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Pensions, childcare and plastic bags - the Government | :00:00. | :00:08. | |
sets out its agenda in its final year before the general election. | :00:09. | :00:14. | |
There are 11 new bills - including plans to allow voters to | :00:15. | :00:19. | |
sack misbehaving MPs, and a reform of how we save for retirement. | :00:20. | :00:25. | |
My government's pension reforms will also allow for innovation | :00:26. | :00:29. | |
in the private pensions market, to give greater control to employees. | :00:30. | :00:35. | |
We'll test the Coalition's claim that it's a packed agenda | :00:36. | :00:38. | |
from a radical government. Also tonight: | :00:39. | :00:41. | |
The row between Cabinet heavyweights Michael Gove and Theresa May about | :00:42. | :00:47. | |
how to tackle Islamic extremism. The Taliban releases video showing | :00:48. | :00:50. | |
the moment it freed US soldier Bowe Bergdahl, | :00:51. | :00:55. | |
after five years in captivity. Britain's biggest supermarket | :00:56. | :00:57. | |
suffers its worst sales for 20 years, in the face of stiff | :00:58. | :01:03. | |
competition from discount rivals. Thousands gather in Hong Kong to | :01:04. | :01:07. | |
remember the Tiananmen Square massacre, 25 years ago today. | :01:08. | :01:14. | |
Tonight on BBC London: A man dies | :01:15. | :01:16. | |
and 13 people are injured after a car crashes into a bus in Clapton. | :01:17. | :01:20. | |
While in central London, there are more injuries as a tour | :01:21. | :01:22. | |
boat ploughs into Tower Bridge. In the last Queen's Speech before | :01:23. | :01:52. | |
the general election, the coalition government has set out its plans for | :01:53. | :01:59. | |
its final year in power. Her Majesty announced just 11 new bills. | :02:00. | :02:04. | |
Pensions took centre stage, with changes to annuity schemes. A | :02:05. | :02:09. | |
child-care subsidy of up to ?2000 a year will replace the existing | :02:10. | :02:13. | |
employer funded scheme and a 5p charge will be introduced for | :02:14. | :02:16. | |
supermarket plastic bags in England. David Cameron and Nick Clegg said | :02:17. | :02:20. | |
the programme shows the coalition is still taking bold steps to improve | :02:21. | :02:25. | |
people's lives but the Labour leader Ed Miliband said it fails to match | :02:26. | :02:28. | |
the scale of the problems that Britain faces. Our deputy political | :02:29. | :02:35. | |
editor James Landale reports. If you've got new wheels like this, | :02:36. | :02:40. | |
you wouldn't want to take it for a spin. Today the Queen travelled to | :02:41. | :02:45. | |
Westminster in a new carriage for a new session of Parliament. The | :02:46. | :02:49. | |
Diamond Jubilee State coach, an embodiment of British history made | :02:50. | :02:53. | |
up of fragments of HMS Victory, a musket from Waterloo and even Isaac | :02:54. | :03:03. | |
Newton's pageantry. Inside, the tradition was anything but new. MPs | :03:04. | :03:08. | |
briefly barred the Queen's messenger then greeted him with the now | :03:09. | :03:11. | |
familiar heckle from Labour's Dennis Skinner. Coalition's last stand! It | :03:12. | :03:21. | |
certainly isn't the Queen's last stand. This is the 60th time she's | :03:22. | :03:25. | |
opened Parliament and the only side that one day she might stop was the | :03:26. | :03:31. | |
presence, now for a second year, the Prince of Wales behind her in the | :03:32. | :03:34. | |
procession. But today was all about who might seize the political crown | :03:35. | :03:38. | |
in the next election. The author of the Queen's Speech on the left | :03:39. | :03:42. | |
doesn't want to be succeeded by the young pretender on his right. David | :03:43. | :03:46. | |
Cameron gave Her Majesty a view of electoral slogans to proclaim. My | :03:47. | :03:52. | |
Government's legislative programme will continue to deliver on its | :03:53. | :03:59. | |
long-term plan to build a strong -- stronger economy and a fairer | :04:00. | :04:03. | |
society. It was a short list of legislation for a short | :04:04. | :04:06. | |
parliamentary session but fundamental changes to pension stood | :04:07. | :04:09. | |
out. Legislation will be brought forward to give those who have saved | :04:10. | :04:12. | |
discretion over the use of their retirement funds. With many voters | :04:13. | :04:17. | |
distrustful of politicians, there will be a new way of getting rid of | :04:18. | :04:21. | |
MPs if they're guilty of serious wrongdoing. But some critics the it | :04:22. | :04:26. | |
won't go far enough. My ministers will introduce legislation on the | :04:27. | :04:29. | |
recall of members of Parliament. There was also a small business bill | :04:30. | :04:34. | |
setting up targets to reduce red tape and help firms get credit from | :04:35. | :04:38. | |
banks. And Infrastructure Bill to make fracking for gas easier and to | :04:39. | :04:42. | |
boost house-building by selling off public land. And there will be a 5p | :04:43. | :04:47. | |
charge for plastic bags used in large shops in England through | :04:48. | :04:50. | |
October. The Queen also announced there will be tax cuts for childcare | :04:51. | :04:55. | |
worth up to ?2000. Care that might perhaps be needed for one of her | :04:56. | :05:01. | |
page boys, who fainted. A brief shudder as helpers rushed to help | :05:02. | :05:05. | |
the unfortunate youth, the Royal eyes lifted momentarily as the bill | :05:06. | :05:09. | |
was carried out, and she and the three remaining pages carried on. -- | :05:10. | :05:15. | |
the boy was carried out. There were no bills on Europe or immigration, | :05:16. | :05:19. | |
nor any new rules on cigarette packaging. The Labour leader said he | :05:20. | :05:23. | |
had been looking for more. An immigration bill to stop workers | :05:24. | :05:27. | |
being undercut, a consumer bill to freeze energy bills, house-building | :05:28. | :05:32. | |
bill and an NHS bill to make it easier to see your GP and to stop | :05:33. | :05:37. | |
privatisation. To make that happen, we need a different government, a | :05:38. | :05:41. | |
Labour government. No, said the Prime Minister, the country needs | :05:42. | :05:45. | |
more of his government. Our long-term economic plan is working | :05:46. | :05:49. | |
but there is much, much more to do. This Queen's Speech sets out the | :05:50. | :05:52. | |
next steps in seeing through this vital plan to secure our future but | :05:53. | :05:55. | |
it will take the rest of this Parliament and the next to finish | :05:56. | :05:59. | |
the task of turning our country around. After a messy few weeks, the | :06:00. | :06:05. | |
Lib Dems were keen not to be swept under the carpet. Our fingerprints | :06:06. | :06:07. | |
can be seen all over this Queen's Speech on measures like free | :06:08. | :06:11. | |
childcare, free school meals, cutting income tax for working | :06:12. | :06:15. | |
people. Others, though, thought it wasn't radical enough. This | :06:16. | :06:20. | |
government has run out of steam, run out of any kind of ambition and, | :06:21. | :06:25. | |
frankly, it's a thin Queen's Speech. The coalition's aim today was to try | :06:26. | :06:29. | |
to counter that accusation, to try to show that it is united and busy. | :06:30. | :06:34. | |
But its opponents say it's still left Parliament with two little to | :06:35. | :06:35. | |
do. Good evening. | :06:36. | :06:39. | |
Plans for sweeping changes to pensions were at the heart of the | :06:40. | :06:42. | |
Queen's Speech. The government has abolished the requirement for people | :06:43. | :06:45. | |
to buy an annuity, and wants workers to contribute to collective pension | :06:46. | :06:51. | |
Our business correspondent Simon Jack has the story. | :06:52. | :06:55. | |
As expected, the speech included plans to introduce a new type | :06:56. | :06:58. | |
of pension scheme already popular in some European countries. | :06:59. | :07:01. | |
Old-style final salary pensions are dying out, so what most workers now | :07:02. | :07:04. | |
do is pay into personal "one-member" schemes, if you like, known as | :07:05. | :07:08. | |
defined contribution pensions, each with its own administration costs | :07:09. | :07:12. | |
which nibble away every year at your pension savings. | :07:13. | :07:15. | |
Under this new plan, employees would pay into one big scheme where those | :07:16. | :07:19. | |
costs would be shared - and some estimate that all those small cost | :07:20. | :07:23. | |
savings could add up over time to 30% more income in retirement, | :07:24. | :07:25. | |
although that income can fluctuate. If there's a crisis car it does mean | :07:26. | :07:36. | |
that pensions sometimes need to go down. They've gone down by 2% in | :07:37. | :07:40. | |
Holland, for example following the crisis. But in general, they can | :07:41. | :07:45. | |
keep steady and rise with inflation and, of course, they give a better | :07:46. | :07:49. | |
pay out if we're ordering this together and sharing the risk. | :07:50. | :07:51. | |
although that income can fluctuate. However, another proposal to allow | :07:52. | :07:54. | |
people to take out all their money when they retire, and do whatever | :07:55. | :07:57. | |
they want with it, means that the new communal pot could suddenly | :07:58. | :08:00. | |
shrink as people leave this scheme - making it very hard to manage. | :08:01. | :08:03. | |
For this to work, lots of companies would have to club | :08:04. | :08:06. | |
together to do it. Remember, many are still getting to | :08:07. | :08:09. | |
grips with the Government's last big pensions idea - | :08:10. | :08:11. | |
automatic enrolment - so may be reluctant to try another new idea. | :08:12. | :08:14. | |
Well, as the Government was preparing for the Queen's Speech, | :08:15. | :08:17. | |
two of its most senior Cabinet members became embroiled in | :08:18. | :08:20. | |
a bitter row about how to tackle claims of Islamic extremism. | :08:21. | :08:23. | |
The Home Secretary, Theresa May, and the Education Secretary, | :08:24. | :08:25. | |
Michael Gove, have each accused the other of failing to deal with | :08:26. | :08:28. | |
the issue - although today they insisted they are working together. | :08:29. | :08:32. | |
Our political editor Nick Robinson has more. | :08:33. | :08:40. | |
How do you combat the extremism that leads people born here, schools | :08:41. | :08:47. | |
here, living here, to carry out terrorist attacks on their fellow | :08:48. | :08:52. | |
citizens? That question of how to combat the extremism that can lead | :08:53. | :08:55. | |
to violence has caused a split at the top of government but we know | :08:56. | :08:59. | |
Home Secretary Theresa May and the Education Secretary Michael Gove. | :09:00. | :09:03. | |
Behind the scenes, he's used meetings to criticise her approach, | :09:04. | :09:08. | |
to say that not enough is being done to combat the conditions that can | :09:09. | :09:13. | |
lead to violence. In the words of one of his allies, he wants people | :09:14. | :09:21. | |
to drain the swamp instead of waiting for the crocodiles to reach | :09:22. | :09:25. | |
the boat. For now the row centres on Birmingham and allegations of a plot | :09:26. | :09:29. | |
by extremist Muslims to take over schools here, the so-called Trojan | :09:30. | :09:33. | |
horse plot, which may lead next week to the sacking of the boards which | :09:34. | :09:38. | |
ran five schools in the city. Yesterday the previously private | :09:39. | :09:41. | |
views of Michael Gove and Theresa May emerged in public. The Education | :09:42. | :09:46. | |
Secretary had lunch at the Times on Monday and told them: | :09:47. | :09:54. | |
In reply, the Home Secretary wrote him a letter, asking: : | :09:55. | :10:05. | |
The reason we're seeing this ministerial spat between the | :10:06. | :10:10. | |
Education Secretary and the Home Secretary is because of ministerial | :10:11. | :10:15. | |
incompetence. In 2010 a senior Birmingham head teacher went to the | :10:16. | :10:18. | |
Department for Education and raised serious issues about radical | :10:19. | :10:21. | |
hardliners allegedly seeking to infiltrate and take over schools, | :10:22. | :10:24. | |
change the curriculum, and ministers did nothing. Michael Gove left | :10:25. | :10:29. | |
Downing Street this morning under instructions to make nice with his | :10:30. | :10:35. | |
Cabinet colleague. "We're just going to sort it out, " Theresa May could | :10:36. | :10:39. | |
be heard telling Labour's Yvette Cooper on her way to hear the | :10:40. | :10:42. | |
Queen's Speech. Mr Gove seemed to have other pressing business. He | :10:43. | :10:48. | |
once wrote a book warning that what he called appeasement was provoking | :10:49. | :10:52. | |
fundamentalist terror. Today he got the surprise backing of a former | :10:53. | :10:56. | |
Labour minister. Michael Gove is talking about the need to work with | :10:57. | :11:00. | |
people in communities on a long-term basis before they get to the point | :11:01. | :11:03. | |
of perhaps becoming violent, and I absolutely support that. There are | :11:04. | :11:09. | |
few more serious problems than the threat of terrorism. This, then, is | :11:10. | :11:14. | |
much more than Whitehall spat. It's a profound disagreement about how to | :11:15. | :11:18. | |
our streets safe. Nick is at Westminster tonight. A | :11:19. | :11:23. | |
huge day, obviously, for the government, but could this row | :11:24. | :11:28. | |
overshadowed that? Well, it is already in many ways overshadowing | :11:29. | :11:31. | |
it because in the last couple of minutes, I'd had a call from Downing | :11:32. | :11:34. | |
Street to say that the Prime Minister has ordered the facts to be | :11:35. | :11:39. | |
put before him about the background to this dispute and what happened in | :11:40. | :11:44. | |
this dispute. When I asked the Downing Street spokesman whether | :11:45. | :11:47. | |
this could lead to consequences either for the ministers involved or | :11:48. | :11:51. | |
their advisers, I was told, "that's all they race to tell you for the | :11:52. | :11:57. | |
minute". It is a serious row and it is deeply frustrating to ministers | :11:58. | :12:00. | |
that two of their own simply can't agree in public when the very | :12:01. | :12:04. | |
purpose of this Queen's Speech was to show how the two sides of the | :12:05. | :12:08. | |
coalition could agree, could find things to do, were not merely | :12:09. | :12:10. | |
counting down the days until the next election. David Cameron thought | :12:11. | :12:16. | |
it was job done on that. Ed Miliband, of course, insisted that | :12:17. | :12:19. | |
it was not, that there were simply not the answers to the problems | :12:20. | :12:23. | |
people and raised in the elections last week. But as you say, the row | :12:24. | :12:26. | |
way be remembered longer than the speech. Nick, thank you for now. You | :12:27. | :12:32. | |
can find out much more detail about everything that was in the Queen's | :12:33. | :12:35. | |
Speech today on the BBC News website. | :12:36. | :12:40. | |
A baby has died from blood poisoning believed to be | :12:41. | :12:47. | |
caused by a contaminated drip in a neonatal intensive care unit. | :12:48. | :12:50. | |
A further 14 premature babies in six hospitals across the south | :12:51. | :12:53. | |
of England are being treated for the same kind of infection. | :12:54. | :12:56. | |
I'm joined by our health correspondent Branwen Jeffreys. | :12:57. | :13:01. | |
What do we know about this? These babies all developed the same type | :13:02. | :13:09. | |
of blood poisoning caused by a bacteria called Bacillus arrears. It | :13:10. | :13:13. | |
is commonly found in dirt or dust and was traced back to the same | :13:14. | :13:18. | |
batches of a nutritional supplement that they were being given through a | :13:19. | :13:27. | |
liquid drip in the premature unit. 160 units were delivered to | :13:28. | :13:30. | |
hospitals across London and the south-east but have all now gone | :13:31. | :13:34. | |
past their use by date so the regulators say that they have | :13:35. | :13:38. | |
investigated and are happy. There is no further contamination, so nobody | :13:39. | :13:42. | |
who has a baby tonight in a neonatal unit should be worried if they're | :13:43. | :13:46. | |
being given a nutritional supplement. Thank you. | :13:47. | :13:51. | |
correspondent Branwen Jeffreys. The Taliban have released | :13:52. | :13:54. | |
a video showing the moment when they freed the US soldier Bowe Bergdahl. | :13:55. | :13:57. | |
The footage shows Sergeant Bergdahl wearing Afghan clothing | :13:58. | :13:58. | |
and being searched, before he boards a helicopter. | :13:59. | :14:01. | |
He was returned to the Americans in exchange for five Taliban | :14:02. | :14:03. | |
fighters they were holding. The prisoner swap has caused | :14:04. | :14:06. | |
controversy in the US. Our North America editor | :14:07. | :14:07. | |
Mark Mardell reports. Inside this truck on the remote | :14:08. | :14:19. | |
Afghan-Pakistan border, a man who has been held captive for five | :14:20. | :14:24. | |
years. Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl blinked repeatedly, perhaps an used | :14:25. | :14:28. | |
to sunlight, perhaps close to tears, almost certainly overwhelmed by the | :14:29. | :14:35. | |
prospect of freedom. He is told, " don't come back to Afghanistan. Next | :14:36. | :14:40. | |
time you will be killed," something reinforced in English on this 17 | :14:41. | :14:49. | |
minute home video. They spot the helicopter. US forces asked them to | :14:50. | :14:52. | |
light flare but they reply they have a white flag and then jubilant | :14:53. | :15:00. | |
chanting from the mujahedin. Sergeant Bergdahl appears | :15:01. | :15:02. | |
understandably tense, waiting, nearly daring to take plans but his | :15:03. | :15:09. | |
rescuers. US special forces have been trying to kill their opponents | :15:10. | :15:15. | |
and on this day, a quick briefing, a quick handshake, and then a pat-down | :15:16. | :15:20. | |
to check he is unarmed are not carrying a bomb. The commentary says | :15:21. | :15:24. | |
the US soldiers were very nervous and in a hurry. Bergdahl gets | :15:25. | :15:28. | |
another search before he is allowed helicopter. Then finally off to | :15:29. | :15:31. | |
freedom but some claimed the president has handed the enemy a | :15:32. | :15:34. | |
propaganda coup. The Taliban are using this victory narrative that | :15:35. | :15:41. | |
they have now to strengthen their recruiting, to strengthen their | :15:42. | :15:44. | |
position, because now they're looking at a major military | :15:45. | :15:47. | |
offensive this summer to try and dent the confidence of the Afghan | :15:48. | :15:51. | |
forces with a goal to try to kick over Afghanistan in 2017. The | :15:52. | :15:55. | |
release of this rather bloating video by American enemies will only | :15:56. | :15:59. | |
add to the storm surrounding the swap but the president seems | :16:00. | :16:02. | |
unrepentant, arguing that this is the way wars end. | :16:03. | :16:07. | |
Mark Mardell reports. Our top story this evening: | :16:08. | :16:09. | |
Pensions, childcare and plastic bags - the Queen lays | :16:10. | :16:12. | |
out the Government's final agenda before the general election. | :16:13. | :16:17. | |
And still to come - remembering the part these | :16:18. | :16:24. | |
aeroplanes played in D-Day. Later on BBC London: | :16:25. | :16:27. | |
As Heathrow's Terminal 2 opens up for business, passengers get | :16:28. | :16:30. | |
a taste of the high life with food from a Michelin-star chef. | :16:31. | :16:33. | |
And don't try this home - stuntmen see London from the rooftops | :16:34. | :16:34. | |
in their look-a-like Boris Bikes. Security has been tight in Beijing | :16:35. | :16:47. | |
today to prevent any commemoration of the Tiananmen Square massacre, | :16:48. | :16:52. | |
exactly 25 years ago. China has never released | :16:53. | :16:55. | |
a death toll for the crackdown, but at least several hundred people | :16:56. | :16:58. | |
died when troops cleared the square after weeks of protests | :16:59. | :17:02. | |
about political reform. Our China correspondent Damian | :17:03. | :17:06. | |
Grammaticas reports now on how those protests shaped the China of today. | :17:07. | :17:11. | |
Tonight, in Hong Kong, where people still have freedoms denied elsewhere | :17:12. | :17:15. | |
in China, they gathered in their tens of thousands. | :17:16. | :17:22. | |
25 years on, remembering Tiananmen, the hundreds massacred calling | :17:23. | :17:23. | |
for political change. But in the rest of China - nothing. | :17:24. | :17:33. | |
A mother who lost her son in the massacre can't even leave her flat. | :17:34. | :17:37. | |
For weeks, the police have been blocking her visitors. | :17:38. | :17:41. | |
To evade the censorship, the Tiananmen parents secretly | :17:42. | :17:44. | |
filmed this footage and smuggled it out. | :17:45. | :18:02. | |
And in the square, watchful security is everywhere. | :18:03. | :18:11. | |
Armed patrols circle ostentatiously. While the memories have long been | :18:12. | :18:15. | |
eraised from the flag stones, and nothing now shows where | :18:16. | :18:18. | |
the army gunned down hundreds of unarmed students, | :18:19. | :18:22. | |
the massacre's legacy has indelibly shaped modern China. | :18:23. | :18:28. | |
To ensure there is no repeat, China's leaders have done two | :18:29. | :18:30. | |
things. They've unleashed the economy, to make people richer, but | :18:31. | :18:33. | |
stymied any serious prospect of political change. | :18:34. | :18:39. | |
China today has the world's biggest state security apparatus to snuff | :18:40. | :18:46. | |
out any hint of opposition. Even the wife of China's jailed | :18:47. | :18:49. | |
Nobel Peace Prize winner, who took part in Tiananmen, | :18:50. | :18:52. | |
is kept under house arrest. This one of the few glimpses we have had of | :18:53. | :18:54. | |
her, dissent ruthlessly silenced. TRANSLATION: This is what happens in | :18:55. | :19:04. | |
a totalitarian system, China is like this. When a bad decision is made, | :19:05. | :19:09. | |
nobody can correct it. After speaking to us, | :19:10. | :19:13. | |
he too was detained. China's leaders insist that people | :19:14. | :19:16. | |
like a journalism student shot through the back | :19:17. | :19:21. | |
were rioters, case closed. But not for his father. | :19:22. | :19:33. | |
So the sense of injustice lingers, bitter and harsh, | :19:34. | :19:39. | |
the seeds of today's China. Damian Grammaticas, BBC News, | :19:40. | :19:40. | |
Beijing. British and Portuguese police | :19:41. | :19:46. | |
have spent a third day searching scrubland in the resort | :19:47. | :19:50. | |
of Praia da Luz where Madeleine McCann disappeared seven years ago. | :19:51. | :19:54. | |
They put up tents over a hole in the ground, | :19:55. | :19:56. | |
and forensic officers have been examining the scene. | :19:57. | :19:59. | |
Officials say the search could now continue beyond the weekend. | :20:00. | :20:03. | |
The search team looking for the British tourist Gareth Huntley | :20:04. | :20:07. | |
in Malaysia have found a body. The 34-year-old has not been seen | :20:08. | :20:10. | |
since he began a trek to a on Tioman Island eight days ago. | :20:11. | :20:15. | |
The body was found in a pond near the conservation project | :20:16. | :20:20. | |
where he was working. A terrorism trial could be heard | :20:21. | :20:23. | |
entirely in secret for the first time in an English court. | :20:24. | :20:27. | |
The High Court has been hearing that the press and public will be barred | :20:28. | :20:30. | |
from attending and the defendants' names kept secret on grounds | :20:31. | :20:35. | |
of national security. Our home affairs correspondent June | :20:36. | :20:38. | |
Kelly is outside the High Court. So what can you tell us | :20:39. | :20:39. | |
about this case? Well, this is very interesting, | :20:40. | :20:49. | |
because normally we stand outside these chords and report details of | :20:50. | :20:53. | |
cases. In this case, we are very limited, because the plan is to hold | :20:54. | :20:58. | |
the whole of the case in secret. These two men, we do not know their | :20:59. | :21:03. | |
names, are facing terrorism charges. Those charges include | :21:04. | :21:07. | |
possessing bomb-making instructions, and they are due to go on trial | :21:08. | :21:11. | |
later this month. The only reason we can report any of this for the first | :21:12. | :21:16. | |
time is because the media are challenging this secret justice | :21:17. | :21:24. | |
plan. Today a barrister told the Appeal Court judges that this raises | :21:25. | :21:28. | |
questions about the principles of open justice. Prosecutors say it is | :21:29. | :21:32. | |
an exceptional case, and the judges will make a decision about whether | :21:33. | :21:36. | |
this trial should go ahead in secret in the coming days. June, thank. | :21:37. | :21:41. | |
about this case? Britain's biggest supermarket chain, | :21:42. | :21:45. | |
Tesco, has reported its worst results in 20 years. | :21:46. | :21:49. | |
Sales over the past three months were down nearly 4%, | :21:50. | :21:51. | |
the third consecutive quarterly fall. | :21:52. | :21:53. | |
Its chief executive, Philip Clarke, says the supermarket will struggle | :21:54. | :21:56. | |
for the rest of the year, as our business editor, | :21:57. | :21:57. | |
Kamal Ahmed, reports. Navigating the changing | :21:58. | :21:59. | |
world of supermarket shopping is proving a tricky business for Tesco, | :22:00. | :22:03. | |
which announced its worst result in 20 years today. Philip Clarke, the | :22:04. | :22:07. | |
chief executive, insists he has a plan to turn the business around. | :22:08. | :22:11. | |
It's quite a change from its years of dominance. The times of their | :22:12. | :22:15. | |
great success arguably overlapped with self-imposed weakness | :22:16. | :22:19. | |
from major competitors, so the likes of Sainsbury's | :22:20. | :22:22. | |
and Morrisons, for example. It is very difficult for | :22:23. | :22:26. | |
all of them to win at the same time, so Tesco now has self-imposed | :22:27. | :22:30. | |
problems, and its competitors are making progress against that | :22:31. | :22:33. | |
backdrop. Tesco was still a huge business, accounting for nearly 30% | :22:34. | :22:38. | |
of the UK market. In just one city, Southampton, it has 40 stores. | :22:39. | :22:43. | |
No-one is suggesting the wheels are coming off the juggernaut just yet, | :22:44. | :22:47. | |
but customers on the south coast now have other options. I think they | :22:48. | :22:51. | |
need to make the stores smaller, you know, have nicer things as | :22:52. | :22:55. | |
well, not just the cheap range. I like Tesco, I would not say it has | :22:56. | :22:59. | |
affected me much. I think it is a good brand, it is not family | :23:00. | :23:03. | |
values. Senior Tesco figures are told me the focus on everything from | :23:04. | :23:08. | |
online deliveries to restaurants will help change the company's | :23:09. | :23:11. | |
fortunes. Tesco's problem, its critics say, is that it has not | :23:12. | :23:17. | |
given its millions of customers a good enough reason to visit its | :23:18. | :23:22. | |
shops. That has left it stuck in a rather an appetising retail | :23:23. | :23:26. | |
sandwich. From above, it's losing out to Waitrose, which operates at | :23:27. | :23:31. | |
the premium end of the market. Sales here up 6%. From below, discounters | :23:32. | :23:35. | |
like Aldi are taking Tesco customers. Sales here are up 35%. | :23:36. | :23:39. | |
People after the crash have become much more discerning, their incomes | :23:40. | :23:44. | |
are under pressure, and so they are looking more carefully to buy | :23:45. | :23:48. | |
things. They want both luxury and they will buy cheap discounted goods | :23:49. | :23:53. | |
if they think they are of sufficient quality. Philip Clarke has said that | :23:54. | :23:58. | |
Tesco could struggle for the rest of the year, and cutting prices means | :23:59. | :24:01. | |
less money being spent at the tills. Tesco's share price was down again | :24:02. | :24:06. | |
today, but Mr Clarke has asked for patience from investors as he works | :24:07. | :24:09. | |
to turn the business around. Kamal Ahmed, BBC News. | :24:10. | :24:16. | |
This week sees the 70th anniversary of D-Day, when Allied forces | :24:17. | :24:20. | |
landed on the coast of France. A key role was played by | :24:21. | :24:23. | |
a fleet of Dakota aircraft which flew thousands of | :24:24. | :24:26. | |
paratroopers into Normandy. Today, eight remaining aeroplanes | :24:27. | :24:29. | |
took to the sky again to mark the occasion. | :24:30. | :24:35. | |
Duncan Kennedy was onboard. It's a sight not seen | :24:36. | :24:38. | |
across southern England for seven decades, a formation | :24:39. | :24:42. | |
of Dakotas heading to France to mark the D-Day anniversary. | :24:43. | :24:45. | |
Flying over Portsmouth, it was the plane the Allied | :24:46. | :24:48. | |
Commander Eisenhower called the aircraft that helped win the war. | :24:49. | :24:54. | |
We flew with them as they crossed the Channel, noisy, vibrating, | :24:55. | :24:56. | |
but, as always, reliable, just as they were on D-Day. | :24:57. | :25:02. | |
83-year-old Dick Harrington was among those on board, | :25:03. | :25:05. | |
with others in their wartime paratroop uniforms. They are paying | :25:06. | :25:10. | |
homage to the brother he lost in World War II. We are where we are | :25:11. | :25:18. | |
because of them. It's that simple. 70 years ago, 900 of these Dakotas | :25:19. | :25:23. | |
made the mission, carrying 25,000 paratroopers. Today it's a sunny, | :25:24. | :25:27. | |
peaceful day. Then they were flying into battle. Each plane carries the | :25:28. | :25:33. | |
special invasion markings... Many were brought down by flak, | :25:34. | :25:37. | |
but enough got through to overwhelm the Germans. | :25:38. | :25:41. | |
Dakota veterans say they owe their lives to it. | :25:42. | :25:45. | |
They could come in low, they could take big loads, | :25:46. | :25:49. | |
and they seemed to be able to fly in the most difficult | :25:50. | :25:52. | |
situations, in little mountain valleys and places like that. | :25:53. | :25:56. | |
Oh, I love the Dakota. This afternoon, the Dakotas | :25:57. | :26:00. | |
arrived over Normandy, thousands turning out to witness | :26:01. | :26:04. | |
witness the aircraft that helped bring liberation. Very special, very | :26:05. | :26:09. | |
emotive, and hopefully it honours the people of 70 years ago. The | :26:10. | :26:13. | |
Dak, as it was known, may not have had the glamour of the Spitfire, | :26:14. | :26:17. | |
but they delivered - men, kit and victory. | :26:18. | :26:22. | |
Duncan Kennedy, BBC News, in Normandy. | :26:23. | :26:31. | |
Time for a look at the weather prospects, Matt Taylor has joined | :26:32. | :26:36. | |
me. I am not sure I would want to be up | :26:37. | :26:40. | |
in a plane across the UK today, a few have seen the sunshine, but for | :26:41. | :26:45. | |
many a thoroughly wet day, and still raining heavily in many areas at the | :26:46. | :26:49. | |
moment. Thunderstorms through Hampshire pushing northwards, and is | :26:50. | :26:52. | |
bulk of rain through this evening and overnight will push across | :26:53. | :26:57. | |
southern counties. Persistent rain in Scotland, patchy rain through the | :26:58. | :27:01. | |
night, things turning drier towards South Wales in the south-west of | :27:02. | :27:04. | |
England later on, some fresh conditions to take us into Thursday | :27:05. | :27:08. | |
morning. Brighter weather to start the day will chase away the grey | :27:09. | :27:11. | |
skies in East Anglia, the south-east, Midlands, and perhaps | :27:12. | :27:16. | |
northern England by the afternoon. A brighter day, a warm day, only one | :27:17. | :27:21. | |
or two showers. Lots of cloud in Scotland, may be as much as an inn | :27:22. | :27:25. | |
job rain in the next 24 hours. The rain will be floating with us again, | :27:26. | :27:33. | |
but many of us will have a dry and bright evening. Into Friday, low | :27:34. | :27:36. | |
cloud across the north-east of the country, most of us having a dry | :27:37. | :27:42. | |
day, the best sunshine in the east, in the west some heavy or thundery | :27:43. | :27:46. | |
showers developing to lead us into a complicated setup for the start of | :27:47. | :27:51. | |
the weekend. This weather front will be the dividing line between humid | :27:52. | :27:54. | |
air pushing out from the near continent towards us, and fresh air | :27:55. | :27:58. | |
trying to work in from the Atlantic. That weather front is where we could | :27:59. | :28:03. | |
see some pretty nasty thunderstorms. This far ahead it is a bit uncertain | :28:04. | :28:06. | |
who will see the worst of the wet weather. The general story is a zone | :28:07. | :28:11. | |
of locally torrential rain pushing northwards and eastwards during the | :28:12. | :28:15. | |
day, maybe into the mid-20s to begin with, turning fresher and brighter | :28:16. | :28:18. | |
later. Exactly where the wettest spots will be is open to question. I | :28:19. | :28:23. | |
will have more for you through the next few nights. | :28:24. | :28:28. | |
Just a reminder of the main news tonight: Pensions, childcare, | :28:29. | :28:35. | |
plastic bags, the Queen has been laying out the Government's agenda | :28:36. | :28:41. | |
in advance of the general election. That is all from the BBC News At | :28:42. | :28:43. | |
Six, | :28:44. | :28:44. |