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David Cameron says he won't stay silent as the eurozone heads for | :00:12. | :00:16. | |
uncharted territory. Fears that a Eurozone crisis could suffocate | :00:16. | :00:19. | |
Britain's economy - the Prime Minister says he'll do what it | :00:19. | :00:28. | |
takes to defend Britain. I will do what every is necessary to protect | :00:28. | :00:31. | |
this country, Secure our economy and financial system. It is very | :00:32. | :00:36. | |
serious and dangerous for our economy and all economies. That is | :00:36. | :00:39. | |
why our Prime Minister and Chancellor should be at the table | :00:39. | :00:41. | |
reading debate about the solution rather than carping on the | :00:42. | :00:51. | |
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sidelines. We will ask how Europe's leaders reacted to the Commons. | :00:53. | :00:57. | |
Also on tonight's programme... A vote of confidence in British car | :00:57. | :00:59. | |
making - new investment by Vauxhall's owners creates thousands | :00:59. | :01:06. | |
of new jobs. Freed after eight years in jail for a crime he didn't | :01:06. | :01:15. | |
commit - the court hears the police didn't check his alibi. Pop a pill | :01:15. | :01:18. | |
a day - experts say millions more people should be given cholesterol | :01:18. | :01:26. | |
lowering statins. And Donna Summer dies at 63. Dozens of memorial | :01:26. | :01:30. | |
plaques are recovered by police in raids on scrap-metal yards. And the | :01:30. | :01:40. | |
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extra �1 charge for posting parcels Welcome to the BBC News at Six. | :01:57. | :02:00. | |
David Cameron has said he will do whatever it takes to to defend | :02:00. | :02:05. | |
Britain from the eurozone crisis. With growing anxiety that the | :02:05. | :02:08. | |
uncertainty surrounding Greece is already spreading to other highly | :02:08. | :02:10. | |
indebted countries, Mr Cameron challenged eurozone leaders to do | :02:10. | :02:13. | |
more to contain the risks. And he defended the coalition's deficit | :02:13. | :02:23. | |
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reduction plans, saying anything else was a cop out. The economy, | :02:30. | :02:34. | |
already back a recession, is now threatened from a squeeze whose | :02:34. | :02:38. | |
eurozone is steadily deepening. Today the Prime Minister adopted | :02:38. | :02:43. | |
the tones of an economic wartime leader. We are living in perilous | :02:43. | :02:47. | |
economic times. Turn on the TV news and you see the return of a crisis | :02:47. | :02:53. | |
that never really went away. Grease on the brink, the survival of the | :02:53. | :02:58. | |
euro in question and faced with this I have a clear task, to keep | :02:58. | :03:04. | |
Britain safe. In Athens the latest in a series of temporary Greek | :03:04. | :03:07. | |
governments was sworn in today. Ordinary Greeks have been reacting | :03:07. | :03:11. | |
by withdrawing their cash from the banks. There are not used at the | :03:11. | :03:16. | |
door yet but that is the fear. Meantime, in Spain, one of the | :03:16. | :03:20. | |
weaker economies in Europe on markets are charging the government | :03:20. | :03:23. | |
and ever higher price for the money they need to borrow in ever growing | :03:23. | :03:27. | |
quantities. Today the Prime Minister held a conference called | :03:27. | :03:32. | |
the leaders of Germany, France, Italy and the two President of | :03:32. | :03:36. | |
Europe in advance of a for a summit next week and a summit of the G8, | :03:37. | :03:41. | |
the club of the world's richest nations, this weekend. This was his | :03:41. | :03:45. | |
public advice to them from a leader not in the euro but he fears it is | :03:45. | :03:50. | |
casting a shadow over the British economy... The eurozone is at a | :03:50. | :03:54. | |
crossroads, it either has to make- up, or it is looking at a potential | :03:54. | :04:00. | |
break-up. Either Europe has a committed, stable, successful | :04:00. | :04:04. | |
eurozone, or we are in uncharted territory which carries huge risks | :04:04. | :04:11. | |
for everybody. Today the new French President pose with his new cabinet. | :04:11. | :04:15. | |
Francois Hollande was elected on a promise to recast Europe's's | :04:15. | :04:20. | |
austerity pact. It does not just pose an economic problem but a | :04:20. | :04:24. | |
political problem, for the coalition. That is because the new | :04:24. | :04:27. | |
French government say Europe should put policies to promote growth | :04:27. | :04:32. | |
ahead of those to promote austerity, echoing Labour's calls care at home. | :04:32. | :04:38. | |
No wonder then that David Cameron today wanted to claim that that | :04:38. | :04:42. | |
choice does not really exist at all. Deficit reduction and growth are | :04:42. | :04:47. | |
not alternatives. Delivering the first is absolutely vital in | :04:47. | :04:52. | |
securing the second. We cannot blow the Budget on more spending and | :04:52. | :04:56. | |
debt. In the Commons the Shadow Chancellor attacked the government | :04:56. | :05:00. | |
for believing cutting could ever have created economic growth. | :05:00. | :05:03. | |
Trying to cut the deficit faster has not boosted growth in recession, | :05:03. | :05:07. | |
it has choked off confidence, unemployment is up and we are | :05:07. | :05:11. | |
borrowing more than he planned, not less. The fact is this Prime | :05:11. | :05:15. | |
Minister, if he is ready claiming he is on the right course, he is | :05:15. | :05:19. | |
even more complacent and out of touch than even I thought. A Labour | :05:19. | :05:23. | |
blame the government for the plight, ministers blame the eurozone, | :05:23. | :05:27. | |
whoever is right, things do not look set to get better any time | :05:27. | :05:37. | |
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Our Europe editor is in Brussels. Gavin, what is the reaction likely | :05:38. | :05:47. | |
to be to those comments today? There will be some irritation at | :05:47. | :05:51. | |
David Cameron's insistence that the eurozone and make-up, or face | :05:51. | :05:55. | |
break-up. In the past he was told to shut up by a former French | :05:55. | :05:59. | |
President when he spoke out, they were tired of being lectured by the | :05:59. | :06:02. | |
British. But this time round I think it will be different because | :06:02. | :06:06. | |
there is widespread acceptance that something Major needs to be done. | :06:06. | :06:10. | |
It is no longer taboo to talk about the possibility that Greece will | :06:10. | :06:16. | |
have to exit the euro. In fact, today Angela Merkel went out to say | :06:16. | :06:22. | |
I have the will, the determination to keep Greece in the eurozone. It | :06:22. | :06:25. | |
is not just politicians who are feeling anxious about where things | :06:26. | :06:31. | |
are heading. In both Greece and Spain are ordinary savers are | :06:31. | :06:35. | |
withdrawing money insignificant amounts. It is far from being a | :06:35. | :06:41. | |
panic yet but there is a real sense of unease as to where this eurozone | :06:41. | :06:44. | |
crisis is heading, which is something the politicians in Europe | :06:44. | :06:51. | |
had to address. Thousands of jobs have been saved | :06:51. | :06:53. | |
and hundreds of new ones created after Vauxhaul's American owners | :06:53. | :06:56. | |
announced new investment at the company's plant in Ellesmere Port. | :06:56. | :06:59. | |
Staff at the factory have accepted a four year pay and conditions deal | :06:59. | :07:01. | |
which will allow more flexible working. Our correspondent John | :07:01. | :07:11. | |
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Moylan is at the plant now. A few weeks ago there were real concerns | :07:13. | :07:16. | |
this plant could close as Vauxhall's owner sought to cut | :07:16. | :07:21. | |
costs across Europe. Instead, as the plants celebrate its 50th | :07:21. | :07:26. | |
birthday here, staff receive the best possible present today. It was | :07:26. | :07:31. | |
business as usual today but Falstaff there was one big | :07:31. | :07:34. | |
difference... After months of concern they were finally told | :07:34. | :07:40. | |
their jobs were safe. And that the next generation of this car, the | :07:40. | :07:44. | |
Astra, would see the plant through into the next decade. Everyone is | :07:44. | :07:48. | |
happy, it will be a good weekend, everybody will probably go out and | :07:48. | :07:52. | |
have a few more jars than usual. have children and a mortgage so it | :07:52. | :07:59. | |
is fantastic news. GM says its plans with the new car will involve | :07:59. | :08:02. | |
a �125 million investment, which will safeguard employment for 2,100 | :08:02. | :08:07. | |
existing staff, adding a third shift to the plant will also result | :08:07. | :08:12. | |
in 700 new jobs. And there will be 3,000 jobs created across its | :08:12. | :08:18. | |
supply chain. We worked hard to make the best case for Ellesmere | :08:18. | :08:22. | |
Port, Vauxhall Motors in the UK. We came up with a labour agreement | :08:22. | :08:26. | |
which does that, it is great news for Vauxhall Motors, General Motors, | :08:26. | :08:31. | |
the workers and the UK economy. That agreement was only signed off | :08:31. | :08:36. | |
this morning. It includes a four year pay deal starting with a two | :08:36. | :08:39. | |
year pay freeze and there will be more flexible working. Union | :08:39. | :08:43. | |
members voted overwhelmingly to back it to lift the threat over the | :08:43. | :08:46. | |
plant. I believe there was a real threat, I believe General Motors | :08:46. | :08:51. | |
have acted appallingly and irresponsibly the way they let that | :08:51. | :08:54. | |
threat dangle. As a loyal workforce that always delivers, they were | :08:55. | :09:00. | |
prepared to put people through that torment. Britain's car workers | :09:00. | :09:04. | |
helped firms including the Jaguar Land Rover, Nissan and many three | :09:04. | :09:07. | |
downturn by working flexibly and accepting tough pay deals. Now the | :09:07. | :09:11. | |
industry is reaping the rewards and trying to meet demand Worldwide. | :09:11. | :09:16. | |
The auto sector now exports more than it imports for the first time | :09:16. | :09:20. | |
since the mid- 1970s. We have seen the industry bounce back well. It | :09:20. | :09:24. | |
has exported its way out of trouble, which shows the fundamental | :09:24. | :09:28. | |
strength of the industry that has benefited by having a relatively | :09:28. | :09:31. | |
weak sterling which means our exports are competitive. Ellesmere | :09:31. | :09:35. | |
Port has been a cornerstone of the UK's water industry for half-a- | :09:35. | :09:41. | |
century and has kept generations of people here in work. Tonight staff | :09:41. | :09:44. | |
went home knowing that manufacturing tradition will | :09:44. | :09:48. | |
continue for years to come. Very few details of this labour deal | :09:48. | :09:51. | |
have emerged but what has happened here will be watched closely in | :09:52. | :09:55. | |
other parts of the industry. Management believe they have set | :09:55. | :10:01. | |
some sort of new benchmark which should signal how the UK's car | :10:01. | :10:09. | |
Sam Hallam, who spent eight years in jail for a crime he says he | :10:09. | :10:12. | |
didn't commit, walked free today after his conviction was quashed at | :10:12. | :10:15. | |
the High Court. Now 24, he criticised the original police | :10:15. | :10:18. | |
investigation into the murder of a trainee chef by a group of youths | :10:18. | :10:28. | |
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in London in 2004. Tom Symonds reports. It took just one hour for | :10:29. | :10:32. | |
the appeal court to give Sam Hallam his freedom after eight years in | :10:32. | :10:37. | |
prison. He said he was shocked and happy but anger might come later. | :10:37. | :10:42. | |
always knew I was innocent, didn't just believe, I knew. The whole | :10:42. | :10:46. | |
system, Dirk police process, the court process, it was not fair. | :10:46. | :10:50. | |
This was yesterday after the surprising decision to free him | :10:50. | :10:53. | |
pending today's announcement. His family and friends have fought hard | :10:53. | :10:58. | |
to prove his innocence. Across London the spot where 21-year-old | :10:58. | :11:04. | |
Essayas Kassahun was beaten to death in a gang fight in 2004. Sam | :11:04. | :11:07. | |
was one of two convicted of the murder, there was no forensic | :11:07. | :11:11. | |
evidence, CCTV pictures, he was jailed because others said he was | :11:11. | :11:17. | |
here. Lady Justice Hallett said the case was undermined by two eye | :11:17. | :11:20. | |
witnesses, neither of he was particularly satisfactory. She said | :11:20. | :11:24. | |
there was scope for mistaken identity. As for some Hallam's | :11:24. | :11:29. | |
inability to say where he was that night, she said that was due to his | :11:29. | :11:35. | |
dysfunctional lifestyle rather than an intention to deceive. Sam was a | :11:35. | :11:39. | |
teenager on an inner London estate, he could not provide a strong alibi. | :11:39. | :11:43. | |
But police never checked his two mobile phones, one contained | :11:43. | :11:47. | |
pictures of his late father at this pub taken close to the time of the | :11:47. | :11:52. | |
murder. New evidence suggesting Sam was not at the murder scene. A | :11:52. | :11:56. | |
statement was read on his behalf outside the court. The Metropolitan | :11:56. | :11:59. | |
police should have followed up leads which would have proved my | :12:00. | :12:05. | |
innocence but the terror -- over the terrible murder of Essayas | :12:05. | :12:07. | |
Kassahun. They should have disclosed all the relevant evidence | :12:08. | :12:14. | |
in their possession to my lawyers and they did not. Tonight the | :12:14. | :12:17. | |
Pampas of the ish -- the CPS accepted there was no evidence and | :12:17. | :12:20. | |
had not opposed the quashing of the conviction. The Metropolitan Police | :12:20. | :12:29. | |
have yet to comment. The bodies of two British | :12:29. | :12:31. | |
servicemen killed in Afghanistan have been repatriated. Lance | :12:31. | :12:34. | |
Corporal Lee Davies of 1st Battalion Welsh Guards and Corporal | :12:34. | :12:36. | |
Brent McCarthy, of the Royal Air Force Police, were killed in | :12:36. | :12:46. | |
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Afghanistan on Saturday. They were shot whilst providing security for | :12:49. | :12:56. | |
a meeting with local officials in Helmand. Experts say thousands of | :12:56. | :12:59. | |
heart attacks and strokes could be prevented every year if the | :12:59. | :13:01. | |
cholesterol-lowering drugs statins were more widely prescribed. They | :13:01. | :13:05. | |
say even people with a low risk of heart disease should be given the | :13:05. | :13:08. | |
drug. That could be an extra five million people. Here's our health | :13:08. | :13:11. | |
correspondent Branwen Jeffreys. Statins Arie global best seller for | :13:11. | :13:15. | |
the pharmaceutical industry. The most widely prescribed kind of | :13:15. | :13:18. | |
medicine, they reduce the risk of heart attack and stroke by busting | :13:18. | :13:22. | |
be harmful fats that clog up blood vessels. So who should be taking | :13:22. | :13:28. | |
them? Gill has always thought of herself as healthy, her GP | :13:28. | :13:32. | |
suggested statins because she had high cholesterol. She was sceptical | :13:32. | :13:37. | |
but eventually decided to take his advice. I was reluctant to take | :13:37. | :13:42. | |
them at first but I am glad I did because I had a heart attack a | :13:42. | :13:45. | |
couple of years ago and without them it would have either happened | :13:45. | :13:49. | |
much earlier, or been much worse. These polls are one of the most | :13:49. | :13:53. | |
commonly used drugs in the UK, they usually are given to people at high | :13:54. | :13:58. | |
risk. This research suggests giving in to 5 million people at lower | :13:58. | :14:04. | |
risk of disease. Is says 10,000 heart attacks or strokes might be | :14:04. | :14:09. | |
prevented and it could stop 2000 early deaths. If we want to prevent | :14:09. | :14:12. | |
people from having their first heart attack, or stroke, we have to | :14:12. | :14:17. | |
treat help the people. If we did that more widely we could save many | :14:17. | :14:22. | |
people from having at first disastrous event. But some argue | :14:22. | :14:28. | |
the problem is lifestyle. Statins have side effects for some patients. | :14:28. | :14:31. | |
So there are doctors who think a different kind of prevention would | :14:31. | :14:38. | |
work better. A much healthier approach, I think, would be for | :14:38. | :14:42. | |
people to change their lifestyle, eat healthily, cut down on fat, | :14:42. | :14:47. | |
salt, eat more fruit and vegetables, go easy on alcohol and take more | :14:47. | :14:52. | |
exercise and of course give up smoking. That is much healthier. | :14:52. | :14:56. | |
Gill is doing both, taking exercise as well as statins. This research | :14:57. | :15:01. | |
adds to the picture of how well they work. The advice to the NHS in | :15:01. | :15:06. | |
England and Wales is already under review. Statins have become a | :15:06. | :15:13. | |
relatively cheap medicine, allowing them to be considered on their | :15:13. | :15:18. | |
merits and not just the cost. Duke and Duchess of Cambridge will | :15:18. | :15:21. | |
join the Queen on the Royal Barge during the Thames Pageant to | :15:21. | :15:23. | |
celebrate her Diamond Jubilee. More than a million people are expected | :15:24. | :15:27. | |
to line the banks, bridges and parks along the river to see a | :15:27. | :15:30. | |
flotilla of a 1000 ships, boats and other vessels. Philippa Thomas has | :15:30. | :15:40. | |
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This is how the organisers hope the Jubilee pageant will look. 1000 | :15:40. | :15:45. | |
boats and 20,000 people on the Thames, viewed by 1 million more on | :15:45. | :15:48. | |
the riverbanks. It will be the biggest such gathering since the | :15:48. | :15:54. | |
pageant for King Charles II in 1662, immortalised in this famous | :15:54. | :15:59. | |
painting. But the River Thames today presents much more of a | :15:59. | :16:04. | |
challenge. It is half as wide and twice as fast. To slow down the | :16:04. | :16:09. | |
flow, they will be closing the Thames barrier. Instead of passing | :16:09. | :16:16. | |
under a single span, the pageant will sail under 13 bridges. At | :16:16. | :16:23. | |
2:30pm, the Queen and Prince embark on the barge. The church bells will | :16:23. | :16:27. | |
start ringing on the floating Belfry leading the procession and | :16:27. | :16:34. | |
then they will ring nationwide as the Queen, with Charles and Camilla, | :16:34. | :16:40. | |
William and Harry and Kate at 3 o'clock. There will be live music | :16:41. | :16:45. | |
to match London landmarks like the James Bond theme for MI6, before | :16:45. | :16:49. | |
the vessels head past the Palace of Westminster, the London Eye, and | :16:49. | :16:54. | |
with Dam Busters playing, the Royal Air Force Memorial. At 4:15pm, the | :16:54. | :16:58. | |
royal barge will hold just downriver of Tower Bridge, where an | :16:58. | :17:01. | |
hour or so later the National Anthem concludes a day filled with | :17:01. | :17:06. | |
music. The sounds are just phenomenal, from Quaye is too big | :17:06. | :17:15. | |
bands, orchestra's to traditional instruments. Performers like the | :17:15. | :17:20. | |
jubilant Commonwealth choir have been rehearsing for months. Prince | :17:20. | :17:24. | |
Charles has now tested one of the eight new bells cast for the | :17:24. | :17:28. | |
occasion, each named for a senior member of the royal family. Behind | :17:28. | :17:32. | |
the scenes, the security forces have tested dozens of scenarios for | :17:32. | :17:38. | |
trouble on the day. There will be 5500 police officers on duty. All | :17:38. | :17:42. | |
but three of the bridges will be closed to the general public and | :17:42. | :17:44. | |
there will be strict security checks for those permitted to view | :17:44. | :17:53. | |
the pageant from above. Our top story tonight: The Prime | :17:53. | :17:57. | |
Minister says he will do what it takes to defend Britain from a | :17:57. | :18:03. | |
eurozone crisis. He admits the UK economy is not beyond risk. | :18:03. | :18:10. | |
And still to come, a royal handover for the Olympic torch in Athens. | :18:10. | :18:15. | |
On BBC London: After investing �1 billion in Chelsea, will Raeburn | :18:15. | :18:20. | |
Adamovic finally see them winning the Champions League? -- Roman | :18:20. | :18:24. | |
Abramovich. And Adele his main songwriter of | :18:24. | :18:31. | |
the year at the Ivor Novello awards. -- Adele is named. | :18:31. | :18:33. | |
It is a challenging marine environment and it could hold the | :18:33. | :18:39. | |
key to a new way of generating power. In the stormy waters off the | :18:39. | :18:42. | |
Orkney Islands, scientists are testing a system for harnessing | :18:42. | :18:46. | |
tidal power. The currents of the North coast of Scotland are some of | :18:46. | :18:49. | |
the strongest in the world and in theory it should be possible to | :18:49. | :18:57. | |
make use of them. From the air, the Orkney Islands | :18:57. | :19:03. | |
looks serene. The waters below are placid. But these seize hold | :19:03. | :19:13. | |
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incredible power. We venture out in gale-force winds. Rough conditions. | :19:15. | :19:20. | |
Some of them must be three metres. This well is heavy. The tides are | :19:20. | :19:23. | |
among the fastest in the world. Ahead of us, a new invention to | :19:23. | :19:29. | |
make use of all this energy. This animation shows what looks like a | :19:29. | :19:36. | |
wind turbine on the seabed. Giant blades turning in the tide, | :19:36. | :19:40. | |
generating electricity. The great attraction of tidal power is that | :19:40. | :19:45. | |
it is completely predictable. Here, a massive current flows from the | :19:45. | :19:48. | |
Atlantic through these islands to the North Sea and back again, add | :19:48. | :19:58. | |
up to 10 mph every day. The trick is to harness that power from | :19:58. | :20:02. | |
beneath the waves. The only way to see the turbine is by remote- | :20:02. | :20:09. | |
controlled submarine. Carrying a camera into the murky waters. Down | :20:09. | :20:13. | |
there, the vast machine spins gently, to slow to harm the fish, | :20:13. | :20:18. | |
apparently, but fast enough to make electricity. It is sent to shore by | :20:18. | :20:23. | |
cable. The plan is to install 10 devices next year, but you would | :20:23. | :20:27. | |
need 1000 of them to produce enough power to serve the city of half a | :20:27. | :20:35. | |
million homes. The machines have got to survive in half -- harsh | :20:35. | :20:39. | |
conditions. It can perform on the seabed up to its maximum power and | :20:40. | :20:43. | |
we believe it will be incredibly reliable. We have huge confidence | :20:43. | :20:47. | |
that we will build these machines in the future. A dozen different | :20:47. | :20:55. | |
technologies are being tried out. Tide and wave machines. But will | :20:55. | :20:59. | |
any work on an industrial scale? This is a test site, but we have | :20:59. | :21:03. | |
seen a big shift in recent times. Big industrial companies are taking | :21:03. | :21:09. | |
an interest and investing hard cash into these projects. The energy | :21:09. | :21:13. | |
flow and around our shores could be a major source of power. But it | :21:13. | :21:20. | |
will take years of research to make it happen. | :21:20. | :21:24. | |
New literacy tests are to be introduced for six to 14 year-olds | :21:24. | :21:28. | |
in Wales in a bid to raise standards. The Welsh Government has | :21:28. | :21:32. | |
set out a five-year plan including more teacher-training and more | :21:32. | :21:36. | |
resources after inspectors raised concerns. Official assessments show | :21:36. | :21:41. | |
that Wales lies behind Scotland, England and Northern Ireland. | :21:41. | :21:45. | |
-- lags behind. The Olympic flame has been passed | :21:45. | :21:50. | |
over to Princess Anne at a ceremony in Athens. David Beckham and Boris | :21:50. | :21:56. | |
Johnson, the Mayor of London, were also there. David? | :21:56. | :22:00. | |
Greece has now given us the Olympic flame but for much of the afternoon | :22:00. | :22:05. | |
here, I am afraid we gave them a real taste of British weather. It | :22:05. | :22:09. | |
was tipping it down. After the flame was blown out last week, you | :22:09. | :22:14. | |
started to wonder if it was a bad omen. Just as the torch was brought | :22:14. | :22:19. | |
in, the sun came out and it dried up. The ceremony went off smoothly | :22:19. | :22:25. | |
and the flame is now on its way. The Olympic flame had better get | :22:25. | :22:28. | |
used to this. After a week in the Greek sunshine, the tort was given | :22:28. | :22:34. | |
a rather damp send-off in Athens this afternoon. -- the torched. | :22:34. | :22:38. | |
Despite that, the London 2012 delegation insists it will not | :22:38. | :22:44. | |
dampen the impact of the flame's arrival in the UK. Handing over the | :22:45. | :22:49. | |
Olympic flame, her Royal Highness Princess Anne. This is an amazing | :22:49. | :22:53. | |
moment for us. Lighting the touchpaper of the 70 day fuse that | :22:53. | :22:58. | |
is going to detonate with the great pyrotechnics of the opening | :22:58. | :23:02. | |
ceremony. As the President of the British Olympic Association, the | :23:02. | :23:05. | |
Princess Royal has been a central figure in the preparations for the | :23:05. | :23:12. | |
London Games. What of caused by the Queen and other members of the | :23:12. | :23:17. | |
royal family. -- watched of course. Princess Anne became the first | :23:17. | :23:20. | |
member of the royal family to compete in the Olympics, as part of | :23:20. | :23:25. | |
the three-day eventing team in Montreal. She is known as a fierce | :23:25. | :23:29. | |
competitor, proud of a sporting heritage. I presume you would have | :23:29. | :23:32. | |
loved to have competed in a home Olympics? I would have found it | :23:33. | :23:37. | |
really difficult, I suspect, to do it at home. Much easier to have | :23:37. | :23:43. | |
done it elsewhere. I would hate to be doing it now, I can tell you. It | :23:43. | :23:49. | |
has got worse. Because of the pressure? I think so, for everybody. | :23:49. | :23:55. | |
It would have been a couple of the athletes that had higher profiles | :23:56. | :24:00. | |
before. Tomorrow the flames starts its journey back to the UK in | :24:00. | :24:05. | |
British hands. After such a long wait, could this be the moment when | :24:05. | :24:10. | |
the Olympics really take off? From here the flame has been taken to | :24:10. | :24:13. | |
the British Embassy in Athens, where it will spend the night | :24:13. | :24:17. | |
before tomorrow being loaded on to a special gold plane chartered by | :24:17. | :24:22. | |
British Airways, which will fly into Cornwall. Then on to Land's | :24:22. | :24:27. | |
End on Saturday for the start of its 70 date journey around the | :24:27. | :24:33. | |
country. Although the relay has now started, we do not know who will | :24:33. | :24:43. | |
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like it in the Olympic Stadium on July 27th. -- set it alight. | :24:44. | :24:49. | |
Donna Summer has died at the age of 63 after a battle of cancer. A | :24:49. | :24:54. | |
multiple hits became the soundtrack for the 70s, defining an age of | :24:54. | :24:59. | |
glitter, flashy clothes, and dance. We look back at her unique | :24:59. | :25:06. | |
contribution to music. # It is so good. | :25:06. | :25:11. | |
It was in 1977 the sound of the future. The synthesisers, Donna | :25:11. | :25:21. | |
Summer's voice, it was the birth of electronic dance music. | :25:21. | :25:25. | |
Donna Summer had grown up in Boston and then moved to Germany. It was | :25:25. | :25:29. | |
there that she met Georgio Moroder, a music producer experimenting with | :25:29. | :25:33. | |
synthesisers. Love To Love You Baby was for its time a more than | :25:33. | :25:43. | |
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receive. -- more than racy. Sexy, glamorous and good to dance to. | :25:44. | :25:49. | |
became known as the Queen of disco. I think that it is one of the key | :25:49. | :25:54. | |
records in electronic music and will always be recognised as such. | :25:54. | :25:59. | |
She had 29 hit singles and today her family said she was a woman of | :25:59. | :26:06. | |
many gifts, the greatest being her faith. Finding Christianity helped | :26:06. | :26:09. | |
to recover from the pressures of fame during the disco era but it | :26:09. | :26:13. | |
made her uncomfortable with some of her older songs. She denied | :26:13. | :26:20. | |
allegations that she had made anti- gay comments, but the controversy | :26:20. | :26:24. | |
affected her career. As the years went by, all was forgotten and the | :26:24. | :26:33. | |
old songs were performed again. She was the Queen of disco. | :26:33. | :26:43. | |
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Donna Summer, who has died aged 63. This weekend we could be huddling | :26:44. | :26:49. | |
around the Olympic torch. The cool field continues. There will be | :26:49. | :26:55. | |
cloud across the UK overnight with some outbreaks of rain, especially | :26:55. | :26:58. | |
dismal in central Scotland. Rain in northern England and Northern | :26:58. | :27:03. | |
Ireland at times. Showers further South. Some clear spells in the far | :27:03. | :27:08. | |
South. Temperatures in towns and cities stay in double figures here. | :27:08. | :27:13. | |
Down to two in the far North of Scotland. Winds blowing. The some | :27:13. | :27:20. | |
sunny spells but sunshine in short supply it with the breeze coming | :27:20. | :27:27. | |
off the North Sea. In the far South, the cloud thickens and it becomes | :27:27. | :27:32. | |
damp, misty along the South coast. Rain coming and going, and a | :27:32. | :27:35. | |
greater risk of seeing interruptions to play in the | :27:35. | :27:41. | |
cricket. Greater brightness developing in North Wales, but for | :27:41. | :27:45. | |
South Eastern England and Scotland it is damp. Bright interludes in | :27:45. | :27:51. | |
Northern Ireland, but generally it is cold with figures in single | :27:51. | :27:57. | |
figures again. It is a cloudy day with rain in northern England and | :27:57. | :28:00. | |
North Wales on Saturday. Some bright as in the South and with | :28:01. | :28:05. | |
sunshine the temperatures could reach something like May. But | :28:05. | :28:11. | |
further North, single figures again. That cold wind continues to blow on | :28:11. | :28:14. | |
Sunday. Further rain across central, eastern and southern parts of | :28:14. | :28:19. | |
England. Brighter skies further North with a bit of sunshine. It is | :28:19. | :28:24. | |
hoped that the Olympic torch is windproof. You can keep up to date | :28:24. | :28:27. | |
with its progress and the forecast online. | :28:27. | :28:32. | |
Thank you. A reminder of the main news: The | :28:32. | :28:36. |