:00:10. > :00:15.A 16-year-old girl is stabbed to death on a bus in Birmingham on her
:00:15. > :00:21.way to school. The police say that the attack was sporadic and quick.
:00:21. > :00:25.A manhunt is underway, the public are told not to approach the
:00:25. > :00:27.suspect, who may be armed. The family are distressed and
:00:27. > :00:33.distraught by the news of the events.
:00:33. > :00:37.There is no magic money tree, says the Prime Minister. He insists that
:00:37. > :00:42.the Government will stuck stick to the plan for cutting the deficit.
:00:42. > :00:46.The perils of too much processed meat it increases the risk of early
:00:46. > :00:49.death. Calls for up to half of the UK's
:00:49. > :00:53.deer population to be culled as the numbers soar.
:00:53. > :00:56.And we are telling you how society has moved on in the last 40 years.
:00:56. > :00:59.On BBC London: A cycle Crossrail for the capital and more segregated
:00:59. > :01:02.lanes, as the Mayor unveils plans for the next ten years.
:01:02. > :01:12.And tens of thousands of pounds worth of bags are stolen in a smash
:01:12. > :01:23.
:01:23. > :01:27.Good afternoon. Welcome to the BBC News at one. The
:01:27. > :01:31.police have launched a manhunt after a 16-year-old schoolgirl was
:01:31. > :01:37.stabbed to death on her way to school in Birmingham this morning.
:01:37. > :01:41.The attack happened after 7.30am on a bus in the Edgbaston areas of the
:01:41. > :01:46.city. The detectives are looking for a black man in his late teens
:01:46. > :01:50.or early '20s. They have warned the public to be vigilant.
:01:50. > :01:54.Sophie, this is where the bus- stoped this morning. On board the
:01:54. > :02:00.police found the body of a 16-year- old who had been stabbed to death.
:02:00. > :02:05.In the last hour or so, the police cordon has been lifted, the road
:02:05. > :02:08.has reopened. The focus has moved from the bus-stop, really to this
:02:08. > :02:16.entire city. The police are searching for a man that they
:02:16. > :02:21.describe as very dangerous. Rush hour, just after 7.30am. The
:02:21. > :02:25.bus driver called 999, reporting a stabbing on board his double-decker.
:02:25. > :02:30.Ambulance crews tried to resis Tate the 16-year-old, she had been
:02:30. > :02:34.travelling to school on the bus but they were unable to save her.
:02:34. > :02:39.It appears to have been a sporadic and a very quick attack on the girl
:02:39. > :02:43.in question. As you can appreciate the family
:02:43. > :02:47.are extremely distressed and distraught by the news of today's
:02:47. > :02:51.events. Clearly there will be a lot of friends at the school, a lot of
:02:51. > :02:55.teachers equally distressed by the news of this morning's events.
:02:55. > :03:00.It is understood that the schoolgirl boarded the bus a few
:03:00. > :03:06.minutes before the attack. Forensic officers searched the vehicle, the
:03:06. > :03:10.West Midlands Police launched a major man mustn't.
:03:10. > :03:14.-- manhunt. Don't a-- don't approach this male.
:03:14. > :03:17.He is believed to be dangerous. Contact the police immediately so
:03:17. > :03:20.we can make the relevant information in relation to that
:03:20. > :03:23.individual. The police say that the suspect was
:03:23. > :03:29.black. In his late teens or early 20s.
:03:29. > :03:34.He is wearing a dark-coloured trousers with a dark hooded top
:03:34. > :03:39.with a tiger or a leopard motif on the back of his hooded top it is
:03:39. > :03:44.possible that he has either a band agenda around his right hand or he
:03:44. > :03:47.may be carying a small white bag in his right hand that is what we know
:03:47. > :03:52.from the witnesses who we have spoken to at the scene.
:03:52. > :03:56.This lunch time, the bus was taken away under police escort for more
:03:56. > :04:01.forensic tests. Officers stress that this investigation is still in
:04:01. > :04:06.its very early stages. So, Birmingham is on high alert,
:04:06. > :04:09.really, this lunch time. Anybody who has seen anything who they
:04:09. > :04:13.think may have seen the suspect, anyone on that bus what may have
:04:13. > :04:23.information is urged to phone a special incident room hot line. The
:04:23. > :04:30.
:04:30. > :04:34.Any updates that we get during the day, we will give you.
:04:34. > :04:36.Thank you. David Cameron says that there are
:04:36. > :04:41.signs that the Government's economic policies are beginning to
:04:41. > :04:45.work N a speech in West Yorkshire, he acknowledged there is a long way
:04:45. > :04:50.to go, but says he is determined to stick to the plan for cutting the
:04:50. > :04:55.UK's deficit. Since day one, the coalition has
:04:55. > :05:00.stuck to its plan to get the deficit down. Cut spending,
:05:00. > :05:06.increase some taxes, but plan A has not stopped the UK economy from
:05:06. > :05:10.bumbling along. This is an area smack in the middle of the country.
:05:10. > :05:14.Critics say it is one of hundreds of change, where there is proof of
:05:14. > :05:17.a need for change, a plan B, but David Cameron has gone to West
:05:17. > :05:20.Yorkshire to say "no". There are some who think we don't
:05:20. > :05:25.have to take the tough difficult decisions to deal with the debts.
:05:25. > :05:30.They say that the focus on deaf sit reduction is damaging growth. That
:05:30. > :05:34.what we need to do is to spend more and borrow more. It is as if they
:05:34. > :05:38.think that there is some magic money tree. Let me tell you a plain
:05:38. > :05:44.truth, there isn't. But just as the Tory Prime Minister
:05:44. > :05:49.was refusing to budge, his land Business Secretary was saying think
:05:49. > :05:55.about it. What is wrong with plan A? Nothing,
:05:55. > :05:59.we could pursue what I have often called plan A plus. Vince Cable
:05:59. > :06:03.explained that. He said that it is time to go further, to ask if the
:06:03. > :06:07.Government should borrow more to pay for new houses, road and rail
:06:07. > :06:11.it is a break from Government policy and music to the ears of the
:06:11. > :06:13.Labour Party. The cracks are beginning to show if
:06:14. > :06:18.Vince Cable is beginning to realise that we need to kick-start the
:06:18. > :06:22.economy, that would be a good thing, but we need the rest of the Cabinet
:06:22. > :06:25.to realise that David Cameron and George Osborne's economic strategy
:06:25. > :06:29.has failed. There is no doubt that firing up
:06:29. > :06:33.factories across the country is taking longer than he thought, but
:06:33. > :06:37.the speech was about sticking to the plan, not changing.
:06:37. > :06:41.The debate about getting the UK economy on its feet has been raging
:06:41. > :06:45.since day one. It is no secret there are some on both sides who
:06:45. > :06:50.want to see the Chancellor going further. Especially on borrowing,
:06:50. > :06:53.but we are unlikely to see a significant change in policy when
:06:53. > :06:58.the Budget comes. Hugh Pym is here now. So, the Prime
:06:58. > :07:02.Minister is saying that there are signs that the plan is working. Jou
:07:02. > :07:05.outline the science, what is happening? There are lots of
:07:05. > :07:12.economic indicators about the health of the economy. Let's have a
:07:12. > :07:17.look at a few. The shares, the FTSE 100 index in London. That recently
:07:17. > :07:21.reached a five-year high. That is partly to do the national factors
:07:21. > :07:25.and the world economy. Jobs are going up. Total employments with up
:07:25. > :07:31.by nearly 600,000 over last year. So that is another positive
:07:31. > :07:36.indicator, but looking at the overall economy, the GDP, that was
:07:36. > :07:40.down in the last three months of last year. The economy is
:07:40. > :07:44.contracting in the current first quarter it is touch and go if it
:07:44. > :07:49.goes down again. One thing that the Government has said a lot, that the
:07:49. > :07:55.deficit is down 25%, that could change soon, couldn't it? Yes, that
:07:55. > :07:58.25% figure is taking the last year of Labour's term in office and the
:07:58. > :08:03.last full financial year. The current year we are not at the end
:08:03. > :08:07.of and borrowing is up. If that is confirmed as being up, that will
:08:07. > :08:12.knock the 25% figure out of the way. We will own know in the Budget,
:08:12. > :08:15.though. Now, let's get more from our
:08:15. > :08:18.Political Correspondent Norman Smith in Keith league in West
:08:18. > :08:24.Yorkshire where the Prime Minister was giving the speech. The message
:08:24. > :08:29.from him is clear, there is no turning back? Yes, I have to say,
:08:29. > :08:34.although I did not spy a handbag anywhere near the Prime Minister,
:08:34. > :08:39.handbagging is what he intended to give critics on both wings of the
:08:39. > :08:46.coalition, deliberately and twice. Echoing the refrain of
:08:46. > :08:52.PROBLEM WITH SOUND. Saying that the Tory right-wingers
:08:52. > :08:58.demanding tax cuts, that they cannot be funded. Then the question
:08:58. > :09:04.of Vince Cable and capital spending, saying there is no magic money tree.
:09:04. > :09:07.Insisting to stick with plan A, but in this month's budget there is
:09:07. > :09:13.precious little room for manoeuvre so. David Cameron may be signed up
:09:13. > :09:16.to plan A but politically, he has few alternatives.
:09:16. > :09:20.Apologies for the break up on the line there.
:09:20. > :09:27.There is evidence that eating too much processed meat can lead to an
:09:27. > :09:31.early death. Researchers say that the salts and the chemicals used to
:09:31. > :09:36.preserve meat like bacon, ham ansd salami may heighten the risk of
:09:36. > :09:41.heart disease and cancer. Saying a daily limit of a rasher of bacon
:09:41. > :09:46.could prevent thousands of death as year.
:09:46. > :09:52.People who eat a lot of processed meat like bacon, ham ansd salami,
:09:52. > :09:58.tend to have unhealthy lifestyles. More likely to smoke and to eat
:09:58. > :10:02.fewer fruit and vegetables. A study takes the factors into account, but
:10:02. > :10:06.it finds that the more than processed meat someone eats, the
:10:07. > :10:13.greater the chance of early death. It is likely to do that this is
:10:13. > :10:19.because of the sat rated fat and salt content. This is linked to the
:10:19. > :10:24.bad cholesterol and too much salt linked to high blood pressure.
:10:24. > :10:28.Those who eat more than two sausages and a piece of bacon
:10:28. > :10:34.increase of risk of dying by heart disease by 70% and diing from
:10:34. > :10:39.cancer I -- cancer by 11%. The Government recommends eating no
:10:39. > :10:44.more than 07 grams of red and processed meat a day, but some
:10:44. > :10:49.cancer experts to avoid eating processed meat all together.
:10:49. > :10:53.The research shows that eating any amount of processed meat increasing
:10:53. > :10:58.the risk of bowl cancer and as there is no nutritional need for us
:10:58. > :11:03.to eat this meat, the advice is to cut it out whenever possible. No
:11:03. > :11:08.include it as part of the diet. The study is further evidence that
:11:08. > :11:13.eating too much processed meat like ham, sausages or bacon can be bad
:11:13. > :11:17.for your health, but many here today shopping, seem to think it is
:11:17. > :11:21.a case of everything in moderation. Eating it in proportion it is not a
:11:21. > :11:26.big thing. So you have a kipper in your bag?
:11:26. > :11:31.believe that oily fish is good for you, and bacon bad. Although not as
:11:31. > :11:36.bad as all that We have young kids in the house it
:11:36. > :11:40.is obviously, it is not like we have a cooked breakfast, but
:11:40. > :11:46.everyone could cut down. authors of the study argue that 3%
:11:46. > :11:49.of premature deaths could be prevented if people ate20 grams of
:11:49. > :11:54.processed meat a day. One small slice of bacon.
:11:54. > :11:59.Labour has called for a crackdown on benefit payments to migrants
:11:59. > :12:03.from the EU. Yvette Cooper says that action is needed to make the
:12:03. > :12:06.system fairer. Admitting that Labour should have been tougher on
:12:06. > :12:12.immigration while in power with tighter controls on Eastern
:12:12. > :12:15.Europeans coming to the UK. Iain Watson joins me now.
:12:16. > :12:20.Immigration now is far more of an issue of concern to people. The
:12:20. > :12:26.economy is not booming as it was, perhaps for many years of the last
:12:26. > :12:29.Labour government. After the strong showing by UKIP in the recently
:12:29. > :12:33.Eastleigh by-election would have been an issue. Parties are falling
:12:33. > :12:38.over themselves to say that they are taking the concerns seriously.
:12:38. > :12:41.Labour have apologised for past mistakes, saying that they did not
:12:41. > :12:45.do enough to get eastern immigration under control. Having
:12:45. > :12:50.the options of posing work restrictions, which they did not do,
:12:50. > :12:54.but also saying that they should have introduced a points-based
:12:54. > :12:58.system more quickly. Then the apologies are out of the way, and
:12:58. > :13:02.so they move on to the policy. Yvette Cooper said that Labour
:13:02. > :13:06.wanted to tackle illegal immigration more. Cutting down on
:13:06. > :13:12.the abuse of short-term student visas but said that Labour would
:13:12. > :13:15.begin to, if you like, tighten the e giblity for new markets coming
:13:15. > :13:21.here, whether looking to claim benefits. A concern is that with
:13:21. > :13:25.the influx of the Romanian and the Bulgarian migrants in the New Year,
:13:25. > :13:29.there are worries that there could be benefit tourism here. She is
:13:29. > :13:35.saying if you tighten the system, that you ensure people are here for
:13:35. > :13:38.some time before claiming benefits. We are not going to enter an arms
:13:38. > :13:41.race on immigration rhetoric with the Government. We need measures
:13:41. > :13:45.that recognise most people come here want to work and contribute,
:13:45. > :13:49.but there are changes that the Government could make to make it
:13:49. > :13:52.clear and to clarify that jobseeker's allowance will not be
:13:52. > :13:57.available when people first arrive. What the Government are saying is
:13:57. > :14:03.that they are tightening up the system but getting into trouble by
:14:03. > :14:06.the European Commission, and saying Labour are giving them credit for
:14:06. > :14:12.doing something like reducing net migration.
:14:12. > :14:18.The top story: A 16-year-old has been stabbed to death on a bus in
:14:18. > :14:25.Birmingham on her way to school -- a 16-year-old girl. The public have
:14:25. > :14:29.been told not to approach the suspect, what may be armed.
:14:29. > :14:37.A culling of deer. Does it really mean that hundreds of thousands of
:14:37. > :14:42.them should be shot? On BBC London: Haringay council are investigating
:14:42. > :14:46.a toddler left with a foster carer on a bus in north London. How a
:14:46. > :14:54.company is helping the homeless through theatre.
:14:55. > :14:59.The number of single-parent families in Britain has nearly
:14:59. > :15:04.tripled over the last 40 years and the number of adults living alone
:15:04. > :15:07.has doubled. They are some of the latest statistics from the Office
:15:07. > :15:14.of National Statistics. Big changes to family life? Yes, this report is
:15:14. > :15:17.very interesting. It shows in 40 years, there have been some marked
:15:17. > :15:23.changes. Families - they have shrunk in size and that is due to
:15:23. > :15:32.the rise of one-parent families. Have a look at these statistics. 8%
:15:33. > :15:38.of families had one parent in 1971. That's risen to 22% today. So it's
:15:38. > :15:44.almost three times as many in that situation. There are also more one-
:15:44. > :15:50.person households. If you have a look at the statistics, 2% of
:15:50. > :15:55.adults lived alone 40 years ago. Now, that's risen to 10%. So a
:15:55. > :15:59.really quite significant increase there. Also big changes in terms of
:15:59. > :16:04.health, drinking, smoking? Absolutely. There have been some
:16:04. > :16:11.life-saving improvements to our lives over the past 40 years. The
:16:11. > :16:19.statistics show us - 45% of adults smoked in the early 1970s. That's
:16:19. > :16:26.dropped now to 20% today. It seems that the health warnings around
:16:26. > :16:33.drinking may be beginning to work. The statistics - 18% of adults
:16:33. > :16:39.drank on five days a week in 1989. That's dropped to 12%. So a fall of
:16:39. > :16:43.a third in just 15 years. surprisingly, big changes on the
:16:43. > :16:52.technology front - phones, televisions, computers? Absolutely.
:16:52. > :16:57.It comes up strongly in this study. In 1971, 42% of homes had
:16:57. > :17:02.telephones. That shot up, almost 100% have mobiles or landlines now.
:17:02. > :17:07.On top of that, 80% of households now have computers. So you can see
:17:07. > :17:11.in four decades there have been some dramatic changes. Thank you.
:17:11. > :17:13.Now, scientists say around three- quarters of a million deer in the
:17:13. > :17:17.UK should be culled, that is roughly half the deer population.
:17:17. > :17:21.It is thought there are now more deer in Britain than at any time
:17:21. > :17:26.since the Ice Age. Researchers say the deer are causing serious damage
:17:26. > :17:30.to the habitat which is relied on by many other animals. Jeremy Cooke
:17:30. > :17:36.is in Norfolk. Welcome to the beautiful Thetford
:17:36. > :17:41.Forest. It is a very quiet day here today. Not much movement out there
:17:41. > :17:46.in the woods. Last night, we were out with special thermal imaging
:17:46. > :17:49.cameras and we saw the woods are teeming with deer. We are told it
:17:50. > :17:55.is a similar picture across the country. That in turn has led for
:17:55. > :17:59.this call for hundreds of thousands of deer to be culled.
:17:59. > :18:04.They are beautiful wild creatures of our woodlands, but in recent
:18:04. > :18:10.years the number of deer has been soaring. That means problems on the
:18:10. > :18:15.roads. Some 14,000 accidents a year. And problems in the environment
:18:15. > :18:19.with deer destroying habitat which supports other wildlife. Put simply,
:18:19. > :18:25.today's report says there are way too many deer. If we let that
:18:25. > :18:30.continue, we will have a lot of cute, nice deer running around, but
:18:30. > :18:37.our woodlands will be eaten and we will lose some of our woodland
:18:37. > :18:40.birds and bluebells and I don't think we should compromise them.
:18:41. > :18:44.the Thetford Forest, they are using the latest thermal imaging
:18:44. > :18:48.technology to give an accurate picture of deer populations on the
:18:48. > :18:53.ground. The secrets of the night- time forest are revealed. The
:18:53. > :18:57.bright images of deer emerge from the darkness making the task of
:18:57. > :19:04.assessing their true numbers easier. Across the UK, it is now estimated
:19:04. > :19:12.there are 1.5 million deer and researchers say that would mean a
:19:12. > :19:18.cull of 750,000 a year just to keep the population stable. A cull on
:19:18. > :19:24.that scale would mean a lot more of this - venison. The argument goes
:19:25. > :19:31.that it is a valuable, healthy byproduct of killing deer which
:19:31. > :19:37.helps protect the environment. deerstalker worth his salt will
:19:37. > :19:41.have had adequate training to dispatch the animal in a human
:19:41. > :19:47.manner. It's had a good life in the wild. Do you eat it yourself?
:19:47. > :19:52.Lovely. Beautiful. You can't beat it! Researchers insist more of this
:19:52. > :20:01.will help keep deer populations healthy. The RSPCA says it is
:20:01. > :20:05.crucial that any cull is conducted in a controlled, humane manner.
:20:05. > :20:10.Of course, calling for a cull on this level is bound to be
:20:10. > :20:16.controversial. One group says it is dangerous to base policy on the
:20:16. > :20:23.findings - it was scientific findings - but in this one-wood
:20:23. > :20:24.land. Another group says any cull would have to be based on strong
:20:24. > :20:28.scientific evidence. Silvio Berlusconi has been
:20:28. > :20:32.sentenced to a year in prison over the publication of a wire-tapped
:20:32. > :20:37.conversation. Mr Berlusconi was alleged to have pressed to have it
:20:37. > :20:41.published to damage a political rival. He is expected to appeal
:20:41. > :20:46.against the sentence. Campaigners fighting to keep child
:20:46. > :20:50.heart operations at Leeds General Infirmary have won a legal
:20:50. > :20:53.challenge. The consultation over changes to children's heart surgery
:20:53. > :21:00.in England and Wales where Primary Care Trusts decided that surgery
:21:00. > :21:06.should be concentrated at fewer larger sites was flawed.
:21:06. > :21:10.Lord Sugar has condemned "a claim culture" as he accused a winner of
:21:11. > :21:14.The Apprentice taking him to a tribunal to extract money. Stella
:21:14. > :21:21.English is suing him for constructive dismissal. Let's get
:21:21. > :21:24.more from Luisa Baldini. What else has been said? Well, Lord Sugar has
:21:24. > :21:28.been cross-examined throughout the morning and several times the
:21:28. > :21:36.atmosphere became quite heated as he became frustrated with questions
:21:36. > :21:40.put to him by his former apprentice's barrister. He said,
:21:40. > :21:44."This is scraping the barrel and nit-picking." He called Stella
:21:44. > :21:49.English a serial liar and deluded. He told the tribunal that she had
:21:49. > :21:52.never raised a grievance when she was working at his company. He said,
:21:52. > :21:56."My organisation and employees did nothing but treat her well and
:21:56. > :22:03.honour our obligations. No-one hates anyone in my companies." He
:22:03. > :22:09.said he believes that she thought that he would pay her off in order
:22:09. > :22:12.to avoid adverse publicity. He said, "I believe this claim is simply an
:22:12. > :22:17.attempt to extract money from me. I have no intention to pay her any
:22:17. > :22:21.money unless told to do so by the law." He told the court that she
:22:21. > :22:26.had been desperate for money and that she had pestered his PR
:22:26. > :22:30.company to get her some paid public speaking work. Miss English claims
:22:30. > :22:34.that when she turned up on the first day of her proper job after
:22:34. > :22:40.winning The Apprentice, she was told by one of Lord Sugar's
:22:40. > :22:43.associates, "There is no job." She claims she was an overpaid lackey.
:22:43. > :22:49.Lord Sugar's cross-examination will continue this afternoon.
:22:49. > :22:54.Thank you very much. Now, the British jazz musician Kenny Ball
:22:54. > :22:59.has died. He was 82 and had been suffering from pneumonia. He was
:22:59. > :23:09.best-known as the lead trumpet player in Kenny Ball and his
:23:09. > :23:11.
:23:11. > :23:15.Jazzmen. The hits included I Love You Samantha and Midnight In Moscow.
:23:15. > :23:20.Now, we are receiving unconfirmed reports that two British tourists
:23:20. > :23:24.have been kidnapped in Egypt. Security sources say they were on
:23:24. > :23:29.their way to a beach resort. They are reported to have been in a
:23:29. > :23:36.private car going from Cairo to the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh.
:23:36. > :23:39.We will of course bring you more news on that when we get it.
:23:39. > :23:43.Last summer's Olympics may seem a long time ago, but today many of
:23:43. > :23:48.the big names are at Buckingham Palace to receive their honours and
:23:48. > :23:53.Joe Wilson is there for us now. It's a rather cold day here, but
:23:53. > :23:58.some of those rays of London 2012 sunshine have been with us. In
:23:58. > :24:03.terms of Lord Sebastian Coe, the honour system has a problem, he has
:24:03. > :24:09.won so much, what is left? Well, today he's joined the Order of the
:24:10. > :24:13.Companions of Honour. Not a lot of people get that! My report does
:24:13. > :24:18.contain some flash photography. Most of the London 2012 generation
:24:18. > :24:23.weren't born when Seb Coe was redefining running. In 1979, he
:24:23. > :24:31.broke three world records in 41 days. In 1980, he won Olympic gold
:24:31. > :24:39.over 1500m. A title he retained in 1984. That alone made him unique.
:24:39. > :24:45.He found his next calling in a job that mixed sport and politics.
:24:45. > :24:50.ecstatic. He was the ambassador who guided London's bid and he was the
:24:50. > :24:58.architect who ensured the Games were delivered. When our time came,
:24:58. > :25:03.Britain, we did it right. Thank you. The Order of the Companions of
:25:03. > :25:12.Honour is restricted to 65 ordinary members, plus the sovereign. Recent
:25:12. > :25:14.recipients include Stephen Hawking and Sir David Attenborough.
:25:14. > :25:19.very honoured. In fairness, delighted to be sharing it with so
:25:19. > :25:23.many people. And sharing it with so many people that helped us across
:25:23. > :25:26.the line in the London journey. Recognition for other outstanding
:25:26. > :25:31.Olympians continues. Ben Ainslie is the most successful sailor in the
:25:31. > :25:35.history of the Olympics. Today, he collected his knighthood. If 2012
:25:35. > :25:40.was the year when the Paralympics became the parallel games, David
:25:40. > :25:45.Weir was at the forefront with four golds. Now he has a CBE as well,
:25:45. > :25:49.although some suggested a knighthood would have been in order.
:25:49. > :25:52.Catherine granger got her gold last summer after three successive
:25:52. > :25:58.Olympic silvers. Britain's most successful female rower, she has
:25:58. > :26:08.had a bit of time off since - well if you call completing a PhD in
:26:08. > :26:09.
:26:09. > :26:15.criminal law time off! A CBE for her.
:26:15. > :26:19.The problem is in terms of London 2012, there is still too much
:26:19. > :26:23.success to mention. Thank you very much. We are going
:26:23. > :26:26.back to our top story. There's been a development in Birmingham where a
:26:26. > :26:32.schoolgirl was stabbed to death on a bus this morning on her way to
:26:32. > :26:36.school. Jon Kay is at the scene. Tell us what's happened, Jon.
:26:36. > :26:46.Midlands Police have just named the 16-year-old girl who was stabbed on
:26:46. > :26:54.a bus right here in the centre of Birmingham this morning. Her name -
:26:54. > :26:56.Christina Edkins. We are told that she was a pupil at the high school
:26:56. > :27:01.in Halesowen, just south of Birmingham. The school have
:27:01. > :27:04.described her as a much-loved pupil and highly-rated and much-loved by
:27:04. > :27:10.friends and by staff members as well. At the same time, I can tell
:27:10. > :27:15.you that in the last few minutes a 22-year-old man has been arrested
:27:15. > :27:19.very close to this bus stop, just at a Morrisons supermarket, 100
:27:19. > :27:23.yards away. We are told that he was seen acting suspiciously, that he
:27:23. > :27:28.matched the description that police had given out earlier and that he
:27:28. > :27:38.has now been detained on suspicion of murder. Thank you very much.
:27:38. > :27:38.
:27:38. > :27:43.The UK is shrouded in cloud today and some outbreaks of rain will
:27:43. > :27:46.continue on and off through the afternoon. In some areas, they will
:27:46. > :27:49.be persistent enough to make for a damp story as we look through the
:27:49. > :27:54.remainder of today. Some hope of some brightness across the North
:27:54. > :27:57.East of England. To the north of the UK, it does feel particularly
:27:57. > :28:01.chilly. Also, we are still struggling with some patchy hill
:28:01. > :28:05.fog across the North East. Hopefully, some of that will thin
:28:05. > :28:09.and break. More rain set to shift up from the south into Scotland.
:28:09. > :28:18.Plenty of cloud around here. Northern Ireland's been a little
:28:18. > :28:28.drier in the last couple of hours. We will see more rain spreading
:28:28. > :28:28.
:28:28. > :28:32.from the east. It is a similar story for the South West of England.
:28:32. > :28:35.Those murkier conditions will start to transfer their way eastwards as
:28:35. > :28:39.well along the south coast towards the South East of England,
:28:39. > :28:44.particularly as we head through this evening and overnight. It
:28:44. > :28:51.could get very murky around Essex and Kent and we will see some fog
:28:51. > :28:55.forming inland as well. Generally, though, a lot of cloud
:28:55. > :28:59.around across the UK tonight. Further outbreaks of rain. Together,
:28:59. > :29:07.those factors add up to a relatively mild night, largely
:29:07. > :29:13.frost-free. Cold enough across the Grampians for the rain to turn to
:29:13. > :29:16.snow. Western Scotland may get a few
:29:16. > :29:20.glimmers of brightness. We may see some brightness elsewhere. It is
:29:20. > :29:25.another day for many, rather like today, dominated by cloud and
:29:25. > :29:28.outbreaks of rain. Still relatively mild in the south. To the north,
:29:29. > :29:32.temperatures struggling all the while. It is that colder air to the
:29:32. > :29:36.north of the UK that really comes into play for this weekend. It will
:29:36. > :29:41.dig its way down further south across the UK, so much so that by
:29:41. > :29:45.the end of the weekend, the entire country is submerged in it. It will
:29:45. > :29:49.feel increasingly raw. Grey, wet prospects for many on Saturday.
:29:49. > :29:54.Sunday things become drier, but as it becomes colder there will be the
:29:54. > :29:58.risk of some snow. Next week, a good deal colder. Temperatures
:29:58. > :30:08.around freezing. Any showers that we do see could turn wintry. So a
:30:08. > :30:11.