:00:11. > :00:16.A shake-up in the exam system in England. The Deputy Prime Minister
:00:16. > :00:21.says the changes will raise standards. After nearly 25 years,
:00:21. > :00:25.GCSEs will be out and O-level-style one-off exams are coming back.
:00:25. > :00:30.think you can raise standards, increase rigour and confidence in
:00:30. > :00:35.our exam system, but still do so in a single-tier system, which covers
:00:35. > :00:39.the vast majority of children in this country. Duke and Duchess of
:00:39. > :00:43.Cambridge take a French magazine to court to stop further publication
:00:43. > :00:47.of photos of the Duchess sun bathing topless. As fighting
:00:47. > :00:51.continues in Syria, allegations that opposition forces have carried
:00:51. > :00:56.out torture and summary executions. An officer cleared of killing a
:00:56. > :01:00.newspaper seller during protests in London has been found guilty of
:01:00. > :01:08.gross misconduct by a police disciplinary hearing. And later in
:01:08. > :01:14.the programme, an exclusive report on plans for a remarkable adventure.
:01:14. > :01:20.Britain's greatest living explorer, Ranulph Fiennes announces his
:01:20. > :01:25.Expedition. Later on BBC London: Can you tell me why you have been
:01:25. > :01:35.selling rats in your shop? We expose the trade in legal meat,
:01:35. > :01:47.
:01:47. > :01:54.putting Londoners' health at risk. Hello. Good afternoon. Welcome to
:01:54. > :01:58.the BBC News at One. It's nearly 25 years since the coursework-led GCSE
:01:58. > :02:03.replaced the exam-based O-level. This afternoon, the Government will
:02:03. > :02:07.announce it wants to return to a single end of course exam in
:02:07. > :02:13.England. Pupils who have started secondary school this year will be
:02:13. > :02:21.the first to take the revised exams in 2017. Labour describe the
:02:21. > :02:24.proposals as a step backwards. A picture of unity, but it has been
:02:25. > :02:31.a rocky road for the Education Secretary, Michael Gove and Nick
:02:31. > :02:40.Clegg on exams. Mr Gove reportedly wanted a return to tough O-level
:02:40. > :02:45.type exams, with easier CSEs for the less able. Can I ask how many
:02:45. > :02:48.of you want to go to university? Every single one? There are people
:02:48. > :02:53.who say if you want to raise standards you have to leave some
:02:53. > :02:59.children behind and others that say if you want to cover all children
:02:59. > :03:03.you have to lower standards. I disagree. You can increase rigour
:03:03. > :03:07.and confidence in our system, but still do so in a way that is a
:03:07. > :03:13.single-tier system, which covers the vast majority of children in
:03:13. > :03:17.this country. Exam reform has been testing for this coalition. Schools
:03:17. > :03:21.can expect major changes. The new exam, name to be revealed this
:03:21. > :03:25.afternoon, will be tougher than existing GCSEs. They are expected
:03:25. > :03:33.to be introduced initially in English, maths and science. The
:03:33. > :03:36.first exams will be sat in 2017. These 11 year olds will be the
:03:36. > :03:40.first to sit the new exam, if it goes ahead.
:03:40. > :03:46.The new courses are not due to start until after the next general
:03:46. > :03:51.election, meaning Labour could ditch them if they get in. What we
:03:51. > :03:59.know is it seems like this is a big step back towards the 1980s, rather
:03:59. > :04:03.than a modern exam system, with the kind of breadth testing the skills
:04:03. > :04:07.for a modern economy. From this political fix which appears to have
:04:07. > :04:12.been made with the coalition partners and the Lib Dems this is a
:04:12. > :04:18.step backwards towards the 1980s. Until 1988 there were O-levels,
:04:18. > :04:23.with CSEs for less able pupils T system was seen as divisive and was
:04:23. > :04:27.scrapped in favour of the GCSE. The Education Secretary at the time
:04:27. > :04:31.broadly supports today's reform, but wants reassurance. I don't want
:04:31. > :04:35.to see any downgrading of vocational qualifications. These
:04:35. > :04:39.are critical. Millions of youngsters take vocational
:04:39. > :04:43.qualifications. That involves project work, it involves team work,
:04:43. > :04:49.and learning by doing. I am a passionate believer that you can
:04:49. > :04:52.learn by doing as well as studying. Wales, where these pupils
:04:52. > :04:57.celebrated GCSE results earlier this summer and Northern Ireland
:04:57. > :05:00.have their own decisions to make about the future of the exam w the
:05:00. > :05:08.Welsh Government carrying out a review that is reporting in
:05:08. > :05:12.November. Well, as you can see Reeta joins us now. The question is,
:05:12. > :05:16.will these exams raise standards? Kate, there is general agreement
:05:16. > :05:22.across the political divide and among many head teachers that
:05:22. > :05:25.standards do need to be raised T GCSE is seen by many as not
:05:25. > :05:29.rigorous nothing. There is worry about grade inflation. This new
:05:29. > :05:33.exam which will have an exam at the end of the course f you like, is
:05:33. > :05:37.designed to raise standards and for example, there'll be a single exam
:05:37. > :05:41.board per subject, so that temptation that schools might have
:05:41. > :05:46.to shop around for the exam board, they feel sets easier questions,
:05:46. > :05:51.that will disappear. Those measure are expected to raise standards.
:05:51. > :05:54.The circumstance toll be squared is if you have this academically
:05:54. > :06:00.tougher exam, how can it be suitable for the majority of
:06:00. > :06:04.children? That was the point Lord Baker was making there. 40% of 16
:06:04. > :06:09.year olds fail to get five good GCSEs. It would seem there have got
:06:09. > :06:13.to be major changes, not just in the structuring of exams, but also
:06:13. > :06:17.in their content and the way they are taught for you to be able to
:06:17. > :06:21.say that standards will be raised. Thank you. You hinted in terms of
:06:21. > :06:23.will it come into effect? Given it will be after another general
:06:23. > :06:27.election. Our political correspondent is in Westminster.
:06:27. > :06:32.Will we really get to see any of this, given it is unlikely to come
:06:32. > :06:37.into play until 2017? I think that is the key point, Kate. I suspect
:06:37. > :06:41.at the school gate one thing that causes more angst than anything is
:06:41. > :06:44.uncertainty. There seems to me a huge cloud of uncertainty hanging
:06:44. > :06:49.over Michael Gove's reforms. Although he and the Deputy Prime
:06:49. > :06:52.Minister have clearly spelt out the template they want - a revamped O-
:06:52. > :06:57.level, the problem is these exams don't kick in after the next
:06:57. > :07:02.election w the first one not sat until 2017. Labour have signalled
:07:02. > :07:06.they oppose these reforms. Now, the Government say by 2015 it will be
:07:06. > :07:11.too late, schools will be gearing up. Labour disagree. They say they
:07:11. > :07:16.are opposed to an exam-only system and will seek to bring in their own
:07:16. > :07:23.reforms. In other words, there's an awful long way to go until we can
:07:23. > :07:26.say with clarity what will replace GCSEs. Thank you. Lawyers acting
:07:26. > :07:33.for Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have gone to court today to try and
:07:33. > :07:38.stop further publications of photographs of the -- photographs
:07:38. > :07:41.of the Duchess sun bathing topless. We'll have the latest on those
:07:41. > :07:47.proceedings in a moment. First our correspondent on how the events in
:07:47. > :07:51.France are impacting on the royal couple's tour of the Far East. Far
:07:51. > :07:54.away from courtrooms and legal submissions, in the Solomon Islands,
:07:54. > :07:59.William and Kate are concentrating on their visit to these territories
:07:59. > :08:05.in the South Pacific, which is not hard to do when the islands offer
:08:05. > :08:09.such eye-catching sights and sound. Perhaps unsurprisingly though, they
:08:09. > :08:12.seemed disinclined to linger when they were greeted by topless lady
:08:12. > :08:15.dancers. A bit too close for comfort, particularly perhaps for
:08:15. > :08:19.Kate. Earlier they seemed more relaxed
:08:19. > :08:25.than they have been at any point on this tour, laughing and joking
:08:25. > :08:29.together as they were shown around an open-air museum of Melanesian
:08:29. > :08:31.culture and history. William and Kate are known to be reliefed that
:08:31. > :08:37.the legal fight back against the French magazine is underway and
:08:37. > :08:40.determined with their officials to take as forceful a stand as French
:08:40. > :08:45.law allows. The couple are hoping that by taking such a very firm
:08:45. > :08:49.stand in France they will send a message to editors in every country
:08:49. > :08:54.that intrusion such as this will be fought in the courts.
:08:54. > :08:57.They have put behind them the shock and the anger they felt when they
:08:57. > :09:05.first discovered that the pictures had been taken, now it is for their
:09:05. > :09:09.lawyers and the French courts to deal with the matter. Well, indeed
:09:09. > :09:16.lawyers for the royal couple are due in court this afternoon. Our
:09:16. > :09:19.correspondent is there. Yes, this is the courthouse where
:09:19. > :09:23.the couple's lawyers will present their case later on. It may strike
:09:23. > :09:26.you as odd that we will not start here in France until 6pm this
:09:26. > :09:30.evening. It reflects the urgency with which papers were filed at the
:09:30. > :09:36.court on Friday evening and perhaps the lawyers were prepared to accept
:09:36. > :09:39.any slot available in a packed court diary. Urgent because Closer
:09:39. > :09:43.magazine is still available here, the photographs are still available
:09:43. > :09:49.for circulation and of course other publications are now following suit.
:09:49. > :09:55.The front-page cover that adds insult to injury - Duke and Duchess
:09:55. > :10:00.of Cambridge asked editors to exercise some restraint. The
:10:00. > :10:05.controversial photos were published again, this time in the Italian
:10:05. > :10:11.magazine Chi and over 26 pages. In Nanterre lawyers for the Royal
:10:11. > :10:19.couple began the fight-back. A decision is pending whether to sue
:10:19. > :10:23.the Danish Daily Star and Chi. Lawyers acting for the couple will
:10:23. > :10:27.request an interim interjunction, followed by a criminal complaint
:10:27. > :10:30.against the magazine and the photographer, who snooped on the
:10:31. > :10:34.couple's privacy. Inevitably the photos of the Duchess will evoke
:10:34. > :10:38.memories of the treatment suffered by William's late mother, and
:10:39. > :10:43.particularly here in France. The inquest ruled it with us the
:10:43. > :10:51.pursuing paparazzi partly responsible for the car crash which
:10:51. > :10:55.killed the Princess of Wales. The editor of Closer seems to have more
:10:55. > :10:59.photos to publish. That would show how William has acted. They are on
:10:59. > :11:05.the balcony of a mansion in the south of France, not far from a
:11:05. > :11:12.road, which cars drive along from. They a young couple in love. She is
:11:13. > :11:17.a young woman who is topless just like you see on beaches around the
:11:17. > :11:25.world. Some are calling for the court to set a precedent, with
:11:25. > :11:34.record damages. Any act has consequences. If the consequences
:11:34. > :11:37.are heavier, than you might think twice. But an interim interjunction
:11:37. > :11:41.will only stop redistribution of the photographs here in France. The
:11:41. > :11:44.Royal couple can hardly sue every publication in every country where
:11:44. > :11:49.the photos appear. Right now they are being offered for a Princely
:11:49. > :11:52.sum. I told you that the criminal
:11:52. > :11:56.complaint would follow the civil hearing here before three
:11:56. > :12:00.magistrates this afternoon. I understand that in the past hour,
:12:00. > :12:03.lawyers have filed those criminal papers, but there is no name in the
:12:03. > :12:06.lawsuit, that is because they don't know the identity of the
:12:06. > :12:11.photographer that they would like to sue. Nor is the magazine obliged
:12:11. > :12:14.to tell them. We understand that they take protection of sources
:12:14. > :12:19.very seriously here in France. Although the skoir has been given
:12:19. > :12:23.great prom -- story has been given great prominence in Britain, it is
:12:23. > :12:28.unlikely the judges will demand that the magazine will disclose the
:12:28. > :12:34.name. The battle for controm of Syria's
:12:34. > :12:38.biggest city, Aleppo, is about to enter its third month. The past
:12:38. > :12:42.week has seen the most intense air strikes since fighting began.
:12:42. > :12:45.Rebels claim they have control of three-quarters of the city. The
:12:45. > :12:51.Government insists terrorists are being cleared out one neighbourhood
:12:51. > :12:57.at a time. Our correspondent has been inside Syria along with a
:12:57. > :13:07.camera man. A woman flees barefoot from her
:13:07. > :13:16.
:13:16. > :13:24.Al-Assad ast, you pig, he sound - you enemy of God, these were
:13:25. > :13:30.There were no emergency services to speak of.
:13:30. > :13:38.Neighbours came out to do what they can.
:13:38. > :13:47.Then some good news. Three little girls are pulled alive from the
:13:47. > :13:53.wreckage of the building. It's incredible they survived this.
:13:53. > :13:56.Paul Wood reporting there. Our correspondent is here. Civil war is
:13:56. > :14:01.incredibly nasty. As totys now being reported on both sides?
:14:01. > :14:04.is right. There's a new report out today by the human rights
:14:04. > :14:09.monitoring agency, Human Rights Watch, which says the armed
:14:09. > :14:14.opposition as well as the Syrian army are accused of severe human
:14:14. > :14:20.rights abuses. They say the Government, the Syrian army, may be
:14:21. > :14:26.responsible for more systematic abuses, but they have documented 12
:14:26. > :14:30.cases of extra judicial summary executions, as well as cases where
:14:30. > :14:36.detainees were subject to torture. It echos a report which came from
:14:36. > :14:40.the UN human rights council in mid- August, which as it happens is
:14:40. > :14:44.being debated in Geneva today. There too they say that the Syrian
:14:44. > :14:50.Government may be accused of a state directive policy of murder
:14:50. > :14:55.and torture of civilians, but nonetheless it looks as though
:14:55. > :15:00.there were abuses among opposition fighters. They talk about an
:15:00. > :15:07.alarming presence of Islamist militants who are radicaliseing the
:15:07. > :15:17.conflict. Thank you. Just a word, you can see Paul Wood's full report
:15:17. > :15:17.
:15:17. > :15:22.The police officer who pushed Ian Tomlinson to the ground shortly
:15:22. > :15:25.before he died, has been I cuesed of gross misconduct. PC Simon
:15:25. > :15:28.Harwood is appearing in a Metropolitan Police disciplinary
:15:28. > :15:32.hearing. Danny Shaw is there for us in
:15:32. > :15:36.London. Tell us what happened? hearing began with an omission
:15:36. > :15:41.Bihar har har that his actions had brought discredit on the
:15:41. > :15:48.Metropolitan Police, amounting to gross misconduct. He said that in
:15:48. > :15:51.hindsight he would not have used force against tomorrow -- Ian
:15:51. > :15:57.Tomlinson. He said it had been unnecessary to strike him with a
:15:57. > :16:01.baton to the leg and to push him, which led him to fall to the ground.
:16:01. > :16:05.What followed then was a discussion as to whether the hearing should
:16:05. > :16:10.continue, given the omissions from PC Simon Harwood. The panel decided
:16:10. > :16:17.it did not need to consider the wider issue, theish that the family
:16:17. > :16:23.want addressed, as to whether or not PC Simon Harwood's actions
:16:23. > :16:28.continued -- caused to the death of Ian Tomlinson. If that is concluded
:16:28. > :16:31.it will not have to look at that issue it found PC Simon Harwood
:16:31. > :16:35.guilty of gross misconduct. That he breached the standards of
:16:35. > :16:39.professional misbehaviour. In the respects use of force, authority,
:16:39. > :16:42.respect and courtesy, that therefore he was guilty of gross
:16:42. > :16:46.misconduct. It is adjournsed to consider whether or not he should
:16:46. > :16:52.be sacked. That is the most likely course of action that it will take.
:16:52. > :16:57.We expect a result this afternoon. The top story:
:16:57. > :17:03.The shake-up in the exam system in England after a quarter of a
:17:03. > :17:10.century, GCSE will be out, O-level style one-off exams will be back.
:17:10. > :17:15.We reveal which city is the UK's illegal downloading hot spot.
:17:15. > :17:20.On BBC London: Tributes to a 14- year-old, chased from a bus and
:17:20. > :17:28.stabbed to death and how the London Design Festival opens up hidden
:17:28. > :17:31.areas of the Victoria and Albert museum.
:17:31. > :17:34.The families of four miners killed in the Gleision colliery disaster
:17:34. > :17:38.say that they are waiting for answers as to what happened. A year
:17:39. > :17:43.after the tragedy, the families have spoken about their pain at
:17:43. > :17:48.discovering that the men had died and their ongoing brief. The police
:17:48. > :17:52.say that they have handed a file to the Crown Prosecution Service.
:17:52. > :17:56.We have this report. It was the moment when four
:17:56. > :18:02.families' lives would change forever as the rescue teams tried
:18:02. > :18:07.to find loved ones in the belly of a mine. Garry Jenkins, David
:18:07. > :18:12.Powells, Philip Hill and Charles Breslin were experienced miners.
:18:12. > :18:16.For 36 hours the relatives waited in the village hall, hoping that at
:18:16. > :18:22.any moment their agony would be brought to an end.
:18:22. > :18:26.Every ecreek in the door, my son would say, daddy is here, they were
:18:26. > :18:30.wearing black helmets, but it was a rescue miner.
:18:30. > :18:36.This is all that remains of the Gleision colliery one year on.
:18:36. > :18:41.Flowers mark the spot where the entrance used to be. Where the
:18:41. > :18:45.rescuers started their journey to find the four men. Seen for the
:18:45. > :18:50.first time, these pictures were taken by the rescue service. After
:18:50. > :18:53.removing the bodies, they had to use tons of silt and rock by hand
:18:53. > :18:58.so that the investigators could work out what had gone wrong.
:18:58. > :19:03.We had to consider from the beginning that an act of negligence
:19:03. > :19:08.may have been behind this tragedy. That was certainly my focus.
:19:08. > :19:13.The police have questioned the manager of the mine who survived
:19:13. > :19:17.the flood and they have handed their file to the Crown Prosecution
:19:17. > :19:20.Service. For now the victims families say that their lives are
:19:20. > :19:24.on hold. At the moment, there are still so
:19:24. > :19:28.many unanswered questions of how this could have happened.
:19:28. > :19:32.To lose four lives, to ruin four families.
:19:32. > :19:36.More than �1 million has been raised to help the families of the
:19:36. > :19:41.four miners, but their grief will reemain raw until their questions
:19:41. > :19:49.are answered. Viewers in Wales can see more on
:19:49. > :19:55.that story in a special edition of Week in Week Out tonight at 8.30pm
:19:55. > :20:00.on BBC One Wales. A 35-year-old woman who took a drug
:20:00. > :20:03.on the internet to terminate her pregnancy has been sentenced to
:20:03. > :20:09.eight years in prison. Brigadier General Gunter Katz took the drug
:20:09. > :20:15.in the last few days -- Sarah Catt took the drug in the last few days
:20:15. > :20:22.of her pregnancy. It sounds like a terrible case, what are the details,
:20:22. > :20:27.Danny? Sarah Catt from North Yorkshire went to the British
:20:27. > :20:32.Pregnancy Advisory Service, for a pregnancy scan. The accurate of
:20:32. > :20:38.those put the pregnancy at 29 weeks. That is beyond the legal limit for
:20:38. > :20:42.abortion, that is standing at 24 weeks other than in exceptional
:20:42. > :20:48.circumstances. That is the last that the health authorities went
:20:48. > :20:53.looking for her. The police were called in, they seized her
:20:53. > :20:56.computers and they realised from the moment she went home after the
:20:56. > :21:00.scan, she had been looking for an illegal abortion and a drug that
:21:00. > :21:05.may have induced her own miscarriage. That is what she did.
:21:05. > :21:10.Almost at full-term. She took a drug that she bought on the
:21:10. > :21:15.internet that induced her miscarriage. She gave birth to a
:21:15. > :21:19.still-born baby boy at home, she buried him. The judge said she
:21:19. > :21:28.ended the life of a child capable of being born alive. She was
:21:28. > :21:34.sentenced to eight years in prison. The singer songwriter, Ed Sheeran
:21:34. > :21:41.may be 16th in the album chart for the UK, but there was talk that his
:21:41. > :21:48.album was downloaded more than any other illegally in 2012. It has
:21:48. > :21:54.been discorped that there is an illegal downloading hot spot.
:21:54. > :21:58.It has a proud musical heritage and record shops where the fans of
:21:58. > :22:05.vinyl come for something new, but Manchester is also a leader in
:22:05. > :22:09.geting music for free. In the UK, the equivalent of 40 million albums
:22:09. > :22:12.were downloaded illegally in the first half of the year, more so in
:22:12. > :22:17.Manchester than anywhere else. Maybe as that is because the city
:22:18. > :22:22.is home to many students. We asked some about the attitudes to music
:22:22. > :22:27.piracy. It is easier, quicker, cheaper. Cha
:22:27. > :22:31.is better. Yeah, I guess it is free. It does affect the music industry.
:22:31. > :22:36.The bigger damage is done to the smaller bands.
:22:36. > :22:39.Manchester may be number one for illegal downloads, but the students
:22:39. > :22:45.are aware that there are harmful consequences to the music industry.
:22:45. > :22:49.What about the artists though? Ed Sheeran, had the most downloaded
:22:49. > :22:52.album, but he does not seem worried about people getting his music for
:22:52. > :22:56.free. Speaking to Radio 1 this summer, he said that the most
:22:56. > :23:02.important thing was to get your music heard.
:23:02. > :23:06.I have sold 1.2 million albums, the stat is that there are 8 million
:23:06. > :23:10.downloads of that illegally. So 9 million people have my record in
:23:10. > :23:14.England that is a nice feeling. You get people that really want to
:23:14. > :23:19.listen to the songs and to come to an event like. This
:23:19. > :23:22.You have to worry about all of the artists who have not made money
:23:22. > :23:27.from music that want to be musicians. The session players, the
:23:27. > :23:32.people working in radio, the people in the recording studios, losing
:23:32. > :23:37.their jobs because of illegal downloading.
:23:37. > :23:43.Students here were given access to a cut price legal downloading
:23:43. > :23:47.service. So some good news for an industry still battling with piracy.
:23:47. > :23:54.Now, when you have been to the north whole, South Pole, across the
:23:54. > :24:00.Antartic and climbed every eest, you may wonder what is left to
:24:00. > :24:05.coner? Sir Ranulph Fiennes, often referred to as our greatest living
:24:05. > :24:13.explorer has announced a challenge to cross the Antartica in winter.
:24:13. > :24:17.We have this report from the team's training camp in Sweden.
:24:17. > :24:20.They estrode, man and machine through the deep freeze of the
:24:20. > :24:24.Arctic night. Their breath turning to ice
:24:24. > :24:30.crystals, almost as soon as it left their lungs.
:24:30. > :24:37.Fingers numb, toes hardened by the extreme cold. This is exploration
:24:37. > :24:41.at the limits of human endurance. Why? It is the way that I make my
:24:41. > :24:46.living. I did not get A-levels, this is what I do.
:24:46. > :24:53.But you could die out there? More people travelling on the motorway
:24:53. > :25:01.in the UK. I have never had a prok lep with an expedition.
:25:01. > :25:07.There is ice on my eyelashes. It is minus 35, but they are having to
:25:07. > :25:11.cope with twice that regards temperatures, minus 70. In the
:25:11. > :25:15.Antartica. It will be pitch black. If they can make it across the
:25:15. > :25:20.continent it will be an astonishing achievement.
:25:20. > :25:27.No-one's ever crossed Antartica in the winter before. So for months,
:25:27. > :25:31.they test every bit of kit. Two bulldozers will drag three
:25:31. > :25:38.industrial shreds, a science lab, living quarters and their supplies
:25:38. > :25:43.and fuel, but there are problems even here.
:25:43. > :25:47.They almost lost won of the bulldozers. The crevasses in the
:25:47. > :25:52.Antartica's ice sheet could prove fatal. This is precisely why they
:25:52. > :25:57.do days of testing here. The bulldozer there, it is pretty
:25:57. > :26:01.firmly wedged in. It is stuck at the moment. If this were to happen
:26:02. > :26:07.in Antartica during the expedition, they would be in big trouble.
:26:07. > :26:13.And what of the effect of minus 70 Celsius on the human body? People
:26:13. > :26:18.are not well designed for the cold. We evolved in warm places.
:26:18. > :26:22.One of the Mings that happens is that you begin to get cold quickly.
:26:22. > :26:26.The body then shuts off the blood supply to the hands and the feet.
:26:26. > :26:29.They are not getting warmth from the body and they are thin and on
:26:29. > :26:33.the end and on the outside of the environment. So the freezing of
:26:34. > :26:38.hands and feet is a real, real problem.
:26:38. > :26:42.Night falls and with it the temperature.
:26:42. > :26:46.But if any of this is to succeed, it is Sir Ranulph Fiennes who must
:26:46. > :26:52.make it across on foot. You just must not think about
:26:52. > :26:56.getting old, OK? If you are lucky enough to be able to walk around,
:26:56. > :27:04.not stoop, no crutch, no Zimmer frame, you may as well go for it.
:27:04. > :27:10.So, the pensioner will push himself to the limit, again.
:27:10. > :27:15.Well, I think lucky for us, the temperatures are somewhat higher in
:27:15. > :27:24.the UK, Phil? I was going to talk about chilly nights, but it is all
:27:24. > :27:29.relative. Perhaps we need to man up a wee bit! Afternoon, it is a day
:27:29. > :27:34.of scattered showers and sunny spells. Yesterday's rain, a feature
:27:34. > :27:37.of the Great North Run and the women's golf, it is now just away.
:27:37. > :27:41.Following behind, the cloud is bringing showers over the north and
:27:41. > :27:46.the western parts of the British Isles. They are there over Devon
:27:46. > :27:50.and Cornwall and running in on a noticeable breeze over parts of
:27:50. > :27:55.central and western Wales. The further east you are, the more
:27:55. > :28:00.likely you are drier. Towards the north, this is where the showers
:28:00. > :28:04.intensify. I would not be surprised to see thund ner Northern Ireland
:28:05. > :28:08.and over parts of Scotland. Taking yourself away around the Cowes and
:28:08. > :28:13.there are showers and some brightness, but the showers may
:28:13. > :28:17.gang up to give longer spells of rain as the time goes on. Towards
:28:17. > :28:22.central and eastern parts, a drying prospect. This is where the sunny
:28:22. > :28:26.spells take over. We will get the temperatures up there to 19 Celsius.
:28:26. > :28:29.The fronts I was talking about that The fronts I was talking about that
:28:29. > :28:33.brought the rain yesterday, They are lurking with intent to the
:28:33. > :28:37.south-east. There may be the odd spot of rain.
:28:37. > :28:42.The showers going over the northern and western parts. A cool night in
:28:42. > :28:47.the north, but not so in the south. The showers should be there from
:28:47. > :28:51.the word go across England and Wales. Light for the most parts
:28:52. > :28:57.there, but heavier in Northern Ireland and western Scotland. The
:28:57. > :29:02.showers becoming less frequent, but the temperatures, disappointing at
:29:02. > :29:05.up to 17 Celsius. Having got to the lofty heights, the thing about
:29:06. > :29:10.Tuesday night, on into Wednesday, the temperatures will be in singing
:29:10. > :29:14.figures. That is the regime across the towns and the cities, but in
:29:14. > :29:19.the countryside, we are certainly into single figures and I suspect
:29:20. > :29:23.one or two pockets of frost. A decent start in central and
:29:23. > :29:30.southern parts on Wednesday morning. Showers over the northern parts of
:29:30. > :29:38.the British Isles. Behind me, something a little more persistent,
:29:38. > :29:43.we will talk about that later. So chilly nights, blustery showers
:29:43. > :29:46.and longer spells as well. More showers into Thursday. More,
:29:46. > :29:50.More showers into Thursday. More, of course, on the website.