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are debated in Parliament, opponents are accused of trying to wreck the | :01:38. | :01:43. | |
bill. After Conservative divisions over Europe, now David Cameron faces | :01:43. | :01:48. | |
more dissent from his MPs in tonight's vote. Many people with | :01:48. | :01:51. | |
traditional views, whether on gay marriage or expressing their point | :01:51. | :01:56. | |
of view on immigration, they somehow feel that they are being | :01:56. | :01:59. | |
marginalised in political debate. will be looking at the challengers | :01:59. | :02:03. | |
to the Prime Minister's authority from Conservative backbenchers and | :02:03. | :02:08. | |
how Labour could help them out. Also tonight, a man and a woman have | :02:08. | :02:12. | |
died after a suspected gas explosion in Nottinghamshire. | :02:12. | :02:17. | |
Tim Peake becomes Britain's first official astronaut, set to join the | :02:17. | :02:23. | |
International Space Station. I am in Ethiopia, once a symbol of | :02:23. | :02:25. | |
poverty and famine, now one of the fastest-growing economies in the | :02:25. | :02:30. | |
world. Glitz and glamour in Addis Ababa, a new generation is reaping | :02:31. | :02:35. | |
the benefits of economic success. And coming up on the BBC News | :02:35. | :02:40. | |
Channel, Hearts avoid relegation after the Scottish Premier League | :02:40. | :02:42. | |
decides not to hit them with an immediate points penalty over their | :02:42. | :02:52. | |
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Good evening and welcome to the BBC News At Six. The bill to allow | :03:08. | :03:10. | |
same-sex marriage in England and Wales has returned to the Commons | :03:10. | :03:15. | |
with an impassioned debate on whether it should go through. | :03:15. | :03:17. | |
Conservative opponents are being accused of trying to delay the | :03:17. | :03:22. | |
plans. They are calling for heterosexual couples to have the | :03:22. | :03:26. | |
right to a civil partnership. Now the Government and Labour believe | :03:26. | :03:30. | |
they have reached a deal which will allow gay marriage to become legal. | :03:30. | :03:33. | |
The divisiveness of these he was seen as another challenge to the | :03:33. | :03:36. | |
prime Minster's authority, as political editor Nick Robinson | :03:36. | :03:41. | |
reports. It all now feels a long time ago, a | :03:41. | :03:44. | |
time before their recent troubles. The once happy marriage between | :03:44. | :03:49. | |
David Cameron and the Conservative Party appears to be in very real | :03:50. | :03:55. | |
trouble. Last week's divisive argument about Europe was followed | :03:55. | :04:01. | |
by weekend headlines claiming that a top Tory had dismissed his party's | :04:01. | :04:06. | |
activists as swivel-eyed loons. It was a claim he vehemently denies. | :04:06. | :04:09. | |
Today the arguments focus on a change to what we think of as | :04:09. | :04:15. | |
marriage to allow same-sex couples to wed. The nation is as divided as | :04:15. | :04:18. | |
the Parliamentary party on this. We have picked an issue where we are in | :04:18. | :04:22. | |
touch with the nation by showing our division. So wedding cakes which | :04:22. | :04:25. | |
look like this could soon be joined by those that look a little more | :04:25. | :04:29. | |
like this, an idea which, according to opinion polls, more than half of | :04:29. | :04:35. | |
us are quite relaxed about. We have done cakes and things for couples | :04:35. | :04:39. | |
who are having civil ceremonies, so it doesn't really worry me greatly, | :04:39. | :04:44. | |
you know, if they want equal rights. It may not worry her, but some here | :04:44. | :04:49. | |
in Skipton in Yorkshire are not just worried - they are angry. I have | :04:49. | :04:54. | |
written to my MP, he has indicated he supports this, and I have told I | :04:54. | :04:58. | |
will not be voting Conservative again. I am of the view that I do | :04:58. | :05:03. | |
not agree with it! Tonight, despite that, their local Conservative MP | :05:03. | :05:08. | |
will vote for gay marriage. Representing one of the most rural | :05:08. | :05:12. | |
constituencies in England, I see gay in, day out, gay men and women | :05:12. | :05:16. | |
struggling as they come out and who wants to be recognised in the same | :05:16. | :05:20. | |
way as straight couples, and I believe this legislation, which | :05:20. | :05:24. | |
protects the right of Church is not to conduct marriage, is absolutely | :05:24. | :05:31. | |
the right way for the government to go. Outside the Commons, Christians | :05:31. | :05:36. | |
protested today, but inside there is, in theory, a majority in favour | :05:36. | :05:39. | |
of this historic social change. However, there is scarcely a | :05:40. | :05:44. | |
majority inside the Tory party, almost half of Conservative MPs are | :05:44. | :05:47. | |
threatening to support an amendment tonight which says the change that | :05:48. | :05:52. | |
is really needed is not to marriage but to civil partnerships. This | :05:52. | :05:56. | |
bill, whatever we think about it, introduces a glaring inequality. If | :05:56. | :06:01. | |
it goes through, as I am pretty sure it will, opposite sex couples will | :06:01. | :06:04. | |
only have access to marriage, but same-sex couples would now have | :06:04. | :06:08. | |
access to the new form of marriage and civil partnerships. That is just | :06:08. | :06:12. | |
not fair. In the last hour, Tory ministers under Labour opponents | :06:12. | :06:16. | |
reached an agreement to hold an instant review on civil | :06:16. | :06:23. | |
partnerships, a deal to ensured that the bill goes through. We were | :06:23. | :06:26. | |
worried that either the Government might use civil partnerships as an | :06:26. | :06:30. | |
excuse to wreck the bill or that the Tory backbenchers might use it as an | :06:30. | :06:33. | |
excuse to wreck the bill, and instead we will have progress to | :06:33. | :06:38. | |
make sure it keeps going forward. David Cameron has always insisted he | :06:38. | :06:43. | |
is a great supporter of marriage. The problem he faces is that his | :06:43. | :06:46. | |
relationship with his party is being damaged by his determination to | :06:46. | :06:51. | |
allow gay people to get married. Well, let's pick that up with Nick, | :06:51. | :06:56. | |
who joins me from Westminster. Even if the bill goes through, are you | :06:57. | :07:01. | |
suggesting the Prime Minister's authority is still under threat? | :07:01. | :07:06. | |
so much his authority as his relationship. In theory this is a | :07:06. | :07:11. | |
free vote. Anything that is a vote of conscience is always free in the | :07:11. | :07:15. | |
House of Commons, so there is no actual rebellion here in the sense | :07:15. | :07:19. | |
that Tory MPs are free to vote as they choose. But the truth is he is | :07:19. | :07:24. | |
only getting his way because he knows he can rely on a combination | :07:24. | :07:28. | |
of Conservative ministers, Labour voters and also the Liberal | :07:28. | :07:33. | |
Democrats as well, and that is not a comfortable place to be. What's | :07:33. | :07:36. | |
more, he knows that ploughing on with this legislation is creating | :07:36. | :07:40. | |
another source of real anger amongst his own MPs and amongst his own | :07:40. | :07:43. | |
activists. The truth is the Prime Minister believes he is bringing | :07:43. | :07:47. | |
about an historic social change, something he can be proud of, | :07:47. | :07:51. | |
something different from austerity, but he's doing it at a very high | :07:51. | :07:57. | |
political price to himself. Nick Robinson, political editor, | :07:57. | :08:00. | |
joining us from Westminster. A man and a woman have died in a gas | :08:00. | :08:03. | |
explosion at a house in Nottinghamshire. The property was | :08:03. | :08:07. | |
almost destroyed by the blast, which happened in Newark yesterday | :08:07. | :08:10. | |
afternoon. Four other people were taken to hospital, most have been | :08:10. | :08:17. | |
discharged. Sian Lloyd is in Newark for us this evening. | :08:17. | :08:21. | |
Emergency services are still working at the scene this evening, which | :08:21. | :08:26. | |
remains cordoned off. It is believed that this was a gas explosion, but | :08:26. | :08:31. | |
what caused it is not yet known. Police say tonight that one line of | :08:31. | :08:35. | |
inquiry they are investigating is that the family were carrying out | :08:35. | :08:43. | |
The silence of Sunday afternoon was shattered by an explosion that | :08:43. | :08:48. | |
devastated this terraced house in Wright Street. Inside, two people | :08:48. | :08:53. | |
died. They have been named locally as pensioner Leslie walk and | :08:53. | :08:59. | |
Jeanette Chalke, who was 40. Another man suffered serious injuries and is | :09:00. | :09:03. | |
being treated in hospital stop a further blast ripped through the | :09:03. | :09:10. | |
house next door. The residents were helped to escape by quick thinking | :09:10. | :09:16. | |
neighbours. We smashed the window with a couple of breaks, and I was | :09:16. | :09:22. | |
handed this two-month-old baby. And then finally his mother came out. | :09:22. | :09:28. | |
She had some cuts on her head, all of them were covered in what looked | :09:28. | :09:34. | |
like suit, and we were all in shock. As black smoke filled the air, there | :09:34. | :09:38. | |
was panic and confusion. Local people ran into the street. They | :09:38. | :09:42. | |
were met within minutes by members of the emergency services. When we | :09:42. | :09:48. | |
climbed over the rubble, there was a man coming out, all bleeding, | :09:48. | :09:52. | |
covered in dust, and there was another two other chaps who said, | :09:52. | :09:55. | |
let's get him out. Somebody was shouting, stand back, it is going to | :09:55. | :10:00. | |
go again, the fire was going over the walls and up the house. | :10:00. | :10:04. | |
Specialist teams have been working at the scene all day. They needed to | :10:04. | :10:09. | |
make the property safe before they could recover the body. This is a | :10:09. | :10:12. | |
really hazardous environment. The fire officers are working bravely. | :10:12. | :10:21. | |
Once we have got the body out, we will then take stock and see what we | :10:21. | :10:24. | |
can do in the next phase. This may take a number of days to examine the | :10:24. | :10:26. | |
house. Rescuers who had been searching through the rubble brick | :10:26. | :10:30. | |
by brick have now removed the body from the scene. The explosion, | :10:30. | :10:40. | |
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thought to have been caused by gas, A former army test pilot is to | :10:41. | :10:45. | |
become the first British astronaut in space for more than 20 years. | :10:45. | :10:49. | |
Major Tim Peak will be sent to the International Space Station for six | :10:49. | :10:53. | |
months in 2015. He says the mission will be less dangerous than his old | :10:53. | :10:57. | |
job. Science editor David Shukman has the story. | :10:57. | :11:03. | |
Meet Major Tim Peak, Britain's first official astronaut, clearly loving | :11:03. | :11:07. | |
the experience of weightlessness. The former army helicopter pilot is | :11:07. | :11:10. | |
used to some pretty unusual training, but nothing is tougher | :11:10. | :11:16. | |
than space, and there is a lot to learn. Tim has been selected... At | :11:16. | :11:21. | |
the Science Museum in London, something no British minister has | :11:21. | :11:25. | |
ever done before, announced that �16 million of Government money will put | :11:25. | :11:30. | |
a British astronaut in orbit. He cannot wait to get there. I don't | :11:30. | :11:33. | |
think I need to tell you I am delighted with his decision. It was | :11:33. | :11:39. | |
an honour to be selected in 2009 as an astronaut candidate, as a British | :11:39. | :11:43. | |
citizen, but it really is a true privilege to be assigned to a long | :11:43. | :11:49. | |
duration mission. The first British person in space was Helen Sharman in | :11:49. | :11:54. | |
1991, but her trip lasted just a week and was privately funded. | :11:54. | :11:58. | |
Others became American citizens to fly. Now the Government has cleared | :11:58. | :12:04. | |
the way for Tim Peake. His launch will come in November 2015 on a | :12:04. | :12:09. | |
Russian Soyuz rocket. That will be the start of a six-month stay on | :12:09. | :12:12. | |
board the International Space Station. There he will be using zero | :12:12. | :12:16. | |
gravity conditions for medical experiments and other research, and | :12:16. | :12:21. | |
inspiration, ministers hope. People talk about the Apollo programme | :12:21. | :12:24. | |
where a whole generation of Americans went on to study science | :12:24. | :12:28. | |
because of the excitement, and I hope this mission will encourage a | :12:28. | :12:36. | |
generation of British schoolkids and college students. The big hope is | :12:36. | :12:39. | |
that Britain's space industries will get a boost. Here at this laboratory | :12:39. | :12:43. | |
they are building cameras for the space station. New contracts mean | :12:43. | :12:49. | |
more jobs. This work, which has gone largely unnoticed, is now worth �9 | :12:49. | :12:53. | |
billion a year, and the government is now seeing the potential of that. | :12:53. | :12:56. | |
Getting a British astronaut up into orbit is meant to raise the profile | :12:56. | :13:06. | |
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Tom... Meanwhile, Chris Hadfield fuelled new interest with his | :13:09. | :13:13. | |
version of David Bowie's space oddity. What song will you cover? | :13:13. | :13:17. | |
do play the guitar, actually, I had the pleasure of playing with Chris | :13:18. | :13:23. | |
before we launched, but I play very badly, I would not be singing! | :13:23. | :13:26. | |
Training in a range of very different situations lies ahead | :13:26. | :13:34. | |
liftoff in two years. A place in the history books. | :13:34. | :13:39. | |
The radical cleric Abu Qatada has once again been denied bail as he | :13:39. | :13:43. | |
awaits deportation to Jordan. Lawyers for the terror suspect said | :13:43. | :13:53. | |
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he had been deprived of his liberty more than any other non-convicted | :14:09. | :14:11. | |
person in British history. Tom Symonds joins us now from the | :14:11. | :14:21. | |
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Special Immigration Appeals lead to his deportation will be | :14:53. | :14:57. | |
discussed shortly at the Jordanian parliament, one of the hurdles which | :14:57. | :15:07. | |
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has to be jumped before he is deported. Tom, thank you. Police | :15:08. | :15:11. | |
have searched an MP's office in Parliament as part of an | :15:11. | :15:13. | |
investigation into what's been described as a serious arrestable | :15:13. | :15:16. | |
offence. The BBC understands it's the office of Deputy Speaker, Nigel | :15:16. | :15:19. | |
Evans, who was questioned earlier this month over sexual allegations | :15:19. | :15:23. | |
made by two men. He denies the claims. A British man has appeared | :15:23. | :15:26. | |
in court in France suspected of murdering his two children in a flat | :15:26. | :15:29. | |
in Lyon. Julian Stevenson, who is 47, is accused of killing his | :15:29. | :15:33. | |
ten-year-old son Matthew and daughter Carla who was five. He is | :15:33. | :15:36. | |
alleged to have fled the scene on roller skates but was later captured | :15:36. | :15:43. | |
by police. Christian Fraser reports. On his way into court this | :15:43. | :15:48. | |
afternoon, his head covered by a blanket. Julian Stevenson was a man | :15:48. | :15:51. | |
so enraged by the custody battle he had lost, he betrayed every instinct | :15:51. | :15:58. | |
a father should have. His children, ten-year-old Matthew and | :15:58. | :16:00. | |
five-year-old Carla were found dead on a balcony of this apartment | :16:00. | :16:06. | |
block. He had attacked them with a knife. | :16:06. | :16:10. | |
TRANSLATION: Crime can happen everywhere. When it's right next | :16:10. | :16:14. | |
door to you, it's more difficult. I have got four children, I can't | :16:14. | :16:19. | |
think about what happened. It is scary. When his wife collected on | :16:19. | :16:23. | |
Saturday evening, he was standing in the stairwell, his clothes | :16:23. | :16:28. | |
splattered with blood. Neighbours said he fled down this street on | :16:28. | :16:31. | |
rollerblades but was arrested in the city centre. He confessed he killed | :16:31. | :16:35. | |
them and police that he blamed his divorce. Friends say there was a | :16:35. | :16:42. | |
history of domestic violence and drink and since 2010, his visiting | :16:42. | :16:44. | |
rights had been curtailed. This was the first weekend he had been | :16:44. | :16:48. | |
granted unrestricted access. But why? And who gave him that | :16:48. | :16:53. | |
authority? For now, you will be held on suspicion of secondary murder and | :16:53. | :16:56. | |
the prosecutor says it can't prove was premeditated but that might | :16:56. | :16:58. | |
change, he said, the more they uncover through ongoing police | :16:58. | :17:08. | |
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interviews. Our top story this evening. As gay marriage is debated | :17:10. | :17:13. | |
in Parliament, the Government and Labour try to reach a deal that'll | :17:13. | :17:17. | |
allow it to become legal in England and Wales. Coming up. Welcome gnome. | :17:17. | :17:20. | |
The ornaments make their debut at the Chelsea Flower Show complete | :17:20. | :17:27. | |
with celebrity endorsement. I spent a lot of time making my gnome look | :17:27. | :17:31. | |
as nice as possible but, in a discreet way, quite chic and | :17:31. | :17:39. | |
esoteric. In sport today, the doping scandal of the Godolphin Stadium | :17:39. | :17:49. | |
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widens as seven horses test positive West struggle, many of Africa's | :17:58. | :18:00. | |
developing nations are continuing to grow. Production across the | :18:00. | :18:04. | |
continent is expected to go up by 5% this year. And Ethiopia, once known | :18:04. | :18:07. | |
for periods of drought and famine, has been growing at an average of | :18:07. | :18:13. | |
8.7% for the past five years. Well, Africa's leaders are preparing to | :18:13. | :18:16. | |
meet in the capital Addis Ababa for the 50th anniversary of the African | :18:16. | :18:19. | |
Union later this week. George Alagiah is there with the first in a | :18:19. | :18:29. | |
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series of special reports. Thank you, yes, good evening from Addis | :18:31. | :18:35. | |
Ababa. That summit will take place in the shining building behind me. | :18:35. | :18:39. | |
No one is saying, of course, there are not problems in Africa. In the | :18:39. | :18:43. | |
last few days, the BBC has reported on the threat from extremists in | :18:43. | :18:49. | |
Nigeria and there is the continuing violence in Congo. That said, five | :18:49. | :18:54. | |
of the fastest-growing economies in the world are here in Africa. And, | :18:54. | :18:58. | |
Ethiopian is on the vanguard. Still, the country of the largest recipient | :18:58. | :19:02. | |
of British aid but as I have been finding out, it's no longer a matter | :19:02. | :19:08. | |
of just food handouts. Forget what you thought you knew about | :19:08. | :19:12. | |
Ethiopian. And take a look at this. It is the cocktail hour. The bright | :19:13. | :19:17. | |
young things in downtown Addis Ababa can look forward to a future their | :19:17. | :19:22. | |
parents could only dream of. Nowhere is the change in the country's | :19:22. | :19:26. | |
prospects more obvious than the commodities exchange. The first on | :19:26. | :19:30. | |
the continent. I was given the honour of kicking off the day's | :19:30. | :19:36. | |
trading. Hands which might once have reached out for help on signalling | :19:36. | :19:41. | |
deals worth nearly �700 million a year. The exchange has cut the | :19:41. | :19:48. | |
middlemen, making farmers better off for the British aid helps it up. | :19:48. | :19:52. | |
need to help them unleash their own entrepreneurs, to create their own | :19:52. | :19:56. | |
wealth, that, in time, means that they will have a tax base which | :19:56. | :20:00. | |
funds their own basic services. That's how you create sustainable | :20:00. | :20:03. | |
economies and the future for these countries, where they are no longer | :20:03. | :20:12. | |
dependent on aid. Ethiopian is the home of Coffey and this family have | :20:12. | :20:17. | |
been exporting raw beans for three generations. But they say the real | :20:17. | :20:20. | |
money is made abroad. In the roasting. What's wrong with | :20:20. | :20:25. | |
exporting just this? Nothing, with exporting the green beans, but the | :20:25. | :20:33. | |
larger portion will be retained outside. More money made by | :20:33. | :20:37. | |
foreigners? Correct. That's about to change. The company has just taken | :20:37. | :20:40. | |
delivery of this new roasting machine. Coping with the expansion | :20:40. | :20:46. | |
will mean doubling the workforce. soon as this operational we should | :20:46. | :20:50. | |
have ten times the capacity we currently have. When this plant is | :20:51. | :20:55. | |
up and running, the company will become the first large-scale | :20:55. | :21:01. | |
exporter of roasted coffee from Ethiopian. Foreign investment | :21:01. | :21:06. | |
including the stake taken by the British taxpayer has been crucial. | :21:06. | :21:10. | |
On the outskirts of the capital, this small-scale factory is making a | :21:10. | :21:18. | |
big name for itself. The governments guarded transition from Marx to the | :21:18. | :21:22. | |
market has created new space for private sector. The company now has | :21:22. | :21:28. | |
outlets around the world. We have massive opportunities in Ethiopian | :21:28. | :21:33. | |
and are paying five times what other companies are paying in the same | :21:33. | :21:39. | |
industry and we are empowering the people around here. Success stories | :21:39. | :21:43. | |
like this have helped Ethiopian notch up double-digit growth figures | :21:43. | :21:48. | |
for much of the last decade. But there is a catch. This is an economy | :21:49. | :21:55. | |
starting from a very low base. And it has a long way to go. It's worth | :21:55. | :21:59. | |
stressing that I have been concentrating on the economy where | :21:59. | :22:03. | |
there is a good story to tell about Ethiopian. But there are other areas | :22:03. | :22:08. | |
such as the governments human rights record with their are plenty of | :22:09. | :22:11. | |
concerns. For more on this week's coverage from Africa, you can go to | :22:11. | :22:19. | |
the website. Tomorrow we will be looking at Ghana but for now, it's | :22:19. | :22:28. | |
back to you. George, thank you. The Church of Scotland has just voted to | :22:28. | :22:30. | |
allow gay people in civil partnerships, to become parish | :22:30. | :22:32. | |
priests. The Church's General Assembly meeting in Edinburgh has | :22:33. | :22:36. | |
agreed the plan which allow parishes to choose a gay minister if they | :22:36. | :22:38. | |
wish. Our religious affairs correspondent, Robert Pigott is in | :22:38. | :22:45. | |
Edinburgh for us. Well, a boat like this would have | :22:45. | :22:49. | |
been unthinkable until recently in the Church of Scotland's history -- | :22:49. | :22:52. | |
vote. It's always been a bastion of conservative teaching on public | :22:52. | :22:57. | |
morals and now at the end of a century long prohibition on acts of | :22:57. | :22:59. | |
homosexuality. I think the effect of this will be felt far beyond the | :22:59. | :23:04. | |
boundaries of Scotland. After passionate debate, a momentous | :23:05. | :23:10. | |
decision. A step unthinkable until recently, the General Assembly | :23:10. | :23:14. | |
declared for the first time that active homosexuality was allowable. | :23:14. | :23:19. | |
A decision which could change the church forever. Delegates known as | :23:19. | :23:22. | |
commissioners faced a stark choice about how to deal with an issue | :23:22. | :23:28. | |
which is shown its power to split churches apart. Liberal conjugations | :23:28. | :23:31. | |
set of Saint Andrews and Saint Georges West in Edinburgh backed a | :23:31. | :23:35. | |
proposal to give parishes the freedom to choose actively gay | :23:36. | :23:39. | |
ministers in civil partnerships. They had powerful support in the | :23:39. | :23:47. | |
assembly. I accepted in this church, or am I not because I'm a gay woman? | :23:47. | :23:54. | |
It undermines my very core, it undermines my place with God. | :23:54. | :23:58. | |
many in the church insist active homosexuality is sinful, against the | :23:58. | :24:04. | |
teaching of the Bible itself. Bible does not anywhere endorse | :24:04. | :24:10. | |
same-sex activity as pleasing to God. We're not talking about | :24:10. | :24:15. | |
orientation here. That's different. We are talking about same-sex sexual | :24:15. | :24:21. | |
activity. The heart and Soul Festival in Edinburgh yesterday | :24:21. | :24:25. | |
presented a lively and confident Church of Scotland. Its rank and | :24:25. | :24:29. | |
file are deeply divided about homosexuality and they are also | :24:29. | :24:33. | |
susceptible to attitudes in wider Scottish society. Increasingly | :24:33. | :24:37. | |
focused on secular values such as equality. I think it's a good thing | :24:37. | :24:42. | |
because it shows how society is move forward. It's teaching the word of | :24:42. | :24:48. | |
God, they can't betray what the Bible says. It will influence other | :24:48. | :24:52. | |
churches. The Church of England is currently reviewing its policy which | :24:52. | :24:56. | |
allows clergy to have civil partnerships but requires them to be | :24:56. | :24:59. | |
celibate. Many other churches currently tackling this most | :24:59. | :25:05. | |
intractable of issues. A decision of this magnitude will have to be | :25:05. | :25:09. | |
farmed out to the regional churches and they could veto it but it's | :25:09. | :25:12. | |
questionable how long they will want to resist what is clearly the | :25:12. | :25:17. | |
governing body of the church putt opinion. People will look back | :25:17. | :25:27. | |
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tonight at the moment the church changed. Robert, thank you. Now as | :25:27. | :25:30. | |
hardy perennials go, they don't come much more enduring that the Chelsea | :25:30. | :25:33. | |
Flower Show which this year celebrates 100 years of gardening | :25:33. | :25:35. | |
excellence. Our Royal Correspondent, Luisa Baldini is there for us. | :25:35. | :25:41. | |
Luisa. You don't need to be green fingered to appreciate what a | :25:41. | :25:46. | |
success story the Chelsea Flower Show is. 100 years on, and it is | :25:46. | :25:50. | |
still going strong. Yes, it's a traditional event, conservative with | :25:50. | :25:54. | |
a small sea, but there always seems to be an element of surprise for the | :25:54. | :26:01. | |
non-traditionalists as well. It has been a fixture of the British summer | :26:01. | :26:05. | |
for ten decades. And has had the royal seal of approval ever since | :26:05. | :26:10. | |
the first show in 1913. COMMENTATOR: The Duke and Duchess of | :26:10. | :26:19. | |
York is amongst the early visitors. Generations have visited the show. | :26:19. | :26:22. | |
This was 1936, and it's just as public with the public and this year | :26:22. | :26:27. | |
is a sellout. Showing for the first time is a garden for Prince Harry's | :26:27. | :26:31. | |
charity. These forget-me-nots garden represents a loss of Harry's | :26:31. | :26:38. | |
mother, Princess Diana, as well as the African country of little too. | :26:38. | :26:43. | |
He's terribly excited about it. When he was at camp bastion, I had sent | :26:43. | :26:48. | |
everything over. He knew everything about it and said, why didn't you | :26:48. | :26:53. | |
send more? This reflects the changing tastes in gardens over the | :26:53. | :26:56. | |
years and includes three companies which exhibited plants at the first | :26:56. | :27:03. | |
Chelsea. And for the first time in Chelsea's history, garden gnomes are | :27:03. | :27:06. | |
being allowed. The celebrity decorated characters are being | :27:06. | :27:12. | |
auctioned to raise money for young gardeners. What were your thoughts | :27:12. | :27:17. | |
on decorating this? This represents blue and red lines, slowly falling, | :27:17. | :27:22. | |
cascading if you will, down a garden gnome, who not just has green | :27:22. | :27:28. | |
fingered green hands. I like that. Where you good at art at school? | :27:28. | :27:33. | |
don't you make up your own mind? Draw your own conclusions by looking | :27:33. | :27:37. | |
at that. I spent a lot of time making my garden gnome look as nice | :27:37. | :27:43. | |
as possible, but he's a little bit chic but also EISA Tarik. Mine is | :27:43. | :27:48. | |
called the gene known. When I painted it, I realised I did the GE | :27:48. | :27:54. | |
completely wrong. I'm a little bit dyslexic, so it wasn't quite right. | :27:54. | :27:57. | |
Garden gnomes shouldn't get too comfortable in the genteel | :27:57. | :28:03. | |
surroundings of Chelsea, though. The ban on them and other brightly | :28:03. | :28:09. | |
coloured mythical creatures will be back in force next year. The Queen | :28:09. | :28:14. | |
arrived a short time ago. She has already been to see this Australian | :28:14. | :28:21. | |
themed garden and she is currently being shown around the centre garden | :28:21. | :28:26. | |
by her grandson, Prince Harry, and tomorrow is when it opens to the | :28:26. | :28:32. | |
public for the duration of five days. Thank you. Is it good weather | :28:33. | :28:42. | |
for gardeners? Time for a look at frost. The weather is on the change | :28:42. | :28:48. | |
once again. The cloud melting away through the afternoon. Some unseen | :28:48. | :28:52. | |
storm clouds building up. South-east Scotland in particular, some lively | :28:52. | :28:58. | |
storms developing through the second of today. Have a Met office amber | :28:58. | :29:02. | |
warning in place across south-east Scotland at the moment. Intense | :29:02. | :29:06. | |
downpours, rumbles of thunder and some halo. You can see how those | :29:06. | :29:11. | |
storms been pushing southward and eastwards. Now working into the | :29:11. | :29:15. | |
Borders. They will track southward and Eastwood and maybe get into | :29:15. | :29:18. | |
Northumberland during this evening. Elsewhere, one or two showers | :29:18. | :29:24. |