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Andy Murray rounds off a summer of Great British sport as he wins his | :00:07. | :00:13. | |
first Grand Slam title at last. It took him almost five hours to beat | :00:13. | :00:23. | |
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Novak Djokovich in five sets at the US Open. I realised that I had won, | :00:27. | :00:32. | |
I was obviously a little bit shocked. I was very relieved and | :00:32. | :00:37. | |
very emotional for a few minutes afterwards, yeah, it was an | :00:37. | :00:41. | |
incredible match. In Dunblane - where he grew up - | :00:41. | :00:45. | |
they partied through the night. Now a much needed rest for the new | :00:45. | :00:49. | |
King of New York - the first British man to win a Grand slam | :00:49. | :00:53. | |
since 1936. Also tonight: Regrades ordered in | :00:53. | :00:57. | |
Wales, but not in England. The exam board caught in the middle over the | :00:57. | :01:01. | |
GCSE marking row. Three people are killed and 50 | :01:01. | :01:04. | |
injured after a coach crashes on the way back from a music festival | :01:04. | :01:07. | |
on the Isle of Wight. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge | :01:07. | :01:11. | |
are shown an orchid named Princess Diana at the start of a Diamond | :01:11. | :01:20. | |
Jubilee visit to South East Asia. Later: I will be here with | :01:20. | :01:24. | |
Sportsday and the latest on a busy night of international football. | :01:24. | :01:34. | |
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All four home nations continue Good evening, welcome to the BBC | :01:45. | :01:48. | |
News at Six. After five sets and nearly five hours of thrilling | :01:48. | :01:51. | |
tennis, Andy Murray has won his first Grand Slam title - becoming | :01:51. | :01:56. | |
the first British man to do so since Fred Perry in 1936. Murray | :01:56. | :01:59. | |
won the US Open last night, beating the defending champion, Novak | :01:59. | :02:04. | |
Djokovic, in New York. Afterwards, Murray - who has lost his four | :02:04. | :02:07. | |
previous Grand Slam finals - said relief was the best word to | :02:07. | :02:17. | |
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describe his feelings. Andy Swiss reports from New York. Basking in | :02:18. | :02:22. | |
Grand Slam glory. In New York's central park Andy Murray was today | :02:22. | :02:25. | |
parading his glittering prize before the world's media after a | :02:25. | :02:31. | |
night when his and a nation's hopes were finally fulfilled. Murray, it | :02:31. | :02:35. | |
seemed, could scarcely believe it at first before eventually the | :02:35. | :02:39. | |
emotions flowed. After coming so close many times, the eternal | :02:39. | :02:43. | |
challenger was at last a champion. It means the world to me and when I | :02:43. | :02:46. | |
realised that I had won I was obviously, you know, a little bit | :02:46. | :02:50. | |
shocked. I was very relieved and emotional for a few minutes | :02:50. | :02:56. | |
afterwards, it was an incredible match. How Murray had to work for | :02:56. | :03:03. | |
it. A five-hour emotional rollercoaster, the first set lasted | :03:03. | :03:06. | |
an hour-and-a-half when Murray took it and the second set victory | :03:06. | :03:10. | |
seemed a matter of time. Djokovic had other ideas. He came roaring | :03:10. | :03:13. | |
back to take the match into a deciding set. The old Murray might | :03:13. | :03:21. | |
have crumbled but his new coach, Ivan Lendl has instilled a new | :03:21. | :03:24. | |
mental toughness and with his family supporting him Murray stayed | :03:24. | :03:28. | |
strong and victory ultimately unforgetably, was his. It has been | :03:28. | :03:33. | |
a long and sometimes difficult journey. In 2004 at the age of 17 | :03:33. | :03:38. | |
Murray won the junior US Open title, the start of a swift rise. By 2007 | :03:38. | :03:43. | |
he was in the world top ten, but Grand Slam success proved elusive. | :03:43. | :03:47. | |
In four finals he he experienced defeat and disappointment, most | :03:47. | :03:50. | |
vividly at this year's Wimbledon. Right, I am going to try this and | :03:50. | :03:56. | |
it's not going to be easy... But from despair, came delight. | :03:56. | :04:00. | |
Olympic gold in London, a feat which perhaps gave him the belief | :04:00. | :04:04. | |
he needed. Three of the biggest events, Wimbledon, the Olympics and | :04:04. | :04:10. | |
then the US Open. Andy was in the final of won and won the other two, | :04:10. | :04:13. | |
you can't ask for more, it's an incredible achievement and one he | :04:13. | :04:17. | |
should be immensely proud of and hopefully can build on. Andy | :04:17. | :04:20. | |
Murray's Grand Slam dream is finally a glorious reality. But if | :04:20. | :04:24. | |
he is had to wait a long time, British tennis has had to wait far | :04:24. | :04:29. | |
longer. 76 years to be precise since Fred | :04:29. | :04:33. | |
Perry won his last Grand Slam title in 1936, no British man could | :04:33. | :04:38. | |
emulate him. Until now. This unforgettable sporting summer | :04:38. | :04:45. | |
now has the very happiest of endings. | :04:45. | :04:47. | |
Scotland's First Minister, Alex Salmond, has described Andy Murray | :04:47. | :04:51. | |
as a Scottish legend. In Andy Murray's home town, Dunblane, | :04:52. | :04:54. | |
thousands of fans stayed up late into the early hours of this | :04:55. | :04:57. | |
morning to watch his historic victory. Today, they've continued | :04:57. | :05:02. | |
the celebrations. Lorna Gordon is in Dunblane for us. | :05:02. | :05:06. | |
Andy Murray started playing tennis on these courts here when he was | :05:06. | :05:09. | |
just three years old. The kids were out at 6.00am this morning | :05:10. | :05:14. | |
practising and they came back as soon as school had finished. | :05:14. | :05:18. | |
They've been celebrating Andy Murray's win and trying to emulate | :05:18. | :05:25. | |
their hero. It was a night of tension. | :05:25. | :05:29. | |
Trepidation, and in Dunblane, little sleep for those who stayed | :05:29. | :05:37. | |
up to watch Andy Murray triumph. He is a great champion. Nobody | :05:37. | :05:41. | |
deserves that any more than he does, phenomenal. It's great for doesn't | :05:42. | :05:46. | |
doesn't doesn't -- Dunblane, better for Scotland. Now we can all relax | :05:46. | :05:54. | |
and just enjoy his tennis from now on. Dunblane is norm lay -- | :05:54. | :06:00. | |
normally a quiteter town. His family remain in Dunblane. They | :06:00. | :06:03. | |
are all close and know how much a Grand Slam success will mean. | :06:03. | :06:07. | |
I think means everything to him. He knows he can go out there. The | :06:07. | :06:12. | |
monkey's off his back now, hopefully he won't be known as the | :06:12. | :06:15. | |
best player that Britain ever produced never to win a Grand Slam. | :06:15. | :06:19. | |
There's already a golden postbox in Dunblane, marking Murray's Olympic | :06:19. | :06:25. | |
medal. People now are finding ways to celebrate this latest historic | :06:25. | :06:29. | |
win. Town and family and friends all aware of his early sporting | :06:29. | :06:37. | |
promise and ambition. The last time I played with him he basically said, | :06:37. | :06:45. | |
he calls me Embo, my nickname, get off the court, you are you are | :06:46. | :06:49. | |
rubbish. He must have been ten or 11 at the time. And there are now | :06:49. | :06:52. | |
plenty of other young players on these courts who Andy Murray has | :06:52. | :06:58. | |
inspired. Seen him on TV and that got me into tennis. I love the game | :06:58. | :07:04. | |
and I was proud of Andy winning the whole match of the tennis. And many | :07:05. | :07:09. | |
here are now hoping for a visit home from their hero, so they can | :07:09. | :07:16. | |
tell him how proud they are of his success and of his maiden Grand | :07:16. | :07:22. | |
Slam -- win. A maiden Grand Slam win and here, of course, they are | :07:22. | :07:27. | |
convinced it is the first of many, so yes they have been celebrating | :07:27. | :07:30. | |
through the night and the day, but that will be nothing like the party | :07:30. | :07:35. | |
you will see here in Dunblane if Andy Murray does find time in his | :07:35. | :07:39. | |
very busy tennis schedule to visit his home town. | :07:39. | :07:42. | |
Thank you very much. Our sports correspondent Dan Roan | :07:42. | :07:45. | |
is here. What a match, what a victory. A very fitting end to a | :07:45. | :07:50. | |
great summer of British sport. Absolutely. Many people | :07:50. | :07:52. | |
understandably will have assumed yesterday's victory parade in | :07:52. | :07:55. | |
London marked the end of what will surely go down as the most | :07:56. | :07:59. | |
remarkable summer of sport in British history. Sure, there have | :07:59. | :08:03. | |
been other historic moments the last few weeks, Bradley Wiggins for | :08:03. | :08:06. | |
example winning the Tour de France and gold, arguably the best example | :08:06. | :08:10. | |
but after decades of disappointment for British tennis Andy Murray | :08:10. | :08:14. | |
maybe even surpasses that, it's hard to think of a more deserving | :08:14. | :08:17. | |
winner. The question now is will it usher in a new period of success | :08:17. | :08:20. | |
for tennis more generally? Some question will it will. They'll | :08:21. | :08:24. | |
point to the fact that he felt the need to take himself to Spain as a | :08:24. | :08:28. | |
young man, to hone his skills, he is not a product of the British | :08:28. | :08:33. | |
system. The next best player after him from Britain is ranked 200 in | :08:33. | :08:36. | |
the world. They'll point to the fact less people are playing tennis. | :08:36. | :08:40. | |
On the positive, some will say Laura Robson is a new generation of | :08:40. | :08:45. | |
talent and the future is rosy. As with the London Games, winning at | :08:45. | :08:49. | |
the elite level is one thing, making sure it's not a one-off is | :08:49. | :08:57. | |
another. Thank you very much. An exam board caught up in a row | :08:57. | :09:00. | |
over the regrading of GCSE English papers says its been put in a | :09:00. | :09:02. | |
difficult position after the Education Minister in Wales ordered | :09:02. | :09:05. | |
thousands of papers to be remarked, while Ofqual - the exam regulator | :09:05. | :09:09. | |
in England - has refused to do the same for tens of thousands of | :09:09. | :09:12. | |
students who sat the same exam. Today, the head of Ofqual strongly | :09:12. | :09:14. | |
defended its role, as our education correspondent Reeta Chakrabarti | :09:14. | :09:18. | |
reports. Exams are stressful enough, but | :09:18. | :09:25. | |
this jeer's GCSE -- this year's GCSE English results caused a storm. | :09:25. | :09:29. | |
Teachers said the exam board raised the bar through the year making it | :09:29. | :09:33. | |
harder for pupils taking the exam in June than in January. | :09:33. | :09:37. | |
As MPs today questioned the head of the exam's watchdog, it emerged | :09:37. | :09:42. | |
that one exam board had been told to regrade the June papers just two | :09:42. | :09:45. | |
weeks before the results were published. But the head defended | :09:45. | :09:52. | |
her actions. We know that the June were right, as I said before, those | :09:52. | :09:56. | |
few that took units then had what we might call a lucky break but the | :09:56. | :10:00. | |
important thing is that the June awarding was right. | :10:00. | :10:05. | |
None of this is of comfort to John Townsley, head of a Leeds school | :10:05. | :10:08. | |
which saw its English results drop. He says the head of Ofqual should | :10:08. | :10:13. | |
resign. Ofqual, it's the chief regulator, has no role to play in | :10:13. | :10:18. | |
this matter any more. That's been sacrificed and compromised. We need | :10:18. | :10:22. | |
the Secretary of State to intervene in this matter, as a matter of | :10:22. | :10:26. | |
urgency. That's straight away is in saying that the English results sat | :10:26. | :10:32. | |
in June 2012 are essentially void. Ofqual says it won't order a | :10:32. | :10:35. | |
regrading of the papers and here in Westminster the Education Secretary | :10:35. | :10:39. | |
says he won't intervene. But in Cardiff it's a very different story, | :10:39. | :10:43. | |
with the Welsh Government telling the Welsh exam board it must | :10:43. | :10:48. | |
regrade the English language paper. We have taken swift action in order | :10:48. | :10:52. | |
to ensure that those students who took these qualifications this | :10:52. | :10:55. | |
summer and are now moving on to further learning, either in 6th | :10:55. | :10:59. | |
forms or FE colleges or possibly into apprenticeships, will not lose | :10:59. | :11:04. | |
out. But the Welsh exam boards papers are sat in Wales and England. | :11:04. | :11:08. | |
The Welsh Government is telling it to regrade the papers in Wales, but | :11:08. | :11:10. | |
Ofqual is telling it not to in England. | :11:10. | :11:20. | |
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The Welsh board wants both sides to agree one approach, but at the | :11:28. | :11:32. | |
moment there's little prospect of that. It means that several hundred | :11:32. | :11:36. | |
Welsh candidates could now be getting higher grades than English | :11:36. | :11:44. | |
candidates who got just the same marks. | :11:44. | :11:47. | |
The watchdog for the health service in England, Monitor, has ordered a | :11:47. | :11:50. | |
rescue plan for a hospital trust that was at the centre of one of | :11:50. | :11:53. | |
the biggest scandals in NHS history. Independent experts will examine | :11:53. | :11:56. | |
how services at Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust can be made | :11:56. | :11:58. | |
viable. An inquiry in 2009 described levels of care at the | :11:58. | :12:03. | |
Trust as appalling. The Deputy Prime Minister, Nick | :12:03. | :12:07. | |
Clegg, has withdrawn comments referring to opponents of gay | :12:07. | :12:11. | |
marriage as bigots. Sources close to Mr Clegg say the word was | :12:11. | :12:14. | |
included in an early draft of a speech he is making this evening | :12:14. | :12:24. | |
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which was released by mistake and not something he thinks. | :12:25. | :12:28. | |
The former Archbishop of Canterbury, Lord Carey, said tonight the use of | :12:28. | :12:31. | |
such a term was very offensive. Our political correspondent Robin Brant | :12:31. | :12:34. | |
is in Westminster for us. Echoes of comments made by the former Prime | :12:34. | :12:37. | |
Minister, Gordon Brown, during the general election two years ago when | :12:37. | :12:40. | |
he referred to a woman in Rochdale who expressed a view on immigration | :12:40. | :12:44. | |
as a bigot. Now, Nick Clegg has not uttered these words and I am told | :12:44. | :12:48. | |
by senior aides that he won't be. He didn't say it, he won't be | :12:48. | :12:51. | |
saying it, it's not what he thinks is what I am told. Clearly someone | :12:51. | :12:56. | |
in his office believes the Deputy Prime Minister would perhaps share | :12:56. | :13:00. | |
these views because in extracts of a draft released earlier he did | :13:00. | :13:05. | |
refer to opponents as gay marriage as bigots. It's a controversial | :13:05. | :13:08. | |
issue, it's divided many here. Clearly it's incensed some | :13:08. | :13:13. | |
Conservatives tonight. One MP telling me this is unacceptable. | :13:13. | :13:15. | |
It's intolerant. The former Archbishop of Canterbury saying | :13:15. | :13:25. | |
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it's very offensive and for some in the coalition side the | :13:27. | :13:29. | |
Conservatives side, this is just fresh evidence of what they believe | :13:29. | :13:31. | |
is a politician out of touch with people, but certainly a politician | :13:31. | :13:34. | |
out of touch with Conservatives. Thank you. Three people have died | :13:34. | :13:37. | |
after a coach travelling back from a music festival on the Isle of | :13:37. | :13:40. | |
Wight crashed on the A3 in Surrey late last night. More than 50 | :13:40. | :13:44. | |
passengers - all in their 20s - have been treated in hospital. The | :13:44. | :13:47. | |
coach was on its way back to Merseyside when it left the | :13:47. | :13:49. | |
carriageway and hit a tree. Daniela Relph reports. | :13:49. | :13:51. | |
The wreckage of the coach, the police have described the scene | :13:51. | :13:56. | |
here last night as harrowing. It was dark, but the weather was fine. | :13:56. | :14:00. | |
There were hardly any other vehicles on the road. But still for | :14:00. | :14:05. | |
some as yet unknown reason, the coach hit the oak tree, with | :14:05. | :14:10. | |
devastating consequences. As well as three people killed, several | :14:10. | :14:14. | |
passengers suffered what the police have called life-changing injuries, | :14:14. | :14:19. | |
including the loss of limbs. The coach crashed before midnight, | :14:19. | :14:23. | |
close to the Hindhead tunnel in Surrey. The investigation will look | :14:23. | :14:28. | |
at the actions of the driver, one of those who lost his life. His | :14:28. | :14:31. | |
family say he was well rested before beginning his journey last | :14:31. | :14:35. | |
night. An eyewitness who was driving | :14:35. | :14:39. | |
behind the coach has told the BBC how the vehicle suddenly left the | :14:39. | :14:43. | |
road and drove up the embankment alongside. It was going a little | :14:43. | :14:49. | |
bit slower than I was. As I went to overtake it, it veered violently to | :14:49. | :14:55. | |
the left, up the embankment and then I had to swerve because I | :14:55. | :14:59. | |
thought it was going to come back off the embankment, so I had to | :14:59. | :15:05. | |
swerve to get past it. The coach pwhropged to the -- belonged to the | :15:05. | :15:08. | |
company Merseypride. The owner said the vehicle had been booked months | :15:08. | :15:12. | |
ago for the journey to the music festival on the Isle of Wight. | :15:12. | :15:16. | |
ourselves are devastated. I have been up all night worried sick | :15:16. | :15:25. | |
about what's been happening. I can only say, we don't know anything | :15:25. | :15:29. | |
more than you guys know now. The police are not giving us any | :15:29. | :15:35. | |
information at all. The focus will now be on working out why the coach | :15:35. | :15:40. | |
veered off the road so suddenly. The most crucial witnesses, the | :15:40. | :15:48. | |
young people who survived this this Our top story tonight: Andy Murray | :15:48. | :15:52. | |
wins his first Grand Slam title to round off a summer of great British | :15:52. | :15:55. | |
sport. Coming up: | :15:55. | :15:58. | |
How 20 million people in the UK will have access to the latest | :15:58. | :16:07. | |
super-fast mobile technology by Christmas. | :16:07. | :16:12. | |
Later in business on the News Channel, super-fast 4G mobile | :16:12. | :16:16. | |
phones on the way, with one company holding all the early cuts. | :16:16. | :16:20. | |
Burberry issues a profits warning as its rapid growth slows right | :16:20. | :16:27. | |
More than a quarter of a million Syrians have now fled the country | :16:27. | :16:30. | |
to escape the continuing violence, according to the United Nations. | :16:31. | :16:36. | |
Its refugee agency says 100,000 people left Syria last month alone. | :16:36. | :16:38. | |
Many refugees are heading for Jordan, where our correspondent met | :16:38. | :16:41. | |
one Syrian family who have fled there after becoming caught up in | :16:41. | :16:51. | |
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the conflict. The Khadoors, a close-knit family | :16:54. | :17:03. | |
from Homs, now confined to a cramped hotel room. Mealtime, as | :17:03. | :17:06. | |
with young children anywhere, is a battle of wills. They fled here | :17:06. | :17:10. | |
after losing everything they had, everything but their lives. These | :17:10. | :17:15. | |
are the faces behind statistics of untold suffering emerging from | :17:15. | :17:20. | |
Syria every day. They were fast asleep when a shell hit their home. | :17:20. | :17:26. | |
It started a fire, which quickly engulfed the children. | :17:26. | :17:31. | |
TRANSLATION: They were burning. I heard them crying. I ran after them | :17:31. | :17:39. | |
to take their clothes off. I tried to put the fire out. I did not feel | :17:39. | :17:43. | |
the pain or the fire my hands. Thank God we managed to save them. | :17:43. | :17:48. | |
When you remember that day and what it did to your family, what do you | :17:48. | :17:54. | |
think? TRANSLATION: It is a very hard | :17:54. | :18:00. | |
feelings. I feel for myself and my children. We got hit and know the | :18:00. | :18:06. | |
pain. I feel for every Syrian child and every Syrian person. Six-year- | :18:07. | :18:11. | |
old Abdul Malik managed to escape the flames, but his three-year-old | :18:11. | :18:17. | |
sister could not. And the four- year-old has third-degree burns all | :18:17. | :18:23. | |
over her body. Translate -- TRANSLATION: Once she looked in the | :18:23. | :18:29. | |
mirror and said mum, I am burnt. I used to be beautiful. Why did I | :18:29. | :18:39. | |
come this way? I told her, you are still beautiful. The children's | :18:39. | :18:42. | |
personalities have changed. Once outgoing and sociable, their | :18:42. | :18:49. | |
parents now keep them inside to protect them from stairs. -- people | :18:49. | :18:55. | |
staring. Today this child's left hand is being operated on. A | :18:55. | :18:59. | |
traumatic experience for a small child, and it is not her first or | :18:59. | :19:05. | |
last operation. Doctors are removing deep scar tissue on her | :19:05. | :19:09. | |
hand so that she can use it properly. This Medecins Sans | :19:09. | :19:11. | |
Frontieres Hospital has a bridge on thousands of people injured in | :19:12. | :19:15. | |
confits across the Middle East. The surgery is complicated. Her face | :19:15. | :19:21. | |
will have to wait a couple of years until it is likely to succeed. Her | :19:21. | :19:25. | |
mother said that she had you, the doctors, could make her as | :19:25. | :19:32. | |
beautiful as she was before, maybe even more beautiful. This is | :19:32. | :19:41. | |
because she is her mother, you know? But I can assure her, she | :19:41. | :19:47. | |
will be near-normal, if not normal. Another operation is over for this | :19:47. | :19:52. | |
child, but many more lie ahead. The damage done to one family by a | :19:52. | :20:02. | |
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single shell in Syria's escalating war. | :20:04. | :20:07. | |
A major Chinese telecoms company is to invest and spend more than a | :20:07. | :20:11. | |
billion pounds in the UK over the next five years. It could lead to | :20:11. | :20:14. | |
the creation of 700 jobs. The news comes as the Business Secretary, | :20:14. | :20:17. | |
Vince Cable, set out his long-term vision of the economy, calling for | :20:17. | :20:23. | |
closer links between government and business. | :20:23. | :20:26. | |
The industrial landscape is gloomy, so the search is on at Westminster | :20:26. | :20:29. | |
for new ways of finding growth that do not involve the government | :20:29. | :20:33. | |
spending money. So why not get another country to spend its money? | :20:34. | :20:39. | |
Today their Chinese telecoms giant Huawei announced that it would | :20:39. | :20:42. | |
invest �1.2 billion in the UK over the next five years, creating 700 | :20:42. | :20:47. | |
new jobs, a deal signed in Downing Street that ministers are said | :20:47. | :20:51. | |
proved Britain was opened for business. This is very good news, a | :20:51. | :20:55. | |
significant investment by one of the world's leading companies. I | :20:55. | :21:00. | |
met the founder this morning, he told me about the project. He made | :21:00. | :21:03. | |
it clear he regards Britain as an excellent place to do business, and | :21:03. | :21:07. | |
that is why they are committing money here. There will be a | :21:07. | :21:12. | |
significant number of new jobs for British workers. To get more of | :21:12. | :21:15. | |
that, the Business Secretary promised a new industrial strategy | :21:15. | :21:18. | |
where the Government would support key manufacturing and high-tech | :21:19. | :21:22. | |
industries and unlock credit within a new lending body that would work | :21:22. | :21:25. | |
with existing small banks. But a committee of MPs today raised | :21:25. | :21:30. | |
concerns about an existing scheme to boost investment. They found | :21:30. | :21:33. | |
that only �60 million from the regional growth fund had made it to | :21:33. | :21:38. | |
any businesses. This from a pot worth �1.4 billion. Officials | :21:38. | :21:43. | |
insisted that these figures are out of date. And it was not just the | :21:43. | :21:48. | |
Government getting stick. Today the TUC Congress defied Labour and | :21:48. | :21:53. | |
voted to consider the practical issues of a general strike. They | :21:53. | :21:56. | |
heckled Ed Balls when he promised to keep the cap on public sector | :21:56. | :22:03. | |
pay. Why do we hear you and Ed Miliband talk about supporting this | :22:03. | :22:07. | |
Tory pay freeze when I am having to make decisions about where I can | :22:07. | :22:13. | |
pay my heating bill and whether or not I can choose to buy food? | :22:13. | :22:17. | |
know it is hard, Liz, and I want things to be done in a fair way. | :22:17. | :22:23. | |
But we cannot argue for a paper for jobs at the moment. And it is jobs | :22:23. | :22:27. | |
he wants, too. Today David Cameron let those working in the food | :22:27. | :22:30. | |
industry as they showed off their skills in the Downing Street | :22:30. | :22:35. | |
kitchen. Yes, he is still talking about cuts, but these days, he is | :22:35. | :22:36. | |
also talking about government doing more. | :22:36. | :22:39. | |
By Christmas, 20 million people will have access to state-of-the- | :22:39. | :22:45. | |
art mobile technology in 16 cities across the UK. New 4G mobile phones | :22:45. | :22:47. | |
should allow users to download high-definition films in just | :22:47. | :22:57. | |
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minutes and give uninterrupted access to the web while on the move. | :23:02. | :23:09. | |
It started like this. Then we moved on to this. Now we are promised an | :23:09. | :23:17. | |
even faster mobile connected future. Britain's first 4G network is | :23:17. | :23:20. | |
launching within weeks, courtesy of Everything Everywhere, better known | :23:20. | :23:26. | |
as Orange and T-Mobile, who now want to be known as EE. The network | :23:26. | :23:31. | |
is promising much faster speeds to phone users to upgrade to 4G, it | :23:31. | :23:39. | |
has not yet said what it will cost. You could phone will not work on | :23:39. | :23:43. | |
the new system. You will also need to be on the EE network, and you | :23:43. | :23:48. | |
can only get it in 16 cities before Christmas. A quick test shows what | :23:48. | :23:52. | |
people in those cities could see. This phone is running on a standard | :23:52. | :23:59. | |
3G network. This one runs on 4G, probably on its own. Let me check | :23:59. | :24:04. | |
the speed test on both fronts. On the first phone, it is really | :24:04. | :24:09. | |
struggling. It is struggling to get up to one megabyte. Whereas on this | :24:09. | :24:15. | |
foam, off it goes all on its own, and it has whizzed up beyond 30 | :24:15. | :24:20. | |
megabytes. All the mobile phone firms are preparing to go 4G. 02 | :24:20. | :24:26. | |
has had a tram network running since last year, with video Wharf - | :24:26. | :24:35. | |
- video playing game-playing users clogging up the network, rivals are | :24:35. | :24:41. | |
angry that EE have started early. There are countries that already | :24:41. | :24:45. | |
have 4G. It matters because the UK is typically setting the benchmark | :24:45. | :24:51. | |
in terms of using mobile phones and new applications. So the digital | :24:51. | :24:56. | |
infrastructure has to catch up. don't yet know whether Apple's new | :24:56. | :25:01. | |
iPhone, due to be unveiled tomorrow, will work on the new EE 4G network. | :25:01. | :25:04. | |
The faster future is on the way, and the competition for mobile | :25:04. | :25:14. | |
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phone customers is about to get even more intense. | :25:21. | :25:24. | |
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have arrived in Singapore at the | :25:24. | :25:27. | |
start of a nine-day visit to South East Asia and the South Pacific to | :25:27. | :25:30. | |
mark the Queen's Diamond Jubilee. Prince William and Kate started | :25:30. | :25:32. | |
their tour at Singapore's Botanic Gardens, where they were shown an | :25:32. | :25:35. | |
orchid named after Diana, Princess of Wales. This report contains | :25:35. | :25:42. | |
flash photography. He looks increasingly at home in | :25:42. | :25:46. | |
this role. She looks composed and confident. For William and Kate, it | :25:46. | :25:51. | |
is the start of their second overseas tour together. It is a | :25:51. | :25:54. | |
smooth double-act which looks the part and finds the right words. | :25:54. | :25:59. | |
This was Wiliam at a speech tonight in Singapore. For Catherine and me, | :25:59. | :26:02. | |
this year will also be special for the privilege of making this trip | :26:02. | :26:08. | |
on behalf of her Majesty the Queen. The couple's first engagement in | :26:08. | :26:11. | |
Singapore had been a poignant one. They had gone to the Botanic | :26:11. | :26:16. | |
Gardens to see an orchid named in honour of William's mother, Diana. | :26:16. | :26:22. | |
She never saw it, de Gea, said Williams. Diana was killed two | :26:22. | :26:26. | |
weeks before she was due to pay a visit to Singapore. For William, a | :26:26. | :26:30. | |
moment of reflection. And then another orchid and something to | :26:30. | :26:39. | |
celebrate. This one has been bred to mark the couple's visit. It | :26:39. | :26:45. | |
looks like royal tourism, and to a certain extent it is. The orchids | :26:45. | :26:48. | |
have been done in little more than ten minutes. But alongside the | :26:48. | :26:51. | |
super-fast sightseeing, there is a serious purpose to royal tours like | :26:51. | :26:54. | |
this. Over the next eight days, first here in Singapore and then in | :26:54. | :26:57. | |
Malaysia and finally in some of the islands of the South Pacific, the | :26:57. | :26:59. | |
couple will promote British interests and pursue issues which | :27:00. | :27:08. | |
matter to them personally. There will be intense extra grit -- | :27:08. | :27:17. | |
scrutiny of what she is wearing and We have a real taste of Autumn over | :27:17. | :27:20. | |
the next couple of days'. Temperatures today have certainly | :27:21. | :27:25. | |
struggled. Tomorrow, more of the same. Disappointing temperatures. | :27:25. | :27:31. | |
At least today, we had the sunshine. Tomorrow, a lot more cloud in the | :27:31. | :27:35. | |
forecast. Tonight, we will have clearing skies in central and | :27:35. | :27:39. | |
eastern areas, but we keep the cloud towards the West. More rain | :27:39. | :27:43. | |
around Northern Ireland and south- west Scotland overnight. Here, | :27:43. | :27:47. | |
temperatures will dip down to single figures. Some early | :27:47. | :27:49. | |
brightness across central and eastern parts first thing in the | :27:49. | :27:53. | |
morning, but much more cloud further north and west. By the time | :27:53. | :27:57. | |
we get to the afternoon, a lot of that cloud and rain is sinking | :27:57. | :28:02. | |
further south and east, so we should start to see things | :28:02. | :28:05. | |
brightening up across Northern Ireland, with a mainly dry picture. | :28:05. | :28:08. | |
Maybe a few showers to the north- east of Scotland, but some | :28:08. | :28:14. | |
brightness. A cool north-westerly breeze. Further south, a scattering | :28:14. | :28:18. | |
of showers across parts of Wales, with a brightness in between. Given | :28:18. | :28:22. | |
some sunshine here, we might creep up to 18 degrees. For the Midlands, | :28:22. | :28:27. | |
East Anglia and the south-east, a lot more cloud, with patchy rain | :28:27. | :28:31. | |
tomorrow afternoon. Those showers will clear into the North Sea | :28:31. | :28:36. | |
tomorrow evening. As pressure starts to rise with the clearing | :28:36. | :28:40. | |
skies, temperatures drop away. Our coldest night of the week comes | :28:40. | :28:48. | |
tomorrow. In the countryside, it will be even colder. First thing in | :28:48. | :28:53. |