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Civilians fleeing the Syrian city of Homs tell the BBC the army is | :00:09. | :00:14. | |
committing atrocities. They escape under cover of darkness | :00:14. | :00:17. | |
- and say men and boys have been separated from their families and | :00:17. | :00:27. | |
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killed. These kids are in a house with no | :00:28. | :00:31. | |
heating or electricity. They are wondering what on earth has | :00:31. | :00:37. | |
happened to their father. The Red Cross in Syria is still | :00:37. | :00:43. | |
being denied access to the city. Also tonight: Child benefit changes | :00:43. | :00:47. | |
that could hurt families with stay- at-home parents. Now ministers have | :00:47. | :00:55. | |
a rethink. You have families of went to parents work and they will | :00:55. | :01:00. | |
get the benefit but we get nothing. After a difficult start to the year, | :01:00. | :01:03. | |
Tesco promises 20,000 new jobs. Harry the Action man - he has to | :01:03. | :01:10. | |
jump from one boat to another after a hitch on his Caribbean tour. | :01:10. | :01:20. | |
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Labour demands the resignation of Good evening and welcome to the BBC | :01:36. | :01:40. | |
News at Six. Civilians fleeing the Syrian city | :01:40. | :01:42. | |
of Homs have accused the army of committing atrocities when they re- | :01:43. | :01:45. | |
entered the city last week, confirming the worst fears of | :01:45. | :01:49. | |
activists. Families that have managed to | :01:49. | :01:52. | |
escape from the city have told the BBC that men and boys have been | :01:52. | :01:58. | |
killed in front of them. Opposition activists say some 4,000 | :01:58. | :02:00. | |
people have fled the city so far, many from the embattled Baba Amr | :02:00. | :02:04. | |
district. Our correspondent Paul Wood and cameraman Fred Scott sent | :02:04. | :02:08. | |
this exclusive report from the outskirts of the city. I should | :02:08. | :02:17. | |
warn you his report contains eye witness accounts of what's happened. | :02:17. | :02:27. | |
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On a road out of Homs, just part of the exodus from the other army. | :02:30. | :02:34. | |
They endured weeks under bombardment and fled, panicked, | :02:34. | :02:43. | |
before troops arrived. We have no armed gangs, we and our | :02:43. | :02:49. | |
children are forced to flee our homes under cover of darkness. | :02:49. | :02:54. | |
People are terrified of what government forces will do now. This | :02:54. | :03:00. | |
group walked for three days toolbar -- to avoid the soldiers. Here his | :03:00. | :03:10. | |
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wife. Whoever is taken at a checkpoint will be killed, he says. | :03:10. | :03:20. | |
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They took our husbands, they cry, they took them at the checkpoint. | :03:21. | :03:28. | |
Everyone shares the same fear, that their husbands are not coming back. | :03:28. | :03:36. | |
For now they're on their own with nothing. It is absolutely freezing | :03:36. | :03:40. | |
and these kids have spent the night in a house with no heating or | :03:40. | :03:44. | |
electricity. And there wondering what on earth has happened to their | :03:44. | :03:48. | |
father. This family say they witnessed the | :03:49. | :03:55. | |
massacre. On Friday troops took 36 men and boys from one district, | :03:55. | :04:05. | |
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they say, killing them all. My son's throat was cut, she says. | :04:06. | :04:11. | |
He was 12 years old. They but should for people, | :04:11. | :04:17. | |
soldiers were using knives and killing people like this. The hands | :04:17. | :04:27. | |
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of the victims were tied up. We managed to cross the checkpoint | :04:28. | :04:33. | |
but two of my brothers were detained. I managed to save one but | :04:33. | :04:42. | |
they took one with them and killed him. My father's life is not worth | :04:42. | :04:48. | |
more than that of the young people we have lost. Can such horror | :04:48. | :04:53. | |
stories be true? These men defected from an elite army unit just last | :04:53. | :05:02. | |
week. They told me that civilians were targeted, prisoners killed. | :05:02. | :05:07. | |
A lieutenant gave us the orders, he says. We were told in this | :05:07. | :05:12. | |
operation, should add anything that moves. Civilian or military, shoot | :05:12. | :05:19. | |
at it. Orders were given to tell people we | :05:19. | :05:23. | |
were about to execute. This is the price of freedom you were fighting | :05:23. | :05:33. | |
for. People killed for no reason whatsoever. | :05:33. | :05:40. | |
The people say they are victims of crime. The outside world wants | :05:40. | :05:46. | |
proof. Briefly they defied the regime. Now they are scattered, | :05:46. | :05:53. | |
their uprising crushed. There is international a rage, but no | :05:53. | :05:58. | |
agreement on how to bring this to an end. | :05:58. | :06:04. | |
I'm joined by our Diplomatic Correspondent, James Robbins. Paul | :06:04. | :06:08. | |
mentioned at the end of his report, it will these revelations do | :06:08. | :06:12. | |
anything to add to the international pressure on Syria? | :06:12. | :06:19. | |
What we can say is that this coincides with renewed efforts to | :06:19. | :06:24. | |
pressure at the President to change course. His regime consistently | :06:24. | :06:29. | |
blames all such violence not on his regime but on what the Syrians call | :06:29. | :06:35. | |
armed terrorists. But David Cameron this afternoon laid stress on a new | :06:35. | :06:40. | |
American, British and French effort to try to get a resolution passed | :06:40. | :06:45. | |
in the United Nations which would call for an end to violence and | :06:45. | :06:51. | |
open up full humanitarian access to Homs. That would depend on Russia | :06:51. | :06:55. | |
withdrawing its policy of a Serial veto on all resolutions. There's | :06:55. | :07:03. | |
some hope that the newly elected future president, Vladimir Putin, | :07:03. | :07:08. | |
may be more flexible now he has the election behind him. But just a few | :07:08. | :07:17. | |
minutes ago the Russian Foreign Ministry was saying that it is | :07:17. | :07:21. | |
still not balanced, so not much sign of change. So far the | :07:21. | :07:25. | |
President has relied on the overwhelming violence. It proved | :07:25. | :07:30. | |
highly effective for his father before him. So far it looks like, | :07:30. | :07:34. | |
like father, like son. The Deputy Prime Minister Nick | :07:34. | :07:36. | |
Clegg says ministers are to rethink how they introduce plans to cut | :07:36. | :07:41. | |
child benefit to higher rate tax payers. There was an outcry when it | :07:41. | :07:43. | |
was discovered that some families on a single salary with a stay-at- | :07:43. | :07:47. | |
home parent would be worse off than others with two incomes. As our | :07:47. | :07:49. | |
Political Editor Nick Robinson reports, any changes could be | :07:49. | :07:57. | |
complex and costly. For years it has been as simple as | :07:57. | :08:03. | |
ABC. You can claim child benefit, what ever you earn, whatever age | :08:03. | :08:07. | |
you children. But that is about to change. The Russell family have | :08:07. | :08:14. | |
been doing their homework. They are set to lose almost �2,500 a year if | :08:14. | :08:17. | |
the Chancellor sticks to his plans to cut child benefit for the better | :08:18. | :08:23. | |
off. Andrew works in I t and is a higher rate taxpayer. Debbie works | :08:23. | :08:29. | |
hard but she is not earning. That will affect us quite significantly | :08:29. | :08:34. | |
because I'm the only wage earner, I have three children. My wife does | :08:34. | :08:41. | |
not work but I earned more than the 40% threshold. The government have | :08:41. | :08:48. | |
always argued that it is fair that anyone paying tax at 40% - earning | :08:48. | :08:54. | |
over 42-�1,000 a year - should lose their child benefit. What is unfair | :08:54. | :08:59. | |
say some is that a couple with two parents working, earning say | :08:59. | :09:03. | |
�40,000 each, would keep the benefit, as both are basic-rate | :09:03. | :09:07. | |
taxpayers. The Prime Minister has looked over what he calls the | :09:07. | :09:11. | |
cliff-edge created by taking child benefit away from better of | :09:11. | :09:16. | |
taxpayers and he does not like what he has seen. Stay at home mothers, | :09:16. | :09:23. | |
with people earning around �43,000, complaining that a Conservative | :09:23. | :09:26. | |
government is taking thousands of pounds away from them. That is why | :09:26. | :09:31. | |
here at the Treasury, they are desperately looking for a solution. | :09:31. | :09:36. | |
There is in issue about the cliff- edge, you have one family earning | :09:36. | :09:42. | |
who would not get child benefit but another family with two people | :09:42. | :09:48. | |
earning, it would lose out. So that is something to be looked at. | :09:48. | :09:52. | |
Ministers are not about to do a full U-turned but they could | :09:52. | :09:57. | |
increase to perhaps �50,000 the amount you can earn before you | :09:57. | :10:00. | |
those child benefit or make a smaller cut for families with just | :10:00. | :10:04. | |
one earner. Ocky bid for all children but only up to the age of | :10:04. | :10:08. | |
five. Or would cost money. It is a long time since the Chancellor | :10:08. | :10:11. | |
first announced a policy which is causing him a political headache | :10:11. | :10:17. | |
now. We have got to be tough but fair and that is why we will | :10:17. | :10:20. | |
withdraw child benefit from households with a higher rate | :10:20. | :10:24. | |
taxpayer. You might not expect Tories to applaud what amounts to a | :10:24. | :10:30. | |
tax rise on the better off. But you might expect Labour to do so. Not a | :10:30. | :10:35. | |
bit of it. George Osborne got this wrong from the beginning, he should | :10:35. | :10:41. | |
change course now. His proposal is unfair. He will try to find | :10:41. | :10:45. | |
complicated ways to sort it out but it has to be sorted. David Cameron | :10:45. | :10:50. | |
has looked over what he had done with a child benefit cliff edge and | :10:50. | :10:56. | |
now he is trying not to fall over A couple who tortured and killed a | :10:56. | :10:58. | |
teenage boy, accusing him of being a witch, have been jailed for life | :10:58. | :11:03. | |
at the Old Bailey. Kristy Bamu, who was 15, was beaten with bottles, a | :11:03. | :11:06. | |
hammer and metal bars over several days by his sister, Magalie, and | :11:06. | :11:16. | |
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her partner Eric Bikubi, at a flat in east London. | :11:19. | :11:21. | |
Theresa May is in Jordan tonight, the government's latest attempt to | :11:21. | :11:23. | |
break the deadlock over the deportation of Abu Qatada. The Home | :11:23. | :11:25. | |
Secretary's arrival comes after the extremist preacher was released on | :11:25. | :11:27. | |
bail after the European Court of Human Rights ruled that he could | :11:27. | :11:33. | |
not be deported to Jordan where he is wanted on terror charges. Our | :11:33. | :11:39. | |
Middle East Correspondent Rupert Wingfield Hayes is in Amman. What | :11:39. | :11:45. | |
is Theresa May trying to achieve on this visit? | :11:45. | :11:49. | |
What the Home Secretary is trying to get is some cast-iron guarantees | :11:49. | :11:53. | |
that if Abu Qatada is extradited back to Jordan to stand trial, that | :11:53. | :11:58. | |
none of the evidence used in that trial will have been extracted | :11:58. | :12:02. | |
under torture. She means those guarantees to take to the European | :12:02. | :12:07. | |
Court for human rights to convince them to allow him to be extradited. | :12:07. | :12:11. | |
The problems she faces is, what is the definition of cast iron | :12:11. | :12:15. | |
guarantees? How was she convince the European Court of Human Rights | :12:15. | :12:18. | |
to believe that Jordan would not do this sort of thing because let's | :12:18. | :12:23. | |
face it, Jordan does not have a great track record on the use of | :12:23. | :12:28. | |
torture. Watches also doing is she wants Abu Qatada back behind bars | :12:28. | :12:33. | |
now. And if she can make real progress here this week she may be | :12:33. | :12:38. | |
able to come back to Britain and convinced judges to put him back in | :12:38. | :12:45. | |
prison was tea awaits extradition. The former Metropolitan Police | :12:45. | :12:47. | |
Commissioner, who resigned last summer over the phone hacking | :12:47. | :12:49. | |
scandal, has spoken of a "deeply unhelpful" culture of leaks and | :12:49. | :12:53. | |
gossip among senior members of his staff. Sir Paul Stephenson, giving | :12:53. | :12:55. | |
evidence to the Leveson Inquiry, described the behaviour of some of | :12:55. | :13:03. | |
his colleagues as "corrosive". Nicholas Witchell reports. | :13:03. | :13:06. | |
He was the Metropolitan Police Commissioner who hope to bring | :13:06. | :13:11. | |
stability to a force which had been through a turbulent period. So Paul | :13:11. | :13:14. | |
Stephenson was appointed commissioner in January 2009. He | :13:14. | :13:18. | |
told the inquiry at that time there was small number of senior officers | :13:18. | :13:23. | |
who habitually leaked stories to the press. It was calling, he said. | :13:23. | :13:30. | |
A very small number who leaked stories from within the | :13:30. | :13:35. | |
Metropolitan Police that actually added to a continuing dialogue of | :13:35. | :13:40. | |
disharmony. Sir Paul was pressed on why the Metropolitan Police under | :13:40. | :13:44. | |
his command had been so reluctant to reopen the inquiry into phone | :13:44. | :13:48. | |
hacking at News International. The reason he suggested, was that they | :13:48. | :13:55. | |
had the wrong mindset at that time. This mindset that was defensive in | :13:55. | :14:01. | |
nature which meant that we did not adopt a challenging mind set. | :14:01. | :14:05. | |
prompted this from Lord Justice Leveson. The defensive mindset | :14:05. | :14:15. | |
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might be a very good example of the nature of the relationship and the | :14:17. | :14:22. | |
culture between the press and the police. Do I believe there was a | :14:22. | :14:26. | |
deliberate attempt to back off because it was news International? | :14:26. | :14:31. | |
I do not. Sir Paul said he did not see the newspaper story detailing | :14:31. | :14:36. | |
the alleged scale of the wrongdoing of News International but did order | :14:36. | :14:43. | |
the Metropolitan police to carry out a review. And that decided in a | :14:43. | :14:48. | |
day, to do nothing. In July last year Sir Paul Stephenson resigned | :14:48. | :14:53. | |
having come under pressure about the hiring by the Metropolitan | :14:53. | :14:57. | |
Police of a former News International editor. He also said | :14:57. | :15:04. | |
a prolonged illness had sapped his resistance to prolonged pressure. | :15:05. | :15:09. | |
The Metropolitan Police was going through such an important year and | :15:09. | :15:15. | |
I stepped down out of a sense of duty and honour. Four other | :15:15. | :15:19. | |
metropolitan commissioners are to give their evidence. | :15:19. | :15:23. | |
Our top story tonight: Syrian forces are accused of atrocities by | :15:23. | :15:30. | |
citizens fleeing the embattled city of Homs. | :15:30. | :15:32. | |
And in football, criticism of Chelsea's owner Roman Abramovich, | :15:32. | :15:42. | |
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as yet another manager gets the In the business news, Britain's | :15:42. | :15:46. | |
most important industrial sector racks up small growth in Februaryry. | :15:46. | :15:52. | |
Could it get any worse? Why Europe wants more female executives in the | :15:52. | :16:02. | |
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Tesco, Britain's largest private sector employer has announced plans | :16:03. | :16:08. | |
to recruit another 20,000 staff. The move comes after disappointing | :16:08. | :16:12. | |
Christmas sales for the supermarket chain and controversy over its | :16:12. | :16:17. | |
involvement in the Government's work experience scheme. The company | :16:17. | :16:23. | |
has not said how many of the jobs will be full-time. | :16:23. | :16:26. | |
Everything seemed to be going Tesco's way as it kept on growing, | :16:26. | :16:31. | |
but then came a big jolt in January, as the company admitted to the | :16:31. | :16:34. | |
worst Christmas trading season in decades, with billions wiped off | :16:34. | :16:40. | |
the value of its shares. Soon after that, more bad publicity, with | :16:40. | :16:45. | |
Tesco accused of not playing fair with work experience trainees. It | :16:45. | :16:48. | |
was targeted by left-wing campaigners, complaining that | :16:48. | :16:52. | |
trainees were not paid. Today, Tesco tried to seize back the | :16:52. | :16:56. | |
initiative on the jobs front, as the Prime Minister praised its | :16:56. | :17:04. | |
success in winning new customers. Adel shops at Tesco. We learnt that | :17:04. | :17:07. | |
today. Tesco argued it was providing new opportunities for | :17:07. | :17:11. | |
people looking for work. Our plan is to create 20,000 new jobs in the | :17:11. | :17:17. | |
UK over the next two years. A combination of new stores that we | :17:17. | :17:21. | |
are opening, but also this time putting more staff into our | :17:21. | :17:26. | |
existing stores to give a better service. Tesco said these new | :17:26. | :17:29. | |
positions do not exist at the moment. They are not just shifting | :17:29. | :17:32. | |
people around the organisation. They say not all of them will be | :17:32. | :17:35. | |
full-time. It is not clear yet how many of the new workers will be | :17:36. | :17:40. | |
part-time or what hours they will do each week. The jobs announcement | :17:41. | :17:46. | |
comes on a day of more positive news about economy, with one group | :17:46. | :17:52. | |
which survaives retailers, saying there -- surveying retailers saying | :17:52. | :17:57. | |
there has been an improvement. looks like it will come in the | :17:57. | :18:02. | |
first quaufr of this quarter of this year. These numbers suggest we | :18:02. | :18:05. | |
will not fall back into recession. Although the situation remains | :18:05. | :18:09. | |
fragile. Tesco could only hope there is | :18:09. | :18:14. | |
growth, which gets customers spending more as it tries to regain | :18:14. | :18:17. | |
lost ground and put the Troubles of the last few months in the | :18:17. | :18:21. | |
background. The natural father of Baby Peter | :18:21. | :18:28. | |
has been awarded �75,000 after a newspaper wrongly claimed he had | :18:28. | :18:34. | |
raped a 14-year-old girl. Baby Peter died in 2007 after months of | :18:34. | :18:40. | |
abuse by his mother and her boyfriend. | :18:40. | :18:45. | |
The accusation was described as one of the greatest liables imaginable. | :18:45. | :18:49. | |
Thousands have gathered in the Russian capital to challenge the | :18:49. | :18:52. | |
victory of Vladimir Putin in yesterday's Presidential election. | :18:52. | :18:56. | |
Mr Putin won 63% in the official poll. International monitors have | :18:56. | :19:00. | |
described the election as "unfair." Our Moscow correspondent sent this | :19:00. | :19:05. | |
report. This time their faces were sombre, | :19:06. | :19:09. | |
downcast, but they were still defiant. | :19:09. | :19:13. | |
They are the majority in Moscow. The people who voted against | :19:13. | :19:16. | |
Vladimir Putin. Today, they had to face the reality | :19:16. | :19:20. | |
that not all of Russia is with them. They believe they can persuade | :19:20. | :19:24. | |
their Government to build a fairer country. | :19:24. | :19:28. | |
Most of the people they don't like the selections. The selection is | :19:28. | :19:32. | |
not right, I would say. We are here to make our Government think a | :19:32. | :19:38. | |
little bit. Do you think that the protesting is having any effect? | :19:38. | :19:43. | |
Well, frankly I hope so. They came out on to the streets | :19:43. | :19:47. | |
three times in December, they came out again in February. Putin still | :19:47. | :19:54. | |
won and the elections were still unfair. So, they came out again. | :19:54. | :19:58. | |
This video shows a man being accused of organising buses to | :19:58. | :20:03. | |
ferry people between polling stations to vote several times. | :20:03. | :20:09. | |
point of elections is that their outcome should be uncertain. This | :20:09. | :20:13. | |
was not the -- should be certain. This was not the case in Russia. | :20:13. | :20:17. | |
The biggest problem was there was no real competition. | :20:17. | :20:27. | |
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It was a pro Putin rally which was given TV showing this evening. | :20:30. | :20:32. | |
Putin remains the most popular leader in this country. It was | :20:32. | :20:37. | |
confirmed during the elections. If today or tomorrow they go down the | :20:37. | :20:43. | |
street with the same slogan it will sound out of tune. But Aleksey | :20:43. | :20:48. | |
Pushkov, who was once Putin's Prime Minister said the country must | :20:48. | :20:54. | |
change to avoid a catastrophe. is why the middle class are | :20:54. | :20:57. | |
demanding respect by the authorities and demanding | :20:57. | :21:02. | |
constitutional rights of people, free elections. | :21:02. | :21:09. | |
We are the power this man reminded the crowd as the protest went on. | :21:09. | :21:14. | |
Many here know that in their fight for true democracy they face a | :21:14. | :21:24. | |
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formidable foe. Lord St John of Fawsley has died. | :21:29. | :21:38. | |
He was the MP for Chelmsford for 23 years. He was a critic of Margaret | :21:38. | :21:43. | |
Thatcher's policies, giving her the nickname of "Tina" meaning there is | :21:43. | :21:47. | |
no alternative. Five managers in five years, what | :21:47. | :21:51. | |
does that say about Chelsea football club? Andre Villas-Boas | :21:51. | :21:55. | |
has become the latest in the succession of managers to have been | :21:55. | :22:01. | |
shown the door by billionaire owner Roman Abramovich. Our sports | :22:01. | :22:05. | |
correspondent is at Stamford Bridge for us. This is becoming something | :22:05. | :22:11. | |
of a habit, Tim? It is. The Chelsea owner has spent more hiring and | :22:12. | :22:15. | |
firing managers over the past few years than other teams have spent | :22:15. | :22:22. | |
on their entire squads. So far this strats gi of poiling impay -- | :22:22. | :22:31. | |
strategy of boiling impatience has not been a success. Others more | :22:31. | :22:36. | |
distinguished have trod a similar path. Five managers have come and | :22:36. | :22:42. | |
done. Caralo Ancelotti won the FA Cup for Chelsea. - not enough. Guus | :22:42. | :22:47. | |
Hiddink, three months. Luiz Felipe Scolari had won the World Cup with | :22:47. | :22:54. | |
Brazil. Sacked after seven months. Avram Grant lasted less than a year. | :22:54. | :22:58. | |
Chelsea's most successful manager, Jose Mourinho, many say that losing | :22:58. | :23:06. | |
him was the original sin. It was this weekend in the Black | :23:06. | :23:12. | |
Country that the light finally went out. Defeat against West bram. Hope, | :23:12. | :23:20. | |
extinguished. -- West Brom. Hope, distinguished. | :23:20. | :23:24. | |
It demands a full commitment. He did that. I am sorry he was not | :23:24. | :23:30. | |
given enough time to do his job. Among Chelsea fans today a | :23:30. | :23:35. | |
collection of rueful grins. I think it's a good idea because he's been | :23:35. | :23:38. | |
terrible. I think they should get someone else in. I think it was | :23:39. | :23:43. | |
time for him to go, personally. Who ever comes in next, it will be | :23:43. | :23:50. | |
difficult. Who do you want to see? Everybody wants Jose. Do you think | :23:50. | :23:55. | |
he would come back? We can only hope. What about the man himself? | :23:55. | :24:05. | |
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What should we read into his visit to London last week? "had not | :24:07. | :24:13. | |
Madrid for a long time. I don't thinkvy to ask your permission," he | :24:13. | :24:17. | |
said. Roman Abramovich has spent nearly �1 billion on his personal | :24:17. | :24:23. | |
play thing. The danger is the revolving door has become a circus. | :24:23. | :24:27. | |
All we do know is that the acting manager until the end of the season | :24:27. | :24:31. | |
will be Roberto Di Matteo. As ever, with Chelsea, the question is not | :24:31. | :24:36. | |
who will be the next full-time manager? But, how long will this | :24:36. | :24:40. | |
one last? The actor Philip Maddock has died at the age of 77. He had a | :24:40. | :24:47. | |
long career on stage and on stage including a memorable cameo as the | :24:47. | :24:51. | |
U boat captain in an episode of Dad's Army. | :24:51. | :24:58. | |
Your name will also go on the list. What is it? Don't tell him, Pike. | :24:58. | :25:04. | |
He played the title role in the Life and Times of David Lloyd | :25:04. | :25:10. | |
George, as well as appearing in doctor who. Prince Harry is on a | :25:10. | :25:14. | |
tour in the Bahamas. He had to hitch a ride in a boat full of | :25:14. | :25:21. | |
journalists after the official boat he was travelling in broke down. | :25:21. | :25:27. | |
It was a small maritime mishap that today brought Prince Harry to an | :25:27. | :25:32. | |
unscheduled stop on his tour of the Caribbean. When the Royal Bahamian | :25:32. | :25:36. | |
Defence Force boat that was carrying him broke down, he was | :25:36. | :25:41. | |
forced to jump ship and join the media he had been following. Closer | :25:41. | :25:46. | |
to the press core than protocol would normally allow may have left | :25:47. | :25:53. | |
him feeling nervous. Crisis averted, he sped off to his next engagement. | :25:53. | :25:58. | |
This is tiny Harbour Island, where the Prince was a big hit. He was | :25:58. | :26:03. | |
met by a noisy array of well- wishers, all desperate to welcome | :26:03. | :26:09. | |
the Queen's grandson. On Nassau earlier in the day he spied a | :26:09. | :26:14. | |
picture of his grandma and equipped - "I have seen that woman before." | :26:14. | :26:19. | |
Later he joked about the hard work he was enduring and the stunning | :26:19. | :26:23. | |
islands. I will certainly show off to my brother and sister-in-law | :26:23. | :26:27. | |
when I return home. At a stadium event in the capital, it was clear | :26:27. | :26:31. | |
his first time representing the Queen here has been a success. The | :26:31. | :26:40. | |
hope is that it will continue at his next stop, Jamaica. | :26:40. | :26:50. | |
Slightly different weather here. John is here. 26 Celsius in the | :26:50. | :26:52. | |
John is here. 26 Celsius in the Bahamas. | :26:52. | :27:00. | |
It has been cloudy all day. Cold and wet across East Anglia. It | :27:00. | :27:04. | |
stays damp and breezy, flirting with London perhaps. Most of the UK | :27:04. | :27:09. | |
will be dry, clear and cold. You can see there will be a wide-spread | :27:09. | :27:14. | |
frost. One or two fog patches across the north-west Midlands. Yes, | :27:14. | :27:19. | |
it will be a chilly start but it is set to be a lovely day. That will | :27:19. | :27:28. | |
encourage the spring bulbs. Not for all. You can see it will turn wet | :27:28. | :27:34. | |
over north-west Scotland. We will see the sunshine through the heart | :27:34. | :27:40. | |
of England. A light wind. Temperatures will recover. Some | :27:40. | :27:43. | |
improvement across eastern England. Hopefully the cloud will break up | :27:43. | :27:51. | |
and the wind will have gone too. Not too bad across the West Country. | :27:51. | :27:56. | |
Mate -- it may cloud over a touch. The best of the bright sunshine | :27:56. | :28:00. | |
further east. Any brightness across Northern Ireland will not last long. | :28:00. | :28:05. | |
It will turn increasingly cloudy and windy and wet, as it will for | :28:06. | :28:09. | |
western Scotland. Staying mostly dry further east. | :28:09. | :28:14. | |
Now, as we go through Tuesday night into Wednesday we will see wet and | :28:14. | :28:19. | |
windy weather from the north-west towards the south-east, it will not | :28:19. | :28:23. | |
last forever though. Things will brighten up on Wednesday. It will | :28:23. | :28:29. | |
turn colder once more with blustery showers over Scotland turning | :28:29. | :28:33. | |
wintry. This week the weather will chop and change. No two days the | :28:33. | :28:38. |