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Barclays' share price hammered as investors count the cost of the | :00:08. | :00:12. | |
latest banking scandal. The bank's chief Bob Diamond faces calls to | :00:12. | :00:21. | |
resign. The Prime Minister issues a challenge. People have to take | :00:21. | :00:24. | |
responsibility for the actions and show how they are going to be | :00:24. | :00:28. | |
accountable for those actions, and it's important that goes to the top | :00:28. | :00:31. | |
of the organisation. The government says traders were motivated by | :00:31. | :00:34. | |
greed, lying to increase bank profits and improve its finances. | :00:34. | :00:38. | |
We'll be asking how this could have happened. Also tonight: | :00:38. | :00:42. | |
Flash flooding across parts of the UK leaves one man dead. Rail delays, | :00:42. | :00:47. | |
roads closed and schools shut early. One of Britain's longest serving | :00:47. | :00:57. | |
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prisoners escapes. A major manhunt A salute to their raw courage. The | :00:59. | :01:02. | |
Queen unveils a memorial to the 55,000 airmen who died in the | :01:02. | :01:07. | |
Second World War. Free kicks, fame and fortune but | :01:07. | :01:16. | |
it's not enough. David Beckham fails to make the Olympic cut. | :01:16. | :01:21. | |
The capital's new cable car opens ahead of the Olympics costing �60 | :01:21. | :01:27. | |
million and the family of Mark Duggan, whose death sparked last | :01:27. | :01:37. | |
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year's riots, calls for the police Good evening. Welcome to the BBC | :01:42. | :01:48. | |
News at Six. There's been a big sell off in Barclays shares tonight | :01:48. | :01:51. | |
as investors realise the full implications of the new scandal | :01:51. | :01:53. | |
engulfing the bank. David Cameron has weighed in, saying the Barclays | :01:53. | :01:57. | |
boss, Bob Diamond, had serious questions to answer. And more | :01:57. | :02:00. | |
details have emerged about the way some Barclay's traders lied to make | :02:00. | :02:04. | |
the bank's position look more secure than it was. Here's our | :02:04. | :02:07. | |
business editor Robert Peston on the latest crisis to hit Britain's | :02:07. | :02:17. | |
financial sector. Weighing the cost of the city of | :02:17. | :02:22. | |
Barclays, the worst ever trust by a big British banks. But you | :02:22. | :02:26. | |
executive Bob Diamond facing calls to resign. The share price | :02:26. | :02:32. | |
plummeting. Down an astonishing 15.5%. The City of London has been | :02:32. | :02:40. | |
shaken. And it is the men about river doing shaking. It is clear | :02:40. | :02:45. | |
what happened and Barclays banks was be completely unacceptable, | :02:46. | :02:50. | |
systematically of a financial system of elevated agreed. It | :02:50. | :02:54. | |
brought our economy to its knees. am determined we learn all the | :02:54. | :02:59. | |
lessons from what has happened at Barclays Bank and people have to | :02:59. | :03:03. | |
take responsibility for the actions and show how they are going to be | :03:03. | :03:07. | |
accountable for them and that's very important it goes to the top. | :03:07. | :03:11. | |
Big investors in Berkeley say they think heads should roll at the top, | :03:11. | :03:19. | |
possibly Bob Diamond, but right now, probably the chairman. He's also on | :03:19. | :03:23. | |
the BBC's executive board. Although Bob Diamond says he won't take his | :03:23. | :03:27. | |
bonus, some investors want to hit the more junior bank is responsible | :03:27. | :03:35. | |
for trying to bring interest rates in, in pursuit of profits. We think | :03:35. | :03:40. | |
bonuses paid to staff should now be clawed back. Where there has been | :03:40. | :03:46. | |
the sort of behaviour, pay and bonus can be taken back. Someone | :03:46. | :03:51. | |
else wants prosecutions for junior bankers. I want to see criminal | :03:51. | :03:54. | |
prosecutions and they do want to see those who have done the wrong | :03:54. | :03:59. | |
thing, those who have committed what I think are atrocious act, | :03:59. | :04:04. | |
brought to justice. Regulators tummy criminal prosecutions of | :04:04. | :04:08. | |
individual bankers in New York and London are likely. The banks are | :04:08. | :04:11. | |
bracing themselves to fight expensive civil court cases brought | :04:11. | :04:19. | |
by investors who say they had been robbed. Lawsuits will appear, not | :04:19. | :04:25. | |
just here but in the USA. Adding all those potential costs up, we | :04:25. | :04:30. | |
could easily get to several billions of pounds for the UK banks. | :04:30. | :04:34. | |
The huge pines being paid by Barclays Bank, the massive legal | :04:34. | :04:39. | |
costs it faces, it won't kill the bank, but banks look after our | :04:39. | :04:43. | |
money so they need to be trusted by as, and that's why they need to | :04:43. | :04:47. | |
demonstrate that the flagrant flouting of the rules by bankers | :04:47. | :04:52. | |
can never happen again. Today's will the most serious slump in bank | :04:52. | :04:59. | |
share prices since the financial crisis of 2008, caused, say many, | :04:59. | :05:05. | |
by bankers greed and recklessness. Our Political Editor Nick Robinson | :05:05. | :05:08. | |
joins us now from Brussels where David Cameron is taking part in an | :05:08. | :05:13. | |
EU summit meeting. Lots of condemnation tonight but people | :05:13. | :05:17. | |
will want to know if anyone is actually going to get punished. | :05:17. | :05:22. | |
Well, they were indeed, and that's why the politicians are trying so | :05:22. | :05:25. | |
hard to catch up with the public's anger. When the Prime Minister | :05:25. | :05:29. | |
arrived in Brussels he talked about accountability at the top. Ed | :05:29. | :05:36. | |
Miliband, the Labour leader, talked about prosecutions. The public know | :05:36. | :05:41. | |
that they want people to lose their jobs or losing their freedom, going | :05:41. | :05:46. | |
to prison. That is where there is something of a problem because it | :05:46. | :05:51. | |
turns out that there is no specific legislation to create an offence of | :05:51. | :05:55. | |
rigging this particular market, the so-called market, and there has | :05:55. | :06:01. | |
been a political row raging today about whose fault it was. The Tory | :06:01. | :06:06. | |
blame Gordon Brown. Ed Balls was in charge of regulating the City, and | :06:06. | :06:12. | |
didn't do this. Labour replied, no, it was your fault. The city was de | :06:12. | :06:16. | |
regulated under Margaret Thatcher. A senior Labour figure in the House | :06:16. | :06:25. | |
of Lords said, yes, OK, it is our fault. People watching a told -- at | :06:25. | :06:32. | |
home don't recur. They want to see prosecutions. It's likely that | :06:32. | :06:35. | |
certain politicians are hopeful that although there is not a | :06:35. | :06:39. | |
specific offence, it could be possible for the Serious Fraud | :06:39. | :06:44. | |
Office to bring prosecutions under general fraud legislation. What is | :06:44. | :06:53. | |
true, I think, the public know that in the USA, you have seen bankers | :06:53. | :06:57. | |
with police men alongside them, often with their wrists shackled. | :06:57. | :07:03. | |
All we have seen in Britain so far, the worst for any banker is a man | :07:03. | :07:07. | |
at losing his knighthood. OK, thank you. A man has been found dead | :07:07. | :07:10. | |
after storms and flash floods hit much of the Midlands. There's been | :07:10. | :07:13. | |
disruption on the roads and some rail services were delayed. There | :07:13. | :07:15. | |
are fears of more flash flooding across northern England this | :07:16. | :07:18. | |
evening. The latest downpour began in Northern Ireland last night | :07:18. | :07:21. | |
where 1,000 homes were left without power. Mark Simpson reports from | :07:21. | :07:29. | |
Belfast. The rush hour today in Belfast. | :07:29. | :07:34. | |
After last night's downpour, some streets looked more like rivers. | :07:34. | :07:39. | |
These police officers manage to get through but their colleagues didn't. | :07:39. | :07:44. | |
This was the problem. Two hours of non-stop rain just as many people | :07:44. | :07:49. | |
were driving home for the evening. Summer managed it, others didn't. | :07:49. | :07:55. | |
For many people, there was simply no escape from the water. Basically, | :07:55. | :08:01. | |
the river just came right down. Like something you would see on TV | :08:01. | :08:05. | |
in a faraway country. You don't expect in Belfast. It was the same | :08:05. | :08:10. | |
in Wales and parts of England. In Shropshire, a man died after his | :08:10. | :08:14. | |
car was trapped by a flash flood. He got out and decided to try to | :08:14. | :08:19. | |
walk around the floodwater but unfortunately, you can't see what's | :08:19. | :08:24. | |
underfoot. Across England, there were 48 flood alerts. The Olympic | :08:24. | :08:28. | |
torch relay had to stop briefly because of lightning in the East | :08:28. | :08:34. | |
Midlands. Back in Belfast, the grim clean-up operation is under way. | :08:34. | :08:38. | |
Last night, the people on the street were up to their knees in | :08:38. | :08:44. | |
water. It's all gone now but the damage has been done. And the bad | :08:44. | :08:48. | |
news is that more rain is forecast here tonight. And even more | :08:48. | :08:52. | |
tomorrow. A convicted murderer is on the run | :08:52. | :08:55. | |
after escaping from Pentonville prison in north London. John Massey | :08:55. | :08:59. | |
is one of the UK's longest serving prisoners. He was jailed in 1975 | :08:59. | :09:03. | |
for the murder of a man in east London. Massey used a make-shift | :09:03. | :09:06. | |
rope to scale a wall. An investigation is under way. Here's | :09:06. | :09:14. | |
our home affairs correspondent, Tom Symonds. | :09:14. | :09:17. | |
Convicted murderer John Massey is understood to have been refused | :09:17. | :09:21. | |
parole just months ago because of his record. And now, he is | :09:21. | :09:25. | |
literally over the wall. An investigation has been launched at | :09:25. | :09:28. | |
the prison after one of the most embarrassing lapses of security in | :09:28. | :09:33. | |
its history. So how did John Massey escape from Pentonville prison? | :09:33. | :09:38. | |
Well, despite being 64, sources have told the BBC he used a | :09:38. | :09:43. | |
makeshift rope and somehow got over the wall. A wall at more than 25 | :09:43. | :09:49. | |
feet tall, in places. And it's not just the wall. He also had to get | :09:49. | :09:53. | |
over a razor wire fence. There are no official details of his escape. | :09:53. | :09:57. | |
He is understood to have hidden in the prison gymnasium before getting | :09:57. | :10:01. | |
onto a roof and lowering himself to the street using a rope made from | :10:01. | :10:06. | |
discarded netting. John Massey as a record of a fading custody. He was | :10:06. | :10:11. | |
sentenced to life for murdering Charles Higgins in 1975 and 18 | :10:11. | :10:15. | |
years later he escaped on a home visit and was on the run for three | :10:15. | :10:20. | |
years. In at 2007, he broke parole conditions. In at 2010, he walked | :10:20. | :10:25. | |
out of an open prison. The police say he is potentially dangerous. | :10:25. | :10:30. | |
His sister told me he was refused parole in March because he had | :10:30. | :10:35. | |
absconded in the past two seasick members of his family. It crucified | :10:35. | :10:41. | |
him. When he walked out, when our sister Carol was sick, he got taken | :10:41. | :10:46. | |
to court for that and got six months. He has already served that | :10:46. | :10:52. | |
time and time again. A former prison governor believes refusing | :10:52. | :10:57. | |
to release prisoners give them nothing to lose by escaping. They | :10:57. | :11:01. | |
will consider all sorts of things and will become difficult | :11:02. | :11:05. | |
management problems. If you are some in prison, you want them to | :11:05. | :11:09. | |
have something to lose. Police are appealing for any information about | :11:09. | :11:13. | |
where John Massey is. The deputy chief constable of | :11:13. | :11:16. | |
Surrey Police, Craig Denholm, is being investigated by the | :11:16. | :11:18. | |
Independent Police Complaints Commission over claims he failed to | :11:18. | :11:21. | |
act over the hacking of murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler's phone in | :11:21. | :11:29. | |
2002. Another officer who took over from Mr Denholm as the senior | :11:29. | :11:33. | |
officer in the case is also being investigated. Both officers remain | :11:33. | :11:38. | |
on duty. Latest figures show the recession | :11:38. | :11:43. | |
is deeper than previously feared. The UK economy shrank by 0.4% in | :11:43. | :11:46. | |
the final quarter of last year. Slightly more than an earlier | :11:46. | :11:53. | |
estimate of 0.3%. EU leaders are in Brussels again | :11:53. | :11:57. | |
tonight in their latest attempt to save the euro. But they appear to | :11:57. | :12:00. | |
be more divided than ever about how it should be done. The Spanish and | :12:00. | :12:03. | |
Italian governments say the whole of Europe should guarantee their | :12:03. | :12:07. | |
massive debts. But that would need German support. Our Europe Editor, | :12:07. | :12:16. | |
Gavin Hewitt, is in Brussels. This must be the 20th summit on this. Is | :12:16. | :12:22. | |
it going to be any different? George, I have to say to you it's | :12:22. | :12:27. | |
not looking very much better this time. The key countries are Italy | :12:27. | :12:32. | |
and Spain. Their borrowing costs have been going up and the Spanish | :12:32. | :12:35. | |
Prime Minister said he did not know how long they could continue coping | :12:35. | :12:40. | |
with this. But when the leaders arrived here earlier today, it was | :12:40. | :12:44. | |
clear they were quite badly divided. The French President for instance | :12:44. | :12:48. | |
said, we have got to show solidarity, we have got to move | :12:48. | :12:52. | |
quickly, help these countries. Then another leader said that her | :12:52. | :12:56. | |
message to Spain and Italy were simply this. There is no such thing | :12:56. | :12:59. | |
as a free lunch for the but of course, the central player is | :12:59. | :13:03. | |
Germany and all the pressure has been on Angela Merkel. But she has | :13:03. | :13:09. | |
said, you can't even begin talking about sharing debt without there | :13:09. | :13:14. | |
being tied to European control over national budgets force of what will | :13:14. | :13:18. | |
happen? Well, we will have to wait and see. I think there will be | :13:18. | :13:24. | |
agreement on a growth package, 130 billion euros, and on a road map to | :13:24. | :13:27. | |
endure much closer economic and political union much further down | :13:27. | :13:31. | |
the road and the people here hope that will convince the markets they | :13:31. | :13:35. | |
are really serious about defending this currency but others have said, | :13:35. | :13:40. | |
that's all very well but it won't happen for another 10 years. The | :13:40. | :13:43. | |
fire in the eurozone is raging today. Thank you. | :13:43. | :13:46. | |
David Beckham's Olympic dream is over. His hopes of playing for Team | :13:46. | :13:50. | |
GB have been dashed after he was told he's not in the squad for | :13:50. | :13:57. | |
London 2012. As our sports correspondent, James Pearce reports, | :13:57. | :14:03. | |
it's a huge disappointment for one of the world's great sporting icons. | :14:03. | :14:07. | |
Only 29 days to go now but David Beckham has been an integral part | :14:07. | :14:14. | |
of London 2012 from the start. City of London! A key member of the | :14:14. | :14:19. | |
bid team which won in Singapore. On display on a 2012 bus at the | :14:19. | :14:23. | |
Beijing closing ceremony. And just last month, he carried the Olympic | :14:23. | :14:27. | |
torch when arrived in Cornwall. That same day, he told me about his | :14:27. | :14:31. | |
burning desire to become an Olympian this summer. Being | :14:31. | :14:35. | |
involved in the Olympic Games would be huge. Being part of the team, | :14:35. | :14:45. | |
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being part of the Team GB team. It But there will be no David Beckham | :14:48. | :14:52. | |
special free kicks at the Olympics. He was told last night by the coach | :14:52. | :14:56. | |
Stuart Pearce, he's to be left out of the squad for I think he | :14:56. | :14:59. | |
deserves more respect than that. has been a fantastic ambassador for | :14:59. | :15:04. | |
British football. He puts the name of Great Britain across the world | :15:04. | :15:09. | |
so I think it's appalling, really. One of the faces of the Games in | :15:09. | :15:12. | |
2012 promotional films, David Beckham will still be involved in | :15:12. | :15:17. | |
the Olympics but as an ambassador. David Beckham as always said the | :15:17. | :15:20. | |
only one to be picked for the Olympics on merit and he knew it | :15:20. | :15:24. | |
was going to be tough to prove he is still good enough but his non- | :15:24. | :15:26. | |
selection would come as just a disappointment to his many fans, | :15:26. | :15:31. | |
and will do nothing to help the London organisers shift 1.2 million | :15:31. | :15:40. | |
football tickets which remain Our top story tonight: Barclay's | :15:40. | :15:43. | |
shares take a hammering, as the Prime Minister says those at the | :15:43. | :15:45. | |
top must be held accountable for the bank's interest rate | :15:46. | :15:55. | |
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manipulation. Coming up: Andy Murray has taken to | :15:57. | :16:03. | |
four sets, but edges through to a third round at Wimbledon. | :16:03. | :16:06. | |
And on the News Channel, we will have all the news from Wimbledon, | :16:06. | :16:10. | |
where Britain's number-one Andy Murray has been in action against | :16:10. | :16:20. | |
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The Queen has unveiled a memorial to thousands of airmen from Bomber | :16:26. | :16:29. | |
Command who died in the Second World War. A Lancaster bomber | :16:30. | :16:34. | |
dropped poppies over London's Green Park, where some of the few | :16:34. | :16:38. | |
surviving veterans from the RAF's most controversial campaign had | :16:38. | :16:44. | |
gathered. If the pilots who fought in the | :16:44. | :16:47. | |
Battle of Britain were known as the few, the Bomber Command aircrew | :16:47. | :16:52. | |
would regard themselves as the many. Today, the many travelled here for | :16:52. | :16:56. | |
an act of remembrance, but also to receive what they regard as a | :16:57. | :17:00. | |
nation's long overdue recognition her of the bravery they showed as | :17:00. | :17:05. | |
young men. They had found the strength to | :17:05. | :17:08. | |
travel here from around the country and around the globe. These men, | :17:08. | :17:14. | |
who carried the memories of danger, excitement and loss in the skies | :17:14. | :17:20. | |
over Europe. The Queen, here to recognise their courage and | :17:20. | :17:26. | |
sacrifice, an honour they had been denied for 67 years. Cast in bronze, | :17:26. | :17:30. | |
seven members of a bomber crew, as if returning from a mission, | :17:30. | :17:34. | |
breathe life into long held memories of the friends who never | :17:34. | :17:41. | |
returned. They never regarded themselves as heroes. The young air | :17:42. | :17:44. | |
crew filmed on this rare colour footage as they left their base | :17:44. | :17:49. | |
knew their chances of making it back were slim. During 1942, fewer | :17:49. | :17:59. | |
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than half of them survived their first 30 operations. And yet, in | :18:00. | :18:05. | |
the post-war years, successive governments were reluctant to mark | :18:05. | :18:15. | |
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their courage, until today. There was unease over the level of German | :18:16. | :18:21. | |
civilian casualties thought to be up to 600,000. This memorial | :18:21. | :18:25. | |
acknowledges all civilian losses, linking remembrance to | :18:25. | :18:32. | |
reconciliation. Around the new sculpture, veterans shared their | :18:32. | :18:36. | |
stories, and in their quiet moments, mourned the faces that still haunt | :18:36. | :18:45. | |
them. They gave their lives, didn't they? Some of them never had a | :18:45. | :18:53. | |
chance. I am sorry my old crew are not with us. I have said a prayer | :18:53. | :19:00. | |
to date for them. Britain's last flying Lancaster paid the final | :19:00. | :19:07. | |
tribute, a cloud of red poppies in the blue sky. Lest we forget. | :19:07. | :19:11. | |
reminder to future generations of the painful lessons learnt by | :19:11. | :19:17. | |
nations now at peace. As you can see, there is still a | :19:17. | :19:20. | |
great deal of interest being shown in the new monument, and there will | :19:20. | :19:25. | |
be for days to come. When you chat to veterans, of course they have | :19:25. | :19:30. | |
been stirred by a range of emotions, but above all, they will travel | :19:30. | :19:36. | |
home satisfied that at long last, Britain has done its duty. | :19:36. | :19:40. | |
A two-year-old girl has died after falling 60 ft from a fourth-floor | :19:40. | :19:45. | |
flat. A glass panel was missing from a railing on the balcony. | :19:45. | :19:48. | |
Rayaheen Banimuslim's father wants to know why the broken panel was | :19:48. | :19:53. | |
not fixed. The company responsible for the building says it checked | :19:53. | :19:59. | |
the panel's two days before the accident, and they were not broken. | :19:59. | :20:03. | |
Those who cared for Rayaheen Banimuslim brought flowers and a | :20:03. | :20:09. | |
photo of her nursery classmates to the place where she fell. She was | :20:09. | :20:18. | |
so bright and confident. She came to nursery, and she was running and | :20:18. | :20:23. | |
happy. It was here in the communal gardens that the two-year-old was | :20:24. | :20:29. | |
playing with her mother, four floors up, before she died. But as | :20:29. | :20:33. | |
she played, what her mother did not realise was that the glass around | :20:33. | :20:41. | |
the corner was missing. She fell before her mother could reach her. | :20:41. | :20:45. | |
Friends say Rayaheen Banimuslim's father wants to know why the class | :20:45. | :20:54. | |
was not replaced sooner. He is angry. You do not expect to see the | :20:55. | :21:03. | |
glass panel in this corridor. You can see, this is just made of glass. | :21:03. | :21:10. | |
If it is broken, one can fall, and there is no extra safety. | :21:10. | :21:13. | |
management company says it checked the panel's two days before, and | :21:13. | :21:18. | |
none were missing. It will now work with the police as they investigate | :21:18. | :21:25. | |
how this young girl died. The BBC has uncovered evidence that | :21:25. | :21:28. | |
a minister in the Conservative government of the 1960s was working | :21:28. | :21:32. | |
as a spy for Czechoslovakia. Raymond Mawby, a former MP for | :21:33. | :21:37. | |
Totnes in Devon, was given a code name and paid around �100 a time | :21:37. | :21:46. | |
for information. Raymond Mawby was an unusual MP. A | :21:46. | :21:49. | |
working-class trade unionist whose politics were of the right. Here, | :21:49. | :21:54. | |
he is speaking out against legalising homosexuality. My eyes | :21:54. | :21:58. | |
to the people involved, insecurity cases, have been found to be male | :21:58. | :22:05. | |
homosexuals. And yet Mawby himself was a security risk. Files found by | :22:05. | :22:09. | |
the BBC in Prague show that he was passing information to | :22:09. | :22:14. | |
Czechoslovaks buys for a decade. We had known before that some Labour | :22:14. | :22:18. | |
MPs had worked as communist spies, but this is the first time we have | :22:18. | :22:23. | |
known that a Conservative MP, a minister even, had done the same. | :22:23. | :22:28. | |
So what kind of information did he pass on? He did not have access to | :22:28. | :22:31. | |
anything top-secret, but these files showed that he passed on | :22:31. | :22:38. | |
details about fellow MPs. At the request of the Czechs, he even drew | :22:38. | :22:44. | |
up a floor plan of the House of Commons. Why? Is received for �100 | :22:44. | :22:48. | |
provides the answer. Mawby had little money and a taste for | :22:48. | :22:51. | |
gambling. A former colleague who used to drink with him is | :22:51. | :22:56. | |
astonished by the news, but thinks Money explains it. I think he was | :22:56. | :23:02. | |
short of cash. Apparently, he had a gambling problem. No wonder he fell | :23:02. | :23:08. | |
prey to some of these temptations offered by the Czechs. May macro | :23:08. | :23:13. | |
was deselected as an MP in 1983. He died just as the Cold War ended in | :23:13. | :23:18. | |
1990. Only now has his secrets emerged. | :23:18. | :23:23. | |
Andy Murray came up against a man mountain in the second round of | :23:23. | :23:27. | |
Wimbledon's Centre Court today. His opponent was 6 ft 10 with a huge | :23:27. | :23:33. | |
serve, but Murray came through in four sets. | :23:33. | :23:37. | |
In one sense, Andy Murray had to scale new heights today. His | :23:37. | :23:41. | |
opponent was an eastern European tower block by the name of Ivo | :23:41. | :23:46. | |
Karlovic. Coleridge's weapon of choice, a served with a heightened | :23:46. | :23:53. | |
pace of a meteorite. But he displayed a, as well, a surprising | :23:53. | :24:03. | |
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delicacy. Which is also one of the Murray trademarks. As is his | :24:03. | :24:09. | |
nimbleness. That would give Murray a break and the first set. The | :24:09. | :24:18. | |
second set went to a tie-break, and it went to Ivo Karlovic. That | :24:18. | :24:23. | |
prompted more characteristic Murray, a stern talk to self. Whatever he | :24:24. | :24:32. | |
said seemed to work. The next game, Murray broke. And displayed | :24:32. | :24:39. | |
astonishing energy to break again, and secured the third set. Almost | :24:39. | :24:45. | |
an hour later, the fourth set went to a tie-break. Murray turned his | :24:45. | :24:49. | |
racket into a cricket bat and doubled up with pleasure. Two match | :24:49. | :24:57. | |
points, and he only needed one. Winning is all that is important | :24:57. | :25:03. | |
when you are playing a guy with his style. So challenging to get into a | :25:03. | :25:09. | |
rhythm. That was the sound of a man not euphoric, just relieved. | :25:09. | :25:14. | |
Relief for Andy Murray, but there has been unalloyed joy on Court No. | :25:14. | :25:19. | |
1, where James Ward, the British No. 2, has taken Mardy Fish, an | :25:19. | :25:23. | |
American ranked several million places above him, to a fifth set. | :25:23. | :25:27. | |
Depending when that finishes and the subsequent match, we can make | :25:27. | :25:30. | |
good to see Elena Baltacha, one of the British Women, and see if she | :25:30. | :25:35. | |
can get to the third round. But Anne Keovathong will not be joining | :25:35. | :25:41. | |
anyone, as she lost with room to spare earlier. | :25:41. | :25:44. | |
More now on our main story, the crisis at Barclay's Bank following | :25:44. | :25:48. | |
revelations that traders read key interest rates. Our Business Editor | :25:48. | :25:52. | |
Robert Peston joins me. This will shatter any trust that was left in | :25:52. | :25:57. | |
the banks. We have to hope it doesn't, because tomorrow, there | :25:57. | :26:02. | |
will be yet more serious criticism of the banks by the Financial | :26:02. | :26:08. | |
Services Authority, the City watchdog. It will say that all of | :26:08. | :26:13. | |
them did the wrong thing when selling complicated financial | :26:13. | :26:17. | |
products, swaps to small businesses, which have threatened the viability | :26:17. | :26:22. | |
of those businesses by putting up their costs. Last-minute | :26:23. | :26:27. | |
negotiations are going on to put in place a restitution plan for those | :26:27. | :26:34. | |
businesses. Let's put that into the context of this week. Admission by | :26:34. | :26:38. | |
Barclays that its people lied about interest rates and that the Bank | :26:38. | :26:43. | |
was paying. NatWest earlier this week failed in its prime | :26:43. | :26:47. | |
responsibility to execute transactions for thousands, | :26:47. | :26:52. | |
millions of customers. In my experience, there has never been a | :26:52. | :26:57. | |
week as bad as this for Britain's banks. Astonishing. It is a tragedy | :26:57. | :27:02. | |
for them, but also a tragedy for us, because if this economy is to | :27:02. | :27:12. | |
recover, we need sound banks and Now the weather. | :27:12. | :27:19. | |
The bid has been a day of severe weather. In London, 28 degrees. The | :27:19. | :27:26. | |
heat and humidity triggered some flash flooding and downpours. | :27:26. | :27:31. | |
Coupled with some giant damaging hail as well. It started in | :27:31. | :27:35. | |
Northern Ireland with the heavy rain. Then we turned our attention | :27:35. | :27:39. | |
through the Midlands and northern England, a clustering of thundery | :27:39. | :27:43. | |
downpours spilling towards the North Sea. For the next few hours, | :27:43. | :27:47. | |
we still have rain warnings from the Met Office. There is still | :27:47. | :27:51. | |
heavy rain at the moment in the north-east of England, but it will | :27:51. | :27:54. | |
be pushing away. The wettest weather will sweep towards the | :27:54. | :28:02. | |
northern islands of Scotland. Then we will see lighter showers later. | :28:02. | :28:06. | |
Tomorrow will feel very different. It will be cooler and fresher, with | :28:06. | :28:13. | |
a stronger blustery wind and a mixture of sunshine and showers. In | :28:13. | :28:17. | |
the afternoon, there will be showers in Northern Ireland. Not as | :28:17. | :28:25. | |
heavy as today. The odd heavy one in Scotland and the north of | :28:25. | :28:28. | |
England, but we will see cloud across Wales and the western side | :28:28. | :28:33. | |
of England. Some strong and blustery winds. From the Midlands | :28:33. | :28:41. | |
eastwards, it will be much cooler than today. Through the weekend, if | :28:41. | :28:44. | |
anything, it is going to turn cooler. It will be breezy, | :28:44. | :28:51. |