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undervalued the business. The truth is this has been a first-class | :00:23. | :00:31. | |
disaster for the taxpayer and those he once referred to as gamblers are | :00:32. | :00:36. | |
laughing all the way to the bank. This was the correct approach. A | :00:37. | :00:41. | |
more aggressive approach to pricing would have introduced significantly | :00:42. | :00:46. | |
greater risk. Also on the programme, relatives of | :00:47. | :00:49. | |
the 96 Liverpool fans who died at Hillsborough hear the first of half | :00:50. | :00:52. | |
a million pieces of evidence as the inquests begin. | :00:53. | :00:55. | |
A 12-year-old girl dies after a wall falls on her at her school in | :00:56. | :01:02. | |
Edinburgh. New advice on fruit and veg - our | :01:03. | :01:05. | |
five portions a day should in fact be seven. | :01:06. | :01:14. | |
A shambles. As fitting an end as you could possibly have. And after the | :01:15. | :01:18. | |
Dutch disaster, where now for English cricket? | :01:19. | :01:22. | |
Tonight on BBC London: Accused of using public cash for electoral | :01:23. | :01:25. | |
gain, the Mayor of Tower Hamlets hits back, claiming the BBC's | :01:26. | :01:27. | |
racist. And flood-hit homeowners get Government cash to help protect | :01:28. | :01:28. | |
their properties. Good evening. Taxpayers lost out on | :01:29. | :01:54. | |
hundreds of millions of pounds because the Government was too | :01:55. | :01:57. | |
cautious when it sold Royal Mail, according to the National Audit | :01:58. | :01:59. | |
Office which says ministers undervalued the business when it was | :02:00. | :02:08. | |
privatised last year. Labour said the sell off had been botched. But | :02:09. | :02:11. | |
Business Secretary Vince Cable defended what he called the | :02:12. | :02:13. | |
Government's measured approach, saying there was a real risk the | :02:14. | :02:18. | |
floatation could fail. Here's our industry correspondent John Moylan. | :02:19. | :02:26. | |
It is the public service that became one of our top 100 companies, | :02:27. | :02:30. | |
successive governments had tried to privatise Royal Mail. Last October | :02:31. | :02:37. | |
the coalition finally succeeded. The watchdog has concluded the | :02:38. | :02:40. | |
Department for business did not get value for money. The Department | :02:41. | :02:46. | |
could have done better. It focused in particular on selling the shares | :02:47. | :02:50. | |
within the current parliament and achieved its primary objectives and | :02:51. | :02:53. | |
we felt it should have gone further to ensure it extracted the maximum | :02:54. | :03:00. | |
value available for the taxpayer. It was the biggest privatisation in | :03:01. | :03:04. | |
Britain for years and one of the most controversial ever attempted. | :03:05. | :03:10. | |
The threat of strikes, the sale took both lost October -- amid the threat | :03:11. | :03:16. | |
of strikes. The original share price was ?3.30. It soared on the first | :03:17. | :03:24. | |
day of trading. Now they are worth ?5 of the main postal union called | :03:25. | :03:27. | |
for the Business Secretary to resign. It was right we took a | :03:28. | :03:35. | |
cautious and measured approach to the sale. This was taken in the | :03:36. | :03:40. | |
light of our primary objective and it reflects the considerable risks | :03:41. | :03:48. | |
we face. This has been a first-class disaster for the taxpayer and those | :03:49. | :03:53. | |
he once referred to as gamblers are laughing all the way to the bank. | :03:54. | :03:59. | |
The government wanted Royal Mail to have stable long-term shareholders | :04:00. | :04:02. | |
so it gave a group of City institutions a bigger allocation of | :04:03. | :04:09. | |
shares. They played a role in the low share price. Within weeks, the | :04:10. | :04:13. | |
forms have sold off around half of their shares, some have sold their | :04:14. | :04:17. | |
entire stake. The investment giant standard life today confirmed it | :04:18. | :04:23. | |
sold 99% of its stake in March. Postal workers who received free | :04:24. | :04:27. | |
shares cannot sell birds for three years. It is typical. -- they cannot | :04:28. | :04:37. | |
sell theirs. It was not looking out for the taxpayer or the workforce, | :04:38. | :04:42. | |
it is looking out for the big City institutions. They are the ones | :04:43. | :04:48. | |
making the money. The report questions the sell-off process. It | :04:49. | :04:51. | |
was not flexible enough to enable the shares to be repriced later in | :04:52. | :04:55. | |
the day. It could have big occasions for the future when the Government | :04:56. | :05:01. | |
decides to sell off its stakes in our biggest banks. | :05:02. | :05:04. | |
Let's speak to our political editor Nick Robinson who's in Westminster. | :05:05. | :05:07. | |
Very critical report. Nick, how damaging is this report for the | :05:08. | :05:12. | |
Government? When you are saying money is tight, it hardly helps if | :05:13. | :05:16. | |
you are accused by the spending watchdog of wasting not millions of | :05:17. | :05:20. | |
pounds but hundreds of millions of pounds. You might have thought the | :05:21. | :05:24. | |
Business Secretary Vince Cable would be tempted to say sorry or even as | :05:25. | :05:30. | |
some people suggested to resign. The last thing he would do is apologise, | :05:31. | :05:36. | |
he said. He described the policy as a success. The government for years | :05:37. | :05:42. | |
have been trying to get the Royal Mail into the private sector. John | :05:43. | :05:48. | |
Major and Tony Blair both tried it and back down. Vince Cable wanted it | :05:49. | :05:55. | |
gone. He was nervous that if he set the price too high, the shares would | :05:56. | :05:59. | |
not sell or people would end up making a loss. This has played very | :06:00. | :06:04. | |
neatly into the Labour Party's hands. They are able to say once | :06:05. | :06:10. | |
again this is helping the Tories chums in the city when ordinary | :06:11. | :06:13. | |
people are feeling the squeeze. I do not know what the Labour leader will | :06:14. | :06:17. | |
say tomorrow in Prime Minister's Questions but I think he will be | :06:18. | :06:22. | |
tempted to use the phrase about standing up for the wrong people. | :06:23. | :06:30. | |
Thank you. The inquests into the death of 96 | :06:31. | :06:33. | |
Liverpool fans at Hillsborough has heard that many of the victims | :06:34. | :06:36. | |
suffered terrible crushing injuries, as pressure built up on the | :06:37. | :06:38. | |
terraces. In his opening statement, Lord Justice Goldring said the | :06:39. | :06:41. | |
tragedy was seared into the memories of everyone affected. The fresh | :06:42. | :06:44. | |
inquests were ordered after the original verdicts of accidental | :06:45. | :06:46. | |
death were quashed in 2012. Judith Moritz reports. | :06:47. | :06:53. | |
This was a day which these families had been waiting for. They came to | :06:54. | :06:57. | |
see the inquest get fully under way. Among them, the relatives of | :06:58. | :07:02. | |
Hillsborough's youngest victim. You have to be strong. Ten-year-old was | :07:03. | :07:09. | |
cousin of Liverpool captain Steven Gerrard. He was a person with his | :07:10. | :07:16. | |
own life and future. He had a family, friends, everything going | :07:17. | :07:22. | |
for him. It was cut short. The jury of seven women and four men was | :07:23. | :07:27. | |
brought into court. The room was packed. Seats for 100 lawyers and | :07:28. | :07:34. | |
300 bereaved family members. The courtroom fell silent as the names | :07:35. | :07:39. | |
of each of the 96 people who died at Hillsborough were read out. It took | :07:40. | :07:42. | |
more than six minutes. Some relatives held hands. Others became | :07:43. | :07:49. | |
tearful. The coroner Lord Justice Goldring began by telling the jury | :07:50. | :07:54. | |
about Hillsborough. He said, the disaster is seared into the memories | :07:55. | :07:59. | |
of the very many people affected by it on the families of of the 96 | :08:00. | :08:04. | |
people who died. -- most notably the families. They were told the | :08:05. | :08:11. | |
disaster was the worst ever at a British sports stadium. This CCTV | :08:12. | :08:16. | |
photograph shows the crowd holding up outside. The court heard the | :08:17. | :08:20. | |
tragedy happened when a terrible crushed developed at the Leppings | :08:21. | :08:25. | |
Lane end of the ground. Lord Justice Goldring told those in court, there | :08:26. | :08:31. | |
is no doubt, this disaster encompasses very many individual | :08:32. | :08:34. | |
human tragedies. Later any inquests, the families of those who | :08:35. | :08:38. | |
died will have the opportunity to give the jury their own personal | :08:39. | :08:45. | |
recollections of each of the fans who went to Hillsborough and never | :08:46. | :08:53. | |
returned. A 12-year-old girl has been killed | :08:54. | :08:56. | |
at her school in Edinburgh after a wall collapsed. The accident | :08:57. | :08:58. | |
happened at Liberton High School just before 10am. Our Scotland | :08:59. | :09:01. | |
correspondent Lorna Gordon is in Edinburgh. | :09:02. | :09:08. | |
People here are describing this as a very troubling incident. A young | :09:09. | :09:13. | |
girl dying at school, a school which is normally considered a place of | :09:14. | :09:15. | |
safety. Students have been offered counselling. Those who may have | :09:16. | :09:20. | |
known her, they have been told to stay off school until after Easter. | :09:21. | :09:27. | |
A 12-year-old girl in her first year of secondary. It is thought the | :09:28. | :09:31. | |
youngster named locally as Keane Wallis-Bennett died when a wall | :09:32. | :09:35. | |
collapsed in a changing room. As news spread of her death, parents | :09:36. | :09:39. | |
rushed to check on their children and get them home. Tell a macro my | :09:40. | :09:44. | |
stepdaughter phoned and said a wall had collapsed -- my stepdaughter | :09:45. | :09:52. | |
phoned. Close friends, a lot of them. It has left many here in | :09:53. | :10:00. | |
shock. Fellow pupils were told of what had happened at a hastily | :10:01. | :10:04. | |
convened assembly. It is obviously a very distressing time for all of the | :10:05. | :10:11. | |
pupils and staff who are cooperating fully with police Scotland and the | :10:12. | :10:16. | |
Health and Safety Executive at this very difficult time. The | :10:17. | :10:19. | |
investigation into what happened here has started. They will be | :10:20. | :10:23. | |
looking into claims from some pupils they had reported the wall as | :10:24. | :10:26. | |
unstable months ago. They have been trying to work out why a young girl | :10:27. | :10:32. | |
who went to school today will not be returning home. | :10:33. | :10:39. | |
New stricter rules have come into force from today for payday loan | :10:40. | :10:42. | |
companies with the Financial Conduct Authority suggesting that up to a | :10:43. | :10:45. | |
quarter of firms could be forced out of the industry if they don't | :10:46. | :10:48. | |
improve. The FCA says companies must do more to check someone's ability | :10:49. | :10:52. | |
to repay before giving them a loan. Here's our personal finance | :10:53. | :10:57. | |
correspondent Simon Gompertz. Another street clogged with the high | :10:58. | :11:03. | |
interest payday lenders facing a clamp-down. The council here in | :11:04. | :11:07. | |
south London has changed planning rules to stop them and banned some | :11:08. | :11:12. | |
posters. But the grip of the lenders is tightening. We have got loan | :11:13. | :11:17. | |
shark, loan shark, loan shark, loan shark, loan shark loan shark. That | :11:18. | :11:26. | |
is seven in a space of 200 yards. The interest is terrible. ?100 and | :11:27. | :11:30. | |
all of a sudden you miss a payment and the next month they want ?350. | :11:31. | :11:37. | |
They should not be allowed. The money watchdog the FCA is taking | :11:38. | :11:43. | |
over and and in more affordability checks. It will restrict the number | :11:44. | :11:48. | |
of times you can roll over a loan to two and consult on a cap on the | :11:49. | :11:52. | |
overall cost of credit. It is backed by the threat of closing lenders | :11:53. | :11:57. | |
down. Payday lenders were found to be making too much of their profit | :11:58. | :12:00. | |
from people who struggle to pay the money back. The new regime is | :12:01. | :12:03. | |
designed to force them to lend only to those who can afford it. It might | :12:04. | :12:09. | |
have prevented this man from racking up five payday loans he could not | :12:10. | :12:13. | |
handle. The blemish on his record means he cannot get a new mortgage | :12:14. | :12:18. | |
to move house. The impact of all of these payday loans has been quite | :12:19. | :12:24. | |
severe. It has affected our ability to move and our credit rating. It | :12:25. | :12:28. | |
has affected our lifestyle and available income. How do the lenders | :12:29. | :12:34. | |
react? Their official body welcomed the tougher rules saying it would | :12:35. | :12:38. | |
drive rogue operators out of the business. | :12:39. | :12:45. | |
Our top story this evening, a critical report into the sell off of | :12:46. | :12:48. | |
Royal Mail says the taxpayer lost out on hundreds of millions of | :12:49. | :12:53. | |
pounds. And still to come, a warning that closing animal health labs | :12:54. | :12:55. | |
could put both animal and human health at risk. | :12:56. | :13:00. | |
Later on BBC London: The technology that can predict where crime will | :13:01. | :13:05. | |
happen - the idea being used in LA could come to the capital. | :13:06. | :13:07. | |
And as London struggles with air pollution, the Mayor backs down over | :13:08. | :13:10. | |
plans to stop motorists driving on bad days. | :13:11. | :13:25. | |
We all know eating fruit and vegetables is good for us. Are we | :13:26. | :13:31. | |
eating enough? Until now the advice has been to eat five portions a | :13:32. | :13:36. | |
day, something which many of us struggle to achieve. A new study | :13:37. | :13:40. | |
advises we should be eating at least seven portions a day. The research | :13:41. | :13:44. | |
by University College London looked at the eating habits of 65,000 men | :13:45. | :13:49. | |
and women and found the more fruit and vegetables they ate, the longer | :13:50. | :13:54. | |
they were likely to live. Here is our health correspondent. | :13:55. | :14:00. | |
A good diet with lots of fruit and veg can have a significant impact on | :14:01. | :14:04. | |
our health. Now research suggests the more you eat, the greater the | :14:05. | :14:08. | |
benefit. Eating at least seven portions seems to reduce the risk of | :14:09. | :14:14. | |
death, cancer and heart disease and stroke. Every additional portion is | :14:15. | :14:19. | |
an added health benefit. The people eating 12 three portions did better | :14:20. | :14:25. | |
than the people eating one portion -- one up to three portions. The | :14:26. | :14:29. | |
most and Fitz came from eating seven portions. What might it look like in | :14:30. | :14:39. | |
reality -- the most benefits. If you put all of this together that is | :14:40. | :14:45. | |
your five a day right there. Other countries do it differently. In | :14:46. | :14:50. | |
Denmark, the recommendation is six portions each day. In Australia, | :14:51. | :14:55. | |
they said two portions of fruit but five portions of vegetables making | :14:56. | :15:00. | |
seven in total. Could we managed to eat that much fruit and veg? It | :15:01. | :15:05. | |
would be doable. It is getting into the habit. I like fruit. And I like | :15:06. | :15:16. | |
vegetables. But you don't deep -- don't eat them every day. The world | :15:17. | :15:21. | |
health organisation recommends we eat five portions a day. On average, | :15:22. | :15:27. | |
we managed two portions of fruit and one and a half portions of | :15:28. | :15:31. | |
vegetables. Health experts say that until more of us are hitting the | :15:32. | :15:36. | |
five day target, the official advice is unlikely to change. As to whether | :15:37. | :15:40. | |
it should be raised to seven a day, I think probably not at the moment. | :15:41. | :15:45. | |
This is just one study and also because the majority of us, two | :15:46. | :15:50. | |
thirds of us, do not manage to eat five a day. Until we managed to do | :15:51. | :15:54. | |
that, there is a way to go. There are reservations about what the | :15:55. | :16:04. | |
study tells us. The group who ate lots of were nonsmokers, better off | :16:05. | :16:07. | |
and better educated and all of those things are associated with a | :16:08. | :16:09. | |
healthier lifestyle. It may be contributing to reduced mortality. | :16:10. | :16:14. | |
The research questions whether sugar rich fruit juice should count as | :16:15. | :16:18. | |
part of the five a day target. Five a day at least feels achievable. | :16:19. | :16:22. | |
Asking people to do more maybe too much. Len McCluskey, the leader of | :16:23. | :16:35. | |
Britain's biggest trade union, Unite, has said he could see his | :16:36. | :16:37. | |
union withdrawing its financial backing from the Labour Party if Ed | :16:38. | :16:40. | |
Miliband loses the General Election. Let's speak to our Deputy Political | :16:41. | :16:43. | |
Editor James Landale, who's in Westminister. James, why is he | :16:44. | :16:47. | |
saying this? He is taking sides in a debate that is raging within the | :16:48. | :16:51. | |
Labour Party at the moment over its policies for the next general | :16:52. | :16:54. | |
election, and it is a debate between being radical and cautious. What Len | :16:55. | :17:01. | |
McCluskey said today is that if at the moment Labour is not offering | :17:02. | :17:05. | |
what he called a coherent vision to the electorate, and if at the | :17:06. | :17:10. | |
election it offers what he called a pale shadow of the austerity | :17:11. | :17:15. | |
programme, then Labour will lose, and then potentially he could | :17:16. | :17:24. | |
envisage Unite withdrawing its cash, costing the party millions | :17:25. | :17:28. | |
each year. He said in that context he feared for the future of the | :17:29. | :17:33. | |
Labour Party. To avoid this, he said Ed Miliband should focus on what he | :17:34. | :17:38. | |
called transformative policies such as renationalising the railways and | :17:39. | :17:42. | |
raising the minimum wage. Essentially he is putting a shot | :17:43. | :17:46. | |
across the bow of Ed Miliband, saying more must happen. He is due | :17:47. | :17:52. | |
to meet Ed Miliband this week, it could be an interesting meeting. The | :17:53. | :17:58. | |
NHS is facing the biggest challenge of its history, according to the new | :17:59. | :18:02. | |
chief executive of NHS England, who started work today. Simon Stevens | :18:03. | :18:04. | |
says services will need to be radically reformed if the NHS is to | :18:05. | :18:07. | |
thrive given increased spending pressures and an ageing population. | :18:08. | :18:17. | |
Branwen Jeffreys reports. Getting older, going through serious | :18:18. | :18:21. | |
illness, coping with many different conditions. In the end, most parts | :18:22. | :18:26. | |
of the NHS will look after you. What does that feel like as a patient? | :18:27. | :18:31. | |
Even when care is good, it can be frustrating. Sometimes you get lost | :18:32. | :18:39. | |
in the system. When I was at hospital, somebody came to talk to | :18:40. | :18:43. | |
me about things I might need, and these red buttons if you fall, and | :18:44. | :18:49. | |
he took these notes, I haven't seen him since. How do you make it better | :18:50. | :18:55. | |
for older patients when money is tight? Peterborough is changing. | :18:56. | :19:00. | |
Within ten years there will be a third more elderly people here, and | :19:01. | :19:05. | |
that means the health care needs to change too, otherwise the NHS simply | :19:06. | :19:09. | |
might not cope with the financial pressures ahead. So the NHS here is | :19:10. | :19:16. | |
creating a special service for older people, the ?800 million contract | :19:17. | :19:21. | |
might involve private companies working with the NHS. For patients | :19:22. | :19:26. | |
who need lots of care, it could mean one person to ring, but why is this | :19:27. | :19:32. | |
being backed by the GB managing local budgets? He thinks money could | :19:33. | :19:38. | |
be saved. Many of the patients are going into the hospital several | :19:39. | :19:42. | |
times a year, or having very poor experiences in terms of the Way they | :19:43. | :19:47. | |
live their lives, so by taking better care of them it will save | :19:48. | :19:52. | |
resources. Is the kind of change this man wants to see taking over as | :19:53. | :20:02. | |
the NHS Chief Executive in England? Simon Stevens advised Tony Blair, he | :20:03. | :20:06. | |
has worked for a big American health care company, but coping with | :20:07. | :20:10. | |
massive financial pressures in the NHS is his toughest job. He knows | :20:11. | :20:16. | |
paying for the next generation will not be easy. On average, probably | :20:17. | :20:23. | |
one in three of them will celebrate their hundredth birthday so that is | :20:24. | :20:26. | |
a fantastic achievement, but what it means is that as the country is | :20:27. | :20:33. | |
ageing, as we all get older, we have to provide services in new ways. | :20:34. | :20:38. | |
Some hospitals already have financial problems. Not all local | :20:39. | :20:43. | |
hospitals will survive these pressures unchanged. | :20:44. | :20:50. | |
The Malaysian authorities have released the full transcript of | :20:51. | :20:52. | |
communications between the pilots of Malaysia Airlines flight 370 and | :20:53. | :20:55. | |
Kuala Lumpur's air traffic control. It shows what seems to be an | :20:56. | :20:58. | |
uneventful flight from the time the Boeing 777 was taxiing to its last | :20:59. | :21:01. | |
known position above the South China Sea. The final words are recorded as | :21:02. | :21:10. | |
"Good night, Malaysian 370". Britain's leading animal experts are | :21:11. | :21:13. | |
warning that closing half of the laboratories that test the health of | :21:14. | :21:16. | |
the nations' animals could lead to a greater risk of outbreaks of | :21:17. | :21:18. | |
diseases that risk human health, such as mad cow disease. Two of the | :21:19. | :21:23. | |
key labs are closing their doors today, with the rest to follow. | :21:24. | :21:35. | |
Claire Marshall reports. A rare glimpse inside the Government | :21:36. | :21:39. | |
laboratories that work to protect us from potentially devastating | :21:40. | :21:43. | |
diseases, but half of the animal health surveillance centres in | :21:44. | :21:47. | |
England and Wales are closing. Experts say this makes the UK more | :21:48. | :21:53. | |
vulnerable. If we cannot detect an animal infection quickly, it can | :21:54. | :21:57. | |
spread throughout livestock, an industry worth over 11 billion to | :21:58. | :22:02. | |
the country, but more importantly the risk is there that the infection | :22:03. | :22:06. | |
can spread to humans before it has been identified in animal stock. | :22:07. | :22:11. | |
This happened in the 1990s when mad cow disease infected humans. | :22:12. | :22:17. | |
Millions was interested to improve the surveillance system. Nearly 20 | :22:18. | :22:29. | |
years on it is being downsized. This man's son died of the disease. It | :22:30. | :22:34. | |
will mean that other people will die and they will end up like my son. | :22:35. | :22:39. | |
They use all these excuses of calculated risks. It is not | :22:40. | :22:48. | |
calculated with their children. Vets are also worried, they say it will | :22:49. | :22:53. | |
be harder to spot the new and emerging diseases. Currently we have | :22:54. | :22:57. | |
such a superb service, it will be difficult to represent -- replicate | :22:58. | :23:04. | |
that in the commercial world. We need to adapt to make more efficient | :23:05. | :23:10. | |
use of new technologies and to deliver a more efficient public | :23:11. | :23:15. | |
service regardless of whether there are budget cuts. Here, calves are | :23:16. | :23:23. | |
helping to produce new vaccines. Tonight reaction from the United | :23:24. | :23:26. | |
Nations chief vet, this is a system that works extremely well and | :23:27. | :23:30. | |
changing it is not what the UK or the world needs. | :23:31. | :23:37. | |
England's cricket captain Alastair Cook has told the BBC that team | :23:38. | :23:41. | |
unity will be at the centre of his plans to revive their fortunes, | :23:42. | :23:43. | |
after a dreadful winter, culminating with a defeat against the Dutch. | :23:44. | :23:47. | |
Cook has been preparing for the new county season at home while | :23:48. | :23:49. | |
England's Twenty20 side endured fresh misery against the | :23:50. | :23:53. | |
Netherlands, as Joe Wilson reports. It was the winter of relentless | :23:54. | :23:57. | |
discontent. Losing the Ashes 5-0 felt like the bottom, and then there | :23:58. | :24:01. | |
was a one-day series in Australia where England won just one match. In | :24:02. | :24:04. | |
Twenty20 cricket they were humiliated by the Netherlands, | :24:05. | :24:06. | |
English cricket excavating a new low. Now there is going to be a run | :24:07. | :24:18. | |
out. A shambles, as fitting an end as you could possibly have. Today in | :24:19. | :24:21. | |
Chelmsford, blinking into the April sun, the players of Essex greeted | :24:22. | :24:24. | |
the new county season with their captain and England's Alastair Cook. | :24:25. | :24:27. | |
For the first time today he addressed all England's recent | :24:28. | :24:29. | |
issues, in particular the sacking of KP - Kevin Pietersen. This winter | :24:30. | :24:40. | |
has been an incredibly tough winter. We haven't played very well and | :24:41. | :24:43. | |
things have come crashing down pretty quickly. It shows in sport | :24:44. | :24:46. | |
how quickly it can change. Do you feel that England are in a stronger | :24:47. | :24:50. | |
place as a dressing room, as a unit, without KP involved? Yes, I think | :24:51. | :24:53. | |
moving forward, that's going to be the way. We all know how important | :24:54. | :24:59. | |
team culture is, and team unity. Sometimes you have to get the | :25:00. | :25:04. | |
absolute basics in place. For a month or so, all of England's | :25:05. | :25:06. | |
players can concentrate on their counties but there are big issues to | :25:07. | :25:10. | |
be resolved at a national level. England will appoint a new coach but | :25:11. | :25:15. | |
does the renaissance rest with Cook? It is not really that important that | :25:16. | :25:19. | |
you get knocked down, it is how you get up and fight back that counts. | :25:20. | :25:22. | |
He is a fighter, he's the best England player I have ever worked | :25:23. | :25:25. | |
with. The captain has made his case. If he is in charge, the team means | :25:26. | :25:34. | |
more than any individual. Time for a look at the weather. | :25:35. | :25:36. | |
Here's Tomasz Schafernaker. Not such a cheery note to start off, | :25:37. | :25:48. | |
we have had some high levels of pollution, we have had to deal with | :25:49. | :25:53. | |
Saharan dust and home-grown pollution. There will be a | :25:54. | :25:58. | |
significant rise of pollution as we head into tomorrow, you can see the | :25:59. | :26:03. | |
extent of it, very high in southern parts of England and one of the | :26:04. | :26:08. | |
reasons is that we have these southeasterly winds bringing the | :26:09. | :26:12. | |
pollution from the near continent, but also home-grown pollution from | :26:13. | :26:17. | |
all sorts of exhausts. By the time we get to Tuesday, the wind will | :26:18. | :26:21. | |
change direction and there is some rain on the way. There will be some | :26:22. | :26:26. | |
rain tonight, it will be a mild night across the south of the | :26:27. | :26:30. | |
country but not so mild across the north of the country because here, | :26:31. | :26:35. | |
after a cold and cloudy day, it will remain misty and murky through the | :26:36. | :26:39. | |
night. In the south of the country, this is where we will have the | :26:40. | :26:45. | |
double-figure temperatures. For tomorrow, there will be some rain | :26:46. | :26:49. | |
around across these western areas, in fact there could be some heavy | :26:50. | :26:54. | |
showers with thunder in some places. The rain will end up in | :26:55. | :26:59. | |
southern parts of Scotland and Northern Ireland too, but the best | :27:00. | :27:06. | |
parts of the weather will be across the eastern parts of the country. | :27:07. | :27:11. | |
Then on Thursday, earlier on I was talking about the pollution, on | :27:12. | :27:16. | |
Thursday the wind will change direction. Temperatures will go down | :27:17. | :27:20. | |
a little bit, there will be some rain around in western areas and the | :27:21. | :27:24. | |
pollution levels will be that little bit lower. Thank you. That is it | :27:25. | :27:30. | |
from us | :27:31. | :27:31. |