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Rail passengers in England face another inflation-busting rise in | :00:05. | :00:12. | |
their fares - it's the 11th year in a row. Ticket prices will go up by | :00:12. | :00:21. | |
an average of 4.1%. Many passengers say it's a rise too far. I'm going | :00:21. | :00:25. | |
to have to seriously decide whether I continue doing this for a job I | :00:25. | :00:31. | |
really enjoy, or I change my life. We'll be looking at how the cost of | :00:31. | :00:33. | |
rail is shifting from taxpayers to the passengers. | :00:33. | :00:36. | |
Also tonight: House prices are rising at their fastest rate for | :00:36. | :00:39. | |
seven years, say surveyors. Ministers claim the market has | :00:39. | :00:48. | |
turned a corner. I was forced to take these bags in my luggage. | :00:48. | :00:51. | |
The women accused of drug trafficking in Peru say they were | :00:51. | :00:54. | |
set up. A sharp rise in prescriptions for | :00:54. | :00:59. | |
hyper-activity drugs - they're up by 50% in six years. | :00:59. | :01:02. | |
And heavens above - the meteor shower streaking its way across | :01:02. | :01:12. | |
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Hello and welcome to the BBC News at Six. | :01:38. | :01:43. | |
Rail passengers in England face yet another hike in their rail fares. | :01:43. | :01:46. | |
Individual prices will vary, but overall tickets will go up by an | :01:46. | :01:52. | |
average of just over 4% from next January. The rise is set by the | :01:52. | :01:55. | |
Government and is based on the latest inflation figure, as measured | :01:55. | :02:00. | |
by the Retail Prices Index plus 1%. Campaigners say passengers face real | :02:00. | :02:04. | |
hardship as prices outstrip their wages. Our transport correspondent | :02:04. | :02:14. | |
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Richard Westcott is at Euston Station. George, I know we are all | :02:14. | :02:19. | |
still desperately clinging on to the summer but today is always the day | :02:19. | :02:22. | |
when rail commuters find out how much extra they are going to be | :02:22. | :02:25. | |
paying for their season tickets last year. The rise is slightly less than | :02:26. | :02:28. | |
expected but it still means that just about everyone walking through | :02:28. | :02:33. | |
that door tonight will have to find an extra �100 or �200 for their | :02:33. | :02:38. | |
ticket next year. And there's a good chance their salary won't have gone | :02:38. | :02:44. | |
up by that amount. We are used to it. We've had above-inflation fare | :02:44. | :02:48. | |
rises every year since 2004. It's the one thing these busy commuters | :02:48. | :02:55. | |
can rely on, on time, the every year for more than a decade, an | :02:55. | :02:58. | |
inflation-busting fare rise. Like thousands of others, Jennifer takes | :02:58. | :03:05. | |
the train to work. She pays �5,600 for a season ticket between | :03:05. | :03:08. | |
Wellingborough and London. That means she is working for three | :03:08. | :03:13. | |
months of the year just to pay her travel costs. If this happens every | :03:13. | :03:17. | |
year within the next two or three years, I'm going to have to decide | :03:17. | :03:21. | |
whether I continue doing this for a job I really enjoy, or I change my | :03:21. | :03:28. | |
life. This rise covers around half of all train tickets, which are | :03:28. | :03:32. | |
regulated by the Government. They include most season tickets and | :03:32. | :03:37. | |
off-peak inter-city fares. They will all go up by an average of 4. 1% | :03:37. | :03:44. | |
next January. That would add �92 a year to a season ticket between | :03:44. | :03:49. | |
Sheffield and Leeds and 11 5 a year for those travelling between | :03:49. | :03:53. | |
Liverpool and Manchester. In fact passenger as could be paying much | :03:53. | :03:58. | |
more. The rail companies are allowed to increase some fares by as much as | :03:58. | :04:03. | |
9%, as long as they cut similar tickets elsewhere. There is an irony | :04:03. | :04:08. | |
to all these fare rise is. The original idea behind regulating some | :04:08. | :04:12. | |
fares was actually to protect passengers from big price rises. | :04:12. | :04:16. | |
Burr for the last 11 years politicians have been increasing the | :04:16. | :04:22. | |
price of fares by more than inflation. But why? The Government | :04:22. | :04:27. | |
wants to cut dramatically the amount of money it actually spends running | :04:27. | :04:31. | |
the railways, and that inevitably means passengers will have to pay a | :04:31. | :04:37. | |
lot more. So our commuters just an easy target to raise cash? They are | :04:37. | :04:43. | |
not an easy target. Initially we planned to in which rail fares by | :04:43. | :04:48. | |
RPI plus 3% and we changed that because of the pressures they were | :04:48. | :04:53. | |
coming under and we've taken it down to as much millennium as we think it | :04:53. | :05:00. | |
is right. -- to a minimum as we think it is right. Look at what's | :05:00. | :05:04. | |
happened to regulated fares over the past decades decade and look at | :05:04. | :05:08. | |
what's happened to the average wage. There is a cost of living crisis | :05:08. | :05:12. | |
going on. The Government is out of touch if they think people can | :05:12. | :05:17. | |
afford to pay an extra 9. 4% when their wages are stagnant or | :05:18. | :05:20. | |
increasing by much less than inflation on average. These fares | :05:20. | :05:23. | |
are set by Ministers but the train companies are often accused of | :05:24. | :05:28. | |
cashing in too. So how do they answer those accusations? | :05:28. | :05:33. | |
average season ticket on Chiltern Railways costs �3,000. I can fully | :05:33. | :05:36. | |
understand why that seem as huge amount of money for a passenger to | :05:36. | :05:42. | |
spend as one transaction. But each season ticket holder makes 16,000 | :05:42. | :05:46. | |
miles worth of travel be that ticket. If you try that by car you | :05:46. | :05:51. | |
would never afford to do it for �3,000. Passengers in Scotland will | :05:51. | :05:56. | |
be were off, with season tickets capped at the it rate of inflation. | :05:56. | :06:00. | |
The Welsh Government has yet to decide what to do, and there is no | :06:00. | :06:03. | |
rise plan indeed Northern Ireland. In England the inflation-busting | :06:03. | :06:08. | |
rises are set to continue. There is another one planned for 2015 as | :06:08. | :06:13. | |
well. And here is a thought. We've had thousands of pounds added to the | :06:13. | :06:18. | |
cost of a season ticket, and a recession, but every year the | :06:18. | :06:23. | |
railways are carrying record numbers of passengers. Back to you. Richard, | :06:23. | :06:26. | |
thank you. There's another set of figures out | :06:26. | :06:30. | |
today. House prices in many parts of the UK are on the way up. Overall | :06:30. | :06:34. | |
they rose by just over 3% in the 12 months to June, according to | :06:34. | :06:36. | |
official figures. And a separate industry survey showed prices are | :06:36. | :06:39. | |
rising at their fastest rate in nearly seven years. But there were | :06:39. | :06:42. | |
big regional variations, with prices falling in Scotland and Northern | :06:42. | :06:44. | |
Ireland, as our chief economics correspondent Hugh Pym explains. | :06:44. | :06:47. | |
Police in Peru have released footage of their interview with two women - | :06:47. | :06:57. | |
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one British, the other Irish - who That's the view of estate agents and | :06:59. | :07:04. | |
surveyors around the UK. This agent in Cardiff says things have got a | :07:04. | :07:09. | |
lot busier recently, helped by cheaper and more affordable | :07:09. | :07:14. | |
mortgages. House sales have improved dramatically over the past few | :07:14. | :07:20. | |
months, after the credit crunch, mainly due to more buyers into the | :07:20. | :07:26. | |
market. We've registered probably 1,000 more buyers. Rising prices may | :07:26. | :07:31. | |
be good news if you are trying to sell a property, but with many they | :07:31. | :07:36. | |
are not welcome, with properties looking too expensive. I rent at the | :07:36. | :07:42. | |
minute, so I would kind of feel that I couldn't afford to buy anything | :07:42. | :07:49. | |
right now. They are paying ex-orb talent rent. We can't afford to save | :07:50. | :07:55. | |
for a deposit and the notion of buying is more and more remote. | :07:55. | :07:57. | |
latest figures from the Office for National Statistics show that US | :07:57. | :08:03. | |
house prices were rising in the year to June. But there were variations | :08:03. | :08:12. | |
In Scotland prices fell by 0. 9%, and in Northern Ireland where there | :08:13. | :08:18. | |
was a fall of 0. 4% over the year to June. A scheme to encourage people | :08:18. | :08:24. | |
to buy newly built homes in England has generated 10,000 reservations | :08:24. | :08:28. | |
since the launch in April, better than house build bankers expected. | :08:28. | :08:34. | |
The Government lends 20% of the value, allowing buyers to raise a | :08:34. | :08:40. | |
deposit of 5%. Some warn this could stoke another housing bubble. Be I | :08:41. | :08:45. | |
know we've seen a lot of optimistic data coming out over the past couple | :08:45. | :08:51. | |
of months, but things such as transaction levels and mortgage | :08:51. | :08:56. | |
approvals are still below where they were at peak, so we've got a long | :08:56. | :09:00. | |
way to cover before we get to boom territory. Most agree that going | :09:00. | :09:04. | |
back to the price rises and rapid turnover before the cries Weiss be | :09:05. | :09:08. | |
bad for the economy, but getting the balance right in the UK housing | :09:08. | :09:13. | |
market is never easy. Our political correspondent Ben | :09:13. | :09:19. | |
Wright is at Westminster. If you look at our two top stories, people | :09:19. | :09:23. | |
with houses will be feeling good and commuters will be feeling bad. | :09:23. | :09:26. | |
Politicians I guess have to square those two things. That's right, | :09:26. | :09:31. | |
George. It is not speeches and sound bites that tends to move political | :09:31. | :09:35. | |
opinion. It's the big picture - the state of the economy, how flush | :09:35. | :09:41. | |
people are feeling. Now we know that house prices are rising but wages | :09:41. | :09:45. | |
lag far bind inflation. Bills are high. Train fares are going up. So | :09:45. | :09:50. | |
if you are a voter who own as house, who has a job and commutes by car, | :09:50. | :09:53. | |
you might be feeling fairly warm towards the Government at the | :09:53. | :09:58. | |
moment. But if you are renting and can't get on the housing ladder and | :09:58. | :10:06. | |
are paying a huge amounts on rail first, you probably won't. In this | :10:06. | :10:09. | |
is one of the main Labour arguments against the Government. They think | :10:09. | :10:12. | |
it is that as much as the recovery that will make a difference at the | :10:13. | :10:16. | |
election. The Government says it comes down to economic competence | :10:16. | :10:22. | |
and stresses what it is trying to do to alleviate living standards, like | :10:22. | :10:29. | |
a freeze on fuel duty, but it is how the economy is felt in people's | :10:29. | :10:35. | |
budge that's happens. Police in Peru have released footage of their | :10:35. | :10:42. | |
interview with two women arrested on suspicion of drug trafficking. | :10:42. | :10:45. | |
Customs officials in the country say they found cocaine worth �1.5 | :10:45. | :10:47. | |
million in their luggage. Melissa Reid and Michaella McCollum-Connolly | :10:47. | :10:51. | |
were about to board a flight to Madrid a week ago when they were | :10:51. | :10:55. | |
arrested. Jon Brain has more. your name? Melissa Reid.What's your | :10:55. | :11:00. | |
nationality? British. Appearing fairly calm considering their | :11:00. | :11:03. | |
flight, this was Michaella McCollum-Connolly and Melissa | :11:03. | :11:08. | |
Reiding with questioned on arrest at Lima airport. Madrid, Majorca. | :11:08. | :11:14. | |
What's your name? Michaella McCollum-Connolly. What's your | :11:14. | :11:24. | |
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nationality? Irish.And what is your travel? But the next answer by Ms | :11:25. | :11:30. | |
Reid makes it clear she is aware of just how serious the situation is. | :11:30. | :11:40. | |
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was forced to take these bags in my luggage. You know it contained | :11:41. | :11:47. | |
drugs? I did not know that. These are the bags the police claim were | :11:47. | :11:52. | |
found in the women's luggage. Disguised as food packaging it is | :11:52. | :11:56. | |
alleged they contain 11 kilos of cocaine, with a street value of �1. | :11:56. | :12:01. | |
5 million. As far as their friends and family were aware, the pair had | :12:01. | :12:07. | |
been spending the summer working in Ibiza. They hadn't been heard of | :12:07. | :12:10. | |
since 27th July. Last Tuesday they were arrested as they tried to check | :12:10. | :12:20. | |
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in for a flight from Lima back to Spain. Peru has become the biggist | :12:20. | :12:27. | |
exporter of cocaine in the world, offering rich pickings for would-be | :12:27. | :12:32. | |
smugglers. The Foreign Office says statistics giving consular | :12:32. | :12:36. | |
assistance to Road. Its Irish counterpart is doing the same for Ms | :12:36. | :12:40. | |
McCollum-Connolly. But before the arrests there were concern about the | :12:40. | :12:44. | |
amount of drug smuggling in per ow there are more than 30 British | :12:44. | :12:49. | |
nationals in jail there for that o efence. They found me with one kilo | :12:49. | :12:52. | |
of cocaine in my stomach. This Government video was made | :12:52. | :12:57. | |
specifically to warn of the potential dangers. I was arrested | :12:57. | :13:02. | |
with 1. 1.9 kill os of cocaine and I still regret the day I said yes to | :13:02. | :13:09. | |
the supplier. It is really different being in prison abroad. Today | :13:09. | :13:13. | |
Melissa Reid's father said there was no way his daughter would get | :13:13. | :13:17. | |
involved in the selling of drugs. The family of Michaella | :13:17. | :13:21. | |
McCollum-Connolly said they were shocked and distressed but believe | :13:22. | :13:29. | |
she will be exon rate. Their next court appearance is tomorrow. | :13:29. | :13:35. | |
A 16-year-old boy has been stabbed to death in London. Ajmol Alom was | :13:35. | :13:43. | |
set upon by hooded males in popular last night. Officer Officers -- in | :13:43. | :13:52. | |
more can you tell us about this attack? Police say Ajmal was here | :13:53. | :13:58. | |
last night when he was approached by a group of young men wearing | :13:58. | :14:04. | |
bandannas. Ajmal was stab indeed the thigh and died of his injuries. | :14:04. | :14:09. | |
Police say he was the target of gang-related violence but no | :14:09. | :14:16. | |
indication that Ajmal was a gang member. By all accounts he was an | :14:16. | :14:22. | |
indust rows hard-working pupil. His head mastery say he was a splend lid | :14:22. | :14:27. | |
young man. Police say it is a motiveless unprovoked attack. He was | :14:27. | :14:31. | |
the 8th person to die in an attack like this on the streets of London | :14:31. | :14:41. | |
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this year. The trial of a restaurant worker accused of strangling a | :14:42. | :14:48. | |
teenager 13 years ago and dumping her body on a golf course has | :14:48. | :14:58. | |
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entered its second day. Rachel Manning with her boyfriend, Barri | :14:59. | :15:05. | |
White, on the night she was last seen alive. The 19-year-old wore a | :15:05. | :15:11. | |
blue wig and fancy dress for a party in Milton Keynes. The court heard | :15:11. | :15:17. | |
Rachel left her friends in the early hours of the morning. Two days later | :15:17. | :15:21. | |
police searched a golf course in Woburn. Rachel's body was found in | :15:21. | :15:26. | |
this area. She had been strangled and her face disfigured by 17 | :15:26. | :15:32. | |
separate injuries. The weapon used, a steering wheel lock, was found | :15:32. | :15:37. | |
nearby. In 2002 Barri White was convicted of his girlfriend's | :15:37. | :15:40. | |
murder. Five years later in the Court of Appeal his conviction was | :15:40. | :15:45. | |
quashed and he was acquitted at a later trial after serving six years | :15:45. | :15:51. | |
in jail. For Rachel's family, the anguish continued. We had to see | :15:51. | :15:56. | |
those horrific injuries first hand when we identified her body in the | :15:57. | :16:01. | |
hospital mortuary. This was the most soul destroying thing any parent | :16:01. | :16:07. | |
could go through. Now 13 years after Rachel was killed Shahidul Ahmed | :16:07. | :16:13. | |
from Bletchley is on trial for her murder. The court heard that DNA | :16:13. | :16:17. | |
from the 41-year-old chef was found on a steering lock used to hit the | :16:17. | :16:20. | |
teenageary. The prosecution said police made the match when he was | :16:20. | :16:24. | |
arrested and convicted three years ago for sexually assaulted a young | :16:24. | :16:30. | |
woman in his car. The jury was also told that a trial against him | :16:30. | :16:35. | |
earlier this year was inconclusive. He denies murder. | :16:35. | :16:39. | |
When Rachel Manning was killed, her parents lost a much-loved daughter. | :16:39. | :16:49. | |
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They were in court today for a The top story. | :16:53. | :16:58. | |
Rail fares in England go up, passengers face a 4.1% hike in | :16:58. | :17:00. | |
prices from the beginning of next year. | :17:00. | :17:05. | |
Still to come, the Church thieves who made off with a pair of | :17:05. | :17:14. | |
priceless medieval art works. And, Liverpool wave goodbye to �15 | :17:14. | :17:18. | |
million as Stewart Downing leaves for West Ham for just 5 million | :17:18. | :17:28. | |
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after just two years of In Egypt, there have been more | :17:32. | :17:36. | |
clashes between the security forces and supporters of the deposed | :17:36. | :17:40. | |
president. The turmoil facing the country has punted human rights | :17:40. | :17:46. | |
campaigners to warn of more attacks on the country's Christian minority. | :17:46. | :17:51. | |
Coptic Christians make up 10% of the population of Egypt. The Coptic | :17:51. | :17:56. | |
Church says 103 Christians have been killed since January 2011. Several | :17:56. | :18:02. | |
churches have been targeted, including the Coptic Cathedral. We | :18:03. | :18:06. | |
spoke to the parents of a girl killed last week. She was just ten | :18:06. | :18:12. | |
years old. This mother's life changed forever | :18:12. | :18:21. | |
last Tuesday. Her only child, Jessi, was shot dead as she walked home | :18:21. | :18:29. | |
from church in Cairo. She says her daughter was just becoming a young | :18:29. | :18:34. | |
woman and that she will miss her calling her mum. Phoebe and her | :18:34. | :18:39. | |
husband Bill loss belief that Jessi was targeted because she was a | :18:39. | :18:49. | |
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us, the killers did not know she was my life, my future. I lived for her. | :19:05. | :19:09. | |
So Muslims and Christians stood together in Tahrir Square, radical | :19:09. | :19:13. | |
Islamists have blamed the Coptic Christian community for helping to | :19:13. | :19:17. | |
remove Mohamed Morsi from power. Jessi and others are paying the | :19:17. | :19:24. | |
price. Coptic and other Christians make up 10% of the population, over | :19:24. | :19:28. | |
8 million people, but they are feeling increasingly vulnerable. | :19:28. | :19:33. | |
Jessi was one of seven Christians killed in the last few months. | :19:33. | :19:37. | |
Church properties have also been targeted. Many Christians have left | :19:37. | :19:41. | |
already. Hostile messages written on the church walls, though this | :19:41. | :19:46. | |
Catholic church was luckier than some. Others have been burned down. | :19:46. | :19:55. | |
But until now, everyday, sectarian problems, burning churches, killing | :19:55. | :20:02. | |
people, killing this small child, she is ten years old, it is not only | :20:02. | :20:08. | |
the Christians, it is everybody who receive this message of terror from | :20:08. | :20:16. | |
the Muslim Brotherhood and the parties. Has the family and friends | :20:16. | :20:21. | |
mourn the loss of Jessi, any hope and break the violence will end | :20:21. | :20:30. | |
soon, and that the darkness of sectarian strife will be lifted. | :20:30. | :20:34. | |
An increasing number of children in England have been prescribed drugs | :20:34. | :20:39. | |
for hyperactivity, according to the health care regulator. The CQC says | :20:39. | :20:46. | |
prescriptions issued for drugs treating ADHD have gone up by 50% in | :20:46. | :20:52. | |
six years. Parents are coming to hear that and | :20:52. | :21:01. | |
the concerned. What is going on? These are intriguing figures. In | :21:01. | :21:07. | |
2007, there were just over 400,000 prescriptions for drugs of this | :21:07. | :21:14. | |
kind. By last year, it had gone up to 650,000. The reason it is | :21:14. | :21:20. | |
surprising, it is only one to 2% of children that have ADHD that is | :21:20. | :21:26. | |
severe enough to have drugs. They have side-effects, it can put them | :21:26. | :21:30. | |
off their food, alter their mood, and over a period, potentially stunt | :21:30. | :21:37. | |
their growth. This raises disturbing questions, of their children with | :21:37. | :21:43. | |
mild ADHD who have been given drugs they do not need? More generally, | :21:43. | :21:46. | |
our families and GPs having difficulty getting the kind of | :21:46. | :21:50. | |
behaviour role, psychological help with managing this condition that | :21:50. | :21:56. | |
would help them in the longer term and avoid the need for medication? | :21:56. | :22:01. | |
A group of children picked up an unexploded pipe bomb which had been | :22:01. | :22:06. | |
thrown at a police station in west Belfast last night. Two devices were | :22:06. | :22:11. | |
used in the attack, but one failed to detonate. Police say they suspect | :22:11. | :22:16. | |
dissident republicans were behind the incident. Nobody was injured. | :22:16. | :22:20. | |
Police are on the hunt for a pair of 15th century oak panels stolen from | :22:20. | :22:25. | |
a church in Devon. Conservationists say the panels are of national | :22:25. | :22:34. | |
importance but it appears there was little security in place. | :22:34. | :22:38. | |
This is what the panels looked like before the raid. And this is what | :22:38. | :22:42. | |
was left afterwards. A whole way two due date 15th century works of art | :22:43. | :22:48. | |
were crudely priced from their ancient setting. The panels are | :22:48. | :22:54. | |
priceless, unique, like a Turner or Constable, there are no other | :22:54. | :23:01. | |
examples, and the only worth they have is as an indigenous part of | :23:01. | :23:05. | |
this church. The stolen panels depicted St Victor of Marseilles and | :23:05. | :23:12. | |
Saint Margaret. A third panel was smashed in the raid. For local | :23:12. | :23:17. | |
people around the area, the theft is a cultural and historical play. | :23:17. | :23:22. | |
survived the Reformation, it has survived revolutions, and here we | :23:22. | :23:28. | |
are, 600 years on, somebody has taken them. Police were examining | :23:28. | :23:31. | |
the church but say it is not clear who would have taken works of art | :23:31. | :23:37. | |
like this. It looks like the panels were targeted, nothing else has been | :23:37. | :23:44. | |
disturbed, and they have not been taken up with any great care, but it | :23:44. | :23:50. | |
looks like they were taken specifically. There are more than | :23:50. | :23:54. | |
330 churches like this dotted around isolated parts of Britain. The | :23:54. | :23:58. | |
problem for many is keeping them secure. Although the government and | :23:58. | :24:02. | |
the Church of England together give �4 million for the upkeep of the | :24:02. | :24:06. | |
buildings, they have to be kept open injuring the day so that the public | :24:06. | :24:12. | |
can give their vital donations. In the ecclesiastical terms, there | :24:12. | :24:16. | |
could be something evil about this medieval robbery. The thieves are | :24:16. | :24:25. | |
now prepared to take the very art and church infrastructure. | :24:25. | :24:29. | |
Amateur astronomers woke up bleary eyed this morning after one of the | :24:29. | :24:33. | |
clearest displays of shooting stars to have lit up the British skies in | :24:33. | :24:40. | |
years. The so-called Perseid meteor shower happens every year, but last | :24:40. | :24:44. | |
night's was particularly spectacular. | :24:44. | :24:50. | |
Use of last night's media shower. Shooting stars created by particles, | :24:50. | :24:55. | |
some as small as a grain of sand, bombarding the Earth from space. It | :24:55. | :25:02. | |
happened around this time each year. Under clear skies, the new | :25:02. | :25:07. | |
moon, and the show at its peak, last night was perfect. I joined amateur | :25:07. | :25:14. | |
astronomers at Hertfordshire Observatory to see for myself. | :25:14. | :25:19. | |
have seen the first few meteors, an amazing sight. At its peak, there | :25:19. | :25:26. | |
will be one every minute, providing nature's own firework display. | :25:26. | :25:30. | |
is what we saw through the night vision camera. Eight hours condensed | :25:30. | :25:36. | |
into a few seconds. I saw a really bright one over there. It was really | :25:36. | :25:43. | |
impressive. It has been great, we have seen 20 shooting stars over the | :25:43. | :25:47. | |
last couple of hours. I have never seen so many at one time before, it | :25:47. | :25:52. | |
has been brilliant. The sham it is caused by a trail of debris from a | :25:52. | :26:01. | |
giant comet. It goes around the sun, just like the Earth, but its orbit | :26:01. | :26:06. | |
is at an angle, meaning that every year, between July and August, the | :26:06. | :26:10. | |
Earth drifts into the comet's Trail and is showered with meteors. | :26:10. | :26:17. | |
looking at this. We are looking at bits of a comet that originated from | :26:17. | :26:23. | |
8 billion kilometres away. Its birthplace is over 50 times the | :26:23. | :26:27. | |
distance between the Earth and the Sun. It has come from the very outer | :26:27. | :26:32. | |
edges of the solar system. There are records of the spectacle dating back | :26:32. | :26:36. | |
thousands of years. Stirring the heart of our ancestors. It is a show | :26:36. | :26:44. | |
that will inspire generations to come. | :26:44. | :26:54. | |
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hopeful we will start to see clear skies developing. Already, holds | :26:56. | :27:02. | |
breaking through the cloud. If you are thinking of heading out to see | :27:02. | :27:07. | |
the media showers tonight, eastern Scotland will see some clear skies, | :27:07. | :27:12. | |
parts of northern England, a good chance, there is a bit more cloud | :27:12. | :27:17. | |
further west, a weak weather front stops to approach, so things become | :27:17. | :27:24. | |
more overcast through the night. Maybe the odd spot of light rain or | :27:24. | :27:29. | |
drizzle keeping the temperature is up. Further east, it will become | :27:29. | :27:34. | |
quite chilly, especially for eastern Scotland. Whilst we might see the | :27:34. | :27:38. | |
odd spot of rain tomorrow, for many, it will be a dry day. The early | :27:39. | :27:44. | |
bright test lasts through the morning -- through the afternoon | :27:44. | :27:48. | |
across eastern areas. Elsewhere, it will turn cloudy. Cloudy sky for | :27:48. | :27:54. | |
western Scotland. It could be damp and drizzly. For Northern Ireland, a | :27:54. | :27:59. | |
bit of late afternoon brightness, but we still have cloud around | :27:59. | :28:06. | |
south-west England, misty and murky, with low cloud and hill fog as well. | :28:06. | :28:13. | |
The further east you are, the better chance you have of the sunshine. By | :28:13. | :28:19. | |
Thursday, we still expect this warm, moist, humid air to be drawn up from | :28:19. | :28:24. | |
the south-west corner. Although Thursday sees a rising temperatures, | :28:24. | :28:29. | |
it brings a fair amount of cloud, along with rain, and some of it | :28:29. | :28:34. | |
could be heavy, with heavy showers developing. More details by going to | :28:34. | :28:43. |