:00:10. > :00:13.The International Monetary Fund backs the Government over cutting
:00:13. > :00:18.the deficit but washes it may need to do more to support the British
:00:18. > :00:23.economy. IMF boss Christine Lagarde warns the Chancellor to prepare a
:00:24. > :00:28.plan B in case growth fails to take off. Growth is too slow and
:00:28. > :00:34.unemployment, including youth unemployment, too high. Policies to
:00:34. > :00:38.bolster demand before low growth becomes entrenched are needed.
:00:38. > :00:42.There's better news for consumers. Inflation has fallen to 3%, its
:00:42. > :00:46.lowest rate for for two years. The jury in the Shafilea Ahmed case
:00:46. > :00:54.is told her sister says she witnessed her murder but kept it
:00:54. > :00:57.secret for seven years. The MP whose campaign helped to
:00:57. > :01:03.expose hacking at News International gives evidence to the
:01:03. > :01:08.Leveson Inquiry. Lighting up the Queen's Jubilee,
:01:08. > :01:11.how the army's been called in for a spot of heavy lifting.
:01:11. > :01:17.Hundreds of suspected cancer patients may have missed treatment
:01:17. > :01:27.because of mistakes. And the GM wheat trial bracing it self for the
:01:27. > :01:35.
:01:35. > :01:38.pocket of -- possibility of more Good afternoon.
:01:38. > :01:44.The International Monetary Fund has warned the Government it may need
:01:44. > :01:50.to cut taxes such as VAT to boost growth, if the economy recovery
:01:50. > :01:53.fails to take off. The IMF backed the Government on cutting the the
:01:53. > :01:55.deficit but suggested new spending on infrastructure as well as
:01:55. > :01:57.further monetary stimulus by the Bank of England, including the
:01:57. > :02:01.possibility of cutting interest rates even further, but there was
:02:01. > :02:05.some good news for consumers. Inflation has fallen back to 3%,
:02:05. > :02:10.its lowest rate in more than two years. Our correspondent Emma
:02:10. > :02:15.Simpson reports. Thousand get our economy back on
:02:15. > :02:18.its feet? Today came a warning from the IMF, the global financial
:02:18. > :02:22.watchdog that if if things deteriorate the Government will
:02:22. > :02:27.need to take action. The IMF boss was in town delivering the latest
:02:27. > :02:32.verdict on the UK economy. Unfortunately, the economic
:02:32. > :02:37.recovery in the UK has not yet taken hold and uncertainties abound.
:02:37. > :02:41.The stresses in the euro area affect the UK through many channels.
:02:41. > :02:46.Growth is too slow and unemployment, including youth unemployment, too
:02:46. > :02:51.high. Policies to bolster demand before low growth becomes
:02:51. > :02:55.entrenched are needed. Policies like a temporary cut in VAT, and
:02:55. > :02:59.spending more money on infrastructure projects, even a
:02:59. > :03:03.further cut in interest rates to boost growth. But the Chancellor
:03:03. > :03:07.insisted the Government was still on the right track. The IMF could
:03:07. > :03:11.not be clearer today. Britain needs to deal with its debts and the
:03:12. > :03:16.Government's fiscal policy is the appropriate one, and an essential
:03:16. > :03:23.part of our road to recovery. there was also some good news today,
:03:23. > :03:27.a big drop in inflation down from 3.5% in March, to 3% last month. It
:03:27. > :03:31.was helped by a big drop in the cost of furniture, down by just
:03:31. > :03:36.over 1%. That's a relief to this toy
:03:36. > :03:40.retailer in Buckinghamshire. Prices have been rising for the goods that
:03:40. > :03:44.they buy, increases they haven't been able to pass on to shoppers.
:03:44. > :03:48.We are seeing increasing costs. We are seeing increasing costs from
:03:48. > :03:52.some of the items we import from the Far East, shipping costs and
:03:53. > :03:56.some factory gate prices are increasing. But at the moment the
:03:56. > :04:00.confidence in the UK is low at retail level and for this reason we
:04:00. > :04:05.don't feel it possible we can pass on increase in cost to consumers.
:04:05. > :04:12.Today's fall in inflation is welcome news, but household
:04:12. > :04:15.finances are still under pressure, for instance, wages aren't growing
:04:15. > :04:19.near enough to keep up with the cost of living.
:04:19. > :04:23.Inflation may befalling, but at this football club parents told us
:04:23. > :04:28.they had yet to reap the benefits. I can still notice that food has
:04:28. > :04:33.gone up. Everything's gone up, even school clubs like this one. You cut
:04:33. > :04:37.down on everything and if you see the bargains in supermarkets,
:04:37. > :04:42.things that are cheaper, you buy them. The Government's hoping this
:04:42. > :04:46.fall in inflation will continue, but the fate of our economy is very
:04:46. > :04:51.much linked to how the eurozone crisis develops and it's far from
:04:51. > :04:56.clear how that game is going to play out.
:04:56. > :04:59.Our economics editor Stephanie Flanders is in Westminster. The IMF
:04:59. > :05:03.has been going through the books. What struck you about what
:05:03. > :05:06.Christine Lagarde had to say? was a case of nice policies, shame
:05:06. > :05:11.about the economy. There was a lot of support for what the Government
:05:11. > :05:14.had been doing so far, and a lot of blunt words about what had been
:05:14. > :05:18.happening to the economy. They did seem to think the Bank of England
:05:18. > :05:24.should do more now to help the recovery, maybe even cut interest
:05:24. > :05:28.rates from the very low level they're currently at, 0.5%, and
:05:28. > :05:31.pump more money into the economy. There was a long list of things
:05:31. > :05:34.that Christine Lagarde thought the Chancellor should be doing. What
:05:34. > :05:38.was important for the Chancellor was that most of those things were
:05:38. > :05:43.things that he or the Prime Minister have actually talked about.
:05:43. > :05:48.Credit easing, for example, doing more to make things easier for
:05:48. > :05:51.businesses to borrow and to improve and have more infrastructure
:05:51. > :05:55.projects financesed by the private sector, they've talked about those
:05:55. > :05:58.things although they haven't delivered all of them. Was it
:05:58. > :06:02.tantamount to criticism of Government policy? Obviously, the
:06:02. > :06:05.Shadow Chancellor has jumped on the second part of the IMF report,
:06:05. > :06:09.which talks about if things get worse what the Government might
:06:09. > :06:14.need to do, the plan B, if you like, and there they did suggest there
:06:14. > :06:17.might be a case for temporary tax cuts, like the temporary VAT cut
:06:17. > :06:21.that Ed Balls has been suggesting. The crucial thing for the
:06:21. > :06:26.Chancellor, for George Osborne, was that they're not saying it's time
:06:26. > :06:32.for that yet. They've said that in the past and they still don't think,
:06:32. > :06:35.although forecasts have got worse, the IMF doesn't think it's bad
:06:35. > :06:39.enough to go there just yet. Thank you very much.
:06:39. > :06:43.The jury in the Shafilea Ahmed murder trial has been told that her
:06:43. > :06:47.younger sister says she saw her being suffocated by her parents but
:06:47. > :06:51.kept it secret for seven years. Iftikhar and Farzana Ahmed are
:06:51. > :06:58.accused of killing Shafilea, both parents deny the charges. Our
:06:58. > :07:01.correspondent Jude it Moritz -- Judith more sits at the Crown Court.
:07:01. > :07:04.What happened? The prosecution finished setting out its case
:07:04. > :07:12.against Iftikhar and Farzana Ahmed by outlining evidence which the
:07:12. > :07:18.jury are going to hear later this afternoon. The court heard that
:07:18. > :07:21.back two years ago in 2010 Alesha Ahmed had been involved in
:07:21. > :07:25.organising a robbery at the Ahmed family home, it's a crime she
:07:25. > :07:29.pleaded guilty to and is expecting to be sentenced for. Then the jury
:07:29. > :07:35.were told that at that time two years ago sthaoe -- she spoke to
:07:35. > :07:39.police and revealed in 2003 she had witnessed their parents, I have and
:07:40. > :07:43.Farzana Ahmed, suffocating Shafilea by putting a plastic bag in the
:07:43. > :07:48.teenager's mouth and placing their hands across her face and the jury
:07:48. > :07:51.were told she will hear later from Alesha Ahmed she saw her mother in
:07:51. > :07:56.the kitchen with sheeting and with rolls of tape and her father
:07:56. > :07:59.outside with a heavy object wrapped in bin liners which she assumes was
:07:59. > :08:03.Shafilea's body. The jury were told that when she hear this evidence
:08:03. > :08:08.later they'll need to bear in mind the question of whether Alesha
:08:08. > :08:13.Ahmed is lying, somehow to help her when she comes to be sentenced for
:08:13. > :08:17.her part in that robbery, or whether she is telling the truth
:08:17. > :08:27.and this is a a secret she's lived with for years before relations
:08:27. > :08:33.
:08:33. > :08:35.with her parents became tomorrowics. -- toxic.
:08:35. > :08:37.Tom Watson, the Labour MP whose campaign helped to expose phone
:08:37. > :08:39.hacking at News International has told the Leveson Inquiry that the
:08:39. > :08:41.Ministers in the last Labour Government were constantly mindful
:08:41. > :08:48.of how their actions would be portrayed by Rupert Murdoch's
:08:48. > :08:53.newspapers. He is the MP who spear-headed the
:08:53. > :08:58.assault on News International. you mislead this committee in your
:08:58. > :09:01.original testimony? No, I did not. Today, Tom Watson told the Leveson
:09:01. > :09:05.Inquiry how News International had retaliated against the members of
:09:05. > :09:10.the committee. He recalled a warning he had received from a
:09:10. > :09:13.senior journalist on the News of the World, Neville Thurlbeck.
:09:13. > :09:18.Neville Thurlbeck on a number of occasions alleged there was an
:09:18. > :09:22.attempt to gather information on committee members in order to, he
:09:22. > :09:25.uses the word smear, effectively, he is alleges a conspiracy to
:09:25. > :09:28.blackmail members of the committee. Counsel for News International said
:09:28. > :09:33.Mr Watson had been the only member of the committee the paper had
:09:33. > :09:36.taken an interest in. Mr Watson described how in a debate in the
:09:36. > :09:41.Commons in 2010, he had spoken about his fear of News
:09:41. > :09:45.International. At that debate I - it was the first time that I had
:09:45. > :09:50.sort of said in the chamber that I was frightened and scared and a
:09:50. > :09:56.number of MPs afterwards said I am so pleased you said that, I felt
:09:56. > :10:00.the same. I got the distinct sense that there was - this was a
:10:00. > :10:04.solitary fear that they had felt they could then share with
:10:04. > :10:08.colleagues and they weren't the only ones. Mr Watson also said that
:10:08. > :10:13.at one point Gordon Brown had telephoned him to warn him that
:10:13. > :10:16.Tony Blair had been asked by Rupert Murdoch to get him to ease off on
:10:16. > :10:21.his inquiries. I can tell you the exact position I was standing when
:10:21. > :10:25.I took the phone call, because the idea that Rupert Murdoch would call
:10:25. > :10:31.Tony Blair or Gordon Brown to phone me is not the sort of thing a back
:10:31. > :10:34.bench MP would forget too easy. Watson said that within the last
:10:34. > :10:39.Labour Government there was a mystique about News International
:10:39. > :10:42.and constant attention to how policies would be portrayed in the
:10:42. > :10:47.Sun. A radical overhaul of the way
:10:47. > :10:50.antisocial behaviour is tackled in England and Wales means the end for
:10:50. > :10:54.the ASBO. The antisocial behaviour order will be replaced with new
:10:54. > :10:57.orders and something called the community trigger. That's where
:10:57. > :11:01.police will have to step in if five people across the same
:11:01. > :11:04.neighbourhood complain or if one person makes three complaints.
:11:04. > :11:09.Our correspondent Chris Buckler reports.
:11:09. > :11:15.From noise to nuisance, and vandalism to violence, antisocial
:11:15. > :11:19.behaviour takes many forms. Today, the Home Secretary took to the
:11:19. > :11:23.streets where people have had to deal with that trouble and after 15
:11:23. > :11:27.years during which they were one of the main tools to deal with bad
:11:27. > :11:31.behaviour, Theresa May signalled an end to the ASBO. What we see with
:11:31. > :11:34.ASBOs is despite them having been in place for many years now, we
:11:34. > :11:37.still see three million million incidents of antisocial behaviour
:11:37. > :11:40.reported each year and that's probably not the full number. It's
:11:40. > :11:42.probably more than that in terms of the number of incidents because
:11:42. > :11:47.some people don't report because they don't think anything's going
:11:47. > :11:53.to happen. The replacements will share some of the qualities of
:11:53. > :11:56.ASBOs. They will include criminal behaviour orders. Crime prevention
:11:56. > :11:59.injunctions, which require a lower standard of proof, and the
:11:59. > :12:09.community trigger, which would force the police and others to act
:12:09. > :12:13.if they received several complaints. Mary Armstrong is one of the
:12:13. > :12:16.campaigners who met Theresa May. She says to improve areas problems
:12:16. > :12:20.need to be dealt with more quickly. If you have somebody causing
:12:20. > :12:25.antisocial behaviour, and they think that nobody's going to do
:12:25. > :12:28.anything about that, they will fill a diary in but nobody will do
:12:29. > :12:32.anything, that's fuel for them. They'll do it all the more.
:12:32. > :12:37.Government insists the new proposals are speedier and simpler,
:12:37. > :12:40.but the Labour Party has described them as a weak rebrand of ASBOs.
:12:40. > :12:44.There is a deep divide over how successful antisocial behaviour
:12:44. > :12:47.orders really were. Some people will tell that you ASBOs made a
:12:47. > :12:50.real difference to theirs lives t stopped trouble-making in their
:12:50. > :12:55.neighbourhood. But there are others who say that youths weren't scared
:12:55. > :12:59.of the orders. In fact, they regarded ASBOs as a badge of honour.
:12:59. > :13:03.But some question if the new ideas, like community triggers, will make
:13:03. > :13:08.a difference. I couldn't get five people on my street to do
:13:08. > :13:15.statements or go to court. Why not? Because they're too scared of being
:13:15. > :13:21.targeted. Whether what some people are already calling crimbos will
:13:21. > :13:25.have more teeth than ASBOs will depend on part on that you they're
:13:25. > :13:29.used. The Government has published plans
:13:29. > :13:38.to try to wean the country off its reliance on fossil fuels. The draft
:13:38. > :13:41.energy bill includes plans to encourage investment in low low
:13:41. > :13:48.carbon technology and to offer companies long-term contracts with
:13:48. > :13:52.predictable rates of return. A judgment is to be made on whether
:13:52. > :14:00.prisoners will be given the right to vote. The Government will have
:14:00. > :14:03.six months on to decide how to implement decisions here.
:14:03. > :14:09.Infertility treatment on how the NHS in England and Wales could be
:14:09. > :14:13.extended to women up to the age of 42. This is part of the new
:14:13. > :14:20.proposals from Nice which sets the clinical guidelines for the health
:14:20. > :14:27.service. New guidelines mean more people
:14:27. > :14:33.should now be eligible for NHS funding. That help has come too
:14:34. > :14:37.late for Justine. She's already spent �34,000 on treatment after
:14:37. > :14:43.being told she didn't qualify for help. It's frustrating watching
:14:43. > :14:49.money that you have saved carefully be spent on treatment that you
:14:49. > :14:52.think you should have been eligible for and it's frustrating knowing
:14:52. > :14:56.that other people get treated for other problems but I can't be
:14:56. > :15:00.treated for mine. These new guidelines on fertility
:15:00. > :15:06.treatment should help a small group of women up to the age of 42 who
:15:06. > :15:15.are excluded under the previous guidelines and they will also hope
:15:15. > :15:18.up -- open up treatment to people with serious illness. Much despite
:15:18. > :15:22.huge advances in recent years it's still the case that as you get
:15:22. > :15:26.older your chances of a successful IVF treatment fall. For women under
:15:26. > :15:31.the age of 35 around a third will be successful.
:15:31. > :15:37.For women aged 38-49, the success rate is less than 20%.
:15:37. > :15:42.And for women aged 40-42 it's over 12%. There's no way around the fact
:15:42. > :15:45.that pregnancy rates do decrease as you get older and rapidly over the
:15:45. > :15:50.age of 40. But if the funding is not there, patients are not going
:15:50. > :15:54.to get patient access to that treatment.
:15:54. > :15:59.Patient groups have welcomed the new guidelines but they say they'll
:15:59. > :16:04.be meaningless as too many Primary Care Trusts have yet to fully
:16:04. > :16:14.implement the the 2004 guidelines but with budgets squeezed they're
:16:14. > :16:15.
:16:15. > :16:17.having to make hard decisions about Our top story this lunch time: The
:16:17. > :16:20.International Monetary Fund backs the Government over cutting the
:16:20. > :16:26.deficit, but warns it may need to do more to support the British
:16:26. > :16:29.economy. Coming up: For one night only, back to celebrate its 30th
:16:29. > :16:33.birthday, Manchester's legendary Hacienda club.
:16:33. > :16:39.On BBC London: On strike, teachers take industrial action over plans
:16:39. > :16:49.to force a failing school to turn into an academy.
:16:49. > :16:51.
:16:51. > :16:54.And how you can play every A Coroner has ruled that I British
:16:54. > :16:58.soldier, killed whilst on active service in Afghanistan, was
:16:58. > :17:02.accidentally shot by a British sniper. Lance Corporal Michael
:17:02. > :17:06.Pritchard was 22 and served with the Royal Military Police. He was
:17:07. > :17:14.fatally shot in Sangin in 2009. The inquest heard that the Army sniper
:17:14. > :17:18.who shot him had not been trained to fire his weapon at night. Royal
:17:18. > :17:23.Military Policeman Michael Pritchard was described by his
:17:23. > :17:27.family as a lover of life who brought joy to all who knew him. He
:17:27. > :17:32.was just 22 when he was killed on his first tour of Afghanistan. It
:17:32. > :17:37.was at the end of 2009, the deadliest year for British troops
:17:37. > :17:42.in Helmand. Michael was sent to Sangin, the most dangerous part.
:17:43. > :17:48.His unit targeted by Taliban bombs and bullets on a daily basis. That
:17:48. > :17:52.December night was dark. There was no moonment British troops at their
:17:52. > :17:56.post used heat-seeking sites. They observed what they thought were
:17:56. > :18:01.Taliban laying a bomb. In fact what they were seeing was another
:18:01. > :18:07.British post, marked here as N30, it was manned by Michael Pritchard
:18:07. > :18:12.and his comrades. Lance Corporal Malcolm Graham was the sniper who
:18:12. > :18:17.fired the fatal shot. He told the inquest it he -- if he had known
:18:17. > :18:23.where British troops were in the area, that he would not have shot
:18:23. > :18:28.one round. Soldiers weren't aware of the exact position of friendly
:18:28. > :18:32.forces, nor was permission given to fire the fatal shots. Though at the
:18:32. > :18:35.time radio communications weren't working properly. The Coroner said
:18:35. > :18:39.fundamentally this th was an accidentally, albeit an avoidable
:18:39. > :18:43.one. He said the basic reason for the tragedy was the failure of
:18:43. > :18:46.organisation systems needed to avoid friendly fire.
:18:46. > :18:52.After the verdict of accidental death, Michael Pritchard's mother
:18:52. > :18:56.gave her reaction. Evidence heard during the inquest indicated that
:18:56. > :19:04.regular, essential and basic briefings to ensure the safety of
:19:04. > :19:08.friendly forces were not carried out. Radio communication problems,
:19:08. > :19:11.other robust procedures and poor leadership culminated of Michael
:19:11. > :19:15.being observed approximately for one hour by several people who came
:19:15. > :19:22.to the same wrong conclusion, leading to Michael being shot by a
:19:22. > :19:26.British sniper firing a lethal shot over restricted fire line towards
:19:26. > :19:30.an observation post. In a statement the Army said its thoughts and
:19:30. > :19:36.prayers were with Michael's family. A military investigation found
:19:36. > :19:40.failings on that tragic night, but no-one's been charged.
:19:40. > :19:44.The quality of maths teaching in England is inconsistent and exams
:19:44. > :19:49.on the subject have become easier, says the schools watchdog Ofsted.
:19:49. > :19:56.It says the way the subject is taught lets down able pupils and
:19:56. > :20:01.those who have a poor start. Brilliant! Absolutely brilliant!
:20:01. > :20:04.good grasp of maths can change people's lives and here, at Perry
:20:04. > :20:09.Beeches School in Birmingham, three quarters of pupils get a good maths
:20:09. > :20:14.GCSE. It's a much improved school in a deprived area of the city. All
:20:14. > :20:17.pupils here, including the low achievers are put in for maths a
:20:17. > :20:25.year early. The head teacher says that helps the less confident
:20:25. > :20:31.pupils. Seeing them initially in for a lower tier paper and when
:20:31. > :20:37.they're past that stage, putting them into the higher tier paper has
:20:37. > :20:40.proved successful here. Ofsted says taking GCSEs early is a bad idea as
:20:40. > :20:45.it can prevent more able pupils from reaching their full potential.
:20:45. > :20:48.It says changes to GCSE and A-level maths exams have made them less
:20:48. > :20:52.challenging. Ofsted says the picture's not all bad. There are
:20:52. > :20:56.examples of excellent teaching. There are more pupils sitting maths
:20:56. > :21:00.A-level and exam results are going up. Because maths is essential for
:21:00. > :21:04.everyday life, the points of weakness in the system are worrying.
:21:04. > :21:08.Both strong and weak mathematicians are being let down. Those pupils
:21:08. > :21:12.who fall behind early on, struggle to ever catch up, the brightest
:21:12. > :21:17.aren't being stretched. youngsters who are achieving above
:21:17. > :21:22.national norms, at the end of primary school, achieving level
:21:22. > :21:26.five, should be getting As and A stars and Bs five years late wher
:21:26. > :21:31.they come to do GCSEs. But too many are not. Changes to the curriculum
:21:31. > :21:35.are due to be announced soon. Without more rigour, Ofsted warns
:21:35. > :21:40.the future supply of mathematicians, scientists and engineers is under
:21:40. > :21:45.threat. One of Scotland's largest companies
:21:45. > :21:53.says more than 80% of apprenticeship applicants aren't
:21:53. > :21:57.suitable for any job. Arnold Clark say most have a poor attitude and
:21:57. > :22:02.are shocked at hours they're expected to work.
:22:02. > :22:08.Lorna Gordon reports. These are some of the successful
:22:08. > :22:13.ones, working at around orld Clark's training centre in Glasgow.
:22:13. > :22:17.The motor dealership claims the vast majority of those applying for
:22:17. > :22:22.their specialised apprenticeships are falling short. In many cases it
:22:22. > :22:26.will be simple qualifications they lack. In other cases, it will be
:22:26. > :22:30.perhaps they would lack an aptitude for this particular industry.
:22:30. > :22:33.they claim too many youngsters applying for job was them have a
:22:33. > :22:37.poor attitude, poor communication skills and are not able to adjust
:22:37. > :22:41.to the length of the working week the figures are quite shocking. The
:22:41. > :22:46.firm had more than 2,000 applications for apprenticeships
:22:46. > :22:51.last year. They concluded that around 80% of those people were not
:22:51. > :22:58.fit to be employed. But this youth worker says the people he helps are
:22:58. > :23:02.not being given a fair chance. adults are just as unemployable as
:23:02. > :23:08.young people. It's just that people aren't taking the time to help them
:23:08. > :23:11.get into the job, get them suited to the job and help them progress.
:23:11. > :23:15.Apprenticeships are a traditional way of entering the workforce, one
:23:15. > :23:18.the Scottish Government is keen to encourage. They are likely to
:23:18. > :23:24.listen closely to what big employers uction who provide those
:23:24. > :23:27.opportunities, have to say. They're the beacons that will shine
:23:27. > :23:31.around the UK to mark the Queen's Diamond Jubilee and work is well
:23:31. > :23:34.under way on building them. Soldiers from the Army Air Corps in
:23:34. > :23:39.North Yorkshire are using a training exercise to create one of
:23:39. > :23:41.them. It weighs more than ten tons. They've been using an
:23:41. > :23:47.unconventional method to get it done. Our Defence Correspondent
:23:48. > :23:53.Jonathan Beale reports. This is all about the Jubilee beacons that will
:23:53. > :23:57.lit. This meadow in the Yorkshire Dales has been turned into an
:23:57. > :24:00.airfield today. What they've been using the helicopter to do is move
:24:00. > :24:08.wood up onto the hills. They're here for good operational reasons
:24:09. > :24:14.as well. Over the high hills of the Yorkshire Dales today, the Army
:24:14. > :24:18.were at work. A lynx helicopter, which took part in a fly-past for
:24:18. > :24:23.the Queen at the weekend, could be seen ferrying wood to the top of
:24:23. > :24:27.the fell. This, another kind of royal duty. Its cargo - timber for
:24:27. > :24:31.a Jubilee beacon. This isn't just about helping a local community
:24:31. > :24:37.build their Jubilee beacon. These troops will soon be deploying to
:24:37. > :24:41.Afghanistan, so they're treating today as an important exercise.
:24:41. > :24:46.What's the relevance between this and Afghanistan, we're a world
:24:47. > :24:50.away? We dot same sort of thing, netted loads, bringing them to
:24:50. > :24:57.resupply everyone. It's the same sort of thing, apart from using
:24:57. > :25:01.wood apart from water and ammo. Wensleydale, a traditional scene
:25:01. > :25:04.was complimented -- complemented by troops preparing the wood for take-
:25:05. > :25:07.off. It is dangerous. It's making sure the loads are checked before
:25:07. > :25:11.they fly to make sure they're safe to fly. It's very important. The
:25:11. > :25:16.last thing you want is when the aircraft is flying for that load to
:25:17. > :25:21.drop, something goes wrong, or drop below, damage equipment or even
:25:21. > :25:25.people. Back on Penhill beacon the merry-go-round of loads continue to
:25:25. > :25:30.be dropped off, ready to be built into a big bonfire. The last time
:25:30. > :25:33.we had a biggish one like this, there could be 200 people turn up,
:25:33. > :25:38.if it's a nice night. The usual procedure, they follow the track up
:25:38. > :25:44.here and stand up here and all have a good time while we light the fire.
:25:44. > :25:48.This and thousands of other Jubilee beacons will be lit Monday, June
:25:48. > :25:54.4th. If the weather stays like this, they could be -- there could be
:25:54. > :25:59.quite a crowd. Some 4,000 of those beacons will be lit on Monday 4th
:25:59. > :26:03.June. Because it's close to mid- summer, they won't be lit until
:26:03. > :26:06.about 10pm, so the full effect can be lit. Her Majesty the Queen is
:26:06. > :26:10.lighting the very last one in London, after all the others have
:26:10. > :26:14.been lit across the UK. It's sure to be a big occasion. Thank you
:26:14. > :26:18.very much. For the first time, a commercial
:26:18. > :26:23.rocket has blasted off to take supplies to the International Space
:26:23. > :26:27.Station. The Falcon rocket took off from Cape Canaveral. It's expected
:26:28. > :26:33.to take two days to reach the station. The cargo also includes
:26:33. > :26:38.the ashes of 300 sci-fi fan atics, including James Doohan who played
:26:38. > :26:42.Scotty in Star Trek. Their remains will be jettisoned into space.
:26:42. > :26:45.Once dubbed the most famous nightclub in the world, the
:26:45. > :26:50.Hacienda in Manchester became notorious for drug dealing and gang
:26:50. > :26:53.violence. It closed in 1997. Last night it was revived for a one-off
:26:53. > :27:01.party to celebrate its 30th anniversary. The atmosphere of the
:27:01. > :27:05.80s and 90s had to be recreated in the undergroufpbd car park of a
:27:05. > :27:12.block of flats on the site. This report contains flashing images.
:27:12. > :27:15.The Hacienda was back. The club where Madonna made her first UK
:27:16. > :27:23.appearance, acid house boomed and the Manchester movement took hold
:27:23. > :27:26.shut in 1997. Where the Hacienda once stood, there's now an pa
:27:26. > :27:31.partment block. The residents have been persuaded to move their
:27:31. > :27:36.vehicles out of the car park so the club can be re-created. This is
:27:36. > :27:39.where the original dance floor was in the Hacienda. Now it's where
:27:39. > :27:46.young professionals park their cars. But for one night only, it's
:27:46. > :27:50.returned to its original purpose. Yeah, it's great. New order's Peter
:27:50. > :27:55.Hook co-owns the Hacienda and wanted its 30th birthday to be
:27:55. > :27:58.commemorated. The people were very gracious, very, very sort of happy
:27:58. > :28:03.to help because of the heritage, because they know what the Hacienda
:28:04. > :28:08.meant to so many people in Manchester. At the end of the 80s,
:28:08. > :28:12.the Hacienda was all about expanded trousers. Last night there were
:28:12. > :28:17.more expanded waistlines. Familiar faces from the club's history had
:28:17. > :28:22.returned. The best thing whatever happens to the place was it closing
:28:22. > :28:26.down. Why? Because it's got its legendary status now. I couldn't
:28:26. > :28:30.believe it, I came in before and it's the same bouncers who threw me
:28:30. > :28:35.out about in 1999. Others were thrilled to be re-living their
:28:35. > :28:41.youth. I've got all those old feelings back again, you know.
:28:41. > :28:48.Today, the impromptu Hacienda is being dismantled and the cars will
:28:48. > :28:51.return. The memories will be parked once more.
:28:51. > :28:54.once more. Summer might just be here, Nina?
:28:54. > :28:59.It was chilly this morning, but temperatures have been climbing,
:28:59. > :29:04.across the country we've seen heat build underneath sunny skies. We've
:29:04. > :29:07.got temperatures in the low 20s at the moment. Top temperature
:29:07. > :29:12.currency in Southampton at around 23 degrees. Can you see that range
:29:12. > :29:15.of temperatures. Just along the East Coast, it's cooler. We have
:29:15. > :29:19.the breeze coming in off the North Sea. Away from the coasts, it is
:29:19. > :29:24.going to be a fine afternoon, with that warmth and yet more sunshine
:29:24. > :29:29.around. The sunshine is a little bit hazy out towards the west.
:29:29. > :29:33.Northern Ireland, Cornwall as well, but elsewhere we have clear skies.
:29:33. > :29:38.We could end up in the mid-20s by the end of the afternoon. Tonight,
:29:38. > :29:41.we begin with clear skies. We are going to see misty lo cloud across
:29:41. > :29:46.south-west England, Wales and also the East Coast of Scotland and
:29:46. > :29:52.eastern England. Through the night, that creeps further inland. So, 8pm
:29:52. > :29:56.in the morning, -- 8am in the morning, it's grey across Devon and
:29:56. > :29:59.Cornwall. Temperatures not bad though, 12 degrees to begin the day.
:29:59. > :30:03.Coastal areas of Wales having some of the overcast skies. Inland,
:30:03. > :30:08.sunshine at 8am. For Northern Ireland, it's a dry start to the
:30:08. > :30:12.day. Somewhat cloudy, with the best of the brightness in counties
:30:12. > :30:15.Antrim and Down. For the North West of Scotland, fine, dry and bright.
:30:15. > :30:19.Along the Aberdeen coastline and through the central low lands it's
:30:19. > :30:23.a bit grey to begin the day. We have the misty low cloud for
:30:23. > :30:26.eastern England, also the small chance of perhaps a few showers,
:30:26. > :30:30.particularly across East Anglia. Already beginning the day with
:30:30. > :30:34.temperatures in London at 15 degrees. As the cloud breaks up,
:30:34. > :30:38.and we see sunny spells developing for the afternoon, yet again it
:30:38. > :30:41.will be a warm day. Always the risk of the cloud clinging to the
:30:41. > :30:46.coastline and a very small chance of prpz a heavy shower for the
:30:46. > :30:50.afternoon. Temperatures could reach highs of about 25 degrees in the
:30:51. > :30:54.south. We do it all again on Thursday. A bit misty with cloud to
:30:54. > :30:59.begin the day. It burns back to the coast come the afternoon. Most
:30:59. > :31:02.places are dry with a very small of a shower. Another very warm
:31:02. > :31:06.afternoon. We could be even warmer through the day on Thursday. As for
:31:06. > :31:09.the end of the week, we keep the sunshine with temperatures in the
:31:09. > :31:13.low 20s, but the breeze will tend to strengthen. It's coming in from
:31:13. > :31:17.the east. If you're worried about the weekend, I can offer you more
:31:17. > :31:20.sunshine and temperatures should anybody the low 20s. Always feeling
:31:20. > :31:24.cooler along the East Coast with the brisk wind. If you'd like more
:31:24. > :31:27.the brisk wind. If you'd like more details, take a look online.