:00:08. > :00:11.The battle lines are drawn for a vote on Scottish independence. A
:00:12. > :00:16.agreement's about to be signed on a referendum deal to ask Scots voters
:00:17. > :00:21.whether they want to leave the UK. We'll be live in Edinburgh on an
:00:21. > :00:24.historic day for the future of the Four children and a woman are
:00:25. > :00:30.killed in a house fire in Harlow. Police are treating the blaze as
:00:30. > :00:34.suspicious. They did everything they possibly
:00:34. > :00:38.could to try to revive those children. Our Our thoughts and
:00:38. > :00:41.prayers go out to the family. The Pakistani girl shot by the
:00:41. > :00:43.Taliban for campaigning to improve girls' education is flown to the UK
:00:43. > :00:48.for treatment. More confusion over the running of
:00:48. > :00:50.the West Coast Main Line. Virgin Trains is to be asked to keep
:00:50. > :00:54.running services for at least another nine months.
:00:54. > :01:00.The man who fell to earth. We have the skydiver's view of what it felt
:01:00. > :01:02.like to plummet from 24 miles high. And, the remarkable story of the
:01:02. > :01:12.18-year-old whose parachute and reserve didn't open properly, but
:01:12. > :01:13.
:01:14. > :01:16.A Metropolitan Police officer goes on trial accused of racially
:01:16. > :01:21.abusing a suspect and further delays to the decision on the
:01:21. > :01:31.future of the Olympic Stadium. Could the solution lie away from
:01:31. > :01:38.
:01:38. > :01:42.Good afternoon and welcome to the BBC News at One.
:01:42. > :01:45.A deal is going to be signed later today, that'll set the terms for a
:01:45. > :01:47.vote on Scottish independence. David Cameron and the First
:01:48. > :01:50.Minister, Alex Salmond, will agree to a single Yes//No question -
:01:50. > :02:00.which will be put to voters, including 16 and 17-year-olds, in
:02:00. > :02:02.
:02:02. > :02:07.2014. Our political correspondent Norman Smith is in Edinburgh.
:02:07. > :02:11.Today is a momentous, political occasion, beyond the normal cut and
:02:11. > :02:14.thrust of daily politics, a process that will start a two-year campaign,
:02:14. > :02:19.at the end of which Scots will decide whether they want to
:02:19. > :02:23.continue with or end the 300-year union between England and Scotland.
:02:23. > :02:26.For the political leaders involved, a momentous moment, too. For David
:02:26. > :02:30.Cameron, he absolutely does not want to be the Prime Minister who
:02:30. > :02:33.presides over the breakup of the union. For Alex Salmond this is
:02:33. > :02:37.what the SNP have lived and breathed for since they were
:02:37. > :02:42.created. For him, too, a moment of truth as my colleague James Cook
:02:42. > :02:47.reports. For centuries, Britain's
:02:47. > :02:50.constitution seems settled, unwritten but unchanging. Now, 300
:02:50. > :02:53.years after the union of the Scottish and English parliaments,
:02:53. > :02:57.comes a rare chance for radical change.
:02:58. > :03:01.The man trying to stop that change change spent the morning inspecting
:03:01. > :03:05.the Royal Navy's new aircraft carrier. It's been assembled in
:03:05. > :03:09.Fife from parts built in shipyards around Britain. Nothing subtle
:03:09. > :03:13.about this symbol of the power and press prestige of the United
:03:13. > :03:17.Kingdom. I think this is a success story that the whole of the United
:03:17. > :03:21.Kingdom can take great pride in. Just as with the Olympics we showed
:03:21. > :03:27.what we can do when we come together, you are showing it right
:03:27. > :03:30.here with this incredible feat of engineering.
:03:30. > :03:34.Scotland's First Minister and his deputy had a rather different
:03:34. > :03:37.morning. They went to see an NHS project which supports struggling
:03:37. > :03:41.young families. Nothing subtle about this message, either. These
:03:41. > :03:44.children would be better off in an independent Scotland. I am
:03:44. > :03:48.confident that when we lay out the arguments over the next couple of
:03:48. > :03:51.years and people see is no vote is a vote for no change, then the yes
:03:51. > :03:54.vote will prevail and Scotland will become an independent country but
:03:54. > :03:58.with an extremely good close and constructive relationship with the
:03:58. > :04:01.other parts of the United Kingdom. How will Scotland's future be
:04:01. > :04:06.decided? The referendum will be held in
:04:06. > :04:09.autumn 2014. It will be a straight yes/no question to independence and
:04:09. > :04:14.16 and 17-year-old will be allowed to vote.
:04:14. > :04:18.If the poll were held today, these pupils at this high school could
:04:18. > :04:21.take part. By the time people are 16, their views are not probably
:04:21. > :04:24.going to change when they get older. They're intelligent. They know
:04:25. > :04:28.what's going on. They can watch the news and they have a right, it's
:04:28. > :04:32.going to affect them later. Talking for myself as a 17-year-old I don't
:04:32. > :04:35.know enough. I don't know what are we going to lose and gain from
:04:35. > :04:39.going independent and right now I feel uncomfortable if the vote was
:04:39. > :04:43.- if I got to vote now. There is now much to debate and discuss over
:04:43. > :04:48.the next couple of years, but one thing has changed today - the
:04:48. > :04:50.future of the United Kingdom is now out of the hands of politicians and
:04:50. > :04:54.in the hands of the people of Scotland.
:04:54. > :04:57.In the past few minutes, the Prime Minister arrived here at the
:04:58. > :05:02.Scottish Government's headquarters to seal the deal. All smiles now,
:05:02. > :05:09.but these men know they're staking their careers on the outcome of a
:05:09. > :05:13.referendum which could change this country forever.
:05:13. > :05:20.Well, David Cameron and the First Minister are inside Scottish
:05:20. > :05:25.Government headquarters here at St Andrews House, we know the broad
:05:25. > :05:29.outlines of the package. One yes/no question. What more do we know
:05:29. > :05:35.about the package? I am joined by BBC Scotland's political editor.
:05:35. > :05:39.What more details do we have? documents are order, legislation at
:05:39. > :05:42.Westminster, giving Holyrood the power to conduct this referendum,
:05:42. > :05:47.provided it is, as you say a single question, independence only and
:05:47. > :05:50.provided it's held by the end of 2014. Also a 6-page agreement
:05:50. > :05:53.signed by the leaders between the governments and I believe the final
:05:53. > :05:56.paragraph of that agreement will say that the two governments are
:05:56. > :05:59.committed to work in the interests of the people of Scotland, whatever
:05:59. > :06:04.the outcome of that referendum. Nationalists are saying that means
:06:04. > :06:07.that the UK Government is committed to going with independence and not
:06:07. > :06:10.obstructing independence, should that be the outcome. Of course, the
:06:10. > :06:14.unionists are pointing out that the counterpoint of that is it commits
:06:14. > :06:18.Alex Salmond to work within the framework of the union, should the
:06:18. > :06:23.Scots reject independence. In other words, it is down to the people of
:06:23. > :06:27.Scotland. A phrase, a a paragraph that means this agreement today is
:06:27. > :06:30.politically binding, if not entirely legally legally binding.
:06:30. > :06:33.The Scottish party have overcome hurdles in the past, give us a
:06:33. > :06:36.sense of the scale of the mountain they have to climb if they are to
:06:36. > :06:41.succeed in making Scotland independent? There have been some
:06:41. > :06:44.polls suggesting a lead for independence, but right now if the
:06:44. > :06:48.Scots were asked right now they would probably stay with the union
:06:48. > :06:52.but the referendum isn't held right now. Notice two years. This isn't a
:06:52. > :06:56.moment to be suggesting a change of this magnitude. Alex Salmond knows
:06:56. > :06:59.that, he is concerned about the state of the economy, we all are.
:06:59. > :07:03.He is hoping he can convince the Scots that the present set-up
:07:03. > :07:07.within devolution is working, reasonably well. He is First
:07:07. > :07:10.Minister is extracting the maximum from that but it's only from that.
:07:10. > :07:12.He is hoping to argue he can go much further and do more in the
:07:13. > :07:15.interests of the economy and Scotland's place in the world with
:07:15. > :07:20.the powers of independence. David Cameron and his colleagues
:07:20. > :07:24.supporting the union are hoping to argue argue Scotland can have the
:07:24. > :07:27.best of both worlds. We will have a few more details to sort out over
:07:27. > :07:31.the next few weeks and months in terms of the exact question, in
:07:31. > :07:36.terms of the date. One senses almost relief on all sides now that
:07:37. > :07:39.we are moving beyond process into the big substancive arguments of
:07:39. > :07:43.whether Scotland should remain within the United Kingdom. Thank
:07:43. > :07:46.you. For all the latest news and
:07:46. > :07:50.background on the referendum itself, the campaigns, a timeline on the
:07:50. > :08:00.legal and political decisions and many of your questions answered,
:08:00. > :08:02.
:08:02. > :08:05.too, go to the BBC News website. A huge blaze at a house in Harlow
:08:06. > :08:09.has killed four children and a woman - believed to be their mother.
:08:09. > :08:12.The family were upstairs when the fire broke out in the early hours
:08:12. > :08:17.of this morning. A fifth child was taken to hospital in a critical
:08:17. > :08:20.condition. Police are treating the incident as suspicious. Our
:08:20. > :08:24.correspondent Ben Geoghegan is in Harlow.
:08:24. > :08:27.You can probably see one of the charred windows in the top floor of
:08:27. > :08:33.the house behind me and the emergency crews say when they
:08:33. > :08:35.arrived here in the early hours of this morning the fire was 100% well
:08:36. > :08:39.alight and spreading rapidly and this morning we have been hearing
:08:39. > :08:44.of the desperate and frantic attempts by rescuers to try and
:08:44. > :08:47.save the lives of those inside. It's the intensity of the blaze
:08:47. > :08:53.that's led police to conclude this morning that they think there is a
:08:53. > :08:56.real chance this was started deliberately.
:08:56. > :09:01.Blackened windows and walls on both sides of this house are the visible
:09:01. > :09:04.signs of a ferocious fire. When the emergency services arrived at
:09:04. > :09:09.around 2.00am, there were flames coming out of the front and back
:09:09. > :09:13.doors. Neighbours were woken by the shouts from inside. Absolutely
:09:13. > :09:20.pouring out the back of the house, the flames. Couldn't believe what
:09:20. > :09:25.was happening. It was terrible. Devastated. Me and my daughter were
:09:25. > :09:27.in tears. Fire officers wearing breathing equipment were able to
:09:27. > :09:32.get into the building and managed to bring five people outside. A
:09:32. > :09:37.doctor and paramedics were on hand to give medical help. Let's not be
:09:37. > :09:40.under any illusions, there was an incredibly intense fire, flames
:09:40. > :09:44.coming out of the front and rear of the property am people trapped and
:09:45. > :09:47.our crews did a fantastic job. Everything they could humanly do
:09:47. > :09:51.possible to get those children out which they did and they did
:09:51. > :09:56.everything they possibly could to try to revive those children. The
:09:56. > :09:59.house really is gutted. There is nothing left. Totally destroyed.
:09:59. > :10:03.It's going to take sometime to establish how the fire started.
:10:03. > :10:06.The four people who died at the scene were two boys, aged six and
:10:06. > :10:10.13, and and an 11-year-old girl. A woman, thought to be their mother,
:10:10. > :10:14.was also killed. Two other children, a nine-year-old boy and three-year-
:10:14. > :10:20.old girl, were taken to hospital suffering serious burns. One of
:10:20. > :10:23.them died this morning. Investigators arrived to begin
:10:24. > :10:27.collecting evidence which should in time tell them how this fire was
:10:27. > :10:32.started. The police say they are treating it as suspicious and want
:10:32. > :10:35.anyone with information to contact them.
:10:35. > :10:41.One bit of evidence that the police and the fire service have been
:10:41. > :10:44.focusing on closely this morning is a silver Ford Focus car, which
:10:44. > :10:46.they're actually in the process of putting on to a loader behind me
:10:46. > :10:53.and will be bringing it out for further investigations and tests
:10:53. > :10:57.later today. But that car was found in flames parked a little way from
:10:58. > :11:02.the house in the early hours of this morning. The car has got no
:11:02. > :11:06.connection to the family who lived at the address and so police want
:11:06. > :11:10.to find out who it belonged to and they're treating the fire in that
:11:10. > :11:13.car as arson. They say that is suspicion and I think that's one of
:11:13. > :11:21.the reasons why they are treating this whole incident as a suspicious
:11:22. > :11:25.incident. The Pakistani schoolgirl who was
:11:25. > :11:27.shot in the head by the Taliban for suggesting that girls should be
:11:27. > :11:31.educated is being flown to the UK for specialist medical treatment.
:11:31. > :11:35.Malala Yousafzai, was attacked last week. A military spokesman said she
:11:35. > :11:42.would require prolonged care to fully recover. Aleem Maqbool sent
:11:42. > :11:46.this report from Islamabad. Malala Yousafzai began her journey in the
:11:46. > :11:50.early hours, doctors here say they've done everything they can.
:11:50. > :11:54.They're now relying on the UK to help her.
:11:55. > :11:59.The teenager had been well known for writing a diary describing life
:11:59. > :12:03.under the Pakistani Taliban in the Swat Valley. And for defying the
:12:03. > :12:07.militants by campaigning for girls' education.
:12:07. > :12:13.But last week as she travelled home from school, in a minibus packed
:12:13. > :12:18.with her classmates, a gunman shot her in the head. She's been in a
:12:18. > :12:21.serious condition ever since. We are told she will now need long-
:12:21. > :12:26.term specialist care of the kind that can't be offered here but the
:12:26. > :12:32.Pakistani Government will foot the bill. They're talking of skull
:12:32. > :12:36.reconstruction and neuro rehabilitation. Doctors in the UK
:12:36. > :12:40.will have to go about the business of ensuring she will survive. Many
:12:40. > :12:44.countries had offered help, having been shocked by the attack. There
:12:44. > :12:49.has been a wave of public revulsion in Pakistan and around the world
:12:49. > :12:52.for this attempt to objects obstruct the education of the young
:12:52. > :12:57.generation of that region. The United Kingdom stands shoulder to
:12:57. > :13:03.shoulder with the people of Pakistan, in fighting terrorism, in
:13:03. > :13:09.trying to ensure that young people have a proper education and in
:13:09. > :13:13.supporting Malala. She may have left, but Pakistanis will continue
:13:13. > :13:20.to pray for the 14-year-old girl who has come to be a symbol of this
:13:20. > :13:23.country's fight for its future. It's understood Malala will be
:13:23. > :13:30.treated at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham. Our
:13:30. > :13:33.correspondent Ben Ando is there. Why there, Ben? Well, the Queen
:13:33. > :13:39.Elizabeth Hospital is the UK's designated receiving hospital for
:13:39. > :13:42.military casualties and here they have specialists in things like
:13:42. > :13:46.ballistics injuries, neurology injuries, in burns injuries, all
:13:46. > :13:50.the sorts of things that could be relevant in this case. We
:13:50. > :13:53.understand is that Malala Yousafzai will arrive sometime later this
:13:53. > :13:57.afternoon and two stages, first she will be assessed and will be
:13:57. > :14:00.stablised. Then the various experts will look at her, examine her
:14:00. > :14:04.condition and decide on a course of treatment to help her immediately
:14:05. > :14:08.on the road to recovery. But her injuries may be very challenging.
:14:08. > :14:13.She may have brain injuries caused by the bullet that had to be
:14:13. > :14:21.removed from her skull in Pakistan. That may lead to the requirement
:14:21. > :14:31.for long-term or longer neurological rehabilitation, even
:14:31. > :14:33.
:14:33. > :14:35.if she survives from these awful The UK may opt out of 130 EU
:14:35. > :14:38.measures on law and order, including the European Arrest
:14:38. > :14:41.Warrant. The home secretary, Theresa May, is expected to say
:14:41. > :14:44.that control will return to Britain in two years under an opt-out
:14:44. > :14:47.agreed by the last government. Many Conservative MPs see this as a
:14:47. > :14:50.first step in the repatriation of powers from Brussels, but the Lib
:14:50. > :14:58.Dems are unhappy with the plan. Our political correspondent, Ross
:14:59. > :15:03.Hawkins, reports. It is a debate about power and
:15:03. > :15:07.justice. Britain is bound by over 100 EU measures on crime and
:15:07. > :15:13.policing and now ministers are minded to abandon them and
:15:13. > :15:19.campaigners are happy. We have an option to block out 130 measures.
:15:19. > :15:24.Then we got to look on a practical basis, which areas do we want to
:15:24. > :15:29.co-operate on an opt back in. It is a pragmatic course to take. Britain
:15:29. > :15:35.can opt out of all of the most recently agreed policing measures
:15:35. > :15:39.in 2014, but it cannot pick and choose each ones. The plan would be
:15:39. > :15:44.to opt back in on the measures it likes, possibly trying to talk
:15:44. > :15:49.about changes on the weight. The European arrest warrant. Hussain
:15:49. > :15:54.Osman was one of four men who plotted to bomb London in 2005. He
:15:54. > :15:58.fled to Italy and Britain use the warrant to get him back. But
:15:58. > :16:02.Westminster says it makes it too easy for foreign police forces to
:16:02. > :16:08.summon people from Great Britain on trivial grounds. Those critics
:16:08. > :16:13.include many Conservatives. This is about coalition politics. Lib Dems
:16:13. > :16:19.are lukewarm about these announcements and they talk about
:16:19. > :16:23.Euro-sceptic thug, being at work. They insist no one has taken a
:16:23. > :16:30.final decision. This could be the sign of a long coalition debate
:16:30. > :16:33.about Europe and justice. The Tories and Lib Dems are talking
:16:33. > :16:40.about what should be kept. There is going to be a considerable amount
:16:41. > :16:45.of chaos and confusion, it seems to us. There are no transitional
:16:45. > :16:50.issues published. It is most unclear if we can opt out and back
:16:50. > :16:55.in simultaneously, so there will be a period we are in limbo. David
:16:55. > :17:00.Cameron will have to answer those concerns when he meets European
:17:00. > :17:04.leaders later this week. Many Conservatives will be a more than
:17:04. > :17:07.happy to cheer him on. Our top story this lunchtime: The
:17:07. > :17:12.battle lines are drawn for a vote on Scottish Independence - an
:17:12. > :17:21.agreement's about to be signed on a referendum deal.
:17:21. > :17:26.Coming Up: Earlier a woman rang the BBC and said she heard a hurricane
:17:26. > :17:29.was on the wake. If you are watching, don't worry, there isn't.
:17:29. > :17:31.25 years after this - how much has the reliability of weather
:17:32. > :17:35.forecasting changed? Later on BBC London: The mother of
:17:35. > :17:36.a computer hacker from North London tells us she fears her son won't
:17:36. > :17:39.survive if he's extradited to America.
:17:39. > :17:49.And charging your car - so we could start having electric vehicles
:17:49. > :17:50.
:17:50. > :17:54.Smoking cannabis is no worse than eating junk food or gambling
:17:54. > :17:57.according to a report from the UK Drug Policy Commission. It wants
:17:57. > :18:01.the government to relax the UK's drug laws so that possession of
:18:01. > :18:09.small amounts would no longer be a criminal offence. Our home affairs
:18:09. > :18:16.correspondent, Danny Shaw, reports. Police raids in Manchester, the
:18:16. > :18:21.traditional way of tackling -- tackling the lucrative drugs market.
:18:21. > :18:26.1000 officers were involved. But the UK drug policy Commission
:18:26. > :18:30.questions whether policies like this have any impact. And it says
:18:30. > :18:33.long prison sentence don't deter dealers or reduce supply. As for
:18:33. > :18:38.those with small quantities of drugs for their own use, like
:18:38. > :18:43.cannabis, the Commission says it is disproportionate for them to be
:18:43. > :18:47.cautioned or prosecuted. We need to focus a lot of effort on serious
:18:47. > :18:51.criminal networks were people are possessing small amounts of drugs
:18:51. > :18:56.the courts currently recognised, whether it is a few ecstasy tablets,
:18:56. > :19:01.or a very small amount of cannabis. We shouldn't be putting people
:19:01. > :19:04.through the criminal process for that. The report was written by
:19:04. > :19:09.experts in science, health and policing and took six years to
:19:09. > :19:14.complete. It says much of the �3 billion spent on tackling drug
:19:14. > :19:18.misuse every year is wasted, and claims drugs education programmes
:19:19. > :19:23.have little effect and may even increased reduced. One of the
:19:23. > :19:28.Commission's most controversial ideas is people rowing a small
:19:28. > :19:33.number of cannabis plants should be treated leniently. But there are
:19:33. > :19:38.concerns about the effect of relaxing the laws on children.
:19:38. > :19:44.work with teenagers and I hear from them daily, the reality of what
:19:44. > :19:49.skunk cannabis can do to brains. In terms of motivation, anxiety and in
:19:49. > :19:53.terms of paranoia. Symptoms which keep young people out of school and
:19:53. > :19:58.make them not performed. The Home Office has made it clear it won't
:19:58. > :20:03.alter the its approach and says drugs used in the UK is falling.
:20:03. > :20:07.But the growth in so-called legal highs, it is clear in the future of
:20:07. > :20:10.the Government may need to adopt a more radical approach.
:20:10. > :20:13.Virgin Trains is being asked to continue to run services on the
:20:13. > :20:16.West Coast Main Line for the next nine to 13 months. The decision to
:20:16. > :20:18.give FirstGroup the franchise for the route was overturned after
:20:18. > :20:26.problems with the bidding process. Our transport correspondent,
:20:26. > :20:33.Richard Westcott, is at Euston now. Richard, why is the Government
:20:33. > :20:37.taking this decision now? It got itself into MS and will take about
:20:37. > :20:42.three years he will be sorting out who will be running these trains in
:20:42. > :20:47.the long term. It could not ask Virgin to do it for the whole
:20:47. > :20:51.period, because there are EU procurement laws. They have had to
:20:51. > :20:54.come up with this compromise the were Virgin do it for a bit and
:20:54. > :20:58.then we get short-term competition before we find out who will be
:20:58. > :21:04.running the strains in the long term. What does it mean when the
:21:04. > :21:07.bidding process starts again? interesting, because we don't know
:21:07. > :21:12.what franchises in the future will look like. And there is a review
:21:12. > :21:15.going on and report back around Christmas. It may recommend changes
:21:15. > :21:25.to the way things are done. The Government is sitting tight and
:21:25. > :21:26.
:21:26. > :21:31.waiting to see how it will get itself out of this mess.
:21:31. > :21:35.remarkable stories of men who fell to earth. The Austrian, Felix
:21:35. > :21:41.Baumgartner has become the first man to go beyond the speed of sound
:21:41. > :21:45.after jumping from a balloon 24 miles off. A closer to the ground,
:21:45. > :21:49.another story. A British teenager who jumped more than 3,000 ft from
:21:49. > :21:54.an aeroplane, spiralled to earth after both his main parachute and
:21:54. > :21:58.reserve got tangled. Luckily there is a happy ending, as Fiona Trott
:21:58. > :22:04.reports. Not exactly a soft landing, but
:22:04. > :22:09.this street could have saved his life. Look at what Liam Byrne mist,
:22:09. > :22:16.a spiked metal fence just metres below. It took 30 minutes to cut
:22:16. > :22:22.him free. And now, just a bond days later he is back at university to
:22:22. > :22:27.tell the tale. Unfortunately, which does not happen to anyone, my main
:22:27. > :22:32.parachute got wrapped around the top of my reserved when it deployed,
:22:32. > :22:36.because of how I was falling. I lost control, tried to steer it,
:22:36. > :22:42.but it was not working. It is lucky I did not try any harder because I
:22:42. > :22:47.would have fallen to the ground. Show us your injuries. That on my
:22:47. > :22:55.hands from the tree. And just a bruise. It is unbelievable, I have
:22:55. > :22:59.such little injuries. His that it? I have a little scrape on my knee.
:22:59. > :23:06.An experience like this might put some people off, but he is already
:23:06. > :23:16.planning his next jump. He has also promised to pay his club's for six,
:23:16. > :23:17.
:23:17. > :23:21.15 beers for all the other members. Luckily for Felix Baumgartner,
:23:21. > :23:27.there were no problems with his parachute. He was jumping from a
:23:27. > :23:33.balloon 24 miles above the earth to become the first skydiver to reach
:23:33. > :23:43.supersonic speed. But there were a few unscripted moments.
:23:43. > :23:46.Felix Baumgartner, looks down at the Earth, 24 miles below him. Then
:23:46. > :23:54.there are those of Joe Kittinger, the man whose record he's trying to
:23:54. > :24:01.break. -- the voice. The guardian angel will take care of you. Felix
:24:01. > :24:07.says, he is going home now. I am going home. And then this... His
:24:07. > :24:12.epic journey began to 0.5 hours earlier. A giant balloon that took
:24:12. > :24:20.him there is higher than a 50 storey building. Felix entered his
:24:20. > :24:30.pressurised capsule. And when the winds dropped, a way Felix went.
:24:30. > :24:33.
:24:33. > :24:37.His mother was in tears. At nearly 62,000 feet, he enters the death
:24:37. > :24:47.zone. A lead in a pressurised capsule and his blood would begin
:24:47. > :24:53.
:24:53. > :24:58.to boil. Finally, Felix passes 127,000 ft and opens the door.
:24:58. > :25:03.I was standing on top of the world, you become so humble, you do not
:25:03. > :25:08.think about breaking records any more. He do not think about gaining
:25:08. > :25:11.certificates. You just want to come back alive, because you do not want
:25:11. > :25:17.to die in front of your parents, your girlfriend and all these
:25:17. > :25:22.people watching this. But then, something goes wrong. Felix is
:25:22. > :25:27.spinning. Unless he can stop, blood will rush to his head and he will
:25:28. > :25:33.become unconscious. He can stop it by pressing a button, which will
:25:33. > :25:37.release a small Parachute which would slow him down and he wouldn't
:25:37. > :25:43.break the sound barrier. Felix has to make the biggest decision of his
:25:43. > :25:49.life. Sometimes you make the call, do I pushed the button and stay
:25:49. > :25:55.alive? Do I fight on and wait, break the speed of sound? After a
:25:55. > :26:05.couple of minutes I got it under control. And I did. But then, there
:26:05. > :26:08.
:26:08. > :26:14.is another problem. Felix cannot see his instruments. My visor has
:26:14. > :26:21.frosted up. He does not know how high he is. This time it is safety-
:26:21. > :26:28.first, he pulls his parachute early. Mission Control is jubilant. His
:26:28. > :26:38.mother is relieved, and proud. Felix comes home and celebrates
:26:38. > :26:48.
:26:48. > :26:53.after the jump of his life. It has been 25 years since the
:26:53. > :26:58.great storm in Great Britain. It was the storm weather presenter,
:26:58. > :27:02.Michael Fish, said wouldn't happen. Could it be missed Again Or has
:27:02. > :27:05.advantage in forecasting ruled that out?
:27:05. > :27:10.The presenters are different, the technology and graphics are more
:27:10. > :27:16.sophisticated, but the aim of a weather forecast is the same as it
:27:16. > :27:21.was in 1987 - accuracy. Get it right and no one notices. Get it
:27:21. > :27:27.wrong and no one forgets. He would think I would be starring in the
:27:27. > :27:31.Olympic opening ceremony. A woman rang the BBC and said she
:27:31. > :27:38.had heard a hurricane was on the wake. Michael Fish insists he was
:27:38. > :27:42.talking about a hurricane heading for Florida. But that might the UK
:27:42. > :27:48.experience one of the worse storms on record. 18 people died, 15
:27:48. > :27:52.million trees were uprooted. weather will be very windy but most
:27:53. > :27:58.of the strong winds will be over Spain... The true power of the
:27:58. > :28:04.storm was not realised until it was too late. You cannot blame anybody.
:28:04. > :28:08.The computer did the forecast, but you cannot blame that either. It
:28:08. > :28:12.was unfortunate the computer lacked a huge amount of data from the area
:28:12. > :28:18.where the storm was developing. There is no problem with computer
:28:18. > :28:23.data now. Here at Met Office headquarters in Exeter, millions
:28:23. > :28:33.have been spent on these computers, all with the one aim, getting the
:28:33. > :28:34.
:28:34. > :28:40.forecast spot on. So these are some of the charts in 1987. Back then,
:28:40. > :28:45.became in every three hours. Now we can get them every 15 minutes. They
:28:45. > :28:48.are instant on your computer. They four-day forecast today is as
:28:48. > :28:54.accurate as a one-day forecast in 1987. It is an incredible
:28:54. > :28:56.improvement. With the investments in whether technology, it seems
:28:57. > :29:04.unthinkable in storm of this magnitude could be missed again.
:29:04. > :29:08.But as every forecast can tell you, never say never.
:29:08. > :29:18.Ensure that is what Louise would say, but a lot has changed since
:29:18. > :29:24.It has, but look at this picture. You can see the lack of detail.
:29:24. > :29:28.These pictures only came out every three hours. Compare it to what we
:29:28. > :29:35.have today. You can see the white cloud across the country. This
:29:35. > :29:40.cloud here is another front will system moving through overnight.
:29:40. > :29:44.The satellite pictures get updated every few minutes. It has been a
:29:44. > :29:48.case of sunny spells and scattered showers. That is the story but the
:29:48. > :29:56.rest of the afternoon. Some of the showers in the south-west will he's
:29:56. > :30:05.awake. It is appointing feel, nine to 14 degrees. Low-pressure arrives
:30:05. > :30:08.in the night. It rattles through at quite a pace. Wet and windy weather
:30:08. > :30:13.to come overnight. It stops over Northern Ireland, northern England
:30:13. > :30:19.and Scotland. There will be a little bit of wet hills known to
:30:19. > :30:23.come as well. It is a grey and dismal start to Tuesday. Not
:30:23. > :30:29.particularly nice. Better through the Midlands and into the South
:30:29. > :30:34.Eastern corner. Not as cold, more sunshine but breezy. Not too bad
:30:34. > :30:38.for tomorrow morning. This similar story south and west. Temperatures
:30:38. > :30:43.perhaps into double figures at 8 am into Plymouth and much of Wales.
:30:43. > :30:47.For North Wales we can see cloud, maybe outbreaks of rain close to
:30:47. > :30:53.Anglesey and for the Isle of Man. In Northern Ireland it is cold,
:30:53. > :30:57.grey. It will be a miserable start to Tuesday. But things will improve
:30:57. > :31:02.as the date continues. There is the rain across the Scottish borders. A
:31:02. > :31:06.touch of frost in the glens, but some sunshine. The weather fronts
:31:06. > :31:11.drips East and moves into the North Sea by the middle of the afternoon.
:31:11. > :31:18.Either side we have sunny spells. In terms of the feel of things,
:31:18. > :31:22.temperatures around nine, 14 degrees. Not a bad end, better than
:31:22. > :31:27.we begin. But it won't be long before the next area of low
:31:27. > :31:31.pressure moves in from the south- west. More wet and windy weather.
:31:31. > :31:36.It may be the anniversary of the great storm, but it is business as