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Police are criticised for missing chances to stop a psychiatric | :00:07. | :00:10. | |
patient killing for a second time. Nicola Edgington made several calls | :00:10. | :00:15. | |
for help before the murder. The footage that shows her running away. | :00:15. | :00:22. | |
The victim's family want answers.Whilst the family are | :00:22. | :00:25. | |
believed that a very dangerous woman has been taken off the | :00:25. | :00:30. | |
streets, they remain concerned at the many questions that remain over | :00:30. | :00:32. | |
the actions of the authorities. We'll be asking why the authorities | :00:32. | :00:36. | |
didn't do more. Also tonight, the Queen leaves hospital. She's | :00:36. | :00:42. | |
expected to spend the next few days resting. High hopes of a win in the | :00:42. | :00:45. | |
battle against HIV. Doctors in America think they have cured a | :00:45. | :00:51. | |
young girl. The Bradford Batman. The caped crusader hands over a | :00:51. | :01:01. | |
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suspect to the police. And then On the BBC News Channel, Ryan Giggs | :01:01. | :01:04. | |
will make his 1,000 Ksenia appearance on Manchester United's | :01:04. | :01:08. | |
biggest game of the season against a Real Madrid in the Champions' | :01:08. | :01:18. | |
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Good evening and welcome to the BBC News at Six. The police watchdog | :01:27. | :01:30. | |
has highlighted a series of missed chances that might have prevented | :01:30. | :01:33. | |
the murder of a grandmother by a psychiatric patient who had already | :01:33. | :01:37. | |
killed her own mother. 32-year-old Nicola Edgington was today given a | :01:37. | :01:40. | |
37-year jail sentence for killing Sally Hodkin in southeast London | :01:40. | :01:46. | |
two years ago. In the hours before the murder, Edgington had made | :01:46. | :01:49. | |
several calls asking the police to help her because she thought she | :01:50. | :01:58. | |
was going to kill someone. June Kelly is at the Old Bailey.George, | :01:58. | :02:03. | |
this is a young woman who, eight years ago, inflicted a terrible | :02:03. | :02:08. | |
tragedy on her own family and then did the same to another family. Two | :02:08. | :02:11. | |
things have happened today. The police watchdog produced its report | :02:11. | :02:16. | |
and also Nicola Edgington was given a life term by a judge at the Old | :02:16. | :02:20. | |
Bailey. This is Nicola Edgington just after she has committed murder | :02:20. | :02:25. | |
on a suburban street. Using a stolen butcher's knife she's also | :02:25. | :02:30. | |
almost decapitated a victim. She runs into a shop after hearing | :02:30. | :02:35. | |
police sirens. A short time later, she is under arrest. Nicola | :02:35. | :02:39. | |
Edgington had killed before, stabbing her mother to death in | :02:39. | :02:44. | |
2005, and was conflicted -- convicted of manslaughter. Six | :02:44. | :02:48. | |
years later, Sally Hodkin became her second victim. She did not know | :02:48. | :02:58. | |
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her, it was a random attack. Today, Outside the Old Bailey, the | :03:01. | :03:06. | |
family's lawyer spoke for them. Whilst the family are believed a | :03:06. | :03:09. | |
very dangerous woman has been taken off the streets, they remain | :03:09. | :03:13. | |
concerned at the very many questions that remain over the | :03:13. | :03:17. | |
actions of the authorities. Nicola Edgington was released in | :03:17. | :03:22. | |
psychiatric care in 2009 because she was considered safe. Two years | :03:22. | :03:26. | |
later, in the early hours of the morning, she took a taxi to a | :03:26. | :03:31. | |
hospital in south London. From the hospital, she made a series of 999 | :03:31. | :03:41. | |
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She was not detained and then left to the hospital and went on a bus | :03:50. | :03:54. | |
for Bexleyheath in south London. She went into Asda and bought a | :03:54. | :04:00. | |
knife, and use it to attack another woman who managed to escape. Nicola | :04:00. | :04:03. | |
Edgington stole a knife from a butcher's shop and a short distance | :04:03. | :04:08. | |
away, murdered Sally Hodkin. Today, both medical staff and the police | :04:08. | :04:11. | |
were attacked by the police watchdog for failing to use their | :04:11. | :04:16. | |
powers to detain her and the police are also criticised for not | :04:16. | :04:20. | |
checking on her history. Both the police and hospital staff are | :04:20. | :04:23. | |
lacking in crucial information about Nicola Edgington which | :04:23. | :04:26. | |
potentially could have changed the way in which she was dealt with at | :04:26. | :04:30. | |
the hospital. This was a young woman who should have had more | :04:30. | :04:35. | |
support according to those who work in the mental health field. It's a | :04:35. | :04:38. | |
worrying indictment of the psychiatric system because if they | :04:38. | :04:42. | |
can't cope with that a relatively few people with mental illness who | :04:42. | :04:46. | |
have such a history of violence, it casts doubt on how they cope with a | :04:47. | :04:51. | |
majority of people who are never ever violent. But, in court, the | :04:51. | :04:55. | |
judge told Nicola Edgington, she had to take responsibility for what | :04:55. | :05:00. | |
she had done. Very different approaches from the trial judge and | :05:00. | :05:04. | |
those who work in the mental health field, and in response to the | :05:04. | :05:07. | |
report by the police watchdog, the police said it's constantly | :05:07. | :05:12. | |
reviewing its procedures. On the health front, the trust involved | :05:12. | :05:15. | |
has already carried out an internal review and it has acknowledged it | :05:15. | :05:20. | |
should be more alive to problems posed by a Nicola Edgington. Two | :05:20. | :05:24. | |
nurses have been sacked. The NHS commissioning Board has announced | :05:24. | :05:28. | |
there is to be an independent investigation into what it called | :05:28. | :05:33. | |
this tragic and harrowing case. Thanks very much. Thank you. The | :05:33. | :05:36. | |
Queen left hospital this afternoon after being treated for symptoms of | :05:36. | :05:38. | |
gastroenteritis. She thanked hospital staff before being driven | :05:38. | :05:46. | |
away from the King Edward VII's Hospital in central London. Our | :05:46. | :05:48. | |
Royal Correspondent, Nicholas Witchell, is outside Buckingham | :05:48. | :05:55. | |
Palace. She looked quite so brightly this afternoon. She did. | :05:55. | :05:59. | |
Looking at her, you want think she is leaving hospital as a newly | :05:59. | :06:04. | |
discharged patient. She looked, for all the world, like the Queen | :06:04. | :06:09. | |
always looks. She looked relaxed and composed after less than 24 | :06:09. | :06:13. | |
hours in hospital. She is now at Buckingham Palace, spending the | :06:13. | :06:17. | |
night here with some fairly firm advice from her doctors to rest and | :06:17. | :06:22. | |
take things easy for the next few days. I wonder whether the key to | :06:22. | :06:28. | |
the whole hospital admission doesn't lie in the world -- word | :06:28. | :06:31. | |
"Assessment" In a statement yesterday. Doctors will want to be | :06:31. | :06:34. | |
sure what is causing the sickness so it seems logical that there | :06:34. | :06:39. | |
would have been tests and possibly scans, that sort of thing. Once | :06:39. | :06:42. | |
that was complete, and the Queen feeling much better, it was | :06:42. | :06:47. | |
possible for her to leave hospital. Have a hope and expectation is she | :06:47. | :06:51. | |
will be able to resume public engagements, all being well, next | :06:51. | :06:56. | |
week. Thanks very much. In a world- first, doctors in America believe | :06:56. | :06:59. | |
they have effectively cured a girl born with HIV, the virus that can | :06:59. | :07:02. | |
lead to AIDS. Doctors believe the key to the baby's recovery could be | :07:02. | :07:06. | |
the very early treatment she received within hours of being born. | :07:06. | :07:09. | |
The case in Mississippi could have implications for the treatment of | :07:09. | :07:13. | |
babies born with the infection around the world. Our Medical | :07:13. | :07:20. | |
Correspondent Fergus Walsh reports., in three decades of the battle | :07:20. | :07:26. | |
against the human -- HIV virus, victories like this have been rare. | :07:26. | :07:32. | |
It happened in Mississippi. An HIV- positive mother turned up in Labour | :07:32. | :07:36. | |
at hospital and passed on the infection to her baby. Doctors | :07:36. | :07:40. | |
began drug treatment which was meant to continue for life but | :07:40. | :07:44. | |
after 18 months, her mother stopped bringing her for medication. Five | :07:44. | :07:49. | |
months later, doctors expected the worst but tests could find no signs | :07:49. | :07:55. | |
of infection. We believe that perhaps the initiation of very | :07:55. | :08:03. | |
early drug therapy prevented the formation of the viral forms in the | :08:03. | :08:08. | |
T-cells. It sets the stage for the agenda going forward. HIV attacks | :08:08. | :08:11. | |
the immune system targeting cells known as CD4 or T cells inserting | :08:11. | :08:13. | |
its genetic material, hijacking their function and making extra | :08:13. | :08:23. | |
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copies of itself. Drug treatment can keep the infection in check but | :08:24. | :08:27. | |
the virus remains hidden in cell reservoirs which is why a cure is | :08:27. | :08:33. | |
not currently thought possible. But here the baby was given combination | :08:33. | :08:36. | |
anti-retroviral therapy within hours of birth. And this apparently | :08:36. | :08:43. | |
prevented the virus taking hold. Although some genetic material | :08:43. | :08:46. | |
remains, it appears unable to replicate or infect and so the | :08:46. | :08:52. | |
child is what's known as functionally cured. In Britain, HIV | :08:52. | :08:56. | |
testing is routine in early pregnancy. Medication for the | :08:56. | :09:00. | |
mother can minimise the risks of HIV being passed on. So this case | :09:00. | :09:04. | |
is unusual. Mother to child transmission is completely | :09:04. | :09:09. | |
preventable if you are diagnosed early enough and give them other | :09:09. | :09:13. | |
treatment. In the rare cases like this, it does occur, however, this | :09:13. | :09:17. | |
is an interesting piece of data because it suggests we may be able | :09:17. | :09:22. | |
to do something in cases where the baby is already infected. There | :09:22. | :09:27. | |
could be something unusual about the girls genetics which makes so | :09:27. | :09:31. | |
resistant to HIV. Full details have yet to be handed to scientists for | :09:32. | :09:36. | |
scrutiny. But it is, the very least, a promising development in the | :09:36. | :09:40. | |
fight against this virus. A There are new questions tonight about the | :09:40. | :09:43. | |
government's flagship programme designed to boost bank lending to | :09:43. | :09:49. | |
small businesses and households. The latest figures, covering the | :09:49. | :09:52. | |
last three months of 2012, show lending was down by nearly �2.5 | :09:52. | :09:54. | |
billion compared to the previous quarter. Our Chief Economics | :09:54. | :10:03. | |
Correspondent, Hugh Pym, reports.'it was the Bank of England | :10:03. | :10:06. | |
and the Government's recipe for boosting lending in the economy, | :10:06. | :10:11. | |
the scheme was launched last summer but this business owner says it has | :10:11. | :10:15. | |
not made things easier for her. She wants to develop her cooking | :10:15. | :10:20. | |
business and open a restaurant but so far, banks have turned it down. | :10:20. | :10:23. | |
I don't think the banks are reasonable because I'm creating | :10:23. | :10:28. | |
jobs. I'm creating jobs for the community here, I'm going to create | :10:28. | :10:33. | |
something I'm passionate about and also its expanding the business. | :10:34. | :10:37. | |
While she is passionate about developing a new side, banks are to | :10:37. | :10:41. | |
think hard about where they learn their money. The Bank of England | :10:41. | :10:45. | |
wants to encourage more borrowing. Under the scheme it lends money to | :10:45. | :10:49. | |
banks and building societies, this will be at an extra low interest | :10:49. | :10:52. | |
rate as long as they pass the funding on to companies and | :10:52. | :10:56. | |
households, but if their lending falls, they will have to pay a | :10:56. | :10:59. | |
higher interest paid to the Bank of England. The latest figures show, | :11:00. | :11:02. | |
while banks and building societies took some of the Bank of England | :11:02. | :11:06. | |
money on offer, their lending to businesses and consumers actually | :11:06. | :11:10. | |
fell in the last few months of last year. The government says it may | :11:10. | :11:14. | |
take a while for the money to work through the system. It takes time | :11:14. | :11:19. | |
to build and the comparison is what would have happened without it, and | :11:19. | :11:23. | |
what we saw his interest rates were beginning to rise because it was | :11:23. | :11:28. | |
difficult for banks to get hold of funds and loans were not available. | :11:28. | :11:31. | |
There is evidence from the housing market the scheme as having an | :11:31. | :11:34. | |
impact. Lenders say they have been able to get access to cheap loans | :11:34. | :11:38. | |
at the Bank of England and pass on the benefits to homebuyers. | :11:38. | :11:42. | |
Mortgage rates on many products in recent months have come down. But | :11:43. | :11:45. | |
while it may be helping borrowers in the housing market, officials of | :11:45. | :11:49. | |
the Bank of England admit the scheme is not increasing finance | :11:49. | :11:52. | |
for small businesses and labour argues the latest news is deeply | :11:52. | :11:56. | |
disappointing and the government should be done a lot more to kick- | :11:56. | :11:59. | |
start the economy. HSBC has reported pre-tax profits of nearly | :11:59. | :12:04. | |
�14 billion. That's a fall of 6% and slightly lower than had been | :12:04. | :12:13. | |
predicted. The Bank posted the profits despite paying more than a | :12:13. | :12:16. | |
billion pounds to the US authorities to settle drug money | :12:16. | :12:18. | |
laundering charges in Mexico. Horsemeat has been found in minced | :12:18. | :12:21. | |
beef served in school dinners in Leicestershire. The council, which | :12:21. | :12:24. | |
supplies more than 200 schools across the county, said tests | :12:24. | :12:27. | |
showed the beef contained less than 1% horse DNA. It's been permanently | :12:27. | :12:34. | |
taken off school menus. The Vatican is to investigate the former head | :12:34. | :12:37. | |
of the Catholic church in Scotland, Cardinal Keith O'Brien, who last | :12:37. | :12:41. | |
night admitted sexual misconduct. The scandal comes as Roman Catholic | :12:41. | :12:44. | |
cardinals have started a week of closed-door meetings in Rome before | :12:44. | :12:52. | |
choosing a successor to Pope Benedict. From there Allan Little | :12:52. | :13:01. | |
sent this report. Cardinal O'Brien's admission casts a shadow | :13:01. | :13:07. | |
over the most important decision the Church has to make. The | :13:07. | :13:11. | |
cardinals gather today to stop the process to elect a new Pope. If the | :13:11. | :13:14. | |
allegations against Cardinal O'Brien had not been made public, | :13:14. | :13:20. | |
he would be here among them. The former leader of the Church in | :13:20. | :13:24. | |
England and Wales told me the vast majority of priests honoured their | :13:24. | :13:29. | |
vow of celibacy. The Church's teaching would not change. If it | :13:29. | :13:37. | |
Cardinal O'Brien lived up to the promises he made, that something | :13:37. | :13:42. | |
he's very sorry for. He's apologised. I don't think it takes | :13:43. | :13:52. | |
away from the teaching of the Church and shouldn't do.' Cardinal | :13:52. | :13:56. | |
O'Brien was a vociferous critic of homosexuality, calling gay marriage | :13:56. | :13:59. | |
a grotesque subversion. But last night, he admitted his own sexual | :13:59. | :14:06. | |
conduct had, Times, fallen below what was expected of him. We are | :14:06. | :14:09. | |
sad and the Cardinal can find it in himself to apologise in a statement | :14:09. | :14:12. | |
to gaze Scots on their friends and families, for they had full and | :14:12. | :14:18. | |
vicious language he is used against gay people. At St Mary's Catholic | :14:18. | :14:22. | |
Cathedral in Edinburgh there is a sense of stunned disbelief. | :14:22. | :14:28. | |
shocked. I'm shocked. A very shocked. This has profoundly shaken | :14:28. | :14:32. | |
the Catholic Church in Scotland. Its former leader is accused a | :14:32. | :14:36. | |
staggering hypocrisy. One leading lay Catholic said that it publicly | :14:36. | :14:39. | |
preached against homosexuality while privately known many of its | :14:40. | :14:43. | |
priests were again. A prominent historian said it was the worst | :14:43. | :14:47. | |
crisis since the Reformation and the shockwaves are felt right here | :14:47. | :14:54. | |
in Rome. This morning, the cardinal's prayed for divine | :14:54. | :14:57. | |
guidance and swore an oath to keep their proceedings secret. The | :14:57. | :15:02. | |
Italians among them are said to want a swift transition. But others | :15:02. | :15:05. | |
from the developing world want a Pope who will reform the Italian | :15:05. | :15:15. | |
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dominated Vatican. The battle lines Our Religious Affairs Correspondent, | :15:18. | :15:26. | |
Robert Pigott, is in Edinburgh for us tonight. What is the reaction to | :15:26. | :15:33. | |
these latest developments? George, the loyalty of congregation's | :15:33. | :15:38. | |
including here at St Mary's Cathedral has been remarkable. But | :15:38. | :15:41. | |
during the day people have been comparing his frequent | :15:41. | :15:46. | |
announcements about homosexual behaviour, with his admission of | :15:46. | :15:49. | |
homosexual conduct and coming to the conclusion he has been | :15:49. | :15:55. | |
hypocritical. And the man appointed by the Pope as the caretaker in | :15:55. | :16:00. | |
this diocese, will say publicly in a mass, the most ringing criticism | :16:00. | :16:04. | |
of the Church has been one of hypocrisy. He will say it has been | :16:04. | :16:10. | |
made with some reason. So a big admission by the man appointed to | :16:10. | :16:15. | |
care take this diocese that there is concern for the Church. He will | :16:15. | :16:19. | |
go on to say it is transit tree. But what the Church will be his it | :16:19. | :16:26. | |
will suck the the same loss of moral ability Ireland did and in | :16:26. | :16:30. | |
the United States. These are unstable times, and the trouble for | :16:30. | :16:34. | |
the Church is, although Cardinal O'Brien was popular, he will take | :16:34. | :16:41. | |
that with him. The Church will fit it will bequeath to it the sense of | :16:41. | :16:46. | |
hypocrisy and double standards he seems to be admitting to. | :16:46. | :16:50. | |
Our top story tonight: The psychiatric patient who went on to | :16:50. | :16:53. | |
kill for a second time - police are criticised for missing chances to | :16:53. | :17:03. | |
stop her. Coming up: Each of these pieces of | :17:03. | :17:07. | |
I've retells the story of a slaughter of elephants in Africa. | :17:07. | :17:11. | |
I will be reporting on the latest efforts to combat the illegal trade | :17:11. | :17:21. | |
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How do you turn around the lives of England's most troubled families? | :17:33. | :17:36. | |
Government figures show that about 120,000 families are responsible | :17:36. | :17:38. | |
for much of the anti-social behaviour that blights so many | :17:38. | :17:43. | |
communities. The Government says a scheme to help those families is | :17:43. | :17:47. | |
just beginning show results. Mike Sergeant has been with a family in | :17:47. | :17:56. | |
Burnley. Troubled families can suck in the | :17:56. | :18:01. | |
resources of a town like Burnley. Costing money from the police, | :18:01. | :18:06. | |
doctors and social workers. There are 375 families on the list with | :18:06. | :18:12. | |
problems such as truancy and anti- social behaviour. 12 months ago, | :18:12. | :18:16. | |
and local resident, Jayne and her son needed help. She was struggling | :18:16. | :18:23. | |
to cope as his behaviour spiralled out of control. There was holes in | :18:23. | :18:27. | |
doors, nine has been thrown, cups being thrown at your head if you | :18:27. | :18:31. | |
said anything wrong to him. People knocking at the door, your son has | :18:31. | :18:37. | |
done this, your son has done that. But with support, life is back on | :18:37. | :18:42. | |
track. Jordan got the help he needed and now wants to train to be | :18:42. | :18:51. | |
a chef. I am 110% confidence. 12 months ago I did not see a way out. | :18:51. | :18:56. | |
Be each success story suggests it is possible to improve the lives of | :18:56. | :19:02. | |
some of these people, at least for a while. The question is whether | :19:02. | :19:06. | |
targeted information can -- intervention can make a permanent | :19:06. | :19:13. | |
change. Each family gets money from the Government if it can get a | :19:13. | :19:17. | |
family of the list. Nichola Parker has been working with some of the | :19:17. | :19:22. | |
most challenging cases. We can turn their lives around. We have a | :19:22. | :19:27. | |
number of success stories. We have had good improvement in attendance | :19:27. | :19:31. | |
at school. We have children with aspirations now. If families refuse | :19:31. | :19:36. | |
help, the threat of punishment is not far away. Critics say that is | :19:36. | :19:41. | |
the problem with Government's attempts to help the issue, seeking | :19:41. | :19:46. | |
to penalise families without tackling ill-health, and bad | :19:46. | :19:52. | |
education. Many intervention come with the threat of sanction, and | :19:52. | :19:59. | |
that is not a stable foundation to build long-term change. Jayne and | :19:59. | :20:02. | |
Jordan benefited from a belief they could be saved from a dysfunctional | :20:02. | :20:06. | |
existence. The question is, how many other troubled families can | :20:06. | :20:12. | |
make a permanent change to Police in Northern Ireland believe | :20:12. | :20:14. | |
they've foiled an attempted bomb attack by dissident republicans | :20:14. | :20:18. | |
after discovering four live mortar bombs in Londonderry. Three men | :20:18. | :20:21. | |
were arrested after the devices were found in a van. Chris Buckler | :20:21. | :20:31. | |
is in Londonderry for us. Those mortar bombs were driven into the | :20:31. | :20:36. | |
city, coming close to the houses behind me. A heavily populated area. | :20:36. | :20:40. | |
Rhodes had been closed and people have not been able to get to their | :20:40. | :20:44. | |
houses. But it is not the disruption concerning people, it is | :20:44. | :20:48. | |
the potential for death and destruction. Inside this ban, | :20:48. | :20:52. | |
mortar bombs were primed and ready to be used. They were stopped by | :20:52. | :20:56. | |
the police just minutes away from Derry City centre. Officers have | :20:56. | :21:01. | |
spent the day examining the weapons. The mortar tubes were in the back | :21:01. | :21:05. | |
of the vehicle and the roof had been cut back so they could be | :21:05. | :21:09. | |
fired directly from the ban. Police believe the intended target was a | :21:09. | :21:12. | |
police station. I have no doubt they would have caused mass | :21:12. | :21:16. | |
casualties and we could have been looking at a mass murder today. If | :21:16. | :21:20. | |
they had exploded and hit their intended target, or hit targets in | :21:20. | :21:25. | |
and around one of the bases here in the city. Dissident republicans | :21:25. | :21:29. | |
have been blamed. Police intercepted the ban on a road | :21:29. | :21:33. | |
across as the Irish border. It seems clear they had some | :21:33. | :21:37. | |
information about the planned bombing. As the army made the bombs | :21:37. | :21:42. | |
saved, around 100 families had to leave their homes that stop money | :21:42. | :21:48. | |
spent most of today waiting for the security cordon to be lifted. | :21:48. | :21:56. | |
Blok is evacuated right on the Killie Road. Three men are being | :21:56. | :22:00. | |
questioned about an attack that was stopped in its final stages. But | :22:00. | :22:04. | |
the fact it was so advanced will be of concern to the police and the | :22:04. | :22:08. | |
public. There are reasons behind those | :22:08. | :22:12. | |
worries. This is the most significant find in recent months, | :22:13. | :22:17. | |
but beyond that, while mortar bombs had been used in Northern Ireland | :22:17. | :22:21. | |
before, this is a new development that dissident republicans. It | :22:21. | :22:31. | |
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shows a technical capability that will concern the police. | :22:40. | :22:43. | |
Prince William has called for more action to tackle the illegal | :22:43. | :22:45. | |
killing and trading of endangered animals like elephants and rhinos. | :22:45. | :22:48. | |
He made the plea in a video message to nearly 200 governments meeting | :22:48. | :22:51. | |
in Thailand this week. They're trying to stop the deadly trade in | :22:51. | :22:54. | |
wildlife. From Bangkok our Science Editor, David Shukman, reports. | :22:54. | :22:56. | |
Behind the scenes at Bangkok airport, the cargo terminal is a | :22:56. | :22:59. | |
hive of activity. For many years this hall was a notorious as an | :22:59. | :23:01. | |
easy route smuggling, drugs and something that has become almost as | :23:01. | :23:06. | |
valuable - the body parts of endangered animals. Customs | :23:06. | :23:10. | |
officers show of one of the most recent calls. This ivory from Kenya | :23:10. | :23:18. | |
was intercepted on its way to China. The authorities say Segers like | :23:18. | :23:22. | |
these prove how they are clamping down on this gruesome and illegal | :23:22. | :23:29. | |
trade. -- seizures. This is just part of one load, but it involved | :23:29. | :23:34. | |
the slaughter of 79 elephants. Demand for ivory is from China, | :23:34. | :23:40. | |
where it is seen as bringing good fortune and prices keep going up. | :23:40. | :23:44. | |
This weighs just over three kilograms and can be sold for about | :23:44. | :23:51. | |
�4,000, about $6,000. Double and treble that in China. The trade | :23:51. | :23:56. | |
begins with a trail of blood in the African bush, 25,000 albums were | :23:56. | :24:01. | |
killed in 2011, almost certainly more last year. -- elephants. To | :24:01. | :24:06. | |
stop the slaughter, a conference is happening in Thailand with a video | :24:06. | :24:11. | |
appeal by Prince William bull stock we must do more to reverse this | :24:11. | :24:18. | |
crime. If not, we could see populations of these creatures, or | :24:18. | :24:22. | |
an entire species disappear from the wild. We simply must not let | :24:22. | :24:29. | |
this catastrophe unfold. To tackle the trade, this in you forensic | :24:29. | :24:33. | |
Laboratory in Bangkok specialises in wildlife. DNA is extracted to | :24:33. | :24:38. | |
build up evidence against smugglers. But criminal gangs have friends in | :24:38. | :24:44. | |
high places. Poachers get arrested and convicted. You might get the | :24:44. | :24:48. | |
odd middle man arrested and convicted. But the men who | :24:48. | :24:52. | |
Mastermind the efforts, the men who invest in the operation to acquire | :24:52. | :24:58. | |
large amounts of ivory, have never been intercepted. Rhino horn, | :24:58. | :25:04. | |
hidden by smugglers inside a toy hippo. 40 years ago, the Government | :25:04. | :25:09. | |
promised to fight this trade. The latest talks are a test as to | :25:09. | :25:13. | |
whether they really will. He's normally to be found in Gotham | :25:13. | :25:16. | |
City foiling criminal masterminds like the Joker and the Penguin in | :25:16. | :25:19. | |
their attempts to commit crime. But now Batman has been bringing | :25:19. | :25:22. | |
perpetrators to justice over here. A man dressed as the caped crusader, | :25:22. | :25:24. | |
walked into a Bradford police station and handed over a wanted | :25:24. | :25:27. | |
man who he'd detained after making a citizen's arrest. Danny Savage | :25:27. | :25:37. | |
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It sounds like the most exciting thing ever to happen at this police | :25:38. | :25:42. | |
station in Bradford, but when that man brought in a suspect, the | :25:42. | :25:48. | |
reality was a bit more sedate. Leaning against the front desk for | :25:48. | :25:52. | |
an officer, the caped Crusader chatted to the man he is handing | :25:52. | :25:57. | |
over, who has been charged with handling stolen goods and fraud. | :25:57. | :26:01. | |
But the identity of the man in the costume remains a mystery. Although, | :26:01. | :26:06. | |
as he would expect from a man of his pedigree, he disappeared into | :26:06. | :26:11. | |
the night. Across town, someone believes they have met the man | :26:11. | :26:16. | |
behind the mask. Do you think you have solved -- sold the costume to | :26:17. | :26:24. | |
the man? I believe I did. How do you know? He was very specific. He | :26:24. | :26:30. | |
wanted a grey outfit. Anything more you can tell us? I believe he lives | :26:30. | :26:35. | |
on let the avenues. Do you feel safer knowing that man is on the | :26:35. | :26:41. | |
streets of Bradford? Are caused, he is looking after us if he is not in | :26:41. | :26:46. | |
the police station. It is nice someone is out there wanting to do | :26:46. | :26:53. | |
good. But to dress up, you can attract the wrong attention. This | :26:53. | :26:57. | |
impersonator was attracting attention today, turning heads. But | :26:57. | :27:02. | |
the question remains - who is the Bradford Batman? | :27:02. | :27:11. | |
Let's take a look at the weather It has been beautiful. But we are | :27:12. | :27:17. | |
going to see some boggy patches overnight. It will turn fine and | :27:18. | :27:22. | |
sunny again tomorrow. Increasing amounts of Sunshine spreading | :27:22. | :27:27. | |
across the near Continent. It was cold and grey across parts of north | :27:27. | :27:32. | |
east England. Most of us having a fine end to the day. Temperatures | :27:33. | :27:38. | |
falling away quickly already. A widespread frost. Those areas of | :27:38. | :27:42. | |
fog developing, but Italy across parts of central and eastern | :27:42. | :27:50. | |
England. Out of the Times Centre, below freezing. Let's concentrate | :27:50. | :27:55. | |
on the fog. The Vale of York, Trent Valley into East Anglia, nasty | :27:55. | :28:00. | |
patches for the early morning commute. Freezing fog as well. You | :28:00. | :28:07. | |
could run into nasty patches as you drive to work. Check out your BBC | :28:07. | :28:12. | |
local radio station. The fog will clear and for many of us it is set | :28:12. | :28:17. | |
to beat a stunning day. Pleasantly warm, up into the mid-teens in a | :28:17. | :28:23. | |
few places. The fog should lift by late morning. There will still be | :28:23. | :28:29. | |
one or two areas of low cloud in areas of north-east England. Parts | :28:29. | :28:38. | |
of western Scotland keeping cloud. Temperatures recovering nicely. | :28:38. | :28:44. | |
Some places could get as high as 15 degrees. Enjoy it, it is not going | :28:44. | :28:49. | |
to last. Low-pressure winding itself up and spilling into us that | :28:49. | :28:54. |