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Irish Republican terror suspects are told they still face arrest | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
An independent review found so-called "comfort letters" sent to | :00:07. | :00:16. | |
nearly 200 republicans do not amount to immunity from prosecution. | :00:17. | :00:18. | |
We'll have all the reaction from our correspondent in Northern Ireland. | :00:19. | :00:21. | |
More rockets fired on Israel despite a five-hour ceasefire | :00:22. | :00:24. | |
between Palestinian militants and Israel | :00:25. | :00:27. | |
and reports that a more permanent ceasefire could begin tomorrow. | :00:28. | :00:32. | |
The Ukrainian government has accused Russia of shooting down one of its | :00:33. | :00:34. | |
Championship gets underway on the Wirral. | :00:35. | :00:44. | |
UK as the thermometer continues to soar. | :00:45. | :00:52. | |
Good afternoon and welcome to the BBC News at One. | :00:53. | :01:26. | |
Almost 200 Irish Republicans who were sent official letters informing | :01:27. | :01:29. | |
them they were no longer wanted by police have been warned they | :01:30. | :01:32. | |
could still be arrested - if the police have sufficient evidence. | :01:33. | :01:36. | |
An independent review into the scheme has been branded | :01:37. | :01:39. | |
'systematically flawed' but not illegal. | :01:40. | :01:41. | |
The scheme was made public when the trial collapsed | :01:42. | :01:48. | |
of a man suspected of carrying out the 1982 IRA Hyde Park bombing. | :01:49. | :01:51. | |
Let's cross to Stormont and our correspondent, Chris Buckler. | :01:52. | :01:53. | |
The issue of the on-the-runs, people suspected of paramilitary crimes, | :01:54. | :02:02. | |
have been given assurances they were no longer wanted threaten Stormont | :02:03. | :02:05. | |
itself, it threatened to bring down power-sharing. That's why we ended | :02:06. | :02:08. | |
up with this weighty report commissioned by the government. In | :02:09. | :02:12. | |
it it says it was an unprecedented scale and undoubtedly flawed, | :02:13. | :02:17. | |
mistakes by the police in the way it was run, however it makes clear it | :02:18. | :02:21. | |
was not illegal. There is also one catastrophic error in this scheme, | :02:22. | :02:25. | |
and that led John Downey not to be tried in connection with four | :02:26. | :02:30. | |
murders. During decades of violence paramilitary suspects fled Northern | :02:31. | :02:35. | |
Ireland. After peace and political progress any hope to return home, | :02:36. | :02:39. | |
but only if they were no longer under suspicion. The deal was done | :02:40. | :02:44. | |
by Sinn Fein with the government to give people assurances that they | :02:45. | :02:47. | |
were no longer wanted by the police. Unionists have called that a dirty | :02:48. | :02:52. | |
deal, done behind closed doors at Westminster. Today's judge led | :02:53. | :02:55. | |
review ordered by the government itself says the scheme was not | :02:56. | :02:59. | |
secret, but it was kept below the radar because it was politically | :03:00. | :03:04. | |
sensitive. The government has always been clear that if sufficient | :03:05. | :03:09. | |
evidence emerges then individual on-the-runs are liable for arrest | :03:10. | :03:13. | |
and prosecution in the normal way. So, I repeat again today to the | :03:14. | :03:17. | |
people holding these letters, they will not protect you from arrest or | :03:18. | :03:22. | |
prosecution and should the police succeed in gathering sufficient | :03:23. | :03:25. | |
evidence, you will be subject to due process of law. But the scheme has | :03:26. | :03:34. | |
had consequences. 32 years ago this month for soldiers were killed in | :03:35. | :03:38. | |
London in what became known as the Hyde Park bombing. It was one of the | :03:39. | :03:43. | |
IRA's most notorious attacks. John Downey was a suspect but in error he | :03:44. | :03:47. | |
was given a so-called letter of assurance. And a judge ruled that | :03:48. | :03:50. | |
amounted to a promise by the government and prevented him from | :03:51. | :03:54. | |
being prosecuted. It also made public the existence of the letters | :03:55. | :03:57. | |
given to so-called on-the-runs, people suspected of paramilitary | :03:58. | :04:03. | |
crimes. Today's review makes clear that there were at least two other | :04:04. | :04:07. | |
mistakes. Lady Justice Hallett says the scheme had systemic flaws. There | :04:08. | :04:12. | |
is also specific criticism of the police. Particularly, as the error | :04:13. | :04:16. | |
involving John Downey was identified by detectives but not rectified. | :04:17. | :04:20. | |
This whole affair caused a crisis at Stormont with the First Minister | :04:21. | :04:24. | |
threatening to resign. Lady Justice Hallett concludes that there is no | :04:25. | :04:27. | |
evidence that any party other than Sinn Fein was informed of letters | :04:28. | :04:33. | |
however dozens of politicians must have known that some kind of scheme | :04:34. | :04:38. | |
was in operation. Within the last half-hour we have had a statement | :04:39. | :04:42. | |
from the Police Service of Northern Ireland, its chief comes to says it | :04:43. | :04:45. | |
except the report and its recommendations in full. But there | :04:46. | :04:48. | |
is now a question about what happens next in terms of these letters. The | :04:49. | :04:53. | |
First Minister had pushed for them to be rescinded. As far as Lady | :04:54. | :04:57. | |
Justice Hallett is concerned that is a matter for the secretary of state. | :04:58. | :05:01. | |
The other thing of course is that she makes specific reference to | :05:02. | :05:05. | |
those who died at Hyde Park in 1982. Lieutenant Colonel T Deila, | :05:06. | :05:13. | |
for soldiers lost their lives. Lady Justice Hallett spoke to their | :05:14. | :05:18. | |
families and they were naturally distressed. This trial did not go | :05:19. | :05:22. | |
ahead. The real priority is to make sure no other mistakes and to | :05:23. | :05:26. | |
prevent any other families getting their chance of justice in the | :05:27. | :05:28. | |
future. A fragile ceasefire | :05:29. | :05:31. | |
between Palestinian militants The five-hour pause | :05:32. | :05:32. | |
in hostilities was for humanitarian reasons to allow people to get | :05:33. | :05:40. | |
supplies and to leave their homes. Meanwhile there are reports that | :05:41. | :05:43. | |
a more permanent ceasefire could The latest fighting has | :05:44. | :05:46. | |
been going on for ten days. More than 200 Palestinians have | :05:47. | :05:50. | |
been killed and one Israeli. Viewers may find images | :05:51. | :05:53. | |
in this report from Kevin Connolly After nine days of war, five hours | :05:54. | :06:02. | |
of relief. This humanitarian cease-fire is brief. The people of | :06:03. | :06:08. | |
Gaza took their chance to live normally, at least for a while. Even | :06:09. | :06:16. | |
in better times here life is hard. But this morning they could shop | :06:17. | :06:20. | |
safely, without scanning the skies for Israeli planes. Times are still | :06:21. | :06:26. | |
tens though. This is a pause in hostilities requested by the UN for | :06:27. | :06:30. | |
urgent humanitarian work. It is not based on trust between the two | :06:31. | :06:37. | |
sides. The break in the fighting came a day after one of the worst | :06:38. | :06:41. | |
incidents of the conflict, when Israel killed four young boys as | :06:42. | :06:45. | |
they played on a beach. Their family called it a cold-blooded massacre. | :06:46. | :06:51. | |
Israel always says it tries to avoid civilian casualties and promised an | :06:52. | :06:56. | |
investigation. Today it went a step further. We are really sorry for the | :06:57. | :07:11. | |
four children being killed. I think the air force is really taking | :07:12. | :07:17. | |
maximum care not to hit children, even single pilots. If they see a | :07:18. | :07:24. | |
child they don't do it. The fighting though continued, right up to the | :07:25. | :07:31. | |
very last minute. This is the aftermath of Israeli air raids on | :07:32. | :07:34. | |
Gaza which damaged a house said to belong to a leading militant. | :07:35. | :07:36. | |
Gaza which damaged a house said to belong to a A final tank round was | :07:37. | :07:42. | |
fired just before the deadline. And these are Israeli surveillance | :07:43. | :07:46. | |
images of 13 Palestinian gunmen who emerged from a tunnel on the Israeli | :07:47. | :07:49. | |
side of the barrier which separates it from Gaza. Israel says they were | :07:50. | :07:56. | |
heading for a nearby village. The Israeli air force had them in its | :07:57. | :08:01. | |
sights. The pause in hostilities was the first chink of light in more | :08:02. | :08:05. | |
than a week here. But as the five-hour window began to close came | :08:06. | :08:11. | |
word of the second. Israeli reports say that peace talks in Cairo have | :08:12. | :08:15. | |
reached agreement on what they are calling a company hints of | :08:16. | :08:18. | |
cease-fire. There is no confirmation yet from the other players, but a | :08:19. | :08:24. | |
deal, it seems, may be in reach. Kevin Connolly, BBC News, Jerusalem. | :08:25. | :08:26. | |
A Russian jet has shot down a Ukrainian fighter plane over the | :08:27. | :08:30. | |
east of the country where there has been fighting between government | :08:31. | :08:34. | |
Our Moscow Correspondent Daniel Sandford joins us now. | :08:35. | :08:37. | |
This is an allegation made by the Ukrainian spokesman for the national | :08:38. | :08:48. | |
security and defence counsel, their most senior spokesman on security | :08:49. | :08:53. | |
matters. What he says is that an SU 25, a fighter jet that belonged to | :08:54. | :08:57. | |
the Ukrainian air force, was flying over Ukrainian territory and it was | :08:58. | :09:00. | |
hit by a missile fired what he said was a Russian military aircraft. He | :09:01. | :09:07. | |
says that the SU 25 were shot down, the pilot managed to eject and | :09:08. | :09:11. | |
parachute to earth and was rescued by some of his fellow servicemen, | :09:12. | :09:16. | |
Ukrainian servicemen, that obviously a very serious allegation if true, | :09:17. | :09:21. | |
that a Russian jet has shot down a Ukrainian fighter jet over Ukrainian | :09:22. | :09:25. | |
soil. As you say it is an allegation at the moment but if it is confirmed | :09:26. | :09:29. | |
how serious an escalation of the crisis could this prove to be? What | :09:30. | :09:33. | |
we have seen this week is a creeping escalation. Certainly an escalation | :09:34. | :09:38. | |
of allegations. Ukrainian government claimed that a transport plane, | :09:39. | :09:42. | |
Antonov 26 will shop down by a missile from Russian soil -- was | :09:43. | :09:48. | |
shot down. There were claims that the Russians were firing multiple | :09:49. | :09:52. | |
rocket launchers, or somebody was firing multiple rocket launchers | :09:53. | :09:55. | |
from the Russian side of the border on to Ukrainian forces in Ukraine. | :09:56. | :09:59. | |
President Poroshenko, the new Ukrainian president, asked for the | :10:00. | :10:01. | |
Ukrainian Foreign Ministry to react to that. This is all taking place in | :10:02. | :10:06. | |
a very, very difficult environment between Russia and in particular | :10:07. | :10:12. | |
America. America are playing fresh sanctions on some of Russia's | :10:13. | :10:16. | |
biggest police yesterday, Russia's biggest oil company, second biggest | :10:17. | :10:20. | |
gas company and third biggest bank, and also the manufacturers of | :10:21. | :10:24. | |
Kalashnikov rifles, or hit by American sanctions yesterday and if | :10:25. | :10:26. | |
these allegations turn out to be true much more serious sanctions and | :10:27. | :10:30. | |
much more serious deterioration in the ratio between Russia and America | :10:31. | :10:33. | |
and Russia and Europe will follow. Thank you for joining us. | :10:34. | :10:35. | |
The Liberal Democrats have been accused of 'unbelievable hypocrisy' | :10:36. | :10:38. | |
by Labour over their calls for an immediate overhaul | :10:39. | :10:41. | |
of the coalition's housing benefit reform, known to critics | :10:42. | :10:43. | |
Nick Clegg said it was "complete baloney" for the Conservatives to | :10:44. | :10:49. | |
claim that they were surprised by today's Lib Dem announcement. | :10:50. | :10:52. | |
Our political correspondent Vicki Young reports. | :10:53. | :11:00. | |
plan to cut housing benefit for plan to cut housing benefit for | :11:01. | :11:06. | |
those judged to have spare room is has caused uproar. To sweeten the | :11:07. | :11:12. | |
pill ministers announced exactions and give councils millions to help | :11:13. | :11:15. | |
those affected. Having voted for it in Parliament the Liberal Democrats | :11:16. | :11:19. | |
now say it is time to overhaul the policy. I'm a practical politician | :11:20. | :11:23. | |
and when something isn't working in practice we should fix it and that | :11:24. | :11:24. | |
is why we want to make sure practice we should fix it and that | :11:25. | :11:29. | |
the new rules apply to new tenants but to existing tenants if they want | :11:30. | :11:33. | |
to move and cannot it is not fair or reasonable to ask them to pay this | :11:34. | :11:35. | |
extra levy. He says he reasonable to ask them to pay this | :11:36. | :11:38. | |
mind because of new research published by the government this | :11:39. | :11:42. | |
week. It showed that social housing tenants of working age had their | :11:43. | :11:46. | |
benefit cut by an average of ?14 a week since April last year. 19% of | :11:47. | :11:51. | |
tenants had registered to downsize to a smaller property at just 4.5% | :11:52. | :11:56. | |
had actually managed to do so within the first six months of the policy. | :11:57. | :12:00. | |
In the Commons the Conservatives couldn't resist a dig at their | :12:01. | :12:05. | |
coalition partners. She did ask about having an emergency debate on | :12:06. | :12:11. | |
what Liberal Democrats have said today about the spare room subsidy. | :12:12. | :12:15. | |
I don't think we'll be able to have an emergency debate on every | :12:16. | :12:18. | |
occasion that they change their policy. LAUGHTER | :12:19. | :12:21. | |
Labour have accused Mr Clegg of unbelievable hypocrisy over what | :12:22. | :12:26. | |
they call the bedroom tax. Campaigners for affordable housing | :12:27. | :12:29. | |
say tenants are struggling to make up the shortfall once their benefit | :12:30. | :12:34. | |
has been cut. This measure is ill-conceived, badly thought out. I | :12:35. | :12:37. | |
accept that we need changes to the welfare system and we have worked | :12:38. | :12:41. | |
very closely with government on the major reforms. This isn't a reform, | :12:42. | :12:45. | |
it is a nasty, vindictive cut that affects poor people and should be | :12:46. | :12:49. | |
consigned to the dustbin of history as quickly as possible. The Tories | :12:50. | :12:53. | |
insist this policy is helping to reduce the housing benefits bill | :12:54. | :12:57. | |
that is spiralling out of control. They say it is a question of | :12:58. | :13:01. | |
fairness too, because in the private rental sector people don't get spare | :13:02. | :13:06. | |
rooms for free. But the Lib Dems say ministers have to look at the hard | :13:07. | :13:09. | |
evidence and if a policy isn't working in practice than it needs to | :13:10. | :13:13. | |
be changed. Vicky Young, BBC News, Westminster. | :13:14. | :13:14. | |
Our Chief political Correspondent Norman Smith is in Westminster now. | :13:15. | :13:18. | |
How much of this is about the Liberal Democrats putting some | :13:19. | :13:23. | |
distance between themselves and the Conservatives with less than a year | :13:24. | :13:27. | |
to the election? It is exact to sew. If you want to be charitable you | :13:28. | :13:30. | |
could call it the start of the conscious uncoupling of the | :13:31. | :13:34. | |
coalition. I would describe it as a calculating act of political plate | :13:35. | :13:40. | |
throwing by Nick Clegg David Cameron because in the last few months Nick | :13:41. | :13:43. | |
Clegg has had to duck under the table bombarded by his party | :13:44. | :13:47. | |
activists, at his party conference, local councillors and even senior | :13:48. | :13:50. | |
Liberal Democrats unhappy with the bedroom tax. He has ditched it but | :13:51. | :13:55. | |
not quietly, he is using it as an issue, sharp edged kitchenware to | :13:56. | :14:01. | |
her letter Mr Cameron. Why? To precisely flag up the differences | :14:02. | :14:05. | |
between the coalition, to flex the Lib Democrat muscles. -- hurl at Mr | :14:06. | :14:10. | |
Cameron. That is a process we saw happening already. We saw the | :14:11. | :14:13. | |
opposition to further cuts to welfare, over Europe, thresholds, | :14:14. | :14:17. | |
strike ballots and we will see the Conservatives doing the same. | :14:18. | :14:21. | |
Indeed, the Prime Minister's spokesman this lunch time said it is | :14:22. | :14:24. | |
going to be a not unexpected feature of coalition government. If you | :14:25. | :14:28. | |
think East Enders is to shout eek and argy-bargy you will not like the | :14:29. | :14:32. | |
next nine months of politics either. Top story this lunch time: | :14:33. | :14:41. | |
Irish and terror suspects are told they still face arrest as so-called | :14:42. | :14:45. | |
comfort letters do not amount to immunity from prosecution. And still | :14:46. | :14:49. | |
to come: England face India on the first day | :14:50. | :14:49. | |
to come: England face India on the first of the second test at Lord's. | :14:50. | :14:56. | |
India were first up to bat. Later on BBC London, a revamped Reading | :14:57. | :14:58. | |
station, the Queen officially opens the ?900 million development. | :14:59. | :15:14. | |
What happens to people at the end of their lives is an emotive | :15:15. | :15:17. | |
At the moment helping someone to die is illegal | :15:18. | :15:20. | |
but there has been an ongoing campaign to get the law changed. | :15:21. | :15:23. | |
The Assisted Dying Bill will be debated in the House of Lords | :15:24. | :15:26. | |
Even though it has a lot of support, there are also many people, | :15:27. | :15:31. | |
including those with disabilities, who don't want the law to change. | :15:32. | :15:34. | |
Our disability affairs correspondent Nikki Fox has more. | :15:35. | :15:39. | |
She's 69 years old, and used to work as a freelance legal secretary. | :15:40. | :15:44. | |
She has a big family, close friends, and two dogs. | :15:45. | :15:49. | |
She also has motor neurone disease, a condition she's had | :15:50. | :15:53. | |
It's left her only able to communicate by moving her eyes, with | :15:54. | :15:59. | |
When I was first diagnosed in 1991, I became seriously depressed, | :16:00. | :16:05. | |
and I'm ashamed to say that I spoke about dying | :16:06. | :16:08. | |
But although her life isn't what it was, Pam does not want to die. I am | :16:09. | :16:19. | |
There is always another book to read, or a film to watch. | :16:20. | :16:28. | |
I'm too nosey to want to die. Do you want me to just type it in?! | :16:29. | :16:34. | |
The Lords will be debating whether a form, like this, will be available | :16:35. | :16:39. | |
Two doctors will have to agree that the patient has a condition | :16:40. | :16:46. | |
which gives them six months or less to live, | :16:47. | :16:49. | |
They could then take their own life by self-administering | :16:50. | :16:54. | |
medication, with the lawful assistance of another person. | :16:55. | :16:58. | |
Most people would get comfort from knowing it was an option that | :16:59. | :17:01. | |
was available, but some people would like to take that option up, | :17:02. | :17:04. | |
and that's what Dignity In Dying is campaigning for, a change in the law | :17:05. | :17:08. | |
so that dying adults can have choice at the end of life. | :17:09. | :17:11. | |
Pam's friend Sian is also against the bill. | :17:12. | :17:17. | |
She's worried it will have much wider implications, particularly | :17:18. | :17:20. | |
Suddenly, when that choice is for you, you're in a constant | :17:21. | :17:27. | |
What we need is support for living, and not support for dying. | :17:28. | :17:35. | |
If we have support for living, we won't want to die. | :17:36. | :17:40. | |
The Assisted Dying Bill has received very high profile support | :17:41. | :17:47. | |
in the last few days, and those against it are worried. | :17:48. | :17:51. | |
People may assume that all disabled people don't have a good quality | :17:52. | :17:55. | |
of life, and would want to die. I am concerned that if assisted dying | :17:56. | :17:59. | |
became law then people would look at me and ask why I am alive | :18:00. | :18:03. | |
A record number of lords are expected to speak | :18:04. | :18:10. | |
BBC News is to lose 415 posts under a new restructuring plan | :18:11. | :18:20. | |
which will see a greater emphasis on digital services. | :18:21. | :18:23. | |
Staff have been told that ?48 million of savings will be made | :18:24. | :18:27. | |
by the changes, but some 200 jobs will also be created. | :18:28. | :18:30. | |
Our correspondent Nick Higham joins me. | :18:31. | :18:37. | |
Explain what the cuts will entail. The car parts of wider cuts as the | :18:38. | :18:47. | |
result of the licence fee being frozen until 2016. There are 8415 | :18:48. | :18:53. | |
working in BBC News, including local, regional, and international | :18:54. | :18:58. | |
services, and 415 jobs are going. Mostly the cuts are trying to get | :18:59. | :19:05. | |
bits of the BBC to collaborate more closely to integrate services, for | :19:06. | :19:10. | |
instance the teams producing the news channel and BBC world channel | :19:11. | :19:16. | |
will work more closely together and with the people producing the news | :19:17. | :19:22. | |
online services, the teams writing news bulletins for Radio Four and | :19:23. | :19:28. | |
the world services will be merged. Less money for individual outlets to | :19:29. | :19:32. | |
spend on commissioning material, which will make them collaborate | :19:33. | :19:36. | |
more and eliminate duplication. James Harding announced the cuts, he | :19:37. | :19:43. | |
said they had looked at axing some things completely like Radio 1 | :19:44. | :19:49. | |
Newsbeat, or no news on radio five, and they have ruled that out. | :19:50. | :19:58. | |
By doing such things you would rob people of programmes | :19:59. | :20:01. | |
You would significantly damage public support for the BBC. | :20:02. | :20:04. | |
And you would critically undermine the future of the BBC. | :20:05. | :20:07. | |
The simple option, the why don't you protect my part of the BBC by | :20:08. | :20:10. | |
closing down something else option, is not really an option at all. | :20:11. | :20:29. | |
The world's most famous golfers have gathered at Hoylake in Liverpool | :20:30. | :20:31. | |
Tiger Woods, three times Open Champion, | :20:32. | :20:34. | |
Rory McIlroy and the on-form Justin Rose are all in contention. | :20:35. | :20:37. | |
Katherine Downes is at Hoylake for us now. | :20:38. | :20:44. | |
One of the challenges of links golf is you are taking on the conditions, | :20:45. | :20:53. | |
not just the competitors. Most players have taken advantage of the | :20:54. | :20:59. | |
good weather. It was a shaky start for Tiger Woods, of whom many were | :21:00. | :21:07. | |
expecting so much on his return. Four months after surgery, tiger is | :21:08. | :21:13. | |
back. Such is his status his return to major action was never going to | :21:14. | :21:21. | |
be low-key. He was always going to receive a warm welcome Hoylake, the | :21:22. | :21:28. | |
course where he won his last Open title eight years ago. But it wasn't | :21:29. | :21:36. | |
the best of starts for the 14 time major winner. Shots dropped on the | :21:37. | :21:42. | |
first two holes left him looking characteristically concerned. A | :21:43. | :21:45. | |
different story for Rory McIlroy, showing signs he may be back to his | :21:46. | :21:52. | |
sublime best. Chasing the big names, John Singleton. The forklift truck | :21:53. | :21:58. | |
-- truck driver from the Wirral, the man living a fairy tale, savouring | :21:59. | :22:05. | |
his big moment. This is what makes the Open so special, even more so | :22:06. | :22:09. | |
when the sun shines. Robert Karlsson was first on the course, making the | :22:10. | :22:19. | |
most of the conditions to take an early lead. But Rory is hot on the | :22:20. | :22:26. | |
chase. Spaniard Sergio Garcia, in the hunt for his first major looks | :22:27. | :22:33. | |
like he is feeling at home in Merseyside's Mediterranean | :22:34. | :22:34. | |
conditions. The club house leader is an | :22:35. | :22:39. | |
Italian, who is on five under par. Rory McArdle I is five under par. He | :22:40. | :22:48. | |
has a couple of holes left to negotiate -- Rory McIlroy. | :22:49. | :23:05. | |
It's the first day of the second test of England | :23:06. | :23:11. | |
The last match between the two ended in a draw and England are | :23:12. | :23:15. | |
Seconds out, round two, first from his corner, England's enforcer. | :23:16. | :23:20. | |
James Anderson with a visual display of muscle. | :23:21. | :23:22. | |
His pavilion altercation with Jadeja will be dealt with by lawyers | :23:23. | :23:25. | |
Cricketers have their own way of settling scores. | :23:26. | :23:29. | |
Lovely catch by Gary Ballance, pictured in some papers this morning | :23:30. | :23:35. | |
He has taken more Test wickets for England than any other Englishman. | :23:36. | :23:44. | |
The green grass on the wicket was a green light to | :23:45. | :23:46. | |
Broad could have had Vijay out for zero, a stretch for Prior who | :23:47. | :23:51. | |
Patience for the key for India and technique. | :23:52. | :23:54. | |
Murali Vijay with a rare scoring opportunity will make | :23:55. | :23:56. | |
Having decided to bowl first the pressure was on England to take | :23:57. | :24:00. | |
There were plenty of near misses and not quites. | :24:01. | :24:03. | |
For England a growing sense of waste, Lords style, | :24:04. | :24:06. | |
where spectators are urged to take care of discarded champagne corks. | :24:07. | :24:09. | |
Ballance doing the business catching and he earned | :24:10. | :24:11. | |
Britain's tallest building and a swimming pool have been short listed | :24:12. | :24:33. | |
for an architectural prize. The Shard and the Aquatics Centre has | :24:34. | :24:38. | |
been nominated for the Stirling Prize. Rebecca Adlington, winner at | :24:39. | :24:44. | |
the 2012 London Olympics. Now the London Aquatics Centre, where she | :24:45. | :24:49. | |
competed, could itself be a winner. It is on the six strong short list | :24:50. | :24:56. | |
for the reader Stirling Prize, given to the best new British building. | :24:57. | :25:01. | |
The Aquatics Centre could have entered last year, but waited until | :25:02. | :25:07. | |
the huge temporary wings, where the Olympic spectators sat, had been | :25:08. | :25:13. | |
removed. It is up against the Shard, described by the judges as the most | :25:14. | :25:19. | |
significant addition to London's skyline since St Paul's. And the | :25:20. | :25:24. | |
London School of Economics student centre, where it is hard to find a | :25:25. | :25:33. | |
right angle. All six are in city centres. Three outside the capital, | :25:34. | :25:37. | |
including this, the Manchester School of Art, which has created new | :25:38. | :25:43. | |
design studios, been renovated in 1960s tower. There is a library of | :25:44. | :25:48. | |
Birmingham, hope to Shakespeare's first Folio, the building did not | :25:49. | :25:56. | |
look like this in his day -- home. Liverpool's Everyman Theatre, closed | :25:57. | :26:01. | |
for three years to undergo a complete redevelopment and now has | :26:02. | :26:06. | |
portraits of 105 locals etched into the shutters on its front. Their | :26:07. | :26:12. | |
reward, two three tickets to every theatre season there for the rest of | :26:13. | :26:19. | |
their lives. They find out if they have won on October 16. | :26:20. | :26:26. | |
A heatwave alert has been issued for parts of the UK | :26:27. | :26:36. | |
The people we have been talking to in Stratford-upon-Avon say the | :26:37. | :26:44. | |
Public Health England warnings are heavy-handed, a little patronising. | :26:45. | :26:48. | |
They can look after themselves, they say, when the sun comes out and you | :26:49. | :26:57. | |
can see them doing that, relaxing in the shade, boating on the river or | :26:58. | :27:05. | |
having an ice cream. It is the same story across the country. The | :27:06. | :27:10. | |
British summer at its prettiest, making sand castles or catching a | :27:11. | :27:16. | |
wave at the seaside. Taking a punt along the river. Keeping cool in the | :27:17. | :27:22. | |
park. Here in Stratford-upon-Avon it is time for ice cream. Temperatures | :27:23. | :27:30. | |
in the mid to high 20s in July are hardly unusual. They would barely | :27:31. | :27:35. | |
register concern elsewhere. I am from the South of France. It is not | :27:36. | :27:42. | |
a heatwave. I am from Australia. What would be regarded as a heatwave | :27:43. | :27:49. | |
there? About 38 degrees. It is about 20, lovely. People are being warned | :27:50. | :27:56. | |
to take extra care. We are concerned because of the effect on vulnerable | :27:57. | :28:02. | |
people, who may not perceive how hot they are, particularly those who | :28:03. | :28:07. | |
cannot move, people with dementia, who are dependent on other people. I | :28:08. | :28:15. | |
am not worried about the fit and healthy who are behaving sensibly in | :28:16. | :28:20. | |
the sun. Normally people come here to the Butterfly farm to escape the | :28:21. | :28:28. | |
cold and rain outside, but this is the place to come to get cool. It is | :28:29. | :28:37. | |
a steady 23 degrees. Good weather is good for business. People are | :28:38. | :28:43. | |
motivated to go out, so people can come and see as much as they can of | :28:44. | :28:53. | |
this area. Keep safe in the sun and enjoy it while it lasts. | :28:54. | :28:59. | |
Public Health England warnings are heavy-handed, a little | :29:00. | :29:03. | |
say, when the sun comes out and you can In the sunshine, further south, | :29:04. | :29:11. | |
it is that bit warmer, as it is for Northern Ireland. The mid-20s | :29:12. | :29:16. | |
further south, the high 20s across southern counties of England. Fairly | :29:17. | :29:21. | |
light winds, and a blissful afternoon if you like the heat. By | :29:22. | :29:28. | |
the end of the afternoon there will be thundery showers on the horizon | :29:29. | :29:34. | |
across the coast of Devon and Cornwall. The wind picking up, gusty | :29:35. | :29:41. | |
winds, 50 miles an hour. Scattered storms and rumbles of thunder, | :29:42. | :29:45. | |
flashes of lightning and sharp bursts of rain across the more | :29:46. | :29:51. | |
western parts of England and Wales. It could be of concern for the open | :29:52. | :29:59. | |
golf first thing, the showers will drift away and temperatures will | :30:00. | :30:03. | |
recover. The band of thundery showers and gusty winds further | :30:04. | :30:08. | |
north, into southwestern parts of Scotland. For the rest of us, dry | :30:09. | :30:14. | |
and in the sunshine temperatures will soar tomorrow. Tomorrow is a | :30:15. | :30:18. | |
particularly hot one, temperatures up to 33 Celsius across the more | :30:19. | :30:25. | |
southern and eastern areas. A lot cooler across eastern areas of | :30:26. | :30:30. | |
Scotland. If you are going to the cricket at Lord's, up into the 30s. | :30:31. | :30:38. | |
Light winds. Do put on some sunscreen. Through tomorrow evening | :30:39. | :30:42. | |
and night, an increasing chance of organised, thundery downpours | :30:43. | :30:46. | |
pushing up from France. The detail is elusive but Met Office warnings | :30:47. | :30:52. | |
are in force. The main showers on Saturday will be north-west woods. | :30:53. | :30:59. | |
The sun will come out, a steamy day, it could provoke thundery downpours | :31:00. | :31:05. | |
in the latter part of the afternoon. There could be intense thunderstorms | :31:06. | :31:10. | |
on Saturday. The Met Office warning extends into Sunday across more | :31:11. | :31:17. | |
eastern parts of the UK. More detail on the BBC weather website. | :31:18. | :31:20. |