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The Governor of the Bank of England is caught in a row over | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
Mark Carney says a vote to leave the EU would have an impact | :00:00. | :00:11. | |
The issue is the biggest domestic risk to financial stability. | :00:12. | :01:40. | |
Good evening and welcome to the BBC News at Six. | :01:41. | :01:43. | |
Mark Carney, the Governor of the Bank of England, | :01:44. | :01:45. | |
finds himself accused of taking sides in the EU referendum debate. | :01:46. | :01:48. | |
This morning, Mr Carney told a committee of MPs that leaving | :01:49. | :01:50. | |
the EU would affect Britain's financial stability | :01:51. | :01:53. | |
Our Economics editor Kamal Ahmed watched the exchanges. | :01:54. | :02:08. | |
Had's the man charged with maintaining economic stability. | :02:09. | :02:13. | |
Today the governor of the Bank of England said that stability could be | :02:14. | :02:16. | |
at risk if Britain decides to leave the European Union. In evidence | :02:17. | :02:21. | |
before MPs, Mark Carney made it clear this was a vital economic | :02:22. | :02:29. | |
issue. The issue is the biggest domestic risk to financial stability | :02:30. | :02:36. | |
because, in part, of the issues around uncertainty. But also, if I | :02:37. | :02:40. | |
may just finish quickly, because it has the potential, potential, | :02:41. | :02:46. | |
depending on how it's prosecuted and how these issues can be addressed, | :02:47. | :02:53. | |
to amplify risks around the current account has discussed. Potential | :02:54. | :02:57. | |
risks around housing and market funding which we are trying to | :02:58. | :03:02. | |
mitigate. Sterling's value could fall, jobs could be lost, inflation | :03:03. | :03:06. | |
could rise. Mr Carney also wrote to the Select Committee praising the | :03:07. | :03:11. | |
Prime Minister's EU deal, saying it would improve competitiveness and | :03:12. | :03:14. | |
reinforce the positive impact of EU membership. The list of reasons for | :03:15. | :03:19. | |
staying in the EU was a long one. So long that MPs that back Britain | :03:20. | :03:23. | |
leaving the EU revealed their displeasure. The statements you make | :03:24. | :03:30. | |
about the dynamism of the country could he refer to the reforms | :03:31. | :03:35. | |
introyou deuced by Margaret that thor. It's beneath the dignity of | :03:36. | :03:42. | |
the Bank of England - I will not let that stand. Mr Carney making it | :03:43. | :03:46. | |
clear there could be dangers remaining in a single market. | :03:47. | :03:52. | |
Membership of the European Union brings risks as well. The principle | :03:53. | :03:57. | |
risk, risks I should say, there are more than one, are associated with | :03:58. | :04:01. | |
the unfinished business of European monetary union. After what were | :04:02. | :04:07. | |
sometimes bad tempered exchanges with MPs, Mark Carney returned here, | :04:08. | :04:11. | |
the somewhat safer environment much his office at the Bank of England. | :04:12. | :04:16. | |
I'm told he's pleased with today's session. He thinks he got across two | :04:17. | :04:23. | |
big points, firstly that, yes, there could be a short-term economic risk | :04:24. | :04:26. | |
if Britain were to leave the European Union and, second, that no | :04:27. | :04:32. | |
politicians lent on him to say that. Maybe not, but his critics said he | :04:33. | :04:35. | |
was drifting into dangerous territory. I think this was entirely | :04:36. | :04:40. | |
political. I think it is quite wrong for a governor of the Bank of | :04:41. | :04:43. | |
England to enter the political fray in this way. Mr Carney said this | :04:44. | :04:48. | |
would be his last substantial intervention in the referendum | :04:49. | :04:50. | |
debate and the governor made it clear it wasn't his job to make the | :04:51. | :04:55. | |
economic case for leaving or remaining in the EU. The decision on | :04:56. | :05:01. | |
June 23rd is not his. It's for the voters to decide. Kamal is with me | :05:02. | :05:08. | |
now. A very balanced statement there from the governor. What one think | :05:09. | :05:12. | |
should our viewers take away from his statement? | :05:13. | :05:19. | |
In the main the governor believes there are short-term risks to | :05:20. | :05:25. | |
leaving the European Union and the short-term risks are significant. | :05:26. | :05:29. | |
But he constantly made the point and I sat through all three hours of his | :05:30. | :05:33. | |
session, he was constantly making the point that this is nuanced. | :05:34. | :05:37. | |
There are lots of things we do not know. He was sending a signal to the | :05:38. | :05:44. | |
voters. They need to sweat this a bit. They need to look at the | :05:45. | :05:48. | |
arguments on both sides and make a judgment. People are constantly | :05:49. | :05:53. | |
asking for a fact in this debate. The governor went through some of | :05:54. | :05:57. | |
the negative about if Britain were to leave and said there were also | :05:58. | :06:02. | |
risks to staying in. He said you could not come to any firm decision | :06:03. | :06:06. | |
on this in the long term whether it would be better to be in or out. | :06:07. | :06:12. | |
Very complicated, the need to look at both sides, but in the main the | :06:13. | :06:15. | |
government seemed more pro-European union ban anti. | :06:16. | :06:19. | |
And there's more about the EU referendum | :06:20. | :06:20. | |
and the economic arguments on both sides on our | :06:21. | :06:23. | |
Boris Johnson has been accused of hypocrisy after an e-mail leaked | :06:24. | :06:32. | |
to the BBC revealed his office had warned his officials not | :06:33. | :06:35. | |
to contradict him and speak out in favour of staying in the EU. | :06:36. | :06:39. | |
Mr Johnson described the email as a "cock-up" but the rules remain | :06:40. | :06:42. | |
in place, despite his calls for an open debate on the issue. | :06:43. | :06:45. | |
Here's our Political Editor, Laura Kuenssberg. | :06:46. | :06:55. | |
Why have you gag members of your staff and speaking out? | :06:56. | :07:01. | |
Boris Johnson is rarely known for keeping his views to himself. But on | :07:02. | :07:07. | |
Europe is there one rule for him and another for his senior team? Nobody | :07:08. | :07:13. | |
has been gagged. I was only made aware of this edict late last night | :07:14. | :07:17. | |
and it sees to be operated as soon as I was aware of it. But the | :07:18. | :07:21. | |
accusation followed him from home this morning all the way to | :07:22. | :07:27. | |
Westminster. Because the London Mayor's office did warn his staff to | :07:28. | :07:30. | |
keep quiet if they disagree with his view that we should leave the EU. So | :07:31. | :07:38. | |
far as that edict was ever offered, it is countermanded. Mr Johnson's | :07:39. | :07:42. | |
chief of staff, Sir Edward Lister, sent an e-mail on Friday to the | :07:43. | :07:48. | |
senior advisers. He wrote, during the referendum campaign I would | :07:49. | :07:52. | |
expect you either to advocate the Mayor's position or otherwise not | :07:53. | :07:56. | |
openly to contradict it. When the very next day Boris Johnson was | :07:57. | :08:00. | |
determinedly defending this man, John Longworth, bumped out of his | :08:01. | :08:07. | |
job as leader of the business group, the British Chambers of commerce, | :08:08. | :08:11. | |
because he argued to lead the EU. Mr Johnson called that a scandal and he | :08:12. | :08:16. | |
stands accused of hypocrisy. With every week that passes, Boris's | :08:17. | :08:21. | |
credibility not only as a Prime Minister, but somebody who wants to | :08:22. | :08:26. | |
play a vocal part in the EU referendum campaign has diminished. | :08:27. | :08:29. | |
They have ditched the e-mail advice and say his team can say whatever | :08:30. | :08:34. | |
they want, but not when on official business. Boris Johnson has | :08:35. | :08:39. | |
dismissed this e-mail as a blunder, but the official rules are still in | :08:40. | :08:43. | |
place. It matters because all the big players in the arguments about | :08:44. | :08:48. | |
the EU one you to believe them and back their case. What his office | :08:49. | :08:54. | |
warned in Private sits comfortably alongside what the Mayor himself has | :08:55. | :09:01. | |
said loudly in public. Boris Johnson famously said his policy on cake is | :09:02. | :09:07. | |
pro having it and pro-eating it. But on the European Union might he have | :09:08. | :09:11. | |
It's barely 24 hours since EU leaders said they'd found a way | :09:12. | :09:16. | |
to end the migrant crisis and it's already under fire. | :09:17. | :09:19. | |
The United Nations says yesterday's plan to send migrants back | :09:20. | :09:23. | |
from Greece to Turkey would break international law. | :09:24. | :09:27. | |
As Mark Lowen reports from Izmire in Turkey, | :09:28. | :09:29. | |
any attempt to implement the expulsion proposal would face | :09:30. | :09:33. | |
huge resistance from migrants themselves. | :09:34. | :09:41. | |
Western Turkey, the waiting room for Europe. Doors may be closing, but | :09:42. | :09:50. | |
their dreams of Sanctuary will not be crushed. As news that the EU is | :09:51. | :09:55. | |
clamping down on migrant filters through, they are left confused but | :09:56. | :10:03. | |
determined. Will Europe let us in, this family comes to ask? The tiny | :10:04. | :10:08. | |
children tell me all they want is a boat to Greece. Those who have come | :10:09. | :10:17. | |
this far have endured so much. Mohammed Muir was tortured in | :10:18. | :10:22. | |
Damascus prison for opposing the Assad regime. Five of his children | :10:23. | :10:27. | |
are already in Western Europe, so if he is stopped and sent back when he | :10:28. | :10:31. | |
tries to join them, his family will split up. TRANSLATION: I am | :10:32. | :10:38. | |
disappointed by the decisions in Brussels, but there are no other | :10:39. | :10:42. | |
options for us but to leave. Either I succeed and live or die trying. | :10:43. | :10:49. | |
Those profiting from the boat trips are still doing a roaring trade. It | :10:50. | :10:53. | |
is a well practised routine for that migrants. Arrived in is mere, get | :10:54. | :11:00. | |
kitted up and go. This is just one of the businesses catering for | :11:01. | :11:04. | |
refugees. There are special bank accounts to play smugglers and | :11:05. | :11:09. | |
hotels for Syrians. The industry of transporting migrants here is so | :11:10. | :11:14. | |
established and widespread it seems inconceivable it could be dismantled | :11:15. | :11:18. | |
or even halted by decisions in Brussels. It is not even clear if | :11:19. | :11:22. | |
deporting migrants back to Turkey would be legal, so the whole | :11:23. | :11:26. | |
European plan could still fall apart. Collective expulsion of | :11:27. | :11:31. | |
foreigners is prohibited under the European Convention of human rights, | :11:32. | :11:35. | |
an agreement that would be tantamount to a blanket return of | :11:36. | :11:42. | |
foreigners to a certain country is not consistent with European law and | :11:43. | :11:48. | |
international law. Success of any deal hinges on tackling the | :11:49. | :11:51. | |
smugglers. A middleman we spoke to said he thinks any drop in numbers | :11:52. | :11:59. | |
would be temporary. TRANSLATION: For the last six days I have not had any | :12:00. | :12:04. | |
calls from customers. If they start sending people back, there might be | :12:05. | :12:08. | |
fewer, but the smuggling will not end. When the Coast Guard shows up, | :12:09. | :12:14. | |
we stop. But when people show up we organise their trip and that is | :12:15. | :12:19. | |
that. There are so many unknowns. Will this deal be approved? How will | :12:20. | :12:25. | |
it work? But there is one certainty, that those hoping for a new life | :12:26. | :12:29. | |
across these waters will not give up trying. | :12:30. | :12:33. | |
Maria Sharapova looks set to lose millions after three major sponsors, | :12:34. | :12:36. | |
including the sports wear firm Nike, cut ties with the tennis star | :12:37. | :12:38. | |
in the light of her failed drugs test. | :12:39. | :12:40. | |
Yesterday, the five-times Grand Slam winner revealed she'd tested | :12:41. | :12:43. | |
positive for a drug called Meldonium, saying she took it | :12:44. | :12:46. | |
Our sports correspondent, Richard Conway, reports. | :12:47. | :12:58. | |
It was the moment Maria Sharapova's life changed forever. Winning | :12:59. | :13:06. | |
Wimbledon aged just 17 made her a global star. Now almost 12 years on | :13:07. | :13:11. | |
her life has taken another dramatic turn. I made a huge mistake and I | :13:12. | :13:20. | |
have let my fans down and I have let the spot down. Sharapova claims a | :13:21. | :13:24. | |
family doctor legally prescribed her a drug called meldonium. But it was | :13:25. | :13:29. | |
banned by the world anti-doping agency in January this year due to | :13:30. | :13:34. | |
its ability to boost endurance in athletes. The current world number | :13:35. | :13:38. | |
one who defeated Sharapova on the same day the Russian tested positive | :13:39. | :13:43. | |
in January, today expressed admiration for her opponent's | :13:44. | :13:48. | |
stance. I am surprised and shocked, but at the same time most people | :13:49. | :13:54. | |
were happy that she was upfront and very honest and showed a lot of | :13:55. | :13:59. | |
courage to admit to what she had done and how she had neglected to | :14:00. | :14:04. | |
look at the letter. Sharapova insists she was unaware that | :14:05. | :14:09. | |
meldonium was prohibited, but the former head of the world doping | :14:10. | :14:14. | |
anti-agency says there should be no excuses. Leaving aside fair play, if | :14:15. | :14:19. | |
you are running a $30 million business, it depends on you stay | :14:20. | :14:25. | |
eligible to play tennis and you are taking something that is on a list | :14:26. | :14:28. | |
that you have known about for four months, I am sorry, that is a big | :14:29. | :14:34. | |
mistake. Maria Sharapova is the highest-paid women in sport and the | :14:35. | :14:38. | |
reason is because she transcends tennis in a way few others do. She | :14:39. | :14:43. | |
is a big name on the high street, but now her backers are distancing | :14:44. | :14:49. | |
themselves, including the biggest. The five times grand slam winner has | :14:50. | :14:53. | |
now lost a number of commercial endorsements. Porsche say they are | :14:54. | :15:00. | |
postponing any planned until they say all the facts are known. Tag | :15:01. | :15:04. | |
Heuer will not be renewing their contract with the Russian. Maria | :15:05. | :15:09. | |
Sharapova the brand has taken a considerable financial hit given her | :15:10. | :15:15. | |
admission of guilt. It is not about other people around you, it is not | :15:16. | :15:20. | |
about anything but yourself. She now hopes that efforts to explain why | :15:21. | :15:25. | |
she took a banned substance will would result in a lesser sanction. | :15:26. | :15:31. | |
The governor of the Bank of England says leaving the EU | :15:32. | :15:40. | |
would have a short-term effect on the economy. | :15:41. | :15:42. | |
Old habits die hard, but some town planners are thinking | :15:43. | :15:50. | |
Scotland looked to make a winning start as they faced Afghanistan | :15:51. | :15:55. | |
in their opening match of the Twenty20 World Cup in India. | :15:56. | :15:58. | |
They're one of eight teams bidding to reach the main stage | :15:59. | :16:01. | |
Junior doctors in England will begin a 48-hour strike tomorrow morning | :16:02. | :16:16. | |
in the continuing row over new contracts. | :16:17. | :16:22. | |
The walk-out will see some junior doctors provide emergency | :16:23. | :16:24. | |
But only hospitals in England will be affected. | :16:25. | :16:27. | |
Scotland and Wales have both said they will be sticking | :16:28. | :16:29. | |
to their existing contracts, while Northern Ireland has yet | :16:30. | :16:31. | |
Our health editor, Hugh Pym, has been following two doctors, | :16:32. | :16:35. | |
one in England, the other in Scotland. | :16:36. | :16:40. | |
Two junior doctors, both on the same contract, for now. Heading in | :16:41. | :16:47. | |
different directions, it seems, with future employment terms and | :16:48. | :16:51. | |
conditions. Matteo is preparing to go on strike tomorrow. He's angry | :16:52. | :16:55. | |
that a new contract will be imposed in England. One which he says will | :16:56. | :17:00. | |
mean more unsocial hours and patient care compromised. What I want is a | :17:01. | :17:06. | |
fair contract. One that recognises the hours we work and the job we do. | :17:07. | :17:10. | |
I want one that is safe for my patients. There is a strong body of | :17:11. | :17:15. | |
junior doctors out there who are unhappy enough and who are concerned | :17:16. | :17:18. | |
about our patients safety enough that we will hold this Government | :17:19. | :17:25. | |
accountable. Rachel, back at home with her daughter today, after a | :17:26. | :17:28. | |
night shift, is a surgical trainee in central Scotland. She spent all | :17:29. | :17:32. | |
her career north of the border and is happy that her contract won't be | :17:33. | :17:38. | |
changed. I think in Scotland we are protected. We know there won't be an | :17:39. | :17:45. | |
imposition of the contract and given reassurances by the Scottish | :17:46. | :17:48. | |
Government by that. When we compare ourselves to England morale is | :17:49. | :17:52. | |
higher because we feel protected. I was a junior doctors myself in | :17:53. | :17:56. | |
Scotland and benefitted from the fantastic training... The NHS in | :17:57. | :18:00. | |
Scotland is advertising for junior doctors and hoping there may be | :18:01. | :18:03. | |
English candidates wanting to move. Department of Health said the new | :18:04. | :18:06. | |
contract in Englands with a good one, which an increase in basic pay, | :18:07. | :18:10. | |
balancing lower unsocial hours payments and a cap on the number of | :18:11. | :18:15. | |
long shifts. NHS leaders said the strike was regrettable. There are a | :18:16. | :18:19. | |
difficult number of days ahead for the NHS. We have been working very, | :18:20. | :18:23. | |
very closely with hospitals up-and-down England in order to | :18:24. | :18:28. | |
ensure that they have robust plans in place. Ministers at Westminster | :18:29. | :18:32. | |
are adamant that changes to the contract in England are needed to | :18:33. | :18:38. | |
increase hospital staffing levels at weekends, that's hotly disputed by | :18:39. | :18:41. | |
junior doctors. The question is - why has the Scottish Government, | :18:42. | :18:44. | |
along with Wales and Northern Ireland, not opted to go down the | :18:45. | :18:49. | |
same route? We think there is scope for making that more appropriate for | :18:50. | :18:53. | |
modern-day working practices for the demographic of the doctors who are | :18:54. | :18:57. | |
coming into our professions now. We don't think that we need to do that | :18:58. | :19:01. | |
in order to make care safer at the weekends. The Government at | :19:02. | :19:05. | |
Westminster pressing on with its reforms, Scotland, Wales and | :19:06. | :19:08. | |
Northern Ireland will be watching developments closely. Hugh Pym, BBC | :19:09. | :19:09. | |
News. The chief executive | :19:10. | :19:12. | |
of Sunderland Football Club, Margaret Byrne, has resigned | :19:13. | :19:14. | |
because of her involvement The footballer is facing a jail | :19:15. | :19:16. | |
sentence after he was found guilty of sexual activity | :19:17. | :19:21. | |
with a 15-year-old girl. Sunderland has been criticised | :19:22. | :19:24. | |
for allowing Johnson to continue playing after he was charged | :19:25. | :19:26. | |
and despite Margaret Byrne being shown police evidence that | :19:27. | :19:32. | |
he'd groomed the girl. Our sports editor, Dan Roan, | :19:33. | :19:34. | |
is at Sunderland's ground, The club has been under pressure | :19:35. | :19:41. | |
ever since last week? That's right. In truth the club has been in crisis | :19:42. | :19:46. | |
ever since their former player, Adam Johnson, was convicted. Tonight, the | :19:47. | :19:51. | |
fallout, most certainlily, intensified when its Chief | :19:52. | :19:53. | |
Executive, Margaret Byrne, resigned over her handling of the case. If I | :19:54. | :19:56. | |
can take you through the time line here. Last March, Johnson was | :19:57. | :20:00. | |
arrested. He was suspended by the club. He was quickly reinstated two | :20:01. | :20:06. | |
weekses late. In April he faced four charges. Now, eventually Johnson was | :20:07. | :20:11. | |
sacked when he suddenly changed his plea to guilty on two of those | :20:12. | :20:15. | |
counts at the beginning of the trial last month. The club came in for a | :20:16. | :20:19. | |
barrage of criticism over why they had allowed him to play on, 28 more | :20:20. | :20:26. | |
matches, earn around ?3 million more despite those charges? A statement | :20:27. | :20:31. | |
today, Margaret Byrne, who is a qualified lawyer, admitted sole | :20:32. | :20:34. | |
responsibility saying she had taken a note from Johnson's barrister in | :20:35. | :20:38. | |
which it was said he kissed his 15-year-old victim and communicated | :20:39. | :20:41. | |
with her, but that she didn't share that information with anyone. She | :20:42. | :20:46. | |
went on to say she accepted Johnson should not have been permitted to | :20:47. | :20:51. | |
play on and it was a serious error of judgment on her part. The club | :20:52. | :20:56. | |
said they were sorry a young fan had been badly let down and lessons had | :20:57. | :21:01. | |
been learnt. Johnson has been told to expect a custodial sentence and | :21:02. | :21:04. | |
he will be sentenced at the end of this month. Dan, thank you. | :21:05. | :21:09. | |
A court has been told how a teenager murdered a police officer | :21:10. | :21:12. | |
by running him over in a stolen 4x4 in Merseyside. | :21:13. | :21:15. | |
Manchester Crown Court heard that Clayton Williams, | :21:16. | :21:16. | |
who's 19, struck PC Dave Phillips as he deployed a device to puncture | :21:17. | :21:19. | |
Our correspondent, Ed Thomas, has been in court. | :21:20. | :21:33. | |
PC Dave Phillips, described as the local boy, | :21:34. | :21:35. | |
A father, with two young daughters, who was killed, the court heard, | :21:36. | :21:39. | |
Today, his widow, Jen, was in court, supported by her parents, | :21:40. | :21:49. | |
the teenager accused of taking her husband's life. | :21:50. | :21:52. | |
Clayton Williams arrived at court to deny murder. | :21:53. | :21:54. | |
In the dock, the 19-year-old was described as ruthless, | :21:55. | :21:57. | |
driving a stolen car straight into PC Phillips. | :21:58. | :22:01. | |
The prosecution said he drove at vastly excessive speeds. | :22:02. | :22:07. | |
He drove along narrow residential roads, he careered through red | :22:08. | :22:09. | |
lights, drove on the wrong side of the road. | :22:10. | :22:14. | |
In October last year, Clayton Williams burgled this shop | :22:15. | :22:17. | |
and made his getaway in this stolen truck. | :22:18. | :22:19. | |
The court was shown CCTV of what happened next. | :22:20. | :22:32. | |
There was an absolute silence, Dave Phillips could be | :22:33. | :22:39. | |
seen crouching down, holding on to this stinger-type | :22:40. | :22:41. | |
Clayton Williams, behind the wheel, is seen veering right, | :22:42. | :22:45. | |
then left, hitting the officer head-on. | :22:46. | :22:49. | |
The prosecution told jurors, PC Phillips' fate was sealed, | :22:50. | :22:52. | |
he was tossed into the air before falling, lifeless, | :22:53. | :22:55. | |
The injuries he sustained as a result were catastrophic. | :22:56. | :22:59. | |
After his death, the widow of PC Phillips and their two children | :23:00. | :23:10. | |
Here, they laid flowers and read just some of | :23:11. | :23:14. | |
Clayton Williams is accused of using the car as a weapon. | :23:15. | :23:18. | |
He denies murder and says he never intended to kill. | :23:19. | :23:21. | |
Ed Thomas, BBC News, Manchester Crown Court. | :23:22. | :23:26. | |
The big car manufactures recognise that mass produced cars | :23:27. | :23:33. | |
The future, some believe, is driverless, electric vehicles - | :23:34. | :23:39. | |
cheap and available at the push of a button. | :23:40. | :23:41. | |
It is this revolution that has town planners rethinking the urban | :23:42. | :23:44. | |
Our home editor, Mark Easton, has this special report as part | :23:45. | :23:48. | |
It was all supposed to be so different. | :23:49. | :23:58. | |
NEWS REEL: Households rise and shine. The | :23:59. | :24:03. | |
suburbs promised the rural idle close to the big city. Instead of | :24:04. | :24:07. | |
leafy streets and beautiful gardens what we got was cars, cars and more | :24:08. | :24:12. | |
cars. But maybe we've reached peak car. Maybe new technology, like | :24:13. | :24:21. | |
driverless, electric vehicles and uber style taxi apps rather than | :24:22. | :24:25. | |
having a car parked up 95% of the time you press a button and summon | :24:26. | :24:29. | |
what you need far cheaper when you need it. Just think how that might | :24:30. | :24:40. | |
change the places we live in? This is Harrow, a classic suburban | :24:41. | :24:47. | |
street. Take the cars out of the picture, lay some grass, plant some | :24:48. | :24:52. | |
trees, the cluttered road become as green space, a community resource | :24:53. | :24:56. | |
where children can play and neighbours can meet. Instead of the | :24:57. | :25:01. | |
private car, people only use a car when they need it. It's a model that | :25:02. | :25:05. | |
politicians in London took a close interest in as a way of dealing with | :25:06. | :25:10. | |
the housing crisis and the design consultancy behind the proposals has | :25:11. | :25:20. | |
even come up with a name for it. It takes up much less space. Much | :25:21. | :25:24. | |
safer, it's smaller and it's not there when you don't need it. People | :25:25. | :25:28. | |
really like having their car just outside, just in case? And, when | :25:29. | :25:32. | |
they get used to the new technologies it will be just like | :25:33. | :25:36. | |
whistling for your dog. It will turn up immediately. We tried the idea on | :25:37. | :25:43. | |
the residents. Could you give up your car? No. It's not possible. No, | :25:44. | :25:47. | |
no, no. No! Do you really need a car? Yes, we need it. Every day? | :25:48. | :25:59. | |
Every day. You like seeing it sit outside? Taking cars out of cities | :26:00. | :26:07. | |
is hardly new. In southern Germany they started closing central streets | :26:08. | :26:12. | |
to traffic in the 1950s. Now the idea has spread to residential | :26:13. | :26:17. | |
neighbourhoods, a suburb to the south. You can have a car if you | :26:18. | :26:21. | |
live here, it's just you can't park it outside your house. Have you to | :26:22. | :26:25. | |
put it in the multi-storey on the edge of the estate where a space | :26:26. | :26:30. | |
calls 20,000 euros. People moved here, thought they would need a car, | :26:31. | :26:35. | |
quickly have just given it up. They realised after a while they don't | :26:36. | :26:39. | |
need to own one. Actually, sometimes they really felt very much relieved. | :26:40. | :26:46. | |
Kids go to school on their own, even to kindergarten. It's nice. It might | :26:47. | :26:52. | |
seem a long way from the streets of Harrow today, but if technology can | :26:53. | :26:55. | |
provide all the convenience and independence of a car whout having | :26:56. | :26:59. | |
to own one, then perhaps suburban Britain is about to head down a new | :27:00. | :27:08. | |
road. Mark Easton, BBC News. Time for the weather now with John | :27:09. | :27:13. | |
Hammond. Up-and-down a roller-coaster thchl was the scene | :27:14. | :27:16. | |
this morning in Henley-on-Thames. Very nice, too. This will not be the | :27:17. | :27:21. | |
scene tomorrow morning, I can assure you. Things turning rough tonight | :27:22. | :27:29. | |
and tomorrow. It is going down hill across Northern Ireland with a huge | :27:30. | :27:32. | |
great bank of cloud pushing in off the Atlantic. This is the culprit | :27:33. | :27:37. | |
for the wind and rain and snow over the next 24-hours. The rain across | :27:38. | :27:40. | |
Northern Ireland will spill eastwards. Some snow to high ground, | :27:41. | :27:51. | |
strong winds to South Western exposures. 8.00am gusts of | :27:52. | :27:58. | |
60mph-70mph to exposed coasts. Inland strong gusts. Watch out for | :27:59. | :28:03. | |
those. Rain will be an issue across many parts of England and Wales. | :28:04. | :28:08. | |
Snow over the high ground of the Midlands. Shouldn't amount to much. | :28:09. | :28:13. | |
Could see a brief covering. The rain of more concern more widely with an | :28:14. | :28:17. | |
inch more in some places. Surface water and spray around. Brightening | :28:18. | :28:20. | |
up across Northern Ireland. Improving picture to the west of | :28:21. | :28:25. | |
Scotland, showery rain and hill snow easing eastwards. More of a struggle | :28:26. | :28:29. | |
to improve across the more central and eastern parts of England though. | :28:30. | :28:32. | |
Here the damp weather will continue through the day. Slow improvements | :28:33. | :28:37. | |
out west. Brighter skies emerging across western parts of England and | :28:38. | :28:40. | |
Wales and certainly Scotland picking up especially out west where it will | :28:41. | :28:45. | |
be wet all day, it will be cold indeed. Thank you very much. | :28:46. | :28:50. | |
That's all from the BBC News at Six, so it's goodbye from me, | :28:51. | :28:52. |