23:18. | :23:22. | |
first pioneered in Belgium and in neighbouring Netherlands three of | :23:22. | :23:27. | |
four years ago. In that short space of time, the bills for hundreds of | :23:27. | :23:32. | |
thousands of customers have been dramatically cut. And there are | :23:32. | :23:40. | |
signs that it could be on the verge of taking hold in Britain. Indeed, | :23:40. | :23:43. | |
the consumer organisation Which? Held the first collective switch in | :23:43. | :23:49. | |
the UK earlier this year. Now several local authorities as well | :23:49. | :23:53. | |
as consumer organisations are pursuing the idea. A lot of people | :23:53. | :23:57. | |
do not want to switch because it is complicated and they are frightened | :23:57. | :24:03. | |
and this takes that away. With the collective switching we have seen | :24:03. | :24:08. | |
savings. We think it is a positive thing all round. Sun fear it could | :24:08. | :24:14. | |
lead to higher prices for those who do not take part. In Belgium, the | :24:14. | :24:21. | |
energy regulator and many customers can only see benefits. | :24:21. | :24:26. | |
Bradley Wiggins has spoken out about cycling's doping crisis as | :24:26. | :24:35. | |
the route of the Tour de France is -- unveiled. It will be the 100th | :24:36. | :24:41. | |
anniversary. Today's ceremony comes after Lance Armstrong was stripped | :24:41. | :24:47. | |
of his seven Tour victories. Unveiled for the one hundredth time | :24:48. | :24:52. | |
in its history, the route for the most gruelling race in cycling. | :24:52. | :24:55. | |
While the riders know where they will be going, the direction their | :24:55. | :25:01. | |
sport must take is unclear. Lance Armstrong was the greatest champion | :25:01. | :25:05. | |
and until two days ago, when he was stripped of his seven titles and | :25:05. | :25:11. | |
banned for life for doping. But it is the current champion who must | :25:11. | :25:14. | |
face difficult questions. We are the ones picking up the pieces, | :25:14. | :25:19. | |
very much so. And having to convince people the sport has | :25:19. | :25:27. | |
changed. It is difficult to convince some people because of the | :25:27. | :25:32. | |
precedent that has been set and is ingrained. I have no answer how to | :25:32. | :25:37. | |
do that, other than going out and doing what I am doing. | :25:37. | :25:42. | |
disgracing the sport he graced, Lance Armstrong has left the sport | :25:42. | :25:49. | |
in crisis. For the sake of cycling, he is urged to come clean. The few | :25:49. | :25:53. | |
have done something, can best. It is not fair I have to sit and | :25:53. | :25:59. | |
answer questions. It is up to everyone who has been involved with | :25:59. | :26:09. | |
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anything that can damage my career, the sport I love, it is frustrating. | :26:10. | :26:14. | |
The effort to repair the tainted image is being led by the British. | :26:14. | :26:19. | |
Team Sky are conducting a review aimed at rooting out anybody who | :26:19. | :26:28. | |
has doped in the past. Departures are anticipated. Staff riders who | :26:28. | :26:34. | |
were writing in that time, so unfortunately, there will be losses | :26:34. | :26:39. | |
the team will have to make in order to go forward. The arduous route | :26:40. | :26:44. | |
announce today ends with a night- time finish on the Champs-Elysees. | :26:44. | :26:47. | |
As the Tour de France attempts to celebrate its history and to look | :26:47. | :26:53. | |
forward, it continues to be haunted by the past. | :26:53. | :26:57. | |
by the past. That brings us to the weather. | :26:57. | :27:01. | |
There is a brief cold snap on the way for the end of the week. | :27:01. | :27:04. | |
Recently, temperatures have been close to the early September | :27:05. | :27:09. | |
average. As we go through Friday and into Saturday, the temperatures | :27:10. | :27:18. | |
will be reminiscent of December and early January. A lot of cloud | :27:18. | :27:22. | |
around tonight across most parts, thick enough to give patchy rain | :27:22. | :27:29. | |
across central and southern parts of England and Wales. A little bit | :27:29. | :27:34. | |
of rain in northern Scotland. Temperatures still in double | :27:34. | :27:37. | |
figures under the cloud further south. Cloud across the southern | :27:37. | :27:41. | |
half of the UK tomorrow, but the further north you go, the better | :27:41. | :27:47. | |
chance of sunny intervals. We can look at the afternoon, not terribly | :27:47. | :27:51. | |
pleasant across the south-west of England and South Wales. Some | :27:51. | :27:56. | |
outbreaks of rain around. It becomes drier as you head east into | :27:56. | :28:03. | |
East Anglia. In the Midlands, some brightness, but more so across | :28:03. | :28:07. | |
northern England and central and southern Scotland. Northern | :28:07. | :28:13. | |
Scotland is beginning to turn colder. Just three degrees in some | :28:13. | :28:20. | |
parts. Chilly wind coming in from the Arctic on Friday. Bringing some | :28:21. | :28:25. | |
snow showers in Scotland. Perhaps as far south as the Lincolnshire | :28:25. | :28:31. | |
coast. Temperatures say around six degrees in the North East, but it | :28:31. | :28:37. | |
will feel closer to freezing. The start of the weekend will be cold, | :28:37. | :28:41. | |
but dry and bright almost everywhere. On Sunday, the cloud | :28:41. | :28:45. | |
thickens up and the wind will pick thickens up and the wind will pick | :28:45. | :28:47. | |
up and we will see rain moving from the north-west. | :28:47. | :28:52. | |
A reminder of the main news. After the Jimmy Savile scandal, David | :28:52. | :28:57. | |
Cameron calls for a change in the way abuse victims are dealt with. A | :28:57. | :29:02. |