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north-west of England as the Met Office warns of even higher | :00:12. | :00:18. | |
temperatures to come. Temperatures could reach the mid-30s by next week | :00:18. | :00:22. | |
in the longest heatwave for seven years. | :00:22. | :00:27. | |
On a day like today, the UV index will hit six in many parts. That | :00:27. | :00:31. | |
will mean that many people will be at risk of getting sunburnt. | :00:31. | :00:36. | |
We will have the latest. Also, big tax breaks planned for companies | :00:36. | :00:40. | |
involved in the UK shale gas industry. We want to make it clear | :00:40. | :00:45. | |
that Britain is going to be at the forefront of the shale gas | :00:45. | :00:48. | |
revolution. This is a potentially enormous supply of energy for | :00:48. | :00:53. | |
Britain. The Olympics paid off, says the government as a report claims | :00:54. | :00:57. | |
the UK economy was boosted by �10 billion. | :00:58. | :01:01. | |
Detroit becomes the largest US city ever to file for bankruptcy with | :01:01. | :01:06. | |
debts of at least �12 billion. NASA scientists say there could have | :01:06. | :01:12. | |
been life on Mars, 4 billion years ago. | :01:12. | :01:18. | |
Here at Lord's, the Ashes continues, with tail end resistance helping | :01:18. | :01:24. | |
England feel satisfied at lunch. Later on BBC London, police have | :01:24. | :01:30. | |
broken up a camp in marble arch set up by Roma gypsies. And Stansted | :01:30. | :01:36. | |
airport unveils plans to expand into a four runway help. | :01:36. | :01:46. | |
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Good afternoon. The heatwave health warnings have been extended to | :01:57. | :02:01. | |
north-west England at the longest hotspot for 11 years continues. | :02:01. | :02:05. | |
There are warnings about the risk of grass and wildfires and parents are | :02:05. | :02:08. | |
being urged to protect their children from sunburn after one | :02:08. | :02:12. | |
hospital admitted ten youngsters, six of whom had such severe burns | :02:12. | :02:16. | |
that they needed specialist treatment. The Met Office says there | :02:16. | :02:19. | |
is no end in sight to the heatwave and temperatures could go even | :02:19. | :02:25. | |
higher next week. After sweltering for days, the | :02:26. | :02:29. | |
mercury in the south-east is dropping. The West of England, from | :02:29. | :02:33. | |
Cornwall away up to Cumbria, is now being given a level three heatwave | :02:33. | :02:39. | |
warning by the Met Office. That is one below national emergency status. | :02:39. | :02:44. | |
Temperatures over the weekend will not be as high. We will not reach 32 | :02:44. | :02:47. | |
degrees, but there are strong signals that we could be back up to | :02:47. | :02:52. | |
30 degrees next week, and even a few degrees higher by the middle of the | :02:52. | :02:55. | |
week. Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales are not included in the system | :02:55. | :03:01. | |
but almost everywhere now the emergency services, local | :03:01. | :03:06. | |
authorities and the NHS are taking action. Hospitals across the UK are | :03:06. | :03:09. | |
putting their heatwave action plans into place. Controlling temperatures | :03:09. | :03:14. | |
within hospital buildings, but also keeping an especially close eye on | :03:14. | :03:19. | |
the most vulnerable patients. Part of the daily running of the health | :03:19. | :03:22. | |
service now includes steps to help patients keep cool, including | :03:22. | :03:29. | |
switching off unnecessary lights and machines. Potential blood donors | :03:29. | :03:34. | |
being taken to the beach or park as meant in a drop of some types. There | :03:35. | :03:40. | |
is an urgent need for all negative and be negative. | :03:40. | :03:44. | |
Those able and anxious to make the most of the sun and heat have | :03:44. | :03:49. | |
warnings not to overdo it. important thing is to avoid sunburn | :03:49. | :03:53. | |
because it is a clear sign that your skin has been damaged. That damage | :03:53. | :03:57. | |
can build up over time and eventually turn into skin cancer. | :03:57. | :04:06. | |
The desire to cool off in quarries and rivers has, it is believed, | :04:06. | :04:10. | |
claimed several lives. Rescue services say that while swimming can | :04:10. | :04:15. | |
be fraught with danger. Muscles cooldown quickly. They work with | :04:16. | :04:18. | |
chemical reactions and like any chemical reaction, they are less | :04:18. | :04:22. | |
efficient when it is cold. You can start to struggle to coordinate your | :04:22. | :04:27. | |
arms and legs, and can make it difficult to stay up at the surface. | :04:28. | :04:32. | |
For many of us, a proper summer for once is long overdue. Particularly | :04:32. | :04:37. | |
for coastal businesses. It was touch and go this last year. | :04:37. | :04:42. | |
It has rained every day for a year. If you asked me three months ago, I | :04:42. | :04:46. | |
would have considered selling the restaurant. Running a beach-front | :04:46. | :04:53. | |
restaurant in the UK is tricky. Families will be flocking to beaches | :04:53. | :04:59. | |
this weekend. A holiday for some but hot and hard work for others, | :04:59. | :05:04. | |
especially those charged with keeping us safe in the summer sun. | :05:04. | :05:08. | |
Judith Mauritz is in the north-west of England were heatwave alerts has | :05:08. | :05:15. | |
been raised to level three. Far be it from me to say it often rains | :05:15. | :05:19. | |
here but I am surprised as anyone to be able to welcome you to what feels | :05:19. | :05:29. | |
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like the Costa Del Salford. You can see the ice cream hut has appeared | :05:30. | :05:35. | |
behind me. People are coming out in great numbers. Tourism is doing well | :05:35. | :05:38. | |
on this heatwave. The beaches are busy and I'm told that Mersey | :05:38. | :05:43. | |
ferries are doing 40% better trade now than they were at this time last | :05:44. | :05:50. | |
year. Blackpool zoo, they tell us that things are going very well but | :05:50. | :05:53. | |
they have to be particularly careful with the animals. The llamas this | :05:53. | :05:58. | |
lunchtime are having iced fruit and the aardvarks have suncream on them. | :05:58. | :06:03. | |
As does my balding cameraman, who will not be pleased that I'm telling | :06:03. | :06:08. | |
you that. Everybody is having a good time. There is a flip side in that | :06:08. | :06:15. | |
report, a concern in the North West that there are increased admissions | :06:15. | :06:18. | |
to accident and emergency departments, seeing higher | :06:19. | :06:23. | |
incidences of people with some related problems, such as the | :06:23. | :06:27. | |
hydration and sunburn. So a warning to be careful while you are out | :06:27. | :06:31. | |
enjoying this. And here is one unusual fact. You will know that I | :06:31. | :06:34. | |
have reported time and again from snow drifts in the North of England | :06:34. | :06:40. | |
and I was looked at the critters on the roads. -- I always look at the | :06:41. | :06:44. | |
critters. In Warrington, they have been out again, trying to stop the | :06:44. | :06:51. | |
roads bricking up. There you go. They are out in the summer and the | :06:51. | :06:59. | |
depths of winter. -- raking up. And we will have a full weather | :06:59. | :07:07. | |
forecast that the end of the programme. | :07:07. | :07:13. | |
Big tax breaks could be offered to companies which exploit the UK's | :07:13. | :07:16. | |
deposits of shale gas. The incentive would mean the tax payable on some | :07:16. | :07:20. | |
income from the gas would be halved. Opponents warn that the extraction | :07:20. | :07:25. | |
process could cause earthquakes and would be played on the countryside. | :07:25. | :07:31. | |
-- would be a blight. It is early days for the shale gas industry in | :07:31. | :07:35. | |
Britain. Two years ago, Cuadrilla began drilling in Lancashire for | :07:35. | :07:40. | |
gas. Two years on, there was a lot of talk about the potential for | :07:40. | :07:43. | |
shale gas but very little action, something the government is seeking | :07:43. | :07:48. | |
to change. This is a potentially enormous new supply of energy. We | :07:48. | :07:52. | |
need to make sure we make the best use of it so that energy bills for | :07:52. | :07:57. | |
families or lower. We need to create jobs that benefit the communities | :07:57. | :08:03. | |
where this new source of energy exists. The tax cut is in line with | :08:03. | :08:08. | |
what happens in some offshore fields. The normal 62% rate on | :08:08. | :08:16. | |
profits is reduced to just 30% for an agreed period. But many oppose it | :08:16. | :08:19. | |
shale gas extraction. Environmentalists fear that the | :08:19. | :08:24. | |
controversial fracking process could pollute water supplies and even | :08:24. | :08:30. | |
cause earth tremors. Today, one group branded the tax breaks a | :08:30. | :08:33. | |
disgrace. Communities are concerned about the impact it will have on the | :08:33. | :08:38. | |
existing economy. Areas like Lancashire, to risen and farming is | :08:38. | :08:41. | |
a really important part of the community. Shale gas will have a | :08:41. | :08:47. | |
negative impact on those existing industries. But how much shale gas | :08:47. | :08:50. | |
might we have? Scientists spent two years looking at this area in the | :08:50. | :08:58. | |
north of England. A studied seismic data in places like Blackpool, which | :08:58. | :09:01. | |
sit on shale deposits several kilometres down. The industry wants | :09:02. | :09:07. | |
to start drilling but it insists that these tax breaks are necessary. | :09:07. | :09:10. | |
It is likely to be higher at the early stages as we build up the | :09:10. | :09:18. | |
supply chain. The industry hopes to drill 50 wells in the next three | :09:18. | :09:22. | |
years. Only then will we know whether shale gas will live up to | :09:22. | :09:28. | |
the hype. The London Olympic and Paralympic | :09:28. | :09:32. | |
games have provided a boost of nearly �10 billion to the UK economy | :09:32. | :09:35. | |
according to a government report. Ministers say the money has come | :09:35. | :09:39. | |
from additional sales related to the games and new contracts secured by | :09:39. | :09:48. | |
businesses and foreign investment. Some analysts remain sceptical. | :09:48. | :09:54. | |
The Olympic legacy was always one of the top priorities behind London's | :09:54. | :10:01. | |
bid. Too many host cities have lost millions in the past. So far, if the | :10:01. | :10:07. | |
report is to believed, London's effort to make true that did not | :10:07. | :10:11. | |
happen is paying off. The games were credited with lifting the spirits of | :10:11. | :10:16. | |
a nation and now it appears that Britain's bank balance may also have | :10:16. | :10:21. | |
been boosted. Costing �9 billion to host, according to a report, the | :10:21. | :10:27. | |
payback so far is almost �10 billion. Undoubtedly, the Olympics | :10:27. | :10:30. | |
boosted the economy. It was a big party at the time and the country | :10:30. | :10:34. | |
enjoyed it. As a result of the work put in to attract inward investment, | :10:34. | :10:44. | |
by British punk knees -- it allowed British companies to do better off | :10:44. | :10:47. | |
the back of it. It is not the total the back of it. It is not the total | :10:47. | :10:51. | |
benefit could reach �41 billion by 2020. The report claims that the | :10:51. | :10:55. | |
London legacy is making strong progress in other areas. 1.4 million | :10:55. | :10:58. | |
progress in other areas. 1.4 million people are playing sport once a week | :10:58. | :11:03. | |
than in 2005 when the bid was one. And 70,000 out of work Londoners | :11:03. | :11:04. | |
And 70,000 out of work Londoners were helped into employment through | :11:04. | :11:07. | |
And 70,000 out of work Londoners were helped Work is continuing to | :11:07. | :11:12. | |
transform this part of east London. Already, there is a huge shopping | :11:12. | :11:16. | |
complex employing 10,000 people and there is the Queen Elizabeth Park, | :11:16. | :11:20. | |
which will reuse those iconic venues from the gales -- from the games | :11:20. | :11:24. | |
themselves. All eight vermin and structures have now had their future | :11:24. | :11:28. | |
secured. Away from here, the economic benefits are less clear. | :11:28. | :11:34. | |
the regions, we found that the effects of the Olympics and the | :11:34. | :11:38. | |
Paralympics and the contracts we were expecting did not materialise | :11:38. | :11:41. | |
as much as many people hoped for. Work went into it at the beginning | :11:41. | :11:45. | |
when it was announced, and ogle some businesses certainly got good | :11:45. | :11:51. | |
contracts, the vast majority did not see that. Of course, the games | :11:51. | :11:54. | |
should have been about more than economics. It is hoped the rise in | :11:54. | :11:58. | |
people playing sport regularly will have provided a much-needed boost to | :11:58. | :12:03. | |
the help of the nation. -- the health of the nation. We take part | :12:03. | :12:08. | |
in lots of festivals and tournaments. It is a key element of | :12:08. | :12:13. | |
what we are about as a school. Realising the Olympics legacy is | :12:13. | :12:17. | |
more a marathon than a sprint. Almost a year on, the feel-good | :12:17. | :12:21. | |
factor continues. One of the other legacies are | :12:21. | :12:29. | |
according to the report, is the boost in the number of volunteers, | :12:29. | :12:36. | |
--. The Games Makers were such an important part of the event. It is | :12:36. | :12:40. | |
appropriate that the first event in the Olympic Park is a celebration of | :12:40. | :12:42. | |
volunteering. That will be attended by the Prime Minister and Emir of | :12:42. | :12:50. | |
London. -- the mayor of London. Stephanie Flanders is with me. You | :12:50. | :12:54. | |
have been looking at the figures. Does it add up? If I was being nicer | :12:54. | :12:58. | |
would say they are speculative. You can understand why the government | :12:58. | :13:01. | |
wants this report, because we are remembering how nice it was one year | :13:01. | :13:04. | |
ago. It is nice to think there is a lasting benefit to the economy of | :13:04. | :13:09. | |
having the games, not just to British sport. The problem with | :13:09. | :13:11. | |
something like this is that even though we know there is lots of | :13:11. | :13:15. | |
business that will come to UK firms, and jobs created and sales as | :13:15. | :13:19. | |
a result of the Olympics, in order to know what the extra benefit is, | :13:19. | :13:22. | |
you need to have an idea of what would have happened otherwise, and | :13:22. | :13:26. | |
there's not much effort to do that in this report. They do not talk | :13:26. | :13:31. | |
about the government might have spent the �9 billion on, or what | :13:31. | :13:33. | |
these businesses who got all the big contracts might have been doing | :13:33. | :13:37. | |
otherwise. There are quite a few investments included in this report | :13:37. | :13:40. | |
has benefits that look like they would have happened otherwise. | :13:40. | :13:44. | |
Without that sense of what might have happened otherwise, it is hard | :13:44. | :13:48. | |
to put a lot of weight on these numbers. But we spent the money on | :13:48. | :13:52. | |
the Olympics, and most people now seem to think it was worthwhile. | :13:52. | :13:55. | |
Given we are not facing another all the Olympics, and most people now | :13:55. | :13:57. | |
seem to think it was worthwhile. Given we are not facing another | :13:57. | :13:59. | |
organ picks any time soon, you wonder why the government did not | :13:59. | :14:02. | |
leave it at that. It was once the home of the thriving American car | :14:02. | :14:05. | |
industry and the base of Motown records, but note to write has | :14:05. | :14:11. | |
declared itself bankrupt. -- but now Detroit. Years of economic problems | :14:11. | :14:15. | |
have led to more than half of the body Laois and moving away and | :14:15. | :14:21. | |
thousands of properties lying empty. They call this urban prairie. Only | :14:21. | :14:23. | |
weeds and wildlife grow in Detroit's city centre. All | :14:23. | :14:29. | |
neighbourhoods have emptied, leaving derelict houses, abandoned offices | :14:30. | :14:34. | |
and dangerous streets. The remaining residents complain of a chronic lack | :14:34. | :14:37. | |
of basic services like police and rubbish collection. Detroit is a | :14:37. | :14:47. | |
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dump. It is a dump now. It cannot even have its own business. That is | :14:50. | :14:54. | |
sad. The city has racked up $18 billion in debt. One in five | :14:54. | :15:00. | |
residents are an implied, and there are 78,000 abandoned buildings. It | :15:00. | :15:04. | |
was not always like this. Once the country's fourth-largest city, | :15:04. | :15:08. | |
Detroit made the car is that powered the American economy. This was the | :15:08. | :15:15. | |
home of Ford and Chrysler. The city and its people became rich. But he | :15:15. | :15:18. | |
began the seeds of decline. Wealthy, white families left the | :15:18. | :15:23. | |
city centre for the suburbs. The inner city became a deprived, black | :15:23. | :15:29. | |
ghetto, with an ever tricking tax base. -- ever shrinking. Then the | :15:29. | :15:36. | |
once thriving car industry ground to a halt. Bankruptcy is an attempt to | :15:37. | :15:40. | |
draw a line under the mountain of public debt. It is business as | :15:40. | :15:45. | |
usual. Many people will say, well, you have to improve upon that, but | :15:45. | :15:51. | |
that will take time. He did say that they pay cheques for our city | :15:51. | :15:56. | |
employees will continue and services will continue. Over the | :15:56. | :16:00. | |
medium-range, hopefully we will see things start to improve, especially | :16:00. | :16:07. | |
the services that our citizens require and deserve. Detroit has | :16:07. | :16:10. | |
suffered a vicious cycle of decay and mismanagement and population | :16:10. | :16:17. | |
decline. The hope now is that bankruptcy will mark a new start to | :16:17. | :16:26. | |
finally help industry and the people come back. There has been welcome | :16:26. | :16:29. | |
news for the Chancellor on government ruling. New figures | :16:29. | :16:37. | |
suggest it was lower last year and had been thought. Our business | :16:37. | :16:41. | |
correspondent is with me now. So, the deficit has continued to fall | :16:41. | :16:44. | |
after all? Yes, in contrast to when they did the calculation about one | :16:44. | :16:49. | |
month ago, when it appeared that borrowing last year had gone up | :16:49. | :16:52. | |
compared to the previous year, which was embarrassing for the Chancellor, | :16:52. | :16:57. | |
whose aim is to get it down, this time, the figure is �2 billion less | :16:57. | :17:02. | |
than the previous year, because income tax was higher. It looks | :17:02. | :17:06. | |
better, however, it is still a colossal amount of money, and it is | :17:06. | :17:10. | |
what the country is having to borrow because there is not enough tax | :17:10. | :17:13. | |
coming in to pay for schools, hospitals, defence, benefits, all of | :17:13. | :17:18. | |
those things. The monthly figure for June this year is itself slightly up | :17:18. | :17:25. | |
on last year, so it is still a major cause for concern. | :17:25. | :17:28. | |
There has been a worrying increase in alcohol related deaths among | :17:28. | :17:33. | |
women in their 30s and 40s, according to new research. Experts | :17:33. | :17:38. | |
looked at deaths in men and women in three cities over two decades, and | :17:38. | :17:43. | |
said the results for women born in the 1970s raised real concerns. When | :17:43. | :17:48. | |
it comes to alcohol, one group stands out - women born in the | :17:48. | :17:55. | |
1970s. More and more are dying because of drink. This lady is one | :17:55. | :18:01. | |
of those at risk. She was born in 1972. She has three children but is | :18:01. | :18:04. | |
addicted to cheap alcohol. If she does not stop, she could die in | :18:04. | :18:10. | |
weeks. I went from enjoying a glass of wine to wiring a bottle of vodka. | :18:10. | :18:16. | |
Nobody batted an eyelid. It became an addiction for me and a way of | :18:16. | :18:23. | |
life. It is a sentence hanging over my head. Today's report looked at | :18:23. | :18:26. | |
the patterns of drink related deaths in Glasgow, Manchester and | :18:26. | :18:32. | |
Liverpool. Although overall, deaths were levelling off, there was a | :18:32. | :18:37. | |
worrying increase among women born in the 1970s, and their deaths are | :18:37. | :18:42. | |
narrowing Big Apple with men of the same age. This report looks at three | :18:42. | :18:46. | |
cities - Liverpool, Manchester and Glasgow. Researchers said what they | :18:46. | :18:51. | |
found was a warning to others, that the relationship between women and | :18:51. | :18:57. | |
alcohol needs to change. Those who treat patients here at the Royal | :18:57. | :19:01. | |
Liverpool hospital believe one problem is the easy availability of | :19:02. | :19:06. | |
cheap alcohol. Anybody who argues that the market forces of less | :19:06. | :19:10. | |
expensive items does not affect it really do not know what they are | :19:10. | :19:15. | |
talking about. If you ask any patient what would help them not to | :19:15. | :19:18. | |
drink, it is the price of alcohol. That is what encourages their | :19:18. | :19:24. | |
behaviour. In England and Wales, plans for a minimum price for | :19:24. | :19:28. | |
alcohol have been put on hold. The Scottish government still intends to | :19:28. | :19:32. | |
go ahead with a minimum pricing, but some believe it is down to the | :19:32. | :19:38. | |
individual. Everywhere, people need to be concerned about alcohol. | :19:38. | :19:46. | |
want to keep your senses if action is not taken, the report warns that | :19:46. | :19:48. | |
generations of women could be damaged by alcohol for decades to | :19:48. | :19:58. | |
come. Our top story this lunchtime - | :19:58. | :20:00. | |
heatwave health warnings are extended to the north-west of | :20:00. | :20:05. | |
England, as the Met Office predicts higher tempo just for next week. | :20:05. | :20:08. | |
Still to come, Canon Rory McIlory make the cut on the second day of | :20:08. | :20:18. | |
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the Open? Later, I will have the Mars. The most detailed data | :20:38. | :20:41. | |
collected so far from NASA's Curiosity Rover suggests that 4 | :20:41. | :20:44. | |
billion years ago, Mars had a thick atmosphere like Earth. It would've | :20:44. | :20:50. | |
been warm, with running water on its surface, and it could have supported | :20:50. | :20:55. | |
life. But as yet, there is no hard evidence. Pallab Ghosh has more. It | :20:55. | :21:02. | |
is now nearly a year since Durie city arrived on Mars in such | :21:02. | :21:05. | |
spectacular style. Since then it has been trying to find out whether the | :21:05. | :21:12. | |
planet could once have supported life. Curiosity is the most | :21:12. | :21:16. | |
well-equipped rover ever sent to another planet. Its laser zaps rocks | :21:16. | :21:20. | |
to find out what they are made from, and its robotic arm is packed full | :21:20. | :21:24. | |
of instruments. In this experiment, it is analysing the Martian | :21:24. | :21:28. | |
atmosphere in order to discover what it was like in the distant past. | :21:28. | :21:32. | |
Scientists have learnt a lot about the history of Mars from meteorites | :21:32. | :21:36. | |
from the Red Planet. Now, they have direct evidence from Curiosity Rover | :21:36. | :21:41. | |
is helping them answer the biggest question of all. One of the | :21:41. | :21:45. | |
fascinating things about Mars is the prospect that it might once have | :21:45. | :21:49. | |
harboured life. To harbour life, we believe you have two have had water. | :21:49. | :21:54. | |
To have had water, you have two have had a thicker atmosphere, much | :21:54. | :21:59. | |
thicker than Mars has at the moment. The latest results indicate | :21:59. | :22:05. | |
that Mars may indeed have had a much thicker atmosphere. 4 billion years | :22:05. | :22:09. | |
ago, it might have looked like this. It was a warm, wet place, with | :22:09. | :22:14. | |
running water, protected from the harsh solar wind by the planet's | :22:14. | :22:19. | |
magnetic field. But the magnetic field collapsed and the atmosphere | :22:19. | :22:22. | |
was gradually ripped away, to leave the dry, desolate planet we see | :22:22. | :22:27. | |
today. If there was once life on the planet, which remains will be buried | :22:27. | :22:32. | |
under the surface, and probably will not be found by Curiosity Rover salt | :22:32. | :22:36. | |
now, we see that there could have been a habitable atmosphere, with | :22:36. | :22:40. | |
water on the surface. That is a time when early life could have | :22:40. | :22:46. | |
developed, at the same time when it was developing on earth. It makes it | :22:46. | :22:50. | |
all the more important to go with future missions, to look underneath | :22:50. | :22:55. | |
the surface, which we will be doing in 2014. This is what the next rover | :22:55. | :23:00. | |
will look like. There is strong British involvement. In five years | :23:00. | :23:04. | |
time, this mission will drill deep to begin the search for life on | :23:04. | :23:11. | |
Mars. England frustrated Australia in the second Ashes Test this | :23:11. | :23:16. | |
morning, as they batted themselves past 350 in the first innings at | :23:16. | :23:23. | |
Lord's. The hosts had their bowlers to thank, as they added 72 to their | :23:23. | :23:29. | |
overnight score. They were eventually all out for 361. Yes, it | :23:29. | :23:34. | |
does not really matter who gets the runs or how you get them, it is just | :23:34. | :23:37. | |
important that they get on the scoreboard. England had a last | :23:37. | :23:43. | |
wicket stand of 58 between Stuart Broad and Graeme Swann. I think it | :23:43. | :23:50. | |
is a workable total they have now got. Already, things are moving. Old | :23:50. | :23:55. | |
Father Time, the famous weathervane at Lord's. Sometimes, things move | :23:55. | :23:59. | |
faster than you would like. When Tim Bresnan strode out just before 11 | :23:59. | :24:04. | |
o'clock, he would have imagined a morning of batting. Instead, he was | :24:04. | :24:09. | |
out first ball of the day. Getting past 300 was England's minimum | :24:09. | :24:13. | |
requirement, and they managed that thanks to a couple of boundaries | :24:13. | :24:17. | |
from Stuart Broad. James Anderson got 12 before becoming a fifth | :24:17. | :24:23. | |
victim for Ryan Harris. Harris is so injury prone, that his ambition was | :24:23. | :24:29. | |
simply not to fly home early from this tour. He is a man with a | :24:29. | :24:34. | |
British born father, as the Prime Minister may have been aware. David | :24:34. | :24:37. | |
Cameron then watched Stuart Broad at his belligerent best, throwing the | :24:37. | :24:45. | |
bat, teasing Australia, hitting a six. England went past 350. Graeme | :24:45. | :24:50. | |
Swann was doing his bit as well. For the fielding side, late runs are the | :24:50. | :24:59. | |
most frustrating. 361 all out when Stuart Broad finally went. Australia | :24:59. | :25:04. | |
batted, and Anderson was revved up and ready to go. This one was close | :25:04. | :25:09. | |
but not quite. Australia are determined not to be intimidated, | :25:09. | :25:19. | |
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and so the battle resumed. I can tell you, on the stroke of lunch, | :25:20. | :25:29. | |
Tim Bresnan, recalled to the side, got rid of Shane Watson. 42-1. That | :25:29. | :25:33. | |
will certainly have reinvigorated England. We will resume in the next | :25:33. | :25:43. | |
:25:43. | :25:46. | ||
Muirfield, and Rory McIlory will be hoping to find the missing spark | :25:46. | :25:50. | |
from his game. The world number two said he felt brain-dead after his | :25:50. | :25:55. | |
first round. This morning, it was the turn of the world number one, | :25:55. | :26:02. | |
Tiger Woods. Andy Swiss reports. Yet more scorching temperatures and | :26:02. | :26:06. | |
scorched conditions at you feel. After so many struggles yesterday, | :26:06. | :26:11. | |
the search was on for some British success. The home challenge, | :26:11. | :26:15. | |
particularly that of Rory McIlory, had failed to materialise, but at | :26:15. | :26:19. | |
had failed to materialise, but at last, there was something Lee | :26:20. | :26:24. | |
Westwood went soaring up the leaderboard with a string of early | :26:24. | :26:29. | |
birdies. Not everyone found it quite so easy. Darren Clarke had to try | :26:29. | :26:38. | |
once, then twice, and then finally, a third time, to escape a bunker. | :26:38. | :26:41. | |
Muirfield was showing once again that it can be a cruel place. As for | :26:41. | :26:44. | |
that it can be a cruel place. As for Tiger Woods, he began the day just | :26:44. | :26:44. | |
that it can be a cruel place. As for Tiger Woods, he began the day of the | :26:44. | :26:51. | |
lead, and soon set about closing the gap. For his rivals, the signs were | :26:51. | :26:56. | |
ominous. He has since blended the brilliant with the average, but is | :26:57. | :27:04. | |
still in contention. But it was Lee Westwood who showed the way. This | :27:04. | :27:09. | |
took him into a share of the lead. After coming so close so many times, | :27:09. | :27:16. | |
could this finally be his chance? This afternoon, the focus will turn | :27:16. | :27:20. | |
to Rory McIlory. After struggling all year, yesterday's dismal round | :27:20. | :27:25. | |
was a new low. The question now is whether British golf's brightest | :27:25. | :27:29. | |
whether British golf's brightest star can somehow bounceback. One of | :27:29. | :27:35. | |
the UK's much loved birds is making a comeback in the North of England, | :27:35. | :27:39. | |
despite thousands having perished in severe storms recently. The latest | :27:39. | :27:44. | |
survey has revealed that there are now almost 40,000 nesting pairs of | :27:44. | :27:52. | |
puffins. Resisting the rain high on the rocks. It looks like winter, but | :27:52. | :27:57. | |
this was spring on the Farnes this year. Similar weird weather has | :27:57. | :28:01. | |
caused many puffins to perish. There are boroughs have been flooded and | :28:01. | :28:05. | |
they started breeding late. That is why this year's count has been | :28:05. | :28:09. | |
crucial. It is hard work. For three months, National Trust ranges delved | :28:10. | :28:14. | |
deep into the boroughs to try to find a nest. Every nest meant there | :28:14. | :28:18. | |
was a pair. Now, after checking almost 70,000, their work has paid | :28:18. | :28:24. | |
off. The results show that there are nearly 40,000 breeding pairs on the | :28:24. | :28:31. | |
Farnes, an increase of 8% since the last count in 2008. It is well below | :28:31. | :28:37. | |
the 2003 count, when there were more than 55,000 breeding pairs. But for | :28:37. | :28:43. | |
the pairs who have survived, this is the rangers' reward. This egg was | :28:43. | :28:50. | |
laid in May, and four weeks ago, it touched. In five years time, this | :28:50. | :28:55. | |
puffin chick could return to the Farnes, when conservationists hope | :28:55. | :29:00. | |
the numbers will be higher. Some news just in -1 of Manchester | :29:00. | :29:04. | |
City's most colourful former players has died at the age of 89. The | :29:04. | :29:14. | |
:29:14. | :29:19. | ||
former German paratrooper Bert Trautman will be best remembered for | :29:19. | :29:23. | |
breaking his neck in the 1956 FA Cup final. Time for the weather, with | :29:23. | :29:29. | |
Tomasz Schafernaker. The heat in the last few days has been drifting | :29:29. | :29:33. | |
last few days has been drifting around a bit. Today, it is actually | :29:33. | :29:40. | |
in other parts of the country, a bit more towards the west. Lots of | :29:40. | :29:44. | |
sunshine, wherever you are, even if you are not getting the really high | :29:44. | :29:48. | |
temperatures. So far, the highest temp which is today have been | :29:48. | :29:52. | |
recorded in the north-west of Wales. We do not often get that near the | :29:52. | :30:00. | |
coast in Wales. -- the highest temperatures. In Scotland as well, | :30:00. | :30:06. | |
the temperatures have really been shooting up. By the time we get to | :30:06. | :30:09. | |
four o'clock in the afternoon, it will be towards the high 20s in the | :30:09. | :30:15. | |
central lowlands. On the North Sea coast, quite a bit cooler. But as | :30:15. | :30:25. | |
:30:25. | :30:26. | ||
soon you get inland, 29 degrees. The south-west of England, also hot. The | :30:26. | :30:31. | |
further towards the south-east we go, temperatures, even around Kent, | :30:31. | :30:35. | |
down to 20 Celsius, because there is more of a breeze coming in off the | :30:35. | :30:41. | |
North Sea. Tonight, the extensive cloud from the North Sea will be | :30:41. | :30:45. | |
rolling in across the UK, which means, by the time we get to the | :30:45. | :30:49. | |
early hours of Saturday morning, it will be reaching as far west as | :30:49. | :30:55. | |
Birmingham. These eastern areas tomorrow morning will be waking up | :30:55. | :30:59. | |
and it will be quite cloudy, even with bits of drizzle, and it will | :30:59. | :31:04. | |
take time for some of that to move away. The sun will eventually break | :31:04. | :31:13. | |
the clouds up, but not everywhere. Remember, if you are in the west, | :31:13. | :31:17. | |
you might think it is quite a disappointing start to the day. This | :31:17. | :31:27. | |
is still four o'clock, quite cloudy. With the wind, coming off the sea, | :31:27. | :31:30. | |
these will be the impetus. In contrast, on the other side of the | :31:30. | :31:38. | |
UK, it should be lovely. Sunday, I think a similar day, the further | :31:38. | :31:43. | |
west you are, the better the weather will be. The further east you are, | :31:43. | :31:50. | |
the cooler it will be. Next week, there is a change on the way. Hot | :31:50. | :31:54. |