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Four decades after the Birmingham pub bombings killed 21 people, | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
a coroner reopens the inquests into their deaths. | :00:07. | :00:10. | |
The bombing caused devastation in the heart of the city. | :00:11. | :00:13. | |
Families of the victims were today overcome by the news. | :00:14. | :00:19. | |
We'll look at the fresh evidence that's led the coroner to act. | :00:20. | :00:35. | |
Take back our immigration policy by exiting the EU, | :00:36. | :00:39. | |
The Remain camp say their plans would wreck the economy. | :00:40. | :00:44. | |
One of the country's most prolific paedophiles admits 71 charges | :00:45. | :00:46. | |
After finding debris, investigators detect signals from a black box in | :00:47. | :00:54. | |
the Mediterranean from the EgyptAir plane which crashed last month. | :00:55. | :01:00. | |
And the oldest hand-written document ever found in Britain | :01:01. | :01:03. | |
is among hundreds of Roman artefacts discovered in London. | :01:04. | :01:09. | |
And coming up in the sport on BBC News: | :01:10. | :01:11. | |
Into the last four at the French Open. | :01:12. | :01:13. | |
Andy Murray reaches the semi-finals after coming from a set down | :01:14. | :01:16. | |
In 1974, bombs in two Birmingham pubs left 21 people dead | :01:17. | :01:44. | |
one of the worst terror attacks on the British mainland. | :01:45. | :01:49. | |
a coroner has ruled that inquests into the deaths are to be reopened. | :01:50. | :01:55. | |
The double bombing, in November of that year, | :01:56. | :01:57. | |
is widely thought to have been the work of the IRA. | :01:58. | :02:00. | |
The inquests were suspended when six men were jailed for the attacks. | :02:01. | :02:04. | |
Their convictions were later quashed. | :02:05. | :02:06. | |
Today, the coroner Louise Hunt said there was now new evidence that | :02:07. | :02:10. | |
advance warnings of the bombings may have been missed. | :02:11. | :02:13. | |
Our correspondent Sian Lloyd is in Birmingham. | :02:14. | :02:22. | |
This is the memorial to the victims of the pub bombings, set here in the | :02:23. | :02:29. | |
grounds of Birmingham Cathedral. Their families embarked on a long | :02:30. | :02:34. | |
journey to get to today's point. We don't know exactly how or when these | :02:35. | :02:38. | |
inquests will take place, but the families will hear in public | :02:39. | :02:42. | |
evidence about what happened that night. | :02:43. | :02:43. | |
Julie Hambleton has campaigned for almost 42 years in memory | :02:44. | :02:55. | |
of her 18-year-old sister, Maxine. | :02:56. | :02:58. | |
Flanked by relatives of some of the 21 who died, | :02:59. | :03:02. | |
this is what the coroner's decision meant to them. | :03:03. | :03:06. | |
Our fathers, brothers, sisters, mothers... | :03:07. | :03:10. | |
On 21st November 1974, two bombs exploded at | :03:11. | :03:29. | |
and Tavern in the Town pubs in Birmingham City centre. | :03:30. | :03:33. | |
21 people died and more than 200 were injured. | :03:34. | :03:34. | |
A year later, six men were convicted. | :03:35. | :03:36. | |
The Birmingham Six, as they became known, | :03:37. | :03:38. | |
their convictions overturned by the Court of Appeal. | :03:39. | :03:44. | |
Paddy Hill was one of those men who were wrongly jailed. | :03:45. | :03:47. | |
It's the first step that has ever been taken to finding out the real | :03:48. | :03:56. | |
There are too many skeletons in the cupboard. | :03:57. | :04:02. | |
They knew and they had advance warning before the bomb went off. | :04:03. | :04:07. | |
Four decades have passed since the original | :04:08. | :04:13. | |
inquests were adjourned, pending the criminal trial and later | :04:14. | :04:15. | |
The West Midlands force had argued that the power | :04:16. | :04:18. | |
But the Birmingham coroner, Louise Hunt, rejected that argument. | :04:19. | :04:22. | |
West Midlands police in 2016 has nothing to hide. | :04:23. | :04:52. | |
The failings in 1975 of the botched investigation are | :04:53. | :04:54. | |
The pub bombings were widely acknowledged to have been | :04:55. | :05:01. | |
This former senior member of the terror group says the men | :05:02. | :05:05. | |
responsible are unlikely to face trial. | :05:06. | :05:06. | |
The only way there could be convictions would be if the men | :05:07. | :05:09. | |
walked into police stations in the UK and confessed | :05:10. | :05:13. | |
to their parts in the bombing, and that ain't going to happen. | :05:14. | :05:22. | |
You could hear the ambulances coming, but it seemed a lifetime. | :05:23. | :05:25. | |
Maureen Mitchell survived the attack. | :05:26. | :05:26. | |
Aged 21, she was so badly injured that she was given the last rites. | :05:27. | :05:29. | |
You sort of put it behind you and then something else | :05:30. | :05:33. | |
will come up, like all this that's happening now. | :05:34. | :05:38. | |
So it would be a closure, because there would be | :05:39. | :05:41. | |
There will now be the opportunity for victims and their | :05:42. | :05:44. | |
families to get some of their questions answered. | :05:45. | :05:46. | |
The UK could have a fairer, more humane immigration system | :05:47. | :05:50. | |
that would work better for the economy if it left the EU. | :05:51. | :05:53. | |
That's the latest claim from the Leave campaigners. | :05:54. | :05:55. | |
They want to end the automatic right for EU citizens to live and work | :05:56. | :05:58. | |
here and to accept only those of value to the economy. | :05:59. | :06:01. | |
But those campaigning to Remain said such a system | :06:02. | :06:04. | |
would wreck the economy and could drive up immigration. | :06:05. | :06:06. | |
Our Political Editor Laura Kuenssberg reports. | :06:07. | :06:17. | |
Their biggest names, their biggest promise so far. Is it not time we | :06:18. | :06:24. | |
took back control of our immigration policies? Being in the EU means | :06:25. | :06:27. | |
people from 27 other countries can come here, and we can go there as | :06:28. | :06:33. | |
well. But they want Exit, and an end to all that. You are stitching | :06:34. | :06:43. | |
things up, are you? Along with the gags, Leave campaigners are offering | :06:44. | :06:48. | |
a points system where all immigrants are judged on what they can offer. | :06:49. | :06:53. | |
Have a system whereby the UK Government has to take | :06:54. | :06:55. | |
responsibility and agree the numbers. But can you guarantee that | :06:56. | :06:58. | |
immigration would actually fall under your plans? I think that is | :06:59. | :07:03. | |
very likely, but it is up to the government. They would have to | :07:04. | :07:08. | |
decide what the needs of UK business and industry were. Those who are the | :07:09. | :07:14. | |
brightest and best with the right skills for our economy would be | :07:15. | :07:18. | |
welcome here. Your rivals say that if we give up EU people being able | :07:19. | :07:22. | |
to move around the UK, that would have a huge effect on the economy. | :07:23. | :07:26. | |
They say it would wreck the economy. I think that is obvious nonsense. | :07:27. | :07:31. | |
Looks like they are starting to enjoy this campaign. They are sure | :07:32. | :07:35. | |
their promise of more controls on immigration is one that voters will | :07:36. | :07:40. | |
like. But maybe this referendum will come down to a choice, a trade off | :07:41. | :07:43. | |
between tighter rules on immigration and what their opponents claim would | :07:44. | :07:48. | |
be serious damage to the economy that every worker would feel. The | :07:49. | :07:52. | |
most senior union leader in the country said the idea was a con, and | :07:53. | :07:56. | |
warned that leaving could hit pay packets by nearly ?40 a week. The | :07:57. | :08:02. | |
big threat to wages is a Brexit, because that would really hit our | :08:03. | :08:06. | |
economy more productivity and ultimately, people'spaperclips. If | :08:07. | :08:11. | |
we want to avoid another recession, -- it would affect people'sa | :08:12. | :08:20. | |
packets. The OECD warned that if we leave the table, economic shock | :08:21. | :08:23. | |
waves might be have felt around the world. It would be unavoidable, | :08:24. | :08:31. | |
inevitable, for us and many others in Europe, to follow the same | :08:32. | :08:37. | |
proposals, to implement a points system. You would get a race to the | :08:38. | :08:42. | |
bottom. We want our country back. Most politicians used to be | :08:43. | :08:45. | |
squeamish about talking immigration, but it's part of this campaign, and | :08:46. | :08:51. | |
his long term game. Australia looks at what it thinks it needs to expand | :08:52. | :08:55. | |
its country. It is growing its country, so it takes more people pro | :08:56. | :08:59. | |
rata than we would, but the point is that they can choose. Two of all | :09:00. | :09:03. | |
stripes think there is mileage in it, but as they take more and more | :09:04. | :09:07. | |
messages around the country, it doesn't feel like this is just about | :09:08. | :09:12. | |
the referendum any more -- Outers of all stripes. It feels like you are | :09:13. | :09:16. | |
setting out an alternative Tory vision for after the referendum. | :09:17. | :09:20. | |
What are you really up to? After we Vote Leave on June the 23rd, it will | :09:21. | :09:24. | |
be up to the government to take control not just of immigration | :09:25. | :09:28. | |
policy, but also of huge sums of money, of our ability to set our | :09:29. | :09:32. | |
political and economic priorities. So you are setting out an | :09:33. | :09:35. | |
alternative vision for a different sounding government. The answer to | :09:36. | :09:42. | |
that is no. Just about sticking to the script, at least for now. | :09:43. | :09:47. | |
Depending on what you decide in three weeks, that might all change. | :09:48. | :09:50. | |
Laura Kuenssberg, BBC News, Preston. So what impact might the Leave | :09:51. | :09:53. | |
campaigners' plans Latest figures show | :09:54. | :09:55. | |
that net migration - that's the difference | :09:56. | :09:57. | |
between the number of those arriving and those leaving - | :09:58. | :09:59. | |
was 330,000 for last year. That includes 184,000 people from EU | :10:00. | :10:05. | |
They already come in under the points-based system | :10:06. | :10:12. | |
that Leave campaigners want applied to EU migrants too. | :10:13. | :10:15. | |
But what effect would that have on employers and their workers? | :10:16. | :10:18. | |
Here's our Chief Correspondent Gavin Hewitt. | :10:19. | :10:26. | |
For those coming to our shores, these proposed plans would mark | :10:27. | :10:29. | |
a fundamental change to how the migration rules work. | :10:30. | :10:31. | |
EU citizens would no longer just travel here for work, | :10:32. | :10:34. | |
they would have to pass a series of tests. | :10:35. | :10:43. | |
Some businesses, like this Bangladeshi restaurant in Kent, | :10:44. | :10:45. | |
They say they cannot get the skilled chefs they want from Bangladesh, | :10:46. | :10:51. | |
They want a system of migration that does not favour Europeans. | :10:52. | :11:02. | |
I welcome any fairer immigration policy, but I believe the British | :11:03. | :11:05. | |
immigration policy is unfair and a double standard policy. | :11:06. | :11:12. | |
One for the European Union and one for the British citizens, | :11:13. | :11:15. | |
Currently, EU citizens have the automatic right | :11:16. | :11:17. | |
Non-EU citizens face a series of hurdles. | :11:18. | :11:21. | |
They have to be high-value workers with job offers, or students | :11:22. | :11:25. | |
Under the proposed system, EU citizens would lose their automatic | :11:26. | :11:31. | |
right to come here, they would need points, | :11:32. | :11:35. | |
awarded for needed skills, an available job, and English. | :11:36. | :11:40. | |
But some businesses are fiercely opposed to the plans. | :11:41. | :11:45. | |
This is a large lettuce farm in Kent. | :11:46. | :11:47. | |
It depends on unskilled workers from the EU, | :11:48. | :11:51. | |
Without them, the business would struggle. | :11:52. | :12:02. | |
I believe in patrolling the borders and policing the borders, | :12:03. | :12:04. | |
but the horticultural sector in particular and our business | :12:05. | :12:06. | |
requires a high percentage of unskilled workers. | :12:07. | :12:08. | |
So what would happen if the unskilled workers could not | :12:09. | :12:10. | |
We have tried in the past to recruit from the local | :12:11. | :12:15. | |
I would seriously worry for the future of my business. | :12:16. | :12:19. | |
This proposed points system would signify a break | :12:20. | :12:21. | |
with the principle of free movement within the EU. | :12:22. | :12:27. | |
It would also raise doubts about continued access | :12:28. | :12:29. | |
It's also far from clear whether a points system would reduce or | :12:30. | :12:41. | |
increase the number of migrants coming here. Point -based systems | :12:42. | :12:47. | |
have traditionally been used to reduce rather than increased | :12:48. | :12:51. | |
migration. That said, any system that imposes new restrictions on EU | :12:52. | :12:55. | |
citizens would be expected to reduce the numbers compared to the status | :12:56. | :12:57. | |
quo. Some say a points system | :12:58. | :13:00. | |
actually promotes migration. But the Leave campaign argues | :13:01. | :13:02. | |
the system would restore Gavin Hewitt, BBC News, | :13:03. | :13:04. | |
Kent. French investigators say a ship | :13:05. | :13:24. | |
has picked up signals from one of the black boxes of the EgyptAir | :13:25. | :13:26. | |
flight that crashed last month. 66 people were on board | :13:27. | :13:29. | |
the plane when it went down in the Mediterranean while flying | :13:30. | :13:32. | |
from Paris to Cairo. Our Middle East Correspondent | :13:33. | :13:34. | |
Orla Guerin is in Cairo. How significant is this development? | :13:35. | :13:49. | |
This is potentially a very significant development. It is the | :13:50. | :13:52. | |
first time a signal has been detected from one of the black | :13:53. | :13:56. | |
boxes, either the flight data recorder or the cockpit voice | :13:57. | :14:00. | |
recorder. It was picked up by a French naval vessel using an | :14:01. | :14:06. | |
acoustic underwater probe. They only began searching the crash site | :14:07. | :14:10. | |
yesterday, and they found a signal in less than 24 hours. Gooding to an | :14:11. | :14:16. | |
official from the French aviation safety agency, this is the first | :14:17. | :14:20. | |
step. The next step, of course, is to try to pinpoint the exact | :14:21. | :14:24. | |
location of the data recorders to see if they are intact and to try to | :14:25. | :14:29. | |
retrieve them from the sea bed. That of course would be very complicated. | :14:30. | :14:34. | |
Another specialist vessel is on its way. It is bringing underwater | :14:35. | :14:37. | |
equipment, and underwater robot which can adapt to a depth of 3000 | :14:38. | :14:43. | |
metres below sea level. Experts are warning that the black boxes, even | :14:44. | :14:47. | |
if they come up, may not provide all of the answers, but they may allow | :14:48. | :14:50. | |
authorities to rule out whether or not there was a bomb on board and | :14:51. | :14:55. | |
whether there was an attempt to storm the cockpit. One relative we | :14:56. | :14:58. | |
spoke to this afternoon said he hoped this would be the beginning of | :14:59. | :15:03. | |
an attempt to find the truth to establish why this flight plunged | :15:04. | :15:07. | |
from 37,000 feet without a distress signal being said. All we know is | :15:08. | :15:12. | |
that there were indications of smoke on board and possibly a fire. We | :15:13. | :15:17. | |
don't know what started that. Officials here are saying all | :15:18. | :15:19. | |
theories remain under investigation. Four decades after the Birmingham | :15:20. | :15:22. | |
pub bombings killed 21 people, a coroner reopens the inquests | :15:23. | :15:27. | |
into their deaths. And still to come, how the great | :15:28. | :15:31. | |
British fry-up could be affected Coming up in Sportsday | :15:32. | :15:34. | |
on BBC News... England captain Wayne Rooney | :15:35. | :15:40. | |
calls his Manchester United teammate Marcus Rashford incredible and hopes | :15:41. | :15:43. | |
the teenager can make an impact after being selected in the squad | :15:44. | :15:47. | |
for Euro 2016. One of Britain's worst paedophiles | :15:48. | :16:01. | |
could be facing life in prison after admitting 71 charges | :16:02. | :16:04. | |
of child sex abuse. 30-year-old Richard Huckle, | :16:05. | :16:07. | |
who's from Kent, abused children aged between | :16:08. | :16:10. | |
six months and 12 years while travelling in Malaysia | :16:11. | :16:12. | |
and Cambodia. Huckle has already been told | :16:13. | :16:15. | |
he could face multiple life terms. 30-year-old Richard Huckle, | :16:16. | :16:18. | |
who's from Kent, Richard Huckle sought out | :16:19. | :16:23. | |
children in the poorest But it is also the way | :16:24. | :16:38. | |
he got close to this girl, and I told him I wanted to go home | :16:39. | :16:54. | |
to my mum. I didn't realise what he was doing | :16:55. | :17:03. | |
because I was only three years old. I don't want him to | :17:04. | :17:07. | |
come back to Malaysia. Getting to know them, staying in the | :17:08. | :17:13. | |
slums for days on end. Huckle was often | :17:14. | :17:25. | |
at this woman's home. She suspected nothing, but she says | :17:26. | :17:28. | |
when her granddaughter was just 12, He trained to be an English teacher. | :17:29. | :17:50. | |
Here he is in a promotional video for the British Council. He went to | :17:51. | :17:55. | |
charities and orphanages where he helped out and targeted children. | :17:56. | :17:58. | |
That day he brought one of his victims. | :17:59. | :18:05. | |
but all too often it was a prelude to rape and abuse. | :18:06. | :18:14. | |
Tens of thousands of images and videos. | :18:15. | :18:20. | |
He then posted them in secret forums on the so-called Dark Web. | :18:21. | :18:25. | |
Huckle also wrote a self-help guide for other would-be abusers | :18:26. | :18:31. | |
It's not often that you get intimate access inside a police sting... | :18:32. | :18:40. | |
He was identified by police in Australia in one of the biggest | :18:41. | :18:45. | |
ever investigations into sex offenders on the so-called Dark Web. | :18:46. | :18:51. | |
Paul Griffiths is a former British detective now working in Queensland. | :18:52. | :18:56. | |
How great a danger did he pose to children? | :18:57. | :18:59. | |
If he hadn't been arrested, and he hadn't been taken out | :19:00. | :19:02. | |
of circulation, he would still be offending now, I'm quite sure. | :19:03. | :19:07. | |
And he struck me as the kind of person who would make the most | :19:08. | :19:10. | |
So if he had the opportunity to offend against a child | :19:11. | :19:15. | |
Huckle's victims are left traumatised. | :19:16. | :19:20. | |
Abused by a man who said he had come to help them. | :19:21. | :19:24. | |
He used his faith to seek them out and then betrayed them. | :19:25. | :19:30. | |
Angus Crawford, BBC News, Kuala Lumpur. | :19:31. | :19:35. | |
Patrick Rock, a former Downing Street advisor to David Cameron, | :19:36. | :19:38. | |
has been found guilty of five counts of downloading indecent photographs | :19:39. | :19:42. | |
some of girls who were ten years old, were not indecent. | :19:43. | :19:48. | |
He was acquitted of three other charges. | :19:49. | :19:50. | |
A further 12 counts will remain on police file | :19:51. | :19:53. | |
after jurors failed to reach a decision on them. | :19:54. | :19:56. | |
The name of British Steel has been revived today by Greybull Capital, | :19:57. | :20:00. | |
the company which has bought part of Tata Steel's operation in the UK. | :20:01. | :20:04. | |
The sale has secured thousands of jobs at its giant Scunthorpe plant, | :20:05. | :20:08. | |
although workers have had to take pay cuts and reductions | :20:09. | :20:11. | |
Donald Trump, the US presidential hopeful, | :20:12. | :20:16. | |
has said he will visit Scotland later this month | :20:17. | :20:19. | |
for the official reopening of his Trump Turnberry golf course, | :20:20. | :20:22. | |
The man expected to become the Republican nominee | :20:23. | :20:27. | |
will attend a ceremonial ribbon-cutting on June 24th - | :20:28. | :20:30. | |
All this week, we'll be looking at what voting In or Out in the EU | :20:31. | :20:37. | |
The British Retail Consortium suggests leaving the EU could have a | :20:38. | :20:42. | |
greater impact on food than on any other part of the retail industry. | :20:43. | :20:46. | |
Our Business correspondent Emma Simpson has been finding out | :20:47. | :20:48. | |
We import nearly half of what we eat. | :20:49. | :21:00. | |
Take bacon, three quarters of what we buy comes from the EU. | :21:01. | :21:07. | |
Let's stick with the bacon and food imports. | :21:08. | :21:11. | |
There are no trade barriers in the EU. | :21:12. | :21:14. | |
So this stuff comes in free of any tariffs. | :21:15. | :21:17. | |
Catherine Barnard, trade expert, is here to explain. | :21:18. | :21:26. | |
We stay in the single market and that's the position Norway's in. | :21:27. | :21:34. | |
Second possibility, we enter a trade agreement. | :21:35. | :21:37. | |
That means probably no border controls and also no tariffs. | :21:38. | :21:42. | |
So the goods will not be more expensive. | :21:43. | :21:44. | |
Third possibility is a default position. | :21:45. | :21:47. | |
That means there will be tariffs imposed on goods like food | :21:48. | :21:52. | |
If that happens, we've been told this pack of bacon could cost | :21:53. | :21:58. | |
But there's another scenario - tariffs could be cut? | :21:59. | :22:04. | |
Yes, but it would weaken the UK's hand in any future | :22:05. | :22:09. | |
Sir Terry Leahy led Tesco to worldwide success | :22:10. | :22:21. | |
The pound would collapse as a result of leaving the EU. | :22:22. | :22:28. | |
Tariffs would come in on top of that. | :22:29. | :22:36. | |
Finally, and most importantly, the supply chain around Europe | :22:37. | :22:39. | |
We'd have to negotiate through a new customs border. | :22:40. | :22:46. | |
We are the oldest producer of smoked salmon in the word. | :22:47. | :22:49. | |
This is a business that's been around far longer than the EU | :22:50. | :22:58. | |
and this exporter believes we'll be better off without it. | :22:59. | :23:01. | |
I think the whole tariff argument is complete nonsense. | :23:02. | :23:03. | |
Whether it's Italian wine or French cheese, | :23:04. | :23:08. | |
They're not going to want to put their prices up so high | :23:09. | :23:12. | |
These fears over price rises are nonsense, they're | :23:13. | :23:19. | |
Many different views, but nothing's certain in this debate. | :23:20. | :23:22. | |
It's the world's longest and deepest rail tunnel | :23:23. | :23:30. | |
and cuts right through the Swiss Alps. | :23:31. | :23:32. | |
Today, after almost two decades of construction work, | :23:33. | :23:35. | |
the Gotthard tunnel was officially opened. | :23:36. | :23:37. | |
by taking a million lorries off the roads each year. | :23:38. | :23:47. | |
in Britain have been discovered in the heart of the City of London. | :23:48. | :23:53. | |
The earliest-known handwritten documents ever to be found | :23:54. | :23:55. | |
in Britain have been discovered in the heart of the City of London. | :23:56. | :23:58. | |
More than 400 Roman tablets, which were used for correspondence | :23:59. | :24:01. | |
and as legal documents, were unearthed in an archaeological dig, | :24:02. | :24:03. | |
It is a little window into the ups and downs of business life, | :24:04. | :24:14. | |
These little bits of wood and tiny scratches of Latin handwriting, have | :24:15. | :24:20. | |
These are the first written documents, the first handwritten | :24:21. | :24:26. | |
And they were found deep in the ground just down the road | :24:27. | :24:34. | |
from what is now the Bank of England. | :24:35. | :24:37. | |
The Romans wrote by scratching words into wax on wooden tablets. | :24:38. | :24:41. | |
Occasionally they scratched too deeply, leaving marks in the wood. | :24:42. | :24:45. | |
Almost all have long since rotted away, but these have survived | :24:46. | :24:49. | |
in the damp banks of one of London's lost rivers. | :24:50. | :24:53. | |
Have a look at this, and you can just make out | :24:54. | :24:56. | |
the letters L O N D - it is an address. | :24:57. | :24:59. | |
The first ever mention of a new city... | :25:00. | :25:02. | |
This is the earliest ever financial document. | :25:03. | :25:08. | |
This is a sign that this is the heart of business | :25:09. | :25:13. | |
Britain just a few years after the Romans arrived. | :25:14. | :25:16. | |
This is one of the earliest tablets, the archaeological context | :25:17. | :25:19. | |
is within ten years of the Romans coming to Britain. | :25:20. | :25:22. | |
Deciphering the scratchy handwriting has not been easy but what has | :25:23. | :25:26. | |
emerged is a little window into day-to-day life | :25:27. | :25:29. | |
Time for a look at the weather. Here's Louise Lear. | :25:30. | :25:41. | |
It may not have escaped your attention and everyone out there, | :25:42. | :25:48. | |
it's half term this week. If you've friends and family on holiday in the | :25:49. | :25:51. | |
north-west, they've found the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. | :25:52. | :25:54. | |
Hardly a cloud in the sky for the third day in a row. But it's been a | :25:55. | :25:58. | |
completely different story further south and east. Cloud spilling in | :25:59. | :26:03. | |
off the North Sea. A nagging northerly wind. The cloud thick | :26:04. | :26:08. | |
enough for the odd spot of rain. Look at the North Norfolk coast a | :26:09. | :26:13. | |
few hours ago. Dismal. Further north and West, not a cloud in the sky. | :26:14. | :26:18. | |
Temperatures in the low 20s. Clear skies here through the night. Same | :26:19. | :26:23. | |
old with the cloud still pushing in off the North Sea. Low enough cloud | :26:24. | :26:28. | |
for the odd spot of drizzle. Some coastal fog first thing in the | :26:29. | :26:32. | |
morning. Another dismal, grey start. The best of the sunshine out to the | :26:33. | :26:36. | |
west. The difference tomorrow, hopefully the sunshine will break | :26:37. | :26:39. | |
through a little further inland. A bit more optimistic. With a little | :26:40. | :26:43. | |
more sunshine, it won't feel too bad. Down to the south-west in the | :26:44. | :26:47. | |
sun Hyne, in a little more shelter from that breeze, 18 or 19 is | :26:48. | :26:51. | |
pleasant enough. We might see temperatures in the London area 15 | :26:52. | :26:56. | |
or 16. If we get more sun, it will feel better. Along that east cold, | :26:57. | :27:02. | |
cold and overcast. Cloud thick enough for some drizzle. Further | :27:03. | :27:07. | |
north and West, the lion's share of the sunshine. By the end of | :27:08. | :27:12. | |
afternoon, we'll see some rain pushing into the Northern Isles. | :27:13. | :27:16. | |
That will linger during Friday and drift its way across the far north | :27:17. | :27:19. | |
of Scotland during the day on Friday. Again, the cloud thick | :27:20. | :27:22. | |
enough for some showers to push further west. On Friday, more cloud | :27:23. | :27:27. | |
around generally across the country. Only western fringes seeing the best | :27:28. | :27:32. | |
of the sunshine. 17 or 18 degrees along that east coast again rather | :27:33. | :27:36. | |
cool. But, for the weekend, I can offer you something a little more | :27:37. | :27:40. | |
optimistic. A good deal of dry weather. A little warmer with more | :27:41. | :27:41. | |
sun. That's all from the BBC News at Six, | :27:42. | :27:44. | |
so it's goodbye from me | :27:45. | :27:48. |