:00:10. > :00:15.Bridge and will get the first nuclear power station in a
:00:16. > :00:23.generation. The government signed a deal with EDF to build Hinkley C in
:00:24. > :00:25.Somerset. It comes as a NPower tells customers it is raising energy
:00:26. > :00:32.prices by more than 10%, the biggest rise so far.
:00:33. > :00:35.Weighing up the waste - Tesco reveals it threw away almost 30,000
:00:36. > :00:38.tonnes of food in the first half of this year.
:00:39. > :00:41.A couple appear in court in Greece charged with the abduction of a
:00:42. > :00:45.four-year-old girl living with them.
:00:46. > :00:53.Battling flames - firefighters in Australia tried to stop three knee
:00:54. > :00:56.jerk wildfires merging into one. -- three major wildfires.
:00:57. > :00:57.Rio Ferdinand has treated his approval after being asked to join
:00:58. > :01:26.the Football Association. Good afternoon. The UK is to get its
:01:27. > :01:30.first new nuclear power station in more than a quarter of a century.
:01:31. > :01:35.The government has agreed a deal with the French energy company EDF
:01:36. > :01:39.for a new ?16 billion generator at Hinkley Point in Somerset. It says
:01:40. > :01:43.the new station will eventually produce 7% of the nation's power
:01:44. > :01:47.needs and create thousands of new jobs, but the deal has been
:01:48. > :01:50.criticised because it guarantees a price for electricity which is
:01:51. > :01:57.double the current cost. The news of the new generator comes on the same
:01:58. > :02:00.date that the energy supplier and power has become the latest to
:02:01. > :02:05.announce a big rise in prices. Let's cross to Hinkley Point.
:02:06. > :02:09.We know that most of our nuclear plants will be turned off in the
:02:10. > :02:13.next decade and there is increasing concerns about a power crunch. To
:02:14. > :02:17.date, there was confirmation of a new plant turning on just as the
:02:18. > :02:24.plant behind me turned off in a decade, and it will help to provide
:02:25. > :02:28.powerful Britain -- power for Britain for decades to come. Hinkley
:02:29. > :02:31.Point in Somerset, for almost 50 years they have been generating
:02:32. > :02:37.nuclear power here. That is set to continue well into this century.
:02:38. > :02:41.Hinkley Point B one day will have to close... With energy high on the
:02:42. > :02:46.political agenda, the Prime Minister and EDF's bosses joined workers in
:02:47. > :02:54.the reactor hall this morning to herald the dawn of the new error --
:02:55. > :02:58.era. They will see Britain is building a new generation of nuclear
:02:59. > :03:01.power stations funded by overseas countries and investors will see
:03:02. > :03:06.Britain is open for business. The new plant will power more than 5
:03:07. > :03:11.million homes. 25,000 people will be employed over the construction phase
:03:12. > :03:16.with a further 900 permanent jobs when it starts operating a decade
:03:17. > :03:21.from now. For the first time in Britain, taxpayers will not shoulder
:03:22. > :03:31.the cost. It will be paid for by EDF and its Chinese partners. In return,
:03:32. > :03:34.they will receive a guaranteed price of ?92.50 per every megawatt of
:03:35. > :03:39.electricity Hinkley Point generates. That could drop to ?89.50 if they
:03:40. > :03:44.agree to build a second power plant, but that could prove
:03:45. > :03:49.controversial as wholesale power prices have averaged half that over
:03:50. > :03:52.the past year. What will that mean for our bills? If wholesale prices
:03:53. > :03:58.did not rise that much then energy consumers will need to pay a little
:03:59. > :04:05.bit more. That has been estimated at the moment between ?five and ?eight
:04:06. > :04:12.per year more than they pay otherwise. If the price goes above
:04:13. > :04:16.that, energy bills should drop to account for that. Even as the deal
:04:17. > :04:25.was announced, and power was raising prices by more than 10% and Labour
:04:26. > :04:30.said it showed the need for a price freeze. We have a Prime Minister who
:04:31. > :04:33.says we need to fix prices 35 years ahead for the energy companies but
:04:34. > :04:37.he cannot freeze prices for the consumer. No wonder we have got a
:04:38. > :04:42.cost of living crisis in this country. The deal still requires EU
:04:43. > :04:47.approval. Final contracts it should be signed next year. Assuming that
:04:48. > :04:53.goes ahead, we should be entering a new nuclear age in Britain. This
:04:54. > :04:55.project is obviously good news for the local region and there are hopes
:04:56. > :05:02.it could kick-start a new nuclear supply chain, so lots of jobs in
:05:03. > :05:05.Britain, too. There is bad news on this announcement. If the government
:05:06. > :05:09.is right and wholesale electricity costs are going to double over the
:05:10. > :05:14.next ten years, it looks like we are facing higher energy bills in the
:05:15. > :05:18.years ahead. Let's get more detail on those in
:05:19. > :05:21.power price rises. It is the third company to put up its energy prices
:05:22. > :05:26.in just over a week and it is the biggest rise so far. Our business
:05:27. > :05:33.correspondent is with me now. Tell us about what it means. Another day,
:05:34. > :05:37.another rise in energy prices. More of us are now having putting our
:05:38. > :05:45.heating on so it will cost even more. A NPower says gas prices will
:05:46. > :05:50.rise by 11.0% and electricity by 9.3%. It is the third of the big six
:05:51. > :05:55.energy firms to raise its prices. We do expect the other three will
:05:56. > :05:59.follow suit. How do these compare? Of the three that have already been
:06:00. > :06:05.announced, N power is the largest. It will go up by 10.4%, an average
:06:06. > :06:12.rise for dual fuel. Last week, British Gas raised its prices as
:06:13. > :06:16.well. They will go up by 9.2%. But if the average for dual fuel.
:06:17. > :06:32.Scottish and Southern energy was the first to keep lower costs, -- keep
:06:33. > :06:38.it at 8.2%. They say the cost of getting the energy to our homes is
:06:39. > :06:41.going up, as is the wholesale market, and they are having to
:06:42. > :06:46.invest in infrastructure. They say the government is imposing heavy
:06:47. > :06:57.taxes on them to invest in renewable energy services, -- sources, but
:06:58. > :07:01.also, all of this taken together means that bills are rising by three
:07:02. > :07:05.times the rate of inflation. Lets get more from our chief political
:07:06. > :07:11.correspondent in Westminster. This will keep the focus on energy prices
:07:12. > :07:15.and what it will mean in the future? We will learn an unpalatable
:07:16. > :07:18.truth today, which is that our energy bills will keep going up and
:07:19. > :07:25.going up by a lot. What we discovered from the Hinckley deal is
:07:26. > :07:28.that by the calculation of ministers, our energy prices are
:07:29. > :07:33.likely to double over the next ten years, which is why they have agreed
:07:34. > :07:37.to guarantee EDF a price in 2023 which is twice that of average
:07:38. > :07:40.prices today. In other words we can expect the sort of phrase we have
:07:41. > :07:48.seen from an power today, year after year, for the next ten years. Labour
:07:49. > :07:50.are not challenging that. They are broadly supportive of the Hinckley
:07:51. > :07:57.Daly, which means for all the political argy-bargy about freezers
:07:58. > :08:02.and competition, the SNP talking about cutting fuel bills, there is a
:08:03. > :08:09.broad preservation acceptance among the political classes that energy
:08:10. > :08:19.bills will keep going up. The BBC News website has a question
:08:20. > :08:22.and answer section on energy bills. A couple are due to appear in court
:08:23. > :08:27.in Greece charged with abducting a four-year-old blonde girl named
:08:28. > :08:31.Maria. She was found during a raid on a Roman camp last week and DNA
:08:32. > :08:35.tests revealed that she was not related to the couple. An appeal for
:08:36. > :08:44.information about her identity has resulted in more than 8000 calls.
:08:45. > :08:49.This was the little girl police found on a routine drug raid, known
:08:50. > :08:53.as Maria. Tests have revealed the couple she lived with and not her
:08:54. > :08:56.biological parents. The accused will appear at this courthouse in Larisa.
:08:57. > :09:05.Some of the community have arrived to support them. Maria was staying
:09:06. > :09:08.in this Roman settlement -- in this Roma settlement in southern Greece.
:09:09. > :09:14.She had more than a dozen siblings, some of whom may not belong to the
:09:15. > :09:18.family. Police say couples often occur multiple children to receive
:09:19. > :09:20.more state benefit. Friends and relatives are apparently grief
:09:21. > :09:31.stricken that Maria has been taken away. He believes -- this man says
:09:32. > :09:35.he is the brother of the arrested man. He says, we did not take the
:09:36. > :09:40.girl to sell her, we loved her so much. The family claims Maria was
:09:41. > :09:50.adopted from a woman who could not look after her. Our client's claim
:09:51. > :10:03.is that we never abducted this child, we just adopted her in a
:10:04. > :10:08.nonlegal way. Roma experts say the community is often involved in
:10:09. > :10:13.illicit activity, but this case has surprised even them. It is very
:10:14. > :10:19.unusual. Up until now in Greece, we have seen scores of Roma families
:10:20. > :10:22.selling newborn children to Greek families who do not have children
:10:23. > :10:29.and cannot adopt because of the law. Those Roma families came from
:10:30. > :10:33.Romania, most of them. This is the first case that we know where the
:10:34. > :10:39.child ends up and lives for years in a Roma family. The charity now
:10:40. > :10:43.looking after Maria says she is doing well. They urgently want to
:10:44. > :10:48.find her biological parents. Already they have had thousands of
:10:49. > :10:53.enquiries. The UK's biggest retailer, Tesco,
:10:54. > :10:56.says it threw away nearly 30,000 tonnes of food in the first half of
:10:57. > :11:01.this year. It has published figures that suggests that across the UK
:11:02. > :11:06.food industry, two thirds of like salads are bend, most of it by
:11:07. > :11:13.customers who never get round to eating it when they buy buy one get
:11:14. > :11:17.one free deals. This is about what is being called
:11:18. > :11:21.the food waste footprint. It is about tracing what happens to
:11:22. > :11:27.produce like this when it leaves the shelves and hard to stop it going in
:11:28. > :11:32.the bin. -- how to stop it. Perfect looking fresh produce ready to eat,
:11:33. > :11:35.but a significant proportion of this will end up as rubbish. The latest
:11:36. > :11:41.figures for the UK suggest a quarter of grapes are wasted, 40% of apples
:11:42. > :11:47.and two thirds of salad is thrown away. I am looking at your bag of
:11:48. > :11:58.wild rocket. Do you think you will need all of it? I will try to. Once
:11:59. > :12:02.I open it tends to go off quickly. Do you find that if you buy a bag of
:12:03. > :12:07.letters you waste some of it, why do you buy these ones? These ones I
:12:08. > :12:15.find last longer. The ones in a bag have use by dates. I think they are
:12:16. > :12:18.not as nice. Tesco says it is determined to tackle waste. It has
:12:19. > :12:23.been working with independent advisers to come up with new
:12:24. > :12:31.strategies, including removing display until dates and ending
:12:32. > :12:36.multi-buy deals on salad in bags. When a banana mousse from green to
:12:37. > :12:42.yellow it becomes much more likely that it will be wasted. -- when a
:12:43. > :12:45.banana mousse. We will help them to understand not to put them in the
:12:46. > :12:53.fruit bowl because that will create waste at home. The wastage is fast,
:12:54. > :12:58.as Tesco threw out nearly 30,000 tonnes of food in the first six
:12:59. > :13:03.months of this year. Campaigners sated a's announcement does not go
:13:04. > :13:09.far enough. Tesco needs to do a lot more. It has taken a long time to
:13:10. > :13:13.get to this stage. It needs to get rid of buy one get one free, which
:13:14. > :13:17.leads to waste, and it needs to stop rejecting perfectly good fruit and
:13:18. > :13:23.veg because they are the wrong shape or colour. Tesco says it will
:13:24. > :13:29.continue to review its processes across the supply chain to reduce
:13:30. > :13:35.food waste. It is not just about the cost of the environment, but the
:13:36. > :13:41.cost to people's purses. It is estimated families through around
:13:42. > :13:45.?700 of food each year. -- families throw away. Two men have
:13:46. > :13:48.appeared in court charged with terrorism offences. The man, who
:13:49. > :13:52.cannot be named for legal reasons, were arrested in London last
:13:53. > :13:57.weekend. Correspondent is at Westminster Magistrates' Court.
:13:58. > :14:11.Both men were referred to only by the initials JB -- by their
:14:12. > :14:18.initials. They were both arrested in 15th October and both 25. They were
:14:19. > :14:22.charged under the terrorism act, relating to preparation for acts of
:14:23. > :14:30.terrorism. Both have been charged under section 58 of the Terrorism
:14:31. > :14:35.Act 2000, a charge relating to the possession of terrorist information.
:14:36. > :14:39.In this case, a computer file labelled bomb making. The second
:14:40. > :14:44.defendant was further charged with a defence contrary to the identity
:14:45. > :14:50.documents act of 2010. Both men were referred to the Old Bailey on 18th
:14:51. > :14:54.November. They have been remanded in custody until then. Two other men
:14:55. > :15:00.who were arrested in the same operation were released earlier this
:15:01. > :15:04.week. The top story this lunchtime... The
:15:05. > :15:09.UK is to get a new nuclear power station, the first in more than a
:15:10. > :15:12.quarter of a century. How six well-known authors have been
:15:13. > :15:39.cast with bringing Jane Austen's novels into the modern day.
:15:40. > :15:44.they are some of the biggest bushfires Australia has seen for
:15:45. > :15:47.years. Hundreds of homes have already been destroyed in the state
:15:48. > :15:51.of New South Wales, and firefighters are battling to stop three separate
:15:52. > :15:55.blazes from merging together into one enormous fire which would extend
:15:56. > :15:58.over hundreds of kilometres. The Fire Service and says they are
:15:59. > :16:06.dealing with unparalleled conditions. That is not allowed
:16:07. > :16:09.shrouding the Blue Mountains, it is smoke, from some of the country's
:16:10. > :16:18.most aggressive wildfires in decades. Dozens of separate blazes
:16:19. > :16:23.are ripping through forest. It has been an unusually warm few months,
:16:24. > :16:28.and the vegetation is tinder dry. More than 75,000 people live in this
:16:29. > :16:32.rural area, west of Sydney. 200 homes have already been destroyed.
:16:33. > :16:41.Fires raging over thousands of acres. Resources are stretched. We
:16:42. > :16:47.have probably not got the units to put everything right. We are doing
:16:48. > :16:51.our best. Now, on the ground, fire crews are actually setting
:16:52. > :16:55.controlled fires, ahead of the flames, in order to create
:16:56. > :17:01.firebreaks. I have been anxious for them to burn it, because then we can
:17:02. > :17:06.stop worrying about it. We have been watching the fire from over there
:17:07. > :17:11.for two days, creeping this way. As the flames approach, local residents
:17:12. > :17:15.are saving what they can. Here, a pet possum is injured but safe. Who
:17:16. > :17:20.knows what the toll will be on Australia's unique wildlife?
:17:21. > :17:24.Throughout New South Wales, there is a state of emergency. 2000
:17:25. > :17:28.firefighters are tackling more than 60 fires. They are worried high
:17:29. > :17:37.winds will force separate blazes together, and weather forecasts
:17:38. > :17:40.suggest worse may come. People wake up tomorrow, and if it is cooler,
:17:41. > :17:46.they should not think the crisis is over. It is every bit as bad as it
:17:47. > :17:49.was. The authorities have issued stern warnings after reports of
:17:50. > :17:58.looting from fire-damaged areas. Meanwhile, further east, Sydney lies
:17:59. > :18:03.bade in smoke, and the fear is of unstoppable fires threatening
:18:04. > :18:07.Australia's biggest city. Our correspondent has spent the day with
:18:08. > :18:12.one team of firefighters, racing to stop those separate blazes merging
:18:13. > :18:19.into one. What they are doing here is called back burning, basically
:18:20. > :18:23.fighting fire with fire, by burning off vegetation in a controlled way,
:18:24. > :18:28.so that if the really big fires were to get here, they would not have so
:18:29. > :18:32.much fuel to burn. They are worried of the possibility of some of the
:18:33. > :18:37.bigger blazes merging into one kind of super fire. Today we have had
:18:38. > :18:41.very, very hot conditions, in the high 30s, but we have not had
:18:42. > :18:45.serious wind. That is expected to change come Wednesday and Thursday,
:18:46. > :18:50.when conditions could get really dangerous. They are worried that the
:18:51. > :18:55.fire could jump over these containment lines and spread much
:18:56. > :18:59.further. Most of the firefighters here say they have not seen it as
:19:00. > :19:07.bad as this in decades, if ever, in this state. It seems this emergency
:19:08. > :19:12.is far from over. A survey of primary school children
:19:13. > :19:15.suggests that many nine- to in 11-year-olds are indulging in
:19:16. > :19:22.potentially unsafe behaviour online. Almost one in five of those
:19:23. > :19:25.questioned by the charity Safe and Secure Online have admitted to
:19:26. > :19:34.meeting up with people they first made contact with on the intranet.
:19:35. > :19:39.For these children at a Kent primary School, the intranet is a key part
:19:40. > :19:44.of their lives. They are learning about its dangers. The organisation
:19:45. > :19:48.which runs classes like this found worrying news for parents, when they
:19:49. > :19:54.asked more than 1000 children about their internet habits. The survey
:19:55. > :19:57.found that 18% of nine- to in 11-year-olds had met somebody in the
:19:58. > :20:06.real world who they had previously met online. 12% had missed school
:20:07. > :20:09.after a late-night online. Youngsters participate in a lot of
:20:10. > :20:13.risky behaviour which I do not believe parents know about, not
:20:14. > :20:16.because of any ill will on behalf of the parents, it is just that the
:20:17. > :20:21.parents do not understand technology. The research shows that
:20:22. > :20:25.many primary school children are now really experienced users of the
:20:26. > :20:30.internet, but what they do not know is that many sites, like Facebook,
:20:31. > :20:37.are inappropriate for their age, and they seem to be unaware of the
:20:38. > :20:41.dangers online. It is how long some children spend on the internet at
:20:42. > :20:45.home which worries the headteacher. We have a lot of children who come
:20:46. > :20:49.in late, and if they are playing on the internet after ten o'clock, it
:20:50. > :20:53.is not surprising that they are tired in school. That has an
:20:54. > :20:58.immediate impact on their ability to concentrate. But the safety lessons
:20:59. > :21:02.are getting through to some of the children. You need to look out for
:21:03. > :21:09.who is on the other side, whether you know them or not, and whether
:21:10. > :21:13.they are safe. Do not speak to people who I would just talk to
:21:14. > :21:19.people that I know, like people from my school or from my old school 's.
:21:20. > :21:22.The key message is for parents - if you want to keep your children safe,
:21:23. > :21:30.you need to understand what they are doing on the internet. Staff at the
:21:31. > :21:34.Grangemouth oil refinery have until six o'clock tonight to decide
:21:35. > :21:38.whether to agree to new work terms and conditions. The plant provides
:21:39. > :21:43.most of the fuel in Scotland, northern England and Northern
:21:44. > :21:50.Ireland. Its owners, Ineos, said the changes are vital if it is to stay
:21:51. > :21:56.open. Our Scotland correspondent, Laura Bicker, is there. Are the work
:21:57. > :21:59.is likely to agree to this? At the moment, we're waiting to find out
:22:00. > :22:03.how many workers will sign up to this. Further talks were held
:22:04. > :22:09.between management and unions this morning, but no agreement was
:22:10. > :22:13.reached. What the site's owners, Ineos, are looking for, are two
:22:14. > :22:17.things, from staff, firstly, I guarantee that there will be no
:22:18. > :22:21.strike action for 60 days, and secondly, they want staff to sign up
:22:22. > :22:26.for this survival plan, which includes a pay freeze, no bonuses as
:22:27. > :22:30.well as changes to their final salary pension. The owners say that
:22:31. > :22:35.without signing up to this survival plan, the site will close by 2017.
:22:36. > :22:41.The union says it will agree to no strike action, it will put it in
:22:42. > :22:45.writing. However, they want to negotiate on these new terms and
:22:46. > :22:50.conditions. So far, Ineos does not want to agree to that. Talks broke
:22:51. > :22:53.down this morning, this might please from the First Minister, Alex
:22:54. > :23:06.Salmond, for them to come to an agreement. -- despite please. --
:23:07. > :23:10.pleas. Staff have until 6pm tonight to decide whether they will accept
:23:11. > :23:13.these new terms. A witness who claims to have seen the car carrying
:23:14. > :23:16.the gunman who killed three members of a British family in the French
:23:17. > :23:21.Alps has spoken publicly for the first time. The forestry worker has
:23:22. > :23:26.told Panorama that he saw a dark grey BMW with a British numberplate
:23:27. > :23:31.shortly before the attack. Saad al-Hilli, his wife and her mother
:23:32. > :23:35.were shot in September 2012 along with a French cyclist. Jane Corbin
:23:36. > :23:39.reports. Three members of a family from Surrey are murdered in their
:23:40. > :23:43.car while on holiday, and a French cyclist is killed by what is thought
:23:44. > :23:49.to be an experienced hit man. Over a year later, only the brother, Zaid
:23:50. > :23:52.Al-Hilli, has ever been arrested. He remains on bail, and denies
:23:53. > :23:56.arranging the killings. He has never been charged. And aroma has tracked
:23:57. > :24:02.down a witness who has never spoken publicly before, and does not want
:24:03. > :24:07.to be identified. A forestry worker claims he saw a British, grey, BMW
:24:08. > :24:12.4x4 being driven by a man with dark skin shortly before the attack. And
:24:13. > :24:16.he saw a man dressed in black on a black-and-white motorbike, thought
:24:17. > :24:23.to be the gunman. The Forrester says two of his colleagues also saw the
:24:24. > :24:26.bike ten minutes later. They passed the motorbike further up, so they
:24:27. > :24:31.had words with him, Chris motor vehicles are not allowed. So, they
:24:32. > :24:36.called out to him and asked him to drive down. They saw his face, he
:24:37. > :24:42.had a bit of a Beeld. -- because motor vehicles... It suggests the
:24:43. > :24:46.motorcyclist may have had an accomplice in the BMW, carrying out
:24:47. > :24:50.surveillance. The British Cycling also saw the motorbike leaving, just
:24:51. > :24:57.moments before he came across the people who had been killed. -- the
:24:58. > :25:01.British cyclist. I was thinking, is there a hunter or a sniper type of
:25:02. > :25:04.character hiding in the trees, shooting from a covered position or
:25:05. > :25:09.something like that? I was thinking to myself, I wonder if this is going
:25:10. > :25:12.to be painful when I get shot. French police admit they have got no
:25:13. > :25:15.evidence on who the hit man or his accomplices were, but they say they
:25:16. > :25:23.will solve the mysteries of the murders, however long it takes. And
:25:24. > :25:30.you can see more on this on Panorama at nine o'clock tonight on BBC One.
:25:31. > :25:33.A second round of tickets for next year's Commonwealth Games in Glasgow
:25:34. > :25:38.has gone on sale this morning. They are available in ten sports,
:25:39. > :25:41.including a few for athletics and gymnastics, but are only on offer to
:25:42. > :25:47.those who missed out the first time around. 202 years after it was
:25:48. > :25:50.published, Jane Austen's first novel, Sense And Sensibility, is
:25:51. > :25:55.coming out again, but this time in a modern-day version, rewritten by
:25:56. > :25:58.Joanna Trollope. She is one of six well-known authors who have been
:25:59. > :26:05.asked to rework Jane Austen's finished novels. She completed just
:26:06. > :26:09.six novels, but almost 200 years since her death, Jane Austen's
:26:10. > :26:14.classics still captivate. It is a truth universally acknowledged that
:26:15. > :26:20.a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife...
:26:21. > :26:24.But can you update a classic, and should you even try? This is
:26:25. > :26:31.Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen's Gothic parody. And this is crime
:26:32. > :26:38.writer Val McDermid, who is rewriting it in a modern-day
:26:39. > :26:42.setting. I hope it will reawaken interest I think people will be
:26:43. > :26:45.fascinated by how it translates to the present day. Human nature
:26:46. > :26:50.remains the same. I am sure there will be a lot of disapproval from
:26:51. > :27:01.the purists, but I hope to confound them. Meanwhile, Emma is to be
:27:02. > :27:04.reworked by Alexander McCall Smith. Pride And Prejudice will be written
:27:05. > :27:08.by an American author. Sense And Sensibility, by Joanna Trollope, is
:27:09. > :27:12.the first to be completed, to be published this week. The writers of
:27:13. > :27:17.the other two have not yet been revealed. Film and television
:27:18. > :27:22.adaptations are one thing, but we writing Jane Austen? That is
:27:23. > :27:26.something else. Joanna Trollope has placed Sense And Sensibility firmly
:27:27. > :27:30.in the 21st century. Social media features heavily. So, what did this
:27:31. > :27:34.south London Reading group make of it? I think it is brave, actually,
:27:35. > :27:45.to update what is an absolute classic. It is definitely chick lit,
:27:46. > :27:49.which is not my favourite genre. I thought it was cleverly done, I
:27:50. > :27:54.enjoyed it, though not as much as the original. We writing a Jane
:27:55. > :27:57.Austen novel is courageous, but whether it is effective or
:27:58. > :28:07.successful, we will soon find out. -- re-writing. Let's have a look at
:28:08. > :28:07.the weather. More classics for you now,
:28:08. > :28:10.the weather. More classics for you classic October fair with the
:28:11. > :28:21.weather for the rest of this week, which means more of the wet stuff.
:28:22. > :28:26.The gusty wind is coming from the south, bringing some mild air. It
:28:27. > :28:31.will not be cold. You can see the classic autumnal scene, with the low
:28:32. > :28:35.pressure and the isobars. It is mild air, but the weather fronts are
:28:36. > :28:45.providing bands of rain, the first of which you can see here. The rain
:28:46. > :28:49.made of, but it will linger across Scotland and Northern Ireland and
:28:50. > :28:57.northern England this afternoon. -- the rain may linger. Across northern
:28:58. > :29:07.Scotland, there is a little bit of sunshine. The rain not really
:29:08. > :29:13.reaching the central belt of Scotland until this evening. For
:29:14. > :29:17.England and Wales, there will be some drier spells, but more showers
:29:18. > :29:23.to come as well, with a bit of brightness across east Anglia and
:29:24. > :29:31.the south-east. It feels cooler with the strong and gusty winds. These
:29:32. > :29:45.western areas will see more strong winds tonight. A bit drier in parts
:29:46. > :29:50.of the east. It is a mild night wherever you are. Still mild
:29:51. > :29:53.tomorrow, because we have still got those gusty, southerly winds,
:29:54. > :30:00.spreading more rain across most areas. It may brighten up in
:30:01. > :30:06.Northern Ireland. Perhaps a bit brighter across Wales and south-west
:30:07. > :30:11.England later in the day. Most of us can expect more rain tomorrow, but
:30:12. > :30:16.it will be mild, four or five degrees above the average for the
:30:17. > :30:22.time of year. On Wednesday, it will not be cold, either, but it will
:30:23. > :30:34.still be Casty. Elsewhere, some sunny spells, but plenty of showers.
:30:35. > :30:37.-- gusty. Thursday, still a few showers around, and more rain to
:30:38. > :30:41.come on Friday. The ground is starting to get saturated, so there
:30:42. > :30:44.are some warnings in force, which are visible on the website.
:30:45. > :30:50.are some warnings in force, which are visible on Our main headlines...
:30:51. > :30:55.The Government has given the go-ahead for the UK's first nuclear
:30:56. > :31:04.power station in more than a quarter of a century. It comes as Npower has
:31:05. > :31:08.announced a big price rise. And just to tell you, Ed Davey, the energy
:31:09. > :31:13.secretary, will be making a statement to MPs about the new
:31:14. > :31:17.nuclear reactor at Hinckley, and that is at 3.30 this afternoon,
:31:18. > :31:19.which you can watch on the BBC News Channel.