:00:10. > :00:16.Some on the by Parliament. News international bosses face a
:00:16. > :00:20.grilling from MPs next Tuesday. A dramatic U-turn, all day, James and
:00:20. > :00:26.Rupert Murdoch said they would stay away, then a change of heart. They
:00:26. > :00:32.will join Rebekah Brooks and all three warned that they may have to
:00:32. > :00:38.stay silent on some questions. The fear is that we will see the
:00:38. > :00:43.hear no evil, speak no evil, say no evil, they will say that they knew
:00:43. > :00:48.nothing was going on. Neil Wallis, a former employee is
:00:48. > :00:51.arrested. M America, the FBI launch its own investigation.
:00:51. > :00:55.Tonight, Rupert Murdoch gives his first major interview. We have the
:00:55. > :00:58.late egs. On the programme: The price of
:00:58. > :01:02.protest in Syria. The brutal crackdown is unveiled. We get
:01:02. > :01:05.across the border. We are told that the Syrian
:01:05. > :01:09.military and the feared secret police have moved into the area. It
:01:09. > :01:13.is too unsafe to stay out in the open for too long.
:01:13. > :01:19.Dark days for Italy: Votes for massive spending cuts in Parliament.
:01:19. > :01:24.Is it enough to avoid a European bail out? And the Jane Austen
:01:24. > :01:30.manuscript that has fetched nearly �1 million, she did not even finish
:01:30. > :01:37.the novel. Coming up: On the BBC News channel.
:01:37. > :01:47.Tom Lewis deals the headlines after Leing the field from the round one
:01:47. > :01:56.
:01:56. > :02:01.Good evening. The three most powerful figures in
:02:01. > :02:06.the Murdoch media impyre in Britain are to face questions from MPs on
:02:06. > :02:09.Tuesday next, about who knew what and when in the hacking scandal.
:02:09. > :02:15.The appearance of Rupert Murdoch and his son, James, had been in
:02:16. > :02:19.doubt after they turned down the request, but in a daiment U-turn
:02:19. > :02:24.both said this that they would join Rebekah Brooks.
:02:24. > :02:29.Tonight, Rupert Murdoch has defended his company's handling of
:02:29. > :02:31.the crisis, saying it only made minor mistakes.
:02:31. > :02:35.This report contains flash photography.
:02:36. > :02:39.Parliament has already cost them the News of the World and BSkyB,
:02:39. > :02:43.but now it wants to hold Rebekah Brooks and James and Rupert Murdoch
:02:43. > :02:47.to account, to answer the questions that the MPs and the public want
:02:47. > :02:53.asked about why so many people's phones were hacked in the name of
:02:53. > :02:59.news. It was a summons, in the end, that they could not ignore.
:02:59. > :03:05.My message to, you know to Rebekah Brooks, to the Murdochs, is to do
:03:05. > :03:08.the decent thing. You can't hide away from this level of public
:03:08. > :03:14.anguish. At first, they were reluctant
:03:14. > :03:18.witnesses. In a letter this morning. Rupert Murdoch told the Committee,
:03:18. > :03:21.that he could not attend the session, but could give evidence to
:03:21. > :03:25.the public inquiry. James Murdoch said he could not come. Rebekah
:03:25. > :03:27.Brooks, the Chief Executive of News International said she was
:03:27. > :03:32.available to appear before the Committee on the date and welcomed
:03:32. > :03:36.the opportunity to do so, but said she would not be able to discuss
:03:36. > :03:41.anything that relaets to the ongoing police investigation.
:03:41. > :03:45.Here in Westminster, the talk was of a formal summons for the
:03:45. > :03:50.Murdochs, a fine, even imprisonment in the bowls of Parliament. Within
:03:50. > :03:55.hours, it appeared that the threat had worked. The Murdochs change
:03:55. > :03:59.their minds In a second letter, Rupert Murdoch said he was writing
:03:59. > :04:03.to confirm their attendance and said they were concerned that this
:04:03. > :04:05.they are being asked to ask further questions on top of a different
:04:05. > :04:10.forum. But whatever the forum, the
:04:10. > :04:14.questions keep coming. Why did the News of the World mislead
:04:14. > :04:18.Parliament over phone hacking? Why were some victims paid to keep
:04:18. > :04:22.quiet? Why did the management fail to find out what was going on and
:04:22. > :04:26.stop it? As for Rebekah Brooks, she will be asked about what she told
:04:26. > :04:31.the MPs the last time. We have paid the police for
:04:31. > :04:36.information in the past. I hope that the Committee will want
:04:36. > :04:39.to hear the truth. We want to get to the facts. This is not about a
:04:39. > :04:43.lynch mob or an opportunity to throw abuse.
:04:43. > :04:48.But the lawyer representing the family of Milly Dowler had 4 doubts.
:04:48. > :04:53.We are pleased that they are to attend, but I think that they will
:04:53. > :04:59.be sceptical that will say anything. I think there will be the three
:04:59. > :05:02.monkeys, hear no evil, speak no evil, see no evil. They will say
:05:02. > :05:06.that nobody was speaking about phone hacking.
:05:06. > :05:10.Tonight, Rupert Murdoch insisted that his company had handled the
:05:10. > :05:14.crisis well, denied selling his newspapers and said he would use
:05:14. > :05:18.next week's appearance to establish their integrity in the eyes of the
:05:18. > :05:22.public. So the scene is set for an extraordinary confrontation between
:05:22. > :05:26.the Parliament and the press. A chance for the Murdochs to defend
:05:26. > :05:31.their newspapers, a chance for the MPs to press home their attack. It
:05:31. > :05:34.will be historic, it will be theatre and utterly unmissable.
:05:34. > :05:37.Tonight, questions are raised about relations between Metropolitan
:05:37. > :05:43.Police and the News of the World. It emerged that the latest figure
:05:43. > :05:47.to be arrested, a former deputy editor of the paper, went on to
:05:47. > :05:50.work for the police. Neil Wallis went on to give advice to senior
:05:50. > :05:57.officers and Sir Paul Stephenson. We have this report now on the
:05:57. > :06:01.press and the police. Another newspaper executive
:06:01. > :06:05.emerging from another London police station.
:06:05. > :06:11.This afternoon, O'Neill, a veteran of the tabloid press became the man
:06:11. > :06:19.that the press scrum wanted to speak to. He said not a word.
:06:19. > :06:22.Neil Wallis was arrested at 6.340 30am not far from here at his home.
:06:22. > :06:25.He spent ten hours in the police station being questioned. While
:06:25. > :06:28.that was happening outside questions were raised about his
:06:28. > :06:31.links to the same force investigating him.
:06:31. > :06:37.Neil Wallis was deputy editor of the News of the World under Andy
:06:37. > :06:41.Coulson. He worked for the paper, between 2003 and 2009. He left to
:06:41. > :06:45.set ip a public relations company and ended up working for the
:06:45. > :06:51.Metropolitan Police. He was a consultant.
:06:51. > :06:55.Between October 2009 and September 2010, he was advising the Force on
:06:55. > :06:57.its communication strategy. Only months before the Met had
:06:58. > :07:02.decided not to reopen its investigation into the News of the
:07:02. > :07:07.World phone hacker, Glenn Mulcaire, the Health Secretary, Theresa May
:07:07. > :07:10.has now rin to the Met's Commissioner, Sir Paul Stephenson,
:07:11. > :07:16.to get the full picture of their relationship with the police. The
:07:16. > :07:19.Met said he was fairly appointed to the job, but that was not all, the
:07:19. > :07:24.Metropolitan Police Authority has questioned the comegser about why
:07:24. > :07:30.in 2006 he dined with Neil Wallis too, Sir Paul Stephenson's response
:07:30. > :07:35.I do not believe on any occasion I have acted inappropriately. I am
:07:35. > :07:39.satisfied with my integrity, but I accept in matters such as this, we
:07:39. > :07:42.have to move on, take this point in time to acknowledge that
:07:42. > :07:48.perceptions can be different than the reality.
:07:49. > :07:51.Almost daily there are accusations that London's police were too close
:07:51. > :07:57.to News International. Providing much material for the forthcoming
:07:57. > :08:00.inquiry. Well, Rupert Murdoch's empire is
:08:00. > :08:04.coming under greater scrutiny around the world. In the United
:08:04. > :08:07.States, the FBI announced it is to investigate claims that the News of
:08:07. > :08:12.the World journalist tried to access the phone records of the
:08:12. > :08:17.victims of the 9/11 attacks. Our correspondent is in New York.
:08:17. > :08:21.So, Laura, he is fighting fires on both sides of the Atlantic? That's
:08:22. > :08:25.right, George. Tonight this phone hacking scandal has most definitely
:08:25. > :08:29.crossed the pond. US law makers have been calling for the
:08:29. > :08:34.investigation. Anything to do with 9/11 is sacred territory here. It
:08:34. > :08:38.is very emotive, especially in the run-up to the tenth anniversary,
:08:38. > :08:42.but just as there is an FBI investigation, does not mean that
:08:42. > :08:47.anyone has done anything wrong, the allegations of attempted phone
:08:47. > :08:52.hacking of 9/11 victims' phones may be untrue, but shares in News
:08:52. > :08:56.Corporation did drop on the news because the $42 billion media
:08:56. > :09:01.company is being investigated on both sides of the Atlantic.
:09:01. > :09:06.In the last half an hour we have heard that Rupert Murdoch is giving
:09:06. > :09:10.an interview to the Wall Street, one of his own papers there? That's
:09:10. > :09:16.right. Rupert Murdoch has said his company has handled the crisis well
:09:16. > :09:18.in every way possible. Making minor mistakes. Saying that News
:09:18. > :09:22.Corporation will establish an independent Committee to
:09:22. > :09:27.investigate charges of improper conduct. Rejecting criticism that
:09:27. > :09:31.his son, James, acted slowly in addressing the scandal. He calls
:09:31. > :09:35.reports that he will sell off his newspapers pure and total rubbish,
:09:35. > :09:38.George. Thank you. A group of Syrian
:09:38. > :09:43.soldiers trying to flee their country have told the BBC that they
:09:43. > :09:49.were ordered to fire on protesters but refused. Foreign journalists
:09:49. > :09:56.cannot report freely from Syria, but our team managed to get in
:09:57. > :10:02.fromkm turkey. Reports suggest that about 3 50 security personnel and
:10:02. > :10:06.about 1,000 civilians have died. Our correspondent crossed the
:10:06. > :10:11.border near the Turkish village of Guvecci.
:10:11. > :10:14.There are reports that the security is intensifying.
:10:14. > :10:18.This is the only way to report freely in President Bashar al-
:10:18. > :10:24.Assad's Syria. Taking the smuggler's route through
:10:24. > :10:29.the mountains. Everyone treads carefully to avoid
:10:29. > :10:38.the border guards. The patrol passes and we are told
:10:38. > :10:43.to run. Since this conflict began, the
:10:43. > :10:48.Syrian regime has tried to control what the world sees and hears.
:10:48. > :10:53.We have come to find out what it is like, what it is hiding.
:10:53. > :10:57.Well, we are now travelling on the Syrian side of the border. We are
:10:57. > :11:01.having to keep a low professional. We are in the back of a pharmacy
:11:01. > :11:06.truck. We are told that the Syrian military and the secret police have
:11:06. > :11:10.moved into the area, that it is too unsafe to stay in the open for too
:11:10. > :11:15.long. The security forces have tried to crush anti-government
:11:15. > :11:23.protests here. Forcing more people to leave their towns and villages.
:11:23. > :11:26.We are taken to a camp in the woods. It is not much, but it is home.
:11:26. > :11:32.Thousands of families have been forced into hiding.
:11:32. > :11:39.They treat strangers with caution. Some have been here for months.
:11:39. > :11:43.They ail have a story to tell. It is remarkable how similar they are.
:11:43. > :11:47.Terrorised by government attacks, living in fear from the late-night
:11:47. > :11:51.viflts from the thugs who do the regime's dirty work.
:11:51. > :11:55.What has life been like here for his wife and children?
:11:55. > :11:58.TRANSLATION: The Syrian army and the secret police move in the trees
:11:58. > :12:03.and check on the people. They want to catch people, to plant weapons
:12:03. > :12:07.on them, to accuse them of being criminals. They went into our
:12:07. > :12:12.houses in the villages and damaged them. This is why no-one returns
:12:12. > :12:17.back to their homes. The Syrian army keeps a watchful
:12:17. > :12:23.eye from the hills. Unlike Egypt and Tunisia, they have taken sides
:12:23. > :12:28.with the regime. Now, a rare item of what that means. Samir is a
:12:28. > :12:31.soldier from Damascus, he says he was ordered to shoot at protesters
:12:31. > :12:35.who gathered after Friday prayers. When you say you were ordered to
:12:35. > :12:40.fire upon the people, was that with live ammunition? And were you told
:12:40. > :12:46.to shoot at the people or into the air? He said that they were given
:12:46. > :12:49.live ammo and told to fire at the legs of defenceless protesters.
:12:49. > :12:55.Just look at this rare demonstration at a mosque in
:12:55. > :12:59.Damascus. The BBC has been given footage of
:12:59. > :13:06.the time here. We cannot verify this, but it appears to show
:13:06. > :13:11.government thugs threatening and beating protesters.
:13:11. > :13:16.The graphic images show the dangers for those calling for change now
:13:16. > :13:20.facing. This is now a fight for their
:13:20. > :13:24.future and in a country that is a fragile mix of race and religion,
:13:24. > :13:34.it is also a battle for the shape of the region.
:13:34. > :13:35.
:13:35. > :13:40.This Arab revolution is going to be In Egypt protesters are preparing
:13:40. > :13:42.for what they say will be another big demonstration in Cairo's Tahrir
:13:43. > :13:45.Square tomorrow. They returned their last Friday, because of fears
:13:45. > :13:52.that their revolution had stalled, despite the overthrow of Hosni
:13:52. > :13:57.Mubarak. To end our week of special reports on the Arab uprising, our
:13:57. > :13:59.Middle East editor, Jeremy Bowen, reports from Cairo on why Egypt
:13:59. > :14:03.remains centre stage on the dramatic stages taking place across
:14:03. > :14:07.the region. Six months ago, Egypt had a
:14:07. > :14:11.President who was more like a pharaoh. He left no golden
:14:11. > :14:16.memorials, just a deeply troubled country. But the way his regime
:14:16. > :14:23.ended inspired other Arabs to turn on their own authoritarian,
:14:23. > :14:28.stagnant regimes. In Cairo's poorer quarters, you can see why people
:14:28. > :14:38.want a new Middle East. Official corruption made the poverty worse.
:14:38. > :14:45.The regime's real legacy. Too many live in places like these cramped
:14:45. > :14:49.back alies. It's hard to feel free, if every day is a struggle. To get
:14:49. > :14:52.an idea where the pressure for change is coming from you need to
:14:52. > :14:57.go down any street in the Middle East. Around 60% of Arabs are under
:14:57. > :15:01.the age of 30. A lot of them are just fed up with regimes that
:15:01. > :15:05.haven't even been trying to give them better lives. The difference
:15:05. > :15:11.this year is that they feel they can do something about it. Change
:15:11. > :15:15.isn't coming easily or quickly, but there's no going back to the way it
:15:15. > :15:19.was. But they have gone back to Tahrir
:15:19. > :15:24.Square because they believe the revolution is not complete. Unlike
:15:24. > :15:31.those who are still trying in Yemen, Bahrain, Libya and Syria, Egyptians
:15:31. > :15:35.overthrew the man at the top. Now they're deifying the generals, who
:15:35. > :15:40.they believe are trying to preserve as much of the old system as they
:15:40. > :15:43.can. Sally Moore, an organiser since the first Andy Mubarak
:15:43. > :15:48.marches in January, believe they're still leading the way for the rest
:15:49. > :15:52.of the Arab world. They were looking at Egypt as a model. We
:15:52. > :15:55.thought by toppling the regime things would be OK, all of a sudden.
:15:56. > :15:59.But that's not how things go. We believe we left the square early.
:15:59. > :16:02.We believe that we should have stayed here until all our demands
:16:02. > :16:06.are met. We want a proper transition to democracy, so they
:16:06. > :16:12.don't say, see the chaos that happened after you toppled someone
:16:12. > :16:19.like Mubarak. While Arabs debate, Westerners
:16:19. > :16:25.speck Tate, even the Libyan intervention leader, ceasefire and
:16:25. > :16:29.negotiation should be the goal in Libya, a new beginning for a new
:16:29. > :16:37.ear ya. We are on the path of a change, a serious change in the
:16:37. > :16:42.Arab world. There is no democracy, no real economic development, no
:16:42. > :16:48.real progress for the future, that is why the vast majority, it is a
:16:48. > :16:52.unanimous position that we should be change. Taking on the deep state
:16:53. > :16:58.that lay beneath the regime might be the hardest job yet for the
:16:58. > :17:02.protesters. The Arab Spring has turned into summer, making a new
:17:02. > :17:07.Middle East will take more than a season. It will reveal itself
:17:07. > :17:14.slowly, there'll be votes for political Islam as well as for
:17:14. > :17:24.secular democracy. And it's changing the world.
:17:24. > :17:24.
:17:24. > :17:26.Coming up tonight: A Russ ti looking Rory McIlroy has a
:17:26. > :17:31.frustrating first round at The Open Championship.
:17:31. > :17:39.There's been a significant rise in bug laergz -- burglaries koiing to
:17:39. > :17:43.the latest figures from the British Crime Survey. Overall the survey
:17:43. > :17:48.showed crime levels remain static after a number of years improving
:17:48. > :17:52.figures. Mark easten has been looking at the numbers.
:17:52. > :17:57.It's often said a combination of recession an cuts will inevitably
:17:57. > :18:00.mean rising crime and disorder after years of falls. So today's
:18:00. > :18:05.official figures, revealing a 14% increase in burglaries have been
:18:05. > :18:08.ceased upon as evidence that the tide has, indeed, turned.
:18:08. > :18:12.These figures may show, for the first time, that crime may be on
:18:12. > :18:16.the rise in future. They certainly show after many years crime figures
:18:16. > :18:20.generally are not falling any more. Some crimes like burglary are on
:18:20. > :18:24.the rise. 14% rise last year in burglary. That could be a sign of
:18:24. > :18:29.things to come. That 14% increase, though, comes with a health warning,
:18:29. > :18:34.if one looks back over 30 years of burglary rates, according to the
:18:34. > :18:38.British Crime Survey, one can see how it rose it a peak in the mid-
:18:38. > :18:43.90s and then fell and apart from a very low figure last year, now
:18:43. > :18:47.appears pretty much flat. Both official statisticians and
:18:47. > :18:52.Government say it's too early to say a recession-fuelled crime wave.
:18:52. > :18:56.There is no simple link and whilst some indicators are providing a
:18:56. > :18:59.showing of an increase in certain crime types, some are shown as
:18:59. > :19:03.falling. Therefore I think what these figures underline is that it
:19:04. > :19:09.is complex, but we can't draw on any long-term trends from one
:19:09. > :19:15.single group of figures. We'll keep on calling you offer the next few
:19:15. > :19:18.weeks, to see what you're up to, who you're hanging round with.
:19:18. > :19:23.called intelligent policing is credited by some as the reason
:19:23. > :19:26.fears haven't become reality. When the economy collapsed after the
:19:27. > :19:31.banking crisis, one Labour minister thought it blindingly obvious that
:19:31. > :19:35.crime would rise as a consequence. The last few years have seen crime
:19:35. > :19:40.rates in England and Wales continue to fall. Historically crime rose
:19:40. > :19:44.fastest in the late 50s and early 60s, just as the economy was
:19:44. > :19:50.starting to flourish. During the 70s and 80s it kept going up and up,
:19:50. > :19:54.boom or bust, crime continued to rise regardless. Now this is the
:19:54. > :19:59.story of overall crime in England and Wales, over the last three
:19:59. > :20:04.decades, rising once more until 1995, then falling, and beginning
:20:04. > :20:08.to flatten out, as we saw with burglary. It's been a similar story
:20:08. > :20:11.across the UK and in pretty much every Western nation, regardless of
:20:12. > :20:17.criminal justice policies over the same period. There are plenty of
:20:17. > :20:22.theories as to why, but that remains perhaps the biggest crime
:20:22. > :20:26.mystery of them all. Faced with a growing debt crisis
:20:26. > :20:31.and mounting international pressure, the Italian Senate today passed a
:20:31. > :20:35.tough austerity budget, including cuts of �42 billion over the next
:20:35. > :20:42.three years. Will it be enough for Italy to avoid following Greece,
:20:42. > :20:46.Portugal and Ireland in asking for a bail out? Gavin Hewitt reports.
:20:46. > :20:51.Italy, ever aware of battles past, has been told it is now on the
:20:51. > :21:01.frontline in the current battle over the eurozone crisis. And the
:21:01. > :21:06.
:21:06. > :21:12.Today the Italian Senate debated an emergency austerity package,
:21:12. > :21:15.huredly brought forward to calm markets worried about Italian debt.
:21:15. > :21:18.The Italian Finance Minister told the senators that the country was
:21:18. > :21:22.watching. He warned that public debt could devour our future and
:21:22. > :21:27.the future of our children. Passions ran high, after all,
:21:27. > :21:31.public sector wages will now be frozen. But the Senate approved the
:21:31. > :21:36.measures and the Italian Parliament looks set to pass this budget in
:21:36. > :21:40.just five days. We are dealing right now with a defence of the
:21:40. > :21:46.European currency, the speculative attack that's been going on on the
:21:46. > :21:52.Italian market is not against Italy, it is against euro currency. Here
:21:52. > :21:59.is Italy's problem: It is looking to make �42 billion in savings over
:21:59. > :22:05.three years. It is under pressure because its debt is 120% of GDP.
:22:05. > :22:10.Its total debt is �1.6 trillion. If Italy really gets into trouble, it
:22:10. > :22:14.is simply too big to be rescued. Italy does have impressive
:22:14. > :22:20.designers and world famous brands. What this masks, however, is low
:22:20. > :22:24.productivity and low growth. Some of those who oppose today's
:22:24. > :22:28.austerity package fear without growth, Italy can't escape its
:22:28. > :22:33.problems. Yes, we need to put the debt under control. But this
:22:34. > :22:38.package is not enough. You cannot put that under control if you don't
:22:38. > :22:43.promote growth, meaning, that in Autumn we will be back to square
:22:43. > :22:47.one. Financial markets also remain wary, most of the savings won't
:22:47. > :22:53.take effect until 2013 and Italy's borrowing costs are not just high,
:22:53. > :22:57.but close to being unsustainable. The austerity package comes here to
:22:57. > :23:02.Italy's lower house tomorrow and is expected to be passed. Although
:23:02. > :23:06.Italy is causing concern, the real focus remains away from here in
:23:06. > :23:14.Greece and there are still deep divisions over how to organise a
:23:14. > :23:18.second bail out for that country. He's dominated the build up to the
:23:18. > :23:22.British Open, but today Rory McIlroy had his fans groaning at
:23:22. > :23:28.his performance. The 22-year-old, who won the US Open last month,
:23:28. > :23:32.admitted he missed some opportunities on the greens.
:23:32. > :23:36.They're a pretty straight laced bunch who come to the golf, aren't
:23:36. > :23:40.they? These Americans aside, those with longer experience of the
:23:41. > :23:45.British summer were playing it sensible. The US Open champion,
:23:45. > :23:52.Rory McIlroy, had a gust of goodwill at his back. It wasn't
:23:52. > :23:58.helping him get the ball in the hole. He ended the day one over.
:23:58. > :24:02.That left space for two remarkable stories to unfold. Thomas Bjorn
:24:02. > :24:06.compiled a poacher's pile of birdies on his way to five under.
:24:06. > :24:16.This, after his game had fallen to pieces following the death of his
:24:16. > :24:19.
:24:19. > :24:26.Erm... He would have been very proud of what I did today. That's
:24:26. > :24:30.all I really got to say. joining Bjorn at the top of the
:24:30. > :24:37.leaderboard was an amateur English golfer by the name of Tom Lewis.
:24:37. > :24:40.Here's the twist, 20-year-old Tom Lewis has been playing with 61-
:24:40. > :24:45.year-old Tom Watson, the golfer after whom he's named. Nice to know,
:24:45. > :24:53.even in a club as crusty and old fashioned at royal St George's,
:24:53. > :24:57.there's a place for soggy sentiment. The earliest surviving draft of a
:24:57. > :25:01.book by Jane Austen has been sold at auction for just short of �1
:25:01. > :25:05.million, that's more than three times the estimate. The 68 pages
:25:05. > :25:10.are from a work called The Watsons. It's been brought by a British
:25:10. > :25:15.buyer and as our arts editor now reveals, will be available for the
:25:15. > :25:20.public to view. Emma Watson was not more of the
:25:20. > :25:25.middle height with an air of healthy vigour...
:25:25. > :25:30.An excerpt from The Watsons, describing the heroin, the daughter
:25:30. > :25:34.of a yergeyman, whose father she was going to kill off. Then Jane
:25:34. > :25:40.Austen's actual father died. That's believed to be the reason she
:25:40. > :25:45.abandoned the story. Today the hand written fragment was
:25:45. > :25:55.sold at auction. Bidding was feerpbs with interest from around
:25:55. > :25:57.
:25:58. > :26:01.the world. -- fierce. The manuscript has sold for a bit under
:26:01. > :26:08.�1 million. It's three times its estimated Val ue. It is a lot of
:26:08. > :26:11.money for something you can buy in book form for �6.99 an you can see
:26:11. > :26:16.the manuscript free online. Why pay that amount of money for the
:26:16. > :26:21.object? Very rarely would you have an opportunity to buy something
:26:21. > :26:26.like this on the open market. Of course, seeing Jane Austen's
:26:26. > :26:30.handwriting, this object that she actually touched is quite different
:26:30. > :26:34.from reading the printed book. There was a good chance that the
:26:34. > :26:43.manuscript would go abroad. But I discover today was bought by a
:26:43. > :26:50.British institution. Aided by a substantial grant from the national
:26:50. > :26:53.heritage fund. It's worth every single penny. This was the last
:26:53. > :26:58.fictional manuscript in private ownership. We felt we needed to
:26:58. > :27:03.step in, bring it into public ownership for the enjoyment of
:27:03. > :27:07.scholars, but also the nation. Virginia Wolf once said Jane Austen
:27:08. > :27:12.was the most difficult author to catch in the act of greatness, but