:00:16. > :00:18.Tonight at Ten: The coalition deeply divided as David Cameron
:00:18. > :00:20.defends his European veto. 19 months after getting together, the
:00:20. > :00:23.Prime Minister and his Lib Dem deputy are now openly at
:00:24. > :00:28.loggerheads. Mr Clegg Stays away from the Commons as Mr Cameron
:00:28. > :00:33.insists he did the right thing in Brussels. The choice was a treaty
:00:33. > :00:38.without proper safeguards, or no treaty. And the right answer was no
:00:38. > :00:43.treaty. It's not a veto when the thing you wanted to stop goes ahead
:00:43. > :00:45.without you. Mr Speaker, that's called losing. We will be asking if
:00:45. > :00:49.the Government's strategy makes sense and where it leaves the
:00:49. > :00:53.future of the coalition. Also tonight:
:00:53. > :00:56.Voicemail messages on Milly Dowler's phone were probably not
:00:56. > :01:01.deleted by tabloid journalists, according to the police.
:01:01. > :01:05.The near collapse of RBS three years ago is blamed on a mix of
:01:05. > :01:12.poor management and deficient regulation.
:01:12. > :01:15.The cubs are born blind and tiny... The wonders of Frozen Planet and
:01:15. > :01:21.why the BBC insists viewers were not misled.
:01:21. > :01:26.And one of the England rugby greats, Jonny Wilkinson retires from the
:01:26. > :01:29.international game. Coming up in Sportsday, news from
:01:29. > :01:39.Stamford Bridge where Manchester City were looking to extend their
:01:39. > :01:51.
:01:51. > :01:56.lead at the top of the Premier Good evening. David Cameron has
:01:56. > :01:59.given his account of what happened at last week's summit in Brussels.
:01:59. > :02:03.The Prime Minister said he'd vetoed a new treaty setting tougher rules
:02:03. > :02:08.on tax and spending because it wasn't in the national interest.
:02:08. > :02:11.But Labour accused him of coming away with a bad deal for Britain.
:02:11. > :02:14.The statement was made to a packed House of Commons but the Deputy
:02:14. > :02:21.Prime Minister, the Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg, chose not to attend, as
:02:21. > :02:25.Nick Robinson reports. Do you remember when they used to
:02:25. > :02:30.be compared with a happy couple? Not any more. David Cameron and
:02:30. > :02:34.Nick Clegg agreed on a negotiating strategy before last week's E EU
:02:34. > :02:37.summit but they've divided on the outcome. The Prime Minister says it
:02:37. > :02:42.protects Britain's national interests, his deputy says it's bad
:02:42. > :02:46.for Britain. How much pressure is the coalition under this morning?
:02:46. > :02:49.The answer to how much pressure came this afternoon when Nick Clegg
:02:49. > :02:54.and David Cameron headed in different directions. When the
:02:54. > :02:59.Prime Minister went to the Commons to defend his vetoing of a treaty,
:02:59. > :03:07.his deputy stayed away. Tory MPs are delighted their leader said no
:03:07. > :03:11.to Europe. But Labour MPs demanded to know where is Nick? This was a
:03:11. > :03:16.statement dominated by the man who wasn't there. In Nick Clegg's place
:03:16. > :03:21.on the front bench other cabinet pro-Europeans, Tory Ken Clarke,
:03:21. > :03:24.Vince Cable and Chris Huhne. Listening to a Prime Minister
:03:24. > :03:29.insist he was forced to use his veto. I have to tell the House the
:03:29. > :03:34.choice was a treaty without proper safeguards, or no treaty. And the
:03:34. > :03:38.right answer was no treaty. It was not an easy thing to do, but it was
:03:38. > :03:43.the right thing to do. Today, France's President Sarkozy declared
:03:43. > :03:47.that David Cameron's decision meant there now were clearly two Europes.
:03:47. > :03:51.He meant 26EU members on the one hand, and Britain on the other. No
:03:51. > :03:55.wonder the Prime Minister felt the need to give this reassurance.
:03:55. > :04:01.are in the European Union and we want to be. This week there will be
:04:01. > :04:06.meetings on councils, on transport, telecommunications... Labour MPs
:04:06. > :04:09.pointed and jeered as Conservatives greeted that in silence. Ed
:04:09. > :04:13.Miliband claimed the Prime Minister had left Britain without a voice.
:04:13. > :04:18.How can the Prime Minister expect to persuade anybody else it's a
:04:18. > :04:23.good outcome when he can't persuade his own deputy? It was, he said, a
:04:23. > :04:28.bad deal made for bad reasons: Keeping the Tory Party united.
:04:28. > :04:33.Prime Minister, Mr Speaker, claimed to have wielded a veto, but a veto
:04:33. > :04:37.is supposed to stop something happening, it's not a veto when the
:04:37. > :04:41.thick you wanted to -- thing you wanted to stop stkpws ahead without
:04:41. > :04:47.you. That's called losing. That's called being defeated. But would
:04:47. > :04:50.you have signed Tory MPs demanded to know? They got no answer. Those
:04:50. > :04:54.his aides later said he wouldn't, he would have negotiated a better
:04:54. > :05:00.deal. He's walked out without getting a rebate like Mrs Thatcher
:05:00. > :05:06.did. He's walked out without a couple of opt-outs like Major. As
:05:06. > :05:10.Del Boy would say, what a plonker. First one Tory eurosceptic, then
:05:10. > :05:14.another Tory rebel, then another Cameron critic stood up to hail
:05:14. > :05:19.what their leader had done. Can he confirm that he will not make any
:05:19. > :05:21.further policy concessions to the lickspittle euro fanatics on the
:05:22. > :05:27.Lib Dem benches as a result of doing the right thing for Britain
:05:27. > :05:31.last week? Afterwards the man who wasn't there called in the cameras.
:05:31. > :05:34.Being isolated as one is potentially bad for jobs, bad for
:05:34. > :05:38.growth, bad for the livelihoods of millions of people in this country.
:05:38. > :05:43.The coalition Government is here to stay. David Cameron and Nick Clegg
:05:43. > :05:53.both insist the coalition goes on. It does, the question, though, is
:05:53. > :05:54.
:05:55. > :05:57.how much damage this row has done? At the heart of the debate is
:05:58. > :06:00.whether Mr Cameron's veto leaves Britain in a stronger or a weaker
:06:00. > :06:04.position within the EU and across the world. The financial sector
:06:04. > :06:07.employs more than a million people in the UK but not everyone in the
:06:07. > :06:10.City and business agrees on the use of the veto and its likely impact
:06:10. > :06:14.on the British economy. Our chief economics correspondent, Hugh Pym,
:06:14. > :06:17.has been weighing up the arguments. British business has a lot to think
:06:18. > :06:21.about as a result of the controversial summit. Winding the
:06:21. > :06:25.clock forward some fear the UK's influence over key economic
:06:25. > :06:30.decisions will be reduced. It's much better to be inside, working
:06:30. > :06:34.with the powers that be... This UK business chief told the BBC the
:06:34. > :06:38.UK's image had been dented. perception will be, and we are
:06:38. > :06:42.talking to an Indian businessman this morning about where would he
:06:42. > :06:47.locate his plant, given what's happened in the last 72 hours, the
:06:47. > :06:51.perception will be that the UK is outside western Europe.
:06:51. > :06:54.But the Japanese car-maker Honda, which is a major invester in the UK,
:06:54. > :06:58.said its operations weren't affected by Britain's relationships
:06:58. > :07:04.in Europe and other business leaders said the issue had been
:07:04. > :07:08.exage rated. I tkrbg tkrbg -- exaggerated. They said when we
:07:08. > :07:11.didn't join the euro this will be the end of the City of London, end
:07:11. > :07:16.of the trading relationship, Japan and America won't want to invest in
:07:16. > :07:19.Britain. Hello! There are concerns, though, about financial services
:07:20. > :07:24.which contribute 9% of the UK's annual economic output. That's not
:07:24. > :07:29.far short of manufacturing, with just over 10% of the economy. There
:07:29. > :07:32.are fears the City of London will be hit by more regulations imposed
:07:32. > :07:36.by Brussels. David Cameron said he wanted to safeguard the industry
:07:36. > :07:41.and some say he is right. David Cameron played his hand as well as
:07:41. > :07:46.he could. The UK was never going to be part of a fiscal compact, 25, 26
:07:46. > :07:50.countries all tying together their budgetry discipline. Given that, he
:07:50. > :07:53.had to do the best to try to protect British financial services
:07:53. > :07:58.from a slew of regulations over which he would have had little
:07:58. > :08:01.control inside the treaty. others think the UK's standing a as
:08:01. > :08:05.a financial centre will suffer if it's perceived to be on the fringes
:08:05. > :08:08.of Europe. There is a risk that multinational companies that are
:08:08. > :08:12.headquartered in London because of the access of the single market and
:08:12. > :08:16.the ability to sell into the 500 million people that make up this
:08:16. > :08:20.market, suddenly decide that if we are isolated and marginalised
:08:20. > :08:24.London is not the best place to be. Stock markets around Europe fell
:08:24. > :08:28.sharply today on renewed fears about the debt crisis. It's another
:08:28. > :08:32.remind they're whatever the long- term issues for the UK, the main
:08:32. > :08:35.concern right now is the future of the single currency, and the
:08:35. > :08:41.financial health of Britain's trading partners across the
:08:41. > :08:47.eurozone. Let's examine where we stand
:08:47. > :08:51.tonight with our Europe editor Gavin Hewitt in Brussels and Nick
:08:51. > :09:01.Robinson at Westminster. I will ask you for your reading of the
:09:01. > :09:03.
:09:03. > :09:05.response today to what's been going on, Gavin? Well, I think the best
:09:05. > :09:07.response came from President Sarkozy and he didn't mince his
:09:07. > :09:09.words, he said there are now clearly two Europes. On the one
:09:09. > :09:13.hand there is the Europe of solidarity and regulation. On the
:09:13. > :09:17.other hand, he said, there is the Europe attached to the single
:09:17. > :09:20.market and its logic and that was clearly a reference to Britain.
:09:21. > :09:25.When he was asked whether Britain would leave the single market he
:09:25. > :09:31.said we don't want to lose Britain and he went on to say fortunately,
:09:31. > :09:35.that is not on the agenda. This was, I think, on one level some olive
:09:35. > :09:40.branch but it's clear he thinks there are now two Europes. There
:09:40. > :09:44.was also today a warning shot from the EU's economics commissioner,
:09:44. > :09:49.and he said if Britain believed by exercising its veto it would
:09:49. > :09:53.protect the City of London from further regulation, it better think
:09:53. > :09:59.again. This was a clear message that the push from here, from the
:09:59. > :10:05.EU, for further regulation of the financial services would continue.
:10:05. > :10:08.Thank you very much. Nick, Mr Clegg was saying clearly in that that
:10:08. > :10:13.interview the coalition is here to stay. How do you see it? Well,
:10:13. > :10:16.there's no doubt it is without precedent to see the gulf we have
:10:16. > :10:19.had with the Prime Minister's statements on the one hand and Nick
:10:19. > :10:21.Clegg's on the other, without precedent too for the Deputy Prime
:10:21. > :10:26.Minister to stay away because he thought it would be too
:10:26. > :10:30.embarrassing. Of course, the coalition itself is without modern
:10:30. > :10:34.precedent as well. My sense is that there is less of a gulf between the
:10:34. > :10:38.two men, than there is between their parties. The Tory leader felt
:10:38. > :10:41.he simply couldn't come back here to parliament and sell a deal
:10:41. > :10:45.without concessions and get it through parliament. Nick Clegg has
:10:45. > :10:51.been enraged by the fact that he wasn't consulted at the last minute
:10:51. > :10:55.on this veto and the sense that the Tory Party is gunning for Europe
:10:55. > :10:59.and wants to carry on. The Prime Minister was careful today to try
:10:59. > :11:03.to be concilliatory, praising the EU as vital to Britain, for example,
:11:03. > :11:08.words it seemed to me not only written to asaupblg Nick Clegg but
:11:08. > :11:10.checked by him and approved by him. They can hold together, the
:11:11. > :11:17.question is Europe is not going to stand still for the next three and
:11:17. > :11:23.a half years, nor this debate. How do these two men get their parties
:11:23. > :11:31.through three and a half more years when the g ulf is this big.
:11:31. > :11:34.Thank you. The Metropolitan Police says it's
:11:34. > :11:37.unlikely that News of the World journalists deleted voicemail
:11:37. > :11:39.messages left on the phone of the murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler. A
:11:39. > :11:41.lawyer giving evidence to the Leveson Inquiry into press
:11:41. > :11:45.standards said it was probable that they were removed automatically.
:11:45. > :11:49.But lawyers for the Dowler family say it's far too early to reach any
:11:50. > :11:53.conclusions. Claiming that messages had been deleted was one of the key
:11:53. > :11:58.factors in the closure of the News of the World, as Nicholas Witchell
:11:58. > :12:03.reports. Dowler was missing, her parents
:12:03. > :12:13.were desperate. The one potential link with her was her mobile phone.
:12:13. > :12:15.
:12:15. > :12:18.In a front page story last July the Guardian said the News of the World
:12:18. > :12:20.had hacked into Milly Dowler's phone in search of a story. They
:12:20. > :12:22.further claimed that the paper had deleted messages from her voicemail.
:12:22. > :12:25.It was this action that, the clearing of the voicemail box that
:12:25. > :12:30.Milly's mother told the inquiry had given her hope that Milly was still
:12:30. > :12:37.alive. I rang her phone. It clicked through on to her voicemail. So I
:12:37. > :12:43.heard her voice. It was just like, she's picked up her voicemails, Bob,
:12:43. > :12:47.she's alive. It was then really. But who had deleted the messages?
:12:47. > :12:51.That's the question that's now a mystery. The News of the World
:12:51. > :12:54.investigator Glenn Mulcaire had been the main suspect, but the
:12:54. > :12:57.Metropolitan Police now say it wasn't him. Could it have been
:12:57. > :13:01.other News International journalists? There's no evidence to
:13:01. > :13:07.support that. Police now believe the messages may have been deleted
:13:07. > :13:12.automatically. The most likely explanation is that existing
:13:12. > :13:15.messages automatically dropped off from the mailbox after 72 hours.
:13:15. > :13:18.The News of the World does not contest the fact that it did hack
:13:18. > :13:22.into Milly Dowler's phone. Yet it was the further claim that the
:13:22. > :13:28.paper had deleted messages which ignited public revulsion and played
:13:28. > :13:32.a significant part in placing the tabloids under intense scrutiny.
:13:32. > :13:36.The Guardian reporter who broke the story is unrepentant. Don't let the
:13:37. > :13:41.people who always try to conceal truth about all this try to pretend
:13:41. > :13:45.that because one element of one story is now in doubt, that changes
:13:45. > :13:47.the big picture. It doesn't even change the big picture on Milly
:13:47. > :13:52.Dowler. The News of the World hacked that missing schoolgirl's
:13:52. > :13:54.voicemail. At the inquiry Lord Justice Leveson
:13:54. > :13:57.said given the significance of the claims about Milly Dowler's phone
:13:57. > :14:07.and the conduct of the News of the World, he was determined to get to
:14:07. > :14:10.
:14:10. > :14:13.Two former journalists have spoken about the paper's achievements. Mr
:14:13. > :14:16.Mahmood said 261 successful criminal prosecutions of drug
:14:16. > :14:25.traffickers, arms dealers and paedophiles had resulted from his
:14:25. > :14:28.work and he was proud of what he and his team had done.
:14:28. > :14:32.Police in West Yorkshire, investigating the deaths of a
:14:32. > :14:38.couple and their two young sons have started a murder inquiry. The
:14:38. > :14:42.bodies of Richard -- and Clare Smyth and their sons were found at
:14:42. > :14:45.the family home near Leeds. Detectives say they aren't looking
:14:45. > :14:48.for anyone else in connection with the incident.
:14:48. > :14:53.The near collapse of Royal Bank of Scotland, three years ago, was
:14:53. > :14:57.cause bld I a mix of bad management and poor regulation, that's the
:14:57. > :15:01.view of the Financial Services Authority, which is critical of its
:15:01. > :15:06.own failings, but insists it has changed completely in the meantime.
:15:06. > :15:14.The FSA said it now had more resources and a sharper focus on
:15:14. > :15:18.bank's capital. Royal Bank of Scotland was rescued
:15:18. > :15:25.with �45.5 billion of investment by taxpayers would today face more
:15:25. > :15:30.than �25 billion of losses. Three years after collapse, we have the
:15:30. > :15:33.verdict of the Financial Services Authority. Management and regulator
:15:33. > :15:39.made woeful errors but no-one has been punished. Do you understand
:15:39. > :15:42.why people are so angry that no-one has been seriously punished?
:15:42. > :15:46.absolutely understand the anger of ordinary people, not just about the
:15:46. > :15:52.failure of RBS, but about what happened to the overall financial
:15:52. > :15:55.system. Let's be clear, the financial crash of 2008 has caused
:15:55. > :16:00.enormous harm and they ought to be angry about a lot of the talk which
:16:01. > :16:03.existed before the crisis about the need for light-touch regulation and
:16:03. > :16:08.unleashing the energies and innovation of the financial
:16:08. > :16:12.services sector. In retrospect it is startling to look at the degree
:16:12. > :16:16.of errors which were made. Failure of Royal Bank of Scotland was
:16:16. > :16:26.caused by a catalogue of mistakes bit bank's previous management.
:16:26. > :16:32.They paid far too much at the wrong time to buy the rump of a big
:16:32. > :16:36.international bank ABN. The bank became hideously, dangerously
:16:36. > :16:41.dependent on borrowing on markets wh. Markets wouldn't lend to them
:16:41. > :16:48.any longer, we as taxpayers had to bail them out. Here's the banker
:16:48. > :16:52.most to blame, its former chief executive Sir Fred Goodwin. He left
:16:52. > :16:56.with a pension pot of �16.6 million, but he handed back some money,
:16:56. > :17:03.leaving him spds 2 million. Do you think you should have done more to
:17:03. > :17:07.claw back more of Sir Fred Goodwin's enrmous pension? He had a
:17:07. > :17:12.completely rock solid contract for all of his pension entitlement. We
:17:12. > :17:17.were told even in litigation against it we had a negligible
:17:17. > :17:22.chance of winning. We had to persuade Sir Fred to Val untairl
:17:22. > :17:26.reduce his pension. The chairman of the Financial Services Authority
:17:26. > :17:29.thinks the law may have to be changed, so that those who run
:17:29. > :17:34.banks that go bust would face automatic professional and
:17:34. > :17:41.financial punishments. Perhaps that should apply to regulators, who get
:17:41. > :17:45.it wrong too. Coming up on the programme: It's
:17:45. > :17:55.the end of an international career for England's all-time leading
:17:55. > :17:56.
:17:56. > :17:59.rugby scorer. The BBC's Frozen Planet has
:17:59. > :18:06.captivated millions of viewers with its account of life in the Arctic.
:18:06. > :18:14.The producers have been accused of misleading -- misleading viewers
:18:14. > :18:17.with images of polar cubs in Anand mall park not in the wild. The
:18:17. > :18:23.producers denied that viewers were misled in any way.
:18:23. > :18:30.Using as little energy as possible, she starts to dig a shallow nest. A
:18:30. > :18:36.female polar bear filmed in the wild on her way to give birth.
:18:36. > :18:40.on these slopes, beneath the snow, new lives are beginning. But Sir
:18:40. > :18:44.David Attenborough's commentary, it's claimed, was misleading. The
:18:44. > :18:48.footage of a polar bear and her tiny cubs was filmed, not in the
:18:48. > :18:55.wild, but in a zoo. Today, the presenter defended the programme
:18:55. > :19:00.maker's decision. If you had tried to put a camera in the wild in a
:19:00. > :19:04.polar bear den, she would either have killed the cub or she would
:19:04. > :19:07.have killed the cameraman. They're in the middle of the scene when
:19:07. > :19:13.you're trying to paint what it's like in the middle of winter and
:19:13. > :19:16.say, oh, by the way, this was filmed in a zoo, it completely ruin
:19:17. > :19:20.the atmosphere and destroy the pleasure of the viewers and destroy
:19:20. > :19:24.the atmosphere you're trying to create. The Frozen Planet team made
:19:24. > :19:27.no secret of what they'd done. On the website they posted a video
:19:27. > :19:31.showing how cameras were rigged in the bear's den in the zoo. They
:19:31. > :19:35.didn't make that clear in the programme's commentary or in the
:19:35. > :19:40.segment at the end of the programme, which explained how it was made sm.
:19:40. > :19:45.Viewers felt misled. Now when I found out about it, I think I was
:19:45. > :19:49.misled, yeah. I don't really mind. I wasn't really misled. It was fine.
:19:49. > :19:53.I was more interested in what was actually happening than where it
:19:53. > :19:56.was filmed. This isn't the first time the BBC's been accused of
:19:56. > :20:01.faking things. We'd like to say sorry to you, because when this
:20:01. > :20:07.mistake happened, we let you down. Blue Peter had to apologise, after
:20:07. > :20:14.a child visiting the studio was asked to pose as a xet Titian
:20:14. > :20:20.winner. -- competition winner. On radio six show, callers weren't
:20:20. > :20:25.genuine. And a trail about a photographer was misleadingly
:20:25. > :20:31.edited. They say the footage and commentary
:20:31. > :20:35.weren't misleading. But this shows how careful programme makers have
:20:35. > :20:41.to be, to make compelling television without provoking
:20:41. > :20:45.allegations of dishonesty. In Afghanistan, British forces, led
:20:45. > :20:48.by the 2nd Battalion The Mercian Regiment, have spent the past few
:20:48. > :20:54.months trying to take control of a route in one of the most dangerous
:20:54. > :21:01.parts of Helmand province. The route was patrolled by US Marines
:21:01. > :21:04.until October this year. Our defence correspondent, Caroline
:21:04. > :21:08.Wyatt, went to see the forces at work there. The battle here now is
:21:08. > :21:12.for the road, route 611, which links Sangin to Gereshk further
:21:12. > :21:18.south. The British force here is a quarter the size of the US Marines
:21:18. > :21:22.before them. Unlike the Americans their job is not to go into the
:21:22. > :21:27.hills hunting Taliban, but ensure the road remains open for Afghans
:21:27. > :21:32.and NATO forces alike. The main focus for British forces in this
:21:32. > :21:36.area is to keep this route safe and open. The Taliban are playing a
:21:36. > :21:40.deadly game of cat-and-mouse. The surfaces have been tarmacked, so
:21:40. > :21:43.they can't put bombs on the road. So they're putting them on the
:21:43. > :21:48.roadside instead, sometimes to lethal effect.
:21:48. > :21:53.Travelling in a mastiff armoured vehicle, we pass a bomb disposal
:21:53. > :21:57.team working by the side of the road. Ahead is a packed local
:21:57. > :22:02.minibus. It swerves off the road perhaps to avoid military vehicles.
:22:02. > :22:06.Moments later we hear a muffled blast behind us. The minibus has
:22:06. > :22:09.hit a roadside bomb. We're told not to stop. Trained medics are on the
:22:09. > :22:14.scene, along with the Afghan police. 18 people are dead, five of them
:22:14. > :22:20.children. A few hours later, we are able to return, this was all that
:22:20. > :22:23.was left of the bus after the Taliban's bomb. For the soldiers
:22:23. > :22:32.who rescued the injured and picked up the bodies in the aftermath, it
:22:32. > :22:37.was a devastating day. At the time, I wasn't really, I was more
:22:37. > :22:40.engrossed in the incident, trying to make sure those that were alive
:22:40. > :22:45.stay alive. It's only afterwards when you pause in the quiet times,
:22:45. > :22:50.you think about it. Yeah, it's the most horrible thing I've seen in my
:22:51. > :22:56.life. At a checkpoint further north, the soldiers have had to deal with
:22:56. > :23:01.their own casual tills from day one. This regiment have fought in the
:23:01. > :23:08.area before. They know what they're up against. To separate friend from
:23:08. > :23:12.foe, the soldiers collect biometic data on locals, fingerprinting and
:23:12. > :23:16.taking retina scans. The Afghans know it won't be that long before
:23:16. > :23:25.Western combat troops leave and the battles for their loyalties will be
:23:25. > :23:29.waged bit Afghan forces who remain. It's the start of a week of rather
:23:29. > :23:33.Stormy Weather across the UK. Gale- force winds and torrential rain are
:23:33. > :23:38.expected to sweep through areas of England and Wales tonight. South-
:23:38. > :23:42.east England could be hardest hit. We're hoping to talk to our
:23:42. > :23:47.correspondent, Robert Hall in a few moments. Before we do that, we'll
:23:48. > :23:53.move on to one of the day's other stories. This is about Jonny
:23:53. > :23:56.Wilkinson, one of the England rugby greats. He has retired from the
:23:56. > :24:01.international game. A man whose drop goal took his country to World
:24:01. > :24:04.Cup glory in 2003 said today he had been blessed in so many ways to
:24:04. > :24:09.have experienced success with the England team, despite a career
:24:09. > :24:13.plagued with injury, he is England's all-time leading scorer.
:24:13. > :24:19.Our sports correspondent, Dan Roan, reports.
:24:19. > :24:24.He'll be remembered as the man who delivered English rugby's greatest
:24:24. > :24:30.ever moment. His drop goal in 2003, clinched his country's first and
:24:30. > :24:33.only World Cup triumph and brought a nation to its feet. His place in
:24:33. > :24:37.sporting folklore was duly secured. Today he announced he had played
:24:37. > :24:41.his last game for England. He's done so much for, not only English
:24:41. > :24:46.rugby, I think British rugby and world rugby. He's taken the sport
:24:46. > :24:51.it a new level, in terms of him as a figure and the way he conducted
:24:51. > :24:58.hillself on the field. But especially off the field. Wilkinson
:24:58. > :25:00.bows out as the second highest points scorer in Test history. An
:25:00. > :25:06.obsessive perfectist, he established himself as perhaps the
:25:06. > :25:11.most dedicated rugby player of recebt times. Despite all his
:25:11. > :25:15.experience and his hero status, after a poor World Cup by his
:25:15. > :25:18.standards, Jonny Wilkinson was seen by many as part of England's old
:25:18. > :25:22.guard, with no place in the expected new-look side. You'd have
:25:22. > :25:24.to ask him that question. I didn't get the chance to have that
:25:24. > :25:29.conversation. For the future, we want to look at younger players,
:25:29. > :25:35.there's no doubt. I think I said all along, if you strip out all the
:25:35. > :25:39.experience, then you'll be naive also. He's made his decision. We
:25:40. > :25:43.all have to support it. Having battled inner demons and injuries,
:25:43. > :25:48.Wilkinson never quite managed to match his defining moment of eight
:25:48. > :25:53.years ago. The heroics of a man who transscended the sport ensures that
:25:53. > :25:56.English rugby will always owe him a debt of gratitude.
:25:56. > :26:00.Back to the weather again. I was telling you about gale-force winds
:26:00. > :26:04.and torrential rain expected in parts of England and Wales. Robert
:26:04. > :26:07.Hall is in Dorset. This is a wild night at the start
:26:07. > :26:13.of a miserable week. This is a storm that's been making its way up
:26:13. > :26:17.the channel, winds gusting to 70mph, more or less continual driving rain.
:26:17. > :26:20.Not as bad as that, which Scotland experienced last week, yet. It's
:26:20. > :26:24.causing warnings on the roads to high-sided vehicles and to all
:26:24. > :26:27.drivers because of the amount of standing water. It's caused the
:26:27. > :26:31.raising of flood barriers on rivers, as the tide begins to rise towards
:26:31. > :26:34.the high mark, due at midnight. This will blow itself out in the
:26:34. > :26:39.early hours tomorrow. There's another worse storm on the way
:26:39. > :26:42.later in the week. Robert Hall there in Dorset. A bit
:26:42. > :26:46.of a warning there for lots of people who are thinking of