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The Prime Minister finalises plans for his first major reshuffle since | :00:11. | :00:17. | |
the coalition came to power. The changes to his team, expected | :00:17. | :00:21. | |
tomorrow, could see dozens of ministers change or lose their jobs. | :00:21. | :00:25. | |
His allies say it will revitalise the coalition. The Government is | :00:25. | :00:30. | |
back in business, back in Parliament this week, Fizing with | :00:30. | :00:34. | |
new ideas for reform and to drive economic growth in this country. | :00:34. | :00:39. | |
There is still dissatisfaction from Tory backbenches, with calls for a | :00:39. | :00:43. | |
major change in economic policy. Precisely because our economy is | :00:43. | :00:49. | |
bumping on the bottom, we need to shock it into activity. We'll ask | :00:49. | :00:54. | |
what tomorrow's reshuffle might reveal about the Government's mans. | :00:54. | :01:01. | |
Also on tonight's programme: Another victory for Ellie Simmonds | :01:01. | :01:07. | |
at the Paralympics. She wins the 200 metre individual medley in a | :01:08. | :01:13. | |
world record time. Losing the battle of the blades - Oscar | :01:13. | :01:15. | |
Pistorius apologises for poor timing of the remarks about the man | :01:15. | :01:21. | |
who beat him to gold. Police describe overnight riots in Belfast | :01:21. | :01:28. | |
as "savage." Nearly 50 officers are injured. And royal descent, the | :01:29. | :01:36. | |
Duke of York abseils down Europe's tallest building for his outward | :01:36. | :01:40. | |
bound charity. We'll have sports news with all the latest reports, | :01:40. | :01:50. | |
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news, interviews and features from Hello. A very good evening. Welcome | :02:03. | :02:06. | |
to the BBC News at Six. The Prime Minister is finalising plans for | :02:06. | :02:10. | |
his first major reshuffle since the coalition came to power. The | :02:10. | :02:14. | |
changes to his team, expected tomorrow, could see dozens of | :02:14. | :02:19. | |
ministers change or lose their jobs. As Mr Cameron tries to revitalise | :02:19. | :02:23. | |
his Government, there's continuing dissatisfaction on the Conservative | :02:23. | :02:27. | |
backbenches. Today the man he beat to become Tory leader, called on | :02:27. | :02:32. | |
the Government to change its economic policy to avoid decades in | :02:32. | :02:38. | |
the doll droms. Tonight ministers across Westminster are wondering | :02:38. | :02:42. | |
whether tomorrow they will be clearing their desks. Civil | :02:43. | :02:48. | |
servants are wondering who might be their new boss. Backbenchers are | :02:48. | :02:52. | |
wondering whether tomorrow might be the day they get the call they | :02:52. | :02:57. | |
always dreamed of. Not much work was done today - ministers and | :02:57. | :02:59. | |
civil servants know that the ministerial pack is being shuffled. | :02:59. | :03:04. | |
All are waiting to see how the Prime Minister plays hi cards. It | :03:04. | :03:08. | |
was all -- his cards. It was all quiet on Downing Street. The cat, | :03:08. | :03:12. | |
one of the few to make a public appearance. Tomorrow, the cameras | :03:12. | :03:16. | |
will film the men and women, coming to hear from their boss what new | :03:16. | :03:22. | |
jobs he wants them to perform. Those losing their jobs can expect | :03:22. | :03:28. | |
a more discrete phone call. Inside Number Ten today, David Cameron's | :03:28. | :03:38. | |
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closest aitds are armed with mark - - aids are armed with marker pens. | :03:38. | :03:42. | |
Not the Prime Minister's first reshuffle, but also one that will | :03:42. | :03:46. | |
be much more widespread than many expected. It would l be natural, I | :03:46. | :03:49. | |
think, as we get to the halfway point of the Parliament, for the | :03:49. | :03:55. | |
Prime Minister to want to refresh the team around him and to give the | :03:55. | :03:59. | |
opportunity to serving Government, to those who want to join with him | :03:59. | :04:02. | |
in pushing forward new ideas and deliver the change we need. Change | :04:02. | :04:06. | |
meant to prove that in the Chancellor's phrase this Government | :04:06. | :04:16. | |
means business. Today, the man David Cameron beat | :04:16. | :04:21. | |
to become Tory leader called for a dramatic change for economic policy. | :04:21. | :04:26. | |
The quicker we act, the less painful it will be. Precisely | :04:26. | :04:30. | |
because our economy is bumping on the bottom, we need to shock it | :04:30. | :04:38. | |
into abgtity. The Government needs -- activity. The Government needs | :04:38. | :04:43. | |
to cut taxes, implement minijobs. David Davis claimed he did not want | :04:44. | :04:48. | |
a new man at the Treasury. He must know George Osborne and the top | :04:48. | :04:54. | |
faces are moving nowhere. But a string of middle ranking off Sirs | :04:54. | :05:01. | |
are in play. Ken Clarke could lose control of prison policy. He may be | :05:01. | :05:07. | |
replaced. Andrew Lansley, architect of the controversial health changes | :05:07. | :05:12. | |
could be shifted and Jeremy Hunt, the row of the Murdoch's | :05:12. | :05:20. | |
relationship with this Government, may be moved. Today Danny Alexander | :05:20. | :05:23. | |
met in Downing Street to agree the new shape of the Government. This | :05:23. | :05:30. | |
involves not one party, but two. One Lib Dem, David Laws, will | :05:30. | :05:34. | |
return to Government. He resigned two years ago after questions about | :05:34. | :05:40. | |
his expenses. One thing it will have to address is coalition | :05:40. | :05:44. | |
tensions - on show again this afternoon. I would like to make a | :05:44. | :05:48. | |
statement on House of Lords reform, or what is left of it. Every Prime | :05:48. | :05:56. | |
Minister hopes that their reshuffle will inject new ideas, new energy | :05:56. | :06:02. | |
into a Government that needs help. The changer is that what it can | :06:02. | :06:06. | |
inswrect is a level of ig -- inject is a level of tension that the | :06:06. | :06:10. | |
Government doesn't really need. Any Government reshuffle is a gamble. | :06:10. | :06:14. | |
With the economy not moving and the Government losing support, the | :06:14. | :06:18. | |
stakes in this one are particularly high. | :06:18. | :06:22. | |
David Cameron has for many years in opposition and in Government | :06:22. | :06:27. | |
resisted the regular reshuffle ritual. So loved by so many of his | :06:27. | :06:31. | |
predecessors.. He knows they can go wrong as well as right. Today and | :06:31. | :06:35. | |
tomorrow he'll have the time to ponder whether he should have | :06:35. | :06:42. | |
delayed this one as well. Thank you. There have been plenty more medals | :06:42. | :06:45. | |
for Britain's Paralympians today. In the last few minutes Ellie | :06:45. | :06:50. | |
Simmonds has won her second gold of the Games. He won her 200 metre | :06:50. | :06:54. | |
individual medley in style at the Aquatics Centre. She becomes the | :06:54. | :07:01. | |
third woman to win double gold at the London Games. Her father said | :07:01. | :07:04. | |
she thought she would sparkle tonight. He did that. It shows how | :07:04. | :07:08. | |
much she has improved over the past four years. She only finished fifth | :07:08. | :07:14. | |
in this event in Beijing. She has trained harder for this event than | :07:14. | :07:19. | |
any other she is competing in. In the heats this morning she took | :07:19. | :07:22. | |
another second off that and another one-and-a-half seconds off the | :07:22. | :07:27. | |
world record this evening. She was dominant. The medley is an event | :07:27. | :07:33. | |
with four strokes. One stroke for each length. Her strongest stroke, | :07:33. | :07:38. | |
the freestyle is the last event. If anyone in the crowd was worried, | :07:38. | :07:42. | |
she wasn't. She knew what to do. She became the youngest person to | :07:42. | :07:49. | |
get an MBE, four years ago. She can bank on an upgrade in the New Year | :07:49. | :07:57. | |
honours as well. A silver for Sascha Kindred. | :07:57. | :08:03. | |
Thank you very much. Natasha Baker won her second gold of the Games in | :08:03. | :08:08. | |
dressage. Lee Pearson got bronze, also in dressage, missing out on | :08:08. | :08:13. | |
equalling the modern British record of 11 golds. Our correspondent is | :08:13. | :08:19. | |
at Greenwich Park for us. Joe? two more British medals today, | :08:19. | :08:22. | |
taking the equestrian total to eight. The thing about Lee Pearson | :08:22. | :08:27. | |
is he came to these Games unbeat no-one the Paralympics since the | :08:27. | :08:32. | |
year 2000. His London record is one gold, one silver and today a bronze. | :08:32. | :08:36. | |
He finished 5% behind the Austrian winner. It is not what he is used | :08:36. | :08:43. | |
to. Over the bridge to the arena. There's never been a Paralympic | :08:43. | :08:48. | |
competition like this - record crowds, some record scores. | :08:48. | :08:53. | |
Lee Pearson wanted to equal a special record himself, well not | :08:53. | :09:01. | |
quite. In the freestyle dressage, riders set their routine to music. | :09:01. | :09:08. | |
Today the combination performed to a James Bond sound track. 74.2% - a | :09:08. | :09:13. | |
good score, not good enough to win. A gold would have taken Lee | :09:13. | :09:18. | |
Pearson's lifetime total to 11, equal with Tanni Grey-Thompson. | :09:18. | :09:23. | |
Pearson had to make do with less - only a disappointment because he | :09:23. | :09:28. | |
set his own standards so high. Already there is a new generation | :09:28. | :09:32. | |
of British east questtryian stars. Today Natasha Baker won her second | :09:32. | :09:38. | |
gold medal with her second world record. A virus she contracted as a | :09:38. | :09:43. | |
baby left her with spinal damage. She was brought up to believe | :09:43. | :09:48. | |
anything is possible. In many Paralympic sports the standard is | :09:48. | :09:55. | |
It is worth remembering that Britain is still the dominant | :09:55. | :10:02. | |
nation here in the equestrian. As for Lee Pearson, he could still go | :10:02. | :10:12. | |
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on and challenge the all-time Paralympic record of 16 golds. | :10:12. | :10:22. | |
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Oscar Pistorius, the so-called Blade Runner and one of the faces | :10:31. | :10:35. | |
of the Paralympics has apologised today for his timing of comments | :10:35. | :10:40. | |
about a rival's running blades. The international Paralympic committee | :10:40. | :10:46. | |
has insisted it was a fair race. Pistorius argues the rules need to | :10:46. | :10:52. | |
change to prevent some runners from getting an unfair advantage. | :10:52. | :10:57. | |
Oscar Pistorius - the biggest name in Paralympic sport. Back in the | :10:57. | :11:01. | |
spotlight this morning to receive a silver medal - nearly everyone | :11:01. | :11:06. | |
expected it to be gold. But it wasn't just this shock | :11:06. | :11:12. | |
defeat by the Brazilian Alan Oliveira in the 200 metre wis had | :11:12. | :11:15. | |
everything talking, it was the outburst that followed. A year ago | :11:15. | :11:21. | |
these guys were here. They are taller. We're not racing a fair | :11:22. | :11:26. | |
race here. I gave it my best. the South African said sorry for | :11:26. | :11:31. | |
the timing of his comments, but maintained he still had concerns | :11:31. | :11:37. | |
about the rules Governing the blades. The Paralympic committee | :11:37. | :11:44. | |
say they are ready to listen. have such a controversy on our | :11:44. | :11:54. | |
hands. We are ready to meet Oscar away from the stadium. What are the | :11:54. | :11:58. | |
rules? Athletes are measured twice, once from the elbow to the middle | :11:58. | :12:03. | |
finger and from the chest to the end of the hand. Using a formula, | :12:03. | :12:07. | |
those measures are used to calculate a maximum height limit | :12:07. | :12:11. | |
for each runner with their blades on. Officials then test competitors | :12:11. | :12:16. | |
before each race to ensure they are not gaining a height advantage. | :12:16. | :12:20. | |
Ironically, according to data released by the IPCC, Pistorius | :12:20. | :12:26. | |
could run with longer blades. He is allowed to be eight centimetres | :12:26. | :12:30. | |
taller than Oliveira. He has shorter blades because he wanted to | :12:30. | :12:35. | |
compete here, in the Olympic Games. He must comply with a court ruling | :12:35. | :12:38. | |
which restricts their height. Some feel he's been forced to make a | :12:38. | :12:42. | |
choice. If he wants to change them he would have to go through that | :12:42. | :12:46. | |
rigorous testing procedure again. As an athlete that takes away from | :12:46. | :12:53. | |
training time and everything he's trying to achieve as an individual. | :12:53. | :12:56. | |
He might have put himself at a disadvantage running at the | :12:56. | :12:59. | |
Paralympics because he wanted to run at the Olympics. The conso 6 | :12:59. | :13:07. | |
tro versy started here last -- the controversy started here shows how | :13:07. | :13:11. | |
fiercely competitive these Paralympics are. It leads to | :13:11. | :13:14. | |
questions about whether it sometimes distorts the competition. | :13:14. | :13:19. | |
Of course, as with all elite sport, equipment manufacturers have to | :13:19. | :13:23. | |
work within tight rules. There's no doubt the Paralympic technology | :13:23. | :13:30. | |
race is having an impact on the Games. These Games unEarthed a new | :13:30. | :13:35. | |
star in Alan Oliveira last night. Even in defeat Oscar Pistorius may | :13:35. | :13:41. | |
have provided another ground- breaking moment for the Paralympic | :13:41. | :13:45. | |
movement. Much more on the Paralympics on our website. The | :13:45. | :13:49. | |
events, Britain's prospects and the classification system. They are all | :13:49. | :13:59. | |
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The former international chief executive, Rebekah Brooks, has | :14:00. | :14:02. | |
appeared at Westminster Magistrates' Court. She is charged | :14:02. | :14:06. | |
with conspiring to unlawfully intercept communications which | :14:06. | :14:10. | |
prosecutors claim could involve more than 600 people. There are two | :14:10. | :14:13. | |
specific charges relating to the murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler | :14:13. | :14:17. | |
and a former union leader. She denies the allegations. A husband | :14:17. | :14:21. | |
and wife have been arrested after two suspected burglars were shot at | :14:21. | :14:27. | |
their home in Leicestershire. Four men have also been detained on | :14:27. | :14:33. | |
suspicion of aggravated burglary. Local MP Alan Duncan, a Government | :14:33. | :14:37. | |
minister, said the householders should not face prosecution for | :14:37. | :14:41. | |
defending their home. Police in Northern Ireland have described the | :14:41. | :14:47. | |
tactics used by rioters in Belfast last night as "savage." Nearly 50 | :14:47. | :14:53. | |
officers were injured after they came under attack from loyalists | :14:53. | :15:03. | |
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Sunday afternoon in Belfast. The police tried to keep rival loyalist | :15:05. | :15:09. | |
and republican Neil Danns apart after clashes broke out during a | :15:09. | :15:14. | |
republican parade along one of the main roads in the north of the city. | :15:14. | :15:19. | |
47 police officers were injured. One of them, seen here on the left, | :15:19. | :15:25. | |
was hit by a brick on their head. The violence continued through the | :15:25. | :15:29. | |
evening and into the early hours of the morning. Events in Northern | :15:29. | :15:33. | |
Ireland it is rare for so many police officers to be injured in | :15:33. | :15:39. | |
one night. The violence was savage, violence in which we saw an excess | :15:39. | :15:45. | |
of 34 petrol bombs, hundreds of fireworks, huge pieces of masonry | :15:45. | :15:50. | |
and even lasers used against this community's police officers, used | :15:50. | :15:55. | |
against public servants who, on a Sunday afternoon, went out to | :15:55. | :16:00. | |
deliver policing on behalf of this community. Why did the right break | :16:00. | :16:05. | |
out? Back in July a loyalist band was accused of playing a sectarian | :16:05. | :16:10. | |
chant outside the local Catholic church. Last month, there was | :16:10. | :16:15. | |
trouble after another parade in exactly the same place. There were | :16:15. | :16:19. | |
fears of violence during yesterday's republican march, but | :16:19. | :16:23. | |
no-one expected it would be so intense. This is a busy part of | :16:23. | :16:30. | |
Belfast, the city centre is only a mile away. But this evening things | :16:30. | :16:33. | |
have returned to normal. But the reality is behind the scenes there | :16:33. | :16:39. | |
is underlying tension. Another parade will take place here at the | :16:39. | :16:43. | |
end of this month. Work has already started to try to prevent another | :16:44. | :16:49. | |
riot. Our top story tonight: David | :16:49. | :16:54. | |
Cameron is finalising his first major Cabinet reshuffle expected | :16:54. | :17:02. | |
tomorrow. Coming up: Stepping off the 87th floor, Prince Andrew's | :17:02. | :17:06. | |
view as he abseiled down Europe's tallest building. | :17:06. | :17:13. | |
On the news channel: The downturn in UK manufacturing eases and we | :17:13. | :17:23. | |
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have more on a mobile telephone firms reigniting the market. | :17:25. | :17:29. | |
The Education Secretary, Michael Gove, has told MPs the current GCSE | :17:29. | :17:34. | |
exam is unfit for a purpose and said proposals for a new exam will | :17:34. | :17:39. | |
be announced this autumn. He said he would not interfere with the | :17:39. | :17:43. | |
independence of the exam's regulator in its conclusion that | :17:43. | :17:49. | |
this year's GCSE English exam was fair. It comes on the day 55 new | :17:49. | :17:56. | |
free schools opened in England. The Government's message on exams | :17:56. | :18:00. | |
has been clear, they will get tougher and grades will not keep | :18:00. | :18:06. | |
going up, but nobody expected it just yet. Least of all teenagers | :18:06. | :18:11. | |
all over the country except Scotland to sate their GCSE English | :18:11. | :18:16. | |
this summer. They were marked more harshly than those who sat it early | :18:16. | :18:23. | |
in January leaving some with a danger of losing places in 6th form. | :18:23. | :18:28. | |
Today Labour went on the attack. is blatantly unfair to move the | :18:28. | :18:32. | |
goalposts without warning made way throughout the year. This is rough | :18:32. | :18:38. | |
justice. Does he agree? But the Education Secretary said it was up | :18:38. | :18:44. | |
with a watchdog, Ofqual, to deal with the issue. It is an | :18:44. | :18:48. | |
independent regulator accountable to Parliament. If ministers were to | :18:48. | :18:52. | |
interfere they would be meddling and it is deeply irresponsible, | :18:52. | :18:57. | |
cynical and opportunistic for the honourable member to make that case. | :18:57. | :19:01. | |
This row looks fully set to continue, although those pupils who | :19:01. | :19:05. | |
think they have been marked too harshly are being given the chance | :19:05. | :19:11. | |
to sit the exams early, but that is not enough for one teachers' union. | :19:11. | :19:15. | |
This matter is still far from closed. We are actively | :19:15. | :19:19. | |
investigating the possibility of a legal challenge and we are going to | :19:19. | :19:25. | |
continue to fight hard for justice for the young people. The row comes | :19:25. | :19:29. | |
as English schools' experience a major change. Traditional | :19:29. | :19:33. | |
comprehensives are being replaced by academies and free schools are | :19:33. | :19:39. | |
reshaping the landscape. Michael Gove visited a new free school in | :19:39. | :19:43. | |
Birmingham today, one off 55 opening this term. The sector is | :19:43. | :19:47. | |
small, but they are close to his heart and popular with parents he | :19:47. | :19:53. | |
says. But it has not all been smooth. The plug was pulled on this | :19:53. | :19:57. | |
free school in Bradford just eight days before it was due to open | :19:57. | :20:04. | |
after it did not attract enough pupils. The other major changes are | :20:04. | :20:09. | |
academies which are set to account for half of all English secondaries. | :20:09. | :20:14. | |
They are state-funded but not under local authority control giving the | :20:14. | :20:20. | |
head teachers more freedom. We can deliver longer hours of work, | :20:20. | :20:23. | |
enabling our students to engage for longer periods at the beginning and | :20:23. | :20:28. | |
at the end of the day and we can build on their learning experiences. | :20:28. | :20:34. | |
It all heralds this low end of the standard comprehensive. This was | :20:34. | :20:38. | |
the first in England and it is now an Academy, a clear and potent sign | :20:38. | :20:43. | |
of the changing times. An inquiry has been shown video | :20:43. | :20:47. | |
footage of the moment armed officers surrounded a car in north | :20:47. | :20:51. | |
London and shot one of the passengers dead. Azelle Rodney was | :20:51. | :20:55. | |
hit by six bullets and died instantly when their vehicle was | :20:55. | :21:00. | |
stopped in north London seven years ago. A judge led inquiry is being | :21:00. | :21:03. | |
held into his death rather than an inquest because sensitive | :21:03. | :21:08. | |
intelligence evidence is being heard. | :21:08. | :21:14. | |
Azelle Rodney was 24 when he was shot dead by police. One officer | :21:14. | :21:19. | |
fired eight bullets, six hit him in the head and body. Fire arms were | :21:19. | :21:22. | |
found in the car in which he was travelling, but he did not have a | :21:22. | :21:27. | |
gun in his hand when he was shot. For his mother, Susan Alexander, | :21:27. | :21:34. | |
this inquiry is the first public hearing into her son's death. | :21:34. | :21:38. | |
In April 2005, firearms officers from Scotland Yard were following a | :21:38. | :21:42. | |
car in Mill Hill in north London. They believed the three men inside | :21:42. | :21:47. | |
could be armed and on their way to rip off a suspected Colombian drugs | :21:47. | :21:52. | |
gang. The police carried out what is called a hard stop on the car, a | :21:52. | :21:57. | |
Volkswagen Golf. It was an officer known as the seven who fired the | :21:57. | :22:02. | |
fatal shots. The police car he was in had stopped and he was in the | :22:02. | :22:05. | |
front passenger seat and his window was on a level with one of the | :22:05. | :22:11. | |
windows on the golf and he opened fire. Seven years on, why has the | :22:11. | :22:17. | |
legal process taken so long? The Crown Prosecution Service said in | :22:17. | :22:20. | |
2006 there was insufficient evidence to bring charges against | :22:20. | :22:23. | |
any police officer. The following year a coroner said an inquest | :22:23. | :22:27. | |
could not take place because he could not access sensitive | :22:27. | :22:31. | |
information. This inquiry has been set up which will hear some, but | :22:31. | :22:37. | |
not all, of the evidence. At the hearing the first of the | :22:37. | :22:40. | |
intelligence documents were displayed on screen with some | :22:40. | :22:45. | |
details blacked out. Campaigners have concerns about the inquiry. | :22:45. | :22:50. | |
The key problem is there is no dewy presiding over the actions of these | :22:50. | :22:55. | |
police officers. The other concern we have is whether or not all of | :22:55. | :23:01. | |
the evidence will be held in public. The two men in the car were later | :23:01. | :23:06. | |
convicted of firearms offences. The inquiry is due to run until the end | :23:06. | :23:10. | |
of the year and one of its aims will be to see what lessons can be | :23:10. | :23:17. | |
learned. The -- the Green Party has elected | :23:17. | :23:21. | |
a new leader in England and Wales. Australian-born journalist Natalie | :23:22. | :23:26. | |
Bennett has taken over from Caroline Lucas. In her opening | :23:26. | :23:31. | |
speech she said she was deeply honoured to take on the role. | :23:31. | :23:36. | |
a big task to lead the Green Party, in particular stepping into the | :23:36. | :23:40. | |
enormous shoes of Caroline Lucas, although she will still be in | :23:40. | :23:44. | |
Parliament. Up and down the country there are many thousands of Green | :23:44. | :23:50. | |
Party members who will be with me. This is very much a team effort. | :23:50. | :23:54. | |
The new leader of the Green Party. Prince Harry has made his first | :23:54. | :23:58. | |
public appearance since controversial photos showed him | :23:58. | :24:03. | |
appearing naked on the Internet. He is attending an award ceremony for | :24:03. | :24:08. | |
the WellChild charity for which he is patron. It celebrates the life | :24:08. | :24:12. | |
of seriously ill youngsters and doctors and nurses who care for | :24:12. | :24:18. | |
them. Nicholas Witchell is at the venue for us now. It is the sort of | :24:18. | :24:21. | |
engagement his advisers will be hoping will help re-establish a | :24:21. | :24:27. | |
more acceptable image for him. it is his first public appearance | :24:27. | :24:32. | |
since that weekend in Las Vegas and since those photographs. This is | :24:32. | :24:36. | |
him trying to transition back to a more orthodox royal image and away | :24:36. | :24:41. | |
from the image that made an indelible impression on millions of | :24:41. | :24:45. | |
people around the world. Not the easiest of transitions it is fair | :24:45. | :24:51. | |
to say. He is here as patron of WellChild, a charity which cares | :24:51. | :24:56. | |
for Sick children, but he has been doing what he always does well. He | :24:56. | :25:00. | |
has been attending a reception and talking to the children and looking | :25:00. | :25:06. | |
very relaxed. He will be making a speech later. He has been to talk | :25:06. | :25:10. | |
to his father in Scotland, but without being sanctimonious, his | :25:10. | :25:16. | |
family were hope that at the age of 28 youthful indiscretions will be | :25:16. | :25:22. | |
becoming a thing of the past. Another royal charity event because | :25:22. | :25:27. | |
it was a royal descent like no other. Prince Andrew has abseiled | :25:27. | :25:33. | |
down the Shard to raise money for his charity. The 52 year-old said | :25:33. | :25:39. | |
the most difficult part was stepping out from the 87th floor of | :25:39. | :25:42. | |
Europe's tours -- the tallest building, but the stunt raised | :25:42. | :25:47. | |
nearly �300,000. High above the metropolis, | :25:47. | :25:51. | |
virtually in the clouds, something extraordinary is happening. Yes, | :25:51. | :25:58. | |
that is the Queen's son and yes, he has just stepped out of the 87th | :25:58. | :26:03. | |
floor of Europe's tallest building. If you want to know what it feels | :26:03. | :26:10. | |
like, checked out the helmet camera. His speak are sliding down a wet, | :26:10. | :26:15. | |
slick, glass walls and all of this 300 metres above the pavement. It | :26:15. | :26:22. | |
is all the Duke of York's own idea, all to raise money for his crust | :26:22. | :26:25. | |
which encourages youngsters to take on new challenges and face their | :26:25. | :26:31. | |
fears. He has been leading by example. For many of us this would | :26:31. | :26:36. | |
be a terrifying ordeal. The Duke of York's seems to be taking the whole | :26:36. | :26:43. | |
thing in his stride. How did that feel? Back on the ground, relief | :26:43. | :26:48. | |
and a promise fulfilled. This is not about me, this is about the | :26:48. | :26:54. | |
outward bound Trust. We want to change people's lives, but we do it | :26:54. | :26:57. | |
in a way that gives them a challenging environment and a | :26:57. | :27:02. | |
learning environment. He was among 40 abseilers to take on the | :27:02. | :27:06. | |
challenge and they are well on target to raise more than �1 | :27:06. | :27:11. | |
million for the outward bound Trust and the Royal Marines charity trust, | :27:11. | :27:14. | |
two causes which have moved him to do this, and all with the approval | :27:14. | :27:21. | |
of his mother and the rest of his family. | :27:21. | :27:31. | |
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The Prince was falling, but the temperatures were rising and it was | :27:31. | :27:36. | |
a red letter day in Aberdeen, the warmest September day on record for | :27:36. | :27:41. | |
Aberdeen. Tomorrow will not be as hot as it was today because we have | :27:41. | :27:46. | |
got a cold front crossing in from the north-west. It will bring some | :27:46. | :27:51. | |
rain and some strong winds and you can see the extent of that cloud | :27:51. | :27:59. | |
pushing in across Northern Ireland and Scotland. For England and Wales | :27:59. | :28:06. | |
it is a finite with light winds, but mist and low cloud around. | :28:06. | :28:11. | |
Quite a muggy night, temperatures not falling below 16 or 17 in | :28:11. | :28:15. | |
southern areas. In the north of Scotland it will be very windy | :28:15. | :28:21. | |
indeed, first thing in the morning. That should moderate later on in | :28:21. | :28:28. | |
the day. A band of cloud, but very little in the way of rain by the | :28:28. | :28:33. | |
time it reaches southern parts of England and Wales. Light winds | :28:33. | :28:37. | |
across the south, not good news for the sailors. There may be problems | :28:37. | :28:44. | |
with visibility for a time as well. This is 4:00pm, still hanging on to | :28:44. | :28:50. | |
brightness in parts of Kent. But a lot of cloud in central England and | :28:50. | :28:54. | |
Wales, but then we come back to the sunshine with a lovely afternoon to | :28:54. | :29:01. |