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Hundreds of shoppers have queued through the night to grab a Boxing | :00:10. | :00:15. | |
Day bargain. Up to �3 billion is expected to be spent today across | :00:15. | :00:24. | |
shopping centres and high streets. The winter sale is traditionally | :00:24. | :00:27. | |
bigger than the summer. It's important and one of the biggest | :00:27. | :00:34. | |
volume days of the year. Thousands of hunt supporters are out in force, | :00:34. | :00:37. | |
as a senior minister says there's little chance of overturning the | :00:37. | :00:46. | |
ban on hunting with dogs. A High Court judge criticises the | :00:47. | :00:49. | |
Government's plans over gay marriage. And, who won the battle | :00:49. | :00:59. | |
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for number one in the Christmas Day TV ratings? Good afternoon. | :01:06. | :01:09. | |
Hundreds of shoppers have queued through the night in the hope of | :01:09. | :01:11. | |
grabbing a Boxing Day bargain. Retail analysts are expecting | :01:11. | :01:14. | |
almost �3 billion to be spent today across shopping centres and high | :01:14. | :01:18. | |
streets. Spending over the final weekend before Christmas hit the | :01:18. | :01:21. | |
predicted five billion, but many high street retailers still risk | :01:21. | :01:26. | |
going under after the festive period. Let's join Judith Moritz | :01:26. | :01:29. | |
,who is at the White Rose Shopping Centre in Leeds. Judith, how's it | :01:29. | :01:39. | |
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looking there? It's extremely busy. In terms of what they're telling me, | :01:41. | :01:46. | |
this place has been open for 15 years and last week they had their | :01:46. | :01:49. | |
busiest-ever week of trade and overnight, waiting for the Boxing | :01:49. | :01:56. | |
Day sales, 4,000 people were in the queue. There was a good camaraderie, | :01:56. | :02:03. | |
but when the doors opened it was every man for himself. The annual | :02:03. | :02:08. | |
tradition of the Boxing Day sales is alive and well, as much of a | :02:08. | :02:12. | |
Christmas ritual for these shoppers as turkey and tinsel. They queued | :02:12. | :02:16. | |
from the early hours to be sure of securing the best bargains. Falling | :02:17. | :02:23. | |
over each other to get inside shops they were in London's West End. | :02:23. | :02:27. | |
Websites say that nearly �3 billion will go through the tills today, | :02:27. | :02:31. | |
with four million people hitting the shops and five million buying | :02:31. | :02:36. | |
online. That's all welcome news for retailers. Last year was a strong | :02:36. | :02:41. | |
Christmas online and this year has built again. We are seeing double- | :02:41. | :02:46. | |
digit numbers online this year, so we are not surprised, but it has | :02:46. | :02:51. | |
been very strong. Whilst online shopping has boomed, the British | :02:51. | :02:58. | |
Retail Consortium says high street spending has been acceptable. In | :02:58. | :03:01. | |
Yorkshire they are still feeling positive. This centre if Leeds is | :03:01. | :03:08. | |
one centre to do well. I got new shoes for work and just new | :03:08. | :03:12. | |
everything. Why come today? Definitely, for bargains. We come | :03:12. | :03:16. | |
every year. We got up at four. Got in the car and drove to | :03:16. | :03:24. | |
Huddersfield, went to the Next sale, spent some money there. Yep. As you | :03:24. | :03:29. | |
do. We drove from Huddersfield over to Leeds and here we are. Shop, | :03:29. | :03:36. | |
shop, shop. We waited until after Christmas to come to get a full new | :03:36. | :03:42. | |
wardrobe. Princes Street in Edinburgh has drawn the crowds. | :03:42. | :03:45. | |
Bargain Hunting is proving popular here too. Some shops started their | :03:45. | :03:49. | |
sales well before Christmas and some websites saw massive activity | :03:49. | :03:54. | |
on Christmas Day, but there's still a lot of affection for the national | :03:54. | :04:02. | |
Boxing Day shop-a-thon. Shoppers like those we met here, who have | :04:02. | :04:04. | |
been to three separate centres are the kind of people that retailers | :04:04. | :04:09. | |
want to meet and it has been good news across the country. We have | :04:09. | :04:13. | |
just heard from Selfridges that they took �1.5 million in their | :04:13. | :04:20. | |
first hour's trading alone. Great news for them. They are saying here | :04:20. | :04:26. | |
it's going and online retail analysts say online sales are up | :04:26. | :04:31. | |
31% on the same period last year. Great news if you are shopping on | :04:31. | :04:35. | |
the computer, but across the board really, it's that tradition of | :04:35. | :04:39. | |
Boxing Day sales and retailers are hoping it will go beyond and into | :04:39. | :04:43. | |
the rest of the week and the rest of the festive period and people | :04:43. | :04:48. | |
will keep spending. Thank you very much. Bargain hunters in London | :04:48. | :04:51. | |
will be making their way to the sales without the help of the | :04:51. | :04:54. | |
London Underground. The network is running a reduced service as tube | :04:54. | :04:57. | |
drivers have walked out in a dispute over Bank Holiday pay. | :04:57. | :05:01. | |
London Transport says extra buses are being laid on to help. Let's go | :05:01. | :05:04. | |
live now to Ben Geoghegan, who joins us from outside Edgware Road | :05:04. | :05:14. | |
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Tube Station in West London. Tell us more. This is the third Boxing | :05:14. | :05:19. | |
Day in a row when ASLEF tube drivers have decided to strike. The | :05:19. | :05:24. | |
issue is about pay for working on Boxing Day. The union argues that | :05:24. | :05:28. | |
when drivers are asked to work and there will be 850 who have been | :05:28. | :05:31. | |
asked to work today, they should get an increase if salary and it | :05:31. | :05:35. | |
should be voluntary, so that people would choose to work today, because | :05:35. | :05:39. | |
they would earn a little extra money. The company's response to | :05:39. | :05:44. | |
all of this is to say, "We agreed the contract with the drivers years | :05:44. | :05:49. | |
ago. They get paid in the region of �46,000 and their salary includes | :05:49. | :05:53. | |
working on some Bank Holidays." The company have been very critical of | :05:53. | :05:56. | |
their action, saying that it's scandalous and completely | :05:56. | :06:00. | |
unnecessary and that the union are holding Londoners to ransom. Take | :06:00. | :06:06. | |
us through the scale of the disruption. You can see behind me | :06:06. | :06:11. | |
the signs when are telling people not to get on a train here. What | :06:11. | :06:15. | |
TfL are saying is there's a limited service, but there some service on | :06:15. | :06:19. | |
all of the tube lines. I think what they are trying to do is | :06:19. | :06:22. | |
concentrate on what they say are the core areas, so 300 extra buses | :06:22. | :06:26. | |
have been laid on to take people to shopping centres and other | :06:26. | :06:33. | |
attractions in the centre of town and they are putting on tubes on | :06:33. | :06:37. | |
the Bakerloo, Central and Victoria lines going through the centre. | :06:37. | :06:43. | |
This isn't the only day of disruption. If this is not resolved | :06:43. | :06:49. | |
ASLEF say they'll strike towards the end of next month. Thank you. | :06:49. | :06:52. | |
The commander of Syria's military police has defected and joined the | :06:52. | :06:54. | |
uprising against President Assad's government. Major General Abdulaziz | :06:54. | :06:56. | |
al-Shalal is reported as saying that the Syrian Army had deviated | :06:56. | :06:59. | |
from it's original mission of protecting the nation and has | :06:59. | :07:02. | |
turned into a gang of killers. General Shalal is the highest- | :07:02. | :07:04. | |
ranking military police officer to defect since the beginning of the | :07:04. | :07:12. | |
conflict in Syria nearly two years ago. The Met Office has issued a | :07:12. | :07:14. | |
landslide warning for parts of south-west England as heavy | :07:14. | :07:18. | |
downpours continue to spark fears of unstable cliff faces. The Dorset | :07:18. | :07:21. | |
coast has already been affected, with two landslips on Swanage Beach | :07:21. | :07:24. | |
in Dorset. Boxing Day walkers are being urged to take extra care. 149 | :07:24. | :07:34. | |
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flood warnings remain in place across England and Wales. A senior | :07:35. | :07:38. | |
Cabinet minister has said he doubts whether MPs will be given a chance | :07:38. | :07:41. | |
next year to overturn the ban on hunting with dogs. The Environment | :07:41. | :07:43. | |
Secretary, Owen Paterson, has warned there's no prospect of | :07:43. | :07:46. | |
winning a vote in 2013. More than 300 hunts are meeting for drag | :07:46. | :07:50. | |
hunts today. Let's join Alex Dunlop, who is at the Thurlow Hunt in | :07:50. | :08:00. | |
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Suffolk. Alex. Matthew, this is very much the heart of hunting | :08:02. | :08:06. | |
country and the Boxing Day meet is very much at the heart of the | :08:06. | :08:11. | |
hunting calendar. The hunt here in Suffolk meets about 70 times a year. | :08:11. | :08:14. | |
They have about two meets a week and they have people from all walks | :08:14. | :08:19. | |
of life joining the hunt. They can trace their roots back to 1770, but | :08:19. | :08:23. | |
for the last eight years they've had to have what is called a drag | :08:23. | :08:27. | |
hunt. That is having the scent of a fox poured on a rag and dragged | :08:27. | :08:29. | |
through the surrounding fields. There were many riders and | :08:29. | :08:33. | |
followers this morning. They were in a field here and they set off | :08:33. | :08:37. | |
over an hour ago and they are expected to be out for most of the | :08:37. | :08:42. | |
day. The hounds of the hunt have arrived for the busiest day of the | :08:42. | :08:48. | |
calendar. Waiting for them, dozens of riders and hundreds of followers, | :08:48. | :08:56. | |
keen to show their support despite the ban. A lot of hunts have some | :08:56. | :09:00. | |
pretty spiteful activities by opponents, who pursue them all over. | :09:00. | :09:06. | |
It makes their life pretty difficult. The law itself isn't | :09:06. | :09:10. | |
entirely clear as to what is acceptable and what is not. This is | :09:10. | :09:15. | |
what the hunt will follow. A sock infused with fox scent. It will be | :09:15. | :09:22. | |
dragged through the countryside. Eight years, -- ago, widespread | :09:22. | :09:26. | |
demonstrations failed to stop the ban coming into force. Since 2005, | :09:26. | :09:30. | |
it's been illegal to use dogs to hunt in England and Wales. Scotland | :09:30. | :09:34. | |
had already brought in a ban. But campaigners say illegal hunting it | :09:34. | :09:39. | |
still going on. Just last week, members of the Heythorp Hunt were | :09:39. | :09:44. | |
prosecuted by the RSPCA and fined. It's blatant cruelty and it's | :09:44. | :09:48. | |
unnecessary in this day and age and the sooner the hunts wake up and | :09:49. | :09:53. | |
smell the coffee and start honestly hunting a false trail, not a fox- | :09:54. | :09:58. | |
based scent, but an artificial scent, then we will leave them | :09:58. | :10:03. | |
alone and not be here next day having this conversation. In an | :10:03. | :10:07. | |
interview with today's Telegraph, Owen Paterson appeared to rule out | :10:07. | :10:17. | |
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a free vote for MPs on whether the ban should be lifted. He said: The | :10:19. | :10:21. | |
300 hunts across England and Wales admit there's little likelihood of | :10:21. | :10:27. | |
the law being changed any time soon. Just before they set off, the field | :10:27. | :10:32. | |
master told me, if they come across a live fox, what they'll do is stop | :10:33. | :10:37. | |
the hunt, control the hounds and then restart the hunt with a for | :10:37. | :10:42. | |
example trail. The Countryside Alliance admit it's highly unlikely | :10:42. | :10:45. | |
that the act will be changed within the lifetime of this Parliament. | :10:46. | :10:48. | |
Those against hunting don't want it changed at all. Back to you. Thank | :10:48. | :10:58. | |
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you. For the second time this Christmas, the Government's plans | :11:07. | :11:10. | |
to allow gay marriage in England and Wales have come under strong | :11:10. | :11:13. | |
attack. A High Court judge, Sir Paul Coleridge, has said ministers | :11:13. | :11:16. | |
should instead be focussing on what he called a crisis of family | :11:16. | :11:18. | |
breakdown. Yesterday, the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Westminister | :11:18. | :11:20. | |
used his Christmas message to say the Government's proposals had | :11:21. | :11:23. | |
become a shambles. Let's get more on this with our Political | :11:23. | :11:30. | |
Correspondent, Chris Mason, who's here with me now. What is this all | :11:30. | :11:36. | |
about? Sir Paul has been dealing with family cases and he set up the | :11:36. | :11:39. | |
Marriage Foundation, which tries to hold couples together. It's his | :11:39. | :11:44. | |
argument that the focus on gay marriage is good from the view of a | :11:44. | :11:48. | |
national debate about marriage, but the real focus should be the 99.9% | :11:49. | :11:52. | |
of couples with children and trying to ensure that they are kept | :11:52. | :11:55. | |
together. Has there been any response for the Government? Yes, | :11:55. | :11:59. | |
some. It's quite striking. Normally there is a ceasefire in political | :11:59. | :12:02. | |
hostilities over the Christmas season, but given that gay marriage | :12:02. | :12:08. | |
is so big an issue for so many people within the churches, we have | :12:09. | :12:12. | |
had the comments from the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Wesminster, | :12:12. | :12:16. | |
saying that the Government's plans were a shambles, but Downing Street | :12:16. | :12:20. | |
made clear Conservative MPs will get a free vote on this and the | :12:20. | :12:27. | |
Government has said that no church will be obliged to carry out gay | :12:27. | :12:31. | |
marriage ceremonies. Striking comments from Lynne Featherstone | :12:31. | :12:35. | |
saying today that criticism from those within the churches on this | :12:35. | :12:38. | |
is shameful, because she said there is a mandate for this and the | :12:38. | :12:43. | |
Conservatives have talked about it and it's Lib Dem policies and it's | :12:43. | :12:45. | |
her argument that polls suggest that people are in favour of it. | :12:45. | :12:51. | |
Thank you very much. It's one of the most hotly contested TV battles | :12:51. | :12:54. | |
of the year - which programme managed to beat all the others and | :12:54. | :12:57. | |
take the top-spot for ratings on Christmas Day. Well, last night | :12:57. | :12:59. | |
Eastenders was the most watched show, beating Coronation Street | :12:59. | :13:01. | |
into second place. With all the details, here's our Entertainment | :13:01. | :13:11. | |
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Correspondent, Lizo Mzimba. The rating's battle is as traditional | :13:15. | :13:21. | |
as turkey, with the brod casters rolling out their big -- | :13:21. | :13:25. | |
broadcasters, rolling out their biggest hitters. Overall viewing | :13:25. | :13:30. | |
figures might be down, but the BBC will still be delighted that in the | :13:30. | :13:33. | |
battle of the soaps, EastEnders beat Coronation Street by close to | :13:33. | :13:38. | |
one million viewers and other BBC shows like Strictly Come Dancing | :13:39. | :13:45. | |
beat ITV's other big offering, Downton Abbey way down into eighth | :13:45. | :13:47. | |
position. Christmas Day figures are crucial to the various different | :13:47. | :13:50. | |
channels. Much in the way that Saturday night figures are too. | :13:50. | :13:54. | |
They seem to be the benchmark by which people judge success or | :13:54. | :13:58. | |
failure and of course Christmas Day has been owned by the BBC for many | :13:58. | :14:07. | |
a long year and they don't want to give that title. It's the | :14:07. | :14:12. | |
Corporation's range of shows from old favourites to new-comers like | :14:12. | :14:15. | |
Call the Midwife that seemed to have helped the BBC retain the | :14:15. | :14:23. | |
crown. This past year has been one of great celebration for many. | :14:23. | :14:26. | |
still early days for some innovations. The Queen's broadcast | :14:26. | :14:30. | |
was seen by 36,000 people in 3D, the first time it's been broadcast | :14:30. | :14:34. | |
in that form at. A tiny proportion compared to the 8 million who | :14:34. | :14:40. | |
watched it in traditional 2D. And the battle isn't over yet. Once | :14:40. | :14:43. |