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The man accused of killing two police officers in Greater | :00:10. | :00:15. | |
Manchester has appeared in court. Dale Cregan is charged with | :00:15. | :00:19. | |
murdering PC Nicola Hughes and PC Fiona Bone. He's also accused of | :00:19. | :00:24. | |
two other murders and four attempted murders. | :00:24. | :00:29. | |
There have been more violent clashes across the Muslim world in | :00:29. | :00:33. | |
protests about an anti-Islamic film made in the United States. | :00:33. | :00:38. | |
Still heavily in debt - Government borrowing last month hits an August | :00:38. | :00:43. | |
record. The security firm G4S is urged to | :00:43. | :00:50. | |
surrender more than �50 million of its Olympics fee. | :00:50. | :00:54. | |
End of a musical era - the last big British record label will be | :00:55. | :00:59. | |
swallowed up by Universal. Pupils in Lewisham are spearheading | :00:59. | :01:01. | |
a legal challenge to get their GCSE results changed. | :01:01. | :01:04. | |
Lazio fans could face action after alleged racist chants during the | :01:04. | :01:14. | |
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Good afternoon. Welcome to the BBC News at One. The man accused of | :01:33. | :01:36. | |
murdering two police officers in Greater Manchester has made his | :01:36. | :01:40. | |
first court appearance before magistrates. 29-year-old Dale | :01:40. | :01:46. | |
Cregan is accused of murdering PC Nicola Hughes and PC Fiona Bone in | :01:46. | :01:51. | |
a gun and grenade attack on Tuesday. He is accused of two other murders | :01:51. | :01:58. | |
and four attempted murders. Danny Savage is in Manchester. | :01:58. | :02:01. | |
The events here in Greater Manchester on Tuesday were truly | :02:01. | :02:04. | |
shocking. Two unarmed police officers attending what should have | :02:05. | :02:09. | |
been a routine call-out shot dead as they arrived at the scene. Since | :02:10. | :02:13. | |
then, that enquiry has moved on a pace and this morning it came here | :02:13. | :02:23. | |
to the centre of Manchester. Just before 8.00am, a police convoy | :02:23. | :02:27. | |
carrying Dale Cregan swept through the streets of Manchester and into | :02:27. | :02:32. | |
the city's Magistrates' Court. This was a high-security operation, | :02:32. | :02:38. | |
involving many armed officers. At 10.00am, Cregan, who only has one | :02:38. | :02:42. | |
eye, and who has now grown a beard, was brought into Court 16. There | :02:43. | :02:47. | |
were five armed officers in court as well. He spoke only once to | :02:47. | :02:51. | |
confirm his details before being told to sit as the charges were | :02:51. | :02:57. | |
read out. He's accused of murdering four people. In May, Mark Short was | :02:57. | :03:07. | |
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shot dead in the Cotton Tree pub. Then his father, David, was killed. | :03:07. | :03:13. | |
Then on Tuesday, PC Fiona Bone and PC Nicola Hughes were shot dead in | :03:14. | :03:17. | |
Mottram. There were no relatives of the dead officers in court this | :03:17. | :03:21. | |
morning. But members of Mark and David Short's family were in the | :03:21. | :03:25. | |
Public Gallery and Cregan kept glancing at them. At the scene of | :03:25. | :03:29. | |
the police shootings, forensic work continues. The flowers have been | :03:29. | :03:34. | |
moved to the top of Abbey Gardens where the two PCs died. A campaign | :03:34. | :03:39. | |
to cover shifts for colleagues to attend their funerals is also | :03:39. | :03:45. | |
gathering momentum. Shortly after today's brief court appearance, | :03:45. | :03:50. | |
Dale Cregan was taken away from the city centre magistrates. A few | :03:50. | :03:55. | |
minutes later, the convoy arrived at Strangeways Prison. This is | :03:55. | :04:00. | |
where the 29-year-old will stay until he appears at Manchester | :04:00. | :04:07. | |
Crown Court on Monday morning. So what's the latest on the wider | :04:07. | :04:12. | |
investigation here? Well, police have announced that they have | :04:12. | :04:17. | |
applied for extra time to question a 28-year-old man who was arrested | :04:17. | :04:20. | |
earlier this week on suspicion of conspiracy to murder. The BBC | :04:20. | :04:25. | |
understands that man is called Stephen Garvey. He has been | :04:25. | :04:27. | |
questioned about the bogus burglary call that brought the police | :04:27. | :04:31. | |
officers to the scene of the killing. That is one of the strands | :04:31. | :04:36. | |
that he's being questioned about. They have until 9.15am tomorrow | :04:36. | :04:40. | |
morning to continue to question Stephen Garvey. There's also | :04:40. | :04:43. | |
momentum growing from police officers around the country that | :04:44. | :04:47. | |
are willing to come in and come up here to Greater Manchester to stand | :04:48. | :04:52. | |
in for officers so they can attend the funerals when they take place. | :04:52. | :04:56. | |
We have no dates for the funerals yet. We are still waiting to hear | :04:56. | :05:00. | |
about that. Obviously, many of the officers here will want to go to | :05:00. | :05:03. | |
those services. There's thousands of police officers from around the | :05:03. | :05:07. | |
UK that are volunteering their time. Greater Manchester Police are very | :05:07. | :05:11. | |
grateful for that but they are still waiting to work out the | :05:11. | :05:15. | |
logistics. One rail company is offering free travel to any | :05:15. | :05:19. | |
officers that covers any shift here. The Prime Minister is here in | :05:19. | :05:23. | |
Manchester at the moment. He may comment about events this week as | :05:23. | :05:28. | |
well. Thank you. | :05:28. | :05:32. | |
In fact, Danny mentioning the fact that the Prime Minister is there at | :05:32. | :05:36. | |
Greater Manchester Police Headquarters. In the last few | :05:36. | :05:40. | |
moments he has said a few words to journalists there. | :05:40. | :05:44. | |
Good afternoon. I wanted to come here to Manchester myself to pay my | :05:44. | :05:48. | |
own personal respects to the two officers, the women police officers, | :05:48. | :05:51. | |
who fell in the line of duty. The whole country has been profoundly | :05:51. | :05:55. | |
shocked by what has happened and it is right that we praise the work | :05:55. | :06:01. | |
that they did and remember all that they have done. It is also | :06:02. | :06:05. | |
important that the Government makes sure it is doing everything it can | :06:05. | :06:08. | |
to help the Greater Manchester Police force to tackle organised | :06:08. | :06:13. | |
crime and gang-related violence. The Prime Minister there at the | :06:13. | :06:16. | |
start of that visit to police headquarters. | :06:17. | :06:22. | |
There have been widespread protests across the Muslim world again today | :06:22. | :06:27. | |
against an American film which it is claimed insults the Prophet | :06:27. | :06:33. | |
Mohammed. In Peshawar, one man was killed when police tried to stop | :06:33. | :06:41. | |
protesters storming a cinema. It was billed as a day of love for | :06:41. | :06:44. | |
the Prophet Mohammed. The Pakistani government had called for peaceful | :06:44. | :06:52. | |
protests. But this was a cinema in the city of Peshawar, seats set | :06:52. | :06:57. | |
alight. Anger over the anti-Islam film produced in the US, turning | :06:57. | :07:02. | |
once again to violence. The Pakistani Prime Minister demanding | :07:02. | :07:12. | |
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international laws against what he's called "this hate speech". | :07:12. | :07:22. | |
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is an attack on all Muslims. Therefore this is something that is | :07:25. | :07:30. | |
unacceptable. From the US government now, an unusual move, an | :07:30. | :07:33. | |
ad on Pakistani TV to try to calm tensions. The United States has | :07:33. | :07:38. | |
been a nation that respects all faiths. We reject all efforts to | :07:38. | :07:44. | |
denigrate the religious beliefs of others. This was the American | :07:44. | :07:49. | |
Embassy in Islamabad this morning. Police once again struggling to | :07:49. | :07:51. | |
contain protests. President Obama has said that outrage over the film | :07:51. | :07:57. | |
is being used as an excuse by extremists to target US interests. | :07:58. | :08:04. | |
An effigy of him was set on fire in north-eastern Pakistan. Western | :08:04. | :08:09. | |
embassies across the Muslim world have been reviewing their security | :08:09. | :08:13. | |
amid this turmoil. Here, Government borrowing last | :08:13. | :08:19. | |
month was the highest for any August on record, according to the | :08:19. | :08:23. | |
figures from the Office for National Statistics. The total was | :08:23. | :08:28. | |
because of lower tax receipts and higher benefit payments. The figure | :08:28. | :08:30. | |
also increases the likelihood that the Government won't achieve its | :08:30. | :08:38. | |
aim of wiping out the budget deficit by 2015. | :08:38. | :08:42. | |
It's the latest snapshot of the nation's finances. What's being | :08:42. | :08:48. | |
racked up on the Government's credit card. Nearly �14.4 billion | :08:48. | :08:52. | |
was borrowed in August. The Treasury is grappling with the | :08:52. | :08:58. | |
costs of recession, storing tax revenues. It argues this is down to | :08:58. | :09:08. | |
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unexpected weakness in the eurozone. But Labour says there is no | :09:13. | :09:17. | |
positive news for the Chancellor and it is his policies which have | :09:17. | :09:20. | |
backfired by pushing the economy into recession. The figures are | :09:21. | :09:26. | |
very bleak. It shows the deficit is rising as a result of the | :09:26. | :09:30. | |
Government's economic plan failing and it is the worst figures for | :09:30. | :09:33. | |
August on record. This isn't what the Chancellor promised. Government | :09:33. | :09:40. | |
borrowing in the financial year so far was higher, �59 billion. That | :09:40. | :09:44. | |
compares to �49 billion over the same period last year. But | :09:44. | :09:48. | |
borrowing for the whole of last year was revised down to �119 | :09:48. | :09:52. | |
billion, compared to the �125 billion previousliest mated. | :09:52. | :09:58. | |
Government has a dilemma here. It and try and meet its deficit | :09:58. | :10:01. | |
targets. That would entail more tax rises and spending cuts. It could | :10:01. | :10:05. | |
choose to relax those plans and stimulate the economy. It runs the | :10:05. | :10:10. | |
risk of markets reacting badly and interest rates rising. There was | :10:10. | :10:13. | |
high level support from the Bank of England no less for the idea of the | :10:13. | :10:17. | |
Chancellor going a bit easy on one of his key targets - reducing debt | :10:17. | :10:21. | |
as a percentage of the overall economy. If it is because the world | :10:21. | :10:25. | |
economy has grown slowly, so we in turn have grown slowly, then it | :10:25. | :10:28. | |
would be acceptable to be in that position, yes. But if the world | :10:28. | :10:32. | |
economy were to pick up, and we could grow quite quickly, it would | :10:32. | :10:36. | |
not be acceptable to miss it if we have no excuse for it. As always, | :10:36. | :10:41. | |
the health of the public purse will depend on the future path of the | :10:41. | :10:45. | |
economy and that remains highly uncertain. | :10:45. | :10:50. | |
The security firm which failed to hire enough security staff for the | :10:50. | :10:54. | |
London Olympics should surrender its �57 million management fee, | :10:54. | :10:58. | |
according to a committee of MPs. The Armed Forces had to step in at | :10:58. | :11:02. | |
the last minute when G4S said it couldn't meet its targets. The | :11:02. | :11:07. | |
company is arguing that the fee was used to pay wages and other costs | :11:07. | :11:14. | |
and wasn't a profit. The largest security company in the | :11:14. | :11:20. | |
world... In the past, G4S has been proud of its record, not least in | :11:20. | :11:24. | |
delivering major Government contracts and saving money as Is | :11:24. | :11:29. | |
Chief Executive made clear earlier in the year -- as its Chief | :11:29. | :11:34. | |
Executive made clear earlier in the year. We will hope to do better | :11:34. | :11:39. | |
over the next two or three years. At this summer's Olympics, it | :11:39. | :11:45. | |
failed to deliver. It could not provide the security guards it had | :11:45. | :11:49. | |
promised. The Chief Executive was hauled before the Home Affairs | :11:49. | :11:52. | |
Select Committee. It is a humiliating shambles, isn't it? | :11:52. | :11:55. | |
is not where we would want to be, that is certain. It is a | :11:55. | :11:59. | |
humiliating shambles for the company, "yes" or "no"? I cannot | :11:59. | :12:05. | |
disagree with you. In today's report, the Home Affairs Select | :12:05. | :12:14. | |
Committee said G4S should forego its management fee, the Government | :12:14. | :12:18. | |
should maintain a register of companies and the Armed Services | :12:18. | :12:23. | |
should be considered for security duties at the outset. G4S have got | :12:23. | :12:28. | |
to pay the costs of their failures. They recklessly boasted that they | :12:28. | :12:34. | |
could conduct two Games whereas in fact they could only do one. | :12:34. | :12:37. | |
Therefore, they should waive their management fee and pay the | :12:37. | :12:43. | |
compensation that people deserve. G4S has again apologised and taken | :12:43. | :12:46. | |
full responsibility. It says its management fee was not profit but | :12:46. | :12:54. | |
reflected the costs of running its training programme. The Army won | :12:54. | :12:58. | |
plaudits for the way it stepped in at the last minute to make good | :12:58. | :13:01. | |
G4S's failures, although leaning on it more in the future may not be | :13:01. | :13:09. | |
easy as it faces cuts. Its fatures at the Olympics have cost G4S �50 | :13:09. | :13:14. | |
million with negotiations still ongoing. But the damage to its | :13:14. | :13:18. | |
reputation and ability to win future contracts may be harder to | :13:18. | :13:24. | |
measure. The man in charge of making sure | :13:24. | :13:28. | |
that Conservative MPs behave themselves has had to apologise | :13:28. | :13:32. | |
profusely for making what he called "disrespectful remarks to a police | :13:32. | :13:35. | |
officer in Downing Street". The Chief Whip admitted that he hadn't | :13:36. | :13:40. | |
treated the officers with the respect they deserve. Let's get | :13:40. | :13:43. | |
more from Gary O'Donogue. How much do we know about what happened | :13:43. | :13:50. | |
here? Well, there is a flat contradiction between the two | :13:50. | :13:54. | |
separate accounts - one in the Sun newspaper which has Andrew Mitchell | :13:54. | :14:00. | |
referring to these officers as "plebs and as morons" peppered with | :14:00. | :14:04. | |
a number of expletives as well and Mr Mitchell's account where he said | :14:04. | :14:08. | |
he didn't swear at the officers, but there was an argument over him | :14:08. | :14:13. | |
coming out of these gates, these famous gates on his bicycle on | :14:13. | :14:16. | |
Wednesday night, the officers wouldn't let him do it and asked | :14:16. | :14:19. | |
him to come out here. Now, nevertheless, he says he didn't | :14:19. | :14:23. | |
treat them with the respect they were due and he had a face to face | :14:23. | :14:28. | |
meeting with the Prime Minister and there was that apology and now an | :14:28. | :14:31. | |
apology to the actual officer on duty that night. There's been a lot | :14:31. | :14:35. | |
of criticism from within his own party. One Tory backbencher said it | :14:35. | :14:38. | |
was completely unacceptable and he was going to tell Mr Mitchell that | :14:38. | :14:44. | |
to his face next time he saw him. David Cameron has been asked about | :14:44. | :14:49. | |
Mr Mitchell's future and there wasn't any answer to that. We are | :14:50. | :14:54. | |
expecting for him to have some kind of meeting with Mr Mitchell later | :14:54. | :15:01. | |
on. It looks as if this isn't quite over yet. With Labour putting | :15:01. | :15:04. | |
pressure on Downing Street to release the details as to what did | :15:04. | :15:14. | |
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happen, it looks like it won't go Our top story this lunchtime. Dale | :15:16. | :15:20. | |
Cregan, the man accused of murdering two police officers in | :15:20. | :15:23. | |
Greater Manchester, has made his first court appearance before | :15:23. | :15:28. | |
magistrates. And coming up on the programme, England begins the | :15:28. | :15:32. | |
defence of its world Twenty20 title with its first-ever match against | :15:33. | :15:38. | |
Afghanistan. Later on BBC London, calls for more | :15:38. | :15:42. | |
security for tenants as the cost of lettings in the capital reaches a | :15:42. | :15:46. | |
new high. And turning the key on some of the highlights of hidden | :15:46. | :15:55. | |
London for the Open House weekend. Join us at 1:30pm for that and more. | :15:56. | :16:00. | |
Nearly a quarter of people who have Alzheimer's disease try to hide it | :16:00. | :16:03. | |
because of the stigma attached to the condition. According to | :16:03. | :16:06. | |
research published to date to coincide with World Alzheimer's Day. | :16:06. | :16:11. | |
To mark that day here in the UK, a campaign has been launched a range | :16:11. | :16:16. | |
-- to raise awareness and help sufferers. John Maguire has been to | :16:16. | :16:19. | |
one care home in Bristol, where they're going back to the past to | :16:19. | :16:29. | |
help people with the condition. We are taking a trip down memory | :16:29. | :16:34. | |
lane Doreen and Joyce. For these ladies with dementia, the items | :16:34. | :16:37. | |
here trigger wriggle etched -- recollections of happy days gone by. | :16:37. | :16:44. | |
What have we got here, I wonder? English tripe. I remember that. | :16:44. | :16:52. | |
you? Were you a fan? What tripe? Eating it? Oh, yes. Really? Yes, | :16:52. | :17:02. | |
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cooked in milk. I had a Honda 50. motorbike? Yes. The couple used to | :17:04. | :17:08. | |
put his hand it for me when I went through, yes. He let you through | :17:08. | :17:18. | |
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specially? Yes. A nutter? Yes. I was. The family who run the care | :17:18. | :17:22. | |
home Sindh -- say the intention is not to attend any of this is real. | :17:22. | :17:26. | |
It is here to stimulate. We become aware of how important reminiscence | :17:26. | :17:33. | |
is and how effective it can be to Brighton someone's day. The real | :17:33. | :17:36. | |
problem with dementia is we fail to make new, short-term memories. That | :17:36. | :17:41. | |
is why it is easier to recall the past and more difficult to work in | :17:41. | :17:44. | |
the presence, so something like this, when you see a newspaper from | :17:44. | :17:49. | |
a past experience, a reminder of past experience, or red box, a | :17:49. | :17:54. | |
label, but is a good way to enter into some kind of conversation, to | :17:54. | :17:58. | |
remember the good times. I try to ignore the signs that it was | :17:58. | :18:02. | |
getting worse. Today sees the launch of a major campaign to | :18:02. | :18:06. | |
tackle the stigma of admitting when someone first has the condition and | :18:06. | :18:11. | |
increasing the rate of early diagnosis. And for those living | :18:11. | :18:19. | |
with dementia, on this 1950s street, fond memories are being rekindled | :18:19. | :18:26. | |
by long-lost memorabilia. What this replica 1950s village does provides | :18:26. | :18:31. | |
a direct physical link with happy memories from the past. Invaluable | :18:31. | :18:40. | |
for people who can struggle to cope with the present. | :18:40. | :18:43. | |
The leader of the UK Independence Party, Nigel Farage, has set out | :18:43. | :18:47. | |
his terms for any electoral deal with the Conservatives. He has told | :18:47. | :18:50. | |
his party's annual conference in Birmingham that he will not | :18:50. | :18:54. | |
consider the idea unless he receives a cast-iron guarantee that | :18:54. | :18:59. | |
there will be a referendum on the UK's membership of the EU. | :18:59. | :19:06. | |
The only way we would even consider a negotiation of any kind at all | :19:06. | :19:10. | |
would be first an absolute promise was made to give this country a | :19:10. | :19:15. | |
full, free and fair referendum so that we could decide whether we | :19:15. | :19:18. | |
remain members of the EU or not. That would have to be on the table | :19:18. | :19:23. | |
before we even considered any proposal. Let's get more from our | :19:23. | :19:26. | |
political correspondent, Robin Brant, who is at the conference in | :19:26. | :19:30. | |
Birmingham. Are we getting a sense of what sort of deal might be | :19:30. | :19:36. | |
talked about here, whether this is realistic? Yes, we got a picture of | :19:36. | :19:41. | |
what kind of negotiations may be between the Conservatives and UKIP | :19:41. | :19:44. | |
in two years' time but we are far from that at the moment, because | :19:45. | :19:48. | |
the view from Conservative HQ is clear. David Cameron has said there | :19:48. | :19:53. | |
will be no referendum in terms of one in out vote in terms of | :19:53. | :19:56. | |
Britain's future in the European Union under his watch and Nigel | :19:56. | :19:59. | |
Farage told his troops in Birmingham today that none of the | :19:59. | :20:02. | |
talk about this, none of the suggestions come are coming from | :20:02. | :20:06. | |
his side. The irony is he has come here to Birmingham to try to dispel | :20:06. | :20:11. | |
the perception that UKIP is a one- trick pony and a one-man band | :20:11. | :20:16. | |
organisation, so we will get talk about home affairs, crime, Justice, | :20:16. | :20:20. | |
energy from the platform but of course the reality is that the euro | :20:20. | :20:24. | |
crisis means that the future of the EU and the economy is a very big | :20:24. | :20:28. | |
issue at the problem is for Nigel Farage, the more that he says he | :20:28. | :20:33. | |
does not want to talk about a pact means that the issue itself goes | :20:33. | :20:38. | |
further down the ladder and what he wants to do is talk it up as much | :20:38. | :20:41. | |
as he can. So at the moment the deal is not on but things can | :20:41. | :20:45. | |
change considerably over the next few years. | :20:45. | :20:49. | |
Robin Brant. Army explosives experts were called to the centre | :20:49. | :20:53. | |
of Londonderry last night after two bombs were discovered close to city | :20:53. | :20:57. | |
council offices. There has been a series of attacks on property in | :20:57. | :21:01. | |
Derek recently blamed on dissident republicans. The latest devices | :21:01. | :21:07. | |
were said to be viable but have now been made safe. | :21:07. | :21:10. | |
Universal has been given the go- ahead to buy the EMI record label | :21:10. | :21:14. | |
but it will not be getting some of the company's biggest artists. The | :21:14. | :21:18. | |
European Commission has agreed the deal, was nearly $2 billion, but | :21:18. | :21:23. | |
only if EMI sells some of its best known labels including Parlophone, | :21:23. | :21:29. | |
which is home to Coldplay, Pink Floyd Kylie Minogue. Here is our | :21:29. | :21:36. | |
arts correspondent, David Sillito. EMI, the record company behind | :21:36. | :21:42. | |
Kylie Minogue. It was the label that fell out with the Sex Pistols | :21:42. | :21:47. | |
and it used to be the heart of the British music industry. No longer. | :21:47. | :21:50. | |
The French-owned firm Universal has been given the go-ahead to take it | :21:50. | :21:55. | |
over. In a statement it said today, today's approval brings to an end | :21:55. | :21:59. | |
to an extensive EU regulatory review and the acquisition will | :21:59. | :22:04. | |
benefit the artistic community and the music industry. But will it? | :22:04. | :22:09. | |
Universal have about a 30% market share as it is, have they bought | :22:09. | :22:12. | |
EMI in its entirety and been allowed to keep the assets, a 40% | :22:12. | :22:17. | |
market share, it means if you want to launch a digital music service, | :22:17. | :22:21. | |
the next iTunes, then you almost cannot launch with a Universal's | :22:21. | :22:25. | |
catalogue. Indeed, EMI had been one of the big four record companies | :22:25. | :22:30. | |
but it has had troubled few years. Now this deal means three firms | :22:30. | :22:36. | |
will dominate the market, Universal, Sony and Warners. However, today's | :22:36. | :22:40. | |
decision does mean that bands such as Coldplay, Pink Floyd and David | :22:40. | :22:44. | |
Bowie will have to be sold off, something that has been welcomed by | :22:44. | :22:47. | |
Britain's independent labels who feared that one firm would end up | :22:47. | :22:53. | |
running the crown jewels of British music. | :22:53. | :22:57. | |
Also for sale, a five-bedroomed house set in the hills outside | :22:57. | :23:02. | |
Belfast complete with a driving range, greens and bunkers. Adolfo | :23:02. | :23:07. | |
Rory McIlroy says he is selling up because he is increasingly busy and | :23:07. | :23:12. | |
spends so much time abroad, particularly in the US. But it has | :23:12. | :23:14. | |
a Ireland correspondent Mark Simpson reports, the move has | :23:14. | :23:18. | |
increased speculation that the world number one may be about to | :23:18. | :23:24. | |
leave Northern Ireland for good. Every time he has won a big | :23:24. | :23:27. | |
tournament there has always been a big welcome at home for Rory | :23:27. | :23:31. | |
McIlroy. But the bigger he has got, the last time he has spent in | :23:31. | :23:36. | |
Northern Ireland and now he is selling up. It is no ordinary house. | :23:36. | :23:41. | |
The back garden is a state-of-the- art golf range complete with St | :23:41. | :23:47. | |
Andrews style bunkers. He is rarely at home now. He is usually a Met -- | :23:47. | :23:50. | |
usually in America. In future when he comes back he will stay with his | :23:50. | :23:55. | |
mum and dad. He has to move away from Northern Ireland. He is | :23:55. | :23:58. | |
working in America, playing more there. It is no surprise to anyone. | :23:58. | :24:02. | |
He definitely has to base himself there. But only last year it looked | :24:02. | :24:07. | |
like he would never leave his �2 million house. I see myself always | :24:07. | :24:12. | |
being based here, living here and to have something like this would | :24:12. | :24:17. | |
be a shame to move away and not have it. But much has changed. His | :24:17. | :24:21. | |
new girlfriend to, the Danish tennis player Carol Ann Wozniacki, | :24:21. | :24:28. | |
spends a lot of time in America. McIlroy is now the world number one. | :24:28. | :24:34. | |
He has overtaken Tiger Woods as the hottest property in golf. And if he | :24:34. | :24:39. | |
wins the Fed-Ex Cup in Atlanta this weekend, he will earn a cool $10 | :24:39. | :24:44. | |
million bonus. Last night he got off to a good start. COMMENTATOR: | :24:44. | :24:50. | |
Unbelievable, amazing. Back here in Belfast, Rory McIlroy is still | :24:50. | :24:55. | |
regarded as a hero, whether he lives here permanently or not. | :24:55. | :25:00. | |
After all, we do still see him around. He may be gone but he is | :25:00. | :25:08. | |
not forgotten. Cricket and England be killed -- | :25:08. | :25:11. | |
begins the defence of its world Twenty20 title in a few hours with | :25:11. | :25:15. | |
its first-ever match against Afghanistan. Team captain Stuart | :25:15. | :25:20. | |
Broad says morale is brilliant, but he is keen to stress that they are | :25:20. | :25:24. | |
not taking anything for granted. Facing a team that many pundits say | :25:24. | :25:29. | |
are more than capable of causing an upset. From Sri Lanka, here's our | :25:29. | :25:35. | |
sports correspondent Joe Wilson. Colombo can be a difficult place to | :25:35. | :25:39. | |
find a new direction, well, any direction. This cricket tournament | :25:39. | :25:43. | |
gives England the chance to remind the world they are the best, after | :25:43. | :25:46. | |
months of frequent defeat and the power struggle with Kevin Pietersen. | :25:46. | :25:50. | |
The man in charge of England's team here is Stuart Broad, a young | :25:50. | :25:54. | |
captain with some young players around him, all pulling in the same | :25:54. | :25:58. | |
direction? From Captain's point of view, is a happier dressing room, | :25:59. | :26:06. | |
and easier dressing room, with up Pietersen in it? KP has been around | :26:06. | :26:09. | |
for a long time and done fantastically well for us. The | :26:09. | :26:13. | |
battle is with the ECB that he is not here and we have to put up with | :26:13. | :26:19. | |
that and get on with that. Twenty20 cricket was invented for | :26:19. | :26:22. | |
entertainment but for one nation the significance of this tournament | :26:22. | :26:28. | |
goes far beyond a bash to the boundary. Afghanistan play cricket | :26:28. | :26:32. | |
to give hope to that -- to give hope to their nation. It is not | :26:32. | :26:36. | |
hype, it is their motivation. Their progress up the world rankings has | :26:36. | :26:39. | |
been astonishing. Ten years ago there was not million Afghanis team | :26:39. | :26:44. | |
at all. The Asian Cricket Council say 34 new cricket grounds have | :26:44. | :26:48. | |
sprung up in Afghanistan in the past year alone. Nothing could have | :26:48. | :26:53. | |
done anything good in Afghanistan with cricket, that was the only | :26:53. | :26:59. | |
solution for Afghanistan. It has brought people together from every | :26:59. | :27:02. | |
different language they speak and I am happy to see the people in the | :27:02. | :27:09. | |
street playing cricket, so I would say only the sport has taken the | :27:09. | :27:13. | |
guns out of the kids aren't given that in their hands. Well, England | :27:13. | :27:16. | |
are the reigning world champions in this form of cricket but the whole | :27:16. | :27:20. | |
point about Twenty20 is that anybody can beat anybody and there | :27:20. | :27:26. | |
is no doubt that Afghanistan fancy their chances here. | :27:26. | :27:34. | |
Now, let's find out what the Hello to stop it looks likely we | :27:34. | :27:37. | |
will see some pretty stormy weather on the cards later in the weekend | :27:37. | :27:41. | |
but before we get there, it is fairly quiet. This afternoon, call- | :27:41. | :27:44. | |
out side but bright spells especially across the northern half | :27:44. | :27:48. | |
of the UK. We have this week for the front which is slowly pushing | :27:48. | :27:51. | |
south through central and southern parts of England and Wales, | :27:51. | :27:54. | |
bringing like that -- bringing light outbreaks of rain. Around 4pm | :27:54. | :27:59. | |
we see the rain lingering in East Anglia and Lincolnshire, the far | :27:59. | :28:03. | |
south getting away with a few spells of sunshine. Hazy spells of | :28:03. | :28:06. | |
sunshine in the south-west. We could see light showers for North | :28:07. | :28:11. | |
and parts of Devon. One of two showers for Wales. A good deal of | :28:11. | :28:15. | |
bright weather. An improved afternoon for Northern Ireland, | :28:15. | :28:18. | |
especially compared to the wet weather yesterday. 11 or 12 degrees | :28:18. | :28:23. | |
Celsius. An isolated chalet in the north and west. For Scotland, a | :28:23. | :28:29. | |
good deal of dry weather. One or two showers but for Dumfries and | :28:29. | :28:32. | |
Galloway it is a strike on a fine afternoon. Further south, the cloud | :28:33. | :28:37. | |
and drizzly rain, all down to the slow, week when a friend which | :28:37. | :28:42. | |
pushes out of the way this evening and overnight with clear skies. It | :28:42. | :28:46. | |
is going to be chilly. Temperatures holding a bat around three-nine | :28:46. | :28:49. | |
degrees Celsius in the towns, but in the countryside a few degrees | :28:49. | :28:54. | |
either side of freezing. We are likely to see a frost on Saturday | :28:54. | :28:58. | |
morning. Actually start. We will compensate with lots of sunshine. A | :28:58. | :29:03. | |
sparkling day tomorrow. In the afternoon, more cloud building up. | :29:03. | :29:07. | |
Thing stirs in hazy in the South with the arrival of high cloud. | :29:07. | :29:12. | |
Light winds, pleasant in the sunshine. 11-16 degrees Celsius. | :29:12. | :29:16. | |
All change as we head into Sunday. The low-pressure system starts to | :29:16. | :29:21. | |
push in from the south-west. It is a low-pressure system but bringing | :29:21. | :29:27. | |
type isobars with heavy rainfall as well. There is some uncertainty on | :29:27. | :29:30. | |
the but -- on the exact position but most likely that some counties | :29:30. | :29:36. | |
of England and South Wales could see a deluge us -- of wet weather. | :29:36. | :29:40. | |
At the weekend, for most of us Saturday is dry and bright but by | :29:40. | :29:44. | |
Sunday, things will turn wet in the south. The low-pressure system is | :29:44. | :29:48. | |
going to be moving slowly north as we head into Monday. With those | :29:48. | :29:52. | |
tightening isobars we're going to see not just a wet but also a windy | :29:52. | :29:55. | |
commute for first thing on Monday morning. There is lots happening in | :29:55. | :29:59. | |
the weather. Keep tuned to the latest forecast over the next | :29:59. | :30:08. |