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four-year-old boy are found guilty of murder after starving and beating | :00:10. | :00:15. | |
him to death. Daniel Pelka was the weight of an 18-month-old child when | :00:15. | :00:21. | |
he died. The court heard that the adults took relish in abusing him. | :00:21. | :00:26. | |
He was starved. He was eaten on a regular basis. He was imprisoned in | :00:26. | :00:30. | |
a box room. He was drowned to the point of unconsciousness on | :00:30. | :00:34. | |
occasion. Now there will be questions for the | :00:34. | :00:38. | |
teachers, social workers, doctors and police who came into contact | :00:38. | :00:41. | |
with Daniel. Also tonight, a former Tory party | :00:41. | :00:46. | |
fundraiser wins a libel case against the Sunday Times and last David | :00:46. | :00:50. | |
Cameron in the process. A key ruling for the right to die | :00:50. | :00:54. | |
campaigner. The Court of Appeal says the law needs clarifying. | :00:54. | :00:58. | |
By the detectives will have to be licensed from next year. MPs say | :00:58. | :01:01. | |
many gain access to information illegally. | :01:01. | :01:07. | |
Elections in Zimbabwe, and Robert Mugabe wants another five years. He | :01:07. | :01:11. | |
has already been in charge for 33. Rihanna wins a court case against | :01:11. | :01:17. | |
Topshop after it sold T-shirts with her image on them. | :01:18. | :01:21. | |
Coming up in sport on BBC News, Jessica Ennis-Hill has withdrawn | :01:21. | :01:26. | |
from next month's world athletics Championships in Moscow after | :01:26. | :01:36. | |
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failing to recover from an Achilles injury. | :01:47. | :01:51. | |
Good evening and welcome to the BBC News at six. Callous, cold-hearted | :01:51. | :01:55. | |
and savage - just some of the words used to describe a mother and her | :01:55. | :01:58. | |
partner who have been found guilty of murdering four-year-old Daniel | :01:58. | :02:02. | |
Pelka. A jury at Birmingham Crown Court conflict did Magdelena Luczak | :02:02. | :02:07. | |
and Mariusz Krezolek after hearing how they beat the boy, locked him in | :02:07. | :02:10. | |
a box room and started to death. Tonight there are numerous questions | :02:10. | :02:13. | |
over whether Daniel's teachers or health workers could have | :02:14. | :02:23. | |
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intervened. Our reporter is outside Birmingham Crown Court. | :02:24. | :02:30. | |
The evidence in this case has been harrowing. Daniel died a frightened | :02:30. | :02:35. | |
little boy. When teachers asked questions, his mother spun a | :02:35. | :02:39. | |
sophisticated web of lies. It was not until after his death at the | :02:39. | :02:43. | |
horror of his life became apparent. You may find this report | :02:43. | :02:47. | |
distressing. Daniel Pelka. A bright four-year-old | :02:48. | :02:52. | |
with a beaming smile. But six months after this picture was taken, Daniel | :02:53. | :02:58. | |
was dead. The true the he suffered came at the hands of those who | :02:58. | :03:04. | |
should have protected him. His mother Magdelena Luczak, and | :03:04. | :03:12. | |
stepfather, Mariusz Krezolek. But it was 36 hours after he had been | :03:12. | :03:22. | |
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beaten unconscious that Daniel's The court was shown just burping | :03:31. | :03:35. | |
images of the extent of Daniel's injuries -- the court was shown | :03:35. | :03:40. | |
disturbing images. They showed the fatal headwind. It was one of 30 | :03:40. | :03:44. | |
injuries to his emaciated body. He weighed just one and a half stone | :03:44. | :03:50. | |
when he died, barely the weight of an 18-month-old toddler. He was | :03:50. | :03:54. | |
starved and beaten on a regular basis. He was imprisoned in a box | :03:54. | :03:58. | |
room. He was drowned to the point of unconsciousness on occasion, and was | :03:58. | :04:03. | |
also poisoned with salt. So yes, and absolutely wretched existence for | :04:03. | :04:07. | |
this little boy. Even at school, Daniel could not escape the misery | :04:07. | :04:12. | |
or the hunger will stop his teachers saw him scavenging for food in bins. | :04:12. | :04:16. | |
But Magdelena Luczak have told them her son had an eating disorder, but | :04:16. | :04:22. | |
he must not be fed. CCTV pictures showed Daniel being picked up from | :04:23. | :04:28. | |
school, trailing behind his mother, slowly heading home. This house | :04:28. | :04:33. | |
where the family used to live was certainly not a place of certainty | :04:33. | :04:39. | |
and comfort for Daniel. A series of texts underlines the level of | :04:39. | :04:46. | |
cruelty that Daniel was facing. In one, his mother said "he is | :04:46. | :04:50. | |
temporarily unconscious, as I nearly drowned him. I am having some quiet | :04:50. | :04:55. | |
time" . In another text, his stepfather says" take him to the | :04:55. | :05:00. | |
room and locked him in. You will have some peace, and do wait for | :05:00. | :05:05. | |
me" . Daniel's father travelled from Poland to hear the shocking truth | :05:05. | :05:12. | |
about how his son had been mistreated. TRANSLATION: I could not | :05:12. | :05:17. | |
believe they could be something like that to my son like making him | :05:17. | :05:24. | |
starve and that kind of stuff. I felt anger. I just hate them. | :05:25. | :05:31. | |
court heard how Magdelena Luczak and Mariusz Krezolek lied to hide their | :05:31. | :05:37. | |
cruelty from social workers, doctors, health workers, teachers | :05:38. | :05:41. | |
and the police. Appointments made for Daniel with the authorities were | :05:41. | :05:47. | |
missed. Daniel Pelka was just four years old when he died. Beyond the | :05:47. | :05:51. | |
reach of a system which could have detect him. What went wrong is now | :05:51. | :06:01. | |
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the focus of a serious case review. So as we have heard, there were | :06:03. | :06:06. | |
numerous people, from teachers to the police, who came into contact | :06:06. | :06:12. | |
with Daniel before he died. Do they have prevented his death? Our social | :06:12. | :06:15. | |
affairs correspondent is with me now. People remember the terrible | :06:15. | :06:19. | |
baby P case we reported on, and they will be saying, how could it happen | :06:19. | :06:26. | |
again? There are parallels with the Baby Peter case in terms of there | :06:26. | :06:29. | |
being a very convincing mother in Peter's case. She lied and was very | :06:29. | :06:33. | |
plausible. They missed appointments. And in the enquiries that followed | :06:34. | :06:38. | |
that land mark case, a lot was made of the need for professionals to be | :06:38. | :06:43. | |
both compassionate and sceptical, to dig down and find out what is | :06:43. | :06:47. | |
actually happening in a child's life will stop we know from what happened | :06:47. | :06:50. | |
in court that the doctor who saw Daniel three weeks before he died | :06:51. | :06:56. | |
said he had no reason to disbelieve the mother. It is clear that her | :06:56. | :06:59. | |
explanations to teachers and others at least allayed their immediate | :06:59. | :07:04. | |
worries. It will be the job of the serious case review to look at the | :07:04. | :07:07. | |
picture of what went on to see who knew what when, and whether those | :07:07. | :07:15. | |
bits of the jigsaw could have been put together and I could have been | :07:15. | :07:23. | |
action earlier to prevent what happened. | :07:23. | :07:25. | |
The former co-treasurer of the Conservative Party has hit out | :07:25. | :07:28. | |
against David Cameron after winning a libel case against the Sunday | :07:29. | :07:33. | |
Times. The paper had wrongly claimed that Peter Cruddas had offered to | :07:33. | :07:37. | |
sell access to the prime minister. Mr Cruddas accused the prime | :07:37. | :07:42. | |
minister of treating him like an outcast when the story broke. Our | :07:42. | :07:46. | |
Deputy political editor has more. The headlines and allegations were | :07:46. | :07:50. | |
clear. A Conservative Party treasurer had been filmed by Sunday | :07:50. | :07:54. | |
Times reporters posing as party donors. The paper alleged that he | :07:54. | :07:58. | |
corruptly offered them the chance to influence policy by selling access | :07:58. | :08:02. | |
to David Cameron. But today, Peter Cruddas came to the High Court here | :08:02. | :08:09. | |
a judge say that was not true, that he would win �180,000 in damages for | :08:09. | :08:12. | |
the libel and that's all he had been doing was explaining how the Tories | :08:12. | :08:21. | |
raised money legally. The point about today is to clear my name. | :08:21. | :08:25. | |
What he also did was criticise David Cameron for the way he reacted on | :08:25. | :08:29. | |
the day the allegations emerged in March last year, when the prime | :08:29. | :08:34. | |
minister was taking part in a fun run. What happened is completely | :08:34. | :08:37. | |
unacceptable. This is not the way we raise money in the Conservative | :08:37. | :08:44. | |
arty. Outside the High Court today, Mr Cruddas attacked the Tories for | :08:44. | :08:48. | |
cutting him off and Mr Cameron for making him feel like an outcast. | :08:48. | :08:53. | |
fact that Mr Cameron said it was right that I resigned, he did not | :08:53. | :08:57. | |
know my side of the story. The Conservative Party, by not listening | :08:57. | :09:02. | |
to my side of the story and lining up to criticise me in public, made | :09:02. | :09:07. | |
the situation worse. In his court ruling, the judge said the prime | :09:07. | :09:16. | |
minister's criticism was a massive public humiliation for Mr Cruddas. | :09:16. | :09:22. | |
That led another former Tory treasurer to join Mr Cruddas in | :09:22. | :09:27. | |
demanding an apology from Mr Cameron and his party. But would they? The | :09:27. | :09:33. | |
party will not say sorry? It is not a question of that, it is about | :09:33. | :09:35. | |
congratulating Mr Cruddas for managing to get the right outcome. | :09:35. | :09:40. | |
It's sorry the hardest word? In this case, it is important to recognise | :09:40. | :09:44. | |
what has happened today rather than relive something from years ago. | :09:44. | :09:48. | |
Tonight the Sunday Times was ordered to pay costs of what could be up to | :09:48. | :09:51. | |
�1 million. They said they were dismayed by the judgement and would | :09:51. | :09:56. | |
appeal. This case raises serious questions about the way we do | :09:56. | :09:59. | |
politics. When controversy rages, politics demands a swift resignation | :09:59. | :10:03. | |
to keep a media happy. Justice demands a little patience. It | :10:03. | :10:07. | |
Cruddas is not the first to lose out like this, and he will not be the | :10:08. | :10:12. | |
last. The Mid Staffordshire Foundation | :10:12. | :10:15. | |
Trust, responsible for one of the biggest scandals to hit the National | :10:15. | :10:20. | |
Health Service, will be dissolved under new proposals. The trust has | :10:20. | :10:24. | |
been in administration since April. Stafford Hospital will lose its | :10:24. | :10:29. | |
maternity unit and the other services cut. | :10:29. | :10:34. | |
They called it the horror hospital. This as a result of appalling care | :10:34. | :10:38. | |
at Stafford General and the terrible accounts of suffering as witnessed | :10:38. | :10:42. | |
by the family and friends of those who died caused outrage. It was one | :10:43. | :10:46. | |
of the biggest scandals to engulf the National Health Service. Partly | :10:46. | :10:49. | |
as a result of those terrible headlines, the hospital struggled to | :10:49. | :10:54. | |
bring in patients and new staff and was running a deficit of �20 million | :10:54. | :11:01. | |
a year. In April, red letter declared it to be no longer viable | :11:01. | :11:02. | |
financially or clinically. Now administrators have said the trust | :11:02. | :11:08. | |
is to be dissolved and its services will move. We came here to see what | :11:08. | :11:12. | |
could be done to preserve effective and safe services for the people of | :11:12. | :11:19. | |
Stafford. I believe we have come up with a plan which does that. | :11:20. | :11:24. | |
hospital keeps a reduced A&E service, but emergency surgery, | :11:24. | :11:27. | |
maternity and other more complex services go to neighbouring trusts. | :11:27. | :11:32. | |
Patients past and present have mounted a local campaign to keep the | :11:32. | :11:37. | |
hospital going. Many were disappointed with today's result. | :11:37. | :11:40. | |
Can't imagine women having to go all the way to Stoke when they are in | :11:40. | :11:45. | |
labour. It took half an hour with one of my sons. I would not have | :11:45. | :11:52. | |
made it up there. Stafford today, your hospital tomorrow. We want a | :11:52. | :11:58. | |
24-hour emergency department. Why would we want anything other? | :11:58. | :12:02. | |
problems here have been well-documented. Experts warn that | :12:02. | :12:05. | |
the financial difficulties this hospital faces are also likely to | :12:05. | :12:09. | |
confront many other district general hospitals across England. In an | :12:09. | :12:15. | |
effort to balance the books and gain foundation trust status in 2008, | :12:15. | :12:17. | |
giving the hospital greater financial independence, jobs were | :12:17. | :12:21. | |
cut and patient suffered. But many hospitals in England are also | :12:21. | :12:29. | |
finding their budgets are squeezed. Smaller hospital trusts are facing | :12:29. | :12:34. | |
pressures about their long-term viability. The pressure is driven by | :12:34. | :12:39. | |
change in the way medicine is practised. So we need to put more | :12:39. | :12:43. | |
specialist services in larger centres, which live is better | :12:43. | :12:47. | |
outcomes for patients. If the plan is approved, the teaching hospital | :12:47. | :12:52. | |
in nearby Stoke could take over many of the services once provided at | :12:52. | :12:57. | |
Stafford. It is a model that many cash-strapped smaller district | :12:57. | :12:59. | |
general hospitals across England may have too confront in the coming | :13:00. | :13:05. | |
years. Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has had | :13:05. | :13:08. | |
his decision to reduce services at Lewisham Hospital declared unlawful | :13:08. | :13:14. | |
and quashed by the High Court. "Who's won? Lewisham's won!" . | :13:14. | :13:22. | |
from local campaigners outside and loud popping in court celebrated the | :13:22. | :13:26. | |
decision as the judge ruled that Mr Hunter lacked power to downgrade the | :13:26. | :13:28. | |
hospital's casualty and maternity departments. | :13:28. | :13:32. | |
Doreen Lawrence, whose son Stephen was murdered in a racist attack in | :13:32. | :13:36. | |
south London 20 years ago, is to be given a seat in the House of Lords. | :13:36. | :13:40. | |
Labour, whose benches Ms Lawrence will sit on, have refused to confirm | :13:40. | :13:44. | |
or deny the appointment, but said her fight for justice for her son | :13:44. | :13:47. | |
had had a profound impact on attitudes to racism and policing. | :13:47. | :13:57. | |
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A paralysed man known as Martin who wants a nurse or carer to travel | :14:03. | :14:05. | |
with him to an assisted suicide Central Braude says he is a step | :14:05. | :14:08. | |
closer to his ambition. The appeal court has ruled that the director of | :14:08. | :14:10. | |
public prosecutions needs to clarify the law so that those who travel | :14:10. | :14:12. | |
with Martin will no whether they would be prosecuted. | :14:12. | :14:15. | |
Undignified, distressing, intolerable. That is how Martin | :14:15. | :14:20. | |
regards his existence following a stroke that left him almost | :14:20. | :14:23. | |
completely paralysed. He does not want to be identified, but gave this | :14:23. | :14:31. | |
interview two years ago using a special computer to communicate. | :14:31. | :14:37. | |
Life is not worth living. Martin and his wife are very close, but she is | :14:37. | :14:42. | |
not willing to play any part in his death. He wanted to know if a carer | :14:42. | :14:49. | |
who he paid to take him abroad might be charged with assisting a suicide. | :14:49. | :14:52. | |
Two out of three appeal Court judges ruled that there was insufficient | :14:52. | :14:58. | |
clarity in the DPP's guidance on the law on assisted suicide in | :14:58. | :14:59. | |
particular whether a health professional who travelled to | :14:59. | :15:06. | |
Switzerland with Martin would be at risk of prosecution. Martin's lawyer | :15:06. | :15:11. | |
read out a statement on his behalf. I am delighted by the judgement | :15:11. | :15:16. | |
today. It takes me one step closer to being able to decide how and when | :15:16. | :15:20. | |
I will end my life. I am only unable to take my own life because of my | :15:20. | :15:26. | |
physical disability is. After the court victory of Debbie Purdy, the | :15:26. | :15:31. | |
DPP did clarify the law on assisted suicide in England, Wales and | :15:31. | :15:35. | |
Northern Ireland, saying family and friends would not be charged if they | :15:36. | :15:41. | |
travelled to dig a task, where about one Britain a fortnight ends their | :15:41. | :15:46. | |
life. Two other paralysed men who challenged the law on murder lost | :15:46. | :15:51. | |
their appeal is. Tony Nicklinson, who died last year, and Paul Lamb, | :15:51. | :15:55. | |
had wanted immunity from prosecution for any doctor who helped them die | :15:55. | :16:01. | |
in Britain. What I am fighting for is right, not just for myself, but | :16:01. | :16:09. | |
for an awful lot of people. They have been made to suffer. It is | :16:09. | :16:15. | |
cruel. Campaigners opposed any relaxation in the law and so the | :16:15. | :16:19. | |
vulnerable must be protected. have to guard against people saying | :16:20. | :16:25. | |
that human life in this country has a finite value. If you are disabled, | :16:25. | :16:29. | |
elderly or terminally ill, your life is somehow worth less than if you | :16:29. | :16:34. | |
are able-bodied. The cases of Martin, Tony Nicklinson and Paul | :16:34. | :16:41. | |
Lamb will all now go to the Supreme Court for a final ruling. Our top | :16:41. | :16:46. | |
story this evening: The mother and partner of four-year-old Daniel | :16:46. | :16:51. | |
Pelka are found guilty of murder after starving him to death. | :16:51. | :16:58. | |
And still to come: England prepare for the third Test. A win or a draw | :16:58. | :17:07. | |
over Australia and the Ashes are retained, again. | :17:07. | :17:14. | |
Coming up on BBC News: Gary Hunt takes the plunge and collect a | :17:14. | :17:17. | |
first-ever world championship medal for Great Britain in the men's | :17:17. | :17:26. | |
diving in Barcelona. He lost out on the top spot by just one point. | :17:26. | :17:29. | |
The people of Zimbabwe are voting today to decide the country's next | :17:29. | :17:35. | |
president. The big question, whether Robert Mugabe will finally be voted | :17:35. | :17:40. | |
out. The 89-year-old has maintained a strict grip on power, having been | :17:40. | :17:45. | |
in control of the country for 33 years. His challenger is Morgan | :17:45. | :17:50. | |
Tsangirai, prime minister in an uneasy coalition government. | :17:50. | :17:53. | |
This report from our correspondent in Harare contains some flash | :17:53. | :18:03. | |
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photography. A typical morning. People queued | :18:07. | :18:12. | |
quietly in the dark hours before sunrise to cast their ballots. It | :18:12. | :18:17. | |
has been an unusual election by Zimbabwe 's standards, free of | :18:17. | :18:27. | |
violence and intimidation. We want to vote peacefully. The outcome must | :18:27. | :18:32. | |
be respected by each of the contenders in this election. But it | :18:32. | :18:39. | |
is not free of accusations of foul play. Morgan Tsvangirai, both | :18:39. | :18:43. | |
partner and rival to Robert Mugabe in a difficult coalition, believes | :18:43. | :18:50. | |
the state is involved in a massive vote rigging exercised against him. | :18:50. | :18:55. | |
For 33 years, Zimbabwe has only ever known one leader and President | :18:55. | :18:59. | |
Mugabe is seeking a further five-year mandate from his people at | :18:59. | :19:06. | |
the age of 89. He says if he loses this time, he will step down. People | :19:06. | :19:13. | |
are voting very freely, the process is going well. President Mugabe is | :19:13. | :19:17. | |
seeking his seventh term in office and insists there is no need to | :19:17. | :19:22. | |
recover votes. He says he believes the people of Zimbabwe still have | :19:22. | :19:30. | |
faith in his ZANU-PF party. Regional observers will ultimately decide | :19:30. | :19:35. | |
whether the elections are free and credible. The first place I called | :19:35. | :19:43. | |
this morning, they opened prompt at seven o'clock, and there hasn't been | :19:43. | :19:51. | |
any serious incidents. The days ahead will be tense for Zimbabwe as | :19:51. | :19:56. | |
the polls closed and the counting begins. The questions the | :19:56. | :20:00. | |
Zimbabweans will be asking is whether the result will herald the | :20:00. | :20:09. | |
end of an era of change or the beginning of more turmoil. | :20:09. | :20:12. | |
Private investigators in England and Wales will have to obtain a licence | :20:12. | :20:16. | |
before they can operate from next year. It follows revelations that | :20:17. | :20:18. | |
dozens of companies used investigators who were later | :20:19. | :20:21. | |
convicted for obtaining information illegally. Our home affairs | :20:21. | :20:30. | |
correspondent Tom Symonds reports. Out of the shadows and into court, | :20:30. | :20:34. | |
the private investigators convicted of fraudulently obtaining personal | :20:34. | :20:41. | |
information. They paid this man to be the daggers, to talk bank, phone | :20:41. | :20:46. | |
and tax company employees into handing over private data. There | :20:46. | :20:51. | |
clients include 22 North firms and eight financial institutions but the | :20:51. | :20:57. | |
names of these companies are classified -- 22 law firms. If there | :20:57. | :21:02. | |
are organisations that are using private investigators to find out | :21:02. | :21:06. | |
information, they should be open about it. Phone hacking led to the | :21:06. | :21:12. | |
closure of the News of the world, and a massive police investigation. | :21:12. | :21:17. | |
There is anger in the press that the clients of these investigators have | :21:17. | :21:22. | |
not been questioned. I got pulled out of my house in the morning, my | :21:22. | :21:27. | |
family was in turmoil, my career was wrecked, and yet they did not go to | :21:27. | :21:32. | |
the law firm, they did not rate him at six o'clock in the morning, the | :21:32. | :21:37. | |
guy there who paid the bills. serious and organised crime agency, | :21:37. | :21:43. | |
based in the street, insists that if the clients have a case to answer | :21:43. | :21:47. | |
they will face further action. Sources have told me the file will | :21:47. | :21:52. | |
be passed to the watchdog of data protection but it will only happen | :21:52. | :21:58. | |
once existing police investigations are included. What information is on | :21:58. | :22:08. | |
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offer? Someone's bank balance for �100, or how much tax they have | :22:08. | :22:11. | |
paid. Itemised telephone bills can be obtained for �450 and some | :22:11. | :22:16. | |
investigators will intercept calls and hack a computer for �7,000. Many | :22:16. | :22:23. | |
legitimate agencies broadly welcomed the government decision to legislate | :22:23. | :22:27. | |
their agencies -- regulate their agencies. We used them on almost | :22:27. | :22:35. | |
every case. Kate pursues Forster 's, insuring her investigators stay | :22:35. | :22:41. | |
within the law is crucial. fraudsters. We will ask and try and | :22:41. | :22:45. | |
push the boundary and try to make sure we get the best possible | :22:45. | :22:50. | |
evidence but if we don't get it legally, our reputation is | :22:50. | :22:55. | |
tarnished. In future it will be illegal for private investigators to | :22:55. | :23:00. | |
operate without proper training and accreditation. | :23:00. | :23:03. | |
Rihanna has won a court case against Topshop over T-shirts bearing her | :23:03. | :23:08. | |
image. The pop star accused the fashion chain of passing off, or | :23:08. | :23:15. | |
attempting to pass off, the garments as being approved by her. This | :23:15. | :23:22. | |
report contains flash photography. She is one of the best-known music | :23:22. | :23:32. | |
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stars on the planet with a string of number one hits to her name. When | :23:32. | :23:36. | |
she shot the video for this song in Northern Ireland, fans and | :23:36. | :23:42. | |
photographers were out in force and thousands of voters were taken. One | :23:42. | :23:48. | |
of those photographs ended up on a line of T-shirts sold in Topshop. | :23:48. | :23:52. | |
10,000 of them was sold. Rihanna took legal action because she said | :23:52. | :23:58. | |
what Topshop had done suggested that this was a product that she had | :23:58. | :24:04. | |
officially approved. She hadn't and today she won the case. The High | :24:04. | :24:08. | |
Court said that using the photograph of the celebrity did not necessarily | :24:08. | :24:13. | |
breached that person's rights but because the image appear to show | :24:13. | :24:17. | |
Rihanna in one of her official videos, many people would have | :24:17. | :24:21. | |
believed they were buying an official Rihanna product. All the | :24:21. | :24:27. | |
more important because she is a global brand. For somebody like | :24:27. | :24:32. | |
Rihanna who makes a living out of what she produces, what she does and | :24:32. | :24:35. | |
says and looks like, this is probably the most important aspect | :24:35. | :24:42. | |
of her. Her brand is herself and what people see of that brand is how | :24:42. | :24:46. | |
they perceive her. Topshop have taken an important bit of her | :24:46. | :24:56. | |
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Rihanna. She is not the first celebrity to use the law to protect | :25:00. | :25:08. | |
her image and she won't be the last. And now for some cricket. The Third | :25:08. | :25:12. | |
Ashes Test gets under way at Old Trafford tomorrow. It's 84 years | :25:12. | :25:15. | |
since England won the first three Tests of an Ashes series but victory | :25:15. | :25:18. | |
this week will give them an unassailable 3-0 lead. This report | :25:18. | :25:24. | |
from Joe Wilson. This is Manchester's test match. | :25:24. | :25:29. | |
James Anderson has great power but he can't control the weather. At Old | :25:29. | :25:34. | |
Trafford today, England were forced inside, scrutinising Kevin | :25:34. | :25:40. | |
Pietersen. England hope people play but there will be no special | :25:40. | :25:49. | |
allowances, even for him. It is hard enough to win with 11 players, | :25:49. | :25:53. | |
especially let alone ten. Shayne Ward turned cricket on his head when | :25:54. | :25:58. | |
he made his debut here. He was part of Australia's practised today as a | :25:58. | :26:07. | |
coach. I believe we can win this series and I know a lot of people | :26:07. | :26:12. | |
will laugh at me saying that but I would not be here today if I thought | :26:12. | :26:19. | |
this team wasn't good enough to have success. This is one Manchester | :26:19. | :26:25. | |
venue Australia's players may be avoiding. The Birmingham branch was | :26:25. | :26:29. | |
where David Warner disgraced himself with a punch at an England player. | :26:29. | :26:34. | |
He served his suspension and will probably play at this match. | :26:34. | :26:38. | |
Australia know they have to be proactive and show fighting spirit, | :26:38. | :26:44. | |
in the right way. Who better to give an opinion on Warner than an | :26:44. | :26:48. | |
Australian-born England cricketer who is now a professional boxer. | :26:48. | :26:55. | |
is a strong character, albeit a naughty boy. He is probably the guy | :26:55. | :27:00. | |
to come in and maybe change momentum. James Anderson could | :27:00. | :27:07. | |
become England's second-highest wicket taker of all in this Test. He | :27:07. | :27:10. | |
needs six more victims. Australia, here's looking at you. | :27:10. | :27:20. | |
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across Spain, 37 has been the top temperature. This air is heading | :27:27. | :27:30. | |
towards us overnight and for tomorrow, particularly covering | :27:30. | :27:39. | |
England and Wales. Tomorrow we are looking at the potential of 32 | :27:39. | :27:46. | |
degrees in the South-East. We still have some rain. Tomorrow morning for | :27:46. | :27:53. | |
Scotland is looking wet and cloudy, as it will be in Northern Ireland. | :27:53. | :28:00. | |
Heavy downpours perhaps in Cumbria. A lot of mist around western areas. | :28:00. | :28:04. | |
Already some sunshine further south and east. Remember this is eight | :28:04. | :28:10. | |
o'clock in the morning. The funniest guys always across parts of | :28:10. | :28:15. | |
South-East England but it should eventually brighten up further north | :28:15. | :28:22. | |
-- sunny skies. Still more rain to come for Northern Ireland and | :28:22. | :28:27. | |
northern Scotland throughout the day. Top temperatures in the | :28:27. | :28:34. | |
south-east. Temperatures not quite as high where we have more cloud. | :28:34. | :28:39. | |
Low pressure is close by Northern Ireland and Scotland on Friday, so a | :28:39. | :28:44. | |
mixture of sunshine and showers and some of those could be heavy. The | :28:44. | :28:49. | |
risk of a downpour in the South-East as well. Temperatures already coming | :28:49. | :28:55. | |
down on Friday. The weekend keeps temperatures not far off average. | :28:55. | :28:59. |