:00:12. > :00:18.Concerns mount over the future of the eurozone as EU leaders fail to
:00:18. > :00:22.come up with a solution. They want Greece to stay in the Euro, but the
:00:22. > :00:25.uncertainty sees business activity across Europe, heading to a three-
:00:26. > :00:31.year low. There were good innovative ideas to help growth in
:00:31. > :00:35.Europe, but bad ideas too. A financial transaction tax is a bad
:00:35. > :00:40.idea. A deeper double dip recession, the UK economy shrank by more than
:00:40. > :00:44.was thought at the start of the year. The sister of Shafilea Ahmed,
:00:44. > :00:49.whose parents are accused of murdering her, said she told the
:00:49. > :00:53.police what happened as it haunted her for a long time. The number of
:00:53. > :00:58.criminals re-offending hits a record high, but the number of
:00:59. > :01:03.first-time offenders falls. And the last seven-mile stretch of the
:01:03. > :01:10.Midlands links motorway is opened at 10.30am. Spaghetti Junction,
:01:10. > :01:15.Britain's most famous intersection, turns 40. On BBC London: Stuck in a
:01:15. > :01:25.tunnel for three hours. Hundreds are stranded. How a squeeze on
:01:25. > :01:37.
:01:37. > :01:42.family incomes could force Good afternoon. Welcome to the BBC
:01:42. > :01:47.News at 1.00pm. Concerns over the future of the eurozone continue to
:01:47. > :01:51.mount dispilot efforts by France and Germany to calm the crisis.
:01:51. > :01:55.Business activity in Europe is the lowest it has been for three years.
:01:55. > :02:00.Economists say worries over Greece, whether it stays in the Euro are
:02:00. > :02:04.having a broader economic effect. An informal summit of European
:02:04. > :02:12.leaders, did little to boost confidence as they disagreed over
:02:12. > :02:16.how to tackle the crisis. They finished after 1.00am. No firm
:02:16. > :02:23.decisions, that was expected, but are they in danger of sleep-walking
:02:23. > :02:28.Europe into a deadly stage of this crisis? He, insists not. The
:02:28. > :02:34.President of The European Council spoke of a focused and frank de
:02:34. > :02:40.bait about measures to boost growth. As for Greece... We want Greece to
:02:40. > :02:44.remain in the Euro area while respecting its commitments.
:02:44. > :02:50.Greece does leave theow eow, nobody knows what would happen, but the
:02:50. > :02:54.assumption is that no economy in Europe would be immune. Already
:02:55. > :02:58.confidence across the Continent is being battered, a survey showing
:02:58. > :03:03.that European business activity falling to a near three-year low.
:03:03. > :03:09.Germany, the strongest economy here, suffering as well. The leaders last
:03:09. > :03:14.night disdiscussed ways to get their economies growing again. But
:03:14. > :03:18.many, including the Deputy Prime Minister, himself a proud pro-
:03:18. > :03:26.European, worry about how the crisis is moving. You can't create
:03:26. > :03:31.growth. You can't build a prospering economy on the shifting
:03:31. > :03:35.sands of debt and deficit. David Cameron wants Europe to be more
:03:35. > :03:39.competitive. Others are pushing for a tax on financial transactions to
:03:39. > :03:43.raise money to boost growth. He does not think much of that. There
:03:43. > :03:49.were good ideas to help growth, but bad ideas too. A financial
:03:49. > :03:53.transactions tax is a bad idea. France's new President, among
:03:53. > :03:59.others, favours such attacks. Francois Hollande suggested ideas
:03:59. > :04:03.the Germans are opposed too. Still, German's leader holds the purse
:04:03. > :04:07.strings. Angela Merkel says cutting Government debt is the priority. If
:04:07. > :04:12.one thing has become clear, it is that the leaders have no immediate
:04:13. > :04:17.fixs to a rapidly evolving crisis. That is dangerous. Confidence in
:04:17. > :04:21.the Euro's stability has been shaken. There are those who fear a
:04:21. > :04:30.full-scale banking crisis in parts of the Continent, if that continues.
:04:30. > :04:36.Time is not on their side. Our correspondent is in Berlin for us.
:04:36. > :04:42.So, still no agreement. What happens now? I think that they talk
:04:42. > :04:44.a lot behind the scenes and they hope a lot. There is a fundamental
:04:44. > :04:48.disagreement between Angela Merkel and Francois Hollande. She is
:04:48. > :04:53.absolutely adamant that no more money can be put into this thing.
:04:53. > :04:57.She is heavily constrained by German politics. She needs to get
:04:57. > :05:03.the fiscal pact through the German Parliament with a two thirds
:05:03. > :05:07.majority. She will have to fight to do that. There will be all of that
:05:07. > :05:11.arguing behind the scenes, but not about the basic premise of whether
:05:11. > :05:17.more money goes into it. At the same time, they talk openly here
:05:17. > :05:22.about plan B. They say let's talk about plan A, but then mention plan
:05:22. > :05:26.B. That is the Greek exit. I have no doubt at all that various parts
:05:26. > :05:34.of the European Union and certainly the German government are preparing
:05:34. > :05:37.for plan B which is a Greek exit. Yesterday the bund bank --
:05:38. > :05:43.Bundesbank said it could be done, it would be painful but managable.
:05:44. > :05:48.Thank you very much. Britain's double-dip recession is deeper than
:05:48. > :05:55.thought. Figures show that the economy shrank by 0 .3% in the
:05:55. > :05:59.first three months of the year, rather than 0. 2%. It was due to a
:05:59. > :06:03.bigger contraction than construction output than previously
:06:03. > :06:08.estimated. Britain's economic machine has gone further into
:06:08. > :06:13.reverse. Total output, known as GDP, fell more than previously estimated
:06:13. > :06:18.in the first three months of the year. The recession is deeper than
:06:18. > :06:23.expected as output fell between January and March. The biggest fall
:06:23. > :06:27.came in the construction industry, with a bigger tumble in activity
:06:27. > :06:33.than in the final quarter of last year. Public spending cuts are
:06:33. > :06:36.having an impact. The public sector accounts for a large proportion of
:06:36. > :06:40.construction output. The Government hoped that the private sector would
:06:40. > :06:45.strength ento pick it up, unfortunately, this is not the case.
:06:45. > :06:51.A recent events in the eurozone suggest that this is going to get
:06:51. > :06:56.worse. Construction output in the first quarter fell by 4.8%. The
:06:56. > :07:01.earlier estimate was a 3% drop. Manufacturing was flat. Service
:07:01. > :07:06.industries grew by 0 .1%. Again, an unchanged figure. So what about the
:07:06. > :07:10.consumer side of the economy? The figures show that spending growth
:07:10. > :07:14.has slowed. Household budgets are under pressure as inflation is
:07:14. > :07:19.running ahead of average pay rises. The Bank of England warns that this
:07:19. > :07:23.could continue into next year. If so, there will be not much
:07:23. > :07:27.incentive for people to spend more. This jeweller in Cardiff is doing
:07:28. > :07:32.well, but looking at the reasons, it underlines how some are
:07:32. > :07:36.struggling to get by. There are two types much customers, those who
:07:36. > :07:42.have money, those who tonight. -- don't. The once who have money are
:07:42. > :07:46.spending. The ones who have not, sadly, they are selling their
:07:46. > :07:51.family air looms. The economy will get a boost from the Olympics,
:07:51. > :07:56.according to the Bank of England, but the governors warned that the
:07:56. > :08:04.Jubilee celebrations will pull the growth down. Reading which way the
:08:04. > :08:07.economic wind is blowing will be hard as ever. Norman Smith is in
:08:07. > :08:11.Westminster for us, let's talk about the summit, the Prime
:08:11. > :08:15.Minister looking frustrated about the lack of progress? Yes, speaking
:08:15. > :08:18.to Mr Cameron's aides this morning, he said that they don't seem to
:08:18. > :08:26.have made much progress. That typifies the mood in Downing Street.
:08:26. > :08:32.-- Downing Street. They think that eurozone leaders are gripped by a
:08:32. > :08:36.manana syndrome with the stoms are put off and ov. We have had 18
:08:36. > :08:39.summits since David Cameron became the Prime Minister in which all of
:08:39. > :08:43.them have had the eurozone dominating the debate. The debate
:08:43. > :08:48.is now moving from how on earth to keep Greece in the eurozone to what
:08:48. > :08:53.on earth do you do if and when Greece falls out of the eurozone?
:08:53. > :08:57.In other words, the focus of political attention is moving to
:08:57. > :09:02.the contingency measures to minimise the economic impact of
:09:02. > :09:07.Greece falling out, that would then have on the British economy.
:09:07. > :09:12.the double dill -- double-dip recessions looking deeper, how
:09:12. > :09:15.worried are the Government? They are going to stick with their
:09:15. > :09:19.deficit reduction strategy, that retains the confidence of the
:09:19. > :09:25.markets, but it does represent a ratcheting up of the pressure on
:09:25. > :09:30.the Government to re-cast plan A. It comes in the week that Laganside
:09:30. > :09:34.Court, the ice maiden of the IMF, warns that there should be more
:09:34. > :09:39.quantitative easing. May be maybe a cult to VAT and the cut coming to
:09:39. > :09:43.the Bank of England, warning that the growth figures could be hit by
:09:43. > :09:47.the Dymond. While it may be possible to stick with plan A
:09:47. > :09:51.through a quarter of negative growth, possibly two, maybe three,
:09:51. > :09:57.if it gets beyond that, it becomes plottically very difficult. Thank
:09:57. > :10:00.you very much. The sister of the 17-year-old, Shafilea Ahmed, whose
:10:00. > :10:04.parents deny her murder has told Chester Crown Court that she told
:10:04. > :10:14.the police about the murder because it haunted her for a long time. She
:10:14. > :10:16.had had enough. Judith? Earlier in the week the jury were told that
:10:16. > :10:22.the police had spent years investigating Shafilea Ahmed's
:10:22. > :10:29.murder until the final piece of the jigsaw was put in place, say the
:10:29. > :10:33.pros kuegs, when Alesha Ahmed implicated their parents, when she
:10:33. > :10:38.came forward. This morning the court heard about the reasons why
:10:38. > :10:43.Alesha Ahmed decided to speak out. Iftikhar Ahmed arrived at the court
:10:43. > :10:47.with members of his family, alongside his wife, Farzana. The
:10:48. > :10:52.couple listening to the evidence from their daughter, Alicia, who
:10:52. > :10:58.said that her parents murdered her sister. Shafilea Ahmed was last
:10:58. > :11:02.seen alive in September, 2003. Alesha Ahmed told the court she saw
:11:02. > :11:07.her sister being suffocated by her mother and father, but did not tell
:11:07. > :11:11.the police about it until 2010. Speaking from behind a screen, she
:11:11. > :11:21.told the jury she snapped after continued pressure from her parents
:11:21. > :11:33.
:11:33. > :11:38.to get married in Pakistan and Shafilea Ahmed's body was
:11:38. > :11:45.discovered by a river in Cumbria, five months after she went missing.
:11:45. > :11:50.Her parents deny murdering her. The case abeen adjourned until Monday.
:11:50. > :11:54.-- has been adjourned until Monday. Alesha Ahmed said that her
:11:54. > :11:58.relationship with her parents had not been as extreme as the one that
:11:58. > :12:02.they had with Shafelia, but she did feel she was going down the same
:12:02. > :12:08.path that her sister had gone down in terms of the pressure of going
:12:08. > :12:12.to Pakistan, in terms of being 21 years oil, -- years old and in
:12:12. > :12:18.terms of being married. That it was a lot of pressure. One of the
:12:18. > :12:25.reasons she finally snapped and decided to speak out. The computer
:12:25. > :12:29.manufacture, Hewlett Packard is cutting 27,000 jobs,% of the global
:12:29. > :12:33.workforce. The company has struggled to compete in a
:12:33. > :12:37.marketplace dominated by smart phones and tablet computers.
:12:37. > :12:42.Parliament's spending watchdog said that the Government missed out on
:12:42. > :12:44.�1 billion in tax revenue because of job cuts at HM Revenue & Customs.
:12:44. > :12:51.The Commons Public Accounts Committee said that the decision to
:12:51. > :12:55.axe more than 3,000 jobs undermined efforts to collect unpaid tax. The
:12:55. > :12:59.News Corporation lobbyist, Fred Michel, says he had the impression
:12:59. > :13:05.that the Culture Secretary, Jeremy Hunt, was aware of details passed
:13:06. > :13:10.on to him about the BSkyB bid. He was giving evidence at the Levla
:13:10. > :13:17.and asked about his dealings, his job was to rule on the possible
:13:17. > :13:21.takeover. Lots of Government ministers find themselves in
:13:21. > :13:27.trouble, few would imagine having their department's actions examined
:13:27. > :13:32.in anything like this very public scrutiny. It was a News Corporation
:13:32. > :13:37.lobbyist who we heard from giving evidence, but in reality it was the
:13:37. > :13:44.reputation of the Culture Secretary, Jermaine -- Jeremy Hunt, at stake.
:13:44. > :13:51.Is Adam Smith to be sticking to his previous words? A scathing shouting
:13:51. > :13:55.reporter can be simple enough if you have your get away planned, but
:13:55. > :13:59.Fred Michel had to make a crucial decision about his future, the
:13:59. > :14:04.questions that matter Paula Radcliffe asked here. Where
:14:04. > :14:09.answering is an optional and Fred Michel was under eoath. I don't
:14:09. > :14:16.think that any inappropriate took place. News Corporation wanted to
:14:16. > :14:19.buy the shares in BSkyB it did the not own. The Culture Secretary,
:14:19. > :14:29.Jeremy Hunt, had to decide whether or not to intervene, but the
:14:29. > :14:30.
:14:30. > :14:40.material released showed how often Fred Michel was in touch with Adam
:14:40. > :14:47.Smith. 159 telephone calls, 158 e- mails, 779 texts, over which 90%
:14:48. > :14:53.were exchanged with Adam Smith? Jeremy Hunt had prescribed the
:14:53. > :14:57.briefing as persuasive. So what did Fred Michel think of the
:14:57. > :15:05.sympathies? That Jeremy Hunt was probably supportive of some of the
:15:05. > :15:09.argue ms we were putting forward and made them public. The Cabinet
:15:09. > :15:15.Secretary denied this had been left to the inquiry to buy time for
:15:15. > :15:19.Jeremy Hunt, in any case that time is up. Adam Smith, who resigned
:15:19. > :15:24.over this affair is to give his evidence this afternoon.
:15:24. > :15:29.Campaigners have made up their minds of course, illustrating the
:15:29. > :15:38.usual subtlety of the media stunt, their belief that the advisor is a
:15:38. > :15:43.scapegoat. Jeremy Hunt believes that he has not done anything wrong.
:15:43. > :15:49.The key issue is that Fred Michel, that lobbyist exaggerating? The
:15:49. > :15:54.information he was getting, the contact he had, the feedback he had
:15:54. > :16:00.from the special adviser, Adam Smith? We hear from Adam Smith this
:16:00. > :16:04.afternoon, for obvious reasons, his item will be vital. The top story:
:16:04. > :16:08.Concerns mount over the future of the eurozone as EU leaders fail to
:16:09. > :16:14.come up with at solution for the crisis. Coming up: Thousands crowd
:16:14. > :16:23.on to the streets as the Olympic Torch Relay travels across
:16:23. > :16:26.Herefordshire. On BBC London: How singing can help people living with
:16:26. > :16:36.West Midlands Safari Park. Love on a branch line, the volunteers who
:16:36. > :16:37.
:16:37. > :16:42.have brought the age of steam back to Essex. It's more than 100 years
:16:42. > :16:46.since Queen tick Torah's Diamond Jubilee Quarter was celebrated, now
:16:46. > :16:52.a website featuring her private dairies has been launched online.
:16:52. > :16:58.The journals that run to more than 43,000 pages begin when Victoria
:16:58. > :17:08.was 13 and end ten days before her death at the age of 81. Who better
:17:08. > :17:13.to unveil the site than our current Queen in her jubilee jeer -- Jeeb
:17:13. > :17:20.Lee year. The Queen inspecting the dairies, journals that Queen
:17:20. > :17:24.Victoria began writing at an early age, instricted that they should be
:17:24. > :17:30.re-written, omiting anything unsuitable. The result, over 100
:17:30. > :17:40.volumes, digitised on to a website and launched by the present Queen.
:17:40. > :17:46.
:17:46. > :17:51.13 of Victoria's original dairies These are the most important days
:17:51. > :17:56.of any 18-year-olds. This is a surviving diary from being a
:17:56. > :18:04.princess, they had been housed here in Windsor calf, now they are
:18:04. > :18:09.online for all to see. As are the 111 re-written journals spanning
:18:09. > :18:14.her reign incorporating her original coloured sketches. This
:18:14. > :18:19.room at the Royal Archives contains the papers of Queen Victoria and
:18:19. > :18:24.Prince Albert from the 19th century. We decided to digitise them, we
:18:24. > :18:31.thought that they would be of most interest to the public. They
:18:31. > :18:38.contain the details of what Queen Victoria did each day. It took four
:18:38. > :18:43.months to scan the journals using the machine in Windsor castle. It
:18:43. > :18:49.is the latest machine to make these documents from the Royal Archives
:18:49. > :18:53.widely available. Last month the scrap book was launched. With many
:18:53. > :19:01.extracts from her writings. An insight into the Monarch who for
:19:01. > :19:08.now has had the longest reign in our history. A leading charity says
:19:08. > :19:11.most local health Trusts in England are restricting access it cataract
:19:11. > :19:15.operations. The Royal National Institute of Blind People says
:19:15. > :19:19.nearly 60% of Primary Care Trusts are forcing people to live with
:19:19. > :19:25.serious and unnecessary sight loss. The Government says if patients
:19:25. > :19:30.need treatment they should be able to get it. One in three people over
:19:30. > :19:35.65 in the UK is diagnosed with cataracts, removing them is one of
:19:35. > :19:41.the most common forms of surgery. Demand for the procedure is growing
:19:41. > :19:46.with the ageing population and added cost pressures for the NHS.
:19:46. > :19:50.Assessment for surgeries start with eye-sight tests, Government
:19:50. > :19:53.guidelines say that the impact on quality of life, such as reading
:19:54. > :19:59.and driving should be considered, but the Royal National Institute of
:19:59. > :20:06.Blind People say that many trusts are choosing to ignore this.
:20:06. > :20:10.responded to the charity's freedom of information request on access to
:20:10. > :20:15.surgery 60% restricted this by imposing standards on the treatment
:20:15. > :20:20.for eye-sight tests. 40% said they had no such restrictions and said
:20:20. > :20:25.that they would operate where the cataracts cause symptoms. The Royal
:20:25. > :20:28.National Institute of Blind People says that delaying dream --
:20:28. > :20:33.treatments means that the pairbs suffer. We think this is due to
:20:33. > :20:39.costs. That is unfortunate. This is a cheap operation, about �00 and it
:20:39. > :20:42.is one of the most cost-effective operations on the NHS. The Royal
:20:42. > :20:45.College of Opthalmologists says that the restrictions are down to
:20:45. > :20:49.financial pressures, not clinical needs. The Department of Health
:20:49. > :20:53.says that they will act against a local health body that stops
:20:53. > :20:58.patients having cataract treatments on the basis of cost alone. Figures
:20:58. > :21:01.show that a record proportion of offenders sentenced for serious
:21:01. > :21:05.crime has a criminal record. The statistics for England and Wales
:21:06. > :21:11.show that almost a third had 15 or more previous convictions or
:21:11. > :21:17.cautions. Danny, tell us more about the figures? The figures show that
:21:17. > :21:22.for people sentenced by the courts last year in England and Wales for
:21:22. > :21:27.indictable offences, that is more serious offences, 90% had a
:21:27. > :21:32.criminal record, but when you look at the most persistent offenders,
:21:32. > :21:38.there is a clear trend. The number of persistent offenders, those with
:21:39. > :21:42.15 or more cautions has increased to 102,000, that is up 6,000 in a
:21:42. > :21:47.year, and almost double the number a decade ago. Now these people tend
:21:47. > :21:53.to be older, but more than a third were under the age of 30, almost
:21:53. > :21:58.all of them are male and they tend to be convicted of offences such as
:21:58. > :22:06.drug crimes, burglary, theft, but there are a proportion, about
:22:06. > :22:11.12,000, convicted of violent offences. What is behind the rise?
:22:11. > :22:15.Researchers say that there should be studies to examine why this
:22:15. > :22:19.hard-core group are still in the criminal gist system, but it
:22:19. > :22:22.suggests that policies to reform criminals, whether through
:22:22. > :22:27.imprisonment or community programmes, they are just not
:22:27. > :22:33.working. Thank you very much. Amnesty International has accused
:22:33. > :22:42.the United Nations of failing to -- of failing the leadership to match
:22:42. > :22:48.the kouj of protestors. A report says that the -- to match the
:22:48. > :22:53.courage of protestors. We have this report. These are among the latest
:22:53. > :23:00.pictures from Syria. More amateur video, apparently showing the
:23:00. > :23:04.shelling of buildings, an insistent image of the government's crackdown
:23:04. > :23:10.on decent. The violence and the build shed here continues despite
:23:10. > :23:13.the presence of observers, the UN issued warnings about the risk of
:23:13. > :23:17.all-out Civil War. Amnesty International claims that the
:23:17. > :23:22.crisis in Syria is the most telling example of why the UN Security
:23:22. > :23:28.Council is now looking tired, out of step and increasingly unfit for
:23:28. > :23:33.purpose. It is redundant as a guardian of global peace. Thousands
:23:33. > :23:37.of people died in Syria. We had made a clear case as did many other
:23:37. > :23:43.agencies as to what was happening there constituted crimes against
:23:43. > :23:48.humanity, but there was no action from the court of law. So what we
:23:48. > :23:53.are asking is that -- koun critical. So what we are asking is that when
:23:53. > :24:00.there are grave incidents, that the use of the veto cannot be allowed
:24:00. > :24:03.without a clear explanation of why it is happening. Amnesty is
:24:03. > :24:11.accusing governments of failing to show leadership to match the
:24:11. > :24:18.courage of protestors. There should be a test for world leaders to
:24:18. > :24:23.place rights over self-interest and profit. Amnesty calls the past year
:24:23. > :24:27.tumultuous, millions of people taking to the streets to demand
:24:27. > :24:31.freedom, justice and dignity, putting lives on the line and some
:24:31. > :24:38.of them securing memorable victories. Dictators have fallen,
:24:38. > :24:44.but in the dictatorship. Amnesty international's view of the impact
:24:44. > :24:49.of a remarkable year of protesting for human rights. For that warning,
:24:49. > :24:53.the gains are still vulnerable. Egyptians are voting for the second
:24:53. > :24:57.day in the country's first free presidential elections, 15 months
:24:57. > :25:02.after Hosni Mubarak was ousted. Kiwis are being reported as polling
:25:03. > :25:09.stations, turnout does not appear as high as yesterday. The military
:25:09. > :25:12.council has promised a fair vote and civilian rule. Britain's most
:25:12. > :25:21.famous motorway interchange is 40 years old. When Spaghetti Junction
:25:21. > :25:25.was built it joined up the M1, M5 and M6. It includes six roads,
:25:25. > :25:30.three canals, two rivers and a railway. Back then it cost �10
:25:30. > :25:35.million to build, now it costs �7 million to maintain. Sophie, you
:25:35. > :25:39.get a great view of the scale of the thing. You can see why it has
:25:39. > :25:45.become such an important landmark for Birmingham and the West
:25:45. > :25:51.Midlands. Back in 72, they could not wait for it to be open. You
:25:51. > :25:55.could come on a coach trip to watch the site being built. It is enough
:25:55. > :26:00.to get your head in a spin. Britain's most iconic motorway
:26:00. > :26:06.junction and its most complex, but you need a bird's eye view to see
:26:06. > :26:13.how it earned its nickname. In 1972, they had never seen anything like
:26:13. > :26:19.it. The last seven-mile stretch of the Midlands links motorway will be
:26:19. > :26:26.officially opened at 10 .3am. Reports are coming in of a build-up
:26:26. > :26:35.of traffic. It appears that many can't wait to try out the multi-
:26:35. > :26:41.level interchange at Gravelly Hill. I declare this runway open! It's
:26:41. > :26:44.always been controversial and even today it is still dividing opinions.
:26:45. > :26:50.Would you reckon Spaghetti Junction is a monstrosity or a thing of
:26:50. > :26:54.beauty? I think it is a thing of bouty. If you live in the Midlands,
:26:54. > :26:59.any way. It's been here for 40 years. People know it. I think you
:26:59. > :27:05.either love it or hate it. I don't think there are many people down
:27:05. > :27:09.the middle really. Most will say that they love it, it belongs to
:27:09. > :27:17.Birmingham. Because of the wear and the tear and the cor ocean, it
:27:17. > :27:24.needs almost constant attention. This is where the repair work goes
:27:24. > :27:29.on, and there is a lot on Spaghetti Junction. We are directly beneath
:27:29. > :27:34.the northbound carriage way of the M. If I touch this here I can feel
:27:34. > :27:39.the vibrations of the lorries driving past. They have marked out
:27:39. > :27:44.the next section to be fixed. is 40 years old now. It is getting
:27:44. > :27:51.on, but if we maintain it we can keep it going for another 40 years
:27:51. > :27:54.and another 40 years after that. There is tranquility too beneath
:27:54. > :28:00.the concrete. Though it has taken a long time, people here have learned
:28:00. > :28:04.to love it. Back in 1972, the film that we used part of did not show
:28:04. > :28:09.the moment that the first traffic cone was put out, but there are
:28:09. > :28:14.many there today. That is as it is being turned into a managed
:28:14. > :28:18.morltway. The hard shoulder. The promise that for the next 40 years,
:28:18. > :28:23.less congestion and fewer traffic jams, but it is probably too early
:28:24. > :28:31.to commit to them. Now, day six of the torch relay. These are the
:28:31. > :28:40.latest pictures that we have. There is the Olympic swimmer Sharron
:28:40. > :28:45.Davis. There with the torch. A huge crowd turning out yet again to see
:28:45. > :28:49.her as she carries the torch it passed through Gloucester this
:28:49. > :28:58.morning, Herefordshire as well. Huge crowds there. A great sight.
:28:58. > :29:03.Later on today the flame is to pass through West Midlands Safari Park,
:29:03. > :29:07.where apparently, two elephants have been trained to salute it. Not
:29:07. > :29:17.carry it, though, thank goodness. Let's have a look at the weather
:29:17. > :29:30.
:29:30. > :29:35.with Nick. Botbot I will make it The weather today, I will make it
:29:35. > :29:38.look good for all of us. The sun is staying with us.
:29:38. > :29:46.There have been some exceptions, but some of the low cloud is
:29:46. > :29:53.starting to clear away. We have seen the odd, isolated
:29:53. > :29:57.downpours getting going. There could abheavy downpour, but
:29:58. > :30:02.few and far between. Inland, there could be a little
:30:02. > :30:07.cloud, but inland with have main the sunshine and the warmth. The
:30:07. > :30:10.odd shower into the south-east of England later on. You will be
:30:10. > :30:14.unlucky to catch one. In south-east England, some of the coasts are
:30:14. > :30:18.misty in places. That will hold the temperature down compared with
:30:18. > :30:23.inland. Some of the low cloud, Somerset,
:30:23. > :30:26.south-east Wales, the West Midlands, beginning to clear and clearing
:30:26. > :30:31.from Cardigan Bay. Northern Ireland, lots of sunshine here.
:30:31. > :30:35.And it is a stunner for the Chelsea Flower Show, the warmest day of the
:30:35. > :30:39.week. Tomorrow not so warm. There will be
:30:39. > :30:48.a breeze. That will be a player in England and Wales for the next few
:30:48. > :30:54.days. Into this evening and the rain dying away. A low cloud in
:30:54. > :31:02.north-east England and Scotland. It will be a warm night. 18 Celsius,
:31:02. > :31:07.making it stick -- sticky. The low cloud and the mist clearing from
:31:07. > :31:11.the west and Northern Ireland. Increasing sunshine, and increasing
:31:11. > :31:15.breeze tomorrow. That shifts the warmth to the west tomorrow. The
:31:15. > :31:19.warm spots, the warmer colours building over western parts of the
:31:19. > :31:23.The temperatures in the east a little lower in the breeze, but it
:31:23. > :31:27.is strong sunshine. It could burn more quickly than you
:31:27. > :31:31.may have done. Then the all-important weekend. We
:31:31. > :31:34.still have the brisk easterly on Saturday. Easing on Sunday. We see
:31:35. > :31:38.the weather front coming to the south-west on late Saturday night
:31:38. > :31:41.and Sunday with a few showers, leaving cloud in the north-east and