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New details emerge about the death of an American | :00:00. | :00:11. | |
journalist in Syria - he was held captive by three British jihadis. | :00:12. | :00:14. | |
MI5 is leading the British hunt for the man responsible for the killing. | :00:15. | :00:18. | |
There'd been an attempt to rescue James Foley by US Special Forces, | :00:19. | :00:24. | |
but he couldn't be found. The British jihadis heading for | :00:25. | :00:27. | |
Syria and Iraq - there's renewed concern about radicalisation online. | :00:28. | :00:34. | |
And on the ground in Iraq, intense fighting against | :00:35. | :00:37. | |
Islamic State forces - we have a special report from the frontline. | :00:38. | :00:48. | |
It is believed James Foley's captors had demanded a ransom of ?80 | :00:49. | :00:51. | |
million. special report from the frontline. | :00:52. | :00:54. | |
Also tonight: There's a rise in the number | :00:55. | :00:57. | |
of good GCSE grades overall, but a sharp decline in English. | :00:58. | :01:00. | |
A rise in the number of homes with a water meter, | :01:01. | :01:04. | |
and an increase in bills. And remembering the heroes of | :01:05. | :01:06. | |
Bomber Command - work begins on a new memorial in Lincolnshire. | :01:07. | :01:11. | |
On BBC London, how safe is the capital? | :01:12. | :01:14. | |
We look at the threat imposed by homegrown extremists. | :01:15. | :01:18. | |
And the undercover officers accused of starting sexual relationships | :01:19. | :01:19. | |
with women, won't face charges. Good evening and welcome to the | :01:20. | :01:46. | |
BBC News at Six. More detail has been emerging | :01:47. | :01:49. | |
about the murder of the American journalist James Foley | :01:50. | :01:51. | |
at the hands of an Islamist militant in Syria thought to be British. | :01:52. | :01:56. | |
The journalist was guarded by three British jihadis, | :01:57. | :02:00. | |
and at least 20 more hostages are being held by Islamic State. | :02:01. | :02:04. | |
In a moment, new fears about the number of Britons being | :02:05. | :02:10. | |
radicalised on the internet, and the latest on the fight with Islamic | :02:11. | :02:17. | |
State forces on the ground in Iraq. But first, Frank Gardner's report | :02:18. | :02:19. | |
on the murder investigation contains pictures which you may | :02:20. | :02:20. | |
find disturbing from the start. Clues from a Not much to go on but | :02:21. | :02:38. | |
every detail is being studied from Islamic State's gruesome video of | :02:39. | :02:42. | |
their murder of James Foley. A seasoned reporter who had survived | :02:43. | :02:47. | |
an area kidnapping in Libya, Foley was held for nearly two years in | :02:48. | :02:52. | |
Syria. Reports say his captors demanded a massive ransom and later | :02:53. | :02:55. | |
sent his parents an angry e-mail telling them he was about to be | :02:56. | :03:01. | |
killed. This former French hostage spent months with Foley. He got out | :03:02. | :03:05. | |
because a ransom was reportedly paid. Being an American, he was | :03:06. | :03:10. | |
probably more targeted by the kidnappers. He was some kind of | :03:11. | :03:15. | |
scapegoat. Many countries do negotiate. I don't know if it is | :03:16. | :03:21. | |
money, I don't know if it is prisoner exchange. Some countries | :03:22. | :03:29. | |
like America and the UK do not negotiate. The manhunt will be | :03:30. | :03:36. | |
zeroing in on this Syrian stronghold of Islamic State. Most of their | :03:37. | :03:41. | |
foreign hostages are believed to be held in an area under IIS control. | :03:42. | :03:50. | |
There are believed to be at least 20 others held, including this US | :03:51. | :03:55. | |
journalist, Steven Sotloff. It is only a matter of time before MI5 or | :03:56. | :04:01. | |
the FBI identify the man who killed James Foley. Pinpointing where he is | :04:02. | :04:05. | |
now in the Middle East will be harder. And bringing the suspect out | :04:06. | :04:09. | |
of the country that is already torn apart by war will be almost | :04:10. | :04:16. | |
impossible. The area where most foreign hostages are believed to be | :04:17. | :04:22. | |
held as become a magnet for British jihadists. One is suspected of being | :04:23. | :04:27. | |
James Foley's killer. I think it is very likely we will discover his | :04:28. | :04:31. | |
identity in the next few days. We have a lot more means of finding out | :04:32. | :04:35. | |
who that guy is then we used to have 20 or 30 years ago. For example, | :04:36. | :04:42. | |
maybe 80% of the foreign fighters are involved in social media. They | :04:43. | :04:44. | |
have Facebook accounts, Twitter accounts, that give away a lot of | :04:45. | :04:51. | |
clues in terms of height, build, and in some cases their voice. Last | :04:52. | :04:55. | |
month the US sending commanders like these in a failed attempt to free | :04:56. | :05:01. | |
its captured citizens in Syria. Those left behind will remain a | :05:02. | :05:03. | |
massive propaganda tool. find disturbing from the start. | :05:04. | :05:07. | |
Here, there's been criticism of the Government's approach to | :05:08. | :05:09. | |
preventing extremism, amid growing concern about the | :05:10. | :05:13. | |
numbers of young Britons heeding the call to join Islamic State forces. | :05:14. | :05:17. | |
Mark Easton has this assessment of what's being done to stem the | :05:18. | :05:21. | |
flow of British jihadis - and the threat they pose if they return. | :05:22. | :05:31. | |
Come to the lands of jihad. Live amongst us. Young British Muslims | :05:32. | :05:38. | |
are being radicalised in their own homes. Online recruitment videos | :05:39. | :05:43. | |
appeal to a subculture of jihadi cool. The government says it has | :05:44. | :05:49. | |
removed more than 47,000 items of terrorist propaganda from the | :05:50. | :05:53. | |
Internet. As fast as it is taken down, Moore gets posted up. There | :05:54. | :05:59. | |
has been one of the most appalling videos that has been posted to | :06:00. | :06:05. | |
YouTube. It was immediately taken down. YouTube operates as a | :06:06. | :06:12. | |
community. We have more than 100 hours of video uploaded every | :06:13. | :06:16. | |
minute. We are swimming in an ocean of content. After the appalling | :06:17. | :06:20. | |
murder of Drummer Lee Rigby last year, the prime ministers set up a | :06:21. | :06:25. | |
task force which promised to support Muslim groups tackling | :06:26. | :06:29. | |
radicalisation. Confronting extremism is a job for us all. Today | :06:30. | :06:34. | |
the Government is being criticised for cutting the funding for such | :06:35. | :06:39. | |
community work. There is a disconnect in terms of the | :06:40. | :06:42. | |
mainstream organisations and the Government. Some feel they can | :06:43. | :06:47. | |
connect with the community. This has not really work. The Home Office | :06:48. | :06:53. | |
said today its priority was to dissuade people from travelling to | :06:54. | :06:57. | |
conflict areas such as Syria or Iraq. They have a range of powers at | :06:58. | :07:04. | |
their disposal to disrupt travel. Identifying the jihadi recruit among | :07:05. | :07:07. | |
thousands of legitimate travellers is a huge challenge. 23 people are | :07:08. | :07:13. | |
their passports confiscated on the order of the Home Secretary, often | :07:14. | :07:17. | |
on the basis Internet evidence. Today a man from east London, | :07:18. | :07:22. | |
accused of glorifying terror online, was remanded in custody by | :07:23. | :07:24. | |
Westminster magistrates, also charged with preparing acts of | :07:25. | :07:29. | |
terrorism. In the last year there has been a fivefold increase in the | :07:30. | :07:36. | |
number of arrests, amid fears that hundreds of British citizens | :07:37. | :07:47. | |
brutalised by the violence of the battlefield may be about to return | :07:48. | :08:05. | |
to the UK, posing a very real threat to the safety of people here. Not | :08:06. | :08:08. | |
everybody goes out a committed, hardened jihadist. Some go out for | :08:09. | :08:08. | |
humanitarian reasons. The longer they spend out there, the more | :08:09. | :08:09. | |
hardened and more brutalised they become. As a parent to have a son or | :08:10. | :08:10. | |
even a daughter in Syria, you do not have a life any more. A group called | :08:11. | :08:14. | |
families against stress is trying to distribute a different message. If | :08:15. | :08:17. | |
there is one issue that keeps police and security services awake at night | :08:18. | :08:23. | |
is is the veterans of Syria disappearing to British suburbia. | :08:24. | :08:28. | |
Frank Gardner is with me. Can we have any confidence that | :08:29. | :08:32. | |
radicalisation is being brought under control? No, to be blunt. It | :08:33. | :08:38. | |
has been a problem for some time. The government reaction to it has | :08:39. | :08:43. | |
been quite slow and reactive. It has built up speed gradually. This is a | :08:44. | :08:49. | |
big problem. The Syrian conflict has gone on for so long and is drawing | :08:50. | :08:55. | |
in so many thousands of recruits to jihadist extremist groups from all | :08:56. | :09:03. | |
over Europe, so the problem is pretty big. The difference this year | :09:04. | :09:06. | |
is that it has got much bigger. There is an actual address for jihad | :09:07. | :09:20. | |
ease to go to. It is called Islamic State. This is a charismatic | :09:21. | :09:27. | |
military organisation drawing in people. It is taking land. That is a | :09:28. | :09:33. | |
real worry for people. Now of course the other difference is that because | :09:34. | :09:35. | |
US air strikes have held back the jihad ease from taking over Kurdish | :09:36. | :09:37. | |
villages and the West has been reluctantly drawn into the conflict, | :09:38. | :09:37. | |
essentially Islamic State is now at war with the West. That is | :09:38. | :09:39. | |
demonstrated by the beheading of James Foley. Frank, thank you. | :09:40. | :09:42. | |
threat they pose if they return. Despite threats | :09:43. | :09:45. | |
by Islamic State to murder another American hostage, there were another | :09:46. | :09:47. | |
six US air strikes today. Iraqi forces are also understood to | :09:48. | :09:50. | |
have attacked the jihadists in Anbar Province, and they're battling | :09:51. | :09:53. | |
Islamic fighters in Tikrit. Jeremy Cooke sent this report | :09:54. | :09:55. | |
from Kirkuk. It is time to fight back. The Iraqi | :09:56. | :10:14. | |
army in full retreat a few weeks ago, now taking on Islamic State | :10:15. | :10:23. | |
with maximum firepower. These special forces are near Tikrit and | :10:24. | :10:28. | |
facing fanatical Islamic fighters. But there is fresh determination. | :10:29. | :10:33. | |
Victory will not come easy. Outside Kirkuk, the front line is hardening. | :10:34. | :10:41. | |
Here, we meet the Kurdish Peshmerga, who fought their enemy to a | :10:42. | :10:47. | |
standstill. Look down the barrel. Across the river just 50 metres over | :10:48. | :10:58. | |
the bridge. There, the black flag of Islamic State. | :10:59. | :10:59. | |
standstill. Look down the barrel. Across the river just 50 And | :11:00. | :11:00. | |
everything it stands for. The staggering thing here is just how | :11:01. | :11:01. | |
close the front lines are. We have clearly seen movement on the other | :11:02. | :11:05. | |
side. The Peshmerga fighters say they are determined to protect their | :11:06. | :11:09. | |
people, to protect their homes. Several attacks have already been | :11:10. | :11:14. | |
repelled. Their commander says his troops are ready to give their blood | :11:15. | :11:22. | |
and their lives. But they need help. TRANSLATION: We are asking the | :11:23. | :11:25. | |
international community and European countries for weapons. Our enemy has | :11:26. | :11:30. | |
sophisticated weapons. Hours are good but we need better. | :11:31. | :11:36. | |
In Kirkuk, there is no panic. The people have faith in their fighting | :11:37. | :11:40. | |
men who defend the city. The governor told me he remains | :11:41. | :11:43. | |
confident that the Islamic State will be defeated. It is a dangerous | :11:44. | :11:52. | |
enemy. It is not only the enemy of Iraq or Syria. It is the enemy that | :11:53. | :12:00. | |
can go anywhere in this world. It may be a global issue. But for now | :12:01. | :12:04. | |
the future of the Islamic state will be determined on the battlefields of | :12:05. | :12:05. | |
Syria. And Iraq. Ireland's former prime minister | :12:06. | :12:18. | |
Albert Reynolds has died, at the age of 81. Albert | :12:19. | :12:21. | |
Reynolds played a key role in advancing the Northern Ireland | :12:22. | :12:23. | |
peace process. His signing of the Downing Street | :12:24. | :12:26. | |
Declaration in 1993 led to the IRA ceasefire the following year. | :12:27. | :12:29. | |
He led his party, Fianna Fail, in two coalition governments, | :12:30. | :12:31. | |
and served as Taoiseach between 1992 and 1994. | :12:32. | :12:36. | |
Four undercover police officers accused of starting | :12:37. | :12:42. | |
relationships with women will not face sexual offences charges. | :12:43. | :12:44. | |
The Crown Prosecution Service says there is insufficient evidence to | :12:45. | :12:47. | |
prosecute the officers for offences including rape and sexual assault. | :12:48. | :12:51. | |
The men are alleged to have deceived political activists | :12:52. | :12:59. | |
in having relationships. There's been a fall in the number | :13:00. | :13:02. | |
of pupils getting a good pass in English GCSE. | :13:03. | :13:06. | |
But the overall A to C pass rate has risen slightly, | :13:07. | :13:09. | |
with a sharp improvements in Maths. GCSE results came out today in | :13:10. | :13:14. | |
England, Wales and Northern Ireland. Alex Forsyth has the details. | :13:15. | :13:22. | |
There were shrieks of joy from some as pupils opened envelopes which | :13:23. | :13:30. | |
held the key to their future. I am shaking. I'm sweating. Amid the | :13:31. | :13:36. | |
delight, there was some disappointment. For others, relief. | :13:37. | :13:42. | |
From any parents, proud. Very proud. Really pleased. We have been waiting | :13:43. | :13:49. | |
for this day. The number of A to C grades went up bike .7 percentage | :13:50. | :13:54. | |
points. There is huge variation in the key subjects. In maths, the pass | :13:55. | :13:59. | |
rate leapt up by 4.8 points. In English it has dropped by 1.9 | :14:00. | :14:06. | |
points. The biggest fall in years. This volatility is down to sweeping | :14:07. | :14:10. | |
changes to GCSEs in England. No exams are taken at the end of two | :14:11. | :14:16. | |
years study, not in modules, there is less emphasis on coursework. Some | :14:17. | :14:20. | |
courses are tougher and fewer pupils attempted GCSEs early, then take | :14:21. | :14:25. | |
multiple resits. The system in the past incentivised schools to enter | :14:26. | :14:33. | |
pupils in different modules as they sought to raise the grades of those | :14:34. | :14:36. | |
pupils. The consequence was they lost out on a large amount of | :14:37. | :14:42. | |
teaching time. These students are feeling the effects of these | :14:43. | :14:46. | |
significant reforms to GCSEs introduced by former Education | :14:47. | :14:50. | |
Secretary Michael Gove. The point is to make exams more rigorous and keep | :14:51. | :14:55. | |
standards high. The concern is some students may pay the price for | :14:56. | :14:56. | |
changes standards high. The concern is some | :14:57. | :14:56. | |
students may pay the price made midway through their studies. Twins | :14:57. | :15:03. | |
Holly and Rosie worked hard and said the shake-up of the system did | :15:04. | :15:08. | |
affect their grades. I am OK with my results. I don't think they should | :15:09. | :15:12. | |
change it halfway through. Any change at the end of the course | :15:13. | :15:18. | |
produces a lack of confidence. I think it affected them in that way. | :15:19. | :15:23. | |
It is pulling the rug from under them really. In Wales, grades have | :15:24. | :15:27. | |
improved. Overall results were broadly stable. It was the same in | :15:28. | :15:34. | |
Northern Ireland. Neither system has seen changes like those in England. | :15:35. | :15:38. | |
And while these students digester today's results, there is further | :15:39. | :15:44. | |
change in future. For better or worse, it will affect her pupils are | :15:45. | :15:46. | |
prepared for life beyond the classroom. | :15:47. | :15:52. | |
MI5 leads the British hunt for the Jihadi extremist responsible | :15:53. | :15:55. | |
for murdering an American journalist in Syria And still to come: | :15:56. | :15:58. | |
Why McDonald's is off the menu in Moscow. | :15:59. | :16:04. | |
And in London: Police vow to crackdown on sexual assaults and cry | :16:05. | :16:17. | |
lent crime on public transport. And the fight over Green Belt energy on | :16:18. | :16:20. | |
Green Belt land. Now, do you have a water meter | :16:21. | :16:30. | |
in your home? The number of properties | :16:31. | :16:32. | |
which do has risen above 10 million in England and Wales as companies | :16:33. | :16:35. | |
in drought-prone areas oblige By next spring, 50% of all homes in | :16:36. | :16:37. | |
those areas will have a water meter. Many people end up paying less, | :16:38. | :16:44. | |
but some have seen Our Personal Finance Correspondent | :16:45. | :16:47. | |
Simon Gompertz has more details. Water, the more you wash up with it, | :16:48. | :17:02. | |
the more it will turn around the meter. The more showers. The more | :17:03. | :17:08. | |
clothes washing. On it goes. The more baths you have. The more you | :17:09. | :17:15. | |
will end up paying for it. That is what this family near Southampton | :17:16. | :17:20. | |
have found. Charged in line with the rateable value of the house before, | :17:21. | :17:24. | |
now forced to have a meter and amazed by a warning their bill would | :17:25. | :17:31. | |
nearly double to ?763 year. We knew it would go up. We didn't expect it | :17:32. | :17:35. | |
to double. We thought it would increase by maybe a quarter. But | :17:36. | :17:41. | |
doubling the whole amount was a shock. By next spring, around a half | :17:42. | :17:46. | |
of all households in England and Wales will have meters, because of | :17:47. | :17:51. | |
compulsory water metering. The company say it is only fair, but it | :17:52. | :17:57. | |
means that hundreds of thousands of families could find they have a | :17:58. | :18:04. | |
shock when they look at their bills. Southern Water said 38% of | :18:05. | :18:09. | |
households are worse off paying ?175 more a year on average. But 62% of | :18:10. | :18:15. | |
them, the ones with fewer people, are better off by ?159 a year. So | :18:16. | :18:20. | |
some of the neighbours are celebrating. You're a gainer? Yes | :18:21. | :18:25. | |
and we are always happy when we gain. It is less than half. You're | :18:26. | :18:31. | |
paying less than half what you were paying before. Yes. You don't use | :18:32. | :18:39. | |
much water. Perhaps I'm dirty! Southern Water is putting in half a | :18:40. | :18:43. | |
million compulsory meters and there will be more from Thames Water and | :18:44. | :18:48. | |
others. What do you say to people who are ending up with bigger bills? | :18:49. | :18:53. | |
That has to be a big concern for us... Charge us for what we use, | :18:54. | :19:00. | |
they say, and we won't waste water. You don't go to garage and fill a | :19:01. | :19:04. | |
lorry and pay the same amount for your petrol as a family turning up | :19:05. | :19:10. | |
in the family car. That is how we do things. We are bringing that in down | :19:11. | :19:16. | |
here in the south for water use. So not every where now, but meters are | :19:17. | :19:22. | |
spreading. Don't be surprised to see the installers turn up. | :19:23. | :19:29. | |
The Football Association is investigating claims that | :19:30. | :19:31. | |
the former Cardiff City manager Malky Mackay and Iain Moody, the | :19:32. | :19:34. | |
club's former head of recruitment, exchanged abusive text messages. | :19:35. | :19:36. | |
They are said to include racist, sexist and homophobic comments | :19:37. | :19:38. | |
This report by Natalie Pirks contains some of the content | :19:39. | :19:42. | |
of the alleged texts which you may find offensive. | :19:43. | :19:59. | |
When Cardiff city owner Vincent Tan sacked Malky Mackay, as manager, Tan | :20:00. | :20:10. | |
was cast in the role of villain. Now it is Mackay's reputation that could | :20:11. | :20:15. | |
be in tatters. Lawyers raided the home of former Cardiff head of | :20:16. | :20:22. | |
recruitment Ian Moody, looking for evidence of financial | :20:23. | :20:27. | |
irregularities, but they found discriminatory text between the two. | :20:28. | :20:30. | |
It is claimed an official was described as: | :20:31. | :20:47. | |
Smith told me today he is disappointed, but if proven feels | :20:48. | :20:55. | |
the texts are showing a wider problem. The anti-Semitism feeling | :20:56. | :21:00. | |
around Europe is frightening. But it is not just about anti-Semitism. It | :21:01. | :21:07. | |
is anti-everything. The FA have a hell of a job and we have got to | :21:08. | :21:14. | |
give them every help we can. Here at Wembley, the FA say they're | :21:15. | :21:18. | |
investigating the dossier. It is not the first time they have had to | :21:19. | :21:23. | |
investigate comments made in private. Campaigners say it is high | :21:24. | :21:28. | |
time those in power took action. The FA itself would admit privately it | :21:29. | :21:32. | |
has shirked its responsibility and has not asserted itself in the way | :21:33. | :21:37. | |
it should as the body responsible. This is a real key moment for it. | :21:38. | :21:43. | |
Having backed off once, can it move forward now? ? Moody resigned from | :21:44. | :21:47. | |
Crystal Palace today, but he has been unavailable for comment. Mackay | :21:48. | :21:51. | |
said he will fight the claims. He had been the forerun foretr | :21:52. | :21:57. | |
manager's job at Palace. But with allegations suggesting views that | :21:58. | :22:01. | |
belong in football's fast, the club felt he wasn't the man to take them | :22:02. | :22:02. | |
forward. That quintessential American export | :22:03. | :22:09. | |
- McDonalds - is facing Several branches have been closed | :22:10. | :22:12. | |
in Moscow, because The move comes at a time | :22:13. | :22:15. | |
of deteriorating diplomatic relations between Washington and | :22:16. | :22:18. | |
Moscow - as our Moscow correspondent This is Pushkin Square, | :22:19. | :22:20. | |
in the heart of Moscow, and every time I come here, | :22:21. | :22:29. | |
I remember the day nearly 25 years ago, when Russia's first McDonald's | :22:30. | :22:32. | |
opened its door in the USSR. I was studying in Moscow | :22:33. | :22:36. | |
at the time, and I came down here to join the queue, and the crowds that | :22:37. | :22:40. | |
day were absolutely incredible. The queue went all | :22:41. | :22:43. | |
the way round Pushkin Square. It took me three hours to actually | :22:44. | :22:46. | |
get inside and be served, such was the level of excitement | :22:47. | :22:49. | |
here, that American burgers had burst through the Iron Curtain, | :22:50. | :22:52. | |
and were being served up in Moscow. Today, though, | :22:53. | :22:58. | |
it is a different story. The food inspectors have ordered | :22:59. | :23:10. | |
three of Moscow's McDonald'ses to be closed, citing Sanitary problems. | :23:11. | :23:24. | |
This is a signal to the public at large, America is our enemy. Things | :23:25. | :23:30. | |
are American are suspicious. For food safety or any other reason, we | :23:31. | :23:34. | |
will not put up with our consumers being exposed to things American. It | :23:35. | :23:41. | |
is a similar story in the shops. Centre stage now are Russian | :23:42. | :23:45. | |
products. After Moscow banned imports of meat, dairy, fruit and | :23:46. | :23:49. | |
vegetables from America and from the EU. It is the cell lip's response -- | :23:50. | :23:55. | |
Kremlin's response to western sanctions. But are people here | :23:56. | :24:05. | |
bothered about the burgers? I prefer boot root soup and dumplings. This | :24:06. | :24:13. | |
is 99% politics. Russia's looking for ways to hit back at the west. We | :24:14. | :24:18. | |
did find someone at McDonald's today. This cow mascot for a Russian | :24:19. | :24:24. | |
fast food chain. At least someone's happy. | :24:25. | :24:32. | |
During the Second World War, Lincolnshire was home to thousands | :24:33. | :24:35. | |
Today, the first turf was cut for a memorial centre | :24:36. | :24:38. | |
which will tell the stories of those involved in the conflict. | :24:39. | :24:41. | |
And to mark the event, the final two airworthy Lancasters | :24:42. | :24:44. | |
flew in formation, along with the last flying Vulcan bomber, over | :24:45. | :24:46. | |
Through Lincolnshire sky appeared a rare and precious sight. Led by a | :24:47. | :25:03. | |
Vulcan, the last pair of flying Lancasters roared over RAF | :25:04. | :25:07. | |
Waddington. Both here to remember those who served with bomber | :25:08. | :25:12. | |
command. RAF Lancasters of bomber command... 55,000 Lancaster crew | :25:13. | :25:17. | |
members lost their lives in the Second World War. Their average age | :25:18. | :25:24. | |
was 22. Jeffrey Whittle knows the story of sacrifice too well. Five of | :25:25. | :25:30. | |
his crew were killed. We were a happy bunch. We were all young. We | :25:31. | :25:34. | |
never thought we wouldn't come back. But of course 50 odd thousand | :25:35. | :25:40. | |
didn't. With only two air worthy Lancasters left, it is hard to | :25:41. | :25:43. | |
believe that once more than 7,000 were in the skies. In a sense, this | :25:44. | :25:50. | |
is where the Lancaster belongs. Lincolnshire was nicknamed bomber | :25:51. | :25:54. | |
county, because so many missions flew from here and today is about | :25:55. | :25:59. | |
remembering the bravery of the crews on board. Men gave Nair lives during | :26:00. | :26:07. | |
-- their lives during the war and there were incredible tales of | :26:08. | :26:13. | |
bravery. And we can use these planes not just for sxhemration, but -- | :26:14. | :26:19. | |
commemoration, but for inspiration. To remember those stories, 70 years | :26:20. | :26:25. | |
on a memorial to bomber command will be made here in Lincolnshire. A | :26:26. | :26:32. | |
reminder of the crews who risked everything. Now the weather. Susan | :26:33. | :26:47. | |
Powell is here. A cool and showery story to finish off our day. The | :26:48. | :26:54. | |
breeze will ease over night and then the skies clear in Scotland and | :26:55. | :26:57. | |
Northern Ireland and temperatures down into single figures in rural | :26:58. | :27:02. | |
areas. In the south some heavy showers in the Bristol showers and | :27:03. | :27:09. | |
the south-east. There could be some heavier showers around for the likes | :27:10. | :27:13. | |
of Kent and Sussex for tomorrow morning's rush hour. Elsewhere, a | :27:14. | :27:18. | |
dry picture with some decent sunshine. Still the north-westerly | :27:19. | :27:21. | |
breeze, but lighter than it has been. Still feeding in some showers | :27:22. | :27:25. | |
to Northern Ireland and Scotland. But drier with more sunshine and a | :27:26. | :27:29. | |
lighter breeze should add up to a warmer feeling day. Up to 21 in the | :27:30. | :27:33. | |
south-east. But in many areas temperatures still on the low side | :27:34. | :27:37. | |
for the time of year and that is a theme that will take with us into | :27:38. | :27:41. | |
the weekend with some chilly nights and if you're lucky to have Monday | :27:42. | :27:46. | |
off, the stories changes and it would become very wet and windy. | :27:47. | :27:51. | |
Here is Saturday. Not a bad day. Some heavier showers in the | :27:52. | :27:56. | |
north-west. But a lot of dry weather and plenty of sunshine. But thanks | :27:57. | :28:02. | |
to clear skies and the light breeze, Saturday night there is the risk of | :28:03. | :28:07. | |
a touch of frost. It could be a very chilly night for August as we under | :28:08. | :28:12. | |
this high pressure. We are are are set for a good looking day on | :28:13. | :28:17. | |
Sunday. But by the end of the day, things are set to change and an area | :28:18. | :28:20. | |
of low pressure coming in. I think it will bring some rain into | :28:21. | :28:26. | |
Northern Ireland through Sunday and then plough across the British Isles | :28:27. | :28:30. | |
for Monday. And Scotland will be driest and brightest. Thank you. Now | :28:31. | :28:42. | |
we join our news teams wherever you are. | :28:43. | :28:44. |