:00:07. > :00:14.The mother who starved her four-year-old son to death and left
:00:14. > :00:19.his body in a cot for two years is sentenced to 15 years. Amanda Hudson
:00:19. > :00:23.was found guilty of the manslaughter of Hamzah Khan. The judge said it
:00:23. > :00:29.was difficult to imagine a worst case of neglect. We will have the
:00:29. > :00:32.latest from Bradford Crown Court. The row between Ed Miliband and the
:00:32. > :00:38.Daily Mail escalates. The paper says it will not back down and say they
:00:38. > :00:44.need an apology. Italy observes a day of mourning for the African
:00:44. > :00:50.migrants who died after their boat capsized. More than 300 have died.
:00:50. > :00:53.FIFA takes a step forward to switching the 2022 World Cup from
:00:53. > :00:59.the heat of the summer to the cooler winter. And honoured for their
:00:59. > :01:05.outstanding bravery, eight Military Crosses are included in the latest
:01:05. > :01:11.list of military honours. It is quite difficult, you do not know
:01:11. > :01:18.where your colleagues are all your attackers are, it is like an ambush.
:01:18. > :01:21.Later on BBC London. Environmental campaigners warn new river crossings
:01:21. > :01:24.will make London's pollution levels even worse. And the treasure trove
:01:24. > :01:47.of Elizabethan jewellery on show for the first time in a century.
:01:47. > :01:51.Hello, good afternoon. Welcome to BBC News. A mother who starved her
:01:51. > :01:55.son to death and kept his decomposing body in a travel cot for
:01:55. > :02:00.two years has been given a 15 year prison sentence. The body of
:02:01. > :02:06.four-year-old Hamzah Khan was discovered in the bedroom of Amanda
:02:06. > :02:10.Hudson in 2011. The alcoholic mother of eight was found guilty of
:02:10. > :02:16.manslaughter by gross negligence yesterday. Our reporter is at
:02:17. > :02:20.Bradford Crown Court. This terrible case concluded in the
:02:20. > :02:27.last five minutes with a sentence being handed down by the judge. She
:02:27. > :02:33.got 12 years for the manslaughter of her son, Hamzah Khan, and three
:02:33. > :02:38.years for the neglect she showed towards her other children. They are
:02:39. > :02:45.consecutive sentences so it equals 15 years. She showed no reaction as
:02:45. > :02:54.the sentence was handed down. The judge criticised her for her devious
:02:54. > :02:58.nature and her wicked conduct. Amanda Hudson arrives at court in a
:02:58. > :03:01.prison van. Today she was sentenced for what the judge said was one of
:03:01. > :03:06.prison van. Today she was sentenced the worst cases of neglect he had
:03:06. > :03:12.seen. The 43-year-old mother abused her eight children and Hamzah Khan
:03:12. > :03:19.was eventually starved to death. The prosecution said he was fed less
:03:19. > :03:23.than the others. The court was reminded of the squalor that Amanda
:03:23. > :03:27.Hudson lived in. The living room ankle-deep in rubbish and the smell
:03:27. > :03:31.of rotting food that overwhelmed the police that came here to talk to the
:03:31. > :03:37.mother of Hamzah Khan. The judge praised this leaves office. Her
:03:37. > :03:43.first assignment for West Yorkshire police was to confront Amanda
:03:43. > :03:47.Hudson. She never gave up and knew something was wrong. I did not think
:03:47. > :03:51.she was capable of looking after herself, never mind anyone else in
:03:51. > :03:56.the house. There was no going back from that moment she opened the
:03:56. > :04:04.door. I had everything I needed to go to my Sergeant and say, we need
:04:04. > :04:12.to go in. Amanda Hudson's oldest child was sentenced alongside his
:04:12. > :04:18.mother. He said he wanted to ring for help when Hamzah Khan died but
:04:18. > :04:25.his own mother threatened to ring police. The body was left in a cot
:04:26. > :04:34.for 21 months by a mother who cared more for alcohol than her own son.
:04:34. > :04:37.The sun was given a two-year suspended sentence. It appears that
:04:37. > :04:46.the judge took into account the mitigating sentence answers --
:04:46. > :04:53.circumstances. The judge said she failed to fulfil any responsibility
:04:53. > :04:56.and on keeping the death secret you were worried that people would find
:04:56. > :05:01.out you had killed him. It was revealed that some of the siblings
:05:01. > :05:06.of Hamzah Khan knew that the body was in the house and that it was
:05:06. > :05:16.decomposing for nearly three years. Another aggravating factor in this
:05:16. > :05:23.grim case. Up to 300 people are thought to have
:05:23. > :05:26.died when a boat sank near the Italian island of Lampedusa.
:05:26. > :05:30.Officials say it is unlikely that any more survivors will be found. A
:05:30. > :05:36.day of mourning is being held in Italy.
:05:36. > :05:40.The frantic search for survivors yesterday morning. These dramatic
:05:40. > :05:46.new pictures from Italian coastguards show crewmembers
:05:46. > :05:52.plucking migrants from the water. By now, hours after the boat capsized,
:05:52. > :05:57.hundreds were already dead. Fishermen joined in with the rescue
:05:57. > :06:08.operation. Survivors cling to wreckage. This tragedy happened just
:06:08. > :06:12.a few hundred yards from dry land. This morning on Lampedusa,
:06:12. > :06:15.operations resumed. The chances of finding more survivors are remote
:06:15. > :06:25.and coastguards are bracing for a and painful task. TRANSLATION: Today
:06:25. > :06:29.the operations we plan to do are focused on looking inside the ship
:06:29. > :06:35.where bodies are trapped. We do not know the real number of bodies yet.
:06:35. > :06:39.The boats that bring the migrants are rarely seaworthy. The survivors
:06:39. > :06:44.have been telling their stories to officials and volunteers.
:06:44. > :06:48.TRANSLATION: The migrants had no way to signal their arrival. They set
:06:48. > :06:55.fire to a blanket at some gasoline on the boat caught fire. They were
:06:55. > :06:58.scared and moved to one side of the boat and the boat capsized. They
:06:58. > :07:04.fell in the water and many were trapped inside. The migrants came
:07:04. > :07:09.from Eritrea and Somalia. They embarked from the Libyan coast. The
:07:09. > :07:15.UN said that 30,000 migrants from Africa and the Middle East have
:07:15. > :07:21.managed to sail to Italy this year. Across Italy flags are at half-mast.
:07:21. > :07:26.The government has been criticised for failing to learn from lessons
:07:26. > :07:29.from two years ago. Another boat carrying hundreds of refugees in the
:07:29. > :07:32.Middle East arrived in Lampedusa yesterday. The hard-pressed Mayor
:07:32. > :07:35.said there was no space on his yesterday. The hard-pressed Mayor
:07:35. > :07:51.island for the living all the dead. Are your editor is on Lampedusa now.
:07:51. > :07:55.It has been another frustrating day here for the authorities. The
:07:55. > :08:00.weather has become turbulent and I went out today where the boat
:08:00. > :08:04.capsized and the divers who had hopes to go down and bring out some
:08:04. > :08:11.of the bodies were not able to do so. They believe that the boat has
:08:11. > :08:16.landed upright, it is about a feet down. They believe that there may be
:08:16. > :08:22.scores of bodies inside there. For the last few hours they have been
:08:22. > :08:26.unable to do anything. We have been talking to some of those that were
:08:27. > :08:32.involved in the rescue and they do have terrible stories. One fisherman
:08:32. > :08:38.spoke about how he was trying to pull people into his boat but they
:08:38. > :08:45.were covered in kerosene. Another captain from a boat said that a lot
:08:45. > :08:50.of the people he found in the water had swallowed sea water and
:08:50. > :08:54.gasoline. All of these stories lead into a sense of frustration both
:08:54. > :08:58.here and in Europe that nobody really seems to have an answer about
:08:58. > :09:05.this large-scale migration from Africa and the Middle East of people
:09:05. > :09:10.desperate to come to Europe. People are talking about going after the
:09:10. > :09:17.smugglers but that is not easy and Italy feels that this can only be
:09:17. > :09:20.managed on a European level. The stand-off between Ed Miliband
:09:20. > :09:24.and the mail newspaper group is escalating with the Labour leader
:09:24. > :09:27.urging the owner of the mail newspaper to examine what he calls
:09:27. > :09:32.their culture and practices. A senior figure at the Daily Mail said
:09:32. > :09:39.some in the Labour Party needs to apologise to Labour. Ed Miliband has
:09:39. > :09:41.now received two apologies, one after a journalist walked into a
:09:41. > :09:47.private memorial service and another after a journalist walked into a
:09:47. > :09:52.for a photograph of his father's grave. He made it clear he wants is
:09:52. > :09:57.to go further. I have had my say. The ball is in the court of the mail
:09:57. > :10:02.and the Mail on Sunday. They need to take a look at their culture and
:10:02. > :10:06.practices and ask why these kind of things are happening. It says
:10:06. > :10:17.something about the way they operate. What began as an argument
:10:17. > :10:23.over a dispute over whether Ed Miliband's father hated Britain has
:10:23. > :10:28.gone further. The mail believes it is an assault on the free press. I
:10:28. > :10:36.think the Labour Party has turned their on us over the whole week.
:10:36. > :10:40.Have addressed the problem and he has chosen to turn it into a
:10:40. > :10:48.political argument. He is using his own family to do this. I think we
:10:48. > :10:54.should be robust and resist that. The row between Labour and the Mail
:10:54. > :11:02.comes just as high in the scenes talks Karam over plans to improve
:11:02. > :11:06.whether the press is regulated. Next week is about the future of press
:11:06. > :11:10.regulation in this country. It is not about one article. On the other
:11:10. > :11:16.hand, the people around the table are only human and if they do not
:11:16. > :11:20.think about this article then that would be amazing. I hope they do not
:11:20. > :11:27.let it overshadow their thinking. It has been ten months since the
:11:27. > :11:30.Leveson Inquiry and still as yet there is no new system of regulation
:11:30. > :11:36.in place. When Ed Miliband talks about the wider culture and
:11:36. > :11:42.practices of the Mail, it is a reminder that it is more than just a
:11:42. > :11:49.battle about the reputation of his father. The Metropolitan police said
:11:49. > :11:52.thousands of mobile phone records may hold the key to solving the
:11:52. > :11:59.disappearance of Madeleine McCann who vanished in 2007. She went
:11:59. > :12:03.missing in 2007. Portuguese police had access to the mobile phone
:12:03. > :12:07.records but did not scrutinise them. She has been missing for more than
:12:08. > :12:12.six years but Madeline McCann has not faded from the public
:12:12. > :12:16.consciousness. The need to discover what happened to her appears as
:12:16. > :12:21.strong as ever. The new enquiry into events at Praia da Luz is turning to
:12:21. > :12:26.mobile phone usage at the time that the free role disappeared. Details
:12:26. > :12:30.of all of the calls made then were recorded but were never analysed.
:12:30. > :12:35.Detectives from Scotland Yard are trawling through a mass of data,
:12:35. > :12:41.looking for links. The relationship between the phones, the network
:12:41. > :12:47.between one phone call and another, and the way police will be able to
:12:47. > :12:54.mark that out will be very useful. Some experts believe the time lag
:12:54. > :12:56.between the disappearance means the task will not be straightforward.
:12:56. > :12:59.The problem is that we are looking task will not be straightforward.
:12:59. > :13:04.at data that was collected many years ago. We know what the phone
:13:04. > :13:06.numbers were but we can't necessarily link them to real
:13:06. > :13:12.people. It might be possible to do necessarily link them to real
:13:12. > :13:17.that if you have monthly contracts but with pay as you go, it is
:13:17. > :13:22.difficult. When a child goes missing, it is the first few hours
:13:22. > :13:27.that are crucial. Officers at Scotland Yard are carrying out the
:13:27. > :13:31.sort of enquiries they believed their Portuguese counterpart should
:13:31. > :13:36.have completed six years ago. Their multi-million pound enquiry remains
:13:36. > :13:43.focused on Portugal, that now spans a total of 31 countries around the
:13:43. > :13:50.world. They have identified 41 potential suspects, 15 of whom are
:13:50. > :13:55.in UK nationals. Later this month the parents of Madeline McCann will
:13:55. > :13:58.appear on the BBC along with senior detectives and they will reveal
:13:58. > :14:03.important new information about the case. It is not just her family who
:14:03. > :14:10.hope it is information that can lead to an explanation about what
:14:10. > :14:19.happened to this little girl. Should footballers be expected to play the
:14:19. > :14:23.2022 World Cup in temperatures of 40 Celsius? That is the question that
:14:23. > :14:25.fever have been debating in Europe. They are taking a step to moving the
:14:25. > :14:36.fever have been debating in Europe. tournament towards winter by setting
:14:36. > :14:40.up a consultation process. There is so much confusion and
:14:40. > :14:48.controversy surrounding Qatar. The most powerful man in the game, said
:14:48. > :14:55.blatter, wanted to provide some security here. When he addresses the
:14:55. > :14:58.media here, he will say that broadcasters and all of the
:14:58. > :15:02.stakeholders in football needs to be consulted before a decision to
:15:02. > :15:04.reschedule that World Cup. The direction of travel is clear and it
:15:04. > :15:16.is a matter of when and not if that It will be an interesting meeting.
:15:16. > :15:19.FIFA is expected to pave the way for a winter World Cup, although a final
:15:19. > :15:24.vote looks set to go into extra time. I don't think there will be a
:15:24. > :15:29.decision today. We have not been presented with an analysis. We don't
:15:29. > :15:33.know what the stakeholders are. Is it possible to have a re-vote and
:15:33. > :15:36.take it away from Qatar? I don't think so. That would be totally
:15:36. > :15:40.unresponsible. There is a growing consensus that scorching
:15:40. > :15:44.temperatures make a switch away from the World Cup's traditional summer
:15:44. > :15:48.timeslot inevitable and FIFA will spend months examining the
:15:48. > :15:52.ramifications of such a move. Among them, a potential clash with the
:15:52. > :15:59.2022 Winter Olympics and disruption to domestic leagues across Europe.
:15:59. > :16:04.They need to alter things the year before and maybe the year after,
:16:04. > :16:09.certainly. I think there will be no choice, but it will have to move.
:16:09. > :16:12.The Premier League and the people about it are already starting work
:16:12. > :16:18.on that and thinking about it. It does look as if it will be changed.
:16:18. > :16:24.The image that Qatar wanted to present to the world. Instead, this,
:16:24. > :16:28.the plight of migrant construction workers in the country exposed.
:16:28. > :16:33.World Cup organisers forced to address allegations of slave labour.
:16:33. > :16:37.It's the government's assurance, it is the people's assurance, it is our
:16:37. > :16:41.assurance, that if these matters arise, we will be eradicating them
:16:41. > :16:46.and working hard to ensure these matters are eradicated. Qatar! The
:16:46. > :16:49.jaw-dropping moment that sent shockwaves through the game, three
:16:49. > :16:53.years have passed now since the decision here to award the World Cup
:16:53. > :16:57.to Qatar. FIFA may have bought themselves more time, but anger and
:16:58. > :17:04.a mess of their own making shows no sign of abating.
:17:04. > :17:08.Qatar 2022 has moved from one controversy to the next. Whether it
:17:08. > :17:11.is too hot to play there. How the workers, who are constructing the
:17:12. > :17:16.infrastructure, are being treated. Still, the decision to award the
:17:16. > :17:24.country the sporting event is under huge scrutiny. Thank you.
:17:24. > :17:26.It is 1.17pm. Our main story: A mother who starved her son to death
:17:26. > :17:30.It is 1.17pm. Our main story: A and kept his decomposing body in a
:17:30. > :17:36.travel cot for nearly two years is given a 15-year prison sentence.
:17:36. > :17:40.Still to come: Playing dead to survive - one family's ordeal during
:17:40. > :17:43.the fatal attack on a Kenyan shopping centre.
:17:43. > :17:49.I didn't know whether they were talking to me. Mama, I could hear
:17:50. > :17:55.this lady answering and less than five seconds later, two shots.
:17:55. > :17:59.Later on BBC London: Keeping the Olympic spirit alive. David Beckham
:17:59. > :18:06.returns to East London to encourage others to take up sport.
:18:06. > :18:15.The fashion show that covers big skirts.
:18:15. > :18:20.The Woodland Trust has begun its largest-ever felling of diseased
:18:20. > :18:25.trees after the spread of a fungus-like organism that infects
:18:25. > :18:30.larch trees. 500 acres are being cleared at Wales' largest ancient
:18:30. > :18:36.woodland, Wentwood Forest. The disease is expected to spread
:18:36. > :18:41.meaning further felling. disease is expected to spread
:18:41. > :18:46.An ancient jewel of the British countryside. The history of Wentwood
:18:46. > :18:51.Forest spreads back over a Millennium. Venerable oaks stand
:18:51. > :18:57.amongst much younger conifer trees, but it's a delicate ecosystem which
:18:57. > :19:02.has been hit by the ceaseless spread of disease. There's needles
:19:02. > :19:07.missing... These larch trees show all the symptoms of carrying
:19:07. > :19:11.Phytophthora ramorum, a fungus-like organism that can mutate to infect
:19:11. > :19:16.different species. It was first found in Britain just over a decade
:19:16. > :19:19.ago. And has already claimed thousands of trees in the South
:19:19. > :19:24.West. It spreads on the wind, in thousands of trees in the South
:19:24. > :19:27.moist conditions, so our wet summer last year was a particularly good
:19:27. > :19:31.year for infection. The prevailing wind is from the south-west, so when
:19:31. > :19:36.there is an infection in the south-west corner of a wood, you can
:19:36. > :19:44.see it radiating through the wood. And so down come the larch trees.
:19:44. > :19:50.Felling the full 200 acres here will take another three weeks. But across
:19:50. > :19:55.Wales, more than 5,500 acres of woodland have become infected.
:19:55. > :19:59.Phytophthora ramorum, which affects the larch trees, is one of 15
:19:59. > :20:04.different diseases which has been found in British woodlands, but the
:20:04. > :20:13.biggest problem has become ash dieback.
:20:13. > :20:22.Strips of its bark, the wood is good for use in housing and fencing. A
:20:22. > :20:26.silver lining, you would think for timber merchants, but they are
:20:26. > :20:31.worried. It is affecting everything. It was going to affect us. In a few
:20:31. > :20:40.years' time, when we fell all the trees, where will the timber come
:20:40. > :20:44.from then? The impact of alien organisms on forests like this means
:20:44. > :20:54.it will need to be replanted with a range of more resistant trees, if it
:20:54. > :20:58.to thrive in the future. New car sales hit the highest level
:20:58. > :21:02.for five-and-a-half years in September and have now risen for 19
:21:02. > :21:07.months in a row. The industry had been badly hit during the downturn.
:21:07. > :21:10.Emma Simpson is here to explain. Some positive news. What is behind
:21:10. > :21:14.the figures? These are very strong numbers out today. September, of
:21:15. > :21:18.course, is always a big important month for the industry because we
:21:18. > :21:24.can get our hands on a shiny new car plate. This year, we saw more than
:21:24. > :21:27.400,000 new car registrations. There they are. That's an increase of just
:21:27. > :21:31.over 12% compared with last year. It they are. That's an increase of just
:21:31. > :21:38.is the first time that we have seen the numbers go through the 400,000
:21:38. > :21:42.mark for five years. It is a sign of just the growing confidence in the
:21:42. > :21:47.economy. There are a number of factors. One interesting point is
:21:47. > :21:52.that the number of private car sales are up 17%, so perhaps people who
:21:52. > :21:56.have been holding off from making that big ticket purchase feel that
:21:56. > :22:01.it is time to go and make a purchase. Cheap finance deals,
:22:01. > :22:05.another big factor. One big dealership, right across the UK,
:22:05. > :22:11.said that 80% of its new car sales are done through credit. Finally,
:22:11. > :22:16.there's evidence that people have been using PPI money to buy a new
:22:16. > :22:19.car. That is the compensation through insurance mis-selling. Of
:22:19. > :22:22.course, hundreds of millions of pounds are being paid out by the
:22:22. > :22:26.banks and that has been happening for quite a long time. So perhaps it
:22:26. > :22:32.is just a sign that people are maybe feeling more confident to spend it.
:22:32. > :22:36.Thank you. The publicist Max Clifford has
:22:36. > :22:40.pleaded not guilty to 11 counts of indecent assault on teenage girls
:22:40. > :22:46.aged between 14 and 19. The offences are alleged to have taken place
:22:46. > :22:50.between 1966 and 1984. Matt Prodger reports from Southwark Crown Court.
:22:50. > :22:55.This report does contain flash photography.
:22:55. > :23:00.A man accustomed to shaping the news, today making the news. Max
:23:00. > :23:05.Clifford arriving at Southwark Crown Court to face multiple charges of
:23:05. > :23:10.indecent assault. Charges he has denied since his arrest in December.
:23:10. > :23:17.First of all, again, I'm totally innocent of these charges by these
:23:17. > :23:21.seven anonymous ladies. I want to thank everyone, the public,
:23:22. > :23:26.everywhere I go, not just in this country, but everywhere for the
:23:26. > :23:30.support I'm getting. He faces 11 charges of indecent assault. The
:23:30. > :23:36.seven alleged victims were women and girls aged between 14 and 19 at the
:23:36. > :23:43.time. And the offences were allegedly committed between 1966 and
:23:43. > :23:48.1984. The hearing lasted an hour as Max Clifford stood in the dock. The
:23:48. > :23:55.charges were then put to him one by one. 11 times he replied not guilty.
:23:55. > :24:01.As he left, Mr Clifford, who is 70, spoke once more on the steps of the
:24:01. > :24:07.court. It's a nightmare for myself, and everyone close to me. And I'm
:24:07. > :24:17.totally innocent. Max Clifford's trial will begin on March 4th.
:24:18. > :24:20.The former Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons, Nigel Evans, has
:24:20. > :24:24.appeared at Preston Crown Court charged with a series of sexual
:24:24. > :24:29.offences against men. The MP for Ribble Valley and Lancashire is
:24:29. > :24:31.charged with eight offences including sexual assault, indecent
:24:31. > :24:36.assault and rape. He was given bail and will appear in court again in
:24:36. > :24:40.January next year. As Kenya struggles to come to terms
:24:40. > :24:43.with the horrors of the Westgate shopping centre attack, some
:24:43. > :24:48.dramatic stories of survival are beginning to emerge. One image from
:24:48. > :24:54.the assault in Nairobi was that of a mother protecting her family for
:24:54. > :25:00.hours until their rescue. Gabriel Gatehouse has heard their harrowing
:25:00. > :25:05.story. # They shall live at his command...
:25:05. > :25:10.# They sang to keep their spirits up as they hid from the attackers in
:25:10. > :25:13.the Westgate Shopping Mall. I remember once they came very near
:25:13. > :25:17.because there was a lady who was lying about two metres away from us.
:25:17. > :25:20.I could hear them walking and I knew this was not just any regular
:25:20. > :25:24.person. They had a conversation and, at that point, they called out. I
:25:24. > :25:28.didn't know whether they were talking to me, but I knew I wasn't
:25:28. > :25:33.going to raise my head. I could hear this lady answering and less than
:25:33. > :25:39.five seconds later, two shots and she was quiet. After a while, I felt
:25:39. > :25:44.someone touching my hand. This person again was calling, "Are you
:25:44. > :25:54.OK?" This was a point where I played dead. Then he came in front to me
:25:54. > :25:59.and he touched me saying, "Baby, baby" and I raised my head up. I
:25:59. > :26:05.asked him a few questions. I asked baby" and I raised my head up. I
:26:05. > :26:11.him if he's one of the bad guys. He said, "No, baby, I'm one of the
:26:11. > :26:19.police. I'm not with the bad guys. I'm here to rescue you." All three
:26:19. > :26:21.escaped physically unhurt. Faith and her two children are back in their
:26:21. > :26:25.home in a quiet suburb of Nairobi. her two children are back in their
:26:25. > :26:29.But the psychological scars are there. We are scared. Admittedly, we
:26:29. > :26:33.are looking over our shoulders. We are more cautious than before. We
:26:33. > :26:41.try to regain normality in our lives. For the Wambuas, a
:26:41. > :26:46.middle-class Kenyan idyll has been shattered.
:26:46. > :26:49.More than 100 members of the armed forces have been recommended for the
:26:49. > :26:54.latest round of military honours for those who have demonstrated some
:26:54. > :26:57.extraordinary acts of bravery. They include Corporal Josh Griffiths, who
:26:57. > :27:04.helped save his comrades during an attack on their base in Afghanistan
:27:04. > :27:10.despite having a broken back. Corporal Josh Griffiths of The
:27:10. > :27:15.Mercian Regiment. Honoured for acts of outstanding braving. When a bomb
:27:15. > :27:19.destroyed large parts of an Army base in Afghanistan in March,
:27:20. > :27:24.Corporal Josh Griffiths fought back insurgents and protected his injured
:27:24. > :27:31.colleagues despite breaking his black in the initial explosion. I
:27:31. > :27:35.crawled, the lads were screaming. I went over to help them out. I
:27:35. > :27:39.dragged one of the casualties out. That is when I heard the rounds
:27:39. > :27:42.snapping past my head. Most of those receiving honours served in
:27:42. > :27:48.Afghanistan last winter. Their role was to help in the transition to
:27:48. > :27:52.Afghan-led security force. The deployment was described as complex
:27:52. > :27:55.and dangerous and one in which nine British service personnel died. Two
:27:55. > :27:58.were killed last October. They had been patrolling an Afghan police
:27:58. > :28:02.station when they came under-fire. The death toll could have been much
:28:02. > :28:05.higher were it not for the actions of Marine Buchanan, who put himself
:28:05. > :28:09.between the gunman and the rest of the patrol. It is quite difficult,
:28:09. > :28:12.especially when rounds are coming down, you don't know where your
:28:12. > :28:14.colleagues are, you don't know where the attackers are. It is like an
:28:14. > :28:20.ambush. So the first thing you have the attackers are. It is like an
:28:20. > :28:26.to do is just assess the situation and then once you know what is going
:28:26. > :28:31.on, try and cease the attackers' antics and apply first aid to your
:28:31. > :28:34.fallen comrades. Lance Corporal Rachel Hughes has also been
:28:34. > :28:38.honoured, not only for saving the lives of injured colleagues, but
:28:38. > :28:43.several Afghan children. I was just doing my job. To receive something
:28:43. > :28:45.like this is such an honour, and not just for my work, the guys I worked
:28:45. > :28:50.like this is such an honour, and not with as well. They all deserve this
:28:50. > :28:54.so I accept this on their behalf as well. A modest response, typical of
:28:54. > :29:01.those who have performed extraordinary acts of bravery well
:29:01. > :29:05.above and beyond the call of duty. Now, it is time for a look at the
:29:05. > :29:08.weather with Darren Bett. Hello. Hello.
:29:08. > :29:16.The weekend looks quite promising, I suspect. It is turning drier, we are
:29:16. > :29:20.seeing the rain clearing away. It is brightening up and, hopefully, we
:29:20. > :29:23.will see a little sunshine. Quite a few storms across the South East.
:29:23. > :29:26.They didn't last too long, but it is this rain we had in the South West
:29:26. > :29:29.that's been spinning its way northwards and it is that rain that
:29:29. > :29:31.has come to rest across Northern England. It is here that we have
:29:31. > :29:35.has come to rest across Northern most of the rain through the rest of
:29:35. > :29:38.the day. Just clipping the south-east of Scotland, but it will
:29:38. > :29:42.run away later this afternoon. So it will dry off in many parts of
:29:42. > :29:47.Scotland. Eastern Scotland could get 18 Celsius. We still have some rain
:29:47. > :29:50.across Northern England well into the afternoon. Head further south,
:29:51. > :29:52.through the Midlands, East Anglia, the South East, it should be
:29:52. > :29:55.through the Midlands, East Anglia, generally dry, no more than a
:29:55. > :30:00.passing shower. Brighter and quite warm - 21 degrees. We could see
:30:00. > :30:05.similar temperatures across eastern parts of Wales. It will brighten up
:30:05. > :30:08.across the South West, too. Skies will brighten. Maybe a bit more
:30:09. > :30:14.cloud continuing in West Wales, Pembrokeshire, maybe seeing some
:30:14. > :30:19.outbreaks of rain for a time. Generally dry for Northern Ireland.
:30:19. > :30:22.Overnight, we see the back of the rain fairly quickly from Northern
:30:22. > :30:29.England. It will push out into the North Sea. Most of us will then be
:30:29. > :30:34.dry. Just a few light showers over those western slopes. It will be
:30:34. > :30:39.cooler and fresher than it has been recently. Pressure is building
:30:39. > :30:42.across the UK. This area of high pressure is moving in, it will
:30:42. > :30:46.settle things down here. This weather front may spoil things in
:30:46. > :30:49.the north later in the weekend. Some short-lived mist and fog around
:30:49. > :30:53.tomorrow morning. Then we will see the skies brightening. A little bit
:30:54. > :30:59.of sunshine. There won't be many showers. Many places will be dry and
:30:59. > :31:06.fine. Those temperatures still above average for the time of year. In the
:31:06. > :31:08.North West, we will see the wind picking up during Saturday evening
:31:09. > :31:12.and with this weather front, we will see a bit of rain overnight for
:31:12. > :31:16.Scotland and Northern Ireland in the west. That may come to rest in the
:31:16. > :31:19.far North West of England and Wales on Sunday. Brighter skies following
:31:19. > :31:23.to the north. Some sunshine developing in the South as well.
:31:23. > :31:27.Those temperatures staying steady at 18 or 19 degrees. When you get the
:31:27. > :31:30.sunshine, over the weekend, it will feel quite pleasant. Many places
:31:31. > :31:33.will have a dry weekend, a bit of rain coming in to northern areas on
:31:33. > :31:42.Saturday night into Sunday. Lovely. rain coming in to northern areas on
:31:42. > :31:47.Thank you. A reminder of the top story: Amanda Hutton, the mother who
:31:47. > :31:51.starved her four-year-old son to death and left his body in a cot for
:31:51. > :31:56.nearly two years, has been sentenced to 15 years in prison. That is all
:31:56. > :31:56.from us. Now it is time to join the news teams where you