:00:08. > :00:13.The Moors murderer Ian Brady may have revealed information about the
:00:13. > :00:15.only one of his five victims whose body has never been found.
:00:15. > :00:25.Detectives are investigating whether Brady has written a letter
:00:25. > :00:26.
:00:26. > :00:29.giving details of where12-year-old Keith Bennett is buried.
:00:29. > :00:33.Police in South Africa say they were forced to open fire on
:00:33. > :00:35.striking miners, killing 34 people to protect themselves.
:00:35. > :00:38.Guilty of hooliganism motivated by religious hatred - three members of
:00:38. > :00:41.the Russian punk band, Pussy Riot, await their sentence after
:00:41. > :00:43.performing a protest song in a Moscow cathedral.
:00:43. > :00:46.An apology from the Government as it emerges the information given
:00:46. > :00:49.out about selling off school playing fields was wrong.
:00:49. > :00:55.Stalemate - the Wikileaks founder Julian Assange remains holed up in
:00:55. > :00:58.London's Ecuadorian embassy despite being granted political asylum.
:00:58. > :01:05.Aiming high - Great Britain's Paralympians are told they should
:01:05. > :01:10.finish 2nd at the Games with at least 103 medals. Later on BBC
:01:10. > :01:14.London: sentenced to life in prison - the hotel receptionist who
:01:15. > :01:18.murdered two colleagues then hid in a bed.
:01:18. > :01:28.And locked out of home ownership and paying rising rent - is this
:01:28. > :01:35.
:01:35. > :01:37.Good afternoon and welcome to the BBC News at 1.00pm. Police say
:01:37. > :01:40.they're investigating the possibility that the Moors murderer
:01:40. > :01:43.Ian Brady has written a letter giving details of where he buried a
:01:43. > :01:53.12-year-old boy who he and Myra Hindley killed. Keith Bennett was
:01:53. > :01:55.
:01:55. > :01:58.abducted in 1964. He is the only one of Brady's five victims whose
:01:58. > :02:00.body has never been found. Brady's mental health advocate was arrested
:02:00. > :02:02.and later released. Police have removed documents from her home.
:02:02. > :02:07.Our correspondent Judith Moritz is at Saddleworth Moor now.
:02:07. > :02:11.Yes, Sophie, and for the best part of half a century, these moors have
:02:11. > :02:15.held a terrible secret. They are stark, and they are vast, and
:02:15. > :02:21.somewhere here Keith Bennett's body is buried, but nobody knows exactly
:02:21. > :02:25.where, and the police stopped looking actively for it some years
:02:25. > :02:27.ago. Now, though, new evidence may have come forward which would help
:02:27. > :02:32.them to locate Keith Bennett's remains.
:02:32. > :02:37.It's nearly 50 years since 12-year- old Keith Bennett was murdered, and
:02:37. > :02:41.in all that time, his body has never been discovered. His remains
:02:41. > :02:44.are hidden somewhere on Saddleworth Moor, but to the distress of his
:02:44. > :02:50.family, they haven't been found. The one man who could locate Keith
:02:50. > :02:55.is his killer, Ian Brady. Brady and his accomplice Myra Hindley
:02:55. > :02:59.murdered five children in the mid- 1960s, burying them on the moors.
:02:59. > :03:04.Keith Bennett's body is the only one of them to never have been
:03:04. > :03:08.found, but now Ian Brady is said to have written a letter from his cell
:03:08. > :03:13.at Ashworth Hospital on Merseyside disclosing the location of the
:03:13. > :03:15.remains. The claim, being investigated by police, was made by
:03:15. > :03:20.Ian Brady's mental health advocate Jackie Powell who told a
:03:20. > :03:24.documentary team about the letter. She told me that she had received a
:03:24. > :03:27.letter from Ian Brady together with a sealed envelope addressed to
:03:27. > :03:32.Winnie Johnson. On the cover of that envelope, it said, "To be
:03:32. > :03:38.opened in the event of my death." Now, she also had a letter to her
:03:38. > :03:41.in which Brady had said he didn't want to take secrets to his grave.
:03:41. > :03:46.Keith Bennett's mother Winnie Johnson has said many times that
:03:46. > :03:50.her only wish is to find her son's body. She's now severely ill, and
:03:50. > :03:54.she spoke to me at the end of last year. I mean, he got away with the
:03:55. > :03:59.other ones. They found the others, but they didn't find Keith, and
:03:59. > :04:02.that is the main asset to me. I want him found, and I want him
:04:02. > :04:06.found before anything happens to me. Brady is said to have wanted the
:04:06. > :04:11.letter to be opened after his death, something those close to Winnie
:04:11. > :04:14.Johnson say will cause her even more upset. That really is
:04:14. > :04:18.consistent with his total lack of remorse. The decent thing he could
:04:18. > :04:21.do at the end of his life after such a dreadful time for everybody,
:04:21. > :04:26.particularly Winnie Johnson, is to come clean with her now and before,
:04:26. > :04:29.in fact, she passes on, so this is very sad, but nonetheless, I am
:04:29. > :04:32.still optimistic this will be a breakthrough. The police have
:04:32. > :04:36.arrested Jackie Powell, who made the claim, and they're searching
:04:36. > :04:40.her papers to try to find the letter. Their efforts to find Keith
:04:40. > :04:44.Bennett's body have been on hold in recent years, but if they discover
:04:44. > :04:49.the document, it could lead them to search the moors again. There has
:04:49. > :04:55.been some cynicism as to the existence - the mere existence of
:04:55. > :04:59.this letter at all, or, if it does exist, some have said, what is its
:04:59. > :05:01.motive? Why has Ian Brady written it? I can tell you we have spoken
:05:01. > :05:06.this morning to senior police sources within Greater Manchester
:05:06. > :05:11.Police who have told us efforts are now under way to search through
:05:11. > :05:13.those papers described - boxes, briefcases and papers that were
:05:13. > :05:17.seized in South Wales yesterday. The police are looking through
:05:17. > :05:21.those. Today, well, Winnie Johnson currently is not well enough to
:05:21. > :05:25.speak today to give her response, but I think having met her myself,
:05:26. > :05:29.it is fair to say that her feeling is she's pinning all her hopes on
:05:29. > :05:33.the existence of that letter, and she'll be hoping very much indeed
:05:33. > :05:38.that the police can find it quickly, and then they can come up here on
:05:38. > :05:40.to the moors and try to find Keith Bennett's body for themselves.
:05:40. > :05:43.Judith, thank you very much. Our correspondent Hywel Griffith is
:05:43. > :05:49.outside the high-security Ashworth Hospital where Ian Brady has been
:05:49. > :05:53.for the past 25 years. What are authorities there saying?
:05:53. > :05:56.That police search Judith mentioned extended to the hospital yesterday,
:05:56. > :06:00.and we understand to Ian Brady's cell. As you say, he has been there
:06:01. > :06:04.for a quarter of a century. Over the years he's corresponded with
:06:05. > :06:10.many people. He has regular, routine, long-standing visitors,
:06:10. > :06:13.but what the police will want to see is if there is anything in all
:06:13. > :06:17.of his belongings that suggest this letter could exist. I think it's
:06:17. > :06:21.fair to strike a note of caution particularly when you read into the
:06:21. > :06:26.police statement this morning - they say they're looking at the
:06:26. > :06:29.possibility - only the month -- possibility - such a letter exists.
:06:29. > :06:33.At the moment there is no information to lead to the
:06:33. > :06:36.whereabouts of the body of Keith Bennett. Ian Brady certainly has a
:06:36. > :06:40.reputation for trying to manipulate. He tries to try attention to his
:06:40. > :06:44.own cause. He has been on hunger strike for well over a decade. In
:06:44. > :06:47.fact, the lady who has been arrested in South Wales has been
:06:47. > :06:53.his mental health advocate throughout that period. She was due
:06:53. > :06:58.to come here last month for a mental health tribunal in which
:06:58. > :07:03.once again he was to argue that he would be allowed to go do a prison
:07:03. > :07:07.in Scotland where he'd no longer be force fed. For the moment, the
:07:07. > :07:11.police will concentrate on the papers and the documentation to
:07:11. > :07:14.ensure this letter does or doesn't exist before they want to give hope
:07:14. > :07:19.to members of the family. Our home affairs correspondent June
:07:19. > :07:23.Kelly is with me. A confusing picture. What more can you tell us
:07:23. > :07:28.about this mental health advocate When somebody is deranged like Ian
:07:28. > :07:32.Brady, they have access to a mental health advocate who represents
:07:32. > :07:36.their views to authorities. This legislation was brought in five
:07:36. > :07:40.years ago, but Jackie Powell says she has been acting in this role
:07:40. > :07:43.since 1999. People come into this role from a variety of backgrounds.
:07:43. > :07:46.From what we understand she's become something of a confidant to
:07:46. > :07:50.Brady. They'd be able to have conversations on their own, just
:07:50. > :07:53.the two of them present. She's described as the only person Ian
:07:53. > :07:58.Brady trusts. We haven't spoken who her directly, but we understand
:07:58. > :08:01.from the producers of the documentary on Channel 4 that she
:08:01. > :08:06.as well as being his mental health advocate, she's taken on another
:08:06. > :08:09.role. She's one of the execitors of his will. Informs that role she
:08:09. > :08:12.received this correspondence. Because she was in that role, she
:08:12. > :08:14.felt she couldn't go to the police. I should stress we have had a
:08:14. > :08:19.statement this morning from Ashworth Hospital, and it is saying
:08:20. > :08:21.that Jackie Powell is not employed by them or the Independent Mental
:08:21. > :08:25.Health Advisory Service which is provided at the hospital.
:08:25. > :08:28.Thank you very much. In South Africa, police say 34
:08:28. > :08:30.striking miners were shot and killed during a protest at a
:08:30. > :08:33.platinum mine near Johannesburg. There've been clashes between rival
:08:33. > :08:37.unions and the police during the past week in a protest that began
:08:37. > :08:39.over demands for a pay rise. The police say they opened fire on the
:08:39. > :08:49.large crowd of striking miners to protect themselves. Our
:08:49. > :08:50.
:08:50. > :08:57.correspondent Milton Nkosi is at the scene in Marikana. Milton?
:08:58. > :09:02.Sophie, in Marikana, this is the platinum mine where the trouble
:09:02. > :09:06.began. It's the third largest platinum producer on the planet,
:09:06. > :09:15.and the shooting took place here because of a wage dispute. The
:09:15. > :09:18.police are still here in full force. After the shooting, the hard work
:09:18. > :09:23.has begun. These forensic experts are combing through the scene of
:09:23. > :09:31.yesterday's shooting. The police defended the actions, saying they
:09:31. > :09:36.had to use force to protect themselves. The militant groups -
:09:36. > :09:38.firing shots and wielding dangerous weapons. Police retreated
:09:39. > :09:43.systematically and were forced to utilise maximum force to defend
:09:43. > :09:53.themselves. A day earlier, this was the scene
:09:53. > :09:57.
:09:57. > :10:01.of the shooting on the ground near Lonmin platinum mine. There is a
:10:01. > :10:06.sense of shock and bewilderment at what happened here yesterday. Those
:10:06. > :10:10.yellow, green and orange cones - each represents the spent
:10:11. > :10:15.cartridges which were fired during yesterday's shooting.
:10:15. > :10:18.The miners' strike began as a pay increase dispute. Some of the
:10:18. > :10:23.workers are still demanding the pay hike from the owners of the mine,
:10:23. > :10:29.and they are defiant. TRANSLATION: We are not going to go
:10:29. > :10:32.back to work right now. They can beat us, kill us and kick us and
:10:32. > :10:36.trample on was their feet, do whatever they want to do. We're not
:10:36. > :10:40.going to go back to work, and they're not going to be able to
:10:40. > :10:46.employ anyone. If they employ other people, they won't be able to work
:10:46. > :10:50.either. We'll stay here and kill them. Some of those who died in the
:10:50. > :10:54.shooting were rock drill operators working deep underground in
:10:54. > :11:00.conditions such as these. South Africa is the largest platinum
:11:00. > :11:05.producer in the world. President Jacob Zuma expressed shock at what
:11:05. > :11:14.he called senseless violence. Some people here have said yesterday's
:11:14. > :11:19.shootings were reminiscent of the dark days of apartheid.
:11:20. > :11:25.That is indeed the story from this place, which is a place of platinum
:11:25. > :11:28.and wealth in many people's mind, but in reality, there's a lot of
:11:28. > :11:31.poverty here, and as we saw yesterday, a lot of violence.
:11:31. > :11:34.Thank you very much. Three members of the Russian punk
:11:34. > :11:38.band Pussy Riot have been found guilty of hooliganism, motivated by
:11:38. > :11:41.religious hatred. The women have been held for the last five months
:11:41. > :11:44.after singing a protest song in Moscow's main cathedral which was
:11:44. > :11:46.critical of President Putin. In a moment we'll be live at the court,
:11:46. > :11:48.but first this report from our Moscow correspondent Daniel
:11:48. > :11:54.Sandford, which contains some flash photography.
:11:54. > :11:58.They have been found guilty, but are still awaiting sentence. Yes,
:11:58. > :12:03.the judgment is still being read out, but from what has been said so
:12:03. > :12:08.far, it's clear the verdict is guilty. The judge said the three
:12:08. > :12:17.Pussy Riot defendants violated public order, showed disrespect to
:12:17. > :12:25.worshippers and society as a whole when they came to the cathedral and
:12:25. > :12:30.performed their punk prayer. The three women have been in jail
:12:30. > :12:33.since March, and their trial on hooliganism lasted almost two weeks.
:12:33. > :12:39.The prosecution asked for a three- year prison sentence.
:12:39. > :12:43.They were part of this protest in February in Moscow's cathedral of
:12:43. > :12:49.Christ the Saviour. A group of women called Pussy Riot tried to
:12:49. > :12:53.perform a song which amounted to a prayer to the Virgin Mary to rid
:12:53. > :12:59.Russia of President Vladimir Putin. The trial in this Moscow court was
:12:59. > :13:02.one of the most controversial in recent Russian history. The women
:13:02. > :13:06.claim that the prosecution was political and driven by the Kremlin
:13:06. > :13:10.and the church, and they complain that the judge constantly ruled
:13:10. > :13:15.against the defence and refused to hear most of their witnesses.
:13:15. > :13:20.Which accompanied the husband of one of them, himself an anti-Putin
:13:20. > :13:25.political artist, on the only visit he's been allowed in five months.
:13:25. > :13:29.They are feeling positive, and they keep on smiling and fighting, but
:13:29. > :13:33.they are preparing that Putin will give them this big sentence.
:13:33. > :13:38.Wednesday, a group of Pussy Riot supporters protested outside the
:13:39. > :13:42.cathedral. They held up a quote from the Bible reading, "Blessed
:13:42. > :13:48.are the merciful." But the demonstration was almost
:13:48. > :13:52.immediately broken up by the cathedral guards.
:13:52. > :13:56.We'll have to wait until a little later in the afternoon to hear what
:13:56. > :14:00.the sentence may be, but certainly most of the action today has been
:14:00. > :14:05.taking place outside the courthouse here behind me. There are
:14:05. > :14:10.supporters of Pussy Riot who have been shouting "Freedom, freedom,"
:14:10. > :14:16.and opponents too who have been shouting "shame on you" and holding
:14:16. > :14:20.up placards saying, "Pussy Riot to the cells." Tell us about how the
:14:20. > :14:24.Orthodox Church has reacted to this? The hierarchy, the leadership
:14:24. > :14:27.of the Orthodox Church has, said very little about the case, and in
:14:27. > :14:31.fact they have been criticised by many orthodox leaders who think
:14:31. > :14:40.they - the church should have shown more compassion to three young
:14:40. > :14:43.women who sang an anti-Putin song The former news editor at the
:14:43. > :14:45.Scottish edition of the News of the World Scotland has been arrested
:14:45. > :14:50.and charged with committing perjury during the trial of former MSP
:14:50. > :14:52.Tommy Sheridan two years ago. 39- year-old Douglas Wight has also
:14:52. > :15:00.been charged with conspiracy to hack telephones and conspiracy to
:15:00. > :15:02.Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, has spent another night
:15:02. > :15:06.in the Ecuadorian embassy in London, after being granted political
:15:06. > :15:10.asylum in Ecuador. He wants to avoid extradition to Sweden where
:15:10. > :15:15.he is accused of sexual offences. The Government here says he will
:15:15. > :15:25.not be allowed to travel to South America. Our correspondent is at
:15:25. > :15:27.
:15:27. > :15:31.the embassy now. Very little movement since last night.
:15:31. > :15:36.Yesterday, very strongly worded statement from all sides. The UK
:15:36. > :15:41.authorities said they had an obligation under international law
:15:41. > :15:46.to make sure that Julian Assange was extradited to Sweden. Sweden is
:15:46. > :15:49.saying their judicial and legal services is objective and not open
:15:49. > :15:54.to pressures from outside forces. The Ecuadorian has said they
:15:54. > :16:01.thought it was and Hallie and just the UK government was not allowing
:16:01. > :16:05.Julian Assange to take up their offer of political asylum. We are
:16:05. > :16:09.expecting a statement from the Ecuadorian ambassador. We
:16:09. > :16:13.understand that statement will be very short and she will not take
:16:13. > :16:20.any questions. What are the supporters of Julian Assange
:16:20. > :16:24.saying? Very much a scaled down its sense compared with yesterday.
:16:24. > :16:31.Yesterday there were hundreds of his supporters here. Overnight we
:16:31. > :16:37.had about half a dozen camping out. Probably no more than 20 or so.
:16:37. > :16:43.That is true of the police. Over my shoulder you can see a police
:16:43. > :16:48.presence in anticipation of Julian Assange making that exit. Overall,
:16:48. > :16:54.half the number of police that where he yesterday. If more people
:16:54. > :16:57.arrive, presumably that would be scaled up. Much calmer than
:16:57. > :16:59.yesterday. Our top story this lunchtime: Detectives are
:16:59. > :17:02.investigating whether the Moors murderer, Ian Brady, has revealed
:17:02. > :17:06.information about where he buried the only one of his victims not to
:17:06. > :17:16.have been found. Coming up: Aiming high. Great Britain's Paralympic
:17:16. > :17:19.team are going for 103 medals at the London 2012 Games. Later: Why
:17:19. > :17:24.Westminster City Council is hoping their offer of free parking will
:17:24. > :17:28.provide a much-needed boost to sales on the High Street. As the
:17:28. > :17:33.Premier League kicks off tomorrow corrupt we asked Gary Lineker how
:17:33. > :17:35.our London Clubs will fare. -- kicks off tomorrow, we ask. The
:17:35. > :17:37.Department for Education has apologised for giving inaccurate
:17:37. > :17:42.figures about how many school playing fields in England have been
:17:42. > :17:45.sold off since 2010. The figures obtained by the Daily Telegraph
:17:45. > :17:47.show that 30 sales were approved in that time, not 21 as previously
:17:47. > :17:57.stated. The Education Secretary, Michael Gove, also overruled
:17:57. > :18:01.
:18:01. > :18:05.independent experts five times in A record medal haul at the Olympics
:18:05. > :18:10.and a promise to inspire a generation. Little wonder the game
:18:10. > :18:15.on the political playing field is all about insuring we can be
:18:15. > :18:19.successful in the future as the sporting class of 2012. It is
:18:19. > :18:24.school playing fields that are at the heart of the political tussle.
:18:24. > :18:30.What is the justification for selling them? A few days ago the
:18:30. > :18:34.Prime Minister defended the record of the Government. The figure of 21
:18:34. > :18:40.simply does not stack up. Of David Cameron said there were good
:18:40. > :18:47.reasons why most of those 21 playing-fields had been sold. That
:18:47. > :18:49.figure was wrong. It is actually 30 ft up in five cases, the Department
:18:49. > :18:57.of Education over pulled an independent committee suggesting
:18:57. > :19:01.fields should not be sold. -- overruled. Did you overrule the
:19:01. > :19:06.committee? Playing-fields a better protected now under this government
:19:06. > :19:12.than at any time before. A what makes you think you know more than
:19:12. > :19:16.the committee? Plenty of questions for the Education Secretary.
:19:16. > :19:21.need to know about the agenda of the Secretary of State on why he is
:19:21. > :19:26.allowing playing fields to be sold off at a rate against advice.
:19:26. > :19:31.Government insists most of the playing fields being sold like this
:19:31. > :19:36.one will let go because the school was closing. Those who advise
:19:36. > :19:42.ministers on closures worry about being ignored. We are concerned
:19:42. > :19:47.that the sound reality of not a lot of money in the system, there could
:19:47. > :19:50.be a trend of schools having to sell playing fields. The words
:19:50. > :19:54.Olympic and legacy hang from the lips of pretty much every
:19:54. > :19:58.politician at the moment. They want to be seen to be doing all they can
:19:58. > :20:02.to help the next generation of sports men and women. That is why
:20:02. > :20:05.this matters and we almost certainly have not heard the last
:20:05. > :20:08.of it. It has emerged that the Ministry of Defence did scramble an
:20:08. > :20:11.RAF helicopter to take the Duke of Edinburgh to hospital but bad
:20:11. > :20:14.weather meant their efforts were thwarted. Instead he had to be
:20:14. > :20:17.taken by road in an ambulance. Prince Phillip has spent a second
:20:17. > :20:20.night in hospital in Aberdeen, where he is being treated for a
:20:20. > :20:30.bladder infection. Doctors say the Duke is responding well to
:20:30. > :20:32.
:20:32. > :20:38.treatment. Lorna Gordon is there. More details emerging of what
:20:38. > :20:42.happens on Wednesday. I think this perhaps was just a sensible
:20:42. > :20:46.decision. The deters about the helicopter and the attempt to
:20:47. > :20:52.transfer Prince Philip by helicopter, given the distances
:20:52. > :20:57.involved. Balmoral is 50 miles by road from Aberdeen. As it turns out,
:20:57. > :21:03.at the time they were transferring him by road, they decided to intend
:21:03. > :21:09.to transfer him by helicopter. That would have taken a lot less time.
:21:09. > :21:13.On Wednesday, weather conditions were horrendous. Poor visibility
:21:13. > :21:16.and heavy rain. These crews and used to working in very difficult
:21:16. > :21:21.weather conditions as a general rule but the conditions were
:21:21. > :21:26.extremely difficult on Wednesday. They attempted to make a transfer
:21:26. > :21:30.three times. They landed three times in Aberdeenshire fields. And
:21:30. > :21:34.none of those occasions did a land close enough to the road for Prince
:21:34. > :21:40.Philip to be transferred from the road ambulance to the helicopter. A
:21:40. > :21:45.decision was taken to continue on the journey by road. We are told
:21:45. > :21:52.Prince Philip will get no visitors today. The Queen has been out and
:21:52. > :21:55.about on the Balmoral estate. She has been driving, accompanied by a
:21:55. > :22:01.royal protection officers. The Royal Family are in constant
:22:01. > :22:05.contact with the Duke, who remains in hospital. He is said to be
:22:05. > :22:12.continuing to respond well to treatment that doctors -- but
:22:12. > :22:17.doctors have advised him he needs his rest. There are reports that
:22:17. > :22:23.two American service personnel have been killed by a local policeman in
:22:23. > :22:28.Afghanistan. It is believed the policeman was also killed. It is
:22:28. > :22:30.the third incident this month. Well, after Team GB's big medal haul at
:22:30. > :22:34.the Olympics, the spotlight has now turned to Great Britain's
:22:34. > :22:37.Paralympians, who will be in action in just under two weeks' time. They
:22:37. > :22:41.have been set a tough target by UK Sport, who say they should finish
:22:41. > :22:45.second in the medal table, with no fewer than 103 medals from at least
:22:46. > :22:53.12 different sports. Let's talk to the chief executive of the British
:22:53. > :22:58.Paralympic Association. Good afternoon. Thank you for joining us.
:22:58. > :23:04.That is quite some target they have been set. We need to reflect on
:23:04. > :23:12.where we are. We were second in the medal table in Beijing and the two
:23:12. > :23:18.Games prior to that. We were mine 102 medals in Beijing. We can be
:23:18. > :23:23.confident about that. Also, I would not want to say we are in any way
:23:23. > :23:27.complacent. The team going into the Games here is facing stiffer
:23:27. > :23:33.international competition and we have ever faced. Which sports
:23:33. > :23:39.particularly do you think there's medals will be coming from? That
:23:39. > :23:44.are 20 sport altogether. About five of them equate to about 80% of the
:23:44. > :23:52.medals. In terms of success from the Olympics, it is the same to our
:23:52. > :23:57.team and our sport. Cycling is a very powerful sport. Equestrian.
:23:57. > :24:02.Those other sports where we will be looking for a number of medals. We
:24:02. > :24:07.hope our athletes will win medals across a wide range of sports.
:24:07. > :24:12.Hundreds of millions of pounds was pumped into Olympics sports. What
:24:12. > :24:15.about the Paralympics? Has it seemed that kind of investment?
:24:15. > :24:21.There has been substantial investment. It is not quite at the
:24:21. > :24:26.same level. Lottery money and government money has come from UK
:24:26. > :24:31.Sport. It is against that the targets have been set. That is a
:24:31. > :24:37.fantastic contribution. Going towards Rio in 2015, I hope we can
:24:37. > :24:42.see more. Athletes have had four years of support. Basically,
:24:42. > :24:45.knowing that we have got that support in place, our athletes,
:24:45. > :24:50.supported by Paralympics GB and my team will be doing everything we
:24:50. > :24:54.can do to get them to the start- line in as good a shape as possible.
:24:54. > :25:01.It is hoped these Paralympics will be the first to be a sell-out. So
:25:01. > :25:07.high it is the demand. That is lovely and brilliant. Our athletes
:25:07. > :25:13.will be competing in front of thought crowds. Hopefully they will
:25:13. > :25:16.be as excited as for the Olympic Games. That is a great tribute to
:25:17. > :25:22.the British public's great love of sport. I hope that represents a
:25:22. > :25:26.positive move forward for the Paralympic movement generally.
:25:26. > :25:31.There are still tickets available. More profile, more excitement
:25:31. > :25:35.around Paralympics than ever before. I hope that will carry on and we
:25:35. > :25:39.will see the momentum out of London which means we can thrive and
:25:39. > :25:42.people's understanding and awareness of the Paralympics may
:25:42. > :25:48.challenge some perceptions around disability that may previously have
:25:48. > :25:52.been held. Cricket now. And England have made a good start on day two
:25:52. > :25:55.of the final Test against South Africa at Lord's. The visitors lost
:25:55. > :26:02.three wickets this morning as they were bowled out for a first innings
:26:02. > :26:06.total of 309. They lost the wicket of Andrew Strauss just before lunch.
:26:06. > :26:10.If you think the queues are bad getting into Lords committee should
:26:10. > :26:15.have seen the ones at the bar. Preparation is keep both on and off
:26:15. > :26:20.the pitch at the home of cricket. Jimmy Anderson is warming up for
:26:20. > :26:28.another assault on South Africa. He wanted a early wickets. Instead he
:26:28. > :26:33.found fingers. Stuart Broad pocketed his wicket. The
:26:33. > :26:43.breakthrough the home side needed and now they want to kick the score
:26:43. > :26:45.
:26:45. > :26:52.below 300. -- keep the school. They seem to thrive in adversity.
:26:52. > :26:58.Vernon's half-century is a vital contribution. 300 came and went. A
:26:58. > :27:03.change of bowler brought a change of fortune. Steve Finn with his 4th
:27:03. > :27:07.victim, courtesy of a brilliant catch by Matt Prior. The
:27:07. > :27:12.wicketkeeper made a stumping. England have an opportunity to
:27:12. > :27:20.level the Stoop - is that of the series as long as they stay calm
:27:20. > :27:27.with bat in hand. -- level the series. Andrew Strauss was looking
:27:27. > :27:32.good but it was ruined by the England captain. A huge boost for
:27:32. > :27:42.some paprika, who will hope to test the home side's inexperience
:27:42. > :27:43.
:27:43. > :27:49.batting line-up this afternoon. -- Some of us are having tropical heat
:27:49. > :27:54.and others are getting torrential rain. There is an amber weather
:27:54. > :28:00.warning. Some areas could get three times that amount of rain. Look at
:28:00. > :28:03.the radar picture. Look at this clump of rain working into southern
:28:03. > :28:09.Wales. That is absolutely torrential and could cause
:28:09. > :28:13.localised flooding over the next few hours. In the south of England
:28:13. > :28:20.there could be thunderstorms. In Swansea, there will be further
:28:20. > :28:25.storms lining up. The rain will be widespread. In Northern Ireland, I
:28:25. > :28:31.think things will improve through the afternoon. There will be some
:28:31. > :28:37.fine and sunny spells. A reasonable afternoon for most of Scotland. The
:28:37. > :28:43.first band of rain will loiter over the northern isles. Across East
:28:43. > :28:47.Anglia and the south-east, it is hot and humid. Temperatures
:28:47. > :28:54.probably around 28 degrees. Torrential thundery downpours
:28:54. > :28:59.heading for the Midlands. Overnight, the weather ban stays in the same
:28:59. > :29:05.kind of areas. Further heavy downpours in north and west England.
:29:05. > :29:09.Hot and humid for a night in the South East. Our weather fronts
:29:09. > :29:13.remain slow moving across central portions of the British Isles. In
:29:13. > :29:19.the South East, this is where the hot and humid weather will be.
:29:19. > :29:24.During the course of the weekend, temperatures could reach 32 Celsius.
:29:24. > :29:29.It could be the hottest day probably of 2012. There will be
:29:29. > :29:33.outbreaks of rain on Saturday morning. Most places will become
:29:33. > :29:41.dry and bright through the afternoon. In the South East, it
:29:41. > :29:44.will be hot and humid. Temperatures into the high twenties, perhaps low
:29:44. > :29:52.thirties. Maybe the temperatures were not be that good across the
:29:52. > :29:55.North of Scotland. On Sunday, we will see the cloud thickening up
:29:55. > :30:02.with outbreaks of rain spreading in overnight. Affecting parts of the
:30:02. > :30:08.same areas. Largely dry to the north with sunny spells. Not to
:30:08. > :30:16.drive. Towards East Anglia and southern England, hot and humid. --
:30:16. > :30:20.too dry. If we do hit the 32 degree mark - the high eighties in
:30:20. > :30:24.Fahrenheit - that will probably be the hottest day we will see in the
:30:24. > :30:26.whole of 2012. Thanks. Now a reminder of our top story.