Browse content similar to 06/12/2012. Check below for episodes and series from the same categories and more!
Line | From | To | |
---|---|---|---|
The coffee chain Starbucks bows to mounting pressure over its tax | :00:12. | :00:16. | |
arrangements. It will pay �20 million over the next two years, | :00:16. | :00:19. | |
after criticism it had paid little or no corporation tax. We've done | :00:19. | :00:24. | |
it because we have listened to customers these last six or seven | :00:24. | :00:29. | |
weeks. Our customers are clear that they expect we can and will do | :00:29. | :00:32. | |
something. What we really want to see here is the Government | :00:32. | :00:38. | |
clampdown on tax avoidance across the board and make these companies | :00:38. | :00:43. | |
pay their fair share. Also on tonight's programme: The publicist | :00:43. | :00:49. | |
Max Clifford is arrested on suspicion of sex offences. Police | :00:49. | :00:54. | |
took items from his home for investigation. His lawyer says he | :00:54. | :00:58. | |
will assist police as best he can. The Duchess of Cambridge leaves | :00:58. | :01:02. | |
hospital after treatment for morning sickness. Prince Charles | :01:02. | :01:08. | |
says he's looking forewartd to the baby's arrival. -- forward to the | :01:08. | :01:13. | |
baby's arrival. A nice thought of grandfatherhood. I am glad my | :01:13. | :01:16. | |
daughter-in-law is getting better. Police in Northern Ireland appeal | :01:17. | :01:24. | |
for calm after the latest confrontation over the Union Flag. | :01:24. | :01:31. | |
And Alastair Cook makes history by scoring more Test match centuries | :01:31. | :01:34. | |
than any other British player. Later in the hour, we'll have | :01:34. | :01:39. | |
Sportsday on the BBC News Channel, with all the latest reports, | :01:39. | :01:49. | |
:01:49. | :02:02. | ||
interviews and features from the Good evening. Welcome to the BBC | :02:02. | :02:05. | |
News at Six. Starbucks says it will pay about �20 million in | :02:05. | :02:09. | |
corporation tax over the next two years T company, which employs | :02:09. | :02:14. | |
thousands of staff and has hundreds of coffee shops in the UK, has | :02:14. | :02:18. | |
faced mounting criticism over its tax affairs after it emerged it had | :02:18. | :02:22. | |
paid no corporation tax for three years. MPs say the payment is long | :02:22. | :02:30. | |
overdue. Some pressure moves called the move, "A hollow promise." It | :02:30. | :02:35. | |
sells millions of cups of coffee every week. Starbucks failed to | :02:35. | :02:41. | |
fill one profits here in the UK. No profits mean no corporation tax - | :02:41. | :02:45. | |
until today. What we have announced today is we are taking action to | :02:46. | :02:53. | |
pay corporate tax here in the UK. We'll do it with what is required | :02:53. | :02:57. | |
beyond the law. We think it is unprecedented. We think - to my | :02:57. | :03:04. | |
knowledge - it has never been done before. What is changing? Last year | :03:04. | :03:09. | |
Starbucks had nearly �400 million in sales, but paid zero corporation | :03:09. | :03:14. | |
tax. Now the company has agreed to pay about �10 million. Next year | :03:14. | :03:20. | |
and the year after, regardless of whether it turns a profit. It will | :03:20. | :03:24. | |
claim fewer tax deductions, which helps reduce its liabilities. It is | :03:24. | :03:29. | |
hard to think of any big company that pays more tax than it has to. | :03:29. | :03:36. | |
Starbucks, a business that's everywhere on our high streets, has | :03:36. | :03:38. | |
clearly been stung by all the criticism, especially at a time | :03:38. | :03:43. | |
when all the customers are having to tighten their belts. If they can | :03:43. | :03:45. | |
get away with it and the Government is letting them get away with it, | :03:45. | :03:50. | |
well, good luck to them. What would you do? Some sort of tax dodge is | :03:50. | :03:55. | |
what she was saying to me, which is disgusting, considering there are | :03:55. | :04:00. | |
so many branches. Pay our tax rates. We have to. I run a business and we | :04:00. | :04:06. | |
pay corporation tax. I am not happy. It was here, last month, that the | :04:06. | :04:10. | |
furore began as MPs accused the bosses of Starbucks, Google and | :04:10. | :04:15. | |
Amazon of immoral tax avoidance. Today, one of them welcomed star | :04:15. | :04:22. | |
buck's decision. I hope it -- Starbucks' decision. I hope it | :04:22. | :04:26. | |
shows to those who export profit sos they don't pay tax here for the | :04:26. | :04:33. | |
activity that takes place here. tax affairs of multinationals like | :04:33. | :04:38. | |
star bucks are under scrutiny like never before. Some believe today's | :04:38. | :04:42. | |
move is just a token gesture. we want to see here is a clampdown | :04:42. | :04:49. | |
on tax avoidance across the board and make companies like Starbucks, | :04:49. | :04:53. | |
Google and Amazon pay their fair share. Tonight, the mighty Amazon | :04:53. | :04:58. | |
and Google said they comply with all tax rules as well as contribute | :04:58. | :05:04. | |
to the UK economy. The pressure is now on for them to follow suit. | :05:04. | :05:07. | |
Let's talk now to our political correspondent, who joins us from | :05:08. | :05:12. | |
Westminster. As maem was saying, lots of press -- as Emma was saying, | :05:12. | :05:16. | |
lots of pressure on other companies to follow suit. I think they will | :05:16. | :05:20. | |
watch extremely closely. This reflects a real change in attitude | :05:20. | :05:24. | |
that there's been in the last couple of years. That of course | :05:24. | :05:27. | |
because of the economic backdrop. In a week when the Government has | :05:27. | :05:31. | |
squeezed benefits for some of the poorest, when taxes are set to rise | :05:31. | :05:35. | |
and times are difficult for anyone, it doesn't sit well when big | :05:35. | :05:38. | |
companies are seen to be avoiding tax. Of course they are not doing | :05:38. | :05:43. | |
anything illegal. We saw this, didn't we with famous people who | :05:43. | :05:47. | |
used legal tax avoidance schemes. They came under moral pressure. | :05:47. | :05:49. | |
That is what happened here. MPs have come down on them. We've had | :05:49. | :05:55. | |
the Government on their backs saying they will put more into | :05:55. | :06:00. | |
Revenue & Customs. Not all MPs are happy yet because they say this | :06:00. | :06:03. | |
illustrates for some they can negotiate with the taxman about how | :06:04. | :06:10. | |
much they pay. The rest of us can't do that. Thank you. | :06:10. | :06:14. | |
The publicist Max Clifford has been arrested by detectives | :06:14. | :06:19. | |
investigating historic sex offences. Mr Clifford was taken from his home | :06:19. | :06:22. | |
in Surrey in connection with Operation Yewtree, the inquiry into | :06:22. | :06:24. | |
allegations against Jimmy Savile and others in the entertainment | :06:24. | :06:29. | |
industry. His lawyer said he will assist the police as best he can | :06:29. | :06:37. | |
with their inquiries. Anyone who has read the papers, | :06:37. | :06:43. | |
followed the news, will have at some time encountered the work of | :06:43. | :06:46. | |
Max Clifford. Famous for his ability to sell stories, but also | :06:46. | :06:50. | |
for keeping many out of the news. Today, it was his name in the | :06:50. | :06:56. | |
headlines. At 7.40am police arrived at Max Clifford's Surrey home. He | :06:56. | :07:06. | |
:07:06. | :07:08. | ||
is, without doubt, Britain's most famous celebrity publicist. It's | :07:08. | :07:14. | |
very simple - it's common sense.... Last night, he was on BBC News | :07:14. | :07:18. | |
being interviewed about the prank calls made to the nurse looking | :07:18. | :07:25. | |
after the Duchess of Cambridge. Today he was interviewed. It was | :07:25. | :07:35. | |
:07:35. | :07:36. | ||
confirmed by his lawyer Sayd Abad: He is being questioned by officers | :07:36. | :07:39. | |
from Operation Yewtree, the investigation set up following | :07:39. | :07:42. | |
allegations about Jimmy Savile. The operation is divided into three | :07:42. | :07:48. | |
parts. The first two are Savile and Savile and others. This is the | :07:48. | :07:52. | |
third category, called others and is not related to Jimmy Savile. So | :07:52. | :07:56. | |
far, six people have been questioned. Among them is Gary | :07:56. | :08:01. | |
Glitter, the comedian, Freddie Starr and the DJ, Dave Lee Travis. | :08:01. | :08:06. | |
No-one has been charged. Police say that they are following around 500 | :08:06. | :08:11. | |
lines of inquiry, most are directly related to Jimmy Savile. Both | :08:11. | :08:18. | |
police and the NSPCC has led to a number of people coming forward | :08:18. | :08:23. | |
with historic allegations of sexual abuse. Police were here before 8am, | :08:23. | :08:28. | |
left just after 3pm. So far, no sight nor word from Mr Clifford | :08:28. | :08:33. | |
himself. Thank you. | :08:33. | :08:38. | |
The Duchess of Cambridge has been discharged from the hospital in | :08:38. | :08:42. | |
central London where she was being treated for acute morning sickness. | :08:42. | :08:47. | |
She left with Prince William at her side, saying she felt much better. | :08:47. | :08:51. | |
This report does contain some flash photography. REPORTER: How are you | :08:51. | :08:56. | |
feeling? Much better, came the reply. Kate emerged from hospital | :08:56. | :09:00. | |
looking more subdued than normal, but that is only to be expected. | :09:00. | :09:04. | |
Walking carefully and with a wave to hospital staff who have treated | :09:04. | :09:08. | |
her since Monday afternoon. She was taken from the King Edward VII | :09:08. | :09:14. | |
Hospital, near London's Harley Street, to the couple's home at | :09:14. | :09:18. | |
Kensington Palace for a period of rest. | :09:18. | :09:23. | |
Kate's recovery is a relief for the Royal Family. Prince Charles | :09:23. | :09:27. | |
visiting members of a Commonwealth expedition, preparing to set off to | :09:28. | :09:31. | |
Antarctica, managed a joke about that Australian prank call to the | :09:31. | :09:38. | |
hospital. How do you know I'm not a radio station? I'm thrilled. Very | :09:38. | :09:44. | |
nice thought of grandfatherhood. That's splendid. I'm very glad my | :09:44. | :09:47. | |
daughter-in-law is getting better. Thank goodness. | :09:47. | :09:51. | |
The important thing for Kate now, according to doctors, is to get as | :09:51. | :09:55. | |
much rest as possible. The first thing Kate should be doing is | :09:56. | :09:59. | |
resting and avoiding any commitments that are not absolutely | :09:59. | :10:04. | |
essential. If she doesn't, there is a risk her vomiting could get worse | :10:04. | :10:09. | |
and she could end up in hospital. The need to protect the health of | :10:09. | :10:14. | |
Kate and the unborn baby raise some very real practical issues for the | :10:14. | :10:18. | |
couple. The royal doctors here in London are hardly going to be | :10:18. | :10:22. | |
content at the moment for Kate to return to Anglesey in North Wales, | :10:22. | :10:29. | |
where William is based as an RAF Search and Rescue pilot. Both have | :10:29. | :10:32. | |
decisions to make. Kate has to decide whether she stays in London, | :10:33. | :10:38. | |
but that would have to be without William's full-time support. He's | :10:38. | :10:42. | |
needed back in Anglesey. And William must decide in the next few | :10:42. | :10:49. | |
weeks whether to remain as a Search and Rescue pilot, to leave the role | :10:49. | :10:54. | |
or leave the military although. It should mean important discussions | :10:54. | :10:58. | |
when William and Kate join the rest of the Royal Family at Sandringham | :10:58. | :11:03. | |
for Christmas. David Cameron has strongly defended | :11:03. | :11:07. | |
the measures set out by his Chancellor in yesterday's Autumn | :11:07. | :11:11. | |
Statement, including a squeeze on many welfare benefits which will | :11:11. | :11:17. | |
cap annual rises at 1% for the next three years. Labour say it will | :11:17. | :11:20. | |
penalise working people who receive benefits, the group they call the | :11:20. | :11:28. | |
strivers and the bat lers. Today after the mini-budget our | :11:28. | :11:32. | |
correspondent assesses the winners and losers. It was called the | :11:32. | :11:37. | |
Autumn Statement, but it felt like the middle of winter. Those on | :11:37. | :11:41. | |
working-age benefits will feel the chill of the decision to cap annual | :11:41. | :11:45. | |
increases - a decision he defended today. What we have to do is try | :11:45. | :11:49. | |
and save across the system. You cannot do that without looking at | :11:49. | :11:56. | |
the benefits bill. It is fair it goes up by 1%, the working-age | :11:56. | :12:01. | |
benefits. We are protecting the disabled and pensioners. Some | :12:01. | :12:04. | |
families in work would be hit by the policy. He talked about people | :12:04. | :12:09. | |
with the curtains drawn when others go to work. When you look at the | :12:09. | :12:16. | |
fact - 60% of people who are hit are in work. These are low and | :12:16. | :12:21. | |
middle-income families who are losing benefits. What is the impact | :12:21. | :12:25. | |
on households and families? How will the Chancellor's policies | :12:25. | :12:28. | |
affect different sections? Well, a day on from the Autumn Statement, | :12:28. | :12:33. | |
experts have been looking hard at the detail to try and work that out. | :12:33. | :12:37. | |
The leading think-tank, the Institute for Fiscal Studies, has | :12:37. | :12:42. | |
come up with its analysis. It said the hardest hit, receiving benefits | :12:42. | :12:47. | |
and tax credits and the most wealthy who lose out because of | :12:47. | :12:54. | |
some tax changes. The least hit are pensioners. Middle income workers | :12:54. | :13:00. | |
on benefit who gain from the higher tax-free allowance. We have been to | :13:01. | :13:07. | |
this clothing manufacturing in Derbyshire. Caroline is a working | :13:07. | :13:11. | |
mother, part-time and married with two children. She gets tax credits. | :13:11. | :13:15. | |
She is worried her family may be worse off. The cost of everything | :13:15. | :13:22. | |
is rising. What we bring into the household is not rising accordingly. | :13:22. | :13:30. | |
There's only so many cuts you can make. Marian has been at the | :13:30. | :13:34. | |
company for 18 years. She is pleased her pension is not being | :13:34. | :13:42. | |
cut, but she says it is a challenge to pay the bills. It is 2.5, is it | :13:42. | :13:47. | |
April? Is it? But the bills are rising a lot quicker and a lot more | :13:47. | :13:51. | |
than what your pension is, isn't it? For these and other workers | :13:52. | :13:54. | |
there was a working about how the austerity programme might affect | :13:54. | :13:58. | |
them after the next election, with a view that tax rises are | :13:58. | :14:04. | |
unavoidable. We are looking at really big cuts beyond 2015-2016. | :14:04. | :14:08. | |
If he continues to protect health and does not raid taxes, then the | :14:09. | :14:15. | |
scale of n other budgets is inconceivable - 30% cuts over the | :14:15. | :14:19. | |
consultation period. Tax rises, welfare cuts are almost inevitable. | :14:19. | :14:22. | |
There is a prediction that one million more people will find | :14:22. | :14:26. | |
themselves in the higher rate tax bracket by 2015. Another | :14:26. | :14:31. | |
consequence of the Chancellor's wintry Autumn Statement. | :14:31. | :14:34. | |
Northern Ireland's chief constable has appealed for people to step | :14:34. | :14:38. | |
back after the violence in connection with a decision to stop | :14:38. | :14:41. | |
flying the Union Flag over Belfast City Hall. Last night, a young | :14:41. | :14:51. | |
family was attacked and an office In Northern Ireland. A young family | :14:51. | :14:56. | |
attacked in their own home as a result of a row over a flag. A | :14:56. | :15:00. | |
paint bomb was thrown at the house last night. Fortunately baby Grace | :15:00. | :15:06. | |
was not playing with her toys at the time. Her mum and dad belong to | :15:06. | :15:10. | |
the cross community Alliance Party. Its support for the removal of the | :15:10. | :15:13. | |
Union Flag from Belfast City Council has sparked a series of | :15:13. | :15:19. | |
attacks by loyalists. I had just gone to bed with Grace, the bed is | :15:19. | :15:24. | |
just below the window. I never realised what's had happened. Sorry, | :15:24. | :15:29. | |
the glass has just fallen off the window there. As soon as I realised | :15:29. | :15:36. | |
what had happened, I was extremely upset, couldn't stop shaking. It | :15:36. | :15:41. | |
was beside myself. You can see how jumpy we were there. The trouble | :15:41. | :15:44. | |
began on Monday evening. Belfast City Council decided to take down | :15:45. | :15:49. | |
the Union Flag and only fly it on special occasions. The Alliance | :15:49. | :15:53. | |
Party's vote for the move was crucial and since then they've been | :15:53. | :15:59. | |
the subject of violent attacks by loyalists. Last night a nearby | :15:59. | :16:02. | |
Carrickfergus their party office was destroyed. Protesters tried to | :16:03. | :16:08. | |
burn it down. The outbreak of violence comes the day before the | :16:08. | :16:11. | |
American Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, is due to visit | :16:11. | :16:20. | |
Northern Ireland. I would like Mrs Clint TB to -- like Mrs Clinton to | :16:20. | :16:24. | |
come to Carrickfergus and see what a full-front attack on democracy is | :16:24. | :16:28. | |
like. The world is watching and lit make its judgment on the events of | :16:28. | :16:32. | |
the next few days. The first test comes tomorrow. The arrival of | :16:32. | :16:36. | |
Hillary Clinton will be a chance for politicians here to show off | :16:36. | :16:40. | |
the bright new Northern Ireland, but the truth is old problems | :16:40. | :16:46. | |
continue to cast a long shadow. Behind the scenes extensive efforts | :16:46. | :16:55. | |
are being made to ensure there is no more violence. | :16:56. | :16:59. | |
Our top story tonight. Starbucks bows to pressure from consumers and | :16:59. | :17:04. | |
MPs and says its will pay millions of pounds in tax. | :17:04. | :17:08. | |
Coming up: Man's best friend as you've never seen him before. | :17:08. | :17:18. | |
:17:18. | :17:23. | ||
Interest rates are kept on hold again, that's 45 months and | :17:23. | :17:31. | |
The Government says mistakes that led to the collapse of the West | :17:31. | :17:34. | |
Coast Main Line franchise must never happen again. An independent | :17:35. | :17:38. | |
report into the bidding process was scathing in its criticism. Virgin | :17:38. | :17:42. | |
Trains will continue to operate the line for the next two years. Our | :17:43. | :17:45. | |
transport correspondent, Richard Westcott, is at Euston Station with | :17:45. | :17:55. | |
:17:55. | :17:57. | ||
the details now. This is the 1847 to Manchester. The passengers | :17:57. | :18:00. | |
getting on this train tonight won't notice any difference to their | :18:00. | :18:04. | |
train services, but the battle to run these services has today | :18:04. | :18:07. | |
exposed some serious flaws in the way the Department for Transport | :18:07. | :18:17. | |
has been running our railways. It is one of the biggest failures | :18:17. | :18:20. | |
since the railways were privatised. Back in August FirstGroup thought | :18:21. | :18:27. | |
hit beaten rivals Virgin to run the busy and lucrative West Coast Main | :18:27. | :18:30. | |
Line, but the deal collapsed because civil servants had made | :18:30. | :18:34. | |
catastrophic errors, and today's report means more embarrassment for | :18:34. | :18:39. | |
the Government. I do not hide from the seriousness of its findings. | :18:39. | :18:43. | |
They make extremely uncomfortable reading for the department. They | :18:43. | :18:47. | |
caused serious problems for the bidding firms, including FirstGroup, | :18:47. | :18:55. | |
who were in no way at fault. They must and will be acted upon. | :18:55. | :18:58. | |
report tells the story of Department for Transport officials | :18:58. | :19:03. | |
not following their own guidelines. Failing to include inflation in | :19:03. | :19:07. | |
their figures, and of Ministers given the wrong information before | :19:07. | :19:12. | |
making critical decisions. It recommends major changes to the way | :19:12. | :19:15. | |
future deals with managed. Including putting one official in | :19:15. | :19:20. | |
charge of the whole thing. Labour says it is passengers who will | :19:20. | :19:24. | |
suffer. The truth is when commuters go back to work in the new year and | :19:24. | :19:28. | |
find their fares have gone up by as much as 6% above inflation, they | :19:28. | :19:32. | |
will know it is Ministers from this incompetent Government who instead | :19:32. | :19:37. | |
of imposing a strict cap on fare rises instead blew taxpayers' money | :19:37. | :19:42. | |
on this franchise fiasco. These trains were meant to be | :19:42. | :19:46. | |
getting a new colour scheme this weekend. FirstGroup had been Tui to | :19:46. | :19:50. | |
take over services on Sunday. But they'll be red for at least two | :19:50. | :19:54. | |
more years as Virgin runs services while companies re-bid fort | :19:54. | :19:58. | |
contract. So now we have a clearer picture of | :19:58. | :20:03. | |
what went wrong, but not who is to blame. Three suspended officials | :20:03. | :20:08. | |
have now gone back to work. Meanwhile some say this fiasco | :20:08. | :20:11. | |
could cost the taxpayer hundreds of millions of pounds. | :20:11. | :20:15. | |
We can't have a situation where the department simply shrugs its | :20:15. | :20:18. | |
shoulders and says we'll write this money off, taxpayers will foot the | :20:18. | :20:22. | |
bill, and nothing will change. We need utter transparency and this | :20:22. | :20:26. | |
report is clear, that department's processes were not transparent. | :20:27. | :20:30. | |
Virgin could make �9 million from running the trains for a little bit | :20:30. | :20:35. | |
longer. They promise to give any profits to charity. For the 30 | :20:36. | :20:39. | |
million passengers who use this line every year there'll be little | :20:39. | :20:43. | |
Ching to their service for their fares. | :20:43. | :20:46. | |
-- little change to their service or their first. | :20:46. | :20:48. | |
Patients in England say they're waiting longer in accident and | :20:48. | :20:51. | |
emergency wards, according to an independent survey. The Care | :20:51. | :20:53. | |
Quality Commission gathered the views of 46,000 people, and a third | :20:53. | :20:56. | |
said they spent more than four hours in A&E. Our health | :20:56. | :21:04. | |
correspondent, Branwen Jeffreys, has more details. A&E, the front | :21:04. | :21:08. | |
line of the NHS, day or night treating people who need urgent | :21:08. | :21:13. | |
care. The promise to patients, that you will be seen within four hours, | :21:13. | :21:18. | |
but a watchdog says patients are telling them something different. | :21:18. | :21:23. | |
Surveys are an important indication of how people feel and therefore we | :21:23. | :21:27. | |
should always take them seriously. We should think about what they can | :21:27. | :21:30. | |
do within their own individual hospital to get this better. | :21:30. | :21:36. | |
find out what's going on, every four years patients are asked about | :21:36. | :21:42. | |
their experience for the A&E survey. 46,000 people responded. In early | :21:42. | :21:48. | |
2012 33% said they remembered waiting four hours or more. Up from | :21:48. | :21:56. | |
27% in 2008, and 23% in 2004. But the Department of Health says | :21:56. | :22:01. | |
official statistics show that 5% or less of patients waits over the | :22:01. | :22:05. | |
four-hour target. A&E departments have been getting busier. There are | :22:05. | :22:10. | |
more than 20 million visits to A&E every single year in England. And a | :22:10. | :22:14. | |
growing number of patients are saying that they are facing longer | :22:15. | :22:18. | |
waits. Some also said they had to wait in ambulances before being | :22:18. | :22:22. | |
handed over to hospital care. Government's figures on A&E | :22:22. | :22:25. | |
departments don't add up. What we are hearing on our helpline, which | :22:25. | :22:28. | |
is exactly the same as what the Care Quality Commission are telling | :22:28. | :22:32. | |
us, are that the waiting times in A&E are just too long. Either in | :22:32. | :22:37. | |
A&E or sitting in the ambulance. That is not good enough. The | :22:37. | :22:40. | |
Government have to do something about it quickly and get waiting | :22:40. | :22:43. | |
times down. We need a safe and quick A&E department service. | :22:43. | :22:47. | |
Ministers argue that most people are still seen quickly, with | :22:47. | :22:51. | |
priority given to the most serious emergencies. What's we are seeing | :22:51. | :22:56. | |
is there are now 1 million more people being treated in A&E every | :22:56. | :22:59. | |
year than before, and that is for a number of reasons. What we also | :22:59. | :23:03. | |
know is that the majority of those patients are seen quickly, are | :23:03. | :23:07. | |
treated well. The sickest patients are treated first. A&E doctors say | :23:07. | :23:13. | |
they are doing their best, but the number of patients is growing every | :23:13. | :23:17. | |
year, putting evergreater pressure on yaefpbltd | :23:17. | :23:20. | |
-- on A&E. Cricket - and the England captain, | :23:20. | :23:23. | |
Alastair Cook, has made history by scoring more Test match centuries | :23:23. | :23:27. | |
than any other English player. He made his 23rd century in the third | :23:27. | :23:30. | |
Test against India in Kolkata. At stumps, England were 216 for 1, | :23:30. | :23:33. | |
with Cook not out on 136. Here's our sports correspondent, Joe | :23:33. | :23:39. | |
Wilson. This is one thing in cricket you must never do. Dropping | :23:39. | :23:45. | |
Alastair Cook is close to sinful. He made just 17 when this happened | :23:45. | :23:49. | |
in Kolkata, Pujara's guilty hands. India knew what would happen next. | :23:49. | :23:53. | |
Cook made a century. Even by his own standards recent weeks have | :23:53. | :23:58. | |
been extraordinary, taking the captaincy has inspired rather than | :23:58. | :24:01. | |
burdened him. Hundreds in three consecutive Test matchs to take his | :24:01. | :24:06. | |
career total to 23. A record. India was where it all started for Cook. | :24:06. | :24:11. | |
Flown out in 2006 to replace the injured Michael Vaughan, who now | :24:12. | :24:17. | |
marvels at how far Cook has come. It is his mentality that impresses | :24:17. | :24:22. | |
me more than anything. To score three centuries on the trot takes | :24:22. | :24:28. | |
some menta. Most players, me included, once you get 100 you get | :24:28. | :24:33. | |
a bit giddy, start your next innings as if you are on 120. He | :24:33. | :24:40. | |
doesn't do that. Cook has overtaken Geoffrey Boycott, who had a career | :24:40. | :24:49. | |
that spanned 23 years. He has even overtaken Wally Hammond. Here eat | :24:49. | :24:53. | |
the Lords museum, in the future there may be a corner here devoted | :24:53. | :24:56. | |
to Alastair Cook. Certainly in terms of English cricket he has | :24:57. | :25:01. | |
time to set records which may never be broken. | :25:01. | :25:06. | |
Kevin Pietersen is just behind him but Cook could have another decade | :25:06. | :25:11. | |
with England. India would like to get rid of him this week. England | :25:12. | :25:16. | |
are only one wicket down and Cook will be back in the morning. | :25:16. | :25:19. | |
They already catch burglars, guide the blind and herd sheep. But now | :25:19. | :25:22. | |
dogs, it seems, have added to their skill set. Three from New Zealand - | :25:22. | :25:25. | |
called Monty, Ginny and Porter - are leading the way in a new | :25:25. | :25:28. | |
project aimed at showing how intelligent they are. And as Daniel | :25:28. | :25:31. | |
Boettcher explains, it's thought they're the first canines ever to | :25:31. | :25:40. | |
drive a car. Calm and apparently in control, this is Monty at the wheel | :25:40. | :25:46. | |
of a modified Mini. He is one of three dogs being taught to drive by | :25:46. | :25:50. | |
an animal rescue charity in New Zealand. And this is how they do it. | :25:50. | :25:56. | |
First getting used to mock controls, paws on pedals, then they are | :25:56. | :26:01. | |
harnessed in a cart to get to grips movement and steering. Monty and | :26:01. | :26:07. | |
his fellow pooch pupils Porter and Ginny started with the basics. | :26:07. | :26:11. | |
After several weeks of training and lots of treats it was time for the | :26:11. | :26:14. | |
real thing. We've got ten behaviours we are putting together. | :26:14. | :26:18. | |
Each behaviour is a trained behaviour. We put them into a | :26:18. | :26:22. | |
sequence. It's a lot to do. For the dog to get an idea of what's | :26:22. | :26:27. | |
happening takes a quite a long time. In the car itself the dogs are | :26:27. | :26:32. | |
guided by human commands and there is the occasional helping hand. The | :26:32. | :26:35. | |
society for the prevention of cruelty to animals in New Zealand | :26:35. | :26:39. | |
says it is doing this to show the clever side of the abandoned dogs | :26:39. | :26:46. | |
it looks after, in the hope more rescue animals will find homes. | :26:46. | :26:51. | |
Though new owners may wants to hide the car keys. | :26:51. | :26:54. | |
Clever dogs. Let's look at the weather now with | :26:54. | :26:57. | |
Let's look at the weather now with Jay Wynne. This is the radar | :26:57. | :27:01. | |
sequence. It show as large area of blue, mostly rain, spreading across | :27:01. | :27:05. | |
the United Kingdom. I say mostly rain, because there's been snow | :27:05. | :27:10. | |
over the hills of northern Britain. A lot of rain around falling on | :27:10. | :27:14. | |
saturated ground in the South West. Snow over the hills-northern | :27:14. | :27:19. | |
Britain, but by dawn a lot of the persistent rain will have eased | :27:19. | :27:23. | |
away. Snow in eastern England but more significantly the skies will | :27:23. | :27:27. | |
clear, temperatures will drop. Ice will become a problem across | :27:27. | :27:30. | |
central and eastern parts. Icy stretchs in parts of Scotland | :27:30. | :27:35. | |
through the morning. Still a few of showers in the north and east. It | :27:35. | :27:43. | |
might be wintry over the hills, with a strong wind. Northern | :27:43. | :27:47. | |
Ireland ice-free but not in northern England. | :27:47. | :27:50. | |
Wintry weather first thing across East Anglia in particular. Move | :27:50. | :27:54. | |
towards the south and west and the skies are clearer, so a little bit | :27:54. | :27:57. | |
of sunshine to be found. It is always the western half of the UK | :27:57. | :28:03. | |
which sees the best of the weather, further east, Scotland, eastern | :28:03. | :28:07. | |
England, a grey day, with further showers. Wintry in the afternoon. | :28:07. | :28:11. | |
For all of us there is that wind. Temperatures reaching 5-7 degrees. | :28:11. | :28:17. | |
Adds on the wind and it feeting a raw day. The winds ease down on | :28:17. | :28:22. | |
Friday night into Saturday. The isobars spread out. A recipe for a | :28:22. | :28:30. | |
cold start to the day on Saturday. But the southern half of the UK | :28:30. | :28:35. |