:00:05. > :00:11.George Osborne is preparing a �5 billion investment drive in
:00:11. > :00:18.tomorrow's mini budget. But the Chancellor will get the money by
:00:18. > :00:24.making extra cuts in spending. The Government says the savings will be
:00:24. > :00:29.spent on building projects. Let's put that money into things that
:00:29. > :00:33.will make a difference in our economy - more roads, more school
:00:33. > :00:36.buildings, more infrastructure. is welcome that they have admitted
:00:36. > :00:40.that they are deep cuts, particularly to Building Schools to
:00:40. > :00:42.the future in 2010 with the wrong decision.
:00:42. > :00:45.Also on tonight's programme: William makes another visit to see
:00:45. > :00:47.Kate in hospital. Today, confirmation that there will be a
:00:47. > :00:50.new law on succession. Putting the compassion back into
:00:50. > :00:55.care - a new campaign to improve the way NHS patients are looked
:00:55. > :00:57.after in hospitals. Police in the Egyptian capital fire
:00:57. > :01:03.tear-gas after protesters march towards the presidential palace -
:01:03. > :01:07.has last year's revolution lost its way?
:01:07. > :01:17.A big jump in the number of people sleeping rough - we spend a night
:01:17. > :01:19.
:01:19. > :01:23.with some of those made homeless in the economic downturn. It is crazy.
:01:23. > :01:26.It is not good. And Where does all our money go? A new
:01:26. > :01:34.study says we are spending more on food and cutting back clothes and
:01:34. > :01:36.furniture. And I will be here with Sportsday
:01:36. > :01:40.on the BBC News Channel, including the last game of the Champions
:01:40. > :01:50.League this season for Man City, but will they qualify for the
:01:50. > :02:00.
:02:00. > :02:02.Hello and welcome to the BBC News at Six. George Osborne is planning
:02:02. > :02:05.a multi-billion pound investment drive to boost growth, but the
:02:05. > :02:11.money will come from further cuts in government spending in England,
:02:11. > :02:14.with knock-on effects in Scotland and Wales. In his Autumn Statement
:02:14. > :02:17.tomorrow, the Chancellor is expected to say that �5 billion
:02:17. > :02:23.will be spent on new schools and other infrastructure projects as
:02:23. > :02:27.ministers try to boost economic growth. Labour said the move shows
:02:27. > :02:34.that ministers were wrong to cut their own building plans in 2010.
:02:34. > :02:38.Here is our political editor, Nick Robinson.
:02:38. > :02:42.Tomorrow is a day the Chancellor is not looking forward to. It is the
:02:42. > :02:46.day he will unveil official forecasts showing borrowing and
:02:46. > :02:51.debt both going up, the day he will announced deeper cuts and more tax
:02:51. > :02:56.rises. So, on the morning before that bad news to come, the Prime
:02:56. > :03:02.Minister and his deputy went to school to unveil some better news.
:03:03. > :03:06.We are delighted to be here to see this great school. They invited the
:03:06. > :03:10.cameras to see this classroom and to announce a billion Banbridge to
:03:10. > :03:15.the school building programme. point of going on TV is not just to
:03:15. > :03:19.appear on TV, it is to try to explain to people what we are doing.
:03:19. > :03:24.What they are doing is spending over �5 billion more on investment
:03:24. > :03:26.and paying for it by making deeper cuts to day-to-day spending.
:03:26. > :03:31.Government departments are not actually spending up to their
:03:31. > :03:35.budgets, so we can say to them, you have got to cut back some
:03:35. > :03:39.unnecessary spending, and let's put that money into things that will
:03:40. > :03:43.make a difference in our country, more roads, more school buildings,
:03:43. > :03:46.more infrastructure. The Chancellor and his deputy are only told the
:03:46. > :03:51.Cabinet this morning that they would be taking cash from some
:03:51. > :03:56.departments like the Home Office to give more money to others. Today's
:03:56. > :04:00.announcement is significant, but overall, government spending,
:04:00. > :04:04.around �700 billion next year, will not increase. The Treasury is
:04:04. > :04:09.simply taking �5 billion from current spending and switching it
:04:09. > :04:13.to investment, or so-called capital spending. The result is that
:04:13. > :04:17.Department of budgets will be cut by an extra 1% next year, although
:04:17. > :04:21.the budges for the NHS, schools and overseas aid are still protected.
:04:21. > :04:24.We welcome the fact that they have partially reversed their decision
:04:24. > :04:28.of two years ago to success -- cancelled the successful Building
:04:28. > :04:31.Schools for the Future programme, which build new schools in
:04:31. > :04:35.communities across the country. But the education budget is shrinking
:04:35. > :04:39.because of decisions made by this government. If today's announcement
:04:39. > :04:43.was meant to be the good news, that is because here in the Treasury,
:04:43. > :04:49.they know that bad news will be unveiled tomorrow by the Chancellor.
:04:49. > :04:53.Official forecasts show borrowing going up, debt going up. The result
:04:53. > :05:01.is that he will miss his targets, have to increase taxes and cut
:05:01. > :05:06.spending further. It is all a long way from the Tories' election
:05:06. > :05:10.promise to cut the debt for the next generation. And this early
:05:10. > :05:14.pledge by the Prime Minister. five years' time, we will have
:05:14. > :05:19.balanced the books. Will he have balanced the books in those five
:05:19. > :05:23.years? The plans had to be revised. The outlook for the economy has
:05:23. > :05:31.worsened. It looks likely that the Chancellor will have to announce
:05:31. > :05:35.further spending cuts and delay balancing of the box until 2017.
:05:35. > :05:37.short, George Osborne is about to deliver a statement he never wanted
:05:37. > :05:45.or expected to make. Our economics editor Stephanie
:05:45. > :05:49.Flanders is here. We have had one piece of the jigsaw today. What
:05:49. > :05:53.else are we likely to get tomorrow? As Nick said, we have had at some
:05:53. > :05:58.partial good news today, but that is because the Chancellor knows
:05:58. > :06:02.there is bad news coming tomorrow. It will be centrally around growth
:06:02. > :06:06.and boring, the two things that were at the Central the
:06:06. > :06:11.chancellor's policies which are not going very well. If you think about
:06:11. > :06:16.his first fiscal rule, which says he has to balance the books in five
:06:16. > :06:19.years, it may mean that he has to have another year of austerity well
:06:19. > :06:24.into the next Parliament to meet that rule. And he may have to
:06:24. > :06:29.abandon the other well, the one that says the total stock of debt
:06:29. > :06:33.must be falling in 2015. I think we will get a lot of fleshing out of
:06:33. > :06:36.the implications of that tomorrow for future welfare cuts and tax
:06:36. > :06:39.rises. And the Chancellor will be trying to show that he can do
:06:39. > :06:43.something to support growth without further damaging his credibility.
:06:43. > :06:48.But the more he goes down that road, the more the opposition will say,
:06:48. > :06:54.why didn't you do it before? You can find out more on what to
:06:54. > :06:57.expect from the chancellor's Autumn Prince William has spent most of
:06:57. > :07:00.the day at the King Edward VII Hospital in central London, where
:07:00. > :07:03.Kate is being treated for a severe form of morning sickness. This
:07:03. > :07:06.afternoon, the Government confirmed that a new law will be passed soon,
:07:06. > :07:10.ensuring that their baby will be third in line to the throne
:07:10. > :07:19.regardless of whether it is a boy or a girl. Our royal correspondent,
:07:19. > :07:23.Nicholas Witchell, is outside the hospital.
:07:23. > :07:27.As you said, William left the hospital a couple of minutes ago.
:07:27. > :07:34.We can show you the pictures of him leaving. There is flash photography
:07:34. > :07:42.here. He has been at the hospital for more than six hours today. When
:07:42. > :07:47.he left, he looked more relaxed this evening than he was this
:07:47. > :07:53.morning and certainly last night. My impression is that Kate's
:07:53. > :07:59.condition has settled down today. We may get further guidance on that
:07:59. > :08:03.shortly. Whatever the accuracy of that, the fact is that this is not
:08:03. > :08:07.playing out in anything like the way that the couple themselves
:08:07. > :08:11.would have wanted. It is an essentially private moment
:08:11. > :08:15.being played out very publicly. William joined his wife at her
:08:15. > :08:18.bedside. The hospital said absolutely nothing, yet in the
:08:18. > :08:23.street outside, there is an international news media in
:08:23. > :08:29.overdrive. We saw Prince William arrive here. The few facts there
:08:29. > :08:39.are having to go a long way. From ones are of the club to be other,
:08:39. > :08:43.this pregnancy is headline news. Prince William just arrived at
:08:43. > :08:48.Kate's bedside after the huge announcement that a Royal Air is on
:08:48. > :08:52.the way. At a rather more stately pace at Buckingham Palace, the
:08:52. > :08:56.Queen was doing what she always does, carrying on with business as
:08:56. > :09:01.usual. Today it was an investiture. But privately, she will be being
:09:01. > :09:05.kept in touch about Kate's condition. One important piece of
:09:05. > :09:09.news for the couple today - the government confirmed that it will
:09:09. > :09:13.be moving quickly to pass a law ensuring that if their first child
:09:13. > :09:18.as a girl, she will definitely be third in line to the throne. She
:09:18. > :09:23.will not be passed over by any younger brother. The old-fashioned
:09:23. > :09:30.rules where only a boy could become making and if his elder sister was
:09:30. > :09:34.not allowed to, those rules are being swept aside. There will be an
:09:34. > :09:39.updating of the rules that many will welcome. By at at a hospital,
:09:39. > :09:43.royal gynaecologist Alan Farthing, on the left, was spotted. He is
:09:43. > :09:47.leading the treatment of the acute nausea that Kate is experiencing.
:09:47. > :09:51.Others who have had the same condition say it can be extremely
:09:51. > :09:55.debilitating. It is one of the worst things I have ever gone
:09:55. > :10:00.through, bar none. It puts your body through limits you never
:10:00. > :10:05.thought you had. There were times when I felt like my body had been
:10:05. > :10:09.poisoned. So for William, but particularly for Kate, these are
:10:09. > :10:14.testing days. But they will know they have the support of their
:10:14. > :10:19.families, each other and millions of people they have never met.
:10:19. > :10:22.Just to recap, William left the hospital tonight just before 6
:10:22. > :10:30.o'clock, looking more relaxed than he was before. Are still no
:10:30. > :10:33.guidance, though, on how long the A crown court judge has been
:10:33. > :10:36.officially reprimanded after he told a burglar during sentencing
:10:36. > :10:39.that his crimes took "a huge amount of courage". Judge Peter Bowers
:10:39. > :10:49.made the comments at Teesside Crown Court in September. David Cameron
:10:49. > :10:50.
:10:50. > :10:53.at the time said that burglars were Police in the Egyptian capital,
:10:53. > :10:57.Cairo, have fired tear-gas after protesters broke their lines and
:10:57. > :11:00.marched towards the presidential palace. There have been several
:11:00. > :11:04.demonstrations in Egypt over the last week involving supporters and
:11:04. > :11:08.opponents of the country's president, Mohammed Morsi. It
:11:08. > :11:18.follows a new decree which gives the President a raft of new powers.
:11:18. > :11:18.
:11:18. > :11:24.Jon Leyne is in Cairo now. Is all the hope of last year fading away
:11:24. > :11:27.now? There are certainly a lot of very angry people in Egypt. This
:11:27. > :11:31.confrontation happened at a demonstration by opponents of
:11:31. > :11:35.President Morsi. They say he has become a dictator like President
:11:35. > :11:39.Mubarak, by taking sweeping new powers and trying to rush through a
:11:39. > :11:43.new constitution. As they marched on the Palace this afternoon, they
:11:43. > :11:48.broke through the police lines and broke through some barbed wire. And
:11:48. > :11:53.the police seemed to be losing control. They fired tear-gas at a
:11:53. > :11:56.crowd of demonstrators converging on the palace. At one point, the
:11:56. > :12:00.demonstrators even commandeered a police car and drove it up and down
:12:00. > :12:03.the street outside. To put this in perspective, we never saw scenes
:12:03. > :12:07.like this even during the revolution against President
:12:07. > :12:12.Mubarak. I never saw the Palace come under siege like this. The
:12:12. > :12:15.difference now is that the country is deeply divided between
:12:15. > :12:18.supporters and opponents of the president.
:12:18. > :12:20.Within the past hour, NATO has approved Turkey's request for
:12:20. > :12:24.Patriot anti-missile systems to bolster its defence against strikes
:12:24. > :12:27.from neighbouring Syria. The US built missiles, officials say,
:12:27. > :12:30.would be programmed so that they could only intercept Syrian weapons
:12:30. > :12:34.that have crossed into Turkey's airspace. Inside Syria itself,
:12:34. > :12:38.there was more fighting between government forces and rebels. Syria
:12:38. > :12:41.has been warned that any use of chemical weapons would be met with
:12:41. > :12:48.an international response. Syria has said it would never use them
:12:48. > :12:50.against civilians. The chief nursing officer for
:12:50. > :12:53.England has called for greater compassion within the NHS in
:12:53. > :12:56.response to worries about neglect and abuse at some hospitals. Jane
:12:56. > :13:06.Cummings is starting a campaign to try to reassure the public, and
:13:06. > :13:10.
:13:10. > :13:14.described patient neglect as a betrayal of the nursing profession.
:13:14. > :13:18.Providing compassionate care should be one of the most basic functions
:13:18. > :13:21.of the National Health Service, but a series of critical reports have
:13:21. > :13:27.highlighted that there are still too many places where the quality
:13:27. > :13:32.of care is poor or even unsafe. Maria and her family have seen the
:13:32. > :13:36.results of poor care first hand. Four years ago, her father was
:13:36. > :13:40.admitted to hospital with a suspected broken hip. But after
:13:40. > :13:46.just a few weeks on the ward, his condition had deteriorated and he
:13:46. > :13:54.was dying. They let us down. For once in his life, he needed a bit
:13:54. > :14:02.of help, and they did not give it to him. He was not ready to die, my
:14:02. > :14:08.father. He was fit as a fiddle. He used to walk about, go on holiday.
:14:08. > :14:15.Used to do gardening, visit his sons and daughters. They let us all
:14:15. > :14:20.down. And there are many more cases. So, to address the criticism, the
:14:20. > :14:24.Government has launched an official response, compassion in practice, a
:14:24. > :14:27.three-year strategy for nursing in England. It includes new ways of
:14:27. > :14:31.measuring patient feedback, getting trusts to review their culture of
:14:31. > :14:36.care and staffing levels and concentrating on the values held by
:14:36. > :14:39.staff, not just their technical skills. In some places, nurses are
:14:39. > :14:45.working under huge pressure. In other places, there are extra
:14:45. > :14:49.demands. It is about looking at what we know works well in some
:14:49. > :14:54.organisations and spreading that good practice. Sir what is it that
:14:54. > :14:58.makes a good nurse and can values like compassion be taught? Here at
:14:58. > :15:01.Salford Royal, they have been consistently praised for the high
:15:01. > :15:08.quality of care they provide. How are they getting it right when
:15:08. > :15:12.others fail? Ward matrons like Charlotte play a vital role,
:15:12. > :15:17.setting an example, providing leadership, developing skills, but
:15:17. > :15:21.mainly simply caring. Always remember that a patient is a real
:15:21. > :15:26.person. That could be your neighbour, your colleague, your
:15:26. > :15:30.relative. Treat them as if they are precious. The new plans will affect
:15:30. > :15:34.nurses, midwives and care staff across England, but the Royal
:15:34. > :15:39.College of Nursing says the key is having the right number of trained
:15:40. > :15:45.staff. You need the infantry, the people on the ground, to do the job.
:15:45. > :15:48.If you don't, it will fail. ageing population with more
:15:48. > :15:51.complicated health problems plus tight finances is straining the
:15:51. > :16:01.health service, buff but there is also pressure for good quality,
:16:01. > :16:04.
:16:04. > :16:07.compassionate care in all parts of Our top story: George Osborne is
:16:07. > :16:17.preparing a �5 billion investment dries in tomorrow's mini budget.
:16:17. > :16:17.
:16:17. > :16:22.Coming up: Newspaper editors at a Downing Street summit is -- are
:16:22. > :16:31.told that the clock is ticking. Government says it will change the
:16:31. > :16:40.way that money is raised to finance public projects. And at TUI Travel,
:16:40. > :16:44.billion pounds profits but no Homelessness in England has risen
:16:44. > :16:47.by almost a quarter according to new figures. The economic squeeze
:16:47. > :16:51.and a shortage of housing are contributing to more people
:16:51. > :16:54.sleeping rough and seeking housing from local authorities. That is
:16:54. > :17:04.according to the charity Crisis. They say young people have been
:17:04. > :17:05.
:17:05. > :17:10.In London, there is plenty for tourists to see. But some sites go
:17:10. > :17:13.largely ignored. Bundled up for the night, the homeless population of
:17:13. > :17:23.the capital. They are here because they cannot find anywhere else to
:17:23. > :17:24.
:17:24. > :17:27.live. They say, have you got a place? At it, move on from there.
:17:28. > :17:33.according to a new report, the number of people sleeping rough in
:17:34. > :17:38.London has increased by 23% over the past year. The Homelessness
:17:38. > :17:43.Monitor says there are over 5500 people sleeping on the city streets
:17:43. > :17:46.last year. The economy has been a major factor and there are concerns
:17:46. > :17:50.about the numbers growing. We are particularly worried about the
:17:50. > :17:54.suggestion from the Prime Minister himself that they are going to take
:17:54. > :17:59.away housing benefit for young people under the age of 25. That is
:17:59. > :18:04.going to be disastrous, frankly. Not everyone made homeless ends up
:18:04. > :18:09.on the streets, needing support to properly feed and clothe them.
:18:09. > :18:13.jacket is falling apart. But in the economic downturn, charities are
:18:13. > :18:18.worried about the safety net of benefits, particularly for young
:18:18. > :18:21.people. You are right to flag up that under 25s, particularly those
:18:21. > :18:24.from broken homes, we do need to address that and we are looking
:18:24. > :18:28.carefully to see we get that right. But we have to help everybody
:18:28. > :18:34.around here and that means thinking carefully about the causes and not
:18:34. > :18:40.just lack of accommodation. Alan volunteers of this church in
:18:40. > :18:44.Romford, helping the homeless. But he found himself on the streets
:18:45. > :18:50.after losing his job and a marriage breakdown. I lived in a cardboard
:18:50. > :18:54.box. It's a vicious circle, if you can't get a home then you can't get
:18:54. > :18:58.a job. If you can't get a job, you can't find somewhere to live. It
:18:58. > :19:02.spirals. Trying to find a job in this climate is very hard. There is
:19:02. > :19:05.real pressure Ron services and need for more housing. Over the last
:19:06. > :19:10.year, there has been a marked increase in the number of
:19:10. > :19:15.households accepted as being homeless by councils in England.
:19:15. > :19:19.Helping those that end up sleeping rough can be complex. Some have
:19:19. > :19:28.addictions, others mental health problems. All face the harsh
:19:28. > :19:34.reality of winter. It's freezing. You wake up in the morning, it's
:19:34. > :19:37.not good. In Scotland, new legislation is giving everyone made
:19:37. > :19:45.homeless through no fault of their own the right to accommodation. But
:19:45. > :19:47.getting people out of cardboard and into houses is a major channel --
:19:47. > :19:51.challenge everywhere. The Prime Minister has told the
:19:51. > :19:53.editors of Britain's leading newspapers that the clock is
:19:53. > :19:57.ticking and they must set up an independent regulator in the wake
:19:57. > :20:01.of the Leveson Inquiry. Lord Leveson said any new system had to
:20:01. > :20:04.be backed by a law, something that the editors are against. Culture
:20:04. > :20:11.Secretary Maria Miller said that the industry would be reporting
:20:11. > :20:14.back with a new plan in two days. They don't show themselves to the
:20:14. > :20:17.cameras often, but these are the men and women who run our national
:20:17. > :20:21.newspapers. Today, they were summoned to Downing Street to be
:20:21. > :20:24.told to get their house in order. If they don't come up with a new
:20:24. > :20:29.independent press watchdog, the Government will use the law to set
:20:29. > :20:32.one up itself. They've got to do it in a way that after that he meets
:20:32. > :20:36.the requirements of raw Justice Leveson's report. That means
:20:36. > :20:40.million-pound fines, proper investigation of complaints,
:20:40. > :20:43.prominent apologies, a tough independent regulatory system. They
:20:44. > :20:47.know, because I told them, that the clock is ticking for this to be
:20:47. > :20:51.sorted out. After less than an hour inside they left, saying that they
:20:51. > :20:54.have got the message. We are going to get an independent system of
:20:54. > :20:59.self-regulation that is going to be tough. The basic message to us was
:20:59. > :21:04.to get on with it. They told us to go away and come up with that
:21:04. > :21:10.constructive plan. How can the public have confidence that the
:21:10. > :21:14.editors, together, will actually deliver this? Because it is
:21:14. > :21:18.endorsed by Parliament. It's no use asking us to come up with proposals
:21:18. > :21:21.on our own. The press backed the Leveson plan for a new independent
:21:21. > :21:25.regulator with a tough code of conduct and the power to impose
:21:25. > :21:28.fines and apologies. But they say a separate watchdog to oversee the
:21:28. > :21:32.press regulator must be independent of government and they say
:21:32. > :21:35.legislation is not needed to underpin the system. Much of today
:21:35. > :21:38.was pure theatre. The Prime Minister wanted to show he is
:21:38. > :21:42.cracking the whip, the editors wanted to show they are willing to
:21:42. > :21:46.act. It is now clear that some kind of press watchdog is going to be
:21:46. > :21:50.set up. Yes, there are still differences over who will sit on it,
:21:50. > :21:54.how they will be chosen, who will pay for it, but all sides insist
:21:54. > :21:57.those can be overcome. For campaigners outside Downing Street
:21:57. > :22:01.and victims of the press meeting the Labour leader, that is not
:22:01. > :22:05.enough. What the victims are saying is that we have heard good
:22:05. > :22:09.intentions before but they have essentially drained away and we
:22:09. > :22:15.have ended up back where we started. They have suffered abuse and they
:22:15. > :22:19.want to see real legislation which can ensure that we have independent,
:22:19. > :22:23.self regulation, it guaranteed in law. The editors meet again
:22:23. > :22:26.tomorrow and are promising detailed proposals by Christmas. But they
:22:26. > :22:36.and David Cameron will be judged not by they propose but by what
:22:36. > :22:38.In Scotland, MSPs have also been discussing press regulation. Alex
:22:39. > :22:47.Salmond said that he believed the press should set up its own body,
:22:47. > :22:49.but that it ought to be underpinned by Scottish legislation. Press
:22:50. > :22:53.regulation is a responsibility of this Parliament. There have been
:22:53. > :22:57.victims of press malpractice in Scotland and there is a separate
:22:57. > :23:01.legal framework that operates in Scotland that Lord Justice
:23:01. > :23:05.Leveson's set out in the first paragraph of his report. That is
:23:05. > :23:09.surely unarguable. We require to make in Scotland, using the
:23:09. > :23:15.expertise that we have in terms of Scots law, a significant response
:23:15. > :23:19.to his recommendations. Let's talk about that to allow Scotland
:23:19. > :23:24.Correspondent Lorna Gordon. Is there any chance of a cross-party
:23:24. > :23:29.consensus in Scotland? The debate at Holyrood this afternoon was
:23:29. > :23:34.unusually subdued and thoughtful. Certainly, the words of cross-party
:23:34. > :23:39.working, the theme of cross-party consensus was bandied around. It
:23:39. > :23:42.was a common theme. I think it will prove rather more difficult to
:23:42. > :23:47.achieve. Alex Salmond talks of a self-regulated body with a
:23:47. > :23:51.statutory underpinning. But he sees it very much as a Scottish solution,
:23:51. > :23:56.partly because press regulation is devolved to Scotland. Secondly
:23:56. > :24:01.because, as he sees it, Scots law is very, very different. The
:24:01. > :24:05.problem is that the Labour Party and Liberal Democrats would like to
:24:05. > :24:09.see a UK-wide body. The Conservatives are still holding out
:24:09. > :24:13.for a voluntary code. Some way to go before consensus is reached.
:24:14. > :24:18.Do you know how much your family spends every week and on what? The
:24:18. > :24:23.latest figures suggest that average spending hit �488 per week last
:24:23. > :24:27.year, a record amount. It is �10 per week more than household
:24:27. > :24:33.spending in 2010 and is largely down to the rising costs of fuel,
:24:33. > :24:38.food and housing. Catherine Bright has two children
:24:38. > :24:43.and a husband who is a teacher. Last year, a typical family spent
:24:43. > :24:48.�483 per week, up �10 a week on the year before. When you heard that
:24:48. > :24:51.figure, what did you think? I think that is quite a lot to be spending
:24:52. > :24:56.each week on your household budget. I don't think we would spend that
:24:56. > :25:03.much money. We would try to cut back, I think. Housing, fuel and
:25:03. > :25:08.power now costs �63.30 a week, �2.90 on the previous year. Energy
:25:08. > :25:11.bills have risen as well. In this house it means cutting back on a
:25:11. > :25:17.lot to pay for vital things. have to be careful what we spend on
:25:17. > :25:21.food. Petrol prices, running a car, we had to get rid of our second car
:25:21. > :25:24.because we couldn't afford to run two. Heating the house, we had to
:25:24. > :25:28.turn the temperature down. We had to be more careful about how hot we
:25:28. > :25:32.had the house to keep our bills down. The problem is that wages
:25:32. > :25:36.have not kept pace with inflation. Spending may be going up, but I
:25:36. > :25:39.don't think people are getting more for their money. What is happening
:25:39. > :25:44.is that they are simply having to spend more to keep still, to have
:25:44. > :25:51.the same things they have always had. That is about inflation and
:25:51. > :25:56.costs rising. Entertaining then aged four might not seem too
:25:56. > :26:03.expensive. But recreation and culture costs just under �64 per
:26:03. > :26:06.week, an annual rise of �5.80. Getting around in his voluntary
:26:06. > :26:12.church group might not be too pricey, but out in the real-world
:26:12. > :26:16.transport is up 80p, to �65.70 a week. Even buses and things like
:26:16. > :26:21.that, they seem to be regularly hiking up the cost of tickets.
:26:21. > :26:26.You've got to be a bit more careful. I do walk more now. Food and non-
:26:26. > :26:30.alcoholic drinks are also costing more. The weekly bill is now on
:26:30. > :26:35.average �54.80. It's all and welcome financial burdens,
:26:35. > :26:44.especially at this time of year. -- unwelcome financial burdens.
:26:44. > :26:48.Crisp sunshine tomorrow, but between now and then a cold night
:26:48. > :26:53.with Frost and problems with ice. Wet weather to come overnight, rain,
:26:53. > :26:58.sleet and snow. In Scotland, a band of sleet and snow working south,
:26:58. > :27:03.following on with heavy snow showers in western Scotland. Hail
:27:03. > :27:06.and then there is moving through England as the evening continues.
:27:06. > :27:10.This area of sleet and snow is working through England and Wales
:27:10. > :27:14.later in the night. Temperatures close to freezing, that is why we
:27:14. > :27:18.are concerned about ice tomorrow morning. Let's take a look at
:27:18. > :27:22.things for early risers across parts of Wales, central and
:27:22. > :27:26.southern England. A lot of cloud around and this messy mixture of
:27:26. > :27:32.sleet and snow is moving south. Don't be surprised if you drive
:27:32. > :27:36.through some of this, especially on the elevations. There might be some
:27:36. > :27:41.slight slushy accumulations. To the north of all of that, after the
:27:41. > :27:44.overnight wet-weather with Frost, also the ice. That will be pretty
:27:44. > :27:48.widespread into the morning. Snow showers in north and north-east
:27:48. > :27:54.Scotland. On the hills we could see five or 10 centimetres. The wintry
:27:54. > :28:00.showers run-down England during the day. Inland, the North York Moors,
:28:00. > :28:04.the wintry showers reach down into Norfolk. By the afternoon, glorious
:28:04. > :28:10.sunshine as that clears away. But it is cold. After dark tomorrow it
:28:10. > :28:15.will turn really cold. Temperatures will plummet. Cold air in play,
:28:15. > :28:18.wet-weather coming in from the West on Thursday. Running into that,
:28:18. > :28:21.some sleet and snow on this leading edge for a time before turning into
:28:21. > :28:24.rain in the north. In the south, rain with a strengthening wind.
:28:25. > :28:33.There are weather warnings in force from The Met Office. More details
:28:33. > :28:37.Tonight's main news: George Osborne is preparing a �5 billion
:28:37. > :28:40.investment drive in tomorrow's mini budget. And Prince William has