:00:12. > :00:16.The British computer hacker, Gary McKinnon, has won his ten year
:00:16. > :00:19.fight against extradition to the ufpt states. The 46-year-old
:00:19. > :00:23.accused of the biggest military computer hack of all-time won't be
:00:23. > :00:28.extradited after the Home Secretary blocked it on human rights grounds.
:00:28. > :00:36.I have concluded that Mr McKinnon's extradition would give rise to such
:00:36. > :00:39.a high risk of him ending his life that a decision to extradite would
:00:39. > :00:42.be incompatible with his human rights. The Attorney General seeks
:00:43. > :00:47.new inquests for victims of the Hillsborough disaster and asks the
:00:47. > :00:51.High Court to overturn the original verdicts.
:00:52. > :00:55.Denying war crimes - Radovan Karadzic begins his defence saying
:00:55. > :00:58.he should have been rewarded for the good he done.
:00:58. > :01:02.Inflation falls to its lowest level for nearly three years, but it's
:01:02. > :01:06.not expected to last as energy price rises take hold. And the
:01:06. > :01:09.concrete reminders of the Cold War which are being protected for
:01:09. > :01:13.future generations. Later on BBC London:
:01:13. > :01:19.A police officer is accused of racially abusing a man in East
:01:19. > :01:29.London. He says he didn't mean to cause distress. Breast cancer is
:01:29. > :01:36.
:01:36. > :01:41.set to quadruple according to Good afternoon.
:01:41. > :01:44.Welcome to the BBC News at One. The Home Secretary says she'll
:01:44. > :01:49.block the extradition to the United States of the computer hacker, Gary
:01:49. > :01:53.McKinnon. The 46-year-old, who has Asperger's Syndrome, admits
:01:53. > :01:57.accessing the United States Government computers a decade ago
:01:57. > :02:00.in what one American prosecutor called the biggest computer
:02:00. > :02:05.military hack of all-time. He claims he was looking for evidence
:02:05. > :02:09.of UFOs. The case has dragged on for years over questions about his
:02:09. > :02:12.mental health and the fairness of his health. Theresa May made this
:02:12. > :02:16.statement in the House of Commons. After careful consideration of all
:02:16. > :02:23.of the relevant material, I have concluded that Mr McKinnon's
:02:23. > :02:27.extradition would give rise to such a high risk of him ending his life
:02:27. > :02:31.that a decision to extradite would be incompatible with his human
:02:32. > :02:37.rights. I have therefore withdrawn the extradition order against Mr
:02:37. > :02:40.McKinnon. It will now be for the Director of
:02:40. > :02:44.Public Prosecutions to decide whether Mr McKinnon has a case to
:02:44. > :02:48.answer in the UK courts. Our legal affairs correspondent,
:02:48. > :02:52.Clive Coleman is with me. It's been a very long legal fight, ten years.
:02:52. > :02:56.What the Home Secretary's decision a surprise? It's unprecedented
:02:56. > :03:00.really. This is the first time a Home Secretary has barred the
:03:00. > :03:03.extradition to the United States since we've had this controversial
:03:03. > :03:07.2003 extradition Act. The first time that's happened since the Act
:03:07. > :03:11.has been in operation. She can do it on human rights grounds, that's
:03:11. > :03:14.obviously the basis on which she's done it, so it's a momentous event.
:03:15. > :03:18.It's not the end of everything as far as Gary McKinnon is concerned
:03:18. > :03:20.with legal proceedings. It's the end of extradition, but now the
:03:21. > :03:23.Director of Public Prosecutions will have to look at the evidence
:03:23. > :03:28.against Gary McKinnon and make a decision as to whether he's charged
:03:28. > :03:32.with any criminal offence in the UK. Clearly, the medical evidence which
:03:32. > :03:38.Theresa May found compelling which related to the fact what he has
:03:38. > :03:43.Asperger's and that he's been rated as a very high and likely risk of
:03:43. > :03:46.attempt suicide if he was to be exdieted, that will have a bearing
:03:46. > :03:50.on whether he's fit to plead in the UK. It will have wider implications
:03:50. > :03:54.on another level, won't it? Today's announcement will have because what
:03:54. > :03:59.Theresa May has announced today is that there's going to be an
:03:59. > :04:02.introduction of a forum test. At the heart of so many of his high
:04:02. > :04:06.profile extradition cases has been this question, I'm a UK citizen,
:04:06. > :04:11.accused of a crime committed in the UK, why can't I be tried by a UK
:04:11. > :04:15.court? She's introduced now, or is going to introduce a test whereby a
:04:15. > :04:19.British court with make a judgment as to whether it's in the interests
:04:19. > :04:22.of justice for someone accused by a foreign state but of a crime
:04:22. > :04:26.committed in the UK should be tried here or should be extradited.
:04:26. > :04:29.Thank you very much. The Attorney General, Dominic
:04:30. > :04:34.Grieve, has announced he'll apply for the original himself bra
:04:34. > :04:38.inquest verdicts to be quashed. It fol follows a damning report which
:04:38. > :04:43.found police altered evidence about what happened during and after the
:04:43. > :04:47.disaster. The families of the 96 victims have always shadgeed --
:04:47. > :04:50.challenged the original verdicts of accidental death. Ed Thomas reports.
:04:50. > :04:57.The call has been for truth and justice. But there's also been
:04:57. > :05:00.another call - for the original 96 inquests to be overturned. Those
:05:00. > :05:03.inquests said the Liverpool fans died here because of an accident,
:05:03. > :05:08.something their families said was an insult.
:05:08. > :05:12.Question number one... Today, those families will listen to the
:05:12. > :05:16.Attorney General ordering new inquests. I've decided to take the
:05:16. > :05:20.exceptional step and announce that on the basis of what I've already
:05:20. > :05:26.seen, I'm persuaded there is an application to the court that fresh
:05:26. > :05:35.inquests must be made. The original inquests said all fans died or were
:05:35. > :05:39.beyond sayling by 3.15pm. -- say -- beyond saving by 3.15. I'll smilt
:05:39. > :05:43.it to the Attorney General. Anne Williams has campaigned against the
:05:43. > :05:49.decision for two decades. Her son Kevin died at hills brafplt a
:05:49. > :05:51.police officer told her he cried at the word mum at nearly 4pm --
:05:51. > :05:56.Hillsborough. They weren't all dead at 3.15. I
:05:56. > :06:01.was hoping they would come up with others, but 41. Scandalous.
:06:01. > :06:06.coroner at the time refused to hear evidence after 3.15pm. Today, he
:06:06. > :06:13.didn't want to comment, but has told the BBC in the past that he
:06:13. > :06:22.was fair and honest. I do feel aggrieved that I'm
:06:22. > :06:27.treated as somebody who was misbehaving, basically. I didn't
:06:27. > :06:31.try to subvert the evidence. That 3.15 cut-off is important, meaning
:06:31. > :06:35.the coroner's court never heard from the paramedics, the police
:06:35. > :06:42.officers at Hillsborough or the stories about what more that could
:06:42. > :06:46.have been done to save the 96 lives. Families of the 96 now know 41
:06:46. > :06:50.lives could have been saved. They know the bigst ever investigation
:06:50. > :06:57.into alleged police corruption is under way. There is a sense they'll
:06:57. > :07:00.soon be getting the answers they've long campaigned for.
:07:00. > :07:03.Let's get more from our correspondent Judith Moritz. The
:07:04. > :07:08.families of those who've died campaign ford a long time for this
:07:08. > :07:10.and it all now seems to be happening very fast? Yes, it's 23
:07:10. > :07:14.years since the Hillsborough disaster happen and you could argue
:07:14. > :07:17.that the families have seen more progress in the last month since
:07:17. > :07:21.the publication of the Hillsborough independent report than they have
:07:21. > :07:25.at any other time during that 23 years. There's now the prospect of
:07:25. > :07:29.criminal prosecutions, of new inquests and of the biggest ever
:07:29. > :07:33.investigation into British policing. I think the families would say they
:07:33. > :07:37.feel that after many years of fighting the establishment, that
:07:37. > :07:42.the establishment, both legal and Parliamentary, is now on their side.
:07:42. > :07:46.To be fair, this is a legal journey which still has many months, if not
:07:46. > :07:49.years to run. It's all base on the what the independent report said
:07:49. > :07:53.last month and there are still lawyers going through that very
:07:53. > :07:57.weighty document to see how they'll proceed. But the families feel
:07:57. > :08:00.their views are being given equal weight now and the Attorney General
:08:00. > :08:03.this morning said that he would be listening to them before proceeding
:08:03. > :08:09.and this afternoon, here at Westminster, family campaigners
:08:09. > :08:12.will be giving evidence to the Home Affairs committee. So they say,
:08:12. > :08:15.Sophie, that that they've been fighting for truth and justice.
:08:15. > :08:18.They had the truth last month with the report, now they say they feel
:08:18. > :08:23.that they are on the way to achieving justice as well.
:08:23. > :08:26.Thank you very much. The former Bosnian Serb leader,
:08:26. > :08:30.Radovan Karadzic, has begun his defence against charges of war
:08:30. > :08:34.crimes, telling the court he should have been rewarded for all the good
:08:34. > :08:38.things he'd done. He said he'd done everything he could to avoid war
:08:38. > :08:42.and to reduce the human suffering. He's pleaded not guilty to ten
:08:42. > :08:47.charges of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity during the
:08:47. > :08:52.war in Bosnia in the 1990s. From The Hague, Alan Little reports.
:08:52. > :08:56.His case has changed hardly at all in 20 years. It was his duty, he
:08:56. > :09:01.said, to rescue the Serb people from the threat of genocide they
:09:01. > :09:05.faced when Yugoslavia collapsed. He had not chosen war, he was a mild
:09:05. > :09:12.and tolerant man who had struggled for peace, he said.
:09:12. > :09:19.TRANSLATION: Everybody who knows me knows that I'm not an awe
:09:19. > :09:26.thoughcrat, that I'm not aggressive, that I'm not intolerant - authocrat.
:09:26. > :09:28.On the contrary, I'm a mild man, tolerant man with great capacity to
:09:28. > :09:35.understand others. Karadzic argued the Serbs had not
:09:35. > :09:38.started the war, Muslims and Croats armed themselves and formed illegal
:09:38. > :09:41.militias, anti-Serb extremists seized control of the police.
:09:41. > :09:44.Karadzic's case is that the Serbs had no choice, there were people
:09:44. > :09:48.who knew their history, they said, they were faced with genocide
:09:48. > :09:52.before and were threatened with genocide again. All members of the
:09:52. > :09:55.international community came, he said, with such huge prejudice
:09:55. > :09:59.against the Serbs that there was nothing we could do to get the
:09:59. > :10:03.truth across. Karadzic claimed many of the atrocity force which Serbs
:10:03. > :10:08.were blamed had been staged for the international media. These pictures
:10:08. > :10:15.of a Serb-run detention camp in 1992 were faked, he said, the
:10:15. > :10:21.western media did more damage to the Serbs than NATO bombs.
:10:21. > :10:26.The 1994 bombing in Sarajevo in which a single shell killed 68
:10:26. > :10:30.people were also staged, he said. Some people died but most of the
:10:30. > :10:35.dead were fake, he said. Some were brought from a morgue already dead,
:10:35. > :10:41.others were plastic models from shop windows.
:10:42. > :10:50.TRANSLATION: The shameless ork station -- orchestration, obviously
:10:50. > :10:56.some people got killed by that explosion, but we also saw Android
:10:56. > :11:02.mannequins being thrown on to truck, creating this show for the world.
:11:02. > :11:06.At Srebrenica in 1995, more than 7,000 Muslim men and boys were
:11:06. > :11:13.murdered. Karadzic said he gave the order to enter the town but also
:11:13. > :11:16.ordered the protection of civilians. In the public gallery, a survivor
:11:16. > :11:20.shouted "Lies, lies". There was, Karadzic said, no indication that
:11:20. > :11:24.anyone was killed at Srebrenica, he could not accuse the Serb army of
:11:24. > :11:29.what he called rumour and propaganda.
:11:29. > :11:34.Radovan Karadzic is accused of the worst atrocitys in Europe since the
:11:34. > :11:38.Nazis. That these crimes were committed is now beyond dispute.
:11:38. > :11:41.Many of his closest lieutenants have already been convicted and
:11:42. > :11:46.sentenced to long jail terms. Karadzic now has the right to call
:11:46. > :11:54.hundreds of witnesses in his defence. The trial is likely to
:11:54. > :11:57.last many more months, even years. A consultant treating the Pakistani
:11:57. > :12:00.schoolgirl, Malala Yousafzai, at Birmingham's Queen Elizabeth
:12:00. > :12:05.Hospital, has described being impressed by her resilience and
:12:05. > :12:08.strength. The 14-year-old was shot in the head on a school bus by
:12:08. > :12:11.Taliban gunmen last week. She was flown to Britain yesterday for
:12:11. > :12:16.treatment after being attacked as a punishment for campaigning for the
:12:16. > :12:21.right to an education. I can tell you that Malala's had a
:12:21. > :12:26.comfortable night. All her initial assessments have been undertaken by
:12:26. > :12:30.the neurosurgical and other members of staff. We still have some
:12:30. > :12:33.detailed astesments to undertake from specialist teams who may be
:12:33. > :12:37.involved later on down the line -- assessments. We are very bleeds the
:12:37. > :12:42.progress she's made so far. She's showing every sign of being just
:12:42. > :12:45.every bit as strong as we've been led to believe that she is -- we
:12:45. > :12:49.are very pleads. The rate of inflation has fall tonne its lowest
:12:49. > :12:54.level in almost three years, now standing at 2.2%, less than half
:12:54. > :12:58.the rate it was at this time last year. Gas and electricity price
:12:58. > :13:00.rises that have been announced are expected to push it higher again.
:13:01. > :13:05.Here is our Chief Economics Correspondent, Hugh Pym.
:13:05. > :13:10.Inflation which measures increases in the cost-of-living was at 2.2%
:13:10. > :13:15.in September, the lowest rate since November 2009, and a sharp drop
:13:15. > :13:19.from the previous months' rate. One reason is that last year's big
:13:19. > :13:23.increases in gas and electricity prices were not repeated in
:13:23. > :13:26.September this year. It all adds up to an easing of the pressure on
:13:26. > :13:30.consumers. The big trouble last year is that
:13:30. > :13:34.they were having to fight against a decline in their real incomes. This
:13:34. > :13:37.year, it's going to be the reverse. So that is going to help them to
:13:37. > :13:43.consume and I think that's going to be one of the few bright spots in
:13:43. > :13:47.the economic outlook. Pensioners like these ramblers in
:13:47. > :13:51.Derbyshire were watching today's figure closely. The September
:13:51. > :13:56.inflation rate is used as benchmark for the next state pension increase,
:13:56. > :14:00.but they're guarantee admin mum of 2.5%, so they'll get an above
:14:00. > :14:04.inflation rise. As I discovered, there are mixed views on how
:14:04. > :14:09.they're affected by the cost-of- living. It's not affecting us too
:14:09. > :14:14.much, but we do shop around and all that. Everything seems to be going
:14:14. > :14:18.up-and-up and up. It might be at a slower rate, but it's still eating
:14:18. > :14:22.into our reserves. The price of petrol's gone up
:14:22. > :14:26.significantly and it doesn't seem to drop at all, it just keeps
:14:26. > :14:30.creeping up-and-up and up. Every week, you seem to go to the purpose
:14:30. > :14:33.and it's gone up 2 or 3p. Inflation might be heading in the right
:14:33. > :14:37.direction for now, but there are many cost pressures which are not
:14:37. > :14:40.made in the UK and are outside the control of British policy-makers.
:14:40. > :14:45.With these, there are concerns there could be problems further
:14:45. > :14:48.down the track. This outdoor clothing specialist,
:14:48. > :14:53.based in Derbyshire, can see the trends which might effect next
:14:53. > :14:58.year's shop prices. It uses synthetic materials where cost res
:14:58. > :15:02.flect a global oil price. Most of the products are made in Asia where
:15:02. > :15:11.wage costs are rising. Oil prices continue, and that does impact on
:15:11. > :15:15.the cost of raw materials. Also, we are increase bing by as much as 20-
:15:15. > :15:19.25% in wages. We'll negotiate hard but some of that will flow through
:15:19. > :15:21.into the consumer. And the consumer will also see
:15:21. > :15:27.higher gas and electricity bills flowing through over the next
:15:27. > :15:31.couple of months and that could push inflation back up. Hugh is
:15:31. > :15:41.with me now. It's not just pensioners affected by this is it,
:15:41. > :15:48.
:15:48. > :15:58.Some of these have to be raised in line with that rate, for example,
:15:58. > :15:59.
:15:59. > :16:06.incapacity benefit. On others, the Chancellor has discretion. So, they
:16:06. > :16:12.are set to get 2.20%. There will be relief that it is a lot lower than
:16:12. > :16:16.what had been predicted. People receiving those benefits might feel
:16:16. > :16:20.hard done by, but the Chancellor will be paying out less. Of course,
:16:20. > :16:24.the Chancellor has that discretion. He may not raise them in line with
:16:24. > :16:29.the 2.20%. There is a lot of speculation that to curb the bills,
:16:29. > :16:34.he will hold them flat. There has been political outcry, but he made
:16:34. > :16:38.do that, to cut back on his bowling. Our main headline - the extradition
:16:38. > :16:43.of the computer hacker Gary McKinnon to the United States has
:16:43. > :16:47.been blocked by the Government. Coming up, Heather Watson talks
:16:47. > :16:51.about whether she has got what it takes to become the world number 1
:16:51. > :16:55.in tennis. I believe in myself, I would not be in the game if I
:16:55. > :17:05.didn't. I think I have the capability, I have the mental
:17:05. > :17:07.
:17:07. > :17:11.toughness, I have the game. Will look at the interest of a leasing
:17:11. > :17:18.university in this new technique. We will also have the weather, with
:17:18. > :17:22.Peter Cockroft. -- of a leading university. A man whose wife and
:17:22. > :17:27.four of his children died in a house fire in Essex has been moved
:17:27. > :17:32.to the hospital where his surviving daughter is being treated. Three-
:17:32. > :17:35.year-old Maheen is still in a critical condition. Her father, Dr
:17:35. > :17:40.Abdul Shakour, is suffering from the effects of smoke inhalation. He
:17:40. > :17:46.wanted to be closer to his suffering child. Within the past
:17:46. > :17:51.hour, police have given an update on this investigation. They do not
:17:51. > :17:55.think a serial arsonist was to blame, and they do not think it was
:17:55. > :18:01.a racially-motivated attack, but they still believe that someone in
:18:01. > :18:06.his community knows how and why this fire was started. Essex police
:18:06. > :18:10.say this is a major investigation. Today, officers continued the
:18:10. > :18:15.detailed search for clues, looking for anything which might help to
:18:15. > :18:21.establish how this devastating house fire started. Sabah Usmani
:18:21. > :18:25.and four of her children died. Today, residents came to lay
:18:26. > :18:31.tributes and to express their deep shock that a hot working, well-
:18:31. > :18:35.liked family had been struck by this tragedy. -- hard-working.
:18:35. > :18:40.is really sad, it is terrible. You do not think it is going to happen.
:18:40. > :18:46.We do not normally get any trouble in this area, which is what is so
:18:46. > :18:51.shocking I don't know, I cannot get over it. A Ford Focus car was also
:18:51. > :18:54.on fire just across the street at the time of the house blaze. Police
:18:54. > :18:58.say a possible link between the two is a key part of the investigation,
:18:58. > :19:02.but officers are following several different lines of inquiry.
:19:02. > :19:07.there is nothing to indicate that this is racially-motivated, but in
:19:07. > :19:12.terms of other motivations, nothing has been ruled in or out.
:19:12. > :19:17.father, Dr Abdul Shakour, has been transferred to Broomfield Hospital
:19:17. > :19:21.in Chelmsford, where is one surviving daughter, the three-year-
:19:22. > :19:28.old, is in a critical but stable condition. The head teacher of the
:19:28. > :19:33.local primary school said pupils and staff were destroyed. --
:19:33. > :19:36.distraught. The three were intelligent and sociable children,
:19:36. > :19:42.with a good sense of humour, good at sports and much loved by
:19:42. > :19:47.everyone. Local residents say this is normally a peaceful area of
:19:47. > :19:52.Harlow. They say there are few instances of anti-social behaviour,
:19:52. > :19:56.making what happened to this family so hard to explain. This afternoon,
:19:56. > :20:00.police will continue their house- to-house inquiries, trying to find
:20:00. > :20:03.out whether there are any underlying issues in this area.
:20:03. > :20:07.They said community relations were generally very good, and they said
:20:07. > :20:13.it was far too early to come to any firm conclusions about why this
:20:13. > :20:17.fire started, or the motive, if, as seems likely, it was deliberate.
:20:17. > :20:21.The Deputy Prime Minister says there may be a case for an
:20:21. > :20:24.independent inquiry into abuse committed by Jimmy Savile at the
:20:24. > :20:30.BBC and other organisations. Speaking in the Commons, Nick Clegg
:20:30. > :20:35.said he was not wriggling out an inquiry. It comes after Ed Miliband
:20:35. > :20:39.called for a single, independent inquiry.
:20:39. > :20:42.A newspaper request for private letters written by Prince Charles
:20:42. > :20:47.to seven government departments to be made public has been blocked by
:20:47. > :20:50.the Attorney-General. We can get more on this from our political
:20:50. > :20:55.correspondent, Norman Smith. Why has the government blocked the
:20:55. > :21:00.publication of these letters? These have become known as the Black
:21:00. > :21:04.Spider memos, which sounds a rather sinister, but it is a reference to
:21:04. > :21:07.the Prince's rather scrawny handwriting in fountain pen. They
:21:07. > :21:11.are letters to former Labour ministers, after King -- asking
:21:11. > :21:15.about government policy on the environment and so on. The
:21:15. > :21:18.Attorney-General says the Prince wrote them as part of his desire to
:21:18. > :21:23.inform himself about government policy, because he is going to be
:21:23. > :21:27.king one day. Secondly, if they were released, the fear is that it
:21:27. > :21:31.might compromise the Prince's political neutrality. It is true
:21:31. > :21:35.that ministers on occasion can veto the release of sensitive documents,
:21:35. > :21:40.but it is not routine. I suspect critics will surmise that the
:21:40. > :21:44.reason these have not been released might be something to do with
:21:44. > :21:47.protecting the Prince from any embarrassment, shall we say, if
:21:47. > :21:52.indeed these letters contain angry broadsides about political
:21:52. > :21:57.correctness or suspect architecture. It was the closest the world has
:21:57. > :22:01.come to nuclear war, and on the 50th anniversary of the start of
:22:01. > :22:05.the Cuban missile crisis, the remains of two Cold War nuclear
:22:05. > :22:13.missile sites, which housed American missiles, in
:22:14. > :22:19.Northamptonshire, have been given listed status. Britain's favourite
:22:19. > :22:23.buildings - all sizes, all shapes and every vintage. But all have one
:22:23. > :22:27.thing in common - many of them are listed, protected for future
:22:27. > :22:32.generations. That listed status normally applies to some of our
:22:32. > :22:35.most beautiful historic buildings. But now, there is this, hardly the
:22:35. > :22:41.most attractive structure in the world, but granted Grade II* listed
:22:41. > :22:48.status, one of the highest categories - not, clearly, because
:22:48. > :22:54.of its appearance, but because of its history.
:22:54. > :22:59.NEWSREADER: Horizontal shelter slides back to reveal the Thor
:22:59. > :23:04.missile. In the 1950s, American nuclear missiles were based here,
:23:04. > :23:09.pointing towards the Soviet union, ready to fire and inflict
:23:09. > :23:12.unimaginable carnage. If the Cold War had gone hot, the launch pads
:23:12. > :23:16.in eastern England and their RAF crews would have been at the
:23:16. > :23:22.epicentre of it all. We are standing where the missile had
:23:22. > :23:26.would have been lying on its transport. Group Captain Peter
:23:26. > :23:31.Rogers needs no persuading that this corner of RAF North Luffenham
:23:31. > :23:34.deserves its new listed status. He is a veteran of the Thor missile
:23:34. > :23:39.programme. As a young officer, he literally had his finger on the
:23:39. > :23:45.button. They were hugely dangerous times. You tried not to think about
:23:45. > :23:55.it. You knew perfectly well that if you got one of these missiles under
:23:55. > :23:55.
:23:56. > :23:59.way, it was perhaps five or 10 minutes before the earth grow up.
:24:00. > :24:06.You did not spend too much time thinking about what it was going to
:24:06. > :24:09.hit at the other end. This man, Wayne Cocroft, makes it his
:24:09. > :24:13.business to record these sites, which he regards as a forgotten
:24:13. > :24:16.part of our national heritage. is one of our most important listed
:24:16. > :24:20.buildings in the country. We believe it is an important part of
:24:20. > :24:24.our national story, the Cold War. It is a story which perhaps not
:24:24. > :24:30.many people know about. It may look like a ruined today, but in the
:24:30. > :24:35.late 1950s, this was state-of-the- art technology. Hard to imagine
:24:35. > :24:40.that exactly 50 years ago, the Cuban Missile Crisis had this place
:24:40. > :24:46.on the highest state of alert - an historic moment, an historic place,
:24:46. > :24:50.one which is now guaranteed to be preserved. The British tennis
:24:50. > :24:54.player Heather Watson has broken into the top 50 players in the
:24:54. > :24:59.world after winning the Japan Open at the weekend. She was the first
:24:59. > :25:04.Briton to win a WTA singles title since 1988. She has now overtaken
:25:04. > :25:14.Laura Robson to be named as Britain's top female player. James
:25:14. > :25:14.
:25:14. > :25:18.Pearce went to meet her. The end of a 24-year wait for a British winner
:25:18. > :25:25.on the main women's tour. Heather Watson's victory in Japan was a
:25:25. > :25:30.perfect end to her season. This morning, she was back in London,
:25:31. > :25:35.reflecting with me on a job well done. I think sitting in the middle
:25:35. > :25:40.seat on a 12 hour flight, it definitely sunk in, on my way back
:25:40. > :25:45.from Osaka. Success has come through hard work and significant
:25:45. > :25:48.family sacrifice. Since the age of 12, she has left her home in
:25:48. > :25:53.Guernsey and been based in Florida. When she was younger, her mother
:25:53. > :25:59.spent plenty of time there with her, but her father had to stay at home
:25:59. > :26:05.working. How- to you think you can get, can you get to world number 1?
:26:05. > :26:09.-- how high? I believe I have the capability to do it, I have the
:26:09. > :26:14.mental toughness, I have the game to do it. I would not be in the
:26:14. > :26:21.game if I did not. But all these girls think the same thing. Tell me
:26:21. > :26:25.about the sprinkler. It is this, this is the dance, and I taught
:26:25. > :26:29.Judy Murray that dance, and she said she would do it if I won the
:26:29. > :26:39.title, and she did. She made a video for me with some of her
:26:39. > :26:41.
:26:41. > :26:45.students, who she works with, doing the sprinkler. It is brilliant.
:26:45. > :26:55.even Andy Murray's win at the US Open this summer would have
:26:55. > :26:56.
:26:56. > :27:01.persuaded his mother to do this! What a year for British tennis.
:27:01. > :27:05.Gateshead has its Angel of the North, Kent will soon have a giant
:27:05. > :27:10.white horse, dubbed the Angel of the South, and now, Devon is
:27:10. > :27:13.getting its own version, a statue by Damien Hirst. It is being loaned
:27:13. > :27:21.to the town of Ilfracombe for 20 years. It is already causing
:27:21. > :27:25.controversy. Yes, local people and holidaymakers are gathering here on
:27:25. > :27:29.Ilfracombe Pier to see the structure, Verity, 66 feet tall,
:27:29. > :27:32.being put into position. She is controversial, not just because of
:27:32. > :27:37.her size, bigger than the Angel of the north, but because of what she
:27:37. > :27:42.is. She is a pregnant woman, naked, with some of her internal organs on
:27:42. > :27:45.display. You can see one of her legs in the air. And on the right-
:27:45. > :27:52.hand side, you can see her belly. This is what local people have
:27:52. > :27:55.thought of her in the last few days. I thought it was awful, a horrible
:27:55. > :28:00.thing to depict Ilfracombe. But it is the ultimate in natural beauty,
:28:01. > :28:07.is it not? Not with half of her insides hanging out. It is just not
:28:07. > :28:11.nice. I think it will frighten a lot of children. What do you think?
:28:11. > :28:16.Fantastic. Great for tourists, we have heard a couple of people
:28:16. > :28:23.already saying, what a fantastic place, and then, oh, look at the
:28:23. > :28:26.coastline! I think it is beautiful. I am all in favour of putting
:28:26. > :28:34.Ilfracombe on the map. Anything that brings business into the town
:28:34. > :28:38.will be good for Ilfracombe. Even a giant pregnant woman? Even that.
:28:38. > :28:44.They tell me that the next thing is for her waters to break. When that
:28:44. > :28:50.happens, I will... Stay out of the way! Yes, that will cause a flood
:28:50. > :28:54.in the harbour. I live here, and I have got to look at it every day.
:28:54. > :28:57.What are your thoughts? It is horrible. I do not want to look at
:28:57. > :29:02.that. We have got enough pregnant women in the town without having to
:29:02. > :29:09.look at another one. Lots of people waiting to see this, it is a bit
:29:09. > :29:18.like waiting outside a maternity ward. She is supposed to go up at 3
:29:18. > :29:21.o'clock this afternoon. Let's have a look at the latest weather. There
:29:21. > :29:24.are some pretty strong winds coming are some pretty strong winds coming
:29:24. > :29:30.in the south-west of England later on tonight, which will help blow
:29:30. > :29:33.some of those leaves off the tree. Often windy over the next few days,
:29:33. > :29:38.but with some sunshine as well. Let's have a look at what has
:29:38. > :29:44.happened so far today. This low pressure has been pushing Caroline
:29:44. > :29:49.and east. It has brought a pretty dismal day across southern Scotland
:29:49. > :29:56.and the north of England. Anywhere to the south of that cloud will be
:29:56. > :30:00.where the strongest winds will be this afternoon. It will leave a
:30:00. > :30:06.legacy of cloud, I suspect, for the afternoon. In the south-east corner,
:30:06. > :30:09.not a bad afternoon. At least there will be some sunny spells. Coming
:30:09. > :30:14.into the south-west of England, some isolated showers along the
:30:14. > :30:19.Cornish coast, but nothing to substantial. Some pretty choppy
:30:19. > :30:25.seas up through the Bristol channel. Further inland, some of essential
:30:25. > :30:28.and this afternoon. A better afternoon in Northern Ireland.
:30:28. > :30:38.After a chilly start in Scotland, temperatures, still struggling a
:30:38. > :30:39.
:30:39. > :30:42.little. But at least you have got some sunshine. There is the legacy
:30:42. > :30:45.of that cloud. Coming down into the Midlands, East Anglia and the
:30:45. > :30:50.south-east of England, it is the strength of the wind which will be
:30:50. > :30:54.the future this afternoon. The wind will ease for a time, but it is
:30:54. > :30:58.only a brief respite, as the next area of low pressure starts to come
:30:58. > :31:06.in from the south-west. It will be accompanied by some strong winds
:31:06. > :31:09.and intense for rainfall, as it pushes further north. It will be a
:31:09. > :31:13.chilly night again in the far north of Scotland. But it is the strength
:31:13. > :31:17.of the wind and the intensity of the rainfall, together with high
:31:18. > :31:26.tides, which could be causing problems in the south-west of
:31:26. > :31:33.England and in South Wales. A disappointing day tomorrow in
:31:33. > :31:39.Northern Ireland. Our area of low pressure will be anchored above
:31:39. > :31:43.Northern Ireland, with plenty of frequent showers out in the west.
:31:43. > :31:49.On Thursday we are not quite sure how much rainfall we will see in