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The British computer hacker, Gary McKinnon, has won his ten year | :00:12. | :00:16. | |
fight against extradition to the ufpt states. The 46-year-old | :00:16. | :00:19. | |
accused of the biggest military computer hack of all-time won't be | :00:19. | :00:23. | |
extradited after the Home Secretary blocked it on human rights grounds. | :00:23. | :00:28. | |
I have concluded that Mr McKinnon's extradition would give rise to such | :00:28. | :00:36. | |
a high risk of him ending his life that a decision to extradite would | :00:36. | :00:39. | |
be incompatible with his human rights. The Attorney General seeks | :00:39. | :00:42. | |
new inquests for victims of the Hillsborough disaster and asks the | :00:43. | :00:47. | |
High Court to overturn the original verdicts. | :00:47. | :00:51. | |
Denying war crimes - Radovan Karadzic begins his defence saying | :00:52. | :00:55. | |
he should have been rewarded for the good he done. | :00:55. | :00:58. | |
Inflation falls to its lowest level for nearly three years, but it's | :00:58. | :01:02. | |
not expected to last as energy price rises take hold. And the | :01:02. | :01:06. | |
concrete reminders of the Cold War which are being protected for | :01:06. | :01:09. | |
future generations. Later on BBC London: | :01:09. | :01:13. | |
A police officer is accused of racially abusing a man in East | :01:13. | :01:19. | |
London. He says he didn't mean to cause distress. Breast cancer is | :01:19. | :01:29. | |
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set to quadruple according to Good afternoon. | :01:36. | :01:41. | |
Welcome to the BBC News at One. The Home Secretary says she'll | :01:41. | :01:44. | |
block the extradition to the United States of the computer hacker, Gary | :01:44. | :01:49. | |
McKinnon. The 46-year-old, who has Asperger's Syndrome, admits | :01:49. | :01:53. | |
accessing the United States Government computers a decade ago | :01:53. | :01:57. | |
in what one American prosecutor called the biggest computer | :01:57. | :02:00. | |
military hack of all-time. He claims he was looking for evidence | :02:00. | :02:05. | |
of UFOs. The case has dragged on for years over questions about his | :02:05. | :02:09. | |
mental health and the fairness of his health. Theresa May made this | :02:09. | :02:12. | |
statement in the House of Commons. After careful consideration of all | :02:12. | :02:16. | |
of the relevant material, I have concluded that Mr McKinnon's | :02:16. | :02:23. | |
extradition would give rise to such a high risk of him ending his life | :02:23. | :02:27. | |
that a decision to extradite would be incompatible with his human | :02:27. | :02:31. | |
rights. I have therefore withdrawn the extradition order against Mr | :02:32. | :02:37. | |
McKinnon. It will now be for the Director of | :02:37. | :02:40. | |
Public Prosecutions to decide whether Mr McKinnon has a case to | :02:40. | :02:44. | |
answer in the UK courts. Our legal affairs correspondent, | :02:44. | :02:48. | |
Clive Coleman is with me. It's been a very long legal fight, ten years. | :02:48. | :02:52. | |
What the Home Secretary's decision a surprise? It's unprecedented | :02:52. | :02:56. | |
really. This is the first time a Home Secretary has barred the | :02:56. | :03:00. | |
extradition to the United States since we've had this controversial | :03:00. | :03:03. | |
2003 extradition Act. The first time that's happened since the Act | :03:03. | :03:07. | |
has been in operation. She can do it on human rights grounds, that's | :03:07. | :03:11. | |
obviously the basis on which she's done it, so it's a momentous event. | :03:11. | :03:14. | |
It's not the end of everything as far as Gary McKinnon is concerned | :03:15. | :03:18. | |
with legal proceedings. It's the end of extradition, but now the | :03:18. | :03:20. | |
Director of Public Prosecutions will have to look at the evidence | :03:21. | :03:23. | |
against Gary McKinnon and make a decision as to whether he's charged | :03:23. | :03:28. | |
with any criminal offence in the UK. Clearly, the medical evidence which | :03:28. | :03:32. | |
Theresa May found compelling which related to the fact what he has | :03:32. | :03:38. | |
Asperger's and that he's been rated as a very high and likely risk of | :03:38. | :03:43. | |
attempt suicide if he was to be exdieted, that will have a bearing | :03:43. | :03:46. | |
on whether he's fit to plead in the UK. It will have wider implications | :03:46. | :03:50. | |
on another level, won't it? Today's announcement will have because what | :03:50. | :03:54. | |
Theresa May has announced today is that there's going to be an | :03:54. | :03:59. | |
introduction of a forum test. At the heart of so many of his high | :03:59. | :04:02. | |
profile extradition cases has been this question, I'm a UK citizen, | :04:02. | :04:06. | |
accused of a crime committed in the UK, why can't I be tried by a UK | :04:06. | :04:11. | |
court? She's introduced now, or is going to introduce a test whereby a | :04:11. | :04:15. | |
British court with make a judgment as to whether it's in the interests | :04:15. | :04:19. | |
of justice for someone accused by a foreign state but of a crime | :04:19. | :04:22. | |
committed in the UK should be tried here or should be extradited. | :04:22. | :04:26. | |
Thank you very much. The Attorney General, Dominic | :04:26. | :04:29. | |
Grieve, has announced he'll apply for the original himself bra | :04:30. | :04:34. | |
inquest verdicts to be quashed. It fol follows a damning report which | :04:34. | :04:38. | |
found police altered evidence about what happened during and after the | :04:38. | :04:43. | |
disaster. The families of the 96 victims have always shadgeed -- | :04:43. | :04:47. | |
challenged the original verdicts of accidental death. Ed Thomas reports. | :04:47. | :04:50. | |
The call has been for truth and justice. But there's also been | :04:50. | :04:57. | |
another call - for the original 96 inquests to be overturned. Those | :04:57. | :05:00. | |
inquests said the Liverpool fans died here because of an accident, | :05:00. | :05:03. | |
something their families said was an insult. | :05:03. | :05:08. | |
Question number one... Today, those families will listen to the | :05:08. | :05:12. | |
Attorney General ordering new inquests. I've decided to take the | :05:12. | :05:16. | |
exceptional step and announce that on the basis of what I've already | :05:16. | :05:20. | |
seen, I'm persuaded there is an application to the court that fresh | :05:20. | :05:26. | |
inquests must be made. The original inquests said all fans died or were | :05:26. | :05:35. | |
beyond sayling by 3.15pm. -- say -- beyond saving by 3.15. I'll smilt | :05:35. | :05:39. | |
it to the Attorney General. Anne Williams has campaigned against the | :05:39. | :05:43. | |
decision for two decades. Her son Kevin died at hills brafplt a | :05:43. | :05:49. | |
police officer told her he cried at the word mum at nearly 4pm -- | :05:49. | :05:51. | |
Hillsborough. They weren't all dead at 3.15. I | :05:51. | :05:56. | |
was hoping they would come up with others, but 41. Scandalous. | :05:56. | :06:01. | |
coroner at the time refused to hear evidence after 3.15pm. Today, he | :06:01. | :06:06. | |
didn't want to comment, but has told the BBC in the past that he | :06:06. | :06:13. | |
was fair and honest. I do feel aggrieved that I'm | :06:13. | :06:22. | |
treated as somebody who was misbehaving, basically. I didn't | :06:22. | :06:27. | |
try to subvert the evidence. That 3.15 cut-off is important, meaning | :06:27. | :06:31. | |
the coroner's court never heard from the paramedics, the police | :06:31. | :06:35. | |
officers at Hillsborough or the stories about what more that could | :06:35. | :06:42. | |
have been done to save the 96 lives. Families of the 96 now know 41 | :06:42. | :06:46. | |
lives could have been saved. They know the bigst ever investigation | :06:46. | :06:50. | |
into alleged police corruption is under way. There is a sense they'll | :06:50. | :06:57. | |
soon be getting the answers they've long campaigned for. | :06:57. | :07:00. | |
Let's get more from our correspondent Judith Moritz. The | :07:00. | :07:03. | |
families of those who've died campaign ford a long time for this | :07:04. | :07:08. | |
and it all now seems to be happening very fast? Yes, it's 23 | :07:08. | :07:10. | |
years since the Hillsborough disaster happen and you could argue | :07:10. | :07:14. | |
that the families have seen more progress in the last month since | :07:14. | :07:17. | |
the publication of the Hillsborough independent report than they have | :07:17. | :07:21. | |
at any other time during that 23 years. There's now the prospect of | :07:21. | :07:25. | |
criminal prosecutions, of new inquests and of the biggest ever | :07:25. | :07:29. | |
investigation into British policing. I think the families would say they | :07:29. | :07:33. | |
feel that after many years of fighting the establishment, that | :07:33. | :07:37. | |
the establishment, both legal and Parliamentary, is now on their side. | :07:37. | :07:42. | |
To be fair, this is a legal journey which still has many months, if not | :07:42. | :07:46. | |
years to run. It's all base on the what the independent report said | :07:46. | :07:49. | |
last month and there are still lawyers going through that very | :07:49. | :07:53. | |
weighty document to see how they'll proceed. But the families feel | :07:53. | :07:57. | |
their views are being given equal weight now and the Attorney General | :07:57. | :08:00. | |
this morning said that he would be listening to them before proceeding | :08:00. | :08:03. | |
and this afternoon, here at Westminster, family campaigners | :08:03. | :08:09. | |
will be giving evidence to the Home Affairs committee. So they say, | :08:09. | :08:12. | |
Sophie, that that they've been fighting for truth and justice. | :08:12. | :08:15. | |
They had the truth last month with the report, now they say they feel | :08:15. | :08:18. | |
that they are on the way to achieving justice as well. | :08:18. | :08:23. | |
Thank you very much. The former Bosnian Serb leader, | :08:23. | :08:26. | |
Radovan Karadzic, has begun his defence against charges of war | :08:26. | :08:30. | |
crimes, telling the court he should have been rewarded for all the good | :08:30. | :08:34. | |
things he'd done. He said he'd done everything he could to avoid war | :08:34. | :08:38. | |
and to reduce the human suffering. He's pleaded not guilty to ten | :08:38. | :08:42. | |
charges of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity during the | :08:42. | :08:47. | |
war in Bosnia in the 1990s. From The Hague, Alan Little reports. | :08:47. | :08:52. | |
His case has changed hardly at all in 20 years. It was his duty, he | :08:52. | :08:56. | |
said, to rescue the Serb people from the threat of genocide they | :08:56. | :09:01. | |
faced when Yugoslavia collapsed. He had not chosen war, he was a mild | :09:01. | :09:05. | |
and tolerant man who had struggled for peace, he said. | :09:05. | :09:12. | |
TRANSLATION: Everybody who knows me knows that I'm not an awe | :09:12. | :09:19. | |
thoughcrat, that I'm not aggressive, that I'm not intolerant - authocrat. | :09:19. | :09:26. | |
On the contrary, I'm a mild man, tolerant man with great capacity to | :09:26. | :09:28. | |
understand others. Karadzic argued the Serbs had not | :09:28. | :09:35. | |
started the war, Muslims and Croats armed themselves and formed illegal | :09:35. | :09:38. | |
militias, anti-Serb extremists seized control of the police. | :09:38. | :09:41. | |
Karadzic's case is that the Serbs had no choice, there were people | :09:41. | :09:44. | |
who knew their history, they said, they were faced with genocide | :09:44. | :09:48. | |
before and were threatened with genocide again. All members of the | :09:48. | :09:52. | |
international community came, he said, with such huge prejudice | :09:52. | :09:55. | |
against the Serbs that there was nothing we could do to get the | :09:55. | :09:59. | |
truth across. Karadzic claimed many of the atrocity force which Serbs | :09:59. | :10:03. | |
were blamed had been staged for the international media. These pictures | :10:03. | :10:08. | |
of a Serb-run detention camp in 1992 were faked, he said, the | :10:08. | :10:15. | |
western media did more damage to the Serbs than NATO bombs. | :10:15. | :10:21. | |
The 1994 bombing in Sarajevo in which a single shell killed 68 | :10:21. | :10:26. | |
people were also staged, he said. Some people died but most of the | :10:26. | :10:30. | |
dead were fake, he said. Some were brought from a morgue already dead, | :10:30. | :10:35. | |
others were plastic models from shop windows. | :10:35. | :10:41. | |
TRANSLATION: The shameless ork station -- orchestration, obviously | :10:42. | :10:50. | |
some people got killed by that explosion, but we also saw Android | :10:50. | :10:56. | |
mannequins being thrown on to truck, creating this show for the world. | :10:56. | :11:02. | |
At Srebrenica in 1995, more than 7,000 Muslim men and boys were | :11:02. | :11:06. | |
murdered. Karadzic said he gave the order to enter the town but also | :11:06. | :11:13. | |
ordered the protection of civilians. In the public gallery, a survivor | :11:13. | :11:16. | |
shouted "Lies, lies". There was, Karadzic said, no indication that | :11:16. | :11:20. | |
anyone was killed at Srebrenica, he could not accuse the Serb army of | :11:20. | :11:24. | |
what he called rumour and propaganda. | :11:24. | :11:29. | |
Radovan Karadzic is accused of the worst atrocitys in Europe since the | :11:29. | :11:34. | |
Nazis. That these crimes were committed is now beyond dispute. | :11:34. | :11:38. | |
Many of his closest lieutenants have already been convicted and | :11:38. | :11:41. | |
sentenced to long jail terms. Karadzic now has the right to call | :11:42. | :11:46. | |
hundreds of witnesses in his defence. The trial is likely to | :11:46. | :11:54. | |
last many more months, even years. A consultant treating the Pakistani | :11:54. | :11:57. | |
schoolgirl, Malala Yousafzai, at Birmingham's Queen Elizabeth | :11:57. | :12:00. | |
Hospital, has described being impressed by her resilience and | :12:00. | :12:05. | |
strength. The 14-year-old was shot in the head on a school bus by | :12:05. | :12:08. | |
Taliban gunmen last week. She was flown to Britain yesterday for | :12:08. | :12:11. | |
treatment after being attacked as a punishment for campaigning for the | :12:11. | :12:16. | |
right to an education. I can tell you that Malala's had a | :12:16. | :12:21. | |
comfortable night. All her initial assessments have been undertaken by | :12:21. | :12:26. | |
the neurosurgical and other members of staff. We still have some | :12:26. | :12:30. | |
detailed astesments to undertake from specialist teams who may be | :12:30. | :12:33. | |
involved later on down the line -- assessments. We are very bleeds the | :12:33. | :12:37. | |
progress she's made so far. She's showing every sign of being just | :12:37. | :12:42. | |
every bit as strong as we've been led to believe that she is -- we | :12:42. | :12:45. | |
are very pleads. The rate of inflation has fall tonne its lowest | :12:45. | :12:49. | |
level in almost three years, now standing at 2.2%, less than half | :12:49. | :12:54. | |
the rate it was at this time last year. Gas and electricity price | :12:54. | :12:58. | |
rises that have been announced are expected to push it higher again. | :12:58. | :13:00. | |
Here is our Chief Economics Correspondent, Hugh Pym. | :13:01. | :13:05. | |
Inflation which measures increases in the cost-of-living was at 2.2% | :13:05. | :13:10. | |
in September, the lowest rate since November 2009, and a sharp drop | :13:10. | :13:15. | |
from the previous months' rate. One reason is that last year's big | :13:15. | :13:19. | |
increases in gas and electricity prices were not repeated in | :13:19. | :13:23. | |
September this year. It all adds up to an easing of the pressure on | :13:23. | :13:26. | |
consumers. The big trouble last year is that | :13:26. | :13:30. | |
they were having to fight against a decline in their real incomes. This | :13:30. | :13:34. | |
year, it's going to be the reverse. So that is going to help them to | :13:34. | :13:37. | |
consume and I think that's going to be one of the few bright spots in | :13:37. | :13:43. | |
the economic outlook. Pensioners like these ramblers in | :13:43. | :13:47. | |
Derbyshire were watching today's figure closely. The September | :13:47. | :13:51. | |
inflation rate is used as benchmark for the next state pension increase, | :13:51. | :13:56. | |
but they're guarantee admin mum of 2.5%, so they'll get an above | :13:56. | :14:00. | |
inflation rise. As I discovered, there are mixed views on how | :14:00. | :14:04. | |
they're affected by the cost-of- living. It's not affecting us too | :14:04. | :14:09. | |
much, but we do shop around and all that. Everything seems to be going | :14:09. | :14:14. | |
up-and-up and up. It might be at a slower rate, but it's still eating | :14:14. | :14:18. | |
into our reserves. The price of petrol's gone up | :14:18. | :14:22. | |
significantly and it doesn't seem to drop at all, it just keeps | :14:22. | :14:26. | |
creeping up-and-up and up. Every week, you seem to go to the purpose | :14:26. | :14:30. | |
and it's gone up 2 or 3p. Inflation might be heading in the right | :14:30. | :14:33. | |
direction for now, but there are many cost pressures which are not | :14:33. | :14:37. | |
made in the UK and are outside the control of British policy-makers. | :14:37. | :14:40. | |
With these, there are concerns there could be problems further | :14:40. | :14:45. | |
down the track. This outdoor clothing specialist, | :14:45. | :14:48. | |
based in Derbyshire, can see the trends which might effect next | :14:48. | :14:53. | |
year's shop prices. It uses synthetic materials where cost res | :14:53. | :14:58. | |
flect a global oil price. Most of the products are made in Asia where | :14:58. | :15:02. | |
wage costs are rising. Oil prices continue, and that does impact on | :15:02. | :15:11. | |
the cost of raw materials. Also, we are increase bing by as much as 20- | :15:11. | :15:15. | |
25% in wages. We'll negotiate hard but some of that will flow through | :15:15. | :15:19. | |
into the consumer. And the consumer will also see | :15:19. | :15:21. | |
higher gas and electricity bills flowing through over the next | :15:21. | :15:27. | |
couple of months and that could push inflation back up. Hugh is | :15:27. | :15:31. | |
with me now. It's not just pensioners affected by this is it, | :15:31. | :15:41. | |
:15:41. | :15:48. | ||
Some of these have to be raised in line with that rate, for example, | :15:48. | :15:58. | |
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incapacity benefit. On others, the Chancellor has discretion. So, they | :15:59. | :16:06. | |
are set to get 2.20%. There will be relief that it is a lot lower than | :16:06. | :16:12. | |
what had been predicted. People receiving those benefits might feel | :16:12. | :16:16. | |
hard done by, but the Chancellor will be paying out less. Of course, | :16:16. | :16:20. | |
the Chancellor has that discretion. He may not raise them in line with | :16:20. | :16:24. | |
the 2.20%. There is a lot of speculation that to curb the bills, | :16:24. | :16:29. | |
he will hold them flat. There has been political outcry, but he made | :16:29. | :16:34. | |
do that, to cut back on his bowling. Our main headline - the extradition | :16:34. | :16:38. | |
of the computer hacker Gary McKinnon to the United States has | :16:38. | :16:43. | |
been blocked by the Government. Coming up, Heather Watson talks | :16:43. | :16:47. | |
about whether she has got what it takes to become the world number 1 | :16:47. | :16:51. | |
in tennis. I believe in myself, I would not be in the game if I | :16:51. | :16:55. | |
didn't. I think I have the capability, I have the mental | :16:55. | :17:05. | |
:17:05. | :17:07. | ||
toughness, I have the game. Will look at the interest of a leasing | :17:07. | :17:11. | |
university in this new technique. We will also have the weather, with | :17:11. | :17:18. | |
Peter Cockroft. -- of a leading university. A man whose wife and | :17:18. | :17:22. | |
four of his children died in a house fire in Essex has been moved | :17:22. | :17:27. | |
to the hospital where his surviving daughter is being treated. Three- | :17:27. | :17:32. | |
year-old Maheen is still in a critical condition. Her father, Dr | :17:32. | :17:35. | |
Abdul Shakour, is suffering from the effects of smoke inhalation. He | :17:35. | :17:40. | |
wanted to be closer to his suffering child. Within the past | :17:40. | :17:46. | |
hour, police have given an update on this investigation. They do not | :17:46. | :17:51. | |
think a serial arsonist was to blame, and they do not think it was | :17:51. | :17:55. | |
a racially-motivated attack, but they still believe that someone in | :17:55. | :18:01. | |
his community knows how and why this fire was started. Essex police | :18:01. | :18:06. | |
say this is a major investigation. Today, officers continued the | :18:06. | :18:10. | |
detailed search for clues, looking for anything which might help to | :18:10. | :18:15. | |
establish how this devastating house fire started. Sabah Usmani | :18:15. | :18:21. | |
and four of her children died. Today, residents came to lay | :18:21. | :18:25. | |
tributes and to express their deep shock that a hot working, well- | :18:26. | :18:31. | |
liked family had been struck by this tragedy. -- hard-working. | :18:31. | :18:35. | |
is really sad, it is terrible. You do not think it is going to happen. | :18:35. | :18:40. | |
We do not normally get any trouble in this area, which is what is so | :18:40. | :18:46. | |
shocking I don't know, I cannot get over it. A Ford Focus car was also | :18:46. | :18:51. | |
on fire just across the street at the time of the house blaze. Police | :18:51. | :18:54. | |
say a possible link between the two is a key part of the investigation, | :18:54. | :18:58. | |
but officers are following several different lines of inquiry. | :18:58. | :19:02. | |
there is nothing to indicate that this is racially-motivated, but in | :19:02. | :19:07. | |
terms of other motivations, nothing has been ruled in or out. | :19:07. | :19:12. | |
father, Dr Abdul Shakour, has been transferred to Broomfield Hospital | :19:12. | :19:17. | |
in Chelmsford, where is one surviving daughter, the three-year- | :19:17. | :19:21. | |
old, is in a critical but stable condition. The head teacher of the | :19:22. | :19:28. | |
local primary school said pupils and staff were destroyed. -- | :19:28. | :19:33. | |
distraught. The three were intelligent and sociable children, | :19:33. | :19:36. | |
with a good sense of humour, good at sports and much loved by | :19:36. | :19:42. | |
everyone. Local residents say this is normally a peaceful area of | :19:42. | :19:47. | |
Harlow. They say there are few instances of anti-social behaviour, | :19:47. | :19:52. | |
making what happened to this family so hard to explain. This afternoon, | :19:52. | :19:56. | |
police will continue their house- to-house inquiries, trying to find | :19:56. | :20:00. | |
out whether there are any underlying issues in this area. | :20:00. | :20:03. | |
They said community relations were generally very good, and they said | :20:03. | :20:07. | |
it was far too early to come to any firm conclusions about why this | :20:07. | :20:13. | |
fire started, or the motive, if, as seems likely, it was deliberate. | :20:13. | :20:17. | |
The Deputy Prime Minister says there may be a case for an | :20:17. | :20:21. | |
independent inquiry into abuse committed by Jimmy Savile at the | :20:21. | :20:24. | |
BBC and other organisations. Speaking in the Commons, Nick Clegg | :20:24. | :20:30. | |
said he was not wriggling out an inquiry. It comes after Ed Miliband | :20:30. | :20:35. | |
called for a single, independent inquiry. | :20:35. | :20:39. | |
A newspaper request for private letters written by Prince Charles | :20:39. | :20:42. | |
to seven government departments to be made public has been blocked by | :20:42. | :20:47. | |
the Attorney-General. We can get more on this from our political | :20:47. | :20:50. | |
correspondent, Norman Smith. Why has the government blocked the | :20:50. | :20:55. | |
publication of these letters? These have become known as the Black | :20:55. | :21:00. | |
Spider memos, which sounds a rather sinister, but it is a reference to | :21:00. | :21:04. | |
the Prince's rather scrawny handwriting in fountain pen. They | :21:04. | :21:07. | |
are letters to former Labour ministers, after King -- asking | :21:07. | :21:11. | |
about government policy on the environment and so on. The | :21:11. | :21:15. | |
Attorney-General says the Prince wrote them as part of his desire to | :21:15. | :21:18. | |
inform himself about government policy, because he is going to be | :21:18. | :21:23. | |
king one day. Secondly, if they were released, the fear is that it | :21:23. | :21:27. | |
might compromise the Prince's political neutrality. It is true | :21:27. | :21:31. | |
that ministers on occasion can veto the release of sensitive documents, | :21:31. | :21:35. | |
but it is not routine. I suspect critics will surmise that the | :21:35. | :21:40. | |
reason these have not been released might be something to do with | :21:40. | :21:44. | |
protecting the Prince from any embarrassment, shall we say, if | :21:44. | :21:47. | |
indeed these letters contain angry broadsides about political | :21:47. | :21:52. | |
correctness or suspect architecture. It was the closest the world has | :21:52. | :21:57. | |
come to nuclear war, and on the 50th anniversary of the start of | :21:57. | :22:01. | |
the Cuban missile crisis, the remains of two Cold War nuclear | :22:01. | :22:05. | |
missile sites, which housed American missiles, in | :22:05. | :22:13. | |
Northamptonshire, have been given listed status. Britain's favourite | :22:14. | :22:19. | |
buildings - all sizes, all shapes and every vintage. But all have one | :22:19. | :22:23. | |
thing in common - many of them are listed, protected for future | :22:23. | :22:27. | |
generations. That listed status normally applies to some of our | :22:27. | :22:32. | |
most beautiful historic buildings. But now, there is this, hardly the | :22:32. | :22:35. | |
most attractive structure in the world, but granted Grade II* listed | :22:35. | :22:41. | |
status, one of the highest categories - not, clearly, because | :22:41. | :22:48. | |
of its appearance, but because of its history. | :22:48. | :22:54. | |
NEWSREADER: Horizontal shelter slides back to reveal the Thor | :22:54. | :22:59. | |
missile. In the 1950s, American nuclear missiles were based here, | :22:59. | :23:04. | |
pointing towards the Soviet union, ready to fire and inflict | :23:04. | :23:09. | |
unimaginable carnage. If the Cold War had gone hot, the launch pads | :23:09. | :23:12. | |
in eastern England and their RAF crews would have been at the | :23:12. | :23:16. | |
epicentre of it all. We are standing where the missile had | :23:16. | :23:22. | |
would have been lying on its transport. Group Captain Peter | :23:22. | :23:26. | |
Rogers needs no persuading that this corner of RAF North Luffenham | :23:26. | :23:31. | |
deserves its new listed status. He is a veteran of the Thor missile | :23:31. | :23:34. | |
programme. As a young officer, he literally had his finger on the | :23:34. | :23:39. | |
button. They were hugely dangerous times. You tried not to think about | :23:39. | :23:45. | |
it. You knew perfectly well that if you got one of these missiles under | :23:45. | :23:55. | |
:23:55. | :23:55. | ||
way, it was perhaps five or 10 minutes before the earth grow up. | :23:56. | :23:59. | |
You did not spend too much time thinking about what it was going to | :24:00. | :24:06. | |
hit at the other end. This man, Wayne Cocroft, makes it his | :24:06. | :24:09. | |
business to record these sites, which he regards as a forgotten | :24:09. | :24:13. | |
part of our national heritage. is one of our most important listed | :24:13. | :24:16. | |
buildings in the country. We believe it is an important part of | :24:16. | :24:20. | |
our national story, the Cold War. It is a story which perhaps not | :24:20. | :24:24. | |
many people know about. It may look like a ruined today, but in the | :24:24. | :24:30. | |
late 1950s, this was state-of-the- art technology. Hard to imagine | :24:30. | :24:35. | |
that exactly 50 years ago, the Cuban Missile Crisis had this place | :24:35. | :24:40. | |
on the highest state of alert - an historic moment, an historic place, | :24:40. | :24:46. | |
one which is now guaranteed to be preserved. The British tennis | :24:46. | :24:50. | |
player Heather Watson has broken into the top 50 players in the | :24:50. | :24:54. | |
world after winning the Japan Open at the weekend. She was the first | :24:54. | :24:59. | |
Briton to win a WTA singles title since 1988. She has now overtaken | :24:59. | :25:04. | |
Laura Robson to be named as Britain's top female player. James | :25:04. | :25:14. | |
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Pearce went to meet her. The end of a 24-year wait for a British winner | :25:14. | :25:18. | |
on the main women's tour. Heather Watson's victory in Japan was a | :25:18. | :25:25. | |
perfect end to her season. This morning, she was back in London, | :25:25. | :25:30. | |
reflecting with me on a job well done. I think sitting in the middle | :25:31. | :25:35. | |
seat on a 12 hour flight, it definitely sunk in, on my way back | :25:35. | :25:40. | |
from Osaka. Success has come through hard work and significant | :25:40. | :25:45. | |
family sacrifice. Since the age of 12, she has left her home in | :25:45. | :25:48. | |
Guernsey and been based in Florida. When she was younger, her mother | :25:48. | :25:53. | |
spent plenty of time there with her, but her father had to stay at home | :25:53. | :25:59. | |
working. How- to you think you can get, can you get to world number 1? | :25:59. | :26:05. | |
-- how high? I believe I have the capability to do it, I have the | :26:05. | :26:09. | |
mental toughness, I have the game to do it. I would not be in the | :26:09. | :26:14. | |
game if I did not. But all these girls think the same thing. Tell me | :26:14. | :26:21. | |
about the sprinkler. It is this, this is the dance, and I taught | :26:21. | :26:25. | |
Judy Murray that dance, and she said she would do it if I won the | :26:25. | :26:29. | |
title, and she did. She made a video for me with some of her | :26:29. | :26:39. | |
:26:39. | :26:41. | ||
students, who she works with, doing the sprinkler. It is brilliant. | :26:41. | :26:45. | |
even Andy Murray's win at the US Open this summer would have | :26:45. | :26:55. | |
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persuaded his mother to do this! What a year for British tennis. | :26:56. | :27:01. | |
Gateshead has its Angel of the North, Kent will soon have a giant | :27:01. | :27:05. | |
white horse, dubbed the Angel of the South, and now, Devon is | :27:05. | :27:10. | |
getting its own version, a statue by Damien Hirst. It is being loaned | :27:10. | :27:13. | |
to the town of Ilfracombe for 20 years. It is already causing | :27:13. | :27:21. | |
controversy. Yes, local people and holidaymakers are gathering here on | :27:21. | :27:25. | |
Ilfracombe Pier to see the structure, Verity, 66 feet tall, | :27:25. | :27:29. | |
being put into position. She is controversial, not just because of | :27:29. | :27:32. | |
her size, bigger than the Angel of the north, but because of what she | :27:32. | :27:37. | |
is. She is a pregnant woman, naked, with some of her internal organs on | :27:37. | :27:42. | |
display. You can see one of her legs in the air. And on the right- | :27:42. | :27:45. | |
hand side, you can see her belly. This is what local people have | :27:45. | :27:52. | |
thought of her in the last few days. I thought it was awful, a horrible | :27:52. | :27:55. | |
thing to depict Ilfracombe. But it is the ultimate in natural beauty, | :27:55. | :28:00. | |
is it not? Not with half of her insides hanging out. It is just not | :28:01. | :28:07. | |
nice. I think it will frighten a lot of children. What do you think? | :28:07. | :28:11. | |
Fantastic. Great for tourists, we have heard a couple of people | :28:11. | :28:16. | |
already saying, what a fantastic place, and then, oh, look at the | :28:16. | :28:23. | |
coastline! I think it is beautiful. I am all in favour of putting | :28:23. | :28:26. | |
Ilfracombe on the map. Anything that brings business into the town | :28:26. | :28:34. | |
will be good for Ilfracombe. Even a giant pregnant woman? Even that. | :28:34. | :28:38. | |
They tell me that the next thing is for her waters to break. When that | :28:38. | :28:44. | |
happens, I will... Stay out of the way! Yes, that will cause a flood | :28:44. | :28:50. | |
in the harbour. I live here, and I have got to look at it every day. | :28:50. | :28:54. | |
What are your thoughts? It is horrible. I do not want to look at | :28:54. | :28:57. | |
that. We have got enough pregnant women in the town without having to | :28:57. | :29:02. | |
look at another one. Lots of people waiting to see this, it is a bit | :29:02. | :29:09. | |
like waiting outside a maternity ward. She is supposed to go up at 3 | :29:09. | :29:18. | |
o'clock this afternoon. Let's have a look at the latest weather. There | :29:18. | :29:21. | |
are some pretty strong winds coming are some pretty strong winds coming | :29:21. | :29:24. | |
in the south-west of England later on tonight, which will help blow | :29:24. | :29:30. | |
some of those leaves off the tree. Often windy over the next few days, | :29:30. | :29:33. | |
but with some sunshine as well. Let's have a look at what has | :29:33. | :29:38. | |
happened so far today. This low pressure has been pushing Caroline | :29:38. | :29:44. | |
and east. It has brought a pretty dismal day across southern Scotland | :29:44. | :29:49. | |
and the north of England. Anywhere to the south of that cloud will be | :29:49. | :29:56. | |
where the strongest winds will be this afternoon. It will leave a | :29:56. | :30:00. | |
legacy of cloud, I suspect, for the afternoon. In the south-east corner, | :30:00. | :30:06. | |
not a bad afternoon. At least there will be some sunny spells. Coming | :30:06. | :30:09. | |
into the south-west of England, some isolated showers along the | :30:09. | :30:14. | |
Cornish coast, but nothing to substantial. Some pretty choppy | :30:14. | :30:19. | |
seas up through the Bristol channel. Further inland, some of essential | :30:19. | :30:25. | |
and this afternoon. A better afternoon in Northern Ireland. | :30:25. | :30:28. | |
After a chilly start in Scotland, temperatures, still struggling a | :30:28. | :30:38. | |
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little. But at least you have got some sunshine. There is the legacy | :30:39. | :30:42. | |
of that cloud. Coming down into the Midlands, East Anglia and the | :30:42. | :30:45. | |
south-east of England, it is the strength of the wind which will be | :30:45. | :30:50. | |
the future this afternoon. The wind will ease for a time, but it is | :30:50. | :30:54. | |
only a brief respite, as the next area of low pressure starts to come | :30:54. | :30:58. | |
in from the south-west. It will be accompanied by some strong winds | :30:58. | :31:06. | |
and intense for rainfall, as it pushes further north. It will be a | :31:06. | :31:09. | |
chilly night again in the far north of Scotland. But it is the strength | :31:09. | :31:13. | |
of the wind and the intensity of the rainfall, together with high | :31:13. | :31:17. | |
tides, which could be causing problems in the south-west of | :31:18. | :31:26. | |
England and in South Wales. A disappointing day tomorrow in | :31:26. | :31:33. | |
Northern Ireland. Our area of low pressure will be anchored above | :31:33. | :31:39. | |
Northern Ireland, with plenty of frequent showers out in the west. | :31:39. | :31:43. | |
On Thursday we are not quite sure how much rainfall we will see in | :31:43. | :31:49. |