:00:09. > :00:16.A blow to Government plans to sort out the public finances, as
:00:16. > :00:21.borrowing goes up. An unexpected rise last month but ministers say
:00:21. > :00:25.they won't change the economic plan. A South African mining company
:00:25. > :00:31.drops plans to sack staff who did not turn up, after dozens were shot
:00:31. > :00:35.by police. NHS hospitals in England are encouraged to set up private
:00:35. > :00:38.clinics abroad, to help fund services in the UK. Two more men
:00:38. > :00:43.are arrested after a hit-and-run in Leeds, which left a two-year-old
:00:43. > :00:53.boy and his ten-year-old sister seriously injured. And Paralympic
:00:53. > :00:53.
:00:53. > :00:59.athletes warm up with a week to go before competition starts. I was
:00:59. > :01:06.thinking London was four years away after Beijing. Now it is here. We
:01:06. > :01:10.are already focused. Plan ahead for the Paralympics. The advice from
:01:10. > :01:20.trusts will bosses as the Trans -- the capital prepares for another
:01:20. > :01:34.
:01:34. > :01:37.Good afternoon and welcome to the BBC News at One. The Government's
:01:37. > :01:40.attempts to reduce the deficit have suffered a setback. Last month, tax
:01:40. > :01:43.receipts fell, while Government borrowing showed a worse than
:01:43. > :01:53.expected rise. So far this year, the Government has had to borrow �9
:01:53. > :01:55.
:01:55. > :01:57.billion more than last year. Hugh Back on Budget day, the Chancellor
:01:57. > :02:03.was confident the defending plans to cut the deficit and saying he
:02:03. > :02:07.would stick to his course. It has not turned out as planned.
:02:07. > :02:12.Borrowing is higher than over the same period last year and there is
:02:12. > :02:17.no growth. Labour claims it is a major blow for George Osborne.
:02:17. > :02:22.These figures suggest the central goal to reduce the deficit has not
:02:22. > :02:27.happened and is going the wrong way. He is adding to the deficit.
:02:27. > :02:31.Borrowing figures are going higher. He has driven us back into
:02:31. > :02:35.recession. The Treasury said disruption to North Sea oil and gas
:02:35. > :02:41.production had hit corporate tax receipts and affected overall
:02:41. > :02:46.borrowing. It was a one off factor. Ministers said they stood by their
:02:46. > :02:51.policies. It shows there are many challenges out there for the UK
:02:51. > :02:56.economy. They are difficult figures. They show how important it is to
:02:56. > :03:03.stick to the planted irresponsibly with Britain's debts. Total
:03:03. > :03:08.government borrowing between April and July came to �42 billion. That
:03:08. > :03:12.excludes factors like changes to Royal Mail pensions. That compares
:03:12. > :03:18.with 56 billion over the same period last year. It may not be
:03:18. > :03:22.possible to hit the figure of 120 billion. Last year's figure was
:03:22. > :03:27.revised down slightly. What do the financial markets make of the
:03:27. > :03:33.Treasury having to borrow more at a time when it is trying to cut the
:03:33. > :03:37.deficit? In terms of government borrowing, the markets still have
:03:37. > :03:42.confidence. That can be seen in the costs that the UK is paying. If
:03:42. > :03:46.growth does not improve and budget figures do not improve, perhaps
:03:46. > :03:51.that does raise more longer term questions, particularly about the
:03:51. > :03:56.credit rating of the UK. Now the market is giving the Government the
:03:56. > :04:02.benefit of the doubt. It comes back to the state of the economy. Tax
:04:02. > :04:08.receipts could come flowing back. If not, the plans of the Chancellor
:04:08. > :04:12.to be blown even further off course. Hugh is with me now. We are looking
:04:12. > :04:19.at figures for the first part of the Year. Will the situation
:04:19. > :04:22.improve? These July figures are pretty much unexpected. The markets
:04:22. > :04:28.were expecting a surplus because that is what is normally happening
:04:28. > :04:33.in July. There is more tax from corporations and people paying
:04:33. > :04:37.income tax. There has been a deficit and that has caused a real
:04:37. > :04:42.shock. Even with the explanations about North Sea oil and so on. It
:04:42. > :04:47.is really uncertain. The Office for Budget Responsibility said, looking
:04:47. > :04:52.ahead, there was real uncertainty about the prospects for the 40th.
:04:52. > :04:56.It depends on the economy. If there is a bounce-back in gross, these
:04:56. > :05:02.figures could come down and the Chancellor could well be hitting
:05:02. > :05:05.the forecast. -- growth. If it gets worse, that will be a problem for
:05:06. > :05:14.the Treasury and it will make borrowing worse and increase
:05:14. > :05:18.pressure upon him and his policies. Let's get the political perspective
:05:18. > :05:23.and speak to our correspondent. How much of a setback is this for the
:05:23. > :05:28.Chancellor? It is not whether Treasury wanted to be at this point.
:05:28. > :05:32.These figures may be an anomaly. They have been explained by the
:05:32. > :05:36.Treasury today. They go to the heart of the key economic and
:05:36. > :05:41.political question. Does the Government have the right plan to
:05:41. > :05:46.bring down borrowing, get rid of the deficit and repair the economy?
:05:46. > :05:50.They will be judged upon best in the next election. They say he
:05:50. > :05:54.should be doing much more. Conservative MPs are telling George
:05:54. > :05:59.Osborne to cut taxes more severely and get rid of regulation in an
:05:59. > :06:03.effort to stimulate the economy. Labour is saying the whole plant is
:06:03. > :06:10.wrong. He is choking off recovery by cutting spending and raising
:06:10. > :06:14.taxes too fast. I feel the Treasury will not budge too far at all from
:06:14. > :06:21.a central strategy. The Labour prescription of borrowing more now
:06:21. > :06:27.have to stimulate demand is seen as being -- reckless. These figures
:06:27. > :06:34.are bad. There will be another two years of austerity bolted on to the
:06:34. > :06:38.original plan. We have years of austerity to come. The British
:06:38. > :06:40.owners of a platinum mine in South Africa, where 34 people were shot
:06:40. > :06:43.dead by police last week, has withdrawn an ultimatum for strikers
:06:43. > :06:53.to return to work today, or face dismissal. The company, Lonmin,
:06:53. > :06:54.
:06:54. > :06:59.says a third of workers turned up Talk us through what the
:07:00. > :07:05.development of today mean. Lonmin have rarely conceded finally it is
:07:05. > :07:10.not helpful to talk about sacking staff, given the circumstances over
:07:10. > :07:16.the last 10 days. 40 people have been killed and 70 injured. They
:07:16. > :07:21.should show they have some sympathy towards grieving families. They are
:07:21. > :07:26.insistent the worker should return to work. It is important to get the
:07:26. > :07:30.mine up and running again. They are prepared to negotiate with the
:07:30. > :07:35.miners. There is still a lot of anger on the ground and the miners
:07:35. > :07:40.are sticking with their stance to stay away from work until they
:07:40. > :07:43.receive the wage rise they have been demanding. NHS hospitals in
:07:43. > :07:47.England are being encouraged by the Government to set up profit-making
:07:47. > :07:49.branches abroad, to raise money to treat patients here. Ministers are
:07:49. > :07:55.creating an agency to bring together foreign governments, and
:07:55. > :07:58.hospitals such as Great Ormond Street, Guy's and the Royal Marsden.
:07:58. > :08:08.A group representing patients says the idea's a distraction. Ministers
:08:08. > :08:12.
:08:12. > :08:14.say NHS patients will benefit. Our Millions of people around the world
:08:14. > :08:19.saw the National Health Service takes centre stage during the
:08:19. > :08:23.opening ceremony at the Olympics. Ministers want to build on that
:08:23. > :08:27.globally known brand with high- profile hospitals in England being
:08:27. > :08:30.encouraged to link up with foreign governments wanting access to
:08:30. > :08:35.British-run health services. The Health Minister says it is good
:08:35. > :08:39.news for NHS patients, who will get better services at their local
:08:39. > :08:45.hospitals as a result of the work that is being done abroad and the
:08:45. > :08:49.extra investment that will generate. Some hospitals are already ahead of
:08:49. > :08:55.the game. Moorfields Eye Hospital has been running a unit under its
:08:55. > :09:00.own name in Dubai since 2007. It generates profits which a ploughed
:09:00. > :09:03.back into the UK. The new venture will be called Health Care UK and
:09:03. > :09:09.will link up hospitals in England with foreign clients. Funding will
:09:09. > :09:15.only come from private investment and not NHS cash. Profits will be
:09:15. > :09:20.used to fund NHS services. It builds on an existing scheme, NHS
:09:20. > :09:25.Global, set up by the last Labour government in 2010. The Health
:09:25. > :09:30.Secretary then is not impressed. hear that 5000 nurses have lost
:09:30. > :09:35.their jobs here since the general election. That is taking the NHS
:09:35. > :09:38.backwards. They should concentrate their rather than take profits
:09:38. > :09:42.overseas. Patient groups worry this is a distraction for hospitals when
:09:42. > :09:47.they should be concentrating on improving care. We're all for
:09:47. > :09:51.hospitals branching out but what we are concerned about is a lot of
:09:51. > :09:56.hospitals have real financial problems and they will see this as
:09:56. > :10:00.a solution. This will be at the cost of patients at home. This
:10:00. > :10:05.scheme will only interest highly specialised hospitals with an
:10:05. > :10:08.international reputation. Not all of these will think it is right for
:10:08. > :10:13.them. With the global market in health care worth trillions of
:10:13. > :10:19.pounds, it will be tempting for some. Let's speak to our political
:10:19. > :10:25.correspondent who is at Westminster. As we have been hearing, Labour
:10:25. > :10:29.began this process in 2010. Why are they are against it now? As Dominic
:10:29. > :10:33.was saying, when Gordon Brown was Prime Minister in 2010, they
:10:33. > :10:40.launched something very similar. It is not clear whether that scheme
:10:40. > :10:44.made any money at will. Why Labour is opposing it is because it
:10:44. > :10:48.represents further in the creeping commercialisation of the NHS at the
:10:48. > :10:55.expense of patients. The health service has bigger fish to fry at
:10:55. > :11:01.the moment. They have to save �20 billion in efficiency savings. The
:11:01. > :11:07.Government is saying this is too big a prize to ignore. Some people
:11:07. > :11:12.estimates the global house market is worth more than two trillion
:11:12. > :11:17.pounds. There could be a lot of money to be made if this initiative
:11:17. > :11:22.works. The Government says, there are plenty of safeguards. It will
:11:22. > :11:26.only be a few top specialised hospitals who will be using money
:11:26. > :11:30.they had and from treating private patients. No taxpayers' money will
:11:31. > :11:33.be put at risk. Three men have been arrested following a hit-and-run in
:11:33. > :11:36.Leeds that left two children seriously injured. Two-year-old
:11:36. > :11:41.Rayhaan Saleem, and his sister Sabah, ten, were hit by a car on
:11:41. > :11:46.Saturday. Sabah is still in a critical but stable condition. Her
:11:46. > :11:56.brother is said to be improving. Let's speak to our correspondent in
:11:56. > :12:02.Leeds now. What a police saying about the investigation? They were
:12:02. > :12:07.crossing this road on Saturday. They were hit by a car just yards
:12:07. > :12:13.from their home and yards past this speed bump in the road. Police
:12:13. > :12:20.believe it was this ill that Astra. The car stopped before moving off
:12:20. > :12:27.down the road. -- a silver Astra. A man has been arrested on suspicion
:12:27. > :12:31.of dangerous driving and another man on suspicion of assisting an
:12:31. > :12:35.offender. Another has been arrested on suspicion of dangerous driving,
:12:35. > :12:40.failing to stop at the scene of an accident and failing to report an
:12:40. > :12:44.accident. The police have recovered this car. They will try to find out
:12:45. > :12:50.more about what happened here and we'll try to find that he was
:12:50. > :13:00.driving the car at the time. -- they will try. How are the
:13:00. > :13:06.children? They're both in hospital. Their mother and father are at best
:13:06. > :13:12.sides. They have been there since this happened on Saturday. Rayhaan
:13:12. > :13:19.Saleem is said to be improving. His auntie said he is asking for his
:13:19. > :13:25.own milk. He wants to see his cousins in hospital. Sabah Saleem
:13:25. > :13:34.is still critically ill. She is improving. Both are being treated
:13:34. > :13:39.at Leeds General Infirmary. Their families are surrounding them.
:13:39. > :13:43.Police have released CCTV images of men wanted in connection with the
:13:43. > :13:47.rape of a 14-year-old boy in Manchester city centre. He was
:13:47. > :13:51.approached by an Asian man and a white man and then threatened. He
:13:51. > :14:01.was taking to a toilet in the Debenham store and raped. He has
:14:01. > :14:03.
:14:03. > :14:06.been devastated by the attack. The consumer group Which? Claims many
:14:06. > :14:10.bank customers are paying hundreds of pounds a year in hidden charges
:14:10. > :14:13.for their current accounts and that free banking is a myth. It says it
:14:13. > :14:15.is a disgrace that people who bailed out the banks are being
:14:15. > :14:18.asked to pay more for basic accounts. The British Bankers'
:14:18. > :14:23.Association says most customers get can get free banking if they avoid
:14:23. > :14:32.going overdrawn. Simon Gompertz is with me. Why are they saying free
:14:32. > :14:36.banking is a myth? There is a big debate developing off free, if in
:14:36. > :14:42.credit, banking. One-in-five customers pay for current accounts.
:14:42. > :14:46.They would like that figure to be more. Which? is saying, when they
:14:46. > :14:51.say free, it is not really free. They used the example of a customer
:14:51. > :14:59.who regularly goes into overdraft every month. Over 12 months, that
:14:59. > :15:06.is likely to back up to charges of over �900 for a customer. Another
:15:06. > :15:11.example is other costs, which could amount to �63 the year. We get such
:15:11. > :15:15.a little interest on accounts. We pay to get money out if we go
:15:15. > :15:21.overseas. Which? is saying we already pay for a cancer. Do not
:15:21. > :15:28.ask us to pay more. Some are calling for upfront charges. Would
:15:28. > :15:34.that work? Lord Turner from the FSA is saying, charge regularly. Also a
:15:34. > :15:38.director of the Bank of England is asking for that. Their line is that
:15:38. > :15:44.because banks do not get as much as they would like from free banking,
:15:44. > :15:52.they are encouraged to miss out BPRI - Payment Protection Insurance
:15:52. > :15:57.- by ripping us off. -- PPI. We could pay a monthly charge for
:15:57. > :16:04.accounts. This happens at the moment, between �5.15 pounds
:16:04. > :16:09.typically and you get travel insurance thrown in. -- �5 and �15.
:16:09. > :16:14.Another way could be on transactions. You use a debit card
:16:14. > :16:18.in a shop and you pay a few pence each time. Every bank is terrified
:16:18. > :16:28.to be the first one. They do not want to step out of line and so
:16:28. > :16:29.
:16:29. > :16:33.free banking is finished with. They A blow to government plans to cut
:16:33. > :16:38.the spending bill, as borrowing last month goes up.
:16:38. > :16:41.Coming up: Seizing the cars of uninsured drivers. Police say they
:16:41. > :16:44.are impounding them millionth vehicle today. Later on BBC London:
:16:44. > :16:47.27 arrests ahead of this weekend's Notting Hill Carnival as organisers
:16:47. > :16:57.outline their plans for this year's theme. And from the frontline to
:16:57. > :17:04.
:17:04. > :17:08.the start line - the soldier Virgin has announced it is to
:17:08. > :17:13.launch its first domestic flight service, less than a week after
:17:13. > :17:16.losing the franchise to run trains on the West Coast Main Line. From
:17:16. > :17:20.next March, it wants to run three flights a day between London and
:17:20. > :17:24.Manchester, with further plans for more services.
:17:24. > :17:29.For years, they have gone head-to- head on international routes around
:17:29. > :17:32.the world. Now Virgin is taking on British Airways on short-haul
:17:32. > :17:37.flights throughout the UK. Next year, Sir Richard Branson's airline
:17:37. > :17:41.will begin flying passengers between London and Manchester, its
:17:41. > :17:46.first foray into domestic flights. Virgin says it is more than just
:17:46. > :17:50.getting one up on BA. This is really about the connecting marker
:17:50. > :17:54.from Manchester to Heathrow, providing those links to key long-
:17:54. > :17:58.haul routes all around the world. We fly all around the world in
:17:58. > :18:05.terms of the US, Africa, the Middle East and Asia. That connectivity is
:18:05. > :18:09.key to the UK economy. So, what is in it for Virgin? London to
:18:09. > :18:13.Manchester is one of the most lucrative domestic routes, carrying
:18:13. > :18:19.around 650,000 passengers each year. At the moment, British Airways has
:18:19. > :18:23.a monopoly, with nine daily return flights. Virgin says 65% of those
:18:23. > :18:27.passengers are using Heathrow to transfer to long-haul flights and
:18:27. > :18:31.they want to tap into that market. Analysts say that for passengers
:18:31. > :18:36.that benefits could be choice and cheapness. It's good for passengers,
:18:36. > :18:40.without a doubt. More competition always means lower fares, it means
:18:40. > :18:45.more frequency and so on. Whether that translates into profits for
:18:45. > :18:49.the airlines, that is another question altogether. But I think
:18:49. > :18:53.the customer is definitely going to benefit. Last week, Virgin lost the
:18:53. > :18:56.franchise to run trains between London and Manchester on the West
:18:56. > :19:00.Coast Main Line, a decision described by Sir Richard Branson as
:19:00. > :19:04.insanity. Some have suggested launching short-haul flights to
:19:04. > :19:08.Manchester is his revenge. Virgin say that is nonsense and that
:19:08. > :19:13.domestic flights have been in their thoughts for a long time. Later,
:19:13. > :19:16.Virgin wants to fly from Aberdeen and Edinburgh to Heathrow. It says
:19:16. > :19:20.the routes need more competition. British Airways has responded
:19:20. > :19:25.bullishly, saying it is confident that its fares and customer service
:19:25. > :19:29.will continue to set the standard for short-haul flights.
:19:29. > :19:32.Portable fingerprint scanners are being introduced across the West
:19:32. > :19:36.Midlands so police can identify suspects on the streets in seconds.
:19:36. > :19:40.The police say that the gadgets cut bureaucracy and help keep officers
:19:40. > :19:43.on the streets. Jeremy Cook has been to see how they work in
:19:43. > :19:48.Birmingham. The police of the West Midlands are
:19:48. > :19:52.hitting the streets, armed with the latest technology in the fight
:19:52. > :19:57.against crime. It looks like a humble cellphone. But this is a
:19:57. > :20:01.mobile fingerprint unit. Police have been piloting the device for
:20:01. > :20:05.months. This is training. In practice, they can only use it when
:20:05. > :20:12.someone is suspected of a crime and when there is no other way to
:20:12. > :20:15.identify them. It works in seconds. If they provide false details and
:20:15. > :20:18.the officers suspect that is false, by comparing the fingerprints on
:20:18. > :20:23.the database that will immediately alert the officers that the person
:20:23. > :20:26.has a criminal record. They compare that to the national computer, with
:20:26. > :20:30.the true details and any offending history. Let's take a closer look
:20:30. > :20:35.at this device. It looks pretty much like a mobile phone. But it
:20:35. > :20:40.can take my fingerprint ride here, right now. First, I am going to put
:20:40. > :20:45.my right finger on to it. Then they left. Already, that information is
:20:45. > :20:47.being sent to the central database, comparing my fingerprints to the
:20:47. > :20:51.thousands that are almost there. It should take a few seconds to
:20:51. > :20:56.achieve what used to take several hours. It has come and negative.
:20:56. > :21:00.The good news for me is that I am free to go. These finger
:21:00. > :21:05.repressions show that the ridges are in fixed patterns...
:21:05. > :21:12.Fingerprints have been part of crime detection for decades.
:21:12. > :21:16.Collecting and comparing them could take weeks. The speed to date it --
:21:17. > :21:20.today is breathtaking. Welcome news for of us has been trained to use
:21:20. > :21:26.the device. For them, it could save hours of operational time. Others
:21:26. > :21:29.are not convinced. We said we did not want ID cards in this country,
:21:29. > :21:33.this sounds like West Midlands Police doing a through the backdoor.
:21:33. > :21:39.They cannot do Mandy to produce your ID card, so they demand you
:21:39. > :21:45.produce your fingerprint. A West Midlands police are producing the
:21:45. > :21:47.device across the region. Police say they have seized the one
:21:48. > :21:57.millionth uninsured car in a crackdown that began seven years
:21:57. > :22:02.ago. The figures were released by It is a milestone that highlights a
:22:02. > :22:05.dangerous problem. Police have seized 1 million vehicles since
:22:05. > :22:10.they were given new powers to tackle uninsured drivers by taking
:22:10. > :22:13.their cars. Birmingham has more hotspots than anywhere else in the
:22:13. > :22:18.country. Here, you are eight times more likely to run into someone
:22:18. > :22:25.driving without insurance. Harriett Thomson found this out the hard way.
:22:25. > :22:31.She is one of 26,000 people injured by uninsured drivers every year.
:22:31. > :22:36.had a broken ankle, skin taken off my father and a couple of fractures
:22:36. > :22:40.down the side of my foot. I had a skin graft done at Brimfield, then
:22:40. > :22:44.taken back to Colchester, taken to London to get my ankle sorted out,
:22:44. > :22:53.two years down the line. Many of those polled over complain that
:22:53. > :22:58.premiums are too expensive. But the cost in human life is far greater.
:22:58. > :23:02.Police operations like this often uncover more serious crimes as well.
:23:02. > :23:06.There is a high proportion of them involved in criminality. We have
:23:06. > :23:11.seized lots of cars today, we have seen a lot of people arrested for
:23:11. > :23:15.offences in relation to illegal immigration, drugs, other offences,
:23:15. > :23:20.in just the few hours we have been here. It's a great way of clamping
:23:20. > :23:23.down on criminals using the roads. This is an expensive bumper sticker.
:23:23. > :23:28.Most of these vehicles will be crushed after they have been towed
:23:28. > :23:34.away. For those that want their cars back, they face points on
:23:34. > :23:39.their licence, a release fee and a hefty fine. This is happening at a
:23:39. > :23:42.rate of one an hour in Birmingham. In many cases, the cars are crushed,
:23:42. > :23:52.forcing those who thought they would get away with it to think
:23:52. > :23:52.
:23:52. > :23:55.Sport, and Kevin Pietersen has been left out of the England squad for
:23:55. > :24:00.both the world Twenty20 at one end and the preceding one-day series
:24:00. > :24:03.against Africa. That 32-year-old was dropped for there Test against
:24:03. > :24:07.South Africa after allegedly consulting Test captain Andrew
:24:07. > :24:10.Strauss in text messages to the tourists. He apologised for the
:24:10. > :24:15.message is, admitting that they were provocative.
:24:15. > :24:18.It is just over a week to go to the opening of the London 2012
:24:18. > :24:21.Paralympics. The lighting of the flame begins today. Some of Great
:24:21. > :24:31.Britain's swimmers have been putting in some last minute
:24:31. > :24:32.
:24:32. > :24:36.Hoping to make a global splash. Britain's politics were menswear
:24:36. > :24:40.training in Manchester this morning. Just a week left to prepare for the
:24:40. > :24:49.event of their lives. Among them, Ellie Simmonds. As a 13-year-old,
:24:49. > :24:53.she was a star of Beijing, wedding two gold medals. Now, at the grand
:24:53. > :24:58.old age of 17, she is hoping for more success in London. Beijing
:24:59. > :25:02.felt like a few days ago, really. After Beijing, thinking, Londoners
:25:02. > :25:07.four years away, it will go so slowly. Now we are here, it is
:25:07. > :25:10.really exciting. Training is going really well and we are all really
:25:10. > :25:17.focused. The pressure on Britain's Paralympians has never been greater.
:25:17. > :25:20.In Beijing, the won 102 medals, more than twice as many as their
:25:20. > :25:27.Olympic counterparts. In London they are expecting even more. Their
:25:27. > :25:32.target is to go at least one better, 103. Swimming alone is aiming for a
:25:32. > :25:36.minimum of 40. It adds up to an ambitious goal. It's a tough target,
:25:36. > :25:40.but we have been second on the medal table for the last three
:25:40. > :25:47.games. We are confident we can continue to hold that position,
:25:47. > :25:53.while not being complacent around the pack that are tracing as.
:25:53. > :25:56.Paralympic sports at a training camp in Bath, including five-a-side
:25:56. > :26:00.football for visually impaired athletes. �50 million has been
:26:00. > :26:03.spent preparing the likes of Karen Butler, now with her 4th Olympics,
:26:03. > :26:07.but never with a better chance. had been able to train more
:26:08. > :26:12.regularly, we have had the support staff with us regularly. In
:26:12. > :26:16.previous games, we were lucky if we had a physio with us once or twice
:26:16. > :26:21.the air. Now she is with us every month. The funding and the support
:26:21. > :26:26.that we have had his going to make a big difference. With sell-out
:26:26. > :26:31.crowds expected, the stages almost set. After all the Olympic success,
:26:31. > :26:36.it is now up to Britain's Paralympians to conjure more of
:26:36. > :26:40.those golden moments. Tributes had been paid to the
:26:40. > :26:44.American comic Phyllis Diller, who has died at the age of 95. She took
:26:44. > :26:49.to the stage in the 1950s, a time when stand-up comedy was not seen
:26:49. > :26:53.as something but for women. Joan Rivers said that she cleared a path
:26:53. > :26:59.for a younger generation of female artists.
:26:59. > :27:04.She had big hair, and out blandest wardrobe and a cackling laugh that
:27:04. > :27:08.became her trademark. -- outlandish wardrobe. Phyllis Diller's career
:27:08. > :27:13.spanned five decades. She broke into comedy after working in
:27:13. > :27:16.advertising and radio as a writer. A pop-culture icon in the 60s, she
:27:16. > :27:21.was famous for making disparaging jokes about her looks and their
:27:21. > :27:27.cooking. Would you believe that I once entered a beauty contest? I
:27:27. > :27:33.must have been out of my mind. By not only came last, I got 361 get-
:27:33. > :27:40.well cards! She appeared in several films and had two TV series. She
:27:40. > :27:44.also toured with Bob Hope to entertain the troops. She is
:27:44. > :27:50.credited with paving the way for female comedians to be accepted on
:27:50. > :28:00.stage and on television. The Queen of one-liners. To her friends and
:28:00. > :28:10.fans, Phyllis Diller was the first The American comic Phyllis Diller,
:28:10. > :28:13.Unsettled over the next couple of days. At the moment we have left
:28:13. > :28:16.weather around, mostly in the form of showers. Still more heavy
:28:16. > :28:21.showers to come, particularly across parts of Scotland and
:28:21. > :28:23.Northern Ireland. It's been a bit cloudy further south and east. You
:28:24. > :28:26.can see this zone of cloud and another pulse of thicker cloud is
:28:26. > :28:30.set to move across the south-east corner in the next couple of hours.
:28:30. > :28:34.I think it should clear away from the south-west. Here, we will see a
:28:34. > :28:38.little bit more sunshine around. You can see those showers are never
:28:38. > :28:42.too far away. Some brighter spells in between, but if you get caught
:28:42. > :28:46.in a shower you can expect it to be heavy. Similar for Wales, a
:28:46. > :28:49.scattering of showers. For Northern Ireland, we could see some hail and
:28:49. > :28:53.thunder mixed in their, temperatures of 70 degrees.
:28:53. > :28:57.Scotland, another spot where we cannot rule out hail and thunder
:28:57. > :29:01.for the rest of the afternoon with some frequent downpours. A few
:29:01. > :29:06.showers developing across northern England. As we crossed to East
:29:06. > :29:11.Anglia and south-east, we have that thick cloud. Patchy and mostly
:29:11. > :29:15.light rain. Feeling cooler than over recent days. Temperatures
:29:15. > :29:18.reaching 20 degrees. That zone of cloud and patchy rain clears the
:29:18. > :29:22.way through the night. It becomes drier to the south and east. Some
:29:22. > :29:26.clear spells. Further north, we keep the showers for the for that
:29:26. > :29:29.longer. They will lose their intensity, but still one or two to
:29:30. > :29:33.the north and west. Temperatures are dropping to 14 or 15 degrees.
:29:33. > :29:38.Not particularly cold tomorrow morning. Some showers from the word
:29:38. > :29:42.go. The main focus of the downpours is yet again for Scotland and
:29:42. > :29:45.Northern Ireland. There will be a scattering across England and Wales,
:29:45. > :29:50.mostly to the east and west. The best chance of the drier weather
:29:50. > :29:54.with sunny spells is to the south and east. A similar story on
:29:54. > :29:59.Thursday with that sunshine holding on to the south-west. Further north
:29:59. > :30:01.and west, we have thicker cloud arriving at some outbreaks of rain,
:30:01. > :30:08.especially across parts of Northern Ireland. Temperatures are generally
:30:08. > :30:11.around average around England. In sunshine, we might manage 23
:30:11. > :30:14.degrees. For the end of the week we are looking at low-pressure
:30:14. > :30:21.swinging in off the Atlantic. You will note his eyes about are quite
:30:21. > :30:27.tightly packed. Some breezy weather around. Weather fronts mean rain
:30:27. > :30:32.and showers in between. Unsettled for the weekend. Rain at times,
:30:32. > :30:37.breezy and cooler up than last weekend. At this stage, the detail
:30:37. > :30:43.is a little bit tricky. There will be some dry and bright spells in
:30:43. > :30:47.between. It might be a bank holiday weekend, but not a complete washout.
:30:47. > :30:51.weekend, but not a complete washout. Our top story: A blow to government