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Not guilty - Coronation Street's Michael Le Vell is cleared of all | :00:08. | :00:14. | |
rape and child abuse charges. A seven-day trial in which his private | :00:14. | :00:17. | |
life was laid bare - the jury took just four hours to reach its | :00:17. | :00:29. | |
verdict. I am delighted, obviously. It is a big weight off everyone's | :00:29. | :00:33. | |
shoulders. We'll be asking if the actor will be back on screen. Also | :00:33. | :00:36. | |
tonight: Bombs and blood in Syria as the world debates the latest | :00:36. | :00:39. | |
diplomatic moves, a special report from the heart of the conflict. | :00:39. | :00:44. | |
There's been fairly bitter fighting in this particular area over the | :00:44. | :00:47. | |
last four or five days. In fact this region has been contested heavily. | :00:47. | :00:54. | |
The holiday villa in Turkey that's become a murder scene - a British | :00:54. | :00:57. | |
woman is killed and her mother and son are left injured. | :00:57. | :01:02. | |
Ed, you are very welcome here today and we look forward to your remarks. | :01:02. | :01:06. | |
But Ed Miliband tells unions his controversial reforms of funding | :01:06. | :01:09. | |
will go ahead despite their criticism. | :01:09. | :01:12. | |
We've had the flexible friend now here's the plastic pound - the Bank | :01:12. | :01:15. | |
of England unveils its new banknotes. | :01:15. | :01:54. | |
Michael Le Vell, the Coronation Street actor, has been found not | :01:54. | :01:56. | |
guilty of 12 rape and child abuse charges. The seven-day trial ended | :01:56. | :02:00. | |
yesterday and the jury of eight women and four men took four hours | :02:00. | :02:04. | |
to reach their verdict. Judith Moritz is at Manchester Crown Court | :02:04. | :02:14. | |
for us now. This has been a trial of high | :02:14. | :02:19. | |
emotion. A teenage girl sobbed as she gave her account here in court | :02:19. | :02:25. | |
last week, making serious allegations of child sexual abuse. | :02:25. | :02:30. | |
Today, the tears instead came from Michael Le Vell's relatives, who | :02:30. | :02:36. | |
held hands in the courtroom gallery of court room number three, and | :02:36. | :02:41. | |
cried when he was acquitted. This report contains flash photography. | :02:41. | :02:45. | |
Michael Le Vell stood to lose everything. | :02:45. | :02:50. | |
In the glare of publicity, accused of being a child sex abuse, his | :02:50. | :02:54. | |
liberty and reputation have been on the line. Outside court, his family | :02:54. | :03:01. | |
liberty and reputation have been on shared his joy at being acquitted. | :03:01. | :03:07. | |
It is a weight off everyone's shoulders. I would like to thank my | :03:07. | :03:13. | |
legal team and thank you all for being patient. I might go and have a | :03:13. | :03:20. | |
drink now! I asked him whether he will be back on screen soon. When | :03:20. | :03:24. | |
might you return to Coronation Street? I don't know, I might have a | :03:24. | :03:29. | |
holiday first, I have to talk to my boss. Earlier, the jury brought 12 | :03:29. | :03:40. | |
not guilty charges. The actor mouthed, " thank you" . To the jury. | :03:40. | :03:55. | |
The jury dismissed the account of his alleged victim who dismissed the | :03:55. | :03:59. | |
claim he raped her when she was six. Having been in the soap since 1983, | :03:59. | :04:03. | |
he is one of the longest serving cast members. He often appeared | :04:03. | :04:12. | |
alongside Nigel Pivaro, who played that character, Terry Duckworth. He | :04:12. | :04:16. | |
came to court to watch the trial. The indication is clear he is going | :04:16. | :04:21. | |
back to Coronation Street. Why not commonly has been exonerated. Do you | :04:21. | :04:27. | |
think you should have been given and on unity during this? Without a | :04:27. | :04:35. | |
doubt, this man, because he is high profile, has suffered grievously for | :04:35. | :04:42. | |
two years. Being high profile has exacerbated his position. At the | :04:42. | :04:47. | |
Coronation Street Studios, fellow cast members were taking in the | :04:47. | :04:51. | |
news. I have only just heard, I think it is great news. Michael Le | :04:51. | :04:57. | |
Vell knew he could have been leaving court today in a prison van. | :04:57. | :05:01. | |
Instead, he is enjoying his freedom and will try to rebuild his | :05:01. | :05:05. | |
reputation and career. Judith, you asked this question, but | :05:05. | :05:10. | |
is it any clearer he will be back on screen or not? Michael Le Vell's | :05:10. | :05:18. | |
reputation has been damaged. He accepted during this trial he is an | :05:18. | :05:22. | |
alcoholic and has had extramarital affairs. He has not been appearing | :05:22. | :05:27. | |
on Coronation Street whilst these legal proceedings have been | :05:27. | :05:32. | |
ongoing. But ITV have said in a statement they are looking forward | :05:32. | :05:33. | |
ongoing. But ITV have said in a to meeting with Michael, to discuss | :05:33. | :05:36. | |
his return to the programme. Thanks very much. | :05:37. | :05:39. | |
Britain, France and the United States are to table a motion at the | :05:39. | :05:42. | |
UN Security Council, demanding that Syria surrender its chemical | :05:42. | :05:46. | |
weapons. The news came on a day of intense diplomatic activity in which | :05:46. | :05:48. | |
Damascus accepted a proposal from Russia to put its chemical weapons | :05:48. | :05:53. | |
under international control. Tonight, all eyes are on Barack | :05:53. | :05:56. | |
Obama and the big question, what happens to his plan for military | :05:56. | :06:00. | |
intervention? David Willis reports from Washington. | :06:00. | :06:11. | |
It came virtually at the 11th hour. A face-saving solution for a | :06:11. | :06:19. | |
reluctant commander-in-chief. Back from the brink, a major turn | :06:19. | :06:24. | |
tonight. As news of a possible diplomatic breakthrough emerged, the | :06:24. | :06:30. | |
president was asked if Syria handed over their chemical weapons, would | :06:30. | :06:34. | |
America pull back from the brink? Absolutely. If that happens, I don't | :06:34. | :06:38. | |
think we would have got to this point unless we maintained a | :06:38. | :06:44. | |
credible, possible military strike. I don't think now is the time to let | :06:44. | :06:52. | |
up on that. I want to make sure that norm against using chemical weapons | :06:52. | :06:58. | |
is maintained. It is not only the tactical considerations that lie | :06:58. | :07:02. | |
behind this new plan, but the practicalities of enforcing it, | :07:02. | :07:05. | |
placing Syria's chemical weapons under international control will | :07:05. | :07:11. | |
involve some difficult and detailed measures. Measures, which it is | :07:11. | :07:15. | |
thought could take months to achieve. First, a chemical weapons | :07:15. | :07:19. | |
inspection team would need to be assembled. Then the weapons | :07:19. | :07:23. | |
themselves would have to be located and given the Syrian government's | :07:23. | :07:27. | |
secrecy, it could be difficult to work out if they had been handed | :07:27. | :07:32. | |
over. Then there is the inspector 's safety. Unlike in Iraq, they would | :07:32. | :07:36. | |
be setting out their task in the midst of a raging civil war. Hence | :07:36. | :07:52. | |
the administration continues to push Congress for military action, and | :07:52. | :07:54. | |
the man whose off script comments open-door to a diplomatic solution, | :07:54. | :07:57. | |
is concerned the new plan may be just a stalling tactic. It has to | :07:57. | :07:59. | |
is concerned the new plan may be real, measurable and tangible. I | :07:59. | :08:03. | |
want everyone to know, it will be difficult to fulfil those | :08:03. | :08:06. | |
conditions. But we are waiting for that proposal. But we're not waiting | :08:06. | :08:13. | |
for long. Averting a military strike would suit the war wary American | :08:13. | :08:18. | |
public. At this party at the start of the new American football league | :08:18. | :08:23. | |
season, we found opinion divided. Everyone wants to see their own | :08:23. | :08:26. | |
season, we found opinion divided. country taken care of first. You | :08:26. | :08:32. | |
kind of have two, when that role is needed, you have two step up when | :08:32. | :08:38. | |
the situation requires it. President Obama's lonely journey over Syria | :08:38. | :08:43. | |
may be coming to an end. The UK and France said they will join America | :08:43. | :08:47. | |
in tabling a resolution to the United Nations. Tonight, he | :08:47. | :08:52. | |
addresses the American people. This afternoon, David Cameron has | :08:52. | :08:56. | |
been speaking about the Russian plan to put Syria's chemical weapons | :08:56. | :09:00. | |
under international control. He made it clear Britain wanted to be sure | :09:00. | :09:07. | |
it was not a delaying tactic. If this is a serious offer, a serious | :09:07. | :09:12. | |
proposal, we should treat it accordingly. Of course we should be | :09:12. | :09:15. | |
sceptical and should not forget a war crime has been committed. But | :09:15. | :09:20. | |
this could be a major step forward, but we need to test it out properly. | :09:20. | :09:27. | |
Let's get some reaction from Matt from Downing Street. Some have been | :09:27. | :09:32. | |
calling this a breakthrough, but there was plenty of caution today | :09:32. | :09:38. | |
from David Cameron? Scepticism, he used words like hard-headed, cool | :09:38. | :09:43. | |
calculation. There is a feeling here as well as in Paris and Washington, | :09:43. | :09:49. | |
DC, yesterday Russia, who have been President Assad's allies, the | :09:49. | :09:55. | |
country who had blocked any of the United nation's condemnation of | :09:55. | :09:59. | |
Syria, moved to seize the initiative. There is a sense the | :09:59. | :10:03. | |
British, French and Americans want to seize it back again and test the | :10:03. | :10:10. | |
sincerity of Moscow. But the who, the Watts, the when Amber Howe, what | :10:10. | :10:16. | |
weapons might be removed from Syria, who would be removing and he would | :10:16. | :10:22. | |
be supervising the process and to what timetable. Although that is | :10:22. | :10:26. | |
going on, what is really going on is an attempt to test whether Russia | :10:26. | :10:31. | |
means to put pressure on its old ally. That gives diplomats a real | :10:31. | :10:35. | |
choice around the world. Do they try to come up with a resolution that | :10:35. | :10:39. | |
Moscow and indeed the Chinese in Beijing might support? Or do they | :10:39. | :10:43. | |
try and come up with a hardline resolution, which they are pretty | :10:43. | :10:47. | |
clear Moscow will veto once again, to prove there is little point going | :10:47. | :10:57. | |
through the UN process. That is the test happening now. The Russians | :10:57. | :10:59. | |
have said they will come up with their own proposals. That would | :10:59. | :11:05. | |
suggest if Russia are in charge of dismantling Syria's chemical weapons | :11:05. | :11:09. | |
programmes, I am told here that no one would take that seriously. | :11:09. | :11:14. | |
As the international community debates its next move, with the | :11:14. | :11:17. | |
diplomatic landscape changing, that debates its next move, with the | :11:17. | :11:20. | |
appears to be no letup in the war in Syria. Our correspondence and | :11:20. | :11:28. | |
cameramen are among the few Western journalists who are in the west of | :11:28. | :11:35. | |
the country. This report contains distressing images. | :11:35. | :11:40. | |
Syrians live in fear of many things, but it's so-called conventional | :11:40. | :11:45. | |
weapons, not chemicals, that has killed so many of them. For the last | :11:46. | :11:53. | |
two years, this town has been bombed and shelled, each attack recorded by | :11:53. | :11:59. | |
a local media activist, Ibrahim. Weaving among the rubble and ruins, | :11:59. | :12:04. | |
he guided us through the devastation inflicted on his village. He filmed | :12:04. | :12:10. | |
the fighter jets last year, and this is what he says he filmed a few days | :12:10. | :12:16. | |
ago. Another aerial attack that left 14 dead, many more injured. The | :12:16. | :12:22. | |
rebels had used this as a base, but when the government responds, it is | :12:22. | :12:25. | |
rebels had used this as a base, but usually civilians who died. This | :12:25. | :12:30. | |
wasn't the worst date the town has known, possibly not even the worst | :12:30. | :12:38. | |
in Syria that day. But the attacks have increased and Ibrahim suspects | :12:38. | :12:41. | |
it is because of the threat of American air strikes. | :12:42. | :12:49. | |
TRANSLATION: Before this strike, they hit as with missiles for no | :12:49. | :12:53. | |
reason, there are only civilians here. But I think it is because of | :12:53. | :12:58. | |
American statements about strikes on Syria and the regime wants to prove | :12:58. | :13:01. | |
it is still strong and will not surrender. | :13:01. | :13:06. | |
This is where one of the bombs landed in the latest attack. Many | :13:06. | :13:12. | |
families have fled the fighting but came home, thinking it was now safe. | :13:12. | :13:20. | |
They were wrong. This 14-month-old was playing in the house when it | :13:20. | :13:27. | |
landed. His scarred face is testament to this war. His father is | :13:27. | :13:33. | |
angry at what he sees as indifference from the world. | :13:33. | :13:41. | |
TRANSLATION: why is their silence? Is it because we are Moslems? What | :13:41. | :13:46. | |
religion are you? Are you Christian, Jewish? I respect you. But is our | :13:46. | :13:52. | |
blood cheaper than yours? You have seen the destruction, the chemical | :13:52. | :13:57. | |
attacks, shelling. What did anyone do? It is almost as if you enjoyed | :13:57. | :14:03. | |
watching others. Like millions of the Syrians, he is trapped inside | :14:03. | :14:08. | |
his own country, his family on the move, desperate for Shelter and | :14:08. | :14:13. | |
safety. But few parts of Syria offer that comfort. Events on the ground | :14:13. | :14:21. | |
have consistently outpaced the international debate about what to | :14:21. | :14:25. | |
do. And up in the hills of the North, the struggle between the army | :14:25. | :14:32. | |
and the rebels is undiminished. There has been fairly bitter | :14:32. | :14:35. | |
fighting going on in this area over the last four or five days. This | :14:35. | :14:39. | |
region itself has been contested heavily over the last year and a | :14:39. | :14:44. | |
half. Both sides are bracing themselves over what may come from | :14:44. | :14:48. | |
the international community, there is no sense of a pause and they are | :14:48. | :14:53. | |
still fighting each other as hard as ever. While one side fears the | :14:53. | :14:57. | |
possibility of air strikes, the other one sees an opportunity. The | :14:57. | :15:00. | |
possibility of air strikes, the rebels are talking about using them | :15:00. | :15:04. | |
to push forward. If it does not happen now it could cause resentment | :15:04. | :15:08. | |
and marginalised more rebel groups ready to engage with the West. The | :15:08. | :15:13. | |
struggle for control of Syria has left main roads impassable. At | :15:13. | :15:18. | |
night, the likes of government controlled cities in the distance | :15:18. | :15:23. | |
seemed to taunt rebel held towns, consumed by the darkness. Syrians | :15:23. | :15:26. | |
have different views on their future. What they can agree on is | :15:26. | :15:30. | |
the suffering must end. A court has found four men guilty of | :15:30. | :15:48. | |
the gang rape and murder of a woman on a bus in Delhi last year. The | :15:48. | :15:55. | |
problems of sexual violence in India generated a global coverage. The | :15:55. | :15:57. | |
family of the victim have asked that the guilty men be given the death | :15:57. | :16:04. | |
healthy. Jaguar Land Rover is creating 1700 jobs in Solihull in | :16:04. | :16:09. | |
the West Midlands. It is investing on designing systems | :16:09. | :16:17. | |
to allow the chassis of models to be made out of aluminium. A woman from | :16:17. | :16:20. | |
Yorkshire has been shot dead while on holiday in Turkey. | :16:21. | :16:22. | |
Catherine Bury from Northallerton on holiday in Turkey. | :16:22. | :16:25. | |
was killed after celebrating a family birthday at her villa in the | :16:25. | :16:32. | |
southern resort of Dalyan. Her son and mother have been treated in | :16:32. | :16:36. | |
hospital. Police have arrested a man thought to be a gardener at the | :16:36. | :16:40. | |
villa. The balloons from a birthday party | :16:40. | :16:44. | |
are still on display at a holiday villa were three generations of the | :16:44. | :16:49. | |
same British family were shot. A poignant backdrop to the police | :16:49. | :16:53. | |
investigation as detectives try to establish whether the cause of the | :16:53. | :16:57. | |
tragedy was a row with a gardener. Catherine Bury died just hours after | :16:57. | :17:03. | |
turning 56. It was her party. A 24-year-old, Sam Alex, and her | :17:03. | :17:09. | |
mother survived, but 24-year-old, Sam Alex, and her | :17:09. | :17:13. | |
treatment for gunshot wounds. Today, her neighbours in North Yorkshire | :17:13. | :17:17. | |
have been paying tribute. She has been such a good neighbour that I | :17:17. | :17:21. | |
don't think we can ever replace her. Such a good neighbour, to be | :17:21. | :17:25. | |
honest. For such a thing to happen, in this day and age, it is | :17:25. | :17:30. | |
unbelievable. Turkish police have arrested a 46-year-old local man in | :17:30. | :17:34. | |
connection with the shootings. He arrested a 46-year-old local man in | :17:34. | :17:36. | |
understood to be the family gardener. He had initially been on | :17:36. | :17:41. | |
Saturday. It is believed the family called the police after a row with | :17:41. | :17:45. | |
him. The following day, the family held the birthday party at their | :17:45. | :17:49. | |
villa. The Gardner, who had been released on bail, allegedly returned | :17:50. | :17:51. | |
villa. The Gardner, who had been in the early hours of Monday morning | :17:51. | :17:57. | |
with a shot gun. Her son, Alex, is still in hospital, where he is said | :17:57. | :18:00. | |
with a shot gun. Her son, Alex, is to be in a stable condition. His | :18:00. | :18:02. | |
grandmother has been discharged. The Foreign Office says it is providing | :18:02. | :18:08. | |
assistance as Turkish police continue their investigation into | :18:08. | :18:11. | |
the circumstances that led to the shootings. | :18:11. | :18:19. | |
Our top story: Coronation Street actor Michael Le Vell is cleared of | :18:19. | :18:25. | |
all rape and child abuse charges. Coming up, the verdict on the Bank | :18:25. | :18:32. | |
of England's new plastic notes. It's a bit like Monopoly money, to be | :18:32. | :18:37. | |
honest. In Sportsday, is this the most powerful man in sport? Thomas | :18:37. | :18:43. | |
Bach is the new president of the IOC. | :18:43. | :18:55. | |
We have been reporting in recent days on signs that an economic | :18:55. | :19:00. | |
recovery is underway. But the benefits have yet to be felt on | :19:00. | :19:02. | |
recovery is underway. But the Britain's high streets. A new study | :19:02. | :19:07. | |
has found that, on average, one in seven shops have been empty for the | :19:07. | :19:12. | |
last three years. That is more than 45,000 in town centres right across | :19:12. | :19:17. | |
Britain. Amongst the worst areas affected is the north-west of | :19:17. | :19:20. | |
England, where one in five is empty, with many businesses | :19:21. | :19:22. | |
complaining at high rates are empty, with many businesses | :19:22. | :19:24. | |
driving them out. It looks busy enough. But things are | :19:24. | :19:36. | |
far from well in this town centre. The big names are still pulling out. | :19:36. | :19:38. | |
They do not need as many The big names are still pulling out. | :19:38. | :19:45. | |
more of us shop online. Here is something we are less likely to buy | :19:45. | :19:46. | |
on the internet. But Ian Shaw's chip something we are less likely to buy | :19:46. | :19:51. | |
shop will also not be open for much longer. When he lost his job and | :19:51. | :19:58. | |
could not find another, he started his own business. But, 18 months on, | :19:58. | :20:02. | |
he is giving up because of crippling costs. If I can't make it work, | :20:02. | :20:08. | |
nobody is going to make it work in this shop. I have literally put my | :20:08. | :20:13. | |
heart and soul into it. He is paying £10,000 this year in rent. He is | :20:13. | :20:16. | |
also paying almost £19,000 in £10,000 this year in rent. He is | :20:16. | :20:21. | |
business rates. That is before any of his other bills. It is not worth | :20:21. | :20:27. | |
killing myself to stay open. Whether it is back on the dole, trying to | :20:27. | :20:32. | |
set up another shop. I used most of my funds that I had. I cashed in my | :20:32. | :20:36. | |
pension and that is what set it up to begin with. Here is the thing | :20:36. | :20:41. | |
about his nest rates. They are not based on any profits that businesses | :20:41. | :20:46. | |
like Ian's make. It is a national property tax, currently calculate it | :20:46. | :20:49. | |
on values set at the height of the property tax, currently calculate it | :20:49. | :20:53. | |
property boom. But in many parts of the country it is a very different | :20:53. | :20:58. | |
economic picture now. Over the last few years, property values in | :20:58. | :21:02. | |
Rochdale have decreased by something like 40%. At the same time, business | :21:02. | :21:06. | |
rates have stayed exactly where they are and that is putting people off | :21:06. | :21:11. | |
opening up new stores. That means you end up with a vacant properties. | :21:11. | :21:16. | |
The government says that business rates are fit for purpose. When you | :21:16. | :21:19. | |
are running a small business, rates are fit for purpose. When you | :21:19. | :21:23. | |
business rates and other cost is weigh heavily. That is why we are | :21:23. | :21:26. | |
helping businesses with £900 million of business rate relief. Ian's | :21:26. | :21:33. | |
shopper does not qualify for relief and it is already on the market. The | :21:33. | :21:35. | |
shopper does not qualify for relief question is, who will take it on and | :21:35. | :21:37. | |
managed to keep it open? The House of Commons Deputy Speaker | :21:37. | :21:46. | |
Nigel Evans has been arrested on suspicion of the indecent assault of | :21:46. | :21:50. | |
two further alleged victims. It is the third time the MP for Ribble | :21:50. | :21:57. | |
Valley has been arrested for sexual offences. He has been arrested for | :21:57. | :22:01. | |
rates and indecent assaults against men in their 20s. -- rapes. Ed | :22:01. | :22:09. | |
Miliband says he is absolutely determined to redefine his party's | :22:09. | :22:12. | |
relationship with the unions. At a speech at the TUC annual | :22:12. | :22:16. | |
meeting in Bournemouth, he said union members should choose to be | :22:16. | :22:18. | |
meeting in Bournemouth, he said part of the Labour Party, rather | :22:18. | :22:20. | |
than being automatically signed up by the union. James Langdale | :22:20. | :22:28. | |
travelled with Mr Miliband. He is taking Labour on a journey. | :22:28. | :22:32. | |
Some trade unions fear he is taking them for a ride. Today, Ed Miliband | :22:32. | :22:36. | |
travel to the TUC to tell the unions to their face that their | :22:37. | :22:40. | |
relationship must change. Are you nervous, entering the lions den? | :22:40. | :22:48. | |
After three years in this job, you always have to times and faced | :22:48. | :22:51. | |
difficult moments. Audiences you aren't necessarily going to see | :22:51. | :22:56. | |
liking what you say. The right thing to do is to say what you believe and | :22:56. | :22:58. | |
liking what you say. The right thing that is what I'm going to say today. | :22:58. | :23:04. | |
Are you going to win this battle? Yes. To do that he will have to | :23:04. | :23:08. | |
change minds. That was the aim of the speech, to convince a sceptical | :23:08. | :23:14. | |
audience he is serious. We have 3 million working men and women | :23:14. | :23:19. | |
affiliated to our party. I am proud of that. I am proud of that link. | :23:19. | :23:26. | |
Here is the problem. So many of them, the vast majority of them, | :23:26. | :23:30. | |
play no role in our local parties. They are affiliated in name only. | :23:30. | :23:37. | |
Instead, he wants them to choose to join Labour, as individuals, instead | :23:37. | :23:41. | |
of being automatically affiliated, as now. Even if it cost the party | :23:41. | :23:46. | |
support and money. Change can happen. Change must happen. I am | :23:46. | :23:54. | |
absolutely determined that change may happen. He hopes this | :23:54. | :24:01. | |
absolutely determined that change defining moment for him, showing | :24:01. | :24:04. | |
courage and independence, changing the way Labour does politics. The | :24:04. | :24:07. | |
problem is, many people in this hall think that it is the wrong strategy | :24:08. | :24:12. | |
at the wrong time. The applause was muted. No great confrontation, no | :24:12. | :24:17. | |
threats to curb union powers. Equally, no evidence of mind is | :24:17. | :24:22. | |
being changed. What he has to do is be certain he keeps the eye on the | :24:22. | :24:26. | |
ball and he does not get embroiled in internal navel-gazing. Labour | :24:26. | :24:33. | |
Party rules are Labour Party rules. They will change their rules they | :24:33. | :24:38. | |
will not. That is up to them. They cannot change the GMB rules, the | :24:38. | :24:42. | |
Unite rules. We will have to wait and see. If it ain't broke, one | :24:42. | :24:49. | |
asked, why fix it? Just to be told this will happen in 2014, to me, | :24:50. | :24:55. | |
seems absolutely nonsense. Ed Miliband's journey is not over yet. | :24:55. | :25:01. | |
Nothing will be agreed until a special conference next year. That | :25:01. | :25:05. | |
is, of course, if any thing can be agreed. Bold, tatty and ripped. It | :25:05. | :25:11. | |
does not take long before a crisp banknote becomes limp and dirty. | :25:11. | :25:15. | |
Now the Bank of England has announced it could introduce plastic | :25:15. | :25:19. | |
notes. It is claimed that they last longer and they are cleaner and more | :25:19. | :25:24. | |
secure. The Bank of England, guardian of our | :25:24. | :25:27. | |
money. Here is what they have come up with. It looks like a normal £5 | :25:27. | :25:32. | |
note. But you can crumble is, bend it, try to rip it and it stays | :25:32. | :25:38. | |
intact. -- crumble it. It's made of plastic. It is potentially a big | :25:38. | :25:41. | |
change after years of printing paper money. The bank will consult the | :25:41. | :25:46. | |
public. Unless there is a big outcry, paper fivers antennas will | :25:46. | :25:50. | |
be replaced with plastic. The man with his signature on the notes told | :25:50. | :25:53. | |
me why plastic is the way ahead. They tend to stay clean, they are | :25:53. | :26:01. | |
durable, they can have new security features like transparent windows. | :26:01. | :26:06. | |
We can also keep the elements that people value. They put this note | :26:06. | :26:10. | |
through a washing machine. Here is what happened to the paper one. They | :26:10. | :26:14. | |
even did a red wine test. The plastic one cleaned up after | :26:14. | :26:19. | |
staining, here is a paper one that got the same treatment. They say | :26:19. | :26:21. | |
they last 2.5 times longer. And the got the same treatment. They say | :26:21. | :26:27. | |
bank of England Governor Mark Carney did the same thing in Canada. An | :26:28. | :26:35. | |
astronaut launched the polymer note in zero gravity. So, what is the | :26:35. | :26:40. | |
view here? What do you think? A bit like Monopoly money, to be honest. | :26:40. | :26:45. | |
They look the same, slightly different feel. More robust. No more | :26:45. | :26:52. | |
Sellotape to £10 notes about. Really? Yes. What is that? That's a | :26:52. | :27:00. | |
joke! Stand-by for the new notes in 2016 if the plan gets the go-ahead. | :27:00. | :27:04. | |
In Scotland and Northern Ireland, it will be up to local issue is to | :27:04. | :27:06. | |
decide if they want to go plastic. Waterproof money might come in | :27:06. | :27:15. | |
tomorrow. We have some rain on the way for many parts of the UK | :27:15. | :27:18. | |
gradually working southwards as the day wears on. Some southern areas | :27:18. | :27:23. | |
not seeing much until late on. Some southern areas of pots of sunshine. | :27:23. | :27:28. | |
That has not been the case down the eastern side of England, with rain | :27:29. | :27:32. | |
That has not been the case down the piling in. It's been a pretty | :27:32. | :27:37. | |
miserable day, temperatures ten or 11 in some places through the | :27:38. | :27:41. | |
afternoon. Not getting any warmer through this evening and overnight. | :27:41. | :27:44. | |
The Gaels continue, especially across the North Norfolk coast. The | :27:44. | :27:49. | |
heaviest rain easing away towards the East as we go through the second | :27:49. | :27:56. | |
half of the night. Clear spells through central areas, temperatures | :27:57. | :27:59. | |
dipping in rural parts. In larger towns and cities, staying that | :27:59. | :28:04. | |
little bit higher. One or two patches of mist and fog about, | :28:04. | :28:08. | |
perhaps. By the end of the night, rain pushing across Scotland and | :28:08. | :28:13. | |
Northern Ireland. Then we start to see this next band of rain pushing | :28:13. | :28:21. | |
steadily southwards. A fresher feel across East Anglia and the | :28:21. | :28:23. | |
south-east. The cloud increasing, but not seeing rain until later on. | :28:23. | :28:30. | |
Brighter parts in the afternoon, they could see up to 14 degrees. | :28:30. | :28:36. | |
That rain is sitting right across the top of Edgbaston where we have | :28:36. | :28:39. | |
the third one-day international tomorrow. Fingers crossed, but the | :28:39. | :28:45. | |
forecast does not look good here. Thursday, more rain pushing in from | :28:45. | :28:51. | |
the west. Eastern areas are best. 19 or 20 degrees here, possibly. A bit | :28:51. | :28:56. | |
cooler in the rain. Looking rather changeable right through to the | :28:56. | :29:01. | |
weekend. That is all from us. On BBC One we join the news teams | :29:02. | :29:02. |