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