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The parents of five year old Ashya King are | :00:00. | :00:08. | |
in a Spanish jail tonight as they fight extradition to Britain. | :00:09. | :00:13. | |
They were arrested in Malaga after removing their seriously ill | :00:14. | :00:17. | |
son from a hospital in Southampton. Ashya's brother says | :00:18. | :00:19. | |
the family's only concern is for his well being and treatment. | :00:20. | :00:26. | |
I know the only thing my parents are worried about is Ashya King and so I | :00:27. | :00:35. | |
hope he gets released as soon as possible. | :00:36. | :00:38. | |
for his well being and treatment. We'll be asking what next | :00:39. | :00:41. | |
for the parents behind bars and their five year old in hospital. | :00:42. | :00:43. | |
Also tonight: New powers powers to tackle Britons | :00:44. | :00:46. | |
heading for Iraq and Syria - but no agreement | :00:47. | :00:48. | |
on how to stop those heading home. The British charity worker infected | :00:49. | :00:52. | |
with ebola - his parents speak for the first time about his ordeal. | :00:53. | :00:54. | |
Fractions for five year olds, Shakespeare by the age of 14 - it's | :00:55. | :00:57. | |
all change in England's classrooms as the new school year begins. | :00:58. | :01:00. | |
And the football transfer window prepares to close with a bang - | :01:01. | :01:03. | |
could the spending reach a ?1 billion? | :01:04. | :01:10. | |
On BBC London: The Mayor's hope for an Estuary airport - | :01:11. | :01:15. | |
the BBC understands that it hasn't made a government shortlist. | :01:16. | :01:18. | |
And new CCTV footage is released showing the so-called Plebgate | :01:19. | :01:19. | |
incident in Downing street. Good evening and welcome to the | :01:20. | :01:38. | |
BBC News at Six. A couple who removed their seriously | :01:39. | :01:41. | |
ill son from hospital in Southampton are in a Spanish jail tonight after | :01:42. | :01:45. | |
refusing to return to Britain. A judge in Madrid has ruled that | :01:46. | :01:48. | |
the couple must be held while the court considers whether to grant | :01:49. | :01:54. | |
Britain an extradition request. Five year old Ashya King | :01:55. | :01:55. | |
has brain cancer. His family say they took him | :01:56. | :01:58. | |
to Spain in search of alternative treatment. | :01:59. | :02:01. | |
He's now under police guard in hospital in Malaga. | :02:02. | :02:13. | |
From there Jon Kay reports. Now facing prison, the parents | :02:14. | :02:16. | |
of Ashya King at their extradition hearing in Madrid today. | :02:17. | :02:24. | |
Inside, they refuse to be sent back to Britain so Brett and | :02:25. | :02:28. | |
Naghemeh King will spend up to 72 hours behind bars while authorities | :02:29. | :02:30. | |
decide what to do next. They have not been charged | :02:31. | :02:31. | |
with any offence. Hundreds of miles of way | :02:32. | :02:34. | |
in the south of Spain, their little boy Ashya King is being | :02:35. | :02:36. | |
treated in this Malaga hospital, close to where the family were | :02:37. | :02:42. | |
found by police at the weekend. It is going to be that one or | :02:43. | :02:45. | |
the one on top. This afternoon, I met his older | :02:46. | :02:48. | |
brother Danny trying to visit the five-year-old but he was told | :02:49. | :02:51. | |
that Ashya was under police guard and because of the situation he | :02:52. | :02:55. | |
couldn't be seen by any relatives. He is used to having family | :02:56. | :02:58. | |
around him 24 hours a day. My mum, in the UK, never left his | :02:59. | :03:02. | |
bedside so I honestly don't know what is going through his mind but I | :03:03. | :03:06. | |
know he is really scared and he does not speak or understand Spanish. | :03:07. | :03:13. | |
As soon as we get inside it would be best to help him. | :03:14. | :03:15. | |
23-year-old Danny is now looking after his five other brothers | :03:16. | :03:23. | |
and sisters. He says they couldn't believe it | :03:24. | :03:25. | |
when their parents were arrested because in itself it is not illegal | :03:26. | :03:29. | |
to remove a child from a British hospital. | :03:30. | :03:31. | |
But the courts will have to decide if Ashya King was put at risk. | :03:32. | :03:33. | |
We were shocked. In the beginning we were | :03:34. | :03:36. | |
in disbelief. Really? | :03:37. | :03:37. | |
He had been taken from the hospital onto a ferry and you as a family did | :03:38. | :03:46. | |
not expect any kind of pursuit? We didn't know what was going | :03:47. | :03:49. | |
on until we got here. The family wanted to pay for | :03:50. | :03:52. | |
Ashya King to have private cancer treatment. | :03:53. | :03:54. | |
They had come to Spain to sell a property they owned | :03:55. | :03:58. | |
and wanted to use the money to come to this clinic in the Czech Republic | :03:59. | :04:01. | |
which offers proton beam therapy which isn't currently available | :04:02. | :04:02. | |
on the NHS in the UK. We have a lot of experience treating | :04:03. | :04:18. | |
children. In a few days, it is capable of travelling and | :04:19. | :04:18. | |
everything, he can be treated here. on the NHS in the UK. | :04:19. | :04:25. | |
Back in Malaga, the phone call Danny has been waiting for. | :04:26. | :04:27. | |
Doctors say he can go inside and visit his little brother. | :04:28. | :04:30. | |
The first family member he will have seen since Saturday night. | :04:31. | :04:36. | |
I am told that Ashya King is in this hospital and in a stable condition. | :04:37. | :04:44. | |
Back home, the hospital that was treating him until last Thursday has | :04:45. | :04:50. | |
issued a statement. They say that they regret that communication with | :04:51. | :04:57. | |
the family had broken down and say that his welfare was always their | :04:58. | :05:03. | |
top priority. As far as the proton beam therapy is concerned, they say | :05:04. | :05:07. | |
they have sent patients abroad in some cases but it is not always | :05:08. | :05:10. | |
beneficial. have seen since Saturday night. | :05:11. | :05:13. | |
Our health editor Hugh Pym joins me now. | :05:14. | :05:15. | |
This case will leave people wondering how much control they | :05:16. | :05:17. | |
actually have over their child's medical treatment. | :05:18. | :05:20. | |
Parents do have a wide discretion where it comes to their children. | :05:21. | :05:25. | |
They can say to the hospital they want to take their child outside of | :05:26. | :05:30. | |
that hot at all. However, the hospital has a duty of care to the | :05:31. | :05:35. | |
patient and if they feel the care is compromised, they can pursue a court | :05:36. | :05:41. | |
order even if the parents did not want it. Hospitals can also act in | :05:42. | :05:45. | |
emergencies if they have no clearance from parents or a court. | :05:46. | :05:51. | |
Local authorities often go to a High Court to give the judge complete | :05:52. | :05:58. | |
control over the care of a child. As a separate criminal strand, it is an | :05:59. | :06:04. | |
offence to carry out wilful neglect and that includes failing to carry | :06:05. | :06:07. | |
out adequate care. That sort of case is very rare. | :06:08. | :06:12. | |
their child's medical treatment. Police will be given temporary | :06:13. | :06:15. | |
powers to seize passports at UK borders of Britons they believe are | :06:16. | :06:17. | |
travelling abroad to fight with terror groups. | :06:18. | :06:19. | |
The Prime Minister says airlines will now be legally obliged to | :06:20. | :06:22. | |
hand over passenger lists to help identify Islamist fighters. | :06:23. | :06:24. | |
But he stopped short of announcing a ban on British | :06:25. | :06:26. | |
extremists returning to the country after fighting alongside | :06:27. | :06:31. | |
Islamist groups in Syria and Iraq. Here's our deputy political editor, | :06:32. | :06:32. | |
James Landale. No one knows how many Britons are | :06:33. | :06:45. | |
fighting for Islamic State in Syria and Iraq. Some say it is 500 and | :06:46. | :06:49. | |
others say it is many more. All agree that some will pose a security | :06:50. | :06:54. | |
threat if they return home. David Cameron's security people do not | :06:55. | :06:58. | |
like him walking to Westminster. Only days after the terror threat | :06:59. | :07:04. | |
was raised to severe, the Prime Minister marched down Whitehall to | :07:05. | :07:07. | |
tell MPs that the threat was real and more should be done to confront | :07:08. | :07:16. | |
it. There should not be a knee jerk reaction or an introduction of new | :07:17. | :07:19. | |
powers that would be ultimately ineffective. That would not be what | :07:20. | :07:27. | |
those who safe would want. He announced that the police would have | :07:28. | :07:30. | |
temporary new powers to seize the passports of Britons travelling to | :07:31. | :07:37. | |
fight with Islamic State. Airlines would have to hand over passenger | :07:38. | :07:41. | |
information earlier and the security services would be given powers to | :07:42. | :07:45. | |
relocate terror suspects away from their home towns, power they had in | :07:46. | :07:49. | |
tilt control orders were abolished. It was clear that the coalition | :07:50. | :07:57. | |
party did not agree on plans to stop British writers returning home. We | :07:58. | :08:02. | |
need discretionary power to exclude magician nationals from the UK and | :08:03. | :08:06. | |
we will work out proposals with our agencies and in line with our | :08:07. | :08:12. | |
international obligations. In other words, after days of warning about | :08:13. | :08:18. | |
the threats from British extremists, there is no agreement on how to stop | :08:19. | :08:22. | |
them coming home. They are constrained by law and politics. | :08:23. | :08:26. | |
Labour welcomed most of what was announced but wanted more. | :08:27. | :08:31. | |
Relocation was indeed a central part of control orders and it was a | :08:32. | :08:35. | |
mistake to get rid of them in the first place. Does he also agree that | :08:36. | :08:42. | |
we need a comprehensive programme? Nick Clegg who has warned that new | :08:43. | :08:50. | |
laws should not undermine civil liberties had insisted he has not | :08:51. | :08:54. | |
gone back on what he said. This is not repeating the mistakes that the | :08:55. | :09:00. | |
last Labour government introduced. Seven people absconded from control | :09:01. | :09:05. | |
orders. This is responding to an independent review of the existing | :09:06. | :09:13. | |
legislation. This is tough talk and headline grabbing stuff. We have | :09:14. | :09:15. | |
listened to it for over a decade. It's does not replace charges and | :09:16. | :09:23. | |
prison. The government has said this is not the whole story. The threat | :09:24. | :09:30. | |
from Islamic State will only be as on the ground. | :09:31. | :09:38. | |
James Landale. So, the | :09:39. | :09:40. | |
government is hoping to stem the flow of Britons heading for Iraq and | :09:41. | :09:43. | |
Syria, but will these new measures be enough to dissuade them? | :09:44. | :09:45. | |
Here's our Home Affairs Correspondent June Kelly. | :09:46. | :09:46. | |
For 20 minutes, we spent time in a ditch being bombed. This is what the | :09:47. | :09:52. | |
government is up against in what appears to be atypical propaganda | :09:53. | :09:58. | |
video. A young man, said to be British, urges others to join him on | :09:59. | :10:01. | |
the battlefield of the Middle East. At least 500 Britons have already | :10:02. | :10:07. | |
travelled there. Ministers are trying to stop more from following. | :10:08. | :10:14. | |
These two men have radical views and wants to live in an Islamic State | :10:15. | :10:21. | |
under Sharia Law. Those are dismissive of measures announced | :10:22. | :10:25. | |
today. Many people will be radicalised by these policies and | :10:26. | :10:29. | |
see it as an example of draconian laws. It will not have any impact at | :10:30. | :10:34. | |
all. A few months ago, this video said to be from Islamic State, | :10:35. | :10:42. | |
featured a young British men, including two from Cardiff. Although | :10:43. | :10:49. | |
it has met opposition, the government says it is looking for | :10:50. | :10:53. | |
the possibility of excluding British nationals like these who have chosen | :10:54. | :10:57. | |
to fight from being allowed back into the country. It is a source of | :10:58. | :11:02. | |
disquiet from one of the Cardiff families. I would be seriously | :11:03. | :11:11. | |
worried. Those boys are British-born and the first thing everybody wants | :11:12. | :11:18. | |
is there children back home. As the government strives to stop them from | :11:19. | :11:23. | |
leaving home in the first place, terror suspects facing tougher | :11:24. | :11:25. | |
conditions. They could be forced to move away from home towns. Although | :11:26. | :11:28. | |
there is the question civil liberties, it is an effective tactic | :11:29. | :11:35. | |
to take them away from vulnerable communities as they are dangerous | :11:36. | :11:37. | |
individuals and we cannot have them openly preaching and influencing | :11:38. | :11:44. | |
young people into terrorism. A conflict thousands of miles away has | :11:45. | :11:49. | |
led to the UK terror threat level to be raised and it is now also shaping | :11:50. | :11:51. | |
government policy. Correspondent June Kelly. | :11:52. | :11:58. | |
Let's speak to our Political Editor Nick Robinson. | :11:59. | :12:01. | |
Nick we've heard about measures to stop Britons going out but what | :12:02. | :12:03. | |
about stopping those coming back? That is the curiosity. A few days | :12:04. | :12:09. | |
ago, we were told the threat level had gone to severe, an attack is | :12:10. | :12:14. | |
highly likely. The Prime Minister says it is the most serious crisis | :12:15. | :12:19. | |
we have faced. There are 500 fighters abroad, many who want to | :12:20. | :12:22. | |
come home. Could they be excluded? Could there passports be taken away? | :12:23. | :12:27. | |
Frankly, there was no answer to Dave. Simply the promise of more | :12:28. | :12:33. | |
consideration and more party talks, we will get back to you later. The | :12:34. | :12:38. | |
reason is clear. Simply chucking them out if you like, saying you are | :12:39. | :12:46. | |
not British, even having temporary powers to take away their passports | :12:47. | :12:51. | |
could be illegal. The lawyers cannot agree on that. David Cameron's | :12:52. | :12:57. | |
advisers have said he is simply being careful. Others will say, you | :12:58. | :13:03. | |
told us of the threat but you have given us no answer on how you will | :13:04. | :13:04. | |
deal with it. about stopping those coming back? | :13:05. | :13:08. | |
He's been described as "a hero" by the charity he was with | :13:09. | :13:11. | |
in West Africa. Will Pooley was working with ebola | :13:12. | :13:14. | |
victims in Sierra Leone until he was struck down by the disease himself. | :13:15. | :13:17. | |
He's now still inside an isolation unit in London's | :13:18. | :13:20. | |
Royal Free Hospital and his family have given their first broadcast | :13:21. | :13:22. | |
interview about his condition. They've been speaking to our Health | :13:23. | :13:23. | |
Correspondent Branwen Jeffreys. Will risked his own life in the | :13:24. | :13:37. | |
ebola outbreak. Now this committed nurse is fighting the virus. His | :13:38. | :13:42. | |
parents, Jackie and Robin, have spent ten days at the hospital. | :13:43. | :13:46. | |
Today they told me he is able to begin to get out of bed. He has a | :13:47. | :13:54. | |
little step in there where he can rebuild his strength. That is a good | :13:55. | :14:00. | |
sign, I've think. We talked to him through a telephone link. We can | :14:01. | :14:06. | |
stand and see him through the glass and Polly Dean. He is talking a lot | :14:07. | :14:11. | |
more than he was at the beginning. He is interested in more things. | :14:12. | :14:22. | |
Yes, and his is back. He had a bacon butty. Only a handful of staff can | :14:23. | :14:32. | |
enter the isolation unit. Will is spending his days inside a sealed | :14:33. | :14:37. | |
10th. The are two nurses in the room at all times. You think he is | :14:38. | :14:42. | |
relieved to be here? He is glad to have such good care. He is aware of | :14:43. | :14:51. | |
what he has left behind. At the hospital there are 240 doctors and | :14:52. | :14:56. | |
nurses who have been infected. Half of them have died. The family were | :14:57. | :15:04. | |
at a wedding when Will became ill. The fact that the richest government | :15:05. | :15:12. | |
acted as the insurance policy was fantastic. -- British. All the | :15:13. | :15:18. | |
worst-case scenarios. We were worried he would not get out of the | :15:19. | :15:28. | |
country. There were checkpoints and 160 miles to travel across. You must | :15:29. | :15:30. | |
be glad to have him? Very. Our top story this evening. | :15:31. | :15:42. | |
The parents of Ashya King fight being returned to Britain after | :15:43. | :15:45. | |
taking their son to Spain seeking treatment for his brain tumour. | :15:46. | :15:48. | |
And coming up. Remembering the real life war horses | :15:49. | :15:53. | |
who saw battle in World War One. Later on BBC London. | :15:54. | :15:56. | |
Chip and Pin fraud - we track down one criminal who | :15:57. | :16:00. | |
targets Londoners from Canada. And we have a run down | :16:01. | :16:03. | |
on the players coming and going in our London clubs | :16:04. | :16:15. | |
on transfer deadline day. Now in Scotland and some other parts | :16:16. | :16:18. | |
of the UK, children are already back in their classrooms, but | :16:19. | :16:21. | |
for millions of other children the new school year beckons this week. | :16:22. | :16:24. | |
In England there are big changes this year. | :16:25. | :16:30. | |
Primary schools are to teach fractions to five-year-olds and | :16:31. | :16:36. | |
secondary schools are to teach more Shakespeare. All primary schools | :16:37. | :16:39. | |
will be required to offer free school meals to children in the | :16:40. | :16:43. | |
first three years. And there are changes to the provision for | :16:44. | :16:47. | |
children with special educational needs. Reading practice in | :16:48. | :17:01. | |
Leicester. But the government admit this new curriculum is rigorous and | :17:02. | :17:05. | |
tough. But headteachers think they should have the power to teach | :17:06. | :17:09. | |
children the things that they think pupils should know. | :17:10. | :17:15. | |
I did not have a problem with the old National Curriculum or the new | :17:16. | :17:20. | |
one. The reason I do not is that the schools like this have always done | :17:21. | :17:26. | |
what they think is important. We emphasise certain things in the | :17:27. | :17:28. | |
curriculum and we do certain things that are beyond the National | :17:29. | :17:32. | |
Curriculum. Fibrils will be taught to understand | :17:33. | :17:38. | |
basic fractions like one half or one quarter and will then help | :17:39. | :17:41. | |
algorithms work. I aged nine pupils will be expected to know there are | :17:42. | :17:45. | |
12 times tables and by age 11 they should be able to spell words like | :17:46. | :17:50. | |
accommodate and with them. A tough call a primary school but quite | :17:51. | :17:54. | |
challenging for adults, as we discovered. | :17:55. | :18:01. | |
Can you spell the world accommodate those Mac -- the word. | :18:02. | :18:19. | |
Do you know what an algorithm is? Something mathematical. Ten out of | :18:20. | :18:36. | |
ten! That is 128. 132. Other changes this term include free school meals | :18:37. | :18:40. | |
for infant pupils in England. The plan provoked a fierce row over | :18:41. | :18:44. | |
funding within the coalition of the Liberal Democrats have told BBC News | :18:45. | :18:48. | |
that 90% of schools will be able to provide a hot meal for pupils found | :18:49. | :18:53. | |
this week. And pupils who have special education needs will have | :18:54. | :18:56. | |
more choice about which schools they can go to. Their parents will be | :18:57. | :19:00. | |
given personalised budgets to spend as they wish. Back at Taylor Road | :19:01. | :19:06. | |
they are working hard to meet the new challenges. The government hopes | :19:07. | :19:10. | |
all the changes will raise attainment levels and help schools | :19:11. | :19:14. | |
compete with the best education systems in the world. David Cameron | :19:15. | :19:23. | |
has described the presence of Russian soldiers on Ukrainian cell | :19:24. | :19:30. | |
as completely unacceptable. Pro-Moscow forces continue to make | :19:31. | :19:35. | |
ground on Ukrainian troops in the east of the country. Experts who won | :19:36. | :19:45. | |
decade ago were asked to look into claims of grooming of young girls in | :19:46. | :19:48. | |
Rotherham has spoke of their frustrations that there are warnings | :19:49. | :19:51. | |
were ignored. They told panorama that the findings were not taken | :19:52. | :19:56. | |
seriously. It emerged last week that around 1400 children were sexually | :19:57. | :19:58. | |
exploited in the town. big changes this year. | :19:59. | :20:04. | |
Children were groomed and abused all over Rotherham. | :20:05. | :20:09. | |
Tonight the BBC can reveal that evidence was removed from council | :20:10. | :20:18. | |
offices. One drug worker says city was ignored. Isabel was 14 when she | :20:19. | :20:23. | |
was repeatedly raped. We protected her identity and change to a voice. | :20:24. | :20:30. | |
Legally if you're not 16 then do something about it. No point having | :20:31. | :20:34. | |
a law and not sticking to it. I was a child. But all this abuse could | :20:35. | :20:40. | |
have been prevented. An independent enquiry revealed a report written in | :20:41. | :20:44. | |
2002 detailing the victims and the grooming gangs, was depressed. The | :20:45. | :20:52. | |
report also has spoken to the BBC on condition of anonymity. She believes | :20:53. | :20:54. | |
that key evidence went missing from council offices. They had taken my | :20:55. | :21:01. | |
data. One draw was emptied of my data. The council says it has no | :21:02. | :21:07. | |
evidence of a raid but it would take eight years before these men were | :21:08. | :21:10. | |
prosecuted. The only grooming gangs to be jailed in rather hmmm. There | :21:11. | :21:14. | |
were many missed opportunities to stop the abuse. -- rather hmmm. The | :21:15. | :21:20. | |
council and police refused to believe how big the problem was. Two | :21:21. | :21:27. | |
more reports on Pakistani heritage grooming gangs were shown to the | :21:28. | :21:31. | |
council and police. The author has spoken exclusively to the BBC. Some | :21:32. | :21:36. | |
people felt ethnicity was a barrier to investigating. It was seen to be | :21:37. | :21:43. | |
too sensitive. The council and police both say that vulnerable | :21:44. | :21:47. | |
children are now listen to. Too late for the 1400 exploited here. | :21:48. | :21:52. | |
and abused all over Rotherham. And you can see a full investigation | :21:53. | :21:55. | |
into the child abuse in Rotherham in a special Panorama tonight. | :21:56. | :21:58. | |
Stolen Childhoods - The Grooming Scandal will be shown at 8:30pm | :21:59. | :22:04. | |
on BBC One. It's transfer deadline day today - | :22:05. | :22:07. | |
when the Premier League usually goes on a spending spree | :22:08. | :22:10. | |
in an attempt to improve their chances of success and silverware. | :22:11. | :22:13. | |
So far in this transfer window clubs have already spent a record | :22:14. | :22:16. | |
?750 million on players. The biggest spenders are | :22:17. | :22:19. | |
Manchester United. Our Sports Correspondent Andy Swiss | :22:20. | :22:20. | |
is at Old Trafford. It has been a shopping spree like no | :22:21. | :22:34. | |
other. From Angela Di Maria to the signing of Radamel Falcao, | :22:35. | :22:38. | |
Manchester United have flung open their cheque book this summer | :22:39. | :22:43. | |
splashing ?150 million to try to revive their fortunes. It has left | :22:44. | :22:46. | |
the Old Trafford decorators with a bit of work. The recent picked | :22:47. | :22:50. | |
already out of date. But for the fans spending their way out of | :22:51. | :22:57. | |
trouble as Goop welcome if costly. It is crazy what people spend these | :22:58. | :23:03. | |
days. Do you think you have value for money? Definitely. But it is not | :23:04. | :23:10. | |
just Manchester United. There has been unprecedented spending across | :23:11. | :23:16. | |
the Premier League. Last summer ?630 million record has been smashed | :23:17. | :23:20. | |
already. By the start of today ?745 million had been spent this summer | :23:21. | :23:23. | |
and a late surge could push the total cluster to be 1 billion mark. | :23:24. | :23:29. | |
How can clubs afford these global stars like Mario Balotelli? A new | :23:30. | :23:40. | |
bumper television deal has left the team any more than the champions | :23:41. | :23:44. | |
used to even the bare bottom of the table. But is this a bubble that is | :23:45. | :23:48. | |
likely to burst? If you look at what is going on with social media, live | :23:49. | :23:51. | |
sport is still the biggest news there is. The public loved like | :23:52. | :23:56. | |
nothing else. As long as there is that glamour then the money will | :23:57. | :24:02. | |
keep on following. Instead of tightening their belts, the top | :24:03. | :24:04. | |
teams are still loosening their wallets. But if it brings them | :24:05. | :24:08. | |
trophies and for some return to the glory days, this summer of | :24:09. | :24:11. | |
extraordinary spending might yet pay off. | :24:12. | :24:16. | |
Even by footballing standard it has been quite the summer. The transfer | :24:17. | :24:20. | |
window closes at 11 o'clock tonight and after that clubs cannot buy any | :24:21. | :24:26. | |
new players until next year. So for some clubs what they do over the | :24:27. | :24:29. | |
next few hours just might decide their season. | :24:30. | :24:33. | |
is at Old Trafford. Their contribution in the | :24:34. | :24:36. | |
First World War was highlighted in the play War Horse | :24:37. | :24:38. | |
and today the animals and men of the British Cavalry Division are | :24:39. | :24:41. | |
being remembered in France. A hundred years ago the men | :24:42. | :24:44. | |
on horseback helped to stop the German advance on Paris. | :24:45. | :24:47. | |
It was also the last time cavalry on horseback took part in a major | :24:48. | :24:55. | |
battle, as Robert Hall reports. Through the narrow streets of Nery, | :24:56. | :24:58. | |
the clatter of hooves and the rumble of gun carriages, turning the clock | :24:59. | :25:07. | |
back to a summer morning long ago. During August 1914, German armies | :25:08. | :25:12. | |
were driving south and west. In the months before the stalemate | :25:13. | :25:15. | |
of trench warfare, cavalry units still had a part to play. | :25:16. | :25:18. | |
Scouting ahead and raiding enemy lines. | :25:19. | :25:24. | |
The warhorse ride has retraced the days leading up to | :25:25. | :25:27. | |
the battle at Nery. Dressed and equipped | :25:28. | :25:31. | |
as their predecessors, each rider represented one wartime regiment. | :25:32. | :25:37. | |
On the foggy morning of September the 1st, | :25:38. | :25:42. | |
all hell broke loose in Nery. British cavalry and artillery were | :25:43. | :25:47. | |
under fire from a much larger force. Today part | :25:48. | :25:50. | |
of that story unfolded again on the exact spot where three Victoria | :25:51. | :25:57. | |
crosses were won in under an hour. Captain Edward Bradbury, Battery | :25:58. | :26:00. | |
Sergeant Major George Dorrell and Sergeant David Nelson kept one | :26:01. | :26:02. | |
field gun firing after all the others were destroyed. | :26:03. | :26:06. | |
George Dorrell's grandchildren said though modest, | :26:07. | :26:10. | |
he would have been proud to think he had been remembered. | :26:11. | :26:15. | |
I think if you listen to my grandfather he would have said, | :26:16. | :26:20. | |
I'm trained to do it. And that is what we did. | :26:21. | :26:25. | |
It was really them or us. Gunfire echoing again | :26:26. | :26:28. | |
across the rooftops. The salute to the men | :26:29. | :26:31. | |
and the horses who died whilst holding the line against the odds. | :26:32. | :26:42. | |
Now time for a look at the weather and it is feeling a little bit more | :26:43. | :26:50. | |
summery. For just about all of the UK | :26:51. | :26:55. | |
compared with the past few weeks it is drier and warmer this week. Even | :26:56. | :26:58. | |
in the cloud temperatures easily reaching the heights teens. With a | :26:59. | :27:04. | |
bit of strong September sunshine that will rise well into the | :27:05. | :27:11. | |
mid-20s. The reason is high pressure extending from the mid Atlantic at | :27:12. | :27:13. | |
the moment. These weather fronts have been reducing the rain and | :27:14. | :27:18. | |
drizzle today across parts of England. Still some of that to come | :27:19. | :27:25. | |
but that will largely fade away. For most it is a dry night with clear | :27:26. | :27:30. | |
skies in the West. The odd patch of mist and fog in the countryside. But | :27:31. | :27:36. | |
most major towns and cities around ten, 14 degrees. The weather front | :27:37. | :27:41. | |
which produced the rain today is still in eastern areas tomorrow. | :27:42. | :27:46. | |
Even with the high-pressure really establishing itself. It will be the | :27:47. | :27:50. | |
focus of a lot of mist and globe cloud to start with. Some dense fog | :27:51. | :27:56. | |
patches as well. That will gradually lift. Just some drizzle around | :27:57. | :28:01. | |
through the day that away from that a lot of sunny weather to come. The | :28:02. | :28:08. | |
best of that in parts of central Scotland and the Midlands. The | :28:09. | :28:14. | |
high-pressure pushes toward the east into Wednesday. Picking out the | :28:15. | :28:19. | |
sunny spots is a little bit difficult. To the west of high | :28:20. | :28:27. | |
ground and to the north of high ground in Scotland this is where the | :28:28. | :28:32. | |
sunniest conditions will be. Temperatures well into the 20s for | :28:33. | :28:37. | |
many. Elsewhere are generally dry picture but something went in the | :28:38. | :28:41. | |
north west of Scotland later and that will continue into Thursday. | :28:42. | :28:48. | |
The main story tonight. The parents of Ashya King are in a Spanish jail | :28:49. | :28:54. | |
tonight fighting extradition to Britain after they took their | :28:55. | :28:56. |