:00:11. > :00:18.avoids a triple-dip recession after better than expected figures. Growth
:00:18. > :00:22.went up by 0.3%. The Government says that the UK is recovering.
:00:22. > :00:26.numbers are an encouraging sign that the economy is healing. Despite a
:00:26. > :00:31.tough economic situation, we are making progress. Also this lunch
:00:31. > :00:35.time: Tackling measles. 1 million children were targeted with a huge
:00:36. > :00:38.vaccination campaign in England. The search vor survivors continues in
:00:38. > :00:43.Bangladesh after a building collapsed killing mover than 200
:00:43. > :00:50.people. A teenage Erwins a High Court battle for 17-year-olds, not
:00:50. > :00:54.to be treated as adults in police custody. And Prince Harry open as
:00:54. > :01:01.new headquarters for the brain injury charity where his mother was
:01:01. > :01:07.the patron. On BBC London: An inquest into the death of an African
:01:07. > :01:17.stowaway. 20 years on, we look at how the bomb changed the security in
:01:17. > :01:31.
:01:31. > :01:34.BBC News at One. The UK economy has avoided slipping into a triple-dip
:01:34. > :01:39.recession. First-degrees for economic output, show the economy
:01:39. > :01:43.grew by 0.3% in the first three months of the year. That is more
:01:43. > :01:49.than analysts predithed. Year on year, that is the strongest rise
:01:49. > :01:54.since the end of 2011, still well below the long-term average, though.
:01:54. > :01:58.Hugh Pym has the details. It was the dominant services sector that helped
:01:58. > :02:02.to get the UK economy going. Everything from advertising and
:02:02. > :02:05.finances to restaurants and hotels, and other consumer-related areas
:02:05. > :02:11.like retail. The triple-dip recession was avoided with higher
:02:11. > :02:15.than expected growth in the first quarter of the year. So, no
:02:16. > :02:20.surprise, then that there was a bit of a spring in the Chancellor's step
:02:20. > :02:24.as he visited a media business this morning. The figures are an
:02:24. > :02:29.encouraging sign that the economy is healing. Despite a tough economic
:02:30. > :02:35.situation, we are making o progress. We have difficult decisions to take,
:02:35. > :02:39.there are no easy answers. People understand that, but we have to go
:02:39. > :02:43.on confronting the problems if we want to build an economy fit for the
:02:44. > :02:47.future. At a trade fair in Leeds, business representatives said that
:02:47. > :02:53.the news would help boost confidence at an important time for the
:02:53. > :03:00.economy. . Business needs to grow. It gives an environment of optimism
:03:00. > :03:04.it is easy to talk ourselves into depression. Anything to talk about
:03:04. > :03:10.our confidence in buying and selling it is great news for the economy and
:03:10. > :03:13.for us. One area that has not been doing well is construction. Output
:03:13. > :03:16.fell between agenda March. The cold weather did not help, but the
:03:16. > :03:23.industry has been under pressure because of the Government investment
:03:23. > :03:28.cuts. Builders' merchants like this one in Swindon are good barometers
:03:28. > :03:32.of how the industry is faring. The message is that things have picked
:03:32. > :03:37.up recently, but the foundations of genuine recovery have not yet been
:03:37. > :03:41.laid. They are finding it tough. There is a lot that are busy but
:03:41. > :03:45.many that with working harder for less. The value of orders, the order
:03:45. > :03:50.book going forward is smaller than it would have been several years
:03:50. > :03:54.ago. Manufacturing is another sector still in declined Labour argued that
:03:54. > :03:58.the underlying state of the economy was weak and still spluttering,
:03:58. > :04:04.rather than running at a normal speed. These are lack-lustre
:04:04. > :04:08.figures. The economy is barely growing in the last three years. It
:04:08. > :04:12.is flat lining, the slowest recovery for 100 years. Families are paying
:04:12. > :04:16.the price. Businesses are not confident to invest. We cannot carry
:04:16. > :04:20.on like this. We need our Chancellor to admit it is not working and
:04:20. > :04:25.change course. The Chancellor knows that there are many factor, not
:04:25. > :04:31.least the eurozone that could throw the economy off course. Today's
:04:31. > :04:35.figures, at least, gifr him breathing space. With me now, is
:04:35. > :04:40.Stephanie Flanders. Stephanie, you have spoken to George Osborne. He
:04:40. > :04:43.does say that the economy is healing. How optimistic should we
:04:43. > :04:48.be? The Confederation of British Industry has said that this is good
:04:48. > :04:52.news but nothing to write home about. This is what many would say.
:04:52. > :04:56.Clearly it shows forward momentum in the economy. The first few months of
:04:56. > :05:00.this year. Many of the people had expected it in the City. So we are
:05:00. > :05:04.not in a so-called triple-dip recession, but looking at the
:05:04. > :05:08.numbers, the economy has been broadly flat for a year-and-a-half.
:05:08. > :05:11.That is what the Office for National Statistics says it is still smaller.
:05:11. > :05:15.The national output is lower than it was at the start of the recession
:05:15. > :05:21.five years ago. So this is not a case where we can say that we are
:05:21. > :05:26.coming up to the sunny uplands, but if we carry on growing at this rate
:05:26. > :05:30.for the rest of the year, we grow by maybe 1.-2%. That is the official
:05:30. > :05:35.forecast. So we are on track for that. We have not been derailed as
:05:35. > :05:40.we have in the past, but you can't say we are about to take off yet.
:05:40. > :05:43.Stephanie Flanders, thank you very much. Let's catch up with Norman
:05:43. > :05:47.Smith joining us from Downing Street. Norman, the Government will
:05:47. > :05:53.be pleased with the figures but also acknowledging that the recovery
:05:53. > :05:56.could be bumpy yet? Yes, I have no doubt that the walls of the Treasury
:05:56. > :05:59.were reverberating to a sigh of relief from the offices of the
:05:59. > :06:05.Chancellor, but what is striking is that in public there has been a more
:06:05. > :06:08.guarded response. No attempt to present the figures as a decisive
:06:08. > :06:12.borough to suggest that somehow green shoots are thrusting through
:06:12. > :06:16.the flower beds of middle England, but the sort of language we are
:06:16. > :06:21.hearing is a difficult -- is of difficult decisions, hard choices
:06:21. > :06:26.and a long road ahead. The reason is that the Treasury know that the
:06:26. > :06:32.nugget of growth underlines how fragile the economy is. We are still
:06:32. > :06:36.in economic pancake land. Flat front lining the bottom. Secondly, they
:06:36. > :06:43.know in the real world where people are facing benefit cuts, pay
:06:43. > :06:48.freezes, job losses, that they would look on this with difficulty if the
:06:48. > :06:53.ministers present this as a turn be point. Politics, like economics, it
:06:53. > :06:58.is often about confidence. Today's figures make it easier for the
:06:58. > :07:03.Government to sell a confident message on the economy. For more on
:07:03. > :07:08.today's GDP figures, including questions and answer, features and
:07:08. > :07:16.background to the story too, head to the dedicated section on -- section
:07:16. > :07:21.on the BBC News website. In Spain, unemployment has hit a new high.
:07:21. > :07:25.More than 6 million people or 27% of the workforce are without a job.
:07:25. > :07:32.There is anger at the Government's austerity measures that the
:07:32. > :07:36.opponents are saying are worsening the crisis there. Tom Burridge is
:07:36. > :07:41.joining us. Tonight there will be a demonstration to show their anger
:07:41. > :07:45.there, why are they so against the government's plans? Well, the
:07:45. > :07:52.government is to announce yet more economic reform. I don't think we
:07:52. > :07:57.will get tomorrow what we got last year, ie public spending cuts, deep
:07:57. > :08:01.public spending cuts and tax increases. The reason for that,
:08:01. > :08:05.there seems to be a shift of opinion in Madrid and in Europe, but the
:08:05. > :08:10.southern European xhishgs like that of Spain are only really struggling
:08:10. > :08:14.more to get out of their deep recessions, because of so much
:08:14. > :08:17.austerity all at once, but there will be a protest tonight. There
:08:17. > :08:21.have been arrests in Madrid this morning ahead of the protests. I
:08:21. > :08:25.think with the unemployment it has passed the depressing milestone.
:08:25. > :08:28.That figure of 6 million people in the country now out of work it is a
:08:28. > :08:33.huge social problem. There is lots of youth unemployment. Young people
:08:33. > :08:37.going abroad to Britain, to places like Britain to seek work. Also a
:08:37. > :08:40.lot of long-term unemployment. People have been out of work so long
:08:40. > :08:47.that they are struggling to get back into the Spanish workforce. Thank
:08:47. > :08:51.you very much. A huge vaccination programme is to take place in
:08:51. > :08:55.England to protect about 1 million children from catching measles. It
:08:55. > :09:00.follows the outbreak in South Wales which affected more than 800 people.
:09:00. > :09:05.There has been a growing number of infections in eng lad also, compared
:09:05. > :09:10.with this time last year. We have this report. Health officials say
:09:10. > :09:16.that the measles ep demic in South Wales, which led to people queueing
:09:16. > :09:21.for the measles, mumps, rubella jab in Swansea, should be a -up for
:09:21. > :09:26.people in England. Measles is highly contagious and outbreaks can happen
:09:26. > :09:30.anywhere. Figures show that there were 587 confirmed cases of measles
:09:31. > :09:36.in England in the first three months of the year. Double the same period
:09:36. > :09:39.in 2012. One in five needed hospital treatment. Of those, 15 people
:09:39. > :09:45.developed complications, such as pneumonia, meningitis and
:09:45. > :09:50.gastroenteritis. Most of the English cases are in the north-west, with
:09:50. > :09:56.179, and the north-east, with 1756789 We have a group of people
:09:56. > :10:00.who chose not to vaccinate their children ten or 15 years ago. Who
:10:00. > :10:03.probably don't think much of vaccines at all these days for their
:10:03. > :10:08.children. That is where we have to make a difference. I really appeal
:10:08. > :10:15.to them. For whatever reason you made your choices those years ago,
:10:15. > :10:21.think now about the risk that your children face because if they the
:10:21. > :10:26.measles, it is not trivial. A target of the campaign at schools and GPs'
:10:26. > :10:31.surgeries is to immunise a third of a million ten to 16-year-olds who
:10:31. > :10:37.never recieved the MMR jab at 13 and months those who did not have a
:10:37. > :10:43.preschool booster. Six-year-old Henry Davidson is being treated for
:10:43. > :10:48.leukaemia. The drugs suppress his immune system, making him vulnerable
:10:48. > :10:51.to infections like measles. So much so, he cannot go to school at the
:10:51. > :10:57.moment. We have a responsibility to protect the vulnerable in our
:10:57. > :11:04.society. That includes children who are being treated with chemotherapy.
:11:04. > :11:09.It also includes babies and the old, all people at risk from the measles.
:11:09. > :11:14.Sclierld plain takened high MMR uptake, so the catch-up campaign
:11:14. > :11:19.there is are not planned at the present. A search for survivors is
:11:19. > :11:24.continuing at a building outside of the Bangladeshi capital, Dhaka, that
:11:24. > :11:28.collapsed killing more than 200 people. Rescuers and volunteers are
:11:29. > :11:34.trying to free those thought to be trapped inside. Thousands of family
:11:34. > :11:40.members have gathered at the site, waiting to hear if their relatives
:11:40. > :11:45.were alive. The police said that the factory own owners had allowed to go
:11:45. > :11:51.back into the building after cracks appeared in the building building on
:11:51. > :11:56.Tuesday. The grief and the shock remains overwhelming as the casualty
:11:56. > :12:01.count from Wednesday's collapse continued to mount. For rescue
:12:01. > :12:06.workers, a desperate search is going on amid the wreck agenda of what was
:12:06. > :12:12.once an eight-storey building. One of the garment workers, pinned by
:12:12. > :12:17.the concrete, is begging to be rescued. TRANSLATION: Save us,
:12:17. > :12:22.brother, I beg you. I want to live. It is painful here. I have two
:12:22. > :12:28.little children. The fear is that there may be hundreds trapped or
:12:28. > :12:36.buried in the wreck agenda. Rescuers could hear voices calling out,
:12:36. > :12:40.pleading to be saved. On the streets outside, anger too, a crowd
:12:40. > :12:45.protesting that the rescue operation was too slow. Questions mounted over
:12:45. > :12:48.why the building had not been cleared when the cracks appeared and
:12:48. > :12:55.Primark confirmed it had been using a supplier there but said in a
:12:55. > :13:00.statement: The company is saddened by the a-- appalling incident and
:13:00. > :13:08.expresses its condolences to all involved. My mark has been engaged
:13:08. > :13:11.with NGOs and others to look the Bangladeshi standards. And Britain's
:13:11. > :13:16.retail Association says that the customers can check if there are
:13:16. > :13:20.concerns. Consumers can look at the ethical trading website. To see for
:13:20. > :13:23.themselves the standards that our members are asking of producers and
:13:23. > :13:27.manufactures in the developing world. Consumers can be confidence
:13:27. > :13:32.that those standards are built into the contracts these days. They are a
:13:32. > :13:37.part of the negotiations. But this is already Bangladeshi's worst
:13:37. > :13:43.industrial accident. These images, five months after another garment
:13:43. > :13:49.factory was consumed by a fire, have raised doubts by safety standards
:13:49. > :13:52.and the real costs for the West's demand of cut-price clothes.
:13:52. > :13:55.Newspaper industry representatives say that they will reject the
:13:55. > :13:59.Government's Royal Charter for the regulation of the press and publish
:13:59. > :14:04.their own. Last month the political parties reached a compromise over
:14:04. > :14:09.how to respond to the Leveson report, but the newspapers argue
:14:09. > :14:14.that they have no say in the final discussions. So, the newspapers then
:14:14. > :14:19.are proposing their own plans, what are they? They are that compromise
:14:19. > :14:22.that you mentioned. That was then for a Royal Charter that gets the
:14:22. > :14:26.authority direct from the Queen to regulate the newspapers, that is
:14:26. > :14:30.what the politicians decided that they wanted, but the papers were not
:14:30. > :14:34.in the room in the final negotiations. The vast majority of
:14:34. > :14:39.the national press are not happy. This time they are publishing their
:14:39. > :14:44.own version, their own Royal Charter to give publishers a greater say in
:14:44. > :14:48.the regulatory process, that there would not be a special vote in the
:14:48. > :14:53.House of if the rules were changed in the future. Now, some campaigners
:14:53. > :14:57.will be furious. They will say that the problem always was the press
:14:57. > :15:01.writing tear own rules and here they are doing it again. For the
:15:01. > :15:04.Government, the press are indicating that they are not going along with
:15:04. > :15:07.Government plans, the Government cannot force them. Sources close to
:15:07. > :15:11.the ministers say that may cost the newspapers more money in court. This
:15:11. > :15:21.lunch time it looks like some newspapers are perfectly willing to
:15:21. > :15:25.take the risk. three Islamic extremists including a
:15:26. > :15:31.former PCSO have been jailed at the Old Bailey for terrorism offences.
:15:32. > :15:38.The court heard how Richard Dart I'm a Mac mood used a laptop to all
:15:38. > :15:41.silent conversations about terrorism plans. Both were jailed. A
:15:41. > :15:46.co-conspirator, Jahangir Alom, was sentenced to four years and six
:15:46. > :15:51.months. All three men had admitted the offences at a previous hearing.
:15:51. > :15:55.A teenager has won a High Court victory over the Home Secretary's
:15:55. > :15:59.policy of treating 17-year-olds in police custody as adults. It means
:15:59. > :16:04.that a 17-year-old will now have the right to contact their parents or an
:16:04. > :16:07.appropriate adult if they are arrested. Today two judges ruled the
:16:07. > :16:11.previous policy was incompatible with human rights law. Clive Coleman
:16:11. > :16:14.is at the Royal Courts of Justice now.
:16:14. > :16:17.Campaigners who supported this legal challenge said this was an anomaly
:16:17. > :16:26.as 17-year-olds are treated as children everywhere else in the
:16:26. > :16:30.criminal justice system except in Emerging from the High Court
:16:31. > :16:35.victorious, the 17-year-old who has just won a landmark legal victory
:16:35. > :16:39.against the Home Secretary. Last year he was arrested on suspicion of
:16:39. > :16:44.robbery, taken to a south London police station and detained for 12
:16:44. > :16:48.hours. Currently, 17-year-olds are treated
:16:48. > :16:53.as adults in police custody, which means officers do not have to inform
:16:53. > :16:57.a parent or allow them to be with their child. Lonely, I did not know
:16:57. > :17:00.my rights, whether the police were acting lawfully or unlawfully. I
:17:01. > :17:05.just needed an adult that I trusted to advise me, to help with what I
:17:05. > :17:10.was doing. High emotion amongst campaigners
:17:10. > :17:12.after the High Court ruled that the current position is unlawful,
:17:12. > :17:18.breaches human rights and that the Home Secretary must revise the
:17:18. > :17:21.current law. The borders include the mother of 17-year-old Joseph
:17:21. > :17:26.Lawton. Last year he was stopped by police for drink-driving and held
:17:26. > :17:32.for several hours before being charged and released. Huhne days
:17:32. > :17:39.later, he was found dead at the family home. -- two days. The charge
:17:39. > :17:44.sheet was found at his feet. We knew from the first moment that if we had
:17:44. > :17:51.been there, it could have been very different, so we are so pleased
:17:51. > :17:55.now, but it is also tinged with such sadness and devastation. Today's
:17:55. > :18:00.judgment will come as a relief to many parents who firmly believed
:18:00. > :18:04.that their 17-year-olds are still children.
:18:04. > :18:07.This really was a comprehensive defeat for the Home Secretary, with
:18:07. > :18:14.the Lord Justice saying that the treatment of a 17-year-old as an
:18:14. > :18:18.adult seems to me not capable of justification.
:18:18. > :18:23.Clive Coleman, apologies for the breakup in sound. A quick look at
:18:23. > :18:27.the time, 18 minutes past one, our top story: The economy grew by 0.3%
:18:27. > :18:31.in the first quarter of the year, so Britain avoids a triple-dip
:18:31. > :18:34.recession. Still to come, the feral lynx which
:18:34. > :18:39.suggest that big cat prowled the Devon countryside more than a
:18:39. > :18:43.century ago. Later on BBC London, fears grow that
:18:43. > :18:47.London is next in line for a measles outbreak with one of the lowest
:18:47. > :18:57.vaccination rates. And the capital's Cypriot community sends
:18:57. > :19:00.
:19:00. > :19:02.food to Cyprus to help families Prince Harry has opened the new
:19:02. > :19:11.headquarters of the brain injury charity where his mother, Diana,
:19:12. > :19:14.Princess of Wales was patron. Headway provide support to those who
:19:14. > :19:19.are affected by a brain injury. Luisa Baldini is at the centre in
:19:19. > :19:23.Nottingham now. Yes, this is Prince Harry's first
:19:23. > :19:28.visit to Nottingham. He spent about an hour at the charity before
:19:28. > :19:31.changing into casual clothes to come here to this youth club. We saw him
:19:31. > :19:37.on Saturday at the London Marathon, and also last week when he announced
:19:37. > :19:39.he is to join a race to the South Pole, but today is his first solo
:19:39. > :19:45.official royal engagements since returning from Afghanistan in
:19:45. > :19:51.January. Just a warning that there is/photography in my report.
:19:51. > :19:56.Prince Harry has said before that he has a real connection with children,
:19:56. > :20:01.so it was straight to the youngsters as he arrived for his visit at the
:20:01. > :20:03.charity. Inside, he took place in various exercises to experience for
:20:03. > :20:08.himself the difficulties those suffering with brain injuries have
:20:08. > :20:12.in everyday life. One of the exercises involve trying to change a
:20:12. > :20:16.nappy without the use of one arm. This is exactly how my brother is
:20:16. > :20:24.going to be! You may have joked about his brother, but the uncle to
:20:24. > :20:29.be admitted to never having changed a nappy. Did they help you from the
:20:29. > :20:34.word go? Prince Harry met with James Cracknell, the double gold winning
:20:34. > :20:39.rower who suffered a head injury while cycling. He also met Lance
:20:39. > :20:42.Corporal Johnson by Harry, who suffered injuries in Iraq and was
:20:42. > :20:48.awarded the Victoria Cross. Prince Harry has no official role
:20:48. > :20:52.with the charity, but as is so often the case with him, his mother is
:20:52. > :20:58.reflected in his areas of interest. I am particularly pleased to be with
:20:58. > :21:02.you today because my mother very much admired Headway, and that is
:21:02. > :21:11.good enough for me. The Prince's last task was to officially open the
:21:11. > :21:14.new headquarters and then to be the first to sign the new visitors book.
:21:14. > :21:18.Well, Prince Harry spoke earlier this year about how he says there
:21:18. > :21:21.are three different parts to himself, one is just one of the lads
:21:21. > :21:25.in the army, the other is a private person with a social life, and the
:21:25. > :21:30.other is the Prince with royal duties, and is very much that third
:21:30. > :21:35.Harry whom we are seen here today. He has one more location to visit in
:21:35. > :21:39.Nottingham before he heads back to London.
:21:39. > :21:42.Families of the 96 victims of the Hillsborough disaster are finding
:21:43. > :21:47.out more details about the new inquest into their deaths. April and
:21:47. > :21:51.every hearing is being held to decide the date and location of a
:21:51. > :21:54.fresh inquest. -- a preliminary hearing. It follows a High Court
:21:54. > :21:57.decision to quash the original verdict of accidental death after
:21:57. > :22:01.years of campaigning by the families. Judith Moritz sent this
:22:01. > :22:04.report. The original inquest into the
:22:04. > :22:09.Hillsborough football disaster ruled that the Liverpool fans who were
:22:09. > :22:12.crushed died accidental deaths. The coroner, Stefan Popper, also
:22:12. > :22:17.declared they have all received their fatal injuries by 3:15pm in
:22:17. > :22:21.the afternoon. The follies of those who died were angered by both
:22:21. > :22:26.points, arguing that the disaster was not accidental and that some
:22:26. > :22:30.fans lived beyond 3:15pm and could have been saved. 96 people were
:22:30. > :22:35.fatally crushed at the Sheffield ground as Liverpool played an FA Cup
:22:35. > :22:40.semifinal match in 1989. Last year, the Hillsborough Independent Panel
:22:40. > :22:44.found that 41 of those fans could have been saved. The Hillsborough
:22:44. > :22:49.Independent Panel report through open a range of new legal avenues
:22:49. > :22:52.for the families. There is now a criminal inquiry and an independent
:22:52. > :22:58.investigation into the police, and in December there was a landmark
:22:58. > :23:01.moment when the Lord Chief Justice quashed the old inquest verdict. The
:23:01. > :23:07.families celebrated as the high court also ordered a new inquest,
:23:07. > :23:11.the process of which is just getting under way with an initial
:23:11. > :23:15.preliminary hearing in London today. It is a monumental day, having spent
:23:15. > :23:19.24 years having to get here. The whole truth has to come out, and the
:23:19. > :23:22.public be made fully aware of what happened on that dreadful day.
:23:22. > :23:26.Hillsborough families have made the journey from Liverpool for the
:23:26. > :23:34.hearing, 24 years after the disaster they say they are still in pursuit
:23:34. > :23:37.of justice. In a week's time, photos -- voters
:23:37. > :23:42.in parts of England and Wales will decide who they want to represent
:23:42. > :23:44.them, but are the key issues at the ballot box going to be local or
:23:45. > :23:48.national? Local government correspondent Mike Sergeant has been
:23:48. > :23:53.to Gloucestershire to hear the thoughts of people there.
:23:53. > :23:55.The bean counties of England, where this years elections are being
:23:55. > :24:00.contested. The local authorities in charge have not escaped the spending
:24:00. > :24:07.squeeze, but in Gloucestershire there are still signs of investment,
:24:07. > :24:13.not just cuts. It is a safety education centre. We are designed to
:24:13. > :24:18.teach all ages to live safely... Inside this brand-new centre, a mini
:24:18. > :24:23.village has been mocked up. It is an unusual council project to teach
:24:23. > :24:27.schoolchildren and other visitors have to avoid everyday dangers.
:24:27. > :24:30.is a big investment for the county. Yes, it is, but we are really
:24:30. > :24:36.pleased with it, because we know we are making a difference to people's
:24:37. > :24:39.lives, young and old alike, and we know it is a long-term investment.
:24:39. > :24:43.The council says keeping children safe from house fires and other
:24:43. > :24:48.risks is a good use of limited resources, but opponents say many
:24:48. > :24:51.services across the county are still under pressure. In Stonehouse, a
:24:51. > :24:55.library has reduced its hours and they plan to redevelop this youth
:24:55. > :25:01.club has long been shelved, leaving a church fund a drop-in centre as
:25:01. > :25:06.one of the few facilities for young people in the town. If we had not
:25:06. > :25:10.been here, then the kids would have had nothing, and that is one of the
:25:10. > :25:16.big problems. As kids, they all felt they had nothing, that nobody cared
:25:16. > :25:18.for them. The question for the elections is whether people are
:25:18. > :25:22.voting on local issues or whether national politics dominates the
:25:22. > :25:26.campaign. I took to the streets of Gloucester to try to find out. When
:25:26. > :25:32.you vote in a local election, do you think national politics, the parties
:25:32. > :25:40.led by these people, or the local issues? Local. You don't have to
:25:41. > :25:44.whisper! If you ask me why... think both of them is important.
:25:44. > :25:50.They have to work together. So you are looking to national politics in
:25:50. > :25:53.a local election. Yes. So for those hoping to get
:25:53. > :25:58.elected, there is no avoiding the obvious problem is that voters see
:25:58. > :26:02.on their streets. In America, it was once said that all politics is
:26:02. > :26:06.local. Some here in Gloucestershire will be using their vote to send a
:26:06. > :26:16.message about the state of the nation, but for many others it is
:26:16. > :26:26.all about issues much closer to Well, you can find much more
:26:26. > :26:31.
:26:31. > :26:34.information about the upcoming some have doubted sightings of feral
:26:34. > :26:39.beasts on Bodmin or elsewhere, but now we discovered remains in a
:26:39. > :26:43.museum vaults suggested links twice the size of a domestic cat prowled
:26:43. > :26:49.the Devon countryside more than a century ago. Lynx. Here is science
:26:49. > :26:53.reporter Rebecca Morrell. Move over, the beast of Bodmin Moor,
:26:53. > :26:57.there is another big cat in town. Scientists believe that this cat
:26:57. > :27:01.here was actually on the loose, prowling around the fields of the
:27:01. > :27:07.south-west of England 100 years ago. It was brought here to the
:27:07. > :27:12.Bristol Museum in 1903, and these are the original records. It was
:27:12. > :27:17.brought in after it attacked and killed two dogs. It was shot dead
:27:17. > :27:22.after that, an untimely end for this cat. I am here with a curator at the
:27:22. > :27:26.museum. At first they did not know what this cat was, but some
:27:26. > :27:32.scientists have got their hands on it, what have they found out?
:27:32. > :27:36.early records just say Wildcat, but the University of Durham have
:27:36. > :27:42.applied new techniques to determine it was a Canadian lynx. They have
:27:42. > :27:46.looked at the skull, so you can see there is a build-up of plaque on the
:27:46. > :27:50.teeth, and this can be very indicative of an animal that has
:27:50. > :27:55.been in captivity, because they have a different type of food. And you
:27:55. > :27:59.can see some teeth have been lost as well. So it is a captive bred
:27:59. > :28:03.animal. This is probably the earliest example of a big cat on the
:28:03. > :28:06.loose in the UK. That is right, there are stories going back a
:28:06. > :28:11.little bit earlier, I remember the stories about the beast of Bodmin
:28:11. > :28:15.Moor, there was funny evidence on a camera, flickering in the
:28:15. > :28:19.background. Thank you very much. Spotting big cats in the countryside
:28:19. > :28:24.seems to be a bit of a national pastime here in the UK, but as this
:28:24. > :28:27.lynx shows, just sometimes the rumours do turn out to be true.
:28:27. > :28:36.It looks pretty fierce! Let's take a look at the weather with Darren
:28:36. > :28:41.the year so far, but only for a lucky few, and we are all going to
:28:41. > :28:45.get colder over the coming days, the colder air coming from the north,
:28:45. > :28:49.bringing shower clouds. The warmth is getting wafted into the
:28:49. > :28:51.south-east, and where we see sunshine 23 degrees as possible.
:28:51. > :28:55.This area of cloud is reducing patchy rain and drizzle sinking
:28:56. > :28:59.southwards, arriving along the northern shores of Devon and
:28:59. > :29:02.Cornwall later this afternoon, but ahead of it we are going to be
:29:02. > :29:10.seeing something brighter than recent days but not particularly
:29:10. > :29:12.warm. Certainly not very warm across Wales, where we have got cloud,
:29:12. > :29:15.patchy light rain or drizzle heading southwards. The colder air chasing
:29:15. > :29:18.in behind brings sunshine and showers for Northern Ireland and
:29:19. > :29:22.Scotland, some of the shower is heavy, most frequent in the
:29:22. > :29:26.north-west of Scotland, and there may be snow over the hills as well.
:29:26. > :29:29.The North of England may get late sunshine, but we are stuck with
:29:29. > :29:33.cloud for the most part. My current patchy rain drifting into the
:29:33. > :29:39.Midlands, East Anglia and the south-east is generally dry, and
:29:39. > :29:42.Inland 22 or 23 is possible. But that is the last of the warmth, and
:29:43. > :29:47.we are going to see rain heading into the south-east, and initially
:29:47. > :29:54.light and Patsy through the Midlands, it packs up later in the
:29:54. > :29:57.night. It will be colder than it has been for the last few nights,
:29:57. > :30:00.particularly in Scotland and Northern Ireland, and in these areas
:30:00. > :30:04.tomorrow we will see showers getting going. Early rain to clear from the
:30:04. > :30:09.south-eastern corner, clearing around rush hour, and then we will
:30:09. > :30:13.have sunshine for a while. The cloud builds, showers develop widely, the
:30:13. > :30:16.best of the brighter weather will be in the south-west, the showers over
:30:16. > :30:21.the northern hills have a wintry flavour. A noticeable chill compare
:30:21. > :30:25.it with recently in the south-east, and it is going to stay that way
:30:25. > :30:29.over the weekend. As the showers eased down, we run the risk of a
:30:29. > :30:36.touch of frost. Heading into the weekend, most of the showers will be
:30:36. > :30:40.England and where is, some of them heavy, trip on by a brisk wind.
:30:40. > :30:44.Saturday does not look too bad for Scotland and Northern Ireland, drier
:30:44. > :30:48.and brighter here, and then as the skies clear, temperatures drop. In
:30:48. > :30:54.rural areas there is a risk of a touch of frost, particularly in that
:30:54. > :30:57.central third where we will have the best of the early sunshine. Spots of
:30:57. > :31:00.rain in the south-east clearing away, most of the cloud on Saturday
:31:00. > :31:10.comes from the north-west with Atlantic winds bringing spots of
:31:10. > :31:14.