:00:03. > :00:07.No deal on the EU budget. Negotiations collapse, as European
:00:07. > :00:11.leaders fail to reach an agreement. After two days of discussions,
:00:11. > :00:19.David Cameron says Brussels needs to get in the real world and make
:00:19. > :00:22.cutbacks. Frankly, the deal on the table from the President of the
:00:22. > :00:25.European Council was just not good enough. It was not good enough for
:00:25. > :00:28.Britain, and neither was it good enough for a number of other
:00:28. > :00:32.countries. The leaders will meet again in the
:00:32. > :00:36.New Year, when they will try again to agree a budget up until 2020.
:00:36. > :00:38.We'll be looking at what it will take for all 27 member states to
:00:38. > :00:41.reach a deal. Also tonight:
:00:41. > :00:43.Violent protests across Egypt as the president is accused of
:00:43. > :00:46.behaving like a modern-day Pharoah with sweeping new powers.
:00:46. > :00:50.Heavy rain and high winds cause widespread flooding, road closures
:00:50. > :00:59.and travel disruption, and there's more on the way. In Somerset, a man
:00:59. > :01:02.dies after his car was trapped by the flood waters. Access was
:01:02. > :01:06.terrible. The water was like a raging torrent.
:01:06. > :01:08.Energy bills are set to rise to pay for Government investment in low
:01:08. > :01:14.carbon electricity. And how Brazil is hoping to change
:01:14. > :01:16.perceptions of disability in Rio In Sportsday on the BBC News
:01:16. > :01:19.Channel: Will Harry Redknapp be the new
:01:19. > :01:29.manager of QPR? The club expect to continue talks tonight and possibly
:01:29. > :01:43.
:01:43. > :01:47.Good evening. After two days of negotiations,
:01:47. > :01:50.talks between European leaders in Brussels to set the next EU budget
:01:50. > :01:53.have ended without agreement. David Cameron said the deal being
:01:53. > :01:57.discussed was unacceptable and criticised Brussels for failing to
:01:57. > :02:01.come up with a single euro of savings. Britain wants at least a
:02:01. > :02:04.freeze to the budget in real terms until 2020, and other countries,
:02:04. > :02:07.including Germany and Sweden, are also urging restraint. But some EU
:02:07. > :02:11.members are pushing for a 5% increase in overall spending. The
:02:11. > :02:14.leaders of the 27 member states will meet again in the new year to
:02:14. > :02:22.try once more to thrash out an agreement. From Brussels, Gavin
:02:22. > :02:26.Hewitt has sent this report. In the end, the differences were
:02:26. > :02:29.too great between countries who benefited from EU grants and the
:02:30. > :02:34.major contributors who wrote the cheques. David Cameron had come
:02:34. > :02:38.looking for at best a cut, and at worst a freeze, but did not get
:02:38. > :02:44.what he wanted. We have had a good discussion. I think we understand
:02:44. > :02:47.each other's issues and positions better. But frankly, the deal on
:02:47. > :02:52.the table from the President of the European Council was just not good
:02:52. > :02:57.enough. Yes, the original budget proposal of over one trillion euros
:02:57. > :03:01.had been reduced by 80 billion, but for David Cameron, this was nowhere
:03:01. > :03:09.near a freeze. He was particularly irritated that the Brussels
:03:09. > :03:12.Eurocrats had escaped cuts to their perks. The commission did not offer
:03:13. > :03:17.1 euros in savings. Not 1 euros. I think that is not good enough.
:03:18. > :03:22.Frankly, the idea that the European institutions are unwilling to even
:03:22. > :03:25.consider this is insulting to taxpayers. David Cameron insisted
:03:25. > :03:29.the British rebate was non- negotiable, but on this occasion
:03:29. > :03:33.the UK was not the outcast, with allies in the Dutch, the Swedes and
:03:33. > :03:36.the fines. Even the German Chancellor was sympathetic to
:03:36. > :03:41.holding out for a deal which included Britain.
:03:41. > :03:46.TRANSLATION: Weaver reach an agreement, or we end up disagreeing.
:03:46. > :03:49.The second option is extremely unattractive. What are the sticking
:03:49. > :03:59.points? The overall size of the Budget to. The rebate, including
:03:59. > :04:02.Britain's, and the cost of Take a close look at the French
:04:02. > :04:06.President leaving the summit. Despite all the disagreements, he
:04:06. > :04:12.says there were no threats or ultimatums. But France will
:04:12. > :04:15.continue to push for the British rebate to be reduced. David Cameron
:04:16. > :04:20.came here with the ambition to freeze the next Budget. He did not
:04:20. > :04:24.achieve that. But he kept some allies by his side and was able to
:04:24. > :04:30.block a deal that would have been almost impossible to sell to his
:04:30. > :04:33.backbenchers back home. And, as Europe's leaders left, you could
:04:33. > :04:40.glimpse the frustration. They will have to be back here in the new
:04:40. > :04:44.year, with no guarantee they will agree a budget then.
:04:44. > :04:48.Let's talk to Nick Robinson, who joins us from Brussels. David
:04:48. > :04:52.Cameron was talking tough but there is a lot at stake here. There is a
:04:53. > :04:56.lot at stake here, yes, because there is no deal, and one will have
:04:57. > :05:01.to be found. And at home, too, given the political pressure David
:05:01. > :05:04.Cameron has been under. You might think after two days in this not
:05:04. > :05:10.very attractive building, the Prime Minister might be depressed that he
:05:10. > :05:13.has not got a deal. Instead, he described it as progress. Why? He
:05:13. > :05:18.said he had managed to stop an unacceptable deal, and what is more
:05:18. > :05:22.he managed to do it without fitting the caricature, as he sees it, of
:05:22. > :05:27.Britain being isolated. There were allies with him throughout these
:05:27. > :05:32.two days. The gap between countries at the end of these two days is not
:05:32. > :05:39.that big. The talk is of about 30 billion euros. It sounds a lot, to
:05:39. > :05:41.you and me, but out of a budget of 1000, it is not a lot of money. So
:05:41. > :05:49.the departing leaders did not attack the Prime Minister, and he
:05:49. > :05:53.did not attack them. Instead, he did a traditional British thing for
:05:53. > :05:59.a Prime Minister. He attacked the Brussels Eurocrats, in particular
:05:59. > :06:07.those in the European Commission run by managers are Barroso.
:06:07. > :06:13.Remember a few years ago there was a headline? I think the Prime
:06:13. > :06:17.Minister rather fancies a headline like, a no way, just saved. In
:06:17. > :06:21.truth, he knows it is symbolically significant but would raise nowhere
:06:22. > :06:25.near enough money to close the gap between the richer countries in the
:06:25. > :06:30.north who want to curb spending, and the poorer countries in the
:06:30. > :06:33.south and in the East, who want it to go up. And all of them left
:06:33. > :06:37.today knowing they will be back in a few weeks and they will have to
:06:37. > :06:40.find a deal. There've been violent protests
:06:40. > :06:43.across several cities in Egypt and in Cairo's Tahrir Square, following
:06:43. > :06:46.the President's decision to grant himself sweeping new powers.
:06:46. > :06:50.Critics have accused Mohamed Morsi of behaving like a "modern-day
:06:50. > :06:53.Pharoah". The President says he needs more control only to help
:06:53. > :07:02.steer his country through a difficult period of transition to
:07:02. > :07:07.democracy. From Cairo, Jon Leyne reports.
:07:07. > :07:11.Fury in Egypt, as President Morsi gives himself new powers. In
:07:11. > :07:15.Alexandra, the crowds attacked the offices of the Rolling Muslim
:07:15. > :07:20.Brotherhood, and there were protests across the country. -- the
:07:20. > :07:23.ruling Muslim Brotherhood. In Cairo, the crowds flooded back to Tahrir
:07:23. > :07:27.Square, where last year they celebrated the ousting of President
:07:27. > :07:31.Mubarak. Now they are demonstrating against a new president who they
:07:31. > :07:35.say is becoming even more of a dictator, with his edict that no
:07:35. > :07:41.court can challenge him. Some fear that he wants to force an Islamist
:07:41. > :07:47.programme on to the country. He is the first dictator in Egypt. He
:07:47. > :07:53.takes more power than a Barack. So I am here to take the law again to
:07:54. > :07:57.the Egyptians. It was only days ago that President Morsi was basking in
:07:57. > :08:02.American and world approval, as he helped to mediate the Gaza
:08:02. > :08:06.ceasefire. Now, Washington has expressed concern about the
:08:06. > :08:10.President's latest edict. President Morsi came out to tell his
:08:10. > :08:14.supporters that he was only acting to defend the revolution.
:08:14. > :08:19.TRANSLATION: I tell you, I feel the heartbeat of the people and
:08:19. > :08:24.understand what the Egyptian people want. I have a clear and
:08:24. > :08:28.irreversible legitimacy. President Morsi this is a huge
:08:28. > :08:32.political gamble. His supporters love it, but has he overplayed his
:08:32. > :08:38.hand and tried to grab too much power? The reaction of the rest of
:08:38. > :08:43.Egypt is the way we will find out. We did not complete our revolution
:08:43. > :08:49.yet. We need these decisions to take the power to the revolution,
:08:49. > :08:52.not the old system. On the edge of Tahrir Square, the new grievance
:08:52. > :08:57.against the government has added fuel to the week-long demonstration
:08:57. > :09:01.and violent confrontation. These protesters are angry that police,
:09:01. > :09:05.who attacked previous protests, have not been brought to justice.
:09:05. > :09:09.Back in the square, the government's opponents have begun a
:09:09. > :09:15.new city in tonight, the beginning of what could be yet more turbulent
:09:15. > :09:18.times for Egypt. -- they have begun a new protest.
:09:18. > :09:22.A Palestinian man has died after being shot by Israeli forces in
:09:22. > :09:25.Gaza. He's the first person to be killed since the ceasefire between
:09:25. > :09:28.Hamas and Israel came into effect on Wednesday night. The Israeli
:09:28. > :09:32.military said soldiers fired warning shots after seeing a group
:09:32. > :09:35.of men approaching the border. Heavy rain and high winds across
:09:35. > :09:37.much of the UK have caused widespread flooding, damage to
:09:38. > :09:42.power lines, and travel disruption, with the West Country particularly
:09:43. > :09:46.badly hit. A man died after his car was trapped in flood water in
:09:46. > :09:54.Somerset. As Robert Hall reports, more rain and gale force winds are
:09:54. > :09:58.expected this weekend. On a bridge over the Grand Western
:09:58. > :10:02.Canal, they are working to repair damage from the last storm, and
:10:02. > :10:07.protect communities from the next. Contractors have blocked the canal
:10:07. > :10:13.water while they repair breeched and the Grand Western's flood bank.
:10:13. > :10:18.One major incident among so many. Those who live with the risk of
:10:18. > :10:23.flooding expect seasonal disruption, but they rarely witnessed this.
:10:23. > :10:29.Water from the slopes of Snowdonia, combining to form a flash flood, a
:10:29. > :10:33.threat to life which surged into being within minutes. In Somerset,
:10:33. > :10:37.a swollen stream trapped at this four wheel-drive vehicle against a
:10:38. > :10:42.wooden footbridge. Emergency crews managed to release the driver, but
:10:42. > :10:47.he died before he could reach hospital. Just about here would be
:10:47. > :10:52.up to my waist, standing in the road here, so access was terrible.
:10:52. > :10:56.The water going down there was like a raging torrent. In Bath, a
:10:56. > :11:01.collapsed retaining wall allowed a giant boulder and tons of earth to
:11:01. > :11:04.slide onto the road below, leaving one house perched precariously
:11:04. > :11:08.above the landslip. The concern is what will happen with further wet
:11:08. > :11:15.weather. Now it is unstable at the top, so we may not have seen the
:11:15. > :11:19.last of what is going to come down. At Taunton's council depot, staff
:11:19. > :11:23.filled 8000 sandbags so far this week. Today, they were filling
:11:23. > :11:28.thousands more, as the next weather system approached and further
:11:28. > :11:30.warnings were issued. I would think about potentially vulnerable
:11:30. > :11:35.members of family, friends that might need help getting out of
:11:35. > :11:40.properties that might potentially flood, getting possessions out of
:11:40. > :11:45.the flood water. Get them up into the higher part of your house.
:11:45. > :11:50.at the Grand Western Canal, a dry day allowed fire brigade punster be
:11:50. > :11:55.brought from around the UK. They were help protect neighbouring
:11:55. > :11:59.properties from the rising flood water. Tonight, at fire stations
:11:59. > :12:02.and council offices across affected regions, plans are in place. Time
:12:02. > :12:06.to watch the weather charts and prepare, once again, to face the
:12:06. > :12:10.unpredictable. The Indian-owned steel giant Tata
:12:10. > :12:13.is cutting 900 jobs and closing 12 sites across Britain. Most of the
:12:13. > :12:18.job losses will go from South Wales. Unions say the decision is
:12:18. > :12:28.devastating. As Hugh Pym reports, Tata has been hit hard by reduced
:12:28. > :12:32.demand for steel. The sun is setting on the jobs of
:12:32. > :12:35.900 steelworkers at UK sites, more than half of them at Port Talbot in
:12:35. > :12:40.South Wales. Unions said it would mean a major blow for the local
:12:40. > :12:46.community, as staff reflected on what it meant for them. Devastating,
:12:46. > :12:51.isn't it? It is the market, that is what they are telling us. It has
:12:51. > :12:54.been on the cards for a while. Steel said job losses were
:12:54. > :12:59.regrettable but it needed to cut costs to make operations
:12:59. > :13:03.sustainable in the face of a call her economic climate. Across the UK,
:13:03. > :13:06.we are seeing one of the tightest economic situations we have found
:13:06. > :13:11.ourselves in. Probably the last six months have been extremely tight
:13:11. > :13:15.and we foresee that for the next year. Those tight conditions mean
:13:15. > :13:20.lower prices and a tougher task selling steel to industrial
:13:20. > :13:23.customers. The construction industry is a major steel user, and
:13:23. > :13:27.activity has fallen back significantly in the UK over the
:13:27. > :13:31.last year. It is a similar story across Europe, with major projects
:13:31. > :13:36.put on hold, and manufacturing affected, too, because of the
:13:36. > :13:40.economic slowdown. The steel market tends to rise and fall with the
:13:40. > :13:45.fortunes of the world economy. Demand in the EU was up nearly 6%
:13:45. > :13:49.last year, but with many economy is faltering, a fall of 5.6% is
:13:49. > :13:54.forecast this year. There has been a slowdown in China, so while
:13:54. > :14:00.demand was up just over 6% last year, this year a rise of just 2.5%
:14:00. > :14:03.is predicted. The background, if we look at the European steel
:14:03. > :14:06.situation, is that all the other companies, all of the large
:14:06. > :14:12.producers of steel are doing the same things, cutting down on work
:14:12. > :14:18.force in most of their units across Europe. France, Belgium,
:14:18. > :14:21.Netherlands, Spain. Tata Steel had some brighter news. One of Port
:14:21. > :14:27.Talbot's blast furnaces will restart early next year, rebuilt as
:14:27. > :14:37.part of a �250 million investment programme. But that will not help
:14:37. > :14:39.
:14:39. > :14:49.workers who will be shown the exit Coming up: Putting the pieces back
:14:49. > :14:50.
:14:50. > :14:53.together again. The newly restored Household fuel bills will rise to
:14:53. > :14:57.fund investment in green energy. It's part of the new Energy Bill
:14:57. > :15:01.which will authorise ministers to triple spending on low-carbon
:15:01. > :15:08.electricity by 2020. Critics claim that it will send consumer bills
:15:08. > :15:12.soaring and does not include a target to slash carbon emissions.
:15:12. > :15:17.It has been a bruising row between the Lib Dems, who want more green
:15:17. > :15:21.energy, and the Tories who say not at any price. But this huge shake-
:15:21. > :15:25.up in how we get our electricity will not come cheap. Yes, we are
:15:25. > :15:30.putting investment in to clean energy. That will cost some money.
:15:30. > :15:34.At the moment it is about 2% of people's bills. By 2020 it will be
:15:34. > :15:38.about 7%. I'm not going to hide that from you. On the other side of
:15:38. > :15:43.the equation, we will help people save energy and save money.
:15:43. > :15:48.what exactly will the energy deal been for bills? On average, we
:15:48. > :15:53.already pay �20 a year to support green electricity. That will rise
:15:53. > :15:59.to around �95 a year by the end of the decade. By then, we will be
:15:59. > :16:04.investing up to �7.6 billion a year in low-carbon generation. But is
:16:04. > :16:09.that enough to insure firms like EDF invest in new power plants in
:16:10. > :16:15.Britain? There is still work to do. There is still detail to be
:16:15. > :16:22.finalised. But the broad direction is clear. It is very clear that we
:16:22. > :16:26.need affordable, secure, low-carbon energy and we need investment.
:16:26. > :16:31.plans for a new Green Target to clean up electricity have been put
:16:31. > :16:35.off until after the election. The Chancellor has also secured a
:16:35. > :16:42.bigger role for cats in our future energy mix. Now, that did not
:16:42. > :16:46.please environmental groups. -- gas. There is a reckless reliance, from
:16:46. > :16:49.Friends of the Earth's point of view, on gas in this Bill. That
:16:49. > :16:53.comes directly from George Osborne, who is not a fan of green policy
:16:53. > :16:58.that seems to be a big fan of gas. What the consumer needs to
:16:58. > :17:03.understand is that it commits us to higher bills than necessary. It is
:17:03. > :17:09.day brave, if confusing new world, with no guarantees for consumers.
:17:09. > :17:13.These renewable resources are not making bills cheaper. When are we
:17:13. > :17:17.going to see bills going down? They always seem to go up. I don't think
:17:17. > :17:22.there is enough research to show what is going to work and supply
:17:22. > :17:26.enough energy. The economics of green energy is still challenging,
:17:26. > :17:30.according to Centrica who confirmed it was significantly cutting back
:17:30. > :17:35.its renewables Division today. Next week, Lord Justice Leveson
:17:35. > :17:39.will publish the must sh awaited conclusion of his inquiry into
:17:39. > :17:42.press standards. It is expected to include recommendations for tougher
:17:42. > :17:52.regulation of newspapers. Many European countries already have
:17:52. > :17:53.
:17:53. > :17:57.tight restrictions in place, Selling newspapers in Copenhagen,
:17:57. > :18:03.where complaints from readers are handled by a Press Council set up
:18:03. > :18:06.by an Act of Parliament. It is many British newspapers worst nightmare.
:18:06. > :18:11.Danish journalists are generally respectful and well-behaved. They
:18:11. > :18:14.stand up at the start of the Prime Minister's weekly press conference.
:18:14. > :18:19.But newspapers and TV and radio stations do sometimes get things
:18:19. > :18:23.wrong or invade somebody's privacy. If they do, they must answer to a
:18:23. > :18:27.Press Council whose members are appointed by the Government. The
:18:27. > :18:33.council's chair is a Supreme Court judge. But, says her deputy, that
:18:33. > :18:41.does not mean Denmark's free press is subject to government control.
:18:41. > :18:45.am not employed by the Government in any way. The members of the
:18:45. > :18:50.councils do not have any specific ties to the Government. The
:18:50. > :18:52.Government does not in any way try to influence us. Denmark's
:18:52. > :18:58.newspapers are quite happy with the arrangement, even though they are
:18:58. > :19:04.not allowed to opt out. They think it is good for their credibility.
:19:04. > :19:10.Their punishment is to force us to write in a prominent place in the
:19:10. > :19:14.paper that we made a mistake, we wrote this, this is the truth and
:19:14. > :19:20.we have to print exactly the wording of the verdict of the
:19:20. > :19:25.council. And we do that. In the rare cases where we are being
:19:25. > :19:30.sentenced, and we hate it. In a paper refuses to print a judgment,
:19:30. > :19:35.the courts can find them. The Danish system, called Coe
:19:35. > :19:38.regulation, is one model that Lord Justice Leveson could suggest. Or
:19:38. > :19:42.he could follow Ireland's Mead, where they have self-regulation
:19:42. > :19:46.with a twist. Newspapers that sign up get preferential treatment if
:19:46. > :19:50.sued for libel. Or he could opt for the plan preferred by Britain's
:19:50. > :19:54.newspaper industry, self-regulation with legally enforceable contracts
:19:54. > :19:58.to stop publishers opting out and the power to levy fines up to �1
:19:58. > :20:03.million. But no system, as they found in Denmark, can guarantee
:20:03. > :20:07.newspapers will not go too far. Earlier this year, a committee of
:20:07. > :20:12.Danish MPs suggested that the present system was not working.
:20:12. > :20:17.They pointed to a spate of stories, one about a mother wrongly accused
:20:18. > :20:21.of abducting her child, another of a nursery worker accused of knowing
:20:21. > :20:24.about paedophilia and another about a man accused of being a killer.
:20:24. > :20:28.Danish MPs want the Press Council to get tougher. Freedom of the
:20:28. > :20:35.press is important, they say. But with freedom must come
:20:35. > :20:40.responsibility. A homeowner from Dorset has been
:20:40. > :20:43.fined �75,000 for arranging to have a neighbour's protected tree
:20:43. > :20:47.dropped down. Neil Davey had the 40 foot pine tree destroyed in the
:20:47. > :20:51.middle of the night because he said it spoiled his Seaview. He is also
:20:51. > :20:59.to pay a further �50,000 because the view without the tree had
:20:59. > :21:03.increased the value of his property. The Paralympic Games are now the
:21:03. > :21:06.third-biggest sporting event in on the planet in terms of ticket sales
:21:07. > :21:11.as the result of the success of London 2012. It also seems to have
:21:11. > :21:17.had an impact on people's perception of disability. Rio will
:21:17. > :21:24.look to their Paralympians to do the same in Brazil.
:21:24. > :21:29.He is not just any other boy on the beach. This is a level of the air,
:21:29. > :21:35.the man known as the blades from Brazil. -- Alan aloe vera. He lost
:21:35. > :21:45.both of his legs as the result of an infection. Having learned to run
:21:45. > :21:46.
:21:46. > :21:49.on prosthetics, his reputation grew fast. Then came this. He caused one
:21:49. > :21:52.of the greatest upsets in Paralympic history by beating Oscar
:21:52. > :21:59.Pistorius in the 200 metres final. The sprinter now has his heart set
:21:59. > :22:04.on his home games in Rio. But he remains in all of London.
:22:04. > :22:07.Paralympics in London was as grand as the Olympics and left a legacy.
:22:07. > :22:12.The two games have the same importance now. I congratulate
:22:12. > :22:16.London and hope the same will happen in Brazil. Rio promises a
:22:16. > :22:19.spectacular backdrop to the games in a city where sport is a way of
:22:19. > :22:24.life. But the most powerful man in the Paralympic movement believes
:22:24. > :22:30.that momentum must be maintained. London is now the blueprint for
:22:30. > :22:33.Paralympics summer Games moving forward. I am here this week to lay
:22:33. > :22:38.down a challenge to Rio to go far further than London did. Expand on
:22:38. > :22:42.the way perceptions were changed in the UK. And quite a number of other
:22:42. > :22:45.countries around the world, spread back to the whole of Latin America
:22:45. > :22:49.and to the world through far more television coverage. Whereas the
:22:49. > :22:55.London Games brought about a change in attitude, the sense is that the
:22:55. > :22:58.Rio Paralympics must reach into areas like this and bring about an
:22:58. > :23:03.improvement in facilities and opportunities, as well as
:23:03. > :23:07.perceptions. That work has begun in Brazil with a doubling of
:23:07. > :23:10.investment in disabled sport ahead of the Games. This institute for
:23:10. > :23:14.the blind and partially sighted in Rio has produced several
:23:14. > :23:17.Paralympians. The aim is to replicate the success that British
:23:17. > :23:21.athletes enjoyed this year and capture the imagination. Organisers
:23:21. > :23:28.also admit a need for that to impact of wider society. We still
:23:28. > :23:30.have a lot to do. In the UK, you have more balance, a more balanced
:23:30. > :23:34.society. People understand the rights of a person with disability
:23:34. > :23:44.better than in Brazil. But I think it is changing and I think the
:23:44. > :23:44.
:23:44. > :23:48.Games could be a catalyst for that. Alan Oliveira could be a hero in
:23:48. > :23:51.Rio. But the games will have a broader horizon.
:23:51. > :23:54.Mark Hughes has become the second Premier League football manager to
:23:54. > :23:58.be sacked in as many days. Queens Park Rangers are currently bottom
:23:58. > :24:02.of the Premier League without a win in 12 matches. Harry Redknapp is in
:24:02. > :24:06.talks to take over at Loftus Road. In cricket, India have fought back
:24:06. > :24:10.after a good start by England's bowlers on the opening day of the
:24:10. > :24:14.second Test in Mumbai. Monty Panesar marked his return to the
:24:14. > :24:19.side with four wickets to reduce India to 119 for 5 at one point.
:24:19. > :24:24.They recovered to reach 256 for six by close.
:24:24. > :24:28.This historic archway has stood proudly in place for the last 500
:24:28. > :24:31.years, guarding the gateway to Scone Palace, the site where
:24:31. > :24:39.Scotland's kings were crowned. Two years ago it was reduced to rubble
:24:39. > :24:43.after a workman's van accidentally crashed into it. Stone masons have
:24:43. > :24:49.spent months restoring the arch. It was unveiled today.
:24:49. > :24:52.A stately home with an historic past. Scone Palace, once the seat
:24:52. > :24:57.of Scottish kings who passed through here on their way to be
:24:57. > :25:01.crowned. But the ancient, imposing entrance with centuries of history
:25:01. > :25:08.was almost completely destroyed when a worker misjudged the height
:25:08. > :25:16.of his van. They rather forgot that they should not have come up what
:25:16. > :25:20.was the original Coronation way of Charles II. Sadly, they took the
:25:20. > :25:26.archway with them. The impact reduced much of the stonework to
:25:26. > :25:29.rubble. Restoring it was likened to a jigsaw. There were hundreds of
:25:30. > :25:34.stones to piece together. The game for those working on the
:25:34. > :25:39.restoration was to make the arch as close to the original as possible.
:25:39. > :25:46.But there was a very big problem. Two of the ancient panels had been
:25:46. > :25:51.completely destroyed. It has to be 100% right. We researched as much
:25:51. > :25:58.as possible, Carl Minns, any type of ornament, decoration of that
:25:58. > :26:03.period. The restoration complete, the history of Scone Palace intact
:26:03. > :26:07.once more. You name somebody from Scottish history and they have a
:26:07. > :26:13.moment here. Macbeth, William Wallace. It's good that it's been