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Police appeal to British Muslim women to help stop their sons and | :00:00. | :00:12. | |
brothers going to Syria to fight. You all know who you are. From the | :00:13. | :00:19. | |
capital, up north, Midlands, wherever you may be, the sincere or | :00:20. | :00:25. | |
others. -- brothers. Anti-terror police fear that the growing number | :00:26. | :00:28. | |
of young British men there could create a security risk back home. | :00:29. | :00:31. | |
The aunt of a British teenager who died last week in Syria says it's | :00:32. | :00:35. | |
not always easy to stop them going. It's really hard sometimes to accept | :00:36. | :00:38. | |
that, you know, sometimes you just can't control...obviously, you can't | :00:39. | :00:41. | |
control your children to that level. We will be looking at how likely | :00:42. | :00:44. | |
this new push by the police is to succeed. Also tonight: Ukrainian | :00:45. | :00:47. | |
troops are reported to have killed several pro-Russian separatists, | :00:48. | :00:49. | |
sparking an immediate response from Moscow. | :00:50. | :00:53. | |
Formula One boss Ernie Ecclestone fights to save his career as he goes | :00:54. | :00:58. | |
on trial, charged with bribery. Crime in England and Wales is down | :00:59. | :01:02. | |
to its lowest level in over 20 years. | :01:03. | :01:05. | |
And it's got its own food and its own flag. Now Cornwall gets | :01:06. | :01:10. | |
protected minority status. Tonight on BBC London: The FBI | :01:11. | :01:13. | |
investigate a convicted paedophile who taught at an international | :01:14. | :01:17. | |
school in Westminster. Anger over missing mail - claims | :01:18. | :01:20. | |
that the service in parts of the capital has suffered since | :01:21. | :01:21. | |
privatisation. Good evening and welcome to the BBC | :01:22. | :01:44. | |
News at Six. The police are appealing to Muslim women in Britain | :01:45. | :01:47. | |
to help them stop would-be terrorists travelling to Syria. | :01:48. | :01:51. | |
Hundreds of Britons are thought to have been there already to fight in | :01:52. | :01:55. | |
the civil war, and the numbers are increasing. In the whole of last | :01:56. | :01:58. | |
year, there were 25 Syria-related arrests in the UK. But in just the | :01:59. | :02:02. | |
first three months of this year, that figure has risen to 40. The | :02:03. | :02:05. | |
campaign follows last week's news that 18-year-old Abdullah Deghayes, | :02:06. | :02:07. | |
from Brighton, was killed while fighting alongside anti-government | :02:08. | :02:13. | |
rebels in Syria. His two brothers are still there. Our security | :02:14. | :02:15. | |
correspondent, Gordon Corera, reports. | :02:16. | :02:25. | |
I am addressing you are others. An appeal from British jihadists in | :02:26. | :02:29. | |
Syria. Up north, Midlands, wherever you may be. Posted last week, it | :02:30. | :02:36. | |
includes a call to arms that hundreds of young British Muslims | :02:37. | :02:38. | |
have already heeded, joining the conflict. Come to the land of | :02:39. | :02:44. | |
jihad. Today, the police issued a nationwide appeal for friends and | :02:45. | :02:49. | |
family, particularly women, to intervene to stop this. Women are | :02:50. | :02:52. | |
very influential in their families, we know that. We know we can speak | :02:53. | :02:57. | |
amongst communities and influence young people. We also want to spot | :02:58. | :03:01. | |
the signs and symptoms that people might be thinking of travelling. In | :03:02. | :03:10. | |
February, Abdulmutallab from Crawley became the first British suicide | :03:11. | :03:13. | |
bomber in Syria. The fear is that even if you begin by just one to | :03:14. | :03:17. | |
deliver humanitarian aid, they may be radicalised while out that -- | :03:18. | :03:22. | |
Abdulmutallab. We don't want to see people from the United Kingdom going | :03:23. | :03:25. | |
to fight and becoming radicalised and potentially coming back here and | :03:26. | :03:30. | |
threatening others. That is a major risk to the UK that we take | :03:31. | :03:36. | |
extremely seriously. But will this message from the police get through? | :03:37. | :03:39. | |
The rising number of arrests made make some people nervous about going | :03:40. | :03:46. | |
to the authorities. And not just the police, but families may struggle to | :03:47. | :03:49. | |
counter the strong desire of some young people to go out to Syria and | :03:50. | :03:55. | |
do something. Abdullah Deghayes from Brighton died in Syria in the last | :03:56. | :03:58. | |
few weeks, just after his 18th birthday. His aunt says two of his | :03:59. | :04:05. | |
brothers, one only 16, are still in Syria. She says the family did try | :04:06. | :04:09. | |
to intervene to stop the boys going. In our situation, obviously, this | :04:10. | :04:16. | |
did not work at all. The main reason he ran away with the even younger | :04:17. | :04:23. | |
one, they stole their own passports from their mum and ran away, and | :04:24. | :04:29. | |
that already tells you that they know the family will not be happy. | :04:30. | :04:35. | |
Abdullah's father even went out to try to bring him back, but with no | :04:36. | :04:42. | |
luck. The law of Syria and its war was too strong, reaching out to | :04:43. | :04:46. | |
young people will not be easy and the risks are real. | :04:47. | :04:52. | |
And Gordon Corera is here now. As you say, it will not be easy | :04:53. | :04:55. | |
reaching out to this young people. How likely is this campaign to work? | :04:56. | :04:59. | |
It will be challenging for two reasons. One is that the government | :05:00. | :05:03. | |
and police are sending out Comdex, almost mixed messages. On the one | :05:04. | :05:07. | |
hand, they are saying, go to the authorities if you are worried about | :05:08. | :05:11. | |
someone travelling to Syria. But they are also saying, if they'd do | :05:12. | :05:15. | |
go to Syria, when they come back, they may be divested. That might be | :05:16. | :05:20. | |
-- put people off going to the authorities. Secondly, there is a | :05:21. | :05:22. | |
question over whether this message will really reach young people who | :05:23. | :05:26. | |
are being driven by very powerful and persuasive social media to get | :05:27. | :05:31. | |
them out of there. And I have to say that determined and often rebellious | :05:32. | :05:34. | |
young people are not often dissuaded from doing things by their mothers. | :05:35. | :05:40. | |
So it will be very challenging. But you can see from this appeal that | :05:41. | :05:43. | |
the government is very worried and the police are worried about this | :05:44. | :05:47. | |
problem and where it might lead. More violence in eastern Ukraine has | :05:48. | :05:50. | |
weakened still further the prospect of an end to the crisis as agreed at | :05:51. | :05:54. | |
talks last week in Geneva. There has been fighting between Ukraine forces | :05:55. | :05:56. | |
and pro-Russian separatists which has left five people dead. Russia | :05:57. | :06:01. | |
has begun fresh military exercises along the border in response and is | :06:02. | :06:04. | |
again threatening what it calls "consequences". Our correspondent, | :06:05. | :06:06. | |
Daniel Sandford, has been to Sloviansk, which saw the worst of | :06:07. | :06:09. | |
the fighting. He joins me live this evening from Donetsk, in eastern | :06:10. | :06:18. | |
Ukraine. Yes, further bloodshed in Ukraine | :06:19. | :06:22. | |
today, and with it a horrible sense that this crisis is getting worse. | :06:23. | :06:26. | |
Slowly, the death toll is mounting and every death increases the chance | :06:27. | :06:30. | |
of this turning into a full-blown conflict. | :06:31. | :06:37. | |
Ukrainian government troops, just outside the rebel stronghold of | :06:38. | :06:44. | |
Sloviansk. It was part of what Kiev calls its anti-terrorist operation | :06:45. | :06:49. | |
against the armed militia that has been taking government buildings, | :06:50. | :06:52. | |
police stations and even whole towns in eastern Ukraine. It lasted about | :06:53. | :06:57. | |
an hour before the Ukrainian forces retreated. A few hours later, we | :06:58. | :07:03. | |
watched as the armed rebels swarmed back onto the barricades, though | :07:04. | :07:07. | |
they told us that one young man had died. Again, the details of the | :07:08. | :07:14. | |
incident are unclear, but it appears to have been an attack by the | :07:15. | :07:17. | |
Ukrainian army from the north on a checkpoint held by pro-Russian | :07:18. | :07:24. | |
protesters. The Russian defence minister immediately said he was | :07:25. | :07:28. | |
restarting military exercises. As heavy armour rolled near the | :07:29. | :07:33. | |
Ukrainian border, President Putin warned that Kiev's decision would | :07:34. | :07:43. | |
have consequences. TRANSLATION: If the regime in Kiev has indeed | :07:44. | :07:46. | |
started to use the army against its own population today, it is without | :07:47. | :07:50. | |
any doubt it very serious crime against its people. In fact, much of | :07:51. | :07:56. | |
the Ukrainian army operation has been without violence and is an | :07:57. | :08:00. | |
attempt to show that they have some control in the East. We are in a | :08:01. | :08:05. | |
situation now where both sides are running checkpoints on the same | :08:06. | :08:09. | |
road. This is a government checkpoint, but a few miles down the | :08:10. | :08:14. | |
road, there is one run by the protesters, and a few miles up the | :08:15. | :08:16. | |
road, there is another one run by the protesters. And with many | :08:17. | :08:21. | |
government buildings and police stations still in rebel hands, the | :08:22. | :08:24. | |
US president was putting the blame firmly on Russia. We have seen them | :08:25. | :08:32. | |
not abide by the spirit or the letter of the agreement in Geneva. | :08:33. | :08:37. | |
And slowly, but tragically, the death toll rises. This was the | :08:38. | :08:43. | |
funeral today of a local pro Kiev politician whose body was found in a | :08:44. | :08:47. | |
river. He had apparently been tortured and left to drown. Daniel | :08:48. | :08:53. | |
Sanford, BBC News, Sloviansk. The FBI has appealed for the | :08:54. | :08:56. | |
potential British victims of a paedophile to come forward. Up to 90 | :08:57. | :08:59. | |
pupils may have been abused by William Vahey. He worked at | :09:00. | :09:01. | |
Southbank International School in London from 2009. Vahey, who was | :09:02. | :09:05. | |
American, was found dead last month. Investigators found images on his | :09:06. | :09:08. | |
computer hard drive of boys, believed to be his students, aged | :09:09. | :09:13. | |
from 12 to 14, being abused. Daniel Boettcher is outside the school in | :09:14. | :09:20. | |
central London. Terribly shocking for parents and the teachers at the | :09:21. | :09:25. | |
school? Yes, the latest information from the executive runcible of the | :09:26. | :09:29. | |
school is that images of between 50 and 60 students from the school were | :09:30. | :09:34. | |
found on women or macro's computer. Earlier, the chair of governors -- | :09:35. | :09:38. | |
they were found on William Vahey's computer. The chair of governors | :09:39. | :09:44. | |
said everyone was shocked. This is part of an international appeal for | :09:45. | :09:48. | |
information. Vahey taught in at least nine countries over 40 years | :09:49. | :09:52. | |
until he was finally confronted in his last school in Nicaragua, and | :09:53. | :09:56. | |
the guy was alerted. The FBI examined images on a memory stick, | :09:57. | :10:03. | |
and found images said to show students drugged and unconscious. It | :10:04. | :10:07. | |
also showed the dates and locations of some of those images, which | :10:08. | :10:10. | |
correlate with field trips taken by Vahey and his pupils. The school | :10:11. | :10:15. | |
here, the chair of governors has said that all appropriate checks | :10:16. | :10:18. | |
were carried out and references taken up before he was employed, but | :10:19. | :10:23. | |
those failed to identify a previous conviction. | :10:24. | :10:26. | |
The Formula One boss Bernie Ecclestone has gone on trial in | :10:27. | :10:29. | |
Munich, charged with bribery. The 83-year-old is accused of paying a | :10:30. | :10:32. | |
German banker to secure the sale of a stake in the Formula One business | :10:33. | :10:35. | |
to a company he favoured. Mr Ecclestone denies the charges. | :10:36. | :10:42. | |
Natalie Pirks reports from Munich. This report contains flash | :10:43. | :10:46. | |
photography. The stride was confident, the smile | :10:47. | :10:50. | |
was warm, but this court could change Bernie Ecclestone's life for | :10:51. | :10:53. | |
ever. Are you confident you can win this | :10:54. | :10:58. | |
case? I am confident. The sun is shining. It is a far cry from his | :10:59. | :11:03. | |
life at the helm of Formula One. The charges in Munich paint a vivid | :11:04. | :11:07. | |
picture of corruption, cash and a man seemingly so obsessed with | :11:08. | :11:10. | |
holding onto power that he would break the law to keep it. In 2005, | :11:11. | :11:15. | |
the majority stakeholder in Formula One was the German bank, Bayern LB. | :11:16. | :11:21. | |
That state was then sold to another company called CVC. Ecclestone is | :11:22. | :11:25. | |
accused of being a $44 million bribe to the now jailed chief risk officer | :11:26. | :11:30. | |
to ensure the sale of those shares to Ecclestone's referred eaters, | :11:31. | :11:36. | |
CVC, who had agreed to keep him on as chief executive. But Ecclestone | :11:37. | :11:40. | |
denies the bribe and claims he paid only to stop himself from being | :11:41. | :11:46. | |
blackmailed about his tax affairs. These arguments have been going | :11:47. | :11:49. | |
round for a while. In a civil damages case in London last year, | :11:50. | :11:54. | |
Ecclestone won, but a High Court judge deemed his blackmailed defence | :11:55. | :11:56. | |
implausible and called him an unreliable witness. The 83-year-old | :11:57. | :12:02. | |
was a used car salesman before turning his love of motorsport into | :12:03. | :12:06. | |
a global empire. Four decades of three wives, champagne and the high | :12:07. | :12:11. | |
life now face being overshadowed by potentially ruinous charges. A cash | :12:12. | :12:16. | |
deal could be struck, but if found guilty, he would be fired from F1. | :12:17. | :12:21. | |
He could face jail and the sport he built could suffer. Nobody in this | :12:22. | :12:26. | |
world is irreplaceable, but in my opinion, Bernie Ecclestone is as | :12:27. | :12:30. | |
close to being irreplaceable as it is possible to be. Ecclestone will | :12:31. | :12:35. | |
get to know this media scrum well. The case will continue for 26 | :12:36. | :12:39. | |
nonconsecutive days till September, to allow him to keep working. It | :12:40. | :12:45. | |
will all be heard in room 101. Ecclestone spoke little today, | :12:46. | :12:48. | |
except for a joke about his ex-wives. He was asked if he was | :12:49. | :12:53. | |
married or divorced. He said both, I like to remember the divorce part. | :12:54. | :12:57. | |
But the days he spends here over the next few months will be no joking | :12:58. | :13:00. | |
matter and could ultimately decide whether his future will be spent | :13:01. | :13:04. | |
behind bars. Natalie Pirks, BBC News, Munich. | :13:05. | :13:07. | |
Crime in England and Wales has fallen by 50% -- 15%. The Crime | :13:08. | :13:13. | |
Survey for England and Wales the 7.5 million crimes were recorded last | :13:14. | :13:17. | |
year, the lowest level since it began in 1981. Violent crime was | :13:18. | :13:21. | |
down in particular, reflecting yesterday's figures showing fury | :13:22. | :13:25. | |
oceans to hospitals or injuries caused by violence. But fraud has | :13:26. | :13:30. | |
seen a significant increase. I'll crank respondent is with me. What is | :13:31. | :13:35. | |
your assessment of these figures -- our crime correspondent is with me. | :13:36. | :13:43. | |
Statistics always come with a health warning. We have two sets of figures | :13:44. | :13:48. | |
today. There is crime recorded by the police in England and Wales and | :13:49. | :13:52. | |
the National survey of people's experiences of crime. The surveys | :13:53. | :13:58. | |
show a big drop to levels less than half of what they were 20 years ago. | :13:59. | :14:03. | |
Within that drop, we have seen a 22% reduction in violent crime, much | :14:04. | :14:06. | |
bigger than the decrease we reported on yesterday with the hospital data. | :14:07. | :14:10. | |
There has also been a drop in household theft, down by 25 cent, | :14:11. | :14:18. | |
and vandalism fallen by 15%. There have been increases as well, but | :14:19. | :14:22. | |
they do not necessarily mean there have been increases in those crimes. | :14:23. | :14:27. | |
For example, there was a 17% increase in sexual offences, but a | :14:28. | :14:31. | |
large part of that is what they call the Jimmy Savile effect, where more | :14:32. | :14:35. | |
people are coming forward to report allegations of historical offences | :14:36. | :14:39. | |
because of the publicity. There has also been a significant increase in | :14:40. | :14:41. | |
internet related fraud. Again, cautious about that because where | :14:42. | :14:47. | |
they have calculated the figures has changed recently. Finally, domestic | :14:48. | :14:51. | |
violence. Police have been told the record that better and respond to it | :14:52. | :14:55. | |
that, and that has contributed to a very small increase in the police | :14:56. | :14:59. | |
recorded levels of violence. So overall, a continuation of this 20 | :15:00. | :15:04. | |
year trend to see crime coming down, but a particularly big fall | :15:05. | :15:07. | |
with this last set of figures. The Berkshire residents who want | :15:08. | :15:40. | |
insurers to do more. And we are with the ballet company made up entirely | :15:41. | :15:43. | |
of children as it celebrates its 20th year. | :15:44. | :15:52. | |
The Labour Party is considering severing it is Eric links with the | :15:53. | :15:56. | |
Co-operative Bank, which has had a turbulent year. Its chairman, Paul | :15:57. | :16:01. | |
Flowers, resigned before being charged with drugs offences and this | :16:02. | :16:04. | |
month, the bank reported the biggest losses in its history. Here is our | :16:05. | :16:08. | |
business editor, Kamal Ahmed. It could be a significant parting of | :16:09. | :16:13. | |
the ways . The Co-op Bank and labour are looking at divorce. And like | :16:14. | :16:17. | |
many controversial splits, this all comes down to a question of money, | :16:18. | :16:20. | |
with Labour wanted to close its account and move a ?1 million loan | :16:21. | :16:25. | |
to a bank owned by the trade unions. It has been a long marriage, | :16:26. | :16:29. | |
with links between the bank and the party going back nearly a hundred | :16:30. | :16:34. | |
years. Here at Westminster, the Labour Party insist it is a purely | :16:35. | :16:40. | |
commercial decision, that if they move their ?1.1 million of loans, it | :16:41. | :16:43. | |
would be to get a better rate, just like when you move your mortgage. | :16:44. | :16:46. | |
But I am also told there was a political dimension. Labour was sick | :16:47. | :16:50. | |
and tired of constantly being mentioned in the same breath as the | :16:51. | :16:55. | |
struggling Co-op Bank. Move banks, and that problem might go away. One | :16:56. | :17:01. | |
MP from the bank's home city of Manchester argues that whatever the | :17:02. | :17:05. | |
links with the bank, Labour remains committed to the wider co-op | :17:06. | :17:10. | |
movement. We share values about mutual arrangements, about sharing | :17:11. | :17:14. | |
the proceeds of growth. And that historic link remains absolutely | :17:15. | :17:21. | |
firm. And who the Labour Party chooses to bank with is an entirely | :17:22. | :17:27. | |
commercial decision. The commercial decision is to move to the Unity | :17:28. | :17:31. | |
trust bank launched in the 1980s by the trade union move it. Labour's | :17:32. | :17:35. | |
political opponents have already pounced. When people lend money, | :17:36. | :17:41. | |
they expect something in return. In this case, we know it is decisions | :17:42. | :17:45. | |
over policy, who they select as candidates, who their leader is. Ed | :17:46. | :17:49. | |
Miliband can't stand up to those union bosses and he certainly can't | :17:50. | :17:53. | |
stand up for you and me. At the bank, this is about taking politics | :17:54. | :17:57. | |
out of the Co-op. The Chief Executive wants a break with the | :17:58. | :18:01. | |
past. He has got rid of affinity cards, the credit cards that support | :18:02. | :18:03. | |
charities and political organisations. He split with Labour | :18:04. | :18:10. | |
is the next age. The Co-op Bank has already stopped political donations | :18:11. | :18:12. | |
as it pushes towards becoming an everyday high street lender. It is | :18:13. | :18:17. | |
seeking to turn itself into a normal bank, achieving normal returns. That | :18:18. | :18:22. | |
will not happen before released five years from now, but it is on that | :18:23. | :18:26. | |
path. The focus now moves to the Co-op Group. The supermarkets and | :18:27. | :18:32. | |
pharmacies owner is reviewing its own political donations to Labour. | :18:33. | :18:36. | |
An answer is expected at the Co-op 's annual general meeting next | :18:37. | :18:37. | |
month. In the last few minutes, the woman | :18:38. | :18:45. | |
arrested for the deaths of three children at a hat in charge with | :18:46. | :18:49. | |
three counts of murder. It will appear in court for you all Lydia | :18:50. | :18:57. | |
and three twins, Ben and Max, were found yesterday morning. They had | :18:58. | :19:02. | |
all suffered from a genetic condition, spinal muscular atrophy. | :19:03. | :19:07. | |
The Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, says the chance for peace | :19:08. | :19:10. | |
with the Palestinians has taken a step backwards after the Palestinian | :19:11. | :19:29. | |
is agreed to create a coalition government acting pits. To tell you | :19:30. | :19:36. | |
about it is important for the Palestinian people. They cannot have | :19:37. | :19:40. | |
it both ways. They can move towards peace or backwards towards Hamas | :19:41. | :19:44. | |
unfortunately, yesterday they moved away from peace and when backwards. | :19:45. | :19:59. | |
Giants. Any hope for these beast back this is certainly a serious | :20:00. | :20:04. | |
situation. If we look at what has happened, the Israeli security | :20:05. | :20:13. | |
cabinet met for five hours. They came out with a brief statement | :20:14. | :20:16. | |
saying that they unanimously decided not to negotiate with a Palestinian | :20:17. | :20:21. | |
government that was backed with a mass. The founding charter of Hamas | :20:22. | :20:26. | |
is committed to the destruction of the state of Israel. The Cabinet is | :20:27. | :20:30. | |
asking for further financial sanctions. There has been | :20:31. | :20:39. | |
Palestinian reaction to this with officials coming out and saying that | :20:40. | :20:43. | |
national unity is their priority and that they will look at all the | :20:44. | :20:45. | |
options they have two response to the latest discoveries to agree. US | :20:46. | :21:23. | |
state, Fox, , with excuses. Some of the other stories making the news, | :21:24. | :21:28. | |
Dave Lee Travis has appeared magistrates in central London | :21:29. | :21:30. | |
accused of an indecent assault against a woman in 19 stop He | :21:31. | :21:34. | |
pleaded not guilty, and will appear in court again next month. | :21:35. | :21:38. | |
There were protests outside the Barclays bank annual shareholders | :21:39. | :21:40. | |
meeting today where a controversial pay deal to award top bosses higher | :21:41. | :21:43. | |
bonuses despite falling profits has been approved. The bank says 34 % of | :21:44. | :21:47. | |
its share holders failed to support the remuneration package. The | :21:48. | :21:52. | |
Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg has launched his party's European | :21:53. | :21:54. | |
Election campaign, with a promise to take on 'the eurosceptic | :21:55. | :21:56. | |
establishment.' At a rally in Colchester in Essex, he warned that | :21:57. | :22:00. | |
millions of British jobs could be at risk if the UK severs ties with the | :22:01. | :22:04. | |
European Union. The Labour Party is considering severing its historic | :22:05. | :22:09. | |
links with the Co-operative Bank. Campaigners in Cornwall have | :22:10. | :22:11. | |
welcomed the decision to grant it national minority status -- saying | :22:12. | :22:14. | |
it will now get the recognition it deserves for its culture and | :22:15. | :22:17. | |
heritage. It means Cornwall will become the first county to be | :22:18. | :22:20. | |
protected by European rules safeguarding the rights of national | :22:21. | :22:34. | |
minorities. Anything, Some people will call this a mix. | :22:35. | :22:39. | |
Others will say this will make a real difference. It is about | :22:40. | :22:43. | |
status, rather than hard cash. It is about saying, here is a region of | :22:44. | :22:48. | |
the UK that we will give a voice at Westminster to, putting Cornwall for | :22:49. | :22:50. | |
the first time anywhere in the country at the same level as | :22:51. | :22:53. | |
Northern Ireland, Wales and Scotland. | :22:54. | :22:59. | |
Giving voice to the people of Cornwall. This Cornish speakers in | :23:00. | :23:07. | |
Truro celebrated today's news that they are -- that they're part of the | :23:08. | :23:12. | |
world is officially special. It is tried. We can feel proud about being | :23:13. | :23:18. | |
Cornish. We have always been proud about being Cornish. Now we can say | :23:19. | :23:21. | |
to people of other nationalities that we are Cornish, and it is | :23:22. | :23:25. | |
different. We have been here for 50 years. Other people have known it | :23:26. | :23:30. | |
for a hundred years. We have always had this status. It is only now that | :23:31. | :23:35. | |
we have been officially recognised. Cornwall has always been about more | :23:36. | :23:39. | |
than just its past, its playgrounds and its pasties. Now under European | :23:40. | :23:44. | |
law, its people now have the same status as other nations of the | :23:45. | :23:48. | |
United Kingdom. Fantastic news. The government has recognised the | :23:49. | :23:53. | |
Cornish as a national minority. We have the same recognition as the | :23:54. | :23:57. | |
Welsh, the Irish and Scots. What it does not mean is more money. Instead | :23:58. | :24:01. | |
of a Cornish people will now get a voice at national government level | :24:02. | :24:04. | |
when it comes to policies on screaming nation, equality and | :24:05. | :24:08. | |
culture. -- policies on screaming nation. I think people will finally | :24:09. | :24:14. | |
feel as though they are getting their voice heard. They will get | :24:15. | :24:17. | |
consulted about things happening in Cornwall, and that is what people | :24:18. | :24:22. | |
are excited about. It is an excitement that was not hard to find | :24:23. | :24:25. | |
among those we spoke to. My heritage goes back here 60 or 70 years. It is | :24:26. | :24:32. | |
something to be proud of. We should be recognised. Although others were | :24:33. | :24:41. | |
less than impressed. In a lot of ways, this is all being seen as | :24:42. | :24:45. | |
symbolism, like the Tay Ma Bridge here, the symbolic link between | :24:46. | :24:48. | |
Cornwall and the rest of the country. And while some are still | :24:49. | :24:51. | |
calling for the independence of Cornwall, most here are saying this | :24:52. | :24:55. | |
is a celebration of diversity and identity. Cornwall is not the only | :24:56. | :25:02. | |
place to push for minority status. It has campaigned for longer than | :25:03. | :25:05. | |
most, which is why tonight, many here are calling it the special | :25:06. | :25:12. | |
place. Duncan Kennedy, BBC News, in Cornwall. | :25:13. | :25:17. | |
How is the weather looking? Not bad. We have seen a few showers today, | :25:18. | :25:24. | |
but the emphasis has been with more sunshine. Temperatures are slightly | :25:25. | :25:29. | |
above average for the time of year. Still a little disappointing across | :25:30. | :25:33. | |
the north-east of Scotland, with more cloud coming in off the north | :25:34. | :25:36. | |
sea coast. Tonight, it will stay largely dry, but we will also see | :25:37. | :25:41. | |
some fog, which could be a nuisance tomorrow morning. It will drift in | :25:42. | :25:47. | |
and move further inland. Clear skies to the West. Here, temperatures are | :25:48. | :25:55. | |
down, but it will be a mild night. You can see this showers into the | :25:56. | :25:58. | |
south-east, which could be a nuisance. We start with a lot of | :25:59. | :26:00. | |
cloud around. There will also be that fog, first thing in the | :26:01. | :26:05. | |
morning. The clouds are gathering strength and pushing further north | :26:06. | :26:08. | |
as we speak through the spine of the country by the middle of the | :26:09. | :26:12. | |
afternoon. The West again is always the best. Always a cliche, but it | :26:13. | :26:19. | |
tells the story beautifully. Western Scotland is faring nicely. More | :26:20. | :26:24. | |
cloud across eastern Scotland, and they cluster of showers through | :26:25. | :26:27. | |
northern England towards the Midlands. Further west, through | :26:28. | :26:30. | |
Wales and the south-west, we could see eastern spells of sunshine. But | :26:31. | :26:38. | |
some lovely sunshine and some warmth potentially if the showers Es for a | :26:39. | :26:41. | |
time in the south-east. That could bring with it a new set of Robins. | :26:42. | :26:50. | |
We could see problems. The temperature is could rise, but that | :26:51. | :26:52. | |
means through the evening, we could see a cluster of heavy and possibly | :26:53. | :26:56. | |
thundery showers developing. As we move towards the weekend, the winds | :26:57. | :27:02. | |
will become more of a feature. Heavy showers, but at the same time, there | :27:03. | :27:20. | |
will also be sunny spells. this is a serious injuries is | :27:21. | :27:21. |