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Hello. Look East can reveal tonight that Labour would scrap the | :00:07. | :00:16. | |
so—called "bedroom tax" if the party wins the next election. In an | :00:16. | :00:19. | |
exclusive interview, Ed Miliband told us he thought the measure was | :00:19. | :00:25. | |
unfair and had led to tenants being evicted from their homes. It's the | :00:25. | :00:34. | |
right decision to make a fair tax change and maybe will get rid of | :00:34. | :00:38. | |
that policy and end the bedroom tax. Stay with us for pool details of | :00:38. | :00:43. | |
that promise, plus reaction from those affected and senior members of | :00:43. | :00:45. | |
the Government. Also tonight: The Suffolk security guard who went on | :00:45. | :00:52. | |
the run with more than £1 million finds out today that crime really | :00:52. | :00:58. | |
does not pay. The surgeon who pioneered heart and lung transplant | :00:58. | :00:59. | |
is going back to his roots at Papworth Hospital. And warmer | :00:59. | :01:03. | |
weather for the weekend, but it could be quite cloudy. Join me | :01:03. | :01:04. | |
Hello. Look East Kent revealed today that Leibowitz crap the so—called | :01:04. | :01:17. | |
bedroom tax if their party wins the next election —— that Labour would | :01:17. | :01:24. | |
scrap the bedroom tax. Let's just remind ourselves about the rules on | :01:24. | :01:30. | |
housing benefit. They were changed with effect from first April this | :01:30. | :01:36. | |
year. Tenants on housing benefit can no longer claim their full amount if | :01:36. | :01:41. | |
they have an unused spare bedroom. They were given a choice to either | :01:41. | :01:46. | |
downsize or face a benefit cut. There was strong opposition to what | :01:46. | :01:50. | |
became known as the "bedroom tax". In this region, Labour believe | :01:50. | :01:51. | |
50,000 households have been affected. Tonight, Mr Miliband tells | :01:51. | :01:55. | |
this programme that Labour will scrap it. We start with this report | :01:55. | :01:59. | |
from our political correspondent, Andrew Sinclair: Of all of the | :01:59. | :02:03. | |
recent welfare changes, this has probably been the most | :02:03. | :02:06. | |
controversial. The Government's intention was to cut the amount it | :02:06. | :02:12. | |
spends on welfare and free up homes for the thousands of families | :02:12. | :02:16. | |
waiting for larger properties. But housing campaigners say it is | :02:16. | :02:19. | |
causing misery for many. Our research shows that 50% of the | :02:19. | :02:26. | |
people affected by the tax have gone into arrears in the first three | :02:26. | :02:33. | |
months. These are people who have not gone into arrears before. This | :02:33. | :02:38. | |
is not the usual suspects. This has pushed them over the edge. Others | :02:38. | :02:42. | |
have questioned whether the policy is workable. A study by Cambridge | :02:42. | :02:46. | |
University concluded that it would take 24 years to be housed all those | :02:46. | :02:50. | |
affected. So tonight's moved by the Labour leader is eye—catching, and | :02:50. | :02:53. | |
on the eve of a difficult conference a chance to show that his party can | :02:53. | :02:58. | |
come up with real policies. What we're seeing that this tax is people | :02:58. | :03:06. | |
potentially being evicted from their homes, and it will not even save | :03:06. | :03:08. | |
what the Government said it was going to say, so I think it is | :03:08. | :03:14. | |
right decision to make their tax change, to say we're going to rid of | :03:14. | :03:18. | |
the bedroom tax. It will be funded by ending some of the tax rate is | :03:18. | :03:21. | |
currently available to financial institutions. George Osborne cut | :03:21. | :03:29. | |
taxes for hedge funds is at the same time as introducing the bedroom tax. | :03:29. | :03:34. | |
I think most people will think that is not the right priority. What this | :03:34. | :03:39. | |
give critics to your critics who say you are the party of welfare? No. | :03:39. | :03:43. | |
This is about unfair welfare that is hitting the disabled. It is not even | :03:43. | :03:48. | |
going to work. Labour says that 50,000 people in the East will be | :03:48. | :03:51. | |
affected by this change. 31,000 of them are disabled. Mr Miliband | :03:51. | :03:55. | |
except that there are other issues that affect far larger numbers and | :03:55. | :04:01. | |
also need addressing, but this, he says, must be a priority. | :04:01. | :04:04. | |
The changes to housing benefit prompted several reports on Look | :04:04. | :04:08. | |
East, with many tenants struggling to cope with the changes. Those with | :04:08. | :04:12. | |
disabilities felt especially aggrieved at being penalised for | :04:12. | :04:14. | |
having a spare room. Come through and I will show you | :04:15. | :04:20. | |
what my spirit is like at the moment. —— what my spear room is | :04:20. | :04:27. | |
like at the moment. There is boxes in there, stuff I have not | :04:27. | :04:32. | |
unpacked... This woman moved into this bungalow month ago. She says | :04:32. | :04:37. | |
the cuts in housing benefits forced her to downsize, leaving the | :04:37. | :04:41. | |
three—bedroom house she had lived in for 35 years. I cannot well. I have | :04:42. | :04:48. | |
arthritis and severe pain in my neck. I am on for that. —— I am on | :04:48. | :04:56. | |
medication for that. They introduced the bedroom tax and it was more | :04:56. | :05:03. | |
money will stop —— more money out of the pot. With most of her belongings | :05:03. | :05:09. | |
still in boxes, the spirit room costs her £13 per week. She is not | :05:09. | :05:14. | |
the only person to downsize. Previously on Look East, we spoke to | :05:15. | :05:20. | |
Susan, who fell into rent arrears. I feel angry as well and I feel so | :05:20. | :05:26. | |
alone. They are just making my situation even worse. Annie says | :05:26. | :05:31. | |
that she welcomes Labour's and then spent. Honestly, I would be well | :05:31. | :05:40. | |
chuffed for the people who are —— people have gone through what I have | :05:40. | :05:45. | |
gone through. But it will not help me. I would have to pay bedroom tax, | :05:45. | :05:51. | |
but what about the money I have paid? As they say they will | :05:51. | :05:56. | |
reimburse it. My dad had a saying. Nothing to be liberal West, nothing | :05:56. | :05:58. | |
to conserve, everything to labour force. My dad was a Labour man | :05:58. | :06:03. | |
through and through. I have nothing to conserve because I sold it. She | :06:03. | :06:08. | |
is reorganising her life and hope that any future changes. Other | :06:08. | :06:16. | |
people from being in her position. So, this announcement has been made | :06:16. | :06:22. | |
to coincide with the start of the Labour conference? Yes it is going | :06:22. | :06:26. | |
to be a difficult conference. They lead has crumbled. 52% of Labour | :06:26. | :06:34. | |
members are not happy with his leadership. So, getting the story | :06:34. | :06:39. | |
today is an attempt by him to seize the news agenda and get their | :06:39. | :06:42. | |
conference of two a positive start. A lot of Labour people have been | :06:42. | :06:47. | |
campaigning for the party to come out against this policy. But does | :06:47. | :06:51. | |
the announcement really matter? Labour says it does, because a | :06:51. | :06:56. | |
survey today said that 59% of people do not like the bedroom tax will | :06:56. | :07:02. | |
stop but ministers keep saying it is a popular policy that will save | :07:02. | :07:06. | |
billion pounds, and it will shorten waiting times. We spoke to Iain | :07:06. | :07:11. | |
Duncan Smith who has been looking at this all year, and he says that 70% | :07:12. | :07:18. | |
of people approve of this policy. So, good publicity for Labour, but | :07:18. | :07:24. | |
voters don't really care. Let's talk to Andrew Sinclair. Later in the | :07:24. | :07:30. | |
programme, what the Tories have to say with Andrew Lansley, the MP for | :07:30. | :07:32. | |
South Cambridgeshire and Leader of the House. | :07:32. | :07:39. | |
In other news tonight, a judge has said that police can confiscate the | :07:39. | :07:40. | |
pension pot of Eddie Maher. He was the Securicor guard from Suffolk who | :07:40. | :07:48. | |
went on the run twenty years ago with more than a million pounds. | :07:48. | :07:49. | |
Maher, who was nicknamed Fast Eddie, is now in prison. | :07:49. | :07:54. | |
This was what was cold and Asset Recovery During. In short, having | :07:54. | :07:57. | |
got their man, Suffolk police wanted to get the money. The security guard | :07:57. | :08:03. | |
vanished from outside this bank in Felixstowe in 1993. He was | :08:03. | :08:06. | |
eventually discovered in misery. He always maintained that his share of | :08:06. | :08:11. | |
the hall had been £40,000 —— discovered in America. Today, a | :08:11. | :08:18. | |
judge ordered that a pension from his time working as a firefighter, | :08:18. | :08:23. | |
now worth around £129,000, could be seized to help to compensate the | :08:23. | :08:28. | |
security firm and an insurance company. He only made two | :08:28. | :08:32. | |
contributions during the hearing, one at the start when he confirmed | :08:32. | :08:37. | |
he could hear everything, and secondly when the judge queried what | :08:37. | :08:44. | |
his release date would be. He told him it would be January 2015. The | :08:44. | :08:48. | |
judge gave him six months to sort it out given the complexities of | :08:49. | :08:53. | |
releasing pension money, and told him that if he did not pay, he would | :08:53. | :08:59. | |
serve another two years on top of his sentence. It is the only asset | :08:59. | :09:03. | |
he had remaining. It still shows that after all these years, we can | :09:03. | :09:08. | |
now be successful in the covering money. This man remembers the crime | :09:08. | :09:13. | |
like it was yesterday. He was the guard left behind as he ran away. He | :09:13. | :09:17. | |
stole the money. He committed a crime. I don't even think about it | :09:17. | :09:25. | |
now. It is over and done with. I am still alive. I am happy about that. | :09:25. | :09:29. | |
The police admit that at Sting stand, if Eddie comes to money or | :09:29. | :09:34. | |
signs a film deal, he could potentially be allowed to keep the | :09:34. | :09:38. | |
cash. They say it is something they are still looking into. | :09:38. | :09:42. | |
The interim Chief Executive of the East of England Ambulance Trust is | :09:42. | :09:46. | |
to continue in the job after the board failed to make a permanent | :09:47. | :09:50. | |
appointment. Andrew Morgan was brought in to turn the Trust around | :09:50. | :09:55. | |
and deal with poor response times. He's aiming to recruit between 300 | :09:55. | :10:01. | |
and 360 new front line staff. The Trust's board interviewed five | :10:01. | :10:07. | |
candidates for the job, but decided not to appoint any of them. | :10:07. | :10:08. | |
Trains run by C2C are more punctual than any other operator in the | :10:08. | :10:16. | |
country, according to latest figures. Just over 98% of its | :10:16. | :10:16. | |
trains, which run between London and Southend, were on time over the past | :10:16. | :10:20. | |
month. It's emerged today that the police | :10:20. | :10:28. | |
are using a law from more than 100 years ago to ban off—licences and | :10:28. | :10:36. | |
pubs from selling drink to an alcoholic. It's the first time it's | :10:36. | :10:37. | |
been used for years. It comes after 57—year—old Paul Stephenson, who | :10:37. | :10:39. | |
lives in a hostel, pleaded guilty at the Magistrates' Court in Norwich | :10:39. | :10:43. | |
this week to being drunk and disorderly. | :10:43. | :10:48. | |
Paul Stephenson has been declared a habitual drunkard, but he says he | :10:48. | :10:50. | |
has been a driver three weeks and does not make this archaic | :10:50. | :10:54. | |
legislation will help him. If you look in the books, it also says in | :10:54. | :11:00. | |
the law that that doesn't count, so what will he do next the? He needs a | :11:00. | :11:05. | |
reality check. In the courts eyes, you were in the wrong at the time. I | :11:05. | :11:13. | |
was in the wrong and I got a fine and I am paying for it. But that | :11:13. | :11:18. | |
doesn't help. Paying a fine does not help magic problem. He was arrested | :11:18. | :11:23. | |
here last month. Police HQ was drunk and disorderly, throwing stones at | :11:24. | :11:27. | |
fishermen. He said he started thinking at 16 because he was shy | :11:27. | :11:31. | |
and lived on the streets. He now lives in a hostel, but at his worst | :11:31. | :11:35. | |
he was getting through three large bottles of cider day. I've lost my | :11:35. | :11:41. | |
job, I've lost my marriage, it is ruining me. It is killing me. This | :11:41. | :11:45. | |
is one of the many off—licences banned from selling alcohol to him. | :11:46. | :11:52. | |
If they do, they face losing their licence. He is banned from buying it | :11:52. | :11:55. | |
or obtaining it for three years. What we are hoping to achieve is to | :11:55. | :11:59. | |
target those persistent offenders. They are a small minority, and by | :11:59. | :12:06. | |
using this legislation we can prevent their anti—social behaviour. | :12:06. | :12:12. | |
With help, I can cure it. I have got to do it. I want to do it for myself | :12:12. | :12:19. | |
and I want to make my son proud of me. I couldn't see him when I was on | :12:20. | :12:25. | |
the streets. How can I say I live in a doorway? It's embarrassing. I want | :12:25. | :12:31. | |
him to be proud of me. He knows he will always be classed as an | :12:31. | :12:36. | |
alcoholic, but says he is off the drink and will rebuild his life. | :12:36. | :12:46. | |
Still to come tonight: A nail—biting finish to the cricket season. Plus, | :12:46. | :12:55. | |
a return to Papworth Hospital by the surgeon who pioneered heart and lung | :12:55. | :13:00. | |
transplant. —— transplants. Now here's one of those sobering | :13:00. | :13:08. | |
thoughts. Since 1939, more than 83,000 American service men and | :13:08. | :13:12. | |
women have failed to return home. Some were taken prisoner, some went | :13:12. | :13:18. | |
missing in action, but none of them ever came home. This week the US Air | :13:18. | :13:23. | |
Force in Suffolk has been remembering them. | :13:23. | :13:24. | |
Today, at RAF Mildenhall, members of the 100th Air Refueling Wing have | :13:24. | :13:29. | |
taken part in a special ceremony to mark the end of the week's | :13:29. | :13:33. | |
remembrance. Our defence reporter Alex Dunlop has just sent this. | :13:33. | :13:37. | |
Putting names to the numbers. Joseph... Officially missing in | :13:37. | :13:45. | |
action, or prisoners of war, from every action since World War II. | :13:45. | :13:50. | |
Over 24 hours, volunteers read all 80 3000, 345 names. It is living on | :13:50. | :14:01. | |
hold. The hope that they can still be alive and come home. Until they | :14:01. | :14:08. | |
have the final closure, I think it is part of our duty to go out and | :14:09. | :14:13. | |
keep the promise, that is the motto, of keeping, bringing them home. But | :14:13. | :14:18. | |
the vast majority of them will have died? Yes. It is more than likely | :14:18. | :14:22. | |
that the majority of them have passed. Nearby, and missing man | :14:22. | :14:26. | |
formation. The desert boots represent the two most recent | :14:26. | :14:31. | |
conflicts, Iraq and Afghanistan. As America starts to pull out of this | :14:31. | :14:36. | |
latest work, for five years one American soldier is still being held | :14:36. | :14:41. | |
captive by the Taliban. It was the war in Vietnam which spurred a huge | :14:41. | :14:46. | |
interest in the fate of American soldiers imprisoned while missing in | :14:46. | :14:52. | |
action. Some were found alive years after the war ended. 40 years on, so | :14:52. | :14:57. | |
determined by the US military to be repatriated those left on old | :14:57. | :15:00. | |
battlefields that they have a dedicated task force of around 400 | :15:00. | :15:07. | |
personnel who make it their mission to find them. Last year they | :15:07. | :15:09. | |
recovered two bodies from the Cambodian jungle. As the commander | :15:09. | :15:13. | |
reads the last of the 83,000 names, today they also remember those | :15:13. | :15:17. | |
killed by a Navy reservist in Washington three days ago. For us it | :15:17. | :15:22. | |
is very important for us to remember who has gone before us. The flag is | :15:22. | :15:28. | |
at half mast behind you as a reminder that there is still a | :15:28. | :15:32. | |
current threat? Absolutely. There is a worldwide threat, and with recent | :15:33. | :15:38. | |
actions that have happened this week in the United States, our flags are | :15:38. | :15:40. | |
at half—mast. We must with the ready. Every Friday in the ceremony, | :15:40. | :15:46. | |
they lowered the stars and stripes. This one was a little different. | :15:46. | :15:50. | |
Today's salute, dedicated to those missing across seven decades of war. | :15:50. | :15:55. | |
Sport now, and the end of the cricket season is going to the wire | :15:55. | :16:02. | |
for Northants and Essex. The two teams have been locked in a battle | :16:02. | :16:08. | |
for promotion to the top flight. Today was the final day of their | :16:08. | :16:15. | |
penultimate county Championship games with Northants now looking | :16:15. | :16:17. | |
like red hot favourites to go up. Let's cross to the county ground in | :16:17. | :16:21. | |
Northampton now and our Sports Editor, Jonathan Park. Yes, it's | :16:21. | :16:23. | |
been a fairy tale season for Northants this season. They have | :16:23. | :16:27. | |
done very well in all competitions, including the Twenty20. Essex have | :16:27. | :16:30. | |
been there throughout, but Northants, as you say, are red—hot | :16:30. | :16:36. | |
favourites to win promotion. They will find out next week, but after | :16:36. | :16:42. | |
today's play, they are in the driving seat. It had been —— has | :16:42. | :16:49. | |
been a season where Northants shake off the pass. The silverware was | :16:49. | :16:58. | |
already on show today. It has been a magnificent season with a real team | :16:58. | :17:01. | |
effort. Silverware does not come around here very often. The | :17:02. | :17:05. | |
performances have been so great. There was a sense about | :17:05. | :17:09. | |
inevitability in their match today. The main game was always going to | :17:09. | :17:18. | |
end in a drawer, but all that Northants needed was the five bonus | :17:18. | :17:23. | |
points on offer for reaching the 400 mark, which was accomplished with | :17:23. | :17:29. | |
ease. We have done well today and got all of our bonus points, which | :17:29. | :17:35. | |
is what we set out to do. It looks like things have settled down at | :17:35. | :17:36. | |
Chelmsford and hopefully gone our way. At Chelmsford, the only team | :17:36. | :17:40. | |
who could pip Northants to promotion, Essex, desperately needed | :17:40. | :17:45. | |
a win to strengthen their hand. But there ain't with Glamorgan was also | :17:45. | :17:48. | |
heading for stalemate. We needed a few more performances and did not | :17:48. | :17:55. | |
get the season but all in all, we have had a decent season. I think it | :17:55. | :18:00. | |
is quite decent for this season. I know it is not Division 1, but it is | :18:00. | :18:05. | |
still a tough cricket world. We have done well in four—day cricket. | :18:05. | :18:08. | |
Probably going to finish third behind Northamptonshire and | :18:08. | :18:12. | |
Lancashire. Final stake in the 2020, and we finished fourth there, so we | :18:12. | :18:18. | |
have been the bridesmaid this year, but we have made progress. At half | :18:18. | :18:22. | |
past four, the captain shook hands in both games, with Northants a | :18:22. | :18:27. | |
giant step towards cricket's top flight. The knee just five points | :18:27. | :18:32. | |
from next week 's game at Worcestershire to guarantee it. —— | :18:32. | :18:38. | |
they need. It's in the bag? No... I'm an eternal pessimist, I am | :18:38. | :18:44. | |
afraid. They are not exactly hostile, and not exactly serious, | :18:44. | :18:49. | |
and enjoyed by everyone. Just like Northants's season. That certainly | :18:49. | :18:56. | |
was a humorous moment today. The next round of Championship matches | :18:56. | :19:01. | |
is next week, but before then here at the ground, the pop band Madness | :19:01. | :19:08. | |
are plain. It could certainly be a House Of Fun for those Northants | :19:08. | :19:14. | |
fans this season. Thank you very much. | :19:15. | :19:20. | |
Two years ago, Professor John Wallwork retired from Papworth | :19:20. | :19:26. | |
Hospital. In 30 years he carried out 6,000 operations to help put | :19:26. | :19:32. | |
Papworth on the world stage. But now he's coming back. Next February, the | :19:32. | :19:37. | |
Professor will become the hospital's new chairman and says he has big | :19:37. | :19:42. | |
plans for its future. Hello, guys! Back among the staff he calls his | :19:42. | :19:48. | |
second family, the hospital he calls his second home. Two years ago he | :19:48. | :19:53. | |
retired as a surgeon here. He has returned now as chairman. This is a | :19:53. | :19:59. | |
very special time for the hospital. We have spent a long, long time | :19:59. | :20:04. | |
trying to get this hospital to the right place and we are nearly there | :20:04. | :20:09. | |
and I want to see that through. I wanted to be a jewel in the crown of | :20:09. | :20:14. | |
the health service, not just here but abroad. I want to bring any | :20:14. | :20:20. | |
effort I can to the place. This was his last operation. Over 30 years, | :20:20. | :20:24. | |
he carried out 30 of them, a pioneer in transplant surgery. In 1981 he | :20:24. | :20:28. | |
founded the Papworth Heart And Lung Transplant Programme years later | :20:28. | :20:34. | |
performing the first heart and Lung transpired in Europe, and then the | :20:35. | :20:39. | |
world's first triple transplant. What are you planning for the | :20:39. | :20:43. | |
future? I want to keep Papworth Hospital on top. Surprisingly enough | :20:43. | :20:50. | |
putting an organisation up is easier than keeping it at the top. And in | :20:50. | :20:56. | |
order to do that for the patients and the education and research, we | :20:56. | :21:01. | |
have to provide the best that we can, and we can only do that with | :21:01. | :21:07. | |
our biomedical campus. This is where the biomedical campus will go. Work | :21:07. | :21:12. | |
on the new app worth should start in 2015. Heart and lung disease | :21:12. | :21:16. | |
together provide the biggest cause of death in our society. It would be | :21:16. | :21:21. | |
absurd to have this big biomedical campus not that hard and lung | :21:21. | :21:26. | |
disease in it. Papworth Hospital has prolonged the lives of thousands. | :21:26. | :21:31. | |
His job now, better treatment for the patient of tomorrow. | :21:31. | :21:35. | |
A reminder now of tonight's main news: The Labour leader Ed Miliband | :21:35. | :21:44. | |
has told Look East that he will scrap the so—called "bedroom tax" if | :21:44. | :21:49. | |
he becomes the next Prime Minister. Let's hear what the Conservatives | :21:49. | :21:54. | |
have to say about that. Andrew Lansley is the MP for South | :21:54. | :21:55. | |
Cambridgeshire and the Leader of the House of Commons. He's in Cambridge | :21:55. | :22:01. | |
now. have to say about that. Andrew | :22:01. | :22:01. | |
Lansley is the MP for The National Housing Federation, Their Chief | :22:01. | :22:03. | |
Executive Says That The Bedroom Tax Is Disastrous. How do you feel about | :22:03. | :22:08. | |
that? Are in was to reduce the cost of housing benefit, which Labour had | :22:08. | :22:13. | |
taken to £20 billion. And I'm afraid but we have heard today shows that | :22:13. | :22:18. | |
Labour have learned nothing. We had to take measures to deal with their | :22:18. | :22:24. | |
debt crisis. It wasn't fair what happened —— wasn't there to be | :22:24. | :22:27. | |
subsidising under occupied properties while people are waiting | :22:27. | :22:33. | |
for accommodation or are in overcrowded accommodation. We have | :22:33. | :22:37. | |
done it in a fairway. We have put £180 million into a discretionary | :22:37. | :22:42. | |
fund that helps to the costs of those who have proper reasons to | :22:42. | :22:49. | |
have support, but we are taking away housing benefit, we are saving in | :22:49. | :22:53. | |
this case really have £1 billion, by virtue of not subsidising under | :22:53. | :22:56. | |
occupied properties. That is what we have to do and the Labour Party does | :22:56. | :23:02. | |
not seem to have learned anything and they are saying that now they | :23:02. | :23:08. | |
want to go back. They have opposed every well cut we have put forward. | :23:08. | :23:13. | |
I am sorry to interrupt you, but all of these people that are affected | :23:13. | :23:19. | |
that we have heard about, one third of them and are having trouble with | :23:19. | :23:24. | |
their rent. These are people who have not been in that situation | :23:24. | :23:25. | |
before, so it is obviously having a very bad effect. We are very clear | :23:25. | :23:32. | |
about the fact that we need to save money by not subsidising under | :23:32. | :23:38. | |
occupied properties. It is not about imposing a charge or imposing tax. | :23:38. | :23:39. | |
It is about how much housing benefit people should be paid, and they | :23:39. | :23:44. | |
should be paid how much is appropriate to the need for housing. | :23:44. | :23:50. | |
Under the last Government, people who were in private rented | :23:50. | :23:51. | |
accommodation and had under occupied properties, spare ribs, did not get | :23:51. | :23:57. | |
housing benefit. What we have done in that sense is remove what was an | :23:57. | :23:58. | |
anomaly between people who were getting private housing benefit and | :23:58. | :24:02. | |
people who were getting housing benefit in social housing. As I | :24:02. | :24:07. | |
said, £190 million per year, it is not far short of a third of the | :24:07. | :24:11. | |
total saving, is available to local authorities in a discretionary | :24:11. | :24:16. | |
payment scheme in order to meet the cases that are genuinely in most | :24:16. | :24:20. | |
need. I am so sorry to interrupt you, but 34% of people who intend to | :24:20. | :24:26. | |
back the Tories at the next election think it is a bad idea. People | :24:26. | :24:27. | |
across the country now that we were think it is a bad idea. People | :24:27. | :24:33. | |
left circumstances. | :24:33. | :25:21. | |
Time for the weather, and it is going to get a little bit warmer? | :25:21. | :25:31. | |
Yes! High pressure across the British Isles. That might sound like | :25:31. | :25:31. | |
the perfect ingredients for a fine autumn weekend, but as this are | :25:31. | :25:37. | |
crosses, we see it picking up a lot of moisture. But while temperatures | :25:37. | :25:38. | |
rise, it will be cloudy at times. Today, we have had quite a lot of | :25:38. | :25:45. | |
fine autumn sunshine. It has turned a little bit cloudy and places, but | :25:45. | :25:50. | |
predominantly, we will seek leave spells overnight. It is expected to | :25:50. | :25:52. | |
turn a little bit cloudy later on with some fog. For most of us, we | :25:52. | :25:58. | |
should stay in double figures. We are expecting loads of around 11 or | :25:58. | :26:03. | |
12. Temperatures could just drop down there. If you are up early, it | :26:03. | :26:09. | |
might be a bright start in the east. We have this week weather front | :26:09. | :26:10. | |
heading in from the south—west, and that is going to meet increasing | :26:10. | :26:15. | |
amount of cold to the morning. So, this cloud may, in places, be thick | :26:15. | :26:21. | |
enough to produce some rain or drizzle, but for most of us, it is | :26:21. | :26:29. | |
predominantly dry. If you live in the western half, you have got a | :26:29. | :26:30. | |
better chance of seeing something a little bit more break into the | :26:30. | :26:37. | |
afternoon. Temperatures rarely get those brighter spells, they will be | :26:37. | :26:38. | |
quite comfortable, with a bit of a noticeable breeze and a light to | :26:38. | :26:42. | |
moderate south—westerly. The eastern half looks as though it will stay a | :26:43. | :26:48. | |
little bit more cloudy. Now, looking ahead, the high pressure starts to | :26:48. | :26:53. | |
move to the east, towards Holland, by the start of next week. That will | :26:53. | :26:54. | |
mean a subtle change in wind direction, more of an easterly flow. | :26:54. | :27:00. | |
This will bring in more dry air, so that brings us the better prospect | :27:01. | :27:08. | |
of sunshine at the start of next week. So, we start Sunday a bit | :27:08. | :27:08. | |
cloudy, perhaps with some mist around first thing. But it looks | :27:08. | :27:17. | |
more hopeful through the day on Sunday. We should hopefully start to | :27:17. | :27:18. | |
see the sunshine out and as such, we will see the temperatures climb, so | :27:18. | :27:26. | |
21 or 22 degrees quite possible. As we start next week with that dry air | :27:26. | :27:27. | |
coming in from the east, we are expecting increasing amount of | :27:27. | :27:32. | |
sunshine for Monday and Tuesday, so 22 might be a little, well, not | :27:32. | :27:34. | |
quite so optimistic as it could be, but into the middle of the week this | :27:34. | :27:40. | |
high—pressure stays firmly in place, bringing more spells of fine | :27:40. | :27:41. | |
conditions and mild nights. | :27:41. | :27:46. |