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The Energy Regulator asks the Big Six energy firms why they | :00:00. | :00:11. | |
haven't dropped their prices, after wholesale prices fall by nearly 40%. | :00:12. | :00:14. | |
Ofgem calls on the companies to tell customers | :00:15. | :00:20. | |
What they need to do is explain to customers, why haven't we seen | :00:21. | :00:24. | |
retail prices fall. on the companies to tell customers | :00:25. | :00:32. | |
We'll be looking at how the energy companies will respond and whether | :00:33. | :00:36. | |
our bills will get any lower. Also tonight: | :00:37. | :00:38. | |
The Prime Minister backs actively promoting British values in schools, | :00:39. | :00:41. | |
as the BBC hears fresh concerns about another school. | :00:42. | :00:43. | |
this time in Bradford. One in three adults are on the verge | :00:44. | :00:46. | |
of developing type 2 diabetes, according to new research. | :00:47. | :00:50. | |
And, with just two days to go, is Brazil finally ready | :00:51. | :00:54. | |
for the World Cup? On BBC London. | :00:55. | :00:58. | |
City Hall approves the purchase of three water cannon | :00:59. | :01:01. | |
for the Metropolitan Police. An investigation's launched | :01:02. | :01:03. | |
after thieves target ticket machines with angle grinders and pick axes. | :01:04. | :01:21. | |
Good evening and welcome to the BBC News at Six. | :01:22. | :01:25. | |
The Energy Regulator has written to the Big Six electricity | :01:26. | :01:29. | |
and gas suppliers asking why they haven't reduced their prices. | :01:30. | :01:31. | |
Ofgem says they risk "undermining public confidence" if | :01:32. | :01:35. | |
they fail to explain how the current drop in wholesale costs | :01:36. | :01:40. | |
will affect what customers pay. According to one measure, | :01:41. | :01:43. | |
wholesale gas prices are 38% lower than they were this time last year. | :01:44. | :01:46. | |
That's the lowest level for four years. | :01:47. | :01:49. | |
In a clear signal to the energy companies, Ofgem reminds | :01:50. | :01:52. | |
them that customers can vote with their feet if they don't get | :01:53. | :01:55. | |
an explanation of how that drop will affect their household bills. | :01:56. | :01:57. | |
Our industry correspondent, John Moylan, has more. | :01:58. | :02:00. | |
The cost of energy is a big part of our household bills. Now there is | :02:01. | :02:07. | |
concerns that the Big Six suppliering have been making a | :02:08. | :02:11. | |
windfall gain by not passing on falling gas and electricity prices | :02:12. | :02:16. | |
to their customers. In a competitive market, that shouldn't happen. The | :02:17. | :02:20. | |
Energy Regulator has now written to the Big Six demanding answers. What | :02:21. | :02:24. | |
we have been seeing over the last six months is a sustained fall in | :02:25. | :02:29. | |
energy prices, for both gas and electricity. What we haven't seen, | :02:30. | :02:34. | |
what is of concern to me, is that correspondenting fall in retail | :02:35. | :02:37. | |
prices to end consumers. The Ofgem say that is despite short-term | :02:38. | :02:42. | |
spikes in recent years, day ahead wholesale gas prices have been | :02:43. | :02:45. | |
stabled and have been falling since the end of yas year. Look what | :02:46. | :02:49. | |
happened to our gas bills, they have continued to rise. Energy was top of | :02:50. | :02:56. | |
the agenda at this conference in London today. Having cut green | :02:57. | :03:00. | |
levies last year and reduced bills, the Energy Secretary today indicated | :03:01. | :03:03. | |
that it was now time for the companies to act. The Big Six have | :03:04. | :03:08. | |
announced that price freezes. I'm pleased about that. They may have to | :03:09. | :03:13. | |
look again because otherwise they will lose consumers. Their customers | :03:14. | :03:18. | |
will move if they don't review their pricing strategies over the next few | :03:19. | :03:22. | |
months. Britain has a liberalised energy market, it is down to the | :03:23. | :03:26. | |
firms to decide what they charge. The companies insist that other | :03:27. | :03:30. | |
factors have been keeping prices high. Some fear they have been | :03:31. | :03:36. | |
making bumper gains. With a it necessary to increase prices just | :03:37. | :03:40. | |
before Christmas? I call on the industry to do something about | :03:41. | :03:44. | |
reducing prices and reflect their wholesale fall. Some of the costs | :03:45. | :03:47. | |
associated with energy do come from other things. Some of those other | :03:48. | :03:51. | |
things and policy costs, for example, did go up. That was one of | :03:52. | :03:55. | |
the reasons why there were changes to the bill not so very long ago. At | :03:56. | :03:59. | |
the same time, the companies have all committed to taking money off | :04:00. | :04:03. | |
the bill and that's been coming through over this year as well. | :04:04. | :04:07. | |
Tonight, the biggest supplier, British Gas, said that as it buys | :04:08. | :04:11. | |
its gas in advance it can't immediately respond when prices | :04:12. | :04:16. | |
fall. It insists it's not increasing profits due to lower wholesale | :04:17. | :04:21. | |
prices. The energy suppliers are already facing the prospect of a | :04:22. | :04:24. | |
major competition investigation. That is likely to be confirmed in | :04:25. | :04:29. | |
the coming weeks. This is a big intervention by the Energy | :04:30. | :04:32. | |
Regulator. It will pile more pressure on the Big Six firms to | :04:33. | :04:33. | |
act. Fiona. Thanks, John. John Moylan, has more. | :04:34. | :04:42. | |
David Cameron has backed proposals to actively promote British values | :04:43. | :04:44. | |
in England's schools, saying he believes they will get | :04:45. | :04:47. | |
"overwhelming" public support after Ofsted found yesterday that some | :04:48. | :04:48. | |
schools in Birmingham had been influenced by | :04:49. | :04:53. | |
hardline Islamic views, four of them face losing their national funding. | :04:54. | :04:54. | |
From Birmingham, Alex Forsyth reports. | :04:55. | :04:59. | |
While pupils in Birmingham focus on their summer exams, there is much | :05:00. | :05:05. | |
focus on their schools. Five have now in special measures, after | :05:06. | :05:10. | |
Ofsted some governors were trying to impose their ethos a narrow faith | :05:11. | :05:19. | |
based ideology. One parent at this school told us his son raised | :05:20. | :05:23. | |
concerns two years ago. He said, we have been segregated, told to sit at | :05:24. | :05:26. | |
the front at the class. Girls are told to sit at the back of the | :05:27. | :05:30. | |
class. Boys were told not to play with girls. That shouldn't happen. | :05:31. | :05:34. | |
The school say it is doesn't separate boys and girls. Another | :05:35. | :05:37. | |
parent said there is segregation, although it is something he | :05:38. | :05:42. | |
supports. The schools really good. They keep the girls away from the | :05:43. | :05:47. | |
boys, which is natural in our faith. And, is nothing wrong with that. As | :05:48. | :05:53. | |
a result of Ofsted's concern over such practices, the academy trusts | :05:54. | :05:57. | |
that run four schools could have their funding withdrawn. It means | :05:58. | :06:02. | |
the schools face being taken over. The its further uncertainty for | :06:03. | :06:06. | |
parents and pupils. In response to the concerns raised here in | :06:07. | :06:10. | |
Birmingham, the Education Secretary, Michael Gove, said all schools must | :06:11. | :06:14. | |
promote "British values" some see that as a criticism of schools which | :06:15. | :06:20. | |
reflect the values of this, predominantly Muslim community. The | :06:21. | :06:23. | |
Prime Minister, who is in Sweden with other EU leaders, says he | :06:24. | :06:28. | |
thinks Mr Gove is right. I would say freedom, tolerance, respect for the | :06:29. | :06:32. | |
rule of law, belief in personal and social responsibility and respect | :06:33. | :06:35. | |
for British institutions. Those are the sorts of things I would hope | :06:36. | :06:41. | |
would be inculcated into the Curran in any school in Britain. A member | :06:42. | :06:47. | |
of the Parents Association at this school in special measures said it | :06:48. | :06:53. | |
has these values. The acting Head prints out what his own assembly | :06:54. | :06:59. | |
says in the Friday newsletter. And it's all about citizenship. About | :07:00. | :07:02. | |
having good manners. Telling the truth, not tells lies. About being | :07:03. | :07:08. | |
good British citizens. While there is anger from those who feel their | :07:09. | :07:12. | |
schools have been unfairly targeted the condemnation of what happened | :07:13. | :07:15. | |
here has prompted changes in inspection and governance for all | :07:16. | :07:19. | |
schools. The impact will be felt much further than just within this | :07:20. | :07:24. | |
city. Alex Forsyth, BBC News, Birmingham. | :07:25. | :07:28. | |
Alex Forsyth reports. Beyond Birmingham, | :07:29. | :07:30. | |
the BBC has uncovered fresh evidence of a possible Islamic agenda | :07:31. | :07:32. | |
in a school in Bradford. Concerns were raised about, | :07:33. | :07:34. | |
amongst other things, segregating girls and boys | :07:35. | :07:37. | |
on school trips and at after school clubs at Carlton Bolling College. | :07:38. | :07:40. | |
Our UK affairs correspondent, Jeremy Cooke, investigates. | :07:41. | :07:45. | |
They are the children of multi-cultural Britain. Muslim | :07:46. | :07:52. | |
pupils attending state schools which are obliged to have no specific | :07:53. | :07:56. | |
religious character. After yesterday's report into schools in | :07:57. | :08:00. | |
Birmingham, there is concern here over a possible Islamic agenda in | :08:01. | :08:05. | |
the Bradford education system. There is a co-ordinated attempt by a small | :08:06. | :08:11. | |
group of unrepresentative people whose views are not shared by most | :08:12. | :08:17. | |
of the Muslim parents I talk to, to gain greater control of two | :08:18. | :08:24. | |
governing bodies in Bradford and to advance their agenda. Carlton | :08:25. | :08:32. | |
Bolling College is a school with an overwhelmingly Muslim intake. The | :08:33. | :08:35. | |
BBC has seen the minutes of governor's meets which raise the | :08:36. | :08:39. | |
question - is there an attempt to bring Islam into these classrooms? | :08:40. | :08:44. | |
It was argued that a broad religious agenda met the spiritual needs of | :08:45. | :08:48. | |
students may not be met. There were plans to segregate boys from girls | :08:49. | :08:52. | |
in sex education classes after school sessions and on trips. Staff | :08:53. | :08:58. | |
were encouraged to visit Park View School in Birmingham which was at | :08:59. | :09:02. | |
the centre of the Trojan Horse investigation. Perhaps the key issue | :09:03. | :09:06. | |
in Bradford is the extent to which governors can effectively take over | :09:07. | :09:09. | |
schools. Take control from senior teaching staff in order to promote | :09:10. | :09:13. | |
their own agenda, whatever that may be. The chair of the governors at | :09:14. | :09:21. | |
Carlton Bolling College is Faisal Khan, an independent Bradford | :09:22. | :09:25. | |
councillor formally of the Respect party. He insists his sole purpose | :09:26. | :09:32. | |
is to improve academic standards. Laisterdyke School, in Bradford, | :09:33. | :09:38. | |
Faisal Khan was a governor here it too. An Ofsted report criticised the | :09:39. | :09:45. | |
governing body which was sacked en masse by the councillor. Governors | :09:46. | :09:49. | |
were said to have become too involved in operational matters. | :09:50. | :09:54. | |
Faisal Khan insists the governors were acting in the best interests of | :09:55. | :09:57. | |
the schools and rejects claims of a Muslim takeover. Is there an Islamic | :09:58. | :10:04. | |
agenda here? Definitely not. We have a school with 95% children, we make | :10:05. | :10:11. | |
their needs, Halal food, prayer within school. Wearing the hijab? | :10:12. | :10:17. | |
Covering your hair. We don't children, irrespective of their | :10:18. | :10:21. | |
background, to compromise on their faith. If you had 10 non-Muslim kits | :10:22. | :10:29. | |
kids in your school what is your thoughts? You meet their needs as | :10:30. | :10:34. | |
well. They say they are ready to act quickly in cases where that | :10:35. | :10:40. | |
relationship is cause for concern. Jeremy Cooke, BBC News, Bradford. | :10:41. | :10:45. | |
Jeremy Cooke, investigates. 150,000 people are believed to have | :10:46. | :10:48. | |
fled Iraq's second largest city Mosul after militants linked to | :10:49. | :10:50. | |
Al-Qaeda seized control of government buildings. | :10:51. | :10:52. | |
The army and the police are reported to have abandoned their posts. | :10:53. | :10:55. | |
It follows days of fighting there and attacks on other towns. | :10:56. | :10:57. | |
The Prime Minister, Nouri Al-Maliki, has asked parliament to declare | :10:58. | :11:00. | |
a state of emergency. Paul Wood reports. | :11:01. | :11:06. | |
After four days of this, the jihadis are now effectively in control of | :11:07. | :11:13. | |
Iraq's second city, with two million people. ISIL fighters seized the | :11:14. | :11:18. | |
government headquarters and the airport. They emptied the jails. | :11:19. | :11:25. | |
1,000 prisoners escaped from one, it's said. The governor broadcast an | :11:26. | :11:29. | |
appeal for the men of Mosul to resist the militants, then he fled. | :11:30. | :11:34. | |
Police and soldiers abondon their posts too. Many refugees followed | :11:35. | :11:39. | |
them. TRANSLATION: The army dissolved. | :11:40. | :11:44. | |
They were terrified. They fled, so we left too. | :11:45. | :11:51. | |
TRANSLATION: The commanders were the first to flee, leaving the soldiers | :11:52. | :11:57. | |
alone. The commanders are to blame. TRANSLATION: All the people have | :11:58. | :12:01. | |
fled. They have left their homes and many people are lying dead, on the | :12:02. | :12:05. | |
streets. Will Iraq accept this? TRANSLATION: Iraq will not accept | :12:06. | :12:14. | |
it. Nouri Al-Maliki asked parliament to declare a state of emergency "any | :12:15. | :12:20. | |
citizen who volunteers to fight the militants will get weapons" he | :12:21. | :12:24. | |
promises. Plumes of smoke hang over the city from abandoned and looted | :12:25. | :12:32. | |
police stations. The Islamic state, I I will have fresh weapons, even if | :12:33. | :12:36. | |
they lose Mosul now. If they do manage to remain here, it will be | :12:37. | :12:43. | |
another step towards their goal of an Islamic (inaudible) straddling | :12:44. | :12:47. | |
territory in both Iraq and Syria. Paul Wood, BBC News Beirut. | :12:48. | :12:56. | |
Paul Wood reports. The Government has admitted that | :12:57. | :12:59. | |
Royal pardons were secretly given to paramilitaries in return | :13:00. | :13:01. | |
for information in Northern Ireland as far back as the 1980's. | :13:02. | :13:04. | |
But in an interview - to be broadcast on tonight's File | :13:05. | :13:07. | |
on 4 on Radio 4 - the current Northern Ireland Secretary says | :13:08. | :13:10. | |
details of who received them should not be published because it could | :13:11. | :13:12. | |
put them in danger. Our Ireland correspondent, | :13:13. | :13:13. | |
Chris Buckler, has the details. In cemeteries across Northern | :13:14. | :13:16. | |
Ireland, there are headstones that remember the murdered. Loved ones, | :13:17. | :13:21. | |
killed in acts of terrorism. Killings in many case that is have | :13:22. | :13:25. | |
never led to convictions. Lexie Cummings was shot dead by the IRA as | :13:26. | :13:30. | |
he left work. There was a lot of evidence... However, his family | :13:31. | :13:35. | |
learnt, during a review of the case, that the main suspect had been given | :13:36. | :13:39. | |
a so-called "on-the-run letter" a document that assured him he was no | :13:40. | :13:44. | |
longer wanted by police in the UK. It's so wrong. It beggars belief. I | :13:45. | :13:52. | |
can't understand why a government would do this to people. To the | :13:53. | :13:56. | |
innocent victims. The on-the-run scheme was made public when a letter | :13:57. | :14:00. | |
sent in error stopped John Downey from being prosecuted in connection | :14:01. | :14:04. | |
with the murders of four soldiers. He was the main suspect in the Hyde | :14:05. | :14:10. | |
Park bombing, although he always denied involvement in the notorious | :14:11. | :14:14. | |
attack. The letters are the focus of a judge-led inquiry and this, an | :14:15. | :14:16. | |
investigation by the House of Commons committee into the scheme. | :14:17. | :14:20. | |
It was taking evidence at Stormont today. To deal with some OTR cases | :14:21. | :14:26. | |
the Government used Royal perking are tifs of mercies, they are more | :14:27. | :14:31. | |
commonly referred to as Royal pardons. The record for pardons | :14:32. | :14:35. | |
granted in Northern Ireland during the decade leading up to the Good | :14:36. | :14:38. | |
Friday agreement are missing. The Government has admitted that Royal | :14:39. | :14:43. | |
pardons were used in some terrorism-related cases as par far | :14:44. | :14:47. | |
back as the 1980s. There were some, yes. People will be shocked at that, | :14:48. | :14:55. | |
aren't they? Well, as I say, it was used in a very... In relation, for | :14:56. | :15:01. | |
example, to cases were people might be released early on compassionate | :15:02. | :15:05. | |
grounds. Perhaps if they had terminal illnesses. It was also used | :15:06. | :15:10. | |
in some instances, I understand, in exchange for information provided to | :15:11. | :15:13. | |
assist the authorities in prosecuting other people. Again, to | :15:14. | :15:18. | |
shortened sentences. Sombre Reeved and injured during years of violence | :15:19. | :15:24. | |
want the names of those pardoned to be made public. The Government | :15:25. | :15:27. | |
argues that could put people in danger in a place where the past | :15:28. | :15:30. | |
still causes hurt. You can hear more on that story | :15:31. | :15:42. | |
on File on 4 tonight at 8.00pm on BBC Radio 4. | :15:43. | :15:45. | |
Our top story this evening. The Energy Regulator, Ofgem, | :15:46. | :15:47. | |
asks the Big Six energy firms why they haven't dropped their prices. | :15:48. | :15:50. | |
Still to come, how new fines could mean you would pay ?10,000 | :15:51. | :15:52. | |
for speeding on the motorway. Later on BBC London, calls for | :15:53. | :16:02. | |
Londoners to be consulted more fully on the capital's new skyscrapers. | :16:03. | :16:05. | |
More than 200 are in the pipeline. And a game of two halves. | :16:06. | :16:08. | |
We meet the brewer who was there in '66 and has been cultivating | :16:09. | :16:17. | |
the yeast ever since. More than a third of adults | :16:18. | :16:22. | |
in England are on the verge of developing type 2 diabetes, | :16:23. | :16:24. | |
raising concerns about an unsustainable burden on the | :16:25. | :16:27. | |
NHS, according to research published in the British Medical Journal. | :16:28. | :16:29. | |
The number of adults in England with what's termed | :16:30. | :16:32. | |
"pre-diabetes" has risen rapidly by almost 24% between 2003 and 2011. | :16:33. | :16:36. | |
It's estimated the NHS spends 10% of its budget already | :16:37. | :16:40. | |
on treating diabetes and diabetes complications such as heart disease, | :16:41. | :16:46. | |
stroke, amputation and blindness. Our health correspondent | :16:47. | :16:47. | |
Dominic Hughes reports. Many of the people at this gym have | :16:48. | :16:58. | |
been referred here by their GP because of health problems, | :16:59. | :17:02. | |
including some who are prediabetic and at risk of developing type 2 | :17:03. | :17:06. | |
diabetes, which is linked to being overweight. Regular exercise and a | :17:07. | :17:10. | |
good diet can help. These gym users are feeling the benefits. You feel | :17:11. | :17:13. | |
fitter and you can, are feeling the benefits. You feel | :17:14. | :17:16. | |
fitter like, get up easier. It is hard. Just having to go on a diet | :17:17. | :17:25. | |
and do this. It is beneficial psyche doing it. Type 2 diabetes develops | :17:26. | :17:29. | |
when the body fails to produce enough insulin and Dick increases | :17:30. | :17:32. | |
the risk of heart attack or stroke, amputation, kidney and nerve damage. | :17:33. | :17:41. | |
-- and it increases. This lady was prediabetic so she made some | :17:42. | :17:45. | |
changes. I had to generally be more healthy. I had seen diabetes in my | :17:46. | :17:50. | |
family with my brother, my father, and I really did not want that in my | :17:51. | :17:54. | |
life, so I wanted to stop that happening. This matters because | :17:55. | :17:59. | |
nearly 3 million people in the UK have already been diagnosed with | :18:00. | :18:03. | |
type 2 diabetes, which can have a serious impact on your health. Of | :18:04. | :18:07. | |
those who are prediabetic, as many as one in ten may go on to develop | :18:08. | :18:11. | |
the condition. Yet researchers say 80% of all those cases of type 2 | :18:12. | :18:18. | |
diabetes are entirely avoidable. And the charity diabetes UK says those | :18:19. | :18:21. | |
at risk can do something about it, as long as they know. Lose a bit of | :18:22. | :18:28. | |
weight, eat a healthy diet, take more activity. They can then back | :18:29. | :18:32. | |
themselves of the risk but they need to know they are at risk at first so | :18:33. | :18:37. | |
they need a risk assessment from their GP. Exercise and diet - the | :18:38. | :18:42. | |
prescription is simple. Putting it into practice is something else and | :18:43. | :18:47. | |
today's study makes clear the huge costs associated with treating type | :18:48. | :18:50. | |
2 diabetes for the NHS means there may be little choice. | :18:51. | :18:53. | |
Dominic Hughes reports. The UK's largest supermarket is | :18:54. | :18:55. | |
about to launch its first current account in | :18:56. | :18:58. | |
a bid to challenge the big banks. Until now, Tesco has provided | :18:59. | :19:00. | |
savings accounts only. Around three quarters of current | :19:01. | :19:03. | |
accounts in the UK are with the so-called "big four" banks. | :19:04. | :19:05. | |
Here's our business editor, Kamal Ahmed. | :19:06. | :19:10. | |
In banking, the olden days were not necessarily the golden days. I was | :19:11. | :19:17. | |
only too pleased to go over and arrange for him to open his first | :19:18. | :19:22. | |
account... Today, Tesco attempted to break up the domination of | :19:23. | :19:27. | |
Britain's traditional banks when it announced its first current account. | :19:28. | :19:31. | |
Traditionally offered to its 16 million Clubcard members, it could | :19:32. | :19:35. | |
make an impact on the big six in the UK. The bank's executive said it was | :19:36. | :19:41. | |
time to shake things up. Customers tell us they are very fed up with | :19:42. | :19:46. | |
the smoke and mirrors and the need to pay attention to small print. | :19:47. | :19:52. | |
Tesco will charge ?5 a month for the account unless holders deposit at | :19:53. | :19:56. | |
least ?750 a month. That has brought criticism, as those on low incomes | :19:57. | :20:02. | |
could be excluded. The state pension is ?113 a week, yet you need ?750 a | :20:03. | :20:07. | |
month to open an account, so I can not understand why Tesco is seeking | :20:08. | :20:11. | |
to exclude a significant number of older customers. Tesco says other | :20:12. | :20:16. | |
types of account may follow. Consumer groups welcomed the frank | :20:17. | :20:18. | |
that the bank had been clear on fees. -- the fact. Tesco bank wants | :20:19. | :20:26. | |
to take the fight to the traditional lenders, like Lloyds, RBS and | :20:27. | :20:30. | |
Barclays. They control the vast majority of banking in the UK, a | :20:31. | :20:34. | |
situation the government by grocers is not healthy. Advocates of change | :20:35. | :20:38. | |
they will challenge for banks means better competition and better deals | :20:39. | :20:46. | |
for consumers. -- the Government says is not healthy. | :20:47. | :20:55. | |
Compare all of this to the new challenger, Metro bank. It has a | :20:56. | :21:04. | |
tiny share. Competition is notoriously weak, still dominated by | :21:05. | :21:08. | |
a handful of players. This is a serious challenge from Tesco but it | :21:09. | :21:11. | |
is not the earthquake in retail banking customers desperately need. | :21:12. | :21:15. | |
Tesco believes the more people who bank with it, the more people will | :21:16. | :21:19. | |
shop with it. With struggling retail sales, it is hoping the new current | :21:20. | :21:23. | |
account will provide the list the retailer so urgently needs. -- the | :21:24. | :21:26. | |
lift. Maximum fines imposed | :21:27. | :21:30. | |
by magistrates in England and Wales could rise dramatically in an effort | :21:31. | :21:33. | |
to crack down on offenders. Under new proposals, | :21:34. | :21:35. | |
the highest penalty, for offences including speeding on a motorway, | :21:36. | :21:39. | |
would go from ?2,500 to ?10,000. And there'd be no limit on fines | :21:40. | :21:41. | |
for drink-driving, as Judith Moritz reports. | :21:42. | :21:46. | |
With you caught speeding, acting drunk and disorderly or fail to pay | :21:47. | :21:52. | |
your licence, you may have to appear before magistrates. -- whether you | :21:53. | :21:56. | |
are caught. They have the power to impose fines for everything and now | :21:57. | :22:01. | |
those penalties are set to increase. At the moment, if you are convicted | :22:02. | :22:04. | |
of speeding on a motorway, you can be fined up to ?2500. But under the | :22:05. | :22:10. | |
changes, if you are found guilty of the same offence, you could find | :22:11. | :22:14. | |
yourself having to pay four times as much. The new fines are split into | :22:15. | :22:21. | |
levels. Minor offences like causing criminal damage whilst drunk could | :22:22. | :22:26. | |
attract a fine of up to ?800. Up to ?2000 could be the fined for driving | :22:27. | :22:31. | |
a motorcycle without a helmet. Irregular school attendance could | :22:32. | :22:35. | |
cost parents up to ?4000. And speeding on a motorway may result in | :22:36. | :22:39. | |
a fine of up to ?10,000. And for the first time, and limited fines may | :22:40. | :22:43. | |
also be imposed. At Manchester Magistrates Court today, the plan of | :22:44. | :22:48. | |
changes has met with a mixed response. How much have you been | :22:49. | :22:55. | |
fined? Just over a grand. It was driving offences. So if that fine | :22:56. | :23:01. | |
was to increase by, potentially, up to four times as much, what would | :23:02. | :23:05. | |
you make of that? Erm... Not good, obviously, but it would be my own | :23:06. | :23:10. | |
fault for doing what I did to get the finding the first place. I have | :23:11. | :23:17. | |
just been fined ?745 for not providing information. If that was | :23:18. | :23:21. | |
to go up even further in future, what would you think? Diabolical. | :23:22. | :23:27. | |
The magistrates has said not everybody would automatically pay | :23:28. | :23:31. | |
the higher fines because they are means tested. It is ridiculous | :23:32. | :23:35. | |
trying to find somebody ?5,000 when they are on benefits. You won't get | :23:36. | :23:39. | |
it and they won't be able to pay and actually what is happening is you | :23:40. | :23:44. | |
are setting them up to fail. The changes are still going through | :23:45. | :23:46. | |
Parliament so it is not yet known when they will be introduced. | :23:47. | :23:49. | |
as Judith Moritz reports. European football leaders have told | :23:50. | :23:52. | |
the FIFA President Sepp Blatter he should step down next year. | :23:53. | :23:55. | |
At a meeting with UEFA delegates, Mr Blatter was told that | :23:56. | :23:58. | |
the public link FIFA with corruption and bribery. | :23:59. | :24:04. | |
Our correspondent is in Rio. This follows allegations around 2022? | :24:05. | :24:15. | |
Guess. FIFA Congress begins to night and there was a meeting between them | :24:16. | :24:21. | |
and UEFA. -- yes. Separatist Rhine to stand for a fifth term in office. | :24:22. | :24:26. | |
We had today the meeting today was very feisty. -- set latter is | :24:27. | :24:34. | |
intending to stand. The reputation with the public was said to be so | :24:35. | :24:39. | |
low it could only improve if he left. He was addressed directly | :24:40. | :24:44. | |
saying he damaged the image of football. They said their only | :24:45. | :24:53. | |
option was not to back him for that fifth term in office. Thank you. | :24:54. | :24:57. | |
and bribery. With just two days to go before | :24:58. | :25:01. | |
the opening match of the World Cup in Brazil, workers are frantically | :25:02. | :25:03. | |
trying to complete preparations. There've been question marks over | :25:04. | :25:05. | |
whether all the stadiums will be ready, whether | :25:06. | :25:07. | |
the transport system will cope and whether Brazilians are in the | :25:08. | :25:10. | |
mood to embrace the competition. From Rio, | :25:11. | :25:11. | |
Wyre Davies has sent this report. It has taken some time but the green | :25:12. | :25:17. | |
and gold is out... And there are smiles on faces, as Brazilians start | :25:18. | :25:20. | |
to show some pride in their World Cup. My Brazil is strong. It is | :25:21. | :25:31. | |
ours, they say. Sneaking a peek at some Sao Paulo's new stadium. This | :25:32. | :25:37. | |
was one of six stadiums to be delivered late. Construction work | :25:38. | :25:42. | |
and safety testing on temporary stands all happening in the last few | :25:43. | :25:50. | |
days. Safety concerns and overspends litter arguments between Brazil and | :25:51. | :25:56. | |
FIFA in the venue for England's first match. We are not responsible | :25:57. | :26:07. | |
for the country but we are responsible for the financial | :26:08. | :26:10. | |
support we bring to a country and then I can be clear there is no | :26:11. | :26:14. | |
corruption. But hundreds of thousands of Brazilians are | :26:15. | :26:17. | |
indignant at the billions being spent on the World Cup. On the | :26:18. | :26:22. | |
streets protesting for the last year, they say they will disrupt the | :26:23. | :26:25. | |
toilet -- the tournament itself, despite the government threat to use | :26:26. | :26:30. | |
force. There are struggles in the World Cup, before the World Cup and | :26:31. | :26:39. | |
after the World Cup. The World Cup in Brazil is for FIFA, not Brazil. | :26:40. | :26:44. | |
This has been a really bad year and a half or Brazil. Not the kind of | :26:45. | :26:48. | |
images they want the world to see. Even now here in Rio, they are still | :26:49. | :26:51. | |
building critical structures for fans. Will they be ready for the | :26:52. | :26:55. | |
World Cup? Probably yes, but only just, and a lot is being left to | :26:56. | :27:02. | |
chance. Fans from England and across the globe are descending on Rio. | :27:03. | :27:05. | |
They know what this country can deliver. Partying and beaches aside, | :27:06. | :27:11. | |
this is a huge challenge for Brazil, however, and the world be will be | :27:12. | :27:13. | |
watching. Wyre Davies has sent this report. | :27:14. | :27:18. | |
Time for a look at the weather. Here's Nick Miller. | :27:19. | :27:24. | |
For those suffering downpours today, drier days to come but still some | :27:25. | :27:29. | |
thunderstorms this evening moving across northern England with some in | :27:30. | :27:32. | |
northern Scotland, Northern Ireland, the north coast of Devon and | :27:33. | :27:36. | |
Somerset. Showers will continue to the northern west of the UK and well | :27:37. | :27:39. | |
into the night, but the heaviest ones will ease. Gorgeous weather | :27:40. | :27:44. | |
over southern England and eastern England. Most will start dry | :27:45. | :27:51. | |
tomorrow and stay that way through the day. Deeper into the day, hardly | :27:52. | :27:59. | |
any showers, just a few dotted around the northern part and nowhere | :28:00. | :28:02. | |
near as heavy as they have been. You will be unlucky if you catch one | :28:03. | :28:05. | |
because they are far fewer than they have been. For much of England and | :28:06. | :28:10. | |
Wales, staying dry. If you start with some sunshine, expectant crowd | :28:11. | :28:13. | |
to build but still sunny spells. If you stop with cloud that will break. | :28:14. | :28:21. | |
-- expect some cloud. Some places hitting 23 or 24. For the | :28:22. | :28:25. | |
pre-Wimbledon tennis tournaments, in good shape. Not just tomorrow but | :28:26. | :28:30. | |
for the rest of the week. On Thursday, England and Wales will see | :28:31. | :28:34. | |
the best of the sunshine. A bit more cloud around for Scotland and | :28:35. | :28:37. | |
Northern Ireland but western Scotland seeing some rain at times. | :28:38. | :28:41. | |
In the sunshine in south-east England, temperatures heading up a | :28:42. | :28:46. | |
bit more into the mid-20s, and by Friday, one still. At this stage, | :28:47. | :28:54. | |
the cloud and a few showers affecting Scotland on Friday. -- | :28:55. | :28:55. | |
warmer still. | :28:56. | :28:57. |