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A new crisis for the NHS 111 helpline, now one of its main | :00:09. | :00:14. | |
contractors says it will pull out. Managers promise to keep the service | :00:14. | :00:17. | |
going, but some doctors blame a market style reorganisation of the | :00:17. | :00:25. | |
NHS. At the heart of this has been the drive by government to enforce a | :00:26. | :00:29. | |
competitive tendering approach in the NHS. We will be asking what | :00:29. | :00:34. | |
ministers plan to do. Also tonight, what caused a holiday coach in Italy | :00:34. | :00:39. | |
to plunge 100 feet into a ravine killing 39 people? | :00:39. | :00:43. | |
The top Catholic school in the Highlands, where boys were abused | :00:43. | :00:48. | |
over decades, we have a special report. | :00:48. | :00:53. | |
The Bolshoi Ballet comes to London for its 50th anniversary, but what | :00:53. | :00:58. | |
about those backstage scandals? Later in the hour on BBC News, I | :00:58. | :01:02. | |
will be here with Sportsday, including the latest football | :01:02. | :01:06. | |
transfer news and Gareth Bale's possible world record move to Real | :01:06. | :01:16. | |
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Hello and welcome to the BBC News At Six. The troubled NHS 111 helpline | :01:31. | :01:34. | |
has been dealt another blow tonight after one of the main contractors | :01:34. | :01:39. | |
said it was pulling out. NHS Direct provides the non-emergency phone | :01:39. | :01:43. | |
line for a third of England's population. Officials insist the | :01:44. | :01:48. | |
bull in the affected areas will continue to get a prompt and safe | :01:48. | :01:51. | |
service, but the British Medical Association has called it an abject | :01:51. | :01:57. | |
failure. Health correspondent Dominic Hughes reports. | :01:57. | :02:01. | |
The 111 helpline is meant to provide advice and practical help for | :02:01. | :02:05. | |
patients in England needing urgent but not emergency care. It is an | :02:05. | :02:08. | |
idea that has broad support, but its introduction has been fraught with | :02:08. | :02:14. | |
problems. In some areas, like the Northeast, where 111 is run by the | :02:14. | :02:17. | |
local ambulance service, it seems to be working well. But in other parts | :02:17. | :02:23. | |
of the country, the system collapsed soon after being launched. NHS | :02:23. | :02:27. | |
Direct won contracts to provide services in 11 out of 46 regions | :02:27. | :02:30. | |
across England, but earlier this month it announced it was pulling | :02:31. | :02:33. | |
out of Cornwall and North Essex before they were even up and | :02:33. | :02:40. | |
running. Now it is pulling out of contract that cover around a third | :02:41. | :02:45. | |
of the population. NHS 111 was set up in part at least to relieve | :02:45. | :02:48. | |
pressure on busy accident and emergency departments, like this | :02:48. | :02:52. | |
one. Anecdotal evidence would suggest that more people are coming | :02:52. | :02:54. | |
to emergency departments when they are not satisfied with the service | :02:54. | :03:01. | |
they are getting. The 11 contracts won by NHS Direct were worth a | :03:01. | :03:04. | |
potential �43 million, but they got their sums badly wrong. | :03:04. | :03:08. | |
Consultations took twice as long as they had budgeted for, and so the | :03:08. | :03:12. | |
trust was losing money on every single phone call. Critics say there | :03:12. | :03:17. | |
is an underlying problem with the way the system was introduced. | :03:17. | :03:21. | |
implementation of 111 has been an abject failure, and at the heart of | :03:21. | :03:27. | |
this has been the drive by government to enforce a competitive | :03:27. | :03:33. | |
tendering approach in the NHS. ministers say patients are now | :03:33. | :03:36. | |
seeing an improvement in how the helpline is working. | :03:37. | :03:40. | |
disappointment has been that, in a few areas, and I emphasise very | :03:40. | :03:45. | |
few, the service has not lived up to expectations. The vast majority of | :03:45. | :03:50. | |
the country are actually getting a good service from 111. When the | :03:50. | :03:56. | |
system works, it seems to do well. The comparable NHS 24 helpline in | :03:56. | :03:59. | |
Scotland is generally well-regarded. And as they do in the north-east of | :03:59. | :04:03. | |
England, patients could see local ambulance trusts running the service | :04:03. | :04:08. | |
in areas left vacant by NHS Direct, but the withdrawal of the biggest | :04:08. | :04:10. | |
single provider is another blow to a service that is still finding its | :04:11. | :04:15. | |
feet. Live now to deputy political editor | :04:15. | :04:19. | |
James Landale at Westminster, James, this is not the first problem with | :04:20. | :04:24. | |
the 111 service, so how damaging is this latest episode, the you think? | :04:24. | :04:29. | |
It rather depends on who you believe. The Government says these | :04:29. | :04:32. | |
problems are exaggerated and that actually most people get a pretty | :04:32. | :04:36. | |
good service, and they say there is no evidence of any pressure being | :04:36. | :04:40. | |
put on accident and emergency services. Labour are incredulous, | :04:40. | :04:44. | |
they say the model is fatally flawed, it simply does not work, it | :04:44. | :04:49. | |
is putting pressure on emergency services, and we should go back to a | :04:49. | :04:52. | |
single national nurse led telephone hotline. Regardless of who was right | :04:52. | :04:56. | |
or wrong, this is very tricky for the Conservatives, who positioned | :04:56. | :05:00. | |
themselves as the champion patients, blaming Labour for poor | :05:00. | :05:06. | |
care that some patients had got at hospitals like Mid Staffordshire. | :05:06. | :05:10. | |
This allows Labour back into the argument to criticise the | :05:10. | :05:14. | |
Government's own reforms, even if Labour did promise a version of the | :05:14. | :05:18. | |
111 hotline themselves. There is also a more fundamental question, | :05:18. | :05:22. | |
and that is over way the state does business in providing public | :05:22. | :05:27. | |
services. Why did this organisation, NHS Direct, promised to do this work | :05:27. | :05:30. | |
so cheaply without it being a going concern? Why did the state agreed to | :05:30. | :05:36. | |
the contract in the first place? That has ramifications for the | :05:36. | :05:41. | |
provision of public services across the country. | :05:41. | :05:45. | |
If you want more information on the changes to the NHS Direct service, | :05:45. | :05:55. | |
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there is a Q&A section on the BBC decades has now claimed 39 lives. A | :05:58. | :06:02. | |
holiday coach carrying 50 passengers, including many children, | :06:02. | :06:06. | |
plunged off way by that east of Naples into a ravine. Reports | :06:06. | :06:10. | |
suggested was travelling at speed when it several cars. The accident | :06:10. | :06:15. | |
happened near the town of Monteforte Irpino, 40 miles from Naples. Alan | :06:15. | :06:22. | |
Johnston reports now from the scene. Wake-up there on the edge of the | :06:22. | :06:26. | |
highway, the passengers will have felt their bus launch into midair. | :06:26. | :06:31. | |
It crashed down through the trees and pounded into the Earth 100 feet | :06:31. | :06:37. | |
below. In a mangled mess of metal, reminders of those on board, among | :06:37. | :06:43. | |
them families with children. The safety barrier on the highway's edge | :06:43. | :06:49. | |
had failed to keep them safe. TRANSLATION: I would think the | :06:49. | :06:52. | |
barriers on the bridges and viaducts should prevent this kind of | :06:52. | :06:55. | |
accident, but it seems the impact was so strong that even the barrier | :06:55. | :07:01. | |
gave way. The bus had been badly out of control. It did not break and is | :07:01. | :07:05. | |
approached slow-moving traffic and rammed through a line of cars before | :07:05. | :07:11. | |
it careered off the road. TRANSLATION: All of a sudden, we | :07:11. | :07:15. | |
heard bangs coming from behind us, then we were crashed into, and we | :07:15. | :07:20. | |
didn't even see the coach at all. Rescue crews worked through the | :07:20. | :07:25. | |
night, surging force some drivers, tending to the injured, and | :07:25. | :07:30. | |
gathering up the many dead. -- searching for survivors. | :07:30. | :07:34. | |
TRANSLATION: We live very close to the crash site, we heard a huge boom | :07:34. | :07:37. | |
and ran, we took the children out. All you could hear was children | :07:37. | :07:42. | |
shouting. We called the police and waited because the guard rail was | :07:42. | :07:47. | |
hanging and we were afraid it would fall on us. In a makeshift morgue in | :07:47. | :07:51. | |
a nearby town, relatives have been coming to try to identify the dead. | :07:51. | :07:58. | |
As the day drew to a close, they prayed for those who they had lost. | :07:58. | :08:03. | |
There is shock and grief here, but questions are also being asked. What | :08:03. | :08:08. | |
caused this carnage? Was there a failure of the bus's breaks perhaps? | :08:08. | :08:12. | |
Or was the driver to blame? He was among those who died in the | :08:12. | :08:17. | |
wreckage, and the actions he took in the last moments of his life will be | :08:17. | :08:20. | |
closely scrutinised in an investigation that is only just | :08:20. | :08:30. | |
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Here, a teenage killers fighting for her life after an attack at her | :08:31. | :08:36. | |
father's house in which he was killed. A suspect also died after | :08:36. | :08:40. | |
driving a car into the side of a pub. The attack happened in Mostyn | :08:40. | :08:45. | |
in Manchester. From there, north of England correspondent Danny Savage | :08:45. | :08:48. | |
reports. It was at 10:20pm last night that | :08:48. | :08:52. | |
police called to this house found the body of 41-year-old Robert | :08:52. | :08:58. | |
Jackson. Lying critically injured nearby was his daughter. Both had | :08:58. | :09:01. | |
been stabbed. Robert Jackson has been described by neighbours as a | :09:01. | :09:05. | |
man who had no enemies and who loved his music. We were trying to put two | :09:05. | :09:10. | |
and two together, with its saying a 41-year-old man and a 13-year-old | :09:10. | :09:14. | |
girl, so my daughter walked around to where Jacko used to live and | :09:14. | :09:18. | |
asked if that is where it was and they confirmed it. My daughter came | :09:18. | :09:23. | |
back, I was in a state of shock, I felt sick. He was the nicest man you | :09:23. | :09:26. | |
could ever meet, he would bend over backwards to help anybody. Police | :09:26. | :09:30. | |
were called to the house on Delta walk in Moston after someone raised | :09:30. | :09:34. | |
concerns about the father and daughter. Less than three hours | :09:34. | :09:44. | |
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later, police were called to what eight road where a man had had his | :09:45. | :09:50. | |
car stolen. The car was spotted next to a pub, but it sped off, and | :09:50. | :09:55. | |
moments later crashed into the side of a pub, leaving this whole. The | :09:55. | :09:58. | |
44-year-old driver, who it is understood was responsible for the | :09:58. | :10:02. | |
earlier attack, was then taken to hospital suffering from injuries | :10:02. | :10:08. | |
from the crash and a stab wound. He died a short time later. This | :10:08. | :10:12. | |
afternoon, flowers were left for the dead man at the pub, naming him as | :10:12. | :10:17. | |
Darren Gasper, who neighbours say was known to police. But it is the | :10:17. | :10:22. | |
fact that a child was targeted which has left people shocked. She is a | :10:22. | :10:27. | |
very nice, quiet little girl, she talks to my little girl, we see her | :10:27. | :10:34. | |
with the neighbours' little boy. the 13-year-old is the only witness | :10:34. | :10:42. | |
to what really happened here. She is still lying critically ill in | :10:42. | :10:44. | |
hospital. British tourists travelling between | :10:44. | :10:47. | |
Spain and Gibraltar today have not had to endure the six long wait | :10:47. | :10:52. | |
imposed by Spanish border guards over the weekend. It follows an | :10:52. | :10:54. | |
intervention from the Foreign Secretary, who raised serious | :10:54. | :10:58. | |
concerns over the issue. There are reports the delays could be linked | :10:58. | :11:02. | |
to a fishing dispute between Spain and the British territory of | :11:02. | :11:07. | |
Gibraltar. Robert Hall reports from Spain. | :11:07. | :11:11. | |
Another territorial squall swirls around the rock, and the Spanish | :11:11. | :11:15. | |
deploy the one tactic guaranteed to raise temperatures - a go slow. Over | :11:15. | :11:19. | |
three days, thousands of temperatures were gridlocked at | :11:19. | :11:23. | |
Gibraltar's gated border as Spanish officials checked paperwork for | :11:23. | :11:28. | |
traffic travelling both onto and out of British territory. They said it | :11:28. | :11:32. | |
was a routine operation to prevent smuggling. The drivers, sweating | :11:32. | :11:40. | |
under the Midsummer sun, thought differently. Six hours, this is | :11:40. | :11:45. | |
chaos. It is chaos, warm, hungry, people complaining. Terrible for the | :11:45. | :11:52. | |
kids. We have got elderly people, you know, we have got diabetics, | :11:52. | :11:58. | |
pregnant women. People going to weddings, people catching flights to | :11:58. | :12:01. | |
Malaga and Seville. You know, not everybody is happy, we can't keep | :12:01. | :12:05. | |
everybody happy all the time, but unfortunately this is the | :12:05. | :12:09. | |
situation. A call from the British foreign secretary to his Spanish | :12:09. | :12:12. | |
counterpart has led to a resumption of normal service, but the tension | :12:13. | :12:19. | |
remains. Last week Spanish patrol boats, Gibraltar police launches and | :12:19. | :12:23. | |
Royal Navy vessels were involved in a melee around a token which was | :12:23. | :12:28. | |
dropping concrete blocks to form an artificial reef. Madrid sees this as | :12:28. | :12:32. | |
an infringement of its fishing rights and have lodged a formal | :12:32. | :12:36. | |
complaint. Last month, police filmed this video of another incidents | :12:36. | :12:39. | |
during which a Spanish patrol allegedly fired shots near a | :12:39. | :12:45. | |
Gibraltar jet ski. All evidence, says the Gibraltar government, of | :12:45. | :12:51. | |
Spanish attempts to bully them. For centuries, the Rock has weathered | :12:51. | :12:55. | |
Mediterranean storms and the rows over who should own this strategic | :12:55. | :12:58. | |
outcrop. William Hague's direct intervention has eased difficulties | :12:58. | :13:05. | |
for now, but the row is not over, and 300 years after the British | :13:06. | :13:07. | |
established their colony, the likelihood of more border incidents | :13:07. | :13:12. | |
is all too real. A series of car bomb attacks have | :13:12. | :13:17. | |
hit the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, and other cities, killing more than 50 | :13:17. | :13:19. | |
people. It is understood the devices, which exploded during | :13:19. | :13:25. | |
morning rush hour, targeted mainly Shia Muslim areas. More than 700 | :13:25. | :13:30. | |
people have been killed in Iraq so far this month. | :13:30. | :13:33. | |
A BBC investigation has uncovered evidence of sexual and physical | :13:33. | :13:37. | |
abuse at a prestigious Catholic boy school in the islands. Accounts of | :13:37. | :13:41. | |
child abuse at Fort Augustus Abbey School and its preparatory School | :13:41. | :13:45. | |
spanned three decades. Both schools have now closed. Scotland | :13:45. | :13:48. | |
correspondent James Cook has the story, which does contain | :13:48. | :13:55. | |
descriptions of the abuse. This Benedictine abbey runs a | :13:55. | :13:59. | |
school, drawing pupils from all over Scotland... It looks for all the | :13:59. | :14:03. | |
world like an idyllic childhood on the banks of Loch Ness. For | :14:04. | :14:07. | |
decades, devout Catholics had trusted their children to be men of | :14:07. | :14:13. | |
God at Fort Augustus Abbey. Only now, 20 years after the school | :14:13. | :14:18. | |
closed, is it clear that some of those children were betrayed. Donald | :14:18. | :14:24. | |
was 13 when he was sent to the Abbey in 1961. His childhood was far from | :14:24. | :14:28. | |
a delicate, and he blames this month, an Australian, Aidan Duggan. | :14:28. | :14:38. | |
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He pulled my trousers down, it was horrible, painful. He raped you. | :14:40. | :14:50. | |
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you came to light. The BBC has spoken to more than 50 former pupils | :14:55. | :14:59. | |
of Fort Augustus and its prep school. More than a third describe | :14:59. | :15:05. | |
physical violence, six alleged sexual abuse. Before he abused me, | :15:05. | :15:10. | |
he closed the curtains so no-one would see. I used to cry at night. | :15:10. | :15:15. | |
Like we were saying our prayers at night and I used to just cry. | :15:15. | :15:22. | |
man who abused Brendan in 1977 was another Australian, father Denis | :15:22. | :15:25. | |
Alexander. The BBC tracked in down to his retirement home in the | :15:25. | :15:32. | |
suburbs of Sydney. I do not care who you are, just get off my property or | :15:32. | :15:37. | |
I will call the cops, OK? allegation is you sexually abused at | :15:37. | :15:43. | |
Fort Augustus in the late 1970s. became a parish priest here in | :15:43. | :15:46. | |
1989. The Catholic Church in Australia says it was not told why | :15:46. | :15:51. | |
he was sent back from Scotland. Isn't it time you confronted your | :15:51. | :15:58. | |
past? No answers from him, but what about the UK's senior Benedictine? | :15:58. | :16:04. | |
am very sorry, very sorry about any abuse that may have been committed | :16:04. | :16:06. | |
at Fort Augustus, any abuse that may have been committed at any | :16:06. | :16:10. | |
Benedictine school, or anywhere for that matter. What happened here at | :16:10. | :16:13. | |
Fort Augustus leaves many questions for the Catholic Church. How much | :16:13. | :16:18. | |
was known? What was done to stop it? And what is being done now to | :16:18. | :16:21. | |
investigate? The police have now begun an inquiry, but for the boys | :16:21. | :16:30. | |
who were abused here, it comes special investigation on BBC One | :16:30. | :16:37. | |
Scotland at 9.00pm tonight, and on the BBC iPlayer. Our top story this | :16:37. | :16:43. | |
evening. A new crisis for the NHS 111 helpline. Now one of its main | :16:43. | :16:48. | |
contractors says it will pull out. And still to come. Why you might | :16:48. | :16:58. | |
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soon be allowed to park on double yellow lines. To go shopping. And | :17:01. | :17:03. | |
coming up in sports day, Willa Jessica Ennis-Hill make it to the | :17:03. | :17:06. | |
world championships next month? There are still doubts over her | :17:06. | :17:16. | |
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keep rising so are the big firms that supply our gas and electricity | :17:20. | :17:25. | |
making excessive profits? A committee of MPs has said it's far | :17:25. | :17:29. | |
too difficult to tell and is calling on the energy regulator to use its | :17:29. | :17:32. | |
teeth to restore consumer confidence. Since 2007, average gas | :17:32. | :17:38. | |
prices have risen in real terms by 41%. And electricity prices have | :17:38. | :17:48. | |
increased by 20%. Here's our Industry Correspondent, John Moylan. | :17:48. | :17:52. | |
How do the big six energy suppliers make their money? Are the prices | :17:52. | :17:58. | |
they charge us fair? MPs had been investigating all of this amid | :17:58. | :18:02. | |
accusations of excessive profits. Their answer? You don't know for | :18:02. | :18:05. | |
certain what they are making. They tell you what they make in retail | :18:06. | :18:10. | |
but not in the generation part of it. We think it's about 20% on a | :18:11. | :18:16. | |
generation. And about 5% on retail, and that sounds to me quite | :18:16. | :18:20. | |
excessive. MPs say there's a lack of transparency from the big six energy | :18:20. | :18:24. | |
firms which is hitting consumer confidence. At the end of the day, | :18:24. | :18:30. | |
they need to make a profit as much as they can. I don't trust them. | :18:30. | :18:33. | |
I've always been fairly comfortable they do the best by me but I haven't | :18:33. | :18:38. | |
checked. It's way too expensive. Most of the time, my bills are | :18:38. | :18:42. | |
estimated. They have no idea what they are charging me and I feel like | :18:42. | :18:49. | |
I'm overpaying. I feel like I trust them but more information would be a | :18:49. | :18:53. | |
benefit. According to MPs, much of the blame for the lack of | :18:53. | :18:59. | |
transparency must lie here with the industry regulator, Ofgem. Now, they | :18:59. | :19:03. | |
commissioned this independent report to clear up this very issue and yet | :19:04. | :19:08. | |
it then failed to implement all of the recommendations. When we looked | :19:08. | :19:13. | |
at the evidence from the independent auditors it wasn't persuasive to us | :19:13. | :19:16. | |
about the benefits to customers that might flow from this recommendations | :19:16. | :19:19. | |
would be outweighed by the costs that could fall to customers as a | :19:19. | :19:25. | |
result. It's not just profits under scrutiny. MPs worry many others | :19:25. | :19:30. | |
don't even realise what we are paying for. Government figures | :19:30. | :19:33. | |
suggest energy efficiency measures and subsidies for renewables will | :19:33. | :19:38. | |
add a third at the average electricity price by 2020. There is | :19:38. | :19:43. | |
an increase in people 's bills due to our policies on fuel poverty, | :19:43. | :19:46. | |
energy efficiencies, and renewables but the cost of increasing support | :19:46. | :19:51. | |
for renewables is much less than many people believe. The real big | :19:51. | :19:57. | |
reason for higher bills if global gas prices and the need to renew our | :19:57. | :20:00. | |
networks. But are these extra costs affair with household already | :20:00. | :20:04. | |
struggling to pay their energy bills? MPs say it's time the | :20:04. | :20:07. | |
government changed tack and funded all of this from direct taxation | :20:07. | :20:11. | |
instead. Pope Francis has struck a conciliatory note towards gay people | :20:11. | :20:14. | |
in his first press conference since becoming the leader of the world's | :20:14. | :20:22. | |
catholics in March. Speaking on the plane back to Rome he said he wanted | :20:22. | :20:25. | |
gay people to be integrated into society and not marginalised or | :20:25. | :20:27. | |
judged. Our religious affairs correspondent is at Westminster | :20:27. | :20:36. | |
Cathedral. Robert, the language certainly sounds different but how | :20:36. | :20:39. | |
significant are these words? Well, you have to say, you saw it in | :20:39. | :20:44. | |
Brazil, his radical change of style has captured public imagination but | :20:44. | :20:46. | |
it falls in some way short of changing Church teaching and I think | :20:47. | :20:52. | |
it's very good to illustrate this today. The Pope says gay people | :20:52. | :21:00. | |
shouldn't be marginalised and judged but he's also said that it is sinful | :21:00. | :21:06. | |
to commit acts, homosexual acts. ( edit, add additional list, said much | :21:06. | :21:10. | |
the same thing although Pope Benedict also said homosexuality was | :21:10. | :21:13. | |
objectively disordered. We are looking at a change of style, | :21:14. | :21:18. | |
emphasis. Popes don't go around making policy and changing church | :21:18. | :21:22. | |
law. They have great power interpreting it. Hope Francis | :21:22. | :21:25. | |
thought is that atheists could go to heaven if they do the right thing on | :21:25. | :21:29. | |
earth, so you can see what he can get away with. OK, Robert, thank you | :21:29. | :21:34. | |
very much. A Labour MP has called on the social networking site, Twitter | :21:34. | :21:36. | |
to crack down on abusive messages after receiving dozens of | :21:36. | :21:38. | |
threatening tweets. Stella Creasy was targeted after giving public | :21:38. | :21:42. | |
support to the campaign for Jane Austen to appear on the new �10 | :21:42. | :21:49. | |
note. She's revealed that the messages included threats of rape. | :21:49. | :21:52. | |
Motorists may be allowed to park on double yellow lines for a short time | :21:52. | :21:55. | |
in a bid to boost High Street trading. The Government says local | :21:55. | :21:58. | |
councils in England need to play their part in what they call | :21:58. | :22:02. | |
reigning back the over-zealous culture of parking enforcement. Our | :22:02. | :22:10. | |
Local Government Correspondent, Mike Sergeant, reports. | :22:10. | :22:15. | |
To most drivers, double yellow lines send a clear message. No parking on | :22:15. | :22:19. | |
any day at any time. Share in Brentwood, restrictions on the | :22:19. | :22:24. | |
length of the high Street. Keeping the traffic flowing smoothly but | :22:24. | :22:29. | |
frustrating those hoping to make a quick stop. This is literally the | :22:29. | :22:33. | |
only place you can park to have lunch. It's all double yellow lines. | :22:33. | :22:41. | |
Everywhere. Like every shop here, the florist has nowhere outside the | :22:41. | :22:44. | |
park. Rita says strictly enforced traffic rules are hurting their | :22:44. | :22:54. | |
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business. If anybody just once to order up OK, -- or drug OK, go to | :22:56. | :22:59. | |
the shoe repairers, they can't stop the two minutes. Some shoppers don't | :22:59. | :23:04. | |
seem mind walking further. Double yellow lines, there's a reason for | :23:04. | :23:11. | |
it. Yes, if they got a problem, they should make some money out of it. | :23:11. | :23:15. | |
Conservative ministers think some councils have been using charges and | :23:15. | :23:19. | |
penalties as an easy way to raise money. The idea is to allow people | :23:19. | :23:23. | |
to park on the high street for maybe 15 or 20 minutes, enough time to | :23:23. | :23:30. | |
grab some shopping and move on before getting fined. But the | :23:30. | :23:34. | |
Liberal Democrats say the plan is unworkable. They think traffic | :23:34. | :23:38. | |
wardens should realise those parked illegally. And motoring | :23:38. | :23:42. | |
organisations worry that high streets could be clogged up if | :23:42. | :23:46. | |
drivers stop wherever they like. of the problems is that could lead | :23:46. | :23:52. | |
to congestions. W lines keep traffic flowing, and is a risk that if you | :23:52. | :23:57. | |
turn the space back over the parking, we will see more congestion | :23:57. | :24:00. | |
in urban areas. That would be a downside to this idea but otherwise | :24:00. | :24:06. | |
has some good merits. Concerns have been made by road safety | :24:06. | :24:13. | |
campaigners. There's many campaigns that answers before drivers could | :24:13. | :24:17. | |
see double yellow lines as good pit stop. The world famous Bolshoi | :24:17. | :24:20. | |
Ballet starts a three-week season tonight in London. It is celebrating | :24:20. | :24:23. | |
its 50 year anniversary at Covent Garden. But the famous Russian dance | :24:23. | :24:28. | |
company has been plagued by scandal recently. Has it left all that | :24:28. | :24:34. | |
behind? Here's our Arts Editor, Will Gompertz. | :24:34. | :24:41. | |
The legendary Bolshoi Ballet are back at the Royal Opera house. They | :24:41. | :24:51. | |
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will be performing among other best in the world, their company one | :24:55. | :24:58. | |
of the most prestigious. Embodying they believe, the heart and soul of | :24:58. | :25:07. | |
Russia. TRANSLATION: I think the Bolshoi | :25:07. | :25:10. | |
Ballet always represented Russian spirit and Russian music. And that | :25:11. | :25:20. | |
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is why it can be considered the greatest achievement of our culture. | :25:21. | :25:28. | |
Chekhov once said the only thing he knew about ballet was during the | :25:28. | :25:33. | |
performance, all a stink like horses. Dancers learn to mask the | :25:33. | :25:36. | |
unpleasant realities of their physical exertions. There's no | :25:36. | :25:40. | |
amount skill of or train which would enable anybody to conceal the | :25:40. | :25:45. | |
strange goings-on backstage at the Bolshoi of late. There have been | :25:45. | :25:49. | |
allegations of corruption and smear campaigns. And then in January, a | :25:49. | :25:52. | |
traffic acid attack on Sergei Filin, the artistic director. | :25:53. | :25:57. | |
Instigated, it is alleged, by one of his own dancers. That man with a | :25:57. | :26:02. | |
dagger. A new boss has now been appointed to sort out this troubled | :26:02. | :26:08. | |
institution. TRANSLATION: This kind of event come | :26:09. | :26:13. | |
at this tragic event, has a very tough psychological impact on | :26:13. | :26:17. | |
everybody. But these negative events will be in the past. And we will | :26:17. | :26:27. | |
:26:27. | :26:32. | ||
during the reign of Catherine the great since whether they've survived | :26:32. | :26:37. | |
Napoleon, famine, two world wars and commune is. It should survive this | :26:37. | :26:43. | |
current crisis, too, but the scars will linger. Time for a look at the | :26:43. | :26:50. | |
weather. Here's Nina Ridge. Hello, George. Much of July is going out | :26:50. | :26:53. | |
with a bang. More thunderstorms today from widespread showers across | :26:54. | :27:03. | |
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the south. The best of the dry weather and sunshine. The showers | :27:04. | :27:09. | |
easing to the next couple of hours, keeping a few going, particularly | :27:09. | :27:12. | |
across northern Scotland and for the Northern Isles, things turning misty | :27:12. | :27:16. | |
and murky. A quiet spell of weather before more cloud gathers towards | :27:16. | :27:22. | |
the south-west by the end of the night, so temperatures looking | :27:23. | :27:28. | |
around 14-16. Already, 8am, showers scattered across parts of Scotland. | :27:28. | :27:33. | |
There will be dry and brighter spells in between the showers and | :27:34. | :27:37. | |
especially in northern England and Northern Ireland. Sitting to the | :27:37. | :27:41. | |
south, much more overcast skies, cloudy across Wales and the | :27:41. | :27:45. | |
Midlands, and it looks like we will have a spell of rain for southern | :27:45. | :27:49. | |
counties. Steadily moving eastwards, heavy downpours at times, | :27:49. | :27:54. | |
mixed in with that, but we are expecting it to clear away. By the | :27:54. | :27:57. | |
middle part of the afternoon, it should have cleared away from the | :27:57. | :28:00. | |
south-east corner. We will keep a mixture of sunshine and showers to | :28:01. | :28:05. | |
the north and yet again, some could be heavy with thunderstorms mixed in | :28:05. | :28:11. | |
and temperatures tomorrow, a bit disappointing. 18-20d. By the time | :28:11. | :28:14. | |
you get to the middle part of the week, more weather fronts coming | :28:14. | :28:18. | |
into the south-west though this one looks like it's going to push its | :28:18. | :28:22. | |
way north. Still heavy rain at times especially across western areas. It | :28:22. | :28:29. | |
is moving north and to the south of that, warm and humid conditions | :28:29. | :28:33. | |
which will make itself felt by the time we get to Thursday. A more | :28:33. | :28:42. | |
detailed look on the website. A reminder of our main story. A major | :28:42. | :28:46. |