:00:08. > :00:12.The boss of the security firm G4S is forced to admit the failure to
:00:12. > :00:18.provide enough Olympic security guards is a humiliating shambles.
:00:18. > :00:27.Nick Buckles told MPs he was deeply people on the ground in short time
:00:27. > :00:30.had proved a huge logistical challenge. Mr Buckles, it's a
:00:30. > :00:33.humiliating shambles, isn't it? It's not where we'd want to be.
:00:33. > :00:38.That is certain. It is a humiliating shambles for the
:00:38. > :00:40.company - yes or no? I cannot disagree with you.
:00:40. > :00:43.With ten days to go, it emerges that 400,000 Olympic tickets
:00:43. > :00:48.haven't even gone on sale yet. The wet summer helps dampen the
:00:48. > :00:51.rate of inflation as it falls again by more than expected.
:00:51. > :00:56.Police investigating the deaths of three children and their father
:00:56. > :00:58.recover a knife in woodland close to where their bodies were found.
:00:58. > :01:01.And protecting Royal modesty - Queen Victoria's wooden bathing
:01:01. > :01:09.machine is unveiled as her private beach on the Isle of Wight is
:01:09. > :01:14.opened to the public. Later on BBC London: coping with Olympic traffic
:01:14. > :01:16.- the mayor says so far, so good, but to expect some problems. And
:01:16. > :01:26.Doreen Lawrence accuses the police watchdog of failing to deal with
:01:26. > :01:37.
:01:37. > :01:40.Good afternoon, and welcome to the BBC News at 1.00pm. The Chief
:01:40. > :01:43.Executive of G4S has admitted his company's failure to provide enough
:01:43. > :01:46.security staff for the Olympics has been a humiliating shambles. Nick
:01:46. > :01:52.Buckles has told MPs he is deeply sorry and disappointed, but he
:01:52. > :01:56.insists he is still the right man to lead the company. 3,500 troops
:01:56. > :02:00.have had to be deployed to cover the shortfall. Police officers are
:02:00. > :02:03.also being drafted in to fill gaps left after G4S failed to meet its
:02:03. > :02:07.targets. But the London 2012 chairman Lord Coe insists there'll
:02:07. > :02:14.be no compromise on security. Our political correspondent Vicki Young
:02:14. > :02:19.reports. Ten days to go until the London
:02:19. > :02:23.Games, and it's security that's still making all the headlines.
:02:23. > :02:27.G4S's failure to provide thousands of staff to guard Olympic venues
:02:27. > :02:30.has left soldiers and the police making up the shortfall. Today, the
:02:30. > :02:35.company's Chief Executive came to Parliament to explain what went
:02:35. > :02:40.wrong. He said he was disappointed, embarrassed and deeply sorry. One
:02:40. > :02:44.MP went further: Mr Buckles, it's a humiliating shambles, isn't it?
:02:44. > :02:49.It's not where we'd want to be. That is certain. It's a humiliating
:02:50. > :02:53.shambles for the company - yes or no? I cannot disagree with you.
:02:53. > :02:57.Buckles admitted he didn't know about the problems until July the
:02:57. > :03:01.3rd when he told the Olympic organiser LOCOG and started daily
:03:01. > :03:04.meetings with the Home Office, police and the military. Day by day,
:03:04. > :03:08.we started to realise that the pipeline and the people we thought
:03:08. > :03:13.were going to be able to deliver, we couldn't, so it was almost a
:03:13. > :03:17.daily. It was a daily evaluation of what was coming through in terms of
:03:17. > :03:21.what we couldn't deliver. We were sharing that quite openly. The firm
:03:21. > :03:26.finally admitted it couldn't fulfil its contract on July the 11th.
:03:26. > :03:29.contracted to provide 10,400 guards. As you speak here, do you know how
:03:29. > :03:35.many you'll actually provide? a moving target in terms of what we
:03:35. > :03:38.believe we can do. At the moment, we've got 4,200 people working on
:03:38. > :03:41.the ground. Our expectation is the minimum that we will deliver is
:03:41. > :03:46.7,000 on the ground. Ministers are still facing
:03:46. > :03:50.questions about how effectively they were monitoring the contract
:03:50. > :03:54.with G4S, given that they didn't find out until last week just how
:03:54. > :03:58.severe the problems were, but the Government says now is not the time
:03:58. > :04:04.for a witchhunt and insists that Ministers did their job properly by
:04:04. > :04:09.having a backup plan, which has now been implemented, and that plan has
:04:09. > :04:12.seen an extra 3,500 troops brought in to plug a gap in rotas because
:04:12. > :04:16.the company couldn't find enough staff. Yesterday, 400 extra police
:04:16. > :04:21.officers had to be deployed to do Olympic security work that should
:04:21. > :04:24.have been done by G4S. The man in charge of policing for the Games
:04:24. > :04:27.says there's plenty of flexibility in the system to keep people safe.
:04:27. > :04:31.We're working very, very hard with our partners to ensure we deliver a
:04:31. > :04:34.safe and secure Games. We had been planning for this for some
:04:34. > :04:37.considerable time - many, many years since we first were awarded
:04:37. > :04:40.the bid. The change that's happening as a result of G4S not
:04:40. > :04:44.being able to produce all of the staff just means we're putting
:04:44. > :04:48.different people to manage the plan, different people to do the various
:04:48. > :04:52.duties, but the plan is exactly the same. After seven years of planning,
:04:52. > :04:55.everyone involved with the Games hopes that soon it will be the
:04:55. > :05:00.achievement of athletes making the headlines rather than the failings
:05:00. > :05:03.of G4S. Robin Brant is in Westminster. --
:05:03. > :05:06.for us now, and he's still being grilled at the moment, and it
:05:06. > :05:11.really is quite a grilling that the Chief Executive of G4S is getting.
:05:11. > :05:14.Yes, we're just over an hour in, and it continues. There's no doubt
:05:14. > :05:20.this has been a personally humiliating experience for Nick
:05:20. > :05:23.Buckles, and the irony is that he says G4S took on this contract not
:05:23. > :05:28.for monetary gain, but for reputational gain, and, of course,
:05:28. > :05:33.in the end, frankly, it could end up destroying his reputation and
:05:33. > :05:37.possibly that of G4S, but here's what we know in terms of
:05:37. > :05:40.definitives. He said G4S will pay for all extra costs incurred by
:05:40. > :05:44.police who are having to plug the gap at various even use around the
:05:44. > :05:47.country. He expects them to perhaps meet 70% of requirements. I think
:05:47. > :05:53.there are still questions about whether the Home Office, the MoD
:05:53. > :05:56.may need to go further beyond the 3,500 troops currently deployed in
:05:56. > :06:00.order to plug that gap, also, in terms of accountability - we now
:06:00. > :06:04.know Nick Buckles knew on the 3rd of July, maybe even a couple of
:06:04. > :06:10.days before - about how bad this was. A very senior Home Office
:06:10. > :06:14.official, a man called Charles Faur was many meetings and he knew, but
:06:14. > :06:18.the Home Office wasn't told. There was a weeklong gap there when she
:06:18. > :06:21.didn't know, and she couldn't act. Thank you very much.
:06:21. > :06:25.With just ten days to go before the Olympics, it's emerged that there
:06:25. > :06:27.are at least 400,000 tickets that have yet to be put on sale. It's
:06:27. > :06:30.another potential embarrassment for the organisers, who have faced
:06:30. > :06:32.criticism from people who wanted to buy tickets and couldn't get them.
:06:32. > :06:36.Our correspondent James Pearce is at the Olympic Park.
:06:36. > :06:40.James, we're not just talking about football tickets here, are we?
:06:40. > :06:46.you name it. You could almost choose your event you want to go
:06:46. > :06:52.and watch. They're still online now. Tickets to the Opening and Closing
:06:52. > :06:56.Ceremony, admittedly, the top pricing categories. On an almost
:06:56. > :06:59.daily basis, more tickets are released for athletes, hockey and
:06:59. > :07:02.beach volleyball in particular. We have also found out as well as
:07:02. > :07:06.those tickets still to go on sale the organisers have realised
:07:06. > :07:11.tickets haven't been sells fast enough at some of the football
:07:11. > :07:15.venues, so Hampden Park in Scotland, the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff -
:07:15. > :07:20.hosting the first match on the 5th of July, the women's Team GB match
:07:20. > :07:23.- they have both had their capacity significantly reduced, down to
:07:23. > :07:26.40,000 at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff. In the last few minutes I
:07:26. > :07:29.have been talking to Lord Coe about these ticket issues. I mean, we had
:07:29. > :07:32.millions of tickets. I mean, we have done extraordinarily well here,
:07:32. > :07:36.but some of those tickets that are going to be released are because,
:07:36. > :07:40.as you know, we have a beach volleyball venue we're still
:07:40. > :07:42.building. We have Excel. We have five venues in there that are still
:07:42. > :07:45.being constructed. We have always been very clear - we have never,
:07:45. > :07:50.ever wanted to sell a ticket that we haven't been pretty sure we've
:07:50. > :07:53.got a seat for. The message really from London 2012 over the past year
:07:53. > :07:57.or so has been these Games are a sell-out. It's absolutely clear
:07:57. > :08:00.they're not a sell-out. There won't perhaps be vast swathes of empty
:08:00. > :08:04.seats, but there does seem a good chance there will be some empty
:08:04. > :08:08.seats for these Games. One other issue that has been raised again by
:08:08. > :08:13.Lord Coe and that's weather. He says a couple of the venues have
:08:14. > :08:18.water logging issues - that's the rowing venue at Greenwich Park. The
:08:18. > :08:24.LOCOG message to spectators today going to those venues, bring your
:08:24. > :08:27.wellies. Thank you very much. Talking of the weather, the wet
:08:27. > :08:30.summer has led to a bigger-than- expected fall in the rate of
:08:30. > :08:33.inflation after the rain forced shops to bring forward their summer
:08:33. > :08:36.sales. The main measure, the Consumer Price Index, fell to 2.4%
:08:36. > :08:39.in June, down from 2.8% the month before. It's now at its lowest
:08:39. > :08:43.level since November 2009. Simon Gompertz reports.
:08:43. > :08:47.On average, prices are still up, but terrible weather has hit the
:08:47. > :08:52.High Street and brought forward the sales. Some food, including meat,
:08:52. > :08:55.is sharply down, and fuel's dropped a bit from its highs. The 2.4%
:08:55. > :08:58.overall rise is much lower than expected.
:08:59. > :09:03.For once, you don't have to look hard to find the gainers. If you
:09:03. > :09:06.use oil to heat the home, for instance, like Jenny from Berkshire
:09:06. > :09:10.- last Christmas she couldn't afford to fill her oil tank. Now
:09:10. > :09:14.the price she's paying is back down to the level of two years ago.
:09:14. > :09:17.a massive relief that the prices have dropped to a sensible level,
:09:17. > :09:21.yeah. It does mean that we can fill the tank up going into the winter.
:09:21. > :09:24.We don't have to be as conservative now with the heating. We can put it
:09:24. > :09:28.on without having to worry about there's not going to be any oil
:09:28. > :09:33.left and we're not going to be able to fill the tank up again. On top
:09:33. > :09:36.of oil, what drove the bigger ever drop of inflation between May and
:09:36. > :09:41.June was desperation to offload stock after shoppers stayed away in
:09:41. > :09:46.the rain, though the sales won't last forever. The fall that we saw
:09:46. > :09:49.in inflation this month is possibly not going to see a uniform fall
:09:49. > :09:52.going further forwards. In fact we'd expect some of the sharp fall
:09:52. > :09:56.in clothes prices we saw in June to mean that there is less discounting
:09:56. > :10:01.in July - basically, these sales were brought forward, and inflation
:10:01. > :10:04.may rise a little bit over the next month. There were hefty discounts
:10:04. > :10:08.last year, but this time they're even bigger, and they've come
:10:08. > :10:12.earlier, and it means that the rate that prices are rising has halved
:10:12. > :10:16.since the autumn. There's still a squeeze on because people's incomes
:10:16. > :10:21.aren't keeping pace with price rises, but the pressure is easing.
:10:21. > :10:25.The weather can work both ways. There are warnings that drought in
:10:25. > :10:30.the United States will create grain shortages and raise the cost of
:10:30. > :10:33.basic foods, and here, rain and flooded fields have pushed up some
:10:33. > :10:37.vegetable prices, but inflation looks a much smaller threat than a
:10:37. > :10:40.few months back. The Governor of the Bank of England,
:10:40. > :10:43.Sir Mervyn King, has said he knew nothing about the fixing of the
:10:43. > :10:46.interbank lending rate until three weeks ago when Barclays was fined
:10:46. > :10:49.nearly �300 million. Giving evidence to the Commons Treasury
:10:49. > :10:51.Select Committee, Sir Mervyn also insisted that he couldn't, and
:10:51. > :11:01.didn't, force the company's Chief Executive Bob Diamond to resign.
:11:01. > :11:05.John Moylan reports. It's the scandal that sullyed the
:11:06. > :11:09.reputation of Barclays and caused heads to roll. It's embroiled the
:11:09. > :11:13.City regulator and has led to questions in Parliament. Today for
:11:13. > :11:18.the first time, the Governor of the Bank of England gave his version of
:11:18. > :11:22.events. Bob Diamond resigned from the scandal the day after Mervyn
:11:22. > :11:27.King met with Barclays's chairman. The committee wanted to know had Mr
:11:27. > :11:30.King forced the Chief Executive out? This is about handing someone
:11:31. > :11:34.a revolver and telling him to go off and shoot his Chief Executive.
:11:34. > :11:37.There is no suggestion - I don't like these firearms analogies, and
:11:37. > :11:42.they're false. The question was left absolutely with them. I made
:11:42. > :11:45.it very clear. I finished the meeting by saying, "I would like
:11:45. > :11:50.you to make clear to the board that the regulators have expressed these
:11:50. > :11:53.concerns, and the board as a whole needs to know that they're very
:11:53. > :11:57.concerned and have lost confidence in the executive management." I did
:11:57. > :12:01.not know what the outcome of that meeting would be. MPs questioned
:12:01. > :12:05.whether Mr King had overstepped the mark. It's not the Bank of
:12:05. > :12:08.England's role to regulate banks, but Mr King said that under
:12:08. > :12:14.Government plans, that rule was returning and that the history of
:12:14. > :12:17.tension between Barclays and the regulator had raised questions over
:12:17. > :12:20.Mr Diamond's leadership. I think all of us have built up a genuine
:12:20. > :12:24.concern that it is possible to sail close to the wind once. You can
:12:24. > :12:28.sail close to the wind twice, maybe even three times, but when it gets
:12:28. > :12:32.to four or five times, it becomes a regular pattern of behaviour. You
:12:32. > :12:38.do have to ask questions about the navigational skills of the captain
:12:38. > :12:42.on the bridge. Last month Barclays was fined almost �thrie 300 million
:12:42. > :12:45.for attempting to rig a key international interest rate known
:12:45. > :12:49.as LIBOR, but authorities had concerns about the LIBOR market
:12:49. > :12:54.back in 2008, so why had the Bank of England not acted earlier, and
:12:54. > :12:57.when was Mr King aware of wrongdoing? The first I knew of any
:12:57. > :13:01.alleged wrongdoing was when the reports came out two weeks ago, and
:13:01. > :13:05.perhaps I could take you back to the document... Do, but I just want
:13:05. > :13:08.to be clear, but no suspicion until two weeks ago anything had been
:13:08. > :13:11.going wrong in the LIBOR? No, we have been through all of our
:13:11. > :13:15.records. There is no evidence of wrongdoing or reporting of
:13:15. > :13:19.wrongdoing to the bank. A separate parliamentary inquiry is due to
:13:19. > :13:23.report on the LIBOR scandal by the end of the year, and with seven
:13:23. > :13:26.more banks under investigation by City regulators, there is likely to
:13:26. > :13:28.be repercussions far beyond Barclays.
:13:28. > :13:31.Detectives investigating the deaths of three young children and their
:13:31. > :13:34.father in woodland in Shropshire say they have found a knife at the
:13:34. > :13:37.scene. Officers are not looking for anyone else in connection with the
:13:37. > :13:40.deaths of 35-year-old Ceri Fuller, his 12-year-old son Sam, and
:13:40. > :13:50.daughters Becka and Charlie, aged eight and seven. Ben Ando is at
:13:50. > :13:52.
:13:52. > :13:55.Pontesbury Hill in Shropshire. What more are police saying? Certainly,
:13:55. > :13:59.the discovery of the knife is a majorly significant event in the
:13:59. > :14:06.investigation. That's been sent off, we understand, for forensic tests,
:14:06. > :14:10.as you'd expect. Also gone is the car that was parked here, his Land
:14:10. > :14:13.Rover Freelander. That too has been taken off for an investigation. A
:14:13. > :14:17.postmortem examination will be carried out on the bodies of the
:14:17. > :14:21.father and three children this afternoon and possibly running into
:14:21. > :14:26.tomorrow morning. Where search officers are is a hundred metres
:14:26. > :14:29.into the woods - it's at the shape of a horseshoe. The cliffs at one
:14:29. > :14:33.end are about a hundred feet. It's at the bottom of there the father's
:14:33. > :14:36.body was found. The children were found a short distance away, and
:14:36. > :14:40.the knife a short distance away from their bodies. It looks like
:14:40. > :14:43.detectives are now piecing together how these four people died, but of
:14:43. > :14:49.course the big question is why? Detectives have been sent, a
:14:49. > :14:52.separate team of them, down to Gloucestershire to the home of the
:14:52. > :14:56.father to talk to friends, to neighbours, to talk to people he
:14:56. > :15:01.knew and of course members of his family to try to establish exactly
:15:01. > :15:05.why it was that this father decided to come up here, a relatively
:15:05. > :15:10.secluded area, and do what police now suspect he did.
:15:10. > :15:14.Ben Ando, thank you very much. In America, the British bank HSBC
:15:14. > :15:18.has been accused of allowing Mexican drug cartels to launder
:15:18. > :15:22.billions of dollars. A US Senate watchdog says lax procedures were
:15:22. > :15:26.to blame. Executives from the bank are expected to apologise for the
:15:26. > :15:34.problems at a Senate hearing later today. Michelle joins us now from
:15:34. > :15:39.New York. Explain what they think Polluted that's the language that
:15:39. > :15:43.the chairman has used to describe HSBC's behaviour. After a year long
:15:43. > :15:48.investigation, the conclusion they came to was that HSBC's US
:15:48. > :15:53.operations had laundered money for Mexican cartels worth billions of
:15:53. > :15:58.dollars over seven years. They say that through affiliates they were
:15:59. > :16:04.able to by-pass US sanctions against Iran and they said that
:16:04. > :16:08.HSBC worked with lenders in Saudi Arabia and Bangladesh ignoring
:16:08. > :16:11.their ties to terrorist groups, including Al-Qaeda.
:16:11. > :16:16.Bank executives will take the opportunity to apologise and to
:16:16. > :16:26.talk about what steps they are taking to fix the problem. They
:16:26. > :16:28.
:16:28. > :16:33.have admitted their controls should have been stronger and more
:16:33. > :16:37.effective. The US Justice department is conducting an
:16:37. > :16:40.investigation. Many investors believe that HSBC will get through
:16:40. > :16:46.this, but it comes at a time when the standing of banks in general
:16:46. > :16:50.couldn't be much lower. Our top story this lunchtime:
:16:50. > :16:52.The boss of the security firm G4S is forced to admit the failure to
:16:52. > :16:55.provide enough Olympic security guards is a humiliating shambles.
:16:55. > :16:59.Coming up: Cue the sunshine, we'll have the
:16:59. > :17:09.latest on whether the jet stream is finally about to move just in time
:17:09. > :17:24.
:17:24. > :17:26.I will have the sport on the BBC Heavy fighting is continuing in the
:17:26. > :17:30.Syrian capital, Damascus, with witnesses reporting machinegun fire
:17:30. > :17:36.and military deployments. It comes on the day that the Foreign
:17:36. > :17:39.Secretary, William Hague, has been visiting Syrian refugees in Jordan.
:17:39. > :17:44.Our correspondent Rupert Wingfield- Hayes has been travelling with Mr
:17:44. > :17:47.Hague and sent this report. They are getting used to seeing things
:17:47. > :17:51.like this around here. William Hague is just the latest
:17:51. > :17:55.international dignitary to make the pilgrimage to this refugee camp.
:17:55. > :18:01.To witness for himself the stream of refugees now coming over the
:18:01. > :18:06.hills from Syria every day. And to hear their pleas for help.
:18:06. > :18:13."they're killing us "this man tells him "if you don't want to do it,
:18:14. > :18:18.give us the the weapons and we will fight Assad ourselves. "a month ago,
:18:18. > :18:23.there were 200 Syrians arriving here every day. Now, there are 700.
:18:23. > :18:28.The Foreign Secretary told me it is prove if any were needed the world
:18:28. > :18:32.must take action against the Assad regime.
:18:32. > :18:37.It underlines the need to act at the United Nations Security Council.
:18:37. > :18:41.We are negotiating there at the moment for the chapter seven
:18:41. > :18:46.resolution, and threatening consequences for non compliance. I
:18:46. > :18:49.think it strengthens the need to do Visits to places like this by the
:18:49. > :18:54.Foreign Secretary could be dismissed as publicity stunts. He
:18:54. > :18:57.was here for only 45 minutes, but he came here to make an important
:18:57. > :19:01.political point - that unless the UN Security Council and
:19:01. > :19:06.particularly the Russians get on board with tougher action against
:19:06. > :19:10.the Assad regime now, the situation in places like this is going to get
:19:10. > :19:14.much worse. These are the latest unverified
:19:14. > :19:19.pictures from Damascus. They appear to show fighting along Baghdad
:19:19. > :19:22.Street in the heart of the Syrian capital. Activists told the BBC
:19:22. > :19:26.there were tanks in the middle of the city.
:19:27. > :19:30.The Red Cross declared Syria in a state of civil war.
:19:31. > :19:40.Whatever William Hague may hope for, the chances the outside world can
:19:40. > :19:43.force a political solution may Scotland could become the first
:19:43. > :19:47.part of the UK to allow gay marriage. Ministers are meeting
:19:47. > :19:50.this afternoon to consider changing the law. The SNP Government is in
:19:50. > :19:53.favour of the change, but it faces strong opposition from the Church
:19:53. > :19:58.of Scotland and the Catholic Church, whose most senior cleric called it
:19:58. > :20:02.a "grotesque subversion of a universally accepted human right".
:20:02. > :20:08.Our Scotland correspondent, James Cook, is in Edinburgh. A lot of
:20:08. > :20:11.divided opinion on this one? That's right, Sophie. Opinion is
:20:11. > :20:15.very much divided. This is the First Minister's official residence
:20:15. > :20:20.where the Cabinet will meet shortly to discuss this issue. It is an
:20:20. > :20:24.issue which caused divisions within the Scottish National Party. It
:20:24. > :20:30.seems likely that the Scottish Government will press ahead with
:20:30. > :20:33.the proposals. Campaigners in favour of same-sex marriage admit
:20:33. > :20:37.there is little legal difference between the civil partnerships and
:20:37. > :20:41.marriage. They say it is about symbolism and about the possibility
:20:41. > :20:45.of marrying in a church. The Scottish Government when it began a
:20:45. > :20:49.consultation on this issue which got a huge number of responses,
:20:49. > :20:53.made it clear that it would not force any faith groups which did
:20:53. > :20:57.not want to to conduct same-sex marriages, but the churches
:20:57. > :21:01.particularly the Catholic Church and the Church of Scotland are
:21:01. > :21:04.concerned that that would happen because they could be challenged
:21:04. > :21:08.under Human Rights legislation in terms of equality legislation and
:21:08. > :21:13.they could be forced to hold same- sex marriages or the marriages they
:21:13. > :21:16.carry out would not be regarded as being valid by the State. So they
:21:16. > :21:21.say that this is a defining issue for them. That marriage should be
:21:21. > :21:25.between a man and a woman so as you suggest, Sophie, a divisive issue
:21:25. > :21:28.indeed and one which the the Scottish Cabinet will have to pick
:21:28. > :21:31.its way through in much the same way as the Government in England
:21:31. > :21:35.and Wales will have to. David Cameron hinted he is in favour, but
:21:35. > :21:40.he said he is in favour of it, but he is facing opposition from within
:21:40. > :21:50.his own party. James, thank you very much.
:21:50. > :21:50.
:21:50. > :21:55.A man had nis his 70s and a woman in her 60s have been found in a
:21:55. > :21:59.tunnel in Dorset. The couple hadn't been seen since Saturday, 7th July.
:21:59. > :22:04.The tunnel has been closed for over a week after a landslide caused
:22:04. > :22:09.damage. Dorset Police say the families of the missing people are
:22:09. > :22:14.being supported by specialist liaison officers.
:22:14. > :22:18.A prison in Northamptonshire is to close. Kenneth Clarke says the jail
:22:18. > :22:21.was outdated. He said closing the category C prison will save �10
:22:21. > :22:31.million a year. Tomorrow is Nelson Mandela's 94th
:22:31. > :22:35.birthday. People in South Africa and all over the world will be
:22:35. > :22:37.marking it by giving 67 minutes of their time to do voluntary work to
:22:37. > :22:40.commemorate the 67 years that Mr Mandela spent as a political
:22:40. > :22:44.activist in the fight against apartheid. Nowadays he is retired
:22:44. > :22:49.and spends his time surrounded by his family. One of the people who
:22:49. > :22:52.know him best is his granddaughter, Ndileka Mandela. Our reporter
:22:52. > :22:56.Milton Nkosi caught up with her at an exhibition of photographs of her
:22:56. > :22:59.grandfather in Johannesburg. Isn't this a fantastic tribute that the
:22:59. > :23:04.trade union named this room after him? It is a fantastic tribute. I
:23:04. > :23:09.mean, I think that I need to take pictures and show him. I am going
:23:09. > :23:15.to see him tomorrow and tell him that they have named a room after
:23:15. > :23:20.you. It is such an honour. How do you feel when you see that?
:23:20. > :23:25.It is a beautiful picture, but for me, it is more like, you know, he
:23:25. > :23:29.is my grandfather. It is hard to see him as a statesman.
:23:29. > :23:33.Yes. I see him, I would go to him and
:23:33. > :23:38.say "hi handsome." I always tease him all the time.
:23:38. > :23:45.He has an amazing sense of humour? He has an amazing sense of humour.
:23:45. > :23:52.He told me once, he said when he came to Johannesburg, he said it
:23:52. > :23:57.was the first time that he saw a black typist and he said this woman
:23:57. > :24:04.was typing away and not looking at the keyboard. He said he was just
:24:04. > :24:08.like, "This country boy that couldn't even hold a knife and
:24:09. > :24:14.fork.". You seem to have taken a bit after him with your sense of
:24:14. > :24:24.humour? I suppose it does. I suppose it does, yeah. Look at that
:24:24. > :24:26.
:24:26. > :24:32.picture, he looks so - that one, in a suit. Most times you see him in
:24:32. > :24:40.his shirts. This is a nice picture with him in a suit and tie.
:24:40. > :24:48.It is rare. It is rare. He looks so debonair. He is so smart. When it
:24:48. > :24:56.comes to himself and the way he is, he sits in a chair and puts his
:24:56. > :25:02.feet up. If his hands are creased a bit, he will say please, "Come and
:25:02. > :25:11.straighten my pants." The vanity - I have to straighten your pants.
:25:11. > :25:14.When it comes to his looks, he will charm bees out of their beehive!
:25:14. > :25:18.Queen Victoria's private beach on the Isle of Wight is opening to the
:25:18. > :25:21.public for the first time. Visitors will be able to see where the
:25:21. > :25:24.Queen's nine children learnt to swim and they'll get a close look
:25:24. > :25:33.at the original wooden bathing machine which was used to preserve
:25:33. > :25:36.the Queen's modesty. From Osborne Osbourne House may look grand, but
:25:36. > :25:42.Queen Victoria and her husband Albert, built it for a young,
:25:42. > :25:45.lively and growing family. There is a painting of the couple with five
:25:45. > :25:49.of an eventual nine children above the dining table. On the top floor,
:25:49. > :25:57.there is a nursery, almost a baby factory and half a mile way a,
:25:57. > :26:00.through the trees, there is a beach. Osbourne was a private family home.
:26:00. > :26:05.It was a place of escape for the Royal Family. Somewhere they could
:26:05. > :26:10.lead a degree of normal family life and I think the beach down here
:26:10. > :26:12.particularly gave the family and particularly the children an
:26:12. > :26:15.enormous sense of freedom and enjoyment.
:26:15. > :26:21.The family sketched. The Queen herself painted this. They
:26:21. > :26:26.collected sea shells and they swam. Prince Albert designed a floating
:26:26. > :26:30.swimming pool moored in the bay, only this model survives. In it,
:26:30. > :26:35.Victoria's children and her grandchildren could learn to swim
:26:35. > :26:39.in safety. It is a lovely spot. It is tranquil and secluded and you
:26:39. > :26:44.can see why Albert and Victoria liked it so much. Albert used to
:26:44. > :26:49.say that the views across the Solent towards Portsmouth reminded
:26:49. > :26:55.him of the Bay of Naples in Italy. Though not, it has to be said, on a
:26:55. > :26:59.day like today. Despite the weather, they are hard
:26:59. > :27:02.at work preparing to open the beach for the public and in pride of
:27:02. > :27:07.place this - Queen Victoria's bathing machine.
:27:07. > :27:10.It is a changing room on wheels really and the Queen would enter
:27:10. > :27:14.the bathing machine from the back with her bathing attendant and
:27:14. > :27:19.change into her bathing costume and the whole thing would have been
:27:19. > :27:24.wenched down into the sea along the stone tracks. Once the bathing
:27:24. > :27:29.machine was in the water, up to the level of the axles, I suspect, the
:27:29. > :27:33.Queen emerged from this front door down the steps, in her bathing
:27:33. > :27:37.costume and starts swimming. The first time she used it, the
:27:37. > :27:41.first time she swam in the sea, Victoria wrote, "I thought it
:27:41. > :27:46.delightful, until I put my head underwater when I thought I should
:27:46. > :27:50.be stifled." It is thought she used the machine which had a lavatory
:27:50. > :28:00.plumbed in until she was in her 60s, a place Osbourne, where she loved,
:28:00. > :28:02.
:28:02. > :28:05.where she spent some of her Now the weather with Laura Tobin
:28:05. > :28:08.and there are high hopes that the jet stream that has been bringing
:28:08. > :28:11.us all this bad weather. Now the weather. The jet stream could be
:28:11. > :28:15.weather. The jet stream could be about to shift. Is this true?
:28:15. > :28:20.The finger of blame has been pointing at the jet stream so far
:28:20. > :28:25.for the terrible summer many of us have been experiencing. The jet jet
:28:25. > :28:30.stream is a fast moving ribbon of air. This year, this summer, it has
:28:30. > :28:35.been further south than normal, bringing succession of wet and
:28:35. > :28:40.windy weather across the UK UK. That's why we had the wettest June
:28:41. > :28:44.on record. And a wet start to July. There are signs the jet stream will
:28:44. > :28:49.move north, taking the weather fronts across the north of Scotland
:28:49. > :28:54.where they need it, further south, bringing drier and brighter weather.
:28:54. > :28:58.Today, in the south, it is dry for many people and where the sun is
:28:58. > :29:03.breaking through, temperatures are climbing to 23 Celsius. That is
:29:03. > :29:08.what we should be experiencing for July. The best of any brightness is
:29:08. > :29:13.in the east. In the West, there is a lot of cloud and here it remains
:29:13. > :29:17.damp, quite drizzly and fairly cool as well. The unsettled weather with
:29:17. > :29:19.us for today and and for a few days yet.
:29:20. > :29:25.For Northern Ireland, for the rest of the afternoon, overcast skies
:29:25. > :29:30.and outbreaks of rain and drizzle, Western Scotland staying gri. The -
:29:30. > :29:33.- grey. The north-east sticks with the brightness for the longest.
:29:33. > :29:37.Into the north-west of England, cool, grey skies. Temperatures
:29:37. > :29:42.struggling to 15 Celsius or 16 Celsius. But you have to come
:29:42. > :29:46.further south to find the sunshine. A gentle south-westerly wind today.
:29:46. > :29:52.Lighter than we saw yesterday with the sunshine, is giving rise to
:29:52. > :29:56.these temperatures of 21, 22, 23 Celsius. However, still around
:29:56. > :30:02.Cornish coasts and around Pembrokeshire, the south-westerly
:30:02. > :30:05.wind feeding in low cloud, mist and fog. Grey across the hills of Wales,
:30:05. > :30:09.but iland we start to see the sunshine breaking through. A fine
:30:09. > :30:13.evening across England and Wales, but overnight the rain sets in
:30:13. > :30:23.again. It pushes through Northern Ireland into Southern Scotland,
:30:23. > :30:29.stretching back through the West of England and Wales. A mild night to
:30:29. > :30:33.come tonight. A wet looking day on Wednesday. Persistent rain through
:30:34. > :30:37.southern areas of Scotland and into Northern Ireland. An inch or two
:30:37. > :30:42.with saturated ground could lead to localised flooding and showers
:30:42. > :30:47.follow on behind. They will be heavy, but as we head towards the
:30:47. > :30:51.end of the week for the Open which starts on starts, there after the
:30:51. > :30:56.outlook is dry and bright. The risk of a few showers. This is how the
:30:56. > :30:59.outlook is for Thursday and Friday. Thursday, still heavy, thundery,
:31:00. > :31:03.slow moving showers. By Friday, they are fewer and further between.
:31:03. > :31:09.This is what has happened towards the end of the week as high
:31:09. > :31:16.pressure pressure builds, our jet stream moves. As we head into the
:31:16. > :31:20.week, we get to see more sunshine. Good news at last!
:31:20. > :31:23.A reminder of our top story: The boss of the security firm G4S
:31:23. > :31:27.is forced to admit the failure to provide enough Olympic security
:31:27. > :31:31.guards is a humiliating shambles. Still to come on the BBC News