:00:14. > :00:17.a landmark case at the European Court of Human Rights. The men
:00:17. > :00:22.claimed it was inhuman not to have any chance of parole. Ministers
:00:22. > :00:25.disagree. I think the British people will be deeply frustrated. It's
:00:25. > :00:29.certainly not what they want or what they believe is right. It reaffirms
:00:29. > :00:34.to me my own determination to see real changes to our human rights
:00:34. > :00:39.laws. One of the men is Jeremy Bamber, who killed five members of
:00:39. > :00:43.his family. A cousin rejects today's ruling. I would be very concerned
:00:43. > :00:48.should he ever be let out, because he would be a threat to the public.
:00:48. > :00:52.We'll ask how this could affect the UK's relationship with the court.
:00:52. > :00:57.Also, Ed Miliband sets out plans to change the relationship between
:00:57. > :01:01.Labour and the unions, after the recent controversy over union
:01:01. > :01:06.influence. This is the most humble day of my life. Rupert Murdoch is
:01:06. > :01:09.invited back to a committee investigating the phone hacking
:01:09. > :01:16.scandal. The captain of the Costa Concordia, which ran aground off
:01:16. > :01:19.Italy last year, has gone on trial. And, on the eve of the Ashes, we ask
:01:19. > :01:27.if England's cricketers will continue the summer of British
:01:27. > :01:34.sporting success. Coming up in Sportsday, Britain's Mark Cavendish
:01:34. > :01:44.finishes third in the tour defans after being involved in a crash. --
:01:44. > :01:55.
:01:55. > :01:59.Tour de France, after being involved murderers, who were sentenced to
:01:59. > :02:03.spend the rest of her lives in prison, have won their case in
:02:03. > :02:07.Europe. The judges ruled that never having the possibility of parole was
:02:07. > :02:14.inhuman, or degrading. The Prime Minister said he profoundly
:02:14. > :02:19.disagreed with that decision, as we now report. Multiple murderers,
:02:19. > :02:23.Jeremy Bamber, Douglas Vinter and Peter Moore. Three members of a
:02:23. > :02:29.group of 49 people, serving the whole of their lives behind bars in
:02:29. > :02:33.England and Wales. They are the worst and most notorious murderers.
:02:34. > :02:41.They include rose west and the killer of five-year-old April Jones,
:02:41. > :02:43.Mark Bridger. There has been a violation. Today, the European Court
:02:43. > :02:49.of Human Rights ruled that with a whole life sentence there needed to
:02:49. > :02:53.be both a possibility of release and review and that therefore there had
:02:53. > :02:57.been a violation of human rights in the case of all three men. I think
:02:57. > :03:00.it's very important, all the evidence shows that where people
:03:00. > :03:05.serving sentences have some hope, have some possibility of review,
:03:05. > :03:11.there is a much greater incentive to engage with the system, to work on
:03:11. > :03:17.behaviour. Do the very worst murderers deserve that hope? On 7th
:03:17. > :03:20.July August 1985, Jeremy Bamber shot his adopted parents and sister and
:03:20. > :03:25.her two young sons. Following his conviction, the trial judge
:03:25. > :03:32.recommended that he serve 25 years. But under the system that operated
:03:32. > :03:38.at the time the then Home Secretary imposed a whole-of-life sentence.
:03:38. > :03:43.His cousin gave his reaction. have had 27 years and I've lost five
:03:43. > :03:47.members of my family and I would be very concerned should he ever be let
:03:47. > :03:53.out. He's killed five people. He should stay where he is. Already
:03:53. > :03:55.angered by rulings from the court on issues such as prisoner voting,
:03:55. > :03:58.today's judgment infuriated the Conservatives. I think the British
:03:58. > :04:03.people will be deeply frustrated by this. It's certainly not what they
:04:03. > :04:09.want. It's not what they believe is right. It re-affirms to me my own
:04:09. > :04:13.determination to see real changes to our laws. Changing human rights laws
:04:13. > :04:16.currently applied by British judges would be extraordinarily difficult.
:04:16. > :04:20.The Lib Dems are opposed and many argue it could damage the UK's
:04:20. > :04:25.reputation around the world. The Government now has six months to
:04:25. > :04:30.bring in a system to review whole-of-life sentences. If that
:04:30. > :04:34.happens, then today's judgment makes it very likely that in the case of
:04:34. > :04:39.my individual prisoner they would have to serve 25 years behind bars
:04:39. > :04:43.before their sentence could be reviewed. The court's ruling doesn't
:04:43. > :04:50.raise the prospect of imminent release, but it gives a glimmer of
:04:50. > :04:56.hope to some of the most reviled murderers of modern times.
:04:56. > :05:02.Live to Westminster and our deputy political editor, James Landale. How
:05:02. > :05:06.do you this ruling affects the debate about the legislation?
:05:06. > :05:10.won't be much difference. Nothing changes quickly when it comes to
:05:10. > :05:14.Europe and the Government is in no mood to rush, but it could have an
:05:15. > :05:17.impact. Ministers have been out and about saying how disappointed and
:05:17. > :05:21.frustrated they are, but behind the scenes they are not untieRle
:05:21. > :05:25.unhappy. That's because they think the court has overreached itself
:05:25. > :05:29.here. They thought this cost -- court fought this court over Abu
:05:29. > :05:33.Qatada and prisoner voting and they think they have an even greater
:05:33. > :05:37.reason to push for reform and a reason they think the public will
:05:37. > :05:42.ready. The Home Secretary says that nothing is off the table, not even
:05:42. > :05:47.potentially with drawing from the jurisdiction of the court and even
:05:47. > :05:51.the Convention, but all of that will have to be for a manifesto. The Lib
:05:51. > :05:55.Dems are opposed to pulling out of the court. That said, I have spoken
:05:55. > :06:00.to a lot of Conservative and Labour MPs have made the point that Britain
:06:00. > :06:03.gave up the death penalty, capital punishment in 1965, because the
:06:04. > :06:07.public had been promised that in return there would be a proper life
:06:07. > :06:15.sentence that meant a life sentence. Those MPs said that they will be
:06:15. > :06:18.prepared to vote to protect that. James, thank you.
:06:18. > :06:23.Ed Miliband has set out plans to change the relationship between
:06:23. > :06:26.Labour and the trade unions. The plans include the pledge to end the
:06:26. > :06:31.automatic affiliation fee, which is paid by millions of union members to
:06:31. > :06:35.the party. He said he was seizing the moment, after the controversy
:06:35. > :06:40.surrounding the choice of a candidate in Falkirk. Our political
:06:40. > :06:45.editor has more details. It's a relationship as old as the
:06:45. > :06:48.party itself. The unions founded Labour. But today, the party's
:06:48. > :06:55.leader declared he wanted to change that relationship to suit this
:06:55. > :06:59.century and not the last. Ed, not David Miliband, got this job, thanks
:06:59. > :07:03.in no small part to the unions. He's always felt under pressure to prove
:07:04. > :07:11.that he's not their creature. Working people should be right at
:07:11. > :07:16.the hard of our party. That's why our relationship with individual
:07:16. > :07:20.union members has got to change. proposals were revealed in what was
:07:20. > :07:25.the home of Fleet Street's once mighty print unions. The details of
:07:25. > :07:31.-- are yet to be agreed. Much of the page is still blank. But here's the
:07:31. > :07:35.headline, which really matters - in the 21st century it doesn't make
:07:36. > :07:44.sense for anyone to be affiliated to a political party unless they've
:07:44. > :07:48.chosen to do so. In theory, this this will end automatic membership
:07:48. > :07:52.and give individuals the choice whether to join or not. It was a
:07:52. > :07:58.speech which a former leader said he wished he had made. I think this is
:07:58. > :08:02.a defining moment and I think it's bold and strong. It's real
:08:02. > :08:06.leadership, this. What is more than a little puzzling is that the speech
:08:06. > :08:11.was also hailed by the leader of Britain's largest trade union, who
:08:11. > :08:14.most assumed was the target of the sort of reforms Tony Blair favours.
:08:14. > :08:20.If Tony Blair's in favour and Len is in favour, they can't be talking
:08:20. > :08:23.about the same thing? Well, Ed's achieved what might have seemed an
:08:23. > :08:27.impossible position. My understanding is that Tony Blair and
:08:27. > :08:32.I don't always agree with him, but I don't always disagree, but on this
:08:32. > :08:37.occasion he says that this was a leadership speech and somebody
:08:37. > :08:41.giving lead and I agree, it was. Will it mean that there will be many
:08:41. > :08:46.fewer Unite members who are affiliated? There's no doubt about
:08:46. > :08:52.that. Will there be much less money? I suspect there might be, yes.
:08:52. > :08:55.Another big union, the GMB, said the plan was completely without the
:08:55. > :09:00.necessary substance required to see if it's workable. The relationship
:09:00. > :09:05.between the unions and Labour has a long history. Why only now is Ed
:09:05. > :09:10.Miliband asking questions about it in his third year as party leader?
:09:10. > :09:14.The answer is obvious of course, he's been caught up in a row over
:09:14. > :09:18.whether the unions are trying to rig the selection of Parliamentary
:09:18. > :09:23.candidates. That's the allegation made here in Falkirk. Labour called
:09:23. > :09:27.in the police to investigate claims, which Unite, the union deny, that
:09:27. > :09:32.people were signed up to the party without even knowing it. That was to
:09:32. > :09:38.help choose to candidate likely to be the town's next MP. What we saw
:09:38. > :09:44.in Falkirk is part of the death throws of the old politics, one that
:09:44. > :09:48.was hated and rightly so. His remedy is a new Code of Conduct for those
:09:48. > :09:53.wanting to become Labour candidates, spending limits for their campaigns,
:09:53. > :09:58.and examining the use of American-style primaries, in which
:09:58. > :10:04.party supporters, not only members, can vote. The Tories are unimpressed
:10:04. > :10:07.and claim the plan could give the unions more power not less. He comes
:10:07. > :10:13.out today and makes an emergency speech and it transspires that the
:10:13. > :10:18.leaders love it and not surprising, because they'll get more power in
:10:18. > :10:22.the Labour Party. Ed Miliband spent four days drawing up plans to change
:10:22. > :10:27.the way his party's been organised for decades. He says he's seizing
:10:27. > :10:35.the moment. Maybe, but no-one seems sure what his plan will add up to in
:10:35. > :10:42.practice. Rupert Murdoch, the head of News
:10:42. > :10:45.Corp, says he welcomes an invitation to re-appear before the Culture,
:10:45. > :10:48.Media and Sport Select Committee. Last week a secret recording emerged
:10:49. > :10:51.in which he seemed to be telling journalists that he regretted the
:10:52. > :10:59.co-operation that the company had given to the police into phone
:10:59. > :11:03.hacking and illegal payments. When Rupert Murdoch last met MPs he told
:11:03. > :11:06.them he was shocked, appalled and ashamed of what some of his
:11:06. > :11:10.journalists had done. He was going to do everything to root out
:11:10. > :11:17.wrongdoing and uncover the truth. Who could forget this opening
:11:17. > :11:26.statement. This is the most humble day of my life. Two years on, a
:11:26. > :11:36.secret recording broadcast last week by Channel 4 revealed a rather more
:11:36. > :11:45.
:11:45. > :11:49.He was addressing a group of around 30 journalists from the Sun, most of
:11:49. > :11:53.whom are under investigation, suspected of making illegal payments
:11:54. > :11:56.to officials. Inside that meeting, journalists weren't told of
:11:56. > :12:00.co-operation, instead it was criticism the police were receiving.
:12:00. > :12:03.Documents were no longer being handed over, they were asking for
:12:03. > :12:08.court orders. Those journalists were told they would have his support
:12:08. > :12:16.even if they were convicted and the whole issue was described as next to
:12:16. > :12:19.nothing. I'm referring to the statement... Today, appearing from
:12:19. > :12:27.the Home Affairs Committee, the Metropolitan Police had this to say.
:12:27. > :12:30.The relationship hauls been a challenging one. Since May of this
:12:30. > :12:35.year voluntary co-operation has been significantly reduced. And the
:12:35. > :12:40.police want to study the recording as part of investigations that have
:12:40. > :12:45.led to 126 arrests, 42 charges, six convictions. Rupert Murdoch
:12:45. > :12:51.meanwhile was said tonight to be welcoming a chance to return to face
:12:51. > :12:54.MPs in order to clear up any misconceptions.
:12:54. > :13:00.In Egypt the Muslim Brotherhood has rejected plans for new elections to
:13:00. > :13:03.be held next year. The group said that the preels put forward by the
:13:03. > :13:13.caretaker President were unlawful and during the day there were more
:13:13. > :13:22.
:13:22. > :13:26.protests on the streets of Cairo and have huge symbolic meaning. They
:13:26. > :13:31.carried 50 shrouds to commemorate the men that were killed in
:13:32. > :13:38.yesterday's on the attack. They said this was not a pro-Islamic rally at
:13:38. > :13:46.a protest for democracy, and against army control. I got my vote in the
:13:46. > :13:50.election, I wrote it and they took my vote and they wrote it again.
:13:50. > :13:56.Egypt's interim government has proposed that the constitution be
:13:56. > :14:01.written and put to a referendum in four months, followed by
:14:01. > :14:08.Parliamentary elections in 2014. Only then will there be presidential
:14:08. > :14:12.elections. There is no appetite for the new plan among the supporters of
:14:12. > :14:16.Mohamed Morsi. They say they cannot affect it because it comes with Adly
:14:16. > :14:23.Mansour, who they view as a military student should. They think the
:14:23. > :14:29.military should not be having any part in Egyptian politics. The
:14:29. > :14:32.Muslim Brotherhood will not speak to Adly Mansour or his ministers.
:14:32. > :14:41.has literally no cottages know basis, he is an illegitimate
:14:41. > :14:48.president. -- he has no legitimate basis. After days of political
:14:48. > :14:53.wrangling, Adly Mansour has picked a prime minister. Despite the unrest,
:14:53. > :14:56.he is pressing on with his government. Tonight the political
:14:56. > :15:01.parties that opposed Mohamed Morsi sent a message to the Muslim
:15:01. > :15:06.Brotherhood. Let's go to early elections in which you will take
:15:06. > :15:14.part and that offer is still on the table. Except reconciliation, except
:15:14. > :15:19.that we are at the verge of civil war, the country is in a state of
:15:19. > :15:24.chaos. Another funeral procession in Alexandria for two policeman killed
:15:24. > :15:26.yesterday. These events make it all the more difficult for protesters
:15:26. > :15:30.and politicians to reach the compromise that Egypt is so
:15:30. > :15:33.desperately needs. The captain of the Costa Concordia,
:15:33. > :15:38.the cruise liner that ran aground off the Italian coast last year, has
:15:38. > :15:41.appeared in court charged with multiple counts of manslaughter.
:15:41. > :15:46.More than 4,000 passengers were onboard when the liner hit a reef
:15:46. > :15:49.off the island of Giglio. 32 passengers died in the accident.
:15:49. > :15:56.Francesco Schettino has been accused of cowardice by parts of the Italian
:15:56. > :16:00.media, as our correspondent Christian Fraser reports.
:16:00. > :16:04.The Italian captain, Francesco Schettino, striding into court this
:16:04. > :16:10.morning with that same confident swagger he displayed a board his
:16:10. > :16:15.ship. He had sailed the Costa Concordia within 100 metres of a
:16:15. > :16:19.coastline and on its ill-fated approach to the island of Giglio,
:16:19. > :16:24.prosecutors say he was talking on his mobile phone.
:16:24. > :16:34.TRANSLATION: Not only did he fail in his management of the emergency, he
:16:34. > :16:44.
:16:44. > :16:46.put his own life above the lives of his passengers. Today, the shipwreck
:16:46. > :16:48.is surrounded by cranes, the biggest salvage operation ever. In evidence
:16:48. > :16:51.they will play the Black box recordings which include the
:16:51. > :16:53.captain's conflicted orders and the chaos that followed. The ship left
:16:53. > :16:57.its planned route. The captain did spot the rock but it was too late.
:16:57. > :17:03.He's turned ripped a hole in the stern. The power failed. Only by
:17:03. > :17:07.like did the ship drift back to the reef, where it tipped violently to
:17:07. > :17:14.starboard. It took Francesco Schettino 45 minutes to issue the
:17:14. > :17:19.emergency. Those stranded were now on their own. There are three issues
:17:19. > :17:24.which this trial will tackle. Why did captain Francesco Schettino
:17:24. > :17:29.leave the safety of the deep channels? Did his delay in calling
:17:30. > :17:35.the order to abandon ship cost more lives? And why was he online -- on
:17:35. > :17:41.land when hundreds of his passengers were still on the ship? Francesco
:17:41. > :17:48.Schettino still maintains he slipped and fell onto one of the life boats.
:17:48. > :17:55.One of the coastguards never really believed him. Newlyweds, Ian and
:17:55. > :18:00.Janice, were among the last to escape. They were celebrating their
:18:00. > :18:05.honeymoon. They climbed through a porthole but at this point Francesco
:18:05. > :18:09.Schettino had checked into a hotel. He was a sponsored in his bed while
:18:10. > :18:15.I was clambering off a ship down a rope ladder. I could not believe
:18:15. > :18:22.anybody would be so selfish. passengers did not escape. The only
:18:22. > :18:27.solace for their families is that Captain Coward, as he is called by
:18:27. > :18:31.the Italian media, is facing 20 years in jail. Not that justice will
:18:31. > :18:34.be quick. The trial has been postponed for a week because of a
:18:34. > :18:37.lawyer strike. An inquest jury has decided that an
:18:37. > :18:42.Angolan man who died while being deported from the UK was unlawfully
:18:42. > :18:45.killed. The inquest heard that Jimmy Mubenga was restrained on a plane by
:18:45. > :18:49.three G4S guards at Heathrow and made repeated appeals for help
:18:49. > :18:52.before losing consciousness. The Crown Prosecution Service had
:18:52. > :19:02.decided not to bring charges in relation to Mr Mubenga's death but
:19:02. > :19:03.
:19:03. > :19:07.that may change, as our home affairs correspondent Matt Prodger reports.
:19:07. > :19:13.46-year-old Jimmy Mubenga lived legally in Britain for 16 years but
:19:13. > :19:17.in 2010 he was being reported to Angola -- deported to Angola. He
:19:17. > :19:23.died before his plane left the ground. His widow welcomed the
:19:23. > :19:27.verdict that he had been unlawfully killed. I feel like Jimmy is resting
:19:27. > :19:33.in peace now because everything was behind the door and now it has come
:19:33. > :19:37.out. I feel happy. Jimmy Mubenga did not want to leave the UK but it
:19:37. > :19:43.wasn't until he boarded the British Airways flight to Angola that he
:19:43. > :19:47.showed signs of violence. After a struggle between Mr Mubenga and the
:19:47. > :19:53.guards, fellow passengers said they heard him screaming repeatedly, I
:19:53. > :19:58.can't breathe, you are killing me. He was handcuffed from behind and
:19:58. > :20:03.his head was forced down to his knees. It was unreasonable force,
:20:03. > :20:09.said the jury, and a significant cause of his death. And earlier
:20:09. > :20:13.decision not to prosecute the G4S guards would be reconsidered. The
:20:13. > :20:19.company said it acted appropriately. Campaigners say it was a tragedy
:20:19. > :20:22.waiting to happen. We need to have an urgent review of the way in which
:20:22. > :20:27.private companies are involved in deportations because there has been
:20:27. > :20:32.a long documented history of evidence of allegations of excessive
:20:32. > :20:36.force well before Jimmy Mubenga died. The Home Office is currently
:20:36. > :20:39.reviewing restraint techniques. With regard to the case of Jimmy
:20:39. > :20:43.Mubenga, it says it expects the highest standards from its
:20:43. > :20:46.contractors. Investigators in Canada are still
:20:46. > :20:53.trying to work out what caused a train carrying oil to crash and
:20:53. > :20:57.explode in a village in Quebec, killing at least 13 people. -- 15
:20:57. > :21:01.people. Today the firm in charge and fire-fighters called to an earlier
:21:01. > :21:09.blaze onboard were both blaming each other for the disaster. Around 40
:21:09. > :21:14.people are still missing. -- 50 people.
:21:14. > :21:20.Once a sleepy lakeside town of short distance from the American border,
:21:20. > :21:24.Lac-Megantic has now been reduced to rubble. A runaway train containing
:21:24. > :21:30.pressurised containers of crude oil came barrelling down the hillside
:21:31. > :21:33.and once it reached here, jumped the rails and exploded. The first photos
:21:33. > :21:40.of the town centre released today show a scene of absolute
:21:40. > :21:46.devastation. This man and his wife were among those whose home was
:21:46. > :21:52.destroyed by the explosion. We have five neighbours for sure that are
:21:52. > :21:57.dead. Five neighbours. With fire is still burning, there are parts of
:21:57. > :22:01.the town that investigators are still unable to get to. The key
:22:01. > :22:07.question of course is what went wrong. Particularly puzzling is the
:22:07. > :22:11.fact that a small fire broke out on the train as it was parked up in a
:22:11. > :22:17.nearby village prior to a shift change. Firefighters dealt with that
:22:17. > :22:22.but a short while later, the train was barrelling down hill, destined
:22:22. > :22:26.for this small town. One suggestion is that by shutting off the
:22:26. > :22:32.locomotive in order to deal with the fire, the firefighters could have
:22:32. > :22:35.unwittingly shut off its brakes as well. Thus causing the carriages to
:22:36. > :22:41.roll down. Officials meanwhile struggling to identify the bodies
:22:41. > :22:50.and there is a feeling that many of the dead will never be traced.
:22:50. > :22:57.don't have any more bodies that have been found. How did they manage to
:22:57. > :23:01.derail? That is part of the investigation. Officials are asking
:23:01. > :23:06.if families of those missing to provide raises or anything with
:23:06. > :23:11.samples of their DNA. This one sleepy town is bracing itself for
:23:11. > :23:16.more bad news in the days ahead. Dozens of people were injured today
:23:16. > :23:19.in a car bombing in the Lebanese capital, Beirut. The blast happened
:23:19. > :23:21.in a suburb loyal to the Shia militant group, Hezbollah, whose
:23:21. > :23:26.fighters have been supporting President Assad's forces in
:23:26. > :23:29.neighbouring Syria. No group has said it carried out the attack.
:23:29. > :23:36.The International Monetary Fund has increased its economic growth
:23:36. > :23:40.forecast for the UK this year from 0.7% to 0.9%. It's the first time
:23:40. > :23:46.since April 2012 that the IMF has raised its UK forecast. Our
:23:46. > :23:50.economics editor Stephanie Flanders is with me. Should people be
:23:50. > :23:54.celebrating? It is clearly good news and it is
:23:54. > :23:59.bit of a novelty. I have been telling you in the last few years
:23:59. > :24:03.that the IMF have cut our growth forecast again. Today they raised it
:24:03. > :24:07.slightly on a day where they were cutting the forecast for quite a
:24:07. > :24:12.large part of the world, particularly in that you market
:24:12. > :24:16.economies like China, Russia and Brazil. So you could see the IMF is
:24:16. > :24:22.catching up with some of the good news we have heard about the economy
:24:22. > :24:28.in the last few months in the UK. The UK think tank said today that
:24:28. > :24:33.the economy grew by 0.6% in the last three months. But let's be clear,
:24:33. > :24:37.this is still a very modest recovery by historical standards. Even the
:24:37. > :24:41.IMF forecast is a bit lower than they were hoping for at the start of
:24:41. > :24:47.the year and they are still expecting only fairly modest growth
:24:47. > :24:51.next year as well. You can see why we might still need to worry. The
:24:51. > :24:56.Eurozone is still deep in recession and a massive question over the
:24:56. > :25:01.emerging market economies. Can they cope with the possible end of the US
:25:01. > :25:03.policy of pumping cheap money into the global economy? All of that
:25:03. > :25:06.could contain our growth. Thank you, Stephanie.
:25:06. > :25:09.The Ashes series between England and Australia begins at Trent Bridge
:25:09. > :25:17.tomorrow. The Australian captain, Michael Clarke, admitted the hosts
:25:17. > :25:21.were favourites to make it three in a row. Joe Wilson reports.
:25:21. > :25:26.England versus Australia, the cricket series which sells itself
:25:26. > :25:31.and sells out grounds but that does not mean you can't add some hype.
:25:31. > :25:37.Alistair Cooke is a near captain, realising that when it is the Ashes,
:25:37. > :25:41.everyone suddenly cares. I want to wish the best of luck. The red
:25:41. > :25:47.arrows are right behind the England cricket team. Best of luck to
:25:47. > :25:51.Alistair Cooke and the boys. Pressure? One of the big differences
:25:51. > :25:56.in the series against Australia is the general interest in the series.
:25:56. > :26:02.Over the last couple of weeks, a lot of people have come up in the street
:26:02. > :26:05.and said good luck. On the other side of the world, these cricketers
:26:06. > :26:12.in Sydney know the Ashes are happening in England and may choose
:26:12. > :26:17.to sleep through it. The ponds are favourite and they deserve to be.
:26:17. > :26:24.would be closer than we are led to believe but I still think it will go
:26:24. > :26:31.England's way. Australia lost their last test series in India but since
:26:31. > :26:36.they have been in England they have gone from disarray to transition.
:26:36. > :26:43.Comparing the two, England has solidity. Andy Flowers won the Ashes
:26:43. > :26:47.twice and Darren Lehman only took over Australia recently. Australia
:26:47. > :26:52.depend on Michael Clarke, great record but suspect back. James
:26:53. > :26:59.Anderson seems to be in his prime. James Pattinson is quick and
:26:59. > :27:04.talented but inexperienced. England are expected to win. The Australian
:27:04. > :27:11.team have nothing to lose, I guess, so hopefully they will give it
:27:11. > :27:15.everything. The Ashes breathes life into test cricket. Mass media