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to recruit local staff. Chris Bryant criticises what he sees as an over | :00:14. | :00:18. | |
reliance on cheap labour from Eastern Europe. We will have | :00:18. | :00:23. | |
reaction from Westminster. Also this lunchtime. Considering legal action. | :00:23. | :00:28. | |
The government says it is very disappointed with Spain. About extra | :00:28. | :00:33. | |
checks at the border with Gibraltar. And man is arrested in connection | :00:33. | :00:36. | |
with the disappearance of 13-year-old Erika Kacicova who | :00:36. | :00:43. | |
hasn't been seen for one week. Higher water bills for 14 million | :00:43. | :00:46. | |
households. Thames Water says it wants an increase to meet unexpected | :00:46. | :00:55. | |
costs. On your bike. Cycling gets a �94 million boost in England to | :00:55. | :01:01. | |
encourage us to ride in our cities and national parks. A flourishing | :01:01. | :01:05. | |
morning in Durham for England's cricketers has left Australia | :01:05. | :01:12. | |
needing 299 to win the fourth test. Coming up in sport on BBC News, | :01:12. | :01:16. | |
Britain's athletes make the grade in Moscow. Perri shakes Drayton | :01:16. | :01:26. | |
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qualifying fast for the 400 meter BBC News at 1pm. The shadow | :01:43. | :01:47. | |
Immigration Minister Chris Bryant has attacked what he is called | :01:47. | :01:50. | |
unscrupulous employers who recruit large numbers of migrant workers | :01:51. | :01:54. | |
from low-wage countries. He says the practice makes it impossible for | :01:54. | :01:58. | |
workers and settled in the UK to compete. Earlier he was forced to | :01:58. | :02:04. | |
make clear that he wasn't accusing two big retailers, Next and Tesco of | :02:05. | :02:07. | |
being unscrupulous after they protest about extracts of his speech | :02:08. | :02:17. | |
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which were released yesterday. A Tesco distribution centre. After | :02:18. | :02:22. | |
the retail giant opened a new one in ethics, Labour wanted to attack the | :02:22. | :02:27. | |
firm but instead it made a mess. It's immigration spokesman claimed | :02:27. | :02:30. | |
Tesco was targeting foreign workers to undercut UK wonder -- workers. | :02:30. | :02:37. | |
Labour plans to name and shame Next famed for its seasonal sales. It was | :02:37. | :02:39. | |
recruiting directly from Poland because it was cheaper, they said. | :02:39. | :02:43. | |
Both companies rejected the claims which were given to a newspaper in | :02:43. | :02:47. | |
advance. It pointed out factual errors, as well. The confusion | :02:47. | :02:51. | |
distracted from criticisms of the government and business which did | :02:51. | :02:54. | |
eventually emerge. I want to see more companies providing assurances | :02:54. | :03:01. | |
and demonstrating what they're doing to recruit staff particularly the | :03:01. | :03:05. | |
youth unemployed. Even for temporary posts. Rather than using agencies | :03:05. | :03:09. | |
are only bring workers in from abroad. The criticism was more tepid | :03:09. | :03:14. | |
in the end. Labour shadow Immigration Minister managed to | :03:14. | :03:18. | |
praise Tesco and expressed sympathy for Next but on that fundamental | :03:18. | :03:23. | |
criticism, there was support from conservative. I do think Tesco in my | :03:24. | :03:27. | |
own area of Harlow have behaved quite ruthlessly enclosing a major | :03:27. | :03:30. | |
distributional centre which was incredibly productive and saying to | :03:30. | :03:35. | |
the workers, yes, you can have a job in the new Dagenham plant, but you | :03:35. | :03:41. | |
have to accept lower pay. Everyone knows immigration is a potent issue. | :03:41. | :03:45. | |
Whether you think there's been too much of it or not enough, but Labour | :03:45. | :03:50. | |
's problem today if it has tried to come up with positive proposals in | :03:50. | :03:55. | |
the traditional quiet summer period and now it's involved in a big row | :03:55. | :03:58. | |
with two of the biggest retailers over facts and figures. Neither | :03:58. | :04:05. | |
company are accused of doing anything illegal and any EU national | :04:05. | :04:07. | |
can work here. Some independent immigration voices say it's not | :04:07. | :04:13. | |
simply about the money. We've seen a sharp increase in the number of EU | :04:13. | :04:18. | |
workers in employment at low skilled jobs, but the single cost and wages | :04:18. | :04:24. | |
would be to ignore the bigger reasons which are work ethics and | :04:24. | :04:27. | |
skills. British jobs for British workers proved a briefly popular | :04:27. | :04:32. | |
slogan for Labour 's last election campaign but was illegal in | :04:32. | :04:35. | |
practice. The party knows it can't avoid tackling the problem of an | :04:35. | :04:41. | |
increase in immigration which it oversaw. Let's hear more from Robin | :04:41. | :04:49. | |
at Westminster. How embarrassing is this by Chris Bryant? I think it was | :04:49. | :04:53. | |
sloppy and there was misinformation here. What we saw was a hasty | :04:53. | :04:58. | |
rewrite. We saw two huge retailers, Tesco is seeking to protect their | :04:58. | :05:02. | |
reputation. They reject outright the allegations laid at their door and | :05:02. | :05:06. | |
pointed out some factual errors. That is highly problematic for the | :05:06. | :05:10. | |
Labour Party and when Chris Bryant gave the speech he sought to call | :05:10. | :05:14. | |
them a good employer and was sympathetic towards Next but there | :05:14. | :05:17. | |
has been a big muddle up and there is no doubt it has distracted from | :05:17. | :05:22. | |
what Labour would want to see as a positive proposal to deal with | :05:22. | :05:27. | |
immigration and the Borders. One of the lessons here is, when you have | :05:27. | :05:30. | |
the policy idea, make sure you get the communication and the facts and | :05:30. | :05:36. | |
figures right, first. For a while, Labour had made the running because | :05:36. | :05:41. | |
there's been so much debate and criticism in many quarters of the go | :05:41. | :05:44. | |
home fans of the government implemented, the investigation into | :05:44. | :05:50. | |
those, this was a chance for Labour to make some headway. | :05:50. | :05:53. | |
Conservatives particularly in the coalition are very sensitive at the | :05:53. | :05:56. | |
moment on immigration because they know the UK Independence Party are | :05:56. | :06:01. | |
nipping away at their support in the polls. And Labour is aware, as well, | :06:01. | :06:05. | |
it's a very, very potent issue. It is tied to come to the debate with | :06:05. | :06:10. | |
some positive ideas and they fail to do that today, and the problem is | :06:10. | :06:16. | |
this plays into a sensible recent weeks that the party is slightly | :06:16. | :06:20. | |
rudderless. Where are its policies about what it will do at the next | :06:20. | :06:23. | |
general election? Not necessarily what it would do now if it was in | :06:24. | :06:28. | |
government. Andy Burnham, a front bench at the weekend, he is in the | :06:28. | :06:31. | |
Shadow Cabinet, and he was the first to speak from the front bench about | :06:31. | :06:34. | |
real concerns about whether Labour is shouting loud enough and what the | :06:34. | :06:39. | |
chances are it is a good chance come the general election in 2015. | :06:39. | :06:46. | |
you. The government says it is seriously considering taking legal | :06:46. | :06:50. | |
action against Spain in connection with extra checks at the border with | :06:50. | :06:53. | |
Gibraltar. A Downing Street spokesman called Spain 's action in | :06:53. | :06:56. | |
a dispute about fishing rights disproportionate and politically | :06:57. | :07:03. | |
motivated. Roger smitten Dhani is outside the Foreign Office. What | :07:03. | :07:09. | |
more has been said this morning? This is the latest in what has been | :07:09. | :07:14. | |
a tit-for-tat row brewing over the summer between Britain and Spain. | :07:14. | :07:18. | |
Stoked by those very long delays people have been experiencing trying | :07:18. | :07:22. | |
to get in and out of Gibraltar. In the last hour, number ten spokesman | :07:22. | :07:25. | |
issued a statement saying clearly the Prime Minister is disappointed | :07:25. | :07:29. | |
by the failure of Spain to remove the additional border checks this | :07:29. | :07:33. | |
weekend and you're considering what legal action is open to us. This was | :07:33. | :07:37. | |
after David Cameron spoke to his counterpart about this very issue. | :07:37. | :07:42. | |
This would be an unprecedented step and we want to consider carefully | :07:42. | :07:46. | |
before making a decision to pursue it. I think that last line tells us | :07:46. | :07:49. | |
number ten doesn't really know what it's going to do. Except it's very | :07:49. | :07:55. | |
angry about this. There's a formal letter of complaint being written | :07:55. | :08:01. | |
today and it's going to be given to Spanish authorities to register | :08:01. | :08:04. | |
Britain's displeasure. What are the options open to the British | :08:04. | :08:07. | |
government? They could take this to the International of justice, that | :08:07. | :08:12. | |
is set up to administer arbitrate disputes between member states. More | :08:12. | :08:15. | |
likely they will want to do something within the EU framework | :08:15. | :08:21. | |
and there's the European Court of Justice and EU laws which govern how | :08:21. | :08:24. | |
people across borders between member states. Gibraltar, of course, would | :08:24. | :08:29. | |
be governed by that because its external relations are done by | :08:29. | :08:32. | |
Britain. It could be along the lines of the European Court of Justice, | :08:32. | :08:35. | |
which talks about freedom of access of citizens of member states between | :08:36. | :08:40. | |
countries but at the moment, the British government is not really | :08:40. | :08:47. | |
sure where it's going but this is an escalating row. Thank you very | :08:47. | :08:49. | |
much. Police investigating the disappearance of the Sheffield | :08:49. | :08:55. | |
schoolgirl Erika Kacicova have arrested a 37-year-old man. The | :08:55. | :08:59. | |
13-year-old has not been seen for one week. Officers at issued a plea | :08:59. | :09:06. | |
for her to get in touch to let them know she is safe. | :09:06. | :09:10. | |
Where is Erika Kacicova? It is now one week since the 13-year-old went | :09:10. | :09:17. | |
missing. In that time, she hasn't spoken to her family once. Today the | :09:17. | :09:22. | |
schoolgirl 's father and younger sister, Slovakian remedies, pleaded | :09:22. | :09:29. | |
with her to come home. Please, Erika, please come back to mum and | :09:29. | :09:38. | |
dad, sister and brother. Comeback. Erica, are you OK? We love you so | :09:38. | :09:44. | |
much. Comeback. We want to. She was last seen leaving her home on Monday | :09:44. | :09:48. | |
the 5th of August. Four days later, 22-year-old man was arrested in | :09:48. | :09:52. | |
Bradford and has been released on police bail. This morning, | :09:53. | :09:59. | |
detectives arrested a second man in Bradford, 37-year-old, questioned | :09:59. | :10:02. | |
about child abduction. Detectives believe she is still alive and have | :10:02. | :10:07. | |
focused their searches away from her home town of Sheffield and towards | :10:07. | :10:17. | |
Bradford where police say she has a number of friends. This | :10:17. | :10:20. | |
investigation now involves 50 detectives and two police forces in | :10:20. | :10:24. | |
Yorkshire. Her family say they have no idea where she is or why she is | :10:24. | :10:34. | |
missing. They also say they just want her home. Britain's biggest | :10:34. | :10:39. | |
water company, Thames Water, says it wants to increase every household | :10:39. | :10:43. | |
bill by �29 to cover what it says are unexpected extra costs. The | :10:43. | :10:48. | |
company, which has 40 million customers, is asking permission from | :10:48. | :10:52. | |
the water regulator OFWAT to charge more to pay for maintenance work, | :10:52. | :10:55. | |
and costs associated with a major new sewer, the Thames Tideway | :10:55. | :11:02. | |
tunnel. We don't get to choose the company | :11:02. | :11:07. | |
that we pay for water, so every five years the industry and regulators | :11:07. | :11:12. | |
agree on prices. Now, 40 million customers are facing the prospect of | :11:12. | :11:16. | |
an unexpected price rise. And what the company claims are unforeseen | :11:16. | :11:22. | |
costs. When prices were set in 2009, a small number of things, we did | :11:23. | :11:27. | |
know how much they would cost, no allowance was made for them, on the | :11:27. | :11:31. | |
understanding we did know how much we spent. We are now making an | :11:31. | :11:34. | |
application, we don't want to claim it all back in one year, and spread | :11:35. | :11:39. | |
it over several years to avoid a one-off spike in bills. The biggest | :11:39. | :11:42. | |
single cost the company has encountered is linked to the fact | :11:42. | :11:46. | |
that almost 39 million tonnes of raw sewage pour into the Thames every | :11:46. | :11:52. | |
single year. So the company spent almost �300 million buying land for | :11:52. | :11:58. | |
a planned London super sewer. There are other costs, too. The economic | :11:58. | :12:03. | |
downturn has meant more people can't or won't pay their bills. The | :12:03. | :12:08. | |
company says is having to look after tens of thousands of kilometres of | :12:08. | :12:12. | |
previously private sewers. And costs linked to taking water out of rivers | :12:12. | :12:18. | |
and the ground are also up. They are the biggest water company and | :12:18. | :12:24. | |
recently faced criticism for paying no corporation tax despite posting | :12:24. | :12:29. | |
revenues of �1.8 billion. Last joke of it paid out �231 million to | :12:29. | :12:33. | |
shareholders on the back of more than half �1 billion in operating | :12:33. | :12:38. | |
profits. So today the main industry consumer group argued that the firm | :12:38. | :12:43. | |
should be able to absorb more of these extra costs. We believe in | :12:43. | :12:47. | |
this current climate, an increase of that size, plus the already | :12:47. | :12:53. | |
inflation increase, and a 1.4% increase on top of that already | :12:53. | :13:00. | |
accepted, would take a bills from �354 on average, to nearly �400. | :13:00. | :13:04. | |
Thames Water insists it's saving money, too, and its bills remain the | :13:04. | :13:08. | |
second lowest in England and Wales. The industry regulator has three | :13:08. | :13:12. | |
months to decide whether the proposed �29 hike in bills is | :13:12. | :13:20. | |
justified or not. The paedophile who was convicted last week of a sexual | :13:20. | :13:25. | |
offence against a 13-year-old girl and of possessing indecent | :13:25. | :13:29. | |
photographs has had his suspended prison term increased. Neil | :13:30. | :13:33. | |
Wilson's senders has been changed from eight months to a year but that | :13:33. | :13:39. | |
doesn't relate to the offence against the girl. Explain what | :13:39. | :13:46. | |
happened here, June. Jane, this is a controversial case because both the | :13:46. | :13:50. | |
judge in the case and the prosecuting barrister used the word | :13:50. | :13:53. | |
predatory to describe this 13-year-old girl for the judges back | :13:53. | :13:57. | |
in court this morning but the prosecuting barrister wasn't because | :13:57. | :14:01. | |
he has now been suspended from appearing in such sex offence | :14:01. | :14:04. | |
cases. When he appeared in court last week, the offender at the heart | :14:04. | :14:13. | |
of all this, Neil Wilson, he admitted that he had committed an | :14:13. | :14:15. | |
offence against this young girl and was given an eight-month suspended | :14:15. | :14:20. | |
jail term, and he admitted possessing pornographic images. For | :14:20. | :14:24. | |
that, he was given a community sentence and the judge today said | :14:24. | :14:28. | |
that was a mistake and he should have been given a jail term. He's | :14:28. | :14:32. | |
been given another four months suspended, so he's now got one-year | :14:32. | :14:35. | |
suspended. He wasn't actually in court and gave evidence by video | :14:35. | :14:40. | |
link, clearly having problems standing because he was allowed to | :14:40. | :14:44. | |
sit throughout the hearing and he had a walking stick beside him. The | :14:44. | :14:47. | |
original eight-month sentence handed down for the offence against a child | :14:47. | :14:57. | |
is under review, so his sentence could be changed again. Thank you. | :14:57. | :14:59. | |
There's an estimated 6 million CCTV camera in Britain. Following | :14:59. | :15:03. | |
concerns about the potential for their misuse, a new code of conduct | :15:03. | :15:08. | |
has come into force in England and Wales. It means public bodies like | :15:08. | :15:11. | |
the police and local authorities must use them for a specific purpose | :15:11. | :15:16. | |
and when there is a pressing need. More details from our home affairs | :15:16. | :15:25. | |
correspondent. CCTV cameras are familiar sight. They can be vital in | :15:25. | :15:31. | |
solving crime like in this case of the 16-year-old who was stabbed to | :15:31. | :15:36. | |
death outside a club in the west Midlands. Police trawled through | :15:36. | :15:40. | |
CCTV and found the moment he was surrounded by a gang and attacked. | :15:40. | :15:44. | |
The footage led to their convictions. There is no definitive | :15:44. | :15:50. | |
figure for the number of cameras in the UK, estimates range up to 5.9 | :15:50. | :15:55. | |
million, around one for every 11 people. Their use is already | :15:55. | :15:58. | |
governed by the data protection act, now the Government has drawn up | :15:58. | :16:08. | |
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a new code of best practice for public to ensure cameras are there | :16:10. | :16:13. | |
to protect us and not spy will stop the code says cameras must have a | :16:13. | :16:16. | |
legitimate aim and meet a pressing need, and it says people in public | :16:16. | :16:19. | |
places must be aware they are being monitored, who is doing it and why, | :16:19. | :16:24. | |
and any images should only be kept for as long as they are needed. The | :16:24. | :16:28. | |
Commissioner will oversee it, but he can only encourage police and local | :16:28. | :16:33. | |
councils to stick to the code. Campaign groups say it doesn't go | :16:33. | :16:38. | |
far enough. Public authorities will have to pay attention to the code, | :16:38. | :16:42. | |
but individuals will not, so where we need to assess the system is | :16:42. | :16:46. | |
really working is if the commission can influence those people not | :16:46. | :16:53. | |
directly covered by the code. Recently police were told that using | :16:53. | :16:59. | |
a camera to record registration plates coming in and out of areas | :16:59. | :17:09. | |
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was not permitted. The top story this lunchtime: Labour | :17:11. | :17:16. | |
calls on companies to do more to recruit local staff. Chris Bryant | :17:16. | :17:20. | |
has criticised what he sees as an over reliance on cheap Labour from | :17:20. | :17:28. | |
Eastern Europe. Delta come, high hopes of a second gold at the world | :17:28. | :17:30. | |
athletics Championships when Christine Ohuruogu runs in the final | :17:30. | :17:36. | |
of the 400 metres. Later on BBC London, Thames Water says people who | :17:36. | :17:41. | |
don't pay their bills are partly to blame for its application to | :17:41. | :17:44. | |
increase prices. We look at the ever-increasing deer population and | :17:44. | :17:54. | |
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its impact on the environment. The success of British cyclists like | :17:57. | :18:00. | |
Sir Bradley Wiggins, Victoria Pendleton and Sir Chris Hoy at last | :18:00. | :18:03. | |
year's Olympics may have inspired some of us back onto our bikes. Now | :18:03. | :18:06. | |
the Government is hoping to encourage even more people to get | :18:06. | :18:10. | |
pedalling, as it invests �94 million in England's cycle routes. The money | :18:10. | :18:13. | |
will be shared among a number of cities and national parks, and and | :18:13. | :18:16. | |
will be used both to improve existing cycle paths and fund new | :18:16. | :18:25. | |
ones. Here's our sports correspondent, Dan Roan. | :18:25. | :18:30. | |
British cycling is riding high like never before, the wheels of success | :18:30. | :18:37. | |
continuing to turn at the elite of the sport. Putting two wheels at the | :18:37. | :18:47. | |
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head of the transport policy is yet to succeed however. Four National | :18:49. | :18:54. | |
Parks will receive �17 million of funding to include cycling | :18:54. | :18:59. | |
provision. Many local authorities are adding to that money, meaning a | :18:59. | :19:07. | |
total of �148 million will be spent between now and 2015. Our European | :19:07. | :19:11. | |
neighbours take cycling much more seriously as a transport choice and | :19:12. | :19:19. | |
they are spending more. My understanding is that a lot of extra | :19:19. | :19:24. | |
money will come from local funding, but in a local transport plan they | :19:24. | :19:33. | |
are only planning 75p per person per year on spikes in -- on cycling. | :19:33. | :19:38. | |
Manchester has been given the most money and you can see why there is a | :19:38. | :19:42. | |
need for investment. This is Deansgate, one of the busiest roads | :19:42. | :19:48. | |
in the city, and yet there is no cycle lane. Many cycle lanes carry | :19:48. | :19:55. | |
on and run out, and then people are parked in them. They are full of | :19:55. | :20:01. | |
obstruction, not cleaned, with rubble and broken glass. I think it | :20:01. | :20:09. | |
is probably fear for most people, and who can blame them. You see the | :20:09. | :20:13. | |
amount of people out on a bike on a nice day, there is no reason those | :20:13. | :20:18. | |
people could not go to work and back if it was safer. The aim is to | :20:18. | :20:23. | |
emulate London where the number of cyclists has doubled in the last ten | :20:23. | :20:28. | |
years but nationally just 2% of journeys in Britain work by bike and | :20:28. | :20:35. | |
the numbers of people injured on the roads is increasing. When people | :20:35. | :20:39. | |
turn left, they don't count on you being there so they will knock you | :20:39. | :20:45. | |
off, but in the Netherlands they are more careful. Much more money is | :20:45. | :20:49. | |
spent per head in European countries than here, and the funding is an | :20:49. | :20:53. | |
attempt to address that, but the road to a true cycling revolution is | :20:53. | :20:56. | |
a long one. The Foreign Office in London and its | :20:56. | :20:59. | |
Irish counterpart in Dublin has said it's offering assistance to two | :20:59. | :21:01. | |
women who've been arrested in south America on suspicion of trafficking | :21:01. | :21:05. | |
cocaine. Michaella McCollum Connolly, who is Irish, and Melissa | :21:05. | :21:08. | |
Reid, who is British, were arrested in Lima on Tuesday, while trying to | :21:08. | :21:18. | |
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board a flight to Madrid. As far as their families were aware, Michaella | :21:23. | :21:26. | |
McCollum Connolly and Melissa Reid were spending the summer in I'd be | :21:26. | :21:32. | |
earning a living in the resorts and clubs. Today they are languishing in | :21:32. | :21:37. | |
a Peruvian jail, accused of being drug smugglers. They were arrested | :21:37. | :21:41. | |
in the capital Lima last Tuesday, while checking in at the airport | :21:41. | :21:45. | |
before a flight back to Spain. The authorities alleged that between | :21:45. | :21:52. | |
them they were carrying 11 kilos of cocaine with a street value of �1.5 | :21:52. | :21:57. | |
million. They are being held at the Santa Monica women's prison on the | :21:57. | :22:02. | |
outskirts of Lima where the conditions are said to be very poor. | :22:02. | :22:08. | |
The prison system in the room will be like anything you can compare to | :22:08. | :22:12. | |
in the UK. The overcrowding is currently running at 200%, so people | :22:12. | :22:17. | |
are sleeping in the corridors, in the stairwells and in the toilets. | :22:18. | :22:25. | |
Per room is now the world 's biggest exporter of cocaine. Last year alone | :22:25. | :22:29. | |
248 alleged drug mules were arrested at the main airport in Lima, trying | :22:29. | :22:37. | |
to smuggle out a total of 1600 kilos of class a drugs. At Melissa Reid's | :22:37. | :22:40. | |
home, her family said they had not had a chance to speak to their | :22:40. | :22:44. | |
daughter yet and they have been told by the foreign office she is well | :22:44. | :22:48. | |
cared for. Whether guilty or innocent, the women potentially face | :22:48. | :22:55. | |
a long time in custody. It could be another year before their case goes | :22:55. | :22:56. | |
to trial. The Duke of Edinburgh is carrying | :22:56. | :22:59. | |
out his first official engagement in nearly two months today. Prince | :22:59. | :23:02. | |
Philip has been handing out medals at the Royal Society of Edinburgh to | :23:02. | :23:05. | |
scientists and businessmen who have excelled in their fields. It's the | :23:05. | :23:08. | |
first time the 92-year-old will be seen in public since his operation | :23:08. | :23:18. | |
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in June. Great Britain have high hopes of a second gold at the World | :23:26. | :23:28. | |
Athletics Championships, when Christine Ohuruogu runs in the final | :23:28. | :23:31. | |
of the 400 metres this evening. Last night Usain Bolt set the stadium | :23:31. | :23:39. | |
alight, when he won his sixth world title. Andy Swiss is in Moscow. | :23:39. | :23:43. | |
It was a night in Moscow thunderstorm met a lightning bolt. | :23:43. | :23:49. | |
Not even the weather could rein on his parade. From miming umbrellas to | :23:49. | :23:53. | |
beating his rivals, Usain Bolt was once again the supreme entertainer. | :23:53. | :24:03. | |
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Another dazzling display, another gold medal. 9.78! Unbeatable.For a | :24:07. | :24:13. | |
sport beset by problems of the track, it was the perfect tonic. The | :24:13. | :24:19. | |
world 's fastest man had done it again. It is a great show as always. | :24:19. | :24:23. | |
They came out and supported, there were a lot of Jamaicans in the crowd | :24:23. | :24:28. | |
so it was just great. This morning there has already been a lot of | :24:28. | :24:34. | |
British interests, with Jessica Ennis-Hill injured, Katarina Johnson | :24:34. | :24:44. | |
Thompson came fourth in the -- after the first two events. In the women's | :24:44. | :24:47. | |
event, Perri Shakes-Drayton confirmed her status as a medal | :24:47. | :24:53. | |
contender, fastest in the heats. Later, all eyes will be on Christine | :24:53. | :24:57. | |
Ohuruogu in the 400 metres final. Post a medal contender, fastest in | :24:57. | :24:59. | |
the heats. Later, all eyes will be on Christine Ohuruogu in the 400 | :24:59. | :25:07. | |
metres final. Her stormy finish and if she is within striking distance | :25:07. | :25:15. | |
we just don't know, it could be a gold medal. Christine Ohuruogu has | :25:15. | :25:20. | |
won the world title before in 2007, if she can do this she might win it | :25:20. | :25:27. | |
again. Her final gets under way at 6:15pm British time. After Mo | :25:27. | :25:33. | |
Farah's victory on Saturday, Britain will be hoping for another gold | :25:33. | :25:40. | |
medal in these championships. It is going to be an exciting evening, | :25:40. | :25:47. | |
Andy. It will be a hugely exciting and nerve wracking evening, yes, | :25:47. | :25:50. | |
with all eyes on Christine Ohuruogu. She looked impressive in the | :25:50. | :25:55. | |
semifinals, in fact it was her best time of the year so far and if she | :25:55. | :26:02. | |
can repeat that form, anything is possible. She won the world to title | :26:02. | :26:12. | |
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-- world title, and will it be gold again for Christine Ohuruogu? 60 -- | :26:13. | :26:23. | |
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6:15pm on BBC Two. Play has resumed on Day four of the fourth Ashes Test | :26:32. | :26:34. | |
at Chester-le-Street. Ian Bell built on his overnight score but was | :26:34. | :26:38. | |
bowled out on 113. Matt Prior was then bowled out immediately for a | :26:38. | :26:40. | |
duck. Don't be too alarmed by the sight of | :26:40. | :26:43. | |
this umbrella, we are hoping this is a mere light shower. We have had a | :26:43. | :26:53. | |
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dry morning session, leaving Australia needing 299 to win. | :26:55. | :26:59. | |
Entertainment for the Durham Q. If there is one less on Australian | :26:59. | :27:03. | |
cricket fans have had to learn in recent times, it is how to accept | :27:03. | :27:08. | |
sympathy with good humour. Faced with Ian Bell in this series coming | :27:08. | :27:13. | |
up to either laugh or cry. He reached his highest score this | :27:13. | :27:18. | |
summer with this four. He may be incredible, he is not infallible. | :27:18. | :27:26. | |
Beating on 113 by Ryan Harris. When Ian Bell departed, England were only | :27:26. | :27:34. | |
219 ahead, and Harris had not finished. Stuart Broad put on his | :27:34. | :27:39. | |
pads in a panic, but batted the ball away. Tim Bresnan had more in mind | :27:39. | :27:46. | |
than simple defence, England needed to extend their need. Back came | :27:46. | :27:51. | |
Harris to bounce out Stuart Broad. Bresnan was enjoying himself, | :27:51. | :27:56. | |
pushing England on with a growing range of boundaries. England versus | :27:56. | :28:01. | |
Harris, who was now doing the bowling and capturing, as Bresnan | :28:01. | :28:05. | |
went for 45. Graeme Swann made 30, swinging at everything and getting | :28:05. | :28:12. | |
away with it. A session that began with balloon making spread to | :28:12. | :28:18. | |
juggling without raising an Australian smile. They need 299 to | :28:18. | :28:23. | |
win. Australia 11 without loss at lunch, we will have a thrilling | :28:23. | :28:29. | |
conclusion, weather permitting. Let's catch up on the weather | :28:29. | :28:35. | |
Let's catch up on the weather prospects wherever you are. It is an | :28:35. | :28:40. | |
important week for the farmers at harvest time and this time of year | :28:40. | :28:44. | |
ideally they want a week of dry weather. As far as the next few days | :28:44. | :28:47. | |
is concerned, it is looking like there will be some sunshine and | :28:47. | :28:54. | |
hefty showers. You have just seen one at the cricket. On the satellite | :28:54. | :28:59. | |
picture, there is this mishmash of weather across the UK. The cloud | :28:59. | :29:03. | |
across the south-east gave this cloudy start of the day, and now | :29:03. | :29:08. | |
clouds have been bubbling up, especially across eastern parts. | :29:08. | :29:14. | |
They are producing those downpours and cracks of thunder. We will start | :29:14. | :29:17. | |
with the northern portion across Northern Ireland and Scotland, this | :29:17. | :29:23. | |
is where the rain will be coming and going this afternoon. There will be | :29:23. | :29:27. | |
that particular strip to the eastern areas where most of the showers will | :29:27. | :29:32. | |
occur. On the other hand, southern parts of the UK from mid Wales | :29:32. | :29:37. | |
South, all the way from Plymouth to Dover, it looks like it will be fine | :29:37. | :29:42. | |
for most of the afternoon with predominantly dry weather and some | :29:42. | :29:45. | |
good sunny spells around. For the rest of the afternoon we have had | :29:45. | :29:51. | |
some showers already, but the chance continues through the rest of the | :29:51. | :29:55. | |
afternoon, and also through tomorrow, but less of a chance | :29:55. | :29:59. | |
tomorrow compared with today. This evening the showers clear away so it | :29:59. | :30:05. | |
will become clear across the majority of the UK and as a result | :30:05. | :30:10. | |
the temperatures will be pretty low in rural spots. Then this area of | :30:10. | :30:14. | |
cloud and rain you can see drifting out across the Irish Sea will give a | :30:15. | :30:20. | |
cloudy afternoon, eventually inland, so anywhere from Birmingham | :30:20. | :30:27. | |
to London, it looks like it will be a cloudy day. There will be some | :30:27. | :30:32. | |
spots of rain. In the north it is around 17 degrees with some spots of | :30:32. | :30:39. | |
rain lurking. Wednesday, again it is that mix of cloud, bits and pieces | :30:39. | :30:45. | |
of rain nagging here and there. Not cold, 21 degrees, and from Thursday | :30:46. | :30:51. | |
onwards there will be a portion of warm, muggy air coming from France | :30:51. | :30:56. |