:00:12. > :00:21.A serious scandal - the Prime Minister says Barclays' bosses must
:00:21. > :00:25.answer questions about rigging rates at the banks.
:00:25. > :00:29.As far as the Chief Executive of Barclays is concerned, he has some
:00:29. > :00:34.very serious questions to answer today. What did he know and when
:00:34. > :00:38.did he know it? We need to see serious action against those who
:00:38. > :00:42.have done wrong, a criminal prosecution and, if necessary, them
:00:42. > :00:46.going to jail. The Queen unveils a memorial to the
:00:46. > :00:49.men who died on British bombers during the Second World War.
:00:49. > :00:53.Flash-floods sweep across parts of the UK leaving people trapped in
:00:53. > :00:57.cars and homes without power. The latest attempt to save the euro.
:00:57. > :01:01.More crucial talks are about to begin in Brussels.
:01:01. > :01:06.A convicted murderer is on the run after he escaped from London's
:01:06. > :01:11.Pentonville Prison by climbing a wall using a makeshift rope.
:01:11. > :01:21.David Beckham's Olympic dream is over as he is told he has not been
:01:21. > :01:24.
:01:24. > :01:34.selected for the 2012 football team. Heathrow residents say new flight
:01:34. > :01:45.
:01:45. > :01:48.Good afternoon. Welcome to the BBC News at One. There is mounting
:01:48. > :01:51.pressure on the bosses of Barclays after the Prime Minister said they
:01:51. > :01:54.had serious questions to answer over the scandal about rigging
:01:54. > :01:58.rates for the bank. The Chancellor described it as a shocking
:01:58. > :02:03.indictment of the banking culture in the city. Shares in the bank
:02:03. > :02:09.plunged by 17% this morning after its admission that traders had
:02:09. > :02:14.tried to manipulate the rate at which banks lend to other. Barclays
:02:14. > :02:23.was fined nearly �300 million by regulators. The Labour Leader
:02:23. > :02:28.called for a criminal investigation. The position of Barclays' boss Bob
:02:28. > :02:32.Diamond is under mounting scrutiny and a debate on his bank's role in
:02:32. > :02:35.interest rate manipulation is centre stage at Westminster. In the
:02:35. > :02:40.Commons, the Chancellor said the episode was a shocking indictment
:02:40. > :02:44.of the market culture before the crisis and he pointed the finger at
:02:44. > :02:49.Mr Diamond. As far as the Chief Executive of Barclays is concerned,
:02:49. > :02:53.he has some very serious questions to answer today. What did he know
:02:53. > :02:57.and when did he know it? Who in the Barclays' management was involved?
:02:57. > :03:02.Who therefore should pay the price? Earlier, the Prime Minister said
:03:02. > :03:06.the Barclays' episode was a scandal and the authorities should use all
:03:06. > :03:08.powers to pursue it. The fine for Barclays followed a civil
:03:08. > :03:12.investigation by financial regulators. Today, the Labour
:03:12. > :03:17.Leader called for wider, possibly criminal enquiries to be carried
:03:17. > :03:22.out. I do want to see criminal prosecutions. I do want to see
:03:22. > :03:26.those who have done the wrong thing, those who have committed what I
:03:26. > :03:29.think are atrocious acts brought to justice. Frankly, if the law
:03:29. > :03:34.doesn't allow for that at the moment, the law has to be changed
:03:34. > :03:37.to make that happen. Barclays provided false information to the
:03:37. > :03:41.group which supplies the key industry lending rate called LIBOR.
:03:41. > :03:44.Some mortgages are linked to it, as are many business loans. It is
:03:44. > :03:48.possible because of what happened some may have paid more than they
:03:48. > :03:52.should have done. Others could have paid less. It is hard to work out
:03:52. > :03:57.who the winners and losers are. But the investigation has gone wider
:03:57. > :04:00.than Barclays. The conduct of other banks including RBS and Lloyds and
:04:01. > :04:05.some US institutions is being probed by regulators. Analysts are
:04:05. > :04:10.trying to work out what the costs could be. There are two things. One
:04:10. > :04:16.is the potential fines from regulators in the US and the UK,
:04:16. > :04:22.similar to Barclays. That is not our main concern. Our main concern
:04:22. > :04:26.is the potential lawsuits that will happen here and in the US. That is
:04:26. > :04:29.why Barclays and other leading banks' shares are down sharply
:04:29. > :04:34.today. Quite how customers and voters react is another matter. The
:04:34. > :04:39.reputation of banks has already taken a battering.
:04:39. > :04:45.Let's speak to Robert Peston. Huge pressure on Bob Diamond, lots of
:04:45. > :04:50.questions to be answered. Can he survive this? You have to look at
:04:50. > :04:53.this in two different ways. The regulators did look for evidence
:04:53. > :04:59.linking him personally to the wrongdoing and they couldn't find
:04:59. > :05:06.it. On the other hand, he was running the business, Barclays
:05:07. > :05:12.Capital, where this wrongdoing took place. Now, I have spoken to a very
:05:12. > :05:18.senior banker at Barclays who has said to me that there was a
:05:18. > :05:22.catastrophic culture failure at Barclays Capital. And because it is
:05:22. > :05:26.now widely accepted, I think, that there was a culture failure there,
:05:26. > :05:32.broadly traders breaking the rules in the pursuit of short-term
:05:33. > :05:38.profits and big bonuses, there is, of course, a big question for Bob
:05:38. > :05:44.Diamond to answer. He to an extent was in charge of that culture. Some
:05:44. > :05:48.say he set the culture of the bank. So in the end it comes down to
:05:48. > :05:52.shareholders. Do they want somebody to take personal responsibility for
:05:52. > :05:57.this debacle? If they do, and they are considering this - I'm in touch
:05:57. > :06:06.with them - he is the first in line. These are very anxious times for
:06:06. > :06:10.him. They are astonishingly anxious times for the bank. The shares fell
:06:11. > :06:16.18%. I can barely remember the shares of a big company falling as
:06:16. > :06:22.much as that. It is not alone. Royal Bank of Scotland shares are
:06:22. > :06:26.down 13-14%. Lloyds' shares down 7- 8%. Here is the other big thing
:06:26. > :06:31.about all of this. All our focus is on Barclays at the moment because
:06:31. > :06:37.they are the first to have been punished. We know that these
:06:37. > :06:41.regulators in the UK and the US are looking at Royal Bank of Scotland,
:06:41. > :06:46.at Lloyds, HSBC and we know the costs, if they are found guilty for
:06:47. > :06:51.them, will also be huge. Thank you. The Queen has unveiled a memorial
:06:51. > :06:55.to tens of thousands of airmen from Bomber Command who died in the
:06:55. > :07:00.Second World War. Thousands of poppies were dropped from a
:07:00. > :07:05.Lancaster Bomber over London's Green Park where some of the few
:07:05. > :07:10.surviving veterans had gathered. Mike Sergeant is at the memorial in
:07:10. > :07:14.London's Green Park. Their courage has never been
:07:14. > :07:17.questioned. Their role was important but controversial. At the
:07:17. > :07:22.end of the Second World War, Bomber Command didn't get official
:07:23. > :07:27.recognition, but at the ceremony that's just finished here today,
:07:27. > :07:32.finally they did. They have waited 67 years for a
:07:32. > :07:36.fitting memorial. Today, the surviving veterans of Bomber
:07:36. > :07:40.Command gathered for a Service of Remembrance. FANFARE the Queen and
:07:40. > :07:44.other members of the Royal Family joined thousands of invited guests
:07:44. > :07:54.and senior military figures. By any measure, this is a profound moment.
:07:54. > :07:57.
:07:57. > :08:00.A moment which has been a long time coming. Inside the memorial, the
:08:00. > :08:05.Queen unveiled bronze statues of a seven-man bomber crew coming back
:08:05. > :08:10.from a mission. A reminder of the risks they took and the thousands
:08:10. > :08:14.who never returned. They might not have thought of themselves as
:08:14. > :08:18.heroes, smiling in this newsreel footage from early in the Second
:08:18. > :08:27.World War. Almost half of the 125,000 airmen of Bomber Command
:08:27. > :08:30.lost their lives. NEWSREEL: heavy bombers assist the drive into
:08:30. > :08:36.Dresden. Their roles in the raids on German cities was controversial.
:08:36. > :08:43.The bombs they dropped killed between 300 and 600,000 Germans and
:08:43. > :08:46.left scenes of devastation on the ground. A troubling legacy for
:08:46. > :08:50.veterans like Doug Radcliffe and a reason why proper recognition has
:08:50. > :08:54.taken so long. Visiting the sculpture as it was made, he felt
:08:54. > :09:04.the time was right for a permanent tribute. Your first time seeing it
:09:04. > :09:06.
:09:06. > :09:14.in bronze? The first thing that hit me was Nev Hadley and Frank
:09:14. > :09:23.Hennesey, two members of my first crew, who died with them with
:09:23. > :09:29.55,000 others. This will honour them for all time. THE LAST POST At
:09:29. > :09:33.the end of the ceremony, a fly-past. RAF Tornadoes and one of only two
:09:33. > :09:40.Lancaster Bombers still flying, releasing not bombs, but a cascade
:09:40. > :09:44.of poppies for all those who died. After nearly seven decades, a day
:09:44. > :09:47.of reconciliation and remembrance. That was a moving moment for all of
:09:47. > :09:51.those gathered here today. The Royal Party has now left and the
:09:51. > :09:55.veterans are taking an opportunity to go inside the memorial for the
:09:55. > :09:59.first time and as they look at those bronze statues inside, their
:09:59. > :10:03.thoughts very much still with all those many friends who set off on
:10:03. > :10:07.those missions all those years ago and never returned.
:10:07. > :10:11.There will be a special programme covering the unveiling of the
:10:12. > :10:16.Bomber Command Memorial by the Queen on BBC2 at 5.00pm this
:10:16. > :10:20.afternoon. A man in his 60s has died after
:10:20. > :10:24.being swept away by floodwaters near Ludlow and Shropshire. It
:10:24. > :10:28.follows a morning of torrential rain across the Midlands causing
:10:28. > :10:36.flash-floods. In Belfast, flooding closed many of the city's main
:10:36. > :10:42.streets. Hundreds of homes were left without power.
:10:42. > :10:46.Morning rush hour in Belfast. Last night's torrential downpour turned
:10:46. > :10:51.some streets into rivers. These police officers managed to get
:10:51. > :10:59.through. But their colleagues were in deep trouble before eventually
:10:59. > :11:06.being rescued. This was the problem. Two hours of heavy, non-stop rain,
:11:06. > :11:15.just as many people were driving home for the evening. Some managed
:11:15. > :11:19.it; others were not so lucky. The only option was to abandon the car,
:11:19. > :11:24.even if it meant getting wet. An emergency centre was set up
:11:24. > :11:29.overnight at Belfast City Hall and Northern Ireland's First Minister
:11:29. > :11:34.was there, too. This is just horrendous for people, anybody who
:11:35. > :11:40.has had their house flooded will know how difficult a period it is.
:11:40. > :11:46.Compensation will be given to those worst affected. Water levels are
:11:46. > :11:50.high and the bad weather is not over yet. More rain is forecast for
:11:50. > :11:54.later today and tomorrow. The weather is also causing problems in
:11:54. > :12:00.parts of England. In the East Midlands, the Olympic Torch relay
:12:00. > :12:03.had to stop briefly because of the threat of lightning. It later got
:12:03. > :12:08.going again, even though at times it was more like paddling than
:12:08. > :12:15.running. Back in Northern Ireland, the clean-up and the clear-up has
:12:15. > :12:20.begun. But it's going to be a long and costly process.
:12:20. > :12:25.Let's get more on those floods in the Midlands from Peter Plisner who
:12:25. > :12:29.is in Birmingham. There's news of this death of this man in his 60s.
:12:29. > :12:34.What more can you tell us about that? West midland police have
:12:34. > :12:38.confirmed that a man, believed to be in his 60s, was swept away by
:12:38. > :12:41.floodwater near Ludlow. His body was discovered in a stream. But
:12:42. > :12:46.Birmingham does seem to be one of the worst affected areas. A third
:12:46. > :12:52.of the rainfall that normally comes during June happened in one hour
:12:52. > :12:58.here between 10.00am and 11.00am this morning. 20Mms of rain fell.
:12:58. > :13:01.The Fire Service say they received 40 calls in less than an hour.
:13:01. > :13:04.Flash-floods are all over the region. The Environment Agency has
:13:04. > :13:08.issued flood alerts for a number of rivers. Bridgnorth seems to have
:13:08. > :13:12.been badly affected. In Herefordshire, a number of roads
:13:12. > :13:17.are said to be impassable. A basement in Wolverhampton had to be
:13:17. > :13:22.evacuated in a hospital where a maternity unit was going on. And a
:13:22. > :13:27.school in Wolverhampton, that's only just opened after a �26
:13:27. > :13:31.million refurbishment, had to be closed. The rain is continuing to
:13:31. > :13:36.fall here in Birmingham. But it will move north later in the day.
:13:36. > :13:39.Thank you very much. The latest attempt to save the euro
:13:39. > :13:43.is about to begin in Brussels but there is still no agreement between
:13:43. > :13:47.France and Germany on how to do it. The main sticking point is over how
:13:47. > :13:54.to share the pain of paying for the debts of countries like Italy and
:13:54. > :13:58.Spain. Let's go to Brussels and Chris Morris is there.
:13:58. > :14:02.Afternoon, Sophie. The leaders are arriving now. Francois Hollande has
:14:02. > :14:07.just walked in calling for what he said was very quick solutions.
:14:07. > :14:12.David Cameron is expected here in the next few minutes. They will
:14:12. > :14:17.agree on a new compact for growth, trying to promote growth and create
:14:17. > :14:21.jobs. On the basic issue of what to do next in the eurozone crisis, the
:14:21. > :14:26.divisions between them are more out in the open than ever.
:14:26. > :14:29.Preparations and protests for another summit. Let's hope it's not
:14:29. > :14:33.simply more hot air. They are all looking for ways to calm the
:14:34. > :14:39.markets and reassure increasingly anxious governments across the
:14:39. > :14:44.eurozone. Last night, the two main protagonists met in Paris, all
:14:44. > :14:48.smiles on the surface, but there are disagreements about the best
:14:48. > :14:51.way forward. France and Germany know where they want to get to, but
:14:51. > :14:56.the strategies for getting there are not the same.
:14:56. > :15:00.TRANSLATION: We want to move towards closer economic monetary
:15:00. > :15:05.and eventually political union based on the integration and
:15:05. > :15:08.solidarity. But she says integration first, then we can show
:15:08. > :15:13.more solidarity with countries struggling with high borrowing
:15:13. > :15:17.costs or too much debt. He says we need to show solidarity now or
:15:17. > :15:20.there may not be much left to integrate. It means some big
:15:20. > :15:30.decisions for every country involved. The eurozone cannot
:15:30. > :15:32.
:15:32. > :15:35.Either you keep the Euro or give up some national sovereignty or keep.
:15:35. > :15:38.That is basically the choice you have to make.
:15:38. > :15:41.Already three eurozone countries have had to be bailed out with
:15:41. > :15:46.billions. First Greece, then Ireland, last year, Portugal.
:15:46. > :15:50.Spain has now asked for money to stabilise its banking sector and
:15:50. > :15:55.Cyprus has become the fifth country to seek assistance.
:15:55. > :16:00.Some of the ideas being discussed here are thin on detail, but
:16:00. > :16:03.ambitious in intent. They could alter the basic relationship
:16:04. > :16:08.between the EU and Member States, but the concern surrounding the
:16:08. > :16:13.summit is not about what Europe could look like in ten years' time,
:16:13. > :16:17.but about how it could look next Monday morning. That is because
:16:17. > :16:22.borrowing costs for two of the biggest economies in the eurozone,
:16:22. > :16:26.Spain and Italy, are high. The pressure is on Germany to do more
:16:26. > :16:30.to help, but Angela Merkel has favoured a cautious step by step
:16:31. > :16:40.approach and there is no sign of a radical change of heart.
:16:40. > :16:43.In fact, as senior German official had warned this morning,
:16:43. > :16:47.exaggerated panic making and Germany has allies, countries that
:16:47. > :16:52.don't want to pay more until budgets in the eurozone are more
:16:52. > :16:56.centralised, but the debate about how to fix the crisis could become
:16:56. > :17:00.bitter indeed. In the last few minutes, Greater
:17:00. > :17:04.Manchester Police have confirmed they have arrested a 32-year-old
:17:04. > :17:08.man in London over an explosion in Oldham in which a young boy died.
:17:08. > :17:12.The man is being questioned on suspicion of manslaughter. He is
:17:12. > :17:15.understood to have been involved in maintenance on the property.
:17:15. > :17:20.We announced this afternoon that a 32-year-old man was arrested in
:17:20. > :17:23.London last evening and has been arrested on the offence of
:17:23. > :17:28.manslaughter. He is being transported to Manchester and will
:17:28. > :17:30.be subject to a rigorous interview process today. I would not like you
:17:30. > :17:36.to speculate in relation to that line of investigation. What I would
:17:36. > :17:41.say is that it is only one line of investigation that we are pursuing.
:17:41. > :17:47.A convicted murder is on the run after es caning from Pentonville
:17:47. > :17:51.Prison in north London. John Massey is one of the UK's longest-serving
:17:51. > :17:56.prisoners, jailed in 1975 for the murder of a man in East London. An
:17:56. > :18:00.investigation is underway as to how he managed to use a make shift rope
:18:00. > :18:08.to scale the wall and get away. Pentonville Prison in north London.
:18:08. > :18:14.In the words of a recent inspection report "iconic, but not for the
:18:14. > :18:20.right reasons" among the prisoners was until yesterday, John Massey,
:18:20. > :18:27.convicted of a 1975 public murder he had been sent back to jail after
:18:27. > :18:30.breaking the palyol to spend time with his dying father. So, how did
:18:30. > :18:35.he escape from the Pentonville Prison? Despite being 64, sources
:18:35. > :18:40.have told the BBC he used a make- shift rope and somehow got over the
:18:40. > :18:44.wall. A wall that is more than 25 feet tall in places. A full
:18:44. > :18:48.investigation followed the escape yesterday evening but no details
:18:48. > :18:52.have been released. This is a highly embarrassing breach of
:18:52. > :18:57.security. If John Massey scaled the wall, that would be different to
:18:57. > :19:01.the more common method of escaping in transit. Three years ago an
:19:01. > :19:04.arsonist slipped away by clinging to the bottom of a prison van like
:19:04. > :19:08.this one. The Metropolitan Police said that John Massey was
:19:08. > :19:16.considered dangerous and should not be approached. They are appealing
:19:17. > :19:21.for information. A two-year-old girl has died after
:19:21. > :19:26.falling from the fourth floor of a block of flats in Sheffield it is
:19:26. > :19:32.thought that the glass panelling on a communal balcony may have given
:19:32. > :19:36.way in what the police are calling a tragic incident.
:19:36. > :19:41.Sophie, these are the apartments where Rayaheem Banimuslim lived
:19:41. > :19:45.with her parents. She was playing in the gardens here when she fell
:19:45. > :19:50.from the fourth floor yesterday. She was rushed to hospital, but
:19:50. > :19:55.sadly, later died. If you look at the apartments and go to the fourth
:19:55. > :19:58.floor you can see the glass panelling running along the side it
:19:59. > :20:02.was the panel at the end that was broken. The mother did not know it
:20:02. > :20:07.was broken. It was replaced yesterday with wood panelling. The
:20:07. > :20:10.people that manage the property say that they carry out regular checks.
:20:11. > :20:14.They are trying to find out what happened here. The Health and
:20:15. > :20:18.Safety Executive have been here today. Very have been measuring the
:20:18. > :20:23.plannels and checking the other panels here, the police are saying
:20:23. > :20:27.that they are investigating what happened. As for the two-year-old's
:20:27. > :20:31.family they are heartbroken. They are still at the hospital by their
:20:31. > :20:36.daughter's side. The top story:
:20:36. > :20:39.Pressure is mounting on bosses alt Barclays after it admitted
:20:39. > :20:45.manipulating bank lending rates. Shares in Barclays have fallen
:20:45. > :20:50.sharply this morning. Coming up: I'm taking a ride on one
:20:50. > :20:55.of the different pieces of Olympic transport, a cable car spanning the
:20:55. > :21:00.River Thames. On BBC London: Could Formula One
:21:00. > :21:05.cars race through the streets of Central London? Turning concrete
:21:05. > :21:11.into canvass, some of the world's top artists transform the Royal
:21:11. > :21:15.Docks with graffiti. All to come in 15 minutes.
:21:15. > :21:19.David Beckham's Olympic dream is over arch he was told he has not
:21:19. > :21:24.been selected for the Great Britain Olympic football squad. In a
:21:24. > :21:27.statement the 37-year-old said he was disappointed but there would be
:21:27. > :21:29.no bigger supporter of the team than him.
:21:29. > :21:34.This prorp contains flash photography.
:21:34. > :21:40.It is possible that there would not even be a London Olympics without
:21:40. > :21:44.David Beckham. Involved in the bid from the start... To the city of
:21:44. > :21:48.London... Then more importantly a key member of the team in Singapore
:21:48. > :21:53.that managed to push London over the line in a tight vote against
:21:53. > :21:57.Paris. He's been a huge part of London 2012 throughout its journey,
:21:57. > :22:00.appearing on that bus in the Beijing closing ceremony and then
:22:00. > :22:06.last month, carrying the Olympic Flame when it arrived in Cornwall
:22:06. > :22:10.for the start of a 07-day relay. That same day, he had told me about
:22:10. > :22:14.his burning desire to become an Olympian this summer.
:22:14. > :22:19.Being involved in the Olympic Games would be huge. Obviously being a
:22:19. > :22:24.part of the GB team, the work that goes into the competition, it would
:22:24. > :22:28.be massive. The decision by Team GB coach,
:22:28. > :22:34.Stuart Pearce, to ignore the wishes means that there will be no special
:22:34. > :22:39.moments like this at London 2012... Being in the Olympics it would have
:22:39. > :22:45.been great had he been there, but you have to make a decision based
:22:46. > :22:49.on the best squad available to try to win. David Beckham said if not
:22:49. > :22:55.selected he would still be involved in the Olympics, but now he will
:22:55. > :22:58.have to set for the role as a Team GB and ambassador rather than
:22:58. > :23:03.player. Well, David Beckham is clearly disappointed, but how much
:23:03. > :23:07.of a surprise is this? I think to those outside of the process,
:23:07. > :23:12.waiting for the football tournament to start, it is a massive surprise.
:23:12. > :23:17.People assumed that this would be David Beckham's swansong, he has
:23:17. > :23:23.given up play are for England, now, this is the end of him as a
:23:23. > :23:27.international player. This would a great way to go out in the home
:23:27. > :23:31.crowds, but this is maybe not a surprise for those closer to him.
:23:32. > :23:37.Stuart Pearce is only allowed to pick three players over the age of
:23:37. > :23:41.23. David Beckham said he only wanted to be picked on merit.
:23:41. > :23:46.It was going to be tough. So, Stuart Pearce rang him last
:23:46. > :23:50.night, I am told, that he said he wanted a player more defensive,
:23:50. > :23:56.that David Beckham did not fit into what he wanted. Stuart Pearce is
:23:56. > :24:00.trying to make a name for himself as a manager, but this is not the
:24:00. > :24:08.end of David Beckham in the Olympics. He will be involved. The
:24:08. > :24:14.British Olympic Association have Kate and William as ambassadors,
:24:14. > :24:21.David Beckham will be an integral part, but just not as a player.
:24:21. > :24:25.Now, his code name was Laval, but in real life he was named Raymond
:24:25. > :24:29.Mawby, a minister of the Conservative government. The BBC
:24:30. > :24:34.uncovered information that he sold information for a decade, including
:24:34. > :24:39.details about colleagues in Parliament.
:24:39. > :24:46.Raymond Mawby was always an unusual MP, a Tory tpwru a working-class
:24:46. > :24:49.trade union background. Here he is on BBC TV in 1967, opposing the
:24:49. > :24:53.legallisation of homosexuality. Most of the people involved in
:24:53. > :24:59.security cases have been found to be male homosexuals.
:24:59. > :25:05.But it was Raymond Mawby who was himself the security risk. Files
:25:05. > :25:08.found by the BBC show he was passing secrets for a decade,
:25:08. > :25:12.including while being a junior minister.
:25:12. > :25:16.The contract was that they would set him tasks, he would fulfil them
:25:16. > :25:20.and they would give him money it was for hundreds of pounds a year
:25:20. > :25:25.which was a lot of money then in the 1960s.
:25:25. > :25:29.We had known before that some Labour MPs had worked as communist
:25:29. > :25:33.spice, but this is the first time - - spies, but this is the first time
:25:33. > :25:38.we have known of a cif conservative MP, a minister, even had done the
:25:38. > :25:43.same. So what kind of information did he pass on? He did not have
:25:43. > :25:46.access to top secret material, but passed on information about fellow
:25:46. > :25:50.Tory MPs, hand-written on notes like this. There is a there are
:25:50. > :25:56.plan of the Prime Minister's office in the House of Commons that he
:25:56. > :26:01.drew at the request of the Czechs and here, a signed receipt for �100,
:26:01. > :26:05.giving an idea of why he did it, moan was the motivation. Raymond
:26:05. > :26:11.Mawby had a gambling habit. The cheques helped to cover his losses
:26:11. > :26:14.then he was put on a retain eer of �400 a year. Colleagues were
:26:14. > :26:19.surprised. I was astonished, when I heard that
:26:19. > :26:24.an unnamed Conservative MP was outed as a Czech spy, but given a
:26:24. > :26:30.list of 100 MPs, I would not have selected him. Raymond Mawby was
:26:30. > :26:35.selected as the MP for Totnes. He died in 1990, as the Cold War ended,
:26:35. > :26:38.but it has been another two decades before the truth of what he got up
:26:38. > :26:43.to emerged. The UK's first urban cable car was
:26:43. > :26:47.opened to the public today it spans the River Thames between the ExCel
:26:47. > :26:52.exhibition centre and the O2 Arena at Greenwich. We have been to try
:26:52. > :26:55.it out. Good morning, the queue is building
:26:55. > :27:01.up. There is a queue here and outside as well. Members of the
:27:01. > :27:05.public are waiting to go on the new cable car. They have been here
:27:05. > :27:10.since 5.30am. This is an important piece of Olympic transport, the
:27:10. > :27:16.views on board are spectacular. Another hectic Olympic launch. As
:27:16. > :27:19.always, the Lord Mayor, Boris Johnson, is centre stage.
:27:20. > :27:24.The new Thames cable car was not built for the Olympics, but it will
:27:24. > :27:30.be key to getting the spectators around, but it has come at a price.
:27:30. > :27:35.The view is spectacular, there is the North Greenwich Arena, and if
:27:35. > :27:40.you spin around you can just see the Olympic Stadium in the distance.
:27:41. > :27:46.This way, we have the Mayor of London, Boris Johnson. Now, this
:27:46. > :27:50.was meant to cost �25 million, all private, but it is �63, and about
:27:50. > :27:57.�20 million of that from the taxpayer. How can you justify it?
:27:57. > :28:02.Well, it is a fantastic deal, most of the taxpayer spending will be
:28:02. > :28:07.recouped from the merchandising and the ticket sales.
:28:07. > :28:11.Riding 90 metres above the river, the views are likely to be popular
:28:11. > :28:16.with the spectators and the local schoolchildren, once they are used
:28:16. > :28:20.to the height... Imagine if you dropped? It's a long way down.
:28:20. > :28:25.have butterflies in my belly. It is faster. When it took off, it is
:28:25. > :28:30.faster than I thought. All of the people look so tiny. You can see
:28:30. > :28:35.the river. It is meandering... London's transport system will be
:28:35. > :28:40.creaking during the Olympics this summer, trying to squeeze millions
:28:40. > :28:44.extra people on to the buses and on to the trains. This cable car
:28:44. > :28:48.should relieve the pressure. We have come live into a cabin,
:28:48. > :28:56.forgive us if the picture goes, but this is why this is significant,
:28:56. > :29:01.there is the North Greenwich Arena, that is where the gymnastics and so
:29:01. > :29:08.on will ga on and there is the biggest Olympic arena, that is
:29:08. > :29:12.where the boxing and the tie qondow is to be held, but this adds to the
:29:12. > :29:17.-- tie qondow is to be held, but this is adding to the excitement,
:29:17. > :29:21.that this is all coming together very quickly now.
:29:21. > :29:27.Now, the weather. John, we have extreme photographs
:29:27. > :29:31.coming in from viewers. There are coming in from viewers. There are
:29:31. > :29:34.hail stones and thunder storms? Yes, huge hail storms and gusty winds
:29:34. > :29:39.and unfortunately, one fatality. You could earn counterscenes like
:29:39. > :29:45.this in the rest of the afternoon. If you have pictures send them in.
:29:45. > :29:50.This is the storm that ravaged the Midlands earlier on. A huge storm
:29:50. > :29:54.of rain. That is moving to the north-east, but to be replaced by
:29:54. > :29:58.others. Much of the north of Britain is to be prone to the
:29:58. > :30:02.violent thunder storms. Do go online for details of those.
:30:02. > :30:07.The storms are to continue it rumble on into parts of northern
:30:07. > :30:13.England, up to jorbgshire, to the Scottish border and to -- Yorkshire
:30:13. > :30:17.and to the north still. Things turning wet and windy later
:30:17. > :30:21.on. Northern Ireland has gotten away with it so far, but even here
:30:21. > :30:25.storms are returning in the afternoon. For Wales, the worst is
:30:25. > :30:29.over. Fresher conditions coming in from the west. That will dampen the
:30:29. > :30:34.atmosphere down. The showers becoming lighter and less frequent.
:30:34. > :30:39.A drier end to the day and feeling less humid. Across the south-east
:30:39. > :30:44.it is hot. Temperatures knocking on the door of 28 Celsius, it is fine
:30:44. > :30:51.for Wimbledon. This evening, the cold front will push the storms
:30:51. > :30:56.away. Staying wet in the far north of Scotland, but elsewhere, fresher
:30:56. > :31:00.and drier conditions. It will be also a lot more
:31:00. > :31:05.comfortable for sleeping. The temperatures easing down into the
:31:05. > :31:14.low teens by the end of the night. Tomorrow we will have lost the heat,
:31:14. > :31:18.the humid, -- the humidity, there will be showers coming from the
:31:18. > :31:23.west, many of us encountering showers, but a lot cooler than it
:31:23. > :31:29.was today. In the south-east, some eight or nine degrees cooler.
:31:29. > :31:32.For the weekend, it is a familiar scene with the low pressure
:31:32. > :31:36.dominating. Brisk winds coming in from the west.
:31:36. > :31:40.More showers. It is to the north and the west most prone to the
:31:40. > :31:46.showers. Some making it to the south-east.
:31:46. > :31:50.And it will feel cooler. More of the same on Sunday. By then the