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4th half-a-million forgotten families. An official report says | :00:08. | :00:13. | |
they hold the key to the causes of last year's riots. Five days of | :00:13. | :00:19. | |
mayhem, 5,000 crimes. The report's authors blamed a lack of | :00:19. | :00:23. | |
opportunities for young people. abiding memory will be talking to | :00:23. | :00:28. | |
some young people, and they said, we need hopes and dreams and a | :00:28. | :00:32. | |
stake in society. Also on tonight's programme, speeding up the planning | :00:32. | :00:36. | |
process in England. New regulations come into force after critics win | :00:36. | :00:40. | |
concessions. One spark a wave from a catastrophe. | :00:40. | :00:45. | |
It could take months to fix the gas leak that threatens the Elgin plat | :00:45. | :00:51. | |
form of -- one spark away. The price of a first class stamp | :00:51. | :00:55. | |
soars to 60p, the biggest price increase for nearly 40 years. | :00:55. | :01:00. | |
gosh! That's terrible. particularly happy about it, it is | :01:00. | :01:06. | |
such a massive increase. creating new life, the scientists | :01:06. | :01:09. | |
taking biology into a new era, with hopes of a new industrial | :01:09. | :01:15. | |
revolution. Coming up on the BBC News Channel, | :01:15. | :01:19. | |
England send for the spin doctor in Sri Lanka. Can Graeme Swann revive | :01:19. | :01:29. | |
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the tourists as they fight to save Welcome to the BBC's News at Six. A | :01:43. | :01:48. | |
report into last summer's rioting says it could happen again, if what | :01:48. | :01:50. | |
it calls England's forgotten families, half a million of them, | :01:50. | :01:55. | |
are not given the support they need. The report says young people from | :01:55. | :01:58. | |
these families lack any stake in society and had nothing to lose | :01:58. | :02:01. | |
when the looting started. The authors say too many of them have | :02:01. | :02:11. | |
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been failed by the education system Over the course of five | :02:13. | :02:17. | |
extraordinary day's last August, England learned how order and chaos | :02:17. | :02:25. | |
are close neighbours. Rioting, looting and arson, spreading like a | :02:25. | :02:28. | |
bush fires across the country. The politicians, initially blaming | :02:28. | :02:38. | |
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But then, commissioning a report to look at the deeper social causes, | :02:40. | :02:47. | |
and lessons to be learned. The panel, chaired by Darra Singh, when | :02:47. | :02:51. | |
too many of the riot damage neighbourhoods, including Tottenham, | :02:51. | :02:55. | |
and were shocked by the sense of hopelessness they encountered. | :02:55. | :02:59. | |
always found it shocking when presented with the starkness of | :02:59. | :03:03. | |
some individual's views about their lives and prospects and the fact | :03:03. | :03:07. | |
that they have no hopes and dreams. The abiding memory will be talking | :03:07. | :03:11. | |
to some young people who said, we need hopes, dreams and a stake in | :03:11. | :03:16. | |
society. The report recommends the government's plant family support | :03:16. | :03:20. | |
programme be expanded to cover 500,000 forgotten families, who it | :03:20. | :03:23. | |
says bump along the bottom of society. They want a new | :03:23. | :03:27. | |
requirement for schools to develop policies on building character in | :03:27. | :03:30. | |
young people. And a government guarantee of a job for all young | :03:30. | :03:34. | |
people who have been out of work for two years. Today's report | :03:34. | :03:38. | |
throws responsibility for the rights back at government. It | :03:38. | :03:41. | |
identifies a slice of society which has been allowed to become | :03:42. | :03:45. | |
disconnected from the mainstream. Of half a million forgotten | :03:45. | :03:50. | |
families, where children grow up without the character, all the | :03:50. | :03:55. | |
skills to become responsible citizens. BBC research revealed | :03:55. | :03:59. | |
last year how the rioters in Manchester came predominantly from | :03:59. | :04:03. | |
the poorest areas of the city. Today, residents from those | :04:03. | :04:07. | |
communities gave their reaction to the report. A lot of families are | :04:07. | :04:12. | |
obviously suffering at the moment. There is no work for people. | :04:12. | :04:17. | |
think it was everyone jumping on the bandwagon. Here, it was, anyway. | :04:17. | :04:24. | |
I don't think there was a point to it. While there riots saw some | :04:24. | :04:29. | |
neighbourhoods turn-on themselves... The appalling scenes also inspired | :04:29. | :04:33. | |
a flowering of community spirit. After this convenience store in | :04:33. | :04:38. | |
Hackney was stripped bare by local looters, residents came together to | :04:38. | :04:45. | |
help the owner rebuild his business. Today, Siva says he has been given | :04:45. | :04:49. | |
those who raided his store and says the real lesson is the need for | :04:49. | :04:52. | |
government to help young people. Ministers have to look for the | :04:53. | :04:58. | |
youngsters and listen to what they think, rather than a politician | :04:58. | :05:02. | |
talk. They should listen to the youngsters, what they want. If they | :05:02. | :05:07. | |
satisfy them, you'll be fine, or this will never happen again. | :05:07. | :05:10. | |
riots were initially dismissed as criminality pure and simple. | :05:10. | :05:14. | |
Today's report agrees it was criminality, but concludes there | :05:14. | :05:20. | |
was nothing simple about it. Some people are going to listen to | :05:20. | :05:24. | |
this and say, the criminals are being excused. There is no question, | :05:24. | :05:29. | |
this report does not in any way excuse what is going on. Indeed, it | :05:29. | :05:32. | |
says they should be punished. But it does say that if the government | :05:32. | :05:36. | |
doesn't do anything, if it leaves things as they are, they cannot | :05:36. | :05:40. | |
guarantee that we will not have similar rides again. They asked a | :05:40. | :05:44. | |
simple question. Some people didn't riot and their neighbours did, what | :05:44. | :05:48. | |
was the difference? They found that the people involved were those who | :05:48. | :05:52. | |
did not have a stake in society, who did not have the skills, the | :05:52. | :05:57. | |
parenting, the Education, or in their words, the character to make | :05:57. | :06:01. | |
good decisions. It was criminality, it should be punished, but this | :06:01. | :06:05. | |
report is saying that if government wants to ensure we don't see the | :06:05. | :06:09. | |
same thing again, they have to do something about the part of society | :06:09. | :06:13. | |
that feels disconnected from the mainstream. New planning | :06:13. | :06:16. | |
regulations come into force today. Ministers say it would streamline | :06:16. | :06:20. | |
the whole process, releasing more land for homes and giving a boost | :06:20. | :06:23. | |
to the economy. An early draft was rejected by several environmental | :06:23. | :06:27. | |
groups, who have now given a cautious welcome to the latest | :06:27. | :06:31. | |
version. Some still worried it could lead to a building free for | :06:31. | :06:39. | |
For decades, the old planning system shaped England's development. | :06:39. | :06:43. | |
Determining where green fields end and towns begin. But the system | :06:43. | :06:47. | |
grew ever more complicated. These new properties in Coventry took | :06:47. | :06:51. | |
years to plan, but are taking just months to build. So those who say | :06:51. | :06:56. | |
we need much more housing were among the first to welcome the | :06:56. | :06:59. | |
government's new framework. If it helps to deliver homes that people | :06:59. | :07:03. | |
can actually afford. Planning has been an obstacle for sustainable | :07:04. | :07:09. | |
housebuilding. I think if we do get a clearer, simpler system for us to | :07:09. | :07:14. | |
navigate, that should help. Today's planning document is about much | :07:14. | :07:18. | |
more than housing. It will be the framework for balancing the demands | :07:18. | :07:22. | |
of the economy with the needs for the environment. When you fly over | :07:22. | :07:26. | |
the country, what is striking is how much green space there still is. | :07:26. | :07:29. | |
Some say that is because the old planning system restricted the | :07:29. | :07:33. | |
growth of towns and cities. The question is whether this new | :07:33. | :07:37. | |
planning framework gives as much protection to the countryside. An | :07:37. | :07:40. | |
earlier draft of the guidelines contained one very controversial | :07:40. | :07:44. | |
element. A presumption in favour of sustainable development. Would that | :07:44. | :07:48. | |
mean a threat to areas like this Warwickshire woodlands, right in | :07:48. | :07:53. | |
the heart of England? The phrase remains, but campaigners say some | :07:53. | :07:57. | |
of their concerns have been addressed. Generally, we welcome | :07:57. | :08:01. | |
the fact that the Government has listened to the objections, they | :08:01. | :08:04. | |
have listened that we need to define sustainable development. | :08:04. | :08:07. | |
They have not said how it would be implemented and that could lead to | :08:07. | :08:12. | |
huge confusion. Businesses like this shampoo factory in Bradford | :08:12. | :08:18. | |
mac a r Stratford-upon-Avon think the economy will ultimately benefit | :08:18. | :08:22. | |
-- in Stratford-upon-Avon. The boss is all too aware of the costs of a | :08:22. | :08:26. | |
dysfunctional system. Foreign companies come here and may see a | :08:27. | :08:30. | |
project that will take five to seven years, and they will go to | :08:30. | :08:34. | |
other parts of Europe because planning is faster in other | :08:34. | :08:38. | |
countries. England is the only nation making changes. Developers | :08:38. | :08:48. | |
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have been anticipating them and The oil company, Total, says it | :08:49. | :08:54. | |
could take up to six months to stop a gas leak on its Elgin platform in | :08:55. | :08:59. | |
the North Sea. Exclusion zones have been put in place and staff taken | :08:59. | :09:03. | |
off the rig. The gas is highly flammable and one union is warning | :09:03. | :09:06. | |
of the potential for catastrophic devastation if the platform blows | :09:06. | :09:16. | |
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Empty, abandoned and leaking gas. The Elgin platform and a nearby | :09:17. | :09:22. | |
drilling wick -- Rick, evacuated and powered down to reduce the risk | :09:22. | :09:25. | |
of the explosion. The operators have admitted stemming the flow of | :09:25. | :09:31. | |
gas, possibly by drilling another welcome it could take some time. | :09:31. | :09:35. | |
The relief well is a minimum of six months, but we are freeing up rigs | :09:35. | :09:39. | |
we have in other areas, so they can be made available if that is the | :09:39. | :09:46. | |
option that is progress. The Elgin platform lies 150 miles east of | :09:46. | :09:50. | |
Aberdeen. There are reports of a gas cloud around the leaking | :09:50. | :09:54. | |
installation, so eight exclusion zone is in place. Routine shipping | :09:54. | :09:58. | |
has been ordered to give at least two miles away and no aircraft are | :09:58. | :10:03. | |
allowed within three miles, and 4,000 feet. The Shearwater platform | :10:03. | :10:06. | |
and rig are also close to the drifting gas cloud. As a | :10:06. | :10:10. | |
precautionary measure, all non- essential workers there are being | :10:10. | :10:14. | |
brought ashore. North Sea workers undergo continuous survival | :10:14. | :10:18. | |
training to prepare for any emergency. There are warnings this | :10:18. | :10:23. | |
could be the most serious incident since the Piper Alpha disaster, in | :10:23. | :10:27. | |
which 167 people died. We have never had this type of situation so | :10:27. | :10:32. | |
there are so many unknowns. You can only relate it back to Piper Alpha. | :10:32. | :10:41. | |
We have got everybody off, everybody is home and safe. But you | :10:41. | :10:48. | |
could see Piper Alpha. The risks are well known. Tonight, two fire | :10:48. | :10:52. | |
fighting vessels remain on standby, close to the leaking installation, | :10:52. | :10:58. | |
in case of any explosion. Experts are being flown into hub, but it is | :10:58. | :11:03. | |
still too dangerous to approach the Elgin platform, and a long and | :11:03. | :11:08. | |
difficult operation to get the leak under control lies ahead. | :11:08. | :11:12. | |
Tonight, the engineers say they still haven't identified the source | :11:12. | :11:18. | |
of the league. Total says drilling a relief well, or pumping in heavy | :11:18. | :11:21. | |
mud to suppress the flow of gas are among the options they are | :11:21. | :11:26. | |
considering. Fergus Walsh is here with some details. | :11:26. | :11:30. | |
This gas leak is a highly unusual situation which presents all kinds | :11:30. | :11:35. | |
of safety and engineering hurdles. The abandoned Elgin platform, 150 | :11:35. | :11:39. | |
miles offshore, stands in relatively shallow water, 300 ft | :11:39. | :11:45. | |
deep, on the surface there is a sheen of liquid gas compensate, 1.8 | :11:45. | :11:49. | |
square miles of it. Up to 23 tonnes has been released. There are | :11:49. | :11:54. | |
several problems. The gas is more than three miles down, a huge | :11:54. | :11:58. | |
drilling distance. It is emerging at very high pressure, it is highly | :11:58. | :12:03. | |
toxic, containing hydrogen sulphide and carbon dioxide. And it is very | :12:03. | :12:07. | |
flammable and emerging at high temperatures, making the large | :12:07. | :12:12. | |
exclusion zone essential. There are going to be safety issues. They are | :12:12. | :12:17. | |
dealing with a flammable gas, a poisonous gas. It is not going to | :12:17. | :12:21. | |
be a simple task. In the case of the Gulf spill, the problem was the | :12:21. | :12:26. | |
depth of the water. The case here is the problem with the nature of | :12:26. | :12:30. | |
the gas that is leaking. And it remains to be seen as to whether | :12:30. | :12:33. | |
this is going to be a major incident, or whether it can be | :12:33. | :12:37. | |
capped fairly quickly. So what are the options for dealing with the | :12:38. | :12:41. | |
leak? It could stop of its own accord. That is a real possibility | :12:41. | :12:46. | |
but no one is banking on it. Engineers could be sent in to kill | :12:46. | :12:50. | |
the league but it -- by pumping in heavy mud, but it could be risky. | :12:50. | :12:55. | |
The surest option would be to drop it a relief well, but that could | :12:55. | :12:58. | |
take six months. A remote undersea vessel should be in place to allow | :12:58. | :13:02. | |
filming of the seabed, to help engineers assess what should happen | :13:02. | :13:07. | |
next. A spokesman for the UN-Arab League | :13:07. | :13:12. | |
envoy, Kofi Annan, says Syria has accepted his six-point peace plan. | :13:12. | :13:16. | |
It calls for a UN monitored end to the fighting, the pull-out of | :13:16. | :13:19. | |
government troops from opposition cities and improved humanitarian | :13:19. | :13:25. | |
access. Kofi Annan has stressed this is only a first step and | :13:25. | :13:27. | |
success for the plan would depend on how it was implemented. | :13:27. | :13:30. | |
The former head of the International Monetary Fund, | :13:30. | :13:34. | |
Dominique Strauss-Kahn, has been put under formal investigation in | :13:34. | :13:38. | |
France over his alleged involvement in a vice ring that procured | :13:38. | :13:41. | |
prostitutes for parties. Mr Strauss-Kahn, who strongly denies | :13:41. | :13:45. | |
the allegations, has been released on bail. | :13:45. | :13:50. | |
The price of stamps is set to soar. First class will increase from 46p, | :13:50. | :13:57. | |
two 60p. For second class, from 26 p, to 50p. The increases come after | :13:57. | :14:00. | |
the Royal Mail was given the freedom to set its own prices for | :14:00. | :14:05. | |
the first time. As Hugh Pym boards, the sharp rise has left many | :14:05. | :14:10. | |
customers angry. The Royal Mail's message today was | :14:10. | :14:15. | |
blunt. At the end of next month, it is going to cost a lot more to put | :14:15. | :14:18. | |
a letter in the post. Nearly a third more for first class, and an | :14:18. | :14:21. | |
even bigger increase for second. Users have been told it will still | :14:21. | :14:26. | |
be good value compared to other countries. Well, no one likes to | :14:26. | :14:32. | |
ask anyone to pay more. If you compare our prices to the prices in | :14:32. | :14:37. | |
other major European countries, at �60 for first class, it is less | :14:37. | :14:44. | |
than half of what you would pay in Germany -- at 60p. In 2006, a first | :14:44. | :14:48. | |
class stamp cost �30. It is now heading for double that. Second | :14:48. | :14:53. | |
class was 21 p -- a first class stamp cost 30p. Royal Mail has been | :14:54. | :15:02. | |
losing money, partly because fewer letters are posted. It is largely | :15:02. | :15:06. | |
because of people switching to e- mail. We found a range of opinions | :15:06. | :15:11. | |
on the latest price increases. is a massive hike. If it has to go | :15:11. | :15:17. | |
up, surely it could go up a few pence. I don't mind. As long as my | :15:17. | :15:23. | |
letters get to where they are going. Do you know what the price is? | :15:23. | :15:27. | |
I have to say. In the age of technology, we don't send that many | :15:27. | :15:31. | |
letters any more. Small businesses, which used the postal system, are | :15:31. | :15:36. | |
not happy. Malcolm Colgate is a flower grower in Devon. He needs to | :15:36. | :15:40. | |
send regular information to his customers. It brings into question | :15:40. | :15:45. | |
whether we carry on and mail out again. Whether we do away with it | :15:45. | :15:49. | |
altogether. It is a big question, a big additional cost. The increase | :15:49. | :15:53. | |
in stamp prices is part of the Royal Mail's attempt to sort out | :15:53. | :15:56. | |
its finances in a key bit of the business, collecting and delivering | :15:56. | :16:00. | |
letters. It needs to do that because it is heading towards | :16:00. | :16:05. | |
privatisation, and the countdown to that is now under way. The | :16:05. | :16:08. | |
challenge for Royal Mail is to prepare for the sell-off over the | :16:08. | :16:11. | |
next two years, while still maintaining the so-called universal | :16:11. | :16:21. | |
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service. A delivery to every UK Our top story tonight - an official | :16:27. | :16:32. | |
report into last year's riots says there are 500,000 forgotten | :16:32. | :16:37. | |
families who need help from Government. Coming up - last time | :16:37. | :16:41. | |
Fabrice Muamba was left fighting for his life. Spurs and Bolton | :16:41. | :16:49. | |
prepare to replay that match. Later - the head of the OECD says the | :16:49. | :16:54. | |
eurozone needs to double its bail- out fund and we look at who is | :16:54. | :17:04. | |
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winning the supermarket grocery It's a whole new area of science | :17:05. | :17:11. | |
and could lead to the next industrial revolution. It's called | :17:11. | :17:14. | |
synthetic biology and involves creating new forms of life from | :17:14. | :17:18. | |
artificial DNA. The Government hopes the economy will benefit from | :17:18. | :17:21. | |
innovations, including the production of new medicines and | :17:21. | :17:29. | |
fuels, but some campaigners are warning of the risks. Imagine the | :17:29. | :17:34. | |
power to design new forms of life, to dream up new versions of the | :17:34. | :17:39. | |
genes inside every living thing on Earth and create organisms that | :17:39. | :17:43. | |
have never before existed. That's what is happening here in this lab | :17:44. | :17:47. | |
at Imperial College in London. The researchers aren't just studying | :17:47. | :17:54. | |
life, but reshaping it. This is synthetic biology. An emerging | :17:54. | :17:58. | |
science which could transform industry, medicine and the fuels we | :17:58. | :18:01. | |
use. The potential for a new industrial revolution is very clear. | :18:01. | :18:05. | |
It is very clear that these techniques can be applied across a | :18:05. | :18:10. | |
wide range of different fields. From healthcare right through to | :18:10. | :18:15. | |
energy and agriculture. What is synthetic biology? The starting | :18:15. | :18:19. | |
point is something that has been around for year, genetic | :18:19. | :18:23. | |
modification, where you take a cell, this is a virtual one and there is | :18:23. | :18:28. | |
the bundle of genes inside. They modify them by inserting, splicing | :18:28. | :18:33. | |
in, DNA from another. What they are doing now going much further. It | :18:33. | :18:38. | |
relies on the fact that DNA is a kind of code for life, made up of | :18:38. | :18:42. | |
just four basic building blocks, represented here by these four | :18:42. | :18:46. | |
different letters. As with any engineering process, these | :18:46. | :18:51. | |
components can be rearranged to design brand new genes. What the | :18:51. | :18:55. | |
scientists do is take those four basic building blocks, just | :18:55. | :19:01. | |
chemicals, here they are, the real thing, mix them up, to create their | :19:01. | :19:06. | |
own version of synthetic man-made DNA. The final stage is the most | :19:06. | :19:11. | |
extraordinary. They take a cell, with all of the own original DNA | :19:11. | :19:15. | |
stripped out and insert the synthetic DNA, giving the organism | :19:15. | :19:21. | |
to do whatever they want, taking control of nature. -- getting the | :19:21. | :19:27. | |
organism to do whatever they want, taking control of nature. A vaccine | :19:28. | :19:34. | |
can be made to fight malaria and that will be seen later this year. | :19:34. | :19:42. | |
Alguy with synthetic genes would -- algae made with synthetic fuel. A | :19:42. | :19:51. | |
new drought could be combated, one of several ideas. Two years ago an | :19:51. | :19:59. | |
American scientist, Craig Venter, announced the first living thing | :19:59. | :20:05. | |
with synthetic DNA. Are we ready for this? The advances are exciting | :20:05. | :20:08. | |
but terrifying. Exciting because they offer the possibility of | :20:08. | :20:14. | |
creating new life forms, that will deal with many problems, but create | :20:14. | :20:18. | |
lifeforms of the human immune system and the world have never so | :20:18. | :20:23. | |
far experienced or encountered. Over the year, campaigners have | :20:23. | :20:28. | |
fought genetic science, attacking GM crops and then they are more | :20:28. | :20:31. | |
worried about this new research, but the scientists say they're | :20:31. | :20:36. | |
doing everything safely. We are working within the design phase | :20:36. | :20:42. | |
about how to develop and -- develop kill switches, they are mechanisims | :20:42. | :20:46. | |
that the organism would kill itself, so to ensure that it doesn't | :20:46. | :20:49. | |
interfere with the natural world, which is what we don't want to | :20:49. | :20:53. | |
happen. It was only 60 years ago that scientists discovered how | :20:53. | :20:58. | |
genes worked as the code for life. Now, they are taking charge and | :20:58. | :21:02. | |
we're on the brink of a new era and the public debate about it has only | :21:02. | :21:10. | |
just begun. A coroner has praised the colleagues of a soldier who | :21:10. | :21:16. | |
risked their lives to save her when she suffered injuries in | :21:16. | :21:22. | |
Afghanistan. Come disposal expert, Captain Lisa Head later died in | :21:22. | :21:26. | |
hospital, despite other seldiers at the scene. The coroner delivered a | :21:26. | :21:31. | |
verdict of unlawful killing. Captain Lisa Head was a bomb | :21:31. | :21:36. | |
disposal expert with the Royal logistic core. He was 29 and | :21:36. | :21:40. | |
deployed to Afghanistan a year ago today. Three weeks into her tour of | :21:40. | :21:46. | |
duty she was called to an Aliway in a village which soldiers from the | :21:46. | :21:47. | |
2nd Battalion The Parachute Regiment had been passing through | :21:48. | :21:55. | |
all day -- alleyway. There she found a buried IED and disarmed it. | :21:55. | :22:00. | |
There was then a small explosion from a second device causing her to | :22:00. | :22:04. | |
retreat. The man here in the sunglasses is Corporal Adam Tucker, | :22:04. | :22:14. | |
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who was with her that day. He told The inquest here today heard that | :22:20. | :22:24. | |
when she went back into the alley way to continue her job, he stood | :22:24. | :22:29. | |
on a third IED which blew up. It left her with catastrophic injuries | :22:29. | :22:33. | |
and despite a huge effort to save her life, which included flying her | :22:33. | :22:39. | |
back here to the UK for treatment, she died the following day. | :22:39. | :22:44. | |
Colleagues say he was the bravest of the brave. Right to the very end | :22:44. | :22:47. | |
in that situation she was thinking about the safety and security of | :22:47. | :22:52. | |
the battle group she was supporting and the team. She knew that if she | :22:52. | :22:56. | |
walked away from that incident she would have left the device in the | :22:56. | :23:00. | |
ground and the Taliban would have moved it. Thousands of people | :23:00. | :23:06. | |
turned out to pay tribute to Captain Lisa Head at her funeral in | :23:06. | :23:10. | |
her home town of Huddersfield. Her family said no-one was more loved. | :23:10. | :23:19. | |
She had told them she had the best job in the world. | :23:19. | :23:24. | |
The Pope has urged Cubians so build an open and renewed society at the | :23:24. | :23:28. | |
start of the first papal visit to the country in 40 years. After | :23:28. | :23:32. | |
arriving and celebrating mass yesterday, he spent today visiting | :23:32. | :23:38. | |
a shrine outside the eastern city of Santiago. Later he will fly to | :23:38. | :23:42. | |
half that, where he is expected to meet the former President. Cricket | :23:42. | :23:49. | |
and Sri Lanka have the upper hand after the second day's play in gall. | :23:49. | :23:54. | |
-- Galle. 17 wickets fell today, but England fought back to reduce | :23:54. | :24:01. | |
it to 84-5. Still leaving the home side with a lead of 209. | :24:01. | :24:05. | |
A man, who posted racist tweets about the Bolton midfielder, | :24:05. | :24:11. | |
Fabrice Muamba, after he collapsed has been jailed for 56 days. Liam | :24:11. | :24:18. | |
Stacey, a 21-year-old from Swansea pleaded guilty yesterday. Tonight | :24:18. | :24:26. | |
the match is being replayed. Our reporter is at White Hart Lane. 56 | :24:26. | :24:32. | |
days, that sounds like a warning to others, doesn't it? It does. I | :24:32. | :24:36. | |
think there was some incredulity that this young man was apparently | :24:36. | :24:40. | |
intelligent enough to study biology at university and yet revulsion as | :24:40. | :24:45. | |
well at his actions, the racist taunting of Fabrice Muamba moments | :24:45. | :24:50. | |
after he collapsed here ten days ago. The judge, who sentenced him | :24:50. | :24:56. | |
to 56 days, described the actions as vile. Jim Brisbane the chief | :24:56. | :25:00. | |
prosecutor for the CPS in Wales says he hopes the case will serve | :25:01. | :25:05. | |
as a warning to the comments made on-line are somehow above the law. | :25:05. | :25:09. | |
It was a very long way away from the reaction that there was at the | :25:09. | :25:16. | |
time, at the ground here. It's really kept on ever since. It's | :25:16. | :25:20. | |
between the two sets of fans. The teams and indeed the expressions of | :25:20. | :25:23. | |
goodwill between the managers that have been in the programme tonight | :25:23. | :25:28. | |
before the match. Indeed, the match will be preceded by a minute's | :25:28. | :25:35. | |
applause in appreciation of Fabrice Muamba. Tim, what is the latest on | :25:35. | :25:40. | |
his medical condition? He is still in a very serious condition at the | :25:40. | :25:44. | |
London Chest Hospital, a short distance away from here, but there | :25:44. | :25:51. | |
does appear to be incremental improximity and just a sense of -- | :25:51. | :25:55. | |
improvement and just a sense of delight that he's still alive after | :25:55. | :26:02. | |
his heart stopped beating for 78 minutes. He was visited by three | :26:03. | :26:06. | |
team-mates and they didn't talk to us after, but there is a sense from | :26:06. | :26:09. | |
the team they are trying to draw strength from the very fierce fight | :26:09. | :26:15. | |
for life that he has exhibited. Thank you very much. Time now for | :26:15. | :26:17. | |
Thank you very much. Time now for the weather with Alex. This seems | :26:17. | :26:22. | |
to go on and on. It seems like it, George. There are signs of change | :26:22. | :26:28. | |
come the end of the week, but more sun to come. For the third day | :26:28. | :26:33. | |
running, we have broken the March record in Scotland. Aboyne reaching | :26:33. | :26:38. | |
23.6C. This is the satellite picture. Incredible to see a | :26:38. | :26:45. | |
picture like this. Hardly a cloud in the sky, except across Shetland. | :26:45. | :26:50. | |
21 in Northern Ireland, that was close to a March record too. Now, | :26:50. | :26:54. | |
temperatures are dropping almost as sharply as they rose this afternoon. | :26:54. | :26:58. | |
It will be a cold one again tomorrow morning. Most places will | :26:58. | :27:03. | |
have clear skies. Two and three in towns and cities. In rural areas | :27:03. | :27:09. | |
maybe minus two or three. Another cracking day if you like sun. The | :27:09. | :27:14. | |
mist and fog doesn't last and then blue skies pretty much everywhere. | :27:14. | :27:18. | |
The far north of Scotland, more cloud here and spot or two of | :27:18. | :27:23. | |
drizzle. For most, it's sunny and it is warm after the chilly start. | :27:23. | :27:28. | |
Temperatures up into the low 20s across parts of the south. We could | :27:28. | :27:34. | |
reach 23 again across the east of England. Generally up to 19 or 20. | :27:34. | :27:39. | |
Maybe 21 across parts of northern England. Belfast 19. Somewhere in | :27:39. | :27:42. | |
Northern Ireland we could get close to their March record during the | :27:42. | :27:47. | |
afternoon. We may reach 23 in parts of south-east Scotland, but the | :27:47. | :27:51. | |
cloud across the north it won't be quite as warm. That is a sign of a | :27:51. | :27:56. | |
change. On Thursday, more cloud spilling in. Turning cloudier in | :27:56. | :28:00. | |
Northern Ireland. Perhaps cloud for north-west England and North Wales. | :28:00. | :28:07. | |
Maybe down the east. Temperatures a few degrees lower and still in the | :28:07. | :28:11. | |
south, we could exceed 20 degrees once more. Come the end of the week | :28:11. | :28:15. | |
we'll start to notice the change. It will turn cooler, thanks to more | :28:15. | :28:25. | |
cloud spilling in. Those days look as though it will be dry, into the | :28:25. | :28:30. | |
weekend, where temperatures will be weekend, where temperatures will be | :28:30. | :28:34. | |
normal. A reminder of the main news - an official report into last | :28:34. | :28:38. |