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The world's economy is at risk of a double dip recession - and that | :00:12. | :00:15. | |
includes Britain. Experts at the International Monetary Fund say | :00:15. | :00:18. | |
weak growth leaves the major economies in danger. Politicians | :00:18. | :00:24. | |
can't sit on their hands any longer. We need to act for growth and jobs. | :00:24. | :00:29. | |
It's the only way to secure the future and to get our deficits down. | :00:29. | :00:32. | |
We have the discipline and determination to put right the huge | :00:32. | :00:37. | |
deficits and debts that we were left by the last Government. Also | :00:37. | :00:44. | |
on tonight's programme: Frightened to go out on her own and pestered | :00:44. | :00:49. | |
by the press. The nurse held for six weeks over the death of | :00:49. | :00:54. | |
hospital patients. I can't believe it's happening. Even then they | :00:54. | :00:59. | |
arrested me. I thought I'd be home for tea. Smuerly they know I've not | :01:00. | :01:06. | |
-- surely they know I've not done anything wrong. Plans to make it | :01:06. | :01:12. | |
easier for customers to stop the best deals. There should be a basic, | :01:12. | :01:16. | |
simple supply, for a consumer at a simple rate to understand. Guilty | :01:16. | :01:26. | |
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of murder - the music teacher who battered his fiance to death. Gb's | :01:28. | :01:33. | |
first competitors prepare to defend their world-beating record. I will | :01:33. | :01:43. | |
be here with Sportsday later. A medal for Pooley at the time- | :01:43. | :01:53. | |
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trail, but it's not the colour she Good evening. Welcome to the BBC | :02:01. | :02:07. | |
aus news at 6pm. One of the most influential organisations has | :02:07. | :02:11. | |
issued its starkest warnings about the prospects for the global | :02:11. | :02:14. | |
economy. The International Monetary Fund said there is a risk of a | :02:14. | :02:18. | |
double-dip recession and Britain is included in that gloomy forecast. | :02:18. | :02:23. | |
The IMF said Governments must be ready to re-think their policies if | :02:23. | :02:31. | |
growth remains as clugish as it fears. -- sluggish as it fears. | :02:31. | :02:36. | |
The state of the world economy is under the magnifying glass again. | :02:36. | :02:40. | |
This time a gloomy view from the leading think-tank, the IMF. It | :02:40. | :02:45. | |
says the world is entering a dangerous new phase. It talks of a | :02:45. | :02:51. | |
weak and bumpy recovery and says leading economies are facing | :02:51. | :03:01. | |
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anaemic growth. The global economy has entered a dangerous new phase. | :03:04. | :03:10. | |
Strong policies are needed, both to improve the outlook and to reduce | :03:10. | :03:13. | |
the risks. The Chancellor has admitted that UK growth forecasts | :03:13. | :03:18. | |
will have to be reduced. Now the IMF has done just that, as it has | :03:18. | :03:21. | |
with other economies. Earlier this year, the OBR, that's the | :03:21. | :03:28. | |
Government's official forecaster, predicted 1.7% growth. In June the | :03:28. | :03:35. | |
IMF said more like 1.5%. Now it says 1.1%. There's a message for | :03:35. | :03:39. | |
the British Government - if growth weakens further, the deficit | :03:39. | :03:43. | |
reduction plan should be delayed. We have the discipline and | :03:43. | :03:46. | |
determination to putting right the huge deficits and debts that we | :03:46. | :03:51. | |
were left by the last Government and we will go on with absolute | :03:51. | :03:56. | |
determination doing that and no wavering in that whatsoever. These | :03:56. | :04:01. | |
are very worrying figures for America and for Britain too. | :04:01. | :04:05. | |
Politicians cannot sit on their hands for longer. We need to act | :04:05. | :04:09. | |
for growth and jobs. It's the only way to secure the future and get | :04:09. | :04:17. | |
our deficits down. The IMF warning the eurozone needs to get to grips | :04:17. | :04:21. | |
with its crisis. Students took to the streets of | :04:21. | :04:25. | |
Athens to protest about spending cuts. | :04:25. | :04:28. | |
The IMF believes recession is a possibility in Europe as well as | :04:28. | :04:32. | |
the US. Of course, any major downturn in | :04:32. | :04:35. | |
the leading European economies would have a big impact on all of | :04:35. | :04:40. | |
us here in the UK. That's because 40% or so of our | :04:40. | :04:45. | |
goods and services, exports, go to the eurozone. Economies are so | :04:45. | :04:48. | |
interlinked now that you cannot escape the consequences of someone | :04:48. | :04:52. | |
else's slowdown. That is really what this latest IMF report means | :04:52. | :04:57. | |
for the UK. All advanced economies are facing tough times and we can't | :04:57. | :05:05. | |
avoid the consequences. We will speak to our political | :05:05. | :05:10. | |
editor, Nick Robinson in a moment. First let's go to Stephanie | :05:10. | :05:13. | |
Flanders, who is in Washington. We have been reporting about how tough | :05:13. | :05:16. | |
things are for some time. How significant is this latest report | :05:16. | :05:21. | |
from the IMF? Well, George, we have heard a lot of this. Of course this | :05:21. | :05:24. | |
is just one report and one set of economic forecasts which will | :05:24. | :05:28. | |
probably turn out to be wrong, the actual numbers. The significance is | :05:28. | :05:32. | |
that you have all of the world's Finance Ministers gathering here in | :05:32. | :05:37. | |
Washington at the end of the week. What the IMF is telling them, is | :05:37. | :05:40. | |
the prospects for their recoveries have drasticly worsened in the last | :05:40. | :05:44. | |
few months. This is something they are focused on in Europe and | :05:44. | :05:47. | |
America. It is actually for all of the global recovery, it will be | :05:47. | :05:51. | |
weaker than they expected. If policy makers don't get their act | :05:51. | :05:54. | |
together, we could look at a prolonged slowdown or even a | :05:54. | :05:58. | |
recession, particularly in the US and maybe in the UK. The IMF does | :05:58. | :06:02. | |
not want us to panic. They think policy makers can make this path | :06:02. | :06:06. | |
easier. They have to do lot of things they have not wanted to do. | :06:06. | :06:10. | |
The European policy makers have to get their act together. In America, | :06:10. | :06:14. | |
they have to resolve some of their differences in Washington, to get a | :06:14. | :06:17. | |
proper deal on the US debt situation and prevent a recession | :06:17. | :06:23. | |
there. The advice for the UK is more nuanced. They think that the | :06:23. | :06:26. | |
UK is one step closer to the time when the Government will have to | :06:26. | :06:33. | |
re-think its approach to the deficit. Thank you. Isn't this more | :06:33. | :06:37. | |
pressure on the Government, some would say to think about growth | :06:37. | :06:44. | |
more, or what some are calling have a Plan B? It is enormous pressure | :06:44. | :06:48. | |
on them. Again and again you hear ministers here at the Liberal | :06:48. | :06:50. | |
Democrats conference and Conservatives in Whitehall, around | :06:50. | :06:54. | |
the world, say there is only one plan, plan A. We must stick to it, | :06:54. | :07:00. | |
we are agreed. Yet, George, behind the scenes I can reveal there is a | :07:00. | :07:03. | |
fascinating discussion beginning to take place in the Cabinet about | :07:03. | :07:07. | |
whether there is something more they could do to stimulate growth. | :07:07. | :07:13. | |
Not Plan B. It would be sticking to cuts in what's called current | :07:13. | :07:16. | |
spending, every day spending on salaries, for example and benefits | :07:16. | :07:19. | |
and the like. The debate which is beginning to shape up is around | :07:19. | :07:28. | |
what is called "Capital spending." Spending on building thins, on road, | :07:28. | :07:33. | |
on rail, on broadband infrastructure, to stimulate growth. | :07:33. | :07:37. | |
We have heard plans to accelerate existing projects. We have heard | :07:37. | :07:44. | |
plans to find money that is unspent in other budgets and allocate to | :07:44. | :07:47. | |
councils to build, for example a road, to allow a new housing | :07:47. | :07:50. | |
development to take place. Some Cabinet ministers are telling me | :07:50. | :07:53. | |
here and elsewhere they believe the Chancellor could go further, that | :07:53. | :07:58. | |
it would be possible, in other words, to change his existing | :07:58. | :08:02. | |
spending plans on capital projects to spend a few billion pounds more, | :08:03. | :08:09. | |
to stimulate growth, without they claim abandoning plan A, without | :08:09. | :08:13. | |
spooking the financial markets. It's the beginning of an important | :08:13. | :08:16. | |
debate about what Government does in the face of these serious | :08:16. | :08:20. | |
economic warnings. Thank you both. | :08:20. | :08:25. | |
She was held by police for six weeks, accused of tampering with | :08:25. | :08:27. | |
drugs at a Greater Manchester hospital, where several patients | :08:27. | :08:31. | |
had died. Today the nurse, Rebecca Leighton, has been speaking for the | :08:31. | :08:35. | |
first time about the ordeal. Despite being released and the | :08:35. | :08:39. | |
charges dropped, she says she is still pestered by the press and is | :08:39. | :08:47. | |
too frightened to go out on her own. She was accused of killing her | :08:47. | :08:51. | |
patients. She spent six weeks in jail. Now, for the first time | :08:51. | :08:54. | |
Rebecca Leighton has spoken about what she has been through and the | :08:54. | :09:00. | |
moment she was arrested. I woke up to police banging on the door. I | :09:00. | :09:06. | |
just thought that the police wanted to ask further questions or | :09:06. | :09:11. | |
interviews or what not. I thought I'd be home for tea-time. Surely | :09:11. | :09:15. | |
they know I've not done anything wrong. Rebecca Leighton was | :09:15. | :09:20. | |
arrested after the deaths of three patients. All three received | :09:21. | :09:25. | |
contaminated saline. On 22nd July she was charged with criminal | :09:25. | :09:30. | |
damage with intent to danger life. On September 2nd, all charges were | :09:30. | :09:34. | |
dropped. 12 days later, she was told she could return to nursing, | :09:34. | :09:39. | |
but remains suspended from Stepping Hill, while they investigate claims | :09:39. | :09:43. | |
she stole medicine. I pleaded with the police every day, all the time, | :09:43. | :09:48. | |
just please don't stop looking. Don't stop with me, because if you | :09:48. | :09:52. | |
do, then surely the person that has done these horrific things is still | :09:52. | :09:57. | |
going to be out there. It worried me. Security remains tight at | :09:57. | :10:03. | |
Stepping Hill. Here, every car is checked in and | :10:03. | :10:06. | |
out because the person who contaminated this saline could | :10:06. | :10:10. | |
still be inside the hospital. 60 detectives need to speak to | :10:10. | :10:13. | |
hundreds of witnesses. This includes patients, visitors and | :10:13. | :10:18. | |
staff. It's also an investigation that has | :10:18. | :10:24. | |
changed Rebecca Leighton's life. I'm living at my parents. I'm not | :10:24. | :10:28. | |
where I used to live. I am not working. I cannot go out without | :10:28. | :10:32. | |
people taking pictures of me. I cannot walk down the street on my | :10:32. | :10:35. | |
own because I'm kind of a bit scared really. One day Rebecca | :10:35. | :10:40. | |
Leighton hopes to return to work as a nurse, while the families of | :10:40. | :10:47. | |
those who died at Stepping Hill are still waiting for answers. | :10:47. | :10:51. | |
The Prime Minister, David Cameron, has said he's apulled at the | :10:51. | :10:57. | |
killing of a former -- appalled at the killing of a former President | :10:57. | :11:01. | |
of Afghanistan. Burhanuddin Rabbani was killed in a bomb blast at his | :11:01. | :11:06. | |
home in Kabul. He was meeting with two Taliban members at the time of | :11:06. | :11:13. | |
the attack. A music teacher has been found guilty of murdering his | :11:13. | :11:20. | |
fiancee. He battered her and strangled her before he stored her | :11:20. | :11:24. | |
body in a suitcase. Our correspondent joins us now from | :11:24. | :11:33. | |
Holmfirth, West Yorkshire. Andrew Lindo lived in this | :11:33. | :11:38. | |
development here. When he was found guilty someone in the gallery | :11:38. | :11:46. | |
shouted, "Yes." He described his Christmas as the best ever. He was | :11:46. | :11:49. | |
the charming music teacher, described as a lady's man. She was | :11:49. | :11:53. | |
the woman who fell for him while married to someone else, so gave up | :11:53. | :11:57. | |
everything to be with the man, who it was said swept her off her feet. | :11:57. | :12:02. | |
But last December, here at their home in West Yorkshire, Andrew | :12:02. | :12:07. | |
Lindo lost his temper and brutally murdered Marie Stewart in a | :12:07. | :12:10. | |
prolonged and vicious attack, after which he concealed her body in a | :12:10. | :12:14. | |
bag. As soon as Lindo had hidden the | :12:14. | :12:22. | |
body of his fiancee in their garage he drove in his car 15 miles to | :12:22. | :12:25. | |
Barnsley to collect his lover, who he brought back here. He told | :12:25. | :12:30. | |
anyone who would listen that his fiancee had gone missing with | :12:30. | :12:34. | |
another man. Despite her family's suspicions that lie held for two | :12:34. | :12:39. | |
months. During that time Lindo, who sang in | :12:39. | :12:44. | |
local bands, posted fake Facebook messages from the fiancee he | :12:44. | :12:49. | |
murdered, coning the world that she had left him and their two young | :12:49. | :12:54. | |
children. Neighbours always doubted his story. It really didn't make | :12:54. | :13:01. | |
any sense because she loved her kids so much. She was a huge part | :13:01. | :13:09. | |
of their lives. It didn't add up. It didn't. Lindo convinced his new | :13:09. | :13:12. | |
girl friend that he was planning a new life with her. She told the | :13:12. | :13:22. | |
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But in February this year, police discovered Marie Stewart's body in | :13:25. | :13:30. | |
the garage and Lindo's lies unravelled. | :13:30. | :13:34. | |
He conned so many people. He told women he was trying to impress he | :13:34. | :13:39. | |
was a single father. He made his home look like a bachelor pad. He | :13:39. | :13:45. | |
could not con a jury today. They took less than an hour to find him | :13:45. | :13:50. | |
guilty and he'll be sentenced tomorrow. Customers facing a | :13:50. | :13:54. | |
confusing array of energy charges are to be given a helping hand. | :13:54. | :13:58. | |
Chris Huhne has promised to make it easier for consumers to spot the | :13:58. | :14:02. | |
best deals and sign on for them. Speaking at the Liberal Democrats | :14:02. | :14:05. | |
conference in Birmingham, he said he was determined to get tough with | :14:05. | :14:12. | |
the big suppliers. Winter is fast approaching. The two | :14:12. | :14:16. | |
rounds of energy price rises means that warming our homes will cost | :14:17. | :14:21. | |
around �160 more than just 12 months ago. | :14:21. | :14:26. | |
That's bad news for this couple who live in Essex. June is disabled. | :14:26. | :14:30. | |
They need to keep the heating on. They find the range of offers and | :14:30. | :14:37. | |
deals simply too confusing. We're high energy users, both on gas and | :14:37. | :14:41. | |
electricity. We have an incentive to look around. It's really | :14:41. | :14:48. | |
difficult. It is difficult within the supplier's tariffs, let alone | :14:48. | :14:51. | |
between tariffs. Any simplification has to be an advantage. Does the | :14:51. | :14:56. | |
Government have any plans to make life easier? The good news is that | :14:56. | :15:01. | |
more simple tariffs are coming. Companies will have to say on deals | :15:01. | :15:06. | |
where you might find a cheaper deal. There are plans for customers to | :15:06. | :15:10. | |
benefit financially when firms are fined for wrong doing. The Energy | :15:10. | :15:14. | |
Secretary is warning the industry over predatory pricing, which he | :15:14. | :15:23. | |
fears may be keeping new comers out It is not fair that big energy | :15:23. | :15:27. | |
companies can push prices up for those who do not switch while | :15:27. | :15:32. | |
offering cut-throat prices for new customers which stop small firms | :15:32. | :15:36. | |
entering the market to provide real competition. Privatisation was | :15:36. | :15:40. | |
meant to deliver savings for consumers, but the big six | :15:40. | :15:42. | |
companies have faced criticism as spiralling commodity prices have | :15:42. | :15:47. | |
sent a -- bills higher. Will the plans make a difference? He is | :15:47. | :15:50. | |
about time that someone took steps to make sure that this market, | :15:51. | :15:54. | |
which is categorised by bad selling, complex tariffs and the | :15:54. | :15:58. | |
impossibility to get the right deal, that something is done to make life | :15:58. | :16:02. | |
easier for consumers. If you are never switch supplier, doing so now | :16:02. | :16:06. | |
could save you a couple of hundred pounds, but energy reforms take | :16:06. | :16:13. | |
time, and for some the benefits may not be felt this winter. | :16:13. | :16:17. | |
It is a little after quarter past six, our top story tonight: The | :16:17. | :16:21. | |
world's economy, including Britain, is at risk of a double-dip | :16:21. | :16:25. | |
recession. The IMF says weak growth has left the major economies in | :16:25. | :16:29. | |
danger. Coming up: Packing up and ready to | :16:29. | :16:34. | |
go, but how the move and Ireland from the Arctic to the south coast? | :16:34. | :16:38. | |
And later on the BBC News Channel, I will have more on those stark | :16:38. | :16:43. | |
warnings from the IMF about global economic growth and why Italy's | :16:43. | :16:46. | |
prime ministers as the country's downgrade is now about politics and | :16:46. | :16:56. | |
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A BBC investigation has uncovered evidence of possible fraud and | :16:58. | :17:01. | |
serious wrongdoing in building works overseen by Edinburgh City | :17:01. | :17:05. | |
Council. Nearly half of the staff at the property Conservation | :17:05. | :17:09. | |
Department have been suspended and the police are now investigating. | :17:09. | :17:14. | |
Scotland correspondent James Cook reports from Edinburgh. | :17:14. | :17:18. | |
They call Edinburgh the Athens of the north, and the city council has | :17:18. | :17:23. | |
unique powers to protect the beauty of Scotland's capital. When owners | :17:23. | :17:27. | |
cannot agree on repairs, the council can step in, or do the work | :17:27. | :17:31. | |
and demand payment. Now some officials are accused of abusing | :17:31. | :17:37. | |
those powers. Anita has owned this cafe for 20 years, but now the | :17:37. | :17:41. | |
business is facing ruin. The council ordered repairs to the roof | :17:41. | :17:48. | |
of the building, but as the work's Wandong, the cost went up. In fact, | :17:48. | :17:52. | |
it more than doubled. -- as the works went on. When I received a | :17:52. | :17:58. | |
bill, I almost collapsed, I literally had to sit down. My share | :17:58. | :18:05. | |
was �11,000. I just cannot afford that. I charge �1 for a role. | :18:05. | :18:12. | |
not just one case. In 2005, repair work ordered by the council | :18:12. | :18:17. | |
amounted to �9.2 million. By 2009, that had risen to �20 million. Last | :18:17. | :18:24. | |
year, 2010, surveyors were working on �30 million worth of projects. | :18:24. | :18:28. | |
Now the police want to know what has been going on in the city. They | :18:28. | :18:33. | |
are investigating a claim that a council official went on holiday | :18:33. | :18:36. | |
paid for by contractors. Nearly half the property Conservation | :18:36. | :18:40. | |
Department, some 15 staff, have been suspended. I am now convinced | :18:40. | :18:46. | |
that there is something that has been illegal that has gone on, and | :18:46. | :18:52. | |
that has involved a few council officers. The council says it is | :18:52. | :18:56. | |
taking the claims seriously. It has called in external auditors, and it | :18:56. | :19:02. | |
is co-operating with the police. It is cold comfort in the cafe, where | :19:02. | :19:08. | |
Anita is selling up. I feel I have worked for these is to hand it over | :19:09. | :19:15. | |
to the council. -- worked all these years. As the allegations mount, it | :19:15. | :19:20. | |
is clear that many other people feel the same way. | :19:20. | :19:23. | |
Aid agencies in Pakistan of wine that a slow response to the | :19:23. | :19:27. | |
country's floods could cost more lives as many people do not have | :19:27. | :19:31. | |
access to food, water, shelter or healthcare. More than 300 people | :19:31. | :19:37. | |
have already been killed, another 7 million affected by heavy rains. | :19:37. | :19:42. | |
The Pakistan air force has begun dropping aid in the worst-affected | :19:42. | :19:49. | |
province. Orla Guerin was given access to their first mission. | :19:49. | :19:53. | |
In beneath the floodwaters, wrecked homes and crops, and crucially | :19:53. | :20:00. | |
roads. The only way to reach many in need is by air. There is a new | :20:00. | :20:05. | |
Highland landscape here. We joined the Pakistan air force on their | :20:06. | :20:10. | |
first relief mission of this year's floods. They are not just dropping | :20:10. | :20:17. | |
the Elf. They also supplied it. And down below, the hungry came running. | :20:17. | :20:21. | |
Once again, flood victims are looking to the military for help. | :20:21. | :20:25. | |
Many here despair of the ineffective civilian government. | :20:25. | :20:31. | |
Then we find a rare patch of dry Land, a narrow strip of roadway, | :20:31. | :20:36. | |
where aid can be unloaded. Within seconds, a crowd gathered. Well, | :20:36. | :20:40. | |
people are very anxious to move forward. There is a lot of | :20:40. | :20:43. | |
desperation here. They say they have been stacked in this area for | :20:44. | :20:49. | |
a month and a half, completely Karl, and they have received no relief | :20:49. | :20:56. | |
supplies at all. -- completely cut off. So I scramble for the ration | :20:56. | :21:02. | |
packs which contain essentials like rice, cooking oil and milk, a | :21:02. | :21:05. | |
lifeline for this marooned community, but each bag will only | :21:05. | :21:12. | |
last a family for about a week. After dropping the aid, we flew one, | :21:12. | :21:16. | |
scouting for others who need help. His family beckoned us from the | :21:16. | :21:21. | |
rooftop. Their location was noted for the next relief flight. The | :21:21. | :21:25. | |
pilots believe other victims of this disaster still have not been | :21:25. | :21:30. | |
located. All we can do is that we can fly certain missions and see | :21:30. | :21:36. | |
them, and if they are approachable, they could be taken to safe places. | :21:36. | :21:40. | |
I believe there will be people who would not be seen right now, but we | :21:40. | :21:46. | |
will fly further missions. Here in the south, they will be counting | :21:46. | :21:51. | |
the cost of the floods for years. This region is home to some of the | :21:51. | :21:57. | |
poorest of the poor. For now, many have to struggle on alone, | :21:57. | :22:00. | |
wondering when national and international relief efforts will | :22:00. | :22:09. | |
match the scale of their tragedy. Here, the former environment | :22:09. | :22:11. | |
minister Elliot Morley has been released from prison after serving | :22:11. | :22:16. | |
a quarter of a 16 month sentence for fiddling parliamentary expenses. | :22:16. | :22:24. | |
He was jailed in May for claiming �32,000 in bogus mortgage payments. | :22:24. | :22:30. | |
Will Ben Ainsley maker four Olympic gold in a row? Britain has greatest | :22:30. | :22:34. | |
Olympic sailing champion is one of the first to be confirmed for the | :22:34. | :22:38. | |
Team GB squad of 550 competitors. James Pearce is at the Greenwich | :22:38. | :22:44. | |
Naval College now. The beautiful buildings here were | :22:44. | :22:48. | |
designed by Sir Christopher Wren back in the 17th century. Before | :22:48. | :22:52. | |
then, Henry VIII lived in a royal residence on the site, so there was | :22:52. | :22:55. | |
history all around them when Britain's sailors became the first | :22:55. | :23:01. | |
members of a British team for a home Olympics since 1948. | :23:01. | :23:05. | |
Flying the flag, these are the sailors chosen to go for gold for | :23:05. | :23:11. | |
Team GB next summer. Leading the way, Ben Ainsley, already a three- | :23:11. | :23:17. | |
times Olympic champion. It is a fantastic feeling, a big relief. A | :23:17. | :23:20. | |
huge sense of responsibility, I think, because they will be | :23:20. | :23:24. | |
millions of people there watching their home team and expecting us to | :23:24. | :23:30. | |
get results, so hopefully we can perform well. Weymouth will be the | :23:30. | :23:34. | |
venue for the Games. Britain is the most successful nation in Olympic | :23:34. | :23:40. | |
sailing history, so everything points to more home success. In | :23:40. | :23:45. | |
Sydney in 2000, there were three British sailing gold medals. There | :23:45. | :23:51. | |
were two in Athens. But the four gold medals, a silver and a bronze | :23:51. | :23:55. | |
brought home from Beijing will be hard to match. All the other | :23:55. | :23:58. | |
countries are making big step changes in their programme, making | :23:58. | :24:02. | |
them more competitive and making it more difficult for us to win. I | :24:02. | :24:06. | |
think it will be difficult and unlikely that any nation will win | :24:06. | :24:09. | |
six medals, like we did in Beijing. This is the women's match-racing | :24:10. | :24:14. | |
crew. On the left, Lucy and Kate Macgregor. It will be the first | :24:14. | :24:21. | |
time that two sisters sail together for Britain at an Olympics. We know | :24:21. | :24:26. | |
each other a bit too well, so we have our ups and downs | :24:26. | :24:30. | |
occasionally! I think overall it is fantastic sailing with your sister, | :24:30. | :24:35. | |
we know each other, we trust each other, and you know how each other | :24:35. | :24:39. | |
is feeling, and that is great. decision to select the British | :24:39. | :24:44. | |
sailors 10 months before the Games begin reflects the confidence that | :24:44. | :24:50. | |
in this thought the whole nation is leading the way. -- in this sport. | :24:50. | :24:52. | |
A marked the celebrations from those who have been picked, spare a | :24:53. | :24:57. | |
thought for those who have missed out. Each country is only allowed | :24:57. | :25:01. | |
one vote in each event, so some of the British crews are ranked second | :25:02. | :25:04. | |
or third in the world but are still not allowed to compete at their | :25:04. | :25:11. | |
home the Olympics. Those events will take place on the | :25:11. | :25:14. | |
south coast. The event will bring thousands of people to the region. | :25:14. | :25:19. | |
Preparations are well under way. As John Kay reports, organisers are | :25:19. | :25:25. | |
shipping an island of rocks from the Arctic to Portland. | :25:25. | :25:30. | |
In the High Arctic, one man begins his Olympic mission. Alex Hartley | :25:30. | :25:34. | |
discovered this island's seven years ago. It was revealed by a | :25:34. | :25:39. | |
melting glacier. Today he has returned with a team of helpers to | :25:39. | :25:45. | |
bag it up, rocked by Rock, and bring part of it back home. I had | :25:45. | :25:50. | |
this idea, what if we could take its south from here, all the way to | :25:50. | :25:56. | |
the UK? We could found a new nation. This idea won and Arts Council | :25:56. | :26:01. | |
competition, and they gave M �500,000 to make it happen. When he | :26:01. | :26:05. | |
gets his rocks back to Britain, he will rebuild the island on a raft | :26:05. | :26:09. | |
the size of a football pitch and toe it around the south coast of | :26:09. | :26:14. | |
England, part of next summer's Cultural Olympiad. He is calling it | :26:14. | :26:18. | |
Nowhereisland, designed to make us think about nation heard and the | :26:18. | :26:22. | |
environment. He thought it would not be here if it was not for the | :26:22. | :26:30. | |
melting of the glaciers. After being towed around the coast of | :26:30. | :26:34. | |
south-west England, Nowhereisland will end up somewhere here in | :26:34. | :26:38. | |
Bristol. Let's as people hear what they think. Is it art, and is it | :26:38. | :26:44. | |
worth the money? Yes, I would say it is hard, very expensive. | :26:44. | :26:49. | |
Anything seems to pass far. If they want the environment, half a | :26:49. | :26:53. | |
million pounds could be spent on that. Not really work that money! | :26:53. | :26:57. | |
It will begin its voyage in Weymouth during the Olympic sailing | :26:57. | :27:02. | |
events. Members of the public will be able to register as citizens and | :27:02. | :27:06. | |
have a say in how it is run. Nation-building, but not as we know | :27:06. | :27:12. | |
Time for the weather now with John Hammond. Not quite arctic | :27:12. | :27:19. | |
Tomorrow some rain and sun, but they will be in different places. | :27:19. | :27:23. | |
Let me show you where the rain has been today, this slice through | :27:23. | :27:27. | |
Wales and the Midlands. It has been pushing up into East Yorkshire and | :27:27. | :27:31. | |
Lincolnshire at times, heavier bursts getting into Wales and the | :27:31. | :27:34. | |
West Country. It is a wriggling weather front, which is wriggling | :27:34. | :27:38. | |
down towards the south-east. Still some fairly heavy bursts in there, | :27:39. | :27:42. | |
too. More wet weather will drive across the West of Scotland, windy | :27:42. | :27:50. | |
as well, but in between some fog patches forming across the heart of | :27:50. | :27:52. | |
England where services are damp after today's rain. Tomorrow will | :27:52. | :27:56. | |
be a blustery day in the north, and there will be some showers around, | :27:57. | :28:01. | |
too. This is where the main action will be tomorrow morning, wet and | :28:01. | :28:11. | |
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windy across western Scotland and Northern Ireland for a time. There | :28:11. | :28:15. | |
is that narrow band of rain, getting into the far north of | :28:15. | :28:20. | |
England. To the sound of that, much brighter than today. East Anglia | :28:20. | :28:23. | |
and south-east doing well, early morning rain clearing away, things | :28:23. | :28:28. | |
perking up by the afternoon. Temperatures not too bad. Bright | :28:28. | :28:32. | |
and breezy for south-west England. For Wales, rather more sunshine | :28:32. | :28:37. | |
than today. Just the odd shower of to what the northwest in particular. | :28:37. | :28:42. | |
Across the Irish Sea, things will improve for Northern Ireland. And | :28:42. | :28:46. | |
indeed for Scotland after a wet and windy spell through the morning. | :28:46. | :28:50. | |
The winds will tend to subside and the worst of the showers will use | :28:50. | :28:56. | |
off. Looking further ahead, most places will be dry, thickening | :28:56. | :29:00. |