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injured in the deadliest attack on British military in more than a year | :00:12. | :00:16. | |
in Afghanistan. The soldiers died after their heavily armoured vehicle | :00:16. | :00:22. | |
was struck by a roadside on in Helmand province. We have paid a | :00:22. | :00:26. | |
high price for the work we are doing in Afghanistan. It is important work | :00:26. | :00:29. | |
because it is vital that the country does not become a haven for | :00:29. | :00:37. | |
terrorists. We are outside the barracks. Scotland's first Minister | :00:37. | :00:42. | |
called it tragic news. Also this lunchtime: Bill Roache is arrested | :00:42. | :00:48. | |
on suspicion of an historic allegation of rape. The jury at the | :00:48. | :00:51. | |
trial of the man accused of murdering April Jones are told that | :00:51. | :00:55. | |
DNA that might have belonged to her was found on his clothing. | :00:55. | :01:00. | |
Amanda Knox gives her first television interview after being | :01:00. | :01:10. | |
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cleared of murder. Did you kill her? No. Were you there that night? | :01:16. | :01:22. | |
On BBC London News the man who has died during eight Greenland ice clan | :01:22. | :01:32. | |
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Good afternoon. Diminishing of defence has confirmed that three | :01:51. | :01:56. | |
British soldiers have been killed and six others injured in a bomb | :01:56. | :01:59. | |
blast in Afghanistan. They were all members of the Royal Highlan | :01:59. | :02:01. | |
Fusiliers, 2nd Battalion The Royal Regiment of Scotland. They died when | :02:01. | :02:05. | |
the armoured vehicle they were in was hit by a roadside bomb. Their | :02:05. | :02:12. | |
families have been told. 440 four British personnel have been killed | :02:12. | :02:21. | |
in Afghanistan since 2001. Herewith more, our defence correspondent. | :02:21. | :02:28. | |
The flags are flying at half-mast today. The soldiers' families were | :02:28. | :02:33. | |
told yesterday. The news is only just beginning to sink in. The prime | :02:33. | :02:39. | |
minister insisted the force and their work remains vital. We have | :02:39. | :02:43. | |
paid a high price. It is important work because it is vital that the | :02:44. | :02:49. | |
country does not become a haven for terrorists again. Today, our | :02:49. | :02:54. | |
thoughts should be with the families of those that have suffered. The | :02:54. | :02:58. | |
soldiers were travelling in a heavily armoured vehicle, a Mastiff, | :02:58. | :03:02. | |
which has protected many over the past few years. But it he is a | :03:02. | :03:08. | |
roadside bomb, killing three. The vehicle should deflect the blast | :03:08. | :03:12. | |
but it is thought it hit a very big device, causing the explosion that | :03:12. | :03:17. | |
left six others injured. This one incident has doubled the number of | :03:17. | :03:23. | |
British deaths in Helmand province six this year. In 2012, there was a | :03:23. | :03:28. | |
total of 44 British fatalities in Afghanistan compared with 108 at the | :03:28. | :03:35. | |
peak of fighting, in 2009. Though the perception is that for | :03:35. | :03:38. | |
British troops the fight is coming to an end in Helmand province, there | :03:38. | :03:44. | |
are still some 8000 British personnel there. Many are advising | :03:44. | :03:49. | |
and mentoring their Afghan counterparts. | :03:49. | :03:53. | |
The Taliban spring offensive means all are aware of the threat that | :03:53. | :03:59. | |
remains. Everybody has to be on their guard. The perception that it | :03:59. | :04:03. | |
had gone quiet was probably due to the fact that the Afghan security | :04:03. | :04:09. | |
forces are doing a great deal more of this work on their own. Their | :04:09. | :04:16. | |
casualties are still appreciable. However, perhaps because the number | :04:16. | :04:21. | |
of British casualties has come down, it has made less news over here. The | :04:21. | :04:31. | |
total of 444 British troops have lost their lives since 2001. | :04:31. | :04:35. | |
The Ministry of defence says that security has improved but the risks | :04:35. | :04:45. | |
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remain. Combat operations are due to We will be speaking to our | :04:50. | :04:58. | |
correspondent. But first, to Cabo. -- Kabul. It is the so-called spring | :04:58. | :05:05. | |
offensive. Explain what it means and the indications for British troops. | :05:05. | :05:09. | |
If you speak to Afghan officials, whether they are in the army or | :05:09. | :05:14. | |
police, they add mid that this is the so-called fighting season. This | :05:14. | :05:18. | |
is when the snow will have melted. The passes will be easy to go | :05:18. | :05:25. | |
through if you are an insurgent. Simply, the dense forestation and | :05:25. | :05:31. | |
feels mean you have to many places to hide. So they are prepared | :05:31. | :05:38. | |
mentally for that. What we have also seen in the last few months is that | :05:38. | :05:42. | |
Taliban insurgents have been attacking the security forces in | :05:43. | :05:48. | |
some of the most remote quarters, including how man. -- including | :05:48. | :05:58. | |
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Helmand province. There is little or no air support from NATO or British | :06:01. | :06:07. | |
troops, as will have been the case two years ago. | :06:07. | :06:13. | |
Let's go now to Scotland. Laura, one can only imagine the reaction there | :06:13. | :06:17. | |
today. As the Prime Minister said, their families are paying a high | :06:17. | :06:23. | |
price for the work done in Afghanistan. | :06:23. | :06:28. | |
Just over a month ago, 350 soldiers left these barracks. They had a job | :06:28. | :06:32. | |
to do. Their role is to work alongside the Afghan police to train | :06:32. | :06:38. | |
them and work alongside them to help give control of Afghanistan to them. | :06:38. | :06:43. | |
The news today that three of their soldiers are dead will have come as | :06:43. | :06:50. | |
such a devastating blow. They work alongside the soldiers. They will | :06:50. | :06:56. | |
live alongside them. Alex Salmond described it as devastating. He said | :06:56. | :07:00. | |
that the people of Scotland joined with him in offering condolences to | :07:00. | :07:07. | |
the families involved. As for the troops, I am told that this news may | :07:07. | :07:11. | |
make them more determined to do their job, do it well, and get home | :07:11. | :07:18. | |
safely. The Coronation Street actor Bill | :07:18. | :07:22. | |
Roache who plays Ken Barlow, has been arrested on suspicion of raping | :07:23. | :07:26. | |
an underage girl. Lancashire police have confirmed that an 81-year-old | :07:26. | :07:32. | |
was taken in for questioning this morning. What more can you tell us, | :07:32. | :07:37. | |
Judith? News of this emerged with | :07:37. | :07:40. | |
lectureship police confirmed they had arrested and 81-year-old man | :07:40. | :07:46. | |
suspicion of rape. He is due to be questioned at some point today at a | :07:46. | :07:50. | |
police station in the county. We know that it is in connection with | :07:50. | :07:57. | |
two alleged offences of rape which are said to have happened in 1967, | :07:57. | :08:00. | |
between April and July of that year, and to have involved one girl, who | :08:00. | :08:07. | |
was 15 at the time. Bill Roache himself has not made any comment. | :08:07. | :08:11. | |
Neither has ITV. He has played Ken Barlow in the soap since its first | :08:11. | :08:15. | |
episode, in 1960. He has not been on screen recently because he has been | :08:16. | :08:21. | |
away touring with a stage version of the soap in New Zealand. What we do | :08:21. | :08:25. | |
understand, though, is that he will not appear in Coronation Street | :08:25. | :08:30. | |
while this current investigations continue. | :08:30. | :08:35. | |
A jury at the trial of the man accused of murdering a project has | :08:35. | :08:38. | |
been told that DNA which may have belonged to the five-year-old was | :08:38. | :08:48. | |
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found on his clothing. -- murdering April Jones 's disappearance was | :08:57. | :09:01. | |
reported around the world. But today, for the first time, it was | :09:01. | :09:05. | |
revealed how she came to meet the man accused of her murder. The jury | :09:05. | :09:09. | |
was also told about Mark Bridger 's movements around Machynlleth before | :09:09. | :09:14. | |
and after the time she went missing. Some viewers may find the following | :09:14. | :09:19. | |
reports distressing. October the 1st of last year started | :09:20. | :09:24. | |
like any other day for April Jones. After school, she went swimming will | :09:24. | :09:28. | |
stop then, as a tree, she played on her bike with her friend outside her | :09:28. | :09:33. | |
home. Today, her parents were in court to hear how their daughter's | :09:33. | :09:39. | |
path was to cross fatefully with a man accused of her murder. In the | :09:39. | :09:44. | |
dock, Mark Bridger listened as the prosecution described how he had | :09:44. | :09:48. | |
just picked up with his girlfriend. That morning, he sent her a text, | :09:48. | :09:58. | |
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viewed pornographic images on his laptop and a series of 32 closed | :10:13. | :10:18. | |
images of a local 14-year-old girl. Later on, he drove to a parents | :10:18. | :10:23. | |
evening at the local school. He then moved on to this estate, where April | :10:23. | :10:29. | |
lived. Witnesses say he approached two girls there, offering to arrange | :10:29. | :10:33. | |
a sleepover with his daughter. Shortly afterwards, the prosecution | :10:33. | :10:38. | |
say he abducted April. What followed was a search that became the largest | :10:38. | :10:43. | |
in UK policing history. The jury was told that Mark Bridger initially | :10:43. | :10:47. | |
claimed to know nothing about her disappearance. The next day, | :10:47. | :10:52. | |
volunteers looking for April saw him carrying a black bin bag. Traces of | :10:52. | :10:56. | |
April 's DNA were found in Mark Bridger 's home and on his clothes. | :10:56. | :11:01. | |
When he was arrested, he told police, I know what it is about. I | :11:01. | :11:06. | |
crushed her with a car. I don't know where she is. In the last few | :11:07. | :11:09. | |
minutes, the jury has been shown images from inside Mark Bridger's | :11:09. | :11:16. | |
home. He denies the three charges of | :11:16. | :11:23. | |
abduction, murder, and averting the course of justice. | :11:23. | :11:30. | |
A British adventurer has died during a track in Greenland. Philip | :11:30. | :11:33. | |
Goodeve-Docker Was taking part in an expedition with two other British | :11:33. | :11:37. | |
men went it is believed they were caught up in a severe snowstorm. The | :11:38. | :11:41. | |
Foreign Office says the other men are recovering in hospital. | :11:41. | :11:46. | |
There has been a big rise in the number of cross border legal battles | :11:46. | :11:52. | |
over children, particularly those involving child adoption. A new | :11:52. | :11:54. | |
report by the International Family Justice for England and Wales shows | :11:54. | :11:58. | |
the number of cases referred to by British judges rose by 40%, to more | :11:59. | :12:08. | |
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than 250. Naomi's daughter was updated by her | :12:10. | :12:17. | |
father on a family holiday to J eejit -- to eejit. I count the | :12:17. | :12:23. | |
number of days it has been. I think it is one day closer to finding her. | :12:23. | :12:28. | |
Everyday I get through is a success, it is one they further forward. I | :12:28. | :12:32. | |
try each day to do something I can to move things forward. Today 's | :12:32. | :12:42. | |
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report, reveals a sharp rise in cases like Naomi's. | :12:42. | :12:46. | |
The number of cases the office deals with has more than doubled in the | :12:46. | :12:52. | |
past two years. There were three new cases in 2005. That rose to 92 in | :12:52. | :13:01. | |
2010. 253 in 2012. Lawyers in the UK are noticing the increase in | :13:01. | :13:08. | |
numbers. On average, we get one call a week. | :13:08. | :13:15. | |
The increase in relationships across continents make it more public to do | :13:15. | :13:19. | |
if there is a breakdown in the family relationship. Sometimes, | :13:19. | :13:24. | |
parents take matters into their own hands. Almost half the countries in | :13:24. | :13:27. | |
the world are signed up to an international agreement to return | :13:27. | :13:30. | |
children who are abducted by one parent. | :13:30. | :13:34. | |
It is generally regarded as pretty effective. But if a child is taken | :13:34. | :13:39. | |
from the UK to a country that is not signed up, it can be impossible to | :13:39. | :13:44. | |
get them back. The child is lost maybe four years. What we have to do | :13:44. | :13:50. | |
is to persuade as many of the states that are outside the international | :13:50. | :13:57. | |
agreement to join, to sign up to the international agreement. That, in my | :13:57. | :14:02. | |
view, should be our first priority. Sadly for Naomi, Egypt's is not a | :14:02. | :14:08. | |
party to the international agreement. Her weight to be reunited | :14:08. | :14:18. | |
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Our main story: Three soldiers die and six more are injured in a deadly | :14:20. | :14:29. | |
attack on a British military in Afghanistan. Still to come, how the | :14:29. | :14:32. | |
humble paperback is still holding its own against a generation of | :14:33. | :14:37. | |
tablet readers. As the cruise ship season starts, we look at the | :14:38. | :14:42. | |
traffic on the River Thames. And London's appeal as a destination. | :14:42. | :14:46. | |
And the street dance film looking at the very real prospect of youth club | :14:46. | :14:56. | |
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television interview since being freed. She says she may return to | :15:09. | :15:14. | |
Italy to face a retrial. Speaking to ABC television, she described her | :15:14. | :15:17. | |
need for justice and spoke about the long-running legal battle to prove | :15:17. | :15:25. | |
her innocence. What happened to me hit me like a | :15:25. | :15:35. | |
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train... And there was nothing I first thing you thought when you saw | :15:42. | :15:46. | |
Meredith? I was putting away things in my room when she came to my door | :15:46. | :15:51. | |
and introduced herself and was immediately very nice, just this | :15:51. | :16:00. | |
immediate exchange of, wow, this is someone who I can get along with. | :16:00. | :16:08. | |
Were you ever jealous of her? Were you ever angry at her? No. It | :16:08. | :16:13. | |
bothers me when people suggest she was not my friend. I was stunned by | :16:13. | :16:17. | |
her death. She was my friend. My friend had been murdered, and it | :16:17. | :16:24. | |
could just as easily have been me. Somehow, she had died in the house | :16:24. | :16:34. | |
where we were living. And it could have been me. Did you kill Meredith | :16:34. | :16:44. | |
Kercher? No.Were you there that night? No.Do you know anything you | :16:44. | :16:54. | |
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have not told police? No. I don't. I was not there. But you can first. | :16:55. | :17:00. | |
Well, I didn't confess. I was interrogated, they acted like my | :17:00. | :17:07. | |
answers were wrong. They told me I was wrong, that I did not remember | :17:07. | :17:12. | |
correctly, that I has to remember correctly, and if I didn't, I would | :17:12. | :17:19. | |
never see my family again. I cannot be afraid right now. I have to be | :17:19. | :17:24. | |
ready to fight and defend myself. Her parents say they hope someday to | :17:24. | :17:26. | |
see the Kerchers when they understand that Amanda is not | :17:26. | :17:30. | |
involved. Amanda Knox said she does not want to add to their grief, | :17:30. | :17:40. | |
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hoping that someday... Eventually, I can have their permission to pay my | :17:40. | :17:46. | |
respects at her grave. It is all I can give them, this memory that I | :17:46. | :17:56. | |
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have of her. To add to all of theirs that they can carry with them when | :17:59. | :18:02. | |
she is gone. Amanda Knox speaking to Diane Sawyer | :18:02. | :18:07. | |
from ABC News. The deputy leader of the Labour Party has denied that the | :18:07. | :18:10. | |
party has been sending mixed messages about its economic policy. | :18:10. | :18:13. | |
At the beginning of the week, Ed Miliband refused to say whether | :18:13. | :18:18. | |
borrowing would go up if he was in power, but Harriet Harman said in an | :18:18. | :18:23. | |
interview today that a short-term rise would be necessary to fund a | :18:23. | :18:27. | |
temporary cut in VAT. Let's try to understand what is going on and hear | :18:27. | :18:31. | |
from political correspondent Norman Smith, a little confusion over the | :18:31. | :18:38. | |
economy here, Norman. Well, what is going on is that Labour's deputy | :18:38. | :18:41. | |
leader was forced to come out today and say that the party was not at | :18:41. | :18:43. | |
sixes and sevens over the economy, and is follow some awkward tangles | :18:43. | :18:48. | |
it has got into over how it presents economic messages, starting with Ed | :18:48. | :18:51. | |
Miliband refusing to say whether borrowing would go up under a Labour | :18:51. | :18:55. | |
government, only for Ed Balls and today Harriet Harman to say, yes, | :18:55. | :19:01. | |
indeed there would be a temporary increase in borrowing. And therefore | :19:01. | :19:07. | |
Harriet Harman to say, not be able to say whether any companies had | :19:07. | :19:11. | |
been signed up to the Labour Party jobs guarantee. Why this matters is | :19:11. | :19:15. | |
very obviously we are in a week of crucial local council elections, but | :19:15. | :19:19. | |
more than that, on the economy, credibility is absolutely critical, | :19:20. | :19:24. | |
and if you do not speak with clarity and certainty and conviction, it is | :19:24. | :19:29. | |
that much harder to convince voters. It does not amount to a full-blown | :19:30. | :19:34. | |
jelly travel moment, a wobble on the economy, but I suspect there will be | :19:34. | :19:38. | |
people in Labour circles who think that the party has got to stick with | :19:38. | :19:45. | |
a good deal greater certainty in the economy if it wants to win voters. | :19:45. | :19:48. | |
Business Secretary Vince Cable has written to the Scottish legal | :19:48. | :19:51. | |
authorities calling for a rapid decision on whether to prosecute the | :19:51. | :19:56. | |
former directors of RBS. He said a resolution needed to be reached to | :19:56. | :20:01. | |
maintain public confidence in the bank, which had a �45 billion | :20:01. | :20:05. | |
bailout funded by the taxpayer in 2008. Chief economic correspondent | :20:05. | :20:09. | |
Hugh Pym has more. The collapse of Royal Bank of | :20:09. | :20:12. | |
Scotland was one of the most magic of the global banking crisis. | :20:12. | :20:17. | |
British taxpayers had to pick up the pieces. No formal action has been | :20:17. | :20:21. | |
taken against those who ran the bank before the crisis, although the | :20:21. | :20:24. | |
former chief executive, Fred Goodwin, has been stripped of his | :20:24. | :20:27. | |
knighthood. The financial regulator, the FSA, said in a report | :20:27. | :20:32. | |
at the end of 2011 that the RBS failure resulted from work | :20:32. | :20:35. | |
management decisions and the acquisition of a Dutch bank, ABN | :20:35. | :20:40. | |
Amro, before the crisis had been an extremely risky deal. The Business | :20:40. | :20:44. | |
Secretary said that in light of that report he had been advised that | :20:44. | :20:48. | |
prosecutions could be considered. The issue was referred to the | :20:48. | :20:51. | |
Scottish authorities early last year. Now he has written to them, | :20:51. | :20:56. | |
asking what is happening. It is now five years since the banking crisis. | :20:56. | :20:59. | |
I think the public are impatient in terms of holding people to account, | :20:59. | :21:04. | |
maybe there is no basis for doing so, but I think it is quite | :21:04. | :21:07. | |
legitimate to want to know what stage of the process we actually are | :21:07. | :21:13. | |
at. Vince Cable says he understands that any decision on further action | :21:13. | :21:16. | |
will be taken by the independent prosecuting body. He says he is not | :21:17. | :21:20. | |
trying to influence the outcome of that process. Even so, his letter | :21:21. | :21:25. | |
received a terse response from the Scottish legal authorities. The Lord | :21:25. | :21:28. | |
Advocate, Frank Mulholland, the chief prosecutor in Scotland, has | :21:28. | :21:33. | |
replied to the letter, which was sent to the advocate general, the | :21:33. | :21:35. | |
British government 's law officer for Scottish issues. I am | :21:35. | :21:39. | |
disappointed, he says, to hear that the Secretary of State has written | :21:39. | :21:43. | |
to the Advocate general in such terms, the investigation is complex | :21:43. | :21:48. | |
and ongoing, and the volume of material being considered is vast. | :21:48. | :21:50. | |
One member of the Scottish Parliament questioned why Vince | :21:50. | :21:53. | |
Cable had intervened at this stage and told us he was playing politics | :21:53. | :22:01. | |
with an issue best left to lawyers. A 24-hour general strike is under | :22:01. | :22:04. | |
way in Greece affecting public transport, ferries and hospital. | :22:04. | :22:08. | |
Thousands of people have taken part in demonstrations in Athens over | :22:08. | :22:11. | |
record unemployment figures and tough new austerity measures which | :22:11. | :22:16. | |
have been passed by the government. Thousands of workers have also | :22:16. | :22:19. | |
marched through the Bangladeshi capital, Dhaka, to demand improved | :22:19. | :22:22. | |
safety after the collapse of a building housing clothing factories | :22:22. | :22:28. | |
last week. More than 400 people are now known to have died. An estimated | :22:28. | :22:34. | |
150 more workers are still missing. Deanna Durbin, one of Hollywood's | :22:34. | :22:39. | |
biggest stars in the 1930s and 1940s, has died. She was 91. The | :22:39. | :22:46. | |
Canadian born soprano and actress started her career as a teenager. By | :22:47. | :22:49. | |
the time she retired in her late 20s, she was one of the worlds | :22:49. | :22:52. | |
highest paid women. The advent of digital books | :22:52. | :22:55. | |
initially caused concern for the future of the paperback and hard | :22:55. | :23:00. | |
bike industry, but it seems those fears have been unfounded. New | :23:00. | :23:03. | |
figures suggest that while digital sales have risen at a bar straight, | :23:03. | :23:07. | |
sales of traditional books have also more than held their own with | :23:07. | :23:11. | |
revenues for British publishers hire in 2012 than any other previous | :23:11. | :23:18. | |
year, as technology correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones reports. Read a | :23:18. | :23:23. | |
good book lately? Whether it is on one of the new e-readers, hardback | :23:23. | :23:26. | |
or paperback, we seem to be reading more than ever, and Britain's | :23:26. | :23:29. | |
publishers are confident they are coping well with the digital | :23:29. | :23:35. | |
revolution. They say 2012 was a record year. Digital sales rose 66%, | :23:35. | :23:43. | |
while sales of physical books were down just 1%. Overall revenue was up | :23:43. | :23:53. | |
4%, up to �3.3 billion. E-books sales are going to grow over the | :23:53. | :23:56. | |
next few years, but we are not heading to a world where physical | :23:56. | :24:00. | |
books disappear, we are heading towards a world where it is 50-50. | :24:01. | :24:04. | |
The speed at which we are moving towards digital reading depends on | :24:04. | :24:08. | |
the book involved. A quarter of fiction that we buy is for | :24:08. | :24:12. | |
downloading and reading on this kind of device, whereas for non-fiction | :24:12. | :24:17. | |
books, like a cookbook, the figure is just 5%, and when it comes to | :24:17. | :24:24. | |
children's books just 3% are read on screen. There is a strong novel | :24:24. | :24:32. | |
bursting to get out... And when he -- while many find e-readers more | :24:32. | :24:36. | |
convenient, members of this book club seemed reluctant to go digital. | :24:36. | :24:41. | |
I love the feel and texture and the artefact and also the fact that it | :24:41. | :24:45. | |
is something that is not going to run out of batteries. I have never | :24:45. | :24:49. | |
got into those, but what I do love about them is that it gets people | :24:49. | :24:53. | |
into reading who perhaps would not be reading otherwise. Or me, it does | :24:53. | :24:58. | |
not matter how you read something, the important thing is that you | :24:58. | :25:02. | |
read. It is thought more than 10 million people in the UK now own a | :25:02. | :25:06. | |
e-reader, but even if our habits are changing, it is far too early to | :25:06. | :25:15. | |
Well, one author who never had a problem selling books was Enid | :25:15. | :25:20. | |
Blyton. Her novels, including Noddy, the Famous Five and the | :25:20. | :25:24. | |
Secret Seven, have been in print since 1922. 90 years later, the | :25:24. | :25:29. | |
first ever major exhibition into a life and work is being held in | :25:29. | :25:34. | |
Newcastle. Colin Patterson has been to take a look. | :25:34. | :25:41. | |
This is the mystery of Enid Blyton and the very long wait, author of | :25:41. | :25:44. | |
the Famous Five and the Secret Seven, the number here is 45, that | :25:44. | :25:49. | |
is how many years it has taken from her death for there to be an | :25:49. | :25:54. | |
exhibition dedicated to her work. When she was alive and very active, | :25:54. | :25:58. | |
she tortured and held events and talk to children about how she | :25:58. | :26:02. | |
wrote, but from the 1960s through to the 1980s sea was less fashionable, | :26:02. | :26:08. | |
and with that distance of time, we can appreciate all she brought to | :26:08. | :26:16. | |
our literary heritage for children. Their mother is Enid Blyton, she | :26:16. | :26:21. | |
rattles of 6000 words a day... exhibition includes a typewriter, | :26:21. | :26:24. | |
the only unpublished full-length novel and areas dedicated to her | :26:24. | :26:30. | |
most famous stories. Climbing up the top branch of the tree, there you | :26:30. | :26:38. | |
are in some peculiar land! Oh, Noddy, look, do as I do! Despite | :26:38. | :26:42. | |
selling upwards of 5 million books, Enid Blyton has been heavily | :26:42. | :26:47. | |
criticised over the years. She has been called everything from a racist | :26:47. | :26:51. | |
to a sexist to a classist, and some of those things, when you are | :26:51. | :26:56. | |
looking at them from the perspective of 2013, might seem true, but you | :26:56. | :27:00. | |
have to remember that she was very much a woman of her time. She was | :27:00. | :27:05. | |
reflecting the values of the day. It seemed normal to most people. | :27:05. | :27:09. | |
exhibition does not shy away from these issues, but its main aim is | :27:09. | :27:15. | |
simply to celebrate the work of Enid Blyton and explain why her appeal | :27:15. | :27:19. | |
has pleased generations. She was a genius at writing the right story | :27:19. | :27:23. | |
for the right child at the right time at the right age. And it is | :27:23. | :27:29. | |
clear she is still attracting young fans. I have read quite a few, about | :27:29. | :27:38. | |
300. What have you liked so far? think the Secret Seven shared. | :27:38. | :27:44. | |
you? The Secret Seven shared.That is popular! What is going on in | :27:44. | :27:50. | |
here? While there is plenty of cake on show, one thing you will not find | :27:50. | :27:53. | |
is lashings of ginger beer. The truth is, she never wrote that | :27:53. | :28:03. | |
phrase in any of her books. Quite a few, 300! That is going | :28:03. | :28:06. | |
some, Alex Deakin has joined us for the weather. The sunshine has been | :28:06. | :28:16. | |
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bringing us some cheer, is it going had a happy ending like Enid Blyton. | :28:19. | :28:22. | |
It is a bit of a thriller this weekend. It is spectacular at the | :28:22. | :28:27. | |
moment if you have got the sunshine, we started a touch below | :28:27. | :28:30. | |
freezing, but the May sunshine is pretty strong, and it is covering | :28:30. | :28:36. | |
the southern half of the UK. Further north, there is more cloud around, | :28:36. | :28:41. | |
and still very windy across the far north of Scotland. There will be | :28:41. | :28:46. | |
showery outbreaks of rain across northern England and North Wales, | :28:46. | :28:49. | |
and still one or two showers in northern Scotland with a wintry | :28:49. | :28:53. | |
flavour, some snow over the hills. A bright afternoon through central | :28:53. | :28:58. | |
Scotland and Northern Ireland, some sunny spells here. Even in northern | :28:58. | :29:02. | |
England and North Wales there will be some brightness. Across the far | :29:02. | :29:06. | |
south, we will hang on to the sunshine across East Anglia and the | :29:06. | :29:08. | |
southern counties of England and Wales with temperatures getting into | :29:08. | :29:12. | |
the midteens, in one or two places may be as high as 18. Temperatures | :29:12. | :29:16. | |
will fall again tonight, another chilly one, but more cloud across | :29:16. | :29:19. | |
southern areas means it will not be quite as cold here. However, a hint | :29:19. | :29:24. | |
of blue on the chart suggests, in rural areas of northern England and | :29:24. | :29:28. | |
Scotland, we will get down to freezing. So it will be a cold start | :29:28. | :29:33. | |
in the morning, but for the majority a sunny start. Maybe some folk | :29:33. | :29:37. | |
through the north, a cloudy day for Northern Ireland, patchy rain here, | :29:37. | :29:40. | |
turning right across northern Scotland with snow on the hills. | :29:40. | :29:44. | |
Another big changes the extreme south-east, more cloud for Kent, one | :29:44. | :29:48. | |
or two showers. For the heart of the country, with some sunshine, | :29:48. | :29:53. | |
temperatures easily into the midteens, 18 or 19 is possible. We | :29:53. | :29:56. | |
could hit 20 Friday where we get sunshine, which is most likely | :29:56. | :30:03. | |
across eastern areas. Further west, cooler, wetter, rain late in the day | :30:03. | :30:06. | |
for Northern Ireland, pushing into north-west England. That is from | :30:06. | :30:11. | |
this weather front, which is the first player for the weekend. It | :30:11. | :30:14. | |
pushes southwards during Friday night, it could still bring cloud | :30:14. | :30:18. | |
and patchy rain across south-eastern areas at first, but it should clear | :30:18. | :30:23. | |
away. More rain in north-west Scotland on Saturday, but most | :30:23. | :30:28. | |
places like dry and bright, maybe not quite as warm, but 15 Celsius is | :30:28. | :30:33. | |
possible. The long weekend has been giving us some headaches. This time | :30:33. | :30:36. | |
yesterday we were confident that places would be dry and bright, but | :30:36. | :30:40. | |
it looks like northern areas will be cooler with blustery showers. The | :30:40. | :30:45. | |
best of the dry and bright weather is further south. There's more on | :30:45. | :30:54. | |
been injured in the deadliest attack on the British military in | :30:54. | :30:57. | |
Afghanistan in more than a year after their vehicle was hit by a | :30:57. | :31:02. | |
roadside bomb. Bill Roache, Coronation Street's longest serving | :31:02. | :31:08. | |
actor, has been arrested on suspicion of rape. Still to come on | :31:08. | :31:12. |