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Trouble in the Tory party - David Cameron hits back | :00:11. | :00:12. | |
after accusations that his policies risk dividing the country. | :00:13. | :00:14. | |
The Prime Minister rejects the accusations and defends his | :00:15. | :00:17. | |
Government's record in supporting the vulnerable. | :00:18. | :00:19. | |
We will continue with this approach in full because we are a modern, | :00:20. | :00:23. | |
compassionate, one nation Conservative Government - | :00:24. | :00:25. | |
and I commend this statement to the House. | :00:26. | :00:27. | |
In the last half hour the Government says there'll be no new savings | :00:28. | :00:30. | |
Guilty of manslaughter - Clayton Williams gets 20 years | :00:31. | :00:35. | |
His wife Jen speaks of the the public support she's received. | :00:36. | :00:46. | |
I feel completely overwhelmed by it all and it has helped me through | :00:47. | :00:49. | |
this terrible dark time. Allegations of a paedophile ring | :00:50. | :00:51. | |
at the heart of Westminster - now Scotland Yard shuts | :00:52. | :00:54. | |
down its investigation. America's man in Havana - | :00:55. | :00:55. | |
Barack Obama is the first sitting president to visit Cuba | :00:56. | :00:58. | |
for nearly a century. A row over equal pay in tennis - | :00:59. | :01:03. | |
Novak Djokovic says men deserve And coming up in the sport on BBC | :01:04. | :01:06. | |
News: There's a call-up | :01:07. | :01:12. | |
to the England squad for Burnley goalkeeper Tom Heaton | :01:13. | :01:15. | |
following injury to Joe Hart, ahead Good evening and welcome | :01:16. | :01:17. | |
to the BBC News at Six. David Cameron has given a robust | :01:18. | :01:46. | |
defence of his Government's record. It follows accusations | :01:47. | :01:50. | |
by Iain Duncan-Smith, who resigned as Work | :01:51. | :01:59. | |
and Pensions Secretary last Friday, that the Conservative | :02:00. | :02:01. | |
party's policies - and last week's budget in particular | :02:02. | :02:02. | |
- risked dividing the country. Mr Cameron hit back, | :02:03. | :02:05. | |
saying the Conservatives remained Here is our political editor Laura | :02:06. | :02:11. | |
Kuenssberg. Clearing up the mess sounds simple | :02:12. | :02:17. | |
but this is more than a one broom job. In the last 48 hours numbers | :02:18. | :02:23. | |
ten and 11 have been accused of putting the rich before the poor. | :02:24. | :02:28. | |
Letting down the most vulnerable for votes. Now the rows behind the black | :02:29. | :02:35. | |
door have brutally spilled out into public. David Cameron | :02:36. | :02:36. | |
door have brutally spilled out into under pressure like this. With his | :02:37. | :02:47. | |
government in trouble he was off to answer Iain Duncan-Smith back. He | :02:48. | :02:52. | |
chose not quite to kill Mr Duncan Smith with kindness, but showed some | :02:53. | :02:56. | |
respectful stop my Right Honourable friend contributed an enormous | :02:57. | :02:59. | |
amount of the work of this government. He can be proud of what | :03:00. | :03:04. | |
he achieved. But he rejected Iain Duncan-Smith's most stinging attack, | :03:05. | :03:07. | |
that the Government is running out of compassion. Will go on with our | :03:08. | :03:11. | |
plans to rebuild sink estates, help those with mental health conditions, | :03:12. | :03:16. | |
to extend our troubled families programme, to reform our prisons, | :03:17. | :03:19. | |
and to tackle discrimination for those whose life chances suffer | :03:20. | :03:23. | |
because of the colour of their skin. None of this would be possible if it | :03:24. | :03:27. | |
wasn't for the actions of this government and the work of my Right | :03:28. | :03:30. | |
Honourable friend the Chancellor in turning our economy around. Trying | :03:31. | :03:34. | |
to end with a flourish of his familiar promise. We are a modern, | :03:35. | :03:40. | |
compassionate, one nation Conservative government. Plenty of | :03:41. | :03:42. | |
noise but look at the backbenchers' body language, it doesn't admit Ali | :03:43. | :03:47. | |
transmit huge admiration. The ditching of planned changes to | :03:48. | :03:52. | |
disability benefits less than a week from the budget allowed Labour to | :03:53. | :03:56. | |
label the whole thing MS. The budget has a big hole in it and it's up to | :03:57. | :04:00. | |
the Prime Minister to persuade his great friend the Chancellor of the | :04:01. | :04:02. | |
Exchequer to either come here and explain the -- how he will fill that | :04:03. | :04:10. | |
hole or maybe he should consider his position. Jeremy Corbyn didn't even | :04:11. | :04:13. | |
mention the man who has done most damage. Iain Duncan-Smith was | :04:14. | :04:17. | |
nowhere to be seen at his home today, nor anywhere in Westminster. | :04:18. | :04:21. | |
In his absence though, others were willing to give the pressure up, | :04:22. | :04:25. | |
praising the man who walked out. May I warmly welcome my Right Honourable | :04:26. | :04:28. | |
friend's generous comments about my Right Honourable friend the member | :04:29. | :04:32. | |
for Chingford who is so widely respected on these benches. The | :04:33. | :04:34. | |
British people will not take kindly to the idea that we must cut | :04:35. | :04:38. | |
benefits to vulnerable people in order to hand over every penny to | :04:39. | :04:46. | |
the EU. There was nothing like open revolt against the Prime Minister | :04:47. | :04:48. | |
but don't mistake that for overwhelming support. Secretary | :04:49. | :04:54. | |
Stephen Crabb. But spare a thought for the new Work and Pensions | :04:55. | :04:56. | |
Secretary Stephen Crabb, taking to his feet after a torrid few days, | :04:57. | :05:00. | |
confirming that controversial changes to disability payments won't | :05:01. | :05:03. | |
go ahead, and promising no extra cuts to welfare. So I can also | :05:04. | :05:08. | |
confirm that after discussing this issue over the weekend with my Right | :05:09. | :05:12. | |
Honourable friend is the Prime Minister and the Chancellor, we have | :05:13. | :05:15. | |
no further plans to make welfare savings beyond the very substantial | :05:16. | :05:18. | |
savings legislated for by Parliament two weeks ago which we will focus on | :05:19. | :05:23. | |
plummeting. This leaves a question over the middle of the budget, the | :05:24. | :05:27. | |
set of numbers that is meant to shape how the government spends and | :05:28. | :05:30. | |
saves, but as David Cameron has found to his cost in the last couple | :05:31. | :05:35. | |
of days not everything is in his control. Laura Kuenssberg, News, | :05:36. | :05:36. | |
Westminster. So at the heart of this row lies | :05:37. | :05:38. | |
the accusation that in last week's budget the better off in society | :05:39. | :05:42. | |
gained while the vulnerable Our economics editor Kamal Ahmed | :05:43. | :05:44. | |
is here with his assessment. Two big issues rolled up | :05:45. | :05:49. | |
to George Osborne's front door today - the major allegation | :05:50. | :05:55. | |
from Iain Duncan-Smith that his Budget of last | :05:56. | :05:58. | |
week simply wasn't fair. And that the ditching of disability | :05:59. | :06:05. | |
payment savings could leave a large black hole in the Chancellor's | :06:06. | :06:07. | |
Budget calculations. Let's consider that | :06:08. | :06:09. | |
fairness issue first. If we look at how people | :06:10. | :06:11. | |
are affected by the tax changes last week, this graph shows | :06:12. | :06:14. | |
the difference between the richest The poorest 10% are no better off | :06:15. | :06:16. | |
according to the Institute They will see their household income | :06:17. | :06:20. | |
increase by around ?268 a year. Critics may say that is unfair, | :06:21. | :06:36. | |
but the change should be seen in the context of | :06:37. | :06:39. | |
the broader economy. This budget did very little | :06:40. | :06:40. | |
to the distribution of income. It gave away a little bit | :06:41. | :06:43. | |
of money to income tax If you look over the longer | :06:44. | :06:46. | |
period we have seen significant takeaways from people | :06:47. | :06:52. | |
of working age on benefits, as promised by the | :06:53. | :06:54. | |
Conservative manifesto. And very significant takeaways | :06:55. | :06:57. | |
from people right at the top People in the middle | :06:58. | :06:59. | |
remarkably unaffected. The Treasury looks at the issue | :07:00. | :07:08. | |
of fairness differently. It analyses the total | :07:09. | :07:15. | |
tax paid and the amount In 2010 - the richest fifth | :07:16. | :07:17. | |
of all households paid 49% Whereas the poorest | :07:18. | :07:27. | |
fifth paid around 6%. After six years of austerity, | :07:28. | :07:37. | |
the proportion of tax paid by the richest fifth | :07:38. | :07:40. | |
has risen to 52%. the cuts have have been handled | :07:41. | :07:42. | |
fairly. Finally, let's look at that issue | :07:43. | :07:47. | |
of the dreaded "fiscal black hole" Delaying the personal independence | :07:48. | :07:50. | |
payment reforms for disabled people could cost the Government around | :07:51. | :07:54. | |
?1.3 billion by 2020. But consider - by then | :07:55. | :07:59. | |
the Government will be spending ?810 billion a year | :08:00. | :08:08. | |
on public services - so ?1.3 billion is relatively small | :08:09. | :08:14. | |
change. It could easily be paid | :08:15. | :08:16. | |
for by better economic growth And we won't know about that | :08:17. | :08:18. | |
until the Autumn Statement towards the end of this year - | :08:19. | :08:22. | |
when my Treasury sources tell me any new areas for cuts - | :08:23. | :08:26. | |
if needed - will be made clear. And we can speak to our political | :08:27. | :08:33. | |
editor Laura Kuenssberg Laura, that commitment on welfare | :08:34. | :08:45. | |
savings made in the last half an hour or so, how significant is that? | :08:46. | :08:50. | |
It is a big promise. In the last couple of days the Conservative | :08:51. | :08:53. | |
Party have had a dreadful time, one minister described it as being on a | :08:54. | :08:58. | |
kamikaze mission. The announcement from the brand-new Secretary of | :08:59. | :09:02. | |
State for work and Stephen Crabb, doesn't just mean those | :09:03. | :09:04. | |
controversial changes to payments for disabled people have been | :09:05. | :09:08. | |
junked, it would also mean, as he said, that there will be no new | :09:09. | :09:11. | |
welfare cuts through the course of this Parliament right up until 2020. | :09:12. | :09:15. | |
For many people around the country there have already been significant | :09:16. | :09:20. | |
benefit cuts, billions have come out of the budget and we should not | :09:21. | :09:24. | |
forget that fact. But this is a big promise to make at a time when money | :09:25. | :09:28. | |
is tight and when the Government is publicly very committed to hitting | :09:29. | :09:33. | |
their targets to get rid of the deficit. Making a big promise like | :09:34. | :09:36. | |
this suggests either lots of money is going to have to be saved from | :09:37. | :09:40. | |
elsewhere, or the government might have to forget about their targets, | :09:41. | :09:44. | |
or they are just praying that the economy picks up and gets much | :09:45. | :09:48. | |
better and better and suddenly taxes come flooding in from elsewhere that | :09:49. | :09:53. | |
they hadn't been anticipating. One irony, of course, that is probably | :09:54. | :09:56. | |
the announcement Iain Duncan-Smith himself would dearly love to make. | :09:57. | :10:01. | |
He might have had to resign to do it but it seems he has got his way. | :10:02. | :10:03. | |
Laura, thank you very much. A teenager who killed a police | :10:04. | :10:06. | |
officer in Merseyside by knocking him down in a stolen car | :10:07. | :10:08. | |
has been cleared of murder Clayton Williams killed PC | :10:09. | :10:11. | |
Dave Philips last October when the officer attempted to stop | :10:12. | :10:14. | |
the vehicle during RADIO: Can we have patrols | :10:15. | :10:16. | |
out with stop sticks? REPORTER: The final moments of PC | :10:17. | :10:31. | |
Dave Phillips' life. A chaotic chase recorded | :10:32. | :10:35. | |
on a police camera. Through red lights, | :10:36. | :10:39. | |
the stolen red truck Crouching down, you can see | :10:40. | :10:41. | |
the officer, he waits Seconds later the car | :10:42. | :10:54. | |
veers right then left. Dave Phillips, the court heard, | :10:55. | :11:02. | |
had no chance to survive. with two children, | :11:03. | :11:09. | |
Abigail and Sophie. Sat next to him, held his hand, | :11:10. | :11:19. | |
I was quietly asking him to fight, saying, "Come on, | :11:20. | :11:22. | |
Dave, do this for me, Today his widow and | :11:23. | :11:24. | |
sister wanted everyone He's not just a man in a uniform, | :11:25. | :11:27. | |
he's a father, he's a husband, he's a brother, he's | :11:28. | :11:33. | |
a son, he's just doing My daddy is kind | :11:34. | :11:35. | |
and caring because he She's got a little worry | :11:36. | :11:38. | |
Teddy, she puts a little worry in it and most of the worries | :11:39. | :11:50. | |
is that she's going to lose me. It was Clayton Williams | :11:51. | :11:54. | |
who so cruelly A cannabis addict, | :11:55. | :11:55. | |
convicted car thief. After his arrest, while a family | :11:56. | :12:03. | |
grieved, he grinned for the camera. What he did was | :12:04. | :12:06. | |
described as ruthless. Clayton Williams said it was pitch | :12:07. | :12:10. | |
black and that he was panicking. He said he never saw PC Phillips | :12:11. | :12:13. | |
until the final moment. for PC Phillips' funeral thousands | :12:14. | :12:16. | |
came, a parade of black, Constable 6554 Dave Phillips came | :12:17. | :12:28. | |
into the police from the community Respected, caring, everything | :12:29. | :12:34. | |
you would want a bobby to be. For what he did, Clayton Williams | :12:35. | :12:41. | |
was given 20 years In court PC Phillips' widow told him | :12:42. | :12:44. | |
directly that they were living in hell, serving a sentence | :12:45. | :12:55. | |
that will never end. The Metropolitan Police has | :12:56. | :12:57. | |
said its investigation into claims of a Westminster paedophile ring - | :12:58. | :13:00. | |
Operation Midland - Scotland Yard also confirmed | :13:01. | :13:02. | |
that the former Conservative MP Harvey Proctor will not be | :13:03. | :13:08. | |
prosecuted over historic Tom Symonds reports on controversial | :13:09. | :13:10. | |
investigation that raised questions He was accused of horrifying crimes, | :13:11. | :13:27. | |
he lived under suspicion for a year, now he's been cleared. Last year | :13:28. | :13:32. | |
when Harvey Proctor was named as an abuser and murderer he came out | :13:33. | :13:36. | |
fighting. I am completely innocent of all these allegations. I am a | :13:37. | :13:50. | |
homosexual, I am not a murderer, I am not a paedophile. His accuser, | :13:51. | :13:58. | |
Nick, in his 40s told police three boys were murdered and others abused | :13:59. | :14:01. | |
at locations including the Dolphin Square apartments, the Carlton club, | :14:02. | :14:06. | |
and even this abandoned village to used by the military on Salisbury | :14:07. | :14:12. | |
Plain. Nick named a string of establishment diggers including | :14:13. | :14:15. | |
former prime ministers Sir Edward Heath, former Home Secretary Lord | :14:16. | :14:19. | |
Brittan and Labour peer Lord Janner. The net closed the inquiry today | :14:20. | :14:23. | |
finding insufficient evidence to allow prosecutors even to consider | :14:24. | :14:28. | |
charges. But Scotland Yard strongly defended itself. The Met can't | :14:29. | :14:31. | |
apologise for investigating serious allegations of crime. It's right we | :14:32. | :14:35. | |
do that, it's right we follow the evidence without fear or favour and | :14:36. | :14:37. | |
reach a conclusion on what the evidence tells us. I do regret if | :14:38. | :14:42. | |
anyone has been distressed by this investigation, but it was right the | :14:43. | :14:45. | |
investigation took place. Harvey Proctor today called for the | :14:46. | :14:49. | |
resignations of the Met Commissioner Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe and other | :14:50. | :14:53. | |
senior officers. For a public inquiry and for Nick to be | :14:54. | :14:56. | |
prosecuted. The only other person Nick accused who is still alive was | :14:57. | :15:01. | |
Field Marshal Lord Bramall, one of Britain's most distinguished | :15:02. | :15:04. | |
soldiers. Today in his first television interview he told the BBC | :15:05. | :15:07. | |
the police inquiry should have focused not on him but on Nick. I've | :15:08. | :15:11. | |
never complained about being investigated. Only be heavy-handed | :15:12. | :15:18. | |
and very unintelligent way that they went about it. I think they could | :15:19. | :15:24. | |
have said, look, if they had taken any trouble to put their effort onto | :15:25. | :15:30. | |
questioning the so-called victim, I think they would have found that it | :15:31. | :15:35. | |
was very unlikely. Instead detectives reached this early | :15:36. | :15:44. | |
conclusion. We believe what Nick is saying is credible and true. The Met | :15:45. | :15:48. | |
has since withdrawn that statement, though police today said no evidence | :15:49. | :15:50. | |
had been found that Nick misled them. But there are things he has | :15:51. | :15:56. | |
not been able to explain. How could such prominent men, their lives | :15:57. | :15:59. | |
carefully controlled, have got away with it? How could a boy suffered so | :16:00. | :16:03. | |
badly with no one, not least his mother, raising the alarm? And if it | :16:04. | :16:08. | |
went on for so long, involved so many, then where are the witnesses? | :16:09. | :16:14. | |
There is one outstanding line of inquiry. One of the boys Nick said | :16:15. | :16:19. | |
was murdered resembled Martin Allan, missing since 1979, and so now a new | :16:20. | :16:24. | |
inquiry will begin, its task to explain Martin's unsolved | :16:25. | :16:26. | |
disappearance. Tom Symons, BBC News. The Prime Minister has hit back | :16:27. | :16:30. | |
at accusations from the former Work and Pensions Secretary that | :16:31. | :16:38. | |
government policy risks And still to come: Full speed ahead | :16:39. | :16:39. | |
for Britain's sailors bidding England could play three spinners | :16:40. | :16:46. | |
in their World Twenty20 match with Afghanistan in Delhi | :16:47. | :16:55. | |
on Wednesday, with conditions President Obama has begun his three | :16:56. | :16:56. | |
day visit to Cuba, the first sitting US president to visit the island | :16:57. | :17:15. | |
for almost 90 years, Speaking at the reopened | :17:16. | :17:17. | |
US embassy in Havana, He has been holding talks with the | :17:18. | :17:22. | |
Cuban president. Our North America | :17:23. | :17:30. | |
Editor is in Havana. The two men have just started a news | :17:31. | :17:38. | |
conference with a difference in the sense that the Cuban side are saying | :17:39. | :17:43. | |
they are not going to take questions whereas the Americans do want | :17:44. | :17:48. | |
questions. It will reveal how far the two men have travelled together | :17:49. | :17:53. | |
but also fundamental differences, and Castro has said there will be | :17:54. | :17:56. | |
differences that will never be breached. | :17:57. | :17:58. | |
Somewhere under the canopy of umbrellas is the President | :17:59. | :18:01. | |
of the United States, the first Lady and | :18:02. | :18:02. | |
This was meant to be a walkabout to meet the people, | :18:03. | :18:06. | |
A glimpse of them was caught as they entered the National | :18:07. | :18:10. | |
Then he spoke to an American network. | :18:11. | :18:13. | |
Obviously our intention has always been to get a ball rolling, | :18:14. | :18:19. | |
knowing that change was not going to happen overnight, | :18:20. | :18:27. | |
although we still have significant differences around human rights | :18:28. | :18:31. | |
and individual liberties inside of Cuba, | :18:32. | :18:35. | |
we felt coming now would maximise our ability to prompt more change. | :18:36. | :18:42. | |
It is going to be anything but plain sailing. | :18:43. | :18:45. | |
Then may only be 90 miles from here to the US coast | :18:46. | :18:48. | |
but there is still a gulf on a range of | :18:49. | :18:51. | |
This is not quite the weather that the White House had anticipated | :18:52. | :18:57. | |
when they said they would come to Cuba. | :18:58. | :18:59. | |
The atmospherics remain extremely difficult. | :19:00. | :19:00. | |
Administration officials say there are still big disagreements | :19:01. | :19:04. | |
between the two sides that have not been | :19:05. | :19:06. | |
Not that that was on show as the two presidents stood to attention | :19:07. | :19:15. | |
while a Cuban military band played the US national anthem, | :19:16. | :19:24. | |
With the ceremony over there was much to discuss. | :19:25. | :19:27. | |
The US wanting to talk about human rights and freedom of expression. | :19:28. | :19:30. | |
The Cubans saying they are going to take no lectures from the US | :19:31. | :19:36. | |
Big differences, yes, but in a relationship that has been | :19:37. | :19:38. | |
This is also about President Obama's legacy. | :19:39. | :19:46. | |
with Cuba, he will claim, is a foreign policy | :19:47. | :19:49. | |
That is why these images will be for the scrapbook. | :19:50. | :20:02. | |
A four-month-old baby is the only survivor of a tragic accident | :20:03. | :20:07. | |
in which a car slid on a pier and into the sea | :20:08. | :20:11. | |
Five people, including three other children, | :20:12. | :20:12. | |
were found dead when the emergency services arrived at the scene | :20:13. | :20:15. | |
Here's our Ireland Correspondent Chris Buckler. | :20:16. | :20:25. | |
At the edge of the ocean, tributes are being laid for people | :20:26. | :20:28. | |
who died in it. those who have come to | :20:29. | :20:33. | |
looking out to where five people drowned in their car when it was | :20:34. | :20:41. | |
pulled out to sea. The only survivor was a four-month-old baby who was | :20:42. | :20:42. | |
passed out of a car was a four-month-old baby who was | :20:43. | :20:46. | |
who jumped into the water. He must have been able | :20:47. | :20:54. | |
to keep his head above the water. Ruth Daniels had come to Donegal on | :20:55. | :21:03. | |
the goings-on in the car Ruth Daniels had come to Donegal on | :21:04. | :21:18. | |
a family day out with her teenage daughter. They died alongside her | :21:19. | :21:30. | |
other daughter is and sons. An oh Drake family man, love for those two | :21:31. | :21:32. | |
kits, his wife, those children. trying to turn the car here run a | :21:33. | :21:42. | |
slipway next to the pier but went too far down and because of the | :21:43. | :21:46. | |
algae at the bottom of the slipway the car slid into the water. | :21:47. | :21:53. | |
You are trained for this but nothing prepares you for this. | :21:54. | :21:55. | |
A lot of the crew have young families and that | :21:56. | :21:58. | |
was probably an experience that is going through their heads | :21:59. | :22:00. | |
Parents have been bringing their children to the peer to lay flowers. | :22:01. | :22:08. | |
There are thoughts with another family who have suffered unspeakable | :22:09. | :22:09. | |
heartbreak. The world number one Novak Djokovic | :22:10. | :22:17. | |
has weighed into the controversial issue of prize money | :22:18. | :22:19. | |
in tennis competitions, by saying male players should earn | :22:20. | :22:21. | |
more money than their female counterparts because more | :22:22. | :22:24. | |
people watch them play. His comments followed claims | :22:25. | :22:25. | |
by a tournament organiser that the women's game rides | :22:26. | :22:27. | |
on the coat-tails of the men. Here's our Sports | :22:28. | :22:30. | |
Correspondent Andy Swiss. Two champions, same prize money. | :22:31. | :22:39. | |
When Novak Djokovic and Serena Williams won Wimbledon both took | :22:40. | :22:44. | |
home ?1.9 million but suddenly that equality is being questioned as | :22:45. | :22:50. | |
William is lost at the weekend the tournament organiser described the | :22:51. | :22:54. | |
woman's game in less than flattering terms. They ride on the coat-tails | :22:55. | :23:02. | |
of men. They are very lucky. If I was a leading player I would go down | :23:03. | :23:08. | |
every night on my knees and thank God that Roger Federer and Rafael | :23:09. | :23:14. | |
Nadal were born because they have carried the sport. Novak Djokovic | :23:15. | :23:19. | |
said women players had fought for what they deserved but... Our men's | :23:20. | :23:26. | |
tennis world should fight for more because statistics show we have much | :23:27. | :23:30. | |
more spectators in men's tennis matches. Men's tennis generally | :23:31. | :23:38. | |
attracts more TV viewers. Last year 9.2 William watched the men's final | :23:39. | :23:43. | |
at Wimbledon compared to 4.3 million for the women's final. The WTA says | :23:44. | :23:49. | |
women's tennis attracts the hundred 95 million viewers around the world. | :23:50. | :23:55. | |
It has produced some of the biggest stars in women's sport. The biggest | :23:56. | :24:01. | |
of all has hit back. I think those remarks are very much mistaken and | :24:02. | :24:14. | |
very inaccurate. Williams's final last year sold out quicker than the | :24:15. | :24:19. | |
men's final. Some believe that the game has never been stronger. Brands | :24:20. | :24:28. | |
are showing around women's sport. There has been more investment and | :24:29. | :24:32. | |
interest in women's sport in the last year or two than ever. For now | :24:33. | :24:39. | |
this traditionally genteel sport is looking increasingly divided. The | :24:40. | :24:42. | |
question of equality is proving one of controversy. | :24:43. | :24:46. | |
British hopes of winning the oldest trophy in international sport | :24:47. | :24:48. | |
Work has begun on building the catamaran that the Olympian Sir | :24:49. | :24:53. | |
Ben Ainslie believes will bring the America's Cup home | :24:54. | :24:57. | |
to Britain for the first time in its 165 year history. | :24:58. | :24:59. | |
This is what you get when you cross a boat with a plane. | :25:00. | :25:08. | |
But this is only the British team's training | :25:09. | :25:14. | |
The actual race boat is being built in secret here in Hampshire. | :25:15. | :25:25. | |
This is the first time the catamaran has been seen in public. | :25:26. | :25:29. | |
They are starting with the hulls, where layers of composites | :25:30. | :25:31. | |
We would kind of like to be the Mary Berry of boat-building, | :25:32. | :25:44. | |
and not sort of a first-round loser in the bake-off. | :25:45. | :25:46. | |
The race boat won't be finished for months, | :25:47. | :25:49. | |
so for now Sir Ben Ainslie's team is using training | :25:50. | :25:52. | |
This is team two and we are already heading towards 40-50 mph | :25:53. | :26:01. | |
The actual race boat that we've seen will be going at something | :26:02. | :26:06. | |
No one was hurt but it shows the challenges all the teams | :26:07. | :26:18. | |
It's the Everest of sailing, if you like, for us. | :26:19. | :26:21. | |
We've got a fantastic campaign now for the | :26:22. | :26:25. | |
next 12 months building up to Bermuda. | :26:26. | :26:31. | |
As I said, if we can reach our targets we have set | :26:32. | :26:34. | |
in each of the key areas then I think we can | :26:35. | :26:37. | |
Last month Sir Ben's team won the latest warm up round in Oman. | :26:38. | :26:41. | |
But it's Bermuda next year that counts. | :26:42. | :26:43. | |
Could the competition for this silverware finally bring Britain's | :26:44. | :26:45. | |
Duncan Kennedy, BBC News, Portsmouth. | :26:46. | :26:52. | |
It was a mixed bag today. Some of us saw lovely spells of sunshine. A | :26:53. | :27:09. | |
lovely view across the North Sea. A lot of us did not see any sunshine. | :27:10. | :27:16. | |
Some of us stayed under the cloud. This is in northern Scotland. A | :27:17. | :27:21. | |
little bit of rain to go with that. Still breezy. Elsewhere, dry. West | :27:22. | :27:27. | |
is more likely to see cloud. Under clear skies and light wind | :27:28. | :27:31. | |
temperatures drop away. Rural spots will call colder. Northern Scotland | :27:32. | :27:40. | |
still breezy, the occasional spot of rain. Edinburgh should be dry with | :27:41. | :27:48. | |
sunshine. More cloudy in Glasgow. The western side still fairly cloudy | :27:49. | :27:54. | |
but there will be some breaks. Chilly with those breaks. Some mist | :27:55. | :27:59. | |
and fog. Good spells of sunshine for eastern areas away from the mist and | :28:00. | :28:04. | |
fog which should not last long. Cloud increasing as we go into late | :28:05. | :28:08. | |
morning and afternoon but some spells of sunshine through eastern | :28:09. | :28:10. | |
Scotland and southern and eastern parts of England. The winds are late | :28:11. | :28:16. | |
for most places. It should feel pleasant enough but under the cloud | :28:17. | :28:24. | |
it will be at or 9 degrees. Similar on Wednesday. Not much rain. The | :28:25. | :28:29. | |
occasional spot of Brazil. Some showers in the north-west but most | :28:30. | :28:34. | |
places will be dry. This weather front moves away to be replaced by a | :28:35. | :28:39. | |
more active system on Thursday. It is going to be turning increasingly | :28:40. | :28:40. | |
wet and windy. That's all from the BBC News at Six | :28:41. | :28:44. | |
so it's goodbye from me | :28:45. | :28:46. |