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Britain to withdraw dozens of staff from Yemen. America orders its | :00:18. | :00:22. | |
citizens to leave too. It follows Communications picked up between | :00:22. | :00:27. | |
senior members of Al-Qaeda. We will look at how the US and UK can | :00:28. | :00:32. | |
respond. Also this lunchtime: A report into | :00:32. | :00:37. | |
the safety of patients in hospitals in England calls for new legal | :00:37. | :00:41. | |
sanctions to tackle cases of wilful or reckless neglect. | :00:41. | :00:47. | |
An inquest is held into the death of Hannah Smith, 14-year-old who hanged | :00:47. | :00:52. | |
herself on Friday. A welcome boost for the high Street | :00:52. | :01:00. | |
- last month's heatwave saw shops do their best sales the seven years. | :01:00. | :01:04. | |
An escaped African python kills two young boys in their sleep after it | :01:04. | :01:09. | |
escapes from pet shop Canada. A reward of nearly �1 million is | :01:09. | :01:14. | |
offered for the jewellery worth 90 million stolen on the French | :01:14. | :01:22. | |
Later on BBC London: Businesses say they're still suffering, two years | :01:22. | :01:25. | |
on from the riots in the capital. And a bed-in-a-shed fire that killed | :01:25. | :01:35. | |
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a man - claims the council could Britain has shut its Embassy in | :02:01. | :02:04. | |
Yemen because of increased security concerns. And the US has told its | :02:04. | :02:06. | |
citizens to leave Yemen immediately and ordered all nonessential staff | :02:06. | :02:10. | |
to follow suit. The warnings came just hours after a US drone strike | :02:10. | :02:13. | |
killed four suspected Al-Qaeda militants in Yemen. America has | :02:13. | :02:15. | |
already closed 19 diplomatic missions across the Middle East and | :02:15. | :02:17. | |
north Africa after intercepting messages between the two most senior | :02:17. | :02:19. | |
figures in Al-Qaeda. Here's our security correspondent, Frank | :02:19. | :02:24. | |
Gardner. Guarded but empty, Britain's embassy | :02:24. | :02:27. | |
in Yemen was closed this morning after threats of a major terrorist | :02:27. | :02:33. | |
attack. Yemeni security forces will remain outside but the embassy says | :02:33. | :02:38. | |
all British staff have been flown home. America has closed more than | :02:38. | :02:42. | |
20 of its diplomatic missions around the Middle East and beyond. This is | :02:42. | :02:47. | |
the reason - Al-Qaeda in the Arabian peninsular are believed to be | :02:47. | :02:51. | |
planning a large-scale attack on US Western interests, most likely in | :02:51. | :02:56. | |
Yemen, but possibly elsewhere in the region. The US said it learned this | :02:56. | :03:03. | |
through an intercepted conversation between this man and the Al-Qaeda | :03:03. | :03:08. | |
leader, hiding in Pakistan. It reportedly spoke of a strategic | :03:09. | :03:12. | |
attack on US interests. Washington believes it could be the most | :03:12. | :03:18. | |
serious plot since the 911 attacks. What we know is the threat emanates | :03:18. | :03:26. | |
from and focused on occurring in the Arabian peninsular, but it could | :03:26. | :03:29. | |
potentially be beyond that or elsewhere. So we cannot be more | :03:29. | :03:33. | |
specific, which is why we have taken some of the actions we have taken | :03:33. | :03:39. | |
and made the statements we have made. Yemen's tribal provinces offer | :03:40. | :03:45. | |
the perfect refuge for Al-Qaeda. Its leaders are constantly being | :03:45. | :03:50. | |
targeted by US, unmanned drones, but several times it has been able to | :03:50. | :03:54. | |
smuggle bombs onto international flights sending them as far as | :03:54. | :03:59. | |
Detroit. This is their master bomb maker, and he is still at large. The | :03:59. | :04:04. | |
foreign office says it hopes to reopen its office in Yemen soon, but | :04:04. | :04:10. | |
when it does the threat of attack is unlikely to have gone away. | :04:10. | :04:15. | |
Frank Gardner joins us now. What does this tell us about Al-Qaeda | :04:15. | :04:19. | |
operations and how real is this threat perceived to be? A few people | :04:20. | :04:27. | |
will be thinking in the wake of the Snowdon revelations about | :04:27. | :04:32. | |
surveillance, is this an elaborate story to get people to think about | :04:32. | :04:35. | |
while it is worth intercepting peoples messages? It would be | :04:35. | :04:39. | |
far-fetched to think the Americans would make this up, causing, not | :04:39. | :04:43. | |
just their embassies to close, but for British, German and French | :04:43. | :04:48. | |
embassies to close in Yemen as well. The threat is twofold, locally they | :04:48. | :04:54. | |
have plenty of people willing to drive trucks into embassies and blow | :04:54. | :04:59. | |
things up. They have done it in the past, they have tried and they will | :04:59. | :05:03. | |
carry on trying. The reason it is considered to be so dangerous, they | :05:03. | :05:10. | |
have people like that master bomb maker, who has been very clever, he | :05:10. | :05:16. | |
is a Saudi. He is clever at designing ingenious bombs to put on, | :05:16. | :05:20. | |
or even inside volunteers and getting them onto aeroplanes. Three | :05:20. | :05:25. | |
times they have got bombs onto aeroplanes, undetected. One got as | :05:25. | :05:31. | |
far as Detroit, the Nigerian nearly blew himself up on that plane over | :05:31. | :05:34. | |
Detroit. They think he has now mastered some of the technology and | :05:34. | :05:40. | |
overcome some of the glitches and is ready to put more bombs on planes, | :05:40. | :05:43. | |
which is why the Americans have extended their warning to the travel | :05:43. | :05:46. | |
industry. Thanks for that. | :05:46. | :05:51. | |
A report into the safety of patients in hospitals in England is calling | :05:51. | :05:58. | |
for a new criminal offence of wilful or recklessly black. A review by | :05:58. | :06:05. | |
Doctor Don Berwick was set up after the mid Staffordshire Hospital | :06:05. | :06:14. | |
trust. Infection control, we are doing well | :06:14. | :06:18. | |
on. Every day, the nurse in charge of this ward monitors how patients | :06:18. | :06:23. | |
are doing, checking the number of infections, whether elderly patients | :06:23. | :06:29. | |
have had a fall, along with each prescription and dosage given. This | :06:29. | :06:33. | |
Birmingham Hospital has developed a computer system to make care saver. | :06:33. | :06:40. | |
It knows exactly how each doctor, nurse or ward is performing. We know | :06:40. | :06:44. | |
what percentage of drugs are given to patients by the ward, by an | :06:44. | :06:48. | |
individual nurse, and individual doctor who is prescribing them and | :06:49. | :06:53. | |
we can hold individual teams to account. This kind of focus in | :06:53. | :06:58. | |
reducing mistakes is at the heart of this report, which aims to create a | :06:58. | :07:02. | |
culture of 0-harm in the NHS. The report stresses the need for | :07:02. | :07:10. | |
sufficient staff on wards, but falls short of minimum level staffing. In | :07:10. | :07:15. | |
a no blame culture, and there should be legal sanctions against staff in | :07:15. | :07:20. | |
rare cases of wilful or reckless neglect. The expert behind the | :07:20. | :07:27. | |
reporter believes this policy is achievable. It is hardly a single | :07:27. | :07:32. | |
problem but developed somewhere in the NHS that someone else in the NHS | :07:33. | :07:37. | |
has not solved. If this wonderful system can learn together so you are | :07:37. | :07:42. | |
exchanging information all the time with trust, openness and optimism, | :07:42. | :07:48. | |
the sky is the limit. The report follows the scandal of appalling | :07:48. | :07:53. | |
care at Staffordshire Hospital. Today the government said it would | :07:53. | :07:56. | |
consider the recommendations, but the report is one of the series into | :07:56. | :08:02. | |
hospital care and patient groups are asking if it will make a difference. | :08:02. | :08:06. | |
Back in Birmingham, they know what a difference small changes can make, | :08:06. | :08:11. | |
just like in Scotland where there is already a patient safety programme. | :08:11. | :08:15. | |
The question is whether similar schemes will be rolled out across | :08:15. | :08:21. | |
the NHS in England. Our health correspondent has been | :08:21. | :08:27. | |
looking at the recommendations. What do we understand to be meant by this | :08:27. | :08:35. | |
holding people to account? Berwick was clear in explaining his | :08:35. | :08:41. | |
report. You need to have staff being able to speak up. If a nurse see | :08:41. | :08:44. | |
something on the ward going wrong, they are not afraid to say something | :08:44. | :08:50. | |
to their managers. There has to be a transparent and open culture in the | :08:50. | :08:54. | |
NHS. But if there is something going wrong, it's somebody wilfully | :08:54. | :08:58. | |
neglect is a patient to the extent it causes them serious harm or | :08:58. | :09:04. | |
causes their death, they should be held to account potentially through | :09:04. | :09:07. | |
a new criminal offence. That is something the government said it | :09:07. | :09:12. | |
will look at. But the test for that will be very high and it will be in | :09:12. | :09:16. | |
rare cases of extreme neglect. you. | :09:16. | :09:21. | |
The father of a 14-year-old goal macro who was found dead in a | :09:21. | :09:27. | |
bedroom has called for stricter controls on social media sites after | :09:27. | :09:30. | |
his daughter received abuse online. The inquest into Hannah Smith was | :09:30. | :09:35. | |
opened and adjourned at Leicestershire Coroner's Court this | :09:35. | :09:41. | |
morning. Pupils and staff at her school are shattered by the news. | :09:41. | :09:48. | |
Our reporter is there in Loughborough. | :09:48. | :09:54. | |
Hammersmith was found at the family home by her 16-year-old sister | :09:54. | :09:59. | |
upstairs on Friday. -- Hannah Smith. Well-wishers have been leaving | :09:59. | :10:04. | |
messages outside the house. Family and friends are devastated by what | :10:04. | :10:10. | |
has happened. The headteacher at her school has described her as a | :10:10. | :10:14. | |
bright, popular and thoughtful girl who had everything to live for. Last | :10:14. | :10:20. | |
night I came to the family home and spoke to David Smith, her father. He | :10:20. | :10:25. | |
told me that while he is grieving for his daughter, he is extremely | :10:25. | :10:30. | |
angry. In the months running up to her death, he said she suffered a | :10:30. | :10:34. | |
torrent of abuse online. Like millions of people across the | :10:34. | :10:42. | |
world, she was a user of the Latvian -based website, Bo Xilai, where | :10:42. | :10:48. | |
people can ask questions of other users. Mr Smith told me she was | :10:48. | :10:54. | |
receiving messages including, you must die. He is calling for David | :10:54. | :11:00. | |
Cameron to act on this. Mr Smith is part of an online campaign against | :11:00. | :11:05. | |
the website. Last month's heatwave gave the high | :11:05. | :11:13. | |
Street a boost and stores recorded their best figures in the seven | :11:13. | :11:23. | |
years. The British Retail Consortium sales were up 2.7% on last year. | :11:23. | :11:33. | |
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The scene was set for the summer of sunshine. Then there was this! | :11:34. | :11:42. | |
waiting is over. Which added to the feel better factor, and then... The | :11:42. | :11:49. | |
Royal baby. All, retailers say adding to confidence and getting the | :11:49. | :11:53. | |
tills ringing. The sun comes out on people like to spend more money and | :11:53. | :11:58. | |
get in the summer mood and go shopping. People talk about caching | :11:58. | :12:04. | |
tales, but the mood of shoppers helps people. They are feeling | :12:04. | :12:10. | |
better? I certainly do, anyway.Is that more money? No, but people | :12:10. | :12:18. | |
still spend. Sellers were some addresses, shorts and sandals, and | :12:18. | :12:21. | |
in the supermarket, burgers and sausages for the barbecue. Shop | :12:21. | :12:26. | |
sales in July grew by 2.2% in cash terms compared to July last year. | :12:27. | :12:32. | |
The amount of goods sold grew by 4.4% because there were so many | :12:32. | :12:38. | |
price cuts. In July we had a number of special factors. The combination | :12:38. | :12:42. | |
of some fantastic weather and the confidence factor, being driven by | :12:42. | :12:48. | |
the combination of the Royal baby, the Lions tour, Chris Frome and the | :12:48. | :12:54. | |
Tour de France, the Ashes. It is still tough on many high streets, | :12:54. | :12:59. | |
and while some are favourites have been flying off the shelves, | :12:59. | :13:04. | |
furniture and flooring did not go well. Could July have been a blip? | :13:04. | :13:09. | |
Underlying conditions are very tough and people are squeezed financially | :13:09. | :13:13. | |
and unemployment is high. Probably more tough times ahead. We cannot | :13:13. | :13:18. | |
get ahead of ourselves. A lot of the sales were driven by discounts, and | :13:18. | :13:22. | |
they cannot go on for ever. In future months, this shopping revival | :13:22. | :13:28. | |
could falter. No boom yet, but another debt fuelled consumer boom | :13:28. | :13:38. | |
might not be a good idea anyway. Two young boys have been killed by a | :13:38. | :13:43. | |
rock -in eastern Canada after it is -- it escaped from a pet shop. | :13:43. | :13:47. | |
Police say it coiled itself around the boys, aged five and seven, as | :13:47. | :13:52. | |
they slept. It apparently got into the flat through a ventilation | :13:52. | :13:57. | |
system. This is little Noah and his brother, | :13:57. | :14:01. | |
Connor. Their sleepover ended in tragedy. Police sealed off the New | :14:02. | :14:05. | |
Brunswick building where the brothers were killed. They had been | :14:05. | :14:10. | |
staying with a friend in the first-floor flat above the pet shop. | :14:10. | :14:15. | |
It is believed a snake, Captain the ground floor shop, slipped out of | :14:15. | :14:18. | |
its cage, travelled through the ventilation and into the room where | :14:18. | :14:23. | |
the boys were sleeping. They had been staying with the shop owner's | :14:23. | :14:27. | |
Sun, the three children were best friends. I thought they were | :14:27. | :14:33. | |
sleeping until I saw the hole in the ceiling. Everything had fallen. I | :14:33. | :14:37. | |
turned the lights on and saw this horrific scene. The snake was gone. | :14:37. | :14:43. | |
I found the snake in another spot. I pinned him down and put him in a | :14:43. | :14:48. | |
cage. The snake, similar to this one is thought to be an African rock | :14:48. | :14:55. | |
python, approximately four metres wrong -- long. The boys were dead by | :14:55. | :15:00. | |
the time their bodies were discovered. It is an extremely rare | :15:00. | :15:05. | |
incident. Snakes only constrict for the food. Was it hungry? | :15:05. | :15:11. | |
Absolutely. It does not mean it was being neglected. One media report | :15:11. | :15:15. | |
said customers had complained about the conditions the pets were kept | :15:15. | :15:21. | |
in. City authorities say the shop was properly licensed. Five-year-old | :15:21. | :15:25. | |
Noah, and seven -year-old,, 's parents are described as grief | :15:26. | :15:35. | |
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stricken. Our main story this lunchtime... Fears of a terrorist | :15:36. | :15:43. | |
attack from Britain to withdraw embassy staff from Yemen. | :15:43. | :15:53. | |
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Still to come: Good news as exam results come in for thousands of | :15:53. | :15:59. | |
pupils across Scotland. Later on BBC London, the lump of fat | :15:59. | :16:05. | |
so big it blocked one of the largest doers in the country. And Beth | :16:06. | :16:09. | |
Tweddle retires from gymnastic but leaves her mark on the sport here in | :16:09. | :16:19. | |
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in the dispute between Britain and Spain over fishing rights of | :16:23. | :16:26. | |
Gibraltar. The Spanish Government says it may introduce a fee to cross | :16:26. | :16:32. | |
the border and close Spanish airspace to flights bound for the | :16:32. | :16:36. | |
rock. The UK has promised to stand shoulder to shoulder with the people | :16:36. | :16:44. | |
of Gibraltar. In the misty early light, Spanish | :16:44. | :16:51. | |
fishermen ready their nets. In the Shadow of a British rock. These men | :16:51. | :16:55. | |
claimed Gibraltar has polished their trade by restricting fishing in the | :16:55. | :17:03. | |
disputed waters nearby. It is madness. For years we got on well | :17:03. | :17:08. | |
and now we have fallen out with our neighbours. We took a boat from the | :17:08. | :17:15. | |
other side of the border to see the other side of this story. | :17:15. | :17:19. | |
Gibraltar's Government wanted to show the location of something | :17:19. | :17:25. | |
controversial lying hidden underneath the water. We are not far | :17:25. | :17:30. | |
from the rock, and we are clearly in Gibraltarian waters but the Spanish | :17:30. | :17:35. | |
Government disagrees, and down here in the water you cannot see it, but | :17:35. | :17:39. | |
below is the source of the tension, the row between Spain and Gibraltar | :17:39. | :17:45. | |
and Britain. Several days ago, Gibraltar says it created an | :17:45. | :17:50. | |
artificial reef to protect marine life here. Spain says the large | :17:50. | :17:55. | |
concrete blocks were dumped to keep Spanish fishermen away. In | :17:55. | :18:00. | |
retaliation, Spain has increased checks on the border into Gibraltar, | :18:00. | :18:06. | |
creating long queues. This morning, a smooth commute for thousands, but | :18:06. | :18:11. | |
Spain threatens a 50 euros charge for this crossing and the people | :18:11. | :18:16. | |
here are fed up. I have been in it for half an hour and that is bad | :18:16. | :18:23. | |
enough. There is a lot of anger from the Spanish that needn't be there. | :18:23. | :18:29. | |
The waters here are disputed but they are the lifeblood for song, and | :18:29. | :18:33. | |
Spain is now considering how it will respond. | :18:33. | :18:38. | |
Dog owners who allow their pets to attack members of the public could | :18:38. | :18:43. | |
face life in prison under Government proposals to clamp down on dangerous | :18:43. | :18:48. | |
dogs in England and Wales. Ministers believe harsher penalties are needed | :18:48. | :18:52. | |
to deal with irresponsible owners. They are speed is the has welcomed | :18:52. | :18:59. | |
the idea of tougher sentences. Last year when Carlton was training to be | :18:59. | :19:06. | |
a guide dog, he was attacked by a bull terrier. His owner had to pull | :19:06. | :19:13. | |
the dogs apart with the help of two other men. Mercifully, Carlton | :19:13. | :19:19. | |
survived. If the damage had been more permanent, it would have meant | :19:19. | :19:28. | |
he would have been scrapped as a guide dog, I would have had to take | :19:28. | :19:35. | |
up to two years to train another dog. The Government is suggesting | :19:35. | :19:39. | |
tougher legislation to prosecute the owners of dangerous dogs who attack. | :19:39. | :19:49. | |
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Currently the law does not legislate, and from now on if a | :19:54. | :20:00. | |
person is killed life imprisonment could be introduced. Since 2005, 16 | :20:00. | :20:04. | |
people have been killed by dogs in the UK, including Jade Anderson. | :20:04. | :20:10. | |
This boy was killed by a pit bull in 2009, both children's parents have | :20:10. | :20:15. | |
called for tougher sentencing which the Government is now considering. | :20:15. | :20:20. | |
In these sickening cases, where a dog has attacked a toddler and in | :20:20. | :20:26. | |
some cases even killed a child, is it appropriate the judge can only | :20:26. | :20:33. | |
sentence that owner to a maximum of two years in prison? The RSPCA | :20:33. | :20:35. | |
believes the Government should concentrate on preventing dog | :20:35. | :20:45. | |
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attacks in the first place. RSPCA has recommended things like | :20:49. | :20:54. | |
dog behaviour classes so that owners can learn how to control their dogs | :20:54. | :21:01. | |
better. Under the current rules no one has been prosecuted for the | :21:01. | :21:04. | |
attack on Carlton. His owner supports tightening the law and | :21:04. | :21:09. | |
hopes others will agree. A former US Army psychiatrist stands trial today | :21:09. | :21:13. | |
charged with killing 13 people in a mass shooting in Texas. | :21:13. | :21:18. | |
The shooting took place four years ago but the trial has been set by | :21:18. | :21:27. | |
delays. It is expected he will claim to have been acting in defence of | :21:27. | :21:32. | |
Muslims. The makeshift memorial in Texas, outside the nondescript | :21:32. | :21:38. | |
building which in 2009 witnessed the worst noncombat attack in history on | :21:38. | :21:41. | |
an American military base. 13 people were fatally wounded, more than 30 | :21:41. | :21:51. | |
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other s injured. On the day of the shooting, this man allegedly shouted | :21:55. | :22:02. | |
the Arabic for, God is great, then started firing indiscriminately. It | :22:02. | :22:09. | |
is said he carried out the killings because he wanted to protect the | :22:09. | :22:13. | |
Taliban from US forces. He will defend himself at the US | :22:14. | :22:19. | |
court-martial. This has been described as an act of workplace | :22:19. | :22:24. | |
violence, and they are alarmed that he will get to personally | :22:24. | :22:29. | |
cross-examine some of the people he tried to kill. The nearby facility | :22:29. | :22:33. | |
where the court-martial will take place. Now encased with blast | :22:33. | :22:39. | |
walls, it has been turned into a virtual bunker. Inside it is | :22:39. | :22:43. | |
believed military prosecutors will present evidence that the soldier | :22:44. | :22:48. | |
became increasingly radicalised. He was on the Internet searching words | :22:48. | :22:53. | |
like Jihad and Taliban before the attack. If found guilty, he could | :22:53. | :23:00. | |
face the death penalty. More than 150,000 students across | :23:00. | :23:07. | |
Scotland received their exam results today. The overall pass rates have | :23:07. | :23:13. | |
increased. Our correspondent has been speaking to students and has | :23:13. | :23:23. | |
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more. Welcome to this most North Westerly secondary school on the | :23:23. | :23:26. | |
Scottish mainland, and the students here spent an anxious morning | :23:26. | :23:36. | |
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waiting for news. Today, along with bills and birthday cards, here, | :23:43. | :23:49. | |
pupils at the high school are waiting anxiously to learn their | :23:49. | :23:55. | |
fate. The Jacqueline, the news is good. Oh, my God, I got into | :23:55. | :24:05. | |
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university. I got another A and a B. Other pupils are heading in a | :24:07. | :24:12. | |
different direction. I failed maths, but it is not compulsory, I | :24:12. | :24:17. | |
have a job anyway as an apprenticeship joiner so I don't | :24:17. | :24:25. | |
need it anyway. The pass rate for maths was down 0.8% on last year. | :24:25. | :24:35. | |
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The overall pass rate for Scottish highers was a rise of 0.5%. As for | :24:36. | :24:41. | |
standard grades, they are on the way out. These pupils were amongst the | :24:41. | :24:44. | |
last to sit them. They are being replaced by new qualifications | :24:44. | :24:51. | |
called nationals. The curriculum is changing emphasis more on | :24:51. | :24:55. | |
classwork, the opposite to what is happening in England, but focus here | :24:55. | :24:59. | |
is now on the immediate future which for some pupils will be very | :24:59. | :25:05. | |
different. For them to move from a small community to a city location, | :25:05. | :25:12. | |
and quite a few of them are going to Strathclyde or Aberdeen, it is a | :25:12. | :25:15. | |
massive leap. There will be more people on the course then who live | :25:16. | :25:20. | |
in the entire Northwest area! changing moment is happening today | :25:20. | :25:30. | |
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all over Scotland. Not all of the two years tears of joy today, but | :25:31. | :25:35. | |
the Government insists help and advice is on offer to any students | :25:35. | :25:40. | |
who need it. Whatever the future holds for them, today is the end of | :25:40. | :25:46. | |
one journey and the beginning of many others. The journey perhaps | :25:46. | :25:54. | |
over for the Olympic bronze medallist, Beth Tweddle has | :25:54. | :25:58. | |
announced her retirement from gymnastics, she says she no longer | :25:58. | :26:01. | |
has the time to devote to the training she needs to stay at the | :26:01. | :26:11. | |
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top. Now, a reward of almost �1 million | :26:11. | :26:16. | |
is being offered for any information leading to the recovery of jewels | :26:16. | :26:26. | |
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worth 90 million, stolen from the French Riviera resort of Cannes. It | :26:29. | :26:34. | |
took barely a minute, the jewel thief walked in through the windows | :26:34. | :26:39. | |
of this hotel and held up the organisers with a semiautomatic | :26:39. | :26:45. | |
pistol. Simple, effective, highly lucrative. The insurer estimates he | :26:45. | :26:51. | |
escaped with over �88 million worth of precious stones, but belong to an | :26:51. | :26:55. | |
Israeli billionaire, on display in the same hotel that had featured | :26:56. | :27:05. | |
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Alfred Hitchcock's To Catch A Thief. This statement says that a | :27:07. | :27:14. | |
reward of up to 1 million euros will be offered to the first person who | :27:14. | :27:16. | |
provides information which leads to the recovery of the goods. They will | :27:16. | :27:26. | |
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be hoping for similar success in 2008 at this luxury store in Paris. | :27:27. | :27:31. | |
On that occasion several informants came forward with information | :27:31. | :27:36. | |
leading to dozens of arrests and over half of the gems were | :27:36. | :27:41. | |
recovered. Some of them were hidden in the waste drain of a house and | :27:41. | :27:46. | |
in the waste drain of a house and sealed in a cement block. | :27:46. | :27:52. | |
Time now to take a look at the weather. Nothing to sparkling, but | :27:52. | :27:57. | |
after the downpours of yesterday the weather has calmed down with some | :27:57. | :28:02. | |
average August weather for the rest of the week. Most will see some | :28:02. | :28:08. | |
sunshine, there will be cloudy spells and some showers around with | :28:08. | :28:12. | |
temperatures around average so it will feel pleasantly warm when the | :28:12. | :28:16. | |
sun is out. The cloud is bubbling up particularly in western areas, and | :28:16. | :28:21. | |
that cloud will provide some showers through Northern Ireland, and | :28:21. | :28:26. | |
northern and western parts of Scotland. The most, it is dry and | :28:26. | :28:34. | |
bright with temperatures climbing for the last three days. It is | :28:34. | :28:40. | |
cooler further west, where we have more cloud, some showers for Devon | :28:40. | :28:46. | |
and Cornwall, and possibly some in Wales, but for most in England and | :28:46. | :28:50. | |
Wales and central and southern Scotland it will remain dry. Even | :28:50. | :28:55. | |
here, when the sun pops out between the showers, the temperatures will | :28:55. | :29:00. | |
be in the high teens. It will be turning wetter across the north-west | :29:00. | :29:04. | |
overnight, something salty for the north-west of Northern Ireland and | :29:04. | :29:11. | |
the Highlands of Scotland, and in rural areas we will drop to single | :29:11. | :29:16. | |
figures, but cloudy tomorrow across the south-east and cloudier | :29:16. | :29:20. | |
certainly for much of Scotland and Northern Ireland. This band of rain | :29:20. | :29:24. | |
will turn more showery in the afternoon, maybe some more showers | :29:24. | :29:30. | |
dotted across England and Wales but in the sunny intervals, high teens | :29:30. | :29:34. | |
or low 20s again. The threat of rain in the south-east tomorrow comes | :29:34. | :29:43. | |
from a bigger zone of thunderstorms. Torrential downpours across Europe | :29:43. | :29:48. | |
tomorrow, but for much of the Mediterranean it is sunny and hot | :29:48. | :29:53. | |
with temperatures in Tunisia close to 40 degrees. It will be a pleasant | :29:53. | :29:59. | |
enough day on Thursday with some showers dotted about, but | :29:59. | :30:04. | |
temperatures in the high teens or low 20s. This weather front is | :30:04. | :30:08. | |
approaching for Friday, so perhaps there will be more cloud across the | :30:08. | :30:13. | |
UK and that weather fronts sending a band of showers from west to East. | :30:13. | :30:17. | |
Some may affect the crooked in Durham, but either side of that some | :30:17. | :30:24. | |
dry and bright weather with temperatures creeping into the low | :30:24. | :30:28. |