:00:12. > :00:16.The mother of a missing five-year- old break downs in tears as she
:00:16. > :00:18.appeals to the public to help find her daughter. April Jones was
:00:18. > :00:26.playing with friends on Monday evening when she was seen climbing
:00:26. > :00:35.into a car. A man has been arrested We are desperate for any news.
:00:35. > :00:38.April is only five years' old. Please, please, help find her.
:00:38. > :00:44.Police are continuing to question 46-year-old Mark Bridger and have
:00:44. > :00:47.appealed for witnesses who saw him or his car earlier this week.
:00:48. > :00:51.The West Coast Main Line rail fiasco. The Government scraps
:00:52. > :00:55.FirstGroup's contract to take over the line after the Transport
:00:55. > :01:00.secretary says significant flaws from found in the bidding process.
:01:00. > :01:03.I think what has happened is unacceptable, regrettable. I
:01:03. > :01:06.apologise. We have made a big mistake and the companies that have
:01:06. > :01:12.put bids in have done nothing wrong. Hundreds of police officers line
:01:12. > :01:16.the streets of Manchester for the funeral of Constable Nicola Hughes
:01:16. > :01:22.who was killed in a gun and grenade attack.
:01:22. > :01:28.Tesco reports its first fall in profits for nearly 20 years.
:01:28. > :01:38.On BBC London, paying tribute to the bomber, command but the
:01:38. > :01:49.
:01:49. > :01:53.ceremony could cost victims their Good afternoon. Welcome to the BBC
:01:53. > :01:59.News at one. The mother of the missing five-year-old, April Jones,
:01:59. > :02:03.broke down in tears as she made ang emotional plea for the return of
:02:03. > :02:06.her little girl. April was last soon by friends climbing into a car
:02:06. > :02:12.on Monday evening in Machynlleth. Police searching for her say there
:02:12. > :02:17.is still no news of her whereabouts. They are still questioning a 46-
:02:17. > :02:20.year-old, Mark Bridgerers who was arrested yesterday. The report
:02:20. > :02:25.contains flash photography. Despite the efforts of hundreds of people,
:02:25. > :02:29.there is no sign of April Jones. This lunch time her Des straut
:02:29. > :02:34.family appeared before the cameras for the first time, to plead for
:02:34. > :02:40.her safe return much -- distraught. Ch There must be someone out there
:02:40. > :02:47.who knows where she is and can help the police find her.
:02:47. > :02:52.We are desperate for any news. April is only five years old.
:02:52. > :02:57.Please, please help find her. This morning, the police confirmed
:02:57. > :03:02.that this man is being questioned on suspicion of April's abduction.
:03:02. > :03:10.Mark Bridger is 46, and from the local area. Detectives have also
:03:10. > :03:14.released a photograph of his vehicle, an land rover Discovery. -
:03:14. > :03:18.- Land Rover. Did you see that vehicle between Monday evening and
:03:18. > :03:23.Tuesday afternoon? Please don't assume that someone else has
:03:23. > :03:27.already contacted us. Please, even if you have the smallest of
:03:27. > :03:32.information, it could be crucial to this investigation.
:03:32. > :03:35.Once again, search teams have been scouring the town and surrounding
:03:35. > :03:39.area. So far without success. This time it's been without the help of
:03:39. > :03:44.the hundreds of volunteers. The emergency services preferring to
:03:44. > :03:48.rely now on specialist teams. Disappointment for some, who
:03:48. > :03:52.travelled more than 50 miles to be here. We heard about April going
:03:52. > :03:58.missing yesterday and we have come to see if we could help today, on
:03:58. > :04:02.our day off. We got here and they have stood down the volunteers.
:04:02. > :04:06.Frustrating? Veryous straighting, yeah.
:04:06. > :04:10.-- very frustrating. The town is trying to get back to business as
:04:10. > :04:15.usual, but it is proving difficult. Alison Jones is used to serving
:04:15. > :04:19.April and her friends in her sweet shop. The thought that something
:04:19. > :04:24.awful could happen to any one of these children and in particular
:04:24. > :04:31.April, is devastating. You know, they are so innocent and at that
:04:31. > :04:35.age, they are just full of wonder and it's just deep anguish, just
:04:35. > :04:41.worrying where she is. And until April is found, that anguish is
:04:41. > :04:44.unlikely to go away. Jon is in Machynlleth now.
:04:44. > :04:49.Heartbreaking seeing April's mother talking a short time ago. What is
:04:49. > :04:53.the latest, though, on the police investigation? Well, in terms of
:04:53. > :04:58.the search, Sophie, there is still no good news to report. There are
:04:58. > :05:02.specialists teams now in the town itself, in the surrounding
:05:02. > :05:06.countryside and on the river but so far still no sign at all of the
:05:07. > :05:13.missing girl. And of course, with every passing hour, the chances of
:05:13. > :05:17.a happy outcome to this are Dee diminishing just a little bit more.
:05:17. > :05:21.So a real sense of frustration here at the lack of progress, but they
:05:21. > :05:25.are still just holding out some hope that she is somewhere, safe
:05:25. > :05:30.and well and can be returned. Thank you very much.
:05:31. > :05:33.The Government has apologised after suddenly cancelling the multi-
:05:33. > :05:37.billion pound West Coast Main Line rail franchise that had been
:05:37. > :05:39.awarded to FirstGroup. Three civil servants have been suspended after
:05:39. > :05:43.significant technical flaws were found in the way the bidding
:05:43. > :05:46.process was handle. The fiasco will cost the taxpayer around �40
:05:46. > :05:51.million. The existing operator, Virgin Trains lcontinue to run the
:05:51. > :05:56.service for the moment. -- will continue. In a moment we will speak
:05:56. > :05:58.to the Virgin chairman, Branson ban but furst the Transport
:05:58. > :06:02.Correspondent is at Euston train station.
:06:03. > :06:08.-- but first. It is a seemingly incredible mistake that stopped the
:06:08. > :06:12.contest to run one of our busiest raillines in its tracks.
:06:12. > :06:17.Government experts got their sums wrong, failing to take inflation
:06:17. > :06:22.into account when they judged each company's bid. A mistake that will
:06:22. > :06:27.cost the taxpayer �40 million. An angry Transport Secretary, who has
:06:27. > :06:31.only tpwhn his job a few weeks, has been forced into a humiliating
:06:31. > :06:34.apology. -- only been in his job a few weeks. What has happened is
:06:34. > :06:38.unacceptable, regrettable. I apologise. We have made a big
:06:38. > :06:42.mistake as far as this department is concerned and the companies that
:06:42. > :06:45.have put bids in have done nothing wrong. All a far cry from the
:06:46. > :06:49.assurances of the last Transport Secretary, after losing boss Sir
:06:49. > :06:52.Richard Branson accused the Government of not running a fair
:06:52. > :06:57.contest. It is a fair and established process. It is a very
:06:57. > :07:02.probust process. The whole point of it actually being so probust is to
:07:02. > :07:06.Mick shur it is not politicised -- so robust. And that it is handled
:07:06. > :07:10.fairly for the bidders. It is an unbelievable shambles. I think it
:07:10. > :07:14.is almost difficult to comprehend how they could have wasted so much
:07:14. > :07:18.money with such gross mistakes and ministers not noticed. There is
:07:18. > :07:23.absolutely no chance that this mess is going to be cleaned up by the
:07:23. > :07:27.time Virgin's contract runs out in December. So, the big question for
:07:27. > :07:31.customers then - who is going to keep these trains running over the
:07:31. > :07:37.busy Christmas period and n beyond until they sort this whole thing
:07:37. > :07:41.out? Ministers have two choices: takeover the line themselves, or
:07:41. > :07:45.make an Mbeki bars aing phonecall to Sir Richard Branson, asking him
:07:45. > :07:52.to help Virgin must be delighted. If they had been preparing to
:07:52. > :07:56.rundown, they have now got to run up again -- make an embarrassing
:07:56. > :08:00.phone call. I would be happy for Virgin to keep the franchise.
:08:00. > :08:04.is not broke, don't fix it. It is a good service. Now the whole process
:08:04. > :08:08.for handing out train contracts is in doubt with more than a dozen
:08:08. > :08:11.multi-billion pound deals due to be awarded in the next couple of years
:08:11. > :08:18.There is no doubt that this will raise big questions, not only about
:08:18. > :08:22.the process itself and how bids are assessed but about the very nature
:08:22. > :08:26.of franchises. You know, why do we have this railway operated with
:08:26. > :08:30.this franchising system that no other country in the world actually
:08:30. > :08:34.uses in this particular way? Three officials have been suspended,
:08:34. > :08:38.while a review tries to find out how the Government got things so
:08:38. > :08:42.badly wrong. Richard Westcott with that report.
:08:42. > :08:45.Let's speak to Sir Richard Branson who is in our New York office. Good
:08:45. > :08:51.afternoon. Thank you for joining us. First of all your reaction to this
:08:51. > :08:56.rather sudden news? Well, obviously we're pleased that we don't have to
:08:56. > :09:02.go to court to try to settle it in court. We are grateful that the
:09:02. > :09:06.minister has taken it on the chin and been so forth right in
:09:06. > :09:11.acknowledging the major flaws to the process and we're obviously
:09:11. > :09:15.hopeful that Virgin Trains can now be back in the process and
:09:15. > :09:18.hopefully be running the West Coast Main Line and maybe other lines in
:09:18. > :09:23.the UK for many years to come. said at the time when this was
:09:23. > :09:28.first given to FirstGroup that it was flawed and insane. What, from
:09:29. > :09:34.your point of view, went wrong? think the process has been flawed
:09:34. > :09:37.and insane for some time. As we mentioned at the time, you know we
:09:37. > :09:40.were runners-up on three different occasions on the East Coast
:09:40. > :09:44.mainline. The bidders all went bust and the East Coast mainline could
:09:44. > :09:48.have been running high-speed fast trains today if the process had
:09:48. > :09:53.been correct. So, obviously the process is flawed. It needs to be
:09:53. > :09:57.sorted. I'm sure the Government will sort it. And if it is sorted
:09:57. > :10:02.and we feel - as I'm sure we will - it is going to be a fair process,
:10:02. > :10:05.we will be in there bidding and hopefully being able to do what we
:10:05. > :10:10.have done to the West Coast Main Line over the last ten years, for
:10:10. > :10:13.the next ten years, and this is invest in fantastic new trains,
:10:13. > :10:17.invest in our staff and increase the number of people who want it
:10:17. > :10:26.use the train. So you are pretty confident that you will now retain
:10:26. > :10:31.this line? Well, obviously what we were hopeful for, was when
:10:31. > :10:34.FirstGroup's bid was found to be flawed, that as runners-up we would
:10:34. > :10:38.have been given the keys. I don't think that is going to happen. I
:10:38. > :10:41.think we are going to have to go through yet another bid process but
:10:41. > :10:46.we are hopeful that in a fair bid process we can win it. We believed
:10:46. > :10:50.that we won this it this time and we believe we can win it next time
:10:50. > :10:53.around. There is still uncertainty, so for the meantime you keep
:10:53. > :10:57.running the West Coast Main Line, just to be clear? I think it is
:10:57. > :11:02.likely we will continue to run it. It would be madness for Government
:11:02. > :11:09.to try to, you know, put a team in to run it. We have a great team of
:11:09. > :11:15.people. You know, we should be able to run it until the bid process
:11:15. > :11:19.takes place, and then hopefully on a new, you know, seven-year or 15-
:11:19. > :11:22.year contract, whatever they decide going forward. Thank you very much
:11:22. > :11:26.for joining us. Hundreds of police officers and
:11:26. > :11:31.members of the public have lined the streets of central Manchester
:11:32. > :11:36.for the funeral of PC Nicola Hughes, the 23-year-old officer was
:11:36. > :11:41.murdered alongside her colleague, PC Fiona Bone in a gun and grenade
:11:41. > :11:44.attack last mob. Our correspondent, Judith more sits in Manchester.
:11:44. > :11:48.-- last month. The impact of the double police
:11:48. > :11:53.shooting always meant this was going to be a high-profile occasion
:11:53. > :11:58.and the grand setting of Manchester cathedral has provided a focal
:11:58. > :12:02.point for it, although I understhand PC Hughes's family also
:12:02. > :12:04.wanted to retain an ipbt feel to proceedings. But there has also
:12:05. > :12:08.been the marked involvement of officers of Greater Manchester
:12:08. > :12:13.Police. Right now inside the cathedral behind me, the service is
:12:13. > :12:17.under way and the Chief Constable of Manchester, Sir Peter Fahy has
:12:18. > :12:22.been talking, giving his recollections and some memories of
:12:22. > :12:25.PC Nicola Hughes' life and time as a police officer. There are 1,000
:12:25. > :12:30.members of her family, friends and colleagues inside the cathedral and
:12:30. > :12:34.many, many hundreds more watching this service on screens outside,
:12:34. > :12:40.because although many of these officers didn't know PC Hughes
:12:40. > :12:44.personally, they wanted to be a part of today, too.
:12:44. > :12:48.Nicola Hughes loved policing Greater Manchester. Today the
:12:48. > :12:53.city's police came out to return that affection. Thousands lining
:12:53. > :12:57.the road to the cathedral, as the funeral cortege passed by.
:12:57. > :13:01.They were joined by officers from each of the 43 police forces of
:13:01. > :13:04.England and Wales, some there to provide cover to allow their
:13:04. > :13:08.Manchester colleagues to attend. Police officers are very special
:13:08. > :13:11.people and they feel it all over the world when their colleagues are
:13:11. > :13:16.killed in this way. They are showing it by the support they are
:13:16. > :13:22.giving us today. I work in the Gwent yfrplt I personally wanted to
:13:22. > :13:26.come. In the Gwent area. I never met the officers but it has touched
:13:26. > :13:30.me. You expect to come to work and go home at the end of the day. It
:13:30. > :13:33.is a reminder of the dangerous job we do. From the City of London
:13:33. > :13:39.police. Obviously it is important to show our respect and solidarity
:13:39. > :13:44.do our colleagues in another force. Nicola Hughes was just 23 when she
:13:44. > :13:49.was shot. She died, her familiar polysay, doing the job she loved.
:13:49. > :13:53.She'd only joined the police three years ago. -- her family say. Last
:13:53. > :13:57.month she was on shift with PC Fiona Bone when the two officers
:13:57. > :14:03.were sent out to respond to a reported burglary. When they got to
:14:03. > :14:08.the house in Mottram they walked into a gun and grenade attack. PC
:14:08. > :14:15.Hughes' coffin was carried into the cathedral by her close colleagues.
:14:15. > :14:19.The occasion designed to include them alongside the officer's
:14:19. > :14:23.friends and family. PC bones' funeral is tomorrow. There are also
:14:23. > :14:28.plans for a further memorial. will be, later on, probably
:14:28. > :14:31.sometime in the new year, a sort of civic ceremony, a celebration of
:14:31. > :14:35.their lives a service of thanksgiving, which will be more a
:14:35. > :14:39.celebration of what they stand for, Nicola and Fiona and of the whole
:14:39. > :14:43.work of the Greater Manchester Police. After the cathedral service,
:14:43. > :14:46.PC Hughes' body will be taken away for a private sermony. Her family
:14:46. > :14:51.have said that she'd always be wanted to make a difference and
:14:51. > :14:56.that in doing so, she made a big difference to everyone she knew.
:14:56. > :15:00.Well as well as the involvement of the Chief Constable, some of the
:15:00. > :15:05.readings today have been given by the closest colleagues of PC Hughes
:15:05. > :15:09.who worked with her in the Tameside division here in Greater Manchester
:15:09. > :15:13.and with Fiona Bonne's funeral tomorrow these scenes will be
:15:13. > :15:23.repeated again as for a second time all of these police officers come
:15:23. > :15:35.
:15:35. > :15:39.out to pay tribute to a fallen A British boy was among those who
:15:39. > :15:43.died when a ferry crash in Hong Kong. 38 people were killed,
:15:43. > :15:47.including five children, when the boat sank in the busy waters south
:15:47. > :15:52.of Hong Kong island. Seven crew members have been arrested.
:15:52. > :15:58.The Hamas government in Gaza is being accused of using torture,
:15:58. > :16:00.police brutality and arbitrary arrests. The allegations come in a
:16:00. > :16:06.new report from the grim Human Rights Watch. Hamas have denied
:16:06. > :16:10.widespread abuse. Britain's biggest retailer, Tesco,
:16:10. > :16:15.has reported its first fall in profits for nearly 20 years. One of
:16:15. > :16:20.its rivals, Sainsbury's, saw its like-for-like sales rise slightly
:16:20. > :16:24.in the first half of the financial year. Tesco's chief executive,
:16:24. > :16:29.Philip Clarke, said it was proof of difficult trading conditions for
:16:29. > :16:34.all supermarkets. Emma Simpson has the details.
:16:34. > :16:38.20 million of us may shop in one of the stores every week, but for the
:16:38. > :16:44.mighty Tesco the going is tough. Recession has taken its toll, and
:16:44. > :16:50.sales have slowed over says. Today's saw the first fall in
:16:50. > :16:54.profits for nearly 20 years, down at 11.6%, but they still made close
:16:54. > :17:00.to �2 billion. The boss says they took a hit to turn a UK business
:17:00. > :17:05.around. Back in April, we set out a plan to put that right. We are
:17:05. > :17:09.investing �1 billion in the first six months, 8,000 new colleagues
:17:09. > :17:13.into our existing stores, relaunched 2000 products, you know,
:17:13. > :17:19.we are busy making improvements that our customers will notice.
:17:19. > :17:24.There are signs that the plan may be working with UK sales growing
:17:24. > :17:29.ever so slightly for the first time in almost two years. Tesco is still
:17:29. > :17:34.a hugely successful world-class company. It continues to be the
:17:34. > :17:37.biggest player by far up here in the UK. But if they have already
:17:37. > :17:42.got so much of the market, winning more of it becomes increasingly
:17:42. > :17:51.difficult. Tesco took its eye off the ball and now a smaller
:17:51. > :17:56.retailers like Sainsbury's are Campaigns like this have helped
:17:57. > :17:59.Sainsbury's pylon sales, outperforming its bigger rival.
:17:59. > :18:03.performance is relative. We are growing more than any of our
:18:03. > :18:07.competitors, and that must mean we are helping our customers better
:18:07. > :18:12.than they are. It is a fast- changing business, partly because
:18:12. > :18:16.these days many of us are no longer doing the big trolley shop. Instead,
:18:16. > :18:21.they are shopping little and often in local stores, buying the big
:18:21. > :18:25.shop online, mostly to avoid fuel prices, to avoid paying VAT on
:18:25. > :18:30.prices to go to the out-of-town locations. The battle has never
:18:30. > :18:38.been rated to win our wallets. For Tesco, the fightback has begun, but
:18:38. > :18:41.the turnaround is not going to be Our top story this lunchtime: The
:18:41. > :18:46.mother of missing five-year-old April Jones broke down in tears as
:18:46. > :18:48.she appealed for the safe return of her daughter. Police are
:18:48. > :18:52.questioning 46-year-old Mark Bridger.
:18:52. > :18:55.Coming up, he is back, Kevin Pietersen is reinstated to the
:18:55. > :19:02.England cricket team after apologising for sending provocative
:19:02. > :19:04.text matches. -- text messages. Later on BBC London, a story of
:19:04. > :19:07.love, mistaken identity and revolution, choreographer Katie
:19:07. > :19:17.Prince talks about Some Like it Hip Hop and the company's Olivier
:19:17. > :19:22.
:19:22. > :19:26.It is called the Bloodhound, it is powered by a rocket, and British
:19:26. > :19:30.engineers are hoping the car will break the land speed record and the
:19:30. > :19:35.sound barrier by travelling at more than 1,000 mph. The engine has been
:19:35. > :19:39.fired up for the first time today. Robert Hall is in Newquay.
:19:39. > :19:43.Sophie, tense times for the Bloodhound team, inside a concrete
:19:43. > :19:47.hangar, about 100 metres from where the rocket test will take place.
:19:47. > :19:52.They are completing the fuelling process. It is a tense time because
:19:52. > :19:57.this is the moment that will test whether the drafting and design
:19:57. > :20:07.stage will bear fruit. Over my shoulder, is the control centre,
:20:07. > :20:07.
:20:07. > :20:12.and expect to push the button On a windswept Cornish hill top,
:20:12. > :20:17.shrouded by a relic of the Cold War, the sounds which herald a milestone
:20:17. > :20:20.moment, Europe's largest hybrid rocket burning a fuel which needs a
:20:20. > :20:25.Formula One engine just to supply it fast enough. From the outset,
:20:25. > :20:30.the team set out to confront the seemingly impossible, the kit of
:20:30. > :20:35.parts laid out in this Heine might just be the key. The rocket will
:20:35. > :20:38.combine with the power from this, the engine from an RAF Typhoon.
:20:38. > :20:42.They will fit one above the other in the body of the car that is now
:20:42. > :20:49.being built. The object is to get a seven-ton vehicle down a measured
:20:49. > :20:51.mile in just under 3 1/2 seconds. Building a thousand mph car is an
:20:51. > :20:55.extraordinary technical and engineering challenge, and to make
:20:55. > :21:00.it work is going to be huge amount of pressure from five years ago
:21:00. > :21:10.when we started with a blank sheet of paper, all the way through to
:21:10. > :21:11.
:21:11. > :21:16.This is a project which aims to draw us all in, to inspire
:21:16. > :21:20.engineers of the future, whether they are from the UK or from the
:21:20. > :21:26.communities that surround the chosen track near the Namibian
:21:26. > :21:31.border. That they carry out their dry runs, Blood and's engineers
:21:31. > :21:34.know they will have a worldwide audience. This is the first time we
:21:34. > :21:38.have put all the elements of the rocket system together. We have
:21:38. > :21:45.tested the Allen and separately, but we will be bringing the whole
:21:45. > :21:52.system together for a complete test. -- the elements. Bloodhound should
:21:52. > :21:55.go across the 1,000 mph barrier in 2014. The countdown to that moment
:21:55. > :22:00.is well under way. Well, it is not just the
:22:00. > :22:03.engineering team who are monitoring what is going on. I talked about
:22:03. > :22:08.accessibility, there is an application so anyone can watch the
:22:08. > :22:11.performance of the rocket engine on their mobile devices are any sort,
:22:11. > :22:17.computers at home. There are already 100,000 people who are
:22:17. > :22:20.watching what is going on. The latest I have on the timing, Sophie,
:22:20. > :22:24.is that they expect to fire the Rock shortly after 2 o'clock if you
:22:24. > :22:28.want to join those viewers. -- the rocket.
:22:28. > :22:33.Lawyers for Abu Hamza have told the High Court he has diabetes,
:22:33. > :22:35.depression and high blood pressure. He is fighting extradition to the
:22:35. > :22:38.United States on terrorism charges, but one of the judges hearing the
:22:38. > :22:42.case said the sooner he stands trial, the better and that he did
:22:42. > :22:45.not see how a delay was in the interests of justice.
:22:45. > :22:50.The new women's minister, Maria Miller, has said the leap in
:22:50. > :22:53.abortion limit -- the legal abortion and it should be lowered
:22:53. > :22:56.by four weeks because of advances in medical science. She said it was
:22:56. > :23:00.common sense because care for extremely premature babies has
:23:00. > :23:04.improved. Nearly half of all state schools in
:23:04. > :23:08.England have no girls taking A- level physics, according to a new
:23:08. > :23:13.report. The Institute of Physics says the situation is shocking and
:23:13. > :23:17.unacceptable. Science correspondent Pallab Ghosh reports.
:23:17. > :23:21.Today we are talking about velocity... The pupils of Lampton
:23:21. > :23:26.School in west London love their physics lessons, especially the
:23:26. > :23:32.girls. I like learning about different things, especially as I
:23:32. > :23:35.am into Formula One, and that has quite a lot to do with it. I enjoy
:23:35. > :23:41.science in general, but in physics you see how things used every day
:23:41. > :23:46.have a lot of science included. Many of the girls here are likely
:23:46. > :23:53.to go on to do A-level physics, but that is not the case in most state
:23:53. > :23:57.schools. In England, half of them do not send a single Goole to Delhi
:23:57. > :24:00.A level physics. -- girl. Campaigners say they are interested
:24:00. > :24:05.in A-level physics but have their curiosity driven out by the
:24:05. > :24:09.attitude in many schools that it is not for girls, and so the thought
:24:09. > :24:12.too many highly paid jobs is slammed shut simply by their choice
:24:12. > :24:17.of secondary school. The disparity is much greater for physics than
:24:17. > :24:22.any other science subjects. Slightly more A-level entries for
:24:22. > :24:32.biology from girls, in chemistry the numbers are equal. But for
:24:32. > :24:32.
:24:32. > :24:35.physics, it is much less, just 20% are girls. While at NASA, this
:24:35. > :24:39.astrophysicists discover atmospheres around the world's
:24:39. > :24:47.orbiting distant stars. She hopes girls will be inspired by her
:24:47. > :24:54.example. I wanted to be a physicist, and I am very happy at 42 have done
:24:54. > :24:58.those choices, so I would like to see female students like me who
:24:58. > :25:04.take the same path. At Lampton School, it helps that the physics
:25:04. > :25:08.teacher is a woman. She organises girls-only workshops and brings in
:25:08. > :25:13.female scientists as well models. It is an approach that the
:25:13. > :25:18.Institute of Physics would like more schools to follow.
:25:18. > :25:21.Kevin Pietersen has signed a new England contract but must undergo a
:25:21. > :25:25.reintegration period before he returns to international action.
:25:25. > :25:29.The 32-year-old batsman was dropped for sending provocative text
:25:29. > :25:33.messages to opposing players during the Test series against Africa.
:25:33. > :25:37.Speaking at a press conference in Colombo, he expressed regret for
:25:37. > :25:42.the controversy. I would just like to take this opportunity to
:25:42. > :25:45.apologise to my team-mates, all the England supporters and the EC
:25:45. > :25:49.before the situation that has arisen over the last couple of
:25:49. > :25:52.months, but thankfully we have drawn a line under it and it is
:25:52. > :25:56.time to move forward. Although it has already been covered in my
:25:56. > :26:02.statement, at no time did I ever share tactical information with any
:26:02. > :26:05.of the South Africans or management. Playing for England is the pinnacle
:26:05. > :26:09.of any cricketer's career, and I want the opportunity to do it again
:26:09. > :26:13.as soon as possible. Some of the proudest and best moments of my
:26:13. > :26:17.life have been in an England shirt, and I want that to continue for as
:26:17. > :26:21.long as possible. I am entirely completed to completing the
:26:21. > :26:30.reintegration process that we have agreed and resuming my England
:26:30. > :26:33.career in all forms, hopefully until the World Cup in 20 will stop
:26:33. > :26:37.-- in 2014, as long as my body allows.
:26:37. > :26:41.We can speak to cricket correspondent Jonathan Agnew, who
:26:41. > :26:46.was at that press conference in Colombo. What does this
:26:47. > :26:52.reintegration process mean? Well, I will try on a rather difficult line,
:26:52. > :26:55.but I have never heard of one in 35 years of cricket! It means he is
:26:55. > :26:59.going to have to show commitment and loyalty to his team-mates. The
:26:59. > :27:04.text messages are very central to this. Basically, his colleagues
:27:04. > :27:08.felt he had become treacherous in sending text messages to the South
:27:08. > :27:12.Africans. It is clear that the board take his fear that he did not
:27:12. > :27:16.send the first one, it was not instigated by him, but he will have
:27:16. > :27:20.meetings with his team-mates and the management, a process overseen
:27:20. > :27:23.by Andy Flower, and will he then go on tour to India and the Test squad
:27:23. > :27:27.next month? That is the big question. England have been beaten
:27:27. > :27:31.badly without him, and I think that the first sign of loyalty and
:27:31. > :27:37.commitment, he will be back in that Test side again.
:27:37. > :27:41.A look at the weather now with Nick Quieter weather for a time this
:27:41. > :27:46.weekend, but I have also got more heavy rain in a forecast. All those
:27:46. > :27:50.details coming up, but today it is a mixture of sunshine and showers,
:27:50. > :27:55.not evenly spread across the UK, some of us getting more than our
:27:55. > :27:58.fair share, others largely dry with sunshine. The showers are mostly
:27:59. > :28:03.focused on the south coast, the Bristol Channel, north-west England,
:28:03. > :28:07.northern and western Scotland. Away from these areas, you may well stay
:28:07. > :28:11.dry and get the sunshine. Frequent showers in the North West,
:28:11. > :28:15.particularly in Lancashire, some drifting into West Yorkshire, and
:28:15. > :28:19.where the ground is saturated there will be some local flooding. It is
:28:19. > :28:25.wet in Shetland, showers in northern and western Scotland, very
:28:25. > :28:29.few to the East Stand in Northern Ireland. Drier weather in Wales,
:28:29. > :28:33.but showers will gather this evening, some brushing the south
:28:33. > :28:37.coast, running through the Bristol Channel and into south-west England.
:28:37. > :28:41.With any showers today, you could get a rumble of thunder and see
:28:42. > :28:46.some hail, further heavy downpours. Few are inland across England and
:28:46. > :28:49.we have seen today, plenty of sunshine across East Anglia, the
:28:49. > :28:55.winds easing. The showers in the north-west and Wales continue this
:28:55. > :28:58.evening, starting to break up. An area of potentially heavy rain
:28:58. > :29:02.running along the south coast from the Isle of Wight. Away from these
:29:02. > :29:07.areas, lots of dry weather overnight, clear spells, cold in
:29:07. > :29:12.the countryside, particularly from the north of the UK we could see
:29:12. > :29:15.ground frost. A chilly start to Thursday, a bright start, and fewer
:29:15. > :29:20.showers on the way. There will be one or two that drift further east,
:29:20. > :29:24.but many of us will avoid them, staying dry with sunny spells and
:29:24. > :29:29.lighter winds. Temperatures not a great deal higher, but feeling
:29:29. > :29:32.warmer. If you think that is the start of quieter weather for the
:29:33. > :29:37.weekend, think again! Thursday night, more heavy rain coming into
:29:37. > :29:40.England and Wales, heavy showers to the north-west of the UK. When the
:29:40. > :29:46.ground is saturated, we do not need his reign and it could cause
:29:46. > :29:49.problems. One area of heavy rain clears eastwards on Friday, another
:29:49. > :29:52.potentially coming into the southwest later in the day. A lot
:29:52. > :29:58.of uncertainty about timing and positioning, we will keep you
:29:58. > :30:01.updated. Into the weekend, quieter weather on Saturday, a cold night
:30:01. > :30:05.on Saturday night, some of us holding on to the fine weather on
:30:05. > :30:13.Sunday, but more wet and windy weather coming in to the west later
:30:13. > :30:16.in the day. There are weather Our top story: The mother of the
:30:16. > :30:20.missing five-year-old April Jones has made an emotional appeal for
:30:20. > :30:28.the safe return of her daughter. Police are still questioning 46-