:00:00. > :00:08.Tonight at 10pm: UKIP and Labour make the biggest
:00:09. > :00:14.gains in the local elections in England.
:00:15. > :00:23.UKIP's Nigel Farage says his party will now have to be taken seriously
:00:24. > :00:27.in next year's general election. There are areas across the country
:00:28. > :00:31.where now we have an imprint in local government and where, under
:00:32. > :00:33.the first past the post system, we are serious players.
:00:34. > :00:39.There were losses for the Conservatives, many in areas where
:00:40. > :00:45.UKIP's campaign had struck a chord. Mainly immigration. I want similar
:00:46. > :00:49.to what I grew up with for England. At times, you feel a stranger in
:00:50. > :00:51.your own country. And Labour performed strongly in
:00:52. > :00:54.London but missed some targets elsewhere.
:00:55. > :00:57.We'll be asking what the results tell us, with a year to go before
:00:58. > :01:00.the general election. Also tonight:
:01:01. > :01:02.One of Scotland's most significant buildings, Glasgow School of Art,
:01:03. > :01:06.has been extensively damaged by fire.
:01:07. > :01:11.The hull of the missing British yacht is found in the Atlantic, but
:01:12. > :01:15.there's no sign of the four sailors. And England's Rugby World Cup hero,
:01:16. > :01:16.Jonny Wilkinson, talks to us on the eve of his last game on British
:01:17. > :01:24.soil. In Sportsday, Chelsea's David Luiz
:01:25. > :01:27.is in talks with Paris Saint-Germain about a ?40 million move which would
:01:28. > :01:52.make him football's most expensive defender.
:01:53. > :01:56.Good evening. UKIP and Labour made the biggest
:01:57. > :02:00.gains in yesterday's local council elections in England. The UKIP
:02:01. > :02:03.leader, Nigel Farage, said the results showed his party would be "a
:02:04. > :02:08.serious player" in next year's general election. With just a few
:02:09. > :02:14.results still to come, this is how things look tonight. Labour gained
:02:15. > :02:17.292 seats. Their strongest performance was in London. The
:02:18. > :02:21.Conservatives lost 201 seats, many in areas where UKIP did well. The
:02:22. > :02:26.Lib Dems had a difficult night, losing 284 seats. And while UKIP
:02:27. > :02:31.gained 155 seats, the party still doesn't control any local councils.
:02:32. > :02:58.If the election had been held across all of the UK, the projected share
:02:59. > :03:02.of the vote would be Down the dog and duck, they might not get round
:03:03. > :03:07.to analysing the results, but they might raise a glass to the man has
:03:08. > :03:13.given the political establishment a mighty big kick. I haven't done a
:03:14. > :03:17.lot, really. Tell that to the UKIP members who danced as they took
:03:18. > :03:22.seats in what was once Labour Great Yarmouth, or those in Rotherham,
:03:23. > :03:28.where another ten foul, and they even broke into song. Another one
:03:29. > :03:34.bites the dust. Tories bit the dust in Basildon, Brentwood, Southend and
:03:35. > :03:37.Thurrock, as Mrs Thatcher's Essex man became UKIP man instead, causing
:03:38. > :03:45.just a little excitement, even from candidates who lost. All that you
:03:46. > :03:50.can hear is UKIP, UKIP, UKIP. This party and its leader have changed
:03:51. > :03:56.the face of British politics. Hang on a second. What Nigel Farage calls
:03:57. > :04:00.his people's army did not win the most votes, nor the most seats, they
:04:01. > :04:04.still don't control a single council, but they did cement their
:04:05. > :04:10.status as the fourth force in English politics. For years, the
:04:11. > :04:15.media have said UKIP voters are elderly, retired colonels living on
:04:16. > :04:21.the edge of Salisbury plain. Now we are ill educated working-class
:04:22. > :04:25.supporters. Take your pick. 11 Tory councils are more than 200
:04:26. > :04:30.councillors lost, which is leading to a bout of soul-searching. UKIP
:04:31. > :04:35.have tapped into what the public are feeling, particularly with
:04:36. > :04:39.immigration, and the point that they are pretty frustrated with Europe.
:04:40. > :04:43.Some Conservatives say the next time ballot boxes are opened and votes
:04:44. > :04:48.are counted, their party should have a pact with UKIP. No way, said David
:04:49. > :04:54.Cameron today, promising instead answers to people's anger. We have
:04:55. > :04:58.to work harder and really deliver on issues that are frustrating people,
:04:59. > :05:02.and frustrating me, like welfare reform, immigration and making sure
:05:03. > :05:05.people really benefit from this recovery. We will be working flat
:05:06. > :05:11.out to demonstrate that we do have the answers to help hard-working
:05:12. > :05:16.people. For Labour, it was a day of nervous weights. There was good
:05:17. > :05:20.news, winning in Cambridge and Crawley, and another four councils
:05:21. > :05:25.taken in London. But there was bad news, too. One year from a general
:05:26. > :05:31.election, the party failed to win in places it will soon need to. An
:05:32. > :05:34.inquest has begun. The strategists called it wrong. We should have
:05:35. > :05:40.taken the fight to UKIP from the beginning. You don't get it, clearly
:05:41. > :05:44.enough for us. I lost count of the number of people, canvassing over
:05:45. > :05:50.the last three days, that have said, you all need a big kicking. So, is
:05:51. > :05:54.Ed Miliband doing well enough to march into Downing Street? His aides
:05:55. > :05:59.say he is winning where it matters, but neither he nor his party are
:06:00. > :06:04.sounding that confident. I want to say to those people today, I
:06:05. > :06:09.understand you're feeling, I understand your discontent, I am
:06:10. > :06:16.determined that Labour shows you, over the next 12 months, how we can
:06:17. > :06:20.change your lives for the better. As for the Lib Dems, coalition is not
:06:21. > :06:25.being kind to them. They lost two out of every three councillors they
:06:26. > :06:28.began last night with. They lost councils in Kingston and Portsmouth,
:06:29. > :06:35.but Nick Clegg insists they can and will hold on in their strongest
:06:36. > :06:37.areas. It is never easy to see dedicated, hard-working Liberal
:06:38. > :06:42.Democrat councillors lose ground. But actually, in the areas where we
:06:43. > :06:47.have MPs, good organisation on the ground, where we can get our message
:06:48. > :06:52.across, we are actually doing well. Nigel Farage says this is the day
:06:53. > :06:59.UKIP's Fox was sent into the Westminster henhouse. Stand to see
:07:00. > :07:03.some feathers flying. Nick Robinson, BBC News, Westminster.
:07:04. > :07:06.As Nick mentioned, one of UKIP's most fertile areas last night was
:07:07. > :07:09.Essex, the county often considered a useful guide to Conservative
:07:10. > :07:11.prospects at a general election. Councils in Basildon, Castle Point
:07:12. > :07:17.and Southend-on-Sea moved from Conservative to no overall control,
:07:18. > :07:25.as UKIP picked up support. Our political correspondent Vicki Young
:07:26. > :07:28.has spent the day in the county. It is less than 30 miles from
:07:29. > :07:32.Westminster but for many in this part of Essex, the main political
:07:33. > :07:36.parties might as well be in a different country. The voters say
:07:37. > :07:40.they are out of touch and ignoring the concerns of ordinary people.
:07:41. > :07:46.There is a list of grievances, from a lack of housing to poor job
:07:47. > :07:48.prospects. But in Tony's cafe, it is UKIP's message on cutting
:07:49. > :07:56.immigration that is really appealing to voters. I want similar to what I
:07:57. > :08:01.grew up with for England. It is getting totally overtaken by people
:08:02. > :08:06.that I can't link with. I feel disconnected, there is a
:08:07. > :08:11.disconnection from society. Others say that UKIP is the only party
:08:12. > :08:16.prepared to speak out and to act. What about politicians of the other
:08:17. > :08:20.main parties who say they will deal with immigration? They have said
:08:21. > :08:25.that for years and haven't done anything. It is not about being
:08:26. > :08:29.racist. I don't care what colour people are, but like Australia, we
:08:30. > :08:32.need some sort of entry system so that we have a benefit of them
:08:33. > :08:38.coming here, not so much just come here and it is a free for all. Nigel
:08:39. > :08:42.Farage speaks normally, like normal people. He is not frightened of
:08:43. > :08:47.upsetting people and he says what he thinks. As for the man of the
:08:48. > :08:51.moment, Nigel Farage is enjoying every minute of this success. On a
:08:52. > :08:56.whistle-stop tour of Essex, taking in a couple of pubs, of course, he
:08:57. > :09:00.met some newly elected councillors, many of whom have no experience in
:09:01. > :09:06.local government. I am not then to tell them what they can and cannot
:09:07. > :09:11.do. But that can lead to trouble. Yes, but we are a party of
:09:12. > :09:15.individuals. Sometimes, UKIP people say things and there is a huge hue
:09:16. > :09:20.and cry over it, but we are real people with real opinions. I would
:09:21. > :09:24.rather that, than some sort of monochrome, politically correct
:09:25. > :09:29.nothingness. But those real opinions have led to accusations that UKIP is
:09:30. > :09:35.a racist party. Those attacks were out of order, he says. I think that
:09:36. > :09:38.scrutiny is fine but it needs to be balanced and fair. There were points
:09:39. > :09:44.in this campaign when it looks like a witchhunt. Nigel Farage has had a
:09:45. > :09:48.taste of success before, and he thinks the best is yet to come.
:09:49. > :09:51.So the political landscape has certainly changed in the past 24
:09:52. > :09:54.hours, but what do the results tell us about the individual parties?
:09:55. > :10:03.Jeremy Vine is in the BBC election studio.
:10:04. > :10:11.161 councils, 36% turnout, and here is the map before the voting. I will
:10:12. > :10:16.colour it in for you. The change now shows the outcome. We started with
:10:17. > :10:21.Labour winning back Sunderland. Red, Labour strong in the north. The
:10:22. > :10:26.Liberal Democrats holding onto South Lakeland, but the Conservatives
:10:27. > :10:32.proving resilient in some councils. Trafford, staying blue. And Tamworth
:10:33. > :10:37.in the West Midlands, staying blue. Swindon, staying blue. For Labour,
:10:38. > :10:42.it was good news in London. They took places like Merton and Croydon
:10:43. > :10:46.and Hammersmith Fulham. If you are looking for UKIP purple, there is
:10:47. > :10:50.none because they do not control a single council, but the grey in
:10:51. > :10:54.Essex tells the story of places like Castle Point and Southend, where the
:10:55. > :10:54.Conservatives could not hang on in the
:10:55. > :10:59.Castle Point and Southend, where the Conservatives could not hang on face
:11:00. > :11:01.of a UKIP challenge. So, projected national share, the share the
:11:02. > :11:09.parties would have got had this been a national election. 31% puts Labour
:11:10. > :11:13.in the lead, but only just. The Conservatives on 29%. The Liberal
:11:14. > :11:19.Democrats doing very badly on 13%. UKIP doing well on 17% but 6% down
:11:20. > :11:23.on a stunning forms last year, and the others on 10%. Let's go back a
:11:24. > :11:30.few years and look at the journey the parties have been on, the three
:11:31. > :11:34.main parties. If we go back to 2005, these were the percentages, with
:11:35. > :11:38.Labour in the lead. Gradually you can see the faith wearing away in
:11:39. > :11:41.the Tony Blair government, and under Gordon Brown, the Labour ratings
:11:42. > :11:46.dropping below the Liberal Democrats. Then the 2010 election
:11:47. > :11:49.happens, and it is the coalition parties who start to get punished,
:11:50. > :11:54.the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats coming down. But watch
:11:55. > :11:58.this, in the last couple of years, UKIP arrived on the scene. You can
:11:59. > :12:02.see actually the two main parties here, their vote is almost being
:12:03. > :12:07.suppressed by the changed political landscape. As for the Liberal
:12:08. > :12:12.Democrats, they start all the way over here and they come down and
:12:13. > :12:18.down and down. It really is very bad news for them all round.
:12:19. > :12:27.Nick Robinson is with me. Let's talk more about UKIP and put the result
:12:28. > :12:30.in context. Nigel Farage predicted a political earthquake. It does not
:12:31. > :12:33.feel the earth has moved but there were certainly tremors today. Up
:12:34. > :12:38.until now we knew that UKIP were capable of putting on a show when it
:12:39. > :12:42.came to a European election. We knew they had done pretty well at one set
:12:43. > :12:46.of local elections, but they are now established as a force around the
:12:47. > :12:51.country, damaging Labour in the north, the Tories in Essex, damaging
:12:52. > :12:56.them both in the Midlands. It means, in a sense, that they are genuinely
:12:57. > :12:59.a force. That talk of gaining seats in Westminster, which seemed
:13:00. > :13:04.implausible in the past, now looks practical. They are not a party of
:13:05. > :13:09.power yet, with no power at local or national level, but they have proved
:13:10. > :13:13.they are a party with the power to disrupt. Let's talk more about the
:13:14. > :13:18.disruption in the context of the other parties. We are seeing it
:13:19. > :13:22.already. The Tories have lost the most, the clear losers of today, but
:13:23. > :13:28.they are behaving as if they have not. The anticipated calls for
:13:29. > :13:29.changes in leadership, changes of European policy, changes of
:13:30. > :13:34.immigration policy, have not happened. The calls for a packed
:13:35. > :13:38.with UKIP have been waved away. Labour, on the other hand, who did
:13:39. > :13:42.come out on top, with impressive gains, doing better as the day went
:13:43. > :13:46.on, doing better and better in London, rather than the rest of the
:13:47. > :13:50.country, have almost behaved as if they have lost, with an inquest
:13:51. > :13:55.taking place. Ed Balls saying people had to listen loud and clear to what
:13:56. > :14:00.the voters were saying. Yvette Cooper saying they ought to talk
:14:01. > :14:02.more about immigration. The Shadow Health Secretary, Andy Burnham,
:14:03. > :14:07.saying there were real worries about what voters had said that Labour
:14:08. > :14:10.needed to listen. Often it is not just what happens in an election
:14:11. > :14:20.that happens, but how parties react to them. Labour is reacting to Chile
:14:21. > :14:24.and unnervingly. You can find out more about the results in your area
:14:25. > :14:31.and look ahead to the European results on Sunday on our website,
:14:32. > :14:35.bbc.co.uk/vote 2014. One of Scotland's most significant
:14:36. > :14:39.buildings, the Glasgow School of Art, has been badly damaged in a
:14:40. > :14:44.fire. It's considered the masterpiece of Charles Rennie
:14:45. > :14:48.Mackintosh, Scotland's most influential architect and designer.
:14:49. > :14:56.Reports say the blaze started when a projector exploded in a basement
:14:57. > :15:00.room. This fire started now almost 10-hours ago. Tonight, you can still
:15:01. > :15:05.see the smoke coming out of the windows on the upper floor. This
:15:06. > :15:08.Charles Rennie Mackintosh building in the Glasgow School of Art, is
:15:09. > :15:14.both cherished and admired. As you say, it's widely considered to be
:15:15. > :15:18.his masterpiece. Every tiny detail in that building was carefully
:15:19. > :15:22.thought out when Mackintosh designed it, more than 100 years ago. Today,
:15:23. > :15:27.it was packed full of students, some of them working on their final
:15:28. > :15:31.degree show. They have been worried that much of their work might have
:15:32. > :15:37.been destroyed. Of course, there has been concerns about what effect that
:15:38. > :15:42.fire has had on the building itself. An iconic Scottish building, up in
:15:43. > :15:47.flames. Smoke billowing through the blackened windows, as fire spread
:15:48. > :15:51.from the basement to the attic. This a school famous for its architecture
:15:52. > :15:55.and the artist it has produced. It was full of students when the blaze
:15:56. > :16:01.broke out. It's thought all were led to safety. Many staying close,
:16:02. > :16:05.watching as the fire quickly spread. The alarm went off. We got
:16:06. > :16:10.evacuated. It was thick, black smoke everywhere. What were you feeling?
:16:11. > :16:15.Terrified. For more than 100 years, this has been a Glasgow landmark, a
:16:16. > :16:20.Charles Rennie Mackintosh masterpiece, full of windows, light,
:16:21. > :16:24.wooden panelling and wooden furniture. So many artists have
:16:25. > :16:30.passed through its doors. It's unique, and many fear irreplace.
:16:31. > :16:33.Mackintosh designed an art school that 100 years later it is still a
:16:34. > :16:36.fantastic art school. You have to see the level of students that go
:16:37. > :16:41.through the art school. Mackintosh is a big attraction. Look at the
:16:42. > :16:44.recent Turner Prize nominations, three of the students are from the
:16:45. > :16:49.School ofSchool of Art. Crews from across the country have spent the
:16:50. > :16:53.afternoon tries to douse the flames. They can't confirm what caused the
:16:54. > :16:58.fire, but it's feared the Mackintosh building, famed for its Art Deco
:16:59. > :17:02.beauty, and full of artistic treasures, may be damaged beyond
:17:03. > :17:07.repair. That was the worry of many people who saw the extent of the
:17:08. > :17:11.fire. Within the last few minutes Scotland's Fire Service announced
:17:12. > :17:17.good news. It said that against many people's expectations this treasured
:17:18. > :17:23.building, and many of the artwork it contains, have been saved. That goes
:17:24. > :17:29.for the students' final year work as well. Good news tonight. Lorna
:17:30. > :17:35.Gordon for us there in Glasgow. Some of the day's other news stories.
:17:36. > :17:37.Serious failings in Birmingham City Council's Children's Services are
:17:38. > :17:41.still leaving young people at risk, according to a report by Ofsted. It
:17:42. > :17:45.found over a period of three months, the cases of 145 children were
:17:46. > :17:50.closed due to a lack of social workers. A finding disputed by the
:17:51. > :17:52.council. It did state the most serious cases involving children at
:17:53. > :17:58.extreme risk were dealt with quickly. The Coalition Government is
:17:59. > :18:02.proposing new rules on rights to access land to try to speed up the
:18:03. > :18:06.introduction of fracking for oil and gas. It comes as a new report by ish
:18:07. > :18:11.British Geological Survey estimates that there are more than four
:18:12. > :18:17.billion barrels of oil in shale rock in parts of southern England. The
:18:18. > :18:20.hull of the missing British yacht, Cheeky Rafiki, has been found in the
:18:21. > :18:26.North Atlantic, according to a statement by the US Coastguard,
:18:27. > :18:28.which was released within the past couple of hours. They said there was
:18:29. > :18:35.no sign of the four sailors, who have been missing now for a week.
:18:36. > :18:39.Our correspondent, Nick Bryant, is in Boston with the latest. The
:18:40. > :18:44.overturned hull was sdis covered by the crew of a US naval warship they
:18:45. > :18:47.sent out a small boat with a swimmer on board to investigate. They
:18:48. > :18:52.identified it was the Cheeky Rafiki from the name on the stern. Its
:18:53. > :18:55.windows were smashed. Its cabin was completely filled with water. The
:18:56. > :19:02.swimmer knocked repeatedly on the hull of the vessel. There was no
:19:03. > :19:04.response. He reached an arm's length into the water, again with no
:19:05. > :19:09.results. What the swimmer couldn't do was to dive down to conduct a
:19:10. > :19:13.more thorough investigation. What he couldn't discover, or couldn't
:19:14. > :19:18.determine, is whether the life raft had been deployed or not. What the
:19:19. > :19:22.coastguard has said is that they weren't particularly surprised to
:19:23. > :19:25.find the hull of the Cheeky Rafiki. They said it was spotted of course
:19:26. > :19:31.by that commercial vessel going through the area on Saturday. What
:19:32. > :19:36.it doesn't do, crucially, is affect the decision they made last night,
:19:37. > :19:40.which is to call off the multinational operation in less than
:19:41. > :19:43.five hours' time. An RAF Hercules will be flying over the search area
:19:44. > :19:47.tomorrow. Nick, again, thank you very much. Nick Bryant, our
:19:48. > :19:52.correspondent there in Boston. The jury at the inquest into the deaths
:19:53. > :19:59.of 96 Liverpool fans at Hillsborough have been visiting the stadium in
:20:00. > :20:04.Sheffield where the disaster happened in 1989. A panel of three
:20:05. > :20:07.High Court judges quashed the original verdicts of accidental
:20:08. > :20:14.death. Our correspondent has this report. Today football ground became
:20:15. > :20:19.court room as the Hillsborough stadium was prepared, down to the
:20:20. > :20:26.last millimetre, and made ready for the jury to visit. Walking down
:20:27. > :20:31.Leppings Lane, the court party retraced the same steps Liverpool
:20:32. > :20:38.fans made over 25 years ago on the day of the disaster. The coroner,
:20:39. > :20:42.Lord Goldring showed the jury around pointing out significant landmarks
:20:43. > :20:46.around the ground. The jury was told this part of the Hillsborough
:20:47. > :20:52.stadium has changed substantially since 1989. To help them envisage it
:20:53. > :20:56.as it was then the turnstiles and exit gates have been marked out
:20:57. > :21:01.using traffic cones. Today the jury stopped to see the area where the
:21:02. > :21:07.fatal crush happened. To prepare they were shown these compute
:21:08. > :21:11.graphics which illustrated how the fenced terraces used to look and how
:21:12. > :21:16.they changed and look today. The jury was driven past a memorial to
:21:17. > :21:21.the Liverpool fans who died in the disaster. They were taken to local
:21:22. > :21:27.hospitals which treated casualties. The inquests will continue in
:21:28. > :21:30.Warrington next week. President Putin of Russia has promised to
:21:31. > :21:35.recognise the results of Sunday's presidential election in Ukraine.
:21:36. > :21:39.During an economic forum in St Petersburg he demanded that Kiev end
:21:40. > :21:43.its military operation against pro-Russian activists in the east.
:21:44. > :21:47.21 candidates are standing in Ukraine's presidential ballot. The
:21:48. > :21:53.billionaire businessman, Petro Poroshenko, is the pollsters'
:21:54. > :21:56.favourite. His main challenge, former Prime Minister, Yulia
:21:57. > :22:02.Tymoshenko is trailing, they say, in second place. Our correspondent
:22:03. > :22:05.Daniel Sandford has been on the election trail to Donetsk in the
:22:06. > :22:11.east and Odessa in the south. That is where his report begins. He is
:22:12. > :22:20.Ukraine's seventh richest man and its wealthiest MP, a billionaire who
:22:21. > :22:30.earned his fortune making chocolate. Petro Poroshenko is has worked for
:22:31. > :22:36.two presidents of opposing parties. It looks highly likely this will be
:22:37. > :22:42.the man choosen to knit this country back together. A young country that
:22:43. > :22:48.lost Crimea ya and fighting to hold on to the eastern regions of Donetsk
:22:49. > :22:52.and Odessa. Petro Poroshenko he is not seen as a saviour, Ukraine needs
:22:53. > :22:55.a new President fast. People are voting for him in the hope he will
:22:56. > :23:04.win outright in the first round on Sunday. What can you do to try to
:23:05. > :23:08.bring Ukraine back together if you become president? We are well
:23:09. > :23:12.accepted in the East and West. We have to build the trust between the
:23:13. > :23:18.President and the people. We will do it from all of my heart. My first
:23:19. > :23:22.thing would be to Donetsk and Odessa also, build up the trust. The
:23:23. > :23:26.Donetsk, the east, is still a mess. At least five more people died
:23:27. > :23:32.in-fighting at a check point near Donetsk this morning. Shoot-outs
:23:33. > :23:36.like this one have become a daily occurrence here in eastern Ukraine.
:23:37. > :23:43.The worst kind of atmosphere for a presidential election. In Donetsk we
:23:44. > :23:47.found scared officials returning ballot boxes two-days ahead of the
:23:48. > :23:52.vote. Too frightened to open their polling station. With good reason.
:23:53. > :23:57.What was the last thing you heard about... This woman's husband is an
:23:58. > :24:02.election official who was detained by pro-Russian gunmen, opposed to
:24:03. > :24:07.the poll yesterday. He hasn't been seen since.
:24:08. > :24:12.TRANSLATION: He rushed into the office and told his staff, "guests
:24:13. > :24:17.are here, you all need to leave quickly." Later people saw him taken
:24:18. > :24:21.out in handcuffs and put onto a bus. There was some hope today when the
:24:22. > :24:26.Russian President, Vladimir Putin, said he would respect the choice of
:24:27. > :24:33.the Ukrainian people. It has been a week of deaths in the east, and the
:24:34. > :24:39.voting is still two-days away. Daniel Sandford, BBC News, Donetsk.
:24:40. > :24:43.The remains of King Richard III should be given a dignified reburial
:24:44. > :24:47.in Leicester, according to judges at the High Court. His bones were found
:24:48. > :24:51.under a council car park in the city in 2012. Some distant relatives had
:24:52. > :24:57.argued that the man known as Richard of York should in fact be buried in
:24:58. > :25:01.York Minster. Jonny Wilkinson, one of the greatest English rugby
:25:02. > :25:05.players of all-time, has been talking to the BBC about the
:25:06. > :25:10.prospect of his last game on British soil. He turns 35 this month. After
:25:11. > :25:16.a career that spanned 17 years he's hoping to lead Toulon to success in
:25:17. > :25:19.the Heineken Cup against Saracens at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff
:25:20. > :25:27.tomorrow. There are some flashing images in this report. The stare
:25:28. > :25:30.locked to the target, the hands clapsed in concentration. Jonny
:25:31. > :25:39.Wilkinson is the only European rugby player Fay you o mouse to be part of
:25:40. > :25:43.Madame Tussaud's in London. Jonny Wilkinson he defined professionalism
:25:44. > :25:48.in rugby union's professional era. He scored more points than anyone
:25:49. > :25:54.else in Europe, including the three that won the World Cup for England.
:25:55. > :26:01.Players in his position used to avoid tackles, Jonny Wilkinson
:26:02. > :26:04.changed everything. Now in Cardiff, perfectionist seeks perfect ending.
:26:05. > :26:09.Does this match, looking forward to this game, knowing it is your last
:26:10. > :26:14.on British soil, does it have a special feeling, even an emotional
:26:15. > :26:17.feeling for you? Next week doesn't really exist. The last however many
:26:18. > :26:21.years don't exist either. It simply comes down to the here and now. For
:26:22. > :26:27.the here and now to be a Heineken Cup Final is incredible. But the
:26:28. > :26:34.thought of leaving that final without a happy ending to this
:26:35. > :26:38.journey is a painful one. For five years Wilkinson has been based in
:26:39. > :26:43.France, an adopted son of Toulon. Do you think he is perhaps the most
:26:44. > :26:52.popular English man ever in France? Yes, EVER! Very simple man. Just
:26:53. > :26:55.amazing guy. Let us be clear, this is a European Final, not a
:26:56. > :26:58.retirement party for Jonny Wilkinson. Saracens of London have
:26:59. > :27:06.never won the Heineken Cup. They have got stars of their own. Owen
:27:07. > :27:13.Farrell is Jonny Wilkinson's heir, spot the similarities. Their battle
:27:14. > :27:17.with boot and ball may be settled by the smallest margins. That is all
:27:18. > :27:18.from us. Now on BBC One it's