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Andy Murray becomes the first British man to win a Grand Slam in | :00:12. | :00:20. | |
76 years. History is made at the US Open! | :00:20. | :00:25. | |
After nearly five hours on court, Murray beat Novak Djokovic in five | :00:25. | :00:30. | |
sets to claim his first major singles title. It means the world | :00:30. | :00:34. | |
to me. It is what I have been working towards for the last ten | :00:34. | :00:40. | |
years of my life. I always wanted to win a Grand Slam. | :00:40. | :00:44. | |
In Dunblane, they celebrated into the early hours. | :00:44. | :00:49. | |
# Oh Andy Murray! # Fabulous. It is a night for | :00:49. | :00:54. | |
Scotland. The UK did well in the Olympics, but this was Scotland! | :00:55. | :01:00. | |
The head of the exam regulator Ofqual defends GCSE marking as | :01:00. | :01:03. | |
Labour calls for an independent inquiry. | :01:03. | :01:07. | |
Three people are killed in a coach crash in Surrey as they travelled | :01:07. | :01:10. | |
home from a music festival on the Isle of Wight. | :01:10. | :01:14. | |
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge are shown an orchid named Princess | :01:14. | :01:17. | |
Diana on their Diamond Jubilee visit to the Far East. | :01:17. | :01:20. | |
Later on BBC London: British and French detectives continue their | :01:20. | :01:23. | |
investigations into the unexplained murder of the family from Surrey. | :01:23. | :01:25. | |
Exporting London's success to Rio - the companies in the capital | :01:26. | :01:35. | |
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Good afternoon. Welcome to the BBC News at One. It took him five sets | :01:50. | :01:54. | |
and almost five hours, but Andy Murray has finally won his first | :01:54. | :01:58. | |
Grand Slam title, becoming the first Briton to do so since Fred | :01:58. | :02:03. | |
Perry in 1936. Murray beat Novak Djokovic in New York in a thrilling | :02:03. | :02:07. | |
US Open final last night. Afterwards, Murray, who has lost | :02:07. | :02:11. | |
his four previous Grand Slam finals, said relief was the best word to | :02:11. | :02:16. | |
describe his feelings. Andy Swiss joins us from New York. | :02:16. | :02:21. | |
Yes, people here in New York really just waking up after a night of | :02:21. | :02:25. | |
quite extraordinary drama. A five- hour emotional rollercoaster, but | :02:25. | :02:30. | |
what a result for Andy Murray. For so long, the nearly man of | :02:30. | :02:34. | |
international tennis, could he finally win that elusive Grand Slam | :02:34. | :02:39. | |
title? Last night he did in unforgettable style! | :02:39. | :02:44. | |
It was the moment a sporting dream was finally fulfilled. History is | :02:44. | :02:49. | |
made at the US Open! Andy Murray had waited his life for this, | :02:49. | :02:56. | |
British tennis had waited 76 years. After coming so close so many times, | :02:56. | :02:59. | |
the challenger was finally a champion. An emotional moment for | :02:59. | :03:05. | |
him and for all who followed his career. Oh my goodness! He's done | :03:05. | :03:10. | |
it! He's done it the hard way! He's beaten Novak Djokovic, the | :03:10. | :03:14. | |
defending champion, the second best player in the world over five sets, | :03:14. | :03:21. | |
over four hours and 54 minutes! my, what a battle it was. The first | :03:21. | :03:26. | |
set lasted an hour-and-a-half. Murray clinching a marathon tie- | :03:26. | :03:30. | |
break. Djokovic seemed to be wilting, Murray was soon two sets | :03:30. | :03:35. | |
up. Victory within his grasp. But Djokovic had other ideas. Back came | :03:35. | :03:40. | |
the defending champion. It was into a deciding set. An earlier Murray | :03:40. | :03:47. | |
might have buckled, but not this one. Murray raced to victory. A | :03:47. | :03:51. | |
stunning performance, at last he had done it! When I realised I had | :03:51. | :03:57. | |
won I was obviously a bit shocked. I was very relieved and was very | :03:57. | :04:01. | |
emotional for a few minutes afterwards. It was an incredible | :04:01. | :04:06. | |
match. An unforgettable night here and an unforgettable night for Andy | :04:06. | :04:11. | |
Murray. At last he is a Grand Slam Champion. What a moment for him and | :04:11. | :04:15. | |
for British sport. It rounded off a remarkable summer | :04:15. | :04:19. | |
for Murray in which he also won Olympic gold. A feat which perhaps | :04:19. | :04:23. | |
gave him the belief he needed. Winning that gold medal at | :04:23. | :04:27. | |
Wimbledon for the Olympics and reaching the final has been huge in | :04:27. | :04:33. | |
the building of his confidence and success. He beat Roger Federer for | :04:33. | :04:37. | |
the first time over a five-set final and the way he performed in | :04:37. | :04:41. | |
the Wimbledon final, that really should have convinced him the way | :04:41. | :04:46. | |
he needed to play if he was going to take home one of these Slams. | :04:46. | :04:50. | |
one of sport's longest waits is finally over. For the first time | :04:51. | :04:55. | |
since Fred Perry in 1936, a British man has lifted one of tennis's | :04:55. | :05:00. | |
ultimate prizes, this unforgettable sporting summer now has the very | :05:00. | :05:04. | |
happiest of endings. Yes, an incredible night for Andy | :05:04. | :05:08. | |
Murray. A lot of people are asking could this be the first of many | :05:08. | :05:13. | |
Grand Slam titles for him? Could he challenge the domination of Roger | :05:13. | :05:16. | |
Federer, Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic? For now, those questions | :05:16. | :05:21. | |
can wait because you suspect Andy Murray will want to soak up this | :05:21. | :05:24. | |
extraordinary achievement. Thank you very much. Andy Murray | :05:24. | :05:27. | |
grew up in Dunblane and last night thousands of people in his hometown | :05:27. | :05:31. | |
stayed up into the early hours to watch him become the first Scot | :05:31. | :05:34. | |
ever to win a Grand Slam. They celebrated long into the night. | :05:34. | :05:38. | |
Lorna Gordon reports now from Dunblane. | :05:38. | :05:48. | |
Oh! It was a night of tension. And in Dunblane, little sleep for those | :05:48. | :05:58. | |
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who stayed up to watch Andy Murray triumph. CHEERING Andy Murray is a | :06:00. | :06:03. | |
great champion. Nobody deserves that more than he does. It is great | :06:03. | :06:06. | |
for Dunblane and better for Scotland. This has been a long time | :06:06. | :06:15. | |
coming and now we can all relax and just enjoy his tennis from now on. | :06:15. | :06:19. | |
The 25-year-old's family are close. And the five-set final was nerve- | :06:19. | :06:25. | |
wracking for his grandparents. couldn't believe it for a bit. It | :06:25. | :06:30. | |
didn't quite - to me, I kept saying, "He's done it!" It was the same at | :06:30. | :06:34. | |
the Olympics. I was in floods of tears at the Olympics. I was so | :06:34. | :06:42. | |
proud of him. Dunblane has a gold postbox marking that success. This | :06:42. | :06:47. | |
usually understated town and its people today found other ways to | :06:47. | :06:53. | |
celebrate. On the courts where Andy Murray started playing tennis, he | :06:53. | :06:58. | |
has proved an inspiration. It's really good because we obviously | :06:58. | :07:02. | |
want him to win and he will win a lot more. Would you like to be a | :07:02. | :07:06. | |
professional tennis player? Definitely. What does Andy Murray | :07:06. | :07:11. | |
mean to you then? He is a big inspiration. Through the years of | :07:11. | :07:16. | |
toiling and the occasional tears, Dunblane's always been proud of | :07:16. | :07:21. | |
their tennis sensation. And they are convinced this is the start of | :07:21. | :07:29. | |
even more success to come. Stay with us because later we will | :07:29. | :07:33. | |
be talking to Tim Henman about Andy Murray's success and what it means | :07:33. | :07:37. | |
for British tennis. The rest of the news. Labour has | :07:37. | :07:40. | |
demanded an independent inquiry to look at the marking of this | :07:40. | :07:45. | |
summer's GCSEs and the exam regulator Ofqual. Leaked letters | :07:45. | :07:49. | |
show the regulator ordered an exam board to make changes so that it | :07:49. | :07:54. | |
was harder to earn a C grade in English. Ofqual said it acted | :07:54. | :08:00. | |
properly and has a duty to maintain standards. | :08:00. | :08:04. | |
Exams are stressful enough, but this year's GCSE English results | :08:05. | :08:09. | |
caused a storm. Furious head teachers said the exam boards | :08:09. | :08:13. | |
raised the bar half-way through the year making it harder for pupils | :08:13. | :08:17. | |
taking the exam in June than for those who had sat it in January. | :08:18. | :08:21. | |
MPs today questioned the head of the exams watchdog, wanting to know | :08:21. | :08:25. | |
how it could defend the marking of one set of pupils more harshly. | :08:25. | :08:29. | |
This is about the future of young people who sat that particular exam | :08:29. | :08:33. | |
this year who might not have achieved the A they need for their | :08:33. | :08:36. | |
future university prospects and they haven't achieved the C they | :08:37. | :08:41. | |
needed. So you are acknowledging it is not fair that some people got | :08:41. | :08:51. | |
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lucky and it was tough on the rest? We have had a careful look at June | :08:52. | :08:56. | |
awarding. One exam board initially resisted attempts by Ofqual to | :08:56. | :09:00. | |
downgrade the June papers. Ofqual said it wanted Edexcel to produce | :09:00. | :09:05. | |
outcomes that are closer to predictions. Edexcel replied, "Our | :09:05. | :09:11. | |
award is is a fair award and we do not believe a further revision is | :09:11. | :09:14. | |
justified." Edexcel did comply and today the head of Ofqual said their | :09:14. | :09:19. | |
results had been significantly out of line with other exam boards. | :09:19. | :09:24. | |
None of this is of comfort to this man, head of a Leeds school which | :09:24. | :09:28. | |
saw its English results drop. He said the letters show how changes | :09:28. | :09:33. | |
were made just two weeks before the results came out. We can clearly | :09:33. | :09:39. | |
see now that Ofqual itself as late as August 9th was pressurising, I | :09:39. | :09:43. | |
would say bullying, awarding bodies into changing the grade boundaries | :09:43. | :09:47. | |
right at the last minute to achieve a particular forecast target, | :09:47. | :09:53. | |
despite the fact that senior examiners were saying, "We must not | :09:53. | :09:57. | |
do this." Ofqual stands by its actions but Labour wants an inquiry. | :09:57. | :10:01. | |
While there is to be no regrading of papers in England, the Welsh | :10:01. | :10:05. | |
Government has ordered the Welsh exam board to remark the English | :10:05. | :10:08. | |
language paper. That could mean several hundred Welsh candidates | :10:08. | :10:15. | |
getting higher grades than English candidates who took the same exam. | :10:15. | :10:19. | |
Three people have died in a coach crash in Surrey as they travelled | :10:19. | :10:22. | |
back last night from a music festival on the Isle of Wight. A | :10:22. | :10:26. | |
number of others have been seriously injured. The coach | :10:26. | :10:29. | |
crashed into a tree near the Hindhead Tunnel on the A3. No other | :10:29. | :10:32. | |
vehicles are thought to have been involved. Daniela Relph is at the | :10:32. | :10:38. | |
scene for us now. The coach now sits on the other | :10:38. | :10:42. | |
side of that red-and-white tent that is behind me here. The police | :10:42. | :10:45. | |
officer leading the investigation has described it as a harrowing | :10:45. | :10:49. | |
scene and says it is one that will have had a devastating impact on | :10:49. | :10:55. | |
all of those on board last night. From above, the back end of the | :10:55. | :11:00. | |
white coach can be seen. Its front section is embedded in the oak tree | :11:00. | :11:06. | |
it hit. The police will only say the coach was travelling at speed | :11:06. | :11:09. | |
on a clear carriageway. Of the three people killed, the bodies of | :11:09. | :11:15. | |
two remain inside. One of them is the driver. And removing them is | :11:15. | :11:19. | |
now the police priority. As you can imagine, the extraction of the | :11:19. | :11:22. | |
bodies from the coach is a very delicate operation and something we | :11:22. | :11:27. | |
should take a lot of care over to preserve their dignity and also to | :11:27. | :11:32. | |
make sure that we do not compromise the investigation. The important | :11:32. | :11:37. | |
thing is the dignity of the people that are involved. The coach | :11:37. | :11:41. | |
crashed just before midnight close to the Hindhead Tunnel. Those on | :11:41. | :11:45. | |
board had spent the weekend at a music festival on the Isle of Wight. | :11:45. | :11:47. | |
The police say conditions on the road were good and the weather | :11:47. | :11:51. | |
would not have been a factor. Those injured partyed were taken to a | :11:51. | :11:56. | |
number of local hospitals. The most seriously hurt came here to | :11:56. | :12:00. | |
Southampton General and to London. The emergency services say a number | :12:00. | :12:07. | |
of people have lost limbs. The coach belonged to Merseypride. The | :12:07. | :12:11. | |
company said it is shocked at what has happened and is helping Surrey | :12:11. | :12:15. | |
and Merseyside Police. The police expect to be at the scene on the A3 | :12:15. | :12:20. | |
for the rest of the day. Such was the force of the impact, they say | :12:20. | :12:26. | |
moving the coach is going to be a difficult and challenging job. | :12:26. | :12:30. | |
The focus now is of course on working out why that coach crashed | :12:30. | :12:37. | |
so dramatically. The police will be looking at traffic cameras and they | :12:37. | :12:42. | |
have already spoken to a couple of witnesses. Crucially, they will be | :12:42. | :12:46. | |
speaking to the survivors to see if they can help establish what | :12:46. | :12:52. | |
happened here. On the 11th anniversary of the 9/11 | :12:52. | :12:55. | |
attacks in the United States, it's been announced that survivors will | :12:55. | :12:58. | |
be entitled to free monitoring and treatment for around 50 types of | :12:58. | :13:01. | |
cancer. The decision also covers members of the emergency services | :13:01. | :13:04. | |
who responded to the plane crashes in New York and at the Pentagon, | :13:04. | :13:10. | |
and people who were nearby at the time. | :13:10. | :13:13. | |
The Business Secretary, Vince Cable, is setting out plans for a | :13:13. | :13:17. | |
Government-backed "business bank" to boost lending to UK companies. | :13:17. | :13:20. | |
But his latest attempt to promote economic growth has been undermined | :13:20. | :13:23. | |
by a report from MPs who described an existing business support scheme | :13:23. | :13:26. | |
as a "scandalous failure". Our political correspondent, Norman | :13:26. | :13:36. | |
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More attempts to boost growth. how would this plan work? We have had | :13:40. | :13:45. | |
announcements setting out various initiatives to boost business with | :13:45. | :13:50. | |
Vince Cable outlining plans for a bank run by the taxpayer to provide | :13:50. | :13:56. | |
funds to small business. But the question mark has always been with | :13:56. | :13:58. | |
these announcements how far they trickle down to small business. | :13:58. | :14:03. | |
That is why today's report from MPs is so important. They say this fund, | :14:03. | :14:08. | |
which was set up to help business in deprived areas, has only managed | :14:08. | :14:14. | |
to allocate 5% of its money and create around 5,000 jobs at a cost | :14:14. | :14:19. | |
of �60,000 per job. The fund has improved, say Ministers, and half | :14:19. | :14:23. | |
of those bidding for money are now eligible for it. It raises the | :14:23. | :14:26. | |
question about whether the Government's rhetoric on growth is | :14:26. | :14:30. | |
matched by the reality facing businesses on the ground. | :14:30. | :14:33. | |
Shadow Chancellor has been speaking today, none too impressed by the | :14:33. | :14:39. | |
plans? Yeah. He also got some glancing cries of "rubbish" and | :14:39. | :14:44. | |
"shame on you" from delegates at the TUC after he said under a | :14:44. | :14:48. | |
Labour Government there would have to be cuts and difficult decisions | :14:48. | :14:53. | |
over pay and pensions. I think it underlines the fact that all the | :14:53. | :14:57. | |
argument and political fighting we get between the parties over the | :14:57. | :15:02. | |
economy, the difference between them is primarily one of pace and | :15:02. | :15:09. | |
degree, rather than direction. Our top story this lunchtime: | :15:09. | :15:13. | |
Andy Murray becomes the first British man to win a Grand Slam in | :15:13. | :15:16. | |
76 years, beating Novak Djokovic in five sets to claim his first major | :15:16. | :15:22. | |
singles title. Coming up: unveiled - the state-of- | :15:22. | :15:24. | |
the-art mobile technology which will allow 20 million people super- | :15:24. | :15:29. | |
fast access to the web by the end of the year. | :15:29. | :15:32. | |
On BBC London: Reaping the benefits of the | :15:32. | :15:35. | |
Olympics - the Lee Valley White Water rafting centre reopens so the | :15:35. | :15:38. | |
public. And the Victorian rebels from | :15:38. | :15:48. | |
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London - a new exhibition opens on Not so long ago, China's booming | :15:51. | :15:55. | |
economy had been the envy of the world. But recently, it has lost | :15:55. | :15:58. | |
momentum. Now the Chinese premier has promised tax cuts and other | :15:58. | :16:02. | |
measures to encourage consumers to spend more, in a bid to reverse an | :16:02. | :16:07. | |
economic slowdown. Wen Jiabao told business leaders at the World | :16:07. | :16:17. | |
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Economic Forum that China could still achieve robust growth. | :16:19. | :16:24. | |
Of all China's giant new cities, Tianjin was last year the fastest | :16:24. | :16:30. | |
growing of all. Fields of skyscrapers rising to create a new | :16:30. | :16:32. | |
financial district modelled on Manhattan. But like the rest of | :16:32. | :16:37. | |
China, the economy is now slowing, and fast. Today the key City paid | :16:37. | :16:42. | |
her to China's premier, here to give his swansong speech to 2000 | :16:42. | :16:46. | |
business leaders. Wen Jiabao is preparing to step down after ten | :16:46. | :16:50. | |
years in power, a decade during which China's economy has faltered | :16:50. | :16:56. | |
others to become the second-biggest. TRANSLATION: The giant ship of the | :16:56. | :17:01. | |
Chinese economy will sail ahead fast, yet steadily, and reached the | :17:01. | :17:07. | |
shore of a brighter future. But the premier warned that this year, | :17:08. | :17:13. | |
China may turn in its worst performance for 20 years. | :17:13. | :17:17. | |
TRANSLATION: The international financial crisis has entered its | :17:17. | :17:22. | |
fifth year, yet its underlying impact this still with us. Advanced | :17:22. | :17:27. | |
and emerging economies are all experiencing an economic slowdown. | :17:27. | :17:31. | |
Tianjin and other cities are now deeply in debt. They can't spend | :17:31. | :17:35. | |
their way out of this downturn the way they did three years ago. | :17:35. | :17:40. | |
China's exporters have seen sales to Europe slump. Its factories | :17:40. | :17:45. | |
employ 200 million people, and they are struggling. Meanwhile, China's | :17:45. | :17:49. | |
own consumers are facing rising prices and are reluctant to spend | :17:49. | :17:53. | |
their cash, so they have not picked up the slack. And there are other | :17:53. | :17:57. | |
worries. This is the man expected to take over the leadership of the | :17:57. | :18:01. | |
Communist Party this autumn. He has not been seen in public for days. | :18:02. | :18:05. | |
Rumours are swirling about his health, even that there may be a | :18:05. | :18:10. | |
power struggle, unlikely as that is. China's leaders are used to being | :18:11. | :18:14. | |
fated to presiding over economic growth and appearing to be masters | :18:14. | :18:18. | |
of their own universe. They are now preparing to step aside just at a | :18:18. | :18:23. | |
time when they have been buffeted by rumours and scandals, and most | :18:23. | :18:28. | |
serious of all, when China's incredible growth story may be | :18:28. | :18:30. | |
running out of steam. The health service watchdog, | :18:30. | :18:33. | |
Monitor, has ordered a rescue plan for a hospital trust that was at | :18:33. | :18:39. | |
the centre of one of the biggest scandals in NHS history. Our health | :18:39. | :18:41. | |
correspondent is in our central London studios. What is it that | :18:41. | :18:48. | |
Monitor are saying? It is three- and-a-half-year since the health | :18:48. | :18:52. | |
service regulator went into mid- Staffordshire NHS Trust and | :18:52. | :18:55. | |
produced a damning report, describing appalling standards of | :18:55. | :18:59. | |
care. That had a huge impact. People said this must never be | :18:59. | :19:04. | |
allowed to happen again. Concerted efforts were put in place to turn | :19:04. | :19:08. | |
this just round. But since then, there have been continuing problems | :19:08. | :19:13. | |
with clinical care, for instance with recruiting enough staff to | :19:13. | :19:16. | |
keep the accident and emergency unit open day and night. There were | :19:16. | :19:20. | |
also problems at the breast cancer surgery unit, described recently as | :19:20. | :19:25. | |
deeply dysfunctional. And alongside this, there have been continuing | :19:25. | :19:29. | |
financial problems. The trust has been running a big deficit year | :19:29. | :19:34. | |
after year, and Monitor, the NHS financial watchdog in England, is | :19:34. | :19:38. | |
sending in a rescue team to ensure that local services there are | :19:38. | :19:42. | |
sustainable for the longer term. That could mean changes to services | :19:42. | :19:47. | |
in that area. For patient groups in that area, they say they are | :19:47. | :19:50. | |
dismayed. They were hoping the trust was beginning to get its act | :19:50. | :19:59. | |
together. Now they are worried that that is not the case. | :19:59. | :20:03. | |
By the end of this year, 20 million people in the UK will have access | :20:03. | :20:05. | |
to state-of-the-art mobile technology, allowing you to | :20:05. | :20:07. | |
download high-definition films in just minutes and giving you | :20:07. | :20:10. | |
uninterrupted access to the web while on the move. The UK's first | :20:10. | :20:13. | |
fourth generation mobile service is being launched in 16 cities, | :20:13. | :20:16. | |
providing speeds up to five times faster than the current 3G phones | :20:16. | :20:18. | |
and devices. Our technology correspondent has been finding out | :20:18. | :20:27. | |
more at the launch. Here at the Science Museum, we have | :20:27. | :20:33. | |
just seen the launch of Britain's first 4G network by Everything | :20:33. | :20:37. | |
Everywhere, probably better known to most of you by -- as T-Mobile | :20:37. | :20:45. | |
and Orange. So why does 4G matter? Stuart Miles from the gadget to | :20:45. | :20:50. | |
blog pocketlint.com is with me. He has a 4G phone, I have a 3G phone. | :20:50. | :20:55. | |
Let's start at the test. There is my speed test going up on the 3G | :20:55. | :21:00. | |
phone. It is going to go up to four or five megabits per second, nearly | :21:00. | :21:08. | |
six. Here is the 4G foam, and that has gone all the way up to 33 | :21:08. | :21:14. | |
megabits per second. If fit is five or six or seven times faster. Why | :21:14. | :21:18. | |
is this important? Of more of us are using data online on our mobile | :21:18. | :21:22. | |
phones. That means we are downloading apps and surfing | :21:22. | :21:26. | |
websites like the BBC. Well everybody be able to get this in a | :21:26. | :21:31. | |
hurry? You will need a new phone. You will need a new phone. You also | :21:31. | :21:34. | |
need to be on the Everything Everywhere network, and you will | :21:34. | :21:39. | |
only be able to get it in 16 cities before Christmas initially. | :21:39. | :21:44. | |
rival networks are cross about this launch. Why is that? They have not | :21:44. | :21:48. | |
been able to get a 4G network up and running, because they have | :21:48. | :21:51. | |
still got to buy the network, and that will not happen for another | :21:51. | :21:56. | |
six months. So Vodafone and CO2 will be playing catch-up. Is this | :21:56. | :22:00. | |
an important day for British technology? Of it is exciting, | :22:00. | :22:05. | |
because now we will be able to surf the internet quicker on the gold. | :22:05. | :22:09. | |
That means new things we can explore. Doing everything faster | :22:09. | :22:14. | |
can only be better for everybody. That is supposed to be our 4G | :22:14. | :22:19. | |
future. But it may take time for people to get the handsets they | :22:19. | :22:22. | |
need to make it work. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge | :22:22. | :22:25. | |
have arrived in Singapore at the start of a nine-day visit to South | :22:25. | :22:28. | |
East Asia and the South Pacific to mark the Queen's Diamond Jubilee. | :22:28. | :22:30. | |
Prince William and Katherine started their tour at Singapore's | :22:30. | :22:33. | |
Botanic Gardens, where they were shown an orchid named after Diana, | :22:33. | :22:43. | |
Princess of Wales. It is only their second official | :22:43. | :22:47. | |
tour to gather outside Britain, and at the Queen's request, William and | :22:47. | :22:51. | |
Kate have come to south-east Asia to mark the Diamond Jubilee. Their | :22:51. | :22:56. | |
first engagement was a poignant one. They came to Singapore's Botanical | :22:56. | :23:00. | |
Gardens to see an awkward named in honour of William's mother, Diana. | :23:00. | :23:06. | |
She never saw it, de Gea, said William. And indeed that was so. | :23:06. | :23:10. | |
Diana was killed two weeks before a planned visit to Singapore in the | :23:10. | :23:16. | |
quarter of 1997. For William, a moment of reflection. And then | :23:16. | :23:20. | |
another orchid, and something to celebrate. This one is called | :23:20. | :23:30. | |
William Catherine. It has been bred specially to mark their visit. It | :23:30. | :23:34. | |
looks like Royal tourism, and of course to an extent, it is. The | :23:34. | :23:38. | |
orchids have been done in little more than ten minutes. But | :23:38. | :23:41. | |
alongside the super-fast site seeing, there is a serious purpose | :23:41. | :23:47. | |
to royal tours like this. Over the next eight days, first here in | :23:47. | :23:51. | |
Singapore and then in Malaysia and finally in some of the islands of | :23:51. | :23:54. | |
the South Pacific, the couple will promote British interests and | :23:54. | :23:59. | |
pursue issues which matter to them personally. Kate will make a speech | :23:59. | :24:02. | |
in Kuala Lumpur about the importance of the hospice movement. | :24:02. | :24:06. | |
And in the remote rainforests of Malaysian Borneo, they will have a | :24:06. | :24:11. | |
chance to see the work being done to protect the forests and the | :24:11. | :24:15. | |
around the towns which live in them. So for William and Kate, a romantic | :24:15. | :24:18. | |
setting and intense scrutiny. Pretty much every step of the way, | :24:18. | :24:22. | |
every change of average by her and every gesture by both of them will | :24:22. | :24:28. | |
be closely examined as one of the world's Highers profile couples | :24:28. | :24:32. | |
resume their international travels. Let's go back to our main story, | :24:32. | :24:35. | |
Andy Murray's triumph in the US Open, making him the first British | :24:35. | :24:41. | |
player to win a Grand Slam for 76 years. We can talk to a man who | :24:41. | :24:44. | |
knows what it is like to have the weight of a nation's tennis hopes | :24:44. | :24:51. | |
on his shoulders. Tim Henman joins us from Wimbledon. You have watched | :24:51. | :24:58. | |
Andy Murray closely over the years. What did you make of the match? | :24:58. | :25:04. | |
was fantastic. It was certainly a late night for everyone. The whole | :25:04. | :25:06. | |
nature of the match and the circumstances were incredible. It | :25:06. | :25:11. | |
showed his real mental fortitude, that he could be up for 2-0 and be | :25:11. | :25:14. | |
so close to winning his first Grand Slam, but then Djokovic was able to | :25:14. | :25:18. | |
win the third and fourth sets. One of the best aspects was how | :25:18. | :25:23. | |
physically strong Murray was. It was Djokovic that was struggling in | :25:23. | :25:26. | |
the fifth set. He was struggling to find their way to get across the | :25:26. | :25:31. | |
finishing line and get the first -- to get the first of hopefully many | :25:31. | :25:35. | |
Grand Slams was a great achievement. He said one of his first emotions | :25:35. | :25:42. | |
was pure relief. He has come so close so many times. Absolutely. He | :25:42. | :25:47. | |
has been in four Grand Slam finals before and lost on every occasion. | :25:47. | :25:52. | |
That is where Ivan Lendl probably had a big part to play. He lost his | :25:52. | :25:56. | |
first four Grand Slam finals. In the past, when Murray has dealt | :25:56. | :25:59. | |
with adversity, sometimes he has got frustrated and has not dealt | :26:00. | :26:04. | |
with it so well. But in the third and fourth sets, he never really | :26:04. | :26:09. | |
panicked. It was not going the way he wanted after a promising start, | :26:09. | :26:14. | |
but he was able to turn this around and finish the fifth set in | :26:14. | :26:17. | |
emphatic fashion. And they would like this, plus his Olympic gold, | :26:17. | :26:21. | |
must give him a huge confidence going into the future. Will this be | :26:21. | :26:27. | |
a turning point for him? To win gold at Wimbledon in the Olympics | :26:27. | :26:31. | |
was a big turning point. He beat Federer in a best-of-five sets | :26:31. | :26:35. | |
match. The gold medal gave him a massive amount of confidence. I | :26:36. | :26:39. | |
have said for some time that I thought he would win many Grand | :26:39. | :26:43. | |
Slams, but the first would be the hardest. It was an incredible | :26:43. | :26:47. | |
effort to beat Djokovic, the defending champion and the best in | :26:47. | :26:52. | |
the world for a long time. It is a huge achievement. I expect him to | :26:52. | :26:55. | |
kick on, because there are still areas where he can improve in his | :26:55. | :27:05. | |
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game. He is very motivated, and it The wind has blown in a cooler and | :27:10. | :27:15. | |
fresher feel for all of us today. But it is quite pleasant when the | :27:15. | :27:19. | |
sunshine comes through. But there is a scattering of showers in the | :27:19. | :27:24. | |
afternoon. Today, we are between two large areas of cloud. One of | :27:24. | :27:28. | |
them is coming in tomorrow. This band of cloud gave us some rain | :27:28. | :27:33. | |
overnight. But this curl of cloud is keeping a lot of showers going | :27:33. | :27:38. | |
in the north and west of Scotland. Most of them are light. A bit drier | :27:38. | :27:42. | |
in the east of Scotland. There will be showers in England as well, and | :27:43. | :27:48. | |
not just in the north-west. Some of them may sneak into the Midlands. | :27:48. | :27:53. | |
Much of southern England will be dry. Despite the sunshine, there is | :27:53. | :27:59. | |
a much colder feel that we had yesterday. In the south-west of | :27:59. | :28:01. | |
England, the sunshine will be turning hazy as that cloud arrives | :28:01. | :28:09. | |
from the West. There is sunshine across Wales. Quite a lot of | :28:09. | :28:14. | |
showers to come in Northern Ireland for the rest of today. As the winds | :28:14. | :28:18. | |
ease this evening, the showers will retreat to western coasts. But | :28:18. | :28:24. | |
later in the night, it turns wetter again in north and Ireland -- | :28:24. | :28:29. | |
Northern Ireland. Much of Scotland will have a chilly start to | :28:29. | :28:33. | |
Wednesday, but a sunny one. A wet start for Northern Ireland, | :28:33. | :28:40. | |
improving here. An untidy day on Wednesday. Showery bursts of rain | :28:40. | :28:45. | |
push eastwards across England and Wales. But then conditions improve | :28:45. | :28:50. | |
for Scotland and Northern Ireland. Feeling much like today, although | :28:50. | :28:55. | |
the winds will be lighter. Wednesday night will be the coldest | :28:55. | :28:59. | |
night of the week. Temperatures hold up in towns and cities, but in | :28:59. | :29:03. | |
rural areas, we will not be far off freezing by Thursday morning. That | :29:03. | :29:09. | |
is because we have a bump of high pressure, keeping things strife. | :29:09. | :29:14. | |
Storm Lesley is a long way from us, but it will influence our weather | :29:14. | :29:20. | |
through Thursday and into Thursday night. There will be gusts of 60 | :29:20. | :29:25. | |
mph in Scotland. But for most of England and Wales, Thursday will be | :29:25. | :29:29. | |
a dry day, with a good deal of sunshine. Temperatures will be | :29:29. | :29:33. | |
about average for this time of year. Towards the end of the week and | :29:33. | :29:38. | |
over the weekend, with the winds ease in, it should begin to turn | :29:38. | :29:44. | |
A reminder of our top story: Andy Murray becomes the first British | :29:44. | :29:48. |