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It's emerged hostages held in Syria by Islamic State are being guarded | :00:00. | :00:08. | |
America says it tried to rescue captives earlier this year, | :00:09. | :00:15. | |
Foley. A fellow prisoner who was later released says US hostages are | :00:16. | :00:23. | |
A fellow prisoner who was later released says US hostages are | :00:24. | :00:25. | |
Being an American it was probably more targeted. | :00:26. | :00:42. | |
There's been a rise in the proportion | :00:43. | :00:48. | |
of GCSE A star to C grade passes in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, | :00:49. | :00:59. | |
And American aid worker with the Ebola virus will be released from | :01:00. | :01:10. | |
hospital. Figures show more women than men | :01:11. | :01:15. | |
have entered into same sex marriages since the law changed in March. | :01:16. | :01:19. | |
A new museum for Bomber Command has opened in London. | :01:20. | :01:28. | |
On BBC London: Met officers who had alleged relationships whilst | :01:29. | :01:33. | |
undercover will not face charges. And solar farm the size of four | :01:34. | :01:34. | |
pitches in Surrey. Good afternoon and welcome to the | :01:35. | :01:47. | |
BBC News at One. It?s emerged this lunchtime that | :01:48. | :01:49. | |
foreign hostages held by Islamic State in Syria, are being | :01:50. | :01:52. | |
guarded by three British jihadists. It's alleged they've been | :01:53. | :01:56. | |
nicknamed John, Paul and Ringo. Here the intelligence services and | :01:57. | :02:02. | |
the police are trying to identify the masked man who's also believed | :02:03. | :02:05. | |
to be British, filmed murdering the The White House has revealed | :02:06. | :02:08. | |
US Special Forces launched a secret mission this summer to | :02:09. | :02:15. | |
rescue American hostages in Syria, including James Foley | :02:16. | :02:19. | |
but couldn't find them. Our Home Affairs correspondent | :02:20. | :02:24. | |
Dominic Casciani reports. James Foley, be headed in Syria by | :02:25. | :02:36. | |
Hamas could kill. An international manhunt continues. It emerged the | :02:37. | :02:42. | |
jihadists may be part of a group of three British men, nicknamed the | :02:43. | :02:48. | |
Beatles, John, Paul and Ringo. MI5 is laying a key role in the FBI | :02:49. | :02:54. | |
investigation. The security services is using all the tricks of the trade | :02:55. | :02:59. | |
to identify the subject. Forensic experts will be scrutinising the | :03:00. | :03:04. | |
area in the video. They will be trying to pick up clues from his | :03:05. | :03:08. | |
physique. His eyes will be checked against photos in security | :03:09. | :03:13. | |
databases. But the most importantly could come from his British voice. | :03:14. | :03:19. | |
It is part of the jigsaw of evidence that might lead to identifying the | :03:20. | :03:24. | |
speaker in the DBD. You cannot use voice identification evidence to | :03:25. | :03:28. | |
identify totally, an individual. It is not like fingerprinting or DNA | :03:29. | :03:35. | |
profiling. Hundreds of writ -ish men who have fought in Syria are back | :03:36. | :03:41. | |
home. MI5 is monitoring these men, certain they know who the killer is. | :03:42. | :03:45. | |
The security services hope the lead will not come from their technical | :03:46. | :03:50. | |
toolkit but inside the Muslim communities. They are working behind | :03:51. | :03:56. | |
the scenes with Muslim leaders. Many people are involved in efforts to | :03:57. | :04:03. | |
deter young men from going to Syria. It is in the interests of the Muslim | :04:04. | :04:09. | |
community. It is to make sure they don't go to join forces like that | :04:10. | :04:13. | |
and they have hijacked our faith. They don't represent our faith and | :04:14. | :04:17. | |
imams across the country are using mosques to give out the message, but | :04:18. | :04:24. | |
also social media. Syria is a war zone so there is no guarantee the | :04:25. | :04:29. | |
killer could be apprehended, even if his identity is already known. He | :04:30. | :04:37. | |
may spend years of aiding justice. -- evading justice. | :04:38. | :04:41. | |
The United States has carried out more airstrikes against | :04:42. | :04:45. | |
Islamic State militants in northern Iraq, despite threats | :04:46. | :04:46. | |
by the killer of James Foley to murder a second American captive, | :04:47. | :04:50. | |
Our world affairs correspondent Mike Wooldridge reports. | :04:51. | :04:56. | |
James Foley filming in Aleppo before he was abducted. Now he is one of a | :04:57. | :05:05. | |
number of American hostages US forces attempted to rescue. America | :05:06. | :05:10. | |
says it at the best of the United States military in harms way to try | :05:11. | :05:15. | |
to bring them home. They say every branch of the military was involved. | :05:16. | :05:20. | |
Special personnel were dropped into Syria but did not find hostages. | :05:21. | :05:26. | |
They engaged in a firefight with Islamic State of militants before | :05:27. | :05:29. | |
leaving. Exactly how long this was before the Islamic state posted | :05:30. | :05:35. | |
their video online showing James Foley's brutal death, is not clear. | :05:36. | :05:42. | |
But his parents expressed their gratitude to President Obama. He | :05:43. | :05:45. | |
shared with us what the Administration has done, which they | :05:46. | :05:50. | |
could not share with us before. We appreciated that knowing the things | :05:51. | :05:55. | |
they tried. And we thanked him, but we begged they might consider other | :05:56. | :06:02. | |
ways of dealing such that Stephen and the others may be spared. | :06:03. | :06:08. | |
Another American journalist, produced in the same | :06:09. | :06:10. | |
Another American journalist, produced in video by the Islamic | :06:11. | :06:13. | |
state militants, they say his fate will depend on President Obama's | :06:14. | :06:19. | |
next move. What has also emerged from one of James Foley's employees | :06:20. | :06:23. | |
is the family were contacted either militants. The family received an | :06:24. | :06:34. | |
e-mail from the kidnappers that was full of rage against the United | :06:35. | :06:37. | |
States for the bombing. They stated they would execute James. We | :06:38. | :06:45. | |
communicated with them, pleaded with them for mercy. Also seized while | :06:46. | :06:49. | |
covering the conflict in Syria, but released in April was this French | :06:50. | :06:55. | |
journalist. For seven months he was held with James Foley and spoke of | :06:56. | :06:58. | |
his generosity. Anything he could share, he would share it. If we were | :06:59. | :07:05. | |
cold, he would share his blankets. If we were starving and missing | :07:06. | :07:10. | |
food, he would share his rations. He believes the American was probably | :07:11. | :07:14. | |
treated differently because of his nationality. Many countries do | :07:15. | :07:19. | |
negotiate. I don't know if it is money or prisoner exchange and some | :07:20. | :07:26. | |
countries like America, but also like the UK, do not negotiate. He | :07:27. | :07:32. | |
said he was horrified I James Foley's killing. A sentiment echoed | :07:33. | :07:33. | |
around the world. Our security correspondent Frank | :07:34. | :07:39. | |
Gardner is here. What have we learned this week how | :07:40. | :07:50. | |
the Islamic state uses hostages as bargaining tools? It is a big is | :07:51. | :07:55. | |
this, it is the strategic arm of the operation. They have been doing it | :07:56. | :07:59. | |
since they have been in Syria but they have at least 20 hostages. They | :08:00. | :08:05. | |
ransom them for big sums of money. There is somebody in charge of this | :08:06. | :08:11. | |
at the prisoner handling level. We have had confirmation there are | :08:12. | :08:15. | |
three British jihadists doing that. They treat prisoners badly, | :08:16. | :08:19. | |
especially when they are angry about US air strikes on jihadist 's | :08:20. | :08:23. | |
positions. They have these nicknames, John, Paul and Ringo, as | :08:24. | :08:30. | |
in the Beatles and James Foley was singled out for bad treatment | :08:31. | :08:33. | |
because he was American. The sums of money are very big, millions of | :08:34. | :08:40. | |
dollars. Around 11 hostages have been released. Most of those, if not | :08:41. | :08:51. | |
all, for money. Despite the pledges made at the G8 summit in Northern | :08:52. | :09:00. | |
Ireland recently, by all G8 countries not to pay money to | :09:01. | :09:03. | |
terrorists for Ransomes, all except for Britain and the US, allegedly | :09:04. | :09:07. | |
have been handing over money, or many | :09:08. | :09:15. | |
There's been a rise in the proportion of GCSE A star | :09:16. | :09:18. | |
to C passes in England, Wales and Northern Ireland this year, but | :09:19. | :09:20. | |
Grades in Maths have improved sharply, | :09:21. | :09:23. | |
Sarah Campbell joins us from Norwich. | :09:24. | :09:33. | |
this is the first time reforms have come into effect. Pupils here, as | :09:34. | :09:41. | |
elsewhere have picked up their results and are either celebrating | :09:42. | :09:46. | |
or commiserating. The emotional scenes in schools | :09:47. | :09:49. | |
across England, Wales and Northern Ireland on results stay the same as | :09:50. | :09:56. | |
they do each year, but in England the contents of those envelopes have | :09:57. | :10:00. | |
been almost impossible to predict. My mother is going to be doing | :10:01. | :10:10. | |
cartwheels. These peoples in Norwich are among the first to be tested by | :10:11. | :10:13. | |
My mother is going to be doing cartwheels. the new system. Instead | :10:14. | :10:15. | |
of modules, the focus is on final exams held at the end of the | :10:16. | :10:16. | |
two-year courses. are among the first to be tested | :10:17. | :10:19. | |
This system in the past incentivised schools to enter pupils for | :10:20. | :10:22. | |
different modules as they sought to raise the grades the children could | :10:23. | :10:26. | |
achieve. As a consequence they lost out on the large amount of teaching | :10:27. | :10:32. | |
time retaking these exams. The overall picture is a slight rise in | :10:33. | :10:40. | |
the number of A star to C. The volatility is in the key subjects. | :10:41. | :10:45. | |
Results in maths have risen 4.8 points. Then there is English, which | :10:46. | :10:52. | |
has seen a drop, the sharpest since GCSEs were introduced. Schools were | :10:53. | :10:59. | |
warned to expect the unexpected and as at this school in Norwich, that | :11:00. | :11:04. | |
is what has happened. They have seen a huge spike in the number of pupils | :11:05. | :11:10. | |
awarded the top grades but there is concern over borderline pupils | :11:11. | :11:12. | |
because of this drop in the pass rate for English, such an important | :11:13. | :11:16. | |
subject. We are concerned there may be some students who want to go to | :11:17. | :11:21. | |
college or get into a sixth form but cannot because they don't have the | :11:22. | :11:24. | |
grades. It is not down to what they have done but down to the changes | :11:25. | :11:29. | |
the government has made. It is a real shame. Wales and Northern | :11:30. | :11:33. | |
Ireland have opted not to change GCSEs. Peoples in England can only | :11:34. | :11:39. | |
hope being the first to take the new exams has not put them at a | :11:40. | :11:42. | |
disadvantage. Schools are looking at their results, particularly this | :11:43. | :11:48. | |
drop in English. It is the first year the speaking and listening | :11:49. | :11:50. | |
component has not counted towards the final mark. Here, they think it | :11:51. | :11:56. | |
has contributed to that drop. The government says these results are | :11:57. | :11:59. | |
encouraging but teachers across the board are not so sure. The head | :12:00. | :12:05. | |
teachers union said candidates have done worse than expected and they | :12:06. | :12:06. | |
are worse -- victims of change. Our Wales correspondent, | :12:07. | :12:13. | |
Hywel Griffith, How have the results gone down where | :12:14. | :12:28. | |
you are? All of the envelopes have been opened and I have seen plenty | :12:29. | :12:34. | |
of smiling bases. Suggesting overall the mood is good and there is a | :12:35. | :12:41. | |
record number of A star to C grades this year at 66.6%. It is still | :12:42. | :12:43. | |
behind England and Northern Ireland, but the gap is closing slightly and | :12:44. | :12:51. | |
there has been a lot of focus on the Welsh education system in terms of | :12:52. | :12:54. | |
how it compares to the UK and internationally and its need to | :12:55. | :12:58. | |
catch up. But there is a difference growing between Wales and the rest | :12:59. | :13:02. | |
of the UK and that is how GCSE is done. In England the focus has been | :13:03. | :13:06. | |
on the end of two-year exams, in Wales they are sticking with the | :13:07. | :13:11. | |
modular version where people can sit and resit. And the headteacher here | :13:12. | :13:15. | |
was keen to show me some of his results this year, showing pupils in | :13:16. | :13:19. | |
year ten, 15-year-olds, have been able to get plenty of A star and he | :13:20. | :13:24. | |
says it is a system that helps pupils grow over the two years, so | :13:25. | :13:28. | |
he does not want the same focus in England, where it is becoming loaded | :13:29. | :13:34. | |
with the end of year exam. Thank you very much. | :13:35. | :13:41. | |
An American doctor who contracted Ebola after treating victims, | :13:42. | :13:45. | |
The charity that employs Dr Kent Brantly says he was | :13:46. | :13:50. | |
discharged after being treated with an experimental drug in the US. | :13:51. | :13:52. | |
Our world affairs correspondent Nick Childs reports. | :13:53. | :13:58. | |
Amid rigorous precautions, the doctor was infected in Liberia who | :13:59. | :14:06. | |
were rushed back to the United States for treatment, including an | :14:07. | :14:09. | |
experimental drug. This was him being helped from the ambulance to | :14:10. | :14:15. | |
the hospital in Atlanta. Now it seems he is well enough to leave and | :14:16. | :14:19. | |
the signs looked encouraging. They are getting supportive care. We are | :14:20. | :14:24. | |
hearing, but I don't have direct knowledge of this, but what has been | :14:25. | :14:28. | |
announced is they have also received this cocktail of antibodies, which | :14:29. | :14:35. | |
is designed to block the virus. The reports we are getting from Atlanta | :14:36. | :14:41. | |
is that is having a positive effect. The World Health Organization has | :14:42. | :14:44. | |
declared the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, the worst ever, global | :14:45. | :14:51. | |
health emergency and has approved the use of experimental drugs to | :14:52. | :14:55. | |
contain it. Yesterday, in the Liberian capital, police clashed | :14:56. | :15:03. | |
with crowds protesting their neighbourhood had been quarantined. | :15:04. | :15:06. | |
Liberia and the other infected countries have struggled to cope. | :15:07. | :15:09. | |
The three effect the doctors treated with the same drug as the Americans | :15:10. | :15:15. | |
have shown significant improvements. The new experimental drugs offer | :15:16. | :15:23. | |
hope and help. But more health workers and strict isolation | :15:24. | :15:25. | |
remained the key to control this crisis. | :15:26. | :15:38. | |
were being guarded by three men recruited from Great Britain. We are | :15:39. | :15:50. | |
Lincolnshire as the county prepares to remember those who served and | :15:51. | :15:55. | |
lost their lives with bomber command. The number of sexual | :15:56. | :15:59. | |
assaults on public transport in the capital is on the rise. In the | :16:00. | :16:05. | |
pursuit of happiness. Why Londoners are some of the most miserable | :16:06. | :16:09. | |
people in the country. All of that in 15 minutes. | :16:10. | :16:16. | |
Four branches of McDonalds have closed in Russia, after | :16:17. | :16:20. | |
alleged "sanitary violations." Critics however say it's | :16:21. | :16:22. | |
the latest move in tit-for-tat sanctions with the West. | :16:23. | :16:26. | |
The Russian federal authorities announced the closures | :16:27. | :16:30. | |
after carrying out inspections this week, but have a history | :16:31. | :16:37. | |
of banning food from countries out of favour with the Kremlin. Steve | :16:38. | :16:40. | |
Rosenberg is in Moscow. Well, this is Pushkin Square | :16:41. | :16:42. | |
in the heart of Moscow. And every time I come here, | :16:43. | :16:46. | |
I remember the day nearly 25 years ago when Russia's first McDonald's | :16:47. | :16:51. | |
opened its doors here in the USSR. I was studying in Moscow | :16:52. | :16:53. | |
at the time and came down here to join the queue. | :16:54. | :16:56. | |
The crowds that day were incredible and the queue went all | :16:57. | :17:02. | |
the way around Pushkin Square. It took me three hours to get | :17:03. | :17:05. | |
inside and be served, such was the level of excitement | :17:06. | :17:09. | |
here that American burgers had burst through the Iron Curtain | :17:10. | :17:12. | |
and were being served up in Moscow. Today is a different story. | :17:13. | :17:14. | |
There is no queue today. In fact, there are no | :17:15. | :17:19. | |
customers because it is shut. The food safety watchdog has called | :17:20. | :17:22. | |
for the temporary closure of this and three other McDonald's. | :17:23. | :17:29. | |
In a statement, the watchdog said it had conducted | :17:30. | :17:32. | |
a number of tests and had uncovered numerous sanitary violations. | :17:33. | :17:41. | |
McDonald's says it is studying the complaints and its priority remains | :17:42. | :17:44. | |
to provide a safe, quality product. Even before the closures were | :17:45. | :17:46. | |
announced, there were protests here outside the restaurant. | :17:47. | :17:51. | |
But critics of the government argue that this | :17:52. | :17:54. | |
has nothing to do with food safety but it's all about geopolitics . | :17:55. | :17:57. | |
Because of the conflict in Ukraine, relations between Russia | :17:58. | :18:00. | |
and the West are at their lowest levels since the fall of communism. | :18:01. | :18:03. | |
In fact, some of the rhetoric coming out of Moscow and Washington | :18:04. | :18:06. | |
recently has sounded very Cold War. So the suspicion is that | :18:07. | :18:08. | |
because McDonald?s is one of the symbols of America, that is why | :18:09. | :18:11. | |
it is encountering problems now. It is not just McDonald's, | :18:12. | :18:14. | |
a number of Russian MPs have called for checks on other US brands | :18:15. | :18:17. | |
like Burger King and KFC. What do Moscow citizens think | :18:18. | :18:20. | |
about the ban on the burgers? TRANSLATION: | :18:21. | :18:20. | |
Personally, I prefer beetroot soup and Russian | :18:21. | :18:24. | |
dumplings but I know a lot of young people do like those burgers. | :18:25. | :18:32. | |
I think 99% of this is politics. Closing these restaurants is | :18:33. | :18:34. | |
Russia's response to Western sanctions. | :18:35. | :18:36. | |
And the authorities say there are going to be more checks at more | :18:37. | :18:38. | |
McDonald's across the country. It does seem that - | :18:39. | :18:41. | |
if not the public, then the people in power - are losing their appetite | :18:42. | :18:49. | |
for American fast food. There were more than 1,400 same-sex | :18:50. | :18:51. | |
marriages in England and Wales between March and June this year, | :18:52. | :18:54. | |
when new laws allowing them came into force. | :18:55. | :19:00. | |
Official figures show that 56 per cent of unions were between | :19:01. | :19:02. | |
women,with 44 percent between men. Robert Pigott has more. | :19:03. | :19:07. | |
How do these figures compare with the number of civil partnerships? If | :19:08. | :19:15. | |
you look at the figures from the Office of National Statistics, | :19:16. | :19:24. | |
between March and June this year, in England and Wales, the interesting | :19:25. | :19:30. | |
thing is to compare it with civil partnerships. It is hampered by the | :19:31. | :19:40. | |
fact the last year we have figures is 2012. If you look at the figures, | :19:41. | :19:46. | |
there were 1427 civil partnerships. It seems that, despite the fact that | :19:47. | :19:53. | |
2014 was the first year, there was not a huge surge. It is worth saying | :19:54. | :19:58. | |
that civil partnerships are still taking place, some couples still | :19:59. | :20:06. | |
prefer them. The overall number of gay unions may not have changed much | :20:07. | :20:12. | |
but it is a fair bet that it has shifted from partnership to | :20:13. | :20:15. | |
marriage. The other interesting thing is that first weekend in March | :20:16. | :20:18. | |
where people were competing to be the first to tie the knot and the | :20:19. | :20:23. | |
government were flying rainbow flags from buildings. There were 95 of | :20:24. | :20:30. | |
those same-sex marriages in England and Wales in that first weekend. | :20:31. | :20:34. | |
When the first civil partnerships took place in 2005, there were other | :20:35. | :20:42. | |
frenzies taking place. An interesting comparison. It is worth | :20:43. | :20:49. | |
saying that there is some mystery in all of this. It is clear that people | :20:50. | :20:55. | |
cannot convert their civil partnerships intermarriages. In the | :20:56. | :21:03. | |
future, when they are able to, we will get a better judgement of what | :21:04. | :21:04. | |
the popularity is. Robert Pigott has more. | :21:05. | :21:09. | |
Scotland's First Minister Alex Salmond has faced questions from | :21:10. | :21:12. | |
MSPs for the last time before Scotland votes in the referendum on | :21:13. | :21:15. | |
independence next month. Mr Salmond defended the Scottish Government's | :21:16. | :21:22. | |
independence next month. Mr Salmond defended the Scottish Government's | :21:23. | :21:24. | |
estimates of oil reserves after a warning yesterday from a leading | :21:25. | :21:27. | |
industry figure. Our Scotland correspondent Lorna Gordon reports. | :21:28. | :21:28. | |
He is First Minister of Scotland's devolved government and for the | :21:29. | :21:34. | |
final time ahead of the referendum, he faced his weekly questions. This | :21:35. | :21:40. | |
is about the future of our country. Labour seized on comments by a | :21:41. | :21:43. | |
well-known figure in the oil industry, Sir Ian Wood. He added, | :21:44. | :21:51. | |
most operators would feel more confident if Scotland remained part | :21:52. | :21:55. | |
of the UK. I asked the First Minister again, why did he say that | :21:56. | :22:02. | |
in the interests of our children and odd grandchildren? Alex Salmond in | :22:03. | :22:08. | |
turn said the figures show there is a lifetime of oil in Scotland's | :22:09. | :22:14. | |
sees. This poor country was visited with the great curse of 15 billion | :22:15. | :22:20. | |
barrels of oil. Every other country in the world would give their eye | :22:21. | :22:25. | |
teeth for such a substantial source of oil. The Conservatives chose to | :22:26. | :22:32. | |
attack on this issue. Our young voters must be fully aware that by | :22:33. | :22:35. | |
the time they are middle aged, Scotland will have little offshore | :22:36. | :22:40. | |
gas and oil production. The First Minister said the Westminster have | :22:41. | :22:44. | |
meant and a track record of playing down oil. Given the evidence of the | :22:45. | :22:51. | |
last 40 years, most people in Scotland will say, let's give it our | :22:52. | :22:57. | |
turn for the benefit of Scottish people. No more questions here for a | :22:58. | :23:02. | |
while. The next time these politicians meet the country will | :23:03. | :23:10. | |
have decided its future. James Cook is in Holyrood now. James, we are | :23:11. | :23:18. | |
seemingly heading to the home straight pulls up thank goodness! We | :23:19. | :23:21. | |
feel like we have been having this debate for years! At one point | :23:22. | :23:32. | |
today, drawing the question is, the presiding officer ordered I heard | :23:33. | :23:40. | |
charges to behave and shook her head in exasperation, and I think that | :23:41. | :23:43. | |
exasperation may be felt by some of the voters egos they are subjected | :23:44. | :23:49. | |
to a daily barrage of statistics. They have to find their way through | :23:50. | :23:53. | |
that. The politicians will leave this place this afternoon, go into | :23:54. | :23:59. | |
the communities for the next month, across Scotland, and put their | :24:00. | :24:02. | |
arguments to the people. They will decide four weeks today the future | :24:03. | :24:05. | |
of Scotland and the UK. correspondent Lorna Gordon reports. | :24:06. | :24:22. | |
The Football Association is investigating the conduct | :24:23. | :24:24. | |
of the former Cardiff City manager Malky Mackay, following allegations | :24:25. | :24:26. | |
of racist,sexist and homophobic text messages while at the club. | :24:27. | :24:29. | |
Mr Mackay is now understood not to be in the running for the vacant | :24:30. | :24:32. | |
manager's job at Crystal Palace. Our Sports Correspondent Natalie | :24:33. | :24:33. | |
Pirks is at Wembley for us now, It's Fill us in on the back round into | :24:34. | :24:38. | |
the investigation on macro three. Today, the Daily Mail has printed | :24:39. | :24:41. | |
the alleged text between Ian Moody, the former head of recruitment at | :24:42. | :24:48. | |
Cardiff City and Malky Mackay. They form part of a dossier sent by | :24:49. | :24:54. | |
Cardiff to the FA after lawyers radiates Ian Moody's house looking | :24:55. | :25:01. | |
for financial irregularities. They are of a discriminatory nature, | :25:02. | :25:06. | |
these alleged acts. They are of sexist and racist natures. They | :25:07. | :25:12. | |
talked about a list of potential signings. It said, not many white | :25:13. | :25:17. | |
faces amongst lot, but worth considering. Malky Mackay was high | :25:18. | :25:24. | |
up on the list to replace the current Crystal Palace manager. They | :25:25. | :25:29. | |
dropped the idea when it was clear that the allegations would become | :25:30. | :25:34. | |
public. The BBC has contacted Malky Mackay and Ian Moody but they are | :25:35. | :25:40. | |
unavailable for comment. The FA is investigating. The anti racism | :25:41. | :25:47. | |
campaign has said they are not shocked. Thank you. | :25:48. | :26:05. | |
Pirks is at Wembley for us now, It's It is thought 55,000 people lost | :26:06. | :26:08. | |
their lives, as part of Britain's Bomber | :26:09. | :26:10. | |
Command during the Second World War. Lincolnshire was home to thousands | :26:11. | :26:12. | |
of personnel even being dubbed "Bomber County," and today the first | :26:13. | :26:16. | |
turf has been cut on the site of a planned memorial. | :26:17. | :26:18. | |
Ed Thomas is at Canwick Hill in Lincolnshire for us now. | :26:19. | :26:20. | |
Yes, today, Lincolnshire remembers. In 30 minutes' time, the final pair | :26:21. | :26:23. | |
of Lancaster bombers will make their way over the tops of the trees into | :26:24. | :26:27. | |
the distance here. We have hundreds of people to remember them. Earlier | :26:28. | :26:34. | |
today, we were lucky enough to go and see the planes arrive at RAF | :26:35. | :26:36. | |
Waddington. in Lincolnshire for us now. | :26:37. | :26:43. | |
Through grey Lincolnshire skies appeared a rare and precious sight. | :26:44. | :26:46. | |
The last pair of Lancasters left flying roared over RAF Waddington. | :26:47. | :26:51. | |
This, the same journey thousands once made during World War II. | :26:52. | :27:01. | |
Here, Britain's only airworthy bomber joined by Vera, | :27:02. | :27:04. | |
a Lancaster from the Royal Canadian Air Force, to recognise those who | :27:05. | :27:10. | |
served the Bomber Command. There were 55,500 men who gave | :27:11. | :27:14. | |
their lives during Bomber Command in the Second World War but there were | :27:15. | :27:17. | |
some incredible tales of bravery. I think what we can use these | :27:18. | :27:20. | |
aeroplanes for is not just for commemoration but also | :27:21. | :27:27. | |
for inspiration. The stories of what came out of | :27:28. | :27:31. | |
what they did and how they did it. Joined together on the tarmac, | :27:32. | :27:33. | |
the only two flying Lancasters. It is hard to believe now but once, | :27:34. | :27:36. | |
more than 7,000 of these bombers were in the skies. | :27:37. | :27:40. | |
In one sense, this is where the Lancaster belongs. | :27:41. | :27:46. | |
Lincolnshire was nicknamed Bomber County because | :27:47. | :27:50. | |
so many missions flew through here and today about remembering | :27:51. | :27:55. | |
the bravery of the crews on-board . More than 55,000 Bomber Command crew | :27:56. | :27:57. | |
members lost their lives in the Second World War. | :27:58. | :28:02. | |
Their average age was just 22. One man who knows the story | :28:03. | :28:06. | |
of that sacrifice all too well is 90-year-old John Whitehouse, | :28:07. | :28:08. | |
a former RAF corporal who worked on the Lancasters. | :28:09. | :28:15. | |
I worked on the flights for about a year and it was exciting | :28:16. | :28:18. | |
but it was terrible when the crews did not come back. | :28:19. | :28:21. | |
Quite often, on their first operation, they failed to return. | :28:22. | :28:34. | |
Today was about so much more than just a show. | :28:35. | :28:42. | |
This was a reminder of the story of Bomber Command and | :28:43. | :28:43. | |
the crews who risked everything. Everybody here is getting ready to | :28:44. | :28:52. | |
meet those planes as they fly over. This is also the spot where | :28:53. | :28:58. | |
Lincolnshire's permanent memorial to Bomber Command will be. It will be a | :28:59. | :29:02. | |
spire, 100 feet tall. On that spire, the name of every person who died in | :29:03. | :29:09. | |
the service of Bomber Command, 20,000 names. Those stories will not | :29:10. | :29:11. | |
be forgotten. the crews who risked everything. | :29:12. | :29:17. | |
Time for a look at the weather. It may be the middle of August but | :29:18. | :29:27. | |
it is feel autumnal at the moment. A cold start to the day and it will | :29:28. | :29:31. | |
feel call through the afternoon. Fairly showery as well. The radar | :29:32. | :29:36. | |
picture shows us where we had the heavy showers, particularly across | :29:37. | :29:40. | |
Scotland, Northern Ireland and northern England, as well as the | :29:41. | :29:44. | |
south-west. Some sunshine to be enjoyed towards the South East, but | :29:45. | :29:49. | |
quite breezy and feeling cool in the breeze. Temperatures of around 18 or | :29:50. | :29:54. | |
maybe 20 in the sunshine. Towards the south-west, more of a chance of | :29:55. | :29:59. | |
catching a shower. Cloudy skies across Wales, the Midlands and | :30:00. | :30:03. | |
northern England. Across Scotland, it would feel quite cool in the | :30:04. | :30:07. | |
breeze, just 12 degrees in some areas, and a chance of heavy | :30:08. | :30:13. | |
showers. Northern Ireland, a mix of sunny spells and scattered showers. | :30:14. | :30:16. | |
Those are showers continued through the night, being blown South East on | :30:17. | :30:22. | |
the breeze. Not as cold tonight as it was last night. In central areas, | :30:23. | :30:27. | |
double figures, but further north, a cooler start to the day under those | :30:28. | :30:31. | |
clear skies. More optimistic on Friday. More in the way of sunshine. | :30:32. | :30:38. | |
More scattered showers around, quite heavily towards the East of Scotland | :30:39. | :30:42. | |
and eastern England. A degree or so warmer tomorrow than it is today. | :30:43. | :30:50. | |
Lots of festivals happening this weekend. Leeds should remain dry, as | :30:51. | :30:57. | |
Will Reading. The breeze will take the edge of that temperatures. A few | :30:58. | :31:04. | |
scattered showers for eastern parts of Scotland and England. In the | :31:05. | :31:08. | |
sunshine on Saturday, 20 degrees. On Saturday night, it will be very | :31:09. | :31:12. | |
chilly with a touch of frost so tax extra bank I -- bank -- blankets. | :31:13. | :31:25. | |
Look at this rain, waiting in the wings. That is just in time for a | :31:26. | :31:29. | |
bank holiday Monday. Sunday night into Monday, it looks like a spell | :31:30. | :31:33. | |
of wet and breezy weather heading across many of. All in all, Saturday | :31:34. | :31:40. | |
brings some Sunny spells with one or two showers, and Sunday will be the | :31:41. | :31:43. | |
better of the two days. Sunshine to be enjoyed but by bank holiday | :31:44. | :31:48. | |
Monday, things will turn wet and windy. A wet bank holiday, that is a | :31:49. | :31:53. | |
shock. That is it from us, | :31:54. | :31:54. |