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The day after the Budget before - and new warnings about who wins, | :00:07. | :00:10. | |
The Chancellor called it the Budget for the next generation, | :00:11. | :00:12. | |
and hits back at those who say it will mean more austerity. | :00:13. | :00:18. | |
What I am saying in this Budget is, we have got to hold to the course | :00:19. | :00:22. | |
we have set out, we have got to take action on public finances now | :00:23. | :00:26. | |
so that we are stable and secure and we don't pay later. | :00:27. | :00:31. | |
But financial experts say living standards will suffer - | :00:32. | :00:34. | |
and Labour accuse Mr Osborne of favouring the well-off. | :00:35. | :00:39. | |
He has cut capital gains tax to the wealthiest 5% in our country, | :00:40. | :00:42. | |
and at the same time he has paid for that by cutting the benefits | :00:43. | :00:45. | |
We think that is, to be frank, a scandalous choice. | :00:46. | :00:53. | |
Parents set to lose the automatic right to be school governors - | :00:54. | :00:57. | |
part of the radical reforms to education in England. | :00:58. | :01:03. | |
And now that magic has gone - Paul Daniel dies, aged 77, | :01:04. | :01:08. | |
A letter I had yesterday from a lady said, "You had a marriage that | :01:09. | :01:18. | |
Katie is winning her battle against fast food, | :01:19. | :01:24. | |
fat and fizzy drinks - a special report on Britain's | :01:25. | :01:27. | |
Coming up in Sportsday on BBC News - England win their opening women's | :01:28. | :01:39. | |
World Twenty20 match against Bangladesh, led by captain | :01:40. | :01:41. | |
Charlotte Edwards, who top-scored with 60 runs. | :01:42. | :01:46. | |
At Cheltenham, Thistle Crack wins the big race of the day. | :01:47. | :02:00. | |
Good evening and welcome to the BBC News at Six. | :02:01. | :02:03. | |
24 hours after George Osborne's Budget, and it is being picked over | :02:04. | :02:06. | |
by financial experts, the Labour Party and even | :02:07. | :02:10. | |
The respected Institute for Fiscal Studies has | :02:11. | :02:15. | |
warned of more austerity and lower living standards. | :02:16. | :02:18. | |
Labour accuses the Chancellor of taking from disabled people | :02:19. | :02:21. | |
Those welfare changes are a concern for some Tory MPs, | :02:22. | :02:28. | |
too, as our political editor, Laura Kuennsberg, reports. | :02:29. | :02:35. | |
How does it all work, Chancellor? The day after his budget, George | :02:36. | :02:42. | |
Osborne's mathematics and his motivations are being questioned. | :02:43. | :02:46. | |
Some of the claims branded disingenuous, the sums too | :02:47. | :02:52. | |
optimistic. And real cuts - hardly something to celebrate. We make sure | :02:53. | :02:59. | |
that in uncertain times we are fit for the future, by taking action on | :03:00. | :03:02. | |
our public finances so that we do not pay later. And we back small | :03:03. | :03:08. | |
businesses, are self-employed, above all working people, by reducing | :03:09. | :03:12. | |
their taxes so they can help us grow the economy. Reality has arrived | :03:13. | :03:17. | |
along with the budget on MPs' desks. And the probability emerges that the | :03:18. | :03:22. | |
Chancellor only has a 50-50 chance of hitting the targets in the red | :03:23. | :03:27. | |
book, and accusations he is fixing the figures. I really admire George | :03:28. | :03:31. | |
Osborne's love of a five year plan, because it is always five years | :03:32. | :03:35. | |
away. He missed every single target he set for himself in 2010. And then | :03:36. | :03:41. | |
five years later, in 2015. And in the Tory ranks, there is also on | :03:42. | :03:45. | |
happiness, with rebellion brewing. Sarah Stuart from problem is one of | :03:46. | :03:51. | |
more than 600,000 people with disabilities who might be affected | :03:52. | :03:54. | |
by changes to the personal independence payments. When cases | :03:55. | :03:58. | |
are reviewed in future, the benefits will be calculated differently for | :03:59. | :04:03. | |
some. She is worried she might miss out. People like me that used to | :04:04. | :04:08. | |
work all the time and are now needing help from the system they | :04:09. | :04:12. | |
paid into, it is an or full-time. Some Tories are ready to campaign to | :04:13. | :04:18. | |
fight the change. This change is wrong-headed and it really hits the | :04:19. | :04:20. | |
wrong people. They are always tinkering around the edges - that | :04:21. | :04:25. | |
needs to happen so that you have a slightly fairer system. But I think | :04:26. | :04:28. | |
the package which has been offered up to now, which is still a | :04:29. | :04:33. | |
consultation, does go too far. The minister in charge admitted many | :04:34. | :04:37. | |
thousands of people might lose out, but the total amount will go up. We | :04:38. | :04:40. | |
will see more people overall benefiting from the system. It will | :04:41. | :04:45. | |
continue to improve year-on-year and overall we will still see an | :04:46. | :04:48. | |
increase in funding every year in this Parliament. What do you say to | :04:49. | :04:52. | |
a disabled person who might lose a vital share of their income, and the | :04:53. | :04:56. | |
person next door might get a tax cut? But the two things are not | :04:57. | :05:00. | |
linked. This is not a financial measure. It is providing a fair, | :05:01. | :05:07. | |
sustainable benefit which provides support and affects genuine, ongoing | :05:08. | :05:12. | |
extra costs. Tory Eurosceptics are plotting with Labour over the tax on | :05:13. | :05:17. | |
tampons as well. The Government hopes that within days, they will be | :05:18. | :05:21. | |
allowed to scrap it. That would help. Like with any budget, it is a | :05:22. | :05:27. | |
test of the Chancellor's reputation. George Osborne has got bigger | :05:28. | :05:30. | |
ambitions than being in charge of the Treasury for ever. So he was | :05:31. | :05:34. | |
trying to impress is own MPs as well as the public. His team insist he | :05:35. | :05:38. | |
has made the right big and bold decisions, but the budget has not | :05:39. | :05:42. | |
gone entirely to plan. That was such a big occasion, wasn't it? Indeed, | :05:43. | :05:48. | |
budgets always are. Events which changes, there is and all of our | :05:49. | :05:50. | |
lives. So why are some experts saying | :05:51. | :05:52. | |
that there could be trouble ahead, Our economics editor, | :05:53. | :05:55. | |
Kamal Ahmed, is here with me. You have been taking a good look at | :05:56. | :06:01. | |
the numbers? I have indeed, yes. Day two, and a day of in-depth | :06:02. | :06:08. | |
analysis of the Budget. That hitting that vital budget | :06:09. | :06:11. | |
surplus target is going to be very And that there are more public | :06:12. | :06:15. | |
sector cuts ahead in all likelihood. This time around he has responded to | :06:16. | :06:30. | |
bad economic news by shuffling some figures around. If he gets more bad | :06:31. | :06:34. | |
economic news, he will either have to abandon that target or do | :06:35. | :06:39. | |
something serious, some significant tax increases or real spending cuts. | :06:40. | :06:41. | |
Those real spending cuts could come in the year | :06:42. | :06:44. | |
The IFS says that if the Chancellor is to achieve his fabled budget | :06:45. | :06:48. | |
surplus, he will need to find a further ?10 billion of cuts | :06:49. | :06:51. | |
to planned spending on public services by 2021. | :06:52. | :06:54. | |
Those cuts could fall most heavily on non-protected departments such | :06:55. | :06:59. | |
as the Home Office and Justice - they may have to find a further 13% | :07:00. | :07:03. | |
The Chancellor also announced income tax cuts - increasing the personal | :07:04. | :07:10. | |
allowance and taking 585,000 people out of the higher 40p rate of tax. | :07:11. | :07:19. | |
But according to one analysis, that cut tends to be more | :07:20. | :07:23. | |
It will boost the incomes of the richest 20% of households | :07:24. | :07:29. | |
That figure for the poorest 20% of households? | :07:30. | :07:37. | |
There was some better news for the Chancellor today. | :07:38. | :07:41. | |
The Bank of England said wage increases were stronger and that | :07:42. | :07:43. | |
productivity was rising - and after the bad news | :07:44. | :07:46. | |
on productivity yesterday, that will come as a welcome | :07:47. | :07:49. | |
For this manufacturing firm, Mr Osborne's pledge to support | :07:50. | :07:56. | |
The Treasury made productivity improvements - crucial | :07:57. | :08:05. | |
for maintaining growth - a central part of the Budget. | :08:06. | :08:14. | |
If you put your efforts into your staff and machinery and invest back | :08:15. | :08:20. | |
into the company, you are getting more work, you are widening your | :08:21. | :08:23. | |
capabilities and strengthening your reputation. | :08:24. | :08:25. | |
One final thought - never underestimate Mr Osborne's | :08:26. | :08:27. | |
ability to find a little extra something behind the fabled | :08:28. | :08:29. | |
As one government source pointed out to me, yesterday's figures | :08:30. | :08:36. | |
were so poor, things - before the next election - | :08:37. | :08:39. | |
For as long as anyone can remember, parents have played a part | :08:40. | :08:47. | |
in running schools by being governors. | :08:48. | :08:49. | |
It is all part of the sweeping changes, including making | :08:50. | :08:53. | |
all state schools academies - published by the Government today. | :08:54. | :08:56. | |
Labour says it will be costly and disruptive, | :08:57. | :08:59. | |
but the Government argues parents will have more choice. | :09:00. | :09:02. | |
Here's our education editor, Branwen Jeffreys. | :09:03. | :09:13. | |
Schools across England are facing a massive shake-up. Teachers will have | :09:14. | :09:18. | |
to prove their classroom skills to qualify. And all schools will become | :09:19. | :09:26. | |
academies within years. Rebecca Jones is a parent governor at this | :09:27. | :09:29. | |
primary school in Manchester. Under these plans are elected parent | :09:30. | :09:34. | |
governors will go when it becomes an academy. Parents give immediate | :09:35. | :09:40. | |
feedback if there is an issue. And if you don't have the parent | :09:41. | :09:43. | |
governors, I don't think the parents would feel able to approach the | :09:44. | :09:50. | |
school about issues. Which one of these pictures to you think is going | :09:51. | :09:54. | |
back into the past...? Like most primary schools, it is still run by | :09:55. | :09:58. | |
the council. But that will have to change within the next six years. | :09:59. | :10:02. | |
Tell me which one you are choosing... Samantha Kinghorn | :10:03. | :10:06. | |
headteacher here. She resisted pressure to become an academy | :10:07. | :10:09. | |
before. But what about other government plans? Headteachers who | :10:10. | :10:14. | |
move to a struggling school will get more time - at least two years, to | :10:15. | :10:18. | |
turn things around before the inspectors arrive. That would be | :10:19. | :10:22. | |
welcome. At the moment I feel sometimes that Headteachers are a | :10:23. | :10:25. | |
bit like football managers. You make one mistake or you have only been in | :10:26. | :10:30. | |
a school for one year, and you are pumped off! So what friends will it | :10:31. | :10:35. | |
make to their education? The only these changes taken together are | :10:36. | :10:39. | |
meant to give headteachers and schools much more freedom to shape | :10:40. | :10:46. | |
what they teach. It will also create huge change of schools -- huge | :10:47. | :10:50. | |
chains of schools competing with each other across England. The | :10:51. | :10:54. | |
question is, who holds them to account? Steve Lancashire is the | :10:55. | :10:58. | |
chief executive two primary school chains. He says they use the Freedom | :10:59. | :11:03. | |
of being an academy to offer something different. They are held | :11:04. | :11:06. | |
to account, he says, through their results. All of our schoolchildren | :11:07. | :11:11. | |
will go to a capital city in a foreign country to experience a | :11:12. | :11:14. | |
foreign culture. It is distinctive about what we can provide as a group | :11:15. | :11:19. | |
of schools, rather than individual schools, and as an academy rather | :11:20. | :11:24. | |
than as a council school. The Education Secretary tells me she | :11:25. | :11:27. | |
wants parents to have a bigger say, so why get rid of elected parent | :11:28. | :11:31. | |
governors? We want governors to be there because of the skills they | :11:32. | :11:34. | |
bring. I think there are much more effective ways for parents to be | :11:35. | :11:38. | |
involved rather than just having a couple of parents on the governing | :11:39. | :11:42. | |
bodies. We want to set up a parent portal so that parents know what is | :11:43. | :11:45. | |
going on and better complaints mechanism. Schools will still have | :11:46. | :11:49. | |
to try to impress parents, but there is no guarantee there | :11:50. | :11:50. | |
to try to impress parents, but there transition to the new system. | :11:51. | :11:54. | |
EU leaders in Brussels are making yet another attempt to tackle | :11:55. | :11:57. | |
the large numbers of migrants and refugees trying to reach Europe. | :11:58. | :11:59. | |
The proposed plan would see migrants arriving in Greece sent | :12:00. | :12:02. | |
But Turkey wants a number of concessions from the EU. | :12:03. | :12:05. | |
Our Europe correspondent Damian Grammaticas | :12:06. | :12:07. | |
It sounds like there are still a number of obstacles in the way? | :12:08. | :12:22. | |
There are. This grand bargain has real problems still to overcome. The | :12:23. | :12:26. | |
first one, is it legal? One leader coming here today said it was on the | :12:27. | :12:31. | |
edge of legality, because international law and human rights | :12:32. | :12:36. | |
law says that refugees arriving all have to have their cases heard | :12:37. | :12:39. | |
individually. There is not the infrastructure in Greece to do that. | :12:40. | :12:44. | |
That is one problem. Secondly, those concessions Turkey wants, things | :12:45. | :12:49. | |
like speeding up his free access for Turkish people to the EU - many | :12:50. | :12:54. | |
European countries very unsure about giving concessions to Turkey at a | :12:55. | :12:56. | |
time when they have real worries about human rights in Turkey. And | :12:57. | :13:01. | |
Turkey also wants the speeding up of its accession talks to the EU. | :13:02. | :13:06. | |
Cyprus, an EU member, is not recognised by Turkey and has said it | :13:07. | :13:09. | |
will block that. Lots of problems ahead. | :13:10. | :13:11. | |
Paul Daniels, one of the country's most popular entertainers, | :13:12. | :13:14. | |
has died at the age of 77, just weeks after being diagnosed | :13:15. | :13:17. | |
He died at his home in Berkshire in the early hours of this morning. | :13:18. | :13:22. | |
For 15 years, he was a well-known fixture on Saturday night TV | :13:23. | :13:25. | |
with his programme The Paul Daniels Magic Show. | :13:26. | :13:26. | |
# You're going to like this, going to like this... | :13:27. | :13:38. | |
If the ball's in my left hand, it's in my left hand, | :13:39. | :13:42. | |
if it's not in my hand, it's under the cup. | :13:43. | :13:44. | |
He was fast, funny, and very skilful. | :13:45. | :13:46. | |
He took old-fashioned magic and refashioned it | :13:47. | :13:48. | |
He became a fixture of the Saturday night schedules. | :13:49. | :13:51. | |
He had started in northern clubs, combining magic with a cheeky | :13:52. | :13:54. | |
You're supposed to go one, two, out the way, | :13:55. | :13:59. | |
He devised a catchphrase to deal with hecklers. | :14:00. | :14:03. | |
Paul Daniels was almost as famous for his toupee and his glamorous | :14:04. | :14:12. | |
assistant, Debbie McGee, 20 years younger. | :14:13. | :14:13. | |
They eventually married, which amused some people greatly. | :14:14. | :14:15. | |
What first, Debbie, attracted you to the millionaire | :14:16. | :14:17. | |
I really got the giggles because when I first worked | :14:18. | :14:23. | |
But the things that attracted me to him, | :14:24. | :14:29. | |
Our life has been full of laughter and that's what it's been the last | :14:30. | :14:35. | |
few weeks, up until the last 48 hours when he slipped into a sleep. | :14:36. | :14:39. | |
But even minutes before he slipped into that sleep, | :14:40. | :14:43. | |
he was smiling at me and joking and singing Beatles songs. | :14:44. | :14:47. | |
I had a letter yesterday from a lady who had met us and she said, | :14:48. | :14:51. | |
"The thing is, Debbie, you had a marriage that | :14:52. | :14:57. | |
Off-screen, he devised the special effects for Phantom Of The Opera | :14:58. | :15:07. | |
and he was an inspiration to a younger generation | :15:08. | :15:09. | |
Everyone I know had a Paul Daniels magic kit - | :15:10. | :15:14. | |
that was the first time people would learn how to do magic. | :15:15. | :15:17. | |
And his TV shows, I missed a lot of them because I was a bit too | :15:18. | :15:21. | |
young, but having looked back on them and all the magic he did | :15:22. | :15:24. | |
on YouTube, he will always be one | :15:25. | :15:26. | |
of the greatest magicians of our time. | :15:27. | :15:31. | |
For 20 years he was one of Britain's most popular | :15:32. | :15:33. | |
Three years ago he recalled routine offers of sex early in his career | :15:34. | :15:38. | |
and admitted he could not be sure all the women he had slept | :15:39. | :15:42. | |
He could be chippy and some thought him smug. | :15:43. | :15:46. | |
He fell out with BBC managers who dropped his show | :15:47. | :15:49. | |
in the 1990s - but there was no doubting his popularity | :15:50. | :15:52. | |
Paul Daniels who died today, aged 77. | :15:53. | :16:05. | |
A warning from financial experts that wages are set to fall, | :16:06. | :16:12. | |
but George Osborne says we have to stick to the plan. | :16:13. | :16:14. | |
rugby match, a row over racist language in the sport. | :16:15. | :16:25. | |
Coming up in the sport, England win their opening women's World T20 | :16:26. | :16:35. | |
match against Bangladesh, led by captain Charlotte Edwards who top | :16:36. | :16:37. | |
scored with 60 runs. Health professionals have welcomed | :16:38. | :16:46. | |
George Osborne's tax on sugary drinks in his Budget yesterday, | :16:47. | :16:49. | |
but warn that it "will not be a panacea" for the nation's | :16:50. | :16:52. | |
obesity crisis. Treating conditions linked | :16:53. | :16:54. | |
to obesity cost the NHS in England ?5.1 billion in the last year, | :16:55. | :17:01. | |
and in children, it still remains one of the most serious | :17:02. | :17:04. | |
public health challenges Our correspondent Jeremy | :17:05. | :17:06. | |
Cooke has this report. It is a global epidemic, | :17:07. | :17:10. | |
fuelled by fast food, Modern-day snack food is not | :17:11. | :17:12. | |
love, it's a killer. One in three of our ten-year-olds | :17:13. | :17:19. | |
is now obese, their futures Unless we turn this round, | :17:20. | :17:22. | |
this is going to be with us not only for the coming generation | :17:23. | :17:35. | |
but for the generations Katie is 15, loves singing and drama | :17:36. | :17:37. | |
and going to the movies. Her battle against weight has been | :17:38. | :17:41. | |
a lifelong challenge. 14-year-old Becky likes R | :17:42. | :17:49. | |
music and Justin Bieber. She too is working hard | :17:50. | :17:52. | |
to shed the pounds. When it comes to calories, | :17:53. | :17:56. | |
for both girls, the problem has been It was like a pot of Pringles, | :17:57. | :18:00. | |
an iced coffee, a croissant. Chocolate cereal and I would have | :18:01. | :18:06. | |
in my lunch rolls and crisps. I would have, like, chicken nuggets | :18:07. | :18:09. | |
or just something out And then your mum would | :18:10. | :18:15. | |
give you your supper? Yeah, and I would have lunch | :18:16. | :18:20. | |
and I would have breakfast. For their parents | :18:21. | :18:24. | |
it is a major worry. They know that obesity can | :18:25. | :18:27. | |
destroy children's health Why didn't you, as a mum, | :18:28. | :18:30. | |
simply feed her less food? We hid bread in places | :18:31. | :18:38. | |
like the laundry basket Now Katie is fighting back, | :18:39. | :18:45. | |
has found the strength to lose two stone and is determined | :18:46. | :18:54. | |
to lose more. I'm around 16 right now and so, | :18:55. | :18:59. | |
like, obviously I will see when I get to where I want to be | :19:00. | :19:03. | |
but roughly like ten stone Katie is on the right road, | :19:04. | :19:06. | |
using exercise and diet. For others, though, | :19:07. | :19:12. | |
the challenge is still daunting. Four out of five obese children | :19:13. | :19:14. | |
will become obese adults. Overweight young people | :19:15. | :19:18. | |
look relatively healthy, they get up and about, | :19:19. | :19:20. | |
they move around, they do things But when they are in their 40s | :19:21. | :19:23. | |
and 50s, you find that the body Becky is doing well, going | :19:24. | :19:30. | |
to the gym, choosing healthy food. But being overweight can also bring | :19:31. | :19:38. | |
psychological problems and for her, the bullying started | :19:39. | :19:41. | |
at primary school. I would feel like I was always | :19:42. | :19:48. | |
being talked about so I would walk round a corner and there | :19:49. | :19:51. | |
would be a group of people. Even if I didn't know them | :19:52. | :19:55. | |
and they were laughing, I would think they | :19:56. | :19:57. | |
were laughing at me. It's hard to see your child | :19:58. | :19:59. | |
sort of feel that way. I don't think there's anything | :20:00. | :20:04. | |
quite as heartbreaking than when your child tells | :20:05. | :20:06. | |
you that they hate themselves and they don't want to look | :20:07. | :20:08. | |
at themselves in the mirror. Counting calories, choosing water | :20:09. | :20:11. | |
instead of fizzy drinks. Overweight children | :20:12. | :20:18. | |
need this kind of help. They can't take responsibility | :20:19. | :20:22. | |
for their own actions, they are children and they are | :20:23. | :20:24. | |
vulnerable to the actions and the decisions of | :20:25. | :20:26. | |
the adults around them. Health professionals have welcomed | :20:27. | :20:30. | |
news of the sugar tax but say it is only a first step | :20:31. | :20:33. | |
towards tackling the childhood And tomorrow we'll be looking | :20:34. | :20:35. | |
at the role of the food industry An inquiry into child abuse in care | :20:36. | :20:45. | |
homes in North Wales, criticised for exposing only | :20:46. | :20:53. | |
a fraction of the abuse carried out, Lady Justice Macur said | :20:54. | :20:55. | |
there was "no evidence" of abuse What's the reaction been | :20:56. | :21:06. | |
to today's findings? Perhaps inevitably for some abuse | :21:07. | :21:21. | |
survivors, today has been a day of disappointment, some saying they | :21:22. | :21:24. | |
lost trust in the authorities many years ago. It is worth considering | :21:25. | :21:28. | |
that some of these crimes happened for decades ago when vulnerable | :21:29. | :21:33. | |
children, put into the care of the state, became the victims of | :21:34. | :21:37. | |
sustained sexual abuse. In the following years they were silenced. | :21:38. | :21:41. | |
About 20 years ago an enquiry was held here, some 700 allegations were | :21:42. | :21:48. | |
looked into and many people were happy then but rumours persisted | :21:49. | :21:52. | |
that there may have been some people who evaded justice. Lady Justice | :21:53. | :21:57. | |
Macur has been through more than a million pages of evidence and she | :21:58. | :22:02. | |
says she is satisfied there was no cover-up, no national figure who got | :22:03. | :22:08. | |
away with it. But we are still left with some questions tonight, why is | :22:09. | :22:13. | |
it only in the last three years that some perpetrators have been brought | :22:14. | :22:18. | |
to court? Will some victims feel put off about coming forward to give | :22:19. | :22:24. | |
evidence? One thing is clear, this probably isn't the final chapter in | :22:25. | :22:26. | |
the story. Thank you. A brief look at some of the day's | :22:27. | :22:27. | |
other other news stories. Owners of dangerous dogs will face | :22:28. | :22:30. | |
harsher sentences if the animals have been deliberately | :22:31. | :22:33. | |
trained to be aggressive, under new sentencing guidelines | :22:34. | :22:34. | |
in England and Wales. The changes cover offences | :22:35. | :22:37. | |
in which a dog injures or kills a person, injures an assistance dog, | :22:38. | :22:41. | |
or where someone possesses Those found guilty could face | :22:42. | :22:44. | |
between six and 14 years in prison. College lecturers have been | :22:45. | :22:52. | |
on strike today across Scotland The EIS teaching union | :22:53. | :22:54. | |
said its members were taking to offer a fair deal and create | :22:55. | :23:03. | |
national pay scales for lecturers. Walk-outs are scheduled to continue | :23:04. | :23:10. | |
until the summer if no resolution The broadcasting veteran | :23:11. | :23:12. | |
Cliff Michelmore, who was familiar to audiences as far back | :23:13. | :23:18. | |
as the forties, has died We're going to meet, | :23:19. | :23:21. | |
among other people, a smoking dog called Butch and a horse-racing | :23:22. | :23:28. | |
butcher called Bacon. He was best known as host | :23:29. | :23:30. | |
of the current affairs programme Tonight, with a distinctive | :23:31. | :23:33. | |
and informal style. The director general of the BBC, | :23:34. | :23:37. | |
Tony Hall, has called him England's Grand Slam-deciding game | :23:38. | :23:46. | |
against France in the Six Nations Meanwhile, the Welsh Rugby union has | :23:47. | :23:59. | |
said it is disappointed that England prop Joe Marler has been cleared to | :24:00. | :24:03. | |
play despite a racial slur allegedly made against an opponent. Joe Marler | :24:04. | :24:08. | |
is on the bench but coach Eddie Jones has denied the decision was | :24:09. | :24:09. | |
made as punishment. Dan Roan's report contains | :24:10. | :24:11. | |
language that some viewers It is the incident that has | :24:12. | :24:21. | |
threatened to overshadow England's grand slam bid. When prop Joe Marler | :24:22. | :24:29. | |
was heard saying gypsy boy at Wells appointed Samson Lee last weekend, a | :24:30. | :24:33. | |
player who has been open about his traveller heritage than many | :24:34. | :24:37. | |
expected a ban but instead he escaped punishment and today the | :24:38. | :24:41. | |
Welsh Rugby union expressed their surprise, saying there was no place | :24:42. | :24:45. | |
for racist language in sport. We don't condone any sort of | :24:46. | :24:49. | |
determination, race, religion, sexuality. As an organisation I | :24:50. | :24:56. | |
think probably we slightly disagree with it. But that hasn't impressed | :24:57. | :25:02. | |
England coach Eddie Jones who hit back at what he sees as Welsh | :25:03. | :25:09. | |
inconsistency. If you look at the statements from Wales yesterday, | :25:10. | :25:16. | |
maybe they don't know about it. They clearly think it was a racist | :25:17. | :25:21. | |
comment? At one time they didn't yesterday but they do now. Do you | :25:22. | :25:26. | |
think it was a racist comment? I've said what I've had to say on that | :25:27. | :25:30. | |
topic. We have a grand slam in front of us. It is no wonder that coach | :25:31. | :25:35. | |
was the focus to be on the performance is on his side had swept | :25:36. | :25:38. | |
all before him and now only France in Paris stand in their way. It may | :25:39. | :25:43. | |
be hard to believe but less than six months ago England were at rock | :25:44. | :25:48. | |
bottom having crashed out of their very own World Cup here at | :25:49. | :25:52. | |
Twickenham after just three matches. That humiliation led to an internal | :25:53. | :25:57. | |
inquiry, the replacing of their captain and the sacking of head | :25:58. | :26:01. | |
coach Stuart Lancaster so how have they turned things around so | :26:02. | :26:05. | |
dramatically? We have been runners-up for the last four years. | :26:06. | :26:11. | |
Maybe it was a mental edge. Like I said that we have had those failures | :26:12. | :26:14. | |
in the past to drive us on to finally cracked it but until we win | :26:15. | :26:21. | |
this weekend, I'm not happy, I'm not resting. This was the last time | :26:22. | :26:25. | |
England won the grand slam, 2003, the same year they lifted the World | :26:26. | :26:28. | |
Cup but emulating that will take some doing. So far they have made | :26:29. | :26:30. | |
the perfect start. A bright meteor was sighted flashing | :26:31. | :26:32. | |
across the skies over the UK People reported seeing a bright | :26:33. | :26:35. | |
flash of blue or green light moving It's believed the spectacle | :26:36. | :26:41. | |
was caused by magnesium-white trail. Clouding of but it has been a | :26:42. | :26:58. | |
beautiful day for most, the warmest day of the year in the Highlands. | :26:59. | :27:06. | |
Not for everybody but we did see 19 degrees. Different in Aberdeen, only | :27:07. | :27:12. | |
eight and really quite cold, 5 degrees, a lot of coastal fog. There | :27:13. | :27:17. | |
were some lovely spells of sunshine for most of us today, a pleasant | :27:18. | :27:22. | |
spring afternoon. Things are set to change as we run through the night. | :27:23. | :27:28. | |
That cloud will creep steadily westwards through the night, | :27:29. | :27:34. | |
bringing low cloud and a spot of drizzle and coastal fog. Further | :27:35. | :27:41. | |
west, clearer skies, a touch of frost and mist and fog. It should | :27:42. | :27:45. | |
lift quickly and the best sunshine will be further west that it will be | :27:46. | :27:49. | |
a cold, grey, disappointing start for many tomorrow. And with the | :27:50. | :27:55. | |
strength of the wind on the coasts, it will feel disappointing. A lot of | :27:56. | :27:59. | |
low cloud around, but spot of drizzle on the cost. We might see | :28:00. | :28:06. | |
some breaks in the West and in Northern Ireland and West is best in | :28:07. | :28:10. | |
terms of the sunshine. As the day continues, some of the cloud will | :28:11. | :28:15. | |
creep further westwards so the sunshine state of the extreme west | :28:16. | :28:20. | |
with temperatures not as warm as today. We might scrape double | :28:21. | :28:25. | |
figures, across the north coast it will be a bit cooler and cloudier. | :28:26. | :28:30. | |
The high-pressure spreads to the west and keep things quiet but | :28:31. | :28:33. | |
cloudy and cold moving into the weekend. If you haven't already | :28:34. | :28:38. | |
heard, we keep the dry theme but there will be quite a bit of cloud | :28:39. | :28:40. | |
around and it will stay chilly. That's all from the BBC News at Six | :28:41. | :28:44. | |
so it's goodbye from me and on BBC One we now join the BBC's | :28:45. | :28:47. | |
news teams where you are. | :28:48. | :28:50. |