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Politicians take action over the biggest ever proposed foreign | :00:07. | :00:11. | |
takeover of a British. Can. The bosses of US pharmaceutical giant, | :00:12. | :00:14. | |
Pfizer, and the UK firm, AstraZeneca, will appear before MPs | :00:15. | :00:18. | |
amid concerns that a takeover may not be in British interests. One of | :00:19. | :00:21. | |
our options, as the Government, would be to consider using our | :00:22. | :00:26. | |
public interest test powers. This would be a serious step, and not one | :00:27. | :00:30. | |
that should be taken lightly. We will look at what the proposed | :00:31. | :00:34. | |
takeover could mean for the future of scientific research in Britain | :00:35. | :00:38. | |
and for jobs. Also tonight: Back in court. Stuart Hall pleads guilty to | :00:39. | :00:44. | |
indecently asalting an under age girl, but denies 20 other charges. A | :00:45. | :00:49. | |
new report suggests half of all deaths from asthma in the UK could | :00:50. | :00:55. | |
be avoided. Missing Madeleine McCann, now the British police ask | :00:56. | :01:02. | |
to dig up a number of sites in Portugal. At this point it becomes | :01:03. | :01:07. | |
quite painful. Roger Bannister relives breaking the four-minute | :01:08. | :01:12. | |
mile, 60 years on from historic race. On BBC London. An | :01:13. | :01:16. | |
investigation reveals Met officers and staff breached data protection | :01:17. | :01:19. | |
law hundreds of times over the last five years. And, with the Tube | :01:20. | :01:22. | |
strike suspended, is the row over ticket office closures resolved? | :01:23. | :01:39. | |
Good evening and welcome to the BBC News at Six. The biggest ever | :01:40. | :01:44. | |
proposed foreign takeover of a British firm is to be scrutinised by | :01:45. | :01:48. | |
parliament. American pharmaceutical giant, Pfizer, has offered ?63 | :01:49. | :01:53. | |
billion for the British company, AstraZeneca, and so far has been | :01:54. | :01:56. | |
rebuffed. Now the bosses of both companies have been summoned to | :01:57. | :02:00. | |
appear before MPs amid fears the deal could cost British jobs and | :02:01. | :02:05. | |
jeopardise scientific research here. Our political editor, Nick Robinson, | :02:06. | :02:12. | |
has more. It's asthmaive experiment. Take thousands of British jobs and | :02:13. | :02:16. | |
add a plan of an American takeover of the company that provides them. | :02:17. | :02:21. | |
What have you got? Either a bigger, better pharmaceuticals company or a | :02:22. | :02:26. | |
disaster for a key British industry. The bid by Pfizer to buy UK-based | :02:27. | :02:31. | |
AstraZeneca just got political. The head of Pfizer is saying that | :02:32. | :02:36. | |
company might be split up. Indeed, possibly sold off after, if the | :02:37. | :02:39. | |
takeover goes ahead. This just reinforces my view of you coming | :02:40. | :02:46. | |
from experts on science and industry that the Government can't be cheer | :02:47. | :02:49. | |
leading for this takeover. Our sole interest here is in securing good | :02:50. | :02:54. | |
jobs in Britain, good manufacturing jobs, good science jobs. That is | :02:55. | :02:58. | |
what I'm interested in. We'll support any arrangement that | :02:59. | :03:01. | |
delivers that for Britain. If goes ahead, this will be the largest | :03:02. | :03:05. | |
acquisition of a British company by a foreign business. The American | :03:06. | :03:11. | |
multinational Pfizer has offered ?63 billion for AstraZeneca. Which | :03:12. | :03:15. | |
currently employs nearly 7,000 here. That is just a fraction of the | :03:16. | :03:24. | |
50,000 it employs globally. Pfizer employs 2,500 in the UK out of a | :03:25. | :03:28. | |
total 78,000 worldwide. What is fuelling the row is fresh and | :03:29. | :03:33. | |
painful memories of this. The US-takeover of Cadbury's by the food | :03:34. | :03:38. | |
giant Kraft which made promises to protect Britishle factories and jobs | :03:39. | :03:42. | |
only to abandon them later. Pfizer have run down three companies they | :03:43. | :03:47. | |
have bought in the past. Or so claims the former boss of | :03:48. | :03:52. | |
AstraZeneca. We will see that research and development has been | :03:53. | :03:57. | |
significantly reduced and that over 50,000 jobs have been lost. In other | :03:58. | :04:02. | |
words, Pfizer have been acting, in my language, like a preying mantis. | :04:03. | :04:08. | |
They have been sucking the life blood out of those three units in | :04:09. | :04:12. | |
order to sustain themselves. The US firm has written to the Prime | :04:13. | :04:15. | |
Minister to insist they will protect jobs here in Cambridge and | :04:16. | :04:19. | |
elsewhere. Their backers point out that AstraZeneca recently announced | :04:20. | :04:24. | |
the close sure of their Cheshire HQ, which unfortunately for them is in | :04:25. | :04:29. | |
the Chancellor's constituency. Just one reason, ministers say, they | :04:30. | :04:33. | |
won't and shouldn't take sides. The Government must and will approach it | :04:34. | :04:39. | |
from the position of even handed neutrality and recognise that this | :04:40. | :04:43. | |
is ultimately a matter for the shareholders of both companies. The | :04:44. | :04:47. | |
bottom line is this. The assurances the Government extracted from Pfizer | :04:48. | :04:51. | |
are simply not worth the paper they are written on. We often talk of | :04:52. | :04:55. | |
ministers here in parliament being in power. This story of what could | :04:56. | :05:01. | |
be the biggest takeover in British company history, reveals how little | :05:02. | :05:06. | |
power any politician has to tell the Board or the shareholders of | :05:07. | :05:11. | |
companies what they should and shouldn't do. This argument is | :05:12. | :05:15. | |
putting to the test what impact politicians can have on the | :05:16. | :05:20. | |
decisions of vast multinational companies. Nick Robinson, BBC News, | :05:21. | :05:25. | |
Westminster. Our Business Editor, Kamal Ahmed, is here. Other than the | :05:26. | :05:29. | |
sheer sums involved in this proposed takeover, it also matters in terms | :05:30. | :05:32. | |
of the future of British scientific research, doesn't it? It absolutely | :05:33. | :05:36. | |
does. Today AstraZeneca put out their their response, their defence | :05:37. | :05:40. | |
about why they are important to Britain. They talked about all these | :05:41. | :05:43. | |
new drugs that could come for patients from cancer to heart | :05:44. | :05:47. | |
treatments, to diabetes treatments. As you say, as Nick has been saying | :05:48. | :05:51. | |
in his report, there is a bit of business in this. There is an awful | :05:52. | :05:56. | |
lot of pollics it. The issue will be on the politics, we go right back to | :05:57. | :06:00. | |
the financial crisis of 2008. That really flipped the relationship | :06:01. | :06:03. | |
between politicians and businesses. Politicians, I think, feel really | :06:04. | :06:08. | |
emboldened to say, we can say what you should be doing as a business in | :06:09. | :06:12. | |
the UK. And they have invited the two Heads of Pfizer and AstraZeneca | :06:13. | :06:17. | |
to parliament next week. I think that invite has a whiff of the MAFF | :06:18. | :06:22. | |
Yeo I about it, please do come, or else... The Chief Executive of Kraft | :06:23. | :06:28. | |
refused to come to parliament when Kraft took over Cadbury. That was | :06:29. | :06:33. | |
about chocolate bars and this is about drugs. They know the | :06:34. | :06:35. | |
Government can make their life very tricky. Thank you very much. The | :06:36. | :06:39. | |
broadcaster, Stuart Hall, has pleaded guilty to one charge of | :06:40. | :06:43. | |
indecently assaulting a girl under the age of 16. The offence took | :06:44. | :06:48. | |
place between 1978 and 1979. He denies 15 charges of rape and five | :06:49. | :06:52. | |
of indecent assault and will now stand trial at Preston Crown Court. | :06:53. | :06:57. | |
He is serving time in prison for sexually abusing under age girls | :06:58. | :07:03. | |
over a 20 year period. Our correspondent, Judity Moritz, | :07:04. | :07:04. | |
reports. Stuart Hall has spent nearly a year in prison for child | :07:05. | :07:08. | |
sex offences. Today, the cameras were waiting as he was brought back | :07:09. | :07:12. | |
to court to face new charges. The former broadcaster, who is 84, | :07:13. | :07:15. | |
listened to proceedings through head phones. He admitted indecently | :07:16. | :07:21. | |
asalting a girl who was under 16 between 1978 and 79. He denies 20 | :07:22. | :07:27. | |
other charges, including 15 of rape, some involving the same child and | :07:28. | :07:32. | |
others alleged by a different girl. Charged under his full name of James | :07:33. | :07:37. | |
Stuart Hall, the former TV presenter stood behind the glass walled dock | :07:38. | :07:41. | |
of court room number one and watched as the jury of eight women and four | :07:42. | :07:45. | |
men were sworn in. They were told that his trial will begin tomorrow. | :07:46. | :07:50. | |
The jury will hear that Stuart Hall was convicted last year of | :07:51. | :07:55. | |
indecently assaulting 13 girls between 1967 and 86. The youngest | :07:56. | :08:00. | |
was nine. His original prison sentence of 15 months was doubled | :08:01. | :08:03. | |
when the Court of Appeal ruled that it it had been unduly lenient. | :08:04. | :08:10. | |
Stuart Hall was once the popular presenter of the game show It's A | :08:11. | :08:14. | |
Knock Out he was well-known as the face of BBC regional news in the | :08:15. | :08:19. | |
north-west. The jury were told they may recognise the defendant, but | :08:20. | :08:23. | |
they should decide the case based only on evidence heard in this | :08:24. | :08:28. | |
trial. Judith Moritz, BBC us in, Preston. The comedian, Freddie | :08:29. | :08:33. | |
Starr, will not face sexual abuse charges because of "insufficient | :08:34. | :08:36. | |
evidence" in most cases, according to the Crown Prosecution Service. | :08:37. | :08:41. | |
The 71-year-old was arrested in 2012 over claims by 13 individuals as | :08:42. | :08:44. | |
part of Operation Yewtree, set up to investigate claims of historical | :08:45. | :08:48. | |
sexual crimes following the Jimmy Savile scandal. Mr Starr has always | :08:49. | :08:52. | |
denied any wrong-doing. Half of deaths from asthma in the UK could | :08:53. | :08:56. | |
be avoided, according to the first national study of asthma deaths in | :08:57. | :09:00. | |
the UK. Three people die from the condition every day, one of the | :09:01. | :09:04. | |
highest death rates from asthma in Europe. The report criticises | :09:05. | :09:07. | |
medical staff for complacency and for not giving patients adequate | :09:08. | :09:12. | |
information. Here's our health correspondent, Branwen Jeffreys. | :09:13. | :09:15. | |
Holly was like any 12-year-old, full of energy, but she was struggling | :09:16. | :09:20. | |
with her asthma, even though she loved gymnastics. Her mum's plea for | :09:21. | :09:24. | |
a hospital checkup was turned down, just weeks later Holly collapsed and | :09:25. | :09:30. | |
died after a month in intensive care, leaving her mum bereft and | :09:31. | :09:34. | |
bewildered. I never thought you could die of it. I suffer with | :09:35. | :09:42. | |
asthma, so does my sister. You know, if you go about your daily life. You | :09:43. | :09:46. | |
don't ever think you are going to die of it. It's quite shocking | :09:47. | :09:50. | |
really. This asthma study is the largest of its kind worldwide. 195 | :09:51. | :09:56. | |
deaths of asthma patients were examined in detail. It found 46% of | :09:57. | :10:01. | |
the deaths could have been avoided by better care. 21% had visited A | :10:02. | :10:09. | |
in the previous year. The doctor who led this review says asthma can be | :10:10. | :10:15. | |
successfully treated, very simply, better care could save lives. | :10:16. | :10:20. | |
Patients with poorly controlled asthmas are six times more likely to | :10:21. | :10:24. | |
have an asthma attack than people who have well controlled asthma. If | :10:25. | :10:29. | |
we can encourage people to take medication regularly, if we can | :10:30. | :10:33. | |
encourage doctors and nurses to identify those people who are not | :10:34. | :10:37. | |
taking medication regularly, then we can reduce the deaths. An asthma | :10:38. | :10:42. | |
attack can happen anywhere. That is why it's really important to know | :10:43. | :10:46. | |
when you are struggling and recognise the warning signs. Such as | :10:47. | :10:50. | |
using your reliever inhaler several times a week. Waking up in the night | :10:51. | :10:54. | |
or coughing or wheezing getting in the way of your every day life. All | :10:55. | :10:59. | |
reasons to go and see a doctor or a nurse to get your asthma under | :11:00. | :11:05. | |
control. Many asthma deaths are needless, many preventable. A | :11:06. | :11:09. | |
message Holly's family now hopes will get through. Branwen Jeffreys, | :11:10. | :11:16. | |
BBC News. The bodies of five British servicemen, who were killed when | :11:17. | :11:19. | |
their helicopter crashed in southern Afghanistan last months, have | :11:20. | :11:22. | |
arrived back in the UK. The Ministry of Defence says the crash was an | :11:23. | :11:26. | |
accident, and not due to enemy action. It's the worst incident | :11:27. | :11:29. | |
involving a British military helicopter in Afghanistan since the | :11:30. | :11:36. | |
war began in 2001. Jon Kay reports. They died together and they flew | :11:37. | :11:42. | |
home together. Arriving back at RAF Brize Norton, the bodies of five | :11:43. | :11:51. | |
fallen servicemen. Waiting for them, five grieving families. Alongside | :11:52. | :11:59. | |
friends, colleagues and strangers. Jim was 30 and from Cowbridge in the | :12:00. | :12:07. | |
Vale of Glamorgan. Mates from his rugby club travelled here to pay | :12:08. | :12:11. | |
their respects. Dedicated to the army. He would talk about it | :12:12. | :12:14. | |
nonstop. The fact he has been highly regarded in the press over the last | :12:15. | :12:18. | |
couple of weeks is a fitting testament to a wonderful guy. | :12:19. | :12:26. | |
Warrant Officer Spencer Faulkner was of the Army Air Corps, he was 38 and | :12:27. | :12:30. | |
a father of two. Corporal James Walters, who was 36 years old, and | :12:31. | :12:36. | |
from Cornwall. Flight Lieutenant Rakesh Chauhan was on his third tour | :12:37. | :12:40. | |
of duty in Afghanistan. He was 29. University friends from Birmingham | :12:41. | :12:44. | |
were here to say goodbye. He used to talk about the camaraderie and he | :12:45. | :12:48. | |
was working in intelligence, the late nights. How he was looking | :12:49. | :12:52. | |
forward to coming home and having beers with friends, and things like | :12:53. | :12:55. | |
that. The fifth servicemen to die was also with the intelligence | :12:56. | :13:02. | |
corpse, Lance Corporal Oliver Thomas from Breacon in Powys. The sky | :13:03. | :13:08. | |
suddenly darkened as the cortege arrived. This one of the largest | :13:09. | :13:14. | |
turnouts ever seen here. Some of these families had been expecting | :13:15. | :13:17. | |
their loved ones to return from Afghanistan this week. But their | :13:18. | :13:22. | |
tours of duty were not meant to end like this. John Kay, BBC News, Brize | :13:23. | :13:31. | |
Norton. The time is coming up to 6. 6.15pm. Our top story this evening. | :13:32. | :13:36. | |
MPs are to scrutinise the proposed takeover of the British | :13:37. | :13:39. | |
pharmaceutical firm, AstraZeneca, by it is American rival, Pfizer. Still | :13:40. | :13:44. | |
to come: Have you seen him? One of Britain's most notorious armed | :13:45. | :13:47. | |
robbers is still on-the-run despite being spotted in London. Coming up | :13:48. | :13:58. | |
at 6. 30pm. . Can a pair of pyjamas really reduce the risk of MRSA? The | :13:59. | :14:01. | |
latest trial at a south London hospital. Essex welcomes the Queen, | :14:02. | :14:04. | |
as Her Majesty joins the congregation at Chelmsford | :14:05. | :14:18. | |
The Islamist militant group Boko Haram claims to have taken them and | :14:19. | :14:22. | |
is threatening to sell them into slavery. Britain has now joined the | :14:23. | :14:27. | |
United States with an offer to help the Nigerian government find the | :14:28. | :14:29. | |
girls. Our security correspondent Gordon Corera reports. | :14:30. | :14:36. | |
The men came to this remote school three weeks ago. At first, the | :14:37. | :14:40. | |
teenage girls thought they were soldiers who had come to rescue them | :14:41. | :14:47. | |
from an attack, but then the men said the school alight and abducted | :14:48. | :14:50. | |
more than 200 of the girls, driving them off into the forest. | :14:51. | :14:52. | |
TRANSLATION: We said goodbye, she promised to come back soon and help | :14:53. | :14:56. | |
me with my work on selling things on the street, but then I was told she | :14:57. | :15:00. | |
has been abducted. Yesterday, the violent Islamist group Boko Haram | :15:01. | :15:05. | |
issued this video, saying it had the girls and was going to sell them. We | :15:06. | :15:11. | |
are offering tactical help. What has happened here is that the actions of | :15:12. | :15:18. | |
Boko Haram in using girls as the spoils of war is disgusting. It is | :15:19. | :15:22. | |
immoral. The Nigerian government has been struggling to respond. Their | :15:23. | :15:27. | |
efforts look amateurish to many. I'm told that after some of the girls | :15:28. | :15:31. | |
escaped, it took days the security forces to talk to them to find out | :15:32. | :15:35. | |
what they knew about the kidnappers. The pressure is growing. The BBC's | :15:36. | :15:44. | |
reporter explains. The Nigerian government is doing its best and | :15:45. | :15:46. | |
even claiming to be winning the war against the Islamists. But despite | :15:47. | :15:50. | |
the rhetoric, this year is turning out to be the bloodiest in the | :15:51. | :15:54. | |
conflict began. With horrifying events like the abduction of the | :15:55. | :15:57. | |
schoolgirls, there is increasing anger among the public. People are | :15:58. | :16:02. | |
asking why the government cannot stop the insecurity. Britain and | :16:03. | :16:04. | |
America have been offering help to Nigeria. Foreign help will not be | :16:05. | :16:11. | |
welcome, but intelligence like satellite imagery and aerial | :16:12. | :16:13. | |
reconnaissance might help, since the problem is now finding the girls. | :16:14. | :16:18. | |
There were taken from a town in the north-east, but the terrain makes | :16:19. | :16:21. | |
locating them extremely challenging. The search area is vast. The forest | :16:22. | :16:28. | |
is impenetrable and 40 times the size of London, making it hard to | :16:29. | :16:32. | |
spot anyone, even from the air. And the girls may well have been | :16:33. | :16:36. | |
disbursed into smaller groups or taken over the border to Cameroon. A | :16:37. | :16:40. | |
list of the names of those taken. Some may already have been sold to | :16:41. | :16:46. | |
become wives. With eight more girls just abducted, their names are now | :16:47. | :16:49. | |
added to the list of those whose fate is unknown. Gordon Corera, BBC | :16:50. | :16:57. | |
News. One of Britain's most notorious | :16:58. | :17:00. | |
armed robbers, who escaped while on day release from an open prison in | :17:01. | :17:04. | |
Kent, is said to have been spotted in south-west London. Police say | :17:05. | :17:06. | |
Michael Wheatley, nicknamed "the Skull-Cracker", was seen by a member | :17:07. | :17:09. | |
of the public last night, but officers have failed to find him. | :17:10. | :17:11. | |
Robert Hall reports. Michael Wheatley, a man who carried | :17:12. | :17:14. | |
out one series of robberies whilst on parole for another. A man who | :17:15. | :17:20. | |
routinely used violence to terrify staff and customers. Wheatley | :17:21. | :17:28. | |
admitted 13 charges of robbery, during which he pistol-whipped a | :17:29. | :17:31. | |
manager and a 73-year-old woman. On another occasion, he threatened to | :17:32. | :17:33. | |
kill Claire Townsend. She recalls the day he attacked a bank in South | :17:34. | :17:37. | |
London. He whirled round to me, put his hand round my neck, a gun to my | :17:38. | :17:41. | |
temple, and started screaming and shouting, not at me, but at the | :17:42. | :17:50. | |
cashiers. Michael Wheatley was being held here at Standford Hill open | :17:51. | :17:54. | |
prison on the Isle of Sheppey. He had been moved to Kent as part of | :17:55. | :17:58. | |
the process which leads to eventual release. On Saturday morning, he | :17:59. | :18:01. | |
left the prison on temporary licence. At 9.20, he boarded a train | :18:02. | :18:06. | |
at Sittingbourne, headed for East London. And last night, after police | :18:07. | :18:11. | |
appealed for help, he was spotted in southwest London. The Metropolitan | :18:12. | :18:24. | |
Police said officers based here in Twickenham went to the address. They | :18:25. | :18:28. | |
searched the surrounding area, but there was no sign of Michael | :18:29. | :18:31. | |
Wheatley. It is just one line of enquiry. Wheatley's robberies | :18:32. | :18:33. | |
stretched from Royston in Hertfordshire to Southampton, and he | :18:34. | :18:35. | |
is known to have links throughout south-east England. Ministry of | :18:36. | :18:38. | |
Justice figures show that 120 people absconded from open prisons last | :18:39. | :18:40. | |
year. The Government, who were considering the wider use of tagging | :18:41. | :18:43. | |
for temporary releases, say questions must be asked about this | :18:44. | :18:48. | |
incident. He was clearly in that prison after a decision by the | :18:49. | :18:51. | |
independent parole board, but I want to be sure that proper risk | :18:52. | :18:55. | |
assessments were carried out. It is obviously important that people who | :18:56. | :18:58. | |
are a threat to the public are kept behind bars where it is possible to | :18:59. | :19:02. | |
do so. The search for Michael Wheatley has spread throughout the | :19:03. | :19:06. | |
UK. Tonight, Kent police have repeated their warning that he | :19:07. | :19:10. | |
should not be approached. Robert Hall, BBC News. | :19:11. | :19:19. | |
The British police have requested permission from the Portuguese | :19:20. | :19:21. | |
authorities to excavate a number of sites as part of the investigation | :19:22. | :19:24. | |
into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann. The sites are thought to be | :19:25. | :19:28. | |
in Praia da Luz, where Madeleine went missing in 2007 when she was | :19:29. | :19:30. | |
three years old. Our correspondent Richard Bilton reports from there. | :19:31. | :19:38. | |
Once again, the spotlight falls on this little town. Seven years since | :19:39. | :19:43. | |
Madeleine McCann disappeared, Praia da Luz is at the heart of the | :19:44. | :19:48. | |
investigation. A Portuguese prosecutor has approved a series of | :19:49. | :19:53. | |
requests from the British police for investigative work here in Portugal. | :19:54. | :19:56. | |
This evening, the British police team themselves confirmed that | :19:57. | :20:01. | |
activity is to begin soon. In an open letter, the force said: | :20:02. | :20:13. | |
but there was more. This letter urged the media to avoid | :20:14. | :20:20. | |
speculation. That is because here in Portugal and in the UK, Madeleine | :20:21. | :20:24. | |
McCann's case is back in the news. It has been reported that one of the | :20:25. | :20:29. | |
requests from the British police is to start digging at sites in the | :20:30. | :20:35. | |
town . Here in Portugal, there has been no official confirmation that | :20:36. | :20:38. | |
digging will take place. Indeed, the officers we have spoken to no work | :20:39. | :20:43. | |
is scheduled. But if it did happen, it would be the Portuguese police | :20:44. | :20:48. | |
that were in charge. Any British investigators would be here only as | :20:49. | :20:53. | |
observers. Seven years since Madeleine McCann disappeared from | :20:54. | :20:58. | |
this flat, an upsurge in police activity seems about to start. | :20:59. | :21:02. | |
Maintaining a relationship between the separate and ongoing British and | :21:03. | :21:05. | |
Portuguese investigations will be crucial. Richard Bilton, BBC News, | :21:06. | :21:10. | |
Praia da Luz. The Liberal Democrats have launched | :21:11. | :21:13. | |
their English council elections by admitting they are no longer the | :21:14. | :21:16. | |
party of the protest vote - instead, they're going to UKIP. But the party | :21:17. | :21:19. | |
leader, Nick Clegg, accused UKIP of peddling dangerous fantasies and | :21:20. | :21:22. | |
scaring everybody witless, while the Lib Dems could be trusted with the | :21:23. | :21:25. | |
things that matter most to people. Our political correspondent Vicky | :21:26. | :21:33. | |
Young reports. Not a murder on the dance floor, but | :21:34. | :21:37. | |
it could be bloodbath at the ballot box for the Liberal Democrats. Took | :21:38. | :21:42. | |
over a London night up for their election log, but it is hard to be | :21:43. | :21:46. | |
upbeat when everyone is predicting failure. But Nick Clegg did his | :21:47. | :21:51. | |
best. Bluntly, we are not the protest party any more. We are not | :21:52. | :21:54. | |
the none of the above party any more. We are not just against | :21:55. | :21:59. | |
things, we are four things. UKIP is now the protest party in British | :22:00. | :22:03. | |
politics. The Lib Dems depend on their grassroots supporters, so how | :22:04. | :22:08. | |
are they feeling? Where we have successful local councillors, we | :22:09. | :22:13. | |
win. We will probably take a hit at the next election, but we will | :22:14. | :22:16. | |
bounce back because people will realise that without our party, we | :22:17. | :22:21. | |
would not have had the economic recovery. Nick Clegg moved from a | :22:22. | :22:27. | |
nightclub to a daycare centre. He admits that being in a coalition | :22:28. | :22:31. | |
with the Conservatives has dented the party's traditional support, but | :22:32. | :22:34. | |
Mr Clegg told me he is proud of their achievements in government. | :22:35. | :22:38. | |
Yes, we have courted short-term popularity by entering into | :22:39. | :22:41. | |
coalition, but in doing so, we have the joint economic recovery for | :22:42. | :22:45. | |
millions of people. That is important, and if we tell our side | :22:46. | :22:53. | |
of the story, there will does that support. If the polls are right, | :22:54. | :22:58. | |
Nick Clegg could be facing a nightmare scenario where his party | :22:59. | :23:01. | |
comes to hand the Greens. But the Lib Dems insist that in places like | :23:02. | :23:05. | |
this in north London where they already have dozens of councillors | :23:06. | :23:08. | |
and a local MP, support is holding up. But more and more, his campaign | :23:09. | :23:12. | |
is looking like a damage limitation exercise. Vicki Young, BBC News, | :23:13. | :23:17. | |
Haringey. 60 years ago today, the world of | :23:18. | :23:20. | |
athletics was stunned when a 25-year-old medical student achieved | :23:21. | :23:22. | |
a feat many thought impossible. On a cold, windy day in Oxford, Roger | :23:23. | :23:25. | |
Bannister became the first person to break the four minute mile. He later | :23:26. | :23:29. | |
went on to become an eminent neurologist, and recently revealed | :23:30. | :23:31. | |
he's suffering from Parkinson's disease. Sir Roger has been reliving | :23:32. | :23:34. | |
the moment he made history with our correspondent Duncan Kennedy. | :23:35. | :23:40. | |
May the 6th, 1954. Roger Bannister is less than four minutes from | :23:41. | :23:47. | |
immortality. Now 85, we asked Sir Roger to relive that remarkable | :23:48. | :23:58. | |
race, 60 years on. At this point, it becomes quite painful. I overtake | :23:59. | :24:00. | |
Chris chat away and begin the finish. That is it. Did you do it | :24:01. | :24:11. | |
for yourself or for your country? I think I did it for both. I don't | :24:12. | :24:17. | |
think I could distinguish. But there was certainly a feeling of it being | :24:18. | :24:21. | |
a national event and something of a landmark for the country. Standing | :24:22. | :24:26. | |
behind Roger Bannister that day was a 15-year-old schoolboy, Robin | :24:27. | :24:34. | |
Winstone. He was also ready for post-war British success. It was a | :24:35. | :24:43. | |
formal in those days. Here is the result of the one mile. First, Roger | :24:44. | :24:48. | |
Bannister, in a time of... And nothing was heard after that. There | :24:49. | :24:52. | |
was bedlam. The record that Roger Bannister said here in 1954 did not | :24:53. | :24:57. | |
last long. In fact, it was beaten just 46 days later by his great | :24:58. | :25:03. | |
Australian rival. But like Everest before him and the moon landings | :25:04. | :25:07. | |
after, Roger Bannister was one of those greats who did it first. And | :25:08. | :25:11. | |
because of that, he will always be room in third. Roger Bannister, the | :25:12. | :25:19. | |
man who created a brief time in history. | :25:20. | :25:21. | |
Time for a look at the weather. Here's Nick Miller. | :25:22. | :25:30. | |
Still some warm sunshine around today, but increasing chance is | :25:31. | :25:33. | |
forgetting wet for the rest of the week, and here is why. Low pressure | :25:34. | :25:38. | |
is getting ready to push hands of wet weather across us and showers. | :25:39. | :25:44. | |
For the past few hours, we have seen heavy showers through south-west | :25:45. | :25:47. | |
England and the South Midlands. A few rumbles of thunder. Heavier | :25:48. | :25:53. | |
downpours are poised to move across Northern Ireland. And the wind is | :25:54. | :26:00. | |
picking up, but it will not be a cold night. Tomorrow, there will | :26:01. | :26:05. | |
still be a bit of sun around. A stronger wind as well, adding to a | :26:06. | :26:10. | |
cooler field to the weather. There are three zones of whether to talk | :26:11. | :26:15. | |
about tomorrow. Showers in Scotland. No longer spell of rain in Northern | :26:16. | :26:18. | |
Ireland. To the south of that, plenty of sunshine, but a scattering | :26:19. | :26:25. | |
of showers. It will feel cooler in the breeze, although some places in | :26:26. | :26:31. | |
south-east England may still see 17 or 18 degrees. The northern half of | :26:32. | :26:40. | |
Scotland will have sunshine, but scattered, heavy showers. The wind | :26:41. | :26:45. | |
is lighter here in bed with elsewhere. On Thursday, further | :26:46. | :26:48. | |
outbreaks of rain in Northern Ireland. Sunshine and showers again | :26:49. | :26:56. | |
in Scotland. On Friday, we are all in the same vote. It will be breezy, | :26:57. | :27:03. | |
with showers building again. Dry weather in between. If you are | :27:04. | :27:07. | |
begging me to show you the start of next week and, low pressure means | :27:08. | :27:11. | |
rain, although Scotland may escape the showers. | :27:12. | :27:14. |