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drop to the lowest level since 1981. Ministers praised officers, but the | :00:11. | :00:15. | |
police watchdog warns that five forces are struggling with the | :00:16. | :00:21. | |
budget cuts. We will be looking at what is behind the fall in crime in | :00:21. | :00:24. | |
England and Wales. Also this lunchtime, grass fires break out in | :00:24. | :00:27. | |
south-east England as heatwave alerts are raised in more parts of | :00:28. | :00:34. | |
Britain. Raising an army of doctors, nurses and patients to report back | :00:34. | :00:37. | |
on hospitals. The new Chief Inspector calls for radical | :00:37. | :00:41. | |
overhaul. Nelson Mandela spends his 95th birthday in hospital, where his | :00:41. | :00:45. | |
health is said to be improving. A man has been found guilty of | :00:45. | :00:48. | |
manslaughter of a killing lay preacher Alan Greaves as he walked | :00:48. | :00:55. | |
to play the organ at midnight Mass on Christmas Eve. It is a lovely day | :00:55. | :00:59. | |
and Lord's foreign Ashes test match. The Queen has been watching but so | :00:59. | :01:02. | |
far, England are wilting. Later on the programme London's Fire | :01:02. | :01:08. | |
Authority meets to decide if ten stations across the capital should | :01:08. | :01:12. | |
close. And how to revive our high streets. We speak to form a dragon | :01:12. | :01:22. | |
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BBC News at One. There has been a sharp fall in the level of crime in | :01:36. | :01:39. | |
England and Wales, with the figure is now at their lowest level since | :01:39. | :01:44. | |
1981. Recorded crime has fallen in almost every category with the | :01:44. | :01:46. | |
exception of fraud and sexual offences, but the news comes on the | :01:46. | :01:50. | |
day the police watchdog is warning that five police forces will | :01:50. | :01:54. | |
struggle to cope with future budget cuts and neighbourhood policing in | :01:54. | :01:57. | |
England and Wales risks being eroded. Our home affairs | :01:57. | :02:03. | |
correspondent Matt Prodger has the details. | :02:03. | :02:05. | |
Police numbers in England and Wales are down, but so are the crime | :02:05. | :02:08. | |
figures. Recorded crime fell by 7% last year and an annual review says | :02:08. | :02:14. | |
most forces are on track to make the necessary budget cuts of 2015. By | :02:15. | :02:19. | |
then there is expected to be 6600 fewer front-line police officers | :02:19. | :02:24. | |
banned there was in 2010. But it is predicted a greater proportion of | :02:24. | :02:28. | |
officers will be working in front-line roles. And there is a | :02:28. | :02:31. | |
warning that five police forces will struggle to cope with further cuts | :02:31. | :02:37. | |
beyond them. They are Bedfordshire, Lincolnshire, Northamptonshire and | :02:38. | :02:41. | |
west and south Yorkshire. Victim satisfaction is continuing to rise. | :02:41. | :02:47. | |
Crime is coming down and overall, although forces are losing a number | :02:48. | :02:51. | |
of people from their workforce, they are looking to protect their | :02:52. | :02:56. | |
crime-fighting capability. Crime has been dropping since the mid-19 90s, | :02:56. | :03:02. | |
though theft, sexual offences and fraud did rise in the last year. | :03:02. | :03:04. | |
think we should congratulate the police. As a government we have | :03:05. | :03:09. | |
asked them to do more but with less resources and they have performed I | :03:09. | :03:12. | |
think magnificently and all the work that has gone into crime prevention | :03:12. | :03:16. | |
has made a difference. Many forces are closing smaller police stations | :03:17. | :03:23. | |
to stave money. In West Mercia, for example, 23 to close including this | :03:23. | :03:27. | |
one Kidderminster, much valued by local residents. I think it is a bad | :03:27. | :03:31. | |
thing really. It is there to be a deterrent. We have only been here | :03:31. | :03:35. | |
two years, other residents have been here longer and we use it ourselves. | :03:35. | :03:40. | |
Disgusting. It is a handy thing to have. I have used it a few times. | :03:40. | :03:48. | |
The people have used it. Today's anti-war review warns that crime | :03:48. | :03:51. | |
prevention work of the type praised by the Prime Minister this morning | :03:51. | :03:53. | |
is in fact at risk from the budget cuts. That is because neighbourhood | :03:53. | :03:56. | |
policing teams increasingly have to react to crime rather than prevent | :03:56. | :04:03. | |
Let's speak to our political correspondent Norman Smith, who is | :04:03. | :04:07. | |
in Westminster. Not surprisingly the government is heaping praise on | :04:07. | :04:11. | |
police officers given these latest figures. That is true but what | :04:11. | :04:14. | |
strikes me is that the government could today have said we did it, it | :04:14. | :04:18. | |
was us, it was our policies, our crime legislation, our handling of | :04:18. | :04:22. | |
the economy which is now improving which has led to the falling crime. | :04:22. | :04:27. | |
They haven't, as you say. They have been out and about distributing | :04:27. | :04:31. | |
large of blowing praise on the police are becoming better and | :04:31. | :04:35. | |
smarter for tackling crime and that tells us two things, one is a clear | :04:35. | :04:39. | |
desire in government to rebuild their rather fractured relations | :04:39. | :04:43. | |
with the police but second, a desire to hold the police and other public | :04:43. | :04:48. | |
sector workers and say to them, look, you too can do more, can do | :04:48. | :04:52. | |
better with less money. As the MPs leave for their summer break, what | :04:52. | :04:57. | |
impact does this news have on the government, on spirits? It is not | :04:57. | :05:01. | |
just the glorious weather which has changed. You sense in government | :05:01. | :05:05. | |
circles they feel the political weather is also beginning to change | :05:05. | :05:08. | |
because we have these crime figures on top of the fall in unemployment, | :05:09. | :05:13. | |
the falling immigration, slightly better news on the economy. We have | :05:13. | :05:17. | |
the sporting success with Andy Murray and the Lions. We have the | :05:17. | :05:21. | |
sunshine. You just sense in government they are beginning to | :05:21. | :05:24. | |
wonder if amidst the dark clouds of Ulster read to there may just be the | :05:24. | :05:31. | |
odd, odd glimmer of possible feel-good. -- the dark clouds of | :05:31. | :05:36. | |
austerity. He raised -- heatwave alerts have been raised in more | :05:36. | :05:39. | |
parts of Britain. South-west England and the West Midlands have been | :05:39. | :05:43. | |
elevated from level 2 to level 3, the same level was the south-east | :05:43. | :05:49. | |
and London. Yesterday was the hottest days so far this year with | :05:49. | :05:54. | |
temperatures reaching 32.2 Celsius, 90 Fahrenheit. Jon Kay is that | :05:54. | :05:59. | |
Burnham on Sea. Yes, it came as no surprise to | :05:59. | :06:02. | |
people here an hour or so ago when the Met office said that this part | :06:02. | :06:07. | |
of the south-west of England is now also in this category three heatwave | :06:07. | :06:10. | |
part of the UK. It is another baking day here and while some people are | :06:11. | :06:16. | |
out and about enjoying it, for others it is a real ordeal. | :06:16. | :06:21. | |
It is nearly a decade since we have had a prolonged heatwave like this. | :06:21. | :06:25. | |
In south London this lunchtime another grassland fire. In some | :06:25. | :06:30. | |
areas temperatures have been above 30 Celsius for a week now and the | :06:30. | :06:35. | |
Mercury just keeps rising. From Dover to Dudley, much of England is | :06:35. | :06:40. | |
now on a level 3 warning. The hot weather we recognised brings | :06:40. | :06:43. | |
challenges to some people, particularly the old and young. The | :06:43. | :06:46. | |
level 3 warning reflects the fact that temperatures are rising to | :06:46. | :06:50. | |
quite high levels for a couple of days with quite high night-time | :06:50. | :06:55. | |
temperatures and in this sort of situation some people find it quite | :06:56. | :07:00. | |
challenging. How different things were a year ago. Much of last summer | :07:00. | :07:05. | |
was a washout. In fact the last few years have been pretty grim. So this | :07:05. | :07:10. | |
month's sunshine is at least welcome by Britain's tourism industry. This | :07:10. | :07:15. | |
holiday Park in Somerset have suddenly seen record bookings. | :07:15. | :07:20. | |
weekend was the busiest weekend we have had out of school holidays for | :07:20. | :07:24. | |
six years. Six years? And that is weather-related? Weather related, | :07:24. | :07:29. | |
yes, so we are very pleased with that. The phones are still ringing | :07:29. | :07:32. | |
for this weekend. Many holiday-makers here have abandoned | :07:32. | :07:36. | |
plans for last-minute foreign getaways and are staying in the UK | :07:36. | :07:41. | |
instead. Why miss all this beautiful countryside and whatnot and lovely | :07:41. | :07:46. | |
sunshine? What more do you want? I am stopping in this country. When | :07:46. | :07:49. | |
the weather is great this country has a lot to offer for summer | :07:49. | :07:54. | |
holidays. So I am not surprised that people are not taking last-minute | :07:54. | :07:58. | |
bookings. Chloe Rae is off to Greece next week and she is starting to | :07:58. | :08:02. | |
wonder why. Della Bobby looking forward to going away because you | :08:02. | :08:06. | |
think you will get away from the cold weather but what is the point? | :08:06. | :08:13. | |
Do you wish you were staying put now? Sort of! Yes.Right now some | :08:13. | :08:18. | |
parts of Britain are hotter than Greece. And there are no signs of it | :08:18. | :08:21. | |
changing any time soon. The warm weather is due to continue through | :08:21. | :08:28. | |
the weekend with temperatures rising again next week. | :08:28. | :08:32. | |
In the last few minutes I have heard from the coastguard agency that last | :08:32. | :08:36. | |
night they had to rescue a man who was trying to fail a dinghy from the | :08:36. | :08:41. | |
south coast of England from Dorset to Ireland. This is an inflatable | :08:41. | :08:45. | |
6-foot dinghy. They say he did not have enough food or drink, that he | :08:45. | :08:48. | |
should never have tried to attempt a journey like that. They are saved as | :08:48. | :08:52. | |
another example of the way our behaviour changes when the sun comes | :08:52. | :08:55. | |
out and they say it is another warning that has to be issued today, | :08:55. | :09:01. | |
to warn people not to try anything similar. | :09:01. | :09:04. | |
The new Chief Inspector of Hospitals in England has announced a retro | :09:04. | :09:07. | |
radical overhaul of the way they are assessed. Professor Sir Mike | :09:07. | :09:11. | |
Richards wants to recruit a small army of doctors, nurses, patients | :09:11. | :09:15. | |
and carers who will carry out both planned and random inspections. | :09:15. | :09:19. | |
Ratings ranging from outstanding to inadequate would be awarded and | :09:20. | :09:23. | |
trusts found to be failing could be put into special measures. Sir Mike | :09:23. | :09:27. | |
said the system would be transparent, with reports being made | :09:27. | :09:32. | |
public. Our health correspondent Sophie Hutchinson reports. | :09:32. | :09:34. | |
Salford Royal Hospital takes infection control very seriously and | :09:35. | :09:40. | |
prides itself on its record for hygiene on the wards. You're feeling | :09:40. | :09:45. | |
better? It will be one of the first NHS trusts to be assessed by | :09:45. | :09:48. | |
radically overhauled inspection system according to the new Chief | :09:48. | :09:52. | |
Inspector of Hospitals. The new inspections will last longer and | :09:52. | :09:57. | |
probe deeper. The teams will be led by experts but will be larger. They | :09:57. | :10:00. | |
will include health care professionals and embers of the | :10:00. | :10:05. | |
public. In my army I want a whole range of people. I want patients, I | :10:05. | :10:09. | |
want Cerys, I want doctors, whether recent release retired or not. I | :10:09. | :10:12. | |
want nurses and allied health professionals. All of these people | :10:12. | :10:17. | |
are going to be necessary to help us to deliver really good inspections. | :10:17. | :10:22. | |
Here in Salford where they have an excellent record they welcomed the | :10:22. | :10:24. | |
idea of tougher inspections. I think the public want to have confidence | :10:25. | :10:31. | |
in the National Health Service and they rightly should have and these | :10:31. | :10:35. | |
inspections are part of building that confidence and providing open | :10:35. | :10:38. | |
information back to the public about the state of our hospitals in this | :10:38. | :10:42. | |
country. The new regime follows a report into hospitals with high | :10:42. | :10:47. | |
death rates which this week saw 11 out of 14 placed in special | :10:47. | :10:52. | |
measures. Patient safety campaigners say they are hopeful there will now | :10:52. | :10:57. | |
be real improvement. I think in the past inspections have been more of a | :10:57. | :11:00. | |
tick box exercise. They have lacked the expertise, the real clout, to | :11:00. | :11:06. | |
get below the surface to do a real reality check on how hospitals are | :11:06. | :11:10. | |
performing. That is why we are optimistic that Professor Richards' | :11:10. | :11:15. | |
new regime of inspecting hospitals will get closer to the mark. Part of | :11:15. | :11:18. | |
that reality check will be the public involvement and people we | :11:18. | :11:22. | |
spoke to had plenty of ideas about what the focus should be. We need to | :11:22. | :11:27. | |
see if it's clean or not and see what needs are being met and what is | :11:27. | :11:30. | |
not being met. The first thing that crosses my mind is cleanliness and | :11:30. | :11:37. | |
then I guess friendly staff. A total of 18 NHS Trusts will be inspected | :11:37. | :11:41. | |
in the first round of what the chief inspector has called a journey | :11:42. | :11:47. | |
towards safer care. 22-year-old man has been convicted | :11:47. | :11:51. | |
the manslaughter of lay preacher Alan Greaves, who was battered to | :11:51. | :11:55. | |
death as he walked to play the organ at midnight Mass on Christmas Eve. | :11:55. | :11:59. | |
Ashley Foster was cleared of murder by a jury at Sheffield Crown Court. | :11:59. | :12:06. | |
Ed Thomas was in court. The camera crews and reporters here | :12:06. | :12:10. | |
behind me are waiting for Alan Greaves' widow to come out and give | :12:10. | :12:14. | |
her reaction to today's's verdicts but what she had previously heard in | :12:14. | :12:18. | |
court was that Alan Greaves was a man who devoted his life to helping | :12:18. | :12:23. | |
others. He played the organ at his local parish church. He helps out | :12:23. | :12:27. | |
with local charities and was a social worker before he retired. As | :12:27. | :12:33. | |
a devoted Christian, his life was in total contrast to his death. Police | :12:33. | :12:37. | |
said it was a senseless and motiveless killing. On the 24th of | :12:37. | :12:42. | |
December last year, Ashley Foster and Jonathan Bowling had left their | :12:42. | :12:46. | |
home after drinking Bacardi and cocoa lager and went out looking for | :12:46. | :12:52. | |
someone, anyone, to attack and they found Alan Greaves. The assault last | :12:52. | :12:56. | |
-- lasted four minutes and a pickaxe handle was used and he died three | :12:56. | :13:01. | |
days later. Speaking after their deaths, Maureen Greaves has said | :13:01. | :13:05. | |
that she said it was an evil act but speaking just a week ago she said | :13:05. | :13:11. | |
that she now forgave her killers. The killers who in court had denied | :13:11. | :13:17. | |
murder. Ashley Foster said he took no part in the killing. Today, the | :13:17. | :13:20. | |
jury found him guilty of manslaughter but not guilty of | :13:20. | :13:24. | |
murder. Jonathan Bowling had previously admitted killing Alan | :13:24. | :13:29. | |
Greaves and both men will be sentenced tomorrow. | :13:30. | :13:33. | |
Police searching for an actor who went missing a week ago have found | :13:33. | :13:38. | |
his body near cliffs that Seaford in East Sussex. Paul Bhattacharjee, 53, | :13:38. | :13:42. | |
starred in the James Bond film Casino Royale and was also in | :13:42. | :13:45. | |
Eastenders. He was last seen leaving rehearsals at the Royal Court | :13:45. | :13:50. | |
Theatre in London, where he was due to perform this week. | :13:50. | :13:54. | |
Nelson Mandela is spending his 95th birthday in hospital, where his | :13:54. | :13:57. | |
condition is said to be improving. The former South African president | :13:57. | :14:00. | |
has been having treatment in Pretoria are recovering their | :14:00. | :14:07. | |
infection since he was admitted a month ago. -- a recurring lung | :14:07. | :14:11. | |
infection. 95 today and you have to keep | :14:11. | :14:14. | |
reminding yourself that Nelson Mandela remains critically ill in | :14:14. | :14:19. | |
hospital behind me as people have come here in huge numbers to markets | :14:19. | :14:22. | |
birthday. They have had to close the gate to the hospital in the past few | :14:22. | :14:26. | |
minutes, where people have been handing out slabs of birthday cake | :14:26. | :14:29. | |
to the large numbers of people that are thronged outside. Throughout the | :14:29. | :14:33. | |
morning we have heard people bringing tributes, flowers and | :14:33. | :14:35. | |
balloons and we have had people singing struggle songs, freedom | :14:35. | :14:40. | |
songs, as a lot of -- was a mark of respect for the man they consider | :14:40. | :14:46. | |
the father of the nation. Outside the hospital where Nelson Mandela | :14:46. | :14:51. | |
lays, celebrations as he turns 95. Not just from a generation who | :14:51. | :14:56. | |
remember his fight for freedom but youngsters. The so-called born | :14:56. | :15:01. | |
frees. For weeks Nelson Mandela has been critically ill. Few dared to | :15:01. | :15:05. | |
dream this day would come so today was about honouring his life as well | :15:05. | :15:09. | |
as his work, many making personal pledges to emulate him. To update -- | :15:09. | :15:14. | |
to uphold Wattie lived by, to continue what he has started for us, | :15:14. | :15:20. | |
to never discriminate and to live by the rights. A guard of honour | :15:20. | :15:24. | |
saluted South Africa's first black president as the country's current | :15:24. | :15:28. | |
leader Jacob Zuma prepared to visit the ailing statesman. We are told | :15:28. | :15:33. | |
that Mr Mandela is aware of the thousands thronged outside. Once | :15:33. | :15:38. | |
again Nelson Mandela has confounded expectations as he marked his 95th | :15:38. | :15:42. | |
year. Still critically ill but still the fighter that the world so | :15:42. | :15:48. | |
reveals. Away from the crowds extra volunteers are helping to serve free | :15:48. | :15:53. | |
meals to these pensioners today as people are encouraged to do good | :15:53. | :15:56. | |
deeds as a tribute to Nelson Mandela. This is a generation which | :15:56. | :16:01. | |
cares deeply about the Mandela legacy, keen for it not to be | :16:01. | :16:08. | |
squandered. I want to fight corruption. There is too much | :16:08. | :16:13. | |
corruption. Our children are not getting any jobs. Because the | :16:13. | :16:19. | |
others, they give the jobs to their friends, their relatives, you see. | :16:19. | :16:23. | |
Nelson Mandela's birthday has struck a chord with people around the world | :16:23. | :16:27. | |
with US President Obama and the Dalai Lama adding by well-wishers on | :16:27. | :16:37. | |
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President Jacob Zuma, we've also seen members of Nelson Mandela's | :16:40. | :16:48. | |
family visiting here. His wife was it earlier and his ex-wife, Winnie | :16:48. | :16:52. | |
Mandela. The family are expected to gather later for a private lunch to | :16:53. | :16:58. | |
mark is 95th birthday. Meanwhile, outside, the crowd are not abating. | :16:58. | :17:02. | |
We've had politicians, footballers, members of the local business | :17:02. | :17:06. | |
community here, and the atmosphere is hard to describe. One woman said | :17:06. | :17:11. | |
it reminds her of the kind of feeling and sense of national pride | :17:11. | :17:17. | |
we had during the 1994 elections when Nelson Mandela was voted South | :17:17. | :17:27. | |
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Africa's first black president and millions of black voters were able | :17:29. | :17:31. | |
to vote for the Barry first time. There's a sense of celebration here, | :17:31. | :17:34. | |
not out of disrespect, but out of a sense of homage to a man considered | :17:34. | :17:37. | |
the father of the nation. One gets a sense that the kind of celebrations | :17:37. | :17:40. | |
which are happening here, sang happy birthday to the man they love, is | :17:40. | :17:45. | |
likely to go well into the night. Karen, in South Africa, thank you | :17:45. | :17:52. | |
very much. Our top story this lunchtime. Crime figures in England | :17:52. | :17:55. | |
and Wales drop by 7% to their lowest levels since 1981. But police warn | :17:55. | :18:00. | |
they are struggling with budgets cuts. As the open gets underway, | :18:00. | :18:06. | |
some of the top names are finding it tough going. Later on BBC London, | :18:06. | :18:09. | |
Weavers at the Buckinghamshire golf course as it prepares to stage one | :18:09. | :18:19. | |
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a holiday home within the ruins of a 12th century castle. They are just | :18:29. | :18:32. | |
some of the finalists for the UK's best known prize for architecture. | :18:32. | :18:35. | |
And for the first time in its history, the Royal Institute of | :18:35. | :18:38. | |
British Architects' Stirling award has women featured in three of the | :18:38. | :18:45. | |
final six nominations. Our Arts Correspondent David Sillito has been | :18:45. | :18:48. | |
to Sheffield to look at one of the finalists. | :18:48. | :18:51. | |
The tower block once described by some as the ugliest building in | :18:51. | :18:58. | |
Europe. In the 60s, it was declared a masterpiece. High-tech streets in | :18:58. | :19:05. | |
the sky. It's like being in heaven, up here, because we've always been | :19:05. | :19:13. | |
poor people. We've made some good friends up here and these places are | :19:13. | :19:17. | |
lovely for us. 40 years on, it made it onto a shortlist of buildings | :19:17. | :19:24. | |
people wanted knocked down. It'd become this, a semi-direct eyesore | :19:24. | :19:28. | |
but now, it's looking rather different. These new residents have | :19:28. | :19:35. | |
just moved in. The overbearing mess and the iconic and less of it, it | :19:35. | :19:40. | |
looks fabulous, and stood out. It was a clear sign I was in an | :19:40. | :19:45. | |
industrial city, and I loved about. Up on the roof, you can see for | :19:45. | :19:50. | |
yourself, the old, the new, the redeveloped, and get a sense of just | :19:50. | :19:55. | |
how big this places. It absolutely dominate the Sheffield skyline. | :19:55. | :20:00. | |
have tried to learn from the good and bad points of the place, and | :20:00. | :20:06. | |
take all of those points, tried to design something we think engages | :20:06. | :20:10. | |
with people who want to live here, and tried to build a sustainable | :20:10. | :20:14. | |
community. It's one of the few survivors of the 60s love affair | :20:14. | :20:19. | |
with high-rise concrete. And it's now on a shortlist for building of | :20:19. | :20:23. | |
the year alongside an Oxford Chapel, the Giants Causeway visitor Centre, | :20:23. | :20:28. | |
houses in Harlow, a medical school, and a remodelled 12th century manor | :20:28. | :20:32. | |
house. Quite a journey for a place that was a few years ago, a | :20:32. | :20:37. | |
candidate for the wrecking ball. The parents of Trayvon Martin have | :20:37. | :20:40. | |
spoken for the first time since the man who shot their son was acquitted | :20:40. | :20:44. | |
of his murder. The teenager shot dead by neighbourhood watch | :20:44. | :20:49. | |
volunteer George Zimmerman in February 2012. He was cleared on of | :20:49. | :20:53. | |
the 17-year-old's death last Saturday. His parents told Good | :20:53. | :20:55. | |
Morning America that they were shocked and disgusted by the | :20:55. | :21:05. | |
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verdict. My first thought was shock. Discussed. We feel that the | :21:08. | :21:14. | |
verdict, we didn't feel it was fair. Last discussed. And of course, | :21:14. | :21:24. | |
killed, an RAF bomber crew have been buried at a special ceremony in | :21:24. | :21:27. | |
Italy. The four men were all given full military honours. The plane's | :21:27. | :21:30. | |
pilot, Sergeant David Raikes, was just 20 years old when the aircraft | :21:30. | :21:33. | |
crashed near the city of Ferrara. He was an aspiring poet who had used | :21:33. | :21:36. | |
his writing to reflect on the dangers he faced. Our Rome | :21:36. | :21:44. | |
correspondent Alan Johnston sent this report. | :21:44. | :21:48. | |
Just one cough for their few remains. They flew together, they | :21:48. | :21:52. | |
died together, and now, in this foreign field, they will live | :21:53. | :22:02. | |
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together. -- life together. David Raikes, the pilot, David Perkins, | :22:05. | :22:15. | |
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Aleksander Bostock, and the oldest ending. German resistance | :22:21. | :22:26. | |
collapsing, and the RAF crew was part of the final assault. But, in a | :22:26. | :22:31. | |
bomb at like this, they were shot down and their remains were only | :22:31. | :22:37. | |
recently found in the buried wreckage. Now, at last, their | :22:37. | :22:43. | |
relatives have a chance to ladies meant arrest at peace and calm in a | :22:43. | :22:47. | |
Commonwealth War Cemetery. Seeing the crew and the gravestones | :22:47. | :22:51. | |
altogether, somewhere someone can come and know that's where they | :22:51. | :22:58. | |
live, for 70 years, we haven't known that, so it means a lot. If the crew | :22:58. | :23:02. | |
could have just survived ten more days, that we would have celebrated | :23:02. | :23:06. | |
victory here in Italy and with the coming of peace, their lives would | :23:06. | :23:13. | |
have stretched out before them, full of promise. The pilot, David Raikes, | :23:13. | :23:19. | |
was a poet, and in one piece he wrote about the loss of RAF | :23:19. | :23:23. | |
comrades. These men knew moments you have never known, nor ever will, we | :23:24. | :23:31. | |
knew those moments, too. Then a few lines later, we share their targets, | :23:31. | :23:38. | |
too, but we came back. Soon, though, the young poet didn't return. And | :23:38. | :23:44. | |
now he will live forever in this place. The Russian opposition | :23:44. | :23:47. | |
activist, Alexei Navalny, has been found guilty of embezzlement and | :23:47. | :23:51. | |
sentenced to five years in prison. He has strongly denied stealing from | :23:51. | :23:53. | |
a state-owned timber company and says the charges are politically | :23:53. | :23:58. | |
motivated. Mr Navalny, who is currently standing as a candidate | :23:58. | :24:05. | |
for mayor of Moscow, says he will appeal against the sentence. The | :24:05. | :24:08. | |
second Test is under way at Lord's as England look to build on last | :24:08. | :24:18. | |
:24:18. | :24:19. | ||
weekend's nail-biting opening Ashes victory. Fans saw a stuttering start | :24:19. | :24:24. | |
from England's batsmen, losing three wickets. Play was delayed a while | :24:24. | :24:27. | |
this morning for a Royal visit. The Queen was introduced to the teams | :24:27. | :24:30. | |
and taken on on a tour. At lunch, England were 80-3. We our sports | :24:30. | :24:36. | |
correspondent Joe Wilson is at at Lord's now. Are they wilting? | :24:36. | :24:40. | |
bed like their lunchtime salad, inevitably today, sense of occasion, | :24:40. | :24:43. | |
ground where cricket has been paid for nearly 200 years. Perfect | :24:43. | :24:49. | |
weather, the Queen has been in attendance, but sometimes, a Lord's | :24:49. | :24:52. | |
test can inspire visiting players even more than England and this | :24:52. | :24:57. | |
morning, I think we've had another example. Members of the Marylebone | :24:57. | :25:01. | |
Cricket club got a seat at Lord's but only if they can find one. | :25:01. | :25:06. | |
First-come, first-served. The queue started at 3am. An Ashes test at | :25:06. | :25:12. | |
Lord's is the pinnacle as this MCC member told me. People feel | :25:12. | :25:15. | |
involved, their minds, they are fascinated, interested, and the | :25:15. | :25:22. | |
games are played with a lot of integrity on the whole. But with a | :25:22. | :25:28. | |
lot of fierceness as well. The Queen met both sides with an equal | :25:28. | :25:31. | |
interest. She could have congratulated Alistair Cooke on his | :25:31. | :25:35. | |
fortune with a possible coin, the Queen 's head had fallen his way, | :25:35. | :25:39. | |
and England would bat. Alistair Cooke was on its way from the second | :25:39. | :25:43. | |
ball of the day, formalities finished. Australia's captain | :25:43. | :25:46. | |
insisted he doesn't have a feud with team-mate Shane Watson. He even | :25:47. | :25:53. | |
brought onto bollar good decision. LBW. It took 39 minutes for | :25:53. | :25:59. | |
technology to take centre stage. Joe Root wasn't sure. LBW. Here comes | :25:59. | :26:05. | |
the review. The ball did head his bat but before or after the pad? | :26:05. | :26:11. | |
Another challenge for the thermal imaging. Eventually went, 26-2 and | :26:11. | :26:17. | |
it got worse. Kevin Peterson, and for two. A second ball for Ryan | :26:17. | :26:23. | |
Harris. Everything working for them. Kevin Peterson walks back to the | :26:23. | :26:27. | |
muted MCC members. Perhaps the Queen had come to see Kevin Peterson that. | :26:27. | :26:31. | |
Payroll was no complete but England where rebuilding. Jonathan Trott | :26:31. | :26:35. | |
doesn't often get carried away whatever the circumstances. But on a | :26:36. | :26:39. | |
sweltering day at the home of cricket, it was the Australians who | :26:39. | :26:47. | |
looked like they belong to. lunch, England are 80-3. A lot | :26:47. | :26:52. | |
relies on Jonathan Trott and Ian Bell. Tim Bresnan came in fourth | :26:52. | :26:55. | |
winner. They were worried about their bowling. Right now, Sophie, I | :26:55. | :26:59. | |
think they are more concerned about their batting. I bet they are. | :26:59. | :27:02. | |
you very much. The Open has got under way this morning with | :27:02. | :27:05. | |
controversy continuing over the men-only membership policy at the | :27:05. | :27:07. | |
host club, Muirfield. Some ministers and Scotland's First Minister, Alex | :27:07. | :27:10. | |
Salmond, have refused to attend the event. But as our sports | :27:10. | :27:13. | |
correspondent Andy Swiss reports, it's also been a tough start for | :27:13. | :27:21. | |
some of the top British names on the golf course. | :27:21. | :27:27. | |
Sunny skies and a cooling breeze at Muirfield. A perfect place to watch | :27:27. | :27:32. | |
golf, a slightly tricky one to play it. The undergrowth claimed its | :27:32. | :27:41. | |
first victim. A TV camera. A repair bill to Thomas Bjorn. The British | :27:41. | :27:45. | |
challenge also struggled at first. Rory McIlroy still searching for his | :27:45. | :27:50. | |
elusive form while U.S. Open champion Justin Rose's hopes of a | :27:50. | :27:55. | |
decent start scuttled into the long grass. Others, though, showed the | :27:55. | :28:00. | |
way. Not least, Phil Mickelson. He just might have the touch here, and | :28:00. | :28:04. | |
so might as fellow American, Zach Johnson, a flurry of birdies taking | :28:04. | :28:11. | |
him into an early lead. Pick of the completed rounds, me go and Gail | :28:11. | :28:15. | |
Jiminez, three under. He can now relax for the day while others | :28:15. | :28:22. | |
sweated out -- among them, five written Tiger Woods who will begin | :28:22. | :28:27. | |
this afternoon, and like the rest, hoping to tame this testing course. | :28:27. | :28:34. | |
Time for a look at the weather. You can't win this year, can you? It's | :28:34. | :28:43. | |
because it's down to mother nature. It is the 13th consecutive day with | :28:43. | :28:48. | |
a temperature in the UK has reached 28 degrees, nothing special about | :28:48. | :28:52. | |
that, but just to illustrate the point, just how hard it is. The high | :28:52. | :28:56. | |
pressure is giving us settled weather which means the cloud, the | :28:56. | :29:01. | |
wind and rain is out in the Atlantic, not moving our direction, | :29:01. | :29:06. | |
so the atmosphere has stalled at the moment. That's why the heatwave has | :29:06. | :29:10. | |
been prolonged. The weather really isn't going to change an awful lot | :29:10. | :29:13. | |
and we're not anticipating the area of high pressure to move an awful | :29:13. | :29:18. | |
lot in the next few days. On the edges of the high pressure, we have | :29:18. | :29:21. | |
cloud affecting parts of Scotland and Northern Ireland so let's head | :29:21. | :29:26. | |
somewhere fresher. Further south, it's hotter but for the Western | :29:26. | :29:31. | |
Isles, we are expecting 17 degrees. By the time you get to the central | :29:31. | :29:37. | |
parts of Scotland, 24 degrees. The high 20s in northern England and | :29:37. | :29:40. | |
what's actually happening today, there is a bit of a light breeze | :29:40. | :29:43. | |
blowing out to the east in a westerly direction so that means all | :29:43. | :29:47. | |
that hot air that we have had across the south-east has shifted a little | :29:47. | :29:51. | |
bit towards the west of the UK, so somewhere around the Salisbury | :29:51. | :29:56. | |
plain, we could get temperatures up to 30 degrees, maybe a smidgen | :29:56. | :30:03. | |
higher. This evening, the odd thunderstorm in the south-west of | :30:03. | :30:07. | |
the country but essentially, more or less what we have had in the last | :30:07. | :30:11. | |
few days. An oppressive night. We look at the tempered as at five | :30:11. | :30:15. | |
o'clock in the morning, remember at midnight, when most of us go to bed, | :30:15. | :30:20. | |
the temperature is still well in excess of 20 Celsius, so don't | :30:20. | :30:25. | |
concentrate on the 15-16. It's actually much higher for most of the | :30:25. | :30:29. | |
night. Tomorrow, a bit of a breeze in the east so once again | :30:29. | :30:38. | |
temperatures will drop a little bit down to 26 in London, generally the | :30:39. | :30:41. | |
high 20s across the UK but in some areas, it might rise a little bit. | :30:42. | :30:46. | |
By the time we get to the weekend, it could be cloudy for a time across | :30:46. | :30:49. | |
the eastern coasts, Skegness into Norwich. The cloud will fizzle away | :30:49. | :30:54. | |
but it will be quite cool again. Western areas will hold onto the | :30:54. | :31:00. | |
heatwave. Over the weekend, it will be less hot, temporary lowering of | :31:00. | :31:03. | |
the temperature, but the current indication is, by next week, the | :31:03. | :31:06. | |
temperatures will go right up again and there could be some | :31:07. | :31:15. | |
our top story this lunchtime. Crime figures in England and Wales drop by | :31:15. | :31:18. |