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The computer hacker Gary McKinnon wins his ten-year battle against | :00:10. | :00:15. | |
extradition to America. He broke into US military computers. The | :00:15. | :00:18. | |
Home Secretary says he is too ill to face a trial in the United | :00:18. | :00:25. | |
States. Relief for his family. have done it. The little person, | :00:25. | :00:30. | |
not just the privileged. We will be asking what it means for other | :00:30. | :00:34. | |
cases. Also tonight: The hope of justice for the Hillsborough | :00:34. | :00:40. | |
victims. The Government wants the original verdict quashed. Prince | :00:41. | :00:45. | |
Charles's letters to ministers will remain secret. We are told | :00:45. | :00:47. | |
publication would affect his preparation to become the future | :00:47. | :00:52. | |
king. Essex police relied a racial motive for the fire that killed a | :00:52. | :00:59. | |
mother and her four children. -- dismiss a racial motive. They were | :00:59. | :01:03. | |
intelligent and sociable children with a good sense of humour. They | :01:03. | :01:08. | |
were much loved by everybody. arrival at a seaside town in Devon | :01:09. | :01:14. | |
sets the tongues wagging. Damien Hirst's sculpture causes quite a | :01:14. | :01:24. | |
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stir. I will be here with sport state, with the latest qualifiers. | :01:25. | :01:35. | |
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Good evening and welcome to the BBC News at six. Gary McKinnon has won | :01:46. | :01:49. | |
his ten-year battle against extradition to America on charges | :01:49. | :01:54. | |
that he hacked into military computers. The first ever | :01:54. | :01:59. | |
intervention of its kind, Theresa May block the move, saying Gary | :01:59. | :02:02. | |
McKinnon was seriously ill and might take his own life if he was | :02:02. | :02:07. | |
sent to the United States. His mother, who has led the campaign, | :02:07. | :02:15. | |
described this as a victory for the little person. He couldn't speak, | :02:15. | :02:20. | |
he literally couldn't speak. Gary McKinnon's mother reveals how her | :02:20. | :02:27. | |
son reacted. He was hugging and crying, it was emotional. | :02:27. | :02:31. | |
unmistakable relief and joy of a parent that has been fighting the | :02:31. | :02:36. | |
United States government for a decade. We have done it, we have | :02:36. | :02:43. | |
one for the little person. Gary McKinnon does not deny the charges. | :02:43. | :02:50. | |
From a room at his girlfriend's House, he carried out at what one | :02:50. | :02:54. | |
US prosecutor described as the biggest military hack of all time. | :02:54. | :02:57. | |
His supporters say he is a young man with Asperger's syndrome who | :02:57. | :03:05. | |
was simply looking for information on US fors. Gary McKinnon's fight | :03:05. | :03:13. | |
against extradition one in supporters across public life. | :03:13. | :03:18. | |
David Cameron raised the case with President Obama as the Home Office | :03:18. | :03:23. | |
were asked to reassess his medical condition. They said he was at | :03:23. | :03:26. | |
serious risk of committing suicide if forced to attend trial in the | :03:26. | :03:30. | |
United States. I have concluded that this extradition would give | :03:31. | :03:35. | |
rise to such a high risk of them ending his life that the decision | :03:35. | :03:41. | |
to extradite would be incompatible with his human rights. I have | :03:41. | :03:47. | |
withdrawn the extradition order against Mr McKinnon. Cheering and | :03:47. | :03:51. | |
clapping in the House of Commons, but the reaction will have been -- | :03:51. | :03:56. | |
a decision will have been greeted differently in the Pentagon. In the | :03:56. | :04:04. | |
months after 9/11, he hacked into it 96 computers. On one, he brought | :04:04. | :04:10. | |
a message against United States foreign policy. It is not the end | :04:10. | :04:14. | |
of the road for Gary McKinnon, he could face charges in this country. | :04:14. | :04:18. | |
Theresa May also said she wanted to reform the extradition process to | :04:18. | :04:25. | |
make it speedier. One move that would be to see if someone should | :04:25. | :04:30. | |
be tried in this country or overseas. If the message goes out | :04:30. | :04:34. | |
that we see extradition as only a one-way street, other countries | :04:34. | :04:39. | |
will also be saying that, why should we co-operate with Britain? | :04:39. | :04:47. | |
They will accept medical reasons. Two weeks ago, the Home Office was | :04:47. | :04:53. | |
celebrating success in getting four citizens extradited to the night | :04:53. | :04:58. | |
the States. One of the four was accused of packing and suffer from | :04:58. | :05:02. | |
Asperger's syndrome. Supporters have accused the government of | :05:02. | :05:05. | |
double standards. You suggest that there are implications for other | :05:06. | :05:12. | |
cases. It is an important moment. Medically, this was an exceptional | :05:12. | :05:16. | |
case, but Theresa May is in a strange position because she is | :05:16. | :05:21. | |
wearing two hats. She is a Conservative politician, but she | :05:21. | :05:27. | |
also has a judicial role as Home Secretary. I think there can beat | :05:27. | :05:32. | |
tension between those two roles. People spoke about pick-and-mix | :05:32. | :05:36. | |
extradition, politicians interfering and having Abu Hamza at | :05:36. | :05:40. | |
deported but not Gary McKinnon. One thing I thought was interesting | :05:40. | :05:48. | |
about the reforms was the idea that she should give up her Paris. That | :05:48. | :05:52. | |
would be exactly the kind of decision she made today, handing | :05:52. | :05:56. | |
that back to the High Court. -- give up her power. It is an | :05:56. | :05:59. | |
important moment for Gary McKinnon but also perhaps an important | :05:59. | :06:06. | |
moment in terms of the reform of extradition law. The Attorney- | :06:06. | :06:09. | |
General has paved the way for fresh inquest into the Hillsborough | :06:09. | :06:14. | |
disaster in which 96 football fans died after a damning report last | :06:14. | :06:18. | |
month that exposed evidence of a cover-up. Dominic Grieve QC had | :06:18. | :06:22. | |
applied to the High Court to have the original verdict of accident | :06:23. | :06:28. | |
quashed. It is 23 years since 96 Liverpool fans were fatally crashed | :06:28. | :06:32. | |
at Hillsborough. Since that date, despite a long legal campaign, the | :06:32. | :06:37. | |
relatives have never felt they had just this. Since the publication of | :06:37. | :06:43. | |
the Hillsborough report, there is a chance of criminal charges, are far | :06:43. | :06:47. | |
reaching investigation into the police, and fresh inquests. | :06:47. | :06:51. | |
Relatives came to Westminster today and learned that the Attorney- | :06:51. | :06:56. | |
General will apply for the original verdicts to be quashed and I knew | :06:56. | :07:01. | |
it inquest to be held. These teenagers both died at Hillsborough. | :07:01. | :07:06. | |
-- a new inquest. Their parents have welcomed this. We did not have | :07:06. | :07:12. | |
the correct verdict. The verdict was accidental death and it was not | :07:12. | :07:16. | |
correct. I am pleased that, at long last, hopefully, we will get the | :07:16. | :07:21. | |
correct verdict. The original inquest was controversial because | :07:21. | :07:26. | |
it only heard evidence about Hillsborough at the fort 3:15pm on | :07:26. | :07:36. | |
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the day of the disaster. -- before 3:15pm. 96 deaths occurred and 86 | :07:36. | :07:46. | |
inquests were help. -- 96 inquest were held. It would be best to hold | :07:46. | :07:50. | |
all of them again, but I want the family is to hold representations | :07:50. | :07:57. | |
with me on that issue. I will be in contact with them. For 23 years, | :07:57. | :08:01. | |
the family say they were fighting the authorities. Today, they came | :08:01. | :08:08. | |
to Westminster and were invited to give their input into the holding | :08:08. | :08:13. | |
of new inquest. They say after all this time, the establishment is | :08:13. | :08:16. | |
taking them seriously. The family say they hold the Attorney-General | :08:17. | :08:20. | |
will be able to make his application soon. Next week there | :08:20. | :08:26. | |
will be a debate about Hillsborough or in Parliament. Campaigners deal | :08:26. | :08:29. | |
appeared 23 years of waiting, the wheels of justice are moving | :08:29. | :08:36. | |
quicker than ever. -- the campaigners feel after. The | :08:36. | :08:39. | |
government has blocked the publication of seven letters | :08:39. | :08:43. | |
written by Prince Charles. He said it would undermine preparations for | :08:43. | :08:48. | |
him to become a future king. It has been criticised by Freedom of | :08:48. | :08:53. | |
Information Act to this. Our reporter is at Clarence House. What | :08:53. | :08:59. | |
reasons are being given for keeping these secret? The Prince of Wales | :08:59. | :09:06. | |
has written letters to ministers for years on his favourite subject, | :09:06. | :09:10. | |
and they are known by some as the Black Spider Memos, one account of | :09:10. | :09:14. | |
his creative penmanship. To the critics, this has been | :09:14. | :09:19. | |
inappropriate lobbying. The Guardian newspaper has tried to get | :09:19. | :09:23. | |
some of the letters published, and they were backed by an information | :09:23. | :09:27. | |
tribunal, but the Attorney-General said the future King, like the | :09:28. | :09:33. | |
Queen, had a duty to be consulted by ministers. It was all part of | :09:33. | :09:38. | |
preparation for becoming king. Publication, he said, would | :09:38. | :09:45. | |
threaten his political neutrality. In other words, there will be more | :09:45. | :09:49. | |
letters from here soon. Police in Essex say there is no evidence of | :09:49. | :09:53. | |
racial motive behind a house fire in which a mother and her four | :09:53. | :09:57. | |
children died yesterday. The police are still treating it as suspicious. | :09:57. | :10:03. | |
Sabah Usmani, her three young sons, and one of her daughters, died when | :10:03. | :10:08. | |
the home was engulfed in flames. Five members of one family died in | :10:08. | :10:18. | |
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the fire. Sabah Usmani, Hira, Sohaib, Rayyan, and Muneeb, died. | :10:20. | :10:25. | |
Flames tore through their house. People came to the scene to lay | :10:25. | :10:30. | |
their tributes. They are offered support to relatives of the family. | :10:30. | :10:35. | |
It is very sad. It is terrible. You don't think it is right to happen. | :10:35. | :10:40. | |
I also have children, and hearing that happen to them is really sad. | :10:40. | :10:47. | |
I don't even know what to say. police continued the search for | :10:47. | :10:52. | |
evidence, two questions remain unanswered. How did the fire start? | :10:52. | :10:59. | |
It was deliberate, why did happen? There is nothing to indicate this | :10:59. | :11:02. | |
is racially-motivated, but nothing has been ruled in and nothing has | :11:02. | :11:09. | |
been ruled out. Where does the investigation lead? Police already | :11:09. | :11:13. | |
have ruled out a racial motive. They dismissed any suggestion that | :11:13. | :11:18. | |
a serial arsonist was responsible. But the car that was also one FA | :11:18. | :11:26. | |
has been taken away for examination. -- on fire. The head teacher of the | :11:26. | :11:31. | |
local primary school attended by the children said pupils and staff | :11:31. | :11:35. | |
were distraught. They were intelligent and sociable, with a | :11:35. | :11:41. | |
good sense of humour, good sports and much loved by everybody. | :11:41. | :11:45. | |
father, Dr Abdul Shakour, is said to be recovering, and has moved to | :11:45. | :11:51. | |
the Hospital in Chelmsford where his one surviving child is critical. | :11:51. | :11:56. | |
Today, close colleagues came to the highest offer condolences. As you | :11:56. | :12:01. | |
would expect, he is inconsolable. Anybody who is the father or | :12:01. | :12:11. | |
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husband his family have been taken away his... It is a difficult time. | :12:13. | :12:16. | |
Police are describing this as a major investigation and are | :12:16. | :12:19. | |
determined to find out why one family and this community has | :12:19. | :12:28. | |
suffered such grief. In the last few minutes, the BBC has announced | :12:28. | :12:32. | |
who will lead two investigations into the corporation following the | :12:32. | :12:37. | |
child abuse allegations against the late Jimmy Savile. The review will | :12:37. | :12:43. | |
be led by a former High Court judge, at Dame Janet Smith. It will also | :12:43. | :12:53. | |
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be led by the former head of a news agency. The inflation rate is now | :12:54. | :12:58. | |
2.2%, the lowest for three years. It means prices are still going up | :12:58. | :13:02. | |
but at a slower pace. This is important as it forms the basis on | :13:02. | :13:08. | |
which the benefit rises are calculated. Our correspondent has | :13:08. | :13:14. | |
been to Derbyshire to see what impact it has been having. Which | :13:14. | :13:18. | |
way is inflation heading? Pensioners like these ramblers in | :13:18. | :13:22. | |
Derbyshire are as keen to know as anybody. The September inflation | :13:22. | :13:27. | |
rate is used as a benchmark for the next state pension increase, but | :13:27. | :13:34. | |
they are guaranteed a minimum of 2.5%. Now they know they will get a | :13:34. | :13:39. | |
rise above inflation. Today we land the cost of living was up to 0.2%. | :13:39. | :13:48. | |
It means better value for your money. -- 2.2%. We are OK and we | :13:48. | :13:52. | |
live within our means. It is not affecting me too much because we | :13:53. | :13:59. | |
have gone about life the right way and we have saved. But as I | :13:59. | :14:03. | |
discovered, some felt even with lower inflation, their budgets were | :14:03. | :14:08. | |
under pressure. Everybody -- everything seems to be going up. It | :14:08. | :14:15. | |
might be at a slower rate but it is still eating into our reserves. | :14:15. | :14:18. | |
Inflation may be heading into the right direction but there are many | :14:19. | :14:23. | |
cost pressures not made in the UK, I outside the control of British | :14:23. | :14:28. | |
policy makers. With these, there are concerns of problems further | :14:28. | :14:32. | |
down the track. This outdoor clothing specialist based in | :14:32. | :14:35. | |
Derbyshire can see the trends which might affect next year's shop | :14:36. | :14:42. | |
prices. It uses synthetic materials were costs reflect global oil | :14:42. | :14:49. | |
prices. Most of the product are made in Asia. Oil prices are rising | :14:49. | :14:53. | |
and that impact on the cost of materials, and we know that wage | :14:53. | :14:58. | |
rises in Vietnam are increasing by as much as 25%, so we will go back | :14:58. | :15:01. | |
to the factories and negotiate but that will flow through to the | :15:01. | :15:07. | |
consumer. The consumer will also see higher gas and electricity | :15:07. | :15:12. | |
bills flowing through over the next couple of months, which could push | :15:12. | :15:22. | |
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Our main headline - Gary McKinnon has won his ten-year fight against | :15:26. | :15:30. | |
extradition to America. Coming up - one MP has called for a boycott of | :15:30. | :15:38. | |
the coffee giant Starbucks. Later on the BBC News Channel, how long | :15:38. | :15:48. | |
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Record numbers of people are resorting to emergency food | :15:57. | :16:03. | |
handouts, according to figures from the UK's biggest food bank network. | :16:03. | :16:07. | |
It says they have helped more than 100,000 people in the last six | :16:07. | :16:15. | |
months, more than twice as many as in the same period last year. It is | :16:15. | :16:20. | |
harvest festival time, and they have gathered plenty of food at | :16:20. | :16:24. | |
this school in Salisbury. I think it might be very helpful, because | :16:24. | :16:30. | |
other people needed more than us. So, where do these donations end | :16:30. | :16:37. | |
up? This is one very grateful mother. Three days' worth of | :16:37. | :16:43. | |
emergency supplies for a family which is struggling to feed itself. | :16:43. | :16:52. | |
Thank you! It is the best thing! This lady has four children. One of | :16:52. | :16:56. | |
them has a disability. Dared teachers martial-arts, but needs | :16:56. | :17:04. | |
more work. They cannot make ends meet. It has all been taking its | :17:04. | :17:09. | |
toll. I lost quite a lot of weight. I have been poorly, but my husband | :17:09. | :17:13. | |
has lost a lot of weight as well. It is all because of all of the | :17:13. | :17:18. | |
cutbacks, because we cannot meet our overheads. And there are many | :17:18. | :17:22. | |
more people like these, relying on the food banks, which are manned by | :17:22. | :17:28. | |
volunteers. They are storing up for winter. This charity never imagined | :17:28. | :17:32. | |
that when it set up this first food Bankia more than a decade ago, it | :17:32. | :17:40. | |
would end up feeding so many people. We are deeply concerned about this | :17:40. | :17:45. | |
winter. We have heard that energy prices will be going up, so, the | :17:45. | :17:49. | |
basic question, do I feed my children or heat the house, will be | :17:49. | :17:53. | |
a question which affects far more people this winter than last winter. | :17:53. | :17:58. | |
This family are already behind with their bills, but through the | :17:58. | :18:01. | |
goodwill of others, they are not going so hungry. But they are | :18:01. | :18:08. | |
determined to get back on their feet. Doctors in Birmingham say | :18:08. | :18:11. | |
they are pleased with the progress of the 14-year-old girl who was | :18:11. | :18:14. | |
brought to Britain for treatment after being shot in the head by the | :18:14. | :18:19. | |
Taliban in Pakistan. Staff at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital say Malala | :18:19. | :18:23. | |
Yousafzai should make a good recovery. There has been concern | :18:23. | :18:26. | |
about security after a woman claiming to be her mother tried to | :18:26. | :18:30. | |
enter the hospital. The former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan | :18:30. | :18:34. | |
Karadzic sh, who is charged with war crimes from the 1990s, has | :18:34. | :18:38. | |
begun his own defence at The Hague. He is accused of masterminding some | :18:38. | :18:42. | |
of the worst atrocities in Europe since the Second World War. He told | :18:42. | :18:51. | |
the court he was a mild and tolerant man, who had sought peace. | :18:51. | :18:55. | |
Radovan Karadzic brought his old wartime certainties to court. He | :18:55. | :18:59. | |
showed not a hint of self-doubt. I should be praised, not prosecuted, | :18:59. | :19:05. | |
he said. I never allowed even the smallest crimes. I reduced | :19:05. | :19:08. | |
suffering and showed mercy. I am not an aggressive man. | :19:08. | :19:14. | |
TRANSLATION: On the contrary, I am a mild man, a tolerant man, with | :19:14. | :19:19. | |
great capacity to understand others. In the public gallery, survivors of | :19:19. | :19:25. | |
the war shouted, lies, lies, but he went on. The notorious | :19:26. | :19:29. | |
concentration camps in which Muslim them were detained and often | :19:29. | :19:36. | |
murdered were faked, he said, for the media. This man was in one such | :19:36. | :19:41. | |
camp in 1992. Today he left the public gallery in tears. I feel sad | :19:41. | :19:45. | |
and humiliated to hear this, he told me. It is not true that what | :19:45. | :19:52. | |
happened in that camp was faked. In 1994, a shell killed 68 people in a | :19:52. | :19:56. | |
marketplace in Sarajevo. Radovan Karadzic said this was also faked. | :19:56. | :20:01. | |
Some of the dead were in fact shop- window mannequins, he said. It is a | :20:01. | :20:07. | |
shame this orchestration. TRANSLATION: Obviously, some people | :20:07. | :20:15. | |
got killed by that explosion, but we also saw Android mannequins | :20:15. | :20:24. | |
being thrown, creating this show for the world. In 1995, at | :20:24. | :20:28. | |
Srebrenica, where 8,000 men and boys were murdered, he said there | :20:28. | :20:32. | |
were no indications that anyone had been killed. He had given an order | :20:32. | :20:36. | |
that all civilians were to be protected. His case is that the | :20:36. | :20:39. | |
Serbs had no choice. They were people who knew their history, he | :20:39. | :20:43. | |
said. They had been faced with genocide before, and were | :20:43. | :20:47. | |
threatened with genocide again. All members of the international | :20:48. | :20:51. | |
community came, he said, with such enormous prejudice against the | :20:51. | :20:55. | |
Serbs, that there was nothing we could do to get the truth across. | :20:55. | :21:00. | |
That so many of the crimes he has accused of did in fact take place | :21:00. | :21:04. | |
is beyond doubt. Can he prove his innocence when the Guild of so many | :21:04. | :21:12. | |
others is already established? The coffee giant Starbucks has been | :21:12. | :21:16. | |
criticised over reports that it has not paid any corporation tax in the | :21:16. | :21:20. | |
UK for three years. It follows a four-month investigation by the | :21:20. | :21:25. | |
Reuters news agency. Starbucks insists it does pay its fair share, | :21:25. | :21:29. | |
but one MP is calling for a boycott of the company. Vicky Young reports. | :21:29. | :21:33. | |
They are a global giant, and part of a daily ritual for coffee | :21:33. | :21:38. | |
drinkers. But now, an argument is growing after it emerged that | :21:38. | :21:42. | |
Starbucks paid no UK corporation tax for three years. It has not | :21:42. | :21:47. | |
broken the law, but one MP is calling for action. There are | :21:47. | :21:52. | |
independent coffee shops on every high street - go and use those, do | :21:52. | :21:57. | |
not use Starbucks, or perhaps any offer of the large chains. If they | :21:57. | :22:01. | |
think customers are responding with revulsion to big companies are not | :22:01. | :22:11. | |
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paying their taxes, then they will Starbucks has attracted the | :22:21. | :22:24. | |
attention of politicians, with its promise of job creation and | :22:25. | :22:30. | |
apprenticeships. It is thought the company has been able to cut its | :22:30. | :22:33. | |
tax bill since 1998 by paying fees to other parts of its global | :22:33. | :22:37. | |
business, such as royalty payments for use of the brand. The company | :22:37. | :22:47. | |
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Any company that is doing activity in Britain must be paying taxes on | :22:55. | :22:58. | |
that. I cannot make a comment on any company, I do not know the | :22:58. | :23:04. | |
details, it is a matter for HMRC to look at. At Starbucks, customers | :23:04. | :23:09. | |
had stronger views. It is quite a shock, really. Perhaps it is a bit | :23:09. | :23:13. | |
immoral, but they employ nearly 9,000 people in this country. | :23:13. | :23:17. | |
Ministers today have been reluctant to talk about the details of | :23:17. | :23:20. | |
Starbucks' tax affairs, but this will be embarrassing for a | :23:20. | :23:23. | |
government which has talk so much about clamping down on tax | :23:23. | :23:27. | |
avoidance and making sure that we all pay our fair share in an age of | :23:27. | :23:32. | |
austerity. The seaside resort of Ilfracombe | :23:32. | :23:36. | |
has unveiled a giant new art work by its most famous resident, Damien | :23:36. | :23:45. | |
Hirst. The sculpture, 60 foot tall, shows a naked, pregnant woman, and | :23:45. | :23:54. | |
not everybody is happy about it. There she is. After all the debate, | :23:54. | :23:59. | |
all the glimpses over the last few months, finally, in the last hour, | :23:59. | :24:03. | |
Verity has finally been installed at the end of Ilfracombe Pier, | :24:03. | :24:08. | |
looking out to sea. She is heavily pregnant. She is taller than the | :24:08. | :24:12. | |
Angel of the North. Waiting for her to go up today has been a bit like | :24:12. | :24:18. | |
waiting on a maternity ward. It was a long and difficult labour. Lying | :24:18. | :24:23. | |
on her back, a heavily pregnant woman, cared for not by midwives | :24:23. | :24:27. | |
but by men in hard hats. They were polishing her bumper, preparing her | :24:27. | :24:37. | |
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for delivery. Then, with her legs in stirrups, Verity, as she is | :24:37. | :24:47. | |
known, was tilted up and lifted into position. Naked, 66ft tall, | :24:47. | :24:52. | |
and 25 tonnes. I am just absolutely awestruck, she is amazing. | :24:52. | :24:57. | |
Fantastic. Great for Ilfracombe, great for tourists. We have already | :24:57. | :25:01. | |
heard a couple of people saying, what a fantastic place, and then, | :25:01. | :25:07. | |
oh, look at the coastline! But this is unlike anything you have seen | :25:07. | :25:13. | |
before. On one side, the figure's internal organs and unborn child | :25:13. | :25:16. | |
are clearly visible, and not everybody is impressed. I thought | :25:16. | :25:21. | |
it was awful, a horrible thing to depict Ilfracombe, with its natural | :25:21. | :25:27. | |
beauty. But that is the ultimate in natural beauty, is it not? Not with | :25:27. | :25:31. | |
the insides showing, it is just not nice. I live here, and I have got | :25:31. | :25:36. | |
to look at it every day. It is horrible! I do not want to look at | :25:36. | :25:39. | |
that. We have got enough pregnant women in the town without having | :25:39. | :25:43. | |
another one. Ilfracombe is a surprising location for a piece | :25:43. | :25:48. | |
like this. Damien Hirst's work, like his shark pickled in | :25:48. | :25:53. | |
formaldehyde, is normally found in the world's top galleries. But it | :25:53. | :26:01. | |
is often shocking. And it is always expensive, like this skull | :26:01. | :26:05. | |
encrusted with diamonds. But this giant statue presents other | :26:05. | :26:10. | |
concerns. They tell me that the next thing is for her waters to | :26:10. | :26:16. | |
break. When that happens, I will be off. Stay out of the way! Yes, that | :26:16. | :26:23. | |
will cause a flood. No sign of that just yet. It is designed by Damien | :26:23. | :26:26. | |
Hirst to represent truth and justice, but in fact, the council, | :26:26. | :26:32. | |
who have agreed to have this alone for 20 years, want it to be a | :26:32. | :26:35. | |
symbol of the boldness of this town, and its determination to move ahead, | :26:36. | :26:39. | |
away from being a stuffy old seaside resort into the future, | :26:39. | :26:43. | |
with a business future as well. It with a business future as well. It | :26:43. | :26:46. | |
is time to catch up with the weather now. | :26:46. | :26:55. | |
Well, Verity enjoined -- enjoyed some sunshine today, and she will | :26:55. | :27:01. | |
again tomorrow as well. The rain is coming in from the south-west at | :27:01. | :27:06. | |
the moment. It will spread up across most of England and Wales, | :27:06. | :27:09. | |
Northern Ireland, and getting up into the borders of Scotland later | :27:10. | :27:15. | |
on as well. Meanwhile, the northern Isles of Scotland will be cold and | :27:15. | :27:22. | |
frosty. So, quite a contrast. It will be several degrees below | :27:22. | :27:28. | |
freezing, I would imagine, in some Highland glens tonight. It will be | :27:28. | :27:32. | |
a wet day across the north of Scotland tomorrow. Elsewhere, the | :27:32. | :27:39. | |
rain will clear through, leaving sunshine and blustery showers. Most | :27:39. | :27:46. | |
of Scotland is looking a bit bleak, with a chilly northerly wind. For | :27:46. | :27:49. | |
Northern Ireland, and most of England and Wales, we can look | :27:49. | :27:53. | |
forward to some sunshine again. There will be some sharp showers, | :27:53. | :28:01. | |
nevertheless. Some sharp showers certainly for Western parts of | :28:01. | :28:05. | |
England and Wales, but that is not the main concern. The main concern | :28:05. | :28:14. | |
is the strength of the wind. With high spring tides, we could see | :28:14. | :28:19. | |
some overtopping of the waves, and saturated ground as well. Moving on | :28:19. | :28:29. | |
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to Thursday, it will be drier in the middle. A lot going on. Flood | :28:32. | :28:36. | |
warnings are out from the warnings are out from the | :28:36. | :28:40. |