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The wrong place, the wrong person - two hit men are found guilty of | :00:08. | :00:13. | |
stabbing a student to death by mistake in front of his parents. | :00:13. | :00:16. | |
17-year-old Aamir Siddiqi died after he opened the door to masked | :00:16. | :00:21. | |
men who had been paid to murder a businessman in the next street. | :00:21. | :00:25. | |
He's the heartbeat of our family, but his warmth, love, affection, | :00:25. | :00:31. | |
humour touched many people. Also tonight: A suicide bomber attacks | :00:31. | :00:36. | |
the US Embassy in Ankara. Jailed - a counter-terrorism | :00:36. | :00:40. | |
officer who tried to sell information to the News of the | :00:40. | :00:43. | |
World. More violent clashes in Egypt as | :00:43. | :00:47. | |
protesters throw petrol bombs and stones at the Presidential Palace | :00:47. | :00:51. | |
in Cairo. On the eve of the Six Nations, why | :00:51. | :00:57. | |
the champagne has gone flat for the Welsh title holders. | :00:57. | :01:03. | |
In Sportsday: Sir Alex Ferguson requests an FA hearing as he denies | :01:03. | :01:13. | |
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a misconduct charge criticising an Good evening. Two hired killers | :01:24. | :01:28. | |
have been found guilty of murdering a 17-year-old student in Cardiff | :01:28. | :01:32. | |
after they called at his home by mistake. Aamir Siddiqi was stabbed | :01:32. | :01:37. | |
to death by Ben Hope and Jason Richards. They were paid �1,000 | :01:37. | :01:42. | |
each but had been sent to kill a middle-aged businessman who lived | :01:42. | :01:49. | |
in the next street. A gifted student who wanted to be a | :01:49. | :01:53. | |
lawyer. Aamir Siddiqi's life was cut short when he became the | :01:53. | :01:58. | |
unintended victim of a contract killing. After sitting through a | :01:58. | :02:08. | |
four-and-a-half month trial, today his family saw Aamir's assailants | :02:08. | :02:11. | |
being convicted of murder. Aamir was a beautiful person with a | :02:11. | :02:15. | |
bright future. If he was still with us, he would be looking forward to | :02:15. | :02:20. | |
turning 21 this year and completing his law degree. He was the | :02:20. | :02:25. | |
heartbeat of our family, but his warmth, love, affection and humour | :02:25. | :02:29. | |
touched many people. Aamir was attacked after answering the | :02:29. | :02:32. | |
family's front door. He was expecting to welcome his Koran | :02:32. | :02:38. | |
teacher. Instead, he was confronted by two masked men who attacked him | :02:38. | :02:45. | |
and his parents. Jason Richards and Ben Hope were described as having | :02:45. | :02:50. | |
shown staggering incompetence. They had been promised �1,000 each by a | :02:50. | :02:55. | |
businessman who can't be named. The man wanted a score settled. Their | :02:55. | :03:00. | |
instruction was to go to this house and attack the owner, who was | :03:00. | :03:04. | |
locked into a dispute over the property. The intended target was a | :03:04. | :03:11. | |
father of four, his home on a street in the leafy Cardiff suburb. | :03:11. | :03:15. | |
Despite a reconnaissance trip, the two men drove to the Siddiqi home | :03:15. | :03:24. | |
instead, 70 yards away. He always opened the door, whoever come. A | :03:24. | :03:31. | |
few seconds incident changed our life. The people who committed this | :03:31. | :03:35. | |
crime can't understand what a loss. After killing Aamir, the two men | :03:35. | :03:39. | |
fled thinking they had completed the contract. They left behind a | :03:39. | :03:43. | |
trail of evidence, a footprint in Aamir's blood on the doorstep of | :03:43. | :03:46. | |
the house, more blood on their clothing and in the car they used | :03:47. | :03:51. | |
to make their escape. The search for Aamir's killers became one of | :03:51. | :03:55. | |
the biggest investigations in the history of South Wales Police. | :03:55. | :03:59. | |
my 27-year service I have never dealt with such a brutal attack | :03:59. | :04:04. | |
upon a young, innocent man in his own home. This happened on a Sunday | :04:04. | :04:09. | |
afternoon in an affluent area of Cardiff, with lots of people going | :04:09. | :04:13. | |
about their daily business when these two attackers attended at the | :04:13. | :04:16. | |
home address of Aamir Siddiqi and brutally murdered a very innocent | :04:16. | :04:20. | |
young man. The two men were driven from court in high-security | :04:20. | :04:25. | |
vehicles. They will return to be sentenced next week. The judge has | :04:25. | :04:31. | |
already warned they face life prison terms. | :04:31. | :04:35. | |
The United States Government has warned Americans to stay away from | :04:35. | :04:40. | |
US diplomatic buildings in Turkey after a suicide bomb attack on its | :04:40. | :04:43. | |
embassy in Ankara. A security guard was killed and several people | :04:43. | :04:51. | |
injured in what the White House called an act of terror. | :04:51. | :04:56. | |
America's foreign missions are as much fortresses as embassies. This | :04:56. | :05:02. | |
is why. This afternoon, a suicide bomber got to the gate of the US | :05:02. | :05:06. | |
Embassy in Ankara but no further. His explosives detonated at a | :05:06. | :05:13. | |
checkpoint. The bomber, and a Turkish security guard, were killed. | :05:13. | :05:17. | |
TRANSLATION: I wasn't sure what the explosion was so I ran to see. | :05:17. | :05:21. | |
There were body parts on the road, arms and legs, but I didn't want to | :05:21. | :05:25. | |
look any further. The attack on the embassy makes for a bitter last day | :05:25. | :05:30. | |
of work for America's chief diplomat. I spoke with the | :05:30. | :05:37. | |
ambassador and the team there, I spoke with my Turkish counterpart | :05:37. | :05:45. | |
and I told them how much we valued their commitment and their | :05:45. | :05:49. | |
sacrifice. This is not the first time that Western targets in Turkey | :05:49. | :05:55. | |
have been hit. In 2003, truck bombs hit targets in Istanbul including | :05:55. | :06:00. | |
the UK consulate. Those attacks were carried out by Al-Qaeda | :06:00. | :06:04. | |
affiliated groups. Turkey says that this US Embassy attack was carried | :06:04. | :06:09. | |
out by a leftish militant organisation. The effect is the | :06:09. | :06:15. | |
same. America is the target, their Nationalists, left-wing groups, as | :06:15. | :06:20. | |
well as Islamists who are not happy with the Turkish government's close | :06:20. | :06:26. | |
alliance and rapprochement with Washington. This attack may not | :06:26. | :06:30. | |
damage that alliance, but it may force America to increase its | :06:30. | :06:36. | |
security here and elsewhere. A retreat behind fortress walls | :06:36. | :06:41. | |
would hurt US diplomacy. Turkey is a NATO country and it's one of | :06:41. | :06:47. | |
America's most important allies in this region. For the US, that makes | :06:47. | :06:55. | |
this attack all the more painful even on allied territory and its | :06:55. | :06:59. | |
diplomats cannot feel safe. A senior police officer has been | :06:59. | :07:03. | |
jailed for 15 months for offering to sell information to the News of | :07:03. | :07:06. | |
the World about the phone hacking inquiry. Detective Chief Inspector | :07:06. | :07:10. | |
April Casburn, who worked in counter-terrorism, was convicted of | :07:10. | :07:13. | |
misconduct in public office. The judge at the Old Bailey said | :07:13. | :07:21. | |
actions like hers corroded the public's faith in the police force. | :07:21. | :07:25. | |
Arriving at court, Detective Chief Inspector April Casburn, the first | :07:25. | :07:28. | |
person to be jailed in connection with the phone-hacking scandal | :07:28. | :07:32. | |
since the investigation re-opened two-and-a-half years ago. | :07:32. | :07:42. | |
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Sentencing her to 15 months, Mr In 2010, April Casburn was one of | :07:49. | :07:54. | |
the most senior women in Scotland Yard's Counter Terrorism Command | :07:54. | :07:57. | |
responsible for tracking terrorists' funding. She was | :07:57. | :08:02. | |
unhappy in her job and annoyed that resources were being diverted to | :08:02. | :08:05. | |
the phone hacking investigation so she rang the News of the World and | :08:05. | :08:10. | |
spoke to Tim Wood, a journalist. No money ever changed hands, but he | :08:10. | :08:14. | |
sent this e-mail to colleagues saying she wanted to sell inside | :08:14. | :08:18. | |
information. The inquiry was looking at six people, she said, | :08:18. | :08:22. | |
one of whom was Andy Coulson and pressure was coming from Lord | :08:22. | :08:27. | |
Prescott, one of the hacking victims. Mr Justice Fulford told | :08:27. | :08:31. | |
April Casburn that he would have sentenced her to three years in | :08:31. | :08:35. | |
prison were it not for the fact she was in the process of adopting a | :08:35. | :08:40. | |
very vulnerable young child. Nevertheless, he said this was a | :08:40. | :08:43. | |
straightforward but troubling case of corruption. The Metropolitan | :08:43. | :08:53. | |
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The corruption investigation Elveden has arrested 58 people so | :09:04. | :09:09. | |
far, including nine serving or former police officers. Another was | :09:09. | :09:13. | |
arrested today. April Casburn is the first conviction. She knew full | :09:13. | :09:19. | |
well what she was doing was wrong, I am quite sure. She was setting an | :09:19. | :09:23. | |
appalling example to her colleagues and the people who work for her. It | :09:23. | :09:27. | |
was a very serious offence. judge rejected April Casburn's | :09:27. | :09:32. | |
claim that she was a whistleblower rather than corrupt. And so it was | :09:32. | :09:41. | |
that a senior detective today left court in the back of a prison van. | :09:41. | :09:44. | |
A 46-year-old police officer from Scotland Yard's Diplomatic | :09:44. | :09:48. | |
Protection Group was arrested at her work today over alleged leaks | :09:48. | :09:52. | |
to the media linked to the Andrew Mitchell plebgate affair. The | :09:52. | :09:55. | |
Government Chief Whip resigned over allegations about what he said to | :09:55. | :09:58. | |
officers during an incident in Downing Street. Police have | :09:58. | :10:04. | |
confirmed the officer arrested was present at the time of the row. | :10:04. | :10:07. | |
The Chancellor has responded to criticism of his handling of the | :10:08. | :10:13. | |
economy by saying he is 100% focused on delivering growth. On a | :10:13. | :10:16. | |
visit to Cheshire to promote infrastructure investment, he said | :10:16. | :10:20. | |
he was taking the tough decisions needed to create the jobs of the | :10:20. | :10:24. | |
future but Labour have said Mr Osborne's strategy is hurting the | :10:24. | :10:30. | |
economy now. The Chancellor was probably glad to | :10:30. | :10:34. | |
have a hard hat on. His policies have come under-fire after recent | :10:34. | :10:39. | |
news that the economy has gone back into reverse. Today he visited a | :10:39. | :10:46. | |
flood defence construction site in Warrington. With him was the former | :10:46. | :10:53. | |
Olympic's supremo, now Treasury Infrastructure Minister. The | :10:53. | :10:56. | |
message the Chancellor wants to get across is that infrastructure | :10:56. | :11:00. | |
investment is a top priority, but the questions remain - where's the | :11:00. | :11:05. | |
money coming from? What can be delivered? And how quickly? The | :11:05. | :11:10. | |
Chancellor was also promoting science investment, visiting a | :11:10. | :11:13. | |
laboratory which does research for different industries. The harsh | :11:13. | :11:20. | |
reality is that the economy has stalled. You have still got no | :11:20. | :11:24. | |
growth three years in. Shouldn't you be doing more? We have done the | :11:24. | :11:28. | |
things that have not only seen our deficit come down by a quarter, not | :11:29. | :11:32. | |
only given us those record-low interest rates, but we are also | :11:32. | :11:36. | |
taking the tough decisions to invest in the things like science, | :11:36. | :11:41. | |
like roads, that we didn't do in the past. This firm, which makes | :11:41. | :11:44. | |
construction materials, has heard it all before. It is disappointed | :11:44. | :11:49. | |
with the lack of progress so far. It is not come at the pace we | :11:49. | :11:53. | |
anticipated. There is still lots of uncertainty out there. That's meant | :11:53. | :11:56. | |
that in certain parts of our business we have had to reduce head | :11:56. | :12:01. | |
count and exit supply from market segments because there is no longer | :12:01. | :12:06. | |
any scale of activity. Labour had its own message for Mr Osborne. | :12:06. | :12:10. | |
Growth is disappearing, the economy is shrinking, infrastructure | :12:10. | :12:14. | |
spending is being cut and it's hurting our economy. It is no | :12:14. | :12:18. | |
wonder that there is a whispering campaign against the Chancellor and | :12:18. | :12:23. | |
the prospect of a leadership challenge. I put to the Chancellor | :12:23. | :12:27. | |
those reports of grumbling about him amongst his own party | :12:27. | :12:31. | |
colleagues. I think people understand across Britain that it | :12:31. | :12:35. | |
is a very tough economic situation. We will have to take some tough | :12:35. | :12:38. | |
decisions. I have had to take some very difficult decisions which I | :12:38. | :12:43. | |
know are things that affect people. But they are the decisions to make | :12:43. | :12:48. | |
sure this country pays its way in the world. They are decisions which | :12:48. | :12:53. | |
will create the jobs of tomorrow. I am focused on that. Another problem | :12:53. | :12:56. | |
ahead is the bank bonus issue. He welcomed news the Barclays Chief | :12:57. | :13:00. | |
Executive had decided to turn down a bonus so what about RBS | :13:00. | :13:10. | |
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controlled by the taxpayer? I want RBS to be doing less | :13:20. | :13:22. | |
Investment Banking, less of what happens in the City of London, and | :13:22. | :13:26. | |
more of their lending to local businesses here in Warrington, for | :13:26. | :13:30. | |
example, which is what Britain wants from the banking system. | :13:30. | :13:33. | |
he has a lot on his to-do list and there could be a bumpy road ahead | :13:34. | :13:42. | |
There've been more violent clashes in Egypt with anti-government | :13:42. | :13:45. | |
protesters throwing rocks and petrol bombs at the presidential | :13:45. | :13:48. | |
palace in Cairo. One person has been shot dead and dozens injured, | :13:48. | :13:51. | |
according to local officials. The latest clashes come after a week of | :13:51. | :13:55. | |
violence in which more than 60 people have died. This report from | :13:55. | :14:04. | |
Aleem Maqbool in Cairo. Clashes on the doorstep of the | :14:04. | :14:09. | |
presidential palace. The fires from the Molotov cocktails thrown, her | :14:09. | :14:16. | |
message to Mohamed Morsi that people feel betrayed. -- a message. | :14:16. | :14:20. | |
The revolution was supposed to turn Egypt into a country where everyone | :14:20. | :14:26. | |
prospered and where there was justice. For these people, who | :14:26. | :14:30. | |
gathered earlier in there now regular Friday ritual after prayers, | :14:30. | :14:36. | |
reform is coming far too slowly. We are back to another demonstration | :14:36. | :14:40. | |
in Tahrir Square, and these people feel passionately about wanting to | :14:40. | :14:44. | |
change things. But there are many Egyptians who feel demonstrations | :14:45. | :14:52. | |
like this are counter-productive and need to stop. Ahmed is one of | :14:52. | :14:56. | |
those who feels, after so many decades of dictatorship, the new | :14:56. | :15:00. | |
President needs more time to fix things. Right now, it is not the | :15:00. | :15:05. | |
right time to do this any more. I mean, Egypt really does need all | :15:05. | :15:10. | |
the people to take care of it right now. It is in the healing period. | :15:11. | :15:15. | |
But the opposition demonstrators insist this is just a continuation | :15:15. | :15:19. | |
of the revolution, until they get the Egypt they want. What do you | :15:19. | :15:23. | |
say to people who are saying, we need stability more than anything? | :15:23. | :15:29. | |
We do not need more disruption. think this sort of demand should be | :15:29. | :15:33. | |
made towards the President who is taking the decisions that are | :15:33. | :15:37. | |
causing the destruction. Tonight, Egyptian TV has been showing what | :15:37. | :15:41. | |
appears to be a demonstrator being stripped, beaten and dragged across | :15:41. | :15:48. | |
the ground by the security forces. Protesters who say that this is | :15:48. | :15:53. | |
what they were fighting to stop are promising more action. The | :15:53. | :15:57. | |
President says there will be even tougher retaliation. | :15:57. | :16:00. | |
Coming up: Hundreds more dead birds wash | :16:00. | :16:03. | |
ashore on the south coast of England. Tests suggest they've been | :16:03. | :16:13. | |
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David Cameron has said it's important to focus on "eradicating | :16:13. | :16:17. | |
extreme poverty". The Prime Minister, who's been in Liberia for | :16:17. | :16:20. | |
a United Nations meeting on development and aid, said countries | :16:20. | :16:23. | |
needed to deal with the problems that kept them poor, such as | :16:23. | :16:26. | |
conflict and corruption. Nick Robinson has been travelling with | :16:27. | :16:36. | |
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Mr Cameron and sent this report What do these people need to get | :16:39. | :16:45. | |
them out of poverty? Aid, trade, Better Government? Is it our | :16:45. | :16:49. | |
responsibility, or none of our business? That is what David | :16:49. | :16:53. | |
Cameron is grappling with in Liberia today. There are people who | :16:53. | :16:57. | |
will say they do not want their Prime Minister to come here, do not | :16:57. | :17:01. | |
want their money here, do not want British troops to come to north and | :17:01. | :17:05. | |
west Africa. On this trip, David Cameron's answer to all of that has | :17:05. | :17:10. | |
been simple. It is not just good in itself, he says, but vital for our | :17:10. | :17:20. | |
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security. Welcome, Madam President and Mr Prime Minister. His final | :17:22. | :17:26. | |
stop on his African tour is to chair an international summit with | :17:26. | :17:31. | |
the President of one of the poorest countries on the planet. And the | :17:31. | :17:34. | |
work that we have to do is to try to work out what goals the world | :17:34. | :17:40. | |
should set for tackling poverty, hunger, disease, and helping people | :17:40. | :17:45. | |
and countries to make the very best of themselves in the years ahead. | :17:45. | :17:50. | |
Here, that means ensuring more children go to school and get jobs, | :17:50. | :17:55. | |
and fewer die of disease and starvation. In a country where one | :17:55. | :18:00. | |
in 10 never reach the age of five. This meeting is debating how to | :18:00. | :18:05. | |
strike the right balance between targeting poverty and growth, and | :18:05. | :18:11. | |
combating environmental degradation. These are goals for the United | :18:11. | :18:15. | |
Nations that could last 20 years. These are girls who missed out on | :18:15. | :18:20. | |
school. They have children. This is what your tax has helped to pay for | :18:20. | :18:24. | |
now, a drop-in centre for children who all too often have children of | :18:24. | :18:31. | |
their own. Learning to so, she hopes, might just hope to pay for | :18:31. | :18:36. | |
her baby to go to school. So what is the connection between those | :18:36. | :18:41. | |
guys in a conference centre are talking about goals and this? | :18:41. | :18:44. | |
have already got a set of goals, and they have driven incredible | :18:44. | :18:50. | |
progress in places like this. Just a few years ago, one in six | :18:50. | :18:52. | |
children under five died in communities like this. Now, it is | :18:52. | :18:57. | |
one in 12, so we have made amazing progress. The question is, can we | :18:57. | :19:01. | |
agree a blueprint that will mean instead of one in 12 children dying, | :19:01. | :19:05. | |
no child dies of preventable diseases? We think they can. | :19:06. | :19:09. | |
Helping Africa, part of helping ourselves, or a distraction we | :19:09. | :19:13. | |
cannot afford? That is the question that has hung over the Prime | :19:13. | :19:17. | |
Minister's trip. It's emerged tonight that the | :19:17. | :19:20. | |
Government won't be introducing a tax break for married couples in | :19:20. | :19:23. | |
next month's budget. There had been speculation that the measure would | :19:23. | :19:26. | |
be brought forward to appease some Conservative backbenchers who are | :19:26. | :19:30. | |
unhappy at David Cameron's plans to allow gay marriage. Let's get the | :19:30. | :19:38. | |
latest from Vicki Young who's at Westminster. What is the reaction | :19:38. | :19:42. | |
likely to be? Tonight, senior Government sources are saying they | :19:42. | :19:46. | |
are committed to this tax break but not in this Budget because it will | :19:46. | :19:50. | |
be focused very much on growth and the economy. This has to be seen in | :19:50. | :19:54. | |
the context of the contentious vote next week on gay marriage, where | :19:54. | :19:57. | |
there will be dozens of Conservative MPs lining up not | :19:57. | :20:01. | |
prepared to back that. In their minds, these issues are linked | :20:01. | :20:04. | |
because they say it is about David Cameron's priorities. I have been | :20:04. | :20:08. | |
speaking to a couple of them, and they say this news will increase | :20:08. | :20:12. | |
anger and consternation on the back benches and time is beginning to | :20:12. | :20:16. | |
run out on introducing the Mareb tax allowance. They ask why he is | :20:16. | :20:19. | |
rushing through the vote on gay marriage, which is not in the | :20:19. | :20:22. | |
coalition agreement, and yet delaying the tax breaks for married | :20:22. | :20:29. | |
couples, which is? There will be people looking at opinion polls and | :20:29. | :20:32. | |
saying that the gay marriages turning away voters and | :20:32. | :20:35. | |
Conservative members. They see this thing as a test of David Cameron's | :20:35. | :20:39. | |
priorities, a test of traditional Conservative values. For them, they | :20:39. | :20:43. | |
feel he is failing that test at the moment. | :20:43. | :20:46. | |
Mexico has declared three days of mourning after at least 30 people | :20:46. | :20:49. | |
died in an explosion at the headquarters of the country's state | :20:49. | :20:52. | |
oil company, Pemex. Rescuers are continuing to search for survivors | :20:52. | :20:55. | |
in the rubble of the building in Mexico City. The blast happened | :20:55. | :20:58. | |
yesterday afternoon just as workers were changing shifts, making the | :20:58. | :21:03. | |
area particularly crowded. Experts now fear that thousands of | :21:03. | :21:07. | |
sea birds may have been killed off the south coast of England after | :21:07. | :21:11. | |
being covered in some sort of oil. Tests now show it is a mineral- | :21:11. | :21:15. | |
based oil but it's still not clear where it's come from. Rescuers have | :21:15. | :21:18. | |
managed to save dozens of guillemots and razor bills along | :21:18. | :21:28. | |
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the 200-mile stretch of coastline. Among rocks lashed by the tide, the | :21:31. | :21:37. | |
victims are still coming ashore. As the pollution threat spreads along | :21:37. | :21:42. | |
the coastline, teams of volunteers, soaked but determined, have spent | :21:42. | :21:46. | |
another day trying to save as many lives as possible. In this area, | :21:46. | :21:49. | |
roughly one mile long, over 50 guillemots have been recovered, | :21:49. | :21:54. | |
coated with the same contaminant. The lucky few are on their way to | :21:54. | :21:58. | |
treatment centres. The majority died before they reached help. | :21:58. | :22:02. | |
Wildlife experts are warning that, based on the numbers identified so | :22:02. | :22:07. | |
far, thousands may have been lost at sea. We cannot help but be angry | :22:07. | :22:11. | |
that this contaminant has been put out there. We do not know how, or | :22:11. | :22:16. | |
the reasons for it, but you see these wild animals that should be | :22:17. | :22:20. | |
living their own lives and we are intervening. We should not be doing | :22:20. | :22:25. | |
that and it does make you angry. Over 200 birds are being treated at | :22:25. | :22:29. | |
the RSPCA's welfare centre in Somerset. The news that the | :22:29. | :22:35. | |
contaminant is a refined mineral oil will aides that process. It | :22:35. | :22:39. | |
also provides a potential clue as to the source of the pollution. | :22:39. | :22:43. | |
Visual checks carried out by an aircraft from the Maritime and | :22:43. | :22:47. | |
Coastguard Agency have failed to spot an obvious slick, but an | :22:47. | :22:51. | |
accurate identification of the oil could link it to a particular ship. | :22:51. | :22:55. | |
Once we know what the cargo is, what the contaminant is, tracking | :22:55. | :23:00. | |
it to a ship and looking at manifests on board, and looking at | :23:00. | :23:03. | |
the ship's identification system to see what ships were going through | :23:03. | :23:06. | |
the Channel at that time should make it fairly certain which ship | :23:06. | :23:12. | |
was responsible. The tricky bit is then taking it to prosecution. | :23:12. | :23:15. | |
is not on the side of the authorities, or the sea birds | :23:15. | :23:18. | |
struggling for survival. By now, and offending vessel could be many | :23:18. | :23:22. | |
miles away and the volunteers know that those responsible may never be | :23:22. | :23:25. | |
found. It's one of the biggest sporting | :23:25. | :23:29. | |
weekends of the British winter, the start of Rugby Union's Six Nations | :23:29. | :23:31. | |
Championship. Wales are the defending champions but confidence | :23:31. | :23:35. | |
has been in short supply after a string of poor results. Meanwhile, | :23:35. | :23:39. | |
England start as one of the favourites. They take on Scotland | :23:39. | :23:46. | |
tomorrow at Twickenham. Joe Wilson reports. | :23:46. | :23:52. | |
Morgan Stoddart is 28, the gifted running rugby player. The Six | :23:52. | :23:55. | |
Nations should be his stage this weekend but in Llanelli, he is | :23:55. | :23:59. | |
coaching, not playing. Last month, he announced his retirement from | :23:59. | :24:04. | |
rugby. He fractured his leg playing for Wales. It is still too | :24:04. | :24:09. | |
disturbing to show close-up. It was a freak injury but a vivid reminder | :24:09. | :24:11. | |
that for even the most dedicated professional rugby union can be a | :24:11. | :24:17. | |
short career. Everyone knows when they take the field that there is | :24:17. | :24:20. | |
definite risk of injury. I think over the last few years, there is | :24:20. | :24:24. | |
definitely an increased risk of injury. In the 16-20-year-old | :24:24. | :24:28. | |
coming through, I would advise them to get as many qualifications as | :24:28. | :24:32. | |
they can while they are playing because you never actually know | :24:32. | :24:37. | |
when you're going to retire. Right now, the injury list across Welsh | :24:37. | :24:40. | |
rugby is unprecedented. When Wales play Ireland tomorrow afternoon it | :24:41. | :24:44. | |
is easy to think of 10 Welsh players who could have been | :24:44. | :24:48. | |
involved, except they are out injured. Wales are the defending | :24:48. | :24:52. | |
Six Nations champions but they have lost their last seven matches. One | :24:52. | :24:56. | |
year is a long time. If you are as good as your last game, England | :24:56. | :25:00. | |
should be well placed, having beaten New Zealand before Christmas. | :25:00. | :25:06. | |
Tomorrow, they play Scotland, ranked 12th. Simple? I worry more | :25:06. | :25:11. | |
about games you're expected to win. The expectation has increased, but | :25:11. | :25:15. | |
no one can tell me playing Scotland will be easy. Scotland have a | :25:15. | :25:20. | |
recent defeat against Tonga to ponder. That cost the last coach | :25:20. | :25:23. | |
his job. There are 10 times as many rugby players in England as in | :25:23. | :25:29. | |
Scotland. They are out resourced but never overwhelmed. They will be | :25:29. | :25:33. | |
nervous, we will be nervous. It is fifty-fifty. It will go down to the | :25:33. | :25:39. | |
wire. We are going under the radar, going by stealth. How is that? | :25:39. | :25:44. | |
Enjoy it. Morgan Stoddart will be watching. He knows rugby is a great | :25:44. | :25:48. |