:00:10. > :00:13.The former Radio 1DJ Dave Lee Travis is arrested on suspicion of
:00:13. > :00:16.sexual offences. He is the fourth man to be arrested as part of
:00:16. > :00:20.Operation Yewtree, the investigation set up following the
:00:20. > :00:24.Jimmy Savile scandal. Also tonight: The Conservative peer Lord McAlpine
:00:24. > :00:30.speaks out about finding himself at the centre of false child abuse
:00:30. > :00:35.allegations and says the experience left him shattered. There is
:00:35. > :00:38.nothing as bad as this that you can do to people. Israel vows to
:00:38. > :00:42.protect its people as three Israelis are killed by a rocket
:00:42. > :00:47.fired from Gaza in the escalating violence.
:00:47. > :00:52.And I am in Beijing, a new leader for a new era. China unveils the
:00:52. > :00:56.President who will run this superpower for the next ten years.
:00:56. > :00:59.Xi Jinping takes centre stage. He will govern more than a billion
:00:59. > :01:04.people and is the man the west will have to deal with.
:01:04. > :01:10.And we meet China's richest person, worth up to $20 billion. But how he
:01:10. > :01:13.is warning about the gap between rich and poor.
:01:14. > :01:17.Later in sport on the BBC News channel: Graeme Swann becomes
:01:17. > :01:27.England's most successful off spinner in Test history despite his
:01:27. > :01:37.
:01:37. > :01:44.side struggling against Indian on Good evening and welcome to the BBC
:01:44. > :01:48.News. The former Radio 1DJ Dave Lee Travis has been arrested on
:01:48. > :01:51.suspicion of sexual offences. The 67-year-old was detained at his
:01:51. > :01:54.home this morning by detectives from a Scotland Yard unit set up in
:01:54. > :01:59.the wake of the Jimmy Savile scandal. But police say the
:01:59. > :02:03.allegations don't relate directly to Savile. Dave Lee Travis was a
:02:03. > :02:12.regular presenter on Top of the Pops in the 1970s and 1980s and is
:02:12. > :02:15.best known for his 25-year stint on Radio 1. Luisa Baldini reports.
:02:15. > :02:20.That's The Rolling Stones... nearly three decades, Dave Lee
:02:20. > :02:25.Travis was a star of BBC Radio 1. He worked across the station's
:02:25. > :02:29.output, including the Breakfast show and hosted a programme on the
:02:29. > :02:33.World Service. I am glad to have been a part of the... Last year,
:02:33. > :02:37.Burmese pro democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi asked to meet him,
:02:37. > :02:44.saying the show had given her a lifeline.
:02:44. > :02:46.The 67-year-old was arrested here at his home in Buckinghamshire at
:02:46. > :02:51.7.45am this morning. The allegations do not directly involve
:02:51. > :02:55.Jimmy Savile, but come under the wider scope of their investigation
:02:56. > :02:59.involving adults. We have not heard from Mr Travis today, but he has
:02:59. > :03:03.previously denied newspaper allegations against him. Police
:03:03. > :03:08.launched an investigation when alleged victims started contacting
:03:08. > :03:12.them after Jimmy Savile's crimes were exposed by an ITV documentary.
:03:12. > :03:17.Dave Lee Travis is the fourth arrest prompted by Operation
:03:17. > :03:21.Yewtree which is looking into offences relating to children and
:03:22. > :03:28.adults. Gary Glitter, Freddie Starr, and Jimmy Savile's former producer
:03:28. > :03:33.have all been questioned. Today, detectives revealed they have
:03:33. > :03:38.identified 450 victims an increase of 150 in the past three weeks.
:03:38. > :03:43.A regular host on Top of the Pops, tonight a repeat of the programme
:03:43. > :03:46.from 1977 featuring Mr Travis was due to have been broadcast on BBC4.
:03:46. > :03:54.The Corporation has decided to postpone it in the light of today's
:03:54. > :03:56.arrest. Lord McAlpine, the former
:03:56. > :04:00.Conservative Treasurer, wrongly accused of child abuse has told of
:04:00. > :04:04.his shock and hurt over the false allegations which emerged following
:04:04. > :04:09.a report on BBC News night. He said it was terrifying to find himself a
:04:09. > :04:13.figure of public hatred. Lord McAlpine's lawyer says he expects a
:04:13. > :04:17.compensation deal to be reached. He says he plans to sue other
:04:18. > :04:22.broadcasters, including ITV, as well as many individuals who named
:04:22. > :04:28.Lord McAlpine online and on Twitter and in blogs, adding it will cost
:04:28. > :04:33.them lots of money. Newsnight never named Lord McAlpine
:04:33. > :04:37.but that didn't stop a swirl of false accusations emerging on the
:04:37. > :04:43.social network Twitter, even before the programme aired its allegations
:04:43. > :04:48.about a former senior Conservative involved with child sex abuse. He's
:04:48. > :04:54.now talked to the BBC about the damage that's been done. It gets
:04:54. > :05:02.into your bones. It gets - it makes you angry. That's extremely bad for
:05:02. > :05:06.to you be angry. It gets into your soul.
:05:06. > :05:10.A week after its broadcast about abuse at this North Wales care home,
:05:10. > :05:14.Newsnight issued a public apology, an internal report said it had
:05:14. > :05:19.failed to carry out basic checks, like putting the claim to Lord
:05:19. > :05:23.McAlpine. Of course they should have called me. I would have told
:05:23. > :05:29.them exactly what they learned later on. What was that? That it
:05:29. > :05:33.was complete rubbish. Now, after the allegations, the apology, and
:05:33. > :05:36.the resignation of the BBC's Director-General, come the
:05:37. > :05:41.inquiries and the legal actions. It's expected that the BBC will
:05:41. > :05:46.reach a settlement with Lord McAlpine. Lord McAlpine's lawyers
:05:46. > :05:51.are also looking beyond the BBC to those they believe spread the slur
:05:51. > :05:56.on social media, in particular on Twitter. They've asked experts to
:05:56. > :06:02.identify every tweet, every re- tweet, even every deleted tweet
:06:02. > :06:07.that put their client's name in the frame. Look, we know, in inverted
:06:07. > :06:11.commas, who you are, we know the extent of what you have done. It's
:06:11. > :06:15.easier to come forward and see us and apologise and arrange to settle
:06:15. > :06:20.with us. He's referred to two public figures who drew attention
:06:20. > :06:23.to Lord McAlpine saying he he has heard from George Monbiot
:06:24. > :06:28.apologising but not from Sally Bercow. He is not alone against
:06:28. > :06:31.arguing against trial by Twitter. The speed with which these
:06:31. > :06:36.allegations can go sreurl is mass - - viral is accelerated compared
:06:36. > :06:39.with where we were before the days of Twitter and social media. Some
:06:39. > :06:44.people have likened it to pub banter but I think that's taking it
:06:44. > :06:50.too far. These are allegations that are published in writing. They are
:06:50. > :06:55.in some cases Twitter account users have many thousands of followers.
:06:56. > :06:59.The media regulator, Ofcom, is also looking at Newsnight as well as
:06:59. > :07:03.ITV's This Morning, where Philip Schofield waved at the Prime
:07:03. > :07:09.Minister a list of alleged paedophiles, he said he found
:07:09. > :07:13.online. A move that drew hundreds of complaints from viewers.
:07:13. > :07:16.Our home editor is here now. This could be quite a wake-up call for
:07:16. > :07:19.people who use social media, particularly Twitter?
:07:19. > :07:23.relationship with mainstream media and social media has changed. We
:07:23. > :07:28.have had a mainstream media that has, by and large, been affected by
:07:28. > :07:30.the sort of legal situation, social, institutional conventions. It
:07:30. > :07:33.doesn't always behave brilliantly but for the most part it's a
:07:33. > :07:38.civilised sort of place. Then you have the online world, in
:07:38. > :07:42.particular social media, where parts of it are like the wild west.
:07:42. > :07:46.People don't behave to normal conventions. What we are seeing now
:07:46. > :07:49.is it's like the railway has arrived in the wild west from the
:07:49. > :07:52.big city. With that, the relationship has changed. People
:07:52. > :07:55.are moving back and forward between these two worlds all the time. I
:07:55. > :07:58.think it does change the relationship. For mainstream media,
:07:58. > :08:02.it means they're going to have to think hard about everything they
:08:02. > :08:06.say and do. I think for social media that's going to change,
:08:06. > :08:11.because it's like the sheriff from the big city has arrived in the
:08:11. > :08:14.wild west and is going to start to maintain law and order. That
:08:14. > :08:19.relationship has changed. I think it will go further from that, what
:08:19. > :08:23.this event today is, it's going to be held up as a moment when we
:08:23. > :08:26.changed mainstream media, and we changed social media. Thank you.
:08:26. > :08:30.Three people have died in southern Israel after rockets fired from
:08:30. > :08:35.Gaza hit their apartment block this morning. They were the first
:08:35. > :08:38.Israeli deaths since Israel killed Hamas' military chief in Gaza
:08:38. > :08:42.yesterday. 15 Palestinians, mainly militants, but also children, have
:08:42. > :08:45.been killed. Today, the Foreign Secretary, William Hague, said
:08:45. > :08:48.Hamas bears principal responsibility for the current
:08:48. > :08:56.crisis. Wyre Davies reports on the escalating violence on both sides
:08:56. > :09:02.of the border. This report contains distressing images from the start.
:09:02. > :09:07.The body of a man held responsible by Israel for launching hundreds of
:09:07. > :09:11.rockets from Gaza. Israel had tried to kill him many times before, and
:09:11. > :09:15.yesterday they succeeded. At his funeral in Gaza Gaza today, the
:09:15. > :09:20.body of Hamas' military commander was carried through the streets by
:09:20. > :09:23.a passionate, vengeful crowd. These men are angry, determined to avenge
:09:23. > :09:27.the assassination of Ahmed al- Jabari. Israel has already
:09:27. > :09:31.threatened all Hamas operatives, junior and senior, to keep their
:09:31. > :09:35.heads down in the coming days. The senior men are nowhere to be seen.
:09:35. > :09:39.But already today the militants have fired hundreds of rockets into
:09:39. > :09:47.Israel. Renewed attacks which Hamas today
:09:47. > :09:50.sought to justify. TRANSLATION: It is the occupation that is fully
:09:50. > :09:57.responsible for this open war it has started. It doesn't have the
:09:57. > :10:00.will or the decision to end it. It will pay the price. This is
:10:00. > :10:05.Israel's iron defence system but it couldn't cope with the sheer number
:10:05. > :10:09.of rockets, dozens got through. Two women and a man were killed when
:10:09. > :10:14.their house took a direct hit. This, just a few miles north of Gaza, but
:10:14. > :10:16.tonight rockets were also being fired towards Tel Aviv, Israel's
:10:17. > :10:22.biggest city. The Prime Minister accused Hamas of committing war
:10:22. > :10:26.crimes. This is why my Government Government has instructed the
:10:26. > :10:30.Israeli Defence Force to conduct surgical strikes against the
:10:30. > :10:35.terrorist infrastructure in Gaza. And this is why Israel will
:10:35. > :10:41.continue to take whatever action is necessary to defend our people.
:10:41. > :10:47.There are indeed so-called surgical strikes. This underground Hamas
:10:47. > :10:54.launching site, taken out with pinpoint accuracy. But Israel's
:10:54. > :10:58.been accused of killing innocents, too. This 11-month-old died from
:10:58. > :11:01.horrific burns when what his father says was an Israeli shell came
:11:01. > :11:06.through the home. The father insists there were no militants or
:11:06. > :11:14.missile sites in the area. We are civilians. Around our house, all of
:11:14. > :11:20.them, is civilians. We don't know anyone is fighting, is in anything,
:11:20. > :11:24.don't do anything. No one is firing. No one is resistance. All of them
:11:24. > :11:29.is just civil civilians. Egypt is tonight reported to be trying to
:11:29. > :11:36.arrange a truce. If that comes to nought, there are concerns that the
:11:36. > :11:40.conflict will escalate and more civilians on both sides will suffer.
:11:40. > :11:45.Tonight missiles have been fired from Gaza towards Tel Aviv. Katya
:11:45. > :11:49.Adler is in Jerusalem now. How significant is this development?
:11:49. > :11:51.Well, there were no reported casualties but it is hugely
:11:51. > :11:55.significant. Israel's Prime Minister, Binyamin Netanyahu,
:11:55. > :11:59.launched his current offensive in Gaza saying he wanted to make
:11:59. > :12:04.Israelis safer. Israel's military's been at pains to emphasise that it
:12:04. > :12:09.has been targeting a med medium- range missiles owned by Hamas and
:12:09. > :12:15.yet tonight these rockets reaching deeper into Israel, almost than any
:12:15. > :12:23.other missile before launched from Gaza. So already Israelis were
:12:23. > :12:27.feeling worried about their future, about a nuclear Iran, worries about
:12:27. > :12:31.insecurities in the peninsula and Syria in the north. Now they're
:12:32. > :12:35.hearing calls for a massive - Israel will feel forced to take
:12:35. > :12:42.strong actions now that its economic and tourist heart, Tel
:12:42. > :12:45.Aviv, has been so threatened. you.
:12:45. > :12:47.The eurozone has gone back into recession for the first time since
:12:47. > :12:50.2009. The countries facing the biggest protests against austerity
:12:50. > :12:54.cuts - Greece, Spain, and Cyprus - saw the sharpest declines in
:12:54. > :12:59.economic output. Across the 17 member states, output fell by 0.1%
:12:59. > :13:05.in the third quarter of the year. But the economies of Germany and
:13:05. > :13:08.France did manage to grow. The oil company BP is to pay a
:13:08. > :13:11.record fine of nearly �3 billion to the US government to settle
:13:11. > :13:14.criminal charges over the Deepwater Horizon disaster two years ago.
:13:14. > :13:23.Eleven people died when the rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico,
:13:23. > :13:27.resulting in the biggest ever offshore oil spill. Pregnant women
:13:27. > :13:30.who drink as little as one glass of wine a week could run the risk of
:13:30. > :13:33.lowering their child's IQ. A new study has once again stirred the
:13:33. > :13:36.debate about a safe alcohol limit for expectant mothers, as our
:13:36. > :13:39.health correspondent Dominic Hughes reports.
:13:39. > :13:43.The advice on drinking during pregnancy has shifted, a few years
:13:43. > :13:47.ago it was no more than a small glass of wine a day. Then it
:13:47. > :13:53.changed to no more than one or two drinks a week. Now a new report
:13:53. > :14:00.says even that might pose risks. have good evidence that moderate
:14:00. > :14:04.drinking can be harmful during pregnancy and it's best avoided.
:14:04. > :14:07.Giving women the right advice on drinking during pregnancy has
:14:07. > :14:11.proved difficult. Most people would accept drinking heavily is not good
:14:11. > :14:16.for the developing baby. But evidence on the effects of moderate
:14:16. > :14:19.drinking has been patchy. What are the details of this report? The
:14:19. > :14:24.study looked at more than 4,000 mothers and children and some of
:14:24. > :14:27.those mothers were found to be genetically less able to process
:14:27. > :14:31.alcohol in their bodies. The children of mothers in this group
:14:31. > :14:35.who drank as little as say one or two glasses of wine per week,
:14:35. > :14:40.scored slightly lower on IQ tests than the children of mothers who
:14:40. > :14:45.didn't drink anything at all. surprised at the level of damage
:14:45. > :14:49.that you can do just by drinking a small amount, certainly throughout
:14:49. > :14:56.the pregnancy. If you take such a responsibility to have a child, I
:14:56. > :14:59.think it's very important to not to drink at least nine months.
:14:59. > :15:02.Department of Health in England says it will always take note of
:15:02. > :15:06.new evidence, so this report means the current advice to women could
:15:07. > :15:16.change again. But some doctors say women shouldn't worry too much over
:15:16. > :15:21.Be a bit careful about how much alcohol you take but if you have
:15:21. > :15:25.had a drink, please do not worry that you have harmed your child.
:15:25. > :15:29.This research seems to show that in some families, moderate alcohol
:15:29. > :15:33.consumption can make a small difference in intelligence tests in
:15:33. > :15:38.children but lots of different factors influence a child's
:15:38. > :15:42.development. What mums want and need is some clear advice. Our top
:15:42. > :15:48.story tonight: The former Radio 1 DJ Dave Lee Travis is arrested on
:15:48. > :15:50.suspicion of sexual offences. Coming up: The man behind London's
:15:50. > :16:00.triumphant Olympic opening ceremony warns that Britain's creative
:16:00. > :16:06.
:16:06. > :16:11.Later: At least one retailer is still smiling, so what is Ted Baker
:16:11. > :16:21.doing right? And Heathrow's boss tells us where the airport is still
:16:21. > :16:21.
:16:21. > :16:25.After a week of secret talk and closed door meetings, China finally
:16:25. > :16:33.has its new leader who will run the huge country for the next ten years.
:16:33. > :16:38.George Alagiah is in the Chinese capital for us now.
:16:38. > :16:43.Hello from Beijing, where the man who will run this global superpower
:16:43. > :16:47.was finally unveiled today. Xi Jinping will rule the country which
:16:47. > :16:52.has a fifth of the world's population and could become the
:16:52. > :16:59.biggest economy while he is in charge, but he faces huge
:16:59. > :17:09.challenges, too. In his first speech today, Mr Xi admitted the
:17:09. > :17:10.
:17:10. > :17:15.Communist Party is in danger of losing touch with its own people.
:17:15. > :17:21.Welcome to the door of a new Chinese era, the Xi Jinping era,
:17:21. > :17:25.the team and lead in charge of the world's rising superpower. Led by
:17:25. > :17:32.Xi Jinping, the seven men will now rule over one fifth of humanity.
:17:32. > :17:38.Incredibly, neither we nor China's 1.3 billion people know much about
:17:38. > :17:44.them, what they will do for China's future. Immediately it felt
:17:44. > :17:49.different. The Communist Party's new general secretary, more relaxed,
:17:49. > :17:53.confident and plain speaking. TRANSLATION: The problems among our
:17:53. > :17:58.party members of corruption, taking bribes, being out of touch with the
:17:58. > :18:05.people, undue emphasis on formalities and bureaucratism must
:18:05. > :18:10.be addressed with great efforts. Xi, on the left, has been groomed
:18:10. > :18:15.for power. His father helped lead the Communist revolution and
:18:15. > :18:20.observing it close up for decades, the American Sidney Rittenberg.
:18:20. > :18:27.is not going to be a dominant leader like Chairman Mao. He would
:18:27. > :18:34.have to create a consensus in the leading body and that will not be
:18:34. > :18:39.easy to do. Mr Xi will have to share power with the other six men
:18:39. > :18:45.elevated to the apex of the party today. Some are hardliners. Major
:18:45. > :18:52.reforms seem unlikely. But change is exactly what many believe China
:18:52. > :18:57.needs. This town was when Xi Jinping had his first important job
:18:57. > :19:05.as a young official. Now economic growth is slowing and people's
:19:05. > :19:11.demands of the new leader of rising. Zu Xin Schezuan is 69. He survives
:19:11. > :19:18.by selling soap he makes at home. He wants Mr Xi to spend more on
:19:18. > :19:23.health care and education, but it will require enormous investment.
:19:23. > :19:27.Zong Qinghou remembers the young are Mr Xi and hope he makes use of
:19:27. > :19:33.China's growing military. He should be prepared to fight our enemies
:19:33. > :19:37.abroad. People may die but we should beat our enemies down.
:19:37. > :19:42.Avoiding conflict with a rise in China is one of America's
:19:42. > :19:47.priorities. Xi Jinping now controls the world's biggest army and a
:19:47. > :19:52.nuclear arsenal. He is very candid. He is not somebody threw sticks to
:19:52. > :19:58.talking points. He engages. He will be somebody that we will be able to
:19:58. > :20:02.deal with in a future. China's new leader on his very first day is
:20:02. > :20:08.already bringing a change of style. The unknown is whether he will be
:20:08. > :20:11.able to bring a change of substance, too.
:20:11. > :20:18.China has seen a remarkable economic transformation over the
:20:18. > :20:26.last 30 years. Hundreds of millions have been lifted out of poverty.
:20:26. > :20:32.But there are real fears that this miracle may not last. I have been
:20:32. > :20:36.speaking to China's richest man who grew up in poverty. He told me the
:20:36. > :20:44.gap between rich and poor is a huge problem and something the new
:20:44. > :20:48.leadership will have to tackle. Guangzhou, a retreat for centuries
:20:48. > :20:56.and home to a new kind of empire. This is the headquarters of the
:20:56. > :21:04.Wahaha soft-drinks company. Communism and capitalism sit side
:21:04. > :21:07.by side. Zong Qinghou is worth up to $20 billion. This delegation is
:21:07. > :21:11.from the faraway it Sichuan province. On both sides of the
:21:11. > :21:17.table, they know that too many are missing out on China's economic
:21:17. > :21:22.Miller -- economic miracle. TRANSLATION: Lots are still poor,
:21:22. > :21:26.only a small number are rich. The wealth gap is a huge problem
:21:26. > :21:31.and has triggered social dissatisfaction. He grew up in
:21:31. > :21:35.poverty, a rags-to-riches story if ever there was one. His first
:21:35. > :21:40.business was selling ice lollies from a bicycle 25 years ago. Even
:21:40. > :21:46.now, he eats in the staff canteen and lives on $20 a day.
:21:46. > :21:50.TRANSLATION: Or I spend less than my workers. I believe in a simple
:21:50. > :21:57.life. We give money to charity, so even though I am rich, I will not
:21:57. > :22:01.be hated for it. The rich must earn respect. But as it turns out, the
:22:01. > :22:06.frugality gene does not run in the family. We were told the
:22:06. > :22:11.Lamborghini outside belongs to his daughter. The company has 66
:22:11. > :22:18.factories across the country. This line alone produces 30,000 bottles
:22:18. > :22:22.of tea every hour. Successful as Zong Qinghou is, his business
:22:22. > :22:27.empire he epitomises China's mass- production model of economic growth
:22:27. > :22:33.but there are limits to that. There will always be someone trying to
:22:33. > :22:37.compete on cost, so now there are calls for China to get creative.
:22:37. > :22:44.Vega Wang is starting from scratch, relying on her parents and a rich
:22:44. > :22:47.patron. There was no question of borrowing from a bank. She set up a
:22:47. > :22:52.designer label after three years training at St Martin's College in
:22:52. > :22:57.London. The government -- the government that is good at spotting
:22:57. > :23:04.large investment product is less good at nurturing emerging talent
:23:04. > :23:10.like hers. I think it takes time for the government to understand
:23:10. > :23:14.and maybe to find the people who really work on this part, the
:23:14. > :23:18.emerging market, because this country is too big. It is just
:23:18. > :23:24.possible that the likes of Vega Wang represent a new generation and
:23:25. > :23:29.a new meaning to the "made in China" brand.
:23:29. > :23:32.I would be back at 10pm. Thank you.
:23:32. > :23:36.Elections for the first Police and Crime Commissioners are being held
:23:36. > :23:39.in 41 areas across England and Wales today. The new commissioners
:23:39. > :23:43.will be able to agree police budgets, set priorities and have
:23:43. > :23:47.the power to hire and fire chief constables. There are also three
:23:47. > :23:51.Westminster by-elections in Cardiff South, Corby and Manchester Central.
:23:51. > :23:55.And voters in Bristol are choosing their first directly elected mayor.
:23:55. > :23:59.Cricket, and England have had a tough time at the hands of India's
:23:59. > :24:02.batsman on the opening day of the first test in Ahmedabad. Virender
:24:02. > :24:07.Sehwag made light work of the bowlers and smashed a century off
:24:07. > :24:09.just 90 balls before he was eventually dismissed for 117 runs.
:24:09. > :24:11.The hosts closed on 323 for four, with off-spinner Graeme Swann
:24:11. > :24:16.single-handedly keeping England in contention, claiming all four
:24:16. > :24:18.wickets. Danny Boyle, the man behind
:24:18. > :24:21.London's triumphant Olympic opening ceremony, is warning that the
:24:21. > :24:27.future of the theatre is at risk because of funding cuts across
:24:27. > :24:29.England. The film director and producer says he worries about
:24:29. > :24:39.where the next generation of actors, set designers and producers will
:24:39. > :24:42.
:24:42. > :24:46.come from if the cuts continue. Will Gompertz reports.
:24:46. > :24:56.The opening ceremony of the 2012 Olympic Games, made in London,
:24:56. > :25:00.forged in the regions. Danny Boyle was in London today to express his
:25:00. > :25:03.concerns about the future of theatre in the regions. The theatre
:25:03. > :25:07.is so quiet and gentle in the corner and it deserves to be heard
:25:08. > :25:12.much more because it sustains local communities in an immediate sense,
:25:12. > :25:16.which is very positive for local economies, but it also gives a
:25:16. > :25:23.sense of belonging that can result in big expressions, like the Open
:25:23. > :25:28.in ceremony. This is the main stage of the West Yorkshire Playhouse,
:25:28. > :25:32.but not only had they had central government cuts but they have also
:25:32. > :25:36.had local government cuts. Add to that the fact it is much harder to
:25:36. > :25:40.raise philanthropic guests outside of London and you have something
:25:40. > :25:44.approaching a perfect storm. The theatre's boss thinks Arts Council
:25:44. > :25:48.England is partly to blame for investing too much in London.
:25:48. > :25:52.should be more invested in the regions because the regions are
:25:52. > :25:55.where the artistic practice is developing, and we can then pass
:25:55. > :26:01.those creative people and those managers into London and the
:26:01. > :26:05.commercial sector and the film industry. Her next production is
:26:05. > :26:09.wind In the Willows. It needs to bring in some much needed cash
:26:09. > :26:13.because the Arts Council says it will not be able to help. We do not
:26:13. > :26:17.have spare money that we can either start filling in for local
:26:17. > :26:24.authority funding or start moving money around the country, we are
:26:24. > :26:28.just not in a position to do that. Pitman Painters is an example how
:26:28. > :26:31.investment in local talent can pay dividends. It was originally
:26:32. > :26:36.produced in Newcastle before going on to be a hit in Broadway and the
:26:36. > :26:41.West End. The challenge now for local theatre is how does it repeat
:26:41. > :26:44.this with less money? Time for a look at the weather
:26:44. > :26:54.forecast. Nothing too dramatic but it has
:26:54. > :27:00.A lot of cloud around tonight with thick fog across parts of the
:27:00. > :27:03.Midlands. Some of the cloud will go down to the hills of southern and
:27:03. > :27:11.south-west England later on. Rain will head into western part of
:27:11. > :27:15.Scotland. Otherwise, mostly dry and not desperately cold. Frost
:27:15. > :27:20.possible. Tomorrow starts with some cloud and will probably stay that
:27:20. > :27:26.way. Rain will turn heavy and more persistent across Northern Ireland
:27:26. > :27:32.and western Scotland. Some rain will turn up further south as well.
:27:32. > :27:38.Mid-afternoon, it will turn increasingly wet. Cloudy and quite
:27:38. > :27:44.misty across parts of northern England and the Midlands. That will
:27:44. > :27:49.keep the temperatures down. A little bit milder further south.
:27:49. > :27:55.Out west, it will state rather dull with some rain knocking on the door
:27:55. > :27:58.of west Wales. That will turn more persistent. Two weather fronts
:27:58. > :28:03.converging on each other, producing quite a lot of rain tomorrow
:28:03. > :28:07.evening, and that will move to the South East on Saturday morning,
:28:07. > :28:15.followed by something much brighter. The weather front is a dividing
:28:15. > :28:20.line. Some of the showers across Scotland will turn wintry. Saturday
:28:20. > :28:25.is the process of clearing the rain away. After a frosty start on