:00:06. > :00:12.The BBC's Director-General faces hostile questions from MPs over the
:00:12. > :00:18.Corporation's handling of Jimmy Savile's years of sexual abuse.
:00:18. > :00:24.George Entwistle denied a cover-up, at the BBC had seemed to allow the
:00:24. > :00:29.presenter to get away with it. is a gravely serious matter and one
:00:29. > :00:32.cannot look back at it with anything other than horror that his
:00:32. > :00:38.activities went on as long as they did undetected and of course, that
:00:38. > :00:40.is a matter of grave regret to me. Mr Entwistle said he regretted the
:00:40. > :00:44.tribute programmes to Savile and said the Newsnight investigation
:00:44. > :00:50.into his paedophile activities should have gone ahead.
:00:50. > :00:56.There was clearly some good journalistic material here and even
:00:56. > :00:59.if there wasn't a prospect of a media transmission a continueal
:00:59. > :01:05.investigation. As Savile's victims consider legal
:01:05. > :01:11.action, frustration that their accusations were never heard.
:01:11. > :01:14.all that stress, that's what made me angry, the fact that that I had
:01:14. > :01:17.gone through that stress when I needed to concentrate on getting
:01:17. > :01:21.well and then they never used it. The other headlines:
:01:21. > :01:25.A court hears more details of an alleged plot to carry out a bombing
:01:25. > :01:27.campaign on a scale greater than the 2005 London bombings.
:01:27. > :01:30.Claims of a U-turn as a controversial Government plan to
:01:30. > :01:33.cull thousands of badgers in England is postponed for a year.
:01:33. > :01:43.And destination Derry, 20 years after the Troubles a new tourist
:01:43. > :01:51.
:01:51. > :02:01.guide says it's now one of the top Rft A court hears gang violence led
:02:01. > :02:12.
:02:12. > :02:15.to the Boxing Day death of a Good afternoon and welcome to the
:02:15. > :02:18.BBC News at One. The Director-General of the BBC,
:02:18. > :02:21.George Entwistle, has defended the Corporation's response to the Jimmy
:02:21. > :02:27.Savile sex abuse scandal, but accepted it had raised questions of
:02:27. > :02:29.trust. Describing Savile's behaviour as "very, very grave", he
:02:29. > :02:33.told the Commons Media Select Committee there had been no cover-
:02:33. > :02:40.up at the BBC, but said the Culture and Practices at the time had
:02:40. > :02:44.seemed to allow the presenter to get away with it. When asked if it
:02:44. > :02:46.had been a failure by him to ask further questions about a Newsnight
:02:46. > :02:50.investigation into Savile, Mr Entwistle said he didn't want to
:02:50. > :02:59.show "undue interest" and affect editorial decisions. David Sillito
:02:59. > :03:03.After weeks of what the BBC has accepted are horrific revelations
:03:03. > :03:06.of sexual abuse by one of its stars, there were to be many difficult
:03:06. > :03:13.questions for the BBC's Director- General about what it had done or
:03:13. > :03:17.failed to do over Jimmy Savile. BBC's reputation for trust and
:03:17. > :03:21.integrity is one of the most precious assets and yet, do you not
:03:21. > :03:25.accept that that is in jeopardy as a result of some of the suggestions
:03:25. > :03:30.that have been made in the last few weeks? There is no question what
:03:30. > :03:34.Jimmy Savile did and the way the BBC behaved in the years that, the
:03:34. > :03:37.culture and the practises of the BBC seems to allow Jimmy Savile to
:03:37. > :03:40.do what he did will raise questions of trust to us and reputation for
:03:40. > :03:45.us. There is no question about that. This is a gravely serious matter
:03:45. > :03:49.and one cannot look back at it with anything other than horror frankly.
:03:49. > :03:54.So what did he know about the wider allegations of sexual harassment
:03:54. > :04:00.that had come to light in the wake of the scandal? How many are there?
:04:00. > :04:06.How many are you looking at? We're looking at between five and ten
:04:06. > :04:09.serious allegations relating to activities, but over the whole
:04:09. > :04:15.period in question, the Savile period.
:04:15. > :04:18.But what about people employed by the BBC? Well, I believe they are
:04:18. > :04:23.included in them. Following last night's Panorama
:04:23. > :04:26.investigation into the BBC and and Savile, could he say anything about
:04:26. > :04:31.allegations there may have been a paedophile ring operating in the
:04:31. > :04:37.BBC? There was an allegation there was a sort of a paedophile ring at
:04:37. > :04:40.the BBC. Do you have the BBC taken any steps to identify who was
:04:40. > :04:45.involved in that paedophile ring? That's an allegation I have seen
:04:45. > :04:49.made in the last few days and it is something that we are putting our
:04:49. > :04:52.resources at the disposal of the police in. A paedophile ring would
:04:52. > :04:55.be a matter for a police investigation and we are making -
:04:55. > :04:58.we are taking every step we can to support the police in investigating
:04:58. > :05:02.that. And then the crux of last night's
:05:02. > :05:05.programme, the decision by Newsnight's editor last year to not
:05:05. > :05:09.broadcast allegations about Jimmy Savile.
:05:09. > :05:13.Mr Entwistle, do you now accept in the light of last night's Panorama
:05:13. > :05:16.that the decision to drop the Newsnight investigation was a
:05:16. > :05:21.catastrophic mistake I came away from the Panorama firlly of the
:05:21. > :05:23.view -- firmy of the view that that investigation, even if it wasn't
:05:23. > :05:28.ready for transmission should have been allowed to continue.
:05:28. > :05:31.A clear statement then about Newsnight's editorial decision and
:05:31. > :05:35.he was clearer about the justification for that decision.
:05:35. > :05:38.The Director-General has in the past said Newsnight's investigation
:05:38. > :05:41.wasn't focused on the allegations, but the police investigation, but
:05:41. > :05:44.that and other parts of the explanation, it seems, are now
:05:45. > :05:51.wrong. There is no doubt here in my mind
:05:51. > :05:54.that for us to have published a blog with these inaccurate details
:05:54. > :05:58.is regrettable. But the key point was to establish what the
:05:58. > :06:01.inaccuracies were and publish that account which is what we've done.
:06:01. > :06:05.And was there pressure from above when he was told about the
:06:05. > :06:09.investigation by the Head of News, Helen boden just at a time when he
:06:09. > :06:13.was planning two tributes to Jimmy Savile. But you are told that one
:06:13. > :06:18.of the flagship investigative programmes on the BBC is looking
:06:18. > :06:23.into one of the most iconic figures who you are about to commission
:06:23. > :06:26.huge tributes to and you don't want to know what it is? It wasn't
:06:26. > :06:30.because I didn't want to know. Halfs in my mind was the
:06:31. > :06:34.determination not to show undue interest.
:06:34. > :06:39.So even with two independent inquiries inquiries yet to report,
:06:39. > :06:47.there is discomfort within the BBC. Both about what has happened and
:06:47. > :06:50.Since Jimmy Savile's death last year, scores of women and several
:06:50. > :06:53.men have come forward to say that he abused them when they were
:06:53. > :06:56.children or teenagers. Police have identified more than 200 potential
:06:56. > :07:03.victims. Some are now considering legal action. Richard Lister has
:07:03. > :07:07.He was, it seems, a paedophile, hiding in plain sight, the police
:07:07. > :07:12.say there are now 400 lines of inquiry into sexual abuse by Jimmy
:07:12. > :07:19.Savile. And they have identified over 200 possible victims. That's
:07:19. > :07:22.Among them Karin Ward who almost a year ago told the BBC she had been
:07:22. > :07:26.abused by Savile, but Newsnight dropped the story for what were
:07:26. > :07:31.described as editorial reasonsment her interview ran for the first
:07:31. > :07:37.time on last night's Panorama. I can't believe that I allowed such
:07:37. > :07:46.things to happen. That I didn't immediately rush and scream it from
:07:46. > :07:54.the roof tops. Make this stop. Just make it stop. But I didn't. None of
:07:54. > :08:00.us did. Karin says she feels let down for
:08:00. > :08:04.the decision not to tell her story. That's what made me angry, the fact
:08:04. > :08:07.that I had gone through that stress when I should have been getting
:08:07. > :08:16.well and they never used it. Panorama spoke to other victims too.
:08:16. > :08:20.As a nine-year-old Kevin was in a Cub Scout troop invited on to the
:08:20. > :08:26.Jim'll Fix It programme. He said Savile singled him out.
:08:26. > :08:29.REPORTER: Did you think about telling somebody then? No. Why not?
:08:29. > :08:34.I was petrified. The BBC is one of the several organisations
:08:34. > :08:38.scrambling to uncover who knew what about Savile, once lauded for the
:08:38. > :08:46.millions he raised for good causes, the Jimmy Savile Charitable Trust
:08:46. > :08:52.and his Stoke Mandeville Hospital Trust have been forced to closed.
:08:52. > :08:53.We felt the harm has been done. We can't see a future for fund-raising
:08:53. > :08:57.given the association with Jimmy Savile.
:08:57. > :09:05.The scale of his decades of abuse is becoming clear. How and why he
:09:05. > :09:10.wasn't stopped will take sometime Let's speak to Norman Smith who is
:09:10. > :09:14.in Westminster. It was a tough session for the Director-General.
:09:14. > :09:24.How did he deal with it? If the Director-General's aim was to ease
:09:24. > :09:24.
:09:24. > :09:30.the pressure on the BBC, he had the opposite effect and compounded it.
:09:30. > :09:34.You sense the incredulity among the MPs on the committee, the material
:09:35. > :09:38.they uncovered and why it had been dropped. They were amazed about the
:09:38. > :09:45.lack of information he had sought about Savile, about whether there
:09:45. > :09:49.was a paedophile ring at the BBC, about why young girls were bussed
:09:49. > :09:58.into Top of the Pops and how many might have been abused and MPs
:09:58. > :10:01.spoke of a lack of knowledge and a lack of curiosity. Mr Entwistle
:10:01. > :10:05.sought to apportion some of the blame on the editor of Newsnight,
:10:05. > :10:10.Peter Rippon, saying that he, George Entwistle, thought it was a
:10:10. > :10:17.mistake to have not proceeded with the Newsnight investigation and he
:10:17. > :10:22.said he could not comment on Peter Rippon's state of minute when he
:10:22. > :10:28.decided not to continue with the inquiry. Mr Entwistle's argument
:10:28. > :10:31.was that his lack of knowledge was due to the desire to keep editorial
:10:31. > :10:35.distance between himself and Newsnight. For all the blame that
:10:35. > :10:40.maybe attached to Pete Pete, at the -- Peter Rippon at the end of the
:10:40. > :10:47.day, Mr Entwistle is the man where the buck will stop. He said, "I
:10:47. > :10:51.take full responsibility for all BBC jurnism." Journalism.". If the
:10:51. > :10:54.committee has more questions, will there be more witness as soon as.
:10:55. > :10:59.They will consider that, but that's certain. I am struck, Simon, about
:10:59. > :11:04.the similarities between what we saw today and James Murdoch when he
:11:04. > :11:10.appeared before the hacking inquiry. Again and again when Mr Murdoch
:11:10. > :11:15.appear, he he said, I can't remember and I can't recollect and
:11:15. > :11:21.it was similar with Mr Entwistle. It is likely the committee will
:11:21. > :11:24.want to speak to Peter Rippon, Helen Boaden, the head Head of News,
:11:24. > :11:29.where it will end, if you follow through the Murdoch analogy, that
:11:29. > :11:32.ended in the really desmation of the reputation of the Murdochs and
:11:32. > :11:42.there has to be serious concern within the BBC that they do not go
:11:42. > :11:50.down the same road. Norman Smith, thank you very much.
:11:50. > :11:53.Let's talk to David Sillito. What have we learned? When the
:11:53. > :11:58.Pollard Inquiry was announced, it was clearly about managerial
:11:58. > :12:02.control of it. Effectively, had the boss, the man at the top, squashed
:12:02. > :12:08.this report? It is clear from what we have heard today that they will
:12:08. > :12:12.be looking closely at the editorial Line of Control. It was obvious
:12:12. > :12:16.that Peter Rippon was obviously the figure that was, had caused
:12:16. > :12:20.embarrassment to the Director- General by publishing a blog and
:12:20. > :12:25.that's the argument the Director- General has been using over the
:12:25. > :12:28.past two weeks. All of that seems to have been blown out of water now
:12:28. > :12:32.which brought embarrassment about the way the BBC has been defending
:12:32. > :12:36.this decision to drop the Newsnight report. The question about it is
:12:37. > :12:40.two-fold, one is he today said that that report should have carried on.
:12:40. > :12:44.The investigation should have continued. Whose responsibility was
:12:44. > :12:49.that given how many people did know the investigation was underway?
:12:49. > :12:53.Secondly, how was it that they were allowed to go on for two weeks or
:12:53. > :12:56.so saying that for instance it was an investigation into allegations
:12:56. > :13:00.by the investigation into the police investigation and not into
:13:00. > :13:03.the allegations themselves and only last night, at the last moment, you
:13:03. > :13:08.saw in the last minute or two of Panorama, we realised there was
:13:08. > :13:12.another BBC statement that said, "We have changed our minds about
:13:12. > :13:17.that.". What next? We have been told in the inquiry
:13:17. > :13:22.today that the Pollard Review will be a matter of weeks, rather than
:13:22. > :13:24.months, I think, there will be a desire to get this out as quickly
:13:24. > :13:29.and dealt with as quickly as possible.
:13:29. > :13:31.The wider allegations, they can't begin to start that inquiry until
:13:31. > :13:37.the police made its report and given they are following more than
:13:37. > :13:41.400 lines of inquiry, the potential of 200 potential victims, that may
:13:41. > :13:51.take sometime if there is going to be criminal charges brought.
:13:51. > :13:57.
:13:57. > :14:02.For more information on this story, you can go to the BBC website.
:14:02. > :14:06.In other news, a court has heard more details about how three men
:14:06. > :14:12.allegedly planned to carry out a bombing campaign on a scale greater
:14:12. > :14:18.than the London bombings. They deny the charges. Our Home Affairs
:14:18. > :14:22.correspondent his at court. When Muslims on the streets of
:14:22. > :14:29.Birmingham were approached by men with charity collection boxes in
:14:29. > :14:33.August it was during Ramadan, a time of giving for Muslims. But the
:14:33. > :14:37.trial heard the donations were made innocently, but were actually
:14:37. > :14:42.funding an alleged terrorist plot. The men accused of being behind the
:14:42. > :14:46.plot have heard a second day of evidence against them. Three men
:14:46. > :14:56.from the Midlands accused of planning a spectacular terror
:14:56. > :14:56.
:14:56. > :15:56.Apology for the loss of subtitles for 60 seconds
:15:56. > :16:01.attack on British soil. Irfan This This man was in charge of the
:16:01. > :16:06.�14,000. He try to bet it, but was cast adrift by the group after his
:16:06. > :16:11.scheme lost them �9,000. The defendants cars were bugged by the
:16:11. > :16:15.Security Services. It is claimed they settled on a plan to fill
:16:15. > :16:24.eight rucksacks with improvised explosives. The three men deny
:16:24. > :16:28.In the past hour the court has been hearing that four other men who
:16:28. > :16:32.pleaded separately guilty to travelling to Pakistan for
:16:32. > :16:36.terrorism, for training in terrorism, were also allegedly
:16:36. > :16:42.helped in their purposes by the three defendants here. In total,
:16:42. > :16:46.six people have now pleaded guilty to offences related to this trial.
:16:46. > :16:50.Simon. Four people are taking legal action
:16:50. > :16:56.against the publishers of the Daily Mirror of alleged phone hacking.
:16:56. > :17:00.They include Sven-Goran Eriksson and the Coronation Street actress.
:17:00. > :17:04.It is the first legal action over hacking against the newspaper group
:17:04. > :17:08.other than News International. The proposed cull of thousands of
:17:08. > :17:12.badgers in England to control the spread of Bovine TB is being
:17:12. > :17:21.postpone. The Government had given approval for a cull in the West
:17:21. > :17:28.Labour says the Government's handling of the kill has been
:17:28. > :17:34.incompetent and shambolic. Jeremy Cook is in Gloucestershire.
:17:34. > :17:38.For over a decade it has been the most bitterly contested issue in
:17:38. > :17:42.the countryside. We were within hours, perhaps within a night-time
:17:42. > :17:46.of this cull actually happening. But today, we have had the dramatic
:17:47. > :17:56.news that the cull of badgers both here in Gloucestershire and down in
:17:57. > :18:00.
:18:00. > :18:05.They are secretive creatures, much loved, and iconic British species.
:18:05. > :18:10.But they have been blamed for spreading bovine TB. Many farmers
:18:10. > :18:17.argued they should be killed and the Government agreed. The shooting
:18:17. > :18:23.was about to start. Now, it is all change. It has been postponed at
:18:23. > :18:32.least until next year. For farmers like this one it will be a bitter
:18:32. > :18:37.disappointment. Three of his cows have tested positive for UCI -- TB.
:18:37. > :18:42.It is a sentence with no appeal. They are already on their way to
:18:42. > :18:46.abattoir. I do not understand animal lovers will sit by and watch
:18:46. > :18:50.this disease spread across the countryside. We need people with
:18:50. > :18:56.courage to say let's get this horrible thing done. Let's get back
:18:56. > :19:01.to healthy cows. This is a last- minute reprieve for badgers in two
:19:01. > :19:08.pilot zones in Somerset and Gloucestershire. Around 5500 would
:19:08. > :19:12.have been shot. Add to delays in paperwork and calculation was made
:19:12. > :19:17.them was not enough time to achieve that number before the winter close
:19:17. > :19:22.to season. And so this morning the Environment Secretary was preparing
:19:22. > :19:28.to announce it had been put back. The Government insists that it is
:19:28. > :19:34.not a U-turn. By starting the pilot next summer we can build on the
:19:34. > :19:40.work that has been done and ensure it will conform to the scientific
:19:40. > :19:45.criteria and evidence-based. I know this will be disappointing for many,
:19:45. > :19:50.particularly farmers in the two pilot areas. That is not the view
:19:50. > :19:56.of those who campaign against. They are claiming victory and believe it
:19:56. > :20:00.will now never happen. I am overjoyed. I hope the Government
:20:00. > :20:06.have the guts to climb down completely, instead of dragging it
:20:07. > :20:11.out, to say it was a terrible idea and they should not have done it.
:20:11. > :20:18.The guns might be silent but the bitter debate will go on. Farmers
:20:18. > :20:23.continuing to press for the badger cull. They are in no doubt of the
:20:23. > :20:27.scale of opposition against it. We should stress that both the farmers
:20:27. > :20:37.and the Government are saying it is not a U-turn and it will happen,
:20:37. > :20:42.but it will happen next year. The top story. The BBC director-
:20:42. > :20:47.general denies a cover-up as he faces hostile questions from MPs
:20:47. > :20:53.over the BBC handling of Jimmy Savile's years of sexual abuse. And
:20:53. > :20:56.the latest list of mussy places includes Londonderry. We find out
:20:56. > :21:00.why it is trot -- top of the travel tips.
:21:00. > :21:05.In London, the charity that says it is shocked at the rapid increase in
:21:05. > :21:15.the number of people going hungry in the capital. And ahead of the
:21:15. > :21:16.
:21:16. > :21:21.premiere of Skyfall, we catch up with Dame Judi Dench.
:21:21. > :21:23.It is two weeks until the US presidential election and for
:21:23. > :21:29.President Obama and Mitt Romney have been trying to win over voters
:21:29. > :21:33.in their final TV debate. The theme was foreign affairs with Iran's
:21:33. > :21:37.nuclear policy and Afghanistan top of the agenda. President Obama
:21:37. > :21:42.dismissed his challenger as wronged and reckless on major issues while
:21:42. > :21:48.Mitt Romney has accused the President of weakening their global
:21:48. > :21:52.leadership. A final head-to-head, this time on
:21:52. > :21:58.foreign affairs. They would go around the world in 90 minutes,
:21:58. > :22:02.devoting a large chunk of time to the threat of a nuclear Iran.
:22:02. > :22:07.have the challenges we have had with Iran is they have looked at
:22:07. > :22:13.the administration and felt it is not as strong as it needed to be. I
:22:13. > :22:16.think they saw weakness. The clock is ticking. We will not allow Iran
:22:16. > :22:21.to perpetually engaged in negotiations that lead nowhere. I
:22:21. > :22:26.have been clear to them. President denied a report his
:22:26. > :22:34.administration would soon enter one-on-one negotiations with Iran.
:22:34. > :22:40.Mitt Romney said more alone would not end violent extremism. Week
:22:40. > :22:45.cannot kill our way out of this mess. He promised economic
:22:45. > :22:51.development and deterrent through strength. You mentioned the Navy.
:22:51. > :22:56.We have fewer ships the 1916. We also have fewer horses and bayonets
:22:56. > :23:02.because the nature of the military has changed. We have aircraft
:23:02. > :23:06.carriers. We had ships that go under water. The dividing lines
:23:06. > :23:11.were thin on policy towards Afghanistan, Pakistan and Syria.
:23:11. > :23:16.Mitt Romney seized every chance to turn the debate towards home.
:23:16. > :23:21.fulfil our role in the world, America must be strong. America
:23:21. > :23:26.must eat. For that to happen we have to strengthen the economy. --
:23:26. > :23:30.must lead. You cannot have people struggling to get a job. They
:23:30. > :23:34.remained mostly composed, unlike last week. The president more
:23:34. > :23:38.fluent on the issues he deals with day-to-day. The challenge are
:23:38. > :23:43.trying hard to sound like a Commander In Chief. We have been
:23:43. > :23:46.through tough times but we always bounce back because of our
:23:46. > :23:50.character. Because we pulled together. If I have the privilege
:23:50. > :23:55.of being President for another four years, I will listen to your voices
:23:55. > :23:59.and fight for your family is and I will work every day to make sure
:23:59. > :24:02.America continues to be the greatest nation on earth.
:24:02. > :24:05.Washington is broken. I know what it takes to get this country back
:24:05. > :24:12.and we will work with good democrats and Republicans to do
:24:12. > :24:18.that. And it was the last chance for America to weigh up the two
:24:18. > :24:22.men's side by side. We will learn the verdict in two weeks.
:24:22. > :24:27.Lawyers for a Pakistani man whose father was killed in an alleged CIA
:24:27. > :24:30.eight drone strike up a High Court to challenge Britain's role in
:24:30. > :24:34.drone attacks. They challenge the lawfulness of the listening centre
:24:34. > :24:42.at GCHQ to pass on what they call locational intelligence to the
:24:42. > :24:47.United States. The claimant in this case is a man
:24:47. > :24:52.called Noor Khan, a Pakistani who lives in the tribal areas of that
:24:52. > :24:58.country. He said his father was killed in a suspected CIA a train
:24:58. > :25:05.strike last year. He is not in court -- and drone strike. His
:25:05. > :25:10.lawyers argue for a judicial review to look at whether any British
:25:10. > :25:15.intelligence co-operation is legal. The basis of the claim is a
:25:15. > :25:19.newspaper report that said GCHQ passes on what is called locational
:25:19. > :25:24.intelligence, information about suspects and their movements to the
:25:24. > :25:28.Americans and that this could be used in these strikes. The
:25:28. > :25:34.Government in Britain will not comment on whether there is such
:25:34. > :25:38.intelligence co-operation. They have a policy of not confirming or
:25:38. > :25:42.denying the passing of such information. Their lawyers are
:25:42. > :25:47.expected to argue this is not a matter of the court can offer a
:25:47. > :25:51.judgment on. It is a two-day hearing expected to close tomorrow
:25:51. > :25:55.and after that we will learn if there will be a hearing on this
:25:55. > :26:00.matter. A driver appeared in court accused
:26:00. > :26:05.of murdering a mother-of-three and attempting to murder 13 pedestrians,
:26:05. > :26:09.including seven children in hit and run incident in Cardiff. Matthew
:26:09. > :26:13.Tvrdon is accused of deliberately driving into parents and young
:26:13. > :26:20.children on Friday. He appeared at court via video link and was
:26:20. > :26:30.remanded in custody. Are you wondering where to visit on
:26:30. > :26:30.
:26:30. > :28:09.Apology for the loss of subtitles for 60 seconds
:28:09. > :28:19.It is a city steeped in history. So much so that some people now call
:28:19. > :28:22.
:28:22. > :28:27.The oldest surviving pilot from the Battle of Britain, William Walker,
:28:27. > :28:36.has died. He survived being shot down in his
:28:36. > :28:37.Spitfire over the English Channel. Let's catch up with the weather
:28:37. > :28:41.forecast. It is grey and dull out there again.
:28:41. > :28:47.It is like yesterday. We have had It is like yesterday. We have had
:28:47. > :28:50.the mist and fog. It lifted into cloud. If we look at the satellite
:28:50. > :28:54.picture, it looks similar to yesterday's. Underneath this wave
:28:54. > :28:57.of cloud is much of the country, but there is a hold across the
:28:57. > :29:03.north-west corner of Scotland and here we have got some of the best
:29:03. > :29:07.sunshine. But it was chilly this morning. That sunshine has been
:29:07. > :29:12.getting to work and temperatures should lift to 10 Celsius. We could
:29:12. > :29:16.see a few breaks in the cloud developing.
:29:16. > :29:21.Move further iland and that's where we have the grey skies.
:29:21. > :29:24.Temperatures rise nothing the mid- teens and still mild. It is thick
:29:24. > :29:28.cloud sitting across the Midlands and parts of Northern England. We
:29:28. > :29:32.will see the rain coming and going. Later, the chance of sunshine
:29:32. > :29:36.developing along the South Coast of Kent. For tonight, it is the cloud
:29:36. > :29:40.that will dominate. We will see mist here. Not as much fog as
:29:40. > :29:46.recent nights and still some clear skies holding on through Central
:29:46. > :29:51.Scotland. For our towns and cities through Scotland 5 or 6 Celsius.
:29:51. > :29:56.Nor Nor Northern Ireland and England and Wales, we are staying
:29:56. > :30:03.in double figures. A mild start on Wednesday. It is another cloudy day,
:30:03. > :30:09.I am hoping with the breeze picking up, we could start start to see
:30:09. > :30:13.brightness. Temperatures for Scotland 10 Celsius to 11 Celsius.
:30:13. > :30:18.Very Very little change on Thursday with the cloudy skies. Perhaps more
:30:18. > :30:21.rain develop as we move across Scotland. Elsewhere, it is grey,
:30:21. > :30:28.dull and damp with temperatures in the mid-teens. It is not until
:30:28. > :30:35.Friday that we see a change. The wind change is driving down colder
:30:35. > :30:39.air. Sunshine across Scotland along with wintry showers. You will start
:30:39. > :30:45.to see temperatures drop down a bit, but really significant across parts
:30:45. > :30:49.of Scotland. In the south, by the time we get to Saturday, the
:30:49. > :30:52.northerly wind has set in. You can see the temperatures at 6 or 7
:30:52. > :30:56.Celsius. At least, there will be sunshine across parts of the
:30:56. > :31:00.country. There will be showers in the north and the east and they
:31:00. > :31:05.could be wintry at times and you will feel chilly if you are
:31:05. > :31:12.stepping out on Saturday. We have more details online. Matt Taylor
:31:12. > :31:16.has more details on the cold The BBC's Director-General
:31:16. > :31:24.expresses regret, but denies a cover-up as he faces questions from
:31:24. > :31:31.MPs over the Corporation's handling of Jimmy Savile's years of sexual
:31:31. > :31:35.abuse. This is a gravely serious matters.