:00:12. > :00:16.More allegations against Sir Jimmy Savile. Two hospitals describe
:00:16. > :00:23.their shock after claims he abused children during ward visits. One
:00:23. > :00:33.woman said she was abused, aged 13, while in a wheelchair. Another said
:00:33. > :00:33.
:00:33. > :00:38.she saw him assault a brain-damaged woman. He started kizing her neck -
:00:38. > :00:44.- kissing her neck, running his hands up and down her arms and then
:00:44. > :00:49.started to moless her. The first private abortion clinic will open
:00:49. > :00:53.in Northern Ireland. Pro live campaigners say they will fight to
:00:53. > :00:57.close it. Lance Armstrong is accused of one
:00:57. > :01:00.of the most successful doping programmes sport has ever seen.
:01:01. > :01:04.Struggling with eating discords, a significant rise in the number of
:01:04. > :01:09.young people and children needing hospital treatment. And the Prime
:01:09. > :01:14.Minister is about to unveil plans for 2014, to mark the centenary of
:01:14. > :01:18.First World War. Later on BBC London: The Harrow councillor
:01:18. > :01:28.arrested on suspicion of possessing And 10 years on from the Bali
:01:28. > :01:42.
:01:42. > :01:46.bombings, how one survivor from Good afternoon. Welcome to the BBC
:01:46. > :01:50.News. Bosses at two hospitals say they are shocked by the latest
:01:50. > :01:54.allegations against Sir Jimmy Savile, which date back to the
:01:54. > :02:00.1970s. A former patient at Stoke Mandeville hospital has described
:02:00. > :02:06.how she was abused at the age of 13, while being treated for spinal
:02:06. > :02:16.injuries. She said at the time no- one believes her because --
:02:16. > :02:16.
:02:16. > :02:20.believed her she he was a powerful Jimmy Savile was for years a
:02:20. > :02:24.volunteer at Leeds General Infirmary. The hospital has now
:02:24. > :02:34.received two complaints of assault. One former patient said she saw him
:02:34. > :02:34.
:02:34. > :02:43.approach a girl in a nearby bed. started kissing her neck, running
:02:43. > :02:47.his hands up and down her arms and then started to moless her.
:02:47. > :02:51.response, the hospital did confirm two people have made complaints.
:02:51. > :02:54.think it is fair to say we have been absolutely shocked and
:02:54. > :02:59.surprised at the nature and quantity of the allegations and
:03:00. > :03:03.obviously concerned because of his long-standing involvement Police
:03:03. > :03:08.have also contacted Stoke Mandeville. Jimmy Savile had a flat
:03:08. > :03:12.and office in the hospital. He raised millions for its rebuilding.
:03:12. > :03:17.Two people have come forward to incidents they say took place in
:03:17. > :03:23.the 1970s. Caroline was 13 when she was treated in the hospital. I was
:03:23. > :03:33.outside a ward or a gym, I cannot remember exactly which one it was.
:03:33. > :03:34.
:03:34. > :03:38.He came out of the gym and just rammed his tongue down my throat.
:03:38. > :03:43.This woman knew Jimmy Savile for years and this, she says has left
:03:43. > :03:47.her feeling bereaved. I am positive in my heart that there was no
:03:47. > :03:53.problem from when I knew him and throughout the whole of this appeal
:03:53. > :03:56.and throughout all of these good charity works he's done. And in
:03:56. > :04:00.Scarborough, the town where yesterday his grave stone was
:04:00. > :04:06.removed, police have received a complaint going back to an incident
:04:06. > :04:10.said to have taken place in the late 1980s. Our correspondent is in
:04:11. > :04:14.Leeds now. So, yet more allegations. What more can you tell us, Danny?
:04:14. > :04:17.Well, Sophie, we know the authorities here at the Leeds
:04:17. > :04:21.General Infirmary are investigating two allegations against Jimmy
:04:21. > :04:27.Savile. It's not clear if one is the one you heard about in the
:04:27. > :04:31.report of the one who saw a lady with brain damage being molested by
:04:31. > :04:38.him. This will be a worrying development. Jimmy Savile, for
:04:38. > :04:42.years, during the '70s and '60s was a volunteer porter. He used to work
:04:42. > :04:47.the night shift on many occasions, helping to move patients around the
:04:48. > :04:51.hospital. The question has to be qued, was he using that as cover to
:04:51. > :04:56.molest patients while he was here? That will be looked at as well.
:04:56. > :05:00.We've had a second allegation in Yorkshire as well of the girl, a
:05:00. > :05:04.young girl in the late 1980s being apparently assaulted by Jimmy
:05:04. > :05:10.Savile. His connection to Scarborough is his mother used to
:05:10. > :05:13.live there, he had a flat there, he was very well known in the town too.
:05:13. > :05:16.It appears here in the home town of Jimmy Savile, where he was born,
:05:16. > :05:21.that the places he was known best are places where the allegations
:05:21. > :05:25.are now starting to come out from too.
:05:25. > :05:29.The first private abortion clinic in Northern Ireland is to be open
:05:29. > :05:35.next week by the family planning group Marie Stopes International.
:05:35. > :05:39.It will offer a service for women up to nine weeks' preg mapbt and
:05:39. > :05:45.who meet the strict legal -- pregnant and who meet the strict
:05:45. > :05:50.legal restrictions. Opinion in Northern Ireland is
:05:50. > :05:54.divided at the best of times and the opening of the country's first
:05:54. > :06:01.abortion clinic has polarised people's views. The Marie Stopes
:06:01. > :06:04.organisation said it will not go any further than Northern Ireland
:06:04. > :06:09.law allows. A woman can have an abortion in Northern Ireland only
:06:09. > :06:14.when there is a serious and long- term risk to her physical or mental
:06:14. > :06:17.health. Any termination must come within the first nine weeks of
:06:17. > :06:21.pregnancy. Anti-abortion campaigners say there is no need
:06:21. > :06:24.for the new clinic. Tomorrow I would be hoping to meet with the
:06:24. > :06:28.police, the Attorney General, the Department of Health for Northern
:06:28. > :06:33.Ireland, to ensure that the plans of this Marie Stopes are halted
:06:33. > :06:37.immediately. It is legal. It is available on the NHS. What's not
:06:37. > :06:42.clear is how women access that service on the NHS and we would
:06:42. > :06:49.hope that any client that comes to us could do so and access the
:06:49. > :06:51.services freely, safely and come to a centre that will be supportive,
:06:51. > :06:57.non-judgmental and offer confidential treatment and privacy.
:06:57. > :07:00.In the past year, there were 35 legally acceptable abortions
:07:00. > :07:05.carried out in Northern Ireland. There's nothing to prevent a woman
:07:05. > :07:10.travelling to Great Britain outside the nine-week limit. Last year just
:07:10. > :07:12.over 1,000 people made that journey. I would not be for it. I would be
:07:12. > :07:19.against abortion. There are so many things out there that there does
:07:19. > :07:23.not have to be unwanted pregnancies. My belief would be against abortion.
:07:23. > :07:28.But I believe everybody has the right to choose. A ter nation is
:07:28. > :07:32.most harrowing for the women involved. Marie Stopes says it
:07:32. > :07:37.hopes to ease that burden. Campaigners say it flies in the
:07:37. > :07:42.face of public opinion, where there is little public will to update
:07:42. > :07:46.abortion legislation. The cyclist Lance Armstrong has
:07:47. > :07:50.been branded a serial cheat in a 1,000-page report by the U.S. Anti-
:07:50. > :07:53.Doping Agency. It said his team ran the most professional and
:07:53. > :07:58.successful doping programme that sport has ever seen. The document
:07:58. > :08:01.includes statements from 11 of the cyclists' former colleagues and
:08:01. > :08:06.claims it is undeniable that Armstrong and his team were
:08:06. > :08:11.involved in systematic doping. The seven-times Tour de France winner
:08:11. > :08:16.denies the allegations, but has decided not to contest them.
:08:16. > :08:20.A yellow jersey he wore was the ultimate symbol of success -
:08:20. > :08:30.champion of the Tour de France, but now it appears it was a body shaped
:08:30. > :08:40.
:08:40. > :08:43.by drugs. In the 1,000-page account Just overwhelming evidence and
:08:43. > :08:48.different categories of evidence, whether it is eyewitness testimony,
:08:48. > :08:53.whether it is first-hand, direct, admissions that he said and the
:08:53. > :08:59.others on the conspiracy said, the scientific documents, the e-mails -
:08:59. > :09:06.it paints an undeniable web of unfortunately the deepest and the
:09:06. > :09:10.most sophisticated professionalised drug programme we've ever seen a
:09:10. > :09:14.team run. Armstrong has always denied taking drugs, although he's
:09:14. > :09:20.not contesting these charges and has left it to his lawyer to
:09:20. > :09:25.respond on his behalf. Our reaction was one of not surprise. What they
:09:25. > :09:30.call a reasoned decision, is neither reasoned or an ignored
:09:30. > :09:40.decision. The evidence appears to be overwhelming. 11 of his former
:09:40. > :09:51.
:09:51. > :09:57.team-mates have testified against In 2000 I saw him multiple times. I
:09:57. > :10:02.never saw him take it. I saw him take testosterone, both in pill
:10:02. > :10:09.form and liquid form. Some of the world's best cyclists with taking
:10:09. > :10:15.part in the Tour of Beijing. Support for Armstrong remains
:10:15. > :10:19.strong. I don't think it matters. He's still a legend in the sport.
:10:19. > :10:27.The guy survived cancer and came back to win the Tour de France.
:10:27. > :10:31.It's not really important. Many others will disagree. Lance
:10:31. > :10:35.Armstrong is set to be remembered by most who is a man who disgraced
:10:35. > :10:39.the sport he once graced. Apologies for the momentarily loss
:10:39. > :10:42.of sound during that report. Now, there's been a significant rise in
:10:42. > :10:46.the number of young people and children in England who need
:10:46. > :10:49.hospital treatment for eating disorders in the past year. In
:10:49. > :10:54.total almost 2,300 people required hospital treatment in the year to
:10:54. > :11:02.June, according to the latest figures. Our health correspondent
:11:02. > :11:08.is here and is this mostly anorexia? Yes. 74% was for that.
:11:08. > :11:12.The rest was for bulimia, where people binge eat and then vomit and
:11:12. > :11:17.the rest was for straight binge- eating. The figures overall show
:11:17. > :11:22.there were 2,300 hospital admissions over the past year. That
:11:22. > :11:27.is a significant rise, health professionals are saying, of 16%.
:11:27. > :11:31.The vast majority were female and the majority were aged between 10-
:11:31. > :11:34.19. Health professionals are saying it is a very worrying trend. The
:11:34. > :11:40.actual figures are small, but the trend is worrying. Do they know
:11:40. > :11:44.what is behind it? They say they don't know. For something like
:11:44. > :11:48.anorexia people may cite the pressure on young girls to stay
:11:49. > :11:53.slim for fashion reasons, et cetera. It's not the whole picture. The
:11:53. > :11:56.eating disorders charity Beat, has pointed out this is the tip of the
:11:56. > :12:02.iceberg. This is the difficult and dangerous stuff, where people are
:12:02. > :12:07.coming into hospital, but they believe 1.6 million people are
:12:07. > :12:12.affected by eating disorders and many of those will be for binge
:12:12. > :12:18.eating. Thank you. More than 45,000 students are to retake their
:12:18. > :12:23.English GCSEs in a special resit being held next month. The figure,
:12:23. > :12:27.which has been given to BBC News by exam boards amounts to one in 14 of
:12:27. > :12:33.those who took the exam earlier this year. Many complained they
:12:33. > :12:36.were downgraded and missed the chances of places at university or
:12:36. > :12:40.an apprenticeship scheme. After years of hard work, they thought
:12:40. > :12:44.they had done enough to get the GCSE English grades they wanted.
:12:44. > :12:48.Many were to be disappointed, not because of their performance, but
:12:48. > :12:56.because of a change in the way the exam was graded. Now some students
:12:56. > :12:59.in England, Wales and Northern Ireland are having a second go.
:12:59. > :13:04.These students both got Ds when they were expecting Cs and they are
:13:04. > :13:08.not happy about having to re-sit. We have to put more effort into
:13:08. > :13:12.English. It's three hours after school, we could have put that
:13:12. > :13:17.behind and used it for other subjects that we need. We want to
:13:17. > :13:25.carry on and study to go to university. You have your A-levels
:13:25. > :13:29.or college and it's enough work doing that. Others have become too
:13:29. > :13:33.disillusioned to take part in the resits. Many students are so
:13:33. > :13:38.disgusted and sickened by what took place during the summer that many
:13:38. > :13:42.of them simply cannot face the idea of going in a couple of months
:13:43. > :13:48.later to take that same experience through again. When the regulator
:13:48. > :13:55.investigated this year's English GCSE, it found exams taken in
:13:55. > :14:02.January were graded too generously. June candy gates had been --
:14:02. > :14:06.candidates had been downgraded. Their work in the summer was of the
:14:06. > :14:09.right standard and the problem here is that the examination was not
:14:09. > :14:13.administered properly. They were not given the grades they deserve.
:14:13. > :14:17.So what needs to happen is that those grades that were awarded in
:14:17. > :14:22.the summer, those papers that are in the system now need to be
:14:22. > :14:27.regraded. And that regrading has already happened in Wales. Although
:14:27. > :14:31.in England, the regulator, Ofqual, has rejected the idea. It is
:14:31. > :14:37.determined to halt the steady rise in the number of high grades seen
:14:37. > :14:40.in previous years. Students will hope their efforts are graded more
:14:41. > :14:47.generously than they were in the summer. There's no guarantee that
:14:47. > :14:52.will happen. Exam boards say they will not set the grade boundaries
:14:52. > :14:57.until they have seen the work. Some may face a second disappointment.
:14:57. > :15:04.Head teachers and koun sims are pursuing a legal challenge to this
:15:04. > :15:14.summer's results. With Ofqual defending its position, the
:15:14. > :15:21.
:15:22. > :15:30.Jordan has refused a UK request to ensure evidence from torture was
:15:30. > :15:33.not used against Abu Hamza. Our correspondent was at the hearing
:15:33. > :15:38.for Abu Qatada. The British Government is now very
:15:38. > :15:42.keen to put Abu Qatada on a plane back to his native Jordan where
:15:43. > :15:46.he's wanted on terrorist charges. The European Court of Human Rights
:15:46. > :15:50.earlier said Abu Qatada couldn't be sent back because evidence obtained
:15:50. > :15:54.through torture could be used against him. The British Government
:15:54. > :15:57.sought assurances from the Jordanians that this wouldn't
:15:57. > :16:03.happen, but Abu cat Da is challenging that at this hearing.
:16:03. > :16:05.His lawyers have been questioning Anthony Laiden ah senior British
:16:05. > :16:08.diplomat involved in the negotiations with the Jordanians
:16:08. > :16:13.and he disclosed that the guarantees about torture evidence,
:16:13. > :16:18.he said the Jordanians wouldn't buy them. He also revealed that the
:16:18. > :16:25.British delegation had attempted to get a pardon for Abu Qatada, but he
:16:25. > :16:31.said the Jordanians also said no to that. Mr Laiden acknowledged that
:16:31. > :16:33.if Mr Qatada z were returned to Jordan, the panel hearing the case
:16:33. > :16:37.would be a Jordanian panel. The hearing is due to continue this
:16:37. > :16:42.afternoon and go on for several days.
:16:42. > :16:44.The time is just after 1.15. Our top story:
:16:44. > :16:48.More allegations against Sir Jimmy Savile. Two hospitals describe
:16:48. > :16:54.their shock after claims he abused children during ward visits in the
:16:54. > :16:59.'70s. One woman says she was abused age 13 when she was in a wheelchair
:16:59. > :17:03.at Stoke Mandeville. Coming up, as the Prime Minister prepares to
:17:03. > :17:06.announce details of the commemoration of the 100th
:17:06. > :17:11.anniversary of the start of World War I, we are live in Belgium to
:17:11. > :17:21.ask why people are so moved and fascinated by that period of
:17:21. > :17:22.
:17:22. > :17:26.We look at the special effects of London. And does London need
:17:26. > :17:34.another chain of coffee shops? We meet the entrepreneur who thinks we
:17:34. > :17:38.do, all in ten minutes. More than three million girls now
:17:38. > :17:41.go to school or get some form of education in Afghanistan. It's all
:17:41. > :17:45.very different from a decade ago when the Taliban were in power, but
:17:45. > :17:50.two million girls have still to set foot in a classroom and women in
:17:50. > :17:55.the country continue to face many restrictions in the male-dominated
:17:55. > :18:00.society. To mark the United Nations first ever international day of the
:18:00. > :18:08.girl, Andrew North has isn't this report from Kabul.
:18:08. > :18:12.An old scene in a changing Afghanistan. It's the time of the
:18:12. > :18:19.potato harvest. Children are working in the fields as they have
:18:19. > :18:22.done for centuries. Families still depend on their labour. But while
:18:22. > :18:28.ten-year-old Hamida helps out with the farming, she also twos to
:18:28. > :18:34.school now, making the long walk there every day.
:18:34. > :18:39.TRANSLATION: I am in the second class. We didn't have school before.
:18:39. > :18:45.I'm really happy I'm going to school now.
:18:45. > :18:50.Today, it's a lesson in diary, the local language. Barely a fifth of
:18:50. > :18:56.Afghan women can read or write, but that's still a big improvement from
:18:56. > :18:59.a decade ago. New schools in remote areas are helping. There's a big
:18:59. > :19:05.turnout for the launch of this government school. More than three
:19:05. > :19:11.million after began girls are now getting some education. That's
:19:11. > :19:16.still leaving two million who've never gone class. But attitudes are
:19:16. > :19:20.changing. TRANSLATION: I bring the women of
:19:20. > :19:25.Afghanistan up to the level where they think the owner of this nation,
:19:25. > :19:32.they are the owner of the future here and they are the owner of all
:19:32. > :19:37.what is happening. It's a new era for these girls at a
:19:37. > :19:41.Kabul school. Now learning to play cricket. They'd have had to stay at
:19:41. > :19:47.home if the Taliban were still in power.
:19:47. > :19:53.Safe inside the school walls, they're like children anywhere,
:19:53. > :19:58.curious about me and keen to talk. But outside, they still face many
:19:58. > :20:00.restrictions and uncertainty about their future after NATO forces pull
:20:00. > :20:05.out. This is just one example of the
:20:05. > :20:11.progress there's been in getting girls into school over the last ten
:20:11. > :20:16.years. But this is Kabul. In the rural and less secure areas, there
:20:16. > :20:19.are still millions of girls not getting any kind of education and
:20:19. > :20:24.they are under pressure to get married while still at school age.
:20:24. > :20:30.It's still tough being a girl in Afghanistan, but they are making a
:20:30. > :20:33.much bigger mark. A 14-year-old Pakistani girl shot
:20:33. > :20:37.in the head by the Taliban on Tuesday has been moved by
:20:37. > :20:41.helicopter from a hospital in Peshawar to a hospital in
:20:41. > :20:44.Rawalpindi. Authorities say she's still in danger, despite some
:20:44. > :20:47.improvement to her condition. Malala Yousafzai had become well-
:20:47. > :20:53.known for campaigning for girls' education. The attack caused
:20:53. > :20:56.outrage around the world. Russia is demanding an explanation
:20:56. > :21:00.from Turkey after a Syrian passenger plane en route from
:21:00. > :21:04.Moscow to Damascus was forced to land in Turkey. The Turkish
:21:04. > :21:06.government says the aircraft was carrying illegal cargo which was
:21:06. > :21:11.confiscated before it was allowed to continue its journey. Our
:21:11. > :21:17.correspondent, James Reynolds, is on the Turkey/Syria border. Do we
:21:17. > :21:21.know what was on this plane then? The Turkish Foreign Minister says
:21:21. > :21:25.there was objectionable cargo on board. He hasn't shown it to us so
:21:25. > :21:30.we've had to make educated guesses. A Turkish media station says there
:21:30. > :21:35.were ten containers on board, each had radio receivers and antennas.
:21:35. > :21:40.But Syria says that's not true, accusing Turkey of air piracy and
:21:40. > :21:46.the airline says the goods were legal and they want them back.
:21:46. > :21:51.It's causing all kinds of problems now, isn't it?
:21:51. > :21:55.James, diplomatically, this is causing all kinds of problems now,
:21:55. > :21:59.isn't it? It is. We already have plenty of
:22:00. > :22:03.tension between Turkey and Syria, these two neighbours share a board
:22:03. > :22:07.or, 560 miles, there's already been lots of artillery fire in the last
:22:07. > :22:10.week. Now we have problems on the ground and in the sky as well. One
:22:10. > :22:13.particularly important development, new diplomatic tension today of
:22:13. > :22:18.course between Turkey and Russia and that will make it much harder
:22:18. > :22:22.for diplomats to try to solve the Syria conflict as a whole.
:22:22. > :22:27.Thank you very much. Today is known as super Thursday in
:22:27. > :22:30.the publishing world when more than 00 new hard back books are due to
:22:30. > :22:33.hit the shelves in time for the Christmas market. With the rise in
:22:33. > :22:37.the number of electronic gadgets are sales of traditional books
:22:37. > :22:41.holding their own? Our business correspondent Emma Simpson has been
:22:41. > :22:46.finding out. The Christmas race is on. Just a
:22:46. > :22:50.taster of some of the new books hitting the shelves, celebrity
:22:50. > :22:53.blockbusters galore. The amount of press coverage all the books get
:22:53. > :22:57.means people will come flooding in through the doors, there'll be
:22:57. > :23:01.loads of sales, it's the start of ci Christmas for us and the
:23:01. > :23:05.opportunity for us to do what we do best for book sellers and recommend
:23:05. > :23:09.the right book to the right person. In the book world they call this
:23:09. > :23:13.super Thursday, but how long will it last in more of us are reading
:23:13. > :23:18.digital books on devices like these and many of them will end up in
:23:18. > :23:23.Christmas stockings this year. Technology is changing the way we
:23:23. > :23:30.read and new devices are on their way driving the sales of e-books
:23:30. > :23:34.even further. The growth in the fiction market's been strong from
:23:34. > :23:39.0-30% in the space of 18 months. So the challenge is to get into that
:23:39. > :23:44.market and not let it get taken away by Amazon. The challenge for
:23:44. > :23:50.publishers is to manage the transition. You can't cut corners.
:23:50. > :23:53.This is a beautiful book. A quarter of the pre-orders for
:23:53. > :23:59.this book are digital. There are still plenty selling and reckons
:23:59. > :24:04.that's not going to change. I think physical books will get
:24:05. > :24:09.more beautiful, more expensive, luxury goods, as we have seen are
:24:09. > :24:12.going up-and-up, so there might be special editions. We love books,
:24:12. > :24:17.it's an ancient form. The physical book is an old technology but it
:24:17. > :24:23.works. For this Christmas, the big hard backs are going to steal the
:24:23. > :24:26.show again but they'll have to increasingly compete with the
:24:26. > :24:30.digital revolution. Rangers Football Club has announced
:24:30. > :24:33.this morning that it wants to partially float on the Alternative
:24:33. > :24:37.Investment Market. The �20 million or so it hopes to raise will be
:24:37. > :24:40.used to boost the squad and improve facilities. The club hopes fans
:24:40. > :24:44.will be amongst those investing when the listing happens hopefully
:24:44. > :24:49.by the end of the year. In the next hour or so, the Prime
:24:49. > :24:52.Minister will set out plans for commemorating the centenary of the
:24:52. > :24:57.outbreak of the First World War on the 28th July, 1914. There are
:24:57. > :25:01.calls for it to be made a special national day for shops to close and
:25:01. > :25:06.flags to fly at half-mast out of respect for the fallen soldiers.
:25:06. > :25:11.Our correspondent, Robert Hall, is at Ypres, one of the most famous
:25:11. > :25:14.World War I battle grounds. Sophie, in a town which was
:25:14. > :25:19.virtually rebuilt from top to bottom after the destruction of the
:25:19. > :25:22.Great War, this is one of the most iconic sites. The Menin Gate
:25:22. > :25:28.straddles the road which once led north to the Great War battlefields,
:25:28. > :25:31.to the horrors which lay in the trenchs. On its walls are the names
:25:31. > :25:36.of more than 50,000 soldiers, British and Commonwealth, whose
:25:36. > :25:40.remains were never found. Now we have news about to break of another
:25:40. > :25:44.formal commemoration, but perhaps we ought to note that millions of
:25:44. > :25:49.people come here and to cemeteries across Belgium and France to pay
:25:49. > :25:52.their respects to trace their personal history every day of every
:25:53. > :25:58.year. Across the old battlefields, the
:25:58. > :26:03.autumn leaves are falling once more as today's generation prepares to
:26:03. > :26:07.mark the event imprinted on the land of France and Belgium.
:26:07. > :26:13.The Tyne Cot cemetery is the largest of its kind in the world.
:26:13. > :26:17.These are the graves of nearly 12,000 British and Commonwealth
:26:17. > :26:20.soldiers killed as they struggle through the mud to reach the
:26:20. > :26:24.Belgian village of Passchendaele, an event from the history books.
:26:24. > :26:30.More than 300,000 people come here every year. I always think a
:26:30. > :26:34.country that forgets its past has no future, I really do think we
:26:34. > :26:40.have have to pause to reflect. All we are asking for when you talk to
:26:40. > :26:47.our nationals is two minutes a year to pause and reflect on the
:26:47. > :26:49.sacrifices made by people. Tyne Cot was being spruced up for this
:26:49. > :26:53.year's ceremonies, a centenary commemoration which will present
:26:53. > :26:59.new challenges for all those involved. I think it should be
:26:59. > :27:03.treated with dignity and a lot of thought. There will be many, many
:27:03. > :27:07.formal ceremonies involving all the Armed Forces, Veterans Associations
:27:07. > :27:14.and everybody else, and that will bring a level of pageantry to it,
:27:14. > :27:19.but it will also be a serious pageantry.
:27:19. > :27:23.Under the great arch of the Menin Gate, surrounded by the names of
:27:23. > :27:31.the missing, we found evidence of new links being forged with the
:27:31. > :27:35.past and sup important for plans to mark this centenary -- support for
:27:35. > :27:38.plans to mark this centenary. It's important because it would be like
:27:38. > :27:42.this, emotional but nice because it's paying your respects.
:27:42. > :27:46.really catching your attention and gets you to think about what people
:27:46. > :27:50.were really fighting about and if it was all worth it.
:27:50. > :27:55.After the great wash, Ypres promised to honour the allies who
:27:55. > :27:59.fought and died on Belgian soil. Hundreds now keep vigil as the
:27:59. > :28:05.bugles sound clear on the evening air. Anniversaries come and go, but
:28:05. > :28:09.the stories that reach out from wartime history have always touched
:28:09. > :28:12.and inspired us. We don't yet know what the details
:28:12. > :28:16.of this announcement are going to be, but it's interesting, the poll
:28:16. > :28:21.you referred to this morning, which suggested that a sizeable majority
:28:21. > :28:25.of people wanted Remembrance Sunday in that year, 2014, to be a special
:28:25. > :28:30.day. What do they mean by special? Some said the church bells should
:28:30. > :28:35.be rung, others said that sports facilities and matches should be
:28:35. > :28:38.postponed to enable as many people as possible to concentrate on
:28:38. > :28:42.remembrance. We await to see what will happen. What is clear from
:28:42. > :28:45.what we've heard here is that people are very keen that these
:28:45. > :28:48.acts of remembrance, large and small, should continue.
:28:48. > :28:50.Thank you very much. Let's have a look at the latest
:28:50. > :28:54.Let's have a look at the latest weather now with Darren.
:28:54. > :28:59.A pretty horrible day for most of us, need your waterproofs today,
:28:59. > :29:02.particularly if you are on your bike, Sophie, as I know you are.
:29:02. > :29:05.The satellite picture shows the story for today and tomorrow. The
:29:05. > :29:09.showers clouds will be heading our way tomorrow and come in behind the
:29:09. > :29:13.the broad belt of thick cloud. It's a dark day and we've got some rain,
:29:13. > :29:17.a change for many part ps of the country. The rain through the rest
:29:17. > :29:20.of today will be heavy in places as well.
:29:20. > :29:24.We have a more consistent broader band of rain affecting the north.
:29:24. > :29:28.Hit and miss to the south. Heavy rain in North Devon and Somerset.
:29:28. > :29:31.It should be pushing away. For the south-west, drying off a bit
:29:31. > :29:34.through the afternoon, which is good news. Not such good news for
:29:34. > :29:37.the West Midlands and Wales where the rain is going to be heavy for a
:29:37. > :29:40.good part of the afternoon. Across Northern Ireland, that's
:29:40. > :29:44.where we have seen the wettest weather so far, an inch of rain in
:29:44. > :29:48.places, 25mm. It's drying off in the west later because the rain is
:29:48. > :29:52.moving eastwards, so more rain to come in western Scotland. The
:29:52. > :29:55.north-east of Scotland still drier. Maybe a glimpse of sunshine if you
:29:55. > :29:59.are lucky. A similar story for the north-east of England. The north-
:29:59. > :30:03.east seeing rain. The bands of rain will jog their way eastwards
:30:03. > :30:07.through the Midlands into the south-east. Some short, sharp
:30:07. > :30:10.bursts of heavy rain possible from time to time. There is the main
:30:10. > :30:15.rain area, the driest weather north-east England and north-east
:30:15. > :30:19.Scotland. The rain shuffles east overnight, again heavy bursts
:30:19. > :30:25.possible. It turns clearer and drier in Northern Ireland, Wales
:30:25. > :30:28.and the south-west. The main area we have to focus on tomorrow is the
:30:28. > :30:31.north-east of Scotland because here tomorrow we have an amber rain
:30:31. > :30:35.warning from the Met Office. It's going to be raining all day.
:30:35. > :30:38.Because of that, we could get something like 80mm, three inches
:30:38. > :30:43.of rain in the north-east of Scotland because the rain stops in
:30:43. > :30:47.the north of Scotland. Elsewhere, many place also see some sunshine.
:30:47. > :30:50.A brisker westerly wind will push in some showers, mainly to Wales
:30:50. > :30:54.and the south-west. The breeze taking the edge off tf
:30:54. > :31:00.temperatures. If you get a bit of sunshine tomorrow, it should feel
:31:00. > :31:06.better than it will do today. Rain again in the north ol of Scotland
:31:06. > :31:10.should be lighter by then. -- north of Scotland.
:31:10. > :31:13.Temperatures disappointing. On Sunday, we have a big problem
:31:13. > :31:16.because there's no agreement between all the computer models.
:31:16. > :31:19.The Met Office one develops this area of low pressure which will
:31:19. > :31:24.slide rain into the south of the UK, particularly wet in the south-west,
:31:25. > :31:29.but still a lot of doubt about that to the north. Sunshine and rain in
:31:29. > :31:32.the north of Scotland. Thank you very much.: A reminder of our top