:00:00. > :00:09.Around 4000 people are being evacuated tonight from five tower
:00:10. > :00:15.As residents start to move out, Camden Council says their safety
:00:16. > :00:17.can't be guaranteed because of the cladding
:00:18. > :00:22.I know it's difficult, but Grenfell changes everything,
:00:23. > :00:26.and I just don't believe we can take any risks with our residents' safety
:00:27. > :00:31.Bewildered residents are told to head for a nearby leisure centre.
:00:32. > :00:35.Some aren't happy with the council's decision.
:00:36. > :00:40.They had to be seen to be doing something, but this is just creating
:00:41. > :00:45.Grenfell Tower - police say the cladding and insulation
:00:46. > :00:51.there has failed safety tests and manslaughter charges may follow.
:00:52. > :00:53.We'll bring you the latest on tonight's mass evacuation,
:00:54. > :00:55.as council officials try to find accommodation for
:00:56. > :01:00.Theresa May in Brussels, where she's told her offer
:01:01. > :01:05.for EU citizens in the UK falls "below expectations".
:01:06. > :01:08.A former loyalist paramilitary turned supergrass admits 200
:01:09. > :01:19.And 46 years after their last series triumph in New Zealand,
:01:20. > :01:24.the British and Irish Lions prepare to take on the All Blacks.
:01:25. > :01:27.And coming up in Sportsday on BBC News: "I made a mistake
:01:28. > :01:30.and I must face up to it" - the words of British number three
:01:31. > :01:32.tennis player Dan Evans, after announcing he tested positive
:01:33. > :01:58.A mass evacuation is underway tonight of nearly 4000 people
:01:59. > :02:02.from 800 households in tower blocks in north London.
:02:03. > :02:04.Camden Council says it took the decision this evening,
:02:05. > :02:07.after it was told by Fire Services that the cladding on the blocks
:02:08. > :02:10.is not up to standard and the safety of the residents
:02:11. > :02:14.The police have revealed that the cladding and insulation
:02:15. > :02:17.on Grenfell Tower has failed initial fire safety tests.
:02:18. > :02:20.They say they are now looking at criminal offences,
:02:21. > :02:25.At least 79 people are known to be dead or missing after the blaze
:02:26. > :02:39.There was no warning, just a request. We need you to move out
:02:40. > :02:46.because we can't be sure you are safe. I just don't want to go now. I
:02:47. > :02:51.feel bad to just suddenly I have to leave my flat. Tonight, Camden
:02:52. > :02:57.Council's mobilising its staff, block booking hotels, opening a rest
:02:58. > :03:02.centre in an attempt to find somewhere to sleep, for 4000 people.
:03:03. > :03:06.Individuals have been told to leave for their own safety and it's down
:03:07. > :03:10.to them to make the decision. I intend to stay put. I intend to go
:03:11. > :03:13.there tonight. It's a knee jerk reaction by the council, they had to
:03:14. > :03:18.be seen to be doing something but this is creating chaos and
:03:19. > :03:21.pandemonium. In the aftermath of the Grenfell Tower the cladding on these
:03:22. > :03:26.towers had already been ruled unsafe, but on top of that residents
:03:27. > :03:31.raised concerns about other issues, including fire doors and gas pipes.
:03:32. > :03:34.Camden felt it had to act. And the area which wasn't completely up to
:03:35. > :03:38.robust standards was a deep concern, given the combination, and that was
:03:39. > :03:41.the message from the Fire Services today. The issue was the combination
:03:42. > :03:47.of the two factors and that's why we've taken the action we've taken
:03:48. > :03:50.the night. The shadow of the worst fire in decades now looms large over
:03:51. > :03:55.social housing. Grenfell Tower was destroyed from the to the top. The
:03:56. > :03:58.fire started in a kitchen on the lower floor. Now police have
:03:59. > :04:03.confirmed what eyewitnesses said, the origin of the Inferno was a
:04:04. > :04:07.Hotpoint fridge, like this one, in that kitchen. Flames escaped through
:04:08. > :04:10.a window and began to race up and across the outside of the building.
:04:11. > :04:15.Which is why the focus right from the start has been on what was added
:04:16. > :04:19.to the tower during its refurbishment. Aluminium cladding
:04:20. > :04:25.and foam insulation and right from the start, police wanted to know how
:04:26. > :04:30.fire resistant was it. Preliminary tests on the insulation samples
:04:31. > :04:36.collected from Grenfell Tower show that they combusted soon after the
:04:37. > :04:42.test started. The initial tests on the cladding tiles also failed the
:04:43. > :04:49.safety tests. Such are our safety concerns on the outcome of those
:04:50. > :04:52.tests we have shared our data with the Department for Communities and
:04:53. > :04:56.Local Government. The cladding and installation simply should not have
:04:57. > :05:00.burned so quickly. Instead of a fire which devoured the tower, it should
:05:01. > :05:06.have been contained, like this fire, in Camden, five years ago. This
:05:07. > :05:11.tower is now being evacuated. So the police tests have thrown up a string
:05:12. > :05:14.of questions. How did it spread? The materials used are under suspicion,
:05:15. > :05:19.but was the design of the refurbishment also to blame? Did the
:05:20. > :05:23.work, completed last year, breach building regulations? And are the
:05:24. > :05:29.laws governing building standards clear enough and tough enough? This
:05:30. > :05:33.is a criminal investigation. Police seizing documents from the companies
:05:34. > :05:38.that managed and refurbished Grenfell Tower. And they will
:05:39. > :05:41.consider potential criminal charges, breaches of health and safety, or
:05:42. > :05:46.even corporate manslaughter, though that is difficult to prove. For
:05:47. > :05:51.several decades now, councils have been putting up cladding to improve
:05:52. > :05:54.the look and installation of their ageing tower blocks. Now, in what
:05:55. > :06:00.amounts to a crisis for that strategy, some of it is being taken
:06:01. > :06:04.down. In Islington, initially for testing, but next week, for good.
:06:05. > :06:07.Everyone in the block is saying if you live in a tower block
:06:08. > :06:10.especially, you are thinking oh my God, it could have been us.
:06:11. > :06:17.Especially now they've said it's in our cladding, we are thinking oh my
:06:18. > :06:20.God. I'm quite tearful, actually. So far it's affecting high-rise
:06:21. > :06:25.residents in nine council areas. In Wandsworth, where this fire broke
:06:26. > :06:31.out in 2010, 100 tower blocks are to be fitted with sprinklers. But there
:06:32. > :06:33.is grim, unfinished business back at Grenfell Tower. Everyone has been
:06:34. > :06:38.accounted for in this flat, but the police need help to be sure they've
:06:39. > :06:42.identified all the victims. Their message today, if you know someone
:06:43. > :06:47.who was there, for whatever reason, we need to know. Tom Symonds, BBC
:06:48. > :06:48.News. Let's talk to our correspondent Helena Lee, whose
:06:49. > :06:53.North London for is that the Chalcots estate. This is a
:06:54. > :06:57.huge operation to be undertaking at this time of night. We can see
:06:58. > :07:03.council officials behind you. What's the latest happening there? That's
:07:04. > :07:09.right. A mass evacuation here this evening. We are outside the Taplow
:07:10. > :07:13.tower block, one of the tower blocks -- five tower blocks on the Chalcots
:07:14. > :07:17.estate in Camden, which are evacuating all of their residence
:07:18. > :07:22.this evening. We understand there are 400 households affected by this,
:07:23. > :07:26.and 4000 people who are having to leave their homes the night. The
:07:27. > :07:32.evacuation began just after 8pm this evening. We saw council members go
:07:33. > :07:37.into this tower block and the other four tower blocks, and they went in
:07:38. > :07:40.and they told residents that they had to prepare for evacuation and
:07:41. > :07:45.take their essentials. Wheeler were last night there was a meeting
:07:46. > :07:49.between council members and also residents from this block, who were
:07:50. > :07:53.very concerned, because we know the cladding is similar to that used at
:07:54. > :07:57.the Grenfell Tower, and today, fire chiefs have carried out safety
:07:58. > :08:01.checks here at these buildings and the council said the night that it
:08:02. > :08:06.was taking a difficult decision, but it had to ensure the safety of all
:08:07. > :08:10.of the residents at these five tower blocks. And that is why they are
:08:11. > :08:14.making this evacuation this evening. So a lot of residence here waiting
:08:15. > :08:19.here to be told more information. Many of them are being diverted to a
:08:20. > :08:22.nearby rest centre, where we are told they are going to spend the
:08:23. > :08:27.evening. Week of the residents coming out behind you with suitcases
:08:28. > :08:32.and bags. -- week can see residence. How do the residents say they feel
:08:33. > :08:36.about this decision? When we turned up just after 8pm we spoke to a
:08:37. > :08:40.number of residents coming out of this building and said to them, have
:08:41. > :08:45.you been told the news that you have to leave your flats this evening?
:08:46. > :08:50.One man said he was in his flat and heard the news on the radio, so I
:08:51. > :08:55.think this has come as a complete surprise to the residents here. In
:08:56. > :08:58.terms of having to leave their buildings, and actually, there have
:08:59. > :09:01.been pretty chaotic scenes here. The council staff have been trying to
:09:02. > :09:05.tell people about the situation, but many of them feel that they
:09:06. > :09:09.shouldn't be leaving their flats. They think it's an overreaction. One
:09:10. > :09:14.resident told is that there have been two fires at this tower block
:09:15. > :09:19.over the past five years. Those fires were contained. He feels it's
:09:20. > :09:23.a knee jerk reaction by the council. But I think too that a lot of
:09:24. > :09:26.unanswered questions this evening, 4000 residents are going to have to
:09:27. > :09:31.be placed somewhere in accommodation as we heard in the report there.
:09:32. > :09:40.They are trying to block book hotels. There's a rest centre just
:09:41. > :09:43.down the road from where we are, but there's a lot of people to
:09:44. > :09:45.accommodate, and as you say, we've been seeing people living with
:09:46. > :09:48.suitcases. One woman we saw leaving with a baby in one hand and her
:09:49. > :09:52.hamster in the other. Helena in north London, thank you. Let's talk
:09:53. > :09:56.to Tom Symonds our home affairs correspondent. Let's go back to the
:09:57. > :09:59.safety tests at Grenfell Tower and the police saying the cladding and
:10:00. > :10:02.installation failed the tests. Does that mean the cladding and
:10:03. > :10:06.installation breached safety regulations so should never have
:10:07. > :10:10.been put up, or that the safety regulations themselves were not
:10:11. > :10:14.tough enough? It's potentially bows, isn't it? Police seemed genuinely
:10:15. > :10:17.shocked at the tests they commissioned on the cladding and the
:10:18. > :10:21.deletion from Grenfell Tower. They were particularly worried at the
:10:22. > :10:25.speed with which the insulation foam, which is fitted to the outside
:10:26. > :10:30.of the building, the speed that burned. This is stuff we've been
:10:31. > :10:58.putting on buildings for a couple of decades now and is supposed to have
:10:59. > :11:03.been part of the building regulations absolutely safe. Now we
:11:04. > :11:04.are not sure. That raises a question about the building regulations. They
:11:05. > :11:07.are incredibly complicated and the public enquiry will look at whether
:11:08. > :11:09.they are fit for purpose. People who runs the social housing thought it
:11:10. > :11:14.was safe but now they are not so sure. We now don't know what the
:11:15. > :11:18.risk of fire in these buildings is. Tom, thank you.
:11:19. > :11:21.European Union leaders have given a cool response to Theresa May's
:11:22. > :11:24.proposal to guarantee the rights of EU citizens living in the UK.
:11:25. > :11:26.The president of the European Council, Donald Tusk, called
:11:27. > :11:29.the plans "below his expectations" and said they risked making
:11:30. > :11:35.Under the plan, which the Prime Minister describes
:11:36. > :11:37.as "serious and fair", people from EU countries who've
:11:38. > :11:39.lived here for five years would receive similar rights
:11:40. > :11:44.Our Political Editor Laura Kuenssberg reports from Brussels.
:11:45. > :11:47.Goodbye to the flag, goodbye to this town.
:11:48. > :11:49.A year ago today, Britain decided this place would be
:11:50. > :11:55.But what the picture outside will look like for millions who've
:11:56. > :11:58.made their lives around the continent is now
:11:59. > :12:06.We've set out what I believe is a serious offer, a fair offer,
:12:07. > :12:09.that will give the reassurance to EU citizens living in the UK.
:12:10. > :12:12.One-to-one attempts to sell her plans.
:12:13. > :12:16.But citizens who've lived in the UK for five years can remain for good.
:12:17. > :12:20.And until we leave the union, others could come.
:12:21. > :12:23.But her EU rivals have plenty of questions.
:12:24. > :12:27.What about Spaniards now in the UK with family abroad - or anyone else?
:12:28. > :12:31.Is the cut-off date when the Brexit process started, or the moment
:12:32. > :12:37.Not until Monday will ministers at home be ready
:12:38. > :12:41.Are you getting a clearer idea of the kind of Brexit
:12:42. > :12:50.We want to be sure the rights of citizens are protected.
:12:51. > :12:54.There are a lot of our citizens who are not covered
:12:55. > :12:59.She might not have gone far enough here, but for many at home
:13:00. > :13:05.It gives those 3 million EU citizens in the UK certainty
:13:06. > :13:09.about the future of their lives, and we want the same certainty
:13:10. > :13:11.for the more than 1 million UK citizens who are living
:13:12. > :13:17.You've always said voters gave politicians a clear instruction
:13:18. > :13:22.But under your plans, for nearly another two years,
:13:23. > :13:27.as many Europeans as they like can still come to live in the UK.
:13:28. > :13:30.For many voters, do you think that will really sound
:13:31. > :13:37.What voters voted for when they voted to leave
:13:38. > :13:39.the European Union was to ensure that outside the European Union,
:13:40. > :13:42.the United Kingdom could establish our own rules on migration,
:13:43. > :13:48.on movement of people from the EU into the UK.
:13:49. > :13:51.Away from home, there's relief that at last the UK's putting
:13:52. > :14:00.TRANSLATION: It's a good beginning, but not a breakthrough.
:14:01. > :14:02.We've understood the UK doesn't want to give EU
:14:03. > :14:07.They, just as they left together, will decide together with the rest
:14:08. > :14:13.My first impression is that the UK's offer is below our expectations.
:14:14. > :14:19.And that it risks worsening the situation of citizens.
:14:20. > :14:22.Reservations shared by the opposition.
:14:23. > :14:27.Who, in contrast, their leader is loving his time in the sun.
:14:28. > :14:30.We should not be negotiating about this.
:14:31. > :14:33.What we should be doing is unilaterally saying,
:14:34. > :14:35.as Labour has said from day one after the referendum,
:14:36. > :14:39.that all EU nationals should be given permanent residence rights.
:14:40. > :14:43.Concerns over these proposals reflects Theresa
:14:44. > :14:50.A united opposing front here in Brussels, clashing
:14:51. > :14:53.expectations among the public at home, and at her back
:14:54. > :14:59.inside her own party, different strands of thinking and demands.
:15:00. > :15:02.And even a leader at the peak of their powers would struggle
:15:03. > :15:06.Prime Minister, did your proposals go far enough?
:15:07. > :15:09.But relieved, perhaps, too, to have been away
:15:10. > :15:13.But governing is doing, not just fending off enemies.
:15:14. > :15:16.Theresa May, at least today, has been doing that.
:15:17. > :15:22.Laura Kuenssberg, BBC News, Brussels.
:15:23. > :15:27.A former loyalist paramilitary commander has pleaded guilty
:15:28. > :15:29.to 200 terrorism offences, including five murders.
:15:30. > :15:33.Gary Haggarty admitted the crimes as part of a deal to give evidence
:15:34. > :15:35.against other senior members of the Ulster Volunteer Force.
:15:36. > :15:37.He's due to be sentenced in September.
:15:38. > :15:39.From Belfast Crown Court, our Ireland correspondent
:15:40. > :15:46.During the Troubles, the UVF took more lives than any other loyalist
:15:47. > :15:54.One of its commanders was this man, Gary Haggarty.
:15:55. > :16:04.The prosecution case document runs to around 12,000 pages,
:16:05. > :16:09.Two of the five men who Haggarty has admitted murdering
:16:10. > :16:16.The Catholic workmen were shot dead at a building site 23 years ago.
:16:17. > :16:19.Haggarty was an informer for the security forces at the time.
:16:20. > :16:27.Eamon Fox's son believes his father's death was preventable.
:16:28. > :16:30.I don't care about the UVF. They'll meet their maker some day.
:16:31. > :16:32.But it's the police, the people who are in authority
:16:33. > :16:35.to protect and serve, they didn't protect my family.
:16:36. > :16:38.They didn't protect this man's family.
:16:39. > :16:40.Haggarty had a double life as an agent of the state
:16:41. > :16:45.He was from North Belfast, where his group had a particularly
:16:46. > :16:52.So this investigation into the UVF is set to go on to another level.
:16:53. > :16:56.In 2010, Gary Haggarty signed an agreement in which he offered
:16:57. > :17:00.to give evidence in court against other paramilitary leaders
:17:01. > :17:02.in exchange for a shorter sentence for his own crimes.
:17:03. > :17:08.He's the most senior loyalist ever to turn supergrass.
:17:09. > :17:12.It's understood up to 15 UVF members could be charged if prosecutors
:17:13. > :17:25.accept that the former commander's evidence is credible.
:17:26. > :17:27.The police intelligence officers, who had contact with Haggarty,
:17:28. > :17:31.It is the examination of their conduct and their directions
:17:32. > :17:35.and their criminal liability which will now fall to be assessed.
:17:36. > :17:37.The detective who is leading the current inquiry says
:17:38. > :17:42.This allows us now to move forward to the next phase
:17:43. > :17:44.of the investigation, where it is my intention and my hope
:17:45. > :17:47.that we will bring others who are responsible for those crimes
:17:48. > :17:55.There'll be more waiting for the relatives of UVF victims.
:17:56. > :17:57.For now, Gary Haggarty is in solitary confinement
:17:58. > :18:03.In court appearances in the future, he may be
:18:04. > :18:05.in the witness box - not the dock.
:18:06. > :18:12.Police have charged Darren Osborne with terrorism-related murder
:18:13. > :18:14.and attempted murder after the attack at a mosque
:18:15. > :18:16.in Finsbury Park in north London in the early hours
:18:17. > :18:21.One man died at the scene and nine other people were taken to hospital.
:18:22. > :18:23.The 47-year-old from Cardiff appeared in court this afternoon,
:18:24. > :18:32.Our correspondent Daniel Sandford reports.
:18:33. > :18:35.Darren Osborne being driven off to prison after his first court
:18:36. > :18:38.He's accused of the murder and attempted murder of a group
:18:39. > :18:45.In the dock, with a detective on either side, he'd confirmed
:18:46. > :18:48.that he was 47-years-old and said he has no address.
:18:49. > :18:53.The prosecution said it was their case that
:18:54. > :18:55.Darren Osborne was motivated by extreme political views
:18:56. > :19:00.They said he had acted deliberately to kill, maim,
:19:01. > :19:07.injure and terrify as many people as he could.
:19:08. > :19:10.The attack, in which a hired white van drove into worshippers leaving
:19:11. > :19:15.prayers, happened in the very early hours of Monday morning.
:19:16. > :19:19.Nine people were taken to hospital, and 51-year-old Makram Ali died
:19:20. > :19:24.This diverse community has shown commendable
:19:25. > :19:33.Today, in his mosque, Friday prayers were full
:19:34. > :19:36.as they remembered Makram Ali, and the three people
:19:37. > :19:39.still in hospital - two of whom are in a critical condition.
:19:40. > :19:51.A report into a murder carried out by a psychiatric patient has
:19:52. > :19:53.severely criticised the NHS and the Metropolitan Police.
:19:54. > :19:59.Nicola Edgington attacked a woman with a butcher's
:20:00. > :20:01.knife in Bexleyheath in south London in 2011.
:20:02. > :20:04.On the day of the killing, she had begged the police for help,
:20:05. > :20:06.and told hospital staff that she needed to be
:20:07. > :20:07.sectioned because she felt like killing someone.
:20:08. > :20:10.But she was allowed to walk free out of a mental
:20:11. > :20:14.Our social affairs correspondent, Michael Buchanan has the details.
:20:15. > :20:16.Nicola Edgington fleeing a crime scene having just brutally
:20:17. > :20:24.Hearing police sirens, she hides, but officers arrive quickly
:20:25. > :20:28.and the mentally ill woman is arrested hours after telling
:20:29. > :20:31.police and medics that she fears she'll kill someone.
:20:32. > :20:36.Five years earlier, she had been convicted
:20:37. > :20:40.of the manslaughter of her own mother, but had been released.
:20:41. > :20:42.Her victim in 2011 was Sally Hodkin, a 58-year-old
:20:43. > :20:46.Today her son told me her death was entirely preventible.
:20:47. > :20:58.It was one mistake after another and should she have been out?
:20:59. > :21:00.Well, she killed my mum so I'll let
:21:01. > :21:03.everyone decide whether or not they think it was appropriate
:21:04. > :21:06.Nicola Edgington was released from this secure unit run
:21:07. > :21:08.by Oxleas Mental Health Trust in 2009, just three years
:21:09. > :21:16.after being given an indefinite sentence for killing her mother.
:21:17. > :21:18.Today's report commissioned by NHS England found that Trust staff
:21:19. > :21:20.were too willing to believe Edgington who was fixated
:21:21. > :21:24.They didn't take seriously warnings from her sister and brother
:21:25. > :21:26.that she was still potentially dangerous and on the day
:21:27. > :21:29.of the murder, they failed to stop her leaving their hospital
:21:30. > :21:30.despite Edgington being clearly unwell.
:21:31. > :21:32.They're responsible for her being on the street.
:21:33. > :21:35.They're responsible for her being released after three years
:21:36. > :21:37.after killing her own mother and they're responsible
:21:38. > :21:39.to the public to make sure that people like this are looked
:21:40. > :21:47.after and safeguarded and we don't believe that has been done.
:21:48. > :21:49.The Metropolitan Police also failed to stop Nicola Edgington
:21:50. > :21:54.Today's report says the murder could have been prevented if they had
:21:55. > :22:01.sectioned her after she repeatedly called 999 seeking help.
:22:02. > :22:07.In a statement today, the Oxleas Mental Health Trust
:22:08. > :22:09.reiterated their apology to Sally Hodkin's family
:22:10. > :22:12.for their failures and say that several changes have been made
:22:13. > :22:16.Nicola Edgington has is now serving a 37 year prison sentence and is one
:22:17. > :22:19.of 13 patients who have gone on to kill after being
:22:20. > :22:21.released from the care of Oxleas Mental Health Trust
:22:22. > :22:25.Sally Hodkin's family says it's impossible to quantify the void
:22:26. > :22:38.The Government's deal with a French energy company to build
:22:39. > :22:41.a new nuclear power station in Somerset has been criticised
:22:42. > :22:44.as "risky and expensive" by the public spending watchdog.
:22:45. > :22:46.The National Audit Office says ministers have locked consumers
:22:47. > :22:49.into paying for Hinkley Point through a subsidy on electricity
:22:50. > :22:52.bills that's risen from ?6 billion to ?30 billion.
:22:53. > :22:54.The Government says the plant will provide clean electricity
:22:55. > :23:04.Our science editor, David Shukman, reports.
:23:05. > :23:08.Each scoop of this digger lifts 30 tonnes of earth.
:23:09. > :23:12.Look down at the driver of the truck below for a sense of scale.
:23:13. > :23:14.This is where one of two nuclear reactors will
:23:15. > :23:22.1,600 people work here now, soon it will be 5,000.
:23:23. > :23:24.It's an immense and controversial project, and even now,
:23:25. > :23:28.the National Audit Office has weighed in, attacking the costs.
:23:29. > :23:32.The Government has committed consumers to a risky and expensive
:23:33. > :23:35.deal with uncertain economic and strategic benefits.
:23:36. > :23:38.The Government's case for proceeding with the deal last
:23:39. > :23:45.The concern is not so much the ?18 billion to build the power station -
:23:46. > :23:50.that's covered by EDF of France and CGN of China.
:23:51. > :23:52.It's the estimated ?30 billion in subsidies paid to the two
:23:53. > :23:56.companies on top of the market price for electricity.
:23:57. > :23:59.That's set to add ?10 to ?15 to the average consumer electricity
:24:00. > :24:03.bill every year over at least 35 years.
:24:04. > :24:06.But with the deal finally signed off by Theresa May last year, the cement
:24:07. > :24:17.And the nuclear industry says future power stations will be cheaper.
:24:18. > :24:19.Remember, this is the first new nuclear power station
:24:20. > :24:24.being built in this country for a generation.
:24:25. > :24:26.And just like the first of a kind of new offshore winds
:24:27. > :24:28.were very expensive, the price will come down
:24:29. > :24:31.and the price will come down as follow-on projects happen.
:24:32. > :24:34.But offshore wind and other sources of power have fallen in cost
:24:35. > :24:35.faster than expected, leaving Hinkley Point looking
:24:36. > :24:42.The scale of construction is extraordinary, and it's exactly
:24:43. > :24:45.what the Government wants - a new source of low carbon,
:24:46. > :24:49.And at this stage, it's unlikely that any concern about costs
:24:50. > :24:53.could possibly derail the project now.
:24:54. > :24:56.But it will come under closer scrutiny, and any future nuclear
:24:57. > :25:01.power stations are bound to be handled very differently.
:25:02. > :25:02.It was Britain that pioneered nuclear power.
:25:03. > :25:05.Now, more than half a century later, there's still a struggle over
:25:06. > :25:08.who should pay for it, and whether it's worth it.
:25:09. > :25:14.David Shukman, BBC News, at Hinkley Point in Somerset.
:25:15. > :25:20.It's the toughest task in world rugby.
:25:21. > :25:23.In just a few hours time, the British and Irish Lions will take
:25:24. > :25:26.to the field in Auckland for the first test
:25:27. > :25:30.We haven't beaten New Zealand in the three match series since 1971.
:25:31. > :25:32.Our Sports Correspondent Katie Gornall is at Eden Park
:25:33. > :25:35.Katie, the countdown to kick off has begun?
:25:36. > :25:43.Rain and all? Indeed, yes. Auckland is still waking up here, but already
:25:44. > :25:47.we have seen tens of thousands of Lions fans descend on the city and
:25:48. > :25:51.they come here more in hope than expectation because this has to be
:25:52. > :25:56.the toughest test in rugby. A team that's just been together a few
:25:57. > :25:59.weeks taking on the world champions in their own back yard, but there is
:26:00. > :26:02.a positivity around this Lions side, but whether it will be there come
:26:03. > :26:04.the final whistle is another question.
:26:05. > :26:06.Auckland is undergoing a transformation.
:26:07. > :26:09.The Lions are coming and what started as a trickle
:26:10. > :26:13.We're like minions walking around here with our red tops on.
:26:14. > :26:17.I hope it's 3-0 to the Lions, but I think it will be really tough.
:26:18. > :26:20.The All Blacks at Eden Park, you just don't beat them there.
:26:21. > :26:22.So we might have more chance in Wellington,
:26:23. > :26:31.After just a few weeks getting to know each other, the Lions must
:26:32. > :26:34.Warren Gatland has named an attacking side for the series
:26:35. > :26:37.opener against the world champions, based on form, not reputation.
:26:38. > :26:38.It will be captained by Peter O'Mahoney,
:26:39. > :26:40.who three months ago, couldn't even get
:26:41. > :26:47.I'm not sure if anybody could say they envisaged
:26:48. > :26:58.You hope he makes the under-12 team, and then you hope he makes
:26:59. > :27:00.the school team, and each time you have to say,
:27:01. > :27:04."I wonder, is that the level?"
:27:05. > :27:06.It was quite a meteoric rise for Peter.
:27:07. > :27:09.This is where it all begins tomorrow, Eden Park,
:27:10. > :27:11.which is a fortress for the All Blacks.
:27:12. > :27:14.They haven't lost here since 1994, before some of these current
:27:15. > :27:23.This was the last time they tasted success in New Zealand,
:27:24. > :27:26.way back in 1971 and it had a profound effect on
:27:27. > :27:34.I thought rugby was invented in New Zealand, you know,
:27:35. > :27:38.growing up and I didn't think the All Blacks could ever be beaten.
:27:39. > :27:41.It did have quite an impact on me in 1971 when the Lions beat
:27:42. > :27:48.It was the first time that I kind of realised that the game was played
:27:49. > :27:54.Rugby and the All Blacks are revered in New Zealand but by the end
:27:55. > :27:58.of this tour the Lions hope to have made their mark.