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Thousands of people, including hundreds of Britons, are ordered to | :00:05. | :00:11. | |
leave their homes as forest fires rage in southern Spain. Hundreds of | :00:11. | :00:13. | |
firefighters are battling the flames to stop them reaching the | :00:13. | :00:18. | |
tourist centre of Marbella. could literally hear the crackling. | :00:18. | :00:24. | |
That's how close it was. And the heat picked up. And the wind and | :00:24. | :00:27. | |
the ash was everywhere. Battle of the billionaires. The | :00:27. | :00:30. | |
Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich wins his court fight against a former | :00:30. | :00:33. | |
business partner who had accused him of blackmail. | :00:33. | :00:36. | |
On day two of the Paralympics, it's a silver for cyclists Aileen | :00:36. | :00:43. | |
McGlynn and Helen Scott in the visually impaired tandem time trial. | :00:44. | :00:46. | |
And as the athletics gets under way, Aled Davies wins Paralympics GB's | :00:47. | :00:52. | |
first medal in the Olympic stadium. It's bronze in the shotput. | :00:52. | :00:56. | |
Questions over the grading of some English GSCE papers. The exams | :00:56. | :01:06. | |
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regulator will provide some answers In the sport on the BBC News | :01:07. | :01:11. | |
Channel, is the transfer deadline day with Liverpool agreeing to sell | :01:11. | :01:21. | |
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Good afternoon and welcome to the BBC News at One. Wildfires in | :01:33. | :01:35. | |
southern Spain have forced thousands of people to flee their | :01:35. | :01:39. | |
homes and hotels on the Costa del Sol. Hundreds of Britons, ex- | :01:39. | :01:41. | |
patriots and tourists, have also been moved as firefighters battle | :01:41. | :01:44. | |
the flames which are being driven by strong winds towards the town of | :01:44. | :01:51. | |
Marbella. The Foreign Office is warning holidaymakers to check with | :01:51. | :01:55. | |
their airlines and travel companies for the latest advice. Parts of | :01:55. | :01:57. | |
Spain have had an especially dry summer, with Catalonia and the | :01:57. | :02:01. | |
Canary Islands also suffering wildfires this year. Our world | :02:01. | :02:11. | |
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affairs correspondent Mike The wild fire burned out of control | :02:11. | :02:15. | |
throughout the night. Across a seven mile front. Roaring through a | :02:15. | :02:22. | |
large swathe of Forest pushed on by a hot, dry wind. Spain is | :02:22. | :02:25. | |
experiencing its worst wild fires in a decade after an unusually dry | :02:25. | :02:31. | |
winter. This one, though, just inland from of the country's most | :02:31. | :02:39. | |
popular holiday regions, and in an area where many experts have homes. | :02:39. | :02:46. | |
As firefighters battled to bring it under control, people rushed to get | :02:46. | :02:50. | |
themselves, and in this case, a threatened donkey, too, out of | :02:50. | :02:56. | |
harm's way. For these people, refuge in a restaurant, but the | :02:56. | :03:01. | |
shock and uncertainty about the fate of their homes. I know nothing, | :03:01. | :03:06. | |
I don't know if my house is still there or not, this woman says. I | :03:06. | :03:10. | |
knew there was a fire but we were not aware of the magnitude, says | :03:10. | :03:14. | |
this woman. If we did not expect it. At least 300 British people were | :03:14. | :03:19. | |
among those moved to public facilities. British consular staff | :03:20. | :03:24. | |
are helping those who have been affected. Kimberley has a holiday | :03:24. | :03:29. | |
home in Marbella. It was terrifying at the time it because you could | :03:29. | :03:34. | |
hear the crackling. That's how close it was. The wind and the ash | :03:34. | :03:40. | |
was everywhere. The exit we were taking, as well, when we went down | :03:40. | :03:46. | |
the mountain, there was massive Amber's coming across the road. It | :03:46. | :03:51. | |
was something I have never seen before. Today, helicopters had been | :03:51. | :03:55. | |
dropping water on the wild by to support the firefighters on the | :03:55. | :03:59. | |
ground. At least now, they have improved weather conditions on the | :03:59. | :04:02. | |
side. Sara Hesketh from Wigan is on the | :04:02. | :04:06. | |
last day of her holiday in a resort near Marbella. She is among those | :04:06. | :04:11. | |
who have had to leave their hotels. She joins me on the line now. The | :04:11. | :04:15. | |
footage looks very dramatic indeed. What sort of the night did you | :04:15. | :04:22. | |
have? We were evacuated and put up in a church. We didn't know what | :04:23. | :04:27. | |
was happening. We didn't know whether the apartment was still | :04:27. | :04:30. | |
standing. There were flames everywhere, people sleeping on the | :04:30. | :04:37. | |
floor in the church, with children under blankets. The sky was just | :04:37. | :04:42. | |
read and everywhere you looked there were flames everywhere. The | :04:42. | :04:46. | |
smell and the stench, smouldering, everywhere is just black and grey. | :04:46. | :04:51. | |
It was quite a frightening thought, last night, but we didn't know | :04:51. | :04:57. | |
whether what was happening. We were stood in our own clothes and do | :04:57. | :05:02. | |
know what was going to happen today. What help and support are you | :05:02. | :05:07. | |
getting in terms of travel? But the moment, because we have done a | :05:07. | :05:12. | |
privately, we just need to try to get in touch with our airline and | :05:12. | :05:18. | |
find out whether these flights are still booked for today. Apparently, | :05:18. | :05:22. | |
my friend spoke to somebody who said the traffic is bad getting | :05:22. | :05:26. | |
into the city, but we don't know whether the flights are cancelled. | :05:26. | :05:30. | |
The helicopters have stopped going over now with water and the sky | :05:30. | :05:38. | |
seems to be clearing up now, and we have got coughs with the smoke. And | :05:38. | :05:43. | |
we are exhausted because none of us have had any sleep. We're just | :05:43. | :05:47. | |
waiting now to go home, really. wish you all the best and thank you | :05:47. | :05:54. | |
very much for joining us. The billionaire owner of Chelsea | :05:54. | :05:57. | |
football club, Roman Abramovich, has won his long running legal | :05:57. | :05:59. | |
battle with his fellow Russian, the business tycoon Boris Berezovsky. A | :05:59. | :06:02. | |
judge ruled this morning that Mr Abramovich is not liable to pay | :06:02. | :06:05. | |
billions of dollars in compensation in a dispute over the sale of | :06:05. | :06:08. | |
shares in a Russian oil company. Our diplomatic correspondent | :06:09. | :06:16. | |
Bridget Kendall reports. Arriving for the ruling today, the | :06:16. | :06:25. | |
claimant, Boris Berezovsky,. Do you think you will win this case? | :06:25. | :06:30. | |
believe in the system. political power-broker is now in | :06:30. | :06:36. | |
London, an outspoken Kremlin critic. His claim is he'd been cheated out | :06:36. | :06:40. | |
billions of pounds in a deal with another Russian oligarch, the | :06:40. | :06:44. | |
Chelsea football club owner, Roman Abramovich. Who gave evidence | :06:44. | :06:48. | |
during the trial which ended in January, but he was not there this | :06:48. | :06:53. | |
morning for his victory. The judge was scathing in her criticism of | :06:53. | :06:57. | |
Boris Berezovsky and said it was up to him to prove his claims and yet, | :06:57. | :07:01. | |
she found his evidence inconsistent, exaggerated and, at times, | :07:01. | :07:07. | |
incredible. In court, Boris Berezovsky listened stony-faced, | :07:07. | :07:12. | |
his chin on his hands, but when she dismissed his claim, he looked | :07:12. | :07:16. | |
around and laughed, as though, incredulous, she did not believe | :07:16. | :07:20. | |
him. They used to be friends but when that repeating came to power, | :07:20. | :07:26. | |
they parted company. Roman Abramovich, worth �7.6 billion, now | :07:26. | :07:32. | |
owns Chelsea, and is close to Vladimir Putin. Boris Berezovsky, | :07:32. | :07:36. | |
worth rather less, it's thought, at �500 million, fell out with | :07:36. | :07:42. | |
Vladimir Putin and one political so asylum in it Britain. Boris | :07:42. | :07:45. | |
Berezovsky's accusation is that Roman Abramovich forced him to sell | :07:45. | :07:53. | |
of oil shares cheap. Roman Abramovich said was a fabrication. | :07:53. | :07:57. | |
Boris Berezovsky, he said, had been his political godfather for a time | :07:57. | :08:00. | |
but that arrangement had ended. Outside the court this morning, | :08:00. | :08:05. | |
Boris Berezovsky, once so confident in the British courts system, | :08:05. | :08:10. | |
admitted he was flabbergasted. I'm absolutely amazed what happened | :08:10. | :08:20. | |
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today. Particularly because Lady Gloucester took up responsibility | :08:23. | :08:27. | |
to be right Russian history. But despite the ruling against him, | :08:27. | :08:30. | |
Boris Berezovsky said he did not regret bringing the case. Whether | :08:30. | :08:35. | |
he will try to appeal, he said, was a matter for his lawyers. | :08:35. | :08:38. | |
Paralympics GB have continued their success on day two of the Games, | :08:38. | :08:44. | |
with a silver for the cyclist, Aileen McGlynn. She and her pilot | :08:44. | :08:47. | |
rider Helen Scott were just beaten by Australia in the women's blind | :08:47. | :08:50. | |
and visually impaired one kilometre time-trial at the velodrome. James | :08:50. | :08:57. | |
Pearce reports. Aileen McGlynn has been partially | :08:57. | :09:04. | |
sighted since birth. For this event, cyclists ride tandem, with a pilot | :09:05. | :09:09. | |
at the front. This was a one, to tiled trial, a race against the | :09:09. | :09:14. | |
clock. Aileen McGlynn won this event in Athens and Beijing and the | :09:14. | :09:18. | |
time it was close to the world record. No celebrations yet. They | :09:18. | :09:20. | |
have taken the lead but the Australian world champions were | :09:20. | :09:26. | |
still to go. There is a D Johnson timed his run perfectly. Here were | :09:26. | :09:31. | |
the new power would be champion. -- Felicity Johnson. Over at the | :09:31. | :09:41. | |
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Aquatics Centre, has a good rivalry growing. We have the Hind brothers. | :09:41. | :09:45. | |
Samuel has a degenerative condition in his legs but the world champion. | :09:45. | :09:50. | |
The 400 metres freestyle and he won his heat in this evening's final. A | :09:50. | :09:53. | |
race, we will see a familiar face, his younger brother, has also | :09:53. | :09:57. | |
qualified. The athletics are under way with | :09:57. | :10:01. | |
high hopes for Paralympics GB. Aled Davies has won the team's first | :10:01. | :10:04. | |
medal in the Olympic stadium with bronze in the shotput, going one | :10:04. | :10:07. | |
better than his fourth place in Beijing. Our sports correspondent | :10:07. | :10:15. | |
Andy Swiss reports. Blue skies and bumper crowds at the | :10:15. | :10:19. | |
Olympic Stadium. 80,000 fans basking in the sunshine. Perfect | :10:19. | :10:24. | |
conditions for the first morning of the athletics. So, will the home | :10:24. | :10:28. | |
supporters have plenty to cheer? One of the first in action was | :10:28. | :10:31. | |
Shelly Woods, bronze medallist four years ago, a need to qualify for | :10:31. | :10:35. | |
the final of the 5,000 metres. By finishing third, she did precisely | :10:35. | :10:42. | |
that. Job done. There were other impressive performances. Eighteen- | :10:42. | :10:45. | |
year-old Rees-Jones said a personal best in the heats of his 200 metres | :10:45. | :10:49. | |
event. But there were disappointments, too. Stephen | :10:49. | :10:54. | |
Miller, with cerebral palsy, was aiming for a 4th Paralympic gold in | :10:54. | :10:57. | |
the club throwing but finished out of the medals. There was better | :10:57. | :11:05. | |
news, though, for Hanna Cockroft, who became the first athlete to set | :11:05. | :11:08. | |
a world record inside the Olympic Stadium and she charged into | :11:08. | :11:14. | |
tonight's final of the 100 metres in stunning style. And, best of all, | :11:14. | :11:18. | |
a British medal, 21-year-old Aled Davies taking bronze in the shot | :11:19. | :11:23. | |
put. Britain's athletes already flying the flag. | :11:23. | :11:27. | |
Well, let's have a look at the medals table so far. China are top. | :11:27. | :11:33. | |
Their team collected six golds on the opening day. -- seven gold. | :11:33. | :11:36. | |
Australia are in second place having added gold this morning in | :11:36. | :11:39. | |
the velodrome. Ukraine have replaced Great Britain in third. | :11:39. | :11:42. | |
Russia, with three golds, now go fourth, leaving Great Britain in | :11:42. | :11:46. | |
fifth with two more medals so far today. Silver from Aileen McGlynn | :11:46. | :11:49. | |
and Helen Scott in the cycling and bronze from Aled Davies in the | :11:50. | :11:54. | |
shotput. Well, we can speak to our correspondent James Pearce now. | :11:54. | :12:00. | |
What's your assessment of day two? Well, the weather, of course, is | :12:00. | :12:05. | |
bringing out bumper crowds. There are some exciting action still to | :12:05. | :12:08. | |
come and plenty more British medals balls that we should mention in | :12:08. | :12:13. | |
particular, Mark cauldron. Three years ago, he broke his back in a | :12:13. | :12:16. | |
paragliding accident and before that he used to play volleyball for | :12:16. | :12:21. | |
Wales. Yesterday, he became the first medallist of his games with a | :12:21. | :12:25. | |
silver. He has qualified for this afternoon's final of the individual | :12:25. | :12:31. | |
pursuit, over three quarters, and his seven seconds inside his own | :12:31. | :12:35. | |
world record so, by doing that, having such a commanding | :12:35. | :12:39. | |
performance in qualifying, he looks set for a gold medal this afternoon. | :12:39. | :12:47. | |
What we can look forward to later today? The Velodrome is a place to | :12:47. | :12:52. | |
be. Jody Cundy has won five Paralympic gold medals in the past. | :12:52. | :12:56. | |
Three as a slimmer, two as a cyclist, and is going for his third | :12:56. | :13:00. | |
cycling gold medal in the one that, to time-trial. He is the defending | :13:00. | :13:04. | |
champion and will be the favourite for that. Also look out for | :13:04. | :13:14. | |
Stefanie Milbourne. She has beaten the Paralympic swimming legend. She | :13:14. | :13:17. | |
has been beaten in the qualifying for this evening's 100 metres | :13:17. | :13:21. | |
backstroke final. James, thank you. England's exams watchdog, Ofqual, | :13:21. | :13:24. | |
is due to publish the results of an initial investigation into this | :13:24. | :13:27. | |
year's GCSE results this afternoon. Thousands of students didn't get | :13:27. | :13:32. | |
the grades they had expected. Head teachers urged the exams regulator | :13:32. | :13:35. | |
to investigate when it was revealed that grade boundaries for the exams | :13:35. | :13:39. | |
were changed part way through the year. Our correspondent Chris | :13:39. | :13:48. | |
Buckler reports. One week ago there were scenes of | :13:48. | :13:52. | |
celebration but it was a day of despair for others. With claims | :13:52. | :13:57. | |
that the results of GCSE English simply were not fair. The | :13:57. | :14:00. | |
suggestion was the grade boundaries had been moved halfway through the | :14:00. | :14:05. | |
school year. Meaning pupils who would have got a C grade in January | :14:05. | :14:09. | |
ended up with a D grade. Head teachers have been leading the | :14:09. | :14:14. | |
campaign to get the grades changed. We need is resolving as quickly as | :14:14. | :14:17. | |
possible because we have students have lost out on vocational | :14:17. | :14:23. | |
programmes, A-level programmes and, of course, apprenticeships as well. | :14:23. | :14:27. | |
The exams regulator in England warned exam board is against grade | :14:27. | :14:31. | |
inflation and this year for the first time in history of GCSEs, the | :14:31. | :14:36. | |
percentage of top grades fell. But Ofqual is having to investigate if | :14:36. | :14:41. | |
how that was achieved was fair. Sheridan is a student affected. He | :14:41. | :14:46. | |
was expected to get a grade C but a great deal means he's in danger of | :14:46. | :14:51. | |
losing his apprenticeship he fought hard to get. I was hoping to start | :14:51. | :15:00. | |
on Monday, but that's not going to happen now. This week is one of the | :15:00. | :15:06. | |
worst in my life, honestly. I feel sick. And there's no answers to it. | :15:06. | :15:10. | |
How can they impact on somebody's life this majorly? For more than | :15:10. | :15:15. | |
two decades, year on year GCSE results had been improving. Help, | :15:15. | :15:20. | |
in part, by the introduction of the modular system which allows pupils | :15:20. | :15:24. | |
to resit different parts of their examination at different times. | :15:24. | :15:29. | |
That system is being phased out in England although modules will | :15:29. | :15:33. | |
remain in Northern Ireland while, in Wales, the whole GCSE | :15:33. | :15:37. | |
examination it is currently under review. After a row which has | :15:37. | :15:40. | |
overshadowed this year's results, the regulator knows its performance, | :15:40. | :15:50. | |
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not just the pupils, will be under Our top story this lunch time: | :15:53. | :15:56. | |
Thousands of people including hundreds of Britons have been | :15:56. | :16:00. | |
ordered to believe their homes as forest fires rage in southern Spain. | :16:00. | :16:03. | |
Firefighters are battling the flames to stop them reaching the | :16:03. | :16:09. | |
tourist centre of Marbella. Coming up: Mitt Romney promises | :16:09. | :16:12. | |
Americans he'll revive the economy and create millions of jobs. But, | :16:12. | :16:16. | |
is it enough to put him in the White House? | :16:16. | :16:23. | |
Later on BBC London: How Surrey's feeling the aftereffects of Olympic | :16:23. | :16:27. | |
cycling success. And turning over a new leaf. Gavin Henson talks about | :16:27. | :16:37. | |
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leaving reality TV behind him and focusing on new team, London Welsh. | :16:38. | :16:40. | |
Squatting in residential properties will become a criminal offence in | :16:40. | :16:44. | |
England and Wales from tomorrow. Those convicted could face six | :16:44. | :16:48. | |
months in prison, a fine of up to �5,000 or both. | :16:48. | :16:53. | |
Campaigners for the homeless fear the new law could be abused by | :16:53. | :16:56. | |
unscrupulous landlords. The Government says the change will | :16:56. | :17:00. | |
give more protection to homeowners. John Maguire reports. | :17:00. | :17:06. | |
I came home from hospital where I'd been treated and was put up by my | :17:06. | :17:10. | |
partner. Hugh Whittle regularly checked his house in London was | :17:10. | :17:15. | |
secure but one day returned to find it occupied by squatters. | :17:15. | :17:20. | |
It was horrifying. Just going through three or four months it | :17:20. | :17:27. | |
took to get them out was costing me in stress and cost in money as well, | :17:27. | :17:32. | |
of course, lost rent and the property did actually become worse | :17:32. | :17:36. | |
in its condition which meant that we had to pay builders more. | :17:36. | :17:41. | |
The police were called but officers said it was a civil matter. But no | :17:41. | :17:46. | |
longer. The law is now changing. We want to make it absolutely clear | :17:46. | :17:49. | |
that squatting is illegal, you are criminally liable and response | :17:49. | :17:53. | |
wribl for anything that happens in someone's home whilst you take it | :17:53. | :18:00. | |
over -- responsible. It shouldn't be a grave area of a civil or | :18:00. | :18:04. | |
criminal offence, it will now be a clear criminal offence. | :18:04. | :18:07. | |
An offence which some charities believe may criminalise certain | :18:07. | :18:11. | |
homeless people and will do nothing to tackle the underlying shortage | :18:11. | :18:14. | |
of housing. At this property in Birmingham, | :18:14. | :18:22. | |
squatters say they're making good use of an otherwise empty council- | :18:22. | :18:26. | |
opened house and campaign groups argue it will mean more people | :18:26. | :18:32. | |
sleeping rough on the streets -- council-owned. It's a waste of | :18:32. | :18:40. | |
council tax payers' money. We should tackle the housing crisis | :18:40. | :18:43. | |
and not criminalise vulnerable people in the society. The law will | :18:43. | :18:48. | |
apply in England and Wales and so far concerns just residential | :18:48. | :18:53. | |
property. The Government's aim, an tend to the squatting problem. But | :18:53. | :18:59. | |
those opposed argue it will just make matters worse. | :18:59. | :19:04. | |
An inquest has opened into the deaths of Roger and tilly Lamb who | :19:04. | :19:11. | |
died in spralt incidents whale on holiday in Morocco last year. -- | :19:11. | :19:15. | |
separate incidents. Remind us of the background to this, Louise | :19:15. | :19:19. | |
Hubball? Tilly and Roger died within days of | :19:19. | :19:22. | |
each other while own holiday in Morocco with their children. The | :19:22. | :19:29. | |
inquest heard from Tilly's sister who described the marriage as | :19:29. | :19:39. | |
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turbulent. Mr Lamb had been offered a job at New Zealand. He had been | :19:42. | :19:45. | |
prescribed antidepressants and aired concerns about his marriage | :19:45. | :19:50. | |
and finances. On holiday, the family seemed relaxed and happy. | :19:50. | :19:55. | |
One night at their apartment, there was banging on the front door. It | :19:55. | :20:01. | |
was Ramadan. Tilly Lamb described as adventurous by the court put one | :20:01. | :20:07. | |
foot on the sofa and one on the bannister to tell the people to | :20:08. | :20:11. | |
keep quiet. She lost her balance and fell 60 feet on to the street | :20:11. | :20:15. | |
below. Within 24 hours the or nor was told, her husband jumped into | :20:15. | :20:20. | |
the sea with a rucksack full of rocks but was rescueded and then | :20:20. | :20:24. | |
after the family moved to a nearby hotel, Roger Lamb fell down a | :20:24. | :20:29. | |
staircase and litter died in hospital. We are expecting a | :20:29. | :20:35. | |
verdict here this afternoon. Thank you. Ulster Bank which is | :20:35. | :20:38. | |
part of the RBS Group has announced compensation for customers who | :20:38. | :20:41. | |
couldn't access their money because of computer problems earlier | :20:41. | :20:45. | |
thisier. Many customers received �20 this morning while others will | :20:45. | :20:49. | |
receive more in out-of-pocket expenses. It's thought the maximum | :20:49. | :20:53. | |
compensation will be around �100. Our correspondent, Andy Martin, | :20:53. | :20:57. | |
sent this report. It was supposed to be a simple | :20:57. | :21:02. | |
software update but caused weeks of frustration. Every day, customers | :21:02. | :21:06. | |
like these turned up at the bank to try to find out where their money | :21:06. | :21:10. | |
was. I feel disgusted for the fact they have not got a clue what's | :21:10. | :21:14. | |
gone on. The money's going left, right and centre, God knows where. | :21:14. | :21:16. | |
Banks within the RBS Group quickly cleared the problem in Scotland, | :21:16. | :21:22. | |
England and Wales, but many of its Ulster Bank customers in Northern | :21:22. | :21:25. | |
Ireland and the Irish Republic couldn't get at their own money, | :21:26. | :21:30. | |
pay bills or honour direct debits. Today, ten weeks after the | :21:30. | :21:35. | |
breakdown, Ulster Bank tried to put it right. We are waives fees for up | :21:35. | :21:40. | |
to three months for customers. We are also paying an extra quarter of | :21:41. | :21:44. | |
a% on deposits. We are making a payment of �20 to customer who is | :21:44. | :21:48. | |
had to come to the branch more often than normal during the | :21:48. | :21:52. | |
incident. On top of that, for customers who've had out-of-pocket | :21:52. | :21:56. | |
expenses we are paying an additional 20%, up to �100. It's | :21:56. | :22:01. | |
nowhere near enough for many. Donagh McGovern's convenience store | :22:02. | :22:06. | |
has been particularly invoonsed. He's raised issues with the bank | :22:06. | :22:10. | |
consistently over the past two months and is no happier today -- | :22:10. | :22:14. | |
inconvenienced. Shambles - one word. No customer service approach from | :22:14. | :22:19. | |
the bank at all. It's very, very, very poor. If I treated my | :22:19. | :22:21. | |
customers that way, I would be out of business tomorrow. There are | :22:21. | :22:26. | |
people who say accounts are still not back to normal. This | :22:26. | :22:30. | |
compensation scheme will cost Ulster Bank tens of millions of | :22:30. | :22:34. | |
pounds, but countless more in terms of the customer who is say they are | :22:34. | :22:41. | |
now determined to take their business elsewhere. | :22:41. | :22:45. | |
Mitt Romney's pledged to restore the promise of America and to unite | :22:45. | :22:48. | |
the country if he's elected President. | :22:48. | :22:51. | |
He's told the Republican National Convention it's time to put the | :22:51. | :22:55. | |
disappointments of the past four years aside, accepting his | :22:55. | :22:58. | |
nomination at the party's convention in Florida he vowed to | :22:58. | :23:05. | |
resue the country's economy and create 12 million jobs -- rescue. | :23:05. | :23:09. | |
Our correspondent Steve Kingston is in Tampa with more for us. | :23:09. | :23:12. | |
Mitt Romney was seen by a TV audience last night that ran into | :23:12. | :23:16. | |
the tens of millions, including people tuning in for the first time | :23:16. | :23:20. | |
to the election campaign. His challenge was to define himself, to | :23:20. | :23:29. | |
tell America who he is. Show time. For a businessman turned | :23:29. | :23:32. | |
politician promising to turn this country around. With millions | :23:32. | :23:36. | |
watching Mitt Romney at home, he called ford the sales pitch of his | :23:36. | :23:40. | |
life. Mr Americans have given up on this President, but they have never | :23:40. | :23:45. | |
thought about giving up. Not in themselves, not on each other and | :23:45. | :23:50. | |
not on America. What is needed in our country today is not | :23:50. | :23:52. | |
complicated or profound. It doesn't take a special Government | :23:52. | :23:55. | |
commission to tell us what America needs. | :23:56. | :24:00. | |
What America needs is jobs. Lots of jobs. | :24:00. | :24:05. | |
As ever, he looked the part. This was really about a challenger | :24:05. | :24:09. | |
finding his voice. Articulating why he believes America needs a change | :24:09. | :24:12. | |
of direction. I wish President Obama succeeded because I want | :24:12. | :24:21. | |
America to succeed. But his promises gave way to kiss | :24:21. | :24:23. | |
appointment and division -- disappointment. Now is the moment | :24:23. | :24:29. | |
when we can stand up and say, I'm an American, I make my destiny, we | :24:29. | :24:33. | |
deserve better, my children and family and country deserves better. | :24:33. | :24:40. | |
At times it got deeply personal as this normally reserved man opened | :24:40. | :24:45. | |
up about faith and family. Every day dad gave mom a rose which he | :24:45. | :24:49. | |
put on her bedside table that.'s how she found out what happened on | :24:49. | :24:53. | |
the day my father died. She went looking for him because that | :24:53. | :24:59. | |
morning there was no rose. My mom and dad were true partners. | :24:59. | :25:05. | |
Then the closing arguments, that Barack Obama's bowed to America's | :25:05. | :25:09. | |
foes, added trillions to the debt and failed the middle class. | :25:09. | :25:14. | |
promise is to help you and your family. | :25:14. | :25:19. | |
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE That future is our destiny, that | :25:19. | :25:22. | |
future is out there, it is waiting for us, our children deserve it. | :25:22. | :25:26. | |
Our nation depends on it. The peace and freedom of the world require it | :25:26. | :25:32. | |
and with your help we will deliver it. Let us begin that future for | :25:32. | :25:37. | |
America tonight. Mitt Romney there. The consensus | :25:37. | :25:41. | |
this morning peoples to be good speech, perhaps not a great speech, | :25:41. | :25:46. | |
he was a little nervous at the beginning and was heckled. As you | :25:46. | :25:48. | |
saw there, he certainly found his stride. In the the hall they loved | :25:49. | :25:52. | |
it. What matters is Americans back home thought. Mitt Romney came here | :25:52. | :25:55. | |
looking for what they call the convention bounce in the polls and | :25:55. | :25:59. | |
there is some evidence that he's getting that. One opinion poll | :25:59. | :26:04. | |
published in the last 24 hours gives him a 4% percentage lead over | :26:04. | :26:08. | |
Barack Obama. That's to be expected and it could change next week when | :26:08. | :26:10. | |
we have the democratic convention. The President will have his moment | :26:10. | :26:15. | |
in the spotlight then. No doubt we'll speak to you then. | :26:15. | :26:18. | |
Thank you very much. It's not necessarily a subject we | :26:18. | :26:21. | |
might like to spend too much time thinking about. The place where we | :26:21. | :26:26. | |
or our loved ones will be buried. But, new research shows that | :26:26. | :26:30. | |
instead of crematoriums or grave yards, more people are opting for | :26:30. | :26:33. | |
woodland burials. For some it's because of environmental concerns | :26:33. | :26:37. | |
and also to reduce costs. There are 300 natural burial sites in Britain | :26:37. | :26:40. | |
and our correspondent Danny Savage has been to visit one which is | :26:40. | :26:45. | |
about to open in Durham. A small woodland on the outskirts | :26:45. | :26:51. | |
of Durham. The latest location to be changed into a natural burial | :26:51. | :26:55. | |
site. Research suggests being buried in a natural site in a | :26:55. | :26:59. | |
biodegradable coffin is more popular than ever in Britain. In | :26:59. | :27:04. | |
years to come, Helen Rutland wants to be laid to rest here. A decision | :27:04. | :27:08. | |
made already after considering other options. | :27:08. | :27:12. | |
It's such a lovely place to be to end your days really. My family can | :27:12. | :27:16. | |
come and visit me. They live away, so they wouldn't be able to come | :27:16. | :27:20. | |
and tend a grave, so I would be in this beautiful place and they would | :27:20. | :27:25. | |
be able to visit me whef they could really. | :27:25. | :27:28. | |
Unlike more formal grave yards or cemeteries, there'll be no | :27:28. | :27:32. | |
headstones or markings to indicate where people are buried. | :27:32. | :27:35. | |
Individuals will simply be laid to rest in a glade and relatives will | :27:35. | :27:40. | |
be able to visit to watch the seasons change. | :27:40. | :27:44. | |
The British like nature, they like gardens and garden ser ters and | :27:44. | :27:48. | |
they think of themselves when they are dead as wanting to be in a | :27:48. | :27:52. | |
beautiful place -- centres. They don't want to be in a dry dusty | :27:53. | :27:56. | |
cemetery with rows of reg stones, it's the noise, the plants, the | :27:56. | :28:00. | |
wind, the animals and the trees in the background. It's that dynamic | :28:00. | :28:04. | |
place to go, not a static negative place to go. | :28:04. | :28:09. | |
So a modern trend of rejecting this type of grave and memorial is | :28:09. | :28:14. | |
growing. There are now more than 260 natural | :28:14. | :28:20. | |
burial sites across UK with studies showing that this option appeals to | :28:20. | :28:25. | |
both religious and non-religious people. | :28:25. | :28:29. | |
Certainly gives pause for thought. We'll take you to a pause though | :28:29. | :28:33. | |
with the weather now. Laura is here. with the weather now. Laura is here. | :28:33. | :28:35. | |
That looks very positive. Yes. We should all see some of it | :28:35. | :28:40. | |
this weekend fingers crossed. Many of us saw it this morning. We | :28:40. | :28:44. | |
had clear skies. Boy or boy was it chilly. Temperatures fell so low | :28:44. | :28:47. | |
that we broke some records. As we head into the weekend, things look | :28:47. | :28:53. | |
set to warm up. The satellite picture shows this stream of cloud | :28:53. | :28:57. | |
stretching across the Atlantic. It will bring weather to some of us | :28:57. | :29:01. | |
throughout the weekend. At the moment it's confine to the north- | :29:01. | :29:06. | |
west of Scotland and Northern Ireland. Elsewhere, a good deal of | :29:06. | :29:08. | |
sunshine through the rest of the day. The far north-west of England | :29:08. | :29:12. | |
could see some patchy rain later, but for much of Yorkshire, through | :29:12. | :29:16. | |
Lincolnshire, into the Midlands and south-east England, dry and bright | :29:16. | :29:20. | |
and temperatures responding after that chilly start up to 17 or 18 | :29:20. | :29:23. | |
degrees. The winds light as we head towards the south-west of England. | :29:23. | :29:27. | |
Again, largely fine, sunny conditions here as we head through | :29:27. | :29:30. | |
the afternoon. For the south-east of Wales, sticking with the | :29:30. | :29:35. | |
sunshine for longest. For the north-west, clouding over, some | :29:35. | :29:39. | |
patchy rain and drizzle arising through the coming hours. Things | :29:39. | :29:43. | |
improving in Northern Ireland, particularly from the west. | :29:43. | :29:46. | |
Glimmers of brightness and damp in the east. Scotland, cloudy, | :29:46. | :29:50. | |
outbreaks of rain and drizzle. Cool where we have no sunshine and | :29:50. | :29:54. | |
heavier rain potentially across the Northern Isles. Tonight, we'll see | :29:54. | :29:59. | |
the weather front sinking south- eastwards. It tends to ease so it's | :29:59. | :30:08. | |
damp and drizzly with a fair bit of hill fog. Temperatures 12-13, much | :30:08. | :30:12. | |
milder than last night. It will be a cloudy start tomorrow for the | :30:12. | :30:16. | |
Paralympic events. Soon warming up with the sunshine for the sailing, | :30:16. | :30:19. | |
a gentle breeze. It's worth pointing out that the UV levels | :30:19. | :30:23. | |
will be moderate for many when the sun comes out into the weekend. For | :30:23. | :30:27. | |
Saturday, we start with the cloud, damp drizzly conditions through the | :30:27. | :30:30. | |
east but then things improve, particularly through England and | :30:30. | :30:34. | |
Wales. Yet again looking largely dry and bright and with more | :30:34. | :30:38. | |
sunshine tomorrow temperatures up to 22, feeling very nice. For the | :30:38. | :30:41. | |
north-west, cloudy again with patchy outbreaks of rain. That's | :30:42. | :30:46. | |
the weather front we saw across the satellite picture sinking its way | :30:46. | :30:50. | |
south-eastwards. It's a reversal of fortunes as we head through the | :30:50. | :30:54. | |
weekend. England and Wales likely to be cloudier by Sunday with some | :30:54. | :30:58. | |
outbreaks of rain and drizzle. Further north, more sunshine around | :30:58. | :31:01. | |
and temperatures again into the low 20s. If you have plans this weekend, | :31:02. | :31:06. | |
you can find the latest online. We have the latest on the forecast for | :31:06. | :31:10. | |
the F 1 and more information about how wet it's been so far this | :31:10. | :31:14. | |
summer. Thank you very much indeed. | :31:14. | :31:18. | |
A reminder of our top story: Thousands of people including | :31:18. | :31:22. |