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Charlotte Edwards, who top-scored with 60 runs. | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
At Cheltenham, Thistle Crack wins the big race of the day. | :00:00. | :00:19. | |
Good evening and welcome to the BBC News at Six. | :00:20. | :00:22. | |
24 hours after George Osborne's Budget, and it is being picked over | :00:23. | :00:25. | |
by financial experts, the Labour Party and even | :00:26. | :00:29. | |
The respected Institute for Fiscal Studies has | :00:30. | :00:34. | |
warned of more austerity and lower living standards. | :00:35. | :00:37. | |
Labour accuses the Chancellor of taking from disabled people | :00:38. | :00:40. | |
Those welfare changes are a concern for some Tory MPs, | :00:41. | :00:47. | |
too, as our political editor, Laura Kuennsberg, reports. | :00:48. | :00:54. | |
How does it all work, Chancellor? The day after his budget, George | :00:55. | :01:01. | |
Osborne's mathematics and his motivations are being questioned. | :01:02. | :01:05. | |
Some of the claims branded disingenuous, the sums too | :01:06. | :01:11. | |
optimistic. And real cuts - hardly something to celebrate. We make sure | :01:12. | :01:18. | |
that in uncertain times we are fit for the future, by taking action on | :01:19. | :01:21. | |
our public finances so that we do not pay later. And we back small | :01:22. | :01:27. | |
businesses, are self-employed, above all working people, by reducing | :01:28. | :01:31. | |
their taxes so they can help us grow the economy. Reality has arrived | :01:32. | :01:36. | |
along with the budget on MPs' desks. And the probability emerges that the | :01:37. | :01:41. | |
Chancellor only has a 50-50 chance of hitting the targets in the red | :01:42. | :01:46. | |
book, and accusations he is fixing the figures. I really admire George | :01:47. | :01:50. | |
Osborne's love of a five year plan, because it is always five years | :01:51. | :01:54. | |
away. He missed every single target he set for himself in 2010. And then | :01:55. | :02:00. | |
five years later, in 2015. And in the Tory ranks, there is also on | :02:01. | :02:04. | |
happiness, with rebellion brewing. Sarah Stuart from problem is one of | :02:05. | :02:10. | |
more than 600,000 people with disabilities who might be affected | :02:11. | :02:13. | |
by changes to the personal independence payments. When cases | :02:14. | :02:17. | |
are reviewed in future, the benefits will be calculated differently for | :02:18. | :02:22. | |
some. She is worried she might miss out. People like me that used to | :02:23. | :02:27. | |
work all the time and are now needing help from the system they | :02:28. | :02:31. | |
paid into, it is an or full-time. Some Tories are ready to campaign to | :02:32. | :02:37. | |
fight the change. This change is wrong-headed and it really hits the | :02:38. | :02:39. | |
wrong people. They are always tinkering around the edges - that | :02:40. | :02:44. | |
needs to happen so that you have a slightly fairer system. But I think | :02:45. | :02:47. | |
the package which has been offered up to now, which is still a | :02:48. | :02:52. | |
consultation, does go too far. The minister in charge admitted many | :02:53. | :02:56. | |
thousands of people might lose out, but the total amount will go up. We | :02:57. | :03:00. | |
will see more people overall benefiting from the system. It will | :03:01. | :03:04. | |
continue to improve year-on-year and overall we will still see an | :03:05. | :03:07. | |
increase in funding every year in this Parliament. What do you say to | :03:08. | :03:11. | |
a disabled person who might lose a vital share of their income, and the | :03:12. | :03:15. | |
person next door might get a tax cut? But the two things are not | :03:16. | :03:19. | |
linked. This is not a financial measure. It is providing a fair, | :03:20. | :03:26. | |
sustainable benefit which provides support and affects genuine, ongoing | :03:27. | :03:31. | |
extra costs. Tory Eurosceptics are plotting with Labour over the tax on | :03:32. | :03:37. | |
tampons as well. The Government hopes that within days, they will be | :03:38. | :03:40. | |
allowed to scrap it. That would help. Like with any budget, it is a | :03:41. | :03:45. | |
test of the Chancellor's reputation. George Osborne has got bigger | :03:46. | :03:49. | |
ambitions than being in charge of the Treasury for ever. So he was | :03:50. | :03:53. | |
trying to impress is own MPs as well as the public. His team insist he | :03:54. | :03:57. | |
has made the right big and bold decisions, but the budget has not | :03:58. | :04:01. | |
gone entirely to plan. That was such a big occasion, wasn't it? Indeed, | :04:02. | :04:07. | |
budgets always are. Events which changes, there is and all of our | :04:08. | :04:09. | |
lives. So why are some experts saying | :04:10. | :04:11. | |
that there could be trouble ahead, Our economics editor, | :04:12. | :04:14. | |
Kamal Ahmed, is here with me. You have been taking a good look at | :04:15. | :04:20. | |
the numbers? I have indeed, yes. Day two, and a day of in-depth | :04:21. | :04:27. | |
analysis of the Budget. That hitting that vital budget | :04:28. | :04:30. | |
surplus target is going to be very And that there are more public | :04:31. | :04:34. | |
sector cuts ahead in all likelihood. This time around he has responded to | :04:35. | :04:49. | |
bad economic news by shuffling some figures around. If he gets more bad | :04:50. | :04:53. | |
economic news, he will either have to abandon that target or do | :04:54. | :04:57. | |
something serious, some significant tax increases or real spending cuts. | :04:58. | :05:00. | |
Those real spending cuts could come in the year | :05:01. | :05:03. | |
The IFS says that if the Chancellor is to achieve his fabled budget | :05:04. | :05:07. | |
surplus, he will need to find a further ?10 billion of cuts | :05:08. | :05:10. | |
to planned spending on public services by 2021. | :05:11. | :05:13. | |
Those cuts could fall most heavily on non-protected departments such | :05:14. | :05:18. | |
as the Home Office and Justice - they may have to find a further 13% | :05:19. | :05:22. | |
The Chancellor also announced income tax cuts - increasing the personal | :05:23. | :05:29. | |
allowance and taking 585,000 people out of the higher 40p rate of tax. | :05:30. | :05:38. | |
But according to one analysis, that cut tends to be more | :05:39. | :05:42. | |
It will boost the incomes of the richest 20% of households | :05:43. | :05:48. | |
That figure for the poorest 20% of households? | :05:49. | :05:56. | |
There was some better news for the Chancellor today. | :05:57. | :06:00. | |
The Bank of England said wage increases were stronger and that | :06:01. | :06:02. | |
productivity was rising - and after the bad news | :06:03. | :06:05. | |
on productivity yesterday, that will come as a welcome | :06:06. | :06:08. | |
For this manufacturing firm, Mr Osborne's pledge to support | :06:09. | :06:15. | |
The Treasury made productivity improvements - crucial | :06:16. | :06:24. | |
for maintaining growth - a central part of the Budget. | :06:25. | :06:33. | |
If you put your efforts into your staff and machinery and invest back | :06:34. | :06:39. | |
into the company, you are getting more work, you are widening your | :06:40. | :06:42. | |
capabilities and strengthening your reputation. | :06:43. | :06:44. | |
One final thought - never underestimate Mr Osborne's | :06:45. | :06:46. | |
ability to find a little extra something behind the fabled | :06:47. | :06:48. | |
As one government source pointed out to me, yesterday's figures | :06:49. | :06:55. | |
were so poor, things - before the next election - | :06:56. | :06:58. | |
For as long as anyone can remember, parents have played a part | :06:59. | :07:06. | |
in running schools by being governors. | :07:07. | :07:08. | |
It is all part of the sweeping changes, including making | :07:09. | :07:12. | |
all state schools academies - published by the Government today. | :07:13. | :07:15. | |
Labour says it will be costly and disruptive, | :07:16. | :07:18. | |
but the Government argues parents will have more choice. | :07:19. | :07:21. | |
Here's our education editor, Branwen Jeffreys. | :07:22. | :07:32. | |
Schools across England are facing a massive shake-up. Teachers will have | :07:33. | :07:37. | |
to prove their classroom skills to qualify. And all schools will become | :07:38. | :07:45. | |
academies within years. Rebecca Jones is a parent governor at this | :07:46. | :07:48. | |
primary school in Manchester. Under these plans are elected parent | :07:49. | :07:53. | |
governors will go when it becomes an academy. Parents give immediate | :07:54. | :07:58. | |
feedback if there is an issue. And if you don't have the parent | :07:59. | :08:02. | |
governors, I don't think the parents would feel able to approach the | :08:03. | :08:09. | |
school about issues. Which one of these pictures to you think is going | :08:10. | :08:13. | |
back into the past...? Like most primary schools, it is still run by | :08:14. | :08:17. | |
the council. But that will have to change within the next six years. | :08:18. | :08:21. | |
Tell me which one you are choosing... Samantha Kinghorn | :08:22. | :08:24. | |
headteacher here. She resisted pressure to become an academy | :08:25. | :08:28. | |
before. But what about other government plans? Headteachers who | :08:29. | :08:33. | |
move to a struggling school will get more time - at least two years, to | :08:34. | :08:37. | |
turn things around before the inspectors arrive. That would be | :08:38. | :08:41. | |
welcome. At the moment I feel sometimes that Headteachers are a | :08:42. | :08:44. | |
bit like football managers. You make one mistake or you have only been in | :08:45. | :08:49. | |
a school for one year, and you are pumped off! So what friends will it | :08:50. | :08:54. | |
make to their education? The only these changes taken together are | :08:55. | :08:58. | |
meant to give headteachers and schools much more freedom to shape | :08:59. | :09:05. | |
what they teach. It will also create huge change of schools -- huge | :09:06. | :09:09. | |
chains of schools competing with each other across England. The | :09:10. | :09:13. | |
question is, who holds them to account? Steve Lancashire is the | :09:14. | :09:17. | |
chief executive two primary school chains. He says they use the Freedom | :09:18. | :09:22. | |
of being an academy to offer something different. They are held | :09:23. | :09:25. | |
to account, he says, through their results. All of our schoolchildren | :09:26. | :09:30. | |
will go to a capital city in a foreign country to experience a | :09:31. | :09:33. | |
foreign culture. It is distinctive about what we can provide as a group | :09:34. | :09:38. | |
of schools, rather than individual schools, and as an academy rather | :09:39. | :09:43. | |
than as a council school. The Education Secretary tells me she | :09:44. | :09:46. | |
wants parents to have a bigger say, so why get rid of elected parent | :09:47. | :09:50. | |
governors? We want governors to be there because of the skills they | :09:51. | :09:53. | |
bring. I think there are much more effective ways for parents to be | :09:54. | :09:57. | |
involved rather than just having a couple of parents on the governing | :09:58. | :10:01. | |
bodies. We want to set up a parent portal so that parents know what is | :10:02. | :10:04. | |
going on and better complaints mechanism. Schools will still have | :10:05. | :10:08. | |
to try to impress parents, but there is no guarantee there be a graceful | :10:09. | :10:09. | |
transition to the EU leaders in Brussels are making | :10:10. | :10:13. | |
yet another attempt to tackle the large numbers of migrants | :10:14. | :10:16. | |
and refugees trying to reach Europe. The proposed plan would see migrants | :10:17. | :10:18. | |
arriving in Greece sent But Turkey wants a number | :10:19. | :10:21. | |
of concessions from the EU. Our Europe correspondent | :10:22. | :10:25. | |
Damian Grammaticas It sounds like there are still a | :10:26. | :10:39. | |
number of obstacles in the way? There are. This grand bargain has | :10:40. | :10:44. | |
real problems still to overcome. The first one, is it legal? One leader | :10:45. | :10:51. | |
coming here today said it was on the edge of legality, because | :10:52. | :10:55. | |
international law, human rights law, says refugees arriving all have to | :10:56. | :10:59. | |
have their cases heard individually. There is not being the structure in | :11:00. | :11:05. | |
Greece to do that. Secondly, those concessions Turkey wants, things | :11:06. | :11:08. | |
like speeding up these free access for Turks in the EU, many European | :11:09. | :11:15. | |
countries very unsure about giving concessions to Turkey at a time when | :11:16. | :11:18. | |
they have real worries about human rights in Turkey. And Turkey also | :11:19. | :11:24. | |
want speeding up of its accession talks in the EU. Cyprus is not | :11:25. | :11:29. | |
recognised by Turkey. Lots of problems ahead. Thank you. | :11:30. | :11:40. | |
For 15 years, he was a well-known fixture on Saturday night TV | :11:41. | :11:43. | |
with his programme The Paul Daniels Magic Show. | :11:44. | :11:45. | |
# You're going to like this, going to like this... | :11:46. | :11:57. | |
If the ball's in my left hand, it's in my left hand, | :11:58. | :12:01. | |
if it's not in my hand, it's under the cup. | :12:02. | :12:03. | |
He was fast, funny, and very skilful. | :12:04. | :12:05. | |
He took old-fashioned magic and refashioned it | :12:06. | :12:07. | |
He became a fixture of the Saturday night schedules. | :12:08. | :12:10. | |
He had started in northern clubs, combining magic with a cheeky | :12:11. | :12:13. | |
You're supposed to go one, two, out the way, | :12:14. | :12:18. | |
He devised a catchphrase to deal with hecklers. | :12:19. | :12:22. | |
Paul Daniels was almost as famous for his toupee and his glamorous | :12:23. | :12:31. | |
assistant, Debbie McGee, 20 years younger. | :12:32. | :12:32. | |
They eventually married, which amused some people greatly. | :12:33. | :12:34. | |
What first, Debbie, attracted you to the millionaire | :12:35. | :12:36. | |
I really got the giggles because when I first worked | :12:37. | :12:42. | |
But the things that attracted me to him, | :12:43. | :12:49. | |
Our life has been full of laughter and that's what it's been the last | :12:50. | :12:54. | |
few weeks, up until the last 48 hours when he slipped into a sleep. | :12:55. | :12:58. | |
But even minutes before he slipped into that sleep, | :12:59. | :13:02. | |
he was smiling at me and joking and singing Beatles songs. | :13:03. | :13:06. | |
I had a letter yesterday from a lady who had met us and she said, | :13:07. | :13:10. | |
"The thing is, Debbie, you had a marriage that | :13:11. | :13:16. | |
Off-screen, he devised the special effects for Phantom Of The Opera | :13:17. | :13:26. | |
and he was an inspiration to a younger generation | :13:27. | :13:28. | |
Everyone I know had a Paul Daniels magic kit - | :13:29. | :13:33. | |
that was the first time people would learn how to do magic. | :13:34. | :13:36. | |
And his TV shows, I missed a lot of them because I was a bit too | :13:37. | :13:40. | |
young, but having looked back on them and all the magic he did | :13:41. | :13:43. | |
on YouTube, he will always be one | :13:44. | :13:44. | |
of the greatest magicians of our time. | :13:45. | :13:50. | |
For 20 years he was one of Britain's most popular | :13:51. | :13:52. | |
Three years ago he recalled routine offers of sex early in his career | :13:53. | :13:57. | |
and admitted he could not be sure all the women he had slept | :13:58. | :14:01. | |
He could be chippy and some thought him smug. | :14:02. | :14:05. | |
He fell out with BBC managers who dropped his show | :14:06. | :14:08. | |
in the 1990s - but there was no doubting his popularity | :14:09. | :14:11. | |
Paul Daniels who died today, aged 77. | :14:12. | :14:24. | |
A warning from financial experts that wages are set to fall, | :14:25. | :14:31. | |
but George Osborne says we have to stick to the plan. | :14:32. | :14:34. | |
rugby match, a row over racist language in the sport. | :14:35. | :14:44. | |
Coming up in the sport, England win their opening women's World T20 | :14:45. | :14:54. | |
match against Bangladesh, led by captain Charlotte Edwards who top | :14:55. | :14:56. | |
scored with 60 runs. Health professionals have welcomed | :14:57. | :15:05. | |
George Osborne's tax on sugary drinks in his Budget yesterday, | :15:06. | :15:08. | |
but warn that it "will not be a panacea" for the nation's | :15:09. | :15:11. | |
obesity crisis. Treating conditions linked | :15:12. | :15:14. | |
to obesity cost the NHS in England ?5.1 billion in the last year, | :15:15. | :15:20. | |
and in children, it still remains one of the most serious | :15:21. | :15:23. | |
public health challenges Our correspondent Jeremy | :15:24. | :15:25. | |
Cooke has this report. It is a global epidemic, | :15:26. | :15:29. | |
fuelled by fast food, Modern-day snack food is not | :15:30. | :15:31. | |
love, it's a killer. One in three of our ten-year-olds | :15:32. | :15:38. | |
is now obese, their futures Unless we turn this round, | :15:39. | :15:41. | |
this is going to be with us not only for the coming generation | :15:42. | :15:54. | |
but for the generations Katie is 15, loves singing and drama | :15:55. | :15:56. | |
and going to the movies. Her battle against weight has been | :15:57. | :16:00. | |
a lifelong challenge. 14-year-old Becky likes R | :16:01. | :16:08. | |
music and Justin Bieber. She too is working hard | :16:09. | :16:11. | |
to shed the pounds. When it comes to calories, | :16:12. | :16:15. | |
for both girls, the problem has been It was like a pot of Pringles, | :16:16. | :16:18. | |
an iced coffee, a croissant. Chocolate cereal and I would have | :16:19. | :16:24. | |
in my lunch rolls and crisps. I would have, like, chicken nuggets | :16:25. | :16:28. | |
or just something out And then your mum would | :16:29. | :16:34. | |
give you your supper? Yeah, and I would have lunch | :16:35. | :16:39. | |
and I would have breakfast. For their parents | :16:40. | :16:43. | |
it is a major worry. They know that obesity can | :16:44. | :16:46. | |
destroy children's health Why didn't you, as a mum, | :16:47. | :16:49. | |
simply feed her less food? We hid bread in places | :16:50. | :16:57. | |
like the laundry basket Now Katie is fighting back, | :16:58. | :17:04. | |
has found the strength to lose two stone and is determined | :17:05. | :17:13. | |
to lose more. I'm around 16 right now and so, | :17:14. | :17:18. | |
like, obviously I will see when I get to where I want to be | :17:19. | :17:22. | |
but roughly like ten stone Katie is on the right road, | :17:23. | :17:25. | |
using exercise and diet. For others, though, | :17:26. | :17:31. | |
the challenge is still daunting. Four out of five obese children | :17:32. | :17:33. | |
will become obese adults. Overweight young people | :17:34. | :17:37. | |
look relatively healthy, they get up and about, | :17:38. | :17:39. | |
they move around, they do things But when they are in their 40s | :17:40. | :17:42. | |
and 50s, you find that the body Becky is doing well, going | :17:43. | :17:49. | |
to the gym, choosing healthy food. But being overweight can also bring | :17:50. | :17:57. | |
psychological problems and for her, the bullying started | :17:58. | :18:00. | |
at primary school. I would feel like I was always | :18:01. | :18:07. | |
being talked about so I would walk round a corner and there | :18:08. | :18:10. | |
would be a group of people. Even if I didn't know them | :18:11. | :18:14. | |
and they were laughing, I would think they | :18:15. | :18:16. | |
were laughing at me. It's hard to see your child | :18:17. | :18:18. | |
sort of feel that way. I don't think there's anything | :18:19. | :18:23. | |
quite as heartbreaking than when your child tells | :18:24. | :18:25. | |
you that they hate themselves and they don't want to look | :18:26. | :18:27. | |
at themselves in the mirror. Counting calories, choosing water | :18:28. | :18:30. | |
instead of fizzy drinks. Overweight children | :18:31. | :18:37. | |
need this kind of help. They can't take responsibility | :18:38. | :18:41. | |
for their own actions, they are children and they are | :18:42. | :18:43. | |
vulnerable to the actions and the decisions of | :18:44. | :18:45. | |
the adults around them. Health professionals have welcomed | :18:46. | :18:49. | |
news of the sugar tax but say it is only a first step | :18:50. | :18:51. | |
towards tackling the childhood And tomorrow we'll be looking | :18:52. | :18:54. | |
at the role of the food industry An inquiry into child abuse in care | :18:55. | :19:04. | |
homes in North Wales, criticised for exposing only | :19:05. | :19:12. | |
a fraction of the abuse carried out, Lady Justice Macur said | :19:13. | :19:14. | |
there was "no evidence" of abuse What's the reaction been | :19:15. | :19:25. | |
to today's findings? Perhaps inevitably for some abuse | :19:26. | :19:40. | |
survivors, today has been a day of disappointment, some saying they | :19:41. | :19:43. | |
lost trust in the authorities many years ago. It is worth considering | :19:44. | :19:47. | |
that some of these crimes happened for decades ago when vulnerable | :19:48. | :19:51. | |
children, put into the care of the state, became the victims of | :19:52. | :19:56. | |
sustained sexual abuse. In the following years they were silenced. | :19:57. | :19:59. | |
About 20 years ago an enquiry was held here, some 700 allegations were | :20:00. | :20:07. | |
looked into and many people were happy then but rumours persisted | :20:08. | :20:11. | |
that there may have been some people who evaded justice. Lady Justice | :20:12. | :20:16. | |
Macur has been through more than a million pages of evidence and she | :20:17. | :20:21. | |
says she is satisfied there was no cover-up, no national figure who got | :20:22. | :20:27. | |
away with it. But we are still left with some questions tonight, why is | :20:28. | :20:32. | |
it only in the last three years that some perpetrators have been brought | :20:33. | :20:37. | |
to court? Will some victims feel put off about coming forward to give | :20:38. | :20:43. | |
evidence? One thing is clear, this probably isn't the final chapter in | :20:44. | :20:45. | |
the story. Thank you. A brief look at some of the day's | :20:46. | :20:46. | |
other other news stories. Owners of dangerous dogs will face | :20:47. | :20:49. | |
harsher sentences if the animals have been deliberately | :20:50. | :20:52. | |
trained to be aggressive, under new sentencing guidelines | :20:53. | :20:53. | |
in England and Wales. The changes cover offences | :20:54. | :20:56. | |
in which a dog injures or kills a person, injures an assistance dog, | :20:57. | :21:00. | |
or where someone possesses Those found guilty could face | :21:01. | :21:03. | |
between six and 14 years in prison. College lecturers have been | :21:04. | :21:11. | |
on strike today across Scotland The EIS teaching union | :21:12. | :21:13. | |
said its members were taking the action as a last resort | :21:14. | :21:20. | |
following the failure of management to offer a fair deal and create | :21:21. | :21:22. | |
national pay scales for lecturers. Walk-outs are scheduled to continue | :21:23. | :21:29. | |
until the summer if no resolution The broadcasting veteran | :21:30. | :21:31. | |
Cliff Michelmore, who was familiar to audiences as far back | :21:32. | :21:37. | |
as the forties, has died We're going to meet, | :21:38. | :21:40. | |
among other people, a smoking dog called Butch and a horse-racing | :21:41. | :21:47. | |
butcher called Bacon. He was best known as host | :21:48. | :21:49. | |
of the current affairs programme Tonight, with a distinctive | :21:50. | :21:52. | |
and informal style. The director general of the BBC, | :21:53. | :21:56. | |
Tony Hall, has called him England's Grand Slam-deciding game | :21:57. | :21:59. | |
against France in the Six Nations Meanwhile, the Welsh Rugby union has | :22:00. | :22:18. | |
said it is disappointed that England prop Joe Marler has been cleared to | :22:19. | :22:22. | |
play despite a racial slur allegedly made against an opponent. Joe Marler | :22:23. | :22:27. | |
is on the bench but coach Eddie Jones has denied the decision was | :22:28. | :22:28. | |
made as punishment. Dan Roan's report contains | :22:29. | :22:30. | |
language that some viewers It is the incident that has | :22:31. | :22:40. | |
threatened to overshadow England's grand slam bid. When prop Joe Marler | :22:41. | :22:48. | |
was heard saying gypsy boy at Wells appointed Samson Lee last weekend, a | :22:49. | :22:52. | |
player who has been open about his traveller heritage than many | :22:53. | :22:57. | |
expected a ban but instead he escaped punishment and today the | :22:58. | :23:00. | |
Welsh Rugby union expressed their surprise, saying there was no place | :23:01. | :23:04. | |
for racist language in sport. We don't condone any sort of | :23:05. | :23:08. | |
determination, race, religion, sexuality. As an organisation I | :23:09. | :23:15. | |
think probably we slightly disagree with it. But that hasn't impressed | :23:16. | :23:21. | |
England coach Eddie Jones who hit back at what he sees as Welsh | :23:22. | :23:28. | |
inconsistency. If you look at the statements from Wales yesterday, | :23:29. | :23:35. | |
maybe they don't know about it. They clearly think it was a racist | :23:36. | :23:40. | |
comment? At one time they didn't yesterday but they do now. Do you | :23:41. | :23:45. | |
think it was a racist comment? I've said what I've had to say on that | :23:46. | :23:49. | |
topic. We have a grand slam in front of us. It is no wonder that coach | :23:50. | :23:54. | |
was the focus to be on the performance is on his side had swept | :23:55. | :23:57. | |
all before him and now only France in Paris stand in their way. It may | :23:58. | :24:02. | |
be hard to believe but less than six months ago England were at rock | :24:03. | :24:07. | |
bottom having crashed out of their very own World Cup here at | :24:08. | :24:11. | |
Twickenham after just three matches. That humiliation led to an internal | :24:12. | :24:16. | |
inquiry, the replacing of their captain and the sacking of head | :24:17. | :24:19. | |
coach Stuart Lancaster so how have they turned things around so | :24:20. | :24:24. | |
dramatically? We have been runners-up for the last four years. | :24:25. | :24:30. | |
Maybe it was a mental edge. Like I said that we have had those failures | :24:31. | :24:33. | |
in the past to drive us on to finally cracked it but until we win | :24:34. | :24:40. | |
this weekend, I'm not happy, I'm not resting. This was the last time | :24:41. | :24:44. | |
England won the grand slam, 2003, the same year they lifted the World | :24:45. | :24:47. | |
Cup but emulating that will take some doing. So far they have made | :24:48. | :24:49. | |
the perfect start. A bright meteor was sighted flashing | :24:50. | :24:51. | |
across the skies over the UK People reported seeing a bright | :24:52. | :24:54. | |
flash of blue or green light moving It's believed the spectacle | :24:55. | :25:00. | |
was caused by magnesium-white trail. Clouding of but it has been a | :25:01. | :25:17. | |
beautiful day for most, the warmest day of the year in the Highlands. | :25:18. | :25:25. | |
Not for everybody but we did see 19 degrees. Different in Aberdeen, only | :25:26. | :25:31. | |
eight and really quite cold, 5 degrees, a lot of coastal fog. There | :25:32. | :25:36. | |
were some lovely spells of sunshine for most of us today, a pleasant | :25:37. | :25:42. | |
spring afternoon. Things are set to change as we run through the night. | :25:43. | :25:47. | |
That cloud will creep steadily westwards through the night, | :25:48. | :25:53. | |
bringing low cloud and a spot of drizzle and coastal fog. Further | :25:54. | :26:00. | |
west, clearer skies, a touch of frost and mist and fog. It should | :26:01. | :26:04. | |
lift quickly and the best sunshine will be further west that it will be | :26:05. | :26:09. | |
a cold, grey, disappointing start for many tomorrow. And with the | :26:10. | :26:13. | |
strength of the wind on the coasts, it will feel disappointing. A lot of | :26:14. | :26:18. | |
low cloud around, but spot of drizzle on the cost. We might see | :26:19. | :26:25. | |
some breaks in the West and in Northern Ireland and West is best in | :26:26. | :26:29. | |
terms of the sunshine. As the day continues, some of the cloud will | :26:30. | :26:34. | |
creep further westwards so the sunshine state of the extreme west | :26:35. | :26:39. | |
with temperatures not as warm as today. We might scrape double | :26:40. | :26:44. | |
figures, across the north coast it will be a bit cooler and cloudier. | :26:45. | :26:49. | |
The high-pressure spreads to the west and keep things quiet but | :26:50. | :26:52. | |
cloudy and cold moving into the weekend. If you haven't already | :26:53. | :26:57. | |
heard, we keep the dry theme but there will be quite a bit of cloud | :26:58. | :26:59. | |
around and it will stay chilly. That's all from the BBC News at Six | :27:00. | :27:03. | |
so it's goodbye from me and on BBC One we now join the BBC's | :27:04. | :27:06. | |
news teams where you are. | :27:07. | :27:09. |