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Silver for Great Britain - Team GB wins its fourth medal of the Games, | :00:08. | :00:18. | |
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in team eventing. Delight as Tina Cook secures second place for the | :00:18. | :00:22. | |
team, which included the Queen's granddaughter, Zara Phillips. | :00:22. | :00:25. | |
Controversy over a 16-year-old Chinese swimmer after a record- | :00:25. | :00:27. | |
breaking performance, but the head of the British Olympic Association | :00:27. | :00:33. | |
says she's clean and deserves recognition. WADA have been | :00:33. | :00:35. | |
absolutely specific and she's gone through the WADA programme and | :00:35. | :00:38. | |
she's clean. That's the end of the story, and let us recognise that | :00:39. | :00:44. | |
there is an extraordinary swimmer out there. | :00:44. | :00:48. | |
Going for his fourth Olympic gold, but Ben Ainslie says he needs to | :00:48. | :00:52. | |
improve on his performance so far if he's to reach his goal. | :00:52. | :00:55. | |
Fighting in Syria's biggest city, Aleppo, continues with Government | :00:55. | :01:00. | |
forces reportedly bombarding rebel- held areas. | :01:00. | :01:03. | |
A massive power cut leaves more than half of India without | :01:03. | :01:13. | |
electricity for a second day. And... She said she was a widow when she | :01:13. | :01:17. | |
arrived. It was so like her own name Nora anyway, she felt she was | :01:17. | :01:20. | |
meant to have been called that. The best-selling Irish novelist, | :01:20. | :01:30. | |
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Maeve Binchy, has died after a Good afternoon and welcome to the | :01:52. | :01:57. | |
BBC News at One from the Olympic Park. | :01:57. | :01:59. | |
Great Britain's equestrian team are facing their moment of truth this | :01:59. | :02:02. | |
lunchtime as they compete in the final day on the cross-country | :02:02. | :02:05. | |
course in Greenwich, with the chance to win the team eventing and | :02:05. | :02:15. | |
individual gold. Mary King, Tina Cook, Zara Phillips, Nicola Wilson | :02:15. | :02:17. | |
and William Fox-Pitt have combined to take Britain into silver medal | :02:17. | :02:21. | |
position going into the final day, with Cook fifth and King sixth in | :02:21. | :02:31. | |
the individual standings. Joe Wilson is at Greenwich Park for us. | :02:31. | :02:35. | |
By common consent it has been a huge success bringing the | :02:36. | :02:39. | |
equestrian here to Greenwich. It is worth reflecting on what an | :02:39. | :02:43. | |
achievement it is to get any medal Eventing we started with dressage, | :02:43. | :02:48. | |
about discipline and control, and then cross-country, that was a test | :02:48. | :02:55. | |
of stamina, and into show jumping, a supreme test of skill and holding | :02:55. | :02:59. | |
your nerve. Britain starting the day with aspiration of gold. | :02:59. | :03:07. | |
This was the rarest of occasions. Last minute nerves pacing. A | :03:07. | :03:13. | |
misstride in show jumping and a medal is gone. For Zara Phillips, | :03:13. | :03:17. | |
this way to destiny. So much attention on her, but she was part | :03:17. | :03:22. | |
of a team as well as a family. One of five riders for Britain. The | :03:22. | :03:27. | |
scores of the best three will decide the country's total. A clear | :03:27. | :03:33. | |
round eluded her. A battle against the clock. So rapid, here she was | :03:33. | :03:39. | |
too slow. Time faults as well on board High Kingdom. I had such an | :03:39. | :03:45. | |
awesome round yesterday. He lost both front shoes so he is not | :03:45. | :03:52. | |
feeling himself this morning, but I'm just disappointed for the team. | :03:52. | :03:58. | |
I'm really chuffed to bits with him. Germany held the gold medal | :03:58. | :04:03. | |
position at the start of the day and their riders seem to be staying | :04:03. | :04:13. | |
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strong. Mary King in her sixth Olympics made a perfect round. Next | :04:14. | :04:18. | |
um Germany. A mistake for him and maybe the door would open... It | :04:18. | :04:24. | |
didn't come. It was the gold medal performance | :04:24. | :04:34. | |
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But what about Great Britain? It all resisted on their last rider. | :04:35. | :04:38. | |
Tina Cook approached the final test knowing an error could mean goodbye | :04:38. | :04:43. | |
to silver. CHEERING | :04:43. | :04:49. | |
She made it, one second too slow enough. Second place secure. | :04:49. | :04:57. | |
Breathe again. Such drama. We've been watching it unfold. With us is | :04:57. | :05:02. | |
Ruth Edge, an eventer who trained with them. What do you make of it? | :05:02. | :05:07. | |
Silver, is that satisfactory or were there aspirations of more? | :05:07. | :05:11. | |
They have done fantastic to get the seam silver. They were this silver | :05:11. | :05:14. | |
position last night after the cross-country. To hold that | :05:14. | :05:18. | |
position when the top four teams were so close is a brilliant | :05:18. | :05:23. | |
achievement we were in shouting dustance of gold but the Germans | :05:23. | :05:28. | |
were too strong today. I'm sure they'll be thrilled with silver. | :05:28. | :05:31. | |
That's the end of the team competition eventing. There are | :05:31. | :05:36. | |
still individual medals at stake. The individual positions, Mary King | :05:36. | :05:43. | |
is in third, Tina Cook in fourth. What do you expect there? It is | :05:43. | :05:48. | |
anybody's game, because the top four are within a fence. One fence | :05:48. | :05:54. | |
down from the top two and Mary jumping clear could mean a gold. | :05:54. | :05:59. | |
Tina jumped a great clear round with one time fault. She will be | :05:59. | :06:02. | |
conscious to go a bit quicker in the next round. It is right down to | :06:03. | :06:07. | |
the wire. What do you make of bringing the equestrian here? It | :06:07. | :06:13. | |
was a big decision to make. We don't normally have a location like | :06:13. | :06:22. | |
this for the equestrian in the Greenwich is a great It is not... | :06:22. | :06:26. | |
We've got dressage and show jumping to come for the pure disciplines, | :06:26. | :06:29. | |
but the atmosphere yesterday on the cross-country was phenomenal. The | :06:29. | :06:34. | |
views and the fact that you can see the whole city behind is just | :06:34. | :06:39. | |
absolutely fantastic. Thank you so much. As Ruth said equestrian goes | :06:39. | :06:45. | |
on show jumping, and dressage and specific disciplines to come. This | :06:45. | :06:50. | |
afternoon the individual medals will be decided. Mary King and Tina | :06:50. | :06:55. | |
Cook. There could be more British medals before the end of the | :06:55. | :07:02. | |
afternoon. Let's hope. So Chinese swimmer Ye Shiwen has denied taking | :07:02. | :07:06. | |
drugs to win her extraordinary gold in the 400 metres medley. She broke | :07:06. | :07:11. | |
to world record on Saturday and swam the final length faster than | :07:11. | :07:14. | |
the men's gold medallist, Lochte lock. But the chairman of the | :07:15. | :07:19. | |
British Olympic Association, Lord Colin Moynihan, says she's been | :07:19. | :07:28. | |
tested for drugs and is clean. She's the teenager that everyone's | :07:28. | :07:36. | |
talking about. Ye Shiwen on top of the podium but under scrutiny. Her | :07:36. | :07:40. | |
victory in the 400 metres was the most staggering of these Games, | :07:40. | :07:44. | |
knock five seconds off her personal best and smashing the world record. | :07:44. | :07:48. | |
In fact over the last length she was quicker than the men's gold | :07:48. | :07:53. | |
medallist, Ryan Lochte, a feat in some eyes that was too good to be | :07:53. | :07:56. | |
true. COMMENTATOR: Utterly extraordinary. An American coach | :07:56. | :08:00. | |
called her performance sturk and under believable. Ye Shiwen has | :08:01. | :08:05. | |
never failed a drugs test and she's hit barks saying my results come | :08:05. | :08:09. | |
from hard work and training and I would never used any banned drug us. | :08:09. | :08:13. | |
The Chinese people have clean hands. Olympic organisers are also | :08:13. | :08:19. | |
disappointed by the comments. inevitably a sad result of the fact | :08:19. | :08:24. | |
that there are people who dope and who cheat. But I equally think it | :08:24. | :08:29. | |
is very sad if we can't applaud a great performance. Let's always | :08:30. | :08:33. | |
give the benefit of the doubt to the athletes. Tonight Ye Shiwen | :08:33. | :08:37. | |
will go for her second gold in the pool. She qualified for the final | :08:37. | :08:43. | |
of the 200 metres nearly 2 seconds quicker than the rest. So how is it | :08:43. | :08:48. | |
possible for someone so young suddenly to go so much faster? Such | :08:48. | :08:52. | |
improvements can happen, according to one Olympic legend who was also | :08:52. | :08:56. | |
a teenage sensation. At a young age it is possible to break your time | :08:56. | :09:06. | |
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or your best time by five or so seconds. When I was 15-year-old I | :09:08. | :09:14. | |
swam 3.46. The following year I broke nit 3.41 a five second drop- | :09:14. | :09:19. | |
off. Indeed Ruta Meilutyte also won gold having knocked seconds off her | :09:19. | :09:23. | |
personal best here, so while China has had past doping problems, is | :09:23. | :09:33. | |
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all this suspicion sour grapes? Martin paish patience joins us from | :09:33. | :09:39. | |
Beijing. What's response been in China? There's been a huge amount | :09:39. | :09:45. | |
of anger here, particular in the country's equivalent of Twitter. | :09:45. | :09:51. | |
Some wrote this was a case of sour grapes, that results spoke to | :09:51. | :09:55. | |
themselves. I spoke to one of China's most prominent sports | :09:55. | :09:59. | |
commentators and he said the reason the American coach made these | :09:59. | :10:04. | |
suggestion was China was simply doing better than America in the | :10:04. | :10:10. | |
pool. Martin, thank you. Let's look at the Olympics medals | :10:10. | :10:20. | |
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table so far. China lead the way Team GB are in 20th place. | :10:26. | :10:29. | |
They are calling it Super Tuesday for the Olympic sailing in Weymouth, | :10:29. | :10:33. | |
with eight of the ten class on the water. British sailor Ben Ainslie | :10:33. | :10:38. | |
is hoping for a better day after admitting his performance left him | :10:38. | :10:44. | |
frustrated in his quest for a fourth Olympic gold. | :10:44. | :10:48. | |
This is the first time we've had so many of the sailors out on the | :10:48. | :10:52. | |
water at one time. Why we are calling it Super Tuesday. There's a | :10:52. | :10:56. | |
lot riding on this, because so far there is really been quite a mixed | :10:56. | :11:00. | |
performance from our sailors. There are some great successes at the | :11:00. | :11:05. | |
moment but also Ben Ainslie, a lot of worry about just how he's doing. | :11:05. | :11:10. | |
We've got him back in action today. He's one of those out. I've been in | :11:10. | :11:15. | |
the official venue looking at them starting the day. | :11:16. | :11:20. | |
Last minute adjustments this morning. Alison young had a better | :11:20. | :11:30. | |
day yesterday than Stevie Morris son and Ben Rodes in the 49er class. | :11:30. | :11:36. | |
They had a disappointing start. Nick dech si on his way to the | :11:36. | :11:41. | |
start of his first race of the Games. His wife, a double gold | :11:41. | :11:47. | |
medallist, said he was ready. in the shape of his life. He is | :11:47. | :11:51. | |
feeling confident. He's got good equipment. Remember they get | :11:51. | :11:56. | |
supplied equipment. It is luck of the draw. In that class. Yes. He's | :11:56. | :12:01. | |
feeling good about that. He knows what needs to be done. Despite key | :12:01. | :12:04. | |
opponents getting into a tangle, some in the British team have | :12:04. | :12:08. | |
failed to capitalise. This is a very, very big day for the British | :12:08. | :12:12. | |
sailors. This is day three for a lot of them and it hasn't gone as | :12:12. | :12:18. | |
well as they expected. It's a very big day. They've got to pull it off | :12:18. | :12:24. | |
today. It's a long event1. 1 races for each class over at least eight | :12:24. | :12:28. | |
days. The key is to be able to have continuity. You've got to accept | :12:29. | :12:33. | |
that some days you are going to do better and other days not so well. | :12:33. | :12:39. | |
In action today, Ben Ainslie under pressure to move up the leaderboard. | :12:39. | :12:44. | |
His medal race is next Sunday, but this is a league table. So every | :12:44. | :12:48. | |
race matters. By the end of today he will have sailed half his races | :12:48. | :12:52. | |
and we'll have an idea as to whether he is on track to be the | :12:52. | :13:01. | |
greatest Olympic sailor of all time. I tell you, Ben has just finished | :13:01. | :13:06. | |
that fifth race. He's come fourth. Unfortunately, the Danish sailor, | :13:06. | :13:11. | |
the one you saw in the tang on the as a result line, has won it again. | :13:11. | :13:18. | |
It is look quite worrying there. However, the star class, Iain Percy | :13:18. | :13:24. | |
and Andrew Simpson are doing well, top overoff. On the beach itself, | :13:24. | :13:29. | |
these are the free screens, not to be confused with the ticket holders, | :13:29. | :13:34. | |
who have turned up. Despite rain in the air they are enjoying it | :13:34. | :13:36. | |
regardless. Chris, thank you. | :13:37. | :13:41. | |
After history was made last night by Britain's men's gymnastics team | :13:41. | :13:46. | |
as they won their first medal in 100 years, all eyes turned to the | :13:46. | :13:50. | |
women's team this afternoon. It's the first time a British women's | :13:50. | :13:56. | |
team has qualified for the final since 1994. Beth Tweddle and her | :13:56. | :14:01. | |
team-mates will try to follow the men into the history books. It | :14:01. | :14:05. | |
happen this is afternoon. They are up against stiff competition aren't | :14:05. | :14:09. | |
they? They are. It is not a given that Team GB will get a medal today, | :14:09. | :14:14. | |
because really first in the running are the US, Russia, China and | :14:14. | :14:19. | |
Romania. They all did better in qualifying but still there is that | :14:19. | :14:23. | |
home advantage and the fact that the crowd will be roaring for them. | :14:23. | :14:29. | |
The person they'll be watching is Beth Tweddle. She's 27, three-times | :14:29. | :14:32. | |
world champion. She's used to performing in front of the big | :14:32. | :14:36. | |
crowds and taking away titles. She's seen as the inspiration to a | :14:37. | :14:40. | |
new generation of young female gymnasts. She's very much the | :14:40. | :14:46. | |
leader of the team. Also Rebecca Tunney. A lot of eyes on her. She | :14:46. | :14:54. | |
is the youngest Team GB athlete, 15, only 4 foot 9. She's known as | :14:54. | :14:58. | |
Twiggy to her team-mates. She obviously hasn't the same | :14:58. | :15:06. | |
experience and her coach has said with the roar of the crowd she will | :15:06. | :15:09. | |
either be overwhelmed or will deliver a storming performance. We | :15:09. | :15:18. | |
will find out in just a few hours' A 17-year-old in Dorset has been | :15:18. | :15:24. | |
arrested after sending allegedly malicious tweets to Tom Daley. | :15:24. | :15:28. | |
After their diving yesterday he received a message on Twitter | :15:28. | :15:31. | |
saying he let down his father who died last year. | :15:31. | :15:34. | |
The British Olympic Association has called on the IOC to completely | :15:34. | :15:41. | |
revamp the ticketing policy for future Games. There are still empty | :15:41. | :15:46. | |
seats in sold-out events. The chairman of the BOA says ticketing | :15:46. | :15:49. | |
is complex and now requires a huge amount of investment. Our Olympics | :15:49. | :15:52. | |
correspondent James Pearce is in the Olympic Park. They've released | :15:52. | :15:55. | |
thousands more tickets overnight, haven't they? They have. Some of | :15:55. | :16:00. | |
the people you can see behind me here actually bought their tickets | :16:00. | :16:05. | |
late last night, about 3,800 tickets for today were released | :16:05. | :16:11. | |
last night. These are in accredited areas. The various sports governing | :16:11. | :16:16. | |
bodies were asked if they thought they had spare seats and London | :16:16. | :16:21. | |
2012 managed to sem some of those seats. They've sold 19,000 other | :16:21. | :16:25. | |
seats for days during the Games. Those aren't accredited seats. | :16:25. | :16:29. | |
These are contingency seats. They're trying to work out if they | :16:29. | :16:33. | |
can sell seats which they wouldn't sell before, perhaps seats around | :16:33. | :16:37. | |
the television cameras as well. They say they've got about 80,000 | :16:37. | :16:41. | |
seats they know they'll be able to sell over the course of the Games. | :16:41. | :16:46. | |
Most of those tickets are going on sale fairly late at night. Last | :16:46. | :16:51. | |
night it was about 11.30pm. London 2012 say they hope to put them on | :16:51. | :16:55. | |
earlier. Anybody who wants tickets, and there are millions now going | :16:55. | :16:59. | |
onto the website and trying to get tickets, the advice is to keep | :16:59. | :17:02. | |
checking in. Particular in the evening, from about 8pm onwards | :17:02. | :17:06. | |
there should be some tickets available. As far as what the | :17:06. | :17:08. | |
British Olympic Association are saying, they're complaining about | :17:08. | :17:11. | |
the way the ticket system has worked for years, that is that | :17:11. | :17:15. | |
every country has its own allocation of tickets. The BOA want | :17:15. | :17:20. | |
for future Olympics the IOC centralise that system, invest | :17:20. | :17:24. | |
money in doing so and sell all the tickets centrally. If they do that, | :17:24. | :17:28. | |
then the theory is it should be easier to work out which tickets | :17:28. | :17:31. | |
aren't used and to make them more quickly available to the public. | :17:31. | :17:37. | |
Thank you. It's just after 1.30pm. Our top | :17:37. | :17:41. | |
story this lunch time: Team GB wins its fourth medal of the Games, | :17:41. | :17:47. | |
silver in the equestrian eventing. Coming up: Despite the Olympic | :17:47. | :17:49. | |
crowds, why some businesses are complaining that London is becoming | :17:49. | :17:54. | |
like a Ghost Town. Later on BBC London, delays for | :17:54. | :17:58. | |
spectators, after severe problems on the Central line, serving the | :17:58. | :18:04. | |
Olympic Park. We'll have an update. We hear from the equine vet who's | :18:04. | :18:06. | |
volunteered to look after competition horses through the | :18:06. | :18:16. | |
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In Syria the battle for control of Aleppo, the country's largest city, | :18:16. | :18:21. | |
is continuing, with reports of more clashes between government troops | :18:21. | :18:25. | |
and rebels. Meanwhile refugees continue to stream out of the city | :18:25. | :18:29. | |
amid worsening conditions. Supplies of food and drirchinging water are | :18:29. | :18:31. | |
running low. -- drinking water are running low. | :18:31. | :18:33. | |
Our Middle East correspondent Jim Muir reports from neighbouring | :18:33. | :18:43. | |
Lebanon. Syria's biggest city under attack by its own government. It | :18:43. | :18:47. | |
has the fire power and it's using it. Artillery, tanks and helicopter | :18:47. | :18:51. | |
gunships have all been in action, pounding areas taken over by rebel | :18:51. | :18:58. | |
fighters. But the rebels remain defiant, attacking any regime | :18:58. | :19:03. | |
targets or symbols they can. This is one of several police | :19:03. | :19:07. | |
stations they managed to storm. There was heavy fighting for | :19:07. | :19:12. | |
control here. The commander of Free Syrian Army rebel fighters in the | :19:12. | :19:16. | |
area denied government claims that it's recaptured the Salaheddine | :19:16. | :19:20. | |
quarter. He said the battle is going the other way. | :19:20. | :19:24. | |
TRANSLATION: Within days, God willing, Aleppo will be liberated. | :19:24. | :19:28. | |
We've already taken some areas. Once secured, we'll move on to the | :19:28. | :19:37. | |
city centre until the whole of Aleppo is free. | :19:37. | :19:39. | |
State television has given very little detail about what's | :19:39. | :19:44. | |
happening in Aleppo, saying only that troops have inflicted heavy | :19:44. | :19:50. | |
losses on what it calls armed terrorist groups. Some of the many | :19:50. | :19:53. | |
civilians caught unawares by the sudden eruption of violence have | :19:53. | :19:58. | |
been trying to get out of harm's way. Those who remain, face a harsh | :19:58. | :20:05. | |
ordeal of danger, discomfort and privation in seering summer heat. | :20:05. | :20:08. | |
American officials are watching closely, believing the fighting in | :20:08. | :20:14. | |
the north heralds the demise of the Assad regime. This is a tragic | :20:14. | :20:20. | |
moment, what's happening in Aleppo indicates the bankruptcy of Assad | :20:20. | :20:27. | |
and the regime in dealing with this issue. Ultimately, there is no | :20:27. | :20:32. | |
question in my mind that the issue is not whether Assad will step down | :20:32. | :20:37. | |
but when. For many Syrians President Assad is already | :20:37. | :20:42. | |
consigned to the scrap heap of history, but there may be a long, | :20:42. | :20:47. | |
hard fight before that becomes reality. | :20:47. | :20:51. | |
In India, a massive power cut has left almost half the country | :20:51. | :20:55. | |
without electricity, officials say the grid in the north of India has | :20:55. | :20:58. | |
failed for a second day while the grids in the east and north-east | :20:58. | :21:04. | |
have now also collapsed. On Monday more than 370 million people across | :21:04. | :21:11. | |
northern India were affected, bringing Delhi to a stand still. A | :21:11. | :21:17. | |
power cut on an extraordinary scale. How are they coping? That's right. | :21:17. | :21:22. | |
Some 600 million people are affected across 20 states in India. | :21:22. | :21:26. | |
It's left much of the country at a stand still. Here in Delhi the Met | :21:26. | :21:31. | |
row was affected. Delhi is slowing limping back, some power coming on | :21:31. | :21:35. | |
here. Across India trains are stranded on the tracks. Many | :21:35. | :21:39. | |
government workers have been told to go home. Traffic lights wnt even | :21:39. | :21:44. | |
working, causing chaos on the roads in. Best Bengal we hear 200 miners | :21:44. | :21:49. | |
are trapped after power in the lifts stopped working. They're not | :21:49. | :21:52. | |
in immediate danger, but it presents some of the problems that | :21:52. | :21:56. | |
this huge power cut has caused across the country. What are | :21:56. | :22:00. | |
authorities saying there? How soon do they think they can get it | :22:00. | :22:04. | |
solved? They are promising to restore power in the next few hours, | :22:04. | :22:09. | |
but this is the second such power cut in 48 hours. Now, they say, | :22:09. | :22:13. | |
they believe the cause of this is that many parts of India are using | :22:13. | :22:16. | |
more power than they're entitled to, that's overloading the grid here. | :22:16. | :22:22. | |
All this presents a wider problem - India is a growing nation and it | :22:22. | :22:25. | |
simply doesn't have enough power to cope with that. | :22:25. | :22:30. | |
Thank you very much. The best-selling Irish novelist | :22:30. | :22:33. | |
Maeve Binchy has died after a short illness. She was 72. The former | :22:34. | :22:38. | |
journalist was widely loved for her humorous take on Irish life. Her | :22:38. | :22:46. | |
books war translated into 37 lang watches and over 40 million copies | :22:46. | :22:50. | |
were sold. Our arts correspondent looks back at her life. | :22:50. | :22:54. | |
Maeve Binchy's novels were warm, whity stories of friendship, | :22:54. | :22:58. | |
Ireland and the ups, downs and flexities of women's lives. I think | :22:58. | :23:03. | |
I write for women, because women do analyse every move and are | :23:03. | :23:07. | |
interested in feelings. They are interested in aspects of it. | :23:07. | :23:11. | |
Sometimes I get letters from young men saying to me, are women really | :23:11. | :23:15. | |
as complicated as you say? I just love to clown around. I don't | :23:15. | :23:20. | |
believe that. Circle of Friends was just one of a number of novels to | :23:20. | :23:26. | |
be turned into a film. Minnie Driver played a typical Maeve | :23:26. | :23:29. | |
Binchy heroin. It wasn't about getting rich, thin or married, it | :23:29. | :23:33. | |
was about women taking control of their lives. You're really there, | :23:33. | :23:41. | |
you know who you are, don't you? Well, yes. Course I do. On every | :23:41. | :23:46. | |
page, her friends such as Jilly Cooper could feel her personality | :23:46. | :23:52. | |
coming through. She was so warm and so kind and so funny. She's that | :23:52. | :23:56. | |
rare thing, hugely popular and very, very good. Because usually it's won | :23:56. | :24:01. | |
or the other. Everybody was proud of reading her books. They loved | :24:01. | :24:05. | |
her. They thought she was a good writer. Her style was | :24:05. | :24:07. | |
straightforward. She wrote as she spoke. The language and characters | :24:07. | :24:13. | |
came from her life growing up near Dublin. The result - 16 novels with | :24:13. | :24:18. | |
sales of around 40 million. These are only ipbs den talz. It's when | :24:18. | :24:22. | |
people write and say there are real characters for them. That's what I | :24:22. | :24:27. | |
want. She often worked sitting alongside her husband and fellow | :24:27. | :24:34. | |
writer Gordon Snell. Her success was the pleasure she gave in that | :24:34. | :24:39. | |
you could experience everything that live can give you through the | :24:39. | :24:41. | |
eyes of someone compassionate and warm. | :24:41. | :24:45. | |
Maeve Binchy, who has died at the age of 72. | :24:45. | :24:49. | |
The extradition of Shrien Dewani to South Africa to face charges of | :24:49. | :24:53. | |
murdering his wife Anni has been put on hold for further medical | :24:53. | :24:57. | |
evidence to be obtained. Medical experts say Mr Dewani is suffering | :24:57. | :25:02. | |
from psychatic disorders which mean he should not be put on trial. Our | :25:02. | :25:05. | |
legal correspondent Clive Coleman is at Westminster Magistrates' | :25:05. | :25:11. | |
Court. How much longer could this go on then? Well, what's happened | :25:11. | :25:14. | |
this morning is that this has been adjourned until September 18. To | :25:15. | :25:18. | |
explain why we're back at the Magistrates' Court, because it was | :25:18. | :25:23. | |
a year ago here that Howard Riddle ordered the extradition of Shrien | :25:23. | :25:29. | |
Dewani. He appealed that to the High Court... (inaudible) though it | :25:29. | :25:34. | |
was in the interest of justice that he face those charges, it would be | :25:34. | :25:41. | |
unjust if he was to be sent back in his current mental state. He has | :25:41. | :25:45. | |
two defined psychiatric conditions - severe depression and post | :25:45. | :25:47. | |
traumatic stress disorder. Because the High Court didn't have the | :25:48. | :25:51. | |
power to adjourn the hearing, adjourn the proceedings, they've | :25:51. | :25:55. | |
sent is back down here. This morning Mr Dewani's counsel say | :25:55. | :26:01. | |
they wanted a one-year adjournment to allow a tentative recovery to | :26:01. | :26:06. | |
continue. That wasn't allowed. We were told that only medical | :26:06. | :26:10. | |
evidence had to be gathered by September 12. | :26:10. | :26:15. | |
Rather grey and wet here today. But the crowds are pouring into the | :26:15. | :26:18. | |
Olympic Park again this lunch time. With the influx of millions of | :26:18. | :26:21. | |
spectators here and at other venues around the country, it's hoped it | :26:21. | :26:26. | |
could prove to be a bumper month for the economy. But the signs are | :26:26. | :26:30. | |
that that may not be happening, with visitors staying away from the | :26:30. | :26:36. | |
shops and tourist attractions. We were told to expect an extra | :26:36. | :26:41. | |
million visitors a day. The question is - where are they? This | :26:41. | :26:45. | |
was Trafalgar Square and tourists were also thin on the ground down | :26:45. | :26:49. | |
there on regent street this morning. And they weren't exactly pouring | :26:49. | :26:55. | |
out of here either, in the heart of the West End. Vicky has had a stall | :26:55. | :27:00. | |
on Oxford Street for more than 20 years. She says she's never seen it | :27:00. | :27:04. | |
so quiet. Complete disaster. No other words to explain it really. I | :27:04. | :27:09. | |
don't know what to say. It's terrible. Because the tourists | :27:09. | :27:13. | |
simply aren't here? They're not here. The local people are not here. | :27:13. | :27:16. | |
Everybody's been told to avoid Central London and they're doing it. | :27:16. | :27:20. | |
It's not just about the medals. The Government is hoping for an | :27:20. | :27:23. | |
economic bounce from these Games that hundreds of millions of pounds | :27:23. | :27:28. | |
in extra spending will be generated. As ever, there will be winners and | :27:28. | :27:35. | |
losers. The changing of the guard was | :27:35. | :27:39. | |
pulling in the crowds today, but not all of our leading attractions | :27:39. | :27:46. | |
are so busy. We've seen about a 30% to 35% reduction in the number of | :27:46. | :27:49. | |
overseas visitors to central lnd attractions. That's partly because | :27:49. | :27:52. | |
the kind of visitor you get during an Olympic year is different it a | :27:52. | :27:56. | |
nrmal year. It's partly because people think it's going to be | :27:56. | :28:00. | |
crowded here in London. But the pattern, it seems, is no different | :28:00. | :28:06. | |
than any other Olympic Games. Athens, Beijing, Atlanta, even | :28:06. | :28:11. | |
Barcelona saw people not arrive for the Olympic Games because they | :28:12. | :28:17. | |
assumed that the city was devoted to being an Olympic city. All the | :28:17. | :28:20. | |
warnings of travel disruption and difficulties have done their job, | :28:20. | :28:25. | |
so far. But those who may be looking for an economic boost from | :28:25. | :28:30. | |
these Games are now wondering if they've done it too well. | :28:30. | :28:33. | |
Let's have a look at the latest Let's have a look at the latest | :28:34. | :28:36. | |
weather now. Good afternoon. It wasn't the most | :28:36. | :28:39. | |
appealing mornings to be heading out to Olympic Park. It did | :28:39. | :28:46. | |
brighten briefly, now we are seeing drizzly outbreaks of rain. For the | :28:46. | :28:48. | |
afternoon, I'm hopeful that the rain will eventually clear through | :28:49. | :28:52. | |
to the north. We will be left with a lot of cloud and it is pretty | :28:52. | :28:56. | |
cool as well. Partly thanks to the breeze, but obviously due to the | :28:56. | :28:59. | |
covering of cloud across the UK as well. Scotland's faring well. We | :28:59. | :29:04. | |
had a chilly start but lots of sunshine. Elsewhere, a lot more | :29:04. | :29:07. | |
cloud around. Some breaks in the south. I'm hopeful to see sunshine | :29:07. | :29:10. | |
for the south-west of England this afternoon. But more cloud to come | :29:10. | :29:14. | |
for Wales and for Northern Ireland and the North West of England, | :29:14. | :29:17. | |
perhaps heavier and more persistent rain. Scotland should remain dry | :29:17. | :29:22. | |
throughout the afternoon and highs here of 17 or 18 are perfectly | :29:22. | :29:24. | |
possible. For East Anglia and the south-east, still the possibility | :29:24. | :29:30. | |
of some drizzly rain in the next few hours. We've still got the | :29:30. | :29:34. | |
individual equestrian events this afternoon. I think we are looking | :29:34. | :29:37. | |
at a relatively fine afternoon, patchy drizzle, not the storms that | :29:37. | :29:41. | |
caused problems for the eventers in recent days. In terms of other | :29:41. | :29:46. | |
events, perhaps the tennis most likely to be affected by light rain. | :29:46. | :29:50. | |
The beach volleyball and hockey more redistillient. Looking to this | :29:50. | :29:56. | |
evening, the skies should clear, the rain pushes north. Heavier | :29:56. | :29:59. | |
across southern Scotland and Northern Ireland. Perhaps a couple | :29:59. | :30:02. | |
of inches for Scotland. 50mm or so before we're through. By the end of | :30:02. | :30:06. | |
the night more rain pushing into the west of the UK. The wind also | :30:06. | :30:10. | |
strengthening as well. That could be a factor certainly for some of | :30:10. | :30:13. | |
our Olympic events taking place mid-week. A much brighter start to | :30:13. | :30:17. | |
the day on Wednesday for the south- east of England and East Anglia. | :30:17. | :30:21. | |
More rain for Scotland and the totals are mounting. Heavier rain | :30:21. | :30:25. | |
through the early part of the day in the west of the UK. Then showers | :30:25. | :30:28. | |
pulling across into the East Midlands, east ang will and the | :30:28. | :30:31. | |
south-east later. But all of that said, despite the wind and | :30:31. | :30:36. | |
outbreaks of rain, we are looking at a milder day than day. Up to 24 | :30:36. | :30:40. | |
Celsius for example in the Olympic Park. The only problem we may see | :30:40. | :30:44. | |
due to the weather tomorrow could be for the men's and women's time | :30:44. | :30:47. | |
trial. We saw what the showers did during the weekend to the cycling | :30:47. | :30:51. | |
events. Thursday's prospects - drier, brighter, showers for the | :30:51. | :30:55. | |
south-west of England perhaps. But overall I think towards the end of | :30:55. | :30:58. | |
the week our weather should become quieter in terms of rainfall, but | :30:58. | :31:02. | |
it could be the wind that comes into play further. Find out more | :31:02. | :31:07. | |
and the forecast for events you may be attending by looking at the | :31:08. | :31:16. | |
website. That's all from me. It's 1.45pm, our top story: Zara | :31:16. | :31:19. | |
Phillips has won a Silver Medal at the Olympics as part of the British | :31:19. | :31:24. | |
team that took second place in the equestrian team eventing. Team GB | :31:24. | :31:29. |