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A warning to the Police Federation from the Home Secretary - reform, or | :00:00. | :00:10. | |
we'll impose change. Teresa May tells officers in England and Wales | :00:11. | :00:14. | |
it's time to prove to the public that they're prepared to change. I | :00:15. | :00:19. | |
want you to show them that you have the best interests of the police and | :00:20. | :00:28. | |
the public at heart. Tonight, the federation says it will accept | :00:29. | :00:32. | |
reforms. We'll have the latest. Also tonight: Prince Charles is reported | :00:33. | :00:36. | |
to have drawn comparisons between Vladimir Putin's actions in Ukraine, | :00:37. | :00:39. | |
and Nazi Germany. The families of the missing British sailors wait for | :00:40. | :00:42. | |
news, as an RAF aircraft is sent to join the search in the Atlantic. | :00:43. | :00:45. | |
Millions of eBay customers are told to change their passwords after a | :00:46. | :00:51. | |
database was hacked. And making waves - Britain's first artificial | :00:52. | :00:54. | |
surfing lake is to be built in north Wales. | :00:55. | :00:59. | |
On BBC London: The mother stabbed to death by her ex-partner. She'd | :01:00. | :01:04. | |
warned police about him just days before. And allegations of | :01:05. | :01:07. | |
widespread cheating in exams amongst London's paramedics. An | :01:08. | :01:08. | |
investigation's underway. Good evening and welcome to the BBC | :01:09. | :01:32. | |
News at Six. The Home Secretary Theresa May has made an | :01:33. | :01:35. | |
uncompromising speech to the Police Federation. She warned the union, | :01:36. | :01:39. | |
which represents rank and file officers in England and Wales, that | :01:40. | :01:42. | |
if it doesn't reform, the Government will impose change. And she | :01:43. | :01:47. | |
announced that public funding, which currently stands at nearly ?200,000 | :01:48. | :01:56. | |
a year, is to be withdrawn. In the last few minutes, the Federation has | :01:57. | :01:59. | |
agreed on the need for reforms. Our home affairs correspondent Matt | :02:00. | :02:01. | |
Prodger reports from Federation's conference in Bournemouth. | :02:02. | :02:06. | |
She is a Home Secretary as famous for her shoes as she is for putting | :02:07. | :02:12. | |
her foot down. She began by praising the police as the bravest, the best | :02:13. | :02:15. | |
in the world. And then she pulled the rug from beneath them. But when | :02:16. | :02:21. | |
the Federation is sitting on vast reserves, worth tens of millions of | :02:22. | :02:25. | |
pounds, it is in receipt of public funds to pay for the salaries and | :02:26. | :02:30. | |
expenses of the chairman, General Secretary and Treasurer, we have | :02:31. | :02:32. | |
already said that we would reduce this spending, but I can announce | :02:33. | :02:37. | |
today that this funding will be stopped altogether. That's not all. | :02:38. | :02:41. | |
She's ending the Federation membership of the lease offices by | :02:42. | :02:44. | |
default. They will have to opt in to join. -- police officers. The Fed | :02:45. | :02:50. | |
will be forced to open up its accounts and, for the first time, | :02:51. | :02:56. | |
provide documents under freedom of information legislation. The | :02:57. | :02:57. | |
Federation is the closest thing to the trade union that the police have | :02:58. | :03:01. | |
got. But it is a creation of Government. After accusations about | :03:02. | :03:06. | |
bullying, hidden finances and dodgy political campaigns, the Government | :03:07. | :03:11. | |
has taken the first step of imposing change. Most of the delegates left | :03:12. | :03:15. | |
in stunned silence. What do you think of Theresa May's speech? | :03:16. | :03:20. | |
Others voiced their fury. I felt like I was one of the naughty | :03:21. | :03:24. | |
schoolboys, getting the biggest telling off by the headmistress. I | :03:25. | :03:28. | |
felt I had the biggest kicking I have had in the police service. The | :03:29. | :03:33. | |
Government, in effect, pre-empted a series of changes recommended by | :03:34. | :03:37. | |
this man, which the Federation itself only agreed to later in the | :03:38. | :03:42. | |
day. I was a bit surprised, I wasn't expecting it. What I said to the | :03:43. | :03:45. | |
Federation today was that the best response to the recommendations is | :03:46. | :03:50. | |
to implement my report, to show the Home Secretary that view, the | :03:51. | :03:52. | |
Federation, are really on the side of reform and, if possible, proved | :03:53. | :03:58. | |
the Home Secretary wrong. Labour accused the Home Secretary of simply | :03:59. | :04:01. | |
looking for headlines. She certainly found them today. | :04:02. | :04:09. | |
Our home affairs correspondent Jim Kelly is with me. How significant is | :04:10. | :04:16. | |
this speech? Highly significant. The fact that the delegates in | :04:17. | :04:19. | |
Bournemouth voted for this package of reforms this evening shows that | :04:20. | :04:24. | |
Theresa May got her message across. In previous years, she has been met | :04:25. | :04:28. | |
by abuse, jeers, hostile banners. These were rank and file officers | :04:29. | :04:32. | |
that were furious that a Conservative Home Secretary, the | :04:33. | :04:36. | |
party of law and order, traditionally on the side of the | :04:37. | :04:38. | |
police, she was driving through a package of reforms including | :04:39. | :04:43. | |
reductions in numbers, changes to pensions, pay and conditions. This | :04:44. | :04:47. | |
year, it seemed the whole dynamic of the relationship had changed. As we | :04:48. | :04:51. | |
were hearing, the Police Federation has been mired in controversy now | :04:52. | :04:55. | |
for the last couple of years. Plebgate, accused of having bloated | :04:56. | :05:00. | |
coffers, Lien, a whole tranche of complaints. You felt that she was | :05:01. | :05:06. | |
addressing a badly wounded organisation and she basically let | :05:07. | :05:10. | |
them have it. This is all part of her campaign to transform the | :05:11. | :05:13. | |
policing landscape. It looks as though she is set to be remembered | :05:14. | :05:16. | |
as the Home Secretary who did something here predecessors bulk | :05:17. | :05:20. | |
that, she took on the police. The Prince of Wales is reported to | :05:21. | :05:23. | |
have criticised the Russian president,Vladimir Putin, appearing | :05:24. | :05:25. | |
to draw a comparison between Russia's actions in Ukraine and | :05:26. | :05:32. | |
Germany under the Nazis. The Prince is thought to have mentioned Mr | :05:33. | :05:34. | |
Putin after hearing the experiences of a woman who fled Germany in 1939, | :05:35. | :05:38. | |
and lost members of her family in the Holocaust. Clarence House said | :05:39. | :05:45. | |
it wouldn't comment on a private conversation. Our Royal | :05:46. | :05:47. | |
Correspondent Nicholas Witchell reports. It is a visit packed with | :05:48. | :05:52. | |
more than 40 engagements. This was Charles today. Literally hundreds of | :05:53. | :05:56. | |
brief conversations with strangers. On Monday, the Prince was in | :05:57. | :06:00. | |
Halifax, Nova Scotia. It was there that he met Marianne Ferguson. She | :06:01. | :06:05. | |
told him how, as a child, she and her family had lived in the city of | :06:06. | :06:10. | |
Danzig between Germany and Poland. They were Jewish and fled for their | :06:11. | :06:14. | |
lives, head of the invasion of the Nazis and their leader, Adolph | :06:15. | :06:19. | |
Hitler, an invasion that led to the Second World War. In his | :06:20. | :06:24. | |
conversation, over a cup of tea, Prince Charles evidently drew a | :06:25. | :06:28. | |
comparison between what the Nazis did in Europe then and what the | :06:29. | :06:32. | |
Russians, under Vladimir Putin, are doing now in Ukraine. The precise | :06:33. | :06:36. | |
words are disputed. A Daily Mail reporter who was present, that is | :06:37. | :06:41. | |
hurt behind the pillar, said the prince said, in relation to Ukraine, | :06:42. | :06:45. | |
and now Vladimir Putin is doing just about the same as Hitler. Charles | :06:46. | :06:51. | |
has met Vladimir Putin several times in the past. In a couple of weeks | :06:52. | :06:55. | |
they will both be attending ceremonies to mark the 70th | :06:56. | :06:58. | |
anniversary of D-day. Any comparison between Vladimir Putin and Hitler | :06:59. | :07:03. | |
will be seen as the Russian leadership as deeply offensive. You | :07:04. | :07:07. | |
can't be much more insulting about a Russian van comparing them to | :07:08. | :07:12. | |
Hitler. Hitler, of course, killed 26 million Russians. I suspect, | :07:13. | :07:15. | |
privately, he will be rather angered by it. Here, political leaders are | :07:16. | :07:21. | |
divided over the remarks. The Deputy Prime Minister said that the Prince | :07:22. | :07:25. | |
was entitled to say what you did. I think Prince Charles is able, I | :07:26. | :07:29. | |
would have thought, to be able to express himself. I don't know | :07:30. | :07:32. | |
exactly what he did or did not say in that conversation, because he | :07:33. | :07:35. | |
thought it was a private conversation. The Leader of the | :07:36. | :07:39. | |
Opposition also said he had a point. I think he has got a point about | :07:40. | :07:43. | |
President Putin's actions. I think he is entitled to say there are real | :07:44. | :07:47. | |
concerns about that. Nigel Farage said that the Prince should keep | :07:48. | :07:51. | |
quiet. Sometimes there are issues that it might be better that elected | :07:52. | :07:58. | |
governments dealt with. Interventions by Charles has | :07:59. | :08:01. | |
certainly raised eyebrows before. As he moves ever closer to the throne, | :08:02. | :08:06. | |
they pose obvious risks, as the Prince knows. One point of view is | :08:07. | :08:09. | |
that Charles was merely articulating what many people have said in | :08:10. | :08:13. | |
private. The question is whether it was wise for the future king of the | :08:14. | :08:18. | |
United Kingdom to share such views with a complete stranger. Or might | :08:19. | :08:22. | |
it now be more prudent for him to follow more closely the example of | :08:23. | :08:23. | |
his mother? An RAF plane has now joined the | :08:24. | :08:31. | |
search for the four British sailors missing in the Atlantic. The 40-foot | :08:32. | :08:35. | |
Cheeki Rafiki was sailing back to the UK from a regatta in Antigua | :08:36. | :08:38. | |
when it got into difficulties six days ago. The US Coast Guard resumed | :08:39. | :08:46. | |
its search yesterday. The sailors' families say they are hopeful that | :08:47. | :08:50. | |
the men will be found. Our correspondent Duncan Kennedy has | :08:51. | :08:51. | |
more. 9am, the start of another testing | :08:52. | :09:02. | |
day for the families of the four missing men. This is the home of | :09:03. | :09:08. | |
James Male in Romsey, where the dining room has become an Ops room. | :09:09. | :09:14. | |
A place to funnel social media and the meagre bytes of information. In | :09:15. | :09:20. | |
the kitchen, Lorraine keeps on keeping them going. Sustenance, in | :09:21. | :09:28. | |
the search for her son. Waiting is horrible, isn't it? We'll hear | :09:29. | :09:35. | |
something soon, we know that much. Dad Graham has become the public | :09:36. | :09:39. | |
face of the family, as well as the key driver of the mood of optimism. | :09:40. | :09:42. | |
The object is to bring those boys back. Now we know it's happening, | :09:43. | :09:46. | |
it's taken some of the stress off, in some respects. But of course the | :09:47. | :09:51. | |
stress now is back on. This search has to work and it's going to find | :09:52. | :09:57. | |
them. His son, James, who is 22 and his friends, Andrew Bridge, Steven | :09:58. | :10:04. | |
Warren and Paul Goslin went missing while crossing the Atlantic. For the | :10:05. | :10:09. | |
families, like this one here, this has now gone on for six days. Most | :10:10. | :10:13. | |
are fighting exhaustion and trying to stay optimistic, with little or | :10:14. | :10:18. | |
no news about their loved ones. That includes the family of Andrew | :10:19. | :10:22. | |
Bridge, their home in Surrey, where photos, not facts are all they have | :10:23. | :10:28. | |
to cling to. He is very giving and loving. It is all coming back to us | :10:29. | :10:34. | |
now. We are waiting for him. In Somerset, the family of Steve Warren | :10:35. | :10:38. | |
are also filling their waiting hours, trying to keep his image, his | :10:39. | :10:44. | |
absence, in the public's mind. You can't eat, you can't sleep, your | :10:45. | :10:48. | |
stomach is going over. It's awful. It's like living in a nightmare, | :10:49. | :10:54. | |
really. The search for the men of the Cheeki Rafiki is now enormous, | :10:55. | :10:58. | |
with nearly 3000 square miles covered since the operation | :10:59. | :11:03. | |
restarted yesterday. Three American aircraft have been joined by an RAF | :11:04. | :11:06. | |
Hercules, as well as six merchant ships. The men may be missing, but | :11:07. | :11:11. | |
they are not forgotten, and that will provide comfort in four British | :11:12. | :11:13. | |
homes tonight. The jury at the inquests into the | :11:14. | :11:20. | |
deaths of 96 Liverpool fans at Hillsborough has been shown a | :11:21. | :11:23. | |
sequence of videos to explain how the tragedy unfolded 25 years ago. | :11:24. | :11:29. | |
Some of the footage, which includes CCTV and police video, has never | :11:30. | :11:33. | |
been broadcast before. Our correspondent Judith Moritz is in | :11:34. | :11:34. | |
Warrington. Yes, some of the footage shown in | :11:35. | :11:47. | |
court today has been used to identify a large number of the foot | :11:48. | :11:54. | |
all fans who died at Hillsborough, in some cases, depicting them alive | :11:55. | :11:58. | |
for the last time before they were later discovered as casualties. Some | :11:59. | :12:02. | |
of the relatives of the 96 who died were in court today, to watch that | :12:03. | :12:06. | |
footage. They were told they may leave the room if they were finding | :12:07. | :12:09. | |
it too difficult, and some viewers may find some of the footage in my | :12:10. | :12:15. | |
report distressing. Hillsborough was a disaster captured | :12:16. | :12:19. | |
on camera. More than 2000 clips of video were recorded by the police, | :12:20. | :12:24. | |
the BBC and on CCTV. Some of it has never been broadcast for. Today, the | :12:25. | :12:30. | |
jury saw for themselves images of the tragedy as it unfolded. At two | :12:31. | :12:35. | |
o'clock, one hour before kick-off, the police can be seen looking down | :12:36. | :12:39. | |
from the upper tier onto the crowd which can be seen on the standing | :12:40. | :12:44. | |
area below. 49 minutes later, this BBC footage shows the same | :12:45. | :12:48. | |
terraces, which were split into fenced pens. The jury was told some | :12:49. | :12:52. | |
of the funds shown here are those who later died. -- fun the | :12:53. | :13:02. | |
about 2000 fans at estimated to enter the ground, a significant | :13:03. | :13:08. | |
number heading towards the terraces. Just before three o'clock, the FA | :13:09. | :13:13. | |
Cup semifinal between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest kicked off. Two | :13:14. | :13:18. | |
minutes later, fans on this footage can be seen climbing over the | :13:19. | :13:25. | |
perimeter footage onto the pitch. The appearance and condition of the | :13:26. | :13:30. | |
fans was mentioned to the jury. After five minutes of play, the | :13:31. | :13:36. | |
match was stopped. With no football to film, the cameras kept rolling, | :13:37. | :13:40. | |
showing advertising hoardings being used as makeshift stretchers to | :13:41. | :13:43. | |
carry the injured and those who had died. Tomorrow, the court will hear | :13:44. | :13:47. | |
evidence about the stadium from a structural engineer. On Friday, the | :13:48. | :13:52. | |
jury will be taken from here in Warrington to Sheffield, to see the | :13:53. | :13:54. | |
football ground for themselves. Shopping in supermarkets and on the | :13:55. | :14:02. | |
High Street is booming, according to new figures which show the strongest | :14:03. | :14:06. | |
annual rise in UK retail sales for ten years. Sales grew by nearly 7% | :14:07. | :14:11. | |
in April, compared with the same month last year, and it's food | :14:12. | :14:16. | |
shopping that's playing a big part. Our economics editor Robert Peston | :14:17. | :14:17. | |
has been looking at the numbers. That great British pastime, handing | :14:18. | :14:31. | |
over cash to shopkeepers. In recent weeks, we have started, perhaps, to | :14:32. | :14:36. | |
go a bit bonkers again. Full retail sales, it is apparently back to the | :14:37. | :14:41. | |
boom of a decade ago. In April, the amount of stuff we bought rose 69%, | :14:42. | :14:46. | |
compared to the same time last year. That is the fastest growth since May | :14:47. | :14:53. | |
2004. This was no blip. In the latest three-month period, the rate | :14:54. | :14:57. | |
of growth was 5% and it was a strong 5.5%, excluding fuel. One happy | :14:58. | :15:02. | |
shopkeeper is the boss of John Lewis in central London. Have you been | :15:03. | :15:06. | |
taken by surprise by the strength of your sales? We monitor our sales | :15:07. | :15:13. | |
regularly. We know that we are 8.8% ahead, year-on-year, since the | :15:14. | :15:16. | |
beginning of the trading year. Do you think you can keep this up, | :15:17. | :15:20. | |
incoming week Sandman's Girl is to we are cautiously optimistic, | :15:21. | :15:25. | |
fashion is doing well, home is improving and electronics is doing | :15:26. | :15:28. | |
well. We British love to shop, but you can have too much of a good | :15:29. | :15:32. | |
thing. If the Bank of England was to conclude we are spending recklessly, | :15:33. | :15:36. | |
spending money we can't afford, spending too much, too fast, they | :15:37. | :15:40. | |
could push up interest rates, push up the cost of money to slow us | :15:41. | :15:45. | |
down. They also seem to be spending in the sunshine in Newcastle. What | :15:46. | :15:50. | |
is a former member of the Bank of England committee which sets | :15:51. | :15:52. | |
interest rates think the bank should do? I think the longer this period | :15:53. | :15:59. | |
of strong growth goes on, the more it becomes clear that having a base | :16:00. | :16:03. | |
level of interest rate at 0.5%, which is what we have, is not | :16:04. | :16:07. | |
appropriate for the UK economy. The Bank of England needs to move | :16:08. | :16:10. | |
interest rates up. The key thing is to make sure they do it gradually, | :16:11. | :16:14. | |
rather than a sharp hike. There was also further evidence of potential | :16:15. | :16:18. | |
overheating in the mortgage market, as the Council of mortgage lenders | :16:19. | :16:22. | |
reported a 36% year-on-year rise in gross mortgage line Lending, defying | :16:23. | :16:29. | |
the Bank of England assessment that the pace of lending for house | :16:30. | :16:31. | |
purchases could be slowing down. Investors reacted by betting that | :16:32. | :16:35. | |
the Bank of England will raise interest rates earlier than they | :16:36. | :16:37. | |
have been thinking, perhaps as soon as the autumn. Minutes of the last | :16:38. | :16:43. | |
Bank of England meeting shows that some members think that the rates | :16:44. | :16:49. | |
may have to rise soon. If we start to believe that interest rates are | :16:50. | :16:52. | |
on the rise, perhaps we will become more cautious in spending. But let's | :16:53. | :16:57. | |
hope not so cautious as to stymie economic recovery. Our top story | :16:58. | :17:07. | |
this evening: The Police Federation accepts a raft of reforms after the | :17:08. | :17:12. | |
Home Secretary told the union it's time for change. | :17:13. | :17:15. | |
And still to come: England's World Cup squad in training for what their | :17:16. | :17:17. | |
manager calls an "incredible adventure". | :17:18. | :17:24. | |
Later on BBC London: Royal Mail says it's to start delivering parcels to | :17:25. | :17:28. | |
Londoners on Sundays - a response to the boom in internet shopping. | :17:29. | :17:32. | |
Plus the new squeeze on mortgages and what it means for the London | :17:33. | :17:34. | |
housing Market. People across Europe start going to | :17:35. | :17:49. | |
the polls tomorrow for the European Elections. Voting over the coming | :17:50. | :17:53. | |
days will decide 751 members of the European Parliament. Of those, 73 | :17:54. | :17:58. | |
are British - the allocation is based on population size. In total, | :17:59. | :18:00. | |
MEPs represent the interests of 500 million people. Our Brussels | :18:01. | :18:04. | |
Correspondent, Matthew Price, has been on a tour of the European | :18:05. | :18:07. | |
Parliament with students from the UK. | :18:08. | :18:16. | |
All aboard for the European Parliament. Perhaps not every | :18:17. | :18:20. | |
teenager's destination of choice. What do you think is more relevant | :18:21. | :18:24. | |
to you, Parliament in Westminster or parliament here in Brussels? | :18:25. | :18:26. | |
Parliament in Westminster, just because it's more related. | :18:27. | :18:28. | |
Definitely in Britain. I suppose Britain, really because that is | :18:29. | :18:31. | |
where I live. That's my base, but this is equally has a massive effect | :18:32. | :18:34. | |
on us, I suppose. Time then to find out how much of an effect. Some say | :18:35. | :18:37. | |
the parliament dictates terms to Britain. Others say this is the only | :18:38. | :18:41. | |
democratically elected part of the union. So this is rather ugly | :18:42. | :18:46. | |
building in the centre of Brussels is the European Parliament. Let's go | :18:47. | :18:53. | |
on a tour. This is where the MEPs have their offices. MEPs from 28 | :18:54. | :19:01. | |
different countries. This is one of the committee rooms where MEPs | :19:02. | :19:03. | |
discuss all sorts of things which affect the European Union in 24 | :19:04. | :19:11. | |
different languages. And this is called the Hemi circle, it's one of | :19:12. | :19:15. | |
the places where MEPs debate and vote on legislation that affects | :19:16. | :19:19. | |
everybody across the EU. Which is why this lot, studying international | :19:20. | :19:23. | |
business, chose to come here. The European Parliament works alongside | :19:24. | :19:28. | |
the EU's 28 national governments. The MEPs who work here help to draw | :19:29. | :19:33. | |
up EU legislation. It seems quite complicated, the process that they | :19:34. | :19:37. | |
have to go through for legislation. Do you understand the process? | :19:38. | :19:40. | |
Fairly, yes. But I'll probably do a bit more research when I get home. | :19:41. | :19:46. | |
It's not often you get into the main hall where the European Parliament | :19:47. | :19:48. | |
make all the big decisions that can affect the whole continent. Chicken | :19:49. | :19:51. | |
and 50 euros. Why? Well, both are a good illustration of the influence | :19:52. | :19:56. | |
some MEPs have. For instance, a British MEP was instrumental in | :19:57. | :19:59. | |
bringing about better food safety standards in the last few years. | :20:00. | :20:02. | |
Another key in lowering bankers' bonuses. Love it or loathe it, this | :20:03. | :20:09. | |
Parliament plays a big part in all our lives. Like most of us, the | :20:10. | :20:14. | |
students don't fully understand how this lace works, but tomorrow some | :20:15. | :20:18. | |
of them will vote for the first time and in a European election. | :20:19. | :20:29. | |
And there's more on the European and local elections on our website. You | :20:30. | :20:34. | |
can access it on your mobile, tablet, or | :20:35. | :20:43. | |
Millions of eBay customers are being advised to change their passwords | :20:44. | :20:48. | |
after hackers gained access to a key database. The online marketplace, | :20:49. | :20:50. | |
which has nearly 130 million registered users worldwide, says | :20:51. | :20:52. | |
there's no evidence of any unauthorised activity on the site. | :20:53. | :20:58. | |
Our Technology correspondent, Rory Cellan Jones, is here. | :20:59. | :21:06. | |
It sounds very serious, what is happening? Well this looks like a | :21:07. | :21:15. | |
very serious breach of eBay's defences. The company says the | :21:16. | :21:18. | |
hackers didn't get hold any financial information but they did | :21:19. | :21:23. | |
get quite a lot of other data. So amongst the data that's been put at | :21:24. | :21:28. | |
risk is encrypted passwords. The question there is could the hackers | :21:29. | :21:31. | |
actually break the code? They have also got people's home addresses - | :21:32. | :21:34. | |
one key piece of information of course, along with their date of | :21:35. | :21:37. | |
birth. If you put all of that information together, people could | :21:38. | :21:44. | |
be at risk of identity theft. EBay have asked people to change their | :21:45. | :21:49. | |
passwords but how did they get in? They got access to some key | :21:50. | :21:54. | |
employees passwords and that let them into the company. They will be | :21:55. | :22:01. | |
scratching its head and working out how to shore up its defences to make | :22:02. | :22:11. | |
sure it does not happen again. The England manager, Roy Hodgson, | :22:12. | :22:14. | |
said today that preparations for the World Cup are going as well as he | :22:15. | :22:17. | |
could possibly have hoped. The England squad is continuing training | :22:18. | :22:20. | |
in its warm weather camp in the Algarve in advance of what Hodgson | :22:21. | :22:23. | |
described as an "incredible adventure". Our chief sports | :22:24. | :22:25. | |
correspondent, Dan Roan, reports from Portugal. This may be the start | :22:26. | :22:29. | |
of their final World Cup reparations, but this England team | :22:30. | :22:33. | |
makes time for family as well as family. Wayne Rooney with his son | :22:34. | :22:42. | |
today in Portugal. Last week, Roy Hodgson named one of the youngest | :22:43. | :22:46. | |
England squads and it seems it is one of the most relaxed. There is a | :22:47. | :22:51. | |
tremendous feeling of enthusiasm and energy because they are so happy | :22:52. | :22:56. | |
they are taking part in this incredible adventure and they will | :22:57. | :23:00. | |
be leading the way for England in the next few weeks. Roy Hodgson and | :23:01. | :23:04. | |
his squad are aware that the work they put in here could be crucial | :23:05. | :23:08. | |
when it really matters up the World Cup. They will stay in the Algarve | :23:09. | :23:13. | |
for the rest of the week, but it is only the first stage in their | :23:14. | :23:17. | |
build-up to Brazil. Next week, they play a friendly against her room at | :23:18. | :23:23. | |
Wembley. They then had to Miami and two warm up games against Aqua does | :23:24. | :23:30. | |
and one juror. Then they travel to Brazil for their match against Italy | :23:31. | :23:37. | |
on June the 14th. England have a video analyst, and preparation is | :23:38. | :23:40. | |
underway off the pitch as well as on it. No stone is left unturned and | :23:41. | :23:46. | |
the manager will make sure we are as well prepared as we can be for every | :23:47. | :23:52. | |
game. England hope that with just three and a half weeks left before | :23:53. | :23:56. | |
their opening match, practice makes perfect. For now, it appears a happy | :23:57. | :24:06. | |
camper. We've heard of artificial ski slopes | :24:07. | :24:10. | |
but now the UK is going to have its first artificial surfing lake. | :24:11. | :24:12. | |
Revolutionary engineering is being used to build a giant wave lagoon | :24:13. | :24:15. | |
the size of three football pitches, in the mountains of North Wales. Our | :24:16. | :24:18. | |
correspondent, Claire Marshall, has been to the Spanish city of San | :24:19. | :24:21. | |
Sebastian, where a rather smaller prototype of the lake has been | :24:22. | :24:25. | |
built. Riding the energy of the ocean takes | :24:26. | :24:29. | |
exceptional skill. Every surfer has to learn somewhere, so could it be | :24:30. | :24:33. | |
here on this industrial wasteland in the Welsh mountains? Well, work has | :24:34. | :24:38. | |
just started on an inland surf lake, the first in Britain and the first | :24:39. | :24:45. | |
of its type in the world. We went to northern Spain to see the prototype. | :24:46. | :24:52. | |
The engineering is unique and secret. It's taken a decade to | :24:53. | :24:53. | |
develop. An underwater foil operates like a snow plough, pushing the wave | :24:54. | :24:58. | |
up and out. Were able to create perfect waves. Every time? Every | :24:59. | :25:04. | |
time. This could even make surfing an Olympic sport. You are watching | :25:05. | :25:10. | |
the coat of the British surf team. To be able to come and surf a wave | :25:11. | :25:14. | |
every minute, it's going to be a huge benefit. Not just to UK surfers | :25:15. | :25:20. | |
but anybody who wants to improve their surfing anywhere in the world. | :25:21. | :25:24. | |
Off the coast of Portugal earlier this year, see this spec on one of | :25:25. | :25:29. | |
the biggest waves ever ridden? It's Andrew Cotton. His day job - a | :25:30. | :25:33. | |
lifeguard in North Devon. So what does he think? It's a great way to | :25:34. | :25:37. | |
get people into surfing. And for surfers to enjoy when it's flat. But | :25:38. | :25:43. | |
nothing can take over from actually being in the ocean and that's what | :25:44. | :25:50. | |
surfing is about. I have surfed a bit at home. I've never tried | :25:51. | :25:55. | |
anything like this. Going to give it a go. There are more waves at the | :25:56. | :26:00. | |
push of a button, so it doesn't matter how often you fall off. | :26:01. | :26:05. | |
Really fun. Really difficult, but really fun. Fancy having a go? The | :26:06. | :26:10. | |
first lagoon opens in Britain next spring. | :26:11. | :26:22. | |
I don't think I would be as good as her. | :26:23. | :26:23. | |
Time for a look at the weather. We have weather warnings out for | :26:24. | :26:36. | |
heavy rain. It is lurking over the other side of the Channel and is | :26:37. | :26:41. | |
beginning to move north and west. It could be torrential. Thunder in the | :26:42. | :26:46. | |
mix and setting in later this evening and in the early hours of | :26:47. | :26:49. | |
this morning. That is when these livid colours appear and it could | :26:50. | :26:54. | |
cause some disruption. You could be kept awake by the temperatures in | :26:55. | :27:02. | |
the night. Cooler across Scotland and Northern Ireland. Largely dry | :27:03. | :27:10. | |
across northern parts. The rain beginning to ease away from | :27:11. | :27:14. | |
south-west England in the morning. Heavy bursts across Wales and the | :27:15. | :27:19. | |
West Midlands. But the West Midlands should be fine and warm. The rain | :27:20. | :27:24. | |
heavy enough to cause problems across the North of England. In | :27:25. | :27:29. | |
Scotland, cloudy and also in Northern Ireland. A cool breeze | :27:30. | :27:33. | |
across Scotland blowing in from the North or North East. Make cooler day | :27:34. | :27:38. | |
tomorrow. The rain really sets in along with the breeze. Picking up | :27:39. | :27:43. | |
across north-west Scotland and picking up across the East of | :27:44. | :27:48. | |
England. The sun will break through but that will encourage heavy | :27:49. | :27:52. | |
showers in the afternoon. Some of them could be thundery. Chilly in | :27:53. | :27:57. | |
northern areas, 11 or 12 degrees at best. We keep the same temperature | :27:58. | :28:05. | |
grading going into Friday. Cooler across northern parts, some showers | :28:06. | :28:10. | |
around. There will be heavy showers into the weekend. Some sunshine in | :28:11. | :28:14. | |
between and when the sun breaks through, it should feel warm. A bit | :28:15. | :28:20. | |
unsettled for the rest of the week. A reminder of our main story: the | :28:21. | :28:28. | |
Police Federation has accepted a raft of reforms. | :28:29. | :28:33. | |
Prince Charles is reported to have drawn comparisons between Vladimir | :28:34. | :28:37. | |
Putin's That's all from the BBC News at Six. | :28:38. | :28:39. | |
Actions in Ukraine and Nat C Germany. So it's goodbye | :28:40. | :28:40. |