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Education Secretary. Longer hours and new tests - Michael | :00:09. | :00:13. | |
Gove spells out his goal for parents and pupils. When you visit a school | :00:14. | :00:24. | |
in England, standards must be so high all round that you simply | :00:25. | :00:26. | |
cannot tell whether it is a state school or an independent, fee-paying | :00:27. | :00:29. | |
school. We will be asking what it would take | :00:30. | :00:32. | |
to narrow the gap between state and private schools. | :00:33. | :00:37. | |
Also tonight: welcome to flat-line, providing flood warning information | :00:38. | :00:41. | |
and general advice. -- floodlight. Anger after flood victims are | :00:42. | :00:44. | |
charged premium rates for calls to the helpline. | :00:45. | :00:46. | |
An inquest hears that an army corporal was found hanged after the | :00:47. | :00:49. | |
military failed to prosecute the men she claimed raped her. | :00:50. | :00:51. | |
One in three breast cancer patients are over 70. Health campaigners want | :00:52. | :00:57. | |
elderly women to keep getting checks. | :00:58. | :00:59. | |
And where has our car gone? The driveway that was there one minute | :01:00. | :01:04. | |
and gone the next. Tonight on BBC London: Tomorrow's | :01:05. | :01:07. | |
huge strike set to go ahead as talks break down without agreement. | :01:08. | :01:11. | |
-- Tube strike. And getting tough on child | :01:12. | :01:14. | |
exploitation - the Met promise to bring the perpetrators to justice. | :01:15. | :01:36. | |
Good evening and welcome to the BBC News at Six. The Education Secretary | :01:37. | :01:41. | |
Michael Gove has spelled out his vision for state education in | :01:42. | :01:43. | |
England, saying the schools should be as good as those in the private | :01:44. | :01:47. | |
sector. Mr Gove said state schools were already improving and listed | :01:48. | :01:50. | |
some changes he believes would make them better. State schools could | :01:51. | :01:56. | |
stay open longer. He wants more emphasis on discipline and is | :01:57. | :02:02. | |
introducing tougher exams. As our education correspondent Reeta | :02:03. | :02:04. | |
Chakrabarti reports, not all teachers are convinced. | :02:05. | :02:11. | |
To some, he is the saviour of England's schools. Two others, he is | :02:12. | :02:17. | |
an arrogant meddler. But none would dispute is that Michael Gove is a | :02:18. | :02:21. | |
man with big ambitions, a passion even, for rigorous standards and no | :02:22. | :02:25. | |
excuses. This morning, at a carefully chosen venue, a state | :02:26. | :02:29. | |
funded free school that is twinned with Eaton, Mr Gove said he wanted | :02:30. | :02:33. | |
to break down what he called the Berlin Wall between state and | :02:34. | :02:39. | |
private schools. My ambition for our education system is simple. When you | :02:40. | :02:43. | |
visit a school in England, standards must be so high all round that you | :02:44. | :02:48. | |
simply cannot tell whether it is a state school or an independent, | :02:49. | :02:54. | |
fee-paying school. So, a future Conservative government would help | :02:55. | :02:58. | |
state schools like this one in London to offer a nine or ten hour | :02:59. | :03:02. | |
day, just like independent schools, with time for structured homework, | :03:03. | :03:07. | |
music and sport. These teenagers, perhaps predictably, were not | :03:08. | :03:10. | |
thrilled at the prospect. If they were like, you have to come to the | :03:11. | :03:15. | |
club after school, I would be like, do I have to? If it was a nine or | :03:16. | :03:19. | |
ten hour day, it takes away from that aspect of having a social life | :03:20. | :03:23. | |
where you develop as a person. Michael Gove's words are likely to | :03:24. | :03:29. | |
go down better with parents with doubts about the state system. But | :03:30. | :03:32. | |
the headteacher here defends her sector, which she says as well on | :03:33. | :03:37. | |
less money than private schools. The idea that you should be able to walk | :03:38. | :03:41. | |
into any school and it just seemed like a particular type of school is | :03:42. | :03:46. | |
rather dampening to the creativity and individual spirit of schools. | :03:47. | :03:51. | |
Certainly, what we do here is said, you can do anything of the | :03:52. | :03:54. | |
independent sector does, as long as you have the right people and bubbly | :03:55. | :03:59. | |
bit more money behind it. A relentless drive to set high | :04:00. | :04:03. | |
standards and accept Noakes juices for poor performance is what marks | :04:04. | :04:07. | |
out Michael Gove. But he has made enemies in the process, not so much | :04:08. | :04:13. | |
for his vision, but his methods. The Labour peer Sally Morgan said he was | :04:14. | :04:16. | |
politically motivated in replacing her as chair of the schools watchdog | :04:17. | :04:21. | |
Ofsted on something he strongly denies. The said he should not | :04:22. | :04:25. | |
surround himself with yes-men. Labour said he has got his | :04:26. | :04:29. | |
priorities wrong. I wish the Secretary of State would focus on | :04:30. | :04:33. | |
improving teacher quality, how we get the best or fried teachers into | :04:34. | :04:37. | |
our classrooms, how we keep training them and refreshing them as | :04:38. | :04:41. | |
professionals rather than some of the gimmicks we have seen today. | :04:42. | :04:45. | |
Ruffling feathers in the education establishment is something Michael | :04:46. | :04:47. | |
Gove thinks is a price worth paying, but others think the man with the | :04:48. | :04:51. | |
big idea would do better to take more people with him. | :04:52. | :04:54. | |
Let's speak to our Political Editor Nick Robinson, who's at Westminster. | :04:55. | :05:04. | |
This is quite a bold claim for Michael Gove to be making. It is a | :05:05. | :05:08. | |
big claim am a big ambition from a man who generates a big fuss pretty | :05:09. | :05:12. | |
much whenever he puts his head above the parapet. The claim was that | :05:13. | :05:17. | |
actually, now people do not have to go to private schools, they don't | :05:18. | :05:20. | |
have to move house to a better postcode to get a good state | :05:21. | :05:24. | |
education. The ambition that every state school could be as good as | :05:25. | :05:32. | |
those private schools. Controversy, we have seen in recent days. Michael | :05:33. | :05:35. | |
Gove is one of the most courteous men in West -- Westminster, and yet | :05:36. | :05:41. | |
he is one of the most loathed people in the world of education because | :05:42. | :05:44. | |
they see him as a revolutionary, a man trying to impose traditional, | :05:45. | :05:48. | |
rather than what are often called progressive values. He is very | :05:49. | :05:53. | |
polite in public, in private rather less so, denigrating people who have | :05:54. | :05:57. | |
been running the education system for years as what he called the | :05:58. | :06:02. | |
blog, like that 1950s movie, a great, amoeba-like thing that stops | :06:03. | :06:05. | |
reform from happening. He has blamed civil servants, teachers and | :06:06. | :06:10. | |
educationalists. Today, he was playing nice, though. And of course, | :06:11. | :06:15. | |
he hopes the parents will say, we are on his side. But he will worry | :06:16. | :06:19. | |
that if teachers say there is too much meddling and not enough money, | :06:20. | :06:22. | |
that parents may listen to them instead. | :06:23. | :06:24. | |
David Cameron has called for a premium rate helpline for flood | :06:25. | :06:27. | |
victims to be scrapped. It follows angry complaints when people | :06:28. | :06:30. | |
affected by the floods discovered they were being charged 41 pence a | :06:31. | :06:34. | |
minute. The Environment Agency says it makes no money on the calls. | :06:35. | :06:37. | |
Tonight, there are still three severe flood warnings in place for | :06:38. | :06:41. | |
the Midlands and the south-west. Jon Kay reports from Somerset. | :06:42. | :06:53. | |
A new week, but no respite. This is how Monday morning started in Devon. | :06:54. | :07:06. | |
And this was the Cornish coastal town of Looe, the high tide taking | :07:07. | :07:10. | |
over the high street, even filling the supermarket aisles. Michelle's | :07:11. | :07:13. | |
restaurant was among those flooded, and when she realised that a call to | :07:14. | :07:17. | |
the Environment Agency's Floodline could cost her up to 41p a minute, | :07:18. | :07:23. | |
she was outraged. It is another extra expense. It is crazy. They | :07:24. | :07:29. | |
should not be charging. They should not be making money out of people | :07:30. | :07:32. | |
who are getting flooded and their livelihoods are being put in | :07:33. | :07:37. | |
jeopardy. It is wrong. The Environment Agency says the | :07:38. | :07:40. | |
Floodline has been running for 15 years, and the costs have always | :07:41. | :07:44. | |
been publicised. They insist that they don't make any money out of it. | :07:45. | :07:49. | |
It is run by a private operator, so the charges are determined by them. | :07:50. | :07:56. | |
We have recognised, as technology has improved, that there are better | :07:57. | :08:03. | |
ways of doing this. Well, the Environment Agency confirmed to me | :08:04. | :08:06. | |
this afternoon that they have already set up a cheaper 0345 | :08:07. | :08:10. | |
number, but they have decided not to publicise it yet because they don't | :08:11. | :08:15. | |
want to confuse people, they say, while they are dealing with this | :08:16. | :08:20. | |
ongoing winter incident. The way the Environment Agency spends its money | :08:21. | :08:24. | |
has also been questioned today, after its chairman said there were | :08:25. | :08:28. | |
choices to be made about whether to protect our towns or the countryside | :08:29. | :08:33. | |
from flooding. On the banks of the river parrot in Bridgwater, people | :08:34. | :08:36. | |
think urban areas like there's need most rejection. In a town, | :08:37. | :08:42. | |
everywhere gets flooded. It comes to a standstill. Businesses will not be | :08:43. | :08:48. | |
able to operate. Old-age pensioners, how will they get about? Here we | :08:49. | :08:53. | |
have got our dining room floor and sitting room floor. But head into | :08:54. | :08:56. | |
the countryside, and you get a very different answer. Rob's village home | :08:57. | :09:02. | |
has been flooded by the same river, and he says rural areas like his | :09:03. | :09:07. | |
need just as much protection. It is a very naive argument that the | :09:08. | :09:12. | |
country is just full of farmers and tractors, and everybody else works | :09:13. | :09:19. | |
in the city. The countryside is a total environment. That debate is | :09:20. | :09:25. | |
set to continue, and it seems, so is this terrible weather. | :09:26. | :09:28. | |
A second inquest has opened today into the death of Anne-Marie | :09:29. | :09:31. | |
Ellement, a Royal Military police officer who hanged herself after | :09:32. | :09:34. | |
claiming she was raped by two male colleagues. Her sister said Corporal | :09:35. | :09:40. | |
Ellement was "absolutely devastated" when military investigators decided | :09:41. | :09:44. | |
not to prosecute the two men. Duncan Kennedy reports. | :09:45. | :09:53. | |
Joining the Army was a dream come true for Corporal Annemarie | :09:54. | :09:56. | |
element, but the royal military police was a unit she came to hate. | :09:57. | :10:02. | |
She told friends two colleagues raped her in Germany, but that when | :10:03. | :10:07. | |
she complained their and here in Wiltshire, her colleagues turned on | :10:08. | :10:12. | |
her. She said she was only by superiors and became angry over the | :10:13. | :10:17. | |
lack of Army support. The inquest heard that she became depressed, and | :10:18. | :10:24. | |
in October 2011, she killed herself. Her family have fought for this | :10:25. | :10:27. | |
second inquest, because they believe the truth did not come out in the | :10:28. | :10:32. | |
first one. We want justice and some answers, and we want to know the | :10:33. | :10:38. | |
real reason for what happened to my little sister and why she was not | :10:39. | :10:41. | |
protected. Her mother, Alexandra Barritt, told the inquest she, | :10:42. | :10:47. | |
Annemarie, was belittled by staff. She was distressed that no one had | :10:48. | :10:50. | |
been charged. She added, Annemarie felt she got no support from the | :10:51. | :10:54. | |
Army. Her sister Sharon also gave evidence, saying Annemarie could not | :10:55. | :11:00. | |
believe they were not taking the allegations seriously. Army justice | :11:01. | :11:05. | |
is, she said, they have got away with what they did to me. On another | :11:06. | :11:11. | |
occasion here at the military camp, Corporal Ellement went to a rugby | :11:12. | :11:18. | |
match where a soldier, in front of hundreds of spectators, shouted out, | :11:19. | :11:22. | |
she is the girl who cried rape. Corporal Ellement told her family | :11:23. | :11:26. | |
she was mortified by the comment. Corporal Derek Bennett, in the | :11:27. | :11:29. | |
suit, said welfare in her unit was nonexistent, but the Ministry of | :11:30. | :11:35. | |
Defence will argue that Corporal Ellement did receive support | :11:36. | :11:37. | |
following the rape allegation. Health campaigners are calling on | :11:38. | :11:40. | |
women over 70 to continue checking for breast cancer. It follows new | :11:41. | :11:44. | |
evidence which shows that this age group accounts for more than half of | :11:45. | :11:47. | |
all deaths from breast cancer each year. At the moment, in England, | :11:48. | :11:51. | |
Wales and Northern Ireland, screening stops automatically for | :11:52. | :11:55. | |
women when they are 70. Here's our Health Correspondent Branwen | :11:56. | :12:03. | |
Jeffreys. A nice day in the garden, one of | :12:04. | :12:06. | |
life's simple pleasures, something Rosemary Webb really appreciates. A | :12:07. | :12:12. | |
year ago, at the age of 83, she was told she had breast cancer. She is | :12:13. | :12:16. | |
of a generation that like to talk about cancer. But Rosemary is glad | :12:17. | :12:22. | |
she asked for regular checks, which led to early treatment. Younger | :12:23. | :12:28. | |
people seem to be a bit more open with their body workings. Elder | :12:29. | :12:34. | |
people, my generation, perhaps feel a bit, not shy, but a bit more | :12:35. | :12:40. | |
reticent in going to a doctor. But it needs to be done. It is the most | :12:41. | :12:47. | |
common type of cancer in women. Around 41,000 women in England are | :12:48. | :12:50. | |
told each year that they have got breast cancer. 13,000 of those cases | :12:51. | :12:56. | |
are in women over the age of 70, but more than half the breast-cancer | :12:57. | :13:03. | |
deaths are in this age group. Although breast cancer survival has | :13:04. | :13:07. | |
improved massively. In 1971, it was just 54%. By 2011, it was up to 84%. | :13:08. | :13:16. | |
Breast cancer is increasingly a success story, but success still | :13:17. | :13:22. | |
largely relies on picking up the disease early on. Screening plays an | :13:23. | :13:29. | |
important part in that. The NHS starts inviting women as they get | :13:30. | :13:33. | |
close to the menopause. Those invitations for regular checks now | :13:34. | :13:38. | |
go on into your early 70s. But you can ask to be checked after that. | :13:39. | :13:42. | |
Women over 70 in good health can benefit from treatments, too, but | :13:43. | :13:47. | |
may not be aware of all the possible warning signs. Most people know that | :13:48. | :13:53. | |
a lump is a sign of breast cancer, but there are other symptoms such as | :13:54. | :13:57. | |
a brash, a nipple turning in when it's normally turns out, or casting | :13:58. | :14:01. | |
around the nipple. Any of those symptoms or anything unusual, you | :14:02. | :14:05. | |
should get checked out as soon as possible with a doctor. Rosemary has | :14:06. | :14:10. | |
been told she has a good chance of staying clear of cancer, leaving her | :14:11. | :14:15. | |
free to get on with her life. My future is great, really secure, I | :14:16. | :14:20. | |
feel. I am able to stay with the family and see grandchildren get | :14:21. | :14:22. | |
married and have great grandchildren. I would be quite | :14:23. | :14:27. | |
happy just coasting along as I am at the moment. And there is no reason | :14:28. | :14:32. | |
why other older women can't share in the success of breast cancer | :14:33. | :14:36. | |
treated. -- treatment. Former minister Tim Yeo has been | :14:37. | :14:38. | |
dropped as the Conservative candidate for his South Suffolk | :14:39. | :14:41. | |
constituency. Mr Yeo, who was recently cleared of breaking | :14:42. | :14:43. | |
parliamentary rules on lobbying, was deselected in a secret ballot of | :14:44. | :14:48. | |
local party members. Some complained that Mr Yeo had been "virtually | :14:49. | :14:51. | |
invisible" in parliament and in the constituency. Lloyds Bank, which was | :14:52. | :15:06. | |
bailed out by taxpayers at the height of the financial crisis, has | :15:07. | :15:09. | |
said preparations to sell billions of pounds of shares to the public | :15:10. | :15:13. | |
are well advanced. The share price fell today or news it is setting | :15:14. | :15:18. | |
aside more money to settle claims caused by the mis-selling of payment | :15:19. | :15:23. | |
protection insurance. Our business editor, Robert pest and reports. | :15:24. | :15:31. | |
9000 ?800 million, that is ?9.8 billion, the total bill for Lloyds | :15:32. | :15:37. | |
compensating customers it mis-sold PPI insurance, which is more than | :15:38. | :15:41. | |
the national income of Iceland. An almost unbelievable bill for Lloyds | :15:42. | :15:48. | |
past misbehaviour. The bank is gradually getting back to health. We | :15:49. | :15:53. | |
have had to put even more aside to compensate people for mis-sold | :15:54. | :15:57. | |
payment protection insurance, ?10 billion now from this bank loan, 20 | :15:58. | :16:02. | |
billion from the banking system as a whole. There is a massive silver | :16:03. | :16:06. | |
lining. When you add together all the costs for giving back money to | :16:07. | :16:11. | |
victims of mis-selling, some ?20 billion is being injected into the | :16:12. | :16:15. | |
economy and that is one of the big reasons why Britain is growing | :16:16. | :16:18. | |
again. These people in Birmingham explain where all the money is | :16:19. | :16:24. | |
going. We have not been abroad and we decided that is what we will do. | :16:25. | :16:30. | |
We have treated ourselves. My brother got some money back but I | :16:31. | :16:36. | |
have not received anything. In spite of the enormous costs of | :16:37. | :16:40. | |
compensating victims of mis-selling, the bank is performing much better | :16:41. | :16:44. | |
than it was and its share price is comfortably above what we, at tax | :16:45. | :16:49. | |
payers, paid to rescue it joined the crisis of 2008. That is why the | :16:50. | :16:54. | |
Government is working on detailed preparations for the next phase of | :16:55. | :16:59. | |
privatisation. The Government sold ?3 billion of Lloyd shares in the | :17:00. | :17:03. | |
autumn and is now working on a second sale of ?5 billion of shares | :17:04. | :17:11. | |
for April, and that would be five times the size of the recent Royal | :17:12. | :17:15. | |
Mail privatisation. We cannot carry on Mike this with banks not | :17:16. | :17:18. | |
performing like they should. -- like this. As soon as we get these banks | :17:19. | :17:26. | |
sensibly in a fixed state in the private sector, the better for all | :17:27. | :17:27. | |
of us. A huge multi-billion pound mass | :17:28. | :17:39. | |
market share sale, aimed at millions of people. The Government will want | :17:40. | :17:44. | |
to offer these to retail investors. There will probably be special terms | :17:45. | :17:47. | |
for Lloyds Bank customers. I think they will be very tempted to try to | :17:48. | :17:53. | |
sell them all out in one go. Should that happen, it would be a political | :17:54. | :17:58. | |
as well as financial event. Ed Miliband has recently pledged to | :17:59. | :18:01. | |
break up the big banks, including Lloyds. If investors became | :18:02. | :18:06. | |
convinced that Labour 's plans to dismantle the banks are credible, | :18:07. | :18:13. | |
privatisation would be even harder. Our top story... The Education | :18:14. | :18:19. | |
Secretary Michael Gove says he wants state schools to be as good as | :18:20. | :18:22. | |
private ones. And still to come... The art work giving the experts a | :18:23. | :18:31. | |
headache. Is it real or is it fake? Later on BBC London, the Thames | :18:32. | :18:35. | |
barrier closes again as homes in Surrey brace themselves for yet more | :18:36. | :18:41. | |
flooding. James Ward helped secure Britain 's passage to the | :18:42. | :18:44. | |
quarterfinals of the Davis cup for the first time in 24 years. | :18:45. | :18:48. | |
North Korea is one of the most repressive countries in the world | :18:49. | :18:53. | |
with a deep mistrust of the West. So, what are dozens of Western | :18:54. | :18:56. | |
lecturers, some of them British, doing at one of the country's top | :18:57. | :19:00. | |
universities? Human rights groups have raised concerns about these | :19:01. | :19:03. | |
teachers working in a country with such a poor record. They claim up to | :19:04. | :19:08. | |
200,000 people are being held in labour camps, just for disagreeing | :19:09. | :19:13. | |
with the regime. The BBC's Panorama has gained unprecedented access to | :19:14. | :19:15. | |
the university on the outskirts of the capital, Pyongyang. | :19:16. | :19:27. | |
They are the sons of some of the most powerful men in North Korea, | :19:28. | :19:33. | |
including senior military figures, marching to breakfast at the Western | :19:34. | :19:39. | |
funded Pyongyang University of science and technology. Its goal is | :19:40. | :19:45. | |
to equip the students with skills to help the impoverished community. The | :19:46. | :19:53. | |
500 students have been hand-picked by the regime to receive a Western | :19:54. | :19:59. | |
education. In English from foreign lecturers, including many from the | :20:00. | :20:04. | |
hated enemy, America. We have been given unique access to fill and | :20:05. | :20:08. | |
speak with the students. We are constantly monitored. When you first | :20:09. | :20:12. | |
met a foreigner, an American, where you wearing, nervous, of meeting an | :20:13. | :20:20. | |
American? Of course. American people are different. Doctor James Caan, a | :20:21. | :20:32. | |
Korean American entrepreneur and Christine was asked by the regime to | :20:33. | :20:39. | |
build this organisation. He raised much of the ?20 million it cost from | :20:40. | :20:45. | |
Christian charities. I am thankful to the Government. They trust me and | :20:46. | :20:52. | |
give me all authority. Operating this school, can you believe it? It | :20:53. | :20:59. | |
is hard to believe. According to human rights groups, North Korea | :21:00. | :21:04. | |
persecutes Christians. British lecturer Colin McCulloch left | :21:05. | :21:08. | |
Yorkshire to teach business studies here. I am sure that leaders and the | :21:09. | :21:13. | |
British Government realise they have to connect with the outside world. | :21:14. | :21:21. | |
-- the Government. It cannot be a closed economy in the modern age. | :21:22. | :21:31. | |
The teaching staff come here for the -- with the best intentions but is | :21:32. | :21:38. | |
it right? Supporters believe in the long-term these elite students could | :21:39. | :21:42. | |
help create a more moderate and open North Korea. And you can watch the | :21:43. | :21:47. | |
full report in tonight's Panorama. That's Educating North Korea, at | :21:48. | :21:54. | |
8:30pm on BBC One. The website for an internet-based drinking game | :21:55. | :21:56. | |
known as NekNomination has been taken down in Ireland after a | :21:57. | :22:00. | |
teenager died. Jonny Byrne, who was 19, died after jumping into the | :22:01. | :22:05. | |
River Barrow on Saturday. His family said he had been playing the game, | :22:06. | :22:08. | |
which encourages you to drink alcohol and perform extreme acts | :22:09. | :22:13. | |
before posting videos online. Jonny's father appealed to other | :22:14. | :22:24. | |
youngsters to act responsibly. I am pleading to every youngster to think | :22:25. | :22:28. | |
of the things they are doing. It has cost my son his life. The whole | :22:29. | :22:33. | |
family is devastated. Our lives will never be the same again. I hope this | :22:34. | :22:40. | |
message is heeded because, for us, life is virtually over. Now, one | :22:41. | :22:44. | |
minute your car is parked safely on the driveway, the next moment it has | :22:45. | :22:47. | |
vanished. That's what happened to one family in High Wycombe. They | :22:48. | :22:50. | |
discovered a sinkhole 30 feet deep and 15 feet wide, big enough to | :22:51. | :22:54. | |
swallow a car. Thankfully, no-one was injured. Sangita Myska's been | :22:55. | :23:03. | |
looking into the story. Imagine waking up to this. A whole that | :23:04. | :23:07. | |
swallowed your car right outside your door step will stop that is | :23:08. | :23:13. | |
exactly what happened to fill and Liz Conran from High Wycombe. They | :23:14. | :23:18. | |
were first alerted to the sinkhole when they were woken up by their | :23:19. | :23:24. | |
daughter on Sunday morning. We heard a piercing scream about 7am. She was | :23:25. | :23:30. | |
looking out the window, my car, my car, it has gone! This pit has left | :23:31. | :23:40. | |
Neighbours literally speechless. We saw it on television and I went... | :23:41. | :23:48. | |
Gobsmacked! 100 years ago, this part of the Chilterns used to be | :23:49. | :23:52. | |
regularly mindful clay. The pits were filled in and houses built on | :23:53. | :23:58. | |
top. The last four months of heavy winter rain have eroded the subsoil, | :23:59. | :24:03. | |
leaving this hole in its wake. Luckily no one here was hurt. This | :24:04. | :24:12. | |
sinkhole swallowed a car with the driver still in it in America. | :24:13. | :24:19. | |
Elsewhere, one group to the size of four football pitches overnight | :24:20. | :24:23. | |
and, in Chicago, A Road buckled eating three vehicles. Back in | :24:24. | :24:28. | |
Buckinghamshire, the local authority is investigating the collapse. | :24:29. | :24:33. | |
He thought it was an original work by the Russian artist, Marc Chagall, | :24:34. | :24:40. | |
and paid ?100,000 for it. But now businessman Martin Lang has been | :24:41. | :24:43. | |
told it is fake, and is having to resort to court action to stop it | :24:44. | :24:47. | |
being destroyed. The forgery was discovered by the BBC's Fake or | :24:48. | :24:52. | |
Fortune programme. Here's our arts editor, Will Gompertz. Here is the | :24:53. | :25:07. | |
controversial painting, dated 1909, 1910. It is destined for destruction | :25:08. | :25:15. | |
because it is, according to the Marc Chagall committee in France, a | :25:16. | :25:19. | |
fake. The owner is not contesting the judgment but he does want his | :25:20. | :25:24. | |
painting back. We are having to take some action against the committee by | :25:25. | :25:28. | |
taking out an injunction, just as a holding operation. We do not want to | :25:29. | :25:32. | |
do anything which could destroy the painting in the near future. We want | :25:33. | :25:38. | |
to be able to negotiate with them so we can come to a reasonable | :25:39. | :25:44. | |
settlement with them. A booming art market means there is plenty of | :25:45. | :25:48. | |
potential to make a lot of money for buying and selling famous modern | :25:49. | :25:53. | |
Art, making those in the business to authenticate it very powerful. Who | :25:54. | :25:58. | |
are they? Sometimes it is someone from the family, perhaps a son. They | :25:59. | :26:03. | |
may well know the work of the artist. Sometimes it is someone who | :26:04. | :26:09. | |
has done a thesis on the subject and has perhaps produced the catalogue. | :26:10. | :26:15. | |
They may well be able to pursue a certificate of authenticity. It | :26:16. | :26:19. | |
comes down to what the market accepts as the expertise. The | :26:20. | :26:24. | |
Chagall Committee said this painting was an imitation of the Reclining | :26:25. | :26:36. | |
Nude of 1911. They said the body was devoid of sculptural expression, the | :26:37. | :26:40. | |
arms awkward and out of kilter. It is, they said, drab and unrealistic. | :26:41. | :26:47. | |
Buying a forgery is an occupational hazard for any art collector. Even | :26:48. | :26:53. | |
museums have been caught out. It can be embarrassing and expensive to be | :26:54. | :26:57. | |
duped. Having your artwork confiscated and destroyed, well, | :26:58. | :27:00. | |
that must be heartbreaking. Time for a look at the weather. Here's Matt | :27:01. | :27:02. | |
Taylor. Nothing fake about the satellite | :27:03. | :27:12. | |
picture behind me. This is the next big thing of low pressure bringing | :27:13. | :27:17. | |
stormy conditions to our shores. Before it arrives, we do have | :27:18. | :27:21. | |
clouded with us. That has been producing rain across western areas. | :27:22. | :27:28. | |
The rain extends through the Irish Sea and into eastern parts of | :27:29. | :27:31. | |
Northern Ireland and western Scotland. The whole system is | :27:32. | :27:34. | |
pushing its way northwards and eastwards. It will produce snow on | :27:35. | :27:39. | |
the tops of the Pennines and the Scottish mountains. There will be | :27:40. | :27:42. | |
heavy and thundery showers pushing in. In the clear spells, we will see | :27:43. | :27:50. | |
temperatures drop low enough for frost and ice, particularly in | :27:51. | :27:53. | |
Scotland, Ireland and northern England. It would be a damp start. | :27:54. | :28:00. | |
Elsewhere heavy, thundery showers. The emphasis will be on a few | :28:01. | :28:06. | |
showers tomorrow. Many will have a predominantly dry day. Whilst most | :28:07. | :28:10. | |
of you will finish the day dry, not the case across Devon and Cornwall. | :28:11. | :28:16. | |
This is the area of cloud which, by Tuesday night, winds itself up into | :28:17. | :28:22. | |
a vigorous pressure system. The wind will strengthen again into Wednesday | :28:23. | :28:25. | |
morning. Severe gales will be possible, maybe 80 miles an hour. We | :28:26. | :28:29. | |
will see high tides as well around the West and the potential for | :28:30. | :28:35. | |
coastal flooding. A little bit of sunshine between the showers. It | :28:36. | :28:40. | |
will not feel anything special. A low-pressure system will push into | :28:41. | :28:42. | |
the North West of Scotland by the time we go into Thursday. We will | :28:43. | :28:48. | |
still see some rain. Drier and brighter weather for a time. It will | :28:49. | :28:52. | |
feel fresh in the breeze. More rain on Thursday | :28:53. | :28:53. |