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Flooding misery continues as rising waters puts thousands of homes at | :00:10. | :00:17. | |
risk. Teetering on the edge of a block of flats in a village near | :00:17. | :00:23. | |
Newcastle has been evacuated. This is Newburn where the flats | :00:23. | :00:26. | |
were left on the brink by a landslide which is causing chaos in | :00:26. | :00:31. | |
the high street. In North Yorkshire a town cut in | :00:31. | :00:36. | |
two as a bridge is swamped by the rising river. | :00:36. | :00:39. | |
Police officer describes how he shot Mark Duggan, the man whose | :00:39. | :00:42. | |
death sparked the summer riots last year. | :00:43. | :00:50. | |
In Greece police fire tear gas at protesters. | :00:50. | :00:54. | |
In Syria, rebels target Army headquarters. | :00:54. | :00:58. | |
Leaving the boy wizard behind, JK Rowling on her debut novel for | :00:58. | :01:02. | |
adults. It is personal in the sense that it | :01:02. | :01:06. | |
deals with broad themes that have affected my life in a very real | :01:06. | :01:16. | |
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sense. The head of the met tells us about | :01:19. | :01:29. | |
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Good afternoon. Welcome to the BBC News at one. | :01:42. | :01:47. | |
across parts of the UK after the most intense September storm for | :01:47. | :01:51. | |
decades. The heavy rain has triggered a landslide in a village | :01:51. | :01:58. | |
her Newcastle. A block of of flats her Newburn has been evacuated. In | :01:58. | :02:02. | |
Yorkshire, communities are braced for flooding as the River Ouse | :02:02. | :02:09. | |
This is a bit of an understatement. The River Ouse in the centre of | :02:09. | :02:13. | |
York flows under this bridge. The main part of the river is the other | :02:13. | :02:17. | |
side of these buildings and I suppose the message here today is | :02:17. | :02:22. | |
don't be deceived by the weather. Just because it stopped raining. | :02:22. | :02:25. | |
The floodwaters are still rising here in North Yorkshire and | :02:25. | :02:33. | |
people's properties are still under In North Yorkshire this afternoon, | :02:33. | :02:39. | |
rivers are still rising. Two of the most swollen converged to become | :02:39. | :02:43. | |
the River Ouse in York. Already the water in the city centre is high | :02:43. | :02:49. | |
and it is a long way from its peak. I have never seen it this worse. If | :02:49. | :02:53. | |
the flood is still coming down, this will be the biggest one York | :02:53. | :02:57. | |
has seen in many, many years. Nobody seems to do anything about | :02:57. | :03:03. | |
it. A few miles away, the main bridge in the town centre has been | :03:03. | :03:07. | |
closed after taking a battering from the river. It left both sides | :03:07. | :03:11. | |
of the town isolated from each other. | :03:11. | :03:15. | |
Further north in Newburn in Newcastle, a land slip ripped | :03:15. | :03:19. | |
through the middle of the village leaving tonnes of rubble and mud | :03:19. | :03:25. | |
blocking the high street. Although nobody was hurt, a car was buried | :03:25. | :03:29. | |
with what was an underground stream running across the middle of the | :03:29. | :03:32. | |
main road. While some wait for the situation to get worse, others are | :03:32. | :03:41. | |
clearing up. Here Here in Teesside dozens of houses were flooded. | :03:41. | :03:43. | |
Today is about trying to sort out the mess. | :03:43. | :03:46. | |
I'm going to be ringing the insurance people shortly and seeing | :03:46. | :03:51. | |
what the situation is. You know what I can and can't do because | :03:51. | :03:59. | |
until I get that carpet up and that, I can't do anything. It will stink. | :03:59. | :04:03. | |
The deluge of the last two days has raised questions about flood | :04:03. | :04:09. | |
defences. In Morpeth, which was badly affected yesterday, there | :04:09. | :04:13. | |
were complaints that not enough has been done to protect the town since | :04:13. | :04:17. | |
the last floods in 2008. But not everyone is seeing the high water | :04:17. | :04:21. | |
as a miserable prospect. In Castleford in West Yorkshire, they | :04:21. | :04:24. | |
were having a go at knee boarding, but it would have been a short- | :04:24. | :04:31. | |
lived pleasure as the water level The river levels here in York are | :04:31. | :04:36. | |
still rising. The latest prediction levels are not expected to peak | :04:36. | :04:39. | |
until midnight tonight or the early hours of tomorrow morning. These | :04:39. | :04:41. | |
flats here are quite modern. They were built knowing there was a | :04:42. | :04:45. | |
flood risk and nobody lives on the ground floor, but it is the older | :04:45. | :04:49. | |
houses to the left of the picture here which have people living on | :04:49. | :04:54. | |
that level. To give you an idea of what the conditions are like. These | :04:54. | :04:58. | |
are pictures we have just had in of elsewhere in North Yorkshire, a | :04:58. | :05:02. | |
badly flooded road. People having to be taken to their cars in boats | :05:02. | :05:07. | |
at this location in North Yorkshire. So there are still plenty of water | :05:07. | :05:09. | |
hazards around. Still a lot of anxious hours ahead for many people | :05:09. | :05:14. | |
and the situation is set to get worse before it gets better | :05:14. | :05:21. | |
particularly here in North Well, let's go to James Cook in the | :05:21. | :05:26. | |
village of Newburn which is near Newcastle. We saw the dramatic | :05:26. | :05:32. | |
pictures of the block of flats teetering on the edge? Yes, it is | :05:32. | :05:35. | |
absolutely extraordinary what happened here really and we can | :05:35. | :05:39. | |
have a look behind us. The flats up to the left, you can't see them | :05:39. | :05:42. | |
from here, but we saw the pictures a minute ago and the wash of rocks | :05:42. | :05:46. | |
and rubble and debris just came charging down, down into the road. | :05:46. | :05:51. | |
This is the high street. This would be a bustling high street and you | :05:51. | :05:55. | |
can see beyond the digger that gold car which was buried. I have just | :05:55. | :05:58. | |
been speaking to the man who was in that car at the moment that the | :05:58. | :06:03. | |
road started to give way beneath him. He said, he didn't really have | :06:03. | :06:07. | |
time to be scared, he said, but it was extraordinary. He said he was | :06:07. | :06:12. | |
trying to get out. He said he felt more foolish than anything, but he | :06:12. | :06:15. | |
said that it happened so quickly, he didn't have any chance to react | :06:16. | :06:20. | |
and to get the car out of trouble. But he managed to get out and it is | :06:20. | :06:25. | |
remarkable looking at the scene here from above that nobody was | :06:25. | :06:28. | |
injured in Newburn. What is happening today, of course, the | :06:29. | :06:31. | |
clear-up operation is underway. There are several businesses which | :06:31. | :06:35. | |
have been badly affected and they are trying to mop up, but people | :06:35. | :06:39. | |
here are asking questions about the process of the flats being built up | :06:39. | :06:43. | |
the hill. They are worried about why the water came down. What was | :06:43. | :06:48. | |
happening underneath the flats, of of course, nothing has been proved, | :06:48. | :06:52. | |
but people want answers as to what happened up the hill and why such | :06:52. | :06:56. | |
devastation has been caused in the middle of their village? | :06:56. | :07:01. | |
You can keep up-to-date with the latest developments in your area on | :07:01. | :07:11. | |
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The former Chief Executive of News International, Rebekah Brooks and | :07:13. | :07:16. | |
David Cameron's former head of communications, Andy Coulson will | :07:16. | :07:19. | |
go on trial over allegations linked to phone hacking in September next | :07:19. | :07:25. | |
Bailey this morning along with five other former News of the World | :07:25. | :07:29. | |
journalists and the private investigator Glen Mulcaire. Tom | :07:29. | :07:32. | |
Symonds is at the Old Bailey. Talk us through what happened this | :07:32. | :07:37. | |
morning, Tom? Well, this was the first time that 13 out of the 14 | :07:37. | :07:42. | |
people who have been charged after two major police investigations all | :07:42. | :07:46. | |
appeared in court together. In fact, I counted 16 barristers waiting | :07:46. | :07:51. | |
there in their wigs to defend all of these people and so this was a | :07:51. | :07:56. | |
pretty big and busy hearing. As you say, there were Rebekah Brooks, | :07:56. | :08:05. | |
Andy call son, the former -- Coulson, news desk editors and | :08:05. | :08:09. | |
people and Rebekah Brooks' personal assistant and they face charges of | :08:09. | :08:13. | |
either of phone hacking, intercepting telephone messages or | :08:13. | :08:20. | |
of conspiring to pervert the course of justice or in the case of | :08:20. | :08:22. | |
Rebekah Brooks she is charged with both counts. This was a case | :08:22. | :08:25. | |
management hearing. Much of which we can't report, but the one piece | :08:25. | :08:29. | |
of information that we did hear today was there is not going fob a | :08:29. | :08:34. | |
trial -- to be a trial in this legal process until September, 9th | :08:34. | :08:38. | |
next year. There will be a lot of work to do until then which means | :08:38. | :08:42. | |
that these people will have to wait a long time before they face | :08:42. | :08:48. | |
justice. Also until that happens, they are going to be on bail | :08:48. | :08:52. | |
awaiting trials and legal processes. Tom, thank you very much. | :08:53. | :08:57. | |
The radical cleric Abu Hamza launched a last minute minute legal | :08:57. | :09:01. | |
challenge to block his extradition to the United States. On Monday the | :09:01. | :09:04. | |
European Court of Human Rights cleared the way for Abu Hamza and | :09:04. | :09:09. | |
four other men to be sent for trial in America. Now the radical cleric | :09:09. | :09:13. | |
and a second terrorist suspect asked the High Court to halt the | :09:13. | :09:16. | |
process. Abu Hamza faces charges in the United States of plotting to | :09:16. | :09:21. | |
set-up a terrorist training camp in Oregon as well as having links to | :09:21. | :09:26. | |
violent extremism in Yemen. Two bombs exploded near a military | :09:26. | :09:29. | |
headquarters in Damascus. The country's Information Minister says | :09:29. | :09:33. | |
one of the explosions might have been inside the walls of the Army | :09:33. | :09:38. | |
command building, but nobody was hurtment the rebel Free Syrian Army | :09:38. | :09:42. | |
claims it carried out the attacks. Jim Muir reports from Lebanon. | :09:42. | :09:47. | |
In the heart of Damascus, a major military building blazing out of | :09:47. | :09:52. | |
control. This activist's video which we can't independently verify, | :09:53. | :09:55. | |
shows the general staff headquarters apparently stricken by | :09:55. | :10:01. | |
the bomb blasts. Shooting broke out after the | :10:01. | :10:05. | |
explosions. Officials said security forces were chasing what they | :10:05. | :10:10. | |
called terrorists in the nearby area. Diplomats said troops were | :10:10. | :10:14. | |
conductsing house-to-house searches. The whole of Damascus was shaken by | :10:14. | :10:19. | |
the blasts which went off just as the morning rush hour was starting. | :10:19. | :10:24. | |
They were the biggest explosions to hit the capital for months. Parts | :10:24. | :10:29. | |
of the city were paralysed as the security drag net continued. | :10:29. | :10:33. | |
Syrian State TV was the first to report the blasts, but then there | :10:33. | :10:40. | |
was silence on the outcome. Reassuring words from the | :10:40. | :10:43. | |
Information Minister, he said none of the military command staff were | :10:43. | :10:50. | |
injured and everything was normal. With the violence worsening and | :10:50. | :10:53. | |
around 150 people being killed every day, Syria dominated the UN | :10:53. | :10:57. | |
General Assembly discussions in New York. The French are among those | :10:57. | :11:02. | |
growing impatient for action to halt the carnage. | :11:02. | :11:12. | |
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TRANSLATION: Without further delay, I ask the United Nations to give | :11:15. | :11:18. | |
the Syrian people all the support that they are requesting now and in | :11:18. | :11:19. | |
particular, that the liberated areas be protected. | :11:19. | :11:22. | |
But there is still no appetite in the West for the kind of | :11:22. | :11:24. | |
intervention that would require. And so the relentless violence is | :11:24. | :11:29. | |
destined to go on. It is now engulfing all parts of the country. | :11:29. | :11:33. | |
But the regime won't give way, the rebels won't give up and the the | :11:33. | :11:39. | |
outside world doesn't have an The Deputy Prime Minister, Nick | :11:39. | :11:44. | |
Clegg, will today tell delegates at the Liberal Democrat Party | :11:44. | :11:47. | |
conference not to turn back from tough economic decisions. In his | :11:47. | :11:51. | |
speech, he will tell them to hold their nerve and put up the | :11:51. | :11:54. | |
"viotriol and abuse" they have faced since entering coalition with | :11:54. | :11:58. | |
the Conservatives. Ian Watson reports. | :11:58. | :12:06. | |
The economic outlook is gloomy. The Lib Dems are in fourth place in | :12:06. | :12:14. | |
some opinion polls. You might assume the mood among the rank and | :12:14. | :12:18. | |
file is down beat. Some are confident the mood will change. And | :12:18. | :12:22. | |
others take their hat off to Nick Clegg for doing a difficult | :12:22. | :12:25. | |
difficult job. They have done the best they can. | :12:25. | :12:30. | |
Great. He is fighting against the tide of the right-wing Tories and | :12:30. | :12:34. | |
doing a good job and long may it last. | :12:34. | :12:39. | |
Others are more sceptical that Nick Clegg can turn the party's fortunes | :12:39. | :12:42. | |
around. Nick needs to look at what is | :12:42. | :12:45. | |
happening in two years time and decide what's best for the party. | :12:45. | :12:49. | |
The party is the important thing. The individuals are second. | :12:49. | :12:54. | |
Nick Clegg's advice to his party is to keep their nerve and stick with | :12:54. | :13:01. | |
the coalition. Gone forever are the party of opposition. He believes in | :13:01. | :13:05. | |
time the economy will improve and the Liberal Democrats will get the | :13:05. | :13:07. | |
credit. Nick will say to the party that we | :13:07. | :13:10. | |
need to stay the course. We are going on this journey to becoming a | :13:10. | :13:16. | |
party that may well be in Government for sometime. | :13:16. | :13:20. | |
The political lesson Nick Clegg wants to hammer home is that | :13:20. | :13:23. | |
overall, it has been worthwhile to be in coalition. The party | :13:23. | :13:27. | |
implemented its pledge to introduce the pupil premium to help | :13:27. | :13:31. | |
disadvantaged children. Today, he will be announcing there will be | :13:31. | :13:36. | |
more cash for extra tuition for those who have fallen behind in | :13:36. | :13:39. | |
reading and maths by the time they leave primary school. | :13:40. | :13:45. | |
No new taxes on the wealthy are announced this week. So if the | :13:45. | :13:48. | |
delegates want Nick Clegg to take a a tougher line with the | :13:48. | :13:53. | |
Conservatives over this issue. Don't concede a further cut in the | :13:53. | :14:00. | |
top rate of tax. George Osborne would acknowledge that was a | :14:00. | :14:04. | |
mistake. Nick Clegg is bracing members for | :14:04. | :14:07. | |
some difficult times ahead, but he is confident his party won't be | :14:07. | :14:16. | |
swept away as a political force at In Greece, police have fired tear- | :14:16. | :14:19. | |
gas at protesters marching to Athens during the biggest anti | :14:19. | :14:22. | |
austerity demonstration for months. A 24 hour general strike is under | :14:22. | :14:26. | |
way, the first since the new Prime Minister, Antonis Samaras, came | :14:26. | :14:29. | |
into power in June. Flights and friends have been suspended and | :14:30. | :14:39. | |
shops have closed. -- flights and trains have been suspended. It had | :14:39. | :14:44. | |
been a peaceful protest, but as the marchers arrived on Syntagma Square | :14:44. | :14:50. | |
the violence erupted. Anarchists threw Molotov cocktails at police, | :14:50. | :14:56. | |
who responded with volleys of tear gas. Plumes of smoke billowed from | :14:56. | :14:59. | |
the square as the protesters were charged into the side streets in a | :14:59. | :15:04. | |
desperate attempt for the officers to regain control. It wasn't meant | :15:04. | :15:08. | |
to be like this. The morning began with large but calm Archers. | :15:08. | :15:13. | |
Thousands poured onto the streets. A nation caught between rage and | :15:14. | :15:20. | |
despair. They faced many rounds of spending cuts already and there is | :15:20. | :15:23. | |
now more, bringing the country to its knees. This is the biggest show | :15:23. | :15:27. | |
of strength from the unions in months - a sign that people here | :15:27. | :15:31. | |
have reached their limits. demonstrate against the measures | :15:31. | :15:35. | |
that destroy our lives. That is why we are out to date because we are | :15:35. | :15:40. | |
desperate people. We cannot live in this country any more, so we come | :15:40. | :15:45. | |
out here to demonstrate for our rights. We have no social security, | :15:45. | :15:48. | |
we pay for the social security and we have no social security. We | :15:49. | :15:53. | |
don't know if we have our salary next month. The message from the | :15:53. | :15:58. | |
streets is clear. That over two years since Chris requested outside | :15:58. | :16:01. | |
help, things are getting worse not better and life has become | :16:01. | :16:06. | |
unbearable. They believe the entire strategy pursued by Greece's | :16:06. | :16:10. | |
international creditors is wrong and that they are paying the price. | :16:11. | :16:15. | |
But the government won't budge. It is negotiating an 11.5 billion | :16:15. | :16:19. | |
euros package of new spending cuts with its international lenders. | :16:19. | :16:22. | |
Pensions will be slashed and the retirement age is set to rise. It's | :16:22. | :16:27. | |
all to secure the next 31 billion euros slice of Greece's | :16:27. | :16:30. | |
International alone, without which it would go bankrupt. The | :16:30. | :16:33. | |
government wants two more ideas to cut the deficit. It will only get | :16:33. | :16:38. | |
that if it agrees on the cuts. Away from the streets the country has | :16:38. | :16:42. | |
been paralysed by a general strike. Air traffic controllers, doctors, | :16:42. | :16:46. | |
teachers, very workers or stopping work, leaving tourists stranded. | :16:46. | :16:51. | |
This is what is fuelling the unrest, with businesses closed, record | :16:51. | :16:55. | |
unemployment of 24 % and a third of Greeks pushed below the poverty | :16:55. | :16:59. | |
line, the country is struggling to cope. And so the anger continues to | :16:59. | :17:04. | |
build. If this is the level of resistance while the cuts are being | :17:04. | :17:14. | |
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negotiated, just what might happen Flooding misery continues as rising | :17:15. | :17:19. | |
water has put thousands of homes at risk. A block of flats on the | :17:19. | :17:25. | |
outskirts of Newcastle is said to be on the brink of collapse. Coming | :17:25. | :17:30. | |
up... Leaving the boy wizard behind. JK Brolin defender rather liberal | :17:30. | :17:34. | |
use of swear words in her debut novel for adults. I've been open | :17:34. | :17:39. | |
about what the beams are, I would have thought parents could make a | :17:39. | :17:45. | |
Later on BBC London. The new technology which could bring an end | :17:45. | :17:48. | |
to the frustration of finding a parking space. And we meet the 84- | :17:48. | :17:51. | |
year-old folk legend who's lived in the same Islington flat for nearly | :17:51. | :18:01. | |
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A policeman has described how he shot Mark Duggan, the man whose | :18:05. | :18:08. | |
death sparked the riots in England last year, in the chest and arm. | :18:08. | :18:12. | |
The firearms officer told the court that Mark Duggan was carrying a gun | :18:12. | :18:16. | |
when he shot him. Our correspondent is at Snaresbrook Crown Court for | :18:17. | :18:24. | |
This was dramatic courtroom testimony about an incident which | :18:24. | :18:28. | |
was later to have great social significance. The witness was part | :18:28. | :18:32. | |
of a team of firearms officers which was ordered to intercept the | :18:32. | :18:36. | |
mini-cab in which Mark Duggan was travelling on August off, and which | :18:36. | :18:41. | |
was itself being followed by undercover police officers. -- | :18:41. | :18:45. | |
August fourth. August fourth last year, and this | :18:45. | :18:48. | |
scene recorded by a member of the public commercials Mark Duggan | :18:48. | :18:53. | |
dying on the ground, surrounded by medics after being shot twice by | :18:53. | :18:55. | |
police who interceptor da Silva mini-cab he was travelling in. The | :18:55. | :18:58. | |
incident sparked the Tottenham riots, which spread across London | :18:58. | :19:04. | |
and then to other cities in England. It happened here on Ferry Lane. And | :19:04. | :19:07. | |
the officer who fireboat shops today described the moment Mark | :19:07. | :19:11. | |
Duggan step from the cart surrounded by police. From behind | :19:11. | :19:16. | |
the screen the officer said, Mark Duggan was holding a gun in his | :19:16. | :19:19. | |
right hand. I could make out the shape of the gun, the trigger guard | :19:20. | :19:24. | |
on the barrel. He was holding a pistol grip. I fired one round | :19:24. | :19:29. | |
which impacted on his chest. I saw a flinching movement. The gun he is | :19:29. | :19:32. | |
holding is pointing in my direction now. Again, I think he's going to | :19:32. | :19:40. | |
shoot me and that via another round. Mark Durkan then fell to the floor. | :19:40. | :19:44. | |
-- Mark Duggan. The officer said one of the bullets went through Mr | :19:44. | :19:48. | |
Duggan and hit another firearms officer. The officer survived but | :19:48. | :19:52. | |
Mark Duggan did not. He was giving evidence at the trial of Kevin | :19:52. | :19:56. | |
Hutchinson Foster, who denies supplying Mark Durkan with an | :19:56. | :19:59. | |
illegal handgun, 15 minutes before he was intercepted by police. An | :19:59. | :20:04. | |
inquest into Hollande why Mark Duggan was killed is expected to be | :20:04. | :20:10. | |
held next year. -- Howath and YV Mark Duggan was killed. Under | :20:10. | :20:12. | |
cross-examination this police officer was later asked, is there | :20:12. | :20:16. | |
any possibility that you discharged your weapon before you could be | :20:16. | :20:20. | |
sure that Mark Duggan had it done? He replied, no, that is complete | :20:20. | :20:24. | |
rubbish. He was also asked, would it be fair to describe the | :20:24. | :20:29. | |
demeanour of you and your fellow officers as angry and mad? He | :20:29. | :20:36. | |
replied, no one was angry and definitely no one was mad. A Church | :20:36. | :20:39. | |
of England panel has begun a three- day meeting to help decide who | :20:39. | :20:44. | |
should be the next Archbishop of Canterbury. The panel will put | :20:44. | :20:47. | |
forward one name to the Prime Minister and the Queen for approval. | :20:47. | :20:50. | |
The man they choose will replace Dr Rowan Williams, who will step down | :20:50. | :20:53. | |
at the end of the year after a decade in the post which has been | :20:54. | :20:58. | |
marked by long row with -- long- running rows of a women priests and | :20:58. | :21:03. | |
gay bishops. I, Rohan Douglas Willey and start macro when Rowan | :21:04. | :21:06. | |
Williams was enthroned at Canterbury Cathedral almost 10 | :21:06. | :21:09. | |
years ago, he was seen by many Anglicans as the outstanding | :21:09. | :21:14. | |
candidate for the job. This time the field is wide open. The Church | :21:14. | :21:20. | |
panel responsible for choosing his successor faces agonising decisions. | :21:20. | :21:26. | |
Many Anglicans believe the scale of the task requires a risk-taker. The | :21:26. | :21:29. | |
skydiving Archbishop of York John Sentamu is among the front-runners. | :21:29. | :21:34. | |
However, something his style doesn't it Canterbury. Marriage is | :21:35. | :21:40. | |
intended... The Bishop of London, Richard Dart -- Richard Charters, | :21:40. | :21:45. | |
who preached at the Royal Wedding, but his age and the fact he has | :21:45. | :21:49. | |
never ordained a woman priest could count against him. Conservative | :21:49. | :21:54. | |
evangelicals have lobbied for Christopher Cosworth. Some whisper | :21:54. | :21:58. | |
that he is indecisive. The Bishop of Durham, Justin well be, has been | :21:58. | :22:02. | |
a bishop less than a year but his experience as a senior oil | :22:02. | :22:06. | |
executive might appeal to the selectors. The new Archbishop will | :22:06. | :22:10. | |
take over at a critical time in the Church's history. It is fighting to | :22:11. | :22:13. | |
maintain congregation's and struggling to uphold traditional | :22:13. | :22:17. | |
Christian teaching in the public arena. And, like the wider Anglican | :22:18. | :22:20. | |
community of which the new Archbishop will also be spiritual | :22:20. | :22:26. | |
head, it is dangerously divided about sexuality. The role of the | :22:26. | :22:30. | |
Archbishop of Canterbury is to be first amongst equals. It is a | :22:30. | :22:35. | |
figure, like all bishops are, of Christian unity. That means | :22:35. | :22:40. | |
building relations with other faiths, and joining them in the | :22:40. | :22:46. | |
shed battle to promote religion in a secular age. She is one of the | :22:46. | :22:51. | |
world's most famous children's writers but JK Rowling has left the | :22:51. | :22:54. | |
magic and wizardry of Harry Potter behind her to create her first | :22:54. | :22:59. | |
novel for adults. It is called The Casual Vacancy Han -- and has | :22:59. | :23:02. | |
already created a stir because of its extensive use of language which | :23:02. | :23:06. | |
is definitely not suitable for children. She explains what | :23:06. | :23:12. | |
inspired her to write from an older audience. This is the thing I | :23:12. | :23:16. | |
wanted to write next, it's not very complicated. I had the idea, I knew | :23:16. | :23:20. | |
I would love to write it and that is where it all started. Why was it | :23:20. | :23:27. | |
the thing you wanted to write next? The idea just came to me. I had | :23:27. | :23:31. | |
that almost visceral reaction when you are excited about something and | :23:31. | :23:36. | |
you know you want to do it. But I could say, well, it plays into | :23:36. | :23:40. | |
certain themes in my life, it's quite a personal book, these are | :23:40. | :23:46. | |
things I think about a lot. It is personal in the sense that it deals | :23:46. | :23:50. | |
with broad themes that have affected my life in a very real | :23:50. | :23:56. | |
sense. Poverty, for example. Casual Vacancy is a story set in a | :23:56. | :24:00. | |
small English town in which a rough council estate becomes a divisive | :24:00. | :24:04. | |
issue in a community riven with hate, prejudice and exclusion, | :24:04. | :24:11. | |
expletives abound. Do you worry that children who are fans of yours | :24:11. | :24:14. | |
will be on an internet site where you can easily download these | :24:14. | :24:22. | |
books? I hope that we have made it really clear that this isn't a book | :24:22. | :24:29. | |
for children. I've been very open about the themes, we'd talked about | :24:29. | :24:33. | |
what the story is about. I would have thought that parents could | :24:33. | :24:36. | |
make a very clear choice about whether they would want to... | :24:36. | :24:42. | |
might not be the parents making the choice. Well, with children... Well, | :24:42. | :24:47. | |
I suppose I would have to ask why have kids got such untrammelled | :24:47. | :24:50. | |
access to all aspects of the internet that they are | :24:50. | :24:53. | |
downloading... Said the things they would be even more worried about | :24:53. | :24:56. | |
them Downloading if they were running amok on the internet on | :24:56. | :25:00. | |
their own. It is very difficult to say how | :25:00. | :25:09. | |
angry I felt that my five-year-old daughter's school was no longer a | :25:09. | :25:13. | |
place of complete security from journalists. On the Leveson Inquiry | :25:13. | :25:17. | |
you gave a very moving account of what happened to you. Do you think | :25:18. | :25:22. | |
it will change anything? It is a massive question for our culture. | :25:22. | :25:26. | |
We've got to get it right. I passionately believe in the freedom | :25:26. | :25:30. | |
of the press but, having been on the receiving end of some dubious | :25:30. | :25:36. | |
and possibly illegal behaviour, how do we mop this up? I don't know. I | :25:36. | :25:41. | |
hope and pray it does change things because I think it's toxic what has | :25:41. | :25:51. | |
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As a writer, you've created a portfolio of characters which | :25:56. | :26:02. | |
connect with millions, maybe even billions of people. It is a truly | :26:02. | :26:12. | |
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extraordinary achievement. Surely you can't leave him be. It was | :26:13. | :26:20. | |
murder saying goodbye but I truly... Where Harry's story is concerned, | :26:20. | :26:27. | |
I'm done. Now, if I had a fabulous idea that came out of that world, | :26:27. | :26:32. | |
because I loved writing it, I would do it. But I've got to have a great | :26:32. | :26:36. | |
idea. I don't want to go mechanically back into that world | :26:36. | :26:39. | |
and pick up a load of odds and ends and glue them together and say, | :26:39. | :26:44. | |
here we go, we can sell this. It would make a mockery of what those | :26:44. | :26:53. | |
Finally, the Hubble space telescope has produced one of its most | :26:53. | :26:56. | |
extraordinary views of the universe to date. Call the extreme deep | :26:56. | :27:00. | |
field, the picture captures a massive galaxies stretching back | :27:00. | :27:05. | |
almost to the time when the first stars began to shine. To get the | :27:05. | :27:10. | |
image, have all had to stare at a tiny patch of sky for more than 500 | :27:10. | :27:20. | |
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A little good news, the weather is improving. But as this shot behind | :27:21. | :27:25. | |
me, taking in Boroughbridge earlier, suggests that while there are | :27:25. | :27:30. | |
brighter skies overhead, flooding is still an issue. If you are | :27:30. | :27:35. | |
concerned in your area, the Environment Agency Floodline is | :27:35. | :27:39. | |
available to call. Whilst things are improving, it's not necessarily | :27:39. | :27:44. | |
dry out there. Watch how the rain has disintegrated. But it is still | :27:44. | :27:53. | |
swirling around. The heaviest of the showers are across the south. | :27:53. | :27:57. | |
Some lively as thunderstorms for this afternoon. Maybe a bit dry it | :27:57. | :28:01. | |
to some in the south Midlands, West Ham Show and eastern Wiltshire, but | :28:01. | :28:06. | |
it will last through into the evening. Across south-west England | :28:06. | :28:09. | |
and South West Wales, pretty intense thunderstorms and some | :28:09. | :28:13. | |
further minor flooding issues of possible. Few were showers into | :28:13. | :28:17. | |
parts of North Wales and certainly much better across the north-west | :28:17. | :28:22. | |
of England. An isolated shower is possible that many dry with a bit | :28:22. | :28:26. | |
of sunshine. Dry in Northern Ireland with some good sunny spells. | :28:26. | :28:31. | |
Across Scotland, most will be dry. A few showers to the north and east | :28:31. | :28:34. | |
with a cool breeze. Maybe a few more showers across Dumfries and | :28:34. | :28:38. | |
Galloway. Into north-east England where the bulk of the flooding | :28:38. | :28:42. | |
currently is, we do expect a few more showers to take us through the | :28:42. | :28:45. | |
afternoon. That persistent rain has gone, that's the good news, and | :28:46. | :28:51. | |
tonight is looking largely dry. Showers particularly along the | :28:51. | :28:57. | |
English coasts and parts of Sussex and Kent. For most, a good deal | :28:57. | :29:00. | |
drier and cooler to start the day with temperatures for many in | :29:00. | :29:05. | |
single figures. Thursday is looking a much-improved day. Miss Dan Fogg | :29:05. | :29:09. | |
around to begin with. There will be some showers around on Thursday, | :29:10. | :29:15. | |
just about possible anywhere. There should be a good deal of sunshine | :29:15. | :29:24. | |
in between the showers. If you were hoping the dry weather was here to | :29:24. | :29:28. | |
stay, I'm afraid it isn't. A weather front is pushing its way | :29:28. | :29:32. | |
southwards and eastwards. But on Friday that weather front has a bit | :29:32. | :29:37. | |
of movement to it. Most places will see rain on Friday. Something dryer | :29:37. | :29:41. | |
for a time being and then some very blustery showers pushing into | :29:41. | :29:46. | |
Scotland and Northern Ireland. A lot of flooding around at the | :29:46. | :29:52. | |
moment. If you are at all concerned you can keep in touch with your | :29:52. | :29:56. | |
local BBC radio station or online. Flooding misery continues as a | :29:57. | :30:00. | |
rising waters puts thousands of homes at risk. A block of flats on | :30:00. | :30:04. | |
the outskirts of Newcastle is said to be on the brink of collapse. In | :30:04. | :30:08. |