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:00:08. > :00:14.Crisis in England's home care. With a low-wage system encouraging

:00:14. > :00:19.neglect. No-one's here. They forgot me,

:00:19. > :00:24.haven't they? The Government warning comes as the BBC is shown CCTV

:00:24. > :00:29.footage of the neglect experienced by one 83-year-old woman.

:00:29. > :00:34.Also: Shares in the Royal Bank of Scotland, fall sharply, amid rumours

:00:34. > :00:38.that the chief executive, Stephen Hester, was forced out of his job.

:00:38. > :00:45.The death toll in Syria is now thought to be more than 93,000. A

:00:45. > :00:52.report by the United Nations says that 6,500 of them are children.

:00:52. > :00:58.England's cleverest children are being let down by a mediocre

:00:58. > :01:02.approach in state secondary schools. Google's tax affairs, high pressure

:01:02. > :01:08.MPs are not convinced by the explanation for the low tax bill.

:01:08. > :01:11.And about to. Be launched on the voyage of moth arehood, the Duchess

:01:11. > :01:17.of Cambridge, makes her last solo public appearance before becoming a

:01:17. > :01:23.parent. On BBC London: Essex Police is told

:01:23. > :01:33.to do more to protect domestic violence victims. Land owners call

:01:33. > :01:41.

:01:41. > :01:46.for new laws to stop people dumping Good afternoon.

:01:46. > :01:51.Welcome to the BBC News at One. There is is a crisis in the home

:01:51. > :01:55.care system for the elderly and the disabled in England. The warning

:01:55. > :02:02.comes from the social Care Minister, Norman Lamb, who fears there could

:02:02. > :02:08.be an abuse scandal as the -- as serious as the problems at staffed

:02:08. > :02:13.hospital. The BBC was given access to CCTV footage, filmed by the

:02:13. > :02:17.family of one 83-year-old woman, showing the treatment she received

:02:17. > :02:22.at the hands of her home care company over a month. You may find

:02:22. > :02:28.this report distressing. No-one is here. They forgot me,

:02:29. > :02:32.haven't they? The career should have been here 45 minutes ago. Muirial is

:02:32. > :02:40.incontinent. She has been in bed for 13 hours.

:02:40. > :02:44.Now look at me. Lying in bed at 4.00pm in the afternoon. It is not

:02:44. > :02:54.good enough. They have to sort out the home careers. I will have to do

:02:54. > :02:55.

:02:55. > :03:00.something. I can't put up with it much longer. It is awful... Yeah, we

:03:01. > :03:07.used to walk here a lot, your dad and I at one time. Your granddad and

:03:07. > :03:14.I, yeah. Muriel, in happier times with her

:03:14. > :03:18.grandson. The son installed the cameras incase she fell. He did not

:03:18. > :03:23.expect to see his mother in such distress. Over the months of the

:03:23. > :03:25.footage that we have seen, the careers turned up late, not at all,

:03:25. > :03:30.on at least a dozen separate occasions.

:03:30. > :03:35.You ring them up. They say they are sending someone along but they never

:03:35. > :03:39.did. It was terrible. The way that they treat old people.

:03:39. > :03:44.I'm lucky I have a family to look after me. Those that haven't got a

:03:44. > :03:47.family, God help them, the poor devils.

:03:47. > :03:51.While some careers were professional, the footage shows

:03:51. > :03:57.others who were not. This career uses her fingers to test the

:03:57. > :04:01.temperature of the food. Another change changes pads in full view of

:04:01. > :04:06.the street, they are incontinence pads.

:04:06. > :04:10.To see someone in your family treated with no respect, no

:04:10. > :04:14.dignity... It is, you question yourself. You think in a way you

:04:14. > :04:18.feel guilty. I showed the footage to the Care

:04:18. > :04:21.Minister. He was holding a summit with care providers today, to

:04:21. > :04:26.discuss concerns in the industry as a whole.

:04:26. > :04:32.It is shocking and depressing, really. This is neglect in your own

:04:32. > :04:37.home. We know that this is not an isolated case.

:04:37. > :04:43.There is also very good care, we should celebrate that but where poor

:04:43. > :04:48.care exists, we should not tolerate This is the company that was paid to

:04:48. > :04:53.look after Muriel. The community care is based in Preston. The family

:04:53. > :04:57.say that they complained to them repeatedly about the service that

:04:57. > :05:02.they were providing, but in a statement, the company said: At no

:05:02. > :05:09.time were issues raised by the family. Any concerns would have been

:05:09. > :05:12.dealt with via the appropriate channels. We go bo and beyond the

:05:12. > :05:16.legal requirements when employing careers. The care of patients is

:05:16. > :05:20.important to us. Despite the shocking level of care

:05:20. > :05:24.provided, the company insisted that the family owe them more than �4,000

:05:25. > :05:29.in fees. They started court proceedings against them, but on the

:05:29. > :05:38.day that the case was due to be heard, the company never showed up.

:05:38. > :05:42.The case was dismissed. The house is now for sale to help

:05:42. > :05:46.pay for Muriel's care costs. She is happy now but the memory of what

:05:46. > :05:51.happened behind this door will long linger.

:05:51. > :05:59.Michael is with me now. Michael, Norman Lamb spoke about this being a

:05:59. > :06:03.scandal on the scale of the Staffordshire hospital but this is

:06:03. > :06:07.happening behind homes behind their closed doors? That is the concern.

:06:07. > :06:12.Trying to get a grip on what is happening here. We know that

:06:12. > :06:16.hundreds of thousands of people in England are getting domiciliary care

:06:16. > :06:19.and that figure is set to rise as the population is ageing. There are

:06:20. > :06:23.reports indicating that there are problems in the industry over the

:06:23. > :06:28.last couple of years. The Care Quality Commission looked at it,

:06:28. > :06:33.saying that the care does not support the dignity of those

:06:33. > :06:42.receiving the care or their autonomy. Which? Looked into the

:06:42. > :06:47.industry, they described some of the care as disgraceful. The CQC said

:06:47. > :06:52.that most cases good cases were provided but 25% were failing to

:06:52. > :06:55.meet standards. So there is clearly an issue here.

:06:55. > :06:59.The outgoing chief executive of the Royal Bank of Scotland, Stephen

:06:59. > :07:04.Hester, has denied being forced from his job by the Treasury. Shares in

:07:04. > :07:07.the bank fell by 6% in early trading. The bank confirmed this

:07:07. > :07:11.morning it is cutting 2,000 jobs worldwide in the investment

:07:11. > :07:16.division. Hugh Pym has this report.

:07:16. > :07:20.Did he go willingly or was he pushed because of a clash with the

:07:20. > :07:23.Treasury? Speculation about Stephen Hester, impending departure from

:07:23. > :07:27.Royal Bank of Scotland has intensified. The line is that the

:07:27. > :07:31.bank needs a new boss for the process of privatisation but Stephen

:07:31. > :07:36.Hester hint #d he would have liked to have stayed.

:07:36. > :07:40.I am torn. On the one hand I feel a huge loyalty to the company, the

:07:40. > :07:47.people who have been with me in the trenches for years. Of course I want

:07:47. > :07:51.to see it through for them. For my own pride, I guess, but on the other

:07:51. > :07:54.hand, for me that would be the ending of a job. I think that there

:07:54. > :07:56.is an argument to say that in a perfect world it should be the

:07:56. > :08:01.beginning of a future for Royal Bank of Scotland.

:08:01. > :08:05.Today in the Commons, a Treasury Minister paid tribute to Stephen

:08:05. > :08:07.Hester's work, saying it was time for a new chapter at Royal Bank of

:08:07. > :08:12.Scotland. Having brought Royal Bank of

:08:12. > :08:17.Scotland back from the brink, now is the time to move on from the rescue

:08:17. > :08:22.phase to the focus on Royal Bank of Scotland being a UK bank to provide

:08:22. > :08:27.support to the British economy. But Labour said many questions

:08:27. > :08:31.needed to be answered. Did Stephen Hester go voluntarily, or was he

:08:31. > :08:34.push?ed what role did the Chancellor have in prompting this departure?

:08:34. > :08:38.With a fall in the Royal Bank of Scotland share price this morning,

:08:38. > :08:42.there was criticism in the City of the Government's handling of the

:08:42. > :08:47.issue, with so much taxpayer money on the line.

:08:47. > :08:53.I think it has been messy. It is a surprise to see someone who led a

:08:54. > :08:58.successful repair job removed at the behest of the Treasury. Secondly, do

:08:59. > :09:04.so without having a clear plan for succession is negligent.

:09:04. > :09:07.The debate on Stephen Hester's at departure is continuing on a day

:09:07. > :09:10.when Royal Bank of Scotland announces cutbacks in the investment

:09:10. > :09:15.banking operations. Including here in the City of London. It is seeking

:09:15. > :09:21.to focus more on the UK-based corporate and household lending.

:09:21. > :09:25.Roiks say that there will be 2,000 job losses a % cut in investment

:09:25. > :09:29.bank staff. Across the bank there have been 41,000 job losses since

:09:29. > :09:32.2008. With the chairman's side-stepping questions about his

:09:32. > :09:37.future this morning, there is uncertainty hanging over Royal Bank

:09:37. > :09:42.of Scotland, bust on the question of who will be running it and when the

:09:42. > :09:47.taxpayers may get some money back. Let's speak to Norman Smith at

:09:47. > :09:53.Westminster for us. I guess it is the perennial political question,

:09:53. > :09:57.did he jump or was he pushed? the Treasury say that their hands

:09:57. > :10:01.were clean. It was not them that done in the nice Mr Hester. They say

:10:01. > :10:06.that the decision was taken by the Royal Bank of Scotland board with no

:10:06. > :10:11.involvement from the Chancellor. Yet if this were a game of political

:10:11. > :10:16.Cleudo, I suspect that many will suspect that Stephen Hester had

:10:16. > :10:20.indeed been done in. We learn that the two men have not met each other

:10:20. > :10:27.for three months, that suggests a certain coolness that their

:10:27. > :10:32.relationship. Also no replacement has been pencilled in. The Number

:10:32. > :10:38.Ten spokesperson when asked, if the Treasury pressurised Stephen Hester

:10:38. > :10:44.to go, said that they would not put it in those terms. That the

:10:44. > :10:49.Chancellor could want to pave the way for the RBS sell-off, the

:10:50. > :10:54.Treasury deny that, saying there is no fixed price, nothing's been

:10:54. > :10:59.pencilled in. Yet, you can see how attractive it would be for the

:10:59. > :11:03.Chancellor to go into the next election with an eye-catching policy

:11:03. > :11:06.like an RBS share give away. Interesting stuff. Thank you very

:11:06. > :11:11.much. The school's watchdog is warning

:11:11. > :11:16.that the brightest children are being let down by many of England's

:11:16. > :11:21.state secondary schools. In a report, Ofsted is blaming a culture

:11:21. > :11:24.of low expectations. Head teachers have disputed some of the evidence,

:11:24. > :11:32.while arguing that league tables push schools into focussing on the

:11:32. > :11:36.middle ground. We have more on this. At Forefoot School in York, they do

:11:36. > :11:42.their best to stretch the brightest pupils, identifying the able

:11:42. > :11:44.children as soon as they arrive from primary school. Those who cope get

:11:44. > :11:51.tougher assignments to push themselves further.

:11:51. > :11:56.I am happy to be pushed. In some subjects it is challenging. It a is

:11:56. > :12:02.a good helping hand to say to you can do well, to try thinking about

:12:02. > :12:06.it for the future it is good. But Ofsted says in England's

:12:06. > :12:10.non-selective secondary schools, this is not the norm. Looking at

:12:10. > :12:18.pupils getting above the expected standards in English and maths test.

:12:18. > :12:24.Last year two thirds of the pupils, 65,000, failed to get an A* or A at

:12:24. > :12:28.GCSE maths and English. Over a quarter, 27,000, failed to get a B.

:12:28. > :12:33.Ofsted says that last year a fifth of all schools teaching A-levels

:12:33. > :12:38.failed to produce a single pupil with the top grades expected by

:12:38. > :12:43.leading universities, why is this happening? Low expectations of what

:12:43. > :12:47.the youngsters can do and achieve. That is critical. We have to improve

:12:48. > :12:51.by ensuring that teachers and leaders of the schools have higher

:12:51. > :12:58.expectations. But teaching unions say that you

:12:58. > :13:03.cannot assume that pupils scoring above expectations get top marks in

:13:03. > :13:09.GCSE. Students students with a level five

:13:09. > :13:14.have often been taught to pass that test. A child just past that test by

:13:14. > :13:18.being taught precisely what they need to do is the not the same as a

:13:18. > :13:22.child with top marks in the test and is one of the brightest.

:13:22. > :13:27.This is a confusing time for parents. Today they are told not

:13:27. > :13:32.enough bright pupils are getting high grades. Ministers took actions

:13:32. > :13:36.to toughen up exams because of too many high grades, but the Department

:13:36. > :13:43.for Education is agreeing that measuring the progress of pupils at

:13:43. > :13:45.school is essential. A group of MP is accusing guying of

:13:45. > :13:48.aggressive tax avoidance as it conducts its UK business from

:13:48. > :13:54.Ireland. The Public Accounts Committee is calling on the company

:13:54. > :14:00.to pay its fair share of tax. Google say it is complies with all tax

:14:00. > :14:06.rules in the UK. The biggest search engine is facing

:14:06. > :14:11.searching questions about tax. MPs say that the way that Google

:14:11. > :14:16.gets advertisers to send payments to Ireland is a ruse to avoid UK

:14:16. > :14:22.Corporation Tax. We looked at how they have this very

:14:22. > :14:27.complex web of companies over all sorts of countries where the sole

:14:27. > :14:32.purpose appears to be to avoid paying their fair share of tax on

:14:32. > :14:39.the profits that they make from the business that they do in the UK.

:14:39. > :14:45.The Public Accounts Committee says that Google had UK sales of �11. 5

:14:45. > :14:49.billion between 2006 and 2011. It claims that the profits on that

:14:49. > :14:55.would have been enormous. Though there is no figure but it says that

:14:55. > :15:01.Google paid just �10 million in UK Corporation Tax over that period.

:15:01. > :15:05.I want to start by reminding you that it is a serious offence to

:15:05. > :15:09.mislead a parliamentary select committee... Last month, MPs grilled

:15:09. > :15:14.Google for a second time after a whistleblower told them that UK

:15:14. > :15:18.sales were completed in the UK. We hire people with sales skills,

:15:18. > :15:24.they are encouraging people to spend money but what is clear is that

:15:24. > :15:29.no-one in the UK team can execute a transaction, no money changes hands.

:15:29. > :15:34.The whistleblower, Barney Jones, worked for Google and believed that

:15:34. > :15:39.they should have paid more tax. Matt Brittin wanted to defend the

:15:39. > :15:43.tax that they were paying by saying that they did not sale, but I worked

:15:43. > :15:47.for the sales team, selling is what we did.

:15:47. > :15:51.Google issued a statement, saying it complies with the tax rules in the

:15:51. > :15:53.UK, that it is the politicians who make the rules, but the Public

:15:53. > :15:57.Accounts Committee wants HM Revenue & Customs to launch an

:15:57. > :16:02.investigation. We investigate multinationals,

:16:02. > :16:06.recovering �23 billion from large businesses over three years,

:16:06. > :16:12.including multinationals but we can only enforce the rules. We cannot

:16:12. > :16:17.collect tax that is not due. The Prime Minister's promised to

:16:17. > :16:22.give top billing to tax avoidance when leaders meet for the G 8

:16:22. > :16:27.summit, but MPs want him to push for multinationals to pay a fair share

:16:27. > :16:34.of tax in the companies countries where they do business.

:16:34. > :16:38.The top story: A crisis in England's home care system with a low-wage

:16:38. > :16:44.system that encourages poor care and neglect.

:16:44. > :16:48.Later on BBC London: A famous drama school fears for funding after the

:16:48. > :16:56.council demands that they take down advertising boards.

:16:56. > :17:06.And back from the nine tis, we speak to one of the boyband's Mark Easton,

:17:06. > :17:08.

:17:08. > :17:13.on going solo. -- East 17. There are six

:17:13. > :17:16.candidates, all bar one is from a conservative background. Whoever

:17:16. > :17:23.wins faces huge challenges. The country is feeling effects of

:17:24. > :17:27.sanctions because of a nuclear programme the West fears is more

:17:27. > :17:34.about developing nuclear weapon, something which Tehran denies.

:17:34. > :17:37.On the eve of this election, Iran faces an acute economic crisis.

:17:37. > :17:42.International sanctions imposed because of its nuclear programme,

:17:42. > :17:49.leading to a collapse in the currency, with prices of food and

:17:49. > :17:53.other essential goods shooting up. And this has been a big issue in the

:17:53. > :17:57.election campaign. Some candidates have been questioning the cost to

:17:57. > :18:01.the country of the Government's uncompromising approach in

:18:01. > :18:07.negotiations with the international community. In the run-up to this

:18:07. > :18:12.election, the ultraconservative establishment has stopped hundreds

:18:12. > :18:18.of candidates from running, leaving just six still in the race, all

:18:18. > :18:23.regarded as loyalists. Amongst the frontrunner frontrunners Hassan

:18:23. > :18:30.Rowhani has turned out to be more of a moderate N the recent Presidential

:18:30. > :18:34.debates Mr Row row has talked about changing ir-- Rowhani has called for

:18:34. > :18:40.press freedom at home. Reformist groups are rallying around him.

:18:40. > :18:45.the last eight years we've had Mr Ahmadinejad, who has been denying

:18:45. > :18:53.the Holocaust and speaking about eliminating Israel from the face of

:18:53. > :18:59.the world. If a moderate candidate wins then you will see a change of

:19:00. > :19:04.attitudes towards the outside world. After the last election, four years

:19:04. > :19:09.ago, there were huge demonstrations. Many voters believing the

:19:09. > :19:16.authorities had rigged the vote to ensure a reformist candidate did not

:19:16. > :19:21.win. In the crackdown by the authorities, dozens were killed.

:19:21. > :19:27.Now there are just hours to go before the people of Iran vote once

:19:27. > :19:32.again for a new President. What had seemed a very predictable election,

:19:32. > :19:38.with an easy victory for the ultraconservatives has become much

:19:38. > :19:43.more uncertain. Just to say, there's much more on

:19:43. > :19:48.the Iranian elections, including profiles of the candidates on the

:19:48. > :19:52.BBC website. Some breaking news coming into us

:19:53. > :19:57.now and verdicts are being returned in the case of the man who murdered

:19:57. > :20:00.two women police officers, Dale Cregan admitted murdering Fiona Bone

:20:00. > :20:05.and Nicola Hughes, as well as a father and son in Manchester. He has

:20:05. > :20:10.been found not guilty of attempting to murder another woman in the city.

:20:10. > :20:16.Let's go to Ed Thomas with all the details at Preston Crown Court for

:20:16. > :20:20.us. Ed? Yes, the final verdict on Dale

:20:20. > :20:24.Cregan is now in. The full story of his four murders and three attempted

:20:24. > :20:30.murders can be told. The last bit of business for the jury concerning

:20:30. > :20:36.Dale Cregan was an attempted murder charge on shah ran Hart. The jury

:20:36. > :20:45.found him not guilty of that. He admitted the murders of Mark and

:20:45. > :20:49.David Short and PC Nicola Hughes huge and PC Fiona Bone.

:20:49. > :20:55.Ef every police officer in the -- every police officer in the city was

:20:55. > :21:01.on the look-out for him, but Cregan stayed hidden, until he created a

:21:01. > :21:11.trap to lure the police to him. He dialled 999 and pretended his house

:21:11. > :21:31.

:21:31. > :21:36.officers were asked to drive over to look at the reported burglary.

:21:36. > :21:39.32-year-old PC Fiona Bone was sent out with her shift partner that day,

:21:39. > :21:46.23-year-old Nicola Hughes. They knocked on the door and met a hail

:21:46. > :21:52.of bullets. Then Cregan threw a grenade at them. PCs Nicola Hughes

:21:52. > :21:56.and Fiona Bone were sent out from their base here to respond to

:21:56. > :22:01.Cregan's 999 call. Within an hour both women had been shot dead and

:22:01. > :22:07.the man who murdered them was on his way here to their police station to

:22:07. > :22:14.hand himself in. He walked inside and approached the counter. He said

:22:14. > :22:19."I am wanted by the police. I have just done two coppers." The officer

:22:19. > :22:24.leapt over the desk to arrest him. In May, last year, Mark Short was

:22:24. > :22:28.assassinated when Cregan ran into a pub in East Manchester and shot him

:22:28. > :22:33.at the pool table. In June, he was arrested on suspicion of murder and

:22:33. > :22:38.then released. In August, Mark Short's father was shot dead by

:22:38. > :22:42.Cregan, who also threw a grenade at him. He threw a grenade at another

:22:42. > :22:50.house nearby. He went on the round. A reward was offered for his

:22:50. > :22:53.capture, but he evaded police for five weeks until the murder. He said

:22:53. > :22:58.he shot the officers because the police had hounded his family.

:22:58. > :23:03.fact is he was a very wanted man. We were very, very concerned, sadly as

:23:03. > :23:07.it turned out, he would kill other people. We were constantly visiting

:23:07. > :23:11.his family, his girlfriend, his relatives, absolutely, to discover

:23:11. > :23:19.where he was and encourage them to give up information. The impact of

:23:19. > :23:25.the shooting was enormous and mediate. Officers who had worked

:23:25. > :23:28.alongside PC -- PCs Fiona Bone and Nicola Hughes found themselves

:23:28. > :23:36.investigate investigating their murders. To go, I am going to kill a

:23:37. > :23:44.police officer today because I don't like them seems unreal. It is a

:23:44. > :23:49.level of callousness and no empathy with anybody - is beyond really my

:23:49. > :23:54.comprehension. Their funerals drew large crowds.

:23:54. > :23:59.Police officers from around the country came to pay their respects.

:23:59. > :24:06.I think, as a parent, you have that expectation that your children will

:24:06. > :24:12.be there for when you die. So, you couldn't... It is really difficult

:24:12. > :24:17.to imagine it and it's even more difficult to describe it. Dale

:24:17. > :24:21.Cregan's trial was conducted amongst high security. He and his

:24:21. > :24:29.codefendants brought to court each day by armed convoy. Now he faces

:24:29. > :24:33.life in prison for a crime the Prime Minister described as, "Pure evil."

:24:33. > :24:41.Yes, Dale Cregan was not alone in the dock. There were nine other

:24:41. > :24:44.codefendants. Four of those men will walk free from this court. They were

:24:45. > :24:49.found not guilty of all the charges they were facing. When those

:24:49. > :24:57.verdicts were read out, there were grasps in the courtroom. And sat

:24:57. > :25:01.yards away from Dale Cregan was the father and family of PC Fiona Bone

:25:01. > :25:05.and PC Nicola Hughes. We expect them to make a statement once they leave

:25:05. > :25:09.this courtroom. As for Dale Cregan, we can tell you, he was seen

:25:09. > :25:13.laughing and joking in a break between proceedings when the

:25:13. > :25:17.verdicts were being read out. His own barrister has admitted he will

:25:17. > :25:22.die in jail for what he's done. We expect him to be sentenced later

:25:22. > :25:27.today. OK, thanks very much for that. Thank you. More than two years

:25:27. > :25:31.after the start of the conflict in Syria, a new UN report says the full

:25:32. > :25:36.scale of the deaths is likely to be far higher than previously thought.

:25:37. > :25:41.It says at least 93,000 people have been killed since the conflict

:25:41. > :25:44.began. That is 30,000 more than the UN's last estimate around the end of

:25:44. > :25:51.last year. 5,000 deaths have been documented each month since last

:25:51. > :25:56.July. The UN says the real number is likely to be much higher. Some 6,

:25:56. > :26:00.500 children have died since March, 2011. A quarter of those were under

:26:00. > :26:04.the age of 10. Our Middle East correspondent has

:26:04. > :26:09.recently returned from Syria and joins me now. And Paul, when you

:26:09. > :26:16.look at these figures, do they surprise you? No, if you visits

:26:16. > :26:21.Syria it is obvious it has fallen into an abyss of violence. What is

:26:22. > :26:25.interesting about these figures is the UN's analysts were careful only

:26:25. > :26:29.to count those they were certain of. It may be 40,000 on top of that.

:26:29. > :26:32.What they do not say is how many are combatants and how many are

:26:32. > :26:36.civilians. One of the groups contributing came up with a

:26:36. > :26:40.surprising idea, which was the largest single group may be the

:26:40. > :26:44.regime's soldiers and the militias attached to it, with the civilians

:26:44. > :26:48.coming second. That is a controversial finding which may give

:26:48. > :26:52.western Governments a pause while they debate about what to do. The

:26:52. > :26:58.scale of it, 5,000 people a month are now being killed. That is worse

:26:58. > :27:02.than say Iraq at the height of the sectarian violence there in 2006.

:27:03. > :27:06.Thank you. The Australian cricketer David

:27:06. > :27:11.Warner has been suspended from the side until the first Ashes next

:27:11. > :27:15.month. He is alleged to have attacked Joe Root in a bar in

:27:15. > :27:21.Birmingham on Saturday night. He has been fined �7,000 and will miss the

:27:21. > :27:27.remainder of his country's champion's trophy campaign.

:27:27. > :27:33.The Duchess of Cambridge has named a new cruise liner - her last soe lo

:27:33. > :27:42.engagement before the birth of her baby. Royal Princess will carry 3,

:27:42. > :27:45.500 passengers and will set sail ??FORCEWHITE In about a month's time

:27:45. > :27:50.the Duchess of Cambridge will become a mother, but this lunch time she

:27:50. > :27:55.has become a godmother - a godmother to this huge cruise liner,

:27:55. > :27:59.appropriately named Royal Princess. She came here to name it in her last

:27:59. > :28:05.solo engagement as a member of the Royal Family, before she gives

:28:05. > :28:09.birth. She looked calm, well, relaxed. If a little chilly at times

:28:09. > :28:15.in the Southampton summer breeze. Several ladies in the audience

:28:15. > :28:19.remarked to me she looked very elegant - eight months' pregnant, in

:28:20. > :28:25.high-heeled shoes as she climbed on to the podium for her big moment.

:28:25. > :28:35.name this ship Royal Princess. May God bless her and all who sail in

:28:35. > :28:44.

:28:44. > :28:49.Of course Kate was in hospital with acute morning sickness during the

:28:49. > :28:53.early stages of her pregnancy. Since then, she has kept a full diary of

:28:53. > :28:58.engagements. She has one more official function - that is this

:28:58. > :29:03.weekend at Trooping the Colour in London. After that her maternity

:29:03. > :29:09.leave, as you might call it, will begin. She will begin a Vogue into

:29:09. > :29:12.motherhood, which will involve naming her own Royal Princess or

:29:12. > :29:22.Prince. Thank you very much for that. Now

:29:22. > :29:23.

:29:23. > :29:33.time for the weather. Cold in An unsettled picture out there. The

:29:33. > :29:39.wettest place so far today has been Wales - a clump of hef -- heavy

:29:39. > :29:44.downpours there. It is heavy, gusty winds with these

:29:44. > :29:50.as well. All that moving east. It is pretty windy just about wherever you

:29:50. > :29:58.are. Let's look at 4pm this afternoon and we have heavy downpour

:29:58. > :30:03.possibly in excess of 50 miles per hour in the worst of these. You will

:30:03. > :30:06.know about it if you catch one of these. Fewer further south. It is

:30:06. > :30:10.windy, mind you. It is brightening up. One or two showers passing

:30:10. > :30:14.through on the strength of that wind. Also some sunshine coming

:30:14. > :30:17.through, increasingly so now into south-west England. And the clump of

:30:17. > :30:20.the heaviest downpours working from Wales. Here actually brightening up

:30:20. > :30:25.a bit. Some showers around. In Northern Ireland this afternoon, it

:30:25. > :30:29.is sunshine and showers. We are dodging the downpours, blue sky one

:30:29. > :30:34.minute, a heavy shower the next. In Scotland the odd show tore the south

:30:34. > :30:37.and west. Most of us with a fine afternoon. A bit of rain in the

:30:37. > :30:40.Northern Isles. This evening the showers clear from eastern England.

:30:41. > :30:47.A spell of fine weather overnight. It is a shame it is not happening

:30:47. > :30:52.during the day. When we are asleep, largely dry and the temperatures

:30:52. > :30:56.dipping down into single figures A touch cooler than recent nights.

:30:56. > :31:00.Into Friday and the sign of things, already in western areas, as more

:31:00. > :31:04.rain comes in, with a strengthening wind. All that spreading

:31:04. > :31:07.north-eastwards. Turning more showery in the afternoon, the

:31:07. > :31:12.Midlands. Missing most of the rain in south-east England, with some

:31:12. > :31:16.sunshine. Gales on western coasts. Warmth in the south-east.

:31:16. > :31:20.More rain to Northern Ireland by the end of the afternoon. That rain

:31:20. > :31:24.Friday night will push across all areas. On Saturday we have low

:31:24. > :31:27.pressure close by. It will be the future for showers, but sunshine

:31:27. > :31:30.between the showers on Saturday. Not a washout, but there'll be

:31:30. > :31:35.persistent rain at times to Northern Ireland and Scotland in particular.

:31:35. > :31:40.It is still windy. For part two of the weekend, on Sunday, actually

:31:40. > :31:44.many of us escape with a fine day. Rain into the south-west.

:31:44. > :31:50.Uncertainty about timing. Keep checking the forecast and you can do

:31:50. > :31:56.that any time on BBC weather online. The wind will stay up. More bad hair

:31:56. > :32:02.weather on the way over the next couple of days. Thank you for that.