:00:09. > :00:14.Four weeks after the siege at a Kenyan shopping mall more bodies are
:00:15. > :00:17.discovered. Officials think two of them could be gunmen involved in the
:00:18. > :00:20.attack in which 67 people died. We'll look at the potential threat
:00:21. > :00:27.from al-Shabab on the wider international stage. Also this
:00:28. > :00:31.lunchtime. Human trafficking and exploitation. New government
:00:32. > :00:34.measures would see the worst offenders sentenced to life in jail.
:00:35. > :00:37.A call to confront the issue of elderly loneliness as the Government
:00:38. > :00:42.says it's something society is failing to address. Complaints after
:00:43. > :00:48.a government text and email scheme wrongly accuses some recipients of
:00:49. > :00:51.being illegal immigrants. And the Duchess of Cambridge sports her
:00:52. > :00:53.first solo outing since the birth of Prince George while her husband's
:00:54. > :01:09.left at home holding the baby. A leading charity says thousands of
:01:10. > :01:26.victims of trafficking are living here in London.
:01:27. > :01:33.Good afternoon and welcome to the BBC News At One. Four weeks after
:01:34. > :01:36.the siege at a Kenyan shopping mall in which Islamist extremists killed
:01:37. > :01:40.at least 67 people the authorities say they may have found the bodies
:01:41. > :01:43.of two more gunmen. A Kenyan MP says they were pulled from the rubble of
:01:44. > :01:46.the Westgate centre and next to them were a number of AK47 rifles, the
:01:47. > :01:54.type of weapon used by the gang which carried out the attack. You
:01:55. > :01:59.may find images in this report from Will Ross distressing. The moment of
:02:00. > :02:05.sheer terror when the gunmen strolled into the Westgate shopping
:02:06. > :02:08.maul firing at random shoppers. People running for their lives down
:02:09. > :02:13.the aisles of the supermarket, hiding wherever they thought they
:02:14. > :02:19.would be safe. Here, one of the gunmen calmly shoots a man. Another
:02:20. > :02:25.gunmen fired a second shot. Tracer bullet can be seen as shoppers cower
:02:26. > :02:29.for safely. Intense fear can be seen on the people caught up in the
:02:30. > :02:33.havoc. Even injured children are taken away to be held hostage. As
:02:34. > :02:37.they meted out their terror, the gunmen appeared totally composed.
:02:38. > :02:42.They also took time to lay down their guns when it was time for
:02:43. > :02:48.Muslim prayers. Part of the building collapsed during the siege. At least
:02:49. > :02:53.67 people were killed. Even now, almost four weeks later, charred
:02:54. > :02:57.bodies are still being found. The BBC has learned that during the past
:02:58. > :03:04.24 hours, three bodies have been pulled out from under the rubble of
:03:05. > :03:07.the maul. The MP who heads the committee investigating the attack
:03:08. > :03:11.told me to the bodies were highly likely to be those of the gunmen,
:03:12. > :03:15.the third, he said, was probably that of a Kenyan soldier -- mall.
:03:16. > :03:20.Investigators believe one of the gunman was this manner. A
:03:21. > :03:25.23-year-old man whose family fled Somalia's conflict in 1999, and
:03:26. > :03:31.settled in Norway. A BBC investigation found out that
:03:32. > :03:35.becoming radicalised, he returned to Africa to join the Somali militant
:03:36. > :03:38.group Al-Shabab. It's not surprising that someone who had lived in the
:03:39. > :03:43.West took part in the Nairobi attack. Initially be used to look at
:03:44. > :03:48.it as a Somali thing, but now people from different nationalities are
:03:49. > :03:56.joining Al-Shabab, people who've left Somalia and going to the West.
:03:57. > :04:00.America. But they're coming back and joining Al-Shabab to wage a war
:04:01. > :04:03.against Kenya and other nations. When the mall was under siege, the
:04:04. > :04:08.Kenyan government said between ten and 15 gunmen were inside. The TV
:04:09. > :04:11.footage so far has only shown four men. It is still not clear how many
:04:12. > :04:19.of them were killed and how many escaped. Let's speak to our security
:04:20. > :04:22.correspondent, Frank Gardner. How much concern is there given this
:04:23. > :04:28.Norway connection over the threat from Al-Shabab on a wider scale? I
:04:29. > :04:33.don't think we should exaggerate the threat from Al-Shabab, which is
:04:34. > :04:36.essentially a regional local organisation. Yes, last year they
:04:37. > :04:41.aligned themselves formerly with Al-Qaeda about their prime targets
:04:42. > :04:46.are in East Africa. They're looking to hit targets in Kenya, Somalia and
:04:47. > :04:51.Western interests there if they can. There isn't any evidence of an
:04:52. > :04:57.established Al-Qaeda plot, attack planet network, back in Europe or
:04:58. > :05:03.the USA. A number of tiny, tiny individuals, one in 1000 of the
:05:04. > :05:07.refugee communities, have gone out to join a Al-Shabab in Somalia. Some
:05:08. > :05:09.of those haven't come back. Some of a Al-Shabab in Somalia. Some of
:05:10. > :05:12.those haven't come back. Some of May come back been they will come back
:05:13. > :05:18.and tried to do ataxia but there's no evidence of that. In Norway,
:05:19. > :05:20.there appears to be a stronger link between Al-Shabab and Norway than
:05:21. > :05:25.other European countries and certainly, five years ago, they were
:05:26. > :05:29.able to do quite a lot of recruiting in fundraising. It's harder for them
:05:30. > :05:33.to do it now. This will galvanise Norwegian authorities to look more
:05:34. > :05:35.closely at those links. OK, thank you. There's been a big increase in
:05:36. > :05:38.the number of people being trafficked into the UK. Last year,
:05:39. > :05:42.nearly 1,200 people were illegally brought into the country. That's up
:05:43. > :05:45.25% on the year before. Many are forced to become sex workers, house
:05:46. > :05:50.slaves, or work for low pay in the construction industry. Most of the
:05:51. > :05:55.victims were from Nigeria, Vietnam, Albania, Romania and China. Now
:05:56. > :05:57.there are plans in England and Wales to introduce life sentences for the
:05:58. > :06:07.worst traffickers as our home affairs correspondent, Tom
:06:08. > :06:17.in Cambridgeshire, police moved in on the gang masters. Get in their!
:06:18. > :06:23.Its alleged they have been exploiting farm workers from
:06:24. > :06:28.Lithuania and Latvia. Nine arrests. The end of a complex investigation.
:06:29. > :06:35.Eastern Europe is a growing source of trafficking into the UK. The
:06:36. > :06:44.number of victims from Albania has tripled. This woman is one of them.
:06:45. > :06:46.She was flown to the UK and driven to Birmingham where a man she
:06:47. > :06:51.thought was her boyfriend turned into their capital. He said, now
:06:52. > :06:57.you're working for me as a prostitute. I couldn't say nothing.
:06:58. > :07:05.I was shocked and feeling very dirty and stupid and ignorant. Scared.
:07:06. > :07:09.It's not just women and not just prostitution. Here, the specialist
:07:10. > :07:14.anti-trafficking squad is targeting a man it claims Lord Polish men to
:07:15. > :07:18.the UK with a promise of a demolition job and then stole their
:07:19. > :07:22.wages. We have agreed not to show the outside of the house but I can
:07:23. > :07:25.tell you it's a sizeable semidetached property. This man, the
:07:26. > :07:32.police say, has done well out of its activities. The Home Secretary is
:07:33. > :07:35.now promising life sentences for the worst offenders and trafficking
:07:36. > :07:40.orders to prevent those convicted from running businesses or working
:07:41. > :07:43.with children and young women. It's important to send a clear message to
:07:44. > :07:49.people about how horrific this crime of modern slavery is. I think it's
:07:50. > :07:53.important than we are sure we deal appropriately with people guilty of
:07:54. > :07:58.these offences. But getting tough it is not enough say some experts.
:07:59. > :08:00.There's often a desire to deport the victims of trafficking who feel
:08:01. > :08:06.safer staying in Britain. The problem with that, losing your
:08:07. > :08:12.evidence. It makes it impossible to prosecute. Unless these are made
:08:13. > :08:16.central to the new act the government is talking about, there's
:08:17. > :08:19.no guarantee prosecutions will increase. A key problem is, despite
:08:20. > :08:24.today's figures, no one really knows how many victims they really is. It
:08:25. > :08:30.is a source of national shame that as many as 800,000 people in England
:08:31. > :08:33.are chronically lonely. In a speech, the Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt
:08:34. > :08:39.will say the problem of loneliness is something that society has
:08:40. > :08:41.utterly failed to confront. Let's speak to our political
:08:42. > :08:50.correspondent, Chris Mason. An emotive issue. One that Mr Hunt is
:08:51. > :08:54.addressing as we speak. Yes, he's addressing a conference in Harrogate
:08:55. > :08:58.this lunchtime. A hugely emotive issue and one that millions of
:08:59. > :09:02.families will be able to relate to. He's just said last couple of
:09:03. > :09:06.minutes, four 5 million people, television as their main form of
:09:07. > :09:11.company. What he is grappling with is a far bigger challenge for
:09:12. > :09:15.government and for society. That's with an ageing population. Where
:09:16. > :09:17.does responsibility lie? Where does the limitations of what the state
:09:18. > :09:28.can provide reach a point where society that has to pick up and
:09:29. > :09:31.carry on, if you like? His argument is that society has to do much more
:09:32. > :09:33.to look after elder people, particularly those who might be
:09:34. > :09:35.lonely. He has pointed to his experience of meeting his wife's
:09:36. > :09:38.family, who is Chinese, and says there's a real respect in Asian
:09:39. > :09:45.culture for older people, I respect that we in the UK can learn from.
:09:46. > :09:48.There has been reaction to this already. The central argument about
:09:49. > :09:52.whether state Magna boss responsibilities lie, and where
:09:53. > :09:57.society picks up, he has said in the last hour, on a BBC Radio interview
:09:58. > :10:00.that when it comes to the broader issue of care costs, society needs
:10:01. > :10:04.change its outlook so that we contribute and save for our own care
:10:05. > :10:08.costs in the way many people do for a pension at the moment. The
:10:09. > :10:13.reaction from Labour and from some others is, what the responsibility
:10:14. > :10:17.of government? The shadow health minister has said the care system is
:10:18. > :10:21.creaking, it is inadequate, and the government is to blame for that so
:10:22. > :10:25.that's a big argument. Where does government's response ability liar
:10:26. > :10:33.and where does society's responsibility lie. Chris, thank you
:10:34. > :10:36.very much. There have been around 140 complaints about a government
:10:37. > :10:38.text and email scheme which wrongly accused some recipients of being
:10:39. > :10:41.illegal immigrants. Some people claim they were contacted by mistake
:10:42. > :10:44.but the Home Office has defended the policy saying only a tiny fraction
:10:45. > :10:51.of nearly 60,000 people had been contacted in error. With immigration
:10:52. > :10:56.near the top of voters concerns, the government wants to be seen to limit
:10:57. > :11:00.migration into Britain and to deal with people already here. Some of
:11:01. > :11:04.the tactics are proving controversial. This man campaign for
:11:05. > :11:07.the rights of migrants but said he was sent this text message
:11:08. > :11:12.questioning his right to remain the country despite being here
:11:13. > :11:17.illegally. I thought it was a spam text and I ignored it. I know I'm a
:11:18. > :11:21.British citizen, I've always had a British passport. I think it's part
:11:22. > :11:28.of an aggressive policy by this government and agencies to fish out
:11:29. > :11:33.so-called illegal immigrants in this country. The Home Office denies
:11:34. > :11:36.sending a text to him but said he is considering legal action but the
:11:37. > :11:41.Home Office don't deny text in illegal immigrants. This is both
:11:42. > :11:44.incompetent but also offensive to British citizens receiving text
:11:45. > :11:47.messages telling them to go home. If the government have people 's
:11:48. > :11:52.numbers, phone numbers, e-mail addresses, landlines, then surely
:11:53. > :11:55.there is an effective way to actually enforce the deportation
:11:56. > :12:00.rather than gimmicks like this. Last September, The Home Office asked a
:12:01. > :12:07.private firm to cap that track down people who were in the UK
:12:08. > :12:12.illegally. They looked at 133,400 cases. And have contacted 58,800
:12:13. > :12:17.people by text message, e-mail, phone. Warning vendor may have
:12:18. > :12:20.overstayed their welcome. 143 people complained that they were wrongly
:12:21. > :12:23.targeted and 14 complaints were upheld. More than 4000 people have
:12:24. > :12:30.left the country as a result of this text message e-mail and letters from
:12:31. > :12:33.the company in a campaign against illegal immigration and the
:12:34. > :12:36.government believes it is often cheaper to encourage people to leave
:12:37. > :12:41.this weight rather than go through a formal deportation proceedings but
:12:42. > :12:46.UKIP have called this practice repugnant. And Conservative
:12:47. > :12:51.ministers have suggested we might not seen the last of these vans
:12:52. > :12:54.which were very publicly encouraging migrants to leave. We are going to
:12:55. > :12:58.publish the results will meet on the evaluation and if it's successful,
:12:59. > :13:03.we will roll it out and it is not, we went. Immigration remains
:13:04. > :13:07.sensitive and are reports that the text messages have been toned down
:13:08. > :13:10.and opponents say it should not be sent at all. Dozens of bushfires in
:13:11. > :13:14.Australia are burning out of control in New South Wales. The fires, the
:13:15. > :13:17.worst in the state for ten years, have killed one man and destroyed
:13:18. > :13:21.hundreds of homes. Our correspondent Jon Donnison has been to see the
:13:22. > :13:29.damage in one of the most badly affected areas. For a second day,
:13:30. > :13:36.much of New South Wales continued to burn. The region's Blue Mountains,
:13:37. > :13:42.turned orange. Smoke from the fires, at times, giving Sydney skyline 50
:13:43. > :13:45.miles away and apocalyptic feel. Thousands of firefighters have been
:13:46. > :13:50.called up to try to bring things under control. For some, though, the
:13:51. > :13:56.damage has already been done. This is all that's left of some the homes
:13:57. > :14:01.in this small community in the Blue Mountains. The fire swept up through
:14:02. > :14:05.the bush yesterday afternoon. Many of the houses here are completely
:14:06. > :14:10.gutted. The families got away with their lives, but they have been left
:14:11. > :14:16.with not much else. I got the dog and a few little items, and two
:14:17. > :14:22.doors down there was an explosion, something blew up, and I knew then
:14:23. > :14:26.my house was gone. Yes, it's a bit devastating but it's all insured, I
:14:27. > :14:31.know. But we are all here and that's the main thing. The fires have come
:14:32. > :14:36.after hot weather. Last month was the hottest September on record. It
:14:37. > :14:40.has left the ground tinder dry. Today, temperatures drop, easing
:14:41. > :14:45.conditions are little. But their forecast to rise into the 30s are
:14:46. > :14:49.going over the weekend. This is a fire emergency which could go on for
:14:50. > :14:55.quite some time. There are hundreds of people who are grieving the loss
:14:56. > :15:04.of property, tragically there has been, it seems, one life lost.
:15:05. > :15:08.Australia has seen bigger fires than these. But the fact they have come
:15:09. > :15:12.so earlier this year, it's still early spring here, has left many
:15:13. > :15:21.fearing a long hot and dangerous summer. An inquest into the
:15:22. > :15:24.unexplained deaths of 19 people at a care home near Crawley in West
:15:25. > :15:29.Sussex has heard how patients were not fed or given proper medication.
:15:30. > :15:32.The Orchid home was closed in October 2011 after the Care Quality
:15:33. > :15:36.Commission discovered staff shortages had led to a catalogue of
:15:37. > :15:40.abuse and neglect. Duncan Kennedy reports.
:15:41. > :15:43.The relatives of the 19 elderly people came to the coroners Court to
:15:44. > :15:48.hear what happened to them. They were told that some were left soiled
:15:49. > :15:52.beds, injuries were hidden from families and bedroom doors shut so
:15:53. > :15:58.staff could block out calls for help. The Orchid View home near
:15:59. > :16:02.Crawley in West Sussex was shut down two years ago on the orders of the
:16:03. > :16:06.Care Quality Commission. The inquest heard staff used Sellotape to bind
:16:07. > :16:12.wounds of elderly residents. Some were found cold and naked. Many were
:16:13. > :16:16.given the wrong doses of medicine. One of the most shocking cases
:16:17. > :16:21.involved 77-year-old Jean Halfpenny. The coroner said today she had been
:16:22. > :16:26.given too much blood thinning drug warfarin and her medical notes were
:16:27. > :16:30.falsified. We did see a huge change in that six-month period from really
:16:31. > :16:38.thinking she was in there for a short time, to just seeing her sort
:16:39. > :16:41.of waste away physically. Lisa Martin, an administrator at the
:16:42. > :16:45.home, became a whistle-blower. She said all managers wanted was to fill
:16:46. > :16:49.the home and make money. She said she was asked to shred documents.
:16:50. > :16:53.Lawyers for some of the family today called for a public enquiry into
:16:54. > :16:56.this case. The Serious Case Review study is already under way. The
:16:57. > :17:07.coroner is continuing her summing up.
:17:08. > :17:10.Our main story this lunchtime. Authorities in Kenya say they may
:17:11. > :17:13.have found the bodies of two more gunman involved in the attack on the
:17:14. > :17:19.Westgate shopping mole. Still to come, raising the barre on
:17:20. > :17:27.pensioners' fitness. Ballet and dance classes are on the increase.
:17:28. > :17:30.Radeon -- later on BBC London, from the Big Apple to Covent Garden, why
:17:31. > :17:34.Paul McCartney has taken to the streets of London. And ahead of
:17:35. > :17:41.tonight's European cup we look at how Saracens are shaping up as they
:17:42. > :17:48.host to lose at Wembley. -- Toulouse. Whether it is the cost of
:17:49. > :17:53.heating, lighting or petrol, the rising cost of fuel is something
:17:54. > :17:56.that affects us all. In rural areas it is petrol and diesel prices that
:17:57. > :18:01.are of particular concern because the cost is often higher than in
:18:02. > :18:03.towns and cities. Now a fuel discount scheme currently up and
:18:04. > :18:08.running in the Scottish Highlands and the Isles of Scilly could be
:18:09. > :18:13.extended to ten rural areas in mail in Scotland and England. Danny
:18:14. > :18:19.Savage is in one of them, Hawes in North Yorkshire. The driver from
:18:20. > :18:23.Leeds illustrated this quite well. The further you got from the towns
:18:24. > :18:27.and cities where a litre of petrol was 130 2p, the more expensive it
:18:28. > :18:34.got the further you got out to here and here at Hawes it is 141.9 p per
:18:35. > :18:37.litre for petrol. What the Government has decided, they have
:18:38. > :18:40.identified ten postcode areas which are more than 100 miles from a
:18:41. > :18:45.refinery and have a low population density that should benefit by a cut
:18:46. > :18:48.in the price of fuel. Those ten areas boil down to seven in
:18:49. > :18:53.Scotland, three in England and one of them is here in Hawes.
:18:54. > :18:58.Discounted fuel prices have never been allowed on mainland Britain
:18:59. > :19:02.before, but Hawes in North Yorkshire could be one of ten places to get
:19:03. > :19:06.it. I've pence per litre could be knocked off these prices if the
:19:07. > :19:10.European Commission grants a request from the government. Such a cut
:19:11. > :19:16.would be welcomed by people here. Very expensive. It costs a lot of
:19:17. > :19:21.money. Even visitors have got wise to the higher costs of petrol and
:19:22. > :19:24.think ahead. I know it sounds awful but whenever we leave York, we
:19:25. > :19:28.always fill up so we can come here for the day and never have to think
:19:29. > :19:35.about getting fuel in the rural area. Other people say they put the
:19:36. > :19:42.minimum in the local garage and fill up for less further afield. 37 miles
:19:43. > :19:47.away, the main hospital is 60 miles away. According to the local council
:19:48. > :19:52.leader that attitude could see the town's petrol pumps close, which is
:19:53. > :19:56.why the cut in price is needed. If we are not careful, if we lose our
:19:57. > :20:02.petrol station here in Hawes, to buy ten barrels of petrol you will have
:20:03. > :20:07.to spend a gallon to get it, 35 miles return trip. Some businesses
:20:08. > :20:10.have already fallen by the wayside and rural petrol station becoming
:20:11. > :20:16.increasingly scarce. Will this move saves them? Will it mean more people
:20:17. > :20:23.use them? A decision on the price cut is expected next year.
:20:24. > :20:26.But even 5p reduction will still leave petrol and diesel more
:20:27. > :20:30.expensive than most towns and cities. It goes some way to making a
:20:31. > :20:37.difference but it would still be more expensive in areas.
:20:38. > :20:42.No vote in the independence referendum for would result in
:20:43. > :20:45.budget cuts, public services under threat and Scotland's Social
:20:46. > :20:50.Security system being dismantled. That is the message to delegates of
:20:51. > :20:54.the party's conference in Perth. Our Scotland correspondent Laura Bicker
:20:55. > :21:00.has more. The Yes campaigners behind in most
:21:01. > :21:05.polls. The delegates here know they have work to do. Gone is the
:21:06. > :21:12.Braveheart Restorick, instead that are being told that the
:21:13. > :21:16.opportunities of independence. In her speech Nicola Sturgeon will tell
:21:17. > :21:21.people gathered here that she will mitigate the effects of the
:21:22. > :21:25.so-called bedroom tax, the scrapping of the spare room subsidy. She will
:21:26. > :21:28.say an outline what her government would do with energy prices in an
:21:29. > :21:32.independent Scotland, but there will also be a warning to those who wish
:21:33. > :21:37.to vote No. She will tell them that will send a message to Westminster
:21:38. > :21:41.that they can turn the screw on the Scottish budget and give the
:21:42. > :21:45.Scotland less. Obviously they are preaching to the converted here. The
:21:46. > :21:52.real test will be how this message reaches the people outside the hall.
:21:53. > :21:57.A woman whose dogs mauled to death a 14-year-old girl has been given a 16
:21:58. > :22:01.week suspended jail sentence. Judy Anderson died -- Jade Anderson died
:22:02. > :22:06.when the four animals attacked when she was in the house of the dog's
:22:07. > :22:09.owner, Beverley Concannon. She has admitted her treatment of the
:22:10. > :22:14.animals had led to them becoming too aggressive. Ed Thomas reports.
:22:15. > :22:18.Do you feel like you have been let off? Beverley Concannon arrived not
:22:19. > :22:21.to be sentenced the death of Jade Anderson, but for the way she
:22:22. > :22:27.treated the dogs that killed the schoolgirl. The 14-year-old was
:22:28. > :22:32.savaged by two bull mastiff and two Staffordshire bull terrier type dogs
:22:33. > :22:35.for no reason. It happened here at Beverley Concannon's home, when she
:22:36. > :22:40.was out of the house. The leader of the pack was this dogs, buddy. It
:22:41. > :22:44.was described as stir crazy and often locked in a cage for
:22:45. > :22:48.punishment. Despite this, Beverley Concannon walked away from court
:22:49. > :22:55.with a 16 week suspended sentence. Hard to bear for the family of Jade
:22:56. > :22:58.Anderson. Absolutely devastated, absolutely disgusted with the
:22:59. > :23:03.justice system. Jade's family have campaigned to strengthen dangerous
:23:04. > :23:06.dogs laws and have visited Downing Street in their fight for change. In
:23:07. > :23:11.court the district judge said this case was not about Jade Anderson. It
:23:12. > :23:15.was about the neglect of Beverley Concannon's dogs. It also heard
:23:16. > :23:19.because that attack took place on private property no charges were
:23:20. > :23:25.ever brought under the dangerous dogs act and there was insufficient
:23:26. > :23:29.evidence to bring a manslaughter charge for -- a manslaughter
:23:30. > :23:33.charge. The dangerous dogs act is only concerned with attacks in
:23:34. > :23:38.public places and not in ability of homes. It just seems this sentence
:23:39. > :23:43.is absolutely inadequate and I am sure I share the views of not just
:23:44. > :23:46.Jade's family but also the whole of the community that says this is not
:23:47. > :23:49.a strong enough penalty and not a strong enough warning to other
:23:50. > :23:54.people to make sure they look after their dogs. The Doug -- the
:23:55. > :23:57.government is a managing the dangerous dogs act to make sure
:23:58. > :24:06.cases like this never happen again. Too late though for Jade Anderson.
:24:07. > :24:10.We knew the Duchess of Cambridge was something of a hockey player.
:24:11. > :24:13.Today, we discovered how good she was at volleyball. She has been
:24:14. > :24:17.visiting the former Olympic Park in London as part of her support for
:24:18. > :24:20.the sports aid charity, of which she is patron. It was her first solo
:24:21. > :24:27.outing since the birth of Prince George. Euan the younger Middleton
:24:28. > :24:31.As are said to be a competitive bunch, keen to show what they are
:24:32. > :24:35.capable of in the sports arena. And although the high heeled wedges she
:24:36. > :24:39.was wearing hardly ideal, Kate was not to be deterred from joining a
:24:40. > :24:45.game of volleyball and showing that she still has a sharp eye for
:24:46. > :24:50.winning. She was in the copper box, one of the London 2012 Olympics
:24:51. > :24:53.venues, meeting promising young athletes who supported by sports
:24:54. > :24:57.aid, a charity of which, inspired by the London games, she agreed to
:24:58. > :25:03.become patron earlier this year. It seems to be a good fit both for her
:25:04. > :25:06.and the charity. Sport is said to be one of her passions and of course
:25:07. > :25:11.for a charity like SportAid, having her endorsement is invaluable. It
:25:12. > :25:15.draws attention to the charity's work, which includes preparing a
:25:16. > :25:20.sporting heroes of the future for dealing with the news media. Kate
:25:21. > :25:23.took part in a dummy news conference, not unfortunately to
:25:24. > :25:34.answer questions. She was there playing the part of a sports
:25:35. > :25:38.reporter. How has it helped you? Not exactly a hardball interrogation
:25:39. > :25:42.style, it must be said, then fork Kate it was time to head home to see
:25:43. > :25:50.how William had been coping with his baby minding duties.
:25:51. > :25:54.It seems it is never too late to get into a leotard of the over 60s are
:25:55. > :25:57.increasingly pulling on their ballet slippers in an effort to stay fit
:25:58. > :26:02.and healthy. The numbers signing up for classes has jumped by 70%
:26:03. > :26:05.according to the Royal Academy of Dance. Our Scotland correspondent
:26:06. > :26:08.James Cook has been to see one troupe of dancers proving that age
:26:09. > :26:17.is no barrier to going back to the barre.
:26:18. > :26:22.It is tight. It is an art form that demands agility, grace and usually
:26:23. > :26:29.you. Point the foot. Today, it is a little different. This is the
:26:30. > :26:37.regenerates -- this is that Regenerate ballet class in Glasgow
:26:38. > :26:41.where 70 as the new 16. How are you enjoying it? I absolutely love it. I
:26:42. > :26:46.can't wait to come. I love the music and the exercise. They are very
:26:47. > :26:50.supportive of one another. We have good days and bad days, we have been
:26:51. > :26:55.through different things and it is a wonderful way to exercise,
:26:56. > :27:00.especially for elderly people. The dancers here are all in their 60s
:27:01. > :27:06.and 70s. The performance might not always be perfect but that is not
:27:07. > :27:09.really the point. You see it this morning. You know you can't really
:27:10. > :27:16.do what you are asked to do but you have great fun trying, so it is good
:27:17. > :27:22.exercise. It is great fun and it is wonderfully sociable. And classes
:27:23. > :27:28.like these are becoming more popular. The Royal Academy of Dance
:27:29. > :27:32.reports a 70% surge in sign-ups for adults dance lessons. It may be
:27:33. > :27:36.because of programmes like Strictly Come Dancing and things like that
:27:37. > :27:40.that there is a lot of exposure and interest in dance but basically
:27:41. > :27:48.people are finding that dance is an incredible way to keep fit, but it
:27:49. > :27:53.is also warned that is fun. It is fair to say these dancers are not
:27:54. > :27:56.young cut-throat rivals. The atmosphere in this room is friendly
:27:57. > :28:07.rather than competitive. These classes are all about health and
:28:08. > :28:10.happiness. The England striker Andros Townsend
:28:11. > :28:13.has given Roy Hodgson his full backing following the row over
:28:14. > :28:16.remarks the manager made during his team talk during the match against
:28:17. > :28:21.Poland this week. He has been talking to our sports
:28:22. > :28:26.correspondent. It has been an astonishing seven
:28:27. > :28:30.days for Andros Townsend. First, the amazing debut against Montenegro, he
:28:31. > :28:34.was one of the match and scored and then the headlines, the revelation
:28:35. > :28:38.he was at the centre of watch was termed a race row with Roy Hodgson.
:28:39. > :28:41.He made it very clear today he wanted to draw a line under the
:28:42. > :28:46.whole affair. It has all been said, it has been in the news. I don't
:28:47. > :28:49.want to talk too much about that. Everyone should be focusing on is
:28:50. > :28:52.qualifying for the World Cup in Brazil and writing stories about
:28:53. > :28:57.what is going to happen in Brazil next year, not focusing on
:28:58. > :29:01.negative, silly news. The manager told the players to give the ball to
:29:02. > :29:05.me, so that is a compliment that is the way I look at it. He was
:29:06. > :29:10.speaking at a prearranged breast awareness appearance and he feels he
:29:11. > :29:13.owes Hodgson for taking a gamble on him. This week has shown what it
:29:14. > :29:17.will be like through each Wash thrust into the limelight with
:29:18. > :29:22.England. Now, time for the weather.
:29:23. > :29:27.The weather is not too bad for some of the time if you can dodge the
:29:28. > :29:30.downpours through the next few days. There will be sudden downpours over
:29:31. > :29:34.the weekend, blustery showers and longer spells of rain but in
:29:35. > :29:40.between, someone sunshine. Low pressure is in charge, spinning
:29:41. > :29:44.around out here at the second round and we have these lumps of cloud
:29:45. > :29:47.being flung towards us. One quite big lump of cloud has been working
:29:48. > :29:51.across western areas through this morning and it will produce quite a
:29:52. > :29:55.lot of rain this afternoon. Northern Ireland looks like one of the
:29:56. > :29:58.wettest places. It could give localised flooding in the Belfast
:29:59. > :30:02.area but some rain fringing into western parts of Wales and
:30:03. > :30:06.south-west England, the odd heavy burst. The winds will be
:30:07. > :30:11.strengthening in western parts. It will be mild, temperatures around 15
:30:12. > :30:14.Celsius in Plymouth, 16 Celsius in Cardiff in the middle of the
:30:15. > :30:18.afternoon. Through the Midlands and South East England where we have
:30:19. > :30:22.lost the fog, things are looking largely dry. Bright spells and hazy
:30:23. > :30:28.sunshine. For Northern England, more cloud and patchy rain. 13 or 14
:30:29. > :30:32.Celsius. Patchy rain into south-west Scotland. Northern Scotland is
:30:33. > :30:35.brighter but feeling colder. This evening and overnight after what
:30:36. > :30:38.will be a wet rush-hour in Belfast, the rain is quite quickly going to
:30:39. > :30:42.Phailin across the southern half of Scotland. Once the rain sets in it
:30:43. > :30:45.will stick around throughout the night. There could be localised
:30:46. > :30:49.flooding problems. The rain further south England and Wales will be
:30:50. > :30:55.lighter and more patchy. For many but mild for just about all of us.
:30:56. > :31:00.Temperatures between ten and 14 Celsius, very mild fur on October
:31:01. > :31:02.night. On Saturday, plenty of wet weather across Scotland. A
:31:03. > :31:08.slow-moving weather front. More persistent rain working across parts
:31:09. > :31:12.of south-east England, a bit of uncertainty about where that will
:31:13. > :31:16.turn up. Adult showers pushing in from the West, heavy possibly
:31:17. > :31:20.thundery. In between some sunshine. A miserable field to the weather
:31:21. > :31:26.across the far north as East. Temperatures of nine to 12 Celsius.
:31:27. > :31:30.Further south, if you get sunshine, 17 or 80 Celsius. Low pressure is in
:31:31. > :31:35.charge as we head towards the second half of the weekend. A slow-moving
:31:36. > :31:39.weather fronts still across the North of Scotland so it could be a
:31:40. > :31:44.sudden -- soggy Sunday. Elsewhere, a blustery day, some showers, some
:31:45. > :31:48.brighter spells in between and in the sunshine not feeling too bad.
:31:49. > :31:53.Some decent weather to come this weekend if you can dodge the
:31:54. > :31:57.downpours. That is the weather for now.
:31:58. > :31:58.That is it from the news that won this lunchtime. Goodbye from