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If Police are called in after Colchester hospital staff say they | :00:00. | :00:09. | |
were bullied into falsifying data on cancer patients. Inspectors say the | :00:10. | :00:15. | |
hospital's records on cancer waiting times for were inaccurate - it meant | :00:16. | :00:23. | |
treatment delays for some patients. I am shocked that cancer patients | :00:24. | :00:27. | |
diagnosis and treatment should be delayed. Shocked also that they | :00:28. | :00:30. | |
should have apparently have been covered up. | :00:31. | :00:33. | |
Also tonight: She's called Sweetie and she's a computer model designed | :00:34. | :00:37. | |
to catch paedophiles - 100 British men are reported to police. | :00:38. | :00:40. | |
Attacked by a dog in her own home in Leicestershire - a young girl dies | :00:41. | :00:48. | |
in hospital. Hundreds of shipyard jobs across the | :00:49. | :00:52. | |
UK are threatened. The announcement could come this week. | :00:53. | :00:59. | |
And India's mission to Mars - if it's successful, the country will | :01:00. | :01:05. | |
join the space race superpowers. Coming up later, there is a rare | :01:06. | :01:12. | |
black day for AP McCoy. Three rides at Exeter but his weight for a 4000 | :01:13. | :01:14. | |
winner goes on. Good evening. A hospital trust in | :01:15. | :01:41. | |
Essex has been reported to police. It comes after staff complained they | :01:42. | :01:45. | |
were bullied into changing records relating to waiting times for cancer | :01:46. | :01:50. | |
patients. The inaccuracies were uncovered by inspectors who said the | :01:51. | :01:55. | |
changes made it look like the hospital was meeting national | :01:56. | :01:59. | |
guidelines on cancer treatment. The chief inspector of England's | :02:00. | :02:02. | |
hospitals said it was shocking that people's lives could be put at risk. | :02:03. | :02:10. | |
How safe is care at this hospital queue Mac a question already asked | :02:11. | :02:16. | |
in Colchester. One of 14 trust investigated this year for higher | :02:17. | :02:20. | |
than expected death rates. Now hospital inspectors have also found | :02:21. | :02:24. | |
failings in cancer care, delays in treatment which may have been | :02:25. | :02:27. | |
covered up by changing waiting time records. Those cancer care delays | :02:28. | :02:34. | |
were uncovered after 61 individual patient records were checked to see | :02:35. | :02:38. | |
when treatment happened. 22 cases did not match waiting target | :02:39. | :02:44. | |
records. Evidence was found some were changed so the hospital did not | :02:45. | :02:49. | |
get into trouble. 13 next of kin of patients who had already died have | :02:50. | :02:55. | |
been offered a full review of their care. The Chief Inspector of | :02:56. | :02:59. | |
Hospitals is a cancer doctor himself. He led the introduction of | :03:00. | :03:04. | |
targets for faster cancer treatment. I was shocked to find out what was | :03:05. | :03:08. | |
happening at Colchester. Shocked that cancer patients's diagnosis and | :03:09. | :03:14. | |
treatment should be delayed, but shocked also that this should have | :03:15. | :03:20. | |
apparently have been covered up. The report gives shocking examples. A | :03:21. | :03:25. | |
patient on well but sent home. The wrong test results gave an all | :03:26. | :03:31. | |
clear. Not long afterwards, an emergency operation revealed | :03:32. | :03:34. | |
cancer. Patients who were not told of their delays. Three staff who | :03:35. | :03:38. | |
said they were put under pressure to change records. Some of these delays | :03:39. | :03:42. | |
were meaningful in terms of the care patients receive. I apologise for | :03:43. | :03:48. | |
that. We have let patients down. In addition, some of our staff may have | :03:49. | :03:53. | |
inappropriately changed cancer data and they may have been bullied and | :03:54. | :03:57. | |
harassed to do that. That is abhorrent behaviour and we do not | :03:58. | :04:01. | |
tolerated. We will stamp it out. Today unions said the investigation | :04:02. | :04:06. | |
raised disturbing questions about pressure on staff. I cannot think of | :04:07. | :04:12. | |
a more despicable thing to do than to distort figures on what people | :04:13. | :04:16. | |
should be doing is setting the target our site and concentrating on | :04:17. | :04:19. | |
doing what hospitals are there to do, to treat people. Colchester | :04:20. | :04:26. | |
hospital is trying to reassure staff and patients while Essex Police look | :04:27. | :04:30. | |
into whether any criminal offence has been committed. And Branwen is | :04:31. | :04:36. | |
with me now. What do we know about the investigation by the police | :04:37. | :04:44. | |
queue Mac --? It is in its preliminary stages. My understanding | :04:45. | :04:47. | |
is that the staff who raised concerns have been spoken to by the | :04:48. | :04:51. | |
police. Essex Police have documents that were passed to them by the CQC | :04:52. | :04:58. | |
which documents changes made. Obviously it is a very serious | :04:59. | :05:04. | |
matter to alter records. It is plainly wrong. Whether or not that | :05:05. | :05:08. | |
amounts to any criminal offence, is something the police will have to | :05:09. | :05:12. | |
look at very seriously. There is not a criminal investigation yet. This | :05:13. | :05:16. | |
raises all kinds of questions about what was going on at the hospital. | :05:17. | :05:21. | |
These were recent failings covering this year and last year. The cancer | :05:22. | :05:25. | |
treatment was put in place to make sure that people were treated | :05:26. | :05:30. | |
quickly. Staff in this hospital obviously filed under pressure to | :05:31. | :05:33. | |
change records when they were not meeting those targets. That tells us | :05:34. | :05:38. | |
something about pressure around the culture of targets in the NHS today. | :05:39. | :05:44. | |
Thank you very much. More than 100 British men have been caught in a | :05:45. | :05:47. | |
sting operation launched by a charity trying to get -- catch | :05:48. | :05:53. | |
paedophiles using the internet. They were among a thousand men trying to | :05:54. | :05:59. | |
pay a computerised girl for sex. You may find this report disturbing. At | :06:00. | :06:04. | |
a secret location on the outskirts of Amsterdam, a research poses as | :06:05. | :06:10. | |
prey to catch a predator. Online, this is who he becomes, Sweetie, a | :06:11. | :06:17. | |
10-year old girl from the Philippines. Researchers could not | :06:18. | :06:20. | |
possibly have used a real child for this, so they created Sweetie. But | :06:21. | :06:24. | |
tens of thousands of men who contacted her, thought they were | :06:25. | :06:28. | |
really talking to a ten-year-old girl in the Philippines. The | :06:29. | :06:34. | |
research wants to remain anonymous because of the paedophiles he is | :06:35. | :06:44. | |
exposing. Here, he logs into a chat room. Within seconds, like sharks, | :06:45. | :06:51. | |
men are circling. It is terrifying, yes, it is really scary. It breaks | :06:52. | :06:55. | |
your stereotypical image of a predator. Before, I thought they | :06:56. | :07:01. | |
were all 45-year-old males with long coats and a little bit dodgy. Now it | :07:02. | :07:05. | |
appears these guys have normal jobs, normal families. The diversity is | :07:06. | :07:13. | |
enormous. I am not real. I am a computer model. The charity behind | :07:14. | :07:18. | |
the stain has launched a global campaign to try to stop this abuse. | :07:19. | :07:24. | |
-- Mac the sting. 20,000 men contacted Sweetie. More than a | :07:25. | :07:30. | |
quarter were from the USA. 110 were British. And significant numbers | :07:31. | :07:35. | |
came from India, Canada and Australia. All of their names and | :07:36. | :07:40. | |
addresses have been passed to police. A former senior officer he | :07:41. | :07:45. | |
says the British authorities need to do more. Tactics like this have to | :07:46. | :07:54. | |
be used to bring more resources to bear, so the paedophiles no longer | :07:55. | :07:59. | |
feels they are safe going online. This charity has led the way. They | :08:00. | :08:05. | |
should be applauded. Sweetie will not be used again. She has done her | :08:06. | :08:09. | |
job, showing the predators that they too can easily become prey. | :08:10. | :08:18. | |
BBC News has learned that hundreds of shipbuilding jobs are to be lost | :08:19. | :08:22. | |
across the UK. Nick Robinson, who has just broken the story, is here. | :08:23. | :08:29. | |
People are going to want to know where these job cuts are going to | :08:30. | :08:35. | |
fall? They are. Ship workers around the country, particularly in | :08:36. | :08:39. | |
Scotland, on the Clyde, and in Portsmouth, have been waiting for a | :08:40. | :08:43. | |
long time. They have been waiting to see if a hold shipyard would close. | :08:44. | :08:48. | |
I do not have the full details of what will be announced on Thursday | :08:49. | :08:52. | |
morning. But the job losses will be in many hundreds, possibly over a | :08:53. | :08:57. | |
thousand. And in addition, Govan shipyard on the River Clyde in | :08:58. | :09:02. | |
Scotland, will not close. That is very significant. Earlier this week | :09:03. | :09:06. | |
the famous cranes of Govan, it was announced, will be removed. The | :09:07. | :09:11. | |
rumour went round that it would go. It matters not just to the community | :09:12. | :09:15. | |
there, but to the debate about the future of the UK because it is at | :09:16. | :09:20. | |
the centre of the argument about Scottish independence. There have | :09:21. | :09:23. | |
always been warnings about those who want the UK to stay together that if | :09:24. | :09:27. | |
Scotland goes independent, it will lose its shipyards. I am told the | :09:28. | :09:32. | |
Government is very well aware of the politics of the Clyde. They do not | :09:33. | :09:38. | |
want to give Alex Salmond a gift by closing the shipyard. They have | :09:39. | :09:42. | |
decided to keep it open. That may lead men and women in England to | :09:43. | :09:47. | |
say, have we paid the price for the politics of Scotland? Two policemen | :09:48. | :09:52. | |
involved in the plebgate row have expressed their regret at the | :09:53. | :09:56. | |
distress caused to Andrew Mitchell and his family over allegations made | :09:57. | :10:01. | |
against the former cabinet minister. One of the officers refused to | :10:02. | :10:04. | |
apologise directly to the former Chief Whip. The police watchdog is | :10:05. | :10:09. | |
indebted -- investigating claims that the police had misled | :10:10. | :10:15. | |
Parliament. Two policemen, both accused of | :10:16. | :10:18. | |
trying to bring down a Cabinet minister, both accused of misleading | :10:19. | :10:23. | |
Parliament. Today they came to Westminster to express some regret | :10:24. | :10:26. | |
but no unqualified apology. The committee appears to believe we are | :10:27. | :10:33. | |
indifferent to Mr Mitchell's predicament and the distress caused | :10:34. | :10:37. | |
to him and his family, we are not. I am not. Each of us fully recognises | :10:38. | :10:43. | |
and regrets the fact such distress has been caused. Andrew Mitchell's | :10:44. | :10:47. | |
wife was in the committee to hear that herself. She got more than | :10:48. | :10:53. | |
regret from the second policeman. You don't want to apologise for any | :10:54. | :10:59. | |
distress. The policeman had met Andrew Mitchell at his constituency | :11:00. | :11:03. | |
office last autumn after the then Tory Chief Whip was accused of | :11:04. | :11:09. | |
calling officers plebs, something he has always denied. After the | :11:10. | :11:13. | |
meeting, the police said Mr Mitchell had not explained himself. Secret | :11:14. | :11:20. | |
recordings proved he had. MPs felt they had given misleading answers | :11:21. | :11:23. | |
last week, one about his disciplinary record, the other about | :11:24. | :11:27. | |
calling the Home Secretary that woman. There was no intention to | :11:28. | :11:31. | |
mislead the committee. I repeat my unqualified apology for this | :11:32. | :11:36. | |
inaccuracy. It was not my intention to mislead the committee. If I | :11:37. | :11:40. | |
misled the committee, it was because I did not understand the questions. | :11:41. | :11:46. | |
I apologise for that. This so-called plebgate row is not just about the | :11:47. | :11:50. | |
career of the politician -- a politician, it is more about the | :11:51. | :11:54. | |
police and how much public trust they have lost. And so worried is | :11:55. | :12:01. | |
the police watchdog, the IPCC, that it said it will investigate the | :12:02. | :12:04. | |
claims that these men misled Parliament, as well as what they | :12:05. | :12:10. | |
said about Andrew Mitchell. Plebgate is not over yet. | :12:11. | :12:17. | |
A young girl has died after being attacked by a dog thought to be her | :12:18. | :12:22. | |
family's pet. Police were called to her home in Leicestershire this | :12:23. | :12:26. | |
afternoon. The girl was taken to hospital but died later. Sian Lloyd | :12:27. | :12:31. | |
is there. What more do we know about this distressing case? Police were | :12:32. | :12:40. | |
called to the flat in Mountsorrel at about quarter past 12 this afternoon | :12:41. | :12:43. | |
after reports that a four-year-old girl had been attacked by a dog. She | :12:44. | :12:48. | |
was taken to the Queens medical Centre is nothing but later died. -- | :12:49. | :12:55. | |
the Queen's medical centre. We know the girl lived in a flat with her | :12:56. | :12:59. | |
mother. There is a great deal of shock in the community this | :13:00. | :13:02. | |
evening. Many people have been visibly upset. It is not thought | :13:03. | :13:07. | |
this dog is a breed listed under section one of the Dangerous Dogs | :13:08. | :13:12. | |
Act. It is thought to have been the family pet. Neighbours say it was a | :13:13. | :13:16. | |
recent addition to the family. They believe it was recently re-homed | :13:17. | :13:23. | |
here. It is understood the dog has since died. The police are | :13:24. | :13:26. | |
investigating here this evening. They say their inquiry is at an | :13:27. | :13:32. | |
early stage. The hacking trial has heard that the | :13:33. | :13:36. | |
News of the World managing editor told the police the newspaper | :13:37. | :13:38. | |
listened to the voice mail of murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler, | :13:39. | :13:43. | |
she was still thought to be missing. Stuart Kuttner called Surrey Police | :13:44. | :13:46. | |
to tell them about a message, suggesting they follow the lead. | :13:47. | :13:57. | |
This report contains flash photography. News International | :13:58. | :14:00. | |
admits Milly Dowler's phone was hacked, as does Glenn Mulcaire, the | :14:01. | :14:07. | |
hacker. This jury will have to be -- decide whether the editors knew. | :14:08. | :14:11. | |
Today they were made -- read transcripts of the messages. | :14:12. | :14:32. | |
News of the World journalists believed it meant that even as | :14:33. | :14:38. | |
police searched for her, merely was alive and applying for a job. The | :14:39. | :14:43. | |
court heard the paper's managing editor, Stuart Kuttner, told police | :14:44. | :14:48. | |
that the News of the World had his tape recording of the employment | :14:49. | :14:52. | |
agency message. In an e-mail he wrote to the force's press officer, | :14:53. | :14:54. | |
saying: However, Stuart Kuttner denies | :14:55. | :15:10. | |
conspiring to hacked phones. The police thought the message was a | :15:11. | :15:15. | |
hoax. The News of the World rewrote its story for a later edition. The | :15:16. | :15:20. | |
prosecution says it's too senior editors were directly involved in | :15:21. | :15:22. | |
the changing story and knew it resulted from phone hacking. The | :15:23. | :15:29. | |
court was told phone records showed Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson were | :15:30. | :15:32. | |
in constant contact, even though she was on holiday in Dubai. The defence | :15:33. | :15:37. | |
says the records do not prove who was called what was discussed. But | :15:38. | :15:40. | |
we have just heard evidence from William Hennessy, a man who was on | :15:41. | :15:45. | |
holiday when he met Rebekah Brooks with her husband. Over one night, he | :15:46. | :15:50. | |
said she got up to make a phone call to do with the missing Surrey | :15:51. | :15:54. | |
schoolgirl. Both Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson revealed to have been | :15:55. | :15:58. | |
having an affair at the time, deny conspiring to hacked phones. | :15:59. | :16:05. | |
Our top story this evening. Police are called in after Colchester | :16:06. | :16:12. | |
Hospital staff say they were bullied into fallsifying data on cancer | :16:13. | :16:16. | |
patients, which could have delayed treatment. Still to come: could | :16:17. | :16:20. | |
water be the next household bill to rise or can politicians keep the | :16:21. | :16:28. | |
cost of living down? In Sportsday on BBC News, new dream team for the | :16:29. | :16:34. | |
Republic Martin O'Neill is the new Ireland coach with Roy Keane as his | :16:35. | :16:37. | |
assistant. The giant of the high street, Marks | :16:38. | :16:50. | |
and Spencer, has announced a drop in profits for the first half of this | :16:51. | :16:54. | |
year. They've fallen by almost 9% in the six months to the end of | :16:55. | :16:59. | |
September, to just over ?261 million. There's a clear split | :17:00. | :17:06. | |
between food and fashion, with food doing well and sales by 2.5%. Yet | :17:07. | :17:10. | |
again, clothing and home ware sales are weaker, down by 1.5% compared to | :17:11. | :17:15. | |
the same period last year. Its results are in stark contrast to one | :17:16. | :17:23. | |
of its retail rivals, as our business correspondent Emma Simpson | :17:24. | :17:25. | |
reports. Marks and Spencer enlisted a cast of leading ladies to promote | :17:26. | :17:31. | |
the all-important autumn winter collection. No expense spurred. For | :17:32. | :17:41. | |
the boss there is still no revival in sales figures. How concerned | :17:42. | :17:47. | |
should they be? A lot has been made of Marks and Spencer autumn 13 | :17:48. | :17:51. | |
collection which hit stores fully in September. They make up three weeks | :17:52. | :17:56. | |
of the trading period of that collection. Mark Bowland has bought | :17:57. | :18:01. | |
himself a little bit of time. Company says there are early signs | :18:02. | :18:06. | |
of improvement. The new range has been well-received, but Marks and | :18:07. | :18:09. | |
Spencer has a mountain to climb, it wasn't that long ago it dressed the | :18:10. | :18:13. | |
nation. At the end of the 90s, it had a 16% market share in womens' | :18:14. | :18:20. | |
clothing. Over the years that has been decreasing, it's now down to | :18:21. | :18:26. | |
11%. Competition is fierce on the high street, Primark with its fast, | :18:27. | :18:30. | |
cheep fashion has been piling on sales. It posted bumper profits | :18:31. | :18:35. | |
after what it described as an "outstanding year." The problem | :18:36. | :18:39. | |
Marks and Spencer still faces is how shoppers view the brand. If I say to | :18:40. | :18:44. | |
you Marks and Spencer, what is the first thing that comes into your | :18:45. | :18:49. | |
head? Under wear. The Food. What have you got from Marks and Spencer | :18:50. | :18:54. | |
today? A bra. Probably a bra. Same here, under wear. 10 years ago I | :18:55. | :18:59. | |
wouldn't have thought twice of wearing anything from Marks and | :19:00. | :19:01. | |
Spencer because there wasn't anything that caught my eye. It's | :19:02. | :19:10. | |
getting better. Marks and Spencer's festive ad is about to hit our | :19:11. | :19:16. | |
screens, a glossy winter fairytale. The pressure is now on. Marks and | :19:17. | :19:20. | |
Spencer needs a better story into the new year. The former Deputy | :19:21. | :19:30. | |
Director general of the BBC mark bride ford has defended his | :19:31. | :19:34. | |
redundancy deal worth nearly ?1 million. He insisted he had not been | :19:35. | :19:40. | |
greedy and that he had been devoted to the Corporation during the 32 | :19:41. | :19:44. | |
years he had world there. The David Sillito reports. Mark Byford, used | :19:45. | :19:49. | |
to be Second-in-Command at the BBC. Three years ago the man in the | :19:50. | :19:54. | |
middle, Mark Thompson, said he was going, with a payoff of ?949,000 and | :19:55. | :20:01. | |
an extra ?73,000 in back holiday bay. Today, we heard for the first | :20:02. | :20:06. | |
time from Mark Byford about that settlement. Your name is now | :20:07. | :20:11. | |
synonymous with managerial greed at the BBC because of the massive | :20:12. | :20:14. | |
payoff you received. How do you feel about that? Well, I aappreciate, | :20:15. | :20:20. | |
obviously, and understand it was a lot of money. I appreciate too, | :20:21. | :20:25. | |
Victoria, let me stress that, the concern and criticism about the | :20:26. | :20:29. | |
executive payoffs. I absolutely don't think that it was greed on my | :20:30. | :20:37. | |
part at all. I lost my job. I was made redundant. I was given the | :20:38. | :20:42. | |
terms I was given by the BBC. The BBC's bosses have in recent months | :20:43. | :20:48. | |
been cross examined about this payoff. Of all the settlements this | :20:49. | :20:56. | |
one caused the most criticism. The question today was, would he give | :20:57. | :21:01. | |
any of it back? He said he had done nothing wrong. Morally, wouldn't it | :21:02. | :21:07. | |
be the right thing to do to pay some of the money back. I think I've | :21:08. | :21:11. | |
answered that question for you. That is a no then? I think I have | :21:12. | :21:16. | |
answered the question as fully as I can. The BBC now say it was | :21:17. | :21:28. | |
excessive. One justification for the settlement was that Mark Byford was | :21:29. | :21:32. | |
in charge of the Royal Wedding. The National Audit Office has questioned | :21:33. | :21:35. | |
the deal. The BBC admits on the wider topic it got it wrong. Should | :21:36. | :21:40. | |
he have taken it? Mark Byford's answer today was simple, he said it | :21:41. | :21:44. | |
wasn't up to him, he was given what he was given. The Labour leader, Ed | :21:45. | :21:51. | |
Miliband, has accused the payday loans industry of leaving thousands | :21:52. | :21:55. | |
of households with debts they can't afford to pay. He told an audience | :21:56. | :22:02. | |
in London that what he described as Britain's Wonka econo -- "Wo in ga | :22:03. | :22:10. | |
economy" symbolised the squeeze on living standards. Today, payday loan | :22:11. | :22:14. | |
companies defended their record before MPs. They said the majority | :22:15. | :22:18. | |
of their customers were happy with the service and pay back their loans | :22:19. | :22:22. | |
on time. After the energy suppliers, it's now the turn of the water | :22:23. | :22:26. | |
companies to come under pressure from politicians over household | :22:27. | :22:29. | |
bills. The Environment Secretary has urged them to "look closely" at | :22:30. | :22:32. | |
whether price increases are necessary and called for them to | :22:33. | :22:37. | |
introduce special tariffs for hard pressed families. Water, easy to | :22:38. | :22:40. | |
take for granted on this damp island, today a focus of national | :22:41. | :22:44. | |
debate. The Government urging water companies to hold prices down. No | :22:45. | :22:50. | |
surprise that this group of young mums agrees. I do two loads of | :22:51. | :22:55. | |
washing a day. I have had to start bathing him with me to save on | :22:56. | :23:00. | |
water. The I'm in debt with water at the moment. Paying it. It is a | :23:01. | :23:07. | |
struggle. A struggle ministers insist they understand. All | :23:08. | :23:12. | |
politicians keen to be seen to be doing something. I'm looking to | :23:13. | :23:16. | |
water companies to minimum keep their prices level and I expect some | :23:17. | :23:20. | |
to reduce their prices. With rain never far from the forecasts it can | :23:21. | :23:24. | |
be hard to see why water is becoming such a big deal. The the challenge | :23:25. | :23:29. | |
is not collecting the stuff, but treating it and then moving it | :23:30. | :23:36. | |
safely into and out of our homes. Infrastructure like this | :23:37. | :23:39. | |
desalination plant costs millions, fixing leaks is also a huge expense. | :23:40. | :23:43. | |
In the next few weeks water prices will be set for years to come. Still | :23:44. | :23:49. | |
the industry's message is one of reassurance. Prices have remained | :23:50. | :23:55. | |
stable over the last 10 to 15 years and will condition to re-- continue | :23:56. | :24:02. | |
to remain stable in the next 10 to 1515 years. Meters are now the norm, | :24:03. | :24:07. | |
charging for what we use rather than the old flat rate. In the southern | :24:08. | :24:10. | |
regions soon there will be a meter for every home. Lindsays she hears | :24:11. | :24:15. | |
plenty of concerns from her clients about the rising cost of living. All | :24:16. | :24:21. | |
the time, gas, electric, water, food everything. It's part of the same | :24:22. | :24:25. | |
picture really isn't it? All the crumbles, isn't it? Yes. Ultimately, | :24:26. | :24:31. | |
what we pay for water will depend on where we live and how much we use. | :24:32. | :24:39. | |
India has successfully launched its first rocket mission bound for Mars. | :24:40. | :24:43. | |
The most ambitious project for the country's Space Agency to date. It | :24:44. | :24:47. | |
aims to orbit the Red Planet looking for signs thank it could support | :24:48. | :24:52. | |
life. It will travel for 300 days reaching its destination in | :24:53. | :24:55. | |
September next year. It will cost India around ?45 million. Countdown | :24:56. | :25:09. | |
to India's first mission to Mars. One hopes of lifting the country | :25:10. | :25:17. | |
into a space Super League. It was a textbook launch. If all goes to | :25:18. | :25:21. | |
plan, the probe the rock set carrying will orbit Mars, searching | :25:22. | :25:27. | |
for signs of life. India now joins a select group of nation that is have | :25:28. | :25:30. | |
launched missions to Mars. It will be almost a year before it reaches | :25:31. | :25:35. | |
the Red Planet and its success can be judged. Some are already asking | :25:36. | :25:39. | |
though whether India should be trying to join this club. The The | :25:40. | :25:44. | |
real goal many believe is getting to Mars before China. # In Asia a new | :25:45. | :25:53. | |
space race has come up. The Asian space race between India and China. | :25:54. | :26:00. | |
In most aspects China has beaten India in space fairing. India has a | :26:01. | :26:05. | |
window to go-ahead of China. There has been controversy over the cost | :26:06. | :26:09. | |
of the mission when millions of Indians still live in poverty and | :26:10. | :26:13. | |
receive British aid. Some question the Indian Government's priorities. | :26:14. | :26:16. | |
For everything else we have been told we don't have money, | :26:17. | :26:20. | |
sanitation, health, employment, nutrition. We are told that we don't | :26:21. | :26:24. | |
have the money. I would say, sure, we should go to Mars, but we should | :26:25. | :26:29. | |
also ensure the minimum rights of the people. For many Indians these | :26:30. | :26:33. | |
are questions for another time. For now, they are celebrating as their | :26:34. | :26:36. | |
rocket heads for Mars. Time for the weather now with Peter | :26:37. | :26:49. | |
Gibbs, hello. Plenty rockets in the shooting sky this evening of course. | :26:50. | :26:53. | |
If you are off to see the fireworks wrap up because it will turn chilly, | :26:54. | :26:59. | |
and breezy as well. Pop on a waterproof if you are going to spend | :27:00. | :27:04. | |
any length of time outside. Persistent rain coming into southern | :27:05. | :27:08. | |
parts later on in the night with the increasing cloud and continuing | :27:09. | :27:12. | |
breeze, here temperatures holding up reasonably well, but across parts of | :27:13. | :27:15. | |
Scotland and northern England we will see a touch of frost by the end | :27:16. | :27:20. | |
of the night, as we did in many places last night. 8.00 am tomorrow | :27:21. | :27:23. | |
morning, thinking about the journey to work you could encounter heavy | :27:24. | :27:27. | |
showers to western parts of Scotland, one or two across Northern | :27:28. | :27:31. | |
Ireland too. The temperatures will still be close to freezing across | :27:32. | :27:35. | |
some parts of Scotland, watch out for one or two patches of ice, just | :27:36. | :27:42. | |
first thing, they should clear away. Further south across Wales, Midland | :27:43. | :27:47. | |
and southern England something dryer should push into the far South West. | :27:48. | :27:55. | |
The East Midlands should get away with a dry day, a wet commute in the | :27:56. | :27:59. | |
London area. Scotland and Northern Ireland more of a mix of sunny | :28:00. | :28:04. | |
spells and showers. Brighter weather pushing into southern counties of | :28:05. | :28:07. | |
England through the afternoon, driven on by strong winds, gale | :28:08. | :28:12. | |
force along the south coast. Mild air to the south of that front, | :28:13. | :28:16. | |
temperatures could touch the mid teens in places. The the north will | :28:17. | :28:21. | |
stay chilly highs of seven to nine degrees. The front by Thursday | :28:22. | :28:24. | |
trying to pull away. It could linger in the south-east for a time. | :28:25. | :28:29. | |
Journey for most on Thursday a dryer and brighter day. Similar | :28:30. | :28:33. | |
temperatures, but lighter winds, feeling better. Unsettled theme set | :28:34. | :28:37. | |
to continue right through to the weekend. | :28:38. | :28:37. | |
to continue right through to the Thank you very much. Police are | :28:38. | :28:46. | |
called in after Colchester Hospital staff say they were bullied into | :28:47. | :28:51. | |
falsifying data on cancer patients. That is all from the BBC's news at | :28:52. | :28:56. | |
six. It's goodbye from me. On BBC One we can now | :28:57. | :28:57. |