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Tonight at 10pm: UKIP and Labour make the biggest | :00:00. | :00:08. | |
gains in the local elections in England. | :00:09. | :00:14. | |
UKIP's Nigel Farage says his party will now have to be taken seriously | :00:15. | :00:23. | |
in next year's general election. There are areas across the country | :00:24. | :00:27. | |
where now we have an imprint in local government and where, under | :00:28. | :00:31. | |
the first past the post system, we are serious players. | :00:32. | :00:33. | |
There were losses for the Conservatives, many in areas where | :00:34. | :00:39. | |
UKIP's campaign had struck a chord. Mainly immigration. I want similar | :00:40. | :00:45. | |
to what I grew up with for England. At times, you feel a stranger in | :00:46. | :00:49. | |
your own country. And Labour performed strongly in | :00:50. | :00:51. | |
London but missed some targets elsewhere. | :00:52. | :00:54. | |
We'll be asking what the results tell us, with a year to go before | :00:55. | :00:57. | |
the general election. Also tonight: | :00:58. | :01:00. | |
One of Scotland's most significant buildings, Glasgow School of Art, | :01:01. | :01:02. | |
has been extensively damaged by fire. | :01:03. | :01:06. | |
The hull of the missing British yacht is found in the Atlantic, but | :01:07. | :01:11. | |
there's no sign of the four sailors. And England's Rugby World Cup hero, | :01:12. | :01:15. | |
Jonny Wilkinson, talks to us on the eve of his last game on British | :01:16. | :01:16. | |
soil. In Sportsday, Chelsea's David Luiz | :01:17. | :01:24. | |
is in talks with Paris Saint-Germain about a ?40 million move which would | :01:25. | :01:27. | |
make him football's most expensive defender. | :01:28. | :01:52. | |
Good evening. UKIP and Labour made the biggest | :01:53. | :01:56. | |
gains in yesterday's local council elections in England. The UKIP | :01:57. | :02:00. | |
leader, Nigel Farage, said the results showed his party would be "a | :02:01. | :02:03. | |
serious player" in next year's general election. With just a few | :02:04. | :02:08. | |
results still to come, this is how things look tonight. Labour gained | :02:09. | :02:14. | |
292 seats. Their strongest performance was in London. The | :02:15. | :02:17. | |
Conservatives lost 201 seats, many in areas where UKIP did well. The | :02:18. | :02:21. | |
Lib Dems had a difficult night, losing 284 seats. And while UKIP | :02:22. | :02:26. | |
gained 155 seats, the party still doesn't control any local councils. | :02:27. | :02:31. | |
If the election had been held across all of the UK, the projected share | :02:32. | :02:58. | |
of the vote would be Down the dog and duck, they might not get round | :02:59. | :03:02. | |
to analysing the results, but they might raise a glass to the man has | :03:03. | :03:07. | |
given the political establishment a mighty big kick. I haven't done a | :03:08. | :03:13. | |
lot, really. Tell that to the UKIP members who danced as they took | :03:14. | :03:17. | |
seats in what was once Labour Great Yarmouth, or those in Rotherham, | :03:18. | :03:22. | |
where another ten foul, and they even broke into song. Another one | :03:23. | :03:28. | |
bites the dust. Tories bit the dust in Basildon, Brentwood, Southend and | :03:29. | :03:34. | |
Thurrock, as Mrs Thatcher's Essex man became UKIP man instead, causing | :03:35. | :03:37. | |
just a little excitement, even from candidates who lost. All that you | :03:38. | :03:45. | |
can hear is UKIP, UKIP, UKIP. This party and its leader have changed | :03:46. | :03:50. | |
the face of British politics. Hang on a second. What Nigel Farage calls | :03:51. | :03:56. | |
his people's army did not win the most votes, nor the most seats, they | :03:57. | :04:00. | |
still don't control a single council, but they did cement their | :04:01. | :04:04. | |
status as the fourth force in English politics. For years, the | :04:05. | :04:10. | |
media have said UKIP voters are elderly, retired colonels living on | :04:11. | :04:15. | |
the edge of Salisbury plain. Now we are ill educated working-class | :04:16. | :04:21. | |
supporters. Take your pick. 11 Tory councils are more than 200 | :04:22. | :04:25. | |
councillors lost, which is leading to a bout of soul-searching. UKIP | :04:26. | :04:30. | |
have tapped into what the public are feeling, particularly with | :04:31. | :04:35. | |
immigration, and the point that they are pretty frustrated with Europe. | :04:36. | :04:39. | |
Some Conservatives say the next time ballot boxes are opened and votes | :04:40. | :04:43. | |
are counted, their party should have a pact with UKIP. No way, said David | :04:44. | :04:48. | |
Cameron today, promising instead answers to people's anger. We have | :04:49. | :04:54. | |
to work harder and really deliver on issues that are frustrating people, | :04:55. | :04:58. | |
and frustrating me, like welfare reform, immigration and making sure | :04:59. | :05:02. | |
people really benefit from this recovery. We will be working flat | :05:03. | :05:05. | |
out to demonstrate that we do have the answers to help hard-working | :05:06. | :05:11. | |
people. For Labour, it was a day of nervous weights. There was good | :05:12. | :05:16. | |
news, winning in Cambridge and Crawley, and another four councils | :05:17. | :05:20. | |
taken in London. But there was bad news, too. One year from a general | :05:21. | :05:25. | |
election, the party failed to win in places it will soon need to. An | :05:26. | :05:31. | |
inquest has begun. The strategists called it wrong. We should have | :05:32. | :05:34. | |
taken the fight to UKIP from the beginning. You don't get it, clearly | :05:35. | :05:40. | |
enough for us. I lost count of the number of people, canvassing over | :05:41. | :05:44. | |
the last three days, that have said, you all need a big kicking. So, is | :05:45. | :05:50. | |
Ed Miliband doing well enough to march into Downing Street? His aides | :05:51. | :05:54. | |
say he is winning where it matters, but neither he nor his party are | :05:55. | :05:59. | |
sounding that confident. I want to say to those people today, I | :06:00. | :06:04. | |
understand you're feeling, I understand your discontent, I am | :06:05. | :06:09. | |
determined that Labour shows you, over the next 12 months, how we can | :06:10. | :06:16. | |
change your lives for the better. As for the Lib Dems, coalition is not | :06:17. | :06:20. | |
being kind to them. They lost two out of every three councillors they | :06:21. | :06:25. | |
began last night with. They lost councils in Kingston and Portsmouth, | :06:26. | :06:28. | |
but Nick Clegg insists they can and will hold on in their strongest | :06:29. | :06:35. | |
areas. It is never easy to see dedicated, hard-working Liberal | :06:36. | :06:37. | |
Democrat councillors lose ground. But actually, in the areas where we | :06:38. | :06:42. | |
have MPs, good organisation on the ground, where we can get our message | :06:43. | :06:47. | |
across, we are actually doing well. Nigel Farage says this is the day | :06:48. | :06:52. | |
UKIP's Fox was sent into the Westminster henhouse. Stand to see | :06:53. | :06:59. | |
some feathers flying. Nick Robinson, BBC News, Westminster. | :07:00. | :07:03. | |
As Nick mentioned, one of UKIP's most fertile areas last night was | :07:04. | :07:06. | |
Essex, the county often considered a useful guide to Conservative | :07:07. | :07:09. | |
prospects at a general election. Councils in Basildon, Castle Point | :07:10. | :07:11. | |
and Southend-on-Sea moved from Conservative to no overall control, | :07:12. | :07:17. | |
as UKIP picked up support. Our political correspondent Vicki Young | :07:18. | :07:25. | |
has spent the day in the county. It is less than 30 miles from | :07:26. | :07:28. | |
Westminster but for many in this part of Essex, the main political | :07:29. | :07:32. | |
parties might as well be in a different country. The voters say | :07:33. | :07:36. | |
they are out of touch and ignoring the concerns of ordinary people. | :07:37. | :07:40. | |
There is a list of grievances, from a lack of housing to poor job | :07:41. | :07:46. | |
prospects. But in Tony's cafe, it is UKIP's message on cutting | :07:47. | :07:48. | |
immigration that is really appealing to voters. I want similar to what I | :07:49. | :07:56. | |
grew up with for England. It is getting totally overtaken by people | :07:57. | :08:01. | |
that I can't link with. I feel disconnected, there is a | :08:02. | :08:06. | |
disconnection from society. Others say that UKIP is the only party | :08:07. | :08:11. | |
prepared to speak out and to act. What about politicians of the other | :08:12. | :08:16. | |
main parties who say they will deal with immigration? They have said | :08:17. | :08:20. | |
that for years and haven't done anything. It is not about being | :08:21. | :08:25. | |
racist. I don't care what colour people are, but like Australia, we | :08:26. | :08:29. | |
need some sort of entry system so that we have a benefit of them | :08:30. | :08:32. | |
coming here, not so much just come here and it is a free for all. Nigel | :08:33. | :08:38. | |
Farage speaks normally, like normal people. He is not frightened of | :08:39. | :08:42. | |
upsetting people and he says what he thinks. As for the man of the | :08:43. | :08:47. | |
moment, Nigel Farage is enjoying every minute of this success. On a | :08:48. | :08:51. | |
whistle-stop tour of Essex, taking in a couple of pubs, of course, he | :08:52. | :08:56. | |
met some newly elected councillors, many of whom have no experience in | :08:57. | :09:00. | |
local government. I am not then to tell them what they can and cannot | :09:01. | :09:06. | |
do. But that can lead to trouble. Yes, but we are a party of | :09:07. | :09:11. | |
individuals. Sometimes, UKIP people say things and there is a huge hue | :09:12. | :09:15. | |
and cry over it, but we are real people with real opinions. I would | :09:16. | :09:20. | |
rather that, than some sort of monochrome, politically correct | :09:21. | :09:24. | |
nothingness. But those real opinions have led to accusations that UKIP is | :09:25. | :09:29. | |
a racist party. Those attacks were out of order, he says. I think that | :09:30. | :09:35. | |
scrutiny is fine but it needs to be balanced and fair. There were points | :09:36. | :09:38. | |
in this campaign when it looks like a witchhunt. Nigel Farage has had a | :09:39. | :09:44. | |
taste of success before, and he thinks the best is yet to come. | :09:45. | :09:48. | |
So the political landscape has certainly changed in the past 24 | :09:49. | :09:51. | |
hours, but what do the results tell us about the individual parties? | :09:52. | :09:54. | |
Jeremy Vine is in the BBC election studio. | :09:55. | :10:03. | |
161 councils, 36% turnout, and here is the map before the voting. I will | :10:04. | :10:11. | |
colour it in for you. The change now shows the outcome. We started with | :10:12. | :10:16. | |
Labour winning back Sunderland. Red, Labour strong in the north. The | :10:17. | :10:21. | |
Liberal Democrats holding onto South Lakeland, but the Conservatives | :10:22. | :10:26. | |
proving resilient in some councils. Trafford, staying blue. And Tamworth | :10:27. | :10:32. | |
in the West Midlands, staying blue. Swindon, staying blue. For Labour, | :10:33. | :10:37. | |
it was good news in London. They took places like Merton and Croydon | :10:38. | :10:42. | |
and Hammersmith Fulham. If you are looking for UKIP purple, there is | :10:43. | :10:46. | |
none because they do not control a single council, but the grey in | :10:47. | :10:50. | |
Essex tells the story of places like Castle Point and Southend, where the | :10:51. | :10:54. | |
Conservatives could not hang on in the | :10:55. | :10:54. | |
Castle Point and Southend, where the Conservatives could not hang on face | :10:55. | :10:59. | |
of a UKIP challenge. So, projected national share, the share the | :11:00. | :11:01. | |
parties would have got had this been a national election. 31% puts Labour | :11:02. | :11:09. | |
in the lead, but only just. The Conservatives on 29%. The Liberal | :11:10. | :11:13. | |
Democrats doing very badly on 13%. UKIP doing well on 17% but 6% down | :11:14. | :11:19. | |
on a stunning forms last year, and the others on 10%. Let's go back a | :11:20. | :11:23. | |
few years and look at the journey the parties have been on, the three | :11:24. | :11:30. | |
main parties. If we go back to 2005, these were the percentages, with | :11:31. | :11:34. | |
Labour in the lead. Gradually you can see the faith wearing away in | :11:35. | :11:38. | |
the Tony Blair government, and under Gordon Brown, the Labour ratings | :11:39. | :11:41. | |
dropping below the Liberal Democrats. Then the 2010 election | :11:42. | :11:46. | |
happens, and it is the coalition parties who start to get punished, | :11:47. | :11:49. | |
the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats coming down. But watch | :11:50. | :11:54. | |
this, in the last couple of years, UKIP arrived on the scene. You can | :11:55. | :11:58. | |
see actually the two main parties here, their vote is almost being | :11:59. | :12:02. | |
suppressed by the changed political landscape. As for the Liberal | :12:03. | :12:07. | |
Democrats, they start all the way over here and they come down and | :12:08. | :12:12. | |
down and down. It really is very bad news for them all round. | :12:13. | :12:18. | |
Nick Robinson is with me. Let's talk more about UKIP and put the result | :12:19. | :12:27. | |
in context. Nigel Farage predicted a political earthquake. It does not | :12:28. | :12:30. | |
feel the earth has moved but there were certainly tremors today. Up | :12:31. | :12:33. | |
until now we knew that UKIP were capable of putting on a show when it | :12:34. | :12:38. | |
came to a European election. We knew they had done pretty well at one set | :12:39. | :12:42. | |
of local elections, but they are now established as a force around the | :12:43. | :12:46. | |
country, damaging Labour in the north, the Tories in Essex, damaging | :12:47. | :12:51. | |
them both in the Midlands. It means, in a sense, that they are genuinely | :12:52. | :12:56. | |
a force. That talk of gaining seats in Westminster, which seemed | :12:57. | :12:59. | |
implausible in the past, now looks practical. They are not a party of | :13:00. | :13:04. | |
power yet, with no power at local or national level, but they have proved | :13:05. | :13:09. | |
they are a party with the power to disrupt. Let's talk more about the | :13:10. | :13:13. | |
disruption in the context of the other parties. We are seeing it | :13:14. | :13:18. | |
already. The Tories have lost the most, the clear losers of today, but | :13:19. | :13:22. | |
they are behaving as if they have not. The anticipated calls for | :13:23. | :13:28. | |
changes in leadership, changes of European policy, changes of | :13:29. | :13:29. | |
immigration policy, have not happened. The calls for a packed | :13:30. | :13:34. | |
with UKIP have been waved away. Labour, on the other hand, who did | :13:35. | :13:38. | |
come out on top, with impressive gains, doing better as the day went | :13:39. | :13:42. | |
on, doing better and better in London, rather than the rest of the | :13:43. | :13:46. | |
country, have almost behaved as if they have lost, with an inquest | :13:47. | :13:50. | |
taking place. Ed Balls saying people had to listen loud and clear to what | :13:51. | :13:55. | |
the voters were saying. Yvette Cooper saying they ought to talk | :13:56. | :14:00. | |
more about immigration. The Shadow Health Secretary, Andy Burnham, | :14:01. | :14:02. | |
saying there were real worries about what voters had said that Labour | :14:03. | :14:07. | |
needed to listen. Often it is not just what happens in an election | :14:08. | :14:10. | |
that happens, but how parties react to them. Labour is reacting to Chile | :14:11. | :14:20. | |
and unnervingly. You can find out more about the results in your area | :14:21. | :14:24. | |
and look ahead to the European results on Sunday on our website, | :14:25. | :14:31. | |
bbc.co.uk/vote 2014. One of Scotland's most significant | :14:32. | :14:35. | |
buildings, the Glasgow School of Art, has been badly damaged in a | :14:36. | :14:39. | |
fire. It's considered the masterpiece of Charles Rennie | :14:40. | :14:44. | |
Mackintosh, Scotland's most influential architect and designer. | :14:45. | :14:48. | |
Reports say the blaze started when a projector exploded in a basement | :14:49. | :14:56. | |
room. This fire started now almost 10-hours ago. Tonight, you can still | :14:57. | :15:00. | |
see the smoke coming out of the windows on the upper floor. This | :15:01. | :15:05. | |
Charles Rennie Mackintosh building in the Glasgow School of Art, is | :15:06. | :15:08. | |
both cherished and admired. As you say, it's widely considered to be | :15:09. | :15:14. | |
his masterpiece. Every tiny detail in that building was carefully | :15:15. | :15:18. | |
thought out when Mackintosh designed it, more than 100 years ago. Today, | :15:19. | :15:22. | |
it was packed full of students, some of them working on their final | :15:23. | :15:27. | |
degree show. They have been worried that much of their work might have | :15:28. | :15:31. | |
been destroyed. Of course, there has been concerns about what effect that | :15:32. | :15:37. | |
fire has had on the building itself. An iconic Scottish building, up in | :15:38. | :15:42. | |
flames. Smoke billowing through the blackened windows, as fire spread | :15:43. | :15:47. | |
from the basement to the attic. This a school famous for its architecture | :15:48. | :15:51. | |
and the artist it has produced. It was full of students when the blaze | :15:52. | :15:55. | |
broke out. It's thought all were led to safety. Many staying close, | :15:56. | :16:01. | |
watching as the fire quickly spread. The alarm went off. We got | :16:02. | :16:05. | |
evacuated. It was thick, black smoke everywhere. What were you feeling? | :16:06. | :16:10. | |
Terrified. For more than 100 years, this has been a Glasgow landmark, a | :16:11. | :16:15. | |
Charles Rennie Mackintosh masterpiece, full of windows, light, | :16:16. | :16:20. | |
wooden panelling and wooden furniture. So many artists have | :16:21. | :16:24. | |
passed through its doors. It's unique, and many fear irreplace. | :16:25. | :16:30. | |
Mackintosh designed an art school that 100 years later it is still a | :16:31. | :16:33. | |
fantastic art school. You have to see the level of students that go | :16:34. | :16:36. | |
through the art school. Mackintosh is a big attraction. Look at the | :16:37. | :16:41. | |
recent Turner Prize nominations, three of the students are from the | :16:42. | :16:44. | |
School ofSchool of Art. Crews from across the country have spent the | :16:45. | :16:49. | |
afternoon tries to douse the flames. They can't confirm what caused the | :16:50. | :16:53. | |
fire, but it's feared the Mackintosh building, famed for its Art Deco | :16:54. | :16:58. | |
beauty, and full of artistic treasures, may be damaged beyond | :16:59. | :17:02. | |
repair. That was the worry of many people who saw the extent of the | :17:03. | :17:07. | |
fire. Within the last few minutes Scotland's Fire Service announced | :17:08. | :17:11. | |
good news. It said that against many people's expectations this treasured | :17:12. | :17:17. | |
building, and many of the artwork it contains, have been saved. That goes | :17:18. | :17:23. | |
for the students' final year work as well. Good news tonight. Lorna | :17:24. | :17:29. | |
Gordon for us there in Glasgow. Some of the day's other news stories. | :17:30. | :17:35. | |
Serious failings in Birmingham City Council's Children's Services are | :17:36. | :17:37. | |
still leaving young people at risk, according to a report by Ofsted. It | :17:38. | :17:41. | |
found over a period of three months, the cases of 145 children were | :17:42. | :17:45. | |
closed due to a lack of social workers. A finding disputed by the | :17:46. | :17:50. | |
council. It did state the most serious cases involving children at | :17:51. | :17:52. | |
extreme risk were dealt with quickly. The Coalition Government is | :17:53. | :17:58. | |
proposing new rules on rights to access land to try to speed up the | :17:59. | :18:02. | |
introduction of fracking for oil and gas. It comes as a new report by ish | :18:03. | :18:06. | |
British Geological Survey estimates that there are more than four | :18:07. | :18:11. | |
billion barrels of oil in shale rock in parts of southern England. The | :18:12. | :18:17. | |
hull of the missing British yacht, Cheeky Rafiki, has been found in the | :18:18. | :18:20. | |
North Atlantic, according to a statement by the US Coastguard, | :18:21. | :18:26. | |
which was released within the past couple of hours. They said there was | :18:27. | :18:28. | |
no sign of the four sailors, who have been missing now for a week. | :18:29. | :18:35. | |
Our correspondent, Nick Bryant, is in Boston with the latest. The | :18:36. | :18:39. | |
overturned hull was sdis covered by the crew of a US naval warship they | :18:40. | :18:44. | |
sent out a small boat with a swimmer on board to investigate. They | :18:45. | :18:47. | |
identified it was the Cheeky Rafiki from the name on the stern. Its | :18:48. | :18:52. | |
windows were smashed. Its cabin was completely filled with water. The | :18:53. | :18:55. | |
swimmer knocked repeatedly on the hull of the vessel. There was no | :18:56. | :19:02. | |
response. He reached an arm's length into the water, again with no | :19:03. | :19:04. | |
results. What the swimmer couldn't do was to dive down to conduct a | :19:05. | :19:09. | |
more thorough investigation. What he couldn't discover, or couldn't | :19:10. | :19:13. | |
determine, is whether the life raft had been deployed or not. What the | :19:14. | :19:18. | |
coastguard has said is that they weren't particularly surprised to | :19:19. | :19:22. | |
find the hull of the Cheeky Rafiki. They said it was spotted of course | :19:23. | :19:25. | |
by that commercial vessel going through the area on Saturday. What | :19:26. | :19:31. | |
it doesn't do, crucially, is affect the decision they made last night, | :19:32. | :19:36. | |
which is to call off the multinational operation in less than | :19:37. | :19:40. | |
five hours' time. An RAF Hercules will be flying over the search area | :19:41. | :19:43. | |
tomorrow. Nick, again, thank you very much. Nick Bryant, our | :19:44. | :19:47. | |
correspondent there in Boston. The jury at the inquest into the deaths | :19:48. | :19:52. | |
of 96 Liverpool fans at Hillsborough have been visiting the stadium in | :19:53. | :19:59. | |
Sheffield where the disaster happened in 1989. A panel of three | :20:00. | :20:04. | |
High Court judges quashed the original verdicts of accidental | :20:05. | :20:07. | |
death. Our correspondent has this report. Today football ground became | :20:08. | :20:14. | |
court room as the Hillsborough stadium was prepared, down to the | :20:15. | :20:19. | |
last millimetre, and made ready for the jury to visit. Walking down | :20:20. | :20:26. | |
Leppings Lane, the court party retraced the same steps Liverpool | :20:27. | :20:31. | |
fans made over 25 years ago on the day of the disaster. The coroner, | :20:32. | :20:38. | |
Lord Goldring showed the jury around pointing out significant landmarks | :20:39. | :20:42. | |
around the ground. The jury was told this part of the Hillsborough | :20:43. | :20:46. | |
stadium has changed substantially since 1989. To help them envisage it | :20:47. | :20:52. | |
as it was then the turnstiles and exit gates have been marked out | :20:53. | :20:56. | |
using traffic cones. Today the jury stopped to see the area where the | :20:57. | :21:01. | |
fatal crush happened. To prepare they were shown these compute | :21:02. | :21:07. | |
graphics which illustrated how the fenced terraces used to look and how | :21:08. | :21:11. | |
they changed and look today. The jury was driven past a memorial to | :21:12. | :21:16. | |
the Liverpool fans who died in the disaster. They were taken to local | :21:17. | :21:21. | |
hospitals which treated casualties. The inquests will continue in | :21:22. | :21:27. | |
Warrington next week. President Putin of Russia has promised to | :21:28. | :21:30. | |
recognise the results of Sunday's presidential election in Ukraine. | :21:31. | :21:35. | |
During an economic forum in St Petersburg he demanded that Kiev end | :21:36. | :21:39. | |
its military operation against pro-Russian activists in the east. | :21:40. | :21:43. | |
21 candidates are standing in Ukraine's presidential ballot. The | :21:44. | :21:47. | |
billionaire businessman, Petro Poroshenko, is the pollsters' | :21:48. | :21:53. | |
favourite. His main challenge, former Prime Minister, Yulia | :21:54. | :21:56. | |
Tymoshenko is trailing, they say, in second place. Our correspondent | :21:57. | :22:02. | |
Daniel Sandford has been on the election trail to Donetsk in the | :22:03. | :22:05. | |
east and Odessa in the south. That is where his report begins. He is | :22:06. | :22:11. | |
Ukraine's seventh richest man and its wealthiest MP, a billionaire who | :22:12. | :22:20. | |
earned his fortune making chocolate. Petro Poroshenko is has worked for | :22:21. | :22:30. | |
two presidents of opposing parties. It looks highly likely this will be | :22:31. | :22:36. | |
the man choosen to knit this country back together. A young country that | :22:37. | :22:42. | |
lost Crimea ya and fighting to hold on to the eastern regions of Donetsk | :22:43. | :22:48. | |
and Odessa. Petro Poroshenko he is not seen as a saviour, Ukraine needs | :22:49. | :22:52. | |
a new President fast. People are voting for him in the hope he will | :22:53. | :22:55. | |
win outright in the first round on Sunday. What can you do to try to | :22:56. | :23:04. | |
bring Ukraine back together if you become president? We are well | :23:05. | :23:08. | |
accepted in the East and West. We have to build the trust between the | :23:09. | :23:12. | |
President and the people. We will do it from all of my heart. My first | :23:13. | :23:18. | |
thing would be to Donetsk and Odessa also, build up the trust. The | :23:19. | :23:22. | |
Donetsk, the east, is still a mess. At least five more people died | :23:23. | :23:26. | |
in-fighting at a check point near Donetsk this morning. Shoot-outs | :23:27. | :23:32. | |
like this one have become a daily occurrence here in eastern Ukraine. | :23:33. | :23:36. | |
The worst kind of atmosphere for a presidential election. In Donetsk we | :23:37. | :23:43. | |
found scared officials returning ballot boxes two-days ahead of the | :23:44. | :23:47. | |
vote. Too frightened to open their polling station. With good reason. | :23:48. | :23:52. | |
What was the last thing you heard about... This woman's husband is an | :23:53. | :23:57. | |
election official who was detained by pro-Russian gunmen, opposed to | :23:58. | :24:02. | |
the poll yesterday. He hasn't been seen since. | :24:03. | :24:07. | |
TRANSLATION: He rushed into the office and told his staff, "guests | :24:08. | :24:12. | |
are here, you all need to leave quickly." Later people saw him taken | :24:13. | :24:17. | |
out in handcuffs and put onto a bus. There was some hope today when the | :24:18. | :24:21. | |
Russian President, Vladimir Putin, said he would respect the choice of | :24:22. | :24:26. | |
the Ukrainian people. It has been a week of deaths in the east, and the | :24:27. | :24:33. | |
voting is still two-days away. Daniel Sandford, BBC News, Donetsk. | :24:34. | :24:39. | |
The remains of King Richard III should be given a dignified reburial | :24:40. | :24:43. | |
in Leicester, according to judges at the High Court. His bones were found | :24:44. | :24:47. | |
under a council car park in the city in 2012. Some distant relatives had | :24:48. | :24:51. | |
argued that the man known as Richard of York should in fact be buried in | :24:52. | :24:57. | |
York Minster. Jonny Wilkinson, one of the greatest English rugby | :24:58. | :25:01. | |
players of all-time, has been talking to the BBC about the | :25:02. | :25:05. | |
prospect of his last game on British soil. He turns 35 this month. After | :25:06. | :25:10. | |
a career that spanned 17 years he's hoping to lead Toulon to success in | :25:11. | :25:16. | |
the Heineken Cup against Saracens at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff | :25:17. | :25:19. | |
tomorrow. There are some flashing images in this report. The stare | :25:20. | :25:27. | |
locked to the target, the hands clapsed in concentration. Jonny | :25:28. | :25:30. | |
Wilkinson is the only European rugby player Fay you o mouse to be part of | :25:31. | :25:39. | |
Madame Tussaud's in London. Jonny Wilkinson he defined professionalism | :25:40. | :25:43. | |
in rugby union's professional era. He scored more points than anyone | :25:44. | :25:48. | |
else in Europe, including the three that won the World Cup for England. | :25:49. | :25:54. | |
Players in his position used to avoid tackles, Jonny Wilkinson | :25:55. | :26:01. | |
changed everything. Now in Cardiff, perfectionist seeks perfect ending. | :26:02. | :26:04. | |
Does this match, looking forward to this game, knowing it is your last | :26:05. | :26:09. | |
on British soil, does it have a special feeling, even an emotional | :26:10. | :26:14. | |
feeling for you? Next week doesn't really exist. The last however many | :26:15. | :26:17. | |
years don't exist either. It simply comes down to the here and now. For | :26:18. | :26:21. | |
the here and now to be a Heineken Cup Final is incredible. But the | :26:22. | :26:27. | |
thought of leaving that final without a happy ending to this | :26:28. | :26:34. | |
journey is a painful one. For five years Wilkinson has been based in | :26:35. | :26:38. | |
France, an adopted son of Toulon. Do you think he is perhaps the most | :26:39. | :26:43. | |
popular English man ever in France? Yes, EVER! Very simple man. Just | :26:44. | :26:52. | |
amazing guy. Let us be clear, this is a European Final, not a | :26:53. | :26:55. | |
retirement party for Jonny Wilkinson. Saracens of London have | :26:56. | :26:58. | |
never won the Heineken Cup. They have got stars of their own. Owen | :26:59. | :27:06. | |
Farrell is Jonny Wilkinson's heir, spot the similarities. Their battle | :27:07. | :27:13. | |
with boot and ball may be settled by the smallest margins. That is all | :27:14. | :27:17. | |
from us. Now on BBC One it's | :27:18. | :27:18. |