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England's NHS is under huge pressure with record numbers | :00:17. | :00:19. | |
The latest figures show key targets for ambulance responses, A waiting | :00:20. | :00:23. | |
times, and cancer treatment have all been missed again. | :00:24. | :00:25. | |
There is definitely more demand on services and that means we have | :00:26. | :00:28. | |
to work smarter and in different ways to make sure people are getting | :00:29. | :00:31. | |
We will have detailed the possible industrial action by junior and | :00:32. | :00:38. | |
doctors. Brussels warns that | :00:39. | :00:39. | |
the migrant crisis means a race against time to save | :00:40. | :00:41. | |
passport-free travel within Europe. On trial - the leader of a Maoist | :00:42. | :00:43. | |
cult accused of imprisoning his daughter in London | :00:44. | :00:46. | |
and sexually assaulting followers. India's prime minister begins | :00:47. | :00:50. | |
a three-day visit to the UK as ?9 billion worth of deals between | :00:51. | :00:54. | |
the two countries are announced. And how George Clooney set hearts | :00:55. | :00:59. | |
a flutter when he dropped You spoke to him? And touch him! | :01:00. | :01:18. | |
Lovely man, worth the wait. And in the sport paid to the former | :01:19. | :01:25. | |
Sunderland goalkeeper Maton Fulop who has died after a long battle | :01:26. | :01:26. | |
with cancer. -- Marton Fulop. Good evening and welcome to the | :01:27. | :01:43. | |
BBC News at Six. The NHS in England is struggling to | :01:44. | :01:46. | |
cope with growing pressure on its services, | :01:47. | :01:51. | |
even before winter arrives. New figures from September show | :01:52. | :01:53. | |
a record number of people were stuck in hospital beds because | :01:54. | :01:55. | |
of delays in discharging them. A major target covering | :01:56. | :01:58. | |
the treatment As was a target | :01:59. | :01:59. | |
for ambulance waiting times And the number of A patients being | :02:00. | :02:05. | |
seen within four hours was also NHS England says the service is | :02:06. | :02:12. | |
dealing with an increasing number of admissions, as our | :02:13. | :02:18. | |
Health Editor, Hugh Pym, reports. Here's one hospital accident | :02:19. | :02:25. | |
and emergency unit which hasn't seen This brand new facility at | :02:26. | :02:27. | |
New Cross Hospital in Wolverhampton Final preparations are being made | :02:28. | :02:32. | |
ready for the winter rush expected The patients do tend to be sicker, | :02:33. | :02:38. | |
we tend to have higher admission rates, infections, flu, | :02:39. | :02:45. | |
other things around during the winter period which tend to make | :02:46. | :02:47. | |
the more frail people sicker. The demand on the hospital over | :02:48. | :02:50. | |
the winter period is intense. The latest figures show, | :02:51. | :02:53. | |
even before winter, major In September, 19% | :02:54. | :02:55. | |
of patients diagnosed with cancer still hadn't started their treatment | :02:56. | :02:58. | |
two months after being diagnosed. 27% of the most urgent ambulance | :02:59. | :03:00. | |
call-outs did not arrive within The four-hour target to be seen | :03:01. | :03:03. | |
in A was also missed, The only major target that was hit | :03:04. | :03:16. | |
was the waiting time for patients to see a consultant, | :03:17. | :03:20. | |
that's within 18 weeks. The problem coming into even sharper | :03:21. | :03:28. | |
focus is when patients can't return home or go back to their local | :03:29. | :03:31. | |
community because there isn't an That means they stay in hospital | :03:32. | :03:34. | |
beds for longer and that can cause congestion going all the way back to | :03:35. | :03:38. | |
the front door with a constant flow How many empty beds have you got | :03:39. | :03:41. | |
at the moment? Here at St Pancras Hospital they are | :03:42. | :03:48. | |
handling the flow of patients and bed requirements in partnership | :03:49. | :03:53. | |
with local care providers Nationally, patients delayed | :03:54. | :03:55. | |
in hospitals is at the highest It would be difficult to | :03:56. | :04:00. | |
fault anything really. That's very kind of you to say, | :04:01. | :04:08. | |
thank you. There is definitely more demand | :04:09. | :04:12. | |
on services and that means new have to work smarter and in different | :04:13. | :04:16. | |
ways to make sure people are getting the care they need in the right | :04:17. | :04:19. | |
place for them at that time and it NHS leaders said the service was | :04:20. | :04:23. | |
well prepared for winter but they Of course it always helps if | :04:24. | :04:29. | |
patients who don't really need to use these emergency services do act | :04:30. | :04:35. | |
sensibly and make sure they either go to the pharmacy or the GP surgery | :04:36. | :04:38. | |
and save our hospitals for those Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland | :04:39. | :04:41. | |
release figures at different times. In September, | :04:42. | :04:48. | |
Scotland's A performance was All this comes at a time when NHS | :04:49. | :04:59. | |
chiefs are demanding bigger investment in health and social Web | :05:00. | :05:02. | |
by the Chancellor in his spending review in a couple of weeks. -- | :05:03. | :05:08. | |
social care. Others say the NHS needs to look hard at its own | :05:09. | :05:12. | |
performance. Thereafter headaches ahead with the possibility of a | :05:13. | :05:15. | |
junior doctors strike in England. The doctors union is that if there | :05:16. | :05:21. | |
is a yes vote, there will be a walk-out on December one effecting | :05:22. | :05:25. | |
non-emergency care and full walk-out on December eight and 16th. NHS | :05:26. | :05:29. | |
employers say it would have a big impact on patients and it is hugely | :05:30. | :05:31. | |
regrettable. The migrant crisis could spell | :05:32. | :05:32. | |
the end of passport free travel within most of Europe, that's | :05:33. | :05:35. | |
the warning from the President of His warning came after | :05:36. | :05:38. | |
a two-day summit in Malta where European and African leaders have | :05:39. | :05:46. | |
been trying to find a solution. The European Council President's | :05:47. | :05:59. | |
words were very alarming on the future of the continent's free | :06:00. | :06:02. | |
movement zone for those who see it as the cornerstone of EU | :06:03. | :06:07. | |
integration. It is not Eurosceptics who have prompted this crisis over | :06:08. | :06:11. | |
free movement, but Syrians and Afghans, Somalis and Eritreans. This | :06:12. | :06:16. | |
comes at the end of a two-day summit that saw some progress in the EU | :06:17. | :06:20. | |
establishing mechanisms to control migration. | :06:21. | :06:27. | |
Malta's national graveyard, serene and tranquil today but filled | :06:28. | :06:31. | |
with an anguished crowd back in April at the burial here of some | :06:32. | :06:34. | |
of the 800 migrants drowned in just one night off the Maltese coast. | :06:35. | :06:39. | |
Graveyard official Eman Bonnici was there. | :06:40. | :06:44. | |
It was very emotional because the child was buried in this vault here. | :06:45. | :06:48. | |
It's failing now to stop hundreds of thousands more refugees | :06:49. | :06:53. | |
and other migrants trying to cross the Mediterranean. | :06:54. | :06:57. | |
That's why the EU called this, by now it's sixth summit | :06:58. | :07:00. | |
It's like trying to repair leaking dam. | :07:01. | :07:04. | |
Block up the hole in one area and water comes gushing through | :07:05. | :07:07. | |
The migrant route to Europe has moved from Morocco to Libya | :07:08. | :07:14. | |
This issue isn't almost over, it's going to be with Europe | :07:15. | :07:18. | |
for years to come and long-term problems need long-term solutions. | :07:19. | :07:20. | |
So far, the EU's reaction has been chaotic and uncoordinated but these | :07:21. | :07:23. | |
meetings in Malta are a real attempt at finding a more strategic | :07:24. | :07:28. | |
The president of the European Council says it has to | :07:29. | :07:34. | |
We are under no illusions that we can improve | :07:35. | :07:45. | |
the situation overnight but we are committed to giving people | :07:46. | :07:47. | |
Here in Malta, the EU has been working with African leaders, | :07:48. | :07:53. | |
asking them to crack down on people smugglers and offering cash to help | :07:54. | :07:56. | |
improve life in African countries to make Europe less enticing. | :07:57. | :07:59. | |
What Africa needs today is not charity. | :08:00. | :08:10. | |
This is what drives society forward, both in Europe and in United States. | :08:11. | :08:14. | |
And when you talk of investment, actually, 1.8 billion is not much. | :08:15. | :08:19. | |
Today, the UK pledged a further ?200 million for Africa to tackle | :08:20. | :08:22. | |
Britain gives more overseas aid than any other European country. | :08:23. | :08:31. | |
But EU partners complain about lack of solidarity | :08:32. | :08:33. | |
when it comes to dealing with asylum seekers already in Europe. | :08:34. | :08:38. | |
Balkan countries are now managing to move migrants smoothly | :08:39. | :08:40. | |
Successfully dealing with this crisis means European nations | :08:41. | :08:45. | |
are doing what they often find difficult, working together. | :08:46. | :08:51. | |
Otherwise the EU will continue to lose credibility on other continents | :08:52. | :08:54. | |
As you saw, a more orderly situation exists on the all can migrant route | :08:55. | :09:13. | |
but what about the other big access point for people reaching Europe via | :09:14. | :09:18. | |
Greece? Ed Thomas reports from the island of Lesbos which has seen the | :09:19. | :09:20. | |
greatest number of arrivals. On dark nights through rough seas, | :09:21. | :09:28. | |
this is a journey like no other. And so many children now. This baby is | :09:29. | :09:37. | |
soaked and freezing. His mother's only help, her two sisters from West | :09:38. | :09:44. | |
Yorkshire. She is a GP but nothing prepared her for this. What must | :09:45. | :09:48. | |
they be winning from to be forced to do this? The governments need to be | :09:49. | :09:52. | |
doing so much more, the governments in Europe, they are disgusting. This | :09:53. | :09:57. | |
is what they are putting innocent families through. European leaders | :09:58. | :10:04. | |
are acting. At night turns today, the birds don't stop. Syrians Iraqis | :10:05. | :10:11. | |
and more more Afghans. I am the captain. A young generation of | :10:12. | :10:18. | |
Afghanistan is coming in Europe and right now in Afghanistan there is no | :10:19. | :10:23. | |
young power. All of the people is going to come in Europe. There is no | :10:24. | :10:31. | |
stopping this flow. Smugglers are paid and migrant boats sail when and | :10:32. | :10:35. | |
where they want, in full view of the Turkish coast guard. But don't think | :10:36. | :10:40. | |
this is an easy journey. For some, there is no law on the Aegean. These | :10:41. | :10:45. | |
people say they were held at gunpoint and robbed. We almost died. | :10:46. | :10:51. | |
Nobody knows exactly who is on these boats. This is Joe. You might | :10:52. | :10:57. | |
recognise his accent or even his face. What was it like? It was very | :10:58. | :11:04. | |
scary, believe me. This is a return trip to the place he calls home. I | :11:05. | :11:10. | |
was in Wembley in two years and two years in Kent. You are in the UK? I | :11:11. | :11:17. | |
live there for five years. How did you get back to Afghanistan? They | :11:18. | :11:24. | |
sent me back. So who stays and who goes? In Sweden and Germany, the | :11:25. | :11:28. | |
mood music of this crisis is changing but who will tell this man | :11:29. | :11:33. | |
to return to Syria where Islamic State said they would kill him for | :11:34. | :11:38. | |
playing the music he loves? And who would force this Yazidi mother back | :11:39. | :11:42. | |
to a home that no longer exists? And who will explain to this | :11:43. | :11:47. | |
six-year-old girl and her sister what this is about? Today was not | :11:48. | :11:56. | |
just all about migration, there were some strong words from Donald Tusk | :11:57. | :12:01. | |
on another issue, Britain's renegotiation of its relationship | :12:02. | :12:06. | |
with the EU. What did Donald Tusk say and how significant are his | :12:07. | :12:10. | |
comments? This is the first time since the Prime Minister put his | :12:11. | :12:14. | |
full wish list in writing that we have heard from the European Council | :12:15. | :12:18. | |
president and the matters because he represents all the other 27 EU | :12:19. | :12:21. | |
countries who have two agree to these reforms if they are to be | :12:22. | :12:26. | |
passed. He said they will be tough, really tough. We know there will be | :12:27. | :12:31. | |
some difficulties, particularly with the prime Minster's ideas to curb | :12:32. | :12:35. | |
the new migration to the UK but we also note that the EU wants to keep | :12:36. | :12:41. | |
the UK in but perhaps there is an element of these leaders wanting to | :12:42. | :12:44. | |
give David Cameron the fight they know he needs to silence critics | :12:45. | :12:48. | |
back home. Donald Tusk also said that there were no guarantees on a | :12:49. | :12:53. | |
decision by the reforms by next month and that brings us back to | :12:54. | :12:56. | |
migration. It is not Britain in or out of the EU that is the burning | :12:57. | :13:00. | |
issue here for European leaders, it is the migration crisis. Many | :13:01. | :13:07. | |
thanks. An interesting end to what has been an eventful summit here | :13:08. | :13:08. | |
Malta. Back to London. Thank you. Four men have been arrested | :13:09. | :13:13. | |
in England as part of a counter-terrorism operation to | :13:14. | :13:15. | |
dismantle a jihadist network which The four, from Hull, Derby, | :13:16. | :13:17. | |
Birmingham and Sheffield, were among 17 people detained | :13:18. | :13:21. | |
across five European countries, A man who founded a far-left commune | :13:22. | :13:23. | |
in south London in the 1970s has gone on trial at Southwark Crown | :13:24. | :13:35. | |
Court accused of sexually assaulting two of his followers | :13:36. | :13:38. | |
and imprisoning his own daughter. Aravindan Balakrishnan denies | :13:39. | :13:40. | |
the charges, including four counts rape and seven | :13:41. | :13:42. | |
counts of indecent assault. Our Home Affairs Correspondent, | :13:43. | :13:45. | |
Tom Symonds, reports. This is Aravindan Balakrishnan, the | :13:46. | :13:59. | |
man once known as Comrade Bala. He is now 75 but he is accused of | :14:00. | :14:04. | |
presiding over a commonest cult lusting for decades within which | :14:05. | :14:09. | |
women were raped, assaulted, imprisoned and brainwashed. Today, | :14:10. | :14:12. | |
the court heard it began in the mid-70s when a much younger man well | :14:13. | :14:17. | |
at a radical brand of politics based on the teachings of Chairman Mao | :14:18. | :14:23. | |
China. He was charismatic and energetic as a speaker. Follow was | :14:24. | :14:27. | |
formed collective in this Brixton building which now houses and | :14:28. | :14:30. | |
unconnected restaurant. They were determined to overthrow what they | :14:31. | :14:34. | |
saw as the British fascist state that the men drifted away leaving | :14:35. | :14:38. | |
just the women. The prosecution said that for years he subjected to to | :14:39. | :14:43. | |
mental and physical dominance and violence. They were forced into | :14:44. | :14:48. | |
sexual acts over which they had no choice and were deliberately | :14:49. | :14:50. | |
degrading and humiliating. The jury heard there was a third woman and he | :14:51. | :14:57. | |
controlled every part of her life. She is his daughter. The court heard | :14:58. | :15:02. | |
that she was born into the collective and kept hidden for 30 | :15:03. | :15:06. | |
years during which she was bullied and beaten. The jury was told she | :15:07. | :15:10. | |
had no friends, you didn't go to school or so a doctor and barely | :15:11. | :15:16. | |
left the house. Rosicky. Rosina Cottage QC read from the diaries of | :15:17. | :15:21. | |
the women, detailing how they were forced to worship him as if he was a | :15:22. | :15:24. | |
god. Aravindan Balakrishnan was arrested here in the last of many | :15:25. | :15:30. | |
properties the collective occupied over four decades. As you can see, | :15:31. | :15:36. | |
it is boarded up. He now faces 16 charges, all of which he denies, in | :15:37. | :15:38. | |
a trial expected to last a month. The NHS in England is struggling to | :15:39. | :15:42. | |
cope with growing pressure The latest figures show key targets | :15:43. | :15:48. | |
for ambulance responses, A waiting times and cancer treatment have all | :15:49. | :15:53. | |
been missed again. And still to come - it is all smiles | :15:54. | :15:55. | |
and selfies in Edinburgh, as George Clooney pays a visit to | :15:56. | :15:59. | |
a local sandwich shop. And coming up on | :16:00. | :16:03. | |
Reporting Scotland... Doctors say nurse Pauline Cafferkey | :16:04. | :16:06. | |
is fully recovered, one month after being readmitted to hospital | :16:07. | :16:10. | |
with complications from Ebola. And Rangers chairman Dave King | :16:11. | :16:16. | |
urges the club's critics to move on It's the first time an Indian | :16:17. | :16:19. | |
premier has visited the UK This morning, | :16:20. | :16:27. | |
Narendra Modi flew in to London Within hours, | :16:28. | :16:32. | |
he and David Cameron had announced trade deals between British and | :16:33. | :16:37. | |
Indian companies worth ?9 billion. India is now | :16:38. | :16:40. | |
the fastest-growing large economy in the world, and Britain is hoping | :16:41. | :16:42. | |
for a piece of the action. Our Delhi correspondent | :16:43. | :16:45. | |
Justin Rowlatt reports. It is the first time all old Indian | :16:46. | :17:00. | |
Prime Minister has visited the UK chain decade, and David Cameron was | :17:01. | :17:06. | |
very keen to put on a good show. Mr Modi was greeted by a fly past from | :17:07. | :17:12. | |
the Red Arrows. And a bit of good old-fashioned British pomp from the | :17:13. | :17:16. | |
regimental band of the Irish Guards. But the real business of this trip | :17:17. | :17:25. | |
is, well, business. These days even Belgium exports more to India than | :17:26. | :17:30. | |
the UK. And it is that sad fact that David Cameron is hoping this visit | :17:31. | :17:35. | |
will begin to address. I do not believe we are realising the true | :17:36. | :17:40. | |
potential of this relationship, and that is what Prime Minister Modi and | :17:41. | :17:45. | |
I want to change. Who want to forge a more ambitious, modern | :17:46. | :17:48. | |
partnership, harnessing our strengths and working together for | :17:49. | :17:52. | |
the long term to help shape our fortunes at home and abroad in the | :17:53. | :17:57. | |
21st century. And with the inevitable pageantry as a backdrop, | :17:58. | :18:01. | |
the 2 leaders agreed in ?9 billion worth of new deals between British | :18:02. | :18:07. | |
and Indian companies and initiatives to Indian businesses to raise more | :18:08. | :18:12. | |
money through the City of London. But do not expect it all to go | :18:13. | :18:16. | |
smoothly. You can see what a divisive figure Mr Modi is. He is | :18:17. | :18:23. | |
associated with a rising climate of intolerance in India. This noisy | :18:24. | :18:28. | |
crowd of protesters is expected to follow him throughout his visit. We | :18:29. | :18:33. | |
are going backwards in human rights in India, compared to other | :18:34. | :18:37. | |
countries, where we should be going forwards. It is a superpower but it | :18:38. | :18:42. | |
is not looking after its people. He is wearing a veil of democracy, and | :18:43. | :18:49. | |
he is inside. Mr Modi, India is becoming an increasingly intolerant | :18:50. | :18:55. | |
place chuckers why? TRANSLATION: India is the land of border, of | :18:56. | :19:01. | |
Gandhi, it is a vibrant chrissie which protects every citizen. The 2 | :19:02. | :19:07. | |
leaders scattered petals at the feet of the hero of Indian independence, | :19:08. | :19:12. | |
evidence perhaps that the bitterness of the imperial era is finally over. | :19:13. | :19:17. | |
Mr Cameron hopes this visit will foster an invigorated commercial | :19:18. | :19:18. | |
relationship in its place. Cuts to mental health service | :19:19. | :19:24. | |
budgets in England are damaging patient care | :19:25. | :19:28. | |
and putting services under huge pressure - that's according to | :19:29. | :19:30. | |
the King's Fund think-tank. It claims funding for beds | :19:31. | :19:33. | |
and crisis support is being cut in favour of cheaper schemes | :19:34. | :19:35. | |
that are often unproven. This is a damning report on | :19:36. | :19:38. | |
England's mental health services. Patients are being put at risk | :19:39. | :19:44. | |
by fast-paced, 50% of mental health | :19:45. | :19:46. | |
trusts are cutting staff. A quarter plan to use less | :19:47. | :19:53. | |
qualified non-medical staff. And 10% are reducing beds | :19:54. | :19:57. | |
for the acutely ill. Kate, whose name we've changed to | :19:58. | :20:01. | |
protect her identity, is painfully aware of the distress | :20:02. | :20:05. | |
caused when help isn't available. One night, when her father became | :20:06. | :20:09. | |
suicidal, the family called an ambulance but was told it was | :20:10. | :20:12. | |
taking him to a mental health cafe. I still remember Mum saying, | :20:13. | :20:17. | |
he needs to go to this cafe and it was just, like, | :20:18. | :20:25. | |
how can that even be possible? Everyone knows, | :20:26. | :20:28. | |
they know how poorly he is. What kind of chaos is there that | :20:29. | :20:30. | |
that would even seem This centre in south London | :20:31. | :20:34. | |
is one of many with a cafe. It is run by people with mental | :20:35. | :20:39. | |
health problems and helps hundreds But researchers at the King's Fund | :20:40. | :20:42. | |
are concerned the NHS is hoping to rely on places | :20:43. | :20:48. | |
like this to provide cheaper care. By day, this is a cafe, | :20:49. | :20:52. | |
but at night, the area at the back here is transformed | :20:53. | :20:55. | |
into a cosy sitting room, offering cups of tea and conversation for | :20:56. | :20:58. | |
people feeling unwell in the night. But staff here are clear it's not an | :20:59. | :21:02. | |
alternative to expert medical care. We would never pretend that we could | :21:03. | :21:08. | |
manage We would never pretend that we could | :21:09. | :21:12. | |
manage people's clinical symptoms. We are laypeople, we don't talk | :21:13. | :21:19. | |
about medication or therapy. Today the NHS responded to | :21:20. | :21:22. | |
the report and said it was confident What we have been doing is putting | :21:23. | :21:25. | |
in place many of the systems we need to be able to deliver better | :21:26. | :21:37. | |
standards of care for people. But that's too late for Kate's | :21:38. | :21:41. | |
father, who spent three days confined in a room at home until | :21:42. | :21:46. | |
hospital It's extremely dangerous and | :21:47. | :21:48. | |
in the current situation we are, without a shadow of a doubt, | :21:49. | :21:53. | |
putting people's lives at risk. HM Revenue | :21:54. | :21:56. | |
and Customs says it plans to close 137 of its offices as part of plans | :21:57. | :21:58. | |
to modernise the way it works. Staff will move to 13 | :21:59. | :22:01. | |
regional centres. The changes are expected to take | :22:02. | :22:03. | |
place over the next five years. Unions claim thousands | :22:04. | :22:06. | |
of jobs could be at risk, posing a significant threat to | :22:07. | :22:10. | |
the performance of the department. More women should be offered hormone | :22:11. | :22:15. | |
replacement therapy, despite concerns over | :22:16. | :22:17. | |
its link to some cancers. The health spending watchdog Nice | :22:18. | :22:21. | |
says that for most women, HRT is an effective treatment | :22:22. | :22:23. | |
for symptoms of the menopause. Now it has issued guidelines | :22:24. | :22:27. | |
for the first time about how to Shares in the engine-maker | :22:28. | :22:30. | |
Rolls-Royce have lost a fifth The company's fourth profits warning | :22:31. | :22:36. | |
in a year sent The British-based firm says weak | :22:37. | :22:42. | |
demand in aerospace and marine markets are to blame | :22:43. | :22:47. | |
for its bleak outlook for 2016. The actor George Clooney swapped | :22:48. | :22:52. | |
Hollywood for a local cafe He paid a visit to a sandwich shop | :22:53. | :22:56. | |
which employs homeless people and Our correspondent Kevin Keane was | :22:57. | :23:02. | |
there when the film star dropped His report obviously | :23:03. | :23:07. | |
contains flash photography. It felt like a royal visit, | :23:08. | :23:12. | |
but this was a welcome the Palace The Hollywood heart-throb was | :23:13. | :23:18. | |
heading for a coffee shop whose customers can also buy drinks | :23:19. | :23:25. | |
for people who are homeless. George, BBC - why are you here? | :23:26. | :23:30. | |
Well, I'm working for a charity. What do you think of what they do? | :23:31. | :23:37. | |
It is pretty amazing. Why are you supporting this | :23:38. | :23:40. | |
charity in particular? I like what they are doing, I think | :23:41. | :23:44. | |
it is a very important cause. The idea that we can all | :23:45. | :23:47. | |
participate in everyone's You must be used to a crowd like | :23:48. | :23:49. | |
this, but we're not in Scotland. Oh, you're not? It's beautiful. | :23:50. | :23:55. | |
They are really nice. I feel bad for them because they | :23:56. | :23:57. | |
are standing out in the cold. Inside, and he met the staff, many | :23:58. | :24:01. | |
of them once homeless themselves. I'm going to give you some money | :24:02. | :24:06. | |
but all I have is dollars. Well, | :24:07. | :24:10. | |
we will take whatever dollars... It was all selfies and smiles | :24:11. | :24:13. | |
as this A-lister was shown around. So you mostly come to work | :24:14. | :24:17. | |
at seven o'clock in the morning? We invited him to Scotland | :24:18. | :24:20. | |
and we said we'd help fundraise And whilst he was here we invited | :24:21. | :24:27. | |
him to come and visit one of our local sandwich shops, | :24:28. | :24:32. | |
Social Bite, and to After 15 minutes, George was back | :24:33. | :24:35. | |
out, bringing the scent of stardom It is just great to see a | :24:36. | :24:40. | |
Hollywood A-list star in Edinburgh. You did manage to see him | :24:41. | :24:48. | |
and speak to him? And touch him. He shook our hands. | :24:49. | :24:52. | |
Lovely man. No red carpet, | :24:53. | :24:56. | |
but a bit of glitz on a gloomy day. But this one has managed to roll him | :24:57. | :25:10. | |
himself into the record books. Otto the bulldog coasted under | :25:11. | :25:16. | |
the legs of 30 people in Lima in Peru to get himself | :25:17. | :25:18. | |
into the Guinness World Records. Apparently his talents don't | :25:19. | :25:21. | |
end here - Otto is said to be Time for a look at the weather, | :25:22. | :25:24. | |
with Helen Willets. And some pretty serious weather | :25:25. | :25:50. | |
heading this way? Yes, we have got our first named storm of the season. | :25:51. | :25:55. | |
We have got some pictures of the big waves coming in already today. What | :25:56. | :26:03. | |
is in store? Well, Sophie said, a big storm is on the way. We have | :26:04. | :26:11. | |
been watching it all week, Abigail. It looks as if Scotland will be | :26:12. | :26:14. | |
bearing the brunt of it but we will all feel the effects of this weather | :26:15. | :26:18. | |
front and vigorous area of low pressure. It is already bringing | :26:19. | :26:21. | |
some fairly intense rainfall and thunder and lightning and the wind | :26:22. | :26:27. | |
scares and pretty squalling as well. Up to 70mph in northern and Western | :26:28. | :26:35. | |
areas. But they could get up to 90mph in the north and west of | :26:36. | :26:38. | |
Scotland overnight, hence the warnings. The kind of impacts we are | :26:39. | :26:50. | |
talking about include travel disruption and potential power cuts. | :26:51. | :26:57. | |
But also the lightning. Behind it, some picked air. Actually it will be | :26:58. | :27:07. | |
about average for the time of year. For England and Wales in the morning | :27:08. | :27:11. | |
and especially western areas are these winds could get up to 70mph | :27:12. | :27:23. | |
quite easily. It clears away from East Anglia later on. Tomorrow, 7-12 | :27:24. | :27:29. | |
on the thermometer. Our first covering of snow of the year for the | :27:30. | :27:34. | |
Scottish mountains and for the northern Pennines as well. It will | :27:35. | :27:39. | |
feel significantly colder. But it will not last long. It is back to | :27:40. | :27:45. | |
businesses usual, the mild south-westerly coming back in. | :27:46. | :27:51. | |
However, the next low pressure at the weekend has got tropical air in | :27:52. | :27:58. | |
it, which is renowned for giving us lots of wet weather. So we are | :27:59. | :28:04. | |
increasingly concerned that we could have some significant rain and | :28:05. | :28:08. | |
flooding. We are talking to or three inches quite widely, with some | :28:09. | :28:12. | |
places perhaps up to 6-8 inches of rain. But before that we have got | :28:13. | :28:17. | |
this storm, Abigail. The NHS in England is struggling to | :28:18. | :28:28. | |
cope with growing pressure on its services. A record number of people | :28:29. | :28:35. | |
were stuck in hospital beds in September. | :28:36. | :28:37. |