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It'll mean another ?25 billion of cuts on the way for Britain. The | :00:08. | :00:12. | |
Chancellor wants half the extra savings to come from the welfare | :00:13. | :00:16. | |
budget. He says there's a long way to go. It is far too soon to say job | :00:17. | :00:29. | |
done. It's not even half done. That's my 2014 is the year of hard | :00:30. | :00:33. | |
truths. We'll be looking at just how far there is to go before Britain | :00:34. | :00:35. | |
balances the books. Also tonight: Another wave of storms | :00:36. | :00:40. | |
batter the south and west. Winds of up to 80 mph are recorded. | :00:41. | :00:45. | |
The Savile scandal. Dozens of his victims call for a single, major | :00:46. | :00:48. | |
inquiry into how he evaded justice for decades. | :00:49. | :00:57. | |
Barristers stage their first ever protest across England and Wales. | :00:58. | :01:00. | |
They warn legal aid cuts threaten criminal justice. | :01:01. | :01:05. | |
And the disaster down under - we'll hear from a former England captain | :01:06. | :01:08. | |
on where England go after the 5-0 Ashes whitewash. | :01:09. | :01:13. | |
Tonight on BBC London: Health experts warn the capital is on the | :01:14. | :01:17. | |
cusp of a TB epidemic, as a new strain proves resistant to drugs. | :01:18. | :01:20. | |
And 13,000 fines are issued in the Met's operation to make our roads | :01:21. | :01:22. | |
safer. Good evening. Welcome to the BBC's | :01:23. | :01:47. | |
News at Six. George Osborne has set out plans for another ?25 billion | :01:48. | :01:50. | |
pounds of spending cuts if the Conservatives win the next election. | :01:51. | :01:54. | |
Half the proposed savings would come from the welfare budget. The | :01:55. | :01:58. | |
Chancellor says Britain has to face the hard truth that the job of | :01:59. | :02:02. | |
cutting the deficit is not even half done. But his comments prompted a | :02:03. | :02:07. | |
stern rebuke from within the Coalition. The Deputy Prime | :02:08. | :02:10. | |
Minister, Nick Clegg, said the Conservatives were making a | :02:11. | :02:12. | |
monumental mistake by attempting to balance the books on the backs of | :02:13. | :02:17. | |
the poor. Our political editor, Nick Robinson, reports. | :02:18. | :02:25. | |
If you thought the New Year would ease the pressure on the nation's | :02:26. | :02:30. | |
purse, think again. The Chancellor said today the economy may be moving | :02:31. | :02:35. | |
again, but billions more in cuts are needed now and after the next | :02:36. | :02:39. | |
election if the deficit is to be eliminated. It is far too soon to | :02:40. | :02:45. | |
say job done. It's not even half done. We've got to make more cuts. | :02:46. | :02:50. | |
George Osborne says this will be a year of hard choices, and with an | :02:51. | :02:54. | |
eye on the next election, he wants you to know that the Tories Trice is | :02:55. | :03:00. | |
to cut the benefits bill. If we want to fix the deficit problems and not | :03:01. | :03:04. | |
leave debts for our children to pay off, cutting the bill further is | :03:05. | :03:10. | |
what we need to do. The nation is not forecast to be back in the back | :03:11. | :03:14. | |
for another four years. The Chancellor says that means cutting | :03:15. | :03:18. | |
another ?25 billion of government spending by 2030 -- by 2018. He gave | :03:19. | :03:28. | |
to small examples of how. Stopping housing benefit for the under 25 and | :03:29. | :03:33. | |
stopping social or council housing for high earners. Cutting spending | :03:34. | :03:37. | |
that way would be a monumental mistake, says this man. You might | :03:38. | :03:42. | |
just recall he is in the same government as Mr Osborne. I think it | :03:43. | :03:47. | |
is simply not serious politics for the Conservative Party to say that | :03:48. | :03:50. | |
they are so reluctant to ask the wealthiest in this country to make | :03:51. | :03:56. | |
even a smidgen of extra contributions, they are going to ask | :03:57. | :03:59. | |
all future sacrifices to come from the working age poor. That is | :04:00. | :04:04. | |
unrealistic. The Tories proposals were, he said, and fair, unrealistic | :04:05. | :04:12. | |
and unbalanced. He says the deficit should be cut, but by targeting the | :04:13. | :04:17. | |
rich with a mansion tax, and taking away the winter fuel allowance and | :04:18. | :04:22. | |
TV licences from richer pensioners, something the Tories say would raise | :04:23. | :04:26. | |
very difficult. Both parties proposals would raise just a | :04:27. | :04:30. | |
fraction of the ?25 billion they both agree is now needed. Who | :04:31. | :04:35. | |
exactly should pay now to get the deficit in eliminated? That's the | :04:36. | :04:39. | |
debate that began today, and it has pitted one side against the other. | :04:40. | :04:52. | |
But the row between the Tories and the Liberal Democrats is, for the | :04:53. | :04:55. | |
moment, about little more than loose change. It is always ask that | :04:56. | :04:59. | |
suffer, not the rich people. We've all got to take cuts and stomach the | :05:00. | :05:05. | |
consequences. Today's speech was as much about politics as economics. | :05:06. | :05:09. | |
George Osborne wants his opponents to choose between his plan or | :05:10. | :05:13. | |
admitting they will put your taxes up or run a higher deficit. Not | :05:14. | :05:18. | |
surprisingly, it is a choice Labour reject. Whether or not we need cuts | :05:19. | :05:22. | |
on that scale will depend upon whether we can get the economy | :05:23. | :05:26. | |
growing more strongly, whether we can get young people back to work, | :05:27. | :05:32. | |
and whether we will face fairer decisions to take away the winter | :05:33. | :05:35. | |
fuel allowance. Whose purse should be raided next to pay off the | :05:36. | :05:39. | |
deficit? Welcome to one of the main debates between now and election | :05:40. | :05:44. | |
day. George Osborne says the austerity | :05:45. | :05:48. | |
would have to continue for some years if he is transferred after the | :05:49. | :05:53. | |
election. How much has been achieved so far? Our chief economics | :05:54. | :05:56. | |
correspondent is with me. How is he doing? Not nearly as well as he had | :05:57. | :06:03. | |
first hoped. His original deficit reduction plans were thrown off | :06:04. | :06:08. | |
course by a weaker than expected growth outturn. Let's look at the | :06:09. | :06:12. | |
deficit in the coalition's first year in office. Borrowing ?140 | :06:13. | :06:18. | |
billion in that year. He had hoped to wipe all of that out by the end | :06:19. | :06:23. | |
of this Parliament, but in the current financial year just coming | :06:24. | :06:28. | |
up, he will have to borrow ?96 billion. So it is down a fair amount | :06:29. | :06:33. | |
but there is some way to go. His target is to get to a surplus, | :06:34. | :06:38. | |
balancing the books and making a small surface -- a small surplus in | :06:39. | :07:01. | |
2018-19 of ?2.2 billion. That is his plan if he is still in office. That | :07:02. | :07:04. | |
is why he is setting out spending cuts after the election. Putting | :07:05. | :07:06. | |
that into perspective, 12.5 billion amounts to less than 2% of total | :07:07. | :07:09. | |
public spending. That is an indication of what he is trying to | :07:10. | :07:11. | |
do. Thank you. The stormy weather has continued for | :07:12. | :07:13. | |
many today with more than 100 flood warnings are still in place as rain | :07:14. | :07:16. | |
falls on saturated ground. Forecasters are warning of winds | :07:17. | :07:21. | |
gusting up to 70 mph. The Welsh coast has been badly hit again. | :07:22. | :07:26. | |
This is the fourth day the Welsh coastline has been pummelled by the | :07:27. | :07:30. | |
waves. Flood defences have struggled to cope with a mixture of high | :07:31. | :07:35. | |
tides, strong winds and heavy rain. This footage, filmed at Aberystwyth | :07:36. | :07:41. | |
at the weekend, shows why the authorities are so keen to keep the | :07:42. | :07:45. | |
seafront is clear. A very lucky escape for this man. Today, at the | :07:46. | :07:52. | |
bandstand, the latest victim of the elements, the promenade is now a | :07:53. | :07:57. | |
beach. Sand is nearly covering the benches. Students have been | :07:58. | :08:00. | |
evacuated from their seafront halls of residence for the second time | :08:01. | :08:07. | |
since Friday. I live just behind the seafront. They said we had to be | :08:08. | :08:13. | |
evacuated because of the high tides. A bit nervous. A bit sad that we | :08:14. | :08:17. | |
have to leave, but we have a place to go now. We are going to take our | :08:18. | :08:23. | |
laptops and do our essays in town. In Pembrokeshire, sea defences | :08:24. | :08:27. | |
struggled to cope with the power of the waves. This is the main road | :08:28. | :08:31. | |
which leads through this part of Pembrokeshire, and it has been | :08:32. | :08:35. | |
completely covered by shingle which, until a few days ago, was part of | :08:36. | :08:48. | |
the sea wall. The water is coming over again today because the flood | :08:49. | :08:51. | |
defences just cannot cope with such ferocious weather, day after day. It | :08:52. | :08:53. | |
is certainly spectacular, but locals say they have never seen such | :08:54. | :08:56. | |
conditions. I have lived here all my life and I have never seen anything | :08:57. | :09:00. | |
like this before. This is exceptional. Areas like this are | :09:01. | :09:07. | |
suffering for a third day. The only consolation is better weather is | :09:08. | :09:13. | |
forecast for tomorrow. One of the areas where people have | :09:14. | :09:17. | |
been preparing for the worst is the Somerset levels. Some villages have | :09:18. | :09:21. | |
been cut off by the floodwaters. Jon Kay reports from one of the villages | :09:22. | :09:27. | |
affected. Until last night, you could still | :09:28. | :09:31. | |
drive down this lane, but now, the boat is your only option. Muchelney | :09:32. | :09:43. | |
is cut off. 100 villagers stranded. We joined the rescue teams as they | :09:44. | :09:52. | |
took in supplies. It is people in the boat, getting the food | :09:53. | :09:57. | |
delivered, journeys back and forth now until we have delivered all the | :09:58. | :10:04. | |
food. What is your day job? Swimming pool manager. How appropriate. It is | :10:05. | :10:10. | |
a dangerous business. We see an aerial sticking out of the water. | :10:11. | :10:15. | |
That was a car. It shows you how deep the water is here. The first | :10:16. | :10:22. | |
supplies reach Muchelney. Sent by local supermarkets to Somerset's new | :10:23. | :10:28. | |
island community. This should last a few days at least, but they will not | :10:29. | :10:32. | |
be wasting it. There's a lot of old people in the village, and you feel | :10:33. | :10:37. | |
very sorry for them because they are very reliant on outside factors to | :10:38. | :10:42. | |
help them at times like this. When you are on the outside, it carries | :10:43. | :10:47. | |
on, the world, but you feel isolated because you are trapped in. You feel | :10:48. | :10:51. | |
this could happen again? It looks like it. The Church becomes the | :10:52. | :10:59. | |
village shop, where supplies can be picked up, along with medication | :11:00. | :11:02. | |
that has been shipped in for residents who can no longer get to a | :11:03. | :11:07. | |
chemist. Last winter, Muchelney was cut off for weeks, and people say | :11:08. | :11:12. | |
the flooding has got worse in recent decades. It's much deeper. It comes | :11:13. | :11:17. | |
up much faster and it stays much longer. This volunteer rescue team | :11:18. | :11:22. | |
normally patrols the Somerset seaside, but they have spent all day | :11:23. | :11:28. | |
ferrying supplies and villagers in and out of Muchelney, like getting | :11:29. | :11:31. | |
Clare to the care home where she works. In Saxon times, Muchelney | :11:32. | :11:43. | |
meant big Island. Tonight, it is living up to that name. | :11:44. | :11:52. | |
Jimmy Savile's victims are calling for a single enquiry ins to how the | :11:53. | :11:57. | |
TBC -- the TV presenter managed to evade justice. Dozens of those who | :11:58. | :12:01. | |
were abused by him say the current investigations will not answer the | :12:02. | :12:10. | |
key questions about the scandal. The year is 1964. The programme... | :12:11. | :12:18. | |
It's Top of the Pops. One man remembers the studios rather too | :12:19. | :12:22. | |
well. He is now 64, but we met to discuss an encounter when he was | :12:23. | :12:26. | |
just 15 years old. And in counter with Jimmy Savile. It was | :12:27. | :12:32. | |
unbelievable what he'd done to me. With both of his hands. | :12:33. | :12:37. | |
Unbelievable. This is a difficult moment for you. I'm sorry. As I | :12:38. | :12:44. | |
said, it's like yesterday. Yesterday. Why do people do these | :12:45. | :12:54. | |
things? It ruins your whole life. He was speaking to me because he wants | :12:55. | :12:59. | |
answers. An enquiry that answers all his questions. If there was just one | :13:00. | :13:06. | |
enquiry, then we might know exactly why Jimmy Savile got away with | :13:07. | :13:16. | |
serious sexual abuse for 50 years. There has been no shortage of | :13:17. | :13:20. | |
investigations into Savile. The Metropolitan Police and the NSPCC | :13:21. | :13:25. | |
report came out just under a year ago. Since then there's been enquiry | :13:26. | :13:30. | |
after an enquiry after enquiry. The BBC, the police, the Crown | :13:31. | :13:35. | |
Prosecution Service, 32 hospitals. Will it answer all the questions? | :13:36. | :13:40. | |
One solicitor representing victims thinks not. There's no ability to | :13:41. | :13:46. | |
compare the documents, or the production of people to appear | :13:47. | :13:51. | |
before those enquiries and to be questioned and to be subjected to | :13:52. | :13:56. | |
tough questioning. But 15 months have already gone by. The NSPCC has | :13:57. | :14:04. | |
some Sears. All the time the overarching enquiry was going on, | :14:05. | :14:08. | |
every question to be answered was booted into that enquiry and the | :14:09. | :14:12. | |
lessons which wanted to the land quicker will be pushed off into the | :14:13. | :14:17. | |
future. At the heart of this is Savile, and how did the victims get | :14:18. | :14:22. | |
the truth? How did he get away with it? The time is 40 minutes past six. | :14:23. | :14:31. | |
Our top story this evening: The Chancellor says there's another ?25 | :14:32. | :14:33. | |
billion of cuts to come to balance Britain's books. And still to come, | :14:34. | :14:37. | |
we speak to the landlord who wants to evict 200 of his tenants for | :14:38. | :14:42. | |
claiming housing benefit. Later on BBC London, paying more to | :14:43. | :14:45. | |
drive into the congestion charge zone. The Mayor announces plans for | :14:46. | :14:53. | |
a 15% increase. And we are with the Riverside | :14:54. | :14:57. | |
community learning to live with the effects of the floods. | :14:58. | :15:04. | |
For the first time, thousands of barristers and solicitors working on | :15:05. | :15:09. | |
criminal cases have gone on strike, walking out of courts in England and | :15:10. | :15:14. | |
Wales. They're protesting against a ?220 million cut in the legal aid | :15:15. | :15:20. | |
budget. That could mean a 30% cut in lawyers' fees when working on the | :15:21. | :15:23. | |
most complex cases. The Government says that last year 1,200 barristers | :15:24. | :15:26. | |
in England and Wales earned more than ?100,000 from legal aid. But | :15:27. | :15:32. | |
the Criminal Bar Association say half their members earn nearer | :15:33. | :15:37. | |
?27,000 a year. Our legal affairs correspondent, Clive Coleman, has | :15:38. | :15:47. | |
the details. No legal aid cuts! This has not | :15:48. | :15:52. | |
happened before, barristers and solicitors downing wigs and breathes | :15:53. | :15:55. | |
and bringing the criminal courts to a standstill. They are careful not | :15:56. | :16:01. | |
to call it a strike. But that is what many will think it is. They are | :16:02. | :16:06. | |
protesting against the government's proposed reforms to legal aid, some | :16:07. | :16:11. | |
due to come into force in April. One junior barrister told me what he | :16:12. | :16:15. | |
earns for making a bail application. I would be expecting to be paid | :16:16. | :16:19. | |
around ?50 from the legal aid agency for covering that hearing, which | :16:20. | :16:23. | |
could last the whole day. And out of that ?50, I have to cover my own | :16:24. | :16:37. | |
travel costs, and I will mention that is before tax and VAT. We need | :16:38. | :16:40. | |
to take the Government enough is enough, we are not paid enough to | :16:41. | :16:42. | |
survive. Barristers and solicitors say this dispute is about more than | :16:43. | :16:45. | |
just money. They say it is about the quality of legal advice and | :16:46. | :16:47. | |
representation, that any member of the public can expect if they happen | :16:48. | :16:50. | |
to be prosecuted for a crime by the state. Janis Sharp's son, Gary | :16:51. | :16:55. | |
McKinnon, received more than ?250,000 in legal aid over a | :16:56. | :16:59. | |
ten-year period to successfully challenge his extradition to the US | :17:00. | :17:03. | |
on charges of hacking into government computers. Without it, we | :17:04. | :17:08. | |
would have lost him, and it is no exaggeration, it is not | :17:09. | :17:11. | |
sensationalist to say would have taken his own life, he would have. | :17:12. | :17:15. | |
But because we have that hope and trust and it also gave us more time | :17:16. | :17:19. | |
to get medical evidence. But the government says that at around ?200 | :17:20. | :17:23. | |
billion the year, we have one of the most expensive legal aid systems in | :17:24. | :17:26. | |
the world and funding needs to be reduced. We are talking about | :17:27. | :17:31. | |
taxpayers the' money, hard-working taxpayers whose money is going into | :17:32. | :17:35. | |
the legal aid budget, and my responsibility is to ensure that | :17:36. | :17:39. | |
money goes as far as possible, and I am confident that, at the end of the | :17:40. | :17:43. | |
day, the legal aid budget will be adequate to make sure that those who | :17:44. | :17:48. | |
qualify for legal aid are properly represented. This unprecedented half | :17:49. | :17:53. | |
day of action will delay, not jeopardise, trials, but if this | :17:54. | :17:57. | |
dispute isn't resolved, murder, rape and other trials due to start after | :17:58. | :18:04. | |
April could be put at risk. An inquest into the death of David | :18:05. | :18:07. | |
Rathband, the police officer who was shot and blinded by the gunman Raoul | :18:08. | :18:10. | |
Moat, has been hearing from his former wife. Kath Rathband said he | :18:11. | :18:15. | |
called up to 100 times a day shortly before he was found hanged at his | :18:16. | :18:18. | |
home in Northumberland nearly two years ago. Ed Thomas reports from | :18:19. | :18:27. | |
the inquest in Newcastle. He was called a hero, PC David | :18:28. | :18:31. | |
Rathband, the officer who survived being shot by killer Raoul Moat. But | :18:32. | :18:36. | |
within two years of the attack, he was found hanged at his home. Today | :18:37. | :18:42. | |
his family arrived at the inquest into his death, still looking for | :18:43. | :18:47. | |
answers. The findings of the coroner may be a foregone conclusion too | :18:48. | :18:51. | |
many. Our hope is that he finds David's death was preventable in the | :18:52. | :18:56. | |
circumstances. This is David Rathband before he was shot and | :18:57. | :19:01. | |
blinded, but in July 2010 Raoul Moat was on the run. He had vowed to | :19:02. | :19:04. | |
target the police. PC Rathband was his victim, alone here, he was shot | :19:05. | :19:11. | |
twice at point-blank range. One week later, the manhunt ended after Raoul | :19:12. | :19:16. | |
Moat killed himself in Rothbury. But it was not the end for PC Rathband, | :19:17. | :19:21. | |
and as the months went by, he told the BBC how we struggled to cope. | :19:22. | :19:23. | |
When I wake up in the morning, The first thing I see is darkness. | :19:24. | :19:40. | |
PC Rathband's widow told the coroner that her husband's behaviour became | :19:41. | :19:45. | |
erratic. Kath Rathband said he began an affair with another woman and | :19:46. | :19:51. | |
sent hundreds of abusive messages to a mobile phone. The court also heard | :19:52. | :19:56. | |
from a survivor of the 7/7 bombings and at the time David Rathband's | :19:57. | :19:59. | |
partner, who said he often talked about suicide. She told the coroner | :20:00. | :20:03. | |
she knew he was depressed but never believed he would take his own life. | :20:04. | :20:08. | |
The court was also told that before PC Rathband died, he had refused to | :20:09. | :20:12. | |
see health professionals. The inquest is expected to last five | :20:13. | :20:15. | |
days. Ed Thomas, BBC News, Newcastle. | :20:16. | :20:23. | |
Drivers on part of the M1 could be facing a 60 mph speed limit under | :20:24. | :20:27. | |
plans from the Highways Agency. The restrictions would apply along a | :20:28. | :20:30. | |
32-mile section of the road in Derbyshire and Yorkshire. Danny | :20:31. | :20:32. | |
Savage is at the motorway for us now. Danny, why are they doing this? | :20:33. | :20:40. | |
Well, George, the highways agency says tougher European guidelines on | :20:41. | :20:43. | |
air quality are behind today's proposals, so they have come up with | :20:44. | :20:47. | |
what many are saying is a radical suggestion, to impose an almost | :20:48. | :20:51. | |
permanent speed limit on a 32 mile stretch of motorway from Mansfield | :20:52. | :20:56. | |
up to Chesterfield to Sheffield and Rotherham. Many of us are used to | :20:57. | :21:00. | |
variable speed limits on the roads at peak times, when the limit comes | :21:01. | :21:05. | |
down to 60 or 50 mph, but the plan on this 32 mile stretch is to put a | :21:06. | :21:11. | |
60 mph limit in place from 7am in the morning until 7pm at night seven | :21:12. | :21:15. | |
days a week. There has been a mixed response, and we have been talking | :21:16. | :21:19. | |
to some people here at services this evening. I think it will work, | :21:20. | :21:25. | |
because it will stop them tearing about. And there is no need for it | :21:26. | :21:29. | |
whatsoever. The way cars are built, it will not help the environment, it | :21:30. | :21:33. | |
will not help traffic delays. If anything, it will multiply it. Now, | :21:34. | :21:40. | |
the RAC say this is a landmark proposal, it shows how much | :21:41. | :21:45. | |
emissions can be affected by a small reduction in the speed limit, but | :21:46. | :21:48. | |
they are concerned that it could be the first of many similar speed | :21:49. | :21:52. | |
restrictions around the country, and the Sheffield chamber of commerce | :21:53. | :21:55. | |
this evening has said this is an illogical solution to the problem. | :21:56. | :22:02. | |
It is open until March for consultation, and if it comes into | :22:03. | :22:07. | |
force, it could last several years. A 36-year-old man has been found | :22:08. | :22:10. | |
guilty of dangerous driving after being filmed speeding at over 60 mph | :22:11. | :22:13. | |
with both hands behind his head. Richard Newton was caught on police | :22:14. | :22:16. | |
camera travelling on the A171 between Whitby and Guisborough last | :22:17. | :22:20. | |
August. Magistrates, who said the evidence was conclusive, gave him a | :22:21. | :22:23. | |
12-month driving ban and 100-hour community order. | :22:24. | :22:30. | |
A landlord who owns nearly 1,000 properties in Kent says he'd rather | :22:31. | :22:33. | |
have eastern European migrants as tenants than people on benefits. | :22:34. | :22:37. | |
Fergus Wilson has issued eviction notices to every one of his 200 | :22:38. | :22:42. | |
tenants who receive housing benefit. The National Landlords Association | :22:43. | :22:46. | |
says Mr Wilson is not alone. Andy Moore reports. | :22:47. | :22:54. | |
22, which is just over 10% of the estate... Fergus Wilson owns and | :22:55. | :22:59. | |
runs over 1000 houses in Kent. More than 200 used to be occupied by | :23:00. | :23:03. | |
people on benefits, but not any more. Those tenants have or are | :23:04. | :23:07. | |
being evicted, and in many cases they are being replaced by Eastern | :23:08. | :23:12. | |
European is with jobs. With our tenants who are working, in the last | :23:13. | :23:15. | |
two years there has not been one who has defaulted. Whereas, as far as | :23:16. | :23:21. | |
those on benefits are concerned, it is now over 50%. They perhaps cannot | :23:22. | :23:29. | |
help it, but I am not the DSS. Mr Wilson says many of his colleagues | :23:30. | :23:32. | |
in the property will agree with him. The National Landlords | :23:33. | :23:36. | |
Association is four out of five of the members will not consider | :23:37. | :23:40. | |
renting to anyone on benefits. We are certainly seeing landlords | :23:41. | :23:44. | |
moving away from tenants claiming benefits. The progress of the | :23:45. | :23:47. | |
welfare reform agenda of the last three years, which means benefit | :23:48. | :23:50. | |
levels have not kept up with rent levels, means it is a greater risk, | :23:51. | :23:55. | |
and so they are looking to let to working tenants who do not fall into | :23:56. | :24:00. | |
rent arrears as easily. The housing charity Shelter are worried that | :24:01. | :24:03. | |
people on benefits are being squeezed out of the private rented | :24:04. | :24:07. | |
market. This is extremely worrying news for families across the | :24:08. | :24:11. | |
country, and if more landlords follow this type of behaviour, we | :24:12. | :24:14. | |
could see black spots where ordinary families cannot get somewhere to | :24:15. | :24:18. | |
live if they fall ill or lose their job. Mr Wilson says he feels sorry | :24:19. | :24:22. | |
for those he has had to evict. The fundamental problem, he believes, is | :24:23. | :24:27. | |
that there are too many people and not enough houses. | :24:28. | :24:30. | |
Andy Moore, BBC News, Ashford. England cricket coach Andy Flower | :24:31. | :24:33. | |
says he is determined to stay on after the crushing 5-0 defeat to | :24:34. | :24:37. | |
Australia in the Ashes. He and captain Alistair Cook have come | :24:38. | :24:40. | |
under pressure to resign, but he says it's time for a new start. Our | :24:41. | :24:45. | |
chief sports correspondent, Dan Roan, reports from Sydney. | :24:46. | :24:52. | |
And that is eight, 5-0 to Australia... It was one of sport's | :24:53. | :24:58. | |
most spectacular from grace, England's cricketers whitewashed by | :24:59. | :25:01. | |
an Australian team they were expected to beat. The inquiry into | :25:02. | :25:05. | |
what went wrong has begun, the coach remains in charge. I do not feel | :25:06. | :25:11. | |
proud of the way we played this Test series. So why will you not resign | :25:12. | :25:15. | |
if you are not proud of what happened to Mike why have you | :25:16. | :25:21. | |
decided to stay? I am proud of my involvement in England cricket. I | :25:22. | :25:24. | |
think it is important that we review this logically and, as I said, learn | :25:25. | :25:31. | |
from some of the mistakes we have made. And ensure that we get English | :25:32. | :25:37. | |
cricket moving in the right direction again. Flower conceded | :25:38. | :25:42. | |
personal agendas had been at play in the dressing room, Graeme Swann | :25:43. | :25:45. | |
accused unnamed players of arrogance, having retired | :25:46. | :25:49. | |
mid-series. He denied he had been referring to team-mates including | :25:50. | :25:53. | |
Kevin Pietersen, but the star batsman cut an isolated figure here, | :25:54. | :25:57. | |
and some believe he has played his last test. While Andy Flower and | :25:58. | :26:00. | |
Alastair Cook will keep their jobs, what now looks certain is that the | :26:01. | :26:04. | |
England team left the field here at the Sydney Cricket ground yesterday | :26:05. | :26:07. | |
will look very different when it's place again next summer. It does | :26:08. | :26:14. | |
feel like the end of some type of era, and there will be some sort of | :26:15. | :26:18. | |
new start for the England cricket side. Preparations for a one-day | :26:19. | :26:24. | |
series here began today, and with the next Ashes 18 months away, some | :26:25. | :26:28. | |
now want a complete change in approach. The players, the | :26:29. | :26:33. | |
management, the Haidara keep of the ECB, they need to look at the way | :26:34. | :26:38. | |
that England have played cricket for two or three years now. -- the | :26:39. | :26:42. | |
hierarchy. They have got to be dynamic and realise it is an | :26:43. | :26:45. | |
entertainment business as much as a business that you have to win games, | :26:46. | :26:48. | |
but you play the dynamic and you will win games. Having enjoyed the | :26:49. | :26:53. | |
good times, the captain and coach are now experiencing some of the | :26:54. | :26:56. | |
worst. The true test is about to begin. | :26:57. | :27:02. | |
What about that whether? Susan Powell is here with the latest. | :27:03. | :27:10. | |
We have another challenging 24 hours to come, it will remain when the | :27:11. | :27:14. | |
overnight and through tomorrow, and there is more rain on the way as | :27:15. | :27:17. | |
well. But the rain will come in the form of showers, and that means not | :27:18. | :27:21. | |
warriors will see the worst of it, but for many southern counties of | :27:22. | :27:24. | |
England there are showers this evening and overnight, and more | :27:25. | :27:30. | |
showers too for Scotland, Northern Ireland and northern England. A | :27:31. | :27:32. | |
continued risk of coastal flooding along the south coast as well. It is | :27:33. | :27:36. | |
at least a mild night, overnight lows of seven or eight degrees. We | :27:37. | :27:41. | |
start Tuesday with a windy feel, and we will also see quite a few showers | :27:42. | :27:45. | |
initially across the south-east and further north. But the story really | :27:46. | :27:49. | |
as the day pans out is for things to become quieter, so by the afternoon | :27:50. | :27:52. | |
more in the way of dry weather than we have seen today, more in a way of | :27:53. | :27:56. | |
brightness, and the wind will start to become lighter. Temperatures of | :27:57. | :28:00. | |
11 or 12, on the mild side, but we must keep a close eye on southern | :28:01. | :28:04. | |
England, this weather front looks like it is going to bring more heavy | :28:05. | :28:08. | |
and persistent rain into southern England through the small hours of | :28:09. | :28:11. | |
Wednesday, and then another little area could come running in later on | :28:12. | :28:15. | |
Wednesday. So we are not out of the woods yet, particularly to the | :28:16. | :28:19. | |
south, but Wednesday on the whole much drier and brighter than we have | :28:20. | :28:22. | |
seen in awhile and with lighter winds, temperatures a little lower, | :28:23. | :28:25. | |
a chilly appeal, but again a reminder that we need to keep an eye | :28:26. | :28:29. | |
to the south on these little waves spinning up, because we could be | :28:30. | :28:33. | |
talking about another ten or 20 millimetres, the best part of an | :28:34. | :28:39. | |
inch of rain across southern England and Wales before get into Thursday. | :28:40. | :28:41. | |
But towards the end of the week, high-pressure washing towards us | :28:42. | :28:44. | |
will open up the isobars, killing off the winds, allowing things to | :28:45. | :28:49. | |
become drier. I am not promising new and entirely dry story, but it looks | :28:50. | :28:52. | |
significantly improved by the end of the week. | :28:53. | :28:55. |