:00:10. > :00:13.The High Court dismisses a claim by ten disabled people and their
:00:13. > :00:17.families that cuts to housing benefit for those with spare rooms
:00:17. > :00:27.are discriminatory. Families say they are bitterly
:00:27. > :00:43.
:00:43. > :00:47.disappointed and vow to fight on in the Appeal Court. Taliban militants
:00:47. > :00:53.- some dressed in police uniforms - free more than 240 prisoners in a
:00:53. > :01:03.violent assault on a prison in north-west Pakistan.
:01:03. > :01:06.Would you recommend your hospital to patients and friends? Only four prer
:01:06. > :01:09.The survey that shows events like the Queen's Diamond Jubilee and the
:01:09. > :01:11.London Olympic and Paralympic Games have made us happier than we were a
:01:11. > :01:14.year ago. Later on BBC London, a man is
:01:14. > :01:22.arrested on suspicion of murder after a triple stabbing in Brixton.
:01:22. > :01:32.Two cors after being dismantled, King's Cross gets back one of its
:01:32. > :01:45.
:01:46. > :01:48.News at 1.00pm. The High Court has dismissed a
:01:48. > :01:51.challenge by ten families of disabled people that cuts in housing
:01:51. > :01:53.benefit discriminate against them. Their lawyers had argued that the
:01:54. > :02:03.extra space was necessary to cope with their health needs. The
:02:04. > :02:16.
:02:16. > :02:25.families have said they will appeal. Richard is a disabled council tenant
:02:25. > :02:29.who lives in a three-bedroom bungalow. His stepdaughter, who is
:02:29. > :02:34.also disabled, stays there when not at university. The third bedroom is
:02:34. > :02:38.used to store equipment, inclouding a hoist and an electric wheelchair,
:02:38. > :02:45.but his housing benefit has been cut, and this morning he watched as
:02:45. > :02:50.a judge dismissed his and nine other cases. My local council has already
:02:50. > :02:57.started possession proceedings against me because I can't afford to
:02:57. > :03:03.pay the shortfall. And by the same token, they've got no-where for me
:03:03. > :03:09.to go either. I have to move. They have no-where for me to go. So it's
:03:10. > :03:15.not a case of I choose not to - I've got no choice. They're giving me no
:03:15. > :03:18.choice. In April the Government introduced the housing benefit cut,
:03:18. > :03:24.which opponents dubbed a bedroom tax. Social tenants with one spare
:03:24. > :03:31.room had a 14% reduction. For those with two extra bedrooms it was a 40%
:03:31. > :03:34.cut. Disability campaigners have led the opposition to the policy saying
:03:34. > :03:38.it discriminates against those who need the extra space or who can't
:03:38. > :03:43.move because of their disability. But today the High Court rejected
:03:43. > :03:47.their claim that the Government had acted illegally. This was perhaps
:03:47. > :03:52.the most significant legal challenge so far to the Government's welfare
:03:52. > :03:55.changes and for the campaigners who have opposed them it's a significant
:03:55. > :04:01.setback but Ministers welcome today's ruling ands say additional
:04:01. > :04:04.money will now be made available to councils to help those who really
:04:05. > :04:08.need it. We have trebled the discretionary housing payments. Can
:04:08. > :04:12.I also say there are two million people nearly on housing waiting
:04:12. > :04:17.lists. They too will have disabled people who will be waiting. There
:04:17. > :04:20.are a quarter of a million people in overcrowded homes. Those two will
:04:20. > :04:25.have disabled people there and their children, so we have to look at it
:04:25. > :04:30.in the round. And despite the bitter disappointment of those hoping to
:04:30. > :04:38.overturn the policy, the Government says its reform is needed to save
:04:38. > :04:42.the taxpayer money and make the Our political correspondent Norman
:04:42. > :04:46.Smith is in Westminster for us, and with this High Court decision, a
:04:46. > :04:51.sigh of relief in Government? Absolutely, Simon, and although
:04:51. > :04:54.Government are saying there is no triumphalism, no gloating I am
:04:54. > :04:59.absolutely sure if you were standing outside MrDuncan Smith's office you
:04:59. > :05:02.would hear a long whistling sigh of relief because this was a bunch mark
:05:02. > :05:05.benefit change which the Government had invested a huge amount of
:05:05. > :05:08.political capital and credibility into pushing through. It has been
:05:08. > :05:12.one of the most politically charged benefit changes even down to the
:05:12. > :05:17.language around it with Labour insisting it's a bedroom tax and the
:05:17. > :05:21.Government insisting it's simply removing a, quote, spare room
:05:21. > :05:24.subsidy, so defeat would have been a significant setback. It would have
:05:24. > :05:28.also unpicked the give's plans to rein in the housing benefit budget.
:05:28. > :05:33.It would have made it harder to shake up the housing waiting list,
:05:33. > :05:37.the Government arguing this will make it easier for families in
:05:37. > :05:41.overcrowd overcrowded accommodation to get larger homes but above me it
:05:41. > :05:46.seems to me defeat would have sent a legal shudder through his benefit
:05:46. > :05:50.agenda because as we know there are other court cases pending and I
:05:50. > :05:54.suspect he'll draw huge comfort today it appears the courts are not
:05:54. > :05:57.going to listen too sympathetically to those citing human rights
:05:57. > :06:03.legislation to try to unpick benefit changes. Norman Smith, thank you
:06:03. > :06:11.very much. There is more information on the changes to benefit change and
:06:11. > :06:14.background on the court cases on our website.
:06:14. > :06:17.Shares in Barclays are falling this lunch time after the bank announced
:06:18. > :06:20.it had to raise nearly �6 billion from shareholders to plug a more
:06:20. > :06:23.than �12 billion pound hole in its balance sheet. Chief Executive
:06:23. > :06:28.Anthony Jenkins says he's "certain" the action will leave the bank
:06:29. > :06:33.stronger. He has the backing of the Bank of England, which described the
:06:33. > :06:38.measures as "credible". Our business correspondent Emma Simpson reports.
:06:39. > :06:45.The mighty Barclays needs to raise more money. Today we find out just
:06:45. > :06:51.how much, an eye watering �5.8 billion from its shareholders.
:06:51. > :06:55.That's to fill a hole of nearly �13 billion on its balance sheet. It has
:06:55. > :06:59.been under pressure from regulators to bolster its finances. If you look
:06:59. > :07:05.at Barclays in particular there have been two concerns that have affected
:07:05. > :07:08.our investor base. One is concern about regulation. Another is concern
:07:09. > :07:14.about conduct costs. We've decisively addressed both of those
:07:14. > :07:19.issues today. Why does this delobl investment bank, which didn't need a
:07:19. > :07:23.taxpayer bail-out, need the extra money now? The Bank of England's
:07:23. > :07:28.Prudential regulation authority demanded all UK banks build up a
:07:28. > :07:33.bigger cushion of capital to protect themselves against future shocks.
:07:33. > :07:35.Barclays wasn't able to meet that specific target. I think it's
:07:35. > :07:39.unfortunate that Barclays has been pushed into raising capital today.
:07:39. > :07:43.To be clear, it's not raising capital because the capital ratios
:07:43. > :07:48.were inadequate. It's raising capital to meet the new leverage
:07:48. > :07:52.ratio which was only introduced by the PRA last month. Not only does
:07:52. > :07:57.Barclays have to raise billions of pounds of new money, it's still
:07:57. > :08:02.paying for past mistakes. Today's half-year profits were less than
:08:02. > :08:08.expected partly because the bill for mis-selling continues to rise.
:08:08. > :08:12.Barclays is setting aside another �2 billion for compensation to
:08:12. > :08:20.customers. Much of this is for payment protection insurance claims.
:08:20. > :08:23.This means the total compensation bill is now at more than �5 billion.
:08:23. > :08:28.Barclays has been trying to clean up its tarnished image. It's paying a
:08:29. > :08:34.high price for a series of scandals. Not only is it having to change its
:08:34. > :08:38.culture, it's now transforming its balance sheet as well.
:08:38. > :08:43.With me now is our business correspondent Ben Thompson. These
:08:43. > :08:47.figures were a bit of a surprise. Shareholders don't like it. Markets
:08:47. > :08:52.were expecting a figure of about �4 billion. This is substantially more.
:08:52. > :08:55.We should say, these will be new shares, so it won't dilute the value
:08:55. > :09:00.of existing shares if you already have shares in Barclays. I'd also
:09:00. > :09:03.crucial - if you're a shareholder, you'll be able to buy them at a
:09:03. > :09:09.discount, about 40% cheaper than the price they were trading at this
:09:09. > :09:14.morning, but nonetheless, the share of Barclays is currently down about
:09:15. > :09:20.7%. That's because shareholders, since 2008, since the financial
:09:20. > :09:24.crisis, Barclays has paid out more than �8 billion in bonuses, paid �6
:09:24. > :09:27.billion in fines yet it's paid just 2 billion in dividends, the
:09:27. > :09:31.dividends are the payment normally awarded to shareholders and in
:09:31. > :09:36.response to being tapped yet again this morning from Barclays, Barclays
:09:36. > :09:41.said it will start to increase the amount it pays in dividends. This
:09:41. > :09:47.raises nearly 6 billion. The gap is nearly �12 billion. How do they fill
:09:47. > :09:53.that? 6 billion will be from these new shares. They'll also issue bonds
:09:53. > :09:58.worth �2 billion. This still leaves a big gap. They have also said
:09:58. > :10:01.they'll rein in the business, shrink the balance sheet. That means it
:10:02. > :10:05.will stop doing certain activities. That raises fears it will limit
:10:05. > :10:09.credit in the economy, something the Government has been trying to hard
:10:09. > :10:13.to prevent, but nonetheless, Anthony Jenkins, the boss, says this will
:10:13. > :10:17.have no wider impact on the economy. Thank you very much.
:10:17. > :10:20.The results of a survey of hospital patients in England appear to show
:10:20. > :10:23.that most people were satisfied with the care they received. Four hundred
:10:23. > :10:26.thousand people were asked to rate their experiences on the wards and
:10:26. > :10:29.in A&E departments over a three month period. Patients on 36 of
:10:29. > :10:33.4,500 hospital wards in England said they would NOT recommend them to
:10:33. > :10:36.relatives. The NHS says direct patient and citizen feedback is
:10:36. > :10:45.vital to improving its services. Here's our health correspondent,
:10:46. > :10:50.Jane Dreaper. She's coming out. It's the start of
:10:50. > :10:59.the biggest effort so far to find out patients' views. This ward in
:10:59. > :11:03.war Saul was among the first to try out the Friends and Family Test. Now
:11:03. > :11:07.many thousands of patients who have staid overnight or been to A&E since
:11:07. > :11:11.April have given their opinion. The fact that I'm still alive and
:11:11. > :11:16.filling in this form is testament to the care I've received, said one
:11:16. > :11:20.grateful patient. Others were less grateful patient. Others were less
:11:20. > :11:23.happy: "Dirty room, blood on bed." You would give this to a patient as
:11:23. > :11:27.they leave the hospital? The organisation running the NHS in
:11:27. > :11:31.England says it's a ground-breaking attempt to shine a light on where
:11:31. > :11:35.change is needed. One of the key causes of the tragedy at mid staffs
:11:36. > :11:40.was the fact that the patients were not listened to. This initiative sat
:11:40. > :11:45.heart designed to guarantee for patients a National Health Service
:11:45. > :11:49.that is listening and is driving high-quality health care. More than
:11:49. > :11:54.400,000 patients have given their views. That's 13% responding.
:11:54. > :11:59.Patients were more likely to answer on wards than in A&E. Just 36 wards
:11:59. > :12:04.out of 4,500 showed a negative score, with many patients positive
:12:04. > :12:09.about their care. It does make changes as well. I know that because
:12:09. > :12:13.me and my friend come in here a lot. Before, it didn't, years ago, but it
:12:13. > :12:17.does now. I mean, I listen to what they say. I wouldn't tell them not
:12:17. > :12:21.to come. I would advise them to come here. These are places nobody wants
:12:21. > :12:24.to come to anyway, but if you got to, you do. I was more than
:12:24. > :12:28.satisfied to get out. Hospitals in England have been the first part of
:12:28. > :12:32.the NHS to use the Friends and Family Test. Eventually, all
:12:32. > :12:36.patients will be asked for their views, but there has been criticism
:12:36. > :12:43.that the test itself is too narrow and won't give meaningful results.
:12:43. > :12:49.It produces one number - a score - a single number for each service, and
:12:49. > :12:55.that doesn't in any way communicate the complexity of what's going on
:12:55. > :13:00.inside that service. You cannot rate a service by one number. The results
:13:00. > :13:04.of the new test will be published every month, with separate research
:13:04. > :13:08.today showing nurses are having to ration the care they offer because
:13:08. > :13:18.they're stretched, the NHS will be under pressure to maintain good
:13:18. > :13:18.
:13:18. > :13:23.levels of satisfaction. Tal Tal fighters have stormed a prison in
:13:23. > :13:27.north-west Pakistan releasing almost 250 inmates. The gunmen used loud
:13:27. > :13:31.hailers to call for some prisoners by their names. 30 of the freed
:13:31. > :13:36.prisoners are described as hard core militants by Government officials.
:13:36. > :13:42.James Robbins reports. This was a major assault, but the
:13:42. > :13:50.prison's defences proved to be completely inadequate. Dozens of Tal
:13:50. > :13:57.iban militants came in a convoy to free their top leaders. They were
:13:57. > :14:00.armed with grenades and rocket-propelled weapons. Locals say
:14:00. > :14:04.explosions rattled every house in the neighbourhood. The militants
:14:04. > :14:07.knocked out power supplies before blowing open the wall of the prison
:14:07. > :14:13.and storming into the jail where officials say they used a loud
:14:13. > :14:18.hailer to call for some prisoners by name. Both the Taliban and Pakistani
:14:18. > :14:22.authorities say around 250 prisoners escaped including some 30 militant
:14:22. > :14:25.leaders. Dera Ismail Khan, where the attack took place is, meant to be
:14:25. > :14:31.the settled area. This is the north of Pakistan which is meant to be
:14:31. > :14:35.fully controlled by the Government. Militants have gone to the settled
:14:35. > :14:40.area and done what they wanted to do. Pakistani authorities are said
:14:40. > :14:45.to have received intelligence about an impending attack two weeks ago. A
:14:45. > :14:53.prison official said they didn't expect it to come so soon. It all
:14:53. > :14:58.adds to embarrassment for the Government as scores of people post
:14:58. > :15:03.messages in social media expressing disbelief and anger. After a similar
:15:03. > :15:07.attack on a prison last year, many are wondering how the militants were
:15:07. > :15:13.able to do the same thing all over again.
:15:13. > :15:17.It's exactly 1. 15pm. Our top story: A group of disabled people have lost
:15:18. > :15:24.the High Court challenge to housing benefit cuts for residents with
:15:24. > :15:29.spare bedrooms. And still to come: As the sun draws
:15:29. > :15:34.visitors to our beaches, has it also brought some visitors to our waters
:15:34. > :15:37.as researchers find more jellyfish during the heat wave. Later on BBC
:15:37. > :15:42.London: Why businesses are hoping to benefit from the cycling equivalent
:15:42. > :15:48.of the London Marathon this weekend. Reformed and ready for chart
:15:48. > :15:58.domination once again, we catch up with the original Sugababes ahead of
:15:58. > :16:04.
:16:04. > :16:10.to be celebrated, and with events such as the Olympics and Paralympic
:16:10. > :16:15.Games, we were apparently happy. Despite everything else going on, a
:16:15. > :16:19.nationwide survey into well-being is showing a small improvement in
:16:19. > :16:23.happiness. Those questioned by the Office for National Statistics also
:16:23. > :16:29.reported high levels of life satisfaction.
:16:29. > :16:33.The Olympic and Paralympics feel-good factor of the summer. An
:16:33. > :16:40.event that enhanced a sense of national pride. Latest figures say
:16:40. > :16:45.it may have also boosted our own sense of personal happiness. Add to
:16:45. > :16:49.that the celebrations to mark the Queen's Diamond Jubilee, an event of
:16:49. > :16:54.national significance which included an extra bank holiday and may well
:16:54. > :17:00.have helped to improve the nation's mood. The well-being survey showed a
:17:00. > :17:05.slight rise in most people's general happiness in the last year and a
:17:05. > :17:14.small drop in anxiety levels in the UK in the same period. There were
:17:14. > :17:19.signs of a midlife crisis for 45 to 49-year-olds, and those between 65
:17:19. > :17:26.and 79 were found to be most satisfied. Some of the key drivers
:17:26. > :17:33.of well-being are being in employment, personal relationships,
:17:33. > :17:42.and over 2012 we saw unemployment go down, they can see. While many other
:17:42. > :17:45.European Union countries have seen their well-being levels fall, the UK
:17:45. > :17:50.levels have stated that the country that appears to be the happiest and
:17:50. > :18:00.most satisfied is Denmark. Denmark is happier than us but where
:18:00. > :18:05.do we fare? Denmark is slightly less happy than it was! If you look
:18:05. > :18:10.across the 27 EU countries, we have pretty much maintained our happiness
:18:10. > :18:15.despite the recession but other countries have fallen back, and
:18:15. > :18:20.notably France. That has been for a long time having higher levels of
:18:20. > :18:26.well-being than Britain and they are now behind us. One country has shot
:18:26. > :18:35.up, for reasons no one seems to understand, is Austria! What on
:18:35. > :18:39.earth is the point of this survey? This is a project that won the Prime
:18:39. > :18:44.Minister's seal of approval a couple of years ago. He said, I want to
:18:44. > :18:48.make sure this is used to shape government policy. He said he wants
:18:48. > :18:53.to know what works, what will make people feel better about their
:18:53. > :18:58.life. A number of government departments have already started to
:18:58. > :19:03.use some of the early data, and this is very early date, to start shaping
:19:03. > :19:13.their policy, the business department, local government,
:19:13. > :19:20.
:19:20. > :19:22.health. They are already starting to look at well-being data to decide
:19:22. > :19:25.how we should govern ourselves. The UK is losing the war against
:19:25. > :19:28.Internet crime. That is a warning from MPs, as they published their
:19:28. > :19:35.first ever report into e-crime. It is calling for more police to be
:19:35. > :19:39.trained in digital crime detection. David is an expert in digital
:19:39. > :19:46.marketing but that did not stop him becoming one of the thousands of
:19:46. > :19:50.people who are defrauded online. I paid a large amount of money to
:19:50. > :19:55.something I did not recognise. payments that occurred over eight
:19:55. > :20:02.months and added up to nearly �2000. Obviously that was worrying
:20:02. > :20:06.because I knew I had not used that card. A new report says the UK is
:20:06. > :20:12.failing to win the war on e-crime. It says there is a black hole where
:20:12. > :20:18.online fraud is not being reported and investigated, tougher sentences
:20:18. > :20:22.are needed for criminals and an espionage team should be
:20:22. > :20:28.established. David said he is surprised that police apparently did
:20:28. > :20:33.not investigate his case. I thought the credit card company would ask me
:20:33. > :20:37.to report a crime but they did not. I never involved the police. It was
:20:37. > :20:44.all dealt with so quickly that it was never taken any further with the
:20:44. > :20:48.police. Some police say the failure to adequately report and record
:20:48. > :20:55.e-crime is evidence that recent figures showing a fall in crime are
:20:55. > :20:58.misleading. It is simply moving online. The issues of e-crime is
:20:58. > :21:03.something we feel has gone unreported for a long time.
:21:03. > :21:09.government needs to understand we need the resources in order to deal
:21:09. > :21:13.with e-crime. Many online Forster 's are based within the EU and Eastern
:21:13. > :21:20.Europe. It is easier to steal online and off-line and the chances of
:21:20. > :21:24.getting caught are much lower. When I was a police officer, criminals
:21:24. > :21:28.were local. Now crimes can be conducted from anywhere in the
:21:28. > :21:35.world. We need to be making new attacks on them in order to detect
:21:35. > :21:39.who they are and to bring them to prosecution. The Home Office says it
:21:39. > :21:45.is investing �850 million for a National cyber Security programme
:21:45. > :21:50.and admits it needs to keep pace with the criminals.
:21:50. > :21:56.Since he was ousted from power almost four weeks ago, there has
:21:56. > :22:01.been virtually no information about Egypt's former president. Now
:22:01. > :22:06.Catherine Ashton has met Mohammed Mercy in Cairo, the first foreign
:22:06. > :22:10.correspondent to do so. She said she found the former president in good
:22:10. > :22:14.health and spirits. More than three weeks after his
:22:14. > :22:19.arrest, Mohamed Morsi supporters are still camping out around the clock
:22:19. > :22:24.at their protest camp, demanding his return to power. Since the army
:22:24. > :22:29.stepped in to remove him this month, he has not been seen in public and
:22:29. > :22:34.nobody knows where he is. Catherine Ashton is the first outsider to see
:22:34. > :22:40.him. They met for two hours at a military facility, she does not know
:22:40. > :22:45.where, after a night-time helicopter ride. He is in good health and good
:22:45. > :22:52.humour, he was told half an hour before I arrived I was coming.
:22:52. > :23:02.seemed pleased to see me. It is a military place. The people around
:23:02. > :23:04.
:23:04. > :23:08.him do care for him. More than 70 of Mr Morsi's supporters were killed in
:23:08. > :23:14.clashes with police on Saturday and there are fears of an even worse
:23:14. > :23:19.bloodbath if the interim government tries to clear out the Morsi protest
:23:19. > :23:25.camp by force. That is what Baroness Ashton is trying to avert by looking
:23:25. > :23:32.for common ground. There is a very strong and common desire to find a
:23:32. > :23:35.way through this. The situation remains explosive. There is a lot of
:23:35. > :23:43.mistrust. Baroness Ashton has been trying to identify competence
:23:43. > :23:47.bolting steps that could locate dialogue. She was very discreet
:23:47. > :23:53.about the details of any compromise that may be being explored. EU
:23:53. > :23:58.officials will begin tinkering to follow up ideas after she leaves. In
:23:58. > :24:03.the meantime, Lady Ashton said she is ready to come back if that helps.
:24:03. > :24:07.In a few hours, a judge will announce the verdict in the
:24:07. > :24:12.court-martial of Bradley Manning, the soldier who disclosed thousands
:24:12. > :24:17.of secret documents to Wikileaks. Bradley Manning has pleaded guilty
:24:17. > :24:21.to ten offences but denies the most serious accusation of aiding
:24:21. > :24:29.America's evidence. If found guilty, he could face life
:24:29. > :24:33.imprisonment. Is Bradley Manning a young and naive
:24:33. > :24:38.whistle-blower or a calculated, fame hungry traitor? Two very different
:24:38. > :24:44.accounts of the four me -- former Army intelligence analysts have been
:24:44. > :24:49.presented before the judge during the eight week military trials. The
:24:49. > :24:54.25-year-old was posted in Iraq where he was given access to classified
:24:54. > :25:00.information. He admits disclosing more than 700,000 government
:25:00. > :25:06.documents to the Wikileaks website between 2009 and 2010. That included
:25:06. > :25:12.reams of confidential messages between US diplomats. And key
:25:12. > :25:17.military intelligence, like this video, of a US at patchy helicopter
:25:17. > :25:21.attack -- Apache helicopter. It showed a strike of unarmed civilians
:25:21. > :25:28.in Iraq. Bradley Manning denies that by putting this in the public
:25:28. > :25:32.domain, he knew it could end up in the hands of America's enemies.
:25:32. > :25:36.think he should be punished because we cannot afford to let the message
:25:36. > :25:42.go out to people who work for our government that their
:25:42. > :25:48.confidentiality agreements and their swearing to secrecy is an utterly
:25:48. > :25:54.meaningless act. Bradley Manning supporters see him as a hero, who
:25:54. > :26:00.simply wanted to expose the truth. He expose war crimes and he is being
:26:00. > :26:05.punished for it as if he were a terrorist and I think that is wrong.
:26:05. > :26:09.The defence say Bradley Manning leaked the information to spark
:26:09. > :26:14.worldwide discussion about US foreign policy. The prosecution say
:26:14. > :26:22.he craved notoriety. Either way, his actions have opened up a wider
:26:22. > :26:26.debate about the sharing of classified data in the Internet age.
:26:26. > :26:31.People visiting UK beaches this summer are being warned to watch out
:26:31. > :26:34.for jellyfish after the recent spell of hot weather. The Marine
:26:34. > :26:40.Conservation Society said numbers increased in June and July after the
:26:40. > :26:46.cold snap, including Lou jellyfish and lion 's mane in North Wales and
:26:46. > :26:52.north-west England. -- blue jellyfish.
:26:52. > :26:57.Yes, plenty of people enjoying Swansea's seaside on this sunny day
:26:57. > :27:02.but the recent warm weather has also drawn other visitors to the British
:27:02. > :27:06.coastline. A surge of jellyfish have come in during the heatwave. Let's
:27:06. > :27:12.speak to a marine biologist. What could be behind this recent increase
:27:12. > :27:17.in numbers? A number of reasons. is probably a good year for
:27:17. > :27:23.jellyfish. There are populations tend to go up and down in different
:27:23. > :27:28.years. We have onshore winds, which tend to blow them into the coast and
:27:28. > :27:33.you can see them in shallow water. The late spring, we had some very
:27:33. > :27:35.odd weather and things turning up at slightly wrong times of year. And
:27:35. > :27:45.then of course this fantastic weather, more people encountering
:27:45. > :27:50.them. Do they pose any danger? Mostly not. Most of the jellyfish
:27:50. > :27:56.around the UK coast will not cause any harm. One species in
:27:56. > :28:02.particular, the lion 's mane jellyfish, has a large, frilly red
:28:02. > :28:07.mass, and they can sting. It is like a nettle sting, and pleasant. But
:28:07. > :28:11.for most people that would not cause any problems. The Marine
:28:11. > :28:17.Conservation Society are asking people who spot the jellyfish to
:28:17. > :28:20.report them to them. To not touch. It could help them to understand
:28:20. > :28:24.what is causing this fluctuation in numbers.
:28:24. > :28:34.Is there a sting in the tail of the weather?
:28:34. > :28:42.
:28:42. > :28:48.particularly today, tomorrow and Thursday. It will turn hot in the
:28:48. > :28:55.south briefly and that could bring the risk of thundery downpours. The
:28:55. > :29:01.satellite picture from earlier today shows a big lump of cloud. Further
:29:01. > :29:04.north, speckled cloud. A mixture of sunny spells and showers. A bit like
:29:04. > :29:11.yesterday but the showers are a little less widespread than
:29:11. > :29:17.yesterday. Still the potential for very heavy showers across northern
:29:17. > :29:20.England, Scotland and Northern Ireland, with thunder mixed in. We
:29:20. > :29:26.will still have persistent rain for most of the afternoon in the
:29:26. > :29:30.South-East corner but that will clear. Gusty winds at the coast.
:29:30. > :29:35.South-west England is becoming one of the brighter places. The cloud
:29:35. > :29:41.should break up in the afternoon. This evening most of the showers
:29:41. > :29:47.will fade away. By the end of tonight, another lump of rain coming
:29:47. > :29:54.in. This could be quite heavy. Warm and humid in the south, a little
:29:54. > :30:01.fresher further north. Tomorrow is dominated by this warm front. Things
:30:01. > :30:05.will be starting to turn humid in the South as it pushes north. The
:30:05. > :30:11.band of rain will work through many areas of England, Wales and
:30:11. > :30:17.eventually Northern Ireland. Much fresher in the north and fewer
:30:17. > :30:23.showers than we have had over recent days. Tomorrow night into Thursday,
:30:23. > :30:27.the warm front will continue to progress northwards, taking the rain
:30:27. > :30:33.with it. Thursday is the day where the warm air really arrives,
:30:33. > :30:36.particularly central and eastern areas of England and Wales. Always
:30:36. > :30:44.fresher to the north and the West but we will have more cloud and
:30:44. > :30:52.outbreaks of rain. The fresher air will try to push down into the
:30:52. > :30:58.South-East by the time we get to Friday. But as the fresh air tries
:30:58. > :31:04.to arrive, that is where we have the risk of some thundery showers. Lots
:31:04. > :31:10.of whether going on! If full forecast for where you are online.
:31:10. > :31:14.A reminder of the main story: The High Court dismisses a claim by ten
:31:14. > :31:19.disabled people and their families that cuts to housing benefit for