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David Cameron's former head of communications is arrested over | :00:09. | :00:13. | |
allegations of corruption and phone hacking at the News of the World. | :00:13. | :00:17. | |
Andy Coulson, the paper's former editor, is being questioned tonight | :00:17. | :00:20. | |
as the Prime Minister defends bringing him to Downing Street. | :00:21. | :00:25. | |
The decision to hire him was mine and mine alone. I take full | :00:25. | :00:29. | |
responsibility for it. We saw a Prime Minister today who still | :00:29. | :00:32. | |
doesn't seem to get it and I am afraid he is someone who doesn't | :00:33. | :00:36. | |
seem to be able to lead the change we need in the way the press works | :00:36. | :00:40. | |
in this country. Detectives search Andy Coulson's | :00:40. | :00:44. | |
London home, removing computer equipment in the hunt for evidence. | :00:44. | :00:48. | |
And the investigation widens to include the offices of another | :00:48. | :00:53. | |
paper, The Daily Star Sunday. Shares at BSkyB fall after the | :00:53. | :00:57. | |
media regulator signals that the News of the World's problems could | :00:57. | :01:01. | |
-- -- could be relevant to Rupert Murdoch's takeover bid. We will | :01:01. | :01:04. | |
have the latest on the police investigation and where this leaves | :01:04. | :01:07. | |
the Murdoch media empire. Also tonight: | :01:07. | :01:13. | |
Millions of households face higher British Gas bills up by 18%. | :01:13. | :01:17. | |
We feel like we can't pay all of it all the time any more, and we are | :01:17. | :01:23. | |
going to be choosing between food or heating this winter. | :01:23. | :01:28. | |
LLift-off... A final farewell to the space shuttle, Atlantis heads | :01:28. | :01:34. | |
into orbit for the last time. And, cowboy style for William and | :01:34. | :01:38. | |
Kate as they end their tour of Canada at a rodeo festival. | :01:38. | :01:43. | |
Coming up in the sport: British rider Bradley Wiggins' Tour de | :01:43. | :01:50. | |
France is over after he broke his collar bone in a multiple pile-up | :01:50. | :02:00. | |
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Good evening, and welcome to the BBC News at Six. | :02:10. | :02:14. | |
The Prime Minister's former head of communications, Andy Coulson, was | :02:14. | :02:17. | |
arrested today by police investigating the allegations of | :02:17. | :02:21. | |
phone hacking at the News of the World. The arrest came as David | :02:21. | :02:25. | |
Cameron was forced to defend his decision to hire Mr Coulson. He | :02:25. | :02:28. | |
also confirmed there will be two inquiries into the scandal, one of | :02:28. | :02:32. | |
them led by a judge. With tonight's first report, our political editor | :02:32. | :02:38. | |
Nick Robinson looks now at the latest on the arrest. | :02:38. | :02:42. | |
Cops raid Cam's man, that the headline the News of the World | :02:42. | :02:45. | |
might have put over pictures of detectives confiscating computers | :02:45. | :02:49. | |
from the house of the man who once ran the paper, the man the police | :02:49. | :02:53. | |
arrested today. Mr Coulson, do you have any... The man forced out of | :02:53. | :02:57. | |
Downing Street six months ago, by a scandal which his boss thought | :02:57. | :03:02. | |
would disappear, but which has instead exploded in his face. Andy | :03:02. | :03:07. | |
Coulson was questioned here at Lewisham police station in London | :03:07. | :03:10. | |
on suspicion of conspiring to intercept communications and | :03:10. | :03:15. | |
corruption. Finding himself in the political dock, the Prime Minister | :03:15. | :03:20. | |
decided to plead guilty for failing to take seriously the endemic of | :03:20. | :03:24. | |
phone hacking. We turned a blind eye to the need to sort this issue, | :03:24. | :03:28. | |
to get on top of the bad practices, to change the way our our | :03:28. | :03:33. | |
newspapers are regulated. We have not gripped this issue. There were, | :03:33. | :03:38. | |
though, mitigating circumstances. He, like other politicians, wanted | :03:38. | :03:43. | |
the papers to help him win. relationship that became too close, | :03:43. | :03:47. | |
too cosy, we were all in this world of wanting the support of newspaper | :03:47. | :03:51. | |
groups, yes, even broadcasting organisations. And when we're doing | :03:51. | :03:54. | |
that do we spend enough time asking questions about how these | :03:54. | :03:58. | |
organisations are regulated and malpractices and the rest of it? No, | :03:58. | :04:01. | |
we didn't. What David Cameron did in the admit was ignoring all the | :04:01. | :04:07. | |
warnings about the man he had hired, nor did he apologise for it. Andy | :04:07. | :04:10. | |
Coulson said that he did not know what was happening at the News of | :04:10. | :04:14. | |
the World in terms of hacking and he resigned as a result of it and I | :04:14. | :04:17. | |
decided to give him a second chance. That's all I can do, is explain why | :04:17. | :04:23. | |
I did what I did. You hired him when many people were saying that | :04:23. | :04:28. | |
hacking was widespread, and when many people believed it was simply | :04:28. | :04:31. | |
implausible for someone who ran a newspaper to say nothing to do with | :04:31. | :04:38. | |
me, guv. As I said, no one gave me specific information, obviously I | :04:38. | :04:42. | |
sought assurances, I received assurances. I commissioned a To do | :04:42. | :04:46. | |
a basic background check but I am not hiding from the decision I made. | :04:46. | :04:50. | |
Is he still a friend? Yes, he became a friend and is a friend. | :04:50. | :04:54. | |
Uncovering the web of deceit at the News of the World will now be the | :04:54. | :04:58. | |
subject of two inquiries, one led by a judge will investigate why | :04:58. | :05:01. | |
phone hacking spread and why the police failed to uncover it. The | :05:01. | :05:05. | |
other will look into the ethics and regulation of the media. | :05:05. | :05:08. | |
The Prime Minister said it wasn't up to him to decide whether Rupert | :05:08. | :05:13. | |
Murdoch should be stopped from buying all of Sky TV. Labour | :05:13. | :05:16. | |
disagree. I think we saw a Prime Minister today who still doesn't | :05:16. | :05:20. | |
seem to get it and I am afraid he is someone who doesn't seem to be | :05:20. | :05:24. | |
able to lead the change we need in the way the press works in this | :05:24. | :05:29. | |
country. He couldn't even bring himself to apologise for hiring | :05:29. | :05:33. | |
Andy Coulson. The test of the talk from both main parties of a brave | :05:33. | :05:39. | |
new world may be whether we see less of this, the red hair of | :05:39. | :05:44. | |
Rebekah Brooks, the Murdoch's righthand woman arriving at Number | :05:44. | :05:48. | |
10. Or this, greeting her friend, the Prime Minister, with a kiss. He | :05:48. | :05:52. | |
went to her wedding, as did Gordon Brown when he was Prime Minister. | :05:52. | :05:58. | |
She was friends with Tony Blair when he was in Number 10, a certain | :05:58. | :06:02. | |
man called Coulson took him on a tour of News International but they | :06:02. | :06:06. | |
didn't want the kiss on the cameras. Down for a bit, now, don't film for | :06:06. | :06:10. | |
a bit. Today, David Cameron who spent days refusing to condemn his | :06:10. | :06:13. | |
friend, said that her offer to resign as boss of News | :06:13. | :06:18. | |
International should have been accepted. Outside the company today | :06:18. | :06:21. | |
protesters celebrated the sinking of a paper they've long hated. The | :06:21. | :06:29. | |
question now is who else will go down with the News of the World? | :06:29. | :06:32. | |
Well, the police investigation appeared to gather pace today, the | :06:32. | :06:36. | |
News of the World's former Royal editor Clive Goodman was also | :06:36. | :06:39. | |
arrested to be questioned again by police. In 2007 he was convicted | :06:39. | :06:43. | |
and jailed over phone hacking. This afternoon, the offices of another | :06:43. | :06:46. | |
newspaper, The Daily Star Sunday, were searched. | :06:46. | :06:53. | |
Here is Tom Symonds on the state of the investigation. | :06:53. | :06:57. | |
Andy Coulson, for months it had been whispered that he could be | :06:57. | :07:00. | |
arrested, now it's happened. Two separate police inquiries are | :07:00. | :07:03. | |
talking to him, likely under caution but what he says could be | :07:03. | :07:08. | |
used as evidence. The allegations involve corruption, payments to | :07:08. | :07:12. | |
police officers, and conspiracy to intercept communications - phone | :07:12. | :07:16. | |
hacking. At the heart of the corruption | :07:16. | :07:19. | |
investigation are e-mails discovered by News International | :07:19. | :07:23. | |
and passed to the police. A well- placed source has told the BBC they | :07:23. | :07:27. | |
appear to show that a small number of officers received payments | :07:28. | :07:33. | |
totalling around �130,000 in return for sensitive information. The e- | :07:33. | :07:37. | |
mails appear to have been copied to other News International executives | :07:37. | :07:43. | |
and journalists. Clive Goodman, also arrested, is the original | :07:43. | :07:46. | |
rogue reporter News International claimed acted alone in | :07:46. | :07:50. | |
commissioning phone hacking. Along with the man who did the hacking, | :07:50. | :07:53. | |
Glenn Mulcaire, he served a sentence. Now he's being questioned | :07:53. | :07:57. | |
about corruption. Police have also arrested in the past former | :07:57. | :08:03. | |
assistant editor Ian Edmondson, reporter Neville Thurlbeck and | :08:03. | :08:08. | |
James weatherall but Andy Coulson is the most senior to date. | :08:08. | :08:14. | |
Police also searched computers at the Daily Star Sunday today, the | :08:14. | :08:18. | |
paper said Clive Goodman has been freelancing there. There is no | :08:18. | :08:20. | |
suggestion he has acted improperly. It's emerged the investigations | :08:20. | :08:24. | |
appear to have run into a problem back at Wapping, headquarters of | :08:24. | :08:30. | |
the News of the World. understand that the police have | :08:30. | :08:36. | |
found evidence that a News International executive deleted a | :08:36. | :08:40. | |
large proportion of an archive of e-mails, these are e-mails sent by | :08:40. | :08:46. | |
and to journalists from the News of the World over four or five years. | :08:46. | :08:48. | |
E-mails which are potentially enormously important for the police | :08:48. | :08:51. | |
attempt to get to the truth about this. | :08:51. | :08:55. | |
As the News of the World prepared for its final Sunday, staff have | :08:55. | :08:59. | |
been told their company's internal investigation team will no longer | :08:59. | :09:03. | |
report to Rebekah Brooks, but to New York instead to ensure | :09:03. | :09:08. | |
transparency. There are still many questions over | :09:08. | :09:11. | |
the impact the scandal might have on News Corporation's plans to take | :09:11. | :09:16. | |
full control of BSkyB. Shares in the company fell 8% today after the | :09:16. | :09:20. | |
regulator Ofcom said the News of the World allegations were relevant | :09:20. | :09:24. | |
to its judgment on the deal. Our business editor looks now at the | :09:24. | :09:30. | |
future of the Murdoch's business. The famous Wapping headquarters of | :09:30. | :09:33. | |
Rupert Murdoch's News International, owner of a quartet of leading | :09:33. | :09:37. | |
newspapers, which becomes a trio after the News of the World's final | :09:37. | :09:41. | |
edition on Sunday. Here's the man who decided to axe | :09:41. | :09:44. | |
the UK's best-selling newspaper, James Murdoch, chairman of News | :09:44. | :09:47. | |
International and son of Rupert Murdoch who decided that with | :09:47. | :09:52. | |
advertisers deserting and a public mood of revulsion over its past | :09:52. | :09:56. | |
journeyistic practices, it had no commercial future. | :09:56. | :10:00. | |
But News International's Sun, daily paper thrives and sources tell me | :10:00. | :10:03. | |
it's likely Mr Murdoch will try to keep some of the News of the | :10:03. | :10:07. | |
World's readers by launching a new Sunday edition of The Sun. There | :10:07. | :10:12. | |
has been a long-standing plan, we understand, to move to a 7-day | :10:12. | :10:18. | |
operation with the same brand. So, this closure of of News of the | :10:18. | :10:23. | |
World may be a quick way to turn a problem into an opportunity. | :10:23. | :10:27. | |
By most standards the News of the World, whose revenues were around | :10:27. | :10:30. | |
�160 million a year was a big business. But that's less than 1% | :10:30. | :10:35. | |
of the revenues of News Corporation, its owner, who is annual turnover | :10:35. | :10:41. | |
is more than �20 billion. Far more important to News Corporation is | :10:41. | :10:44. | |
British Sky Broadcasting, the biggest broadcaster in the UK with | :10:44. | :10:49. | |
income greater than �6 billion each year. News Corporation currently | :10:49. | :10:55. | |
owns 39% of Sky, but it wants 100%. Not everyone thinks that would be a | :10:55. | :11:04. | |
good idea. Don't let Murdoch dominate... There have been 156 | :11:04. | :11:07. | |
electronic submissions about the deal in a week to the Culture | :11:07. | :11:09. | |
Secretary, most urging him to block the takeover. | :11:09. | :11:15. | |
And a leading Liberal Democrat today petitioned the regulator to | :11:15. | :11:20. | |
declare News Corporation unfit to control BSkyB. We're very clear, | :11:20. | :11:23. | |
broadcasters in this country are now going to be required more than | :11:23. | :11:27. | |
ever to have the highest of standards. That can't mean that | :11:27. | :11:33. | |
companies have licences when employees of their's have been | :11:33. | :11:35. | |
bribing the police, obtaining information from the police by | :11:35. | :11:39. | |
paying for it illegally, and by breaking into people's phones, | :11:39. | :11:46. | |
contrary to law. Ofcom, the regulator, indicated it may well | :11:46. | :11:50. | |
erect a sizable obstacle in the way of the takeover because it regards | :11:50. | :11:54. | |
the scandal as relevant to whether News Corporation should own Sky and | :11:54. | :11:59. | |
as a result BSkyB's shares have fallen sharply. All that alleged | :11:59. | :12:03. | |
wrongdoing at the News of the World turned the brand toxic, that's what | :12:03. | :12:06. | |
its executives, including News International's chief executive, | :12:06. | :12:12. | |
Rebekah Brooks, concluded. So toxic indeed that even after the News of | :12:12. | :12:16. | |
the World's demise, it may continue to taint the Murdoch's global | :12:16. | :12:22. | |
empire for sometime to come. Let's go back to Westminster and | :12:22. | :12:26. | |
our political editor. To what extent was David Cameron on the | :12:26. | :12:29. | |
defensive today? He was certainly on the defensive and he will be | :12:29. | :12:32. | |
some more. There will still be questions about the past, what he | :12:32. | :12:36. | |
knew about Andy Coulson, what he asked, what he was told, and why he | :12:36. | :12:40. | |
still trusted him. Questions about the future, what he will do about | :12:40. | :12:43. | |
the future ownership of British Sky Broadcasting, after all those | :12:43. | :12:48. | |
regulators have come to their verdict. When the Prime Minister's | :12:48. | :12:54. | |
own -- on his sunbed in a few weeks, he will wonder how have I ended up | :12:54. | :12:59. | |
the man man promising to clean up the press, and promising to look at | :12:59. | :13:02. | |
the whole question of the relationship between politicians | :13:02. | :13:05. | |
and senior journalists. But that is the funny thing about politics, | :13:05. | :13:09. | |
it's often the things they don't plan, the things they don't want | :13:09. | :13:14. | |
that really defines them. Thank you. | :13:14. | :13:17. | |
Other news now. Millions of British Gas customers are facing higher | :13:17. | :13:21. | |
bills after prices were raised to record levels. Gas will go up by an | :13:21. | :13:25. | |
average of 18%, electricity by 16%. The company's blaming high prices | :13:25. | :13:30. | |
on the wholesale market but the energy Secretary, Chris Huhne, says | :13:30. | :13:34. | |
he refuses to stand by and let this happen. Here is our personal | :13:34. | :13:36. | |
finance correspondent Simon Gompertz. | :13:36. | :13:40. | |
Another series of price rises for heat and power, just as households | :13:40. | :13:45. | |
are being burned by food and petrol increases and pressure on their | :13:45. | :13:49. | |
incomes. Mark and his family are particularly badly affected because | :13:49. | :13:55. | |
they're dependent on benefits while he deals with a back problem. They | :13:55. | :13:58. | |
can't help using gas and electricity, but it's taking a huge | :13:58. | :14:05. | |
share of their income. It's 25% of my budget and that's the single | :14:05. | :14:08. | |
largest payment we have. If it's kept unchecked it will push us | :14:08. | :14:11. | |
below the poverty line, if we are not already there and the effect | :14:11. | :14:14. | |
it's going to have on us, it's either heat the house or feed | :14:14. | :14:18. | |
ourselves. The price hike is at the top end of expectations, gas going | :14:19. | :14:25. | |
up by 18% next month, electricity will be 16% dear e adding �190 a | :14:25. | :14:29. | |
year on average to the bill of a customer who buys both. | :14:29. | :14:34. | |
British Gas is the biggest supplier, so there's a direct impact on nine | :14:34. | :14:39. | |
million customers. Despite saying last week that it would move | :14:39. | :14:43. | |
reluctantly, the company has decided not to hold back on this | :14:43. | :14:48. | |
major increase. Recently we have seen Middle Eastern turmoil and the | :14:48. | :14:53. | |
growth in the Asian economies push up prices by 30% to the point that | :14:53. | :14:57. | |
we have been selling at a loss for the last four months and that's | :14:57. | :15:01. | |
unsustainable. This round of price rises started with Scottish power | :15:01. | :15:04. | |
last month. Now British Gas is pushing up its prices and the fear | :15:04. | :15:11. | |
is that the other big players, Scottish & Southern, EDF, NPower | :15:11. | :15:15. | |
and Eon will do the same. Consumers are told to shop around but that's | :15:15. | :15:23. | |
hard if prices are going in one Where they go, everybody else will | :15:23. | :15:30. | |
follow. Probably nobody is going to be immune to that. Chris Huhne said | :15:30. | :15:33. | |
the increases were tough for consumers. He's promising to heat | :15:33. | :15:40. | |
up competition by bringing in more suppliers. | :15:40. | :15:43. | |
Our top story: David Cameron's former head of | :15:43. | :15:48. | |
communications is arrested over allegations of corruption and phone | :15:48. | :15:53. | |
hacking at the News of the World. And coming up - the space shuttle | :15:53. | :15:56. | |
Atlantis heads into orbit for the last time. | :15:56. | :16:00. | |
It's been a soggy start to the new era of the British Grand Prix here | :16:00. | :16:06. | |
at Silverstone. Join me live for inside F1 for all the build-up to | :16:06. | :16:16. | |
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this weekend's big race at 6.45pm British aid agencies are tonight | :16:18. | :16:23. | |
appealing for donations to help millions of people suffering in | :16:23. | :16:26. | |
East Africa's worst drought for 60 years. The Disasters Emergency | :16:26. | :16:30. | |
Committee says that 10 million people could be at risk of | :16:30. | :16:34. | |
starvation, with well over 1,000, mainly children, arriving in | :16:34. | :16:39. | |
refugee camps every day, often after gruelling journeys. Large | :16:39. | :16:48. | |
areas of Kenya, Somalia, Ethiopia and Sudan have been affected. Our | :16:48. | :16:53. | |
correspondent wefrpbt to the Dadaab camp. -- went to the Dadaab camp. | :16:53. | :16:57. | |
The drought is forcing thousands of refugees to flock here. The infants | :16:57. | :17:03. | |
are the weakest of the new arrivals. There's not much of them to measure. | :17:03. | :17:10. | |
Tiny bodies, ravaged by malnutrition and dehydration. | :17:10. | :17:15. | |
Katharina Andrey is a Swiss nurse here. She told me that recently she | :17:15. | :17:21. | |
cried with one mother. Just babies, young children are dying. It | :17:22. | :17:28. | |
happened to me last week. I arrived at a house. I saw a crowd. I took | :17:28. | :17:32. | |
the baby. I tried to do something. Outside you cannot do anything. So | :17:32. | :17:39. | |
he just died in my arms. She knows this little boy is also hovering | :17:39. | :17:44. | |
between life and death. His mother agrees to take him to hospital, but | :17:44. | :17:49. | |
only reluctantly. She has five more children to care for, and was | :17:49. | :17:54. | |
prepared to let this one die - a sacrifice to save the others. | :17:54. | :18:00. | |
We had some problems. We had some instances where some families have | :18:00. | :18:04. | |
prepared their children for death. We had to intervene and tell them, | :18:04. | :18:09. | |
no, this is not possible. This child is still alive and can make | :18:09. | :18:14. | |
it. This camp is growing all the time. It is becoming overcrowded. | :18:14. | :18:18. | |
Aid agencies here are stretched to the limit. More people are arriving | :18:18. | :18:22. | |
with every day that passes. Well over 1,000 of them fleeing from | :18:22. | :18:27. | |
civil war and now from drought as well in their native Somalia. No- | :18:27. | :18:33. | |
one here has any intention of going home any time soon. Aid is making a | :18:33. | :18:39. | |
difference here. On Monday, we showed these pictures of a | :18:39. | :18:44. | |
chronicly malnourished baby. This is him now. His doctors say he's | :18:44. | :18:48. | |
out of danger and gradually growing stronger. Amid the misery, there is | :18:48. | :18:55. | |
also hope. Well, the TV and radio appeals go | :18:55. | :18:59. | |
on-air this evening. If you would like to make a donation you can | :18:59. | :19:09. | |
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found the Disasters Emergency You can make a �5 donation by | :19:12. | :19:18. | |
texting CRISIS to: The last shuttle flight has blasted | :19:18. | :19:24. | |
off from Florida. Atlantis's journey into orbit marks the end of | :19:24. | :19:31. | |
an era. Let's get the latest from Cape Canaveral. It very nearly | :19:31. | :19:36. | |
didn't happen. The weather has been rough in the last day or so. At | :19:36. | :19:43. | |
4.30pm your time, the mission contromer came out with the -- | :19:43. | :19:48. | |
controller came out with the words, prepare for launch. Four astronauts | :19:48. | :19:53. | |
about to fly on the final space shuttle. It is the end of an era. | :19:53. | :19:59. | |
At the launch pad of Atlantis, with three hours to go, the crew clamber | :19:59. | :20:04. | |
inside. An awkward fit, but it is on. The shuttles have flown for 30 | :20:04. | :20:12. | |
years. Now the last countdown. one and zero.... The final liftoff | :20:12. | :20:17. | |
of Atlantis. Even from three miles away it is staggeringly bright as | :20:17. | :20:22. | |
the shuttle accelerates towards 17,000 miles an hour. An incredible | :20:22. | :20:27. | |
sight. Any second now, here it comes, the great wave of sound, you | :20:27. | :20:34. | |
can actually feel it inside you. Huge crowds were watching an | :20:34. | :20:42. | |
emotional sight. This meant everything to me. I wanted to see a | :20:42. | :20:47. | |
shuttle launch more than anything. We came from Virginia. Seeing that, | :20:47. | :20:51. | |
it made me have something to tell my friends when I get home. Nine | :20:51. | :20:56. | |
minutes to reach orbit. A spectacular start to 12 days in | :20:56. | :21:00. | |
space. Now Atlantis will deliver a year's worth of supplies to the | :21:00. | :21:03. | |
International Space Station. No other craft can do that. The | :21:03. | :21:13. | |
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shuttles had become too expensive. The big question now - what next? | :21:14. | :21:20. | |
Prince William and the Duchess of Canada have spent their last day in | :21:20. | :21:25. | |
Canada. They attended the famous Calgary Stampede before their | :21:25. | :21:28. | |
departure for Los Angeles. This report contains some flash | :21:28. | :21:33. | |
photography. The final stop in Canada on their | :21:33. | :21:40. | |
first overseas tour together. It's culminated in Calgary - home of | :21:40. | :21:45. | |
Canada's cowboys, where they launched the Wild West rodeo, the | :21:45. | :21:50. | |
Calgary Stampede. It's been a nine-day visit, which | :21:50. | :21:54. | |
according to William has far surpassed their expectations. | :21:54. | :21:58. | |
Canada has shown that where royals are concerned, particularly where | :21:58. | :22:04. | |
they are young and glamorous, like these two, no country is capable of | :22:04. | :22:09. | |
a more devoted welcome. Earlier, William and Kate had seen | :22:09. | :22:15. | |
something of those essential stampede activities, the riding of | :22:15. | :22:20. | |
angry bulls. Something frowned on by animal rights groups and driving | :22:20. | :22:24. | |
chuckwagons. It's been a visit for which their down-to-earth style has | :22:24. | :22:28. | |
been perfectly suited. This visit was pretty much guaranteed to be a | :22:28. | :22:34. | |
success. One of the reasons to come to Canada is so many Canadians are | :22:34. | :22:38. | |
so enthusiastic about the Royal Family. The fact it's been such a | :22:38. | :22:41. | |
spectacular success is down to the couple themselves. | :22:42. | :22:46. | |
Every where they've been, they have shown an unstuffy side to royalty. | :22:46. | :22:51. | |
It is not new. Others have been capable of it. They demonstrated | :22:51. | :22:54. | |
what a potent impact two young royals working together are capable | :22:54. | :23:02. | |
of having. They head on now to California. Let's return now to | :23:02. | :23:06. | |
tonight's main story, the former editor of the News of the World, | :23:06. | :23:13. | |
Andy Coulson's arrest into part of the investigation into phone | :23:13. | :23:23. | |
hacking. They have written to their readers. We look back now at the | :23:23. | :23:30. | |
paper's defining campaigns. Christine Keeler, on Sunday, she | :23:30. | :23:34. | |
opens her secret diary and tells the first full story in the News of | :23:34. | :23:37. | |
the World. For decades, it was Britain's | :23:37. | :23:42. | |
biggest selling newspaper by far. And for good reasons. There were | :23:42. | :23:46. | |
scopes and scandalous exposures, week in, week out, year in, year | :23:47. | :23:56. | |
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out. And popular campaigns. The paper backed Sarah Payne whose | :23:57. | :24:00. | |
daughter was murdered. Rebekah Brooks gave her first | :24:00. | :24:04. | |
interview on the subject. The paper is on the side of protecting | :24:05. | :24:08. | |
children and not protecting paedophiles. The public are behind | :24:08. | :24:11. | |
us. And Madeline McCann went missing in Portugal, the paper put | :24:11. | :24:19. | |
up a huge reward to find her. were grateful to the paper's | :24:19. | :24:22. | |
support. They would talk occasionally to the editor. They | :24:22. | :24:28. | |
wanted to support the search and bring the campaigning support to | :24:28. | :24:32. | |
the search. The News of the World far outsold its Fleet Street rivals. | :24:32. | :24:35. | |
Of course the national press left Fleet Street 20 years ago. | :24:35. | :24:40. | |
Newspapers no longer have the enormous sales they once did. | :24:40. | :24:44. | |
Nonetheless, the News of the World's closure means one fewer | :24:44. | :24:49. | |
title to reveal, campaign, expose and hold the powerful to account. | :24:49. | :24:53. | |
Hardly the best outcome for press freedom and democracy. The paper's | :24:53. | :24:58. | |
defenders say it will be missed. seems clear that the staff have | :24:58. | :25:04. | |
engaged in some detestable, unforgivable behaviour. It is | :25:04. | :25:09. | |
important to not lose fact of the sight that the paper has broken | :25:09. | :25:14. | |
important stories. More than seven million people read the News of the | :25:14. | :25:19. | |
World. Without it there'll be less sleaze, fewer stuck in revelations | :25:19. | :25:23. | |
every Sunday, Britain will be a duller place. | :25:23. | :25:26. | |
Now a time to look at the weekend weather. | :25:26. | :25:32. | |
It has been kicking off today. We've had tornadoes in Bolton and | :25:32. | :25:35. | |
Bognor. Flash flooding in Wales and Edinburgh. Our great British summer | :25:35. | :25:39. | |
continues. Through this weekend we will see fewer showers, with a | :25:39. | :25:43. | |
better chance of seeing longer, drier spells. Not at the moment | :25:44. | :25:47. | |
though. Nasty storms around across northern England, tracking | :25:47. | :25:52. | |
northwards all the while. An inch or so of rain in a short period of | :25:52. | :25:55. | |
or so of rain in a short period of time. Up into some eastern and | :25:55. | :25:59. | |
central parts of Scotland as well later on. | :25:59. | :26:02. | |
There will be some drier weather elsewhere. It will not be all that | :26:02. | :26:06. | |
cold. Temperatures remain in double figures. Tomorrow, guess what, will | :26:06. | :26:10. | |
be another showery day. The focus of showers will be in different | :26:10. | :26:15. | |
places. Scotland will see a lot more showers. Slow-moving, heavy | :26:15. | :26:19. | |
and thundery. North-east England as well. For the rest of us, fewer | :26:19. | :26:23. | |
showers, more sunshine, in fact many places will get away with a | :26:23. | :26:28. | |
fine afternoon for the cricket at Old Trafford for example, apart | :26:28. | :26:33. | |
from the odd rogue shower, it will stay dry. That is the same for the | :26:33. | :26:37. | |
Midlands and East Anglia. If you are heading to the weech, | :26:37. | :26:42. | |
there will be a cooling -- beach, there will be a cooling breeze. The | :26:42. | :26:46. | |
odd shower across south-west England and the bulk of Wales | :26:46. | :26:50. | |
staying dry with temperatures nudging 20 Celsius in many places. | :26:50. | :26:55. | |
Northern Ireland again, fewer showers than recently. For Scotland | :26:55. | :27:01. | |
again a very showery day for the Scottish Open. Some thundery | :27:01. | :27:06. | |
downpours in and around the golf course. Sunday, the odd shower to | :27:06. | :27:10. | |
northern Scotland in particular. Elsewhere, very few showers. Lots | :27:10. | :27:14. | |
of dry and bright weather. Temperatures reaching low to mid- | :27:14. | :27:18. | |
20's. For the Grand Prix I am hopeful that it will be dry and | :27:18. | :27:23. |