:00:08. > :00:11.The Algerian hostage crisis, David Cameron wants people to brace
:00:11. > :00:16.themselves for more bad news. Amid reports that a number of foreign
:00:16. > :00:20.hostages have been killed or injured at the Sahara gas plant,
:00:20. > :00:24.the Prime Minister cancels tomorrow's big speech on Europe.
:00:24. > :00:29.is a very dangerous, very uncertain, a very fluid situation. I think we
:00:29. > :00:32.have to prepare ourselves for the possibility of bad news ahead.
:00:32. > :00:36.Britton has been confirmed dead. The BBC has been told there are
:00:36. > :00:41.more casualties. Relief for the family of one hostage. Stephen
:00:41. > :00:45.McFaul from Belfast calls home to say he has escaped. I can't believe
:00:45. > :00:51.it, I can't describe how happy I am. I didn't think we would... I didn't
:00:51. > :00:56.think we would have got this so soon.
:00:56. > :00:59.Also tonight, trouble at Boeing as all of its Dreamliners are grounded
:00:59. > :01:02.around the world for safety checks following battery problems.
:01:02. > :01:06.Accused of rape, trafficking and organising the prostitution of
:01:06. > :01:10.young girls in Oxford. Nine men denied the charges at the Old
:01:10. > :01:14.Bailey. And weather warning, Britain is
:01:14. > :01:19.braced for heavy snow overnight. In parts of Wales, up to 30
:01:19. > :01:24.centimetres is forecast. In Sportsday on the BBC News
:01:24. > :01:34.Channel, Laura Robson shines in her first game under floodlights,
:01:34. > :01:45.
:01:45. > :01:48.beating Petra Kvitova in the Good evening. David Cameron has
:01:48. > :01:52.warned that Britain needs to prepare for the possibility of
:01:52. > :01:57.further bad news about the hostage crisis in Algeria. Islamist
:01:57. > :02:01.militants kidnapped dozens of Westerners, including Brittons at a
:02:01. > :02:05.gas plant in the Sahara yesterday. This morning, the Algerian military
:02:05. > :02:08.launched a raid to free the hostages, a number of whom escaped.
:02:08. > :02:13.But it has been confirmed that one British hostage has been killed and
:02:13. > :02:15.the BBC has been told there are more casualties. The Prime Minister
:02:15. > :02:19.cancelled his trip to the Netherlands, where he was due to
:02:19. > :02:24.make a major speech on Europe tomorrow.
:02:24. > :02:27.Algerian forces, deep in the desert, surrounding the besieged gas plant,
:02:27. > :02:35.according to a Algerian television. A military operation there has left
:02:35. > :02:41.some hostages dead, someone did and some fruit. Jihadists middle this -
:02:41. > :02:45.- some wounded and some freed. They hunted a room to room in this
:02:45. > :02:49.accommodation, looking for Western hostages. A Algeria said it had to
:02:49. > :02:53.launch an operation to free them as kidnappers would not negotiate.
:02:53. > :02:58.David Cameron has warned of grim news still to come. It is a fluid
:02:58. > :03:03.situation, it is ongoing and very uncertain. I don't want to say more
:03:03. > :03:07.than that. I think we should be prepared for the possibility of bad,
:03:07. > :03:10.very difficult news in this extremely difficult situation.
:03:10. > :03:14.The mass kidnapping, carried out by international militants, appears to
:03:14. > :03:19.have been well planned. Survivors said that the kidnappers knew their
:03:19. > :03:22.way around and were trying to take captives into the desert,
:03:22. > :03:26.reportedly staff to explosives. An army helicopter are said to have
:03:27. > :03:31.fired on their convoy of cars, killing both militants and hostages.
:03:32. > :03:36.Algeria is taking an uncompromising stance. TRANSLATION: When faced
:03:36. > :03:40.with terrorism, there will be no negotiation and no blackmail. This
:03:40. > :03:44.is the position we have maintained for some time in the fight against
:03:44. > :03:50.terrorism. Stephen McFaul from Belfast was lucky to escape with
:03:50. > :03:54.his life. Freed today, he rang his family from safety. I am elated. I
:03:54. > :03:58.just can't describe how happy I am. I didn't think that we would... I
:03:58. > :04:04.did not think we would have got this so soon. You know, we always
:04:04. > :04:09.hoped. The luck of the Irish, and he had it. Just excited, I can't
:04:09. > :04:17.wait for him to come home. What are you going to do, are you going to
:04:17. > :04:20.have a party and give him a big hug? Hopefully. Tonight, the
:04:20. > :04:23.Government's of emergency management team, COBRA, met again.
:04:23. > :04:26.This crisis has not gone the way they had hoped. Some will
:04:26. > :04:30.inevitably ask if, if managed differently, deaths could have been
:04:30. > :04:34.avoided. So, the situation is changing all
:04:34. > :04:38.of the time. What is the latest information you are getting?
:04:38. > :04:42.operation is not completely over, but the shooting is stopped. It is
:04:42. > :04:46.still very unclear. This has been the problem throughout this whole
:04:46. > :04:52.crisis, less than two days old, the information has been trickling out.
:04:52. > :04:55.Not just what we get, even what the Government's debt. COBRA, the
:04:55. > :05:00.crisis management team, they have been working on the assumption that
:05:00. > :05:04.there are close to a dozen British hostages at the beginning of this.
:05:04. > :05:08.The expectation is that there could be more bad news. That was hinted
:05:09. > :05:13.at. There will be survivors that are hiding in the dark right now.
:05:13. > :05:16.They are under broadly the same time zone as those in Britain.
:05:16. > :05:22.There will be people out there in the desert. It is a search
:05:22. > :05:28.operation that could also find jihadists that have survived and
:05:28. > :05:32.may be disguising themselves as ordinary members. It is a mopping-
:05:32. > :05:38.up operation, as I understand. Now the recriminations begin, white are
:05:38. > :05:43.the Algerians do this without any permission? It seems to have been a
:05:43. > :05:46.bit of a bloodbath. Nick Robinson is in Amsterdam, where David
:05:46. > :05:51.Cameron was due to make a speech on Europe tomorrow. The fact it has
:05:51. > :05:56.been cancelled underlines the seriousness of the situation?
:05:56. > :06:00.decision not to come to our Amsterdam was taken just before 6
:06:00. > :06:05.o'clock tonight, after the Prime Minister had spoken again to the
:06:05. > :06:09.Algerian Prime Minister. You saw in his face, you heard in his voice,
:06:09. > :06:14.you could tell from the words just how anxious they are in Whitehall
:06:14. > :06:19.about further casualties. I am told they are preparing for what are
:06:19. > :06:25.described as multiple casualties. Early on, there was talk, all of it
:06:25. > :06:27.unconfirmed, of as many as 35 dead from all nationalities. When I put
:06:27. > :06:31.that to people in Whitehall, expected meant to dismiss it as
:06:31. > :06:36.nonsense, they said, we simply do not know the answer to this. But it
:06:36. > :06:41.may not be as wrong as you might originally have thought. There are
:06:41. > :06:46.known to be safe. But I am told that up to 20 have yet to be
:06:46. > :06:50.identified. Some may simply be missing. Some might be hiding.
:06:50. > :06:54.Others might be injured and not properly identified. Sadly, there
:06:54. > :06:58.might be others that are dead. I am told that when the news came from
:06:58. > :07:03.the Algerian government that they had begun a military operation
:07:03. > :07:07.without notifying or consulting with other Western countries,
:07:07. > :07:12.including London, the reaction in the room I am told, from someone
:07:12. > :07:14.who heard, is, please, God, what are they doing? The reason for that
:07:15. > :07:19.is that the British government had offered the Algerian government
:07:19. > :07:24.advice on how to deal with the situation. I give negotiations or a
:07:24. > :07:29.military solution, because -- I their negotiations or a military
:07:29. > :07:32.solution, the feeling was that the Algerian government did not have
:07:32. > :07:37.the expertise to deal with this. They might argue that they had no
:07:37. > :07:41.choice, that the militants involved, the jihadists were trying to move
:07:41. > :07:45.people off the base and that is why military action was taken. Those
:07:45. > :07:51.questions, some of the answers we might get in a statement in the
:07:51. > :07:54.House of Commons tomorrow morning. Tonight, along with all of those
:07:54. > :08:04.families that are anxious, inside Whitehall, inside Downing Street,
:08:04. > :08:07.
:08:07. > :08:10.The entire global fleet of Boeing's new 787 Dreamliner planes has been
:08:10. > :08:14.grounded after American regulators said they should be withdrawn from
:08:14. > :08:17.service for safety reasons. The aircraft became the subject of
:08:17. > :08:23.international concern after a battery failure forced one of the
:08:23. > :08:31.planes to make a emergency landing in Japan yesterday. Ladies and
:08:31. > :08:35.gentlemen, your 787 Dreamliner! is the world's the most high-tech
:08:35. > :08:39.Elena. It is made of plastic, so it is lighter and cheaper to run. --
:08:39. > :08:44.airliner. But it has become a bit of a nightmare for Boeing. This is
:08:44. > :08:49.not a drill. This is yesterday's emergency evacuation in Japan after
:08:49. > :08:54.fears of a fire on board. Barely a week after another Dreamliner
:08:54. > :08:58.caught fire in Boston. Now, the plane is grounded until Boeing can
:08:58. > :09:03.prove it is safe. This is the cause of all of those safety fears. A
:09:03. > :09:08.battery about the size of a shoebox made of lithium-ion. That is the
:09:08. > :09:11.same material used in many laptops and mobile phones. The Dreamliner
:09:11. > :09:15.is the first plane to rely on these batteries, which are light and
:09:15. > :09:20.powerful. They don't actually fly the plane, they help power the
:09:20. > :09:25.aircraft on the ground. Now there are fears it could catch fire. This
:09:25. > :09:29.is the wrecked battery that came out of the plane in Boston. If the
:09:29. > :09:33.battery fails, it is quite catastrophic. You are looking at a
:09:34. > :09:38.severe over heat, an explosion of the battery, the release of very
:09:38. > :09:41.poisonous, toxic gas. You could potentially be looking at the loss
:09:42. > :09:46.of a complete aircraft, you could be looking at a plane crash. That
:09:46. > :09:51.is why US and European safety regulators grounded the plane today.
:09:51. > :09:58.New aircraft always have problems. Boeing's arch-rival Airbus found
:09:58. > :10:02.cracks in the wings of its super sized A380, a mistake that cost the
:10:02. > :10:05.company millions of pounds. The Dreamliner was already being
:10:05. > :10:09.scrutinised after a string of recent issues, including a crack in
:10:09. > :10:13.the cockpit windscreen and fuel leaks. But the battery is the most
:10:13. > :10:18.serious problem. It will hit Boeing for some months, certainly some
:10:18. > :10:23.customers might think again about buying the 787. Nobody is thinking
:10:23. > :10:28.twice at the moment because this is a very fine aeroplane. Three UK
:10:28. > :10:34.airlines have Dreamliners or order. Boeing insists that the plane are
:10:34. > :10:37.safe and says it is working around the clock to return it to the skies.
:10:37. > :10:40.But there was no indication how long that might take. If there has
:10:40. > :10:43.been more graphic and disturbing evidence in the trial of a group of
:10:43. > :10:47.men accused of the sexual exploitation of vulnerable girls as
:10:47. > :10:51.young as 11 in Oxford. The nine men are facing 51 charges
:10:51. > :10:55.including rape, trafficking and organising prostitution over a
:10:55. > :11:04.period of eight years. The men, all in their 20s and 30s, deny the
:11:04. > :11:08.Cowley Road in Oxford. It was here, the court heard, that one girl of
:11:08. > :11:13.14 first met her abusers. The men took her to locations all over the
:11:13. > :11:17.city. The jury was told that she, like others, was raped and forced
:11:17. > :11:21.into prostitution. Some of the alleged encounters are said to have
:11:21. > :11:25.taken place in a room at this guest house. The prosecution said that
:11:25. > :11:31.the girl, who had been in care from a young age, felt she had to do
:11:31. > :11:35.what she was told. In court, Noel Lucas QC said the girl had tried to
:11:35. > :11:40.explain why she could not escape. She said to a friend, I have no
:11:40. > :11:47.choice, I have never been loved. I just want to be loved. Another girl,
:11:47. > :11:57.who the prosecution said was, repeatedly raped, made a complaint
:11:57. > :11:58.
:11:58. > :12:03.to the police into 1006 but was persuaded to drop it. Mohammed
:12:03. > :12:07.Karrar is said to have forced a girl of 12 to half an abortion with
:12:07. > :12:12.no doctor present. Noel Lucas said that that was not only entirely
:12:12. > :12:16.unlawful, but also extremely dangerous. The same girl was
:12:16. > :12:21.branded with a hairpin that he had heated up with a lighter. He
:12:21. > :12:28.regarded her his property, he said, he branded her to make her his
:12:28. > :12:32.property. The prosecution said the stories of the alleged victims were
:12:33. > :12:35.consistent. First they were groomed with apparent kindness, then they
:12:35. > :12:40.were given strong drink and drugs and put under pressure by the use
:12:40. > :12:44.of violence. There were, said the prosecution, sexually used and
:12:44. > :12:49.abused. The men deny all of the charges and the trial is expected
:12:49. > :12:52.to last for at least eight weeks. A British soldier who died
:12:52. > :12:56.yesterday in hospital after being injured in Afghanistan has been
:12:56. > :13:01.named. He was Kingsman David Robertshaw from 1st Battalion, the
:13:02. > :13:04.Duke of Lancaster Regiment. He was shot when his checkpoint came under
:13:04. > :13:08.attack from insurgents in Lashkar Gah.
:13:08. > :13:11.The city of Aleppo has witnessed some of the fiercest fighting of
:13:11. > :13:16.the Syrian conflict in recent months, with more than 80 people
:13:16. > :13:20.killed in a single bomb attack this week. Now there is evidence of
:13:20. > :13:24.discontent with the rebels, with the Free Syrian Army accused of
:13:24. > :13:28.theft, looting and kidnap for ransom. Some inhabitants are
:13:29. > :13:33.turning to a radical Islamist group, named by the US has a terrorist
:13:33. > :13:43.organisation. Paul Wood has been speaking exclusively to members of
:13:43. > :13:48.
:13:48. > :13:52.They are waiting for bread. Eight hours in the bitter cold. Nothing
:13:52. > :13:57.is more emblematic of the failure to run the areas of Aleppo captured
:13:57. > :14:02.by the rebels than the queues outside the city's bakeries. And
:14:02. > :14:10.everyone knows the reason. It is that the Free Syrian Army fighters
:14:10. > :14:15.looted the city's flour supplier. We have no bread, no fuel, no
:14:15. > :14:23.diesel, no power, she says. She goes on to tell me, we used to live
:14:23. > :14:27.like kings, now the strong devour the week. There is an atmosphere of
:14:27. > :14:32.insecurity. There are a rests on the slightest suspicion of a
:14:32. > :14:40.connection to the regime. There are kidnappings for ransom. Support is
:14:40. > :14:44.seeping away from the Free Army. These men are the beneficiaries,
:14:44. > :14:50.the Islamist fighters of the Nusra Front. To many in Aleppo they are
:14:50. > :14:55.saviours, the only ones able to keep order. To the United States,
:14:55. > :15:01.they are terrorists. This secretive group agreed to speak to us. I
:15:01. > :15:09.asked them what if a democratic Syria rejected their Islamic state?
:15:09. > :15:14.Would the jihad continue? That will never happen, so is this Commander,
:15:14. > :15:18.or emir. Syria is an Islamic country. The people love Islam.
:15:18. > :15:26.They are fed up of secular regimes. It is impossible they would reject
:15:26. > :15:32.Sharia. The Nusra Front are responsible for
:15:32. > :15:39.many, perhaps most, of the suicide attacks in Syria. They face
:15:39. > :15:44.accusations of killing civilians indiscriminately. We choose only
:15:44. > :15:54.military carp -- targets, he insists. The regime puts car bombs
:15:54. > :15:55.
:15:55. > :16:00.among civilians and blames us. He also denied any link to Al-Qaeda.
:16:01. > :16:07.An aeroplane drops bombs, sending everyone running. They think the
:16:07. > :16:10.Nusra Front building is the target. They have taken cover in case the
:16:10. > :16:16.plane makes another pass, but the jihadis have a reputation of being
:16:16. > :16:20.the bravest fighters, going to fight -- front lines other groups
:16:20. > :16:24.will not touch. Jabhat al-Nusra are widely regarded here as honest. All
:16:24. > :16:30.of this means that power and influence is flowing to the
:16:30. > :16:35.Islamists. They may have a very big say in Syria's future. There is
:16:35. > :16:41.still support in Aleppo for the Free Syrian Army, but even these
:16:42. > :16:48.wives of their fighters wondered if it has all been worth it.
:16:48. > :16:54.I wish our lives could go back to what they were, she says. They are
:16:54. > :16:59.forced to burn rubbish to keep warm. Western governments have a dilemma.
:17:00. > :17:04.If they stay out of Syria, the Islamists will grow stronger. But
:17:04. > :17:12.weapons sent to the uprising might well reach the jihadists. So people
:17:12. > :17:16.wait for help that probably is not coming.
:17:16. > :17:20.Much of the UK is braced for heavy snow overnight and tomorrow, with
:17:20. > :17:25.predictions of widespread travel disruption. The heaviest snow is
:17:25. > :17:32.expected in South Wales, where up to 30 centimetres could fall. John
:17:32. > :17:37.Casey is that a gritting station in south Gloucestershire. -- Jon Kay.
:17:37. > :17:39.It has been more than two years since the Met Office put out a red
:17:39. > :17:46.warning for slow as they have tonight for south-east Wales, just
:17:46. > :17:50.over the border from here. -- snow. But large parts of Britain are set
:17:50. > :17:55.to be blanketed. By this time tomorrow, much of Britain will be
:17:55. > :17:59.white. The gritters are out and the
:18:00. > :18:05.snowploughs are ready. As temperatures drop tonight and the
:18:05. > :18:09.winds Pickup, the highway teams are expecting a challenge. We cannot be
:18:09. > :18:13.everywhere at the same time and it is critical we get the sort down
:18:13. > :18:16.and activated as the snow falls. Parts of eastern Britain have
:18:16. > :18:20.looked like this since the beginning of the week but tomorrow
:18:20. > :18:25.it will affect millions more. In south-east Wales, the Met Office
:18:25. > :18:31.have issued a rare red warning. Basically, it means take action.
:18:31. > :18:33.There will be disruption because of this weather event. There will be
:18:33. > :18:39.some significant snow, coupled with the fact that there will be strong
:18:39. > :18:43.winds, blizzard conditions and some drifting. Transport could face
:18:43. > :18:47.severe disruption. In southern England, some rail companies have
:18:47. > :18:50.already cancelled trains and revised timetables. Airports,
:18:50. > :18:58.including Heathrow and Gatwick, will be gritting the runways
:18:58. > :19:03.overnight. We have a winter warmth pack. In Yorkshire, charities have
:19:03. > :19:10.been delivering survival kits to hundreds of vulnerable pensioners.
:19:10. > :19:16.I live on my own, so why rely on the good sense and people like this
:19:16. > :19:19.bringing packages. -- I rely on them. Gritting teams expect to be
:19:19. > :19:27.busy well into the weekend, even when the snow stops falling.
:19:27. > :19:30.Freezing temperatures mean much of it could stay on the ground. The
:19:30. > :19:34.Local Government Association says there are 1 million tonnes of grit
:19:34. > :19:39.ready to be spread on the roads of England and Wales alone. Councils
:19:39. > :19:43.say they are as ready as they have ever been. We will find out in the
:19:43. > :19:46.morning what that means. Full details on BBC local radio.
:19:46. > :19:50.Two conmen who carried out an audacious property fraud to allow
:19:50. > :19:53.them to live the lifestyles of the super-rich have been jailed for a
:19:53. > :19:57.total of 12 years. Achilleas Kallakis and Alexander Williams
:19:57. > :19:59.bought a private jet and a luxury yacht with some of the hundreds of
:19:59. > :20:07.millions of pounds they swindled from high street banks. Luisa
:20:07. > :20:11.Baldini reports. Achilleas Kallakis was a gambling
:20:11. > :20:16.man. He even played poker in televised tournaments. Off-screen,
:20:16. > :20:22.he was also gambling, but where the stakes were even higher. For five
:20:22. > :20:26.years from 2003, he played the part of a property tycoon with a multi-
:20:26. > :20:31.million pound portfolio and a jet- set lifestyle to match, including a
:20:32. > :20:35.private jet, a yacht and helicopter. But it was based on a pack of lies.
:20:35. > :20:42.Together with his friend, Alex Williams, he was defrauding high
:20:42. > :20:45.street banks to the tune of over �750 million. Using fake documents,
:20:45. > :20:49.the fraudsters managed to secure or overvalued mortgagors. They then
:20:49. > :20:54.bought dozens of incredibly expensive properties in prime
:20:54. > :20:57.locations, like here, Barclay's Square in the centre of London.
:20:57. > :21:01.They siphoned off the difference between the amount they had been
:21:01. > :21:07.loaned and the value of the property. What is incredible is
:21:07. > :21:12.that the banks are lending them these vast sums, like �740 million
:21:12. > :21:17.from Allied Irish Bank, but not carrying out the proper checks.
:21:17. > :21:21.Indeed, sentencing the pair, Judge Andrew Goymer said the two banks,
:21:21. > :21:24.Allied Irish Banks and Bank of Scotland have undoubtedly acted
:21:24. > :21:32.carelessly and imprudently by failing to make full inquiries
:21:32. > :21:39.before advancing the money. This was a persistent and audacious
:21:39. > :21:45.fraud which enable these defendants, and Mr CARILEC has in particular,
:21:45. > :21:50.to lead the lifestyle of the super- rich. He begins his seven-year
:21:50. > :21:53.sentence tonight. There was some good news today for
:21:53. > :21:57.the UK's car industry. The number of vehicles exported hit a record
:21:57. > :22:01.high of 1.2 million last year. The biggest market for cars made in
:22:01. > :22:08.Britain is the EU. But given the crisis in the eurozone, can the
:22:08. > :22:12.record performance be sustained? John Moylan reports.
:22:12. > :22:18.The Port of Tyne, once famous for exporting coal. Today, it is busy
:22:18. > :22:23.with a much more valuable commodity. These cars are built in Britain at
:22:23. > :22:26.Nissan's huge Sunderland plant, but they are heading abroad. This
:22:26. > :22:31.terminal is Nissan's springboard to markets around the world. The cars
:22:31. > :22:35.being loaded here are destined for forecourts in mainland Europe. But
:22:35. > :22:40.from here, Nissan can export vehicles to the likes of Russia,
:22:40. > :22:44.Australia and New Zealand. Nissan made 500,000 vehicles last year,
:22:44. > :22:49.more than one third of all the cars built in Britain. Good news for the
:22:49. > :22:55.region and beyond. 6000 people work at Nissan but it is bigger than
:22:55. > :22:59.that. The majority of the north- east have something to do with
:22:59. > :23:02.Nissan. It is peace of mind at the end of the day that I know I will
:23:02. > :23:08.have a job this month, next month, maybe even next year, the year
:23:08. > :23:13.after, the next 10 years. UK car production is at a four-year high
:23:13. > :23:17.but the vast majority leave these shores. Where do they go? According
:23:17. > :23:22.to the industry, last year around half of all exports went to the EU,
:23:22. > :23:28.our biggest trading partner. But as many as 12% ended up in Russia.
:23:28. > :23:32.Roughly the same amount that went to the USA. But companies like
:23:32. > :23:36.Jaguar Land Rover are also seeing sales soar in fast-growing markets
:23:36. > :23:41.like China. That has helped compensate for the decline in the
:23:41. > :23:47.auto market in mainland Europe, which led Honda to cut 800 jobs
:23:47. > :23:52.last week. The European downturn, the worst in over 15 years, sales
:23:52. > :23:56.down 8%, is starting to be felt in the UK. We have seen Honda laying
:23:56. > :24:00.off workers, Ford closing a plant, General Motors going to one shift
:24:00. > :24:04.at Luton. The longer it goes on, the greater the impact on the mass-
:24:04. > :24:08.market. These cars will be on foreign forecourts in a matter of
:24:08. > :24:12.days but until the European market recovers, continued export success
:24:12. > :24:15.will be far from plain sailing. In tennis, Britain's Laura Robson
:24:15. > :24:19.produced a big upset today by beating former Wimbledon champion
:24:19. > :24:25.Petra Kvitova in a mammoth three- hour match to reach the last 32 of
:24:25. > :24:31.the Australian Open. Andy Swiss reports.
:24:31. > :24:35.At just 18, she is one of tennis a' rising stars. Laura Robson. The
:24:35. > :24:41.former Wimbledon girls' champion was up against a former women's
:24:41. > :24:44.champion, Petra Kvitova. At first, the experience gap showed, with
:24:44. > :24:49.Kvitova Racing to the first set. A year ago, that might have been that,
:24:49. > :24:55.but Robson has recently shot up the rankings and she soon showed why,
:24:55. > :24:59.battling back to level the match. It was an epic deciding set, a
:24:59. > :25:04.battle of stamina as much as skill, and it was Robson that held her
:25:04. > :25:11.nerve. It was a bruising display. After three hours of sheer guts,
:25:11. > :25:17.she sealed a famous win. Today was a big win for me. I really toughed
:25:17. > :25:21.it out in the end. It is definitely up there, and I just have to play a