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David Cameron insists there is no bad blood or bitterness after the | :00:03. | :00:07. | |
EU rebellion by his own MPs. Forced to defend himself after 81 | :00:07. | :00:10. | |
Conservatives defied him last night, the Prime Minister plays down talk | :00:10. | :00:19. | |
of bitter divisions over Europe. There is no on my part, no bad | :00:19. | :00:25. | |
blood and no rancour or no bitterness. These are valued | :00:25. | :00:28. | |
Conservative colleagues. It comes on the eve of a crucial | :00:28. | :00:31. | |
summit in Brussels to try to solve the eurozone debt crisis. | :00:31. | :00:37. | |
Also on tonight's programme: Just two weeks old, rescued from the | :00:37. | :00:43. | |
rubble after Sunday's earthquake in Turkey, a small ray of hope as the | :00:43. | :00:45. | |
death toll rises. An inglorious end. Colonel Gaddafi is finally buried, | :00:45. | :00:48. | |
his body reportedly taken to a secret desert location. | :00:48. | :00:51. | |
And Prince Charles tells the BBC he's determined to do his bit to | :00:51. | :00:53. | |
help some of Britain's most deprived towns during the economic | :00:53. | :01:03. | |
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Good evening, welcome to the BBC News at Six. | :01:30. | :01:33. | |
The Prime Minister insists he feels "no bad blood or bitterness" after | :01:33. | :01:37. | |
81 of his own MPs defied him last night in a vote over a referendum | :01:37. | :01:39. | |
on withdrawal from the EU or renegoitation of Britain's | :01:39. | :01:41. | |
membership. He acknowledged that Europe has always been a difficult | :01:41. | :01:44. | |
issue for his party. But as he prepared to head to Brussels | :01:44. | :01:47. | |
tomorrow for a crucial summit on the eurozone debt crisis, he played | :01:47. | :01:50. | |
down suggestions of lasting damage and divisions within his party over | :01:50. | :01:58. | |
Europe. Our deputy political editor, James Landale, reports. Perhaps | :01:58. | :02:01. | |
David Cameron could have done with one of these last night. The Prime | :02:01. | :02:05. | |
Minister inspected the Army's new armoured vehicles this morning, | :02:05. | :02:08. | |
only hours after his own parliamentary defences were | :02:08. | :02:14. | |
overwhelmed All 81 Conservative MPs defied him and backed a referendum | :02:14. | :02:20. | |
on Europe, a record rebellion that's left the Government bruised | :02:20. | :02:26. | |
but, Mr Cameron said, unblooded. There is no rancour on my part. I | :02:26. | :02:30. | |
understand why people feel strongly and we'll go forward and tackle the | :02:30. | :02:32. | |
difficult decisions that the country faces. You have to do the | :02:32. | :02:35. | |
right thing and give a lead in politics and that's what yesterday | :02:35. | :02:39. | |
was about. But as the Prime Minister tried to heal divisions in | :02:39. | :02:44. | |
his party new ones opened up with his Liberal Democrat deputy, who | :02:44. | :02:48. | |
said he can didn't share David Cameron's goal of repatriating | :02:48. | :02:52. | |
powers from Brussels to London. This Government is not going to | :02:52. | :02:56. | |
launch some smash and grab raid on Brussels on its own, which would | :02:56. | :03:01. | |
never work, which would be condemned to failure anyway. What | :03:01. | :03:05. | |
we'll continue to do is argue that British businesses and European | :03:05. | :03:09. | |
businesses can exploit the opportunities in an evermore open | :03:09. | :03:13. | |
European single market. This leaves the Prime Minister in a tricky | :03:13. | :03:17. | |
position. His backbenchers want a tougher line on Europe and a fresh | :03:18. | :03:22. | |
look at what the EU does. His coalition partners say that's | :03:22. | :03:28. | |
something they won't tolerate. And all of this while the search for a | :03:28. | :03:32. | |
solution goes on to the eurozone crisis. Europe's leaders were in | :03:32. | :03:37. | |
Brussels only last Sunday and will be there tomorrow to try to sort | :03:38. | :03:42. | |
out Greece's debts, and the bail- out fund. Mr Cameron has cleared | :03:42. | :03:48. | |
his diary to be there to push for a deal to help growth in the UK's | :03:48. | :03:53. | |
economy and stob Britain losing out in the hag oflg the eurozone. The | :03:53. | :03:57. | |
fallout of the rebellion may be occupying many in Downing Street | :03:57. | :04:00. | |
tonight but David Cameron said the focus has to be on some ofing the | :04:00. | :04:03. | |
eurozone cries which is he says is having a chilling effect on the | :04:03. | :04:10. | |
economy. Let's go to Brussels. Gavin Hewitt | :04:10. | :04:13. | |
is there. There's a lot at stake tomorrow, are Europe's leaders | :04:13. | :04:17. | |
going to be able to rise to the challenge? Well, the hope and | :04:17. | :04:21. | |
expectation was that by this time tomorrow night or a little bit | :04:21. | :04:24. | |
later, there would be a comprehensive package to sort out | :04:24. | :04:29. | |
the yorz crisis. It is not there yet. There is no agreement in | :04:29. | :04:32. | |
crucial areas. For instance on Greek debt. The plan was to get the | :04:32. | :04:36. | |
banks to take big losses, perhaps 50 %. That hasn't been settled. On | :04:36. | :04:41. | |
increasing the fire power of the EU's main bail-out fund, there are | :04:41. | :04:46. | |
still difficulties there. Just two days ago Silvio Berlusconi was told | :04:46. | :04:51. | |
to get his finances in order and come back with a piece of paper | :04:51. | :04:54. | |
tomorrow explaining what he is going to do. That's led to a | :04:54. | :04:58. | |
political crisis in Italy. I think there'll be agreement in principle | :04:58. | :05:02. | |
tomorrow. But whether we'll get the hard numbers that will convince the | :05:02. | :05:07. | |
markets and others that this crisis has finally been settled, that's an | :05:07. | :05:11. | |
entirely different matter. In Turkey, rescuers have managed to | :05:11. | :05:14. | |
save a two-week-old baby who was trapped beneath the rubble two days | :05:14. | :05:17. | |
after a powerful earthquake struck the east of the country. The child | :05:17. | :05:20. | |
was pulled out alive with her mother and grandmother, but her | :05:20. | :05:25. | |
father is still missing. 432 people are now known to have died in the | :05:25. | :05:32. | |
earthquake, but scores are still missing. Daniel Sandford is in the | :05:32. | :05:35. | |
city of Ercis, from where he watched the extraordinary rescue | :05:35. | :05:40. | |
unfold. The third day of this rescue | :05:40. | :05:48. | |
operation began in the best possible way. | :05:48. | :05:55. | |
A 16 day on old baby was gently brought out in a tiny hole in the | :05:55. | :06:02. | |
broken concrete. She was premature, she had been born a month early. | :06:02. | :06:07. | |
And then two weeks into her life she had only just escaped death. | :06:07. | :06:11. | |
With the tiny baby now safely on its way to hospital, rescuers are | :06:11. | :06:17. | |
working hard to bring out through the same small gap its mother and | :06:17. | :06:22. | |
its grandmother, both of whom are still alive. In the crowd | :06:22. | :06:29. | |
sheltering from the cold and rain we found the baby's grandfather, | :06:29. | :06:34. | |
Ahmed, nervously waiting for news of his wife and daughter-in-law law. | :06:34. | :06:37. | |
TRANSLATION: At the moment the earthquake struck my wife and | :06:37. | :06:41. | |
daughter were with me but the baby was in another room. We ran to | :06:41. | :06:46. | |
leave the building but the other two ran inside to get the baby. For | :06:46. | :06:52. | |
two days I've been waiting for a miracle. For the next two hours the | :06:52. | :06:56. | |
rescue team slowly expanded the hole in the rubble, working their | :06:56. | :07:02. | |
way towards the two trapped women. They can't move down there, he told | :07:02. | :07:07. | |
me, and they've been like that for more than two days. Then the | :07:07. | :07:17. | |
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breakthrough. Baby as mar's mother was brought out through the hole | :07:19. | :07:25. | |
and carried to safety. Ten minutes later the baby's grandmother | :07:25. | :07:34. | |
followed. She was also alive. The baby is now safely in an ain | :07:34. | :07:37. | |
cubator and has been taken for treatment in a specialist hospital. | :07:37. | :07:41. | |
Doctors say she is doing much better than expected, but her | :07:41. | :07:45. | |
family isn't complete. Her father hasn't been heard from since the | :07:45. | :07:54. | |
earthquake struck. Like hundreds of others he is still under the rubble. | :07:54. | :07:57. | |
A major clean-up operation is under way in Dublin after more than a | :07:57. | :08:00. | |
month's rain fell in 24 hours, causing severe flooding. Two people | :08:00. | :08:03. | |
have drowned - a woman was found in her basement and a policeman was | :08:03. | :08:06. | |
swept into a river in County Wicklow. From Dublin, Mark Simpson | :08:06. | :08:16. | |
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reports. There was no escape from the water. Even at one of Dublin's | :08:18. | :08:22. | |
busiest shopping centres. Once the flooding started, no-one knew when | :08:22. | :08:27. | |
it would stop. Panic set in as people tried to get | :08:27. | :08:34. | |
out. This centre is normally full of shoppers. Instead it was filled | :08:34. | :08:40. | |
by cold, dirty water. Two days of non-stop rain caused chaos in | :08:40. | :08:46. | |
Ireland's capital city. Even a bus went underwater during last night's | :08:46. | :08:53. | |
rush hour. The long ter night went on, the more dangerous the | :08:53. | :08:57. | |
conditions became. I've never seen anything like this in the last 38 | :08:57. | :09:02. | |
years. Two people were killed. The body of an Irish policeman was | :09:02. | :09:06. | |
found this morning, three miles from where he was swept into a | :09:06. | :09:10. | |
river in County Wicklow. 25-year- old Kieran Jones had been helping | :09:10. | :09:15. | |
others when the river broke its banks Dublin's city centre a woman | :09:15. | :09:19. | |
was found dead in a flooded basement. The City Council had to | :09:19. | :09:24. | |
put in place a full emergency operation. Here right in the centre | :09:24. | :09:30. | |
of Dublin water levels are still dangerously high. But after two | :09:30. | :09:35. | |
days of constant downpours it has finally stopped raining. But it is | :09:35. | :09:40. | |
all too late for many families. had to climb over the back to get | :09:40. | :09:46. | |
out. Our next door neighbour at the back... I was terrified. I'm still | :09:46. | :09:50. | |
shaking, as you can gather. There was also flooding in Northern | :09:50. | :09:54. | |
Ireland. County Tyrone was badly affected. On both sides of the | :09:54. | :10:00. | |
Irish border 48 hours of constant rain took its toll. | :10:01. | :10:03. | |
Five days after he was killed, Colonel Gaddafi has finally been | :10:03. | :10:06. | |
buried with his son, Mutassim, in a secret location in the desert. | :10:06. | :10:10. | |
Since his death last Thursday, his body had been on public display in | :10:10. | :10:17. | |
a meat storage facility in Mistrata. Gabriel Gatehouse reports. This | :10:17. | :10:20. | |
report includes footage of the bodies of Colonel Gaddafi and his | :10:20. | :10:28. | |
son. They came at night to take the | :10:28. | :10:32. | |
corpses from the market complex on the outskirts of Misrata. For days | :10:32. | :10:36. | |
the former Libyan leader had been on grizzly display here. Prayers we | :10:36. | :10:39. | |
were told were said over the bodies but no other bodies were | :10:39. | :10:43. | |
forthcoming about where and how the burial had taken place. The reasons | :10:43. | :10:50. | |
for the secrecy is twofold. Libya's new rulers do not want the final | :10:50. | :10:54. | |
resting place to become a shrine for those who supported his regime. | :10:54. | :10:58. | |
Nor do they wish his grave to become a focal point for the | :10:58. | :11:03. | |
frenzied fury which surrounded his capture and killing on Thursday. | :11:03. | :11:07. | |
TRANSLATION: If a group of revolutionaries capture a killer do | :11:07. | :11:11. | |
you think they would kiss his head? What else do you think they would | :11:11. | :11:15. | |
do? We want to tack this will issue naturally, not put it in a | :11:16. | :11:20. | |
political framework nor give theoretical interpretations. Abroad | :11:20. | :11:23. | |
there are questions being asked about the manner of his death and | :11:23. | :11:30. | |
the long delay before his burial. But in Libya few are concerned or | :11:30. | :11:34. | |
sympathetic. This is the freezing compartment where for four days | :11:35. | :11:41. | |
Colonel Gaddafi's body had been on display, lying on this piece of | :11:41. | :11:45. | |
Paralympic sheeting. People queuing up to see with their own eyes. Now | :11:45. | :11:50. | |
they are gone, his body is in the ground, the spectacle is over, and | :11:50. | :11:54. | |
Libya can start looking towards the future rather than the past. | :11:54. | :11:59. | |
In Tripoli, as elsewhere, the euphoria of the past few days has | :11:59. | :12:03. | |
given way to a more measured, practical mood. Life must now | :12:03. | :12:08. | |
return to normality. A line has been drawn, in laying to rest the | :12:08. | :12:11. | |
body of Colonel Gaddafi Libya hopes to exorcise the ghosts of the past | :12:11. | :12:15. | |
four decades and to turn now to the hard work of building a brighter | :12:15. | :12:21. | |
future. Activists who set up tents outside | :12:21. | :12:24. | |
St Paul's Cathedral more than a week ago have insisted their | :12:24. | :12:26. | |
protest is serious, despite accusations that most of them are | :12:26. | :12:29. | |
leaving the site every night. The cathedral decided to close its | :12:29. | :12:32. | |
doors to the public on Saturday because of the growing Occupy | :12:32. | :12:42. | |
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London camp outside. From St Paul's, Jon Brain reports. It is a protest | :12:42. | :12:47. | |
that's closed the doors of one of the country's most famous buildings. | :12:47. | :12:54. | |
A call to arms for a fairer society that continues around the clock. Or | :12:54. | :12:59. | |
does it? These thermal images of the site appear to indicate that at | :12:59. | :13:02. | |
12.30 this morning the vast majority of the tents pitched | :13:02. | :13:08. | |
outside St Paul's were empty. Protesters say that's nonsense. | :13:08. | :13:14. | |
There's a lot of dispute About whether these thermal images are | :13:14. | :13:21. | |
real or whether it is an app on a journalist's iPhone. It is scraping | :13:21. | :13:24. | |
the barrel. Adam did stay last night. He says just because not | :13:24. | :13:27. | |
everyone was this their tents doesn't mean they weren't here. | :13:27. | :13:32. | |
night there's a crew of 30 to 40 people working, just doing | :13:32. | :13:36. | |
sanitation, night watch, kitchen. Some people might not be in their | :13:36. | :13:43. | |
tents at 12. 30 but they are here on site. Rebecca slept here last | :13:43. | :13:48. | |
night as well but tonight she'll be enjoying home comforts. I have to | :13:48. | :13:52. | |
have a shower. Did you not think it give as misleading impression, | :13:52. | :13:56. | |
because people assume you are here every night? I still support it | :13:56. | :14:00. | |
even when I'm at home. You don't have to be here to support it. It | :14:00. | :14:05. | |
is going on 24 hours. Whether these tents are occupied during the night | :14:05. | :14:08. | |
the net result is the same. While they are here the Cathedral remains | :14:08. | :14:14. | |
closed to the general public. It is farcical that part-time | :14:14. | :14:17. | |
protesters are being allowed to bring part of the economy in the | :14:17. | :14:22. | |
City of London to a grinding halt. Shops in that area are being put | :14:22. | :14:27. | |
out of business. Tourists can't visit St Paul's any more. We should | :14:27. | :14:32. | |
not let these people stop people in their tracks. The protesters say | :14:32. | :14:35. | |
they are here to stay and it is their cause that's important, not | :14:35. | :14:41. | |
the details of their sleeping Our top story tonight: David | :14:41. | :14:44. | |
Cameron has defended his policy on Europe ahead of a crucial summit on | :14:44. | :14:47. | |
the future of the single currency. Coming up: Why the future is | :14:47. | :14:57. | |
looking golden for some, in the heart of a Scottish national park. | :14:57. | :15:03. | |
Later on the BBC News Channel, profits rise for oil giant BP, and | :15:03. | :15:07. | |
a change in the way pensions are calculated has been called illegal | :15:07. | :15:17. | |
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Prince Charles says he's determined to do his bit to help some of the | :15:17. | :15:21. | |
most deprived parts of the country during the economic downturn. | :15:22. | :15:25. | |
Speaking to the BBC today during a visit to Burnley in Lancashire, he | :15:25. | :15:28. | |
said he will do what he can to boost regeneration in some of | :15:28. | :15:33. | |
England's most deprived towns. Burnley in its heyday was one of | :15:33. | :15:37. | |
the world's largest centres of cotton weaving. But the town has | :15:37. | :15:40. | |
been in decline for decades and is now the 12th most deprived district | :15:40. | :15:45. | |
in England. Mark Easton has been to find out what help and support the | :15:45. | :15:50. | |
Prince can offer. No one could accuse Prince Charles | :15:50. | :15:54. | |
of choosing an easy place to try to turn around. Burnley were | :15:54. | :15:58. | |
struggling even in the boom years, with thousands moving away to look | :15:58. | :16:03. | |
for work. Streets now boarded up, windows and doors decorated to | :16:03. | :16:08. | |
disguise the desolation. The heir to the throne for today show and | :16:08. | :16:13. | |
the inevitable supermarket trolley, dredged from the old mill town's | :16:13. | :16:17. | |
can now. This is the Prince's fourth visit to Burnley in six | :16:17. | :16:22. | |
years. When he first came in 2005, he was so shocked at the social | :16:22. | :16:26. | |
deprivation that he effectively decided to adopt the town. 12 of | :16:26. | :16:30. | |
his charities are now working in Burnley together, a model the | :16:30. | :16:34. | |
Prince believes could be used across the country. I realise | :16:34. | :16:38. | |
people are suffering a terribly difficult time and some of us are | :16:38. | :16:44. | |
trying to do something and a point of what we are trying to do here is | :16:44. | :16:49. | |
to see how to tackle many of the issues that have led to sometimes a | :16:49. | :16:54. | |
sense of hopelessness and despair. It is a sense that is commonplace | :16:54. | :16:59. | |
in Burnley, even among some of the young people at a club set up by | :16:59. | :17:03. | |
the Prince's business in the Community charity. It will be a big | :17:03. | :17:07. | |
challenge to turn it around. It is getting the people who do not want | :17:07. | :17:10. | |
to do good for themselves to get them to places like this and to get | :17:10. | :17:15. | |
them motivated for work. 19-year- old Sam Effah is an example of what | :17:15. | :17:21. | |
is possible. After leaving school, he was homeless, unemployed and | :17:21. | :17:26. | |
unemployable. With the help of the Prince's Trust, he is a trained boy | :17:26. | :17:30. | |
in Engineer and today he shook hands with the future king -- | :17:30. | :17:35. | |
boiler engineer. Confidence, that is what it did for me. Showed that | :17:35. | :17:40. | |
there is light at the end of the tunnel. That mixture of business, | :17:40. | :17:45. | |
charity, local entrepreneurs, some people call it the "big society", | :17:45. | :17:50. | |
but do you think that is the way to get communities...? I have been | :17:50. | :17:54. | |
trying to do this for every 30 years. It is the most powerful way | :17:54. | :17:57. | |
I think of ensuring you get something that is more lasting and | :17:58. | :18:03. | |
sustainable. This felt making workshop, another charity | :18:03. | :18:13. | |
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initiative, echoes the mills of its cotton heyday. A lot of it is self- | :18:13. | :18:18. | |
confidence. Been proud of your place. The that is the point. You | :18:18. | :18:23. | |
can use the existing identity of a place to build that confidence and | :18:23. | :18:29. | |
hope. There is optimism in the Prince's tone, not merit in the | :18:29. | :18:33. | |
mood of many residents. If such confidence is to be restored, there | :18:33. | :18:37. | |
is much work to do yet. Tributes have been paid to the | :18:37. | :18:41. | |
policeman who was killed yesterday afternoon on the M1 as he tried to | :18:41. | :18:45. | |
help a woman whose car had broken down. 41-year-old PC Mark Goodlad | :18:45. | :18:52. | |
was run over on the motorway near Wakefield in West Yorkshire. A | :18:52. | :18:55. | |
lorry driver has been arrested on suspicion of causing death by | :18:55. | :18:57. | |
dangerous driving. A police 999 operator working in | :18:57. | :19:01. | |
Bow in east London has been sacked for mishandling more than 140 calls. | :19:01. | :19:04. | |
The police watchdog found the operator took the wrong action over | :19:04. | :19:07. | |
calls reporting domestic violence, rape and a suicide threat. | :19:08. | :19:10. | |
Lawyers at the trial of the Dutch engineer Vincent Tabak, who is | :19:11. | :19:13. | |
charged with murdering Joanna Yeates, have made their closing | :19:13. | :19:17. | |
arguments. Mr Tabak denies murdering her in Bristol last | :19:17. | :19:20. | |
December but has admitted manslaughter. | :19:20. | :19:23. | |
Scotland's first commercial gold mine for 500 years has been given | :19:23. | :19:26. | |
the go-ahead. The operation within the Loch Lomond and Trossachs | :19:26. | :19:31. | |
National Park could make millions of pounds every year. But its | :19:31. | :19:35. | |
opponents say the park's natural beauty is being put at risk. Our | :19:35. | :19:38. | |
Scotland correspondent, Lorna Gordon, is there. This project has | :19:38. | :19:44. | |
had its fair share of criticism, hasn't it? | :19:44. | :19:49. | |
It really has. Getting at the gold would involve extracting hundreds | :19:49. | :19:53. | |
of thousands of tons of rock from deep within the mountainside. You | :19:53. | :19:58. | |
might still be able to see behind me. Opponents say all the rockwork | :19:58. | :20:03. | |
end up being an eyesore in what is one of the most beautiful parts of | :20:03. | :20:07. | |
Scotland but the mine's owners say the concerns have been addressed | :20:07. | :20:11. | |
and mitigated, and after an extremely complicated planning | :20:11. | :20:16. | |
process, this mine will now go ahead. | :20:16. | :20:20. | |
There is caught in these hills and there are plans to dig it out. -- | :20:21. | :20:26. | |
there is gold. Developers plan to extract 20,000 ounces every year. | :20:26. | :20:32. | |
This area runs at about 30 grammes per tonne, that is an ounce of gold | :20:33. | :20:39. | |
in a ton of rocks. That is quite a lot? It is. There was another | :20:39. | :20:44. | |
attempt to mine here in the 1990s. You can still see the old railway | :20:44. | :20:48. | |
lines and the wagons that would have been used to transport it in | :20:48. | :20:51. | |
and out of the mine, but that project was mothballed after the | :20:51. | :20:56. | |
price of gold slumped. But that has all changed. This deposit could be | :20:56. | :21:01. | |
worth up to �200 million. Many locals believe the economic | :21:01. | :21:06. | |
benefits could lie closer to home. With the 50 jobs the mine could | :21:06. | :21:12. | |
bring. We have to survive here and run businesses. People have to have | :21:12. | :21:17. | |
jobs. This will in effect provide work of a more skilled nature and | :21:17. | :21:22. | |
more highly paid. Scottish gold is valuable and prized by jewellers. | :21:22. | :21:26. | |
In the past, small amounts have been panned by prospectors but it | :21:26. | :21:30. | |
is rare and this new deposit is likely to attract a premium. We get | :21:30. | :21:35. | |
interest from people who live here, who never knew there was Scottish | :21:35. | :21:39. | |
gold and it is something wonderful and a piece of their heritage to | :21:39. | :21:43. | |
have a piece of Scottish gold. It is something to take away as | :21:43. | :21:47. | |
something quite special. There are many conditions attached to this | :21:47. | :21:51. | |
mining operation which will be in a sensitive area of the national park | :21:51. | :21:55. | |
but the developers promise the landscape will be restored once the | :21:55. | :22:00. | |
precious minerals have been extracted, in this, the first | :22:00. | :22:03. | |
commercial gold mine in Scotland in 500 years. | :22:03. | :22:11. | |
And this of course is an industrial process so there will be blasting | :22:11. | :22:14. | |
taking place deep within the mountains, so safety will be of | :22:14. | :22:19. | |
utmost importance. It is not thought that the mining itself will | :22:19. | :22:22. | |
get under way for about another year. | :22:22. | :22:25. | |
This time last year, we reported on the challenge facing local councils | :22:25. | :22:28. | |
as they prepared to make big spending cuts. Now councils are | :22:28. | :22:31. | |
once again deciding what to save, as they try to balance reduced | :22:31. | :22:35. | |
budgets. The News at Six has been following one of them: Coventry | :22:35. | :22:43. | |
City Council. Emma Simpson reports on the latest round of cuts. | :22:43. | :22:50. | |
It is a much loved service used by hundreds of Coventry parents. But | :22:50. | :22:53. | |
council funded childcare is facing big cuts. Find somewhere else to | :22:53. | :23:01. | |
take the money from because we need this service. But here is another | :23:01. | :23:05. | |
council service that has been getting extra money. The roads were | :23:05. | :23:09. | |
dangerous. Now they are being repaid in what appears to be a | :23:09. | :23:16. | |
really organised fashion -- repaired. I could not be happier. | :23:16. | :23:20. | |
Parents mercies of potholes. Priorities that are all vying for | :23:20. | :23:26. | |
money from a town hall with a shrinking budget. We came to | :23:26. | :23:30. | |
Coventry last year, as the city was bracing itself for the first round | :23:30. | :23:38. | |
of cuts. So, one year on, how is Coventry coping? We have learnt | :23:38. | :23:43. | |
that more than 900 public sector jobs have disappeared from this | :23:43. | :23:47. | |
city. At least half some the council. This year, it has had to | :23:47. | :23:53. | |
make savings of �45 million. Next year, it is another 70 million. | :23:53. | :24:02. | |
Then, treble that figure again by Like many councils across the | :24:02. | :24:07. | |
country, the toughest decisions still lie ahead. And inside this | :24:07. | :24:14. | |
town hall, here is what they are We are looking at asking this | :24:14. | :24:18. | |
fundamental questions, what is it that a local authority does and | :24:18. | :24:24. | |
deliver, and talk to our people about what they expect of last. | :24:24. | :24:29. | |
he has got economic growth to think about, too. This is a city that is | :24:29. | :24:34. | |
still creating hundreds of new private sector jobs. But the | :24:34. | :24:38. | |
squeeze on the public sector is only just beginning. | :24:38. | :24:41. | |
The Queen has been paying tribute to the thousands of Australian | :24:41. | :24:46. | |
servicemen and women who have lost their lives in battle. At the | :24:46. | :24:50. | |
national war memorial in Canberra, she laid a wreath at the tomb of | :24:50. | :24:57. | |
Australia's Unknown Soldier. From Canberra, Nicholas Witchell reports. | :24:57. | :25:02. | |
For generations, Australia has sent its young soldiers to fight for the | :25:02. | :25:06. | |
Crown and in full knowledge of the scale of Australia's sacrifice, the | :25:06. | :25:11. | |
Queen came to the Australian War Memorial in Canberra. On bronze | :25:11. | :25:16. | |
pins melded on the walls of the names of every one of the 102,000 | :25:16. | :25:20. | |
Australians who have given their lives. Most of them crossed the | :25:20. | :25:24. | |
world to help what was then the mother country in the world wars. | :25:24. | :25:29. | |
60,000 died in World War I. Many of them in the ill-fated Gallipoli | :25:29. | :25:34. | |
campaign. Go forward nearly a century and it is Afghanistan which | :25:34. | :25:38. | |
is claiming lives. The Queen was shown the plinth which records | :25:38. | :25:44. | |
Australia's losses in that conflict. 29 soldiers so far. In Remembrance | :25:44. | :25:49. | |
of Australia's war dead, the Queen laid a wreath at the grave of the | :25:49. | :25:59. | |
:25:59. | :26:00. | ||
Unknown Australian Soldier. LAST POST. Waiting to meet the Queen, | :26:00. | :26:05. | |
military personnel, past and present. Their presence, a reminder, | :26:05. | :26:10. | |
as is his entire more real, of the human cost of warfare. The building | :26:10. | :26:13. | |
in the distance is the Australian parliament and the Prime Minister's | :26:13. | :26:18. | |
office and there is deliberately a direct line of sight from that, the | :26:18. | :26:22. | |
National seat of government, all the way to this, the National War | :26:22. | :26:28. | |
Memorial. That memorial is the timeless reminder of lives lost and | :26:28. | :26:32. | |
won so many occasions during the course of her reign, the Queen has | :26:32. | :26:35. | |
led the tributes of all those, whether they know it or not, who | :26:35. | :26:42. | |
have reason to be grateful for the sacrifice of others. | :26:42. | :26:46. | |
Time now to take a look at the weather. We have had some extreme | :26:46. | :26:54. | |
weather over the past few days. Today, the rain clouds have not | :26:54. | :26:58. | |
been quite as prolonged to produce the risk of flooding but they have | :26:58. | :27:06. | |
This is a funnel cloud that stretches down to the sea, and we | :27:06. | :27:11. | |
have seen reports of these elsewhere across the South. The | :27:11. | :27:16. | |
brighter the colour, the heavier the showers. Some thunder mixed in. | :27:16. | :27:21. | |
And it is these across the West that will continue overnight. They | :27:21. | :27:26. | |
will start to push northwards and get into Scotland by the end of the | :27:26. | :27:30. | |
night. In the North East of Scotland, you have still got the | :27:30. | :27:39. | |
remnants of yesterday's reign. It will not be a completely wet night. | :27:39. | :27:42. | |
Maybe some frost in the countryside in the Midlands as we start | :27:42. | :27:47. | |
tomorrow. For tomorrow, showers around the coast of England and | :27:47. | :27:53. | |
Wales. The showers in Scotland will ease off into the afternoon. The | :27:53. | :28:00. | |
showers will be slow moving because the winds will be light. Shetland | :28:00. | :28:04. | |
will be largely wet through the day. Northern Ireland, much better than | :28:04. | :28:09. | |
we have seen of late. Much of eastern England will stage drive | :28:09. | :28:16. | |
through the bulk of the day and even where you do see showers, to | :28:16. | :28:21. | |
not rule out dry weather. Some of those will be fleeting. That will | :28:21. | :28:25. | |
change Wednesday night in to Thursdays. The low pressure through | :28:25. | :28:28. | |
the Bay of Biscay will push up and produce more heavy and persistent | :28:28. | :28:33. | |
rain in area where we do not need it. A little uncertainty how quick | :28:33. | :28:37. | |
the rain will push north, and there is a chance it could be a bit | :28:37. | :28:42. | |
further east or west, so keep in touch with the forecast. All of us | :28:42. | :28:47. | |
should be drier and brighter for A reminder of tonight's main news. | :28:47. | :28:50. | |
David Cameron has defended his policy on Europe ahead of a crucial | :28:50. | :28:54. | |
summit on the future of the single currency. | :28:54. | :28:58. | |
And a two-week-old baby has been pulled alive from a building that | :28:58. | :29:02. |