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Sir John Major adds his voice to the row over energy prices. He calls for | :00:00. | :00:11. | |
a one offtax on energy company profits. The former Prime Minister | :00:12. | :00:15. | |
branded the latest price hikes by the big energy firms unjustifiable. | :00:16. | :00:20. | |
He said he'd back Government intervention. If we have a hard | :00:21. | :00:24. | |
winter, which is quite likely, there are many people this winter who are | :00:25. | :00:29. | |
going to have to choose between keeping warm and eating. I don't | :00:30. | :00:33. | |
think that is acceptable. Will ask how much pressure this puts on David | :00:34. | :00:37. | |
Cameron. Also tonight: Charging foreign visitors for using the NHS. | :00:38. | :00:43. | |
The Government say it is could claw back half a bill pounds. An inquest | :00:44. | :00:47. | |
into the deaths of a pregnant mother and her toddler. The jury finds that | :00:48. | :00:51. | |
police failure was partly to blame. David Cameron brands Facebook | :00:52. | :00:54. | |
irresponsible after the company allows graphic images on its pages. | :00:55. | :01:00. | |
He thought he was bigger than the manager. Sir Alex Ferguson's tell | :01:01. | :01:06. | |
all book about his turbulent relationship with David Beckham. | :01:07. | :01:12. | |
Coming up in sport, Arsene Wenger previous Arsenal for their biggest | :01:13. | :01:16. | |
test this season against last season's losing finalists in the | :01:17. | :01:17. | |
Champions League. Good evening and welcome to the | :01:18. | :01:43. | |
BBC's news at six. The former Conservative Prime Minister, Sir | :01:44. | :01:47. | |
John Major, has called for a one offtax on the profits of the big | :01:48. | :01:49. | |
energy companies. His surprise intervention comes at a time when | :01:50. | :01:52. | |
the Government is under increasing political pressure over the riding | :01:53. | :01:55. | |
cost of household energy bills. Downing Street said his comments | :01:56. | :01:58. | |
were an interesting contribution, but Labour says John Major is making | :01:59. | :02:04. | |
their argument for intervention on energy prices. Here's our deputy | :02:05. | :02:08. | |
political editor, James Landale. The price we pay for energy is rising. | :02:09. | :02:12. | |
Day after day the energy firms are raising their bills for the gas and | :02:13. | :02:18. | |
electricity we need. Labour's demanding a price freeze, the | :02:19. | :02:21. | |
Government Sunday pressure to act. Enter, an ex-Prime Minister with a | :02:22. | :02:26. | |
plan. A very bold plan. I do think without some action, if we have a | :02:27. | :02:30. | |
hard winter, which is quite likely, there are many people this winter | :02:31. | :02:33. | |
who are going to have to choose between keeping warm and eating. I | :02:34. | :02:36. | |
don't think that is acceptable. I think there is a very real chance | :02:37. | :02:40. | |
this winter that the Government will be forced by events to provide more | :02:41. | :02:45. | |
assistance to people who are facing real difficulties. If that proves to | :02:46. | :02:48. | |
be the case, then I think it would be entirely reasonable for the | :02:49. | :02:52. | |
Chancellor then to recoup that money back from the energy companies in a | :02:53. | :02:57. | |
one offpayment given the scale of their profits and the unjustified | :02:58. | :03:01. | |
nature of the very high increases they just proposed. Windfall tax? A | :03:02. | :03:08. | |
one offwindfall tax imposed retrospectively. Sir John Major says | :03:09. | :03:13. | |
things which shortly after becomes Government policy. Today, Downing | :03:14. | :03:16. | |
Street and the Treasury said while it was an interesting contribution | :03:17. | :03:21. | |
to the debate, they had no plans to tax energy firms. For now, they are | :03:22. | :03:25. | |
urging people to switch their suppliers. Behind-the-scenes | :03:26. | :03:27. | |
ministers know that is not enough and are looking for solutions. Three | :03:28. | :03:32. | |
big energy firms have raised their prices by about 10%. Three more are | :03:33. | :03:36. | |
expected to do likewise. Their bosses will have to explain their | :03:37. | :03:40. | |
decisions before MPs next week. Labour said Sir John was making | :03:41. | :03:45. | |
their argument. I welcome Sir John Major's comments today because they | :03:46. | :03:48. | |
are in line with our concerns that people have been put out of pocket | :03:49. | :03:52. | |
because we have a Government that doesn't stand up to these companies | :03:53. | :03:56. | |
and recognising the market is broken and we need to fix it. Said they are | :03:57. | :04:01. | |
already taking action. We think a faster way to bear down on prices is | :04:02. | :04:07. | |
more competition, simpler tariffs and making it easier for people to | :04:08. | :04:16. | |
switch. There are a number of ideas, I think the suggestion made by Mr | :04:17. | :04:20. | |
Miliband shows his head is in the right place I don't think it's a | :04:21. | :04:25. | |
workable proposition. Was ex-Prime Minister's suggestion at | :04:26. | :04:26. | |
Westminster, today Minister's suggestion at | :04:27. | :04:31. | |
Westminster, tomorrow it's Prime Minister's Questions. We know what | :04:32. | :04:35. | |
he will be asked. How much pressure does this put on David Cameron? It | :04:36. | :04:40. | |
increases the pressure on the Prime Minister. He is saying Labour we | :04:41. | :04:43. | |
need a price freeze for energy bills and a former Prime Minister saying | :04:44. | :04:48. | |
we need to have an energy tax. He is stuck between a wannabe Prime | :04:49. | :04:53. | |
Minister and an ex-Prime Minister. Ministers know they have to come up | :04:54. | :04:56. | |
with some kind solution to this problem. They are working | :04:57. | :04:59. | |
behind-the-scenes to come up with some way of making matching the | :05:00. | :05:06. | |
Labour promise with some kind of membering niszism to reduce people's | :05:07. | :05:10. | |
energy prices. The more telling criticism was the context of Sir | :05:11. | :05:14. | |
John's remarks which came during a speech originally to the | :05:15. | :05:17. | |
parliamentary press gallery where he made the point, in his view, the | :05:18. | :05:21. | |
Conservative Party needed to do more to show it was engaged with the | :05:22. | :05:25. | |
concerns and worries of ordinary people rather than worrying about | :05:26. | :05:28. | |
issues like Europe and things like that. That is the accusation that | :05:29. | :05:32. | |
will concern ministers most. The suggestion by not acting here, they | :05:33. | :05:37. | |
are not responding to the needs and concerns of people out on the | :05:38. | :05:43. | |
street. Thank you very much. Up to ?500 million alyear could be | :05:44. | :05:47. | |
recovered from overseas visitors and migrants who use the NHS in England | :05:48. | :05:51. | |
every year. That's according to estimates from the Department of | :05:52. | :05:54. | |
Health. The Health Secretary, Jeremy Hunt, said it was time foreign | :05:55. | :05:58. | |
visitors made what he called "a fair contribution." Some doctors say they | :05:59. | :06:02. | |
shouldn't have to spend time vetting patients. Branwen Jeffreys reports. | :06:03. | :06:10. | |
Each year, it costs the NHS in England and estimated ?2 billion to | :06:11. | :06:14. | |
treat people from abroad. That figure includes people visiting on | :06:15. | :06:19. | |
holiday or business, working or studying here for a short time. As | :06:20. | :06:23. | |
well as illegal immigrants and health tourists, people thought to | :06:24. | :06:30. | |
travel here just for treatment. Emergency care in A, care in GP | :06:31. | :06:35. | |
surgeries and for infectious diseases isn't charged to anyone. | :06:36. | :06:40. | |
For most visitors from Europe and countries like Australia the NHS | :06:41. | :06:44. | |
doesn't charge for urgent care. The Government says that still leaves | :06:45. | :06:48. | |
scope for the NHS to get millions of pounds its owed. If we are better at | :06:49. | :06:54. | |
collecting that money we could have potentially 4,000 more doctors, | :06:55. | :06:57. | |
8,000 more nurses. Make a real difference in releaving some of that | :06:58. | :07:01. | |
pressure on the frontline. Which is why I think it's important that we | :07:02. | :07:04. | |
try to do it. This audit for the Government is based on estimates | :07:05. | :07:11. | |
that the NHS in England is owed around ?461 million a year, but is | :07:12. | :07:15. | |
only getting back a fraction of that. ?305 million is owed by other | :07:16. | :07:20. | |
European countries. Some of it could be claimed back through the European | :07:21. | :07:24. | |
health card system. The same card that allows us free urge treatment | :07:25. | :07:30. | |
in their countries. ?156 million is for visitors from countries outside | :07:31. | :07:35. | |
Europe. We have have agreements with some of them too. Why aren't NHS | :07:36. | :07:39. | |
hospitals claiming more money already? The NHS is set up to treat | :07:40. | :07:43. | |
people free at the point of delivery. That is the culture in | :07:44. | :07:47. | |
which we operate. It is not something people set out to do. | :07:48. | :07:51. | |
Identifying those people, being sure they are eligible or not can be a | :07:52. | :07:55. | |
difficult thing for frontline staff to do. What about health tourism? | :07:56. | :08:01. | |
People coming here deliberately to seek urgent NHS treatment. It's | :08:02. | :08:08. | |
estimated to cost between ?60 to ?80 million a year. There are plans for | :08:09. | :08:13. | |
an extra Visa charge for visitors from outside Europe. The Government | :08:14. | :08:17. | |
say it is could act as a deterrent. Labour argues that the calculations | :08:18. | :08:22. | |
are based on guesswork. The Government's own report raises major | :08:23. | :08:26. | |
questions about the figures being used saying they are based on old, | :08:27. | :08:31. | |
out-of-date assumption. We think it's about headline grabbing for the | :08:32. | :08:35. | |
Conservative Party than it is helping the NHS. The NHS in England | :08:36. | :08:41. | |
has to find billions in savings in the next couple of years. Money from | :08:42. | :08:46. | |
abroad could only be a small part of that and, exactly how the Government | :08:47. | :08:51. | |
plans to reclaim the cash won't be spelt out until next month. There's | :08:52. | :08:58. | |
more on this story on the BBC web, that is at bbc.co.uk/news a | :08:59. | :09:05. | |
controversial Government campaign, which used signs on vans to tell | :09:06. | :09:10. | |
immigrants to "go home or face arrest" is to be scrapped. The Home | :09:11. | :09:14. | |
Secretary, Theresa May, said the vans which drew over 200 complaints | :09:15. | :09:19. | |
to the advertising watchdog, were "too much of a blunt instrument". An | :09:20. | :09:23. | |
inquest jury has found that police failures contributed to the deaths | :09:24. | :09:27. | |
of a pregnant mother and her young son. Rachael Slack and 23 month old | :09:28. | :09:32. | |
AUDIENCE: Were found with multiple stab wounds in their home in | :09:33. | :09:35. | |
Derbyshire three years ago. They were killed by her former partner | :09:36. | :09:41. | |
Andrew Cairns who had a history of mental illness and who was found | :09:42. | :09:46. | |
dayed at her home. Sian Lloyd reports. -- dead. This was Rachael | :09:47. | :09:51. | |
Slack on a family day out with her son | :09:52. | :09:53. | |
AUDIENCE: . A year later they had been killed in a attack. Auden. | :09:54. | :10:00. | |
Andrew Cairns stabbed his son and former partner before killing | :10:01. | :10:04. | |
himself. The inquest heard that the golf tutor, who had a history of | :10:05. | :10:08. | |
mental illness, had been arrested six days before the killings after | :10:09. | :10:13. | |
threatening Rachael. He was assessed and released on bail. In statement | :10:14. | :10:18. | |
Rachael's family said both she and Auden had been let down. We have | :10:19. | :10:22. | |
spent the last six weeks in the Coroner's Court in Derby hearing of | :10:23. | :10:27. | |
the failings of Derbyshire Police after they assessed both Rachael and | :10:28. | :10:34. | |
Auden as being at high-risk of homicide. The inquest jury found | :10:35. | :10:39. | |
that the failure to warn Rachael of the high-risk posed by Andrew Cairns | :10:40. | :10:44. | |
had contributed to her and Auden's death. Derbyshire Police said they | :10:45. | :10:53. | |
had threated the threat seriously. When she was killed, Rachael Slack | :10:54. | :10:57. | |
had been expecting a baby boy with her new partner, Robert Barlow. She | :10:58. | :11:03. | |
was a very, very inwardly beautiful woman. The coroner said Rachael's | :11:04. | :11:09. | |
case raised issues to be considered by the Home Secretary, Derbyshire | :11:10. | :11:15. | |
Police and the mental health services. A blonde, blue-eyed girl | :11:16. | :11:19. | |
has been taken away from a Roma family living in Dublin. Police say | :11:20. | :11:23. | |
they removed the child into temporary care after the family were | :11:24. | :11:26. | |
not able to provide them with satisfactory proof that the child | :11:27. | :11:33. | |
was theirs. Chris Buckler is in Dublin for us tonight. Do we know | :11:34. | :11:37. | |
how this girl was found? This investigation started with a phone | :11:38. | :11:40. | |
call from a member of the public to the Irish Police. They sthad they | :11:41. | :11:45. | |
were concerned about a girl with blonde hair and blue eyes who looked | :11:46. | :11:49. | |
distinctive from the rest of her siblings in a large Roma family. The | :11:50. | :11:54. | |
family were known from the police. They sent around detectives from the | :11:55. | :11:58. | |
Child Protection Unit. The couple insisted it was their daughter. | :11:59. | :12:02. | |
Records at a hospital did not match. They had concerns about other | :12:03. | :12:06. | |
documentation. Why it's important to emphasise there has been no arrest | :12:07. | :12:11. | |
the police felt it was important to take the child into care. They have | :12:12. | :12:14. | |
a care order which lasts for 24-hours. The authorities are now | :12:15. | :12:19. | |
asking for an interim care order which will last 28 days while this | :12:20. | :12:23. | |
investigation takes place. Some of this story has echoes of the case in | :12:24. | :12:27. | |
Greece of the girl Maria who was found with a Roa family there. There | :12:28. | :12:32. | |
has been large publicity about that, including here in Ireland, it may | :12:33. | :12:36. | |
have prompted a member of the public to go forward. It's a separate | :12:37. | :12:40. | |
investigation. Detectives are trying to find the true history and past of | :12:41. | :12:45. | |
a seven-year-old girl. Thank you. The former Radio 1 DJ, Dave Lee | :12:46. | :12:51. | |
Travis, has pleaded not guilty to 15 charges of sexual offences. The | :12:52. | :12:53. | |
68-year-old appeared at Southwark Crown Court in London under his real | :12:54. | :12:58. | |
name, David Patrick Griffin. The alleged offences were against women | :12:59. | :13:02. | |
and teenage girls over a 30-year period. His trial is due to start in | :13:03. | :13:09. | |
January next year. David Cameron has called Facebook irresponsible after | :13:10. | :13:14. | |
it lifted a ban on graphic. Images, including those showing beheadings | :13:15. | :13:18. | |
from being posted on its site. Facebook says its one billion global | :13:19. | :13:23. | |
users should be free to post such material as long as it's clear users | :13:24. | :13:27. | |
are condemning it. Rory Cellan-Jones reports. It comes with a warning, | :13:28. | :13:32. | |
but this and other videos showing horrific violence are being widely | :13:33. | :13:36. | |
shared on Facebook. After reviewing its policies, the social network | :13:37. | :13:40. | |
decided it would not block them. A decision condemned by the Prime | :13:41. | :13:44. | |
Minister on Twitter as "irresponsible." Some young Facebook | :13:45. | :13:50. | |
users agree. Back in May, a teenager started a petition to call for the | :13:51. | :13:54. | |
banning of the beheading videos. I understand they are trying to let | :13:55. | :13:58. | |
people demonstrate freedom of speech, however I don't think this | :13:59. | :14:01. | |
is the right way to go about it. It's a social network. It is where | :14:02. | :14:06. | |
people come to socialise, young children are on Facebook. No-one | :14:07. | :14:11. | |
should be exposed to this graphic content. Facebook says it has long | :14:12. | :14:15. | |
been a place where people share news and views about controversial and | :14:16. | :14:19. | |
violent events, anything from human rights' abuses to acts of terror. | :14:20. | :14:22. | |
What is important is the way users treat that material. In a statement | :14:23. | :14:24. | |
the company said: There is mounting concern about the | :14:25. | :14:40. | |
impact of this material on young Facebook users. Whatever Facebook | :14:41. | :14:44. | |
says about safeguards and filters, we know that young children are | :14:45. | :14:47. | |
bright enough to get round all of this. I do think it will overall | :14:48. | :14:52. | |
have a harmful effect on young minds. Many Facebook users have | :14:53. | :14:56. | |
complained about the videos. As things stand, the company has | :14:57. | :14:58. | |
decided they just don't break its rules. | :14:59. | :15:07. | |
The time is exactly quarter past six. The top story: A one-off profit | :15:08. | :15:15. | |
tax on the big energy companies. The former Prime Minister Sir John Major | :15:16. | :15:18. | |
weighs into the debate about household bills. A backstage tour | :15:19. | :15:25. | |
like no other. A visit from the Queen marks 50 years of the National | :15:26. | :15:31. | |
Theatre. Coming up, it is make or break for Celtic in the Champions | :15:32. | :15:35. | |
League. Nothing less than victory will help them progress. | :15:36. | :15:50. | |
His name is synonymous with Manchester United. Sir Alex | :15:51. | :15:55. | |
Ferguson, until his retirement this year, had spent 27 years at that | :15:56. | :16:01. | |
most famous of clubs. Now he has published a novel biography about | :16:02. | :16:06. | |
his life and those years which delivered such success. In his | :16:07. | :16:10. | |
career, he won an astonishing 13 titles, two Champions League and | :16:11. | :16:17. | |
five FA Cup is. Our sports editor reports on his reign and that famous | :16:18. | :16:20. | |
argument with one of the biggest names in the game. -- FA Cups. The | :16:21. | :16:27. | |
most celebrated and feared manager in football history, but no Sir Alex | :16:28. | :16:32. | |
Ferguson is having to adjust to life without the trophies and the | :16:33. | :16:37. | |
acclaim. In an interview to accompany the release of his | :16:38. | :16:42. | |
autobiography he said he is pleased to go out at the top. In a way I am | :16:43. | :16:51. | |
relieved. I am relieved we won the league as my last act. I think, to | :16:52. | :16:59. | |
be honest with you, my time had come. In his book he is damaging on | :17:00. | :17:03. | |
the state of English football. He says the team will never win the | :17:04. | :17:07. | |
World Cup until coaching and technical ability improves. He has | :17:08. | :17:12. | |
this message for Greg Dyke's commission. The important thing is | :17:13. | :17:16. | |
to make sure it gets carried through. There is a certain resolve | :17:17. | :17:21. | |
and I think that would be important. Have you been asked to go on it? | :17:22. | :17:29. | |
Now, I don't think they would invite a Scot. I don't think it is my | :17:30. | :17:34. | |
scene. When it comes to David Beckham, he pulls no punches. He | :17:35. | :17:40. | |
says his sale in 2003 to real Madrid was prompted after the player had | :17:41. | :17:45. | |
become distracted by his marriage. -- Real Madrid. She was a big star, | :17:46. | :17:56. | |
pop star. Obviously, he may be lacked that focus that we needed. | :17:57. | :17:59. | |
I'm a football man, I'm only interested in what they're doing on | :18:00. | :18:05. | |
the pitch. We felt it had come to that point where we should let him | :18:06. | :18:11. | |
go on. You know? I had to keep control of the club. The manager of | :18:12. | :18:15. | |
Manchester United must be in control. Control is something Alex | :18:16. | :18:24. | |
Ferguson no longer have, so how is he coping with retirement? I have | :18:25. | :18:28. | |
done my time, had a fantastic career, fabulous club, I will do | :18:29. | :18:31. | |
something else. Whatever he does next, Sir Alex Ferguson knows no | :18:32. | :18:37. | |
British manager is likely to emulate his glittering achievements or match | :18:38. | :18:45. | |
his dominant presence. The energy supplier ScottishPower has been | :18:46. | :18:51. | |
fined ?8.5 million for misleading sales practices. Ofgem found | :18:52. | :18:53. | |
information given to customers was inaccurate. They have apologised and | :18:54. | :19:00. | |
promised to compensate some of their customers. | :19:01. | :19:09. | |
On the doorstep and over the phone, ScottishPower is accused of making | :19:10. | :19:13. | |
inaccurate comparisons on possible bills, giving unreliable information | :19:14. | :19:17. | |
to customers, misleading overcharges and having inadequate monitoring. | :19:18. | :19:25. | |
Francis from Portsmouth says she was tricked by ScottishPower into | :19:26. | :19:28. | |
switching suppliers. She was offered a price which was lower than she | :19:29. | :19:32. | |
ended up weighing. You believe everything people tell you on the | :19:33. | :19:35. | |
doorstep but quite clearly I do not know what the reasoning was behind | :19:36. | :19:38. | |
it but clearly I was not told the truth. Most of the fine will be | :19:39. | :19:48. | |
divided with 140,000 of the least well off customers. The regulators | :19:49. | :19:53. | |
have forced the company to set up a ?1 million compensation fund for | :19:54. | :19:56. | |
anyone who thinks they are being mis-sold. Well we did not find any | :19:57. | :20:02. | |
evidence that they set out on a strategy to mislead customers, | :20:03. | :20:07. | |
nonetheless, the feelings we found mean some customers may have been | :20:08. | :20:12. | |
mis-sold to. ScottishPower, like other big suppliers, has now | :20:13. | :20:17. | |
abandoned doorstep selling and retrained their staff. We are | :20:18. | :20:19. | |
writing to all the customers affected, explaining what has | :20:20. | :20:25. | |
happened, we are apologising and we will pay compensation where | :20:26. | :20:29. | |
appropriate. The energy industry criticised for raising prices is now | :20:30. | :20:31. | |
tainted by mis-selling. It has been a week since operators | :20:32. | :20:39. | |
at the Grangemouth oil refinery closed the plan because of a dispute | :20:40. | :20:45. | |
with the unions over pay and pensions. Today, the Scottish | :20:46. | :20:48. | |
government said it was in discussions with potential new | :20:49. | :20:56. | |
buyers for the site. The billionaire owner of this site, Jim Ratcliffe, | :20:57. | :21:01. | |
has spent the day weighing up what to do about it. The staff will be | :21:02. | :21:07. | |
told his decision tomorrow. They will be watched closely by the | :21:08. | :21:12. | |
public and politicians alike. Bordered by fields and the Firth of | :21:13. | :21:15. | |
Forth lies Scotland's largest industrial complex. You could fit | :21:16. | :21:20. | |
more than 600 football pitches on this site. Nearly 1400 people work | :21:21. | :21:25. | |
here and thousands more depend on it. The site below us is important, | :21:26. | :21:32. | |
not just in terms of economic, not just in terms of industry, but in | :21:33. | :21:38. | |
terms of politics as well. For many people, Grangemouth is a sign of | :21:39. | :21:42. | |
Scottish press these. That is why the Scottish government have stepped | :21:43. | :21:46. | |
in, searching for a buyer. -- Scottish prestige. I think there are | :21:47. | :21:52. | |
interested parties, interested in taking over, but the overriding | :21:53. | :21:56. | |
priority is to get the site fired back-up, get the trade union to | :21:57. | :22:01. | |
cooperate, make sure we have this plan making a substantive | :22:02. | :22:05. | |
contribution to the Scottish economy. But the owners shows no | :22:06. | :22:10. | |
sign of wanting to sell. It is trying to cut Labour costs, forcing | :22:11. | :22:15. | |
through changes to pay and pensions. Hundreds of workers have rejected | :22:16. | :22:18. | |
the proposals. We will get settled one way or another. They will have | :22:19. | :22:25. | |
to sign or they will not have a job. It is really bad, and the knock-on | :22:26. | :22:30. | |
effect for other people here could well be the death knell for | :22:31. | :22:36. | |
Grangemouth. Range most matters. It produces 9 million litres of clean | :22:37. | :22:42. | |
fuel every day. It makes up 13 fined 4% -- 13.4% of the refining capacity | :22:43. | :22:50. | |
and provides 70% of Scotland's fuel. That is just the refinery. The | :22:51. | :22:53. | |
petrochemicals business here is also a big deal. The products it makes | :22:54. | :22:59. | |
our fundamental to lots of industries and services. | :23:00. | :23:03. | |
Agricultural on the one hand, through to retailing, plastic bags, | :23:04. | :23:09. | |
that sort of thing. How big a blow with the closure be? Extremely big. | :23:10. | :23:18. | |
A couple of percent of GDP. That is why workers, locals and politicians | :23:19. | :23:21. | |
alike are looking for signs that a deal can be done. Within the past | :23:22. | :23:27. | |
hour, both the Scottish and UK governments have confirmed they have | :23:28. | :23:32. | |
had further discussions today about the Grangemouth site. Both sides | :23:33. | :23:35. | |
agree that it is a great deal at stake, and both governments very | :23:36. | :23:40. | |
urgently wanted deal to be done now for the good of the country. -- want | :23:41. | :23:48. | |
a deal. William Hague has reaffirmed that President Assad can play no | :23:49. | :23:51. | |
role in any future Syrian government. His comments come as | :23:52. | :23:56. | |
Western and Arab leaders met members of the Syrian opposition to persuade | :23:57. | :23:58. | |
them to attend peace talks next month. A prominent faction of the | :23:59. | :24:03. | |
opposition coalition has already said it will not attend the talks up | :24:04. | :24:11. | |
the Queen opened the National Theatre featuring Peter O'Toole 50 | :24:12. | :24:18. | |
years ago. 800 productions later, she was back on stage today. It is | :24:19. | :24:22. | |
part of the anniversary celebrations. We have been looking | :24:23. | :24:31. | |
at what the theatre has achieved. The Queen, backstage at the Royal | :24:32. | :24:35. | |
National Theatre. 50 years after the curtain went up on its first | :24:36. | :24:39. | |
production, Shakespeare's Hamlet, with Peter O'Toole as the Danish | :24:40. | :24:43. | |
prince. Vanessa Redgrave's father played Claudius. It was immensely | :24:44. | :24:50. | |
exciting, it was a wonderful venture already to have begun the company. | :24:51. | :24:57. | |
Laurence Olivier, very many extraordinary actors. Laurence | :24:58. | :25:02. | |
Olivier was the founding director. He presented a brief of classics | :25:03. | :25:08. | |
alongside contemporary plays. It was a dream. We to have a National | :25:09. | :25:16. | |
Theatre, the French have bears, etc. And it seemed we should have a | :25:17. | :25:25. | |
central place. -- the French have theirs. In the last decade it has | :25:26. | :25:31. | |
become a more astute operation. They have transferred place to Broadway. | :25:32. | :25:36. | |
They have hoped to double the income. There is no doubt the | :25:37. | :25:41. | |
National Theatre has made a great success of its home in London but | :25:42. | :25:45. | |
what effect has had on the nation's theatre? Those regional houses which | :25:46. | :25:51. | |
survive on a fraction of its money. I went to Newcastle to find out and | :25:52. | :25:57. | |
speak to the man behind the Pitman Painter. It started life here. What | :25:58. | :26:06. | |
can it do more to help regional theatre? Collaborate on productions, | :26:07. | :26:11. | |
that is probably the best way. I think the National Theatre | :26:12. | :26:18. | |
understanding its re-met is also regional as well as Central. -- | :26:19. | :26:24. | |
remit. It has been criticised for becoming too big and dominant but | :26:25. | :26:28. | |
others argue it has set standards, produced shows, and developed a | :26:29. | :26:32. | |
board -- business model admired around the world. Now the weather. | :26:33. | :26:40. | |
Good evening, sometimes the weather is a bit like theatre, it is all | :26:41. | :26:45. | |
about the timing. We can be grateful with the weather this evening, what | :26:46. | :26:49. | |
is brewing up for us is going to be coming through at its worse in the | :26:50. | :26:55. | |
small hours. We are looking at a line of active thunderstorms which | :26:56. | :27:01. | |
will make their way in before the day is done. They will push through | :27:02. | :27:06. | |
in the small hours. The wind could be problematic in the south coast, | :27:07. | :27:12. | |
possibly even damaging. Another mile night with temperatures in double | :27:13. | :27:16. | |
figures. Wednesday gets off to an overcast start. Ricky Windy. -- | :27:17. | :27:24. | |
pretty. It will improve and the southern half of the British Isles | :27:25. | :27:30. | |
will be dry. There will be showers to the north-west, to take us to the | :27:31. | :27:34. | |
second half of the day. It is improving across Scotland, with | :27:35. | :27:37. | |
sunshine in the East. Strong wind, the same can be said of the | :27:38. | :27:42. | |
Pennines. In the West, some scattered showers. A greatly | :27:43. | :27:46. | |
improved picture. What a difference further south. Clear blue skies and | :27:47. | :27:52. | |
the prospect of sunshine. Temperatures of 17 degrees. Still | :27:53. | :27:58. | |
very much milder. This is Thursday, the quietest day of the week. Some | :27:59. | :28:02. | |
showers in the far north, and towards the far south, but fine | :28:03. | :28:06. | |
weather around on Thursday. A little bit colder. But look at Friday. This | :28:07. | :28:15. | |
big area of low pressure comes zooming in from the south-west, it | :28:16. | :28:18. | |
spread to all parts of the British Isles through Friday. It will bring | :28:19. | :28:25. | |
strong wind. Something drier and brighter on the south. It will be | :28:26. | :28:37. | |
pretty soggy. Thank you. That is all from the BBC. We can | :28:38. | :28:38. |