:00:10. > :00:12.Police and mental health officials missed opportunities to prevent the
:00:12. > :00:15.killing of a grandmother. Psychiatric patient Nicola
:00:15. > :00:18.Edgington had warned she might commit murder, but simple checks
:00:18. > :00:21.failed to reveal she posed a danger to the public.
:00:21. > :00:25.The Vatican's to hold an inquiry after the former head of the
:00:25. > :00:28.Catholic Church in Scotland admits sexual misconduct.
:00:28. > :00:31.A fall in lending by Britain's leading banks despite being given
:00:31. > :00:34.billions to help businesses access credit.
:00:34. > :00:40.The Queen spends a second day in hospital as she receives treatment
:00:40. > :00:43.for suspected gastroenteritis. And a potential breakthrough in the
:00:43. > :00:52.fight against HIV - in a world first a baby appears to have been
:00:52. > :00:57.cured of the condition. On BBC London, January's helicopter
:00:57. > :01:00.crash in Vauxhall may have been averted if safety warnings were
:01:00. > :01:10.observed. Around one in 20 Londoners have
:01:10. > :01:19.
:01:19. > :01:21.tieb two Diablo Cody with -- type Good afternoon, and welcome to the
:01:21. > :01:27.BBC News at One. A police watchdog says officers missed opportunities
:01:27. > :01:30.to prevent a woman being stabbed to death in South London in 2011. Six
:01:30. > :01:32.years after killing her own mother, psychiatric patient Nicola
:01:32. > :01:34.Edgington killed 59-year-old Sally Hodkin in Bexleyheath. The
:01:34. > :01:37.Independent Police Complaints Commission said both officers and
:01:37. > :01:40.hospital staff failed to use their powers under the Mental Health Act
:01:40. > :01:50.to detain her. Ben Geoghegan is outside the Old Bailey where
:01:50. > :01:55.Edgington is due to be sentenced. Yes, within the last few minutes,
:01:55. > :01:59.the judge has sentenced her to life, and she will serve a minimum of 37
:01:59. > :02:04.years in prison. The judge said that her actions had demonstrated a
:02:04. > :02:07.consistent and calculated course of criminal conduct. He said to her,
:02:08. > :02:12."You are manipulative and extremely dangerous", but even as she's
:02:12. > :02:16.sentenced today, it's the police and others who have come under
:02:16. > :02:19.criticism for not intervening enough to try to prevent her
:02:19. > :02:23.carrying out her murder. Nicola Edgington warned police she was
:02:23. > :02:29.dangerous. Today she's beginning a life sentence for murder, but could
:02:29. > :02:32.she have been stopped? This footage shows her running from the scene in
:02:32. > :02:36.Bexley, South London, moments after stabbing her victim with a
:02:36. > :02:41.butcher's knife in October 2011. The jury were told 58-year-old
:02:41. > :02:46.Sally Hodkin was virtually decapitated in the agau, it wasn't
:02:46. > :02:51.the first time Edgington had killed. She had stabbed her own mother to
:02:52. > :02:57.death six years before. Edgington was taken into psychiatric care but
:02:57. > :03:00.then released back into the community in 2009. In the hours
:03:00. > :03:03.before she murdered Sally Hodkin Nicola Edgington had been brought
:03:03. > :03:08.to this South London hospital by police, but the officers who were
:03:08. > :03:18.with her left after five minutes. Waiting in A&E, she made a series
:03:18. > :03:32.
:03:32. > :03:36.of 999 calls, pleading to be taken Edgington was transferred to a
:03:36. > :03:41.mental health unit next to the hospital, but she was allowed to
:03:41. > :03:45.leave. She then went by bus to Bexley where she attacked one woman
:03:45. > :03:49.and brutally murdered Sally Hodkin, both of them total strangers. Today
:03:50. > :03:52.the Independent Police Watchdog said opportunitys to intervene had
:03:52. > :03:56.been miss. Our investigation found that whilst there was no breach of
:03:56. > :04:01.conduct by either the police or the staff, there was a missed
:04:01. > :04:06.opportunity in that they failed to conduct a Police National Computer
:04:06. > :04:08.check which meant both the police and the hospital staff were lacking
:04:08. > :04:11.crucial information about Nicola Edgington which potentially could
:04:12. > :04:15.have changed the way in which she was dealt with at the hospital.
:04:15. > :04:20.a statement read to the court today, Sally Hodkin's husband, Paul, said
:04:20. > :04:24.the murder of his wife had destroyed him. "40 years of
:04:24. > :04:29.marriage," he said had been wiped out in seconds by someone who
:04:29. > :04:33.shouldn't have been on the streets. It's not clear exactly to what the
:04:33. > :04:37.judge was referring earlier today when he said in sentencing
:04:37. > :04:42.Edgington, "I disagree that responsibility for these acts can
:04:42. > :04:48.be laid at the doors of others", but he said she was responsible for
:04:48. > :04:54.the attempted murder of Kerry Clark and the murder of Sally Hodkin. He
:04:54. > :04:59.said he had been moved by the words of Paul Hodkni this morning. He
:04:59. > :05:02.said nothing we can do or say will turn the clock back. They will
:05:02. > :05:04.never get over her death. Indeed, Ben, thank you. The Vatican
:05:05. > :05:08.is expected to hold an inquiry after Cardinal Keith O'Brien, the
:05:08. > :05:13.former head of the Catholic Church in Scotland, admitted sexual
:05:13. > :05:16.misconduct. Last week, four men accused him of inappropriate
:05:16. > :05:20.behaviour. Cardinal Keith O'Brien resigned shortly after the
:05:20. > :05:24.allegations came to light. Catholic cardinals from around the world are
:05:24. > :05:30.gathering in Rome to begin the process of electing a new Pope.
:05:30. > :05:33.From there Allan Little has sent this report.
:05:33. > :05:39.The Roman Catholic Church teaches that homosexual relations are
:05:39. > :05:43.sinful and that gay men and women should live celibate lives. Its
:05:43. > :05:46.priest commit themselves to a life of chastity. Today in Rome, the
:05:46. > :05:50.former leader of the church in England and Wales told me Cardinal
:05:50. > :05:56.Keith O'Brien's failure to live up to that commitment did not change
:05:56. > :06:01.what the church believes. Cardinal O'Brien didn't live up to
:06:02. > :06:06.the promises he made of - well, that's something, yes, he's very
:06:06. > :06:10.sorry for, and has apologised. I don't think it takes away from the
:06:10. > :06:15.teaching of the church and shouldn't do. Cardinal Keith
:06:15. > :06:19.O'Brien was a powerful voice in Scotland's national dialogue. He
:06:19. > :06:25.was an uncompromising critic of gay rights and a vociferous opponent of
:06:25. > :06:29.same-sex marriage. Three priests in his Archbishop and a former priest
:06:29. > :06:32.accused him of inappropriate sexual behaviour towards them. After
:06:32. > :06:42.initially contesting the allegations, Cardinal Keith O'Brien
:06:42. > :06:46.
:06:46. > :06:52.The journalist who broke the story last week said the cardinal had
:06:52. > :06:58.been in a position of authority over the four men. Who were all
:06:58. > :07:01.much younger than him. The cardinal earlier in his career was a
:07:01. > :07:05.spiritual director at a seminary where one of the incidents took
:07:05. > :07:10.place. You're dealing with very young men, and that was a very
:07:10. > :07:14.abusive situation where he used his position and abused his position.
:07:14. > :07:19.This morning, the church's cardinals gathered in Rome, their
:07:19. > :07:23.first meeting in what's known as the General Congregation to begun
:07:23. > :07:27.talks about electing Pope Benedict's successor. If the
:07:27. > :07:32.allegation hadn't been made public, Cardinal O'Brien would have been
:07:32. > :07:37.here among them even though the church knew of the men's complaints
:07:37. > :07:42.before Pope Benedict announced his resignation. In Edinburgh, there is
:07:42. > :07:46.still a sense of stunned belief. The shock waves extend from here to
:07:46. > :07:49.Rome and around the Catholic world. In just a moment, we'll speak to
:07:49. > :07:55.our correspondent James Cook in Edinburgh, but first, let's return
:07:55. > :07:59.to Allan Little, who is in Rome. What's your reading of how much the
:07:59. > :08:03.scandal could impact the election of a new Pope? There are calls for
:08:03. > :08:08.a reformer who could repair this now extensive damage to the church.
:08:08. > :08:12.Yes, there is a great instinct for protecting the reputation of the
:08:12. > :08:16.Vatican, though, but priests and clerics I have spoken to over the
:08:16. > :08:20.last week had raised the Cardinal Keith O'Brien matter with me
:08:20. > :08:25.unprompted. I have detected a pained unwillingness to believe the
:08:25. > :08:29.allegations, and one or two people have suggested that the timing is
:08:29. > :08:32.suspicious that perhaps this is some kind of vendetta against the
:08:33. > :08:36.cardinal, but the cardinal's own admission put paid to that last
:08:37. > :08:43.night, and so the church knows very well that if it had not been made
:08:43. > :08:46.public, if it had stayed secret within the walls of the vat wan,
:08:46. > :08:50.then Cardinal O'Brien would be here with the cardinals, and he'd take
:08:50. > :08:54.those allegations with him secretly into the Sistene chapel into the
:08:54. > :08:58.process to elect the new Pope, so when the inquiry comes into the new
:08:58. > :09:02.Pope, the church will have to look at the response to these
:09:02. > :09:05.allegations as well as the allegations themselves I would have
:09:05. > :09:09.thought. They're saying there is disbelief in Edinburgh. How much of
:09:09. > :09:14.a crisis is this for the Catholic Church in Scotland? I think this is
:09:14. > :09:17.an enormous crisis for the Catholic Church in Scotland. One leading
:09:17. > :09:22.commentator saying he believes this is the worst crisis since the
:09:22. > :09:27.reformation. We now have the spectre really of the most senior
:09:27. > :09:32.Catholic in Britain as was accused of the most stunning hypocrisy,
:09:32. > :09:35.having condemned homosexual behaviour in the most trenchant
:09:35. > :09:39.terms now admitting sexual misconduct of his own. As Alan says
:09:39. > :09:43.there, what is interesting now is what this investigation will
:09:43. > :09:49.actually look at. Will it focus on the personal moral failings, as the
:09:49. > :09:53.church would see it, of this one man, or will it go wider looking at
:09:53. > :09:57.who knew what in the Scottish Catholic Church, who knew when, how
:09:57. > :10:02.long did this go on for? Was it coercive, where people were forced
:10:02. > :10:05.into this kind of relationship with the cardinal? And indeed, were any
:10:05. > :10:11.other senior figures in the Scottish Catholic Church involved
:10:11. > :10:16.in the church hasn't been known, it's fair to say, for having open
:10:16. > :10:18.dialogue in these matters, but there is a lot of pressure now for
:10:18. > :10:21.lightness rather than dark. Thank you. It's a fall in lending
:10:21. > :10:23.by Britain's leading banks despite getting billions of pounds from the
:10:23. > :10:28.Bank of England in a scheme designed to help consumers and
:10:28. > :10:33.businesses get access to credit. Our chief economics correspondent
:10:33. > :10:36.Hugh Pym joins us now. Remind us of the background to this. This scheme
:10:36. > :10:38.was launched with great fanfare last summer by the Bank of England
:10:38. > :10:42.and the Treasury. The idea of the scheme was the Bank of England
:10:42. > :10:46.would lend money to banks and building societies at low cost as
:10:46. > :10:50.long as they passed it on to businesses and consume, and they
:10:50. > :10:54.got it at a low rate as long as they passed it on, penalised if
:10:54. > :10:58.they did not. The figures out today aren't that encouraging for the
:10:58. > :11:00.Government or the Bank of England. Let's take a look. �13.8 billion
:11:01. > :11:05.has been borrowed by the Bank of England under this scheme, but if
:11:05. > :11:08.you look at the amount of lending by banks and building societys to
:11:08. > :11:12.consumers and businesses, that was down at �2.4 billion between
:11:12. > :11:17.October and December. It should be said RBS and Lloyds and Santander
:11:17. > :11:20.were down. One or two were up, Barclays and Nationwide.
:11:20. > :11:24.Embarrassing to the Bank of England this whole scheme? The Bank of
:11:24. > :11:30.England and the Treasury making it clear they have always said it
:11:30. > :11:33.would take time to get it going. The cost of mortgages, they say,
:11:33. > :11:38.have fallen as a result of the scheme. The Chancellor must do more
:11:38. > :11:40.to explain what he's going to do to help business with the budget
:11:40. > :11:42.coming up. Thank you. Europe's biggest bank,
:11:42. > :11:52.HSBC, has reported annual pre-tax profits of nearly �14 billion, a
:11:52. > :11:57.drop of 6%. The bank had to pay a fine of more than a billion dollars
:11:57. > :12:01.to settle a money laundering case in the US. Its Chief Executive
:12:01. > :12:03.Stuart Gulliver received a bonus of just under �2 million.
:12:03. > :12:08.The Queen is spending a second day in hospital where she's being
:12:08. > :12:13.treated for symptoms of gastroenteritis. Buckingham Palace
:12:13. > :12:16.says the Queen was admitted as a precaution and was otherwise in
:12:16. > :12:19.good health. Our Royal correspondent is outside the King
:12:19. > :12:23.Edward VII Hospital for us. The hospital, one would expect, saying
:12:23. > :12:27.very little, but is there much more information at this stage?
:12:27. > :12:30.there is absolutely no more information at this point, and I'm
:12:30. > :12:34.not sure that we'll get anymore information during the rest of the
:12:34. > :12:38.day. It's just not that kind of situation in medical terms where
:12:38. > :12:41.Buckingham Palace feels the need to be issuing regular bulletins. I
:12:41. > :12:46.think we must assume that the Queen will have seen the Royal doctors
:12:46. > :12:51.this morning. They of course want to discover precisely what is
:12:51. > :12:54.causing these symptoms of gastroenteritis? Is it the
:12:54. > :12:59.Norovirus winter sickness bug, food poisoning or something else? They
:12:59. > :13:02.have the opportunity to do that in the hospital environment here. Will
:13:02. > :13:06.she receive any visitors? Frankly I would doubt it. We were led to
:13:06. > :13:09.believe yesterday this is going to be a brief visit to hospital. I
:13:09. > :13:14.think we can expect she'll be leaving hospital within the next,
:13:14. > :13:17.say, 24 hours, then a period of rest back at Buckingham Palace
:13:17. > :13:23.before resuming Royal engagements next week, and it's a busy
:13:23. > :13:27.programme next week with Commonwealth Day, a service at
:13:28. > :13:37.Guards Chapel, and I'm sure she'll be keen to put this behind her and
:13:38. > :13:44.
:13:44. > :13:50.$:/STARTFEED. 45,000 in favour and under 11snouz against in the
:13:50. > :13:55.federation vote. It was not enough to secure a mandate. New, -- now, a
:13:55. > :13:59.public inquiry has begun into allegations that up to 20 Iraqis
:13:59. > :14:03.were murdered in a gun battle with British troops.
:14:03. > :14:11.It is to examine claims that detainees were captured at the same
:14:11. > :14:15.time. Well, it has been over three years
:14:15. > :14:20.since this inquiry was first established. It had to be proceeded
:14:20. > :14:24.by a police-style investigation.En earlier investigation by the Royal
:14:24. > :14:30.Military Police was judged inadequate, but it is underway. It
:14:30. > :14:34.has been described by staff at the enquiry as unprecedented. Because
:14:34. > :14:41.of the scale of the evidence and because the Iraqis and the British
:14:41. > :14:45.military hotly contest the events in question. Counsel to the inquiry
:14:45. > :14:49.have spoken of a stark dispute between the two sides over what
:14:49. > :14:53.happened. It is almost ten years since the
:14:53. > :14:56.British troops fought their way into southern Iraq. This is the
:14:56. > :15:01.second public inquiry into allegations of abuse. The chairman
:15:01. > :15:05.of the inquiry, Sir Thayne Forbes, was the judge in the murder trial
:15:05. > :15:11.of Harold Shipman. Now it is for him to decide if Iraqis were
:15:11. > :15:15.murdered after a major gun battle. This is the scene of the fight,
:15:15. > :15:20.after the Iraqi militia men ambushed British control. The
:15:20. > :15:25.British Army says that all died on the battlefield. Iraqis say some
:15:25. > :15:30.were killed after they were captured, including Hamid Al-Sweady,
:15:30. > :15:34.after whom the enquiry is named. There have been serious allegations
:15:34. > :15:39.of murder. People killed in detention, deliberately, as well as
:15:39. > :15:45.torture and ill treatment of detainees. That is by the British
:15:45. > :15:48.Army, so it is absolutely essential that the victims and the British
:15:48. > :15:53.public and the world knows what really happened.
:15:53. > :15:56.Both sides agree that nine Iraqis were detained. They went on to
:15:56. > :16:00.complain to the Red Cross of mistreatment. Information that the
:16:00. > :16:05.Ministry of Defence failed to disclose to the courts. It is then
:16:05. > :16:08.the reason it had to agree to this costly inquiry.
:16:08. > :16:12.The challenge for the inquiry, it is an unusual challenge, and a
:16:12. > :16:17.difficult one, it is for the chairman to decide what did happen.
:16:17. > :16:21.The events that the inquiry is examining are hotly contested. Once
:16:21. > :16:26.again the reputation of the British military in Iraq is at stake.
:16:26. > :16:31.Well, the Ministry of Defence has promised its full co-operation with
:16:31. > :16:35.the inquiry. It has cost �15 million. That figure is expected to
:16:35. > :16:40.double. This enquiry, the hearings are likely to last for about a year.
:16:40. > :16:45.They are hearing from some 200 military witnesses and also from
:16:45. > :16:49.the Iraqi detainees and from relatives of the dead. The inquiry
:16:49. > :16:52.has heard that the death certificates of three of the Iraqis
:16:52. > :16:57.issued by the Iraqi authorities said that there were signs of
:16:57. > :17:03.torture on the bodies. Thank you very much.
:17:03. > :17:06.Our top story: A report says that the police and
:17:06. > :17:09.mental health officials missed opportunities to prevent a
:17:09. > :17:14.psychiatric patient from killing again.
:17:14. > :17:19.Coming up: Britain's disintegrating masterpieces, the campaign to save
:17:19. > :17:24.the nation's murals. On BBC London: Defeat for Arsenal
:17:24. > :17:29.in the North London Derby. We look at the club's future. We may be
:17:29. > :17:39.getting slightly warmer weather. A full forecast and the rest of the
:17:39. > :17:43.day's news at 1.30pm. The UK needs to prepare for more
:17:43. > :17:46.frequent extreme weather events as the climate changes, according to
:17:46. > :17:51.new research from the Environment Agency which showed flooding in
:17:51. > :17:58.England and Wales on 78 days last year. Drought was declared for 95
:17:58. > :18:02.days. Roger Harrabin has more. 2012 was the year of the UK's
:18:02. > :18:08.weirdest weather. The wettest on record in England that was after
:18:09. > :18:12.the first three months of drought. New statistics from the Environment
:18:12. > :18:19.Agency show one in five day there is was flooding, one in four days
:18:19. > :18:24.there was drought somewhere. Three rivers, the Tyne, the Ouse
:18:24. > :18:28.and the Tome recorded their lowest level on record and the highest
:18:28. > :18:35.level on record in four months. Looking at drought we must be
:18:35. > :18:37.better at preserving the water we have. We have to store more water.
:18:37. > :18:42.So the Environment Agency are working with farmers and businesss
:18:42. > :18:46.to do that. In terms of flooding people must be prepared, ready to
:18:46. > :18:51.think about if they are at risk and seek information from the
:18:51. > :18:54.Environment Agency's website. Farmers have to build more
:18:55. > :18:57.reservoirs on the land to capture water to irrigate crops, the
:18:57. > :19:04.Environment Agency says. Racecourses should collect water
:19:04. > :19:09.too, to water the course when the going gets firm.
:19:09. > :19:13.Golf curses are under scrutiny too. It take as lot of water in a dry
:19:13. > :19:20.summer to keep the greens green. The Environment Agency says that
:19:20. > :19:25.golf courses should start storing their own water in lakes and ponds.
:19:25. > :19:29.As emissions of greenhouse grb greenhouse gases continue to rise,
:19:29. > :19:35.many scientists are warning to expect in the future to face more
:19:35. > :19:39.droughts and more floods. The Government's considering
:19:40. > :19:44.changing the rules on some benefits in order to limit claims by
:19:44. > :19:49.immigrants. The proposed changes come ahead of the unrestricted
:19:49. > :19:54.opening of border to Romanian immigrants at the beginning of next
:19:54. > :19:59.year. Norman Smith is here. I am
:19:59. > :20:04.wondering how much of this is influenced by the Eastleigh by-
:20:04. > :20:10.election votes? No it is an annoying yes, no, answer.
:20:10. > :20:13.There have been months of thinking about coming up with a package of
:20:13. > :20:17.benefits in this situation. We are getting information about the
:20:17. > :20:23.measures days after the by-election. The details that we are getting in
:20:23. > :20:29.terms of the NHS, non-UK residents may be charged to see a GP.
:20:29. > :20:35.Overseas visit overs may have to have private health insurance. You
:20:35. > :20:41.may not get access here unless you have been a resident for a year. So
:20:41. > :20:45.it is about the Government's long- term ambition to respond to public
:20:45. > :20:48.concerns ands about about -- also about the short-term ambition to
:20:48. > :20:53.wipe the smile off Nigel Farage's face.
:20:53. > :21:00.The police in Northern Ireland believe that they have foiled an
:21:00. > :21:05.attempted bomb attack by dissident Republicans after four live mortar
:21:05. > :21:08.bombs were found in a van. Three men were arrested.
:21:09. > :21:13.Army bomb disposal experts dealt with the alert.
:21:13. > :21:16.Chris butler has more. The mortar bombs were primed and
:21:16. > :21:20.ready to be used in an attack. When the police stopped the van last
:21:20. > :21:23.night, they found that the roof was cut back. A final preparation to
:21:23. > :21:26.the four mortars to be fired directly from the vehicle it is
:21:26. > :21:30.thought that the planned target was a police station.
:21:30. > :21:36.I have no doubt that they would have caused mass casualties. We
:21:36. > :21:41.could have been looking at mass murder today. Those devices, had
:21:41. > :21:47.they exploded to hit the intended target, they could have hit targets
:21:47. > :21:56.in and around the bases here. The police placed a wide corden
:21:56. > :22:01.around the van as the army bomb dispose officers moved in to make
:22:01. > :22:06.this safe. I have had to move.
:22:06. > :22:12.Three men are in custody being questioned. Two of them arrested
:22:12. > :22:17.here on one of the main routes across the Irish border. Dissident
:22:17. > :22:21.Republicans are being blamed for this possible attack. What is being
:22:21. > :22:27.found here will cause real concern. It is the most significant
:22:27. > :22:31.discovery of a bomb in some time. The use of mortars, especially on
:22:31. > :22:37.this scale is unusual. This was an attack in its final stages. Stopped
:22:37. > :22:40.a short distance from the city centre. The simple fact it was so
:22:40. > :22:44.advanced will worry both the police and the public.
:22:44. > :22:49.Researchers in the United States say that treatment on a girl born
:22:49. > :22:54.with HIV appears to have all but eradicated the virus from her body.
:22:54. > :23:00.It is the second time it's been achieved, the first when involving
:23:00. > :23:05.a baby. What has happened here? This child
:23:05. > :23:09.appears to have been cured of HIV. She is two-and-a-half. Not on any
:23:09. > :23:14.drug treatment, no medication. What happened was in 2010, the mother
:23:14. > :23:19.turned up in labour to a Mississippi hospital. Too late to
:23:19. > :23:25.be given treatment that would have guaranteed preventing the infection
:23:25. > :23:28.being passed on, but when the child was born the doctors put the baby
:23:28. > :23:32.on a aggressive combination they werey and continued that for what
:23:32. > :23:38.they thought would be the child's life. After 18 months the mother
:23:38. > :23:44.stopped coming to the clinic. When she came back five months later,
:23:44. > :23:48.they expected the baby's viral low to be high, but they could not find
:23:48. > :23:54.it. They tested and re-tested and found that the child had
:23:54. > :24:02.effectively been cured of HIV. are the prospects potentially?
:24:02. > :24:05.it is one case. It is not yet published in a medical journal. So
:24:05. > :24:11.HIV researchers are interested, excited but cautious. There is only
:24:11. > :24:16.one other documented case where there was a cure, a man who had a
:24:16. > :24:19.bone marrow transplant for his leukaemia. That was seven years ago,
:24:19. > :24:24.but we still have to be cautious here.
:24:24. > :24:29.You can spot them on the walls of many buildings, murals make up an
:24:29. > :24:33.important part of Britain's cultural history. But after years
:24:33. > :24:39.much neglect, means that some are disappearing. We have been
:24:39. > :24:47.exploring whether we should try to save these very public works of art.
:24:47. > :24:57.This is Colin -- this is kolwin's bay's pier. 70 years ago it looked
:24:57. > :25:04.
:25:04. > :25:05.like this, an Art Deco palace. Made by artists of real standing.
:25:05. > :25:13.The murals here, it is difficult to see? These are Eric Ravilious?
:25:13. > :25:19.this is the main pavilion of the old pier. This wall has a great
:25:19. > :25:27.this is it? It has been papered over? Yes, it has been papered with
:25:27. > :25:31.a fine layer of plaster too. But what we have seen in there,
:25:31. > :25:39.inside of the pavilion is not unique to Colwyn Bay. This is a
:25:39. > :25:44.story that is repeated again and again around Britain.
:25:44. > :25:48.This report from the '70s, showed the world this huge moral in
:25:48. > :25:58.Plymouth by the artist, Robert Lenkiewicz. Seen with his begging
:25:58. > :26:04.bowl. 40 years on, the masterpiece likes like this... For artists such
:26:04. > :26:07.as Brian Barnes, one of Britain's most prolific muralists, these are
:26:07. > :26:11.the works that have become too easy to ignore.
:26:11. > :26:18.It is sad that so much has been lost. If you look at the Rennes,
:26:18. > :26:25.how sad it would be if Leonardo's Last Supper was painted over.
:26:26. > :26:33.Can you compare these murals with the Last Supper? Sizewise, I think
:26:33. > :26:42.I have done more square feet than Michelangelo! Certainly Leonardo.
:26:42. > :26:47.He hardly did any! Pay more attention as you walk on by. Now it
:26:47. > :26:52.has been a dark night for a suspected burglar. The police in
:26:52. > :26:56.Bradford were left speechless as a man dressed as Batman handed in a
:26:56. > :27:01.suspected thief. The man handed in was charged with handling stolen
:27:01. > :27:05.goods, but the identity of the caped crusader remain as mystery.
:27:05. > :27:11.Perhaps not for long looking at those pictures. We shall see.
:27:11. > :27:15.those pictures. We shall see. Now, to the weather with Darren.
:27:15. > :27:18.Well, it looks like spring has sprung for some parts of the
:27:19. > :27:23.country. You can see how we are drawing up
:27:23. > :27:28.the drier air the cloud has been thinning and breaking, the sunshine
:27:28. > :27:33.coming through across England and Wales. Still a few areas of stubbon
:27:33. > :27:39.cloud, but the sunshine beginning to breakthrough across Lincolnshire.
:27:39. > :27:42.Sun continuing in the Midlands, area, and in the south.
:27:42. > :27:47.Temperatures warmer for a while. The temperatures at 10 Celsius, but
:27:47. > :27:52.it is thinning and breaking, we should see the sunshine in Devon
:27:52. > :27:57.and in Wales. A super day along the west coast of Wales. Cloudy for
:27:57. > :28:01.most of Northern Ireland. If there is sunshine it is likely across
:28:01. > :28:04.Antrim and Down. The west of Scotland seeing more cloud. The
:28:04. > :28:08.eastern side, though, hopefully a bit of sunshine at times.
:28:08. > :28:10.A lovely day in the sunshine, but we pay for it overnight. With the
:28:10. > :28:16.clear skies, the temperatures falling sharply.
:28:16. > :28:20.There will be a mist and a fog developing. Temperatures in the
:28:20. > :28:25.rural areas, close to if not below freezing. Patchy mist and fog.
:28:25. > :28:34.Probably most of the fog by the morning affecting the likes of the
:28:34. > :28:40.A1 and the M1. All the way from the Vale of York in the Trent valley.
:28:40. > :28:45.Most of the mirs and the fog will soon lift. Taking longer in the
:28:45. > :28:47.worst-affected areas. When it has gone we have the sunshine. A lovely
:28:47. > :28:52.day for England and Wales and more sunshine for Scotland and Northern
:28:52. > :28:57.Ireland. Here, the temperature as respectable six to eight Celsius
:28:57. > :29:01.but for England and Wales, 13, 14, up to 15 Celsius. Making it the
:29:01. > :29:05.warmest day of the year so far. So the week ahead it is miler. A few
:29:05. > :29:10.days of sunshine, then it changes from Wednesday with more cloud and
:29:10. > :29:13.rain, but it is very different to what we have had over the past few
:29:13. > :29:18.weeks, the cold dry area of high pressure is in Eastern Europe now.
:29:18. > :29:23.It is drawing in the breeze from the south. That is where we are
:29:24. > :29:28.getting the milder air, but from Wednesday onwards, the wind from
:29:28. > :29:31.the Atlantic is blowing in more cloud. Outbreaks of rain. Still
:29:31. > :29:35.double figures in the south but chilly in the north-east of the UK.
:29:35. > :29:39.Here the wind is coming from the cold North Sea. That story will
:29:39. > :29:42.continue on Thursday. A lot of cloud. A breeze coming in from the
:29:42. > :29:47.south or the south-east. The temperatures in the south getting
:29:47. > :29:52.into double figures. The details online.
:29:52. > :29:55.The top story: A report says that the police and mental health
:29:55. > :30:00.officials missed opportunities to prevent a psychiatric patient from
:30:00. > :30:03.killing again. Still to come on the BBC News Channel, hopes of a