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Nigeria's president hits back after David Cameron's | :00:00. | :00:07. | |
No need to say sorry - just give back the cash | :00:08. | :00:14. | |
hidden in British banks - that's his message. | :00:15. | :00:18. | |
I am not going to demand any apology from anybody. | :00:19. | :00:23. | |
We'll be looking at Watmore Britain could do. | :00:24. | :00:38. | |
A new warning about terror attacks linked to Northern Ireland - | :00:39. | :00:43. | |
Republican dissidents could target the rest of UK. | :00:44. | :00:45. | |
The EU referendum - Gordon Brown makes the case | :00:46. | :00:47. | |
to remain and Boris Johnson takes the Leave battle bus to Cornwall. | :00:48. | :00:50. | |
Alma Waller died after being repeatedly being sent | :00:51. | :00:53. | |
home from hospital - a damning report on the care | :00:54. | :00:55. | |
She was sent home time and time again like she was just in the way. | :00:56. | :01:05. | |
The Cumbrian road washed away by Storm Desmond - | :01:06. | :01:06. | |
five months on and it's open for business again. | :01:07. | :01:11. | |
And coming up in the sport on BBC News England's Danny Welbeck | :01:12. | :01:14. | |
The Arsenal forward will be out for nine months | :01:15. | :01:17. | |
Good evening and welcome to the BBC News at Six. | :01:18. | :01:45. | |
Less than a day after David Cameron described Nigeria as "fantastically | :01:46. | :01:49. | |
corrupt" the country's president has challenged the prime minister - | :01:50. | :01:52. | |
telling him it was time Britain did more to solve the problem. | :01:53. | :01:56. | |
Mr Muhammadu Buhari wants Britain to hand back billions of pounds | :01:57. | :01:59. | |
in stolen assets that have been hidden here by corrupt | :02:00. | :02:01. | |
Our Diplomatic Correspondent James Landale reports. | :02:02. | :02:07. | |
Mr President, has David Cameron insulted Nigeria? | :02:08. | :02:11. | |
These were the questions the Nigerian president faced | :02:12. | :02:14. | |
as he arrived at a Commonwealth conference in London this morning. | :02:15. | :02:17. | |
Only hours after David Cameron described his country | :02:18. | :02:27. | |
So what did the president think of that? | :02:28. | :02:33. | |
He agreed Nigeria was corrupt but said an apology | :02:34. | :02:35. | |
I'm not going to demand any apology from anybody. | :02:36. | :02:41. | |
What I'm demanding is the return of assets. | :02:42. | :02:44. | |
Assets worth billions of pounds, corruptly | :02:45. | :02:52. | |
obtained in Nigeria, that have ended up in British | :02:53. | :02:55. | |
People here say that you tackle corruption by building trust amongst | :02:56. | :03:08. | |
They question whether Mr Cameron's comments have made that | :03:09. | :03:22. | |
The anger amongst the Nigerian delegation is palpable. | :03:23. | :03:25. | |
What we expect from the UK is partnership and not condemnation. | :03:26. | :03:28. | |
We also expect David Cameron, in his statement yesterday, | :03:29. | :03:30. | |
to appreciate the efforts by the federal government of Nigeria | :03:31. | :03:32. | |
in tackling corruption and repositioning Nigeria | :03:33. | :03:34. | |
by bringing back our long lost reputation. | :03:35. | :03:36. | |
President Buhari was elected promising to tackle | :03:37. | :03:38. | |
the corruption that is part of everyday life in Nigeria. | :03:39. | :03:42. | |
From the small bribes to the jaw-dropping sums that have | :03:43. | :03:45. | |
Scandals he hopes to end by arresting officials and making | :03:46. | :03:52. | |
the state more transparent and clawing back | :03:53. | :03:54. | |
In the Commons, the Prime Minister joked | :03:55. | :04:01. | |
about his undiplomatic comments which he admitted | :04:02. | :04:02. | |
First of all, I better check the microphone | :04:03. | :04:07. | |
He sought to mend fences by praising what he called the remarkable steps | :04:08. | :04:13. | |
forward Nigeria had made in fighting corruption. | :04:14. | :04:15. | |
But he came under pressure to deal with it at home, as well. | :04:16. | :04:19. | |
Has the Prime Minister read the appeals from Nigerian | :04:20. | :04:24. | |
campaigners who say that, "Our efforts are sadly undermined | :04:25. | :04:28. | |
if countries such as your own are welcoming our corrupt | :04:29. | :04:31. | |
to hide their ill gotten gains in your luxury homes, | :04:32. | :04:35. | |
department stores, car dealerships, private schools and anywhere else | :04:36. | :04:39. | |
that will accept their cash with no questions asked". | :04:40. | :04:41. | |
Mr Cameron accepted that Britain had a role to play. | :04:42. | :04:46. | |
One of the steps we are taking to make sure that foreign companies | :04:47. | :04:52. | |
that own UK property have to declare who the beneficial owner is will be | :04:53. | :04:55. | |
one of the ways we make sure that plundered money | :04:56. | :04:57. | |
from African countries cannot be hidden in London. | :04:58. | :04:59. | |
Tomorrow many of these delegates will attend the Prime Minister's | :05:00. | :05:02. | |
They are looking for concrete action, not just warm words, | :05:03. | :05:07. | |
particularly on opening up Britain's dependent territories. | :05:08. | :05:14. | |
A spokesman for the Chinese government has insisted that last | :05:15. | :05:17. | |
autumn's state visit to Britain was very successful - | :05:18. | :05:20. | |
that's after the Queen was recorded yesterday saying that Chinese | :05:21. | :05:25. | |
officials had been "very rude" when the trip was being planned. | :05:26. | :05:32. | |
When the Queen's remarks were reported on BBC | :05:33. | :05:35. | |
World, the broadcast was blacked out in China. | :05:36. | :05:37. | |
Buckingham Palace says it doesn't comment on the Queen's | :05:38. | :05:39. | |
Our Royal Correspondent Peter Hunt is at Buckingham Palace | :05:40. | :05:44. | |
I wonder how damaging this episode has been? It has been damaging | :05:45. | :05:58. | |
because this was a rare insight into the Queen's thinking, her views on | :05:59. | :06:01. | |
the rudeness of some Chinese officials would have been aired in | :06:02. | :06:05. | |
private normally, not in public. We are talking about them because | :06:06. | :06:10. | |
they've recorded by a cameraman who was employed to film the Queen, she | :06:11. | :06:14. | |
plays a key role as part of the British government's soft diplomacy | :06:15. | :06:20. | |
armoury. Remember her historic visit to Ireland in 2011? She's meant to | :06:21. | :06:27. | |
soothe and not ruffle feathers, and there will be relief in the palace | :06:28. | :06:31. | |
that the Chinese have not taken umbrage, and all sides have been | :06:32. | :06:34. | |
stressing has accessible the state visit was last year. This is a rare | :06:35. | :06:39. | |
insight, it would always be a rare insight, because the Queen will be | :06:40. | :06:45. | |
ever more wary of broadcasters with cameras. Thanks. | :06:46. | :06:49. | |
The threat level from Northern Ireland-related terrorism | :06:50. | :06:51. | |
in Great Britain has been raised, from "moderate" to "substantial". | :06:52. | :06:53. | |
It means an attack in England, Wales or Scotland is a strong possibility. | :06:54. | :07:00. | |
The Home Secretary Theresa May said it reflects the continuing threat | :07:01. | :07:03. | |
Our Ireland Correspondent Chris Buckler has the latest for us | :07:04. | :07:06. | |
It was only a matter of weeks ago that here in Belfast senior police | :07:07. | :07:15. | |
officers laid out in the starkest terms that dissident republicans | :07:16. | :07:18. | |
were going to try and attempt to kill security force members. It | :07:19. | :07:22. | |
seems their fears and concerns are now spreading, from Northern Ireland | :07:23. | :07:25. | |
to England, Scotland and Wales. The threat of violence has never | :07:26. | :07:36. | |
left the streets of Northern Ireland, dissident republicans were | :07:37. | :07:38. | |
responsible for the death of a prison officer a few weeks ago. He | :07:39. | :07:44. | |
was blown up as he drove to work. There have been other attacks linked | :07:45. | :07:49. | |
to republican paramilitaries. And other attempts to kill. If anything, | :07:50. | :07:55. | |
the concern seems to have grown. That is not just true in Northern | :07:56. | :07:59. | |
Ireland, but fears are also rising that dissidents could take their | :08:00. | :08:02. | |
campaign of violence to other parts of the UK. We've seen the murderous | :08:03. | :08:08. | |
capability of dissident republicans in Northern Ireland and I suspect | :08:09. | :08:12. | |
this change of threat level indicates a rise in their capacity | :08:13. | :08:15. | |
and capability in mainland Great Britain and that should cause | :08:16. | :08:21. | |
concern. The threat level for international terrorism is at | :08:22. | :08:24. | |
severe, meaning an attack is highly likely. But Northern Ireland related | :08:25. | :08:30. | |
terrorism is classified separately by the security services and in | :08:31. | :08:33. | |
Northern Ireland that threat level is also severe. But MI5 had lowered | :08:34. | :08:39. | |
the threat from Irish dissidents on mainland Britain to moderate, | :08:40. | :08:42. | |
meaning an attack was possible but not likely. Today they change that, | :08:43. | :08:47. | |
raising the level to substantial, which means they believe an attack | :08:48. | :08:55. | |
is a strong possibility. It is 15 years since there was a serious | :08:56. | :08:58. | |
campaign of violence by Republicans in England. In 2001 there were | :08:59. | :09:03. | |
attacks in London and Birmingham. This former Deputy Chief Constable | :09:04. | :09:09. | |
says there are indications that dissidents have access to | :09:10. | :09:14. | |
explosives. They have deployed undercard booby-traps, which will | :09:15. | :09:21. | |
made from Semtex, and they have shown more sophisticated types and | :09:22. | :09:26. | |
the frequency of attacks they have mounted and the police. Senior | :09:27. | :09:30. | |
officers had warned that distance were planning attacks to coincide | :09:31. | :09:33. | |
with the centenary of the Easter Rising. -- that dissidents. And they | :09:34. | :09:40. | |
are worried in particular about one group, known as the new IRA. The | :09:41. | :09:47. | |
threat from Isis and Al-Qaeda is much higher on the mainland, but | :09:48. | :09:51. | |
this takes away some resources to focus on the threat from the IRA. | :09:52. | :09:57. | |
The threat has never gone away. The rising of the threat level means | :09:58. | :10:00. | |
forces across the UK must now be on alert. | :10:01. | :10:08. | |
Both sides in the EU referendum debate have stepped | :10:09. | :10:10. | |
Boris Johnson has launched the Vote Leave campaign's | :10:11. | :10:14. | |
For the remain side, former Prime Minister Gordon Brown | :10:15. | :10:16. | |
has made his first major intervention - claiming | :10:17. | :10:19. | |
In a moment we'll hear from our Political Editor Laura | :10:20. | :10:22. | |
Kuenssberg who's been speaking to Gordon Brown, | :10:23. | :10:24. | |
but first our Deputy Political Editor John Pienaar reports | :10:25. | :10:26. | |
Just imagine you're Boris Johnson in front of a crowd that loves you, | :10:27. | :10:44. | |
or think they do, and a big message from the Leave | :10:45. | :10:46. | |
campaign's most famous face - vote to quit the EU. | :10:47. | :10:49. | |
Thank you for coming along, everybody. | :10:50. | :10:50. | |
It doesn't look too stage-managed, but it is. | :10:51. | :10:54. | |
Try to raise a pro-EU anti-Tory poster and see what happens. | :10:55. | :10:57. | |
You will be coming out on June the 23rd? | :10:58. | :11:00. | |
This stuff's the staple diet of a big campaign. | :11:01. | :11:08. | |
No prop is too corny, even an EU protected pasty. | :11:09. | :11:12. | |
Not always, not everywhere, but Boris Johnson is box office. | :11:13. | :11:15. | |
What people want most, though, are facts, objective truth, | :11:16. | :11:17. | |
Sometimes those beautifully crafted sound bites and slogans can come | :11:18. | :11:24. | |
Back on the campaign bus, German-made, by the way, | :11:25. | :11:32. | |
he flatly denied a leave vote would hit the pound | :11:33. | :11:34. | |
People would like an answer, a straight one if possible. | :11:35. | :11:39. | |
Are you saying there would be no reaction on the markets? | :11:40. | :11:42. | |
I think there could be a very positive reaction. | :11:43. | :11:45. | |
Do you think the pound would not fall as it has in the past | :11:46. | :11:48. | |
People said the pound would fall as a result of | :11:49. | :11:54. | |
On the contrary, it strengthened and interest-rates | :11:55. | :11:57. | |
And with all the talk of corruption in the air... | :11:58. | :12:02. | |
I would say that the EU budget is endemically corrupt. | :12:03. | :12:04. | |
I think it is something that is in the nature of | :12:05. | :12:07. | |
Just because it is collective funding, | :12:08. | :12:12. | |
nobody has any sense of particular, individual, national responsibility | :12:13. | :12:14. | |
Boris Johnson is a bit of a character. | :12:15. | :12:27. | |
But he's not going to help you make your mind | :12:28. | :12:31. | |
He is a charismatic individual, but when it | :12:32. | :12:36. | |
comes down to it, a place like Cornwall needs to think | :12:37. | :12:38. | |
about how important it is to stay in Europe. | :12:39. | :12:41. | |
He's a big personality, but I am not sure about | :12:42. | :12:43. | |
Will Boris help you make your mind up? | :12:44. | :13:03. | |
He will make me more determined to vote out. | :13:04. | :13:05. | |
He is a big personality, but does he make a difference? | :13:06. | :13:13. | |
Not very original, politicians pulling pints, but the | :13:14. | :13:16. | |
They rather like Boris Johnson, too, but this | :13:17. | :13:19. | |
referendum is real, so how should we look at the man who is the Leave | :13:20. | :13:23. | |
campaign's biggest asset, and who may also be Britain's | :13:24. | :13:25. | |
It is six years since Gordon Brown was in charge. | :13:26. | :13:40. | |
In power, his biggest call was to keep us out of | :13:41. | :13:42. | |
the European Union's biggest project, joining the euro. | :13:43. | :13:48. | |
But if Labour's campaign for in has been short on gusto, | :13:49. | :13:50. | |
We should be a leader in Europe, not simply a member. | :13:51. | :13:57. | |
We should not be fully out and we should not be half out. | :13:58. | :14:00. | |
There have been nerves about getting Labour voters involved. | :14:01. | :14:05. | |
Reluctant support for the European Union might not get | :14:06. | :14:07. | |
But beyond the economics, the former Prime Minister is using different | :14:08. | :14:13. | |
We British have historically been outward looking, not inward looking. | :14:14. | :14:25. | |
We've not seen the Channel as some sort of moat. | :14:26. | :14:27. | |
What sense does it make if we think of ourselves in this way | :14:28. | :14:32. | |
and that we break off relations with our nearest neighbours? | :14:33. | :14:34. | |
Mr Brown's fiery last-minute political sermons did galvanise | :14:35. | :14:36. | |
When the independence referendum looked close and tight, | :14:37. | :14:43. | |
But will voters around the UK listen to him now? | :14:44. | :14:53. | |
I opposed joining the euro and I stood out against some | :14:54. | :14:55. | |
of my colleagues on that because I thought that | :14:56. | :14:57. | |
I'm not going to support Europe right or wrong. | :14:58. | :15:01. | |
I'm going to support European cooperation where it is in Britain's | :15:02. | :15:05. | |
national interest and I will oppose it if it is not | :15:06. | :15:07. | |
When you look at the campaign right now that is trying | :15:08. | :15:12. | |
to persuade people to stay, do you see the leadership that | :15:13. | :15:14. | |
I think we've had a phoney war and we are now into | :15:15. | :15:18. | |
You've got six weeks to go and I think the positive message I'm | :15:19. | :15:23. | |
putting forward has got a way of getting across especially | :15:24. | :15:26. | |
to people that did not vote Conservative. | :15:27. | :15:27. | |
The implication of you coming forward to make this case is that | :15:28. | :15:30. | |
you are not convinced that Labour has been showing the leadership that | :15:31. | :15:33. | |
Are you satisfied with how engaged Jeremy Corbyn has been? | :15:34. | :15:38. | |
I can make a contribution, but when people realise | :15:39. | :15:40. | |
that the Labour Party is fully behind staying | :15:41. | :15:44. | |
in the European Union, I think the Labour voters who have | :15:45. | :15:47. | |
historically in the last 20-30 years supported Europe, | :15:48. | :15:49. | |
will come out to vote in favour of Europe. | :15:50. | :15:52. | |
He may be long gone from the biggest job, but in the next | :15:53. | :15:55. | |
few weeks he will be on our screens and in this debate. | :15:56. | :15:58. | |
Gordon Brown always did want to make completely sure | :15:59. | :16:01. | |
Laura Kuenssberg, BBC News, Westminster. | :16:02. | :16:10. | |
time is just gone 6:15pm. Our top story. | :16:11. | :16:14. | |
Nigeria's president hits back at David Cameron's | :16:15. | :16:17. | |
Still to come: I'll be reporting live from the Lake District, where | :16:18. | :16:29. | |
nearly six months after the winter floods, a vital main road has | :16:30. | :16:30. | |
finally reopened. Coming up in Sportsday on BBC News, | :16:31. | :16:34. | |
England Women's Cricket captain Charlotte Edwards has retired | :16:35. | :16:36. | |
from international cricket after 'honest and open' discussions | :16:37. | :16:38. | |
with new head coach Mark Robinson. They are some of the most | :16:39. | :16:51. | |
vulnerable hospital patients in England and they are being sent | :16:52. | :16:54. | |
home "alone, afraid Those are the words from a troubling | :16:55. | :16:57. | |
report from the Parliamentary It found poor planning | :16:58. | :17:03. | |
and coordination between health and social care services before | :17:04. | :17:06. | |
patients were discharged. The NHS says improvements | :17:07. | :17:09. | |
are underway. Our health correspondent, | :17:10. | :17:13. | |
Sophie Hutchinson, reports. Mum and dad, when they were married, | :17:14. | :17:29. | |
18, on Christmas Eve. Angela Little feels her mother was badly let down | :17:30. | :17:34. | |
when she was most vulnerable. Before she died, our mother was repeatedly | :17:35. | :17:41. | |
admitted to hospital but then quickly taken back home without the | :17:42. | :17:46. | |
support she needed to keep per se. Even doctors, nurses, they said she | :17:47. | :17:49. | |
could clearly not look after herself, but she was always sent | :17:50. | :17:54. | |
home again. I just feel she had no dignity up to that point and was | :17:55. | :18:01. | |
pushed around like she was an object. A report by the | :18:02. | :18:05. | |
Parliamentary and health service ombudsman says patients are being | :18:06. | :18:10. | |
sent home alone, afraid and unable to cope. It investigated 200 cases | :18:11. | :18:16. | |
about problems with dischargers in the year to 2015. A 36% increase on | :18:17. | :18:21. | |
the previous year, and they concluded that deaths and suffering | :18:22. | :18:24. | |
could have been prevented if hospitals had carried out the right | :18:25. | :18:29. | |
checks. The NHS says the findings will be taken seriously, and | :18:30. | :18:34. | |
improvement is underway. But this also highlights how overstretched | :18:35. | :18:37. | |
services providing supporting people's homes or in care homes have | :18:38. | :18:42. | |
become. For every person identified by the ombudsman as being discharged | :18:43. | :18:47. | |
without adequate support, there are thousands more stuck in hospital for | :18:48. | :18:55. | |
the same reason. Deborah Edwards's father was stuck in hospital for | :18:56. | :19:00. | |
seven months waiting for a suitable care home. He had been finished that | :19:01. | :19:08. | |
lack his treatment for pneumonia was finished, but he had dementia and | :19:09. | :19:12. | |
needed support will stop he died in hospital before support could be | :19:13. | :19:16. | |
fun. It shouldn't have taken so long. My dad didn't need medical | :19:17. | :19:22. | |
treatment, he just needed looking after. A former hospital chief | :19:23. | :19:27. | |
executive says because of a lack of social care in the community, | :19:28. | :19:30. | |
hospitals like the one he ran were having to pick up the pieces. What I | :19:31. | :19:35. | |
ended up doing was basically running a very large care home. Patients who | :19:36. | :19:42. | |
needed residential care, community care, nursing care. We were running | :19:43. | :19:47. | |
the largest, most expensive residential nursing facility in the | :19:48. | :19:52. | |
NHS. The Department of Health has said it is working closely with the | :19:53. | :19:56. | |
NHS in England, regulators, local Government to help provide support | :19:57. | :20:02. | |
to help local areas improved transfers out of hospital and to | :20:03. | :20:03. | |
regions delays. Welsh Assembly members have failed | :20:04. | :20:13. | |
to elect a new first minister Labour's Carwyn Jones | :20:14. | :20:15. | |
was expected to be re-appointed But Plaid Cymru nominated its leader | :20:16. | :20:19. | |
Leanne Wood, and won the backing The deadlock sees both Wood | :20:20. | :20:22. | |
and Jones level with 29 votes each. Let's go to the Senedd and our | :20:23. | :20:37. | |
correspondent. This has always gone to Labour - it must be a surprise | :20:38. | :20:41. | |
today. Yes, extraordinary developments. | :20:42. | :20:44. | |
Labour are by far the biggest party after the election last week, but | :20:45. | :20:48. | |
they don't have an overall majority and the need the support of Plaid | :20:49. | :20:53. | |
Cymru in particular. They wanted more time with Labour to discuss | :20:54. | :21:01. | |
potential deals, but Labour refuse. As a result, Plaid Cymru blocked | :21:02. | :21:05. | |
today's nomination. What is really going on is that the opposition | :21:06. | :21:08. | |
parties want to send a strong signal to Labour bright at the start of | :21:09. | :21:12. | |
this term, and remember, Labour have always been in power here, that they | :21:13. | :21:19. | |
are not going to have it their way. It has provoked a furious response | :21:20. | :21:23. | |
will stop the opposition parties say that Labour had been arrogant. | :21:24. | :21:26. | |
Labour say that this is a political stunt which won't go down with the | :21:27. | :21:30. | |
Welsh public facing an EU referendum and a crisis in the steel industry. | :21:31. | :21:34. | |
Nick, thank you very much. Now, more on the referendum | :21:35. | :21:39. | |
on whether the UK should remain All this week we're trying | :21:40. | :21:41. | |
to explain what's at stake and tonight our Europe Correspondent | :21:42. | :21:45. | |
Damian Grammaticas takes a look at how much we spend on the EU | :21:46. | :21:47. | |
and how much we might The UK and Europe - | :21:48. | :21:51. | |
let's talk money, real money. Let's say this is ?5 billion, | :21:52. | :21:54. | |
and each year as a country Take a bit less than half, that's | :21:55. | :21:57. | |
what the Government spent in 2014. In the same year, this | :21:58. | :22:06. | |
was our contribution to the EU budget - | :22:07. | :22:08. | |
?11 billion at today's Alongside everyone else's, you can | :22:09. | :22:10. | |
see us, we are in red, Germany, France, Italy, the big | :22:11. | :22:16. | |
countries put in the most. Malta, population under | :22:17. | :22:21. | |
500,000, the least. We pay by far the lowest measured | :22:22. | :22:26. | |
as a share of Most countries pay around 1% | :22:27. | :22:28. | |
of their income to the EU The reason for this | :22:29. | :22:37. | |
special treatment? Maggie Thatcher and the | :22:38. | :22:39. | |
famous rebate she won. It's this discount, taken | :22:40. | :22:44. | |
off our Well, a bit more than half comes | :22:45. | :22:45. | |
back to us to be spent in the UK, more than ?3 billion to support | :22:46. | :22:52. | |
farmers, over ?1 billion to develop poorer regions, build roads, | :22:53. | :22:59. | |
ports, fund businesses. Most of the rest goes on research | :23:00. | :23:02. | |
grants, universities, companies | :23:03. | :23:06. | |
like Rolls-Royce. If we controlled this money, | :23:07. | :23:08. | |
we could spend it on other things, but only by | :23:09. | :23:11. | |
depriving these of funding. What that leaves is around | :23:12. | :23:16. | |
?5.5 billion a year, because we pay We are one of ten | :23:17. | :23:20. | |
countries that do this. Germany gives the most, | :23:21. | :23:26. | |
followed by France and us. Most of the money is | :23:27. | :23:29. | |
distributed to Europe's farmers, while some | :23:30. | :23:32. | |
is spent on poorer projects - infrastructure, energy, | :23:33. | :23:35. | |
spent in space, even, Essentially, it's our fee for entry | :23:36. | :23:41. | |
to Europe's single market, with which we do more | :23:42. | :23:47. | |
than 40% of our trade. All of these figures could be | :23:48. | :23:52. | |
dwarfed by what might happen to our If it grew a lot | :23:53. | :23:55. | |
or shrank a lot, the impact either way on our | :23:56. | :24:01. | |
Government's finances, and on us More than five months | :24:02. | :24:04. | |
after it was swept away the main road linking the north | :24:05. | :24:14. | |
and south of the Lake District Businesses in the area had | :24:15. | :24:17. | |
complained that the closure of the road between Grasmere | :24:18. | :24:20. | |
and Keswick was damaging trade, and motorists were faced | :24:21. | :24:23. | |
with a 35 mile diversion. Now the three-mile stretch | :24:24. | :24:25. | |
of road is open again. Our correspondent, | :24:26. | :24:28. | |
Danny Savage, is there. Back in December, thousands of | :24:29. | :24:42. | |
tonnes of boulders were swept down the hillside here by the deluge | :24:43. | :24:46. | |
which cause the winter floods. It destroyed the road, blocking it in | :24:47. | :24:50. | |
several places, and it damage the economy. This morning, it finally | :24:51. | :24:55. | |
reopened, to the great believer that everybody living round here. The | :24:56. | :25:00. | |
record-breaking rainfall of last December destroyed this road in | :25:01. | :25:05. | |
places. Landslides also swept down the fells, leaving drivers marooned. | :25:06. | :25:12. | |
Five months later, the road is back, but you can still see the damage. | :25:13. | :25:16. | |
Everyone remembers the night it happened. We were driving home and | :25:17. | :25:19. | |
came across this black hole in the road. It was dropping away in front | :25:20. | :25:24. | |
of me, so I reversed. I feel lucky to be alive. The closure left this | :25:25. | :25:30. | |
national park divided. Local people say that visitor numbers fell off a | :25:31. | :25:36. | |
cliff. Having the main road closed has been paid. A test on the A591 | :25:37. | :25:46. | |
into a cul-de-sac. -- it has turned. We knew that there would be an end | :25:47. | :25:52. | |
to this. Businesses said that they really wanted this road is to reopen | :25:53. | :25:56. | |
before the main tourist season started. So, here we are in mid-May, | :25:57. | :26:02. | |
with the weather fare, and the north and south of this national park | :26:03. | :26:10. | |
reunited. One, two, three! There was a bit of a fanfare this morning, | :26:11. | :26:18. | |
accompanied by general relief. It is absolutely amazing, just that | :26:19. | :26:21. | |
feeling of being able to drive over that roads to do the school run from | :26:22. | :26:26. | |
my house, it's incredible. It will make such a difference to the whole | :26:27. | :26:31. | |
community. Ministers say the work was completed as quickly as | :26:32. | :26:37. | |
possible. It wasn't all bad news - a temporary bus route around the | :26:38. | :26:40. | |
closure became a tourist attraction in its own right. Someone said, you | :26:41. | :26:46. | |
have to try this temporary route, it is much more picturesque. And it was | :26:47. | :26:52. | |
worth the journey. Six months after a battering from the weather, things | :26:53. | :26:58. | |
are getting back to normal here. Danny Savage, BBC News, Cumbria. | :26:59. | :27:04. | |
Let's turn our attention to southern England - flash flooding in parts. | :27:05. | :27:18. | |
This is Woking in Surrey. It then pushed into Oxfordshire. We also had | :27:19. | :27:24. | |
a funnel cloud reported. You can see this thick cloud churning away | :27:25. | :27:29. | |
across the southern half of the UK, and the clear skies further north. | :27:30. | :27:33. | |
Beneath those cloudy skies, we had torrential downpours. A bit hit and | :27:34. | :27:37. | |
miss, some places missed it, but other places certainly did. These | :27:38. | :27:42. | |
downpours have been crossing the Bristol and Cardiff area. They are | :27:43. | :27:47. | |
on -- if you are on the move or the next few hours, watch out for sudden | :27:48. | :27:51. | |
downpours. We will keep our ride on this clutch of storms that will | :27:52. | :27:56. | |
brush close to the south coast overnight. For most of Northern | :27:57. | :27:59. | |
Ireland and Scotland, it will stay dry. Under the clear skies, it will | :28:00. | :28:05. | |
be cool in the Glens of Scotland. It will be muggy in southern areas. The | :28:06. | :28:12. | |
showers will clear away before more pop up through the day. We will have | :28:13. | :28:17. | |
a nice day tomorrow, with dry weather, some sunshine. There will | :28:18. | :28:21. | |
be some exceptions. For example, in the far north of Scotland, more | :28:22. | :28:26. | |
clout. It will be cooler. Some of the cloud will make it to the | :28:27. | :28:29. | |
north-eastern coast of Scotland and England. Brighter and warmer farther | :28:30. | :28:35. | |
west. The odd isolated shower across the Highlands. Most other places | :28:36. | :28:40. | |
will have a dry afternoon. A vast improvement for some of us. | :28:41. | :28:44. | |
Temperatures into the low 20s. The odd scattered shower in the | :28:45. | :28:53. | |
south-west. It will be cold overnight. | :28:54. | :28:59. |