:00:09. > :00:13.Police in France investigating the murder of three British tourists
:00:13. > :00:16.say they want to talk to the dead man's brother. They say a possible
:00:16. > :00:23.family dispute over money is one of the lines of inquiry they are
:00:23. > :00:27.following. I've just come from the scene of the shooting about half a
:00:27. > :00:29.kilometre up this road where there are still bloodstains on the ground
:00:29. > :00:32.and shards of glass from a windscreen.
:00:32. > :00:36.Prince Harry has returned to Afghanistan to fly attack
:00:36. > :00:39.helicopters in the fight against the Taliban.
:00:39. > :00:47.President Obama sets out his case for a second term in the White
:00:47. > :00:49.House. He tells Americans they face a generational choice in November's
:00:49. > :00:53.election. Good news on the UK economy -
:00:53. > :00:55.industrial output in July soared at the fastest pace in 25 years.
:00:55. > :00:58.A British soldier killed when an American helicopter fired on a
:00:58. > :01:02.British base in Afghanistan - died as a result of "mistaken beliefs
:01:02. > :01:05.and cumulative failures". Scientists warn that Arctic ice is
:01:05. > :01:12.melting faster than ever, and it could bring changes to the British
:01:12. > :01:15.weather. Later on BBC London: There will be
:01:15. > :01:21.know decision over aviation expansion before 2015. So what'll
:01:21. > :01:31.that mean for London's airports? As GB's athletes prepare for a victory
:01:31. > :01:37.
:01:37. > :01:41.Good afternoon, and welcome to the BBC News at 1.00pm. Police in
:01:41. > :01:47.France say they want to speak to a brother of the man who was murdered
:01:47. > :01:50.near Annecy in the French Alps on Wednesday. 50-year-old Saad al-
:01:50. > :01:55.Hilli, his wife and mother-in-law were found shot dead in their BMW
:01:55. > :01:58.near Lake Annecy. His two young daughters survived the attack, but
:01:58. > :02:05.one remains in a medically-induced coma in hospital. Jon Sopel is near
:02:05. > :02:08.the scene at Chevaline. Simon, thank you very much. Yes, in
:02:08. > :02:12.the last hour, the police have opened up the crime scene to, and
:02:12. > :02:16.we're allowed to walk about half a kilometre up the road to where the
:02:16. > :02:19.shooting took place, hard to exaggerate how remote it is, hard
:02:19. > :02:23.to believe that it was anything like a gunman running amuck. Why
:02:23. > :02:26.would a gunman be up there? It's hard to believe as well that this
:02:26. > :02:29.was a carjacking went wrong. You could wait all day up there and not
:02:29. > :02:33.see another person come by, and that, of course, means that the
:02:33. > :02:36.focus will be on the idea that this was some kind of targeted shooting.
:02:37. > :02:46.If so, what was the motive? Let's get this report from our
:02:46. > :02:52.Nearly 48 hours after the killings, police still guard the scene of the
:02:52. > :02:56.crime, a crime that has mystified and horrified people here. These
:02:56. > :03:01.aerial pictures show the al-Hilli's family BMW after the shootings
:03:01. > :03:07.before it was taken away for forensic examination. You can see
:03:07. > :03:10.holes in the window and a rear tyre seems to have burst. The police say
:03:10. > :03:13.they're urgently trying to establish what happened.
:03:13. > :03:17.TRANSLATION: The positioning of the bodies is very important. It will
:03:17. > :03:22.tell us where the gunman was standing in relation to the car, so
:03:22. > :03:27.that's why I stress the importance of the position of the bodies. The
:03:27. > :03:31.autopsies are being done this morning and maybe more bullets will
:03:31. > :03:35.be found and will be analysed. the family's home in Surrey,
:03:35. > :03:40.thoughts for the two young sisters orphaned by this attack. French
:03:40. > :03:44.police say they've received what they call "credible information"
:03:44. > :03:48.from the UK that the father of the family, Saad al-Hilli, may have
:03:48. > :03:51.been involved in a family dispute over money. They say they want to
:03:51. > :03:55.talk too his brother, who also lives in Britain. But the police in
:03:55. > :04:02.France say they're ruling nothing out. They say this might have been
:04:02. > :04:07.a targeted execution, but it could also have been a random roadside
:04:07. > :04:11.robbery. One local woman says that she saw a small white car with one
:04:11. > :04:14.man inside it driving at speed through these quiet country lanes
:04:14. > :04:19.at about the time of the attack, but that is just one of many leads
:04:19. > :04:23.that the police are now following The two young sisters are now being
:04:23. > :04:27.cared for by French medical teams and British Embassy staff.
:04:27. > :04:31.My consular staff, who are very experienced in the handling of the
:04:31. > :04:35.children, are with the little girl, the four-year-old, who's not
:04:35. > :04:38.physically hurt, but is deeply traumatised, and they'll stay with
:04:38. > :04:41.the little girl to help her English speaking alongside the French
:04:41. > :04:45.authorities. As soon as the elder girl who is badly hurt, not yet
:04:45. > :04:49.able to receive visitors - as soon as she can, we'll be with her as
:04:49. > :04:54.well. Police are preparing to return this remote road to normal,
:04:54. > :04:59.but it seems their work here has only just begun.
:04:59. > :05:03.Well, Jon Kay reporting there. Now, of course, as we heard in his
:05:03. > :05:07.report, a lot of focus now on the relationship between Saad al-Hilli
:05:07. > :05:12.and his brother. Saad al-Hilli lived in Claygate in Surrey. We can
:05:12. > :05:16.go live there now to our correspondent Richard. What's the
:05:16. > :05:21.latest where you are? The very quiet and affluent area is probably
:05:21. > :05:25.one of the last places you would expect to be associated with such a
:05:25. > :05:30.brutal multiple murder. That's why there is still a deep sense of
:05:30. > :05:34.shock and surprise here this has happened at all. The family were
:05:34. > :05:37.very well known here. It's thought they lived here for at least ten
:05:37. > :05:40.years. They were very popular and very much involved in the local
:05:40. > :05:45.community. That's why quite a few neighbours and friends have arrived
:05:45. > :05:48.here this morning with floral tributes including a bouquet of
:05:48. > :05:51.flowers and a candle brought from the local primary school, the
:05:51. > :05:53.primary school where the two daughters were due to start the new
:05:53. > :05:57.school term this week. There is still a police presence here. There
:05:57. > :06:01.are three or four officers from the Surrey force, but their role looks
:06:01. > :06:04.like it tends to be more of maintaining the security of the
:06:04. > :06:07.property rather than being involved in any sort of formal investigation.
:06:07. > :06:10.That formal investigation, though, will surely come because the French
:06:10. > :06:13.authorities will want to have a look inside this property if not
:06:13. > :06:18.just to find some clue, some evidence, that might help explain
:06:18. > :06:22.why this family was attacked. Richard, thank you very much.
:06:22. > :06:26.Apologies for the poor sound quality at the start of Richard's
:06:26. > :06:30.report there. We're going to get news conference this afternoon.
:06:30. > :06:33.Postmortems are also taking place on the four bodies, and hopefully
:06:33. > :06:37.more details will emerge about what happened and maybe why. Now, though,
:06:37. > :06:40.back to you in the studio, Simon, in London.
:06:40. > :06:43.Jon Sopel, thank you. Prince Harry has returned to
:06:43. > :06:46.Afghanistan to start a four-month tour of duty as an Apache
:06:46. > :06:49.helicopter pilot. His first tour of duty was cut short after details of
:06:49. > :06:52.the deployment were leaked. He arrived in Camp Bastion last night
:06:52. > :06:58.weeks after reports of his holiday in Las Vegas provoked headlines
:06:58. > :07:02.around the world. Quentin Somerville reports from Afghanistan.
:07:02. > :07:08.Back in uniform and back in Afghanistan - Prince Harry is now
:07:08. > :07:13.fully qualified to fly this Apache in combat. It's one of the most
:07:13. > :07:17.sophisticated attack helicopters in the world, and in a matter of days,
:07:17. > :07:21.helicopter Commander Wales will be flying missions against the Taliban.
:07:21. > :07:25.The Prince's arrival here in Afghanistan is a timely reminder of
:07:26. > :07:29.his more dutiful side, but it hasn't been arranged to distract
:07:29. > :07:34.from his misadventures in a Lassana Diarra hotel room. It's been months
:07:34. > :07:36.in the planning, and behind it lies something much more - the Prince's
:07:36. > :07:41.personal determination to presume his combat career and to complete
:07:41. > :07:48.for the first time a full tour of duty on the front lines. He was
:07:48. > :07:51.last in Afghanistan in 2008. Then his deployment was kept secret. In
:07:51. > :07:56.southern Helmand he was part of ground forces calling in aircraft
:07:56. > :07:59.to target the insurgents. SOUND OF GUNFIRE
:07:59. > :08:02.But the threat he faced dramatically increased when news
:08:02. > :08:09.linked that the third in line to the throne was here in Afghanistan.
:08:09. > :08:13.His tour was cut short. The Prince left, bitterly disappointed. But
:08:13. > :08:17.training to be an Apache commander changed the risk he faced. He came
:08:17. > :08:21.top of his class, and Britain has never lost one of these aircraft in
:08:21. > :08:24.combat, but Apaches are still regularly targeted. Working
:08:24. > :08:28.together with his colleagues in the squadron, he'll be in a difficult
:08:28. > :08:33.and demanding job, and I ask that he be left to get on with his
:08:33. > :08:36.duties and allowed to focus on delivering support to the coalition
:08:36. > :08:41.troops on the ground. This is where the Prince says he feels most
:08:41. > :08:44.comfortable - alongside his squadron on active duty. The
:08:44. > :08:49.challenges of the past couple of weeks are likely to be nothing
:08:49. > :08:52.compared to his next four months of combat.
:08:52. > :08:54.President Obama has set out his case for a second term in the White
:08:54. > :08:57.House. He told delegates at the Democratic Party National
:08:57. > :09:00.Convention in North Carolina that the United States faces a choice
:09:00. > :09:07.between two fundamentally different visions of the future in November's
:09:07. > :09:11.Presidential election. Steve Kingstone reports. The President of
:09:11. > :09:17.the United States of America, Barack Obama.
:09:17. > :09:21.APPLAUSE Win or thru, campaign is the last -
:09:21. > :09:26.- lose this campaign is the last time Barack Obama will ask the
:09:26. > :09:29.American people for their trust. Democrats savered the moment but he
:09:30. > :09:34.seemed impatient to address a troubled nation far beyond the
:09:34. > :09:38.convention hall. Know this, America: our problems can be solved.
:09:39. > :09:44.Our challenges can be met. The path we offer may be harder, but it
:09:44. > :09:48.leads to a better place, and I'm asking you to choose that future.
:09:48. > :09:52.Republicans have framed this election as a referendum on the
:09:52. > :09:56.Obama economy, but he said voters faced a choice. And on every issue,
:09:56. > :09:59.the choice you face won't just be between two candidates or two
:09:59. > :10:06.parties. It will be a choice between two different paths for
:10:06. > :10:10.America. Ours is a fight to restore the values that built the largest
:10:10. > :10:13.middle class and the strongest economy the world has ever known.
:10:13. > :10:18.By contrast, he said, Republicans were about little more than tax
:10:18. > :10:23.cuts for the rich, and he mocked Mitt Romney's inexperience on
:10:23. > :10:29.foreign policy. You might not be ready for diplomacy with Beijing if
:10:29. > :10:34.you can't visit the Olympics without insulting our closest ally.
:10:34. > :10:38.He rattled off goals for a second term: new manufacturing jobs, more
:10:38. > :10:45.science teachers, less imported oil. But it was a speech about direction
:10:45. > :10:49.more than detail, and it ended with a rallying cry. The providence is
:10:49. > :10:55.with us, and we're surely blessed to be citizens of the greatest
:10:55. > :10:59.nation on earth. Thank you. So a stirring performance by a man
:10:59. > :11:04.pleading for more time. Once again, Barack Obama showed that he can
:11:04. > :11:09.turn on the style, but what really matters, of course, is what America
:11:09. > :11:12.far beyond this hall makes of the substance.
:11:12. > :11:17.Our correspondent Jonny Dymond joins us from Washington. The
:11:17. > :11:21.president says he wants time. It's in short supply, and of course,
:11:21. > :11:24.we've got unemployment figures out very shortly. Unemboimt figures out
:11:25. > :11:27.in just a few minutes' time. I think the president's team must be
:11:27. > :11:32.dreading bad news because that'll knock any gloss he got from the
:11:32. > :11:35.speech right off the agenda. This was a pretty workman-like speech.
:11:35. > :11:40.There was none of that soaring rhetoric about hope and change we
:11:40. > :11:44.heard last time. Instead, he was talking about the harder path ahead.
:11:44. > :11:50.This is because this is a President chastened by four very hard years -
:11:50. > :11:55.hard economic times and hard files from an opposition Republican Party
:11:55. > :12:00.that's given him almost no room for manoeuvre, so there was much less
:12:00. > :12:05.ambition in the speech and more talk about choice for the country,
:12:05. > :12:11.a choice between a party that sees Government as a problem - that's
:12:11. > :12:16.Republicans - and a party that sees it as a solution. As Steve Kingston
:12:16. > :12:19.says, he was pleading, asking for four more years to get the job done.
:12:19. > :12:22.Industrial output increased at its fastest pace in twenty five years
:12:22. > :12:25.in July, raising hopes the country may be on its way out of the double
:12:25. > :12:29.dip recession. Our chief economics correspondent Hugh Pym is here.
:12:29. > :12:32.What are the figures? Simon, as you say, unexpectedly good figures.
:12:32. > :12:35.Market analysts taken by surprise. They were expecting a bit of an
:12:35. > :12:39.increase but not as much as. This let's take look at the detail for
:12:39. > :12:45.the latest figures for July. They show industrial output was up 2.9%.
:12:45. > :12:50.That's the fastest rate of increase since February 1987, 25 years, but
:12:50. > :12:54.let's remember that June had seen a sharp drop, a fall of 2.4%, so
:12:54. > :12:56.clawing back that and a bit more. That was because of the extra Bank
:12:56. > :12:59.Holiday in June because of the Jubilee. That meant there was some
:12:59. > :13:03.production that didn't take place in June, which was always going to
:13:03. > :13:07.happen in July, so a bit of a caveat, if you like, about the
:13:07. > :13:10.underlying trend. We have talked about unemployment figures which
:13:10. > :13:13.seem to be out of match with what people are saying about the state
:13:13. > :13:18.of the economy, so what's going on? We're in the third quarter of the
:13:18. > :13:21.year. The second quarter showed a fall of 0.5%, so did the first
:13:21. > :13:25.quarter and the final quarter of last year, so three successive
:13:25. > :13:29.quarters of falling output, in other words, recession. There is
:13:29. > :13:32.every possibility that the current quarter will show a bounce back
:13:32. > :13:35.into positive territory helped by the Olympic effect and the
:13:35. > :13:40.industrial productions we've just seen - production figures we've
:13:40. > :13:43.just seen. But the problem is, if you like, it's clawing back what we
:13:43. > :13:47.lost before, and the underlying trend is still pretty flat, so I
:13:47. > :13:50.don't think anybody is breaking out the champagne just yet. There is
:13:50. > :13:52.every possibility of a long, hard slog to come. Hugh, thank you very
:13:52. > :13:54.much. The online retailer Amazon says
:13:54. > :13:57.it's creating two-thousand permanent jobs in Britain over the
:13:57. > :14:00.next two years. 600 new posts will be based at a new distribution
:14:00. > :14:02.centre at Hemel Hempstead in Hertfordshire, which was officially
:14:02. > :14:12.opened yesterday. It will open another two depots in the coming
:14:12. > :14:15.months. It's coming up to 1.15pm. Our top story:
:14:15. > :14:18.Police in France investigating the murder of three British tourists
:14:18. > :14:21.say they want to talk to the dead man's brother.
:14:21. > :14:26.Also coming up: Here in the arctic scientists are
:14:26. > :14:28.stunned by how much ice has melted this summer, a change so dramatic,
:14:28. > :14:32.it could even be affecting our weather.
:14:32. > :14:42.Later on BBC London: the Games volunteer from Essex who kept a
:14:42. > :14:50.
:14:50. > :14:55.Paralympic dream alive, and cyclist Sean McKee Kewan -- Mceowan and his
:14:55. > :14:58.win. There's a warning that Britain's
:14:58. > :15:01.weather could become more stormy because of the melting of polar ice.
:15:01. > :15:04.Scientists in the Arctic say this summer's thaw set a new record ,and
:15:04. > :15:14.it's likely to accelerate over the next few years. Our science editor
:15:14. > :15:18.
:15:18. > :15:23.The temperature is still above freezing here, which is crucial,
:15:23. > :15:27.because the summer melt is still under way, and a new summer record
:15:27. > :15:35.is being set. It is on a scale that has left scientists completely
:15:35. > :15:39.stunned. A heavy swell in the High Arctic. These latest pictures are
:15:39. > :15:46.from the Norwegian Polar Institute, and were filmed in the past few
:15:46. > :15:52.days. Huge areas of ice have broken up and more have melted than at any
:15:52. > :15:58.time in the last 30 years. On the deck of a Norwegian research ship,
:15:58. > :16:01.a hi-tech device to measure the ice is lifted into the air. A
:16:01. > :16:08.helicopter flies the instrument over the ocean. All the signs are
:16:08. > :16:14.that the ice is getting thinner and weaker. Moored up at Norweb was
:16:14. > :16:19.back Arctic research station, this artists are assessing the data. The
:16:19. > :16:27.melt has been faster than predicted. It is a faster change then we could
:16:27. > :16:34.have imagined 20 years ago, even 10 years ago. It has taken us by
:16:34. > :16:38.surprise, and we must suggest -- had just how our understanding of
:16:38. > :16:42.it and adjust our feelings of the nature around. I have seen for
:16:43. > :16:48.myself how rapidly the Arctic is changing, and the more life
:16:48. > :16:52.disappears, the more the melt will speed up. The Arctic is warning --
:16:52. > :16:57.warming faster than any other region, and the reason for that is
:16:57. > :17:03.when the rays of the Sun land on the surface, most of the energy is
:17:03. > :17:08.reflected back into space and the region stays cool. But when the ice
:17:08. > :17:16.retreats and melt, those rays fall on the darker surface of the ocean.
:17:16. > :17:21.But energy debts absorbed, warming the ocean, nothing more ice. That
:17:21. > :17:26.begins what scientists call a positive feedback. The Arctic may
:17:26. > :17:30.seem remote, but the changes could be far reaching. The melt could
:17:30. > :17:33.even implement the pattern of the weather over Europe.
:17:33. > :17:38.circumstances where the Arctic sea ice is reducing in summer, and if
:17:38. > :17:43.we have warmer than average surface temperatures in the north-west
:17:43. > :17:47.Atlantic, these factors lead to storms being steered over the UK in
:17:47. > :17:53.summer, which is not the normal situation. It leads to our poorer
:17:53. > :17:58.summers. We find a bearded seal on a tiny iceberg, one of the many
:17:58. > :18:06.creatures who need the ice. Some time soon, there may be a summer
:18:06. > :18:09.with no ice at all. The sea ice will freeze again this winter, no
:18:09. > :18:17.question of that, but it is getting weaker and thinner, which means
:18:17. > :18:20.that in summers to come, it is more likely to break up, a pattern that
:18:20. > :18:24.scientists sake is a to a rating. They are still trying to work out
:18:24. > :18:27.the consequences. A coroner has ruled that a British soldier was
:18:27. > :18:29.killed in a US helicopter attack as a result of "mistaken beliefs and
:18:29. > :18:32.cumulative failures". Lance Corporal Christopher Roney, who was
:18:32. > :18:37.23, died from head injuries when the Apache helicopter fired on his
:18:37. > :18:40.base in Sangin. The coroner said the Americans ought to have
:18:40. > :18:49.realised sooner their target was not an enemy, and called off the
:18:49. > :18:54.attack. Sangin district in Afghanistan, a
:18:54. > :18:58.place where it the British have suffered many casualties. But in
:18:58. > :19:03.2009 those losses were compounded when his patrol base was mistakenly
:19:03. > :19:08.attacked by an American helicopter. It had been under attack from
:19:08. > :19:12.Taliban insurgents when air support was sent to help. But despite
:19:12. > :19:19.having obvious signs of being a British base, it was identified
:19:19. > :19:24.wrongly, and raked with so-called "friendly fire" from the air. 23-
:19:24. > :19:27.year-old soldier macro was fatally injured, 11 others in there
:19:28. > :19:34.compound were winded. Today the coroner and the army paid tribute
:19:34. > :19:39.to the professionalism of the soldiers in the base that night.
:19:39. > :19:44.True courage was demonstrated at on that fateful night in December. We
:19:44. > :19:49.would also like to pay tribute to Chris's family, who have shown
:19:49. > :19:53.great dignity and courage and strength in coming through this
:19:53. > :19:57.together. But other British soldiers on duty that night were
:19:57. > :20:02.today branded as unprofessional by the coroner here in Sunderland. He
:20:02. > :20:07.said misplaced assumptions and beliefs became fact, and a total
:20:07. > :20:11.loss of the situation will awareness cost Chris his life. He
:20:11. > :20:16.said some of the risks still existed, and he would race is
:20:16. > :20:21.concerned with the secretary of state for defence. -- raised his
:20:21. > :20:30.concerns. The dead brother's soldier spoke on behalf of his
:20:30. > :20:36.family. He left a lovely wife, a child, he enjoyed doing what he did,
:20:36. > :20:40.he was an excellent soldier. another serviceman is remembered
:20:40. > :20:50.with a reef. A soldier who died in an attack by his own side, which
:20:50. > :20:51.
:20:51. > :20:54.should never have happened. We often hear about the binge-drinking
:20:54. > :20:56.culture of young people - but what about alcohol abuse among the
:20:56. > :20:59.elderly? Panorama has been investigating why nearly one and
:20:59. > :21:02.half million older people drink too much. Research commissioned by the
:21:02. > :21:05.programme shows that the deaths of 50,000 British pensioners could be
:21:05. > :21:09.avoided over the next decade by setting a minimum price for alcohol
:21:09. > :21:12.at 50p per unit. The programme was made by Dame Joan Bakewell, who was
:21:12. > :21:20.previously the Government's voice for older people - and we can talk
:21:20. > :21:25.to her now. You describe this as a hidden problem, how big is it?
:21:25. > :21:29.nearly 1.5 million people are drinking too much, which means
:21:29. > :21:35.beyond the government's recommended guidelines. But there is a very
:21:35. > :21:41.serious element, in that there are more admissions to hospital for
:21:41. > :21:45.alcohol-related injuries and illnesses among the over 65s then
:21:45. > :21:49.between the ages of 16 and 24, which is a great surprise to
:21:50. > :21:55.everyone. Everyone imagines it is about binge drinking youngsters,
:21:55. > :22:00.but the story that goes untold is that of older people, living alone,
:22:00. > :22:06.isolated, drinking on their own every day. Is that the main driver
:22:06. > :22:10.of this loneliness? Yes, there are many things about the lifestyle of
:22:11. > :22:18.people who are older. It is quite different from that of other people.
:22:18. > :22:23.They don't have jobs, couriers, ambitions, for full brunt of that
:22:23. > :22:27.kind -- fulfilment. There is often and loneliness, which is
:22:27. > :22:33.accelerated when there is bereavement of the person they are
:22:33. > :22:39.married to, or of close friends. The overall sadness of knowing that
:22:39. > :22:49.you have not got very long at left believe it. So there is a sense of,
:22:49. > :22:49.
:22:49. > :22:53.enjoy it what you can. If that is the problem, what is the solution?
:22:53. > :22:57.Well, I think the solution is to change your pattern of drinking. I
:22:57. > :23:03.am in the programme as one of the candidates for this advice, which
:23:03. > :23:09.is not to drink regularly every day, but take a break from drinking, to
:23:09. > :23:14.allow delivered to recover. This programme isn't against sociability
:23:14. > :23:23.and drinking, but against that to pinpoint in which social drinking
:23:23. > :23:30.becomes addiction, and becomes an unhappy state of affairs. The thank
:23:30. > :23:38.you for your time. Yesterday saw six gold medals on
:23:38. > :23:44.the track, the swimming pool and the sea. There have been more
:23:44. > :23:47.medals today. It all comes as the government announces that the
:23:47. > :23:53.country's victorious athletes will be recognised in their own Honours
:23:53. > :23:56.List. There had been concern that the usual system wouldn't be able
:23:56. > :24:00.to reflect the scale of British success - a grand total of 29
:24:00. > :24:02.Olympic golds in London 2012 and more than 100 medals so far in the
:24:02. > :24:04.Paralympics - with more expected to come today.
:24:04. > :24:11.The morning after the night before. A glorious Friday at the Olympic
:24:11. > :24:16.Park, but it will struggle to be more glorious than Thursday. The
:24:16. > :24:19.name is Jamie Peacock, the performance of breathtaking. In a
:24:19. > :24:24.Paralympics full of highlight, this is perhaps the brightest yet.
:24:24. > :24:32.Peacock had beaten the best in the business, the great Oscar Pistorius,
:24:32. > :24:37.he could get no way near him. He was just five when his left leg was
:24:37. > :24:41.amputated, now at 19, Peacock is the Paralympic champion. A packed
:24:41. > :24:46.stadium was it chanting his name. He doesn't get any better.
:24:46. > :24:50.Absolutely crazy. A can't put into words what the crowd have been like,
:24:50. > :24:55.they truly have made these games and brought it alight. You can't
:24:55. > :25:03.take an athlete away from these and say they will not take anything
:25:03. > :25:07.away from it, I think the crowd a commentary, I am so proud of them.
:25:07. > :25:16.What a gold rush it was. The most glittering night in Britain's
:25:16. > :25:22.Paralympic history, led by the wheelchair races. David Weir's
:25:22. > :25:27.third goal of the games in the 800 metres prompted howls of delight.
:25:27. > :25:33.While in the 200, and a Cockroft was again in a league of her own,
:25:33. > :25:39.streets ahead of her rivals. A margin even she couldn't quite
:25:39. > :25:45.believe. Everybody said we must have realised you were going to win,
:25:45. > :25:51.but no, I only realised when I crossed the line. But the greatest
:25:51. > :25:58.achievement of all belonged to Sarah story, who went to another
:25:58. > :26:05.victory. She first made her Paralympic debut to decades ago in
:26:05. > :26:09.Barcelona. -- two decades ago. feels amazing, but you cannot
:26:09. > :26:14.control those kinds of things, some after Leeds' only get one event
:26:14. > :26:22.each time. I'm just grateful I had been able to compete for my country.
:26:22. > :26:26.This is my 6th games, I still feel like a 14-year-old! To Paralympians
:26:26. > :26:30.and Olympians are to get their own New year's Honours List, with no
:26:30. > :26:35.limit on the number of all wards, to reflect this remarkable summer
:26:36. > :26:42.of sporting success -- the number of awards. And there was more this
:26:42. > :26:47.morning. Tracy Pearson to gold in her distance events. Although the
:26:47. > :26:55.happiest man today was surely this Iraqi after lead, after his silver
:26:55. > :27:00.medal winning throw in the javelin. -- Iraqi after leaked.
:27:00. > :27:06.The TV presenter Terry Nutkins has died. He was best known for Animal
:27:06. > :27:15.Magic. The 66-year-old was in hospital being treated for
:27:15. > :27:23.leukaemia. He died yesterday afternoon. Let -- let's catch up
:27:23. > :27:29.Summer is lingering on for the start of the weekend, but as Sunday
:27:29. > :27:34.goes on, we will see a better of a change. Let's concentrate on here
:27:34. > :27:38.and now, and it is a beautiful day developing, after a chilly start.
:27:38. > :27:44.Temperatures currently hitting 24 degrees across some eastern parts
:27:44. > :27:53.of England. It has been a bit more of a struggle for the north-west
:27:53. > :27:55.and western parts of Scotland, the cloud has been lingering on. It is
:27:55. > :28:00.these western parts of Scotland which are likely to hang on to a
:28:00. > :28:07.bit more cloud, maybe even some patchy light rain, are still better
:28:07. > :28:11.than yesterday, mind you. Down across northern England to the east
:28:11. > :28:17.of the Pennines, we hang on to the sunny spells, temperatures peaking
:28:17. > :28:23.around the mid- twenties across East Anglia, a lot of sunshine to
:28:23. > :28:30.be enjoyed. The beaches of the south-west looking as good if not
:28:30. > :28:36.better than they have done for the most part of this summer. A fine
:28:36. > :28:39.afternoon across Wales. A fine evening as well, we should find it
:28:39. > :28:44.the skies staying clear, but the cloud will tend to increase
:28:44. > :28:52.gradually. We will see more for turning up, a hint that the nights
:28:52. > :28:58.are getting longer. Still a chill in the air across southern areas
:28:58. > :29:04.underneath those clear skies. Into Saturday, a bit of a slow start for
:29:04. > :29:11.many. Sunshine initially becoming much more widespread as the day
:29:11. > :29:19.goes on, very few places missing out on that warm sunshine. Western
:29:19. > :29:23.Scotland and parts of northern England, a bit cloudier at times.
:29:23. > :29:30.Temperatures will dip a weight if you're heading towards the Proms in
:29:30. > :29:34.the park in Caerphilly and the Belfast. Into Sunday, a change
:29:34. > :29:42.under way, winds a freshening up from the West, bringing some cloud
:29:42. > :29:47.and rain, but further east we hang on to the very warm weather. That