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The BBC heavily criticised over its handling of the Savile scandal and | :00:07. | :00:14. | |
its aftermath - two damning reports published today. An inquiry into | :00:14. | :00:17. | |
why it dropped a Newsnight investigation into Jimmy Savile - | :00:17. | :00:20. | |
no cover-up but there is stinging criticism of the handling of the | :00:20. | :00:29. | |
scandal. The BBC management system proved completely incapable of | :00:29. | :00:33. | |
dealing with that. The level of chaos and confusion was even | :00:33. | :00:36. | |
greater than was apparent at the time. A second report finds the | :00:37. | :00:39. | |
programme failed to make basic journalistic checks before wrongly | :00:39. | :00:47. | |
implicating Lord McAlpine in allegations of child abuse. The BBC | :00:47. | :00:51. | |
will be able to rebuild its trust but it has to do so by facing up to | :00:51. | :00:56. | |
some of its weaknesses and failings as honestly as possible. But no BBC | :00:56. | :00:59. | |
managers are sacked. Will today draw a line under the crisis? Also | :00:59. | :01:03. | |
tonight. At last, justice for the families of the 96 killed at | :01:03. | :01:07. | |
Hillsborough. The verdicts of accidental death are quashed. On | :01:07. | :01:10. | |
their way home - nearly half of Britain's troops are to be pulled | :01:11. | :01:16. | |
out of Afghanistan by the end of next year. The Swiss bank UBS fined | :01:16. | :01:23. | |
nearly �1 billion for fiddling the rates that banks lend to each other. | :01:23. | :01:26. | |
And the Christmas post stolen from German troops in the Channel | :01:26. | :01:36. | |
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Islands during the war and finally delivered after 71 years. And on | :01:37. | :01:40. | |
the BBC News Channel - are so will agree long-term contracts with five | :01:40. | :01:50. | |
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British players, including Jack water. Plus Aaron Ramsey. -- | :01:53. | :02:03. | |
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Good evening and welcome to the BBC News at Six. Two reports into how | :02:05. | :02:07. | |
the BBC handled the Jimmy Saville scandal and its aftermath have | :02:07. | :02:12. | |
raised big questions for its managers and editors. One found | :02:12. | :02:15. | |
that there was no deliberate attempt to cover up information | :02:15. | :02:20. | |
about Savile's abuse. But there was chaos and confusion in the way | :02:20. | :02:24. | |
managers handled the row that followed. A second report found a | :02:25. | :02:27. | |
grave breach of editorial standards in a story which led to false | :02:28. | :02:31. | |
accusations against a senior Conservative peer. But neither | :02:31. | :02:34. | |
report will result in any sackings, a response the corporation insists | :02:34. | :02:44. | |
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is fair and proportionate. Mark Easton has more details. Chaos and | :02:45. | :02:49. | |
confusion, disarray and distrust, leadership and organisation in | :02:49. | :02:53. | |
short supply. The inquiry into that had BBC's handling of the Jimmy | :02:53. | :02:59. | |
Savile scandal revealed total crisis. When the full force of the | :02:59. | :03:03. | |
affair broke in October, the BBC management system proved completely | :03:03. | :03:08. | |
incapable of dealing with it. The level of chaos and confusion was | :03:08. | :03:14. | |
even greater than was apparent at the time. Good evening... At the | :03:14. | :03:18. | |
heart of the report is the question - why the BBC abandoned an | :03:18. | :03:21. | |
investigation into evidence that Jimmy Savile was a predatory | :03:21. | :03:26. | |
paedophile just before broadcasting for tribute programmes to him in | :03:26. | :03:30. | |
its Christmas Churchill. E-mails reveal how the future Director- | :03:30. | :03:34. | |
General was warned about Jimmy Savile's dark side before his death | :03:34. | :03:39. | |
and months before the Newsnight investigation. I feel queasy about | :03:39. | :03:48. | |
an obituary... I saw the real truth, but once secret -- senior executive. | :03:48. | :03:53. | |
Later, in what an executive called account is, the director of News | :03:53. | :03:58. | |
told him about the investigation at lunch. But today's report says for | :03:58. | :04:02. | |
intervention was too casual, fleeting and left much uncertainty | :04:02. | :04:06. | |
about the outcome. His response was unnecessarily cautious and he took | :04:06. | :04:11. | |
no steps to review his Christmas chez Joe. I will not get into the | :04:11. | :04:15. | |
details... At the launch of the report, the author found no | :04:16. | :04:18. | |
evidence that the Newsnight investigation had been told to | :04:18. | :04:22. | |
protect the corporation or its Christmas chez Jules. The decision | :04:22. | :04:26. | |
by the editor to drop the original investigation was clearly flawed | :04:26. | :04:29. | |
and the way in which it was taken was wrong, though I believe that | :04:29. | :04:34. | |
was done in good faith. It was not done to protect the Savile tribute | :04:34. | :04:38. | |
programmes or for any improper reason. After the truth about Jimmy | :04:38. | :04:42. | |
Savile emerged in October this year, the report says the BBC was thrown | :04:42. | :04:47. | |
into disarray, a blocked now the news editor explained why he | :04:47. | :04:50. | |
ditched their own investigation and it was full of errors and breached | :04:50. | :04:54. | |
editorial guidelines. When clearly bishop was required, says the | :04:54. | :04:59. | |
report, it was not provided. Pollard is absolutely right in | :04:59. | :05:04. | |
saying that the BBC will be able to rebuild its trust but it has to do | :05:04. | :05:08. | |
so by facing up to some of its weaknesses and failings as honestly | :05:08. | :05:14. | |
as possible. One of those witnesses is perhaps giving George Entwistle | :05:14. | :05:18. | |
a huge pay-off when the report reveals that he ignored e-mails | :05:18. | :05:23. | |
which might well have prevented the tributes to Jimmy Savile going out | :05:23. | :05:26. | |
across the Christmas show Jill. alternative was to go for | :05:27. | :05:29. | |
constructive dismissal, which would have certainly cost more and would | :05:29. | :05:34. | |
have taken longer. The �2 million inquiry into what is described as | :05:34. | :05:39. | |
one of the worst management crisis has been the BBC history, amid | :05:39. | :05:42. | |
disarray, Kells and a lack of leadership. The corporation's | :05:42. | :05:45. | |
critics will be quick to point out that the response from the | :05:45. | :05:50. | |
executive board of the corporation is to sack no-one. Good evening... | :05:50. | :05:54. | |
A new said investigation... Today the BBC published a second internal | :05:54. | :05:58. | |
report into how Newsnight manager put it the former Conservative | :05:58. | :06:02. | |
Party treasurer, Lord McAlpine, in a child abuse scandal. Basic checks | :06:02. | :06:06. | |
were not carried out, the Trust concluded, adding there had been a | :06:06. | :06:10. | |
grave breach which had been coarsely to all concerned. The | :06:10. | :06:14. | |
deputy head of news resigned following the Pollard Review as the | :06:14. | :06:17. | |
editor and deputy editor of Newsnight was moved to new roles. | :06:17. | :06:22. | |
The head of Radio Five Live would oversee news out's McAlpine report | :06:22. | :06:27. | |
and is being moved to a new well. Will anything changed warble people | :06:27. | :06:33. | |
be moved around and moved sideways and promoted and nothing happens? A | :06:33. | :06:36. | |
second investigation focusing on the victims abused by Jimmy Savile | :06:37. | :06:42. | |
will report next year. The fall-out from the scandal isn't yet over. | :06:42. | :06:48. | |
Mark is with me. How much damage do you think has been done to the | :06:48. | :06:54. | |
BBC's reputation? Trust in BBC News, the offer was asked about this and | :06:54. | :06:57. | |
he was pretty confident and said that over time he thought the trust | :06:57. | :07:02. | |
could get back to the kind of levels we knew it four years ago. | :07:02. | :07:07. | |
It was interesting what the acting director-general said, he said yes, | :07:07. | :07:12. | |
it can be rebuilt but we cannot assume that. We have to earn it. It | :07:12. | :07:16. | |
was interesting what the BBC Trust said overall in responding to the | :07:17. | :07:22. | |
Pollard report, it did not say this is structural, this is about silos, | :07:22. | :07:26. | |
it did once say it's about compliance and following editorial | :07:26. | :07:31. | |
guidelines. It said it was about culture, it wanted senior managers | :07:31. | :07:35. | |
to be here properly and set a good example and said staff should stop | :07:35. | :07:38. | |
being insular and stop looking to newspapers and distrusting each | :07:38. | :07:45. | |
other. They see the top priority of the new director-general next year | :07:45. | :07:55. | |
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is to sort that out. Thank you very much. Thank you. A former BBC Radio | :07:56. | :07:59. | |
One producer who worked with the presenter has been arrested. It is | :07:59. | :08:01. | |
part of the police investigation into allegations of sexual abuse | :08:01. | :08:06. | |
against Savile and others. 76-year- old Ted Beston is the eighth person | :08:06. | :08:11. | |
to be arrested under Scotland Yard's Operation Yewtree. They have | :08:11. | :08:14. | |
waited more than 20 years and finally the families of the victims | :08:14. | :08:17. | |
of the Hillsborough disaster have got the result they've campaigned | :08:17. | :08:22. | |
for. The High Court has quashed the verdicts of accidental deaths for | :08:22. | :08:26. | |
the 96 Liverpool fans who were crushed that day in 1989. There | :08:26. | :08:28. | |
will now be fresh inquests and criminal prosecutions are being | :08:28. | :08:36. | |
considered. Judith Moritz reports from the High Court. These families | :08:36. | :08:39. | |
and their supporters have waited nearly a quarter of a century for | :08:39. | :08:44. | |
this moment. The UN they learnt that their relatives, who died at | :08:44. | :08:47. | |
Hillsborough, would get a new inquest, the relief and abortion | :08:47. | :08:53. | |
was obvious. We went through the depth and length of the judgment | :08:53. | :08:57. | |
and could not have written it better ourselves. When you get the | :08:57. | :09:05. | |
Lord Chief Justice, and he used vindicated, so it is clear that | :09:05. | :09:08. | |
justice is on its way and we could come out with something like a | :09:08. | :09:13. | |
small step for mankind but it is huge for the families. This was a | :09:13. | :09:17. | |
particularly big day for Anne Williams, she has been as far as | :09:17. | :09:21. | |
the European Court trying to get a new inquest for her 15 year-old son. | :09:21. | :09:26. | |
She has been turned down at every stage, until today. Why Labour not | :09:26. | :09:32. | |
just give us the truth from the outset? And we would still have | :09:32. | :09:36. | |
mourned our children. What you would not have had 23 years. | :09:36. | :09:42. | |
Fighting the system. 96 Liverpool fans were fatally crashed in the | :09:42. | :09:48. | |
stadium disaster in April 1989. At the original inquest, controversial | :09:48. | :09:51. | |
verdicts of accidental death were returned and the coroner suggested | :09:51. | :09:57. | |
that all the deaths were inevitable by the afternoon of the disaster. | :09:57. | :10:01. | |
Today, the High Court heard that was wrong and as a result, the | :10:01. | :10:05. | |
emergency response had never been examined. Giving the ruling, the | :10:05. | :10:10. | |
Lord chief Justice said that over the years there had been a profound, | :10:10. | :10:14. | |
almost palpable sense by the family is that justice had not been done. | :10:14. | :10:21. | |
He praised their determination and they responded, breaking out into | :10:21. | :10:26. | |
spontaneous applause, one woman shouting, thank you, your honour... | :10:26. | :10:30. | |
The catalyst for the decision was a recent publication of the | :10:30. | :10:33. | |
Hillsborough Independent Panel report, which found new medical | :10:33. | :10:39. | |
evidence that many fans might have been saved. When I read the | :10:39. | :10:43. | |
Independent publication of documents and that report, it was | :10:43. | :10:48. | |
overwhelmingly clear that the inquests had proceeded on seriously | :10:48. | :10:52. | |
flawed basis. The youngest to die at Hillsborough was just 10 years | :10:52. | :10:58. | |
old. The oldest was 67. More than a third were teenagers. It is likely | :10:58. | :11:03. | |
to be many months before the new inquest gets underway, but when it | :11:03. | :11:06. | |
does, the families said they will finally feel that justice is being | :11:06. | :11:13. | |
done. Nearly half of all British troops currently serving in | :11:13. | :11:16. | |
Afghanistan will return home by the end of next year. The UK currently | :11:16. | :11:19. | |
has 9,500 troops in Helmand Province, although 500 will return | :11:19. | :11:26. | |
before Christmas this year. All NATO operations are due to end by | :11:26. | :11:28. | |
2014 with responsibility being transferred to Afghan forces. | :11:28. | :11:38. | |
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Jonathan Beale reports. That few days ago they were on patrol. No | :11:39. | :11:44. | |
gunshots, no clear threat. Perhaps a sign that the security situation | :11:44. | :11:49. | |
is improving. Last night, those same soldiers were getting ready to | :11:49. | :11:54. | |
come home early. They are among the first 500 combat troops to be | :11:54. | :12:01. | |
leaving Afghanistan for good. But with mixed emotions. Leaving three | :12:02. | :12:08. | |
months in, that was disappointing, but we have to be sensible. Look at | :12:08. | :12:13. | |
the bigger picture. And transition is going faster than expected. | :12:13. | :12:18. | |
cost of that transition, handing over responsibility to the Afghans, | :12:18. | :12:21. | |
the Prime Minister announced that more troops will be coming home | :12:21. | :12:27. | |
next year. Not hundreds of thousands. Because of the success | :12:27. | :12:29. | |
of our forces and the Afghan national security forces and the | :12:30. | :12:34. | |
fact that we're moving from mentoring at Italian levelled to | :12:34. | :12:38. | |
brigade level by the end of 2013, we will be able to see troops | :12:38. | :12:46. | |
coming home in to a relatively even steps - 2013, 2014. The British | :12:46. | :12:50. | |
prisons in Afghanistan -- presents -- peaked with 9500. The 500 coming | :12:50. | :12:55. | |
home brings that to 9000. That will go down to just over 5000 by the | :12:55. | :13:02. | |
end of next year. With all British troops out by the end of 2014. | :13:02. | :13:06. | |
Along with their NATO allies, they have started the big move. These | :13:06. | :13:09. | |
British troops are demolishing a patrol base while others have been | :13:09. | :13:15. | |
handed over. But doubts still remain as to whether the Afghan | :13:15. | :13:19. | |
army is ready to fight an insurgency that has not yet been | :13:19. | :13:23. | |
defeated all on its own. They are concerned about losing some of the | :13:23. | :13:27. | |
intelligence assets and surveillance. Those are the things | :13:27. | :13:31. | |
they leaned upon that they cannot replicate. But their own | :13:31. | :13:33. | |
intelligence and understanding of the population is far better than | :13:33. | :13:39. | |
ours. The exit from Afghanistan is already underway. This is a clear | :13:40. | :13:45. | |
sign that the war is now winding down. These are among the first 500 | :13:45. | :13:49. | |
to leave the country for good. And soon, they will be joined by | :13:49. | :13:55. | |
thousands more. These will be back for Christmas. But 438 British | :13:55. | :14:00. | |
troops never made it home. And no- one can say with certainty that the | :14:00. | :14:07. | |
sacrifice has been worthwhile. The Swiss bank UBS has been fined | :14:07. | :14:10. | |
nearly �1 billion for attempting to fiddle the interest rate at which | :14:10. | :14:14. | |
banks lend to each other. It's the largest ever fine of its kind and | :14:14. | :14:16. | |
the second biggest banking fine ever. The City Watchdog said | :14:16. | :14:19. | |
misconduct at the bank had been extensive and widespread. Robert | :14:19. | :14:29. | |
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Peston has more details. UBS is a giant global bank caught trying to | :14:30. | :14:34. | |
manipulate important interest rates and punished by regulators with | :14:34. | :14:39. | |
�940 million of fines and confiscations of ill-gotten gains. | :14:39. | :14:42. | |
This is some of the most shocking this conduct we have seen. This was | :14:42. | :14:46. | |
prevalent across the firm for a period of five years with people | :14:46. | :14:50. | |
seeking to manipulate and an internationally used benchmarks | :14:50. | :14:53. | |
which is used for trillions of pounds worth of contracts in order | :14:54. | :14:58. | |
to benefit their own position. Traders colluded with other firms | :14:58. | :15:08. | |
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in the market rigging. One banker Is a �1 billion fine too much, too | :15:12. | :15:16. | |
little or about right? Well I'd say it's not about the fines, what we | :15:16. | :15:20. | |
have to see is criminal sanctions, the money is really meaningless, | :15:20. | :15:24. | |
it's tax deductible. The Government's amenning the Financial | :15:24. | :15:26. | |
Services Bill to make sure the fines in future go to good causes, | :15:26. | :15:31. | |
not back to the regulator but it's got to be about criminal sanctions. | :15:31. | :15:35. | |
At UBS the market manipulation was so widespread and systemic | :15:35. | :15:39. | |
according to regulators, that it's now impossible to have confidence | :15:39. | :15:44. | |
in any of the main LIBOR prices over a period of years. That really | :15:44. | :15:47. | |
matters, because LIBOR rates underpin the prices of more than | :15:47. | :15:51. | |
300 trillion dollars of financial products sold to investors and | :15:51. | :15:56. | |
people and as those investors start to sue they'll be looking for huge | :15:56. | :16:01. | |
damages, damages that could turn out to be a multiple, even of the | :16:01. | :16:05. | |
huge bank fines. More than a dozen big banks are | :16:05. | :16:10. | |
being investigated for rate-rigging. This year, Barclays was hit with | :16:10. | :16:16. | |
�290 million in fines and penalties. Martin Taylor was Barclays's boss | :16:16. | :16:20. | |
before the rot set in. We had a rotten culture in a number of | :16:20. | :16:25. | |
institutions in the pre-crash City, no question about that. The real | :16:25. | :16:29. | |
issue is are these so dreadful and I believe they are, that the people | :16:29. | :16:32. | |
in charge of the banks will now get a grip? | :16:32. | :16:37. | |
After the humbling of UBS, will come the spanking of RBS, also | :16:37. | :16:41. | |
implicated in the LIBOR scandal and early in the new year, due to be | :16:41. | :16:47. | |
fined more than its great rival, Barclays. | :16:47. | :16:53. | |
Our top story tonight: The BBC is heavily criticised over | :16:53. | :16:59. | |
its handling of the Savile scandal and its aftermath, in two reports | :16:59. | :17:09. | |
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published today. Coming up: A Christmas cracker from 1902, the | :17:10. | :17:15. | |
world's earliest recording of festive celebrations. | :17:15. | :17:23. | |
Later in the business news, brought down, UBS pays fines for rigging an | :17:23. | :17:27. | |
interest rate and Nissan will build a new luxury car in Britain | :17:27. | :17:37. | |
creating jobs. Hundreds of cards and letters | :17:37. | :17:40. | |
written by German soldiers who occupied the Channel Islands during | :17:40. | :17:43. | |
the Second World War have been discovered 70 years on. They were | :17:43. | :17:46. | |
stolen by the resistance. Now, the families of those to whom the | :17:47. | :17:49. | |
letters were addressed are finally being sent home. Robert Hall | :17:49. | :17:56. | |
reports. On a lane in the Frankfurt suburbs, a late delivery nears the | :17:56. | :18:02. | |
end of its journey. Festive greetings from a war-time past. | :18:02. | :18:07. | |
Dear Hans, dear Mary, I wish you a merry Christmas, but what I hope | :18:07. | :18:12. | |
most is that the war will come to an end and soon. Thousands of | :18:12. | :18:17. | |
German soldiers were posted to the channel aoeu aoeu -- Channel | :18:17. | :18:20. | |
Islands during the occupation. Around them, communities looked for | :18:20. | :18:24. | |
ways of fighting back. During the years of occupation, islanders did | :18:24. | :18:28. | |
what they could to resist, to obstruct or to irritate the German | :18:28. | :18:34. | |
forces who thronged their streets and in the run-up to Christmas in | :18:34. | :18:39. | |
in 1941 a group hatched a plan which begins this story but | :18:39. | :18:41. | |
remained a secret for years. These letters and cards were part of the | :18:41. | :18:47. | |
haul they stole from the German Army Post Office. It was a high- | :18:47. | :18:54. | |
risk plan. Bob lived through the occupation. If the offence was | :18:54. | :19:00. | |
considered seriously enough, they would be taken to a prison on the | :19:00. | :19:05. | |
continent, run by the SS where things were very tough. Some of | :19:05. | :19:10. | |
those people, quite a number, did not come back, ever. My dearest | :19:10. | :19:17. | |
Kate, I hope you... conspirators swore secrecy but | :19:17. | :19:20. | |
decades later the letters were delivered to Jersey's archive. | :19:20. | :19:25. | |
Weeks of postal detective work in Jersey and in a much changed | :19:25. | :19:29. | |
Germany finally led to the first special delivery. Please tell him | :19:29. | :19:34. | |
we are pleased to be delivering this letter today. Engelbert | :19:34. | :19:38. | |
Bergmann was delighted to receive a card originally intended for his | :19:38. | :19:42. | |
grandfather and more letters are now on the move. Family memories | :19:43. | :19:51. | |
stirred once again by a seasonal gesture of goodwill. | :19:51. | :19:54. | |
Councils in England will see their overall spending power cut by 1.7% | :19:54. | :19:56. | |
next year, although some authorities will see their budgets | :19:56. | :20:00. | |
down by nearly 10%. Local Government Secretary Eric Pickles | :20:00. | :20:03. | |
told MPs the settlement represented a bargain for local authorities and | :20:03. | :20:09. | |
promised Government support so that council taxes could be frozen. Our | :20:09. | :20:16. | |
local government correspondent Mike Sergeant reports. | :20:16. | :20:20. | |
Will councils still provide all of these services with less and less | :20:20. | :20:25. | |
money from central Government? Ministers think they can, but only | :20:25. | :20:31. | |
if they become more efficient and better at generating money locally. | :20:31. | :20:36. | |
This settlement recognises the responsibility of local Government | :20:36. | :20:42. | |
to find sensible savings and to make better use of its resources. | :20:42. | :20:48. | |
It marks a new settlement for local Government based on self- | :20:48. | :20:52. | |
determination and financial independence. Town halls are two | :20:52. | :20:57. | |
years into this spending squeeze and they say they've made easy | :20:57. | :21:02. | |
savings already, protecting services is getting harder. Are | :21:02. | :21:06. | |
people noticing the impact? Ron certainly has. He works for the | :21:06. | :21:10. | |
city council in Birmingham. Are you in fear for your job? Definitely, | :21:10. | :21:14. | |
yeah, I don't see myself any different than anybody else. I have | :21:14. | :21:19. | |
seen colleagues over the last two years go. Some good skilled people. | :21:19. | :21:25. | |
It's sad. Many others, though, see much less -- seem much less | :21:25. | :21:29. | |
concerned about finances. To me I don't see a massive change to my | :21:29. | :21:33. | |
life because of the council cuts. Personally, it hasn't really | :21:33. | :21:39. | |
affected me yet. I am very happy to say. But I feel it will do shortly. | :21:39. | :21:43. | |
But the leaders of some of England's biggest cities are | :21:43. | :21:46. | |
demanding an urgent meeting with the Secretary of State. They're | :21:46. | :21:50. | |
warning of a looming financial crisis. There are disadvantaged | :21:50. | :21:54. | |
individuals and communities across Birmingham who are going to see | :21:54. | :21:57. | |
services cut. You can't get away from this. It's not about solving a | :21:57. | :22:00. | |
budget problem through efficiency savings, we are going to have to | :22:00. | :22:05. | |
make cuts which will affect the livelihoods, the quality of life of | :22:05. | :22:10. | |
residents of this city. What happens if the funding isn't there? | :22:10. | :22:14. | |
This training centre for social workers in Birmingham gets by with | :22:14. | :22:17. | |
no council money at all. One of its directors had this message for | :22:17. | :22:23. | |
those looking for other sources of funding. Think outside the box, | :22:23. | :22:27. | |
guys, you can do it. It's just about using your imagination. | :22:27. | :22:31. | |
Councils in Wales and Scotland are getting a small increase next year, | :22:31. | :22:35. | |
but with costs increasing all the time, local authorities in England | :22:35. | :22:39. | |
are today facing hard choices, about how to keep services going on | :22:39. | :22:47. | |
an ever tighter budget. Thirty police officers are now | :22:47. | :22:50. | |
investigating allegations that a serving officer falsely claimed to | :22:50. | :22:52. | |
have heard a row between the former Government Chief Whip, Andrew | :22:52. | :22:55. | |
Mitchell, and Downing Street police. Mr Mitchell resigned from the | :22:55. | :22:57. | |
Government over the incident, admitting he did swear at the | :22:57. | :23:01. | |
officers but denying that he'd called them "plebs". Our political | :23:01. | :23:07. | |
correspondent Norman Smith is in Downing Street tonight. 30 officers, | :23:07. | :23:12. | |
I suppose it's a sign of how serious this affair is getting? | :23:12. | :23:16. | |
view in Downing Street tonight is that there are an awful lot more | :23:16. | :23:20. | |
questions to answer about exactly what happened at the gates behind | :23:20. | :23:24. | |
me during that altercation with Andrew Mitchell and the police. | :23:24. | :23:27. | |
Questions about the validity of the claim that he called police | :23:27. | :23:30. | |
officers plebs, questions too about the conduct of the police and | :23:30. | :23:36. | |
whether we are talking about one rouge officer who we now know | :23:36. | :23:39. | |
fabricated that e-mail claiming to be a member of the public who heard | :23:39. | :23:43. | |
the police being called plebs, or whether we are talking about a | :23:43. | :23:48. | |
wider police conspiracy because of the leaking of the police log book | :23:48. | :23:52. | |
containing details of that encounter. What we do know is the | :23:52. | :23:56. | |
Met are not discounting the suggestions of a possible | :23:56. | :24:00. | |
conspiracy and of - and have assigned 30 officers to a case | :24:00. | :24:05. | |
which they say will not be resolved swiftly. It doesn't mean Andrew | :24:05. | :24:09. | |
Mitchell's version has been vindicated but as one of Mr | :24:09. | :24:15. | |
Cameron's aides put it to me, he is in a better position. Thank you. | :24:15. | :24:19. | |
Nissan says it's investing �250 million in its sun derland plant. | :24:19. | :24:23. | |
It's going to be spent on building a new small luxury car and will | :24:23. | :24:27. | |
create hundreds of jobs on Wearside. The first vehicle is expected to | :24:27. | :24:35. | |
roll off the production line in 2015. | :24:35. | :24:38. | |
Curators at the National Museum of London have discovered what are | :24:38. | :24:40. | |
thought to be the first ever recordings of a family Christmas | :24:40. | :24:43. | |
made over a century ago. The wax cylinder recordings of songs and | :24:43. | :24:47. | |
hymns were made by the Wall family between 1902 and 1917 and are now | :24:47. | :24:52. | |
being broadcast for the first time, as Pallab Ghosh reports. This wax | :24:52. | :24:58. | |
sill independent der con-- cylinder contains events that took place | :24:58. | :25:02. | |
more than 100 years ago. When it was played by curators, this is | :25:02. | :25:12. | |
:25:12. | :25:16. | ||
what they heard. # England stop... The recording is | :25:16. | :25:22. | |
from 1904 of a a seven-year-old boy singing to his family. The scene | :25:22. | :25:30. | |
here recreated by his great grandson, Leslie. When I first | :25:30. | :25:34. | |
heard the recordings I have to say that the hairs on my arms stood on | :25:34. | :25:38. | |
end. It was fantastic. It was really like a window opening into | :25:38. | :25:43. | |
the past and like being in the same room. The recordings are of the | :25:43. | :25:47. | |
Wall family who lived in north London. Cromwell, in the middle, | :25:47. | :25:51. | |
was the head of the family. He with his wife on the right, and their | :25:51. | :25:56. | |
nine children, loved to sing. Especially at Christmas. The family | :25:56. | :26:04. | |
would gather around this this graphophone to make recordings. The | :26:04. | :26:08. | |
oldest is this one from 1902 and it's thought to be the oldest ever | :26:08. | :26:11. | |
recording of a family on Christmas Day. | :26:11. | :26:16. | |
Here we are again, another Christmas, 1904. It was only | :26:17. | :26:21. | |
recently that the descendents of the family heard the recordings. | :26:21. | :26:25. | |
Some of them remember that the grand parties went on for years to | :26:26. | :26:30. | |
come. That would have been typical of my grandfather, making them sing | :26:30. | :26:40. | |
:26:40. | :26:43. | ||
like that! The recordings are a tale of | :26:43. | :26:47. | |
Christmas past, of warm gatherings, a tradition that Cromwell Wall's | :26:47. | :26:57. | |
:26:57. | :26:59. | ||
family has continued to this day. # The little Lord Jesus... | :26:59. | :27:03. | |
Getting us into the Christmas mood, now let's look at the weather. | :27:03. | :27:10. | |
Christmas this year doesn't look white at the moment but it does | :27:10. | :27:14. | |
look wet between now and Christmas. We have a couple of amber warnings | :27:14. | :27:18. | |
in force, be prepared for some problems. The first area of concern | :27:18. | :27:23. | |
is south-west England and south- east Wales tonight as another pulse | :27:23. | :27:26. | |
of rain arrives. It returns to Northern Ireland and all parts of | :27:26. | :27:31. | |
the UK smothered with rain by first thing in the morning. Snow on the | :27:31. | :27:35. | |
tops of Pennines and hills and mountains of Scotland. It will feel | :27:35. | :27:39. | |
cold tomorrow with the wet and windy conditions which prevail for | :27:39. | :27:43. | |
pretty much all of us. The rain extends to northern Scotland. | :27:43. | :27:47. | |
Perhaps it will turn a little bit drier across parts of south-west | :27:47. | :27:51. | |
England later, but for the majority across England and Wales expect | :27:51. | :27:55. | |
rain to come and go throughout the day and a strong wind also. That | :27:55. | :27:58. | |
rain is going to be heavy. We could see problems with this rain | :27:58. | :28:02. | |
building up almost anywhere. It's a wet day for Northern Ireland and | :28:02. | :28:06. | |
particularly wet across the eastern parts of Scotland. There will be | :28:06. | :28:11. | |
snow on the hills, and that rain building up through tomorrow and | :28:11. | :28:14. | |
tomorrow night so that is the second amber warning we have in | :28:14. | :28:18. | |
force here, again be prepared for problems. Elsewhere, the rain | :28:18. | :28:21. | |
starts to ease into Friday. For much of England and Wales and | :28:21. | :28:24. | |
Northern Ireland it's a dry day on Friday with sunshine. However, it | :28:24. | :28:28. | |
is the shortest day. There is more rain gathering to spread in across | :28:28. | :28:31. | |
the country through the weekend and beyond into Christmas week. It | :28:31. | :28:35. | |
looks wet and windy. If you are after a drier day, Friday is your | :28:35. | :28:38. | |
best bet. Many of you will be making travel plans over the next | :28:38. | :28:44. | |
few days and that rain could cause disruption. | :28:44. | :28:47. | |
There is the floodline number, which is also on the BBC weather | :28:47. | :28:51. |