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We'll be looking at accusations that jobs in England have been sacrificed | :00:38. | :00:41. | |
because of next year's referendum on Scottish independence. Also tonight: | :00:42. | :00:47. | |
A mother's desperate attempts to save her four-year-old daughter from | :00:48. | :00:50. | |
being mauled to death by the family's bulldog. Taken from prison | :00:51. | :00:54. | |
to court - veteran broadcaster Stuart Hall faces fresh charges of | :00:55. | :01:03. | |
raping two teenage girls. Victory for disability campaigners who win a | :01:04. | :01:06. | |
court battle to stop the Government changing a benefit they say gives | :01:07. | :01:11. | |
them independence. And sizing up a new image for women - how one high | :01:12. | :01:14. | |
street retailer is making its mannequins larger. | :01:15. | :01:26. | |
Rafa Nadal will end the year as world number one following victory | :01:27. | :01:27. | |
today over Stanislas Wawrinka. Good evening and welcome to the BBC | :01:28. | :01:56. | |
news. More than 500 years of shipbuilding will come to an end in | :01:57. | :02:00. | |
Portsmouth next year after the defence giant, BAE Systems, | :02:01. | :02:04. | |
announced cuts added shipyards across the UK. Almost 1800 jobs will | :02:05. | :02:11. | |
go in total. 940 of those will be in Portsmouth, home to the Navy. More | :02:12. | :02:16. | |
than 800 will also go at other sites, most of them in Glasgow and | :02:17. | :02:22. | |
Rosyth. In a moment, reaction. First, Duncan Kennedy is in | :02:23. | :02:27. | |
Portsmouth. Tonight there are many angry and many frustrated people | :02:28. | :02:31. | |
here in Portsmouth. Angry because they are losing their jobs. | :02:32. | :02:36. | |
Frustrated because many see this as a political, not a commercial | :02:37. | :02:41. | |
decision. This afternoon, I saw one man almost in tears, so distressed | :02:42. | :02:48. | |
was he at losing his job. One MP described it as a disaster for this | :02:49. | :02:52. | |
city. It is Britain's oldest naval base, | :02:53. | :02:56. | |
where chips have been made for more than five centuries. Today the | :02:57. | :03:02. | |
decision was made to bring military shipbuilding in Portsmouth to an | :03:03. | :03:06. | |
end. After being told the News, many workers sounded off their anger. | :03:07. | :03:13. | |
Many accused Bae and the Government of sacrificing their jobs for | :03:14. | :03:18. | |
Scottish ones. We build a better product than Govan. We have been | :03:19. | :03:23. | |
told they are better -- we are better. Then they pulled us out. | :03:24. | :03:27. | |
Most of the directors are Scottish. It is mostly political. The Scottish | :03:28. | :03:32. | |
workers would be quite happy. Everything has been taken away from | :03:33. | :03:38. | |
them this yard. It is a sad day for the South yet again. A political | :03:39. | :03:44. | |
decision for Scotland to have all of the work and asked to have nothing. | :03:45. | :03:49. | |
More than 900 shipbuilding jobs will be lost. Skills built up over | :03:50. | :03:54. | |
decades in some cases. Nearly everybody blames Scottish and | :03:55. | :03:56. | |
Westminster politics for the decision. It has been a cold, | :03:57. | :04:04. | |
calculated political game. The independence vote is pending in | :04:05. | :04:10. | |
Scotland. Portsmouth is the sacrificial lamb in delivering a | :04:11. | :04:13. | |
rejection of independence in Scotland. The Government insisted | :04:14. | :04:18. | |
the ending of shipbuilding in Portsmouth was a commercial and not | :04:19. | :04:22. | |
a political decision. Work is soon to end on building Britain's row | :04:23. | :04:31. | |
aircraft carriers. -- Britain's. The loss of jobs is regrettable but was | :04:32. | :04:35. | |
always going to be inevitable as the workload comes to an end. Labour | :04:36. | :04:41. | |
played down the England versus Scotland row, concentrating instead | :04:42. | :04:45. | |
on the human cost of the cuts. I deeply regret the job losses. This | :04:46. | :04:50. | |
is a terrible blow for the workers and their families. The priority now | :04:51. | :04:56. | |
is to do everything we can to help those people find alternative | :04:57. | :05:02. | |
employment. They have been building ships in Portsmouth since the time | :05:03. | :05:07. | |
of Henry VIII. 500 years of almost unbroken tradition. Now that long | :05:08. | :05:12. | |
line of naval, maritime heritage and the livelihoods of hundreds of | :05:13. | :05:21. | |
people will come to an end. Here on the River Clyde they are | :05:22. | :05:25. | |
also proud of their shipbuilding heritage. This river sent ships all | :05:26. | :05:31. | |
over the world. In recent years it has relied on the British state for | :05:32. | :05:35. | |
their survival. Today was no different. | :05:36. | :05:41. | |
The men and women of the Clyde arrived at work anxious for news. | :05:42. | :05:44. | |
They had been summoned to the shipyard to hear their fate. It took | :05:45. | :05:50. | |
just a few minutes to hear that 800 jobs were going. It is not good | :05:51. | :05:56. | |
news, obviously. I think we knew this was coming. We have been | :05:57. | :06:00. | |
through this before and we have gone through it again. We will come out | :06:01. | :06:05. | |
the other end. Things are looking better for the Clyde. That does not | :06:06. | :06:11. | |
mean to say we have not got feelings for our comrades in Portsmouth. For | :06:12. | :06:18. | |
a decade, these workers have been busy building warships for the | :06:19. | :06:22. | |
British government, including two aircraft carriers. That work comes | :06:23. | :06:26. | |
to an end in 2015. The next order will not start straightaway. To keep | :06:27. | :06:31. | |
the Clyde yard is ticking over, there is a plan to bridge the gap. | :06:32. | :06:36. | |
Today is difficult news. On the other hand, it is very good news for | :06:37. | :06:40. | |
the Clyde. We have secured a contract for the manufacture of | :06:41. | :06:44. | |
three ocean patrol vessels which will take work through here in this | :06:45. | :06:51. | |
area until 2016. This is the real price for the Clyde. The MoD wants | :06:52. | :06:58. | |
to build 13 of these but it will not sign the contracts until after | :06:59. | :07:01. | |
Scotland votes on independence. Nobody should be in any doubt of two | :07:02. | :07:07. | |
things. Under this comment we will have aircraft carriers, submarines. | :07:08. | :07:13. | |
If there is an independent Scotland, we will not have any warships at | :07:14. | :07:22. | |
all. I think it is a preposterous suggestion, the idea that people in | :07:23. | :07:25. | |
Scotland should be somehow punished for voting yes. I would hope that | :07:26. | :07:29. | |
all serious politicians would distance themselves from that kind | :07:30. | :07:33. | |
of suggestion. The Clyde is and will remain the best place to build these | :07:34. | :07:37. | |
frigates. In the end, what happens you will not be a decision for the | :07:38. | :07:42. | |
Scottish Government alone. These yards have been dragged into a | :07:43. | :07:44. | |
political battle about the future of Britain. | :07:45. | :07:54. | |
Nick Robinson is in Portsmouth. The question many people are asking | :07:55. | :07:58. | |
tonight, is this a political or business decision? You wouldn't get | :07:59. | :08:03. | |
much of a hearing for it in this city on this night. But if you ask | :08:04. | :08:08. | |
the leaders of the company that runs the shipyard here, if you ask | :08:09. | :08:13. | |
ministers, they would all insist this is about a business decision | :08:14. | :08:17. | |
and not about politics. Before people scoff, it is worth noting | :08:18. | :08:22. | |
that even the Labour Party don't really disagree. This is the | :08:23. | :08:27. | |
reason. The possibility of closing shipbuilding here in Portsmouth was | :08:28. | :08:33. | |
first discussed two or three years ago. Politicians and business | :08:34. | :08:37. | |
leaders knew that once all that work on those two huge aircraft carriers | :08:38. | :08:41. | |
came to an end, they simply would not be enough work for three | :08:42. | :08:47. | |
shipyards in the UK to carry out. If one has got too close, why this one | :08:48. | :08:55. | |
to Mac --? What I am being told is the work is cheaper in Glasgow. What | :08:56. | :08:59. | |
I am being told also is that there is more expertise on the Clyde and | :09:00. | :09:03. | |
there is here in building complex warships. They insist it is not | :09:04. | :09:10. | |
about politics. The workers know one thing. Even if that is true, the | :09:11. | :09:16. | |
Clyde in Glasgow has one thing they could never match. The view of | :09:17. | :09:19. | |
politicians throughout Westminster that they simply could not stop | :09:20. | :09:24. | |
shipbuilding in Scotland, not a year before the referendum. That would | :09:25. | :09:31. | |
simply be too politically dangerous. Police say the mother of a | :09:32. | :09:35. | |
four-year-old girl who was mauled to death by the family's bulldog, | :09:36. | :09:38. | |
desperately tried to save her daughter by stabbing the dog with a | :09:39. | :09:42. | |
kitchen knife. Lexi Branson was off school sick when she was attacked in | :09:43. | :09:46. | |
her home near Loughborough. The family had only got the dog two | :09:47. | :09:50. | |
months ago from a local rescue centre. | :09:51. | :09:55. | |
Lexi Branson, described by her family as a bright, bubbly little | :09:56. | :09:59. | |
girl. She was home from school yesterday, feeling unwell, and was | :10:00. | :10:03. | |
playing in the lounge when her pet dog attacked. Her mother tried to | :10:04. | :10:09. | |
save her daughter by stabbing the bulldog with a kitchen knife. But | :10:10. | :10:15. | |
Lexi died in hospital. The dog was aged between six and eight years | :10:16. | :10:19. | |
old. It had only been with the family for two months. Not | :10:20. | :10:23. | |
dangerous, according to the law, but still it attacked Lexi. The manager | :10:24. | :10:28. | |
of this kennels in Loughborough has confirmed to me that the dog did | :10:29. | :10:32. | |
come from here. But while the police investigation continues, he said he | :10:33. | :10:39. | |
is not able to comment further. Police say why this is a tragic | :10:40. | :10:44. | |
case, it is not a criminal inquiry. We are going to look completely at | :10:45. | :10:47. | |
the history of where the dog has come from. We are doing an | :10:48. | :10:50. | |
investigation on behalf of the coroner to show the events leading | :10:51. | :10:55. | |
up to the death of Lexi. There are thought to be 9 million dogs in the | :10:56. | :11:01. | |
UK. Each year around 6000 people need hospital treatment after dog | :11:02. | :11:06. | |
attacks. Since 2005, 17 people have been killed, ten of them children, | :11:07. | :11:13. | |
including Lexi. Neighbours in Mountsorrel are deeply shocked. | :11:14. | :11:16. | |
Glennis Goddard used to see Lexi playing with the dog. I said that | :11:17. | :11:22. | |
was a nice dog. She told me they got it from the rescue. She said she | :11:23. | :11:29. | |
loved him to bits. He looked so placid. Friends have been leaving | :11:30. | :11:32. | |
flowers to remember a little girl who was lively and chatty. All | :11:33. | :11:37. | |
thoughts tonight are with Lexi Branson's family. | :11:38. | :11:45. | |
Five disabled people have won their court battle to stop the Government | :11:46. | :11:48. | |
closing a scheme which provides them with money and support. The | :11:49. | :11:53. | |
Independent living fund, which is claimed by around 20,000 severely | :11:54. | :11:56. | |
disabled people, was due to be shot in 2015. This report from Clive | :11:57. | :12:03. | |
Coleman. These two men both receive money | :12:04. | :12:08. | |
from the Independent living fund. Gabriel is visually impaired. He had | :12:09. | :12:15. | |
three brain tumours. The money allows him to live at home | :12:16. | :12:19. | |
independently, with support for nine hours each day. You don't need | :12:20. | :12:27. | |
health care. I can use the toilet whenever I want to. Schonberger and | :12:28. | :12:34. | |
has helped at home and at his work in London. -- Sean McGovern. I have | :12:35. | :12:42. | |
a life outside. The fund takes up the slack. The fund was established | :12:43. | :12:50. | |
in 1988 and does what it says. It provides money to disabled people to | :12:51. | :12:56. | |
assist them to live independently. Some 18,500 people receive money | :12:57. | :13:00. | |
from it. This year, it will cost ?306 million. Each person receives | :13:01. | :13:08. | |
on average ?300 a week. Last December, the Government decided to | :13:09. | :13:12. | |
close the fund and devolve the funding to local authorities. That | :13:13. | :13:15. | |
meant the money would no longer be ring fenced. It would be subject to | :13:16. | :13:20. | |
normal budgetary cuts. Many disabled people feared they would lose it. | :13:21. | :13:26. | |
The High Court initially upheld the Government plan. But five disabled | :13:27. | :13:31. | |
people appealed, supported by many others. The Court of Appeal quashed | :13:32. | :13:38. | |
the decision to close the fund because it found that the Government | :13:39. | :13:42. | |
had not properly considered issues raised under the equality act. The | :13:43. | :13:46. | |
court said these were not optional in times of austerity, and they | :13:47. | :13:53. | |
included the need to improve equality of opportunity among | :13:54. | :13:55. | |
disabled people, and to encourage them to take part in a full, active | :13:56. | :14:00. | |
public life. The Government say the judgement was based on a | :14:01. | :14:03. | |
technicality and has until Friday to start an appeal. It has not ruled on | :14:04. | :14:10. | |
whether we were right or wrong. We spent ?50 billion a year on | :14:11. | :14:16. | |
disability benefits. We are transferring that benefit to local | :14:17. | :14:19. | |
authorities. For people like Gabriel, today has provided hope | :14:20. | :14:24. | |
that the care which provides in with independence will continue. | :14:25. | :14:31. | |
New figures show that nearly 400,000 people have lost their job seekers | :14:32. | :14:37. | |
allowance due to tougher Government rules that claimants are actively | :14:38. | :14:40. | |
seeking work. The number of sanctions handed out for failing to | :14:41. | :14:43. | |
arrive at a job interview or leaving a job voluntarily has risen by 6% up | :14:44. | :14:50. | |
to June 13th compared to the previous year. Critics have | :14:51. | :14:54. | |
described the sanctions is all stick and no carrot, but ministers insist | :14:55. | :14:59. | |
it is all part of getting people back to work. | :15:00. | :15:00. | |
The former BBC broadcaster Stuart Hall has appeared in court to face | :15:01. | :15:07. | |
fresh allegations of historic sex offences, including 15 counts of | :15:08. | :15:11. | |
rape and one of indecent assault against two girls in the late 1970s | :15:12. | :15:16. | |
and early 1980s. Judith Moritz was in court and her report contains | :15:17. | :15:19. | |
flash photography. Stuart Hall was led into court in | :15:20. | :15:23. | |
handcuffs, brought here from prison, where he is serving a 30 month | :15:24. | :15:28. | |
sentence. In separate proceedings in May, he pleaded guilty to 14 counts | :15:29. | :15:33. | |
of indecent assault. Last month, the 83-year-old was charged with 16 | :15:34. | :15:37. | |
further sex offences against two girls in the 1970s and 1980s, aged | :15:38. | :15:43. | |
between 11 and 16 at the time. Stuart Hall is charged with 15 | :15:44. | :15:46. | |
counts of rape and one of indecent assault. Standing in the dock of | :15:47. | :15:49. | |
courtroom number two, the pensioner struggled to hear and he craned | :15:50. | :15:54. | |
forward, asking the clerk to repeat herself. He spoke to give his full | :15:55. | :16:03. | |
name of James Stuart Hall. Stuart Hall is best known for hosting the | :16:04. | :16:08. | |
game show It's A Knockout in the 1970s and was later given an OBE for | :16:09. | :16:15. | |
services to broadcasting, but was stripped of it for bringing the | :16:16. | :16:19. | |
system interviewed. He did not enter a plea and afterwards was taken back | :16:20. | :16:24. | |
to prison, describing the weather outside is "not clement". He will | :16:25. | :16:28. | |
next appear in court on November 29th. | :16:29. | :16:35. | |
The time is just after 6:15pm, the top story this evening: | :16:36. | :16:38. | |
The end of 500 years of shipbuilding in Portsmouth as the defence giant | :16:39. | :16:41. | |
BAE cuts almost 1,800 jobs across the UK. | :16:42. | :16:44. | |
And how these 18th century paintings that gave the British public their | :16:45. | :16:47. | |
first glimpse of the kangaroo and the dingo have been saved for the | :16:48. | :16:54. | |
nation. Coming up in the sport, three | :16:55. | :16:58. | |
British clubs are in action in the Champions League. Celtic are in | :16:59. | :17:02. | |
Amsterdam to play Dyaks, whilst Chelsea and Arsenal both phase | :17:03. | :17:04. | |
German opposition -- to play Ajax. Skinny models and clothes draped | :17:05. | :17:14. | |
over stick-thin mannequins in shops - such images have sparked plenty of | :17:15. | :17:22. | |
controversy and debate. The standard dress size for | :17:23. | :17:25. | |
mannequins on the high street is a size eight or ten - a far cry from | :17:26. | :17:28. | |
the dimensions of the average British woman nowadays, who is a | :17:29. | :17:31. | |
size 16. But now Debenhams has decided to | :17:32. | :17:34. | |
make women's body images a little more realistic by becoming the first | :17:35. | :17:37. | |
high-street retailer to bring in size 16 mannequins for their | :17:38. | :17:45. | |
clothes. Sangita Myska reports. Beautiful, famous and slim. Driven | :17:46. | :17:52. | |
by the fashion industry and celebrity culture, pressure on women | :17:53. | :17:56. | |
to be thin, many argue, is, at best undermining, and at worst, | :17:57. | :18:01. | |
potentially dangerous. Today, one High St retailer has decided to act. | :18:02. | :18:06. | |
Debenhams has launched a new size 16 mannequin to appear alongside its | :18:07. | :18:12. | |
standard size American mannequins. The retailer says it has a moral | :18:13. | :18:16. | |
obligation to reflect the clothes size of the choppers, but it makes | :18:17. | :18:21. | |
commercial sense to, with similar strategies receiving huge amounts of | :18:22. | :18:26. | |
positive publicity. We think it is important to be as inclusive as | :18:27. | :18:30. | |
possible. We started this four years ago, when we launched a campaign | :18:31. | :18:35. | |
with a model in a wheelchair, and we moved on to lingerie and swimwear | :18:36. | :18:41. | |
shots. Not all of our customers are a size 8. At is the theory in the | :18:42. | :18:46. | |
boardroom but what do shoppers think? I think that is fair, we are | :18:47. | :18:54. | |
not all size 8 and 10. I don't go and see if there is any for myself, | :18:55. | :19:01. | |
because it will not fit to be. It is not a realistic look. Debenhams is | :19:02. | :19:07. | |
trying to seize the moralistic high ground when it comes to female body | :19:08. | :19:11. | |
image, but with arguably more serious issues that need addressing | :19:12. | :19:16. | |
like equal pay, forced marriage and even Twitter abuse, is today's | :19:17. | :19:21. | |
debate about mannequins simply an unhelpful distraction? Presenting | :19:22. | :19:29. | |
the correct body image is important, says the Government, and came out in | :19:30. | :19:33. | |
favour of the size 16 mannequin. A whole range of issues affect women | :19:34. | :19:36. | |
and this is an important one, particularly when you look at the | :19:37. | :19:40. | |
rising rates of eating disorders amongst young girls, and the impact | :19:41. | :19:44. | |
that this lack of body confidence can have on people's lives, but it | :19:45. | :19:48. | |
is one of many things we are working in Government. The debate about her | :19:49. | :19:53. | |
clothes are presented on mannequins is likely to continue, as the | :19:54. | :19:59. | |
average British woman now wears a size 16. So far, no other retailers | :20:00. | :20:02. | |
have announced plans to follow the example of Debenhams. | :20:03. | :20:05. | |
The artistic director of Russia's Bolshoi ballet has describing the | :20:06. | :20:08. | |
moment he had acid thrown in his face in an attack which nearly | :20:09. | :20:12. | |
blinded him earlier this year. A former top dancer at the Bolshoi and | :20:13. | :20:16. | |
two other men are being tried over the assault, in a case that has | :20:17. | :20:19. | |
revealed bitter in-fighting at the world-famous ballet company. Steve | :20:20. | :20:26. | |
Rosenberg was in court in Moscow. He had been badly burned, and nearly | :20:27. | :20:32. | |
blinded. This was the Bolshoi ballet's artistic director nine | :20:33. | :20:34. | |
months ago. Someone had thrown sulphuric acid into Sergei Filin's | :20:35. | :20:40. | |
face. Now he had the chance to confront his alleged assailants. | :20:41. | :20:47. | |
From the crush of TV cameras outside the courtroom, you could tell that | :20:48. | :20:50. | |
the drama inside would be as gripping as anything you had ever | :20:51. | :20:55. | |
seen on the stage at the Bolshoi. That is because among those on trial | :20:56. | :21:00. | |
here is one of the ballet troops own dancers, Pavel Dmitrichenko, accused | :21:01. | :21:05. | |
of organising the attack. He is said to have felt seething resentment | :21:06. | :21:10. | |
towards his boss. Here in court today, Sergei Filin described Pavel | :21:11. | :21:14. | |
Dmitrichenko is a talented dancer who he had promoted, but who had | :21:15. | :21:18. | |
turned against him. He angrily rejected claims by the dancer that, | :21:19. | :21:23. | |
as artistic director, he had taken bribes or had intimate relations | :21:24. | :21:29. | |
with some of the ballerinas. The Bolshoi has always been one of the | :21:30. | :21:31. | |
jewels in Russia's cultural crown, but for one of -- this theatre, this | :21:32. | :21:38. | |
court case is a huge embarrassment and shines a spotlight on the murky | :21:39. | :21:41. | |
backstage world of jealousy, fierce rivalry and revenge. But that comes | :21:42. | :21:48. | |
as no surprise to those who know the Bolshoi well. There is so much | :21:49. | :21:52. | |
jealousy inside all of the theatres, but not in such a big thing like the | :21:53. | :21:58. | |
Bolshoi. At the Bolshoi, it is something huge, and what we see now | :21:59. | :22:05. | |
is criminal, it is criminal stories. Sergei Filin has had more | :22:06. | :22:10. | |
than 20 operations to try and save his side. In court, he spoke of the | :22:11. | :22:15. | |
excruciating pain he felt after the attack and he said he would never | :22:16. | :22:18. | |
forgive those who had carried it out. | :22:19. | :22:25. | |
Formula One boss Bernie Ecclestone has appeared at the High Court to | :22:26. | :22:28. | |
defend himself against allegations that he made a "corrupt bargain" in | :22:29. | :22:32. | |
a bid to stay as the head of Formula One. Mr Ecclestone is being sued, | :22:33. | :22:35. | |
along with three other defendants, by a German media group. It claims | :22:36. | :22:38. | |
that Formula One was deliberately undervalued when a German bank sold | :22:39. | :22:44. | |
its stake in it in 2005. Our Chief Sports Correspondent Dan Roan | :22:45. | :22:49. | |
reports. How do you feel ahead of today? | :22:50. | :22:55. | |
Good. When it comes to the leadership of Formula One, there has | :22:56. | :22:59. | |
been no revolving door. Bernie Ecclestone has been at the top of | :23:00. | :23:03. | |
the sport for a generation, but as the 83-year-old made a somewhat | :23:04. | :23:06. | |
stalled entrance to the high court this morning, he would have been | :23:07. | :23:09. | |
hoping this case will not eventually force him out. The long-time | :23:10. | :23:16. | |
commercial rights holder of the motorsports series is accused of | :23:17. | :23:19. | |
deliberately undervaluing Formula One when it was sold in 2006. | :23:20. | :23:24. | |
Konstantin, a German media firm, say they lost out and are seeking ?100 | :23:25. | :23:29. | |
million worth of damages, alleging he made a corrupt payment, a | :23:30. | :23:33. | |
multi-million pound bribe to an executive in charge of the deal, go | :23:34. | :23:37. | |
hard Gribkowsky, who has since been jailed, in order to stay on as chief | :23:38. | :23:43. | |
executive. Speaking quietly and banging the desk in frustration, | :23:44. | :23:47. | |
Ecclestone told the court he had only paid the bank because he said | :23:48. | :23:51. | |
he would create difficulties with the tax authorities. He said... | :23:52. | :23:58. | |
Later, Philip Marshall QC, said... Mr Ecclestone refuted that, | :23:59. | :24:10. | |
saying... This is just up one of a number of | :24:11. | :24:15. | |
legal cases connected to the sale of Formula One which could threaten the | :24:16. | :24:18. | |
position of the most powerful figure in the sport. A German court is | :24:19. | :24:23. | |
currently deciding whether or not Bernie Ecclestone should stand trial | :24:24. | :24:27. | |
on bribery charges in the New Year. Bernie Ecclestone denies any | :24:28. | :24:31. | |
wrongdoing, but if these legal challenges go against him, he could | :24:32. | :24:35. | |
find it hard to retain control of a sport it is now hard to imagine | :24:36. | :24:39. | |
without him. The case continues. When Captain Cook first sailed to | :24:40. | :24:42. | |
the Pacific, he brought back sketches of some of the unusual | :24:43. | :24:47. | |
creatures he'd seen on his voyage. They were later turned into | :24:48. | :24:49. | |
paintings by the artist George Stubbs, giving the British public | :24:50. | :24:52. | |
their first ever glimpse of the Kangaroo and the dingo. And now the | :24:53. | :24:57. | |
18th century works have now been saved for the nation. Will Gompertz | :24:58. | :25:02. | |
reports. A kangaroo looking back over its | :25:03. | :25:06. | |
shoulder and a dingo walking in the Australian landscape. Two animals | :25:07. | :25:09. | |
previously unfamiliar to those living in the UK, including George | :25:10. | :25:11. | |
Stubbs, the celebrated artist who painted them. He worked from skins | :25:12. | :25:18. | |
and information brought back on Captain Cook's Endeavour from his | :25:19. | :25:22. | |
Voyage of Discovery. They were collected by the scientist Sir | :25:23. | :25:27. | |
Joseph Banks. Stubbs, who was a very good biologist, very good anatomist, | :25:28. | :25:30. | |
he was presented with this dried, shrivelled skin of a kangaroo, and | :25:31. | :25:33. | |
he simply couldn't make head nor tail of it. So he actually sewed it | :25:34. | :25:40. | |
up and then blew it up... Well, he moistened it, so it was pliable, | :25:41. | :25:44. | |
blew it up and then saw that it really did have these tiny, small | :25:45. | :25:47. | |
arms and this huge tail and these whopping great legs. I really like | :25:48. | :25:56. | |
the way that Stubbs has tried to make a very three-dimensional | :25:57. | :25:59. | |
creature. I think given that he was literally either working from verbal | :26:00. | :26:03. | |
descriptions or a stuffed pelt, he did tremendously well to give a | :26:04. | :26:06. | |
sense of life and blood pumping through these creatures. They were | :26:07. | :26:11. | |
in a private collection and have now been acquired by the National | :26:12. | :26:14. | |
Maritime Museum in London, much to the annoyance of the National | :26:15. | :26:15. | |
Gallery of Australia. They had been negotiating | :26:16. | :26:25. | |
to buy the paintings. Australia's earliest coat of arms was based on | :26:26. | :26:33. | |
Stubbs's kangaroo. But the British Government stepped in, giving the | :26:34. | :26:38. | |
National Maritime Museum time to raise the ?5.5 million needed to buy | :26:39. | :26:43. | |
them. It will now sit here with famous pictures from Captain Cook's | :26:44. | :26:45. | |
voyages across the Pacific. Let's have a look at the latest | :26:46. | :27:01. | |
weather, with Peter Gibbs. We will use a bit more blue later | :27:02. | :27:11. | |
on, and there will be more to come across England and Wales, especially | :27:12. | :27:15. | |
wet in the next two or three hours across northern England and the | :27:16. | :27:19. | |
Midlands, the rain pushing southwards but it will be a slow | :27:20. | :27:23. | |
process. Brisk winds across western Scotland into Northern Ireland, the | :27:24. | :27:26. | |
showers in Scotland are still falling snow over the higher ground. | :27:27. | :27:33. | |
A at lower levels -- a frost at high levels across Scotland. Quite chilly | :27:34. | :27:38. | |
start across northern England tomorrow morning. At eight o'clock | :27:39. | :27:41. | |
in the morning, more heavy showers are moving into western Scotland, | :27:42. | :27:45. | |
but temperatures are fairly close to freezing, so there could be some ice | :27:46. | :27:49. | |
around elsewhere. A nice, bright, crisp spell if you don't mind the | :27:50. | :27:54. | |
cold. Through northern England, the Midlands and much of Northern | :27:55. | :27:57. | |
Ireland starting drive. Further south and east, the remnants of that | :27:58. | :28:02. | |
rain is still sitting there across the south-east corner, Kent and | :28:03. | :28:04. | |
Sussex particularly, but it won't last too long. As we go through the | :28:05. | :28:09. | |
morning, that rain is creeping away, taking strong winds with it. A | :28:10. | :28:13. | |
fairly blustery day across northern parts, the showers feeding through | :28:14. | :28:18. | |
one or two western fringes of England and Wales but generally a | :28:19. | :28:22. | |
lot of dry and bright weather, chilly but nothing colder than you | :28:23. | :28:27. | |
would expect this time in November. Friday, we keep the sunny spells and | :28:28. | :28:32. | |
showers been going, a fairly brisk wind blowing in from the West, dry | :28:33. | :28:36. | |
weather in between the showers. Similar temperatures and we start | :28:37. | :28:40. | |
with similar temperatures into the weekend. A pew showers on Saturday, | :28:41. | :28:44. | |
more persistent rain spreading in from the west on Sunday. | :28:45. | :28:49. | |
from the west That is all from the BBC | :28:50. | :28:50. |