:00:07. > :00:11.How to innees capacity at Britain's airports? Three options are on the
:00:12. > :00:17.table. -- increase. New runways at Heathrow
:00:18. > :00:20.and Gatwick top the shortlist and an airport in the Thames Estuary isn't
:00:21. > :00:25.ruled out. We think one net new runway by 2030
:00:26. > :00:29.is what is required. Essentially it is either building another one at
:00:30. > :00:34.Heathrow or building another one at Gatwick. We'll assess the potential
:00:35. > :00:39.public and political fallout of that announcement, also this lunch time.
:00:40. > :00:43.The family of a British surgeon imprisoned by the Syrian government
:00:44. > :00:46.for over a year, say he has died in custody.
:00:47. > :00:52.Inflation fell to a four-year low of 2. 1% last month. The Treasury says
:00:53. > :00:56.it means the Government's long-term economic plan is working.
:00:57. > :01:00.Shoddy repairs and over-priced premiums. The competition watchdog
:01:01. > :01:05.calls for a shake-up of the car insurance industry.
:01:06. > :01:10.From Australia, the news everyone knew was coming - the Ashes are back
:01:11. > :01:14.in Australia's hands. We'll bring you the details and reaction from
:01:15. > :01:19.the Third Test. And Freeman of the city of Bristol.
:01:20. > :01:22.Sir David Attenborough is honoured for his work with the BBC's Natural
:01:23. > :01:27.History Unit. Later on BBC London: The mayor's
:01:28. > :01:32.reaction it news that his plans for a Thames Estuary airport are still
:01:33. > :01:33.in play - just. And all the reaction from Gatwick which could see the
:01:34. > :01:58.building of a second runway. Hello. Welcome to the BBC News at
:01:59. > :02:02.One. New runways at Heathrow and Gatwick are among the options that
:02:03. > :02:08.been shortlisted by the airport's commission for expanding UK airport
:02:09. > :02:12.capacity. The three options include adding a third runway at Heathrow.
:02:13. > :02:14.Lengthening an existing runway at Heathrow and a new runway at
:02:15. > :02:17.Gatwick. The commission led by the
:02:18. > :02:21.businessman Sir Howard Davies, will also consider a new airport in the
:02:22. > :02:25.Thames Estuary. A final report is due by summer 2015. In a moment we
:02:26. > :02:29.will be live at Heathrow. We'll get reaction as well from Westminster.
:02:30. > :02:34.First, our report from our Business Correspondent Joe Lineham.
:02:35. > :02:36.It's one of the most politically contentious decisions about
:02:37. > :02:40.Britain's infrastructure and it hasn't even been taken yet. Acording
:02:41. > :02:44.to the independent airports Commission, Britain should get at
:02:45. > :02:49.least one major new runway in the South East, to meet soaring demand
:02:50. > :02:53.from companies and consumers. We think one net new runway by 2030 is
:02:54. > :02:56.what is required. Essentially it is either building another one at
:02:57. > :03:01.hooeted Heath or building another one at Gatwick. But we are also
:03:02. > :03:04.looking a bit further at one of the estuary options, in case that could
:03:05. > :03:10.be a serious option. The Mayor of London's dream of a brand new
:03:11. > :03:13.airport in the Thames Estuary wasn't included an option but could be
:03:14. > :03:18.included next year if the Commission feels it offers a credible solution.
:03:19. > :03:22.Boris Johnson was still ebullient about that project, despite the
:03:23. > :03:27.setback. Of I'm relieved that the estuary option remains, narrowly, in
:03:28. > :03:31.the frame. That's good news. We have a chance to make our case. We can
:03:32. > :03:34.argue about the costs and environmental impact. I think people
:03:35. > :03:39.can weigh-up the real options. If you want a hub airport, you either
:03:40. > :03:44.have to go with Heathrow or a new solution. The disadvantages of
:03:45. > :03:48.Heathrow are well-known, but, basically, it is a massive
:03:49. > :03:52.environmental nightmare for loads and loads of people in our city. The
:03:53. > :03:55.Commission primarily looked at expanding runways in the
:03:56. > :03:59.heavily-populated south-east because more than half of all flights in
:04:00. > :04:02.Britain leave from there. The first option it recommends is to build a
:04:03. > :04:06.new runway at Heathrow to the north-west of the economisting
:04:07. > :04:09.runway, demolishing 1,000 homes and neighbouring villages.
:04:10. > :04:14.The second, shortlisted option, is also at Heathrow but envisages
:04:15. > :04:19.doubling the length of the existing North runway to allow planes it take
:04:20. > :04:21.off and land simultaneously. The third option being considered is to
:04:22. > :04:25.build another runway at Gatwick which is using up more than
:04:26. > :04:29.three-quarters of its capacity. Given how major expansion at
:04:30. > :04:34.Heathrow is now far more likely than it was three years ago, how do the
:04:35. > :04:39.local residents feel about it? Sipson still remains a blighted
:04:40. > :04:44.community. We will be at the end of a proposed runway and we will be
:04:45. > :04:48.determined to continue to fight Heathrow expansion, wherever they
:04:49. > :04:52.want to put it. And Heathrow expansion is also likely to cause
:04:53. > :04:58.political uproar. The Conservative MP for Richmond in west London said
:04:59. > :05:05.it is a resigning issue for him If my party changes its position on
:05:06. > :05:09.Heathrow, no ifs or buts, if it changes I'm obliged to trigger a
:05:10. > :05:13.by-election. Downing Street said today it was happy for the report to
:05:14. > :05:18.speak for itself. It may have created the independent commission
:05:19. > :05:21.but it is under no obligation to implement its recommendations,
:05:22. > :05:26.especially if they are politically toxic. We'll speak to Norman Smith
:05:27. > :05:31.at Westminster for those political implications but first our Transport
:05:32. > :05:35.Correspondent Richard wst could the who is at Heathrow. No decision
:05:36. > :05:38.until 2030. We will know sooner about the Boris Johnson plan. Talk
:05:39. > :05:43.us through the timeline? Hopefully we'll know in the next six months or
:05:44. > :05:47.what what is happening in the Thames Estuary option, whether it goes into
:05:48. > :05:50.the shortlist or not. I was speaking to Sir Howard Davies and he was
:05:51. > :05:54.listing through what the big question marks are over that scheme:
:05:55. > :05:57.He was saying - what would you do with the local environment? There
:05:58. > :06:00.are nature reserves, how would you cope with moving them potentially?
:06:01. > :06:03.How much would the transport cost? This is not an easy place to get to.
:06:04. > :06:07.It is near to central London but there are no busy roads or fast
:06:08. > :06:10.trains going there. You would have to build all of that. He says he
:06:11. > :06:14.wants a breakdown of how much all of that is going to cost. Andifiablely
:06:15. > :06:17.what would you do with this place? One of the busiest airports in the
:06:18. > :06:21.world, you would have to close Heathrow. He wants to know more
:06:22. > :06:25.detail of what would happen here? Would they build a new town? We
:06:26. > :06:28.should find out by next summer. As I say the timetable will stay the
:06:29. > :06:32.same. They'll spend the next two years, all of the shortlisted
:06:33. > :06:35.people, doing their homework, giving Sir Howard Davies more detail and in
:06:36. > :06:40.theory, after the next general election, he finally says - this is
:06:41. > :06:44.the one I like. Turning to Norman, as Joe outlined in his report, there
:06:45. > :06:47.could be significant condition sequences for what is already a
:06:48. > :06:52.politically volatile situation? Well, Kate, when the Davies inquiry
:06:53. > :06:59.was set up, Boris Johnson described it as a fudgerama. My feeling today
:07:00. > :07:05.is we have a second helping of that. Everyone can leave the table happy,
:07:06. > :07:09.supporters of Heathrow, Gatwick and even supporters of the Boris Johnson
:07:10. > :07:13.option. But here is the rub, Howard Johnson has signalled he'll make the
:07:14. > :07:17.critical decision on that option in the summer, ahead of the next
:07:18. > :07:21.general election when the whole thinking behind the Davies inquiry
:07:22. > :07:26.was to delay everything until after the next election. If he vetoes the
:07:27. > :07:31.Boris Johnson option, it is argued that will pave the way for Heathrow
:07:32. > :07:36.which will ignite a clat clichl in the Conservative and difficulties in
:07:37. > :07:41.other parties. Vince Cable this lunch time stressed his opposition
:07:42. > :07:46.to any expansion of Heathrow. Today we got fudgerama, but the storm over
:07:47. > :07:49.Heathrow now looks as if it could break before, rather than after the
:07:50. > :07:56.next election. OK, thank you both.
:07:57. > :08:01.Inflation fell to a four-year low of 2. 1% last month. The Treasury says
:08:02. > :08:05.that means the Government's long-term economic plan is working.
:08:06. > :08:10.But analysts warn that large increases in household energy bills
:08:11. > :08:13.have yet to take effect. Our chief economics correspondent Hugh Pym
:08:14. > :08:17.reports. Christmas is coming and every penny
:08:18. > :08:20.counts for shoppers like these in York, trying to stretch their
:08:21. > :08:24.budgets over the festive season. There was some good cheer with news
:08:25. > :08:28.that cost of living increases are at their lowest in four years. This
:08:29. > :08:34.local department store claims there are bargains to be had w some items
:08:35. > :08:37.cheaper than a year ago. There are still examples of deflation on
:08:38. > :08:41.prices in the high street. For the consumer it is a good, early
:08:42. > :08:44.Christmas present. It is their win-win. And if we are looking
:08:45. > :08:47.around they will be able to take advantage of lowers prices. Breaking
:08:48. > :08:52.down the overall figure shows food prices up 3% over the year to
:08:53. > :08:59.November. Clothing was up 1. 3% over the same period but fuel prices are
:09:00. > :09:05.lower, down 3. 6%. Alice drives to work, so she is relieved that fuel
:09:06. > :09:09.prices have fallen but many items in the shop seem expensive so she has
:09:10. > :09:15.to take care with spending. Even in places that are cheaper, they still
:09:16. > :09:20.seem expensive. I like clothes shopping but I limit myself. Cost of
:09:21. > :09:25.living increases have been running well-ahead of average you wage rises
:09:26. > :09:28.which has put a real squeeze on households' spending power but
:09:29. > :09:32.today's figures show the pressure is easing. Most economists expect
:09:33. > :09:37.inflation to settle at some stage around 2% and they also predict that
:09:38. > :09:41.wage rises will start picking up as the economy grows. So next year
:09:42. > :09:45.could bring better times for consumers Over the last four or five
:09:46. > :09:50.years, price inflation has been well ahead of wage inflation. But now the
:09:51. > :09:55.gap is narrowing and over the next year or so, I would expect price
:09:56. > :09:59.inflation to slow, wage inflation to pick up and real wages to start
:10:00. > :10:03.rising again. But today's figures don't include
:10:04. > :10:08.the latest gas and electricity price rises. They could temporarily push
:10:09. > :10:12.up inflation. The price of energy is always hard to predict that. Doesn't
:10:13. > :10:19.make life any easier for households trying to juggle their finances.
:10:20. > :10:21.Shoddy repairs and over-priced premiums - the verdict of the
:10:22. > :10:25.competition watchdog which is calling for a sake-up of the car
:10:26. > :10:29.insurance industry. The Competition Commission has been studying the
:10:30. > :10:33.private motor insurance industry for more than a year and has found the
:10:34. > :10:37.cost of replacement cars and accident repairs is driving up
:10:38. > :10:43.costs. Our personal finance correspondent reports.
:10:44. > :10:47.A costly accident. The victim's insurer handles the repair work but
:10:48. > :10:51.has little incentive to keep down the bill because it is simply passed
:10:52. > :10:57.on to the company insuring the driver who is to blame.
:10:58. > :11:01.The Competition Commission has calculated that inflated repair
:11:02. > :11:05.bills are adding ?200 million to the cost of dealing with accident
:11:06. > :11:09.damage. So, customers end up paying more than they should for their car
:11:10. > :11:12.insurance. They are as high as they are because
:11:13. > :11:19.the insurance companies who deal with each other don't have the right
:11:20. > :11:24.incentives to keep costs down. And costs associated with dealing with
:11:25. > :11:29.accidents are too high. The other concern is that courtesy cars are
:11:30. > :11:34.twice as expensive as they should be. One solution would be to make
:11:35. > :11:39.the hire car a cost which is borne by the victim's insurer or on the
:11:40. > :11:44.repair bill, the Competition Commissions say the insurer of the
:11:45. > :11:50.at-fault driver should handle the claim. It has floated the idea of
:11:51. > :11:53.capping the costs of repairs. Repairers face xrau criticism by not
:11:54. > :12:00.completing the work to the required standard but they say they do what
:12:01. > :12:03.the insurers tell them They do what they are instructed to. In many
:12:04. > :12:07.cases it may be a repair rather than a replacement. There is a cost-out
:12:08. > :12:11.approach here. In some cases I'm sure that the repairers aren't happy
:12:12. > :12:15.with what they are asked to do. So, how could the claims' process
:12:16. > :12:20.change? Well, the victim of an accident will have to trust the
:12:21. > :12:24.other driver's insurer. One of the options they are thinking about is
:12:25. > :12:29.changing the way in which a consumer will deal with a particular insurer.
:12:30. > :12:34.So, rather than dealing with their own insurer, they may deal with the
:12:35. > :12:37.insurer of the person who caused the accident.
:12:38. > :12:44.The Competition Commission believes that the over-charging adds ?8 to
:12:45. > :12:49.the cost of insuring every car. Deal with that, deal with the much bigger
:12:50. > :12:53.problem of excessive whiplash claims and it'll help bring down our
:12:54. > :12:59.insurance bills. The commission will make its final proposals next year.
:13:00. > :13:03.The Foreign Office says it is extremely concerned by reports that
:13:04. > :13:07.a British doctor, imprisoned by the Syrian government for more than a
:13:08. > :13:13.year, has died in custody. Dr Abbas Khan, a 32-year-old orthopaedic
:13:14. > :13:16.surgeon from south London, was arrested shortly after arriving in
:13:17. > :13:21.the city of Aleppo. His family says he went to help civilians in a field
:13:22. > :13:30.hospital in an area controlled by the opposition. Paul Wood sent this
:13:31. > :13:35.report from neighbouring Lebanon. Dr Abbas Khan went to Syria more
:13:36. > :13:40.than a year ago to help the civilian victims of the civil war. He had
:13:41. > :13:45.been in the northern town of Aleppo, just 48 hours, when he was arrested.
:13:46. > :13:49.There was a huge need here for a skilled orthopaedic surgeon, such as
:13:50. > :13:53.Dr Abbas. Last November when he arrived, hundreds of people were
:13:54. > :13:57.being injured in Aleppo every week. But regime sources claim he was
:13:58. > :14:01.betrayed by doctors on the rebel side, angry he was giving away free
:14:02. > :14:05.medicines. Whatever the truth of that, he was seized by government
:14:06. > :14:10.soldiers and taken to a prison in Damascus. In letters home, he said
:14:11. > :14:15.he was accused of treating dying civilians - that, he said, was
:14:16. > :14:21.classed as an act of terrorism. He wrote, "My detention has included
:14:22. > :14:24.repeated beatings, for no other reason than the pleasure of my
:14:25. > :14:29.captors." He had been forced to beat other prisoners, he said, kept in
:14:30. > :14:33.squalid conditions, denied access to toilets or medical treatments.
:14:34. > :14:37.Dr Abbas' death would have been a crushing blow to his family,
:14:38. > :14:41.whatever the circumstances. But, they'd been told by the Syrian
:14:42. > :14:45.authorities he was coming home, being released in just a few days'
:14:46. > :14:49.time. Then an official rang to say he had been found hanged in his
:14:50. > :14:56.cell. His family say they don't believe it.
:14:57. > :15:02.One theory - that Dr Abbas was a casualty of a power struggle between
:15:03. > :15:07.the Syrian president and his own Security Services. Only President
:15:08. > :15:12.Assad could have ordered his release. The Foreign Office is
:15:13. > :15:17.seeking urgent clarification from the Syrians about what happened.
:15:18. > :15:23.Amnesty say 1,000 prison remembers killed in Syrian prisons every year
:15:24. > :15:34.and it is all, too plausable that a British doctor is among them. Our
:15:35. > :15:37.main story. Options for Britain's airport expansion. New runways for
:15:38. > :15:48.Heathrow and Gatwick on the short list. A new airport in the Thames
:15:49. > :15:51.estuary hasn't been ruled out. The beauty of the Christmas Festival of
:15:52. > :15:58.nine lessons and carols, and it's prising birthplace. In sport, Rajesh
:15:59. > :16:04.cyclist Jonathan Tiernan Lock is to face desert disciplinary
:16:05. > :16:06.proceedings. He denies any wrongdoing and will contest the
:16:07. > :16:18.charges. Britain's most famous naturalist Sir
:16:19. > :16:22.David Attenborough hs been a fixture on our television screens for
:16:23. > :16:28.decades. Today he's been awarded the freedom of the city of Bristol - the
:16:29. > :16:30.highest honour the city can bestow. The award marks the close
:16:31. > :16:35.association between Sir David and the BBC's Natural History Unit -
:16:36. > :16:38.which is based in Bristol. He described the award as a 'great
:16:39. > :16:44.honour' - not just for him, but for the whole team. Jon Kay watched the
:16:45. > :16:49.ceremony. From the Amazon rainforest and the Arctic tundra to Bristol's
:16:50. > :16:53.City Hall. In the council chamber this lunchtime, only political
:16:54. > :16:58.animals, though. Here to give Sir David Attenborough their highest
:16:59. > :17:02.honour. He follows Sir Winston Churchill and Lord Nelson as free
:17:03. > :17:05.men of this city, where so many of his wildlife programmes were
:17:06. > :17:13.produced. Today, he was typically modest about it. Of course, it isn't
:17:14. > :17:17.really me, that's the point. It is the BBC natural history unit that is
:17:18. > :17:20.being honoured. I get a lot of credit for all sorts of things the
:17:21. > :17:26.unit does which I have little justification for stop but it's a
:17:27. > :17:29.great honour to represent that unit. I have been lucky in my lifetime to
:17:30. > :17:35.see some of the greatest spectacles of the natural world. For more than
:17:36. > :17:42.60 years, he has travelled the globe, first on zoo quest... There,
:17:43. > :17:51.only a few yards away, we spotted... Then through life on
:17:52. > :17:55.Earth and frozen planet. His sole object in life at the moment is to
:17:56. > :18:01.make sure that he and he alone makes with every single one of them. He
:18:02. > :18:06.has taken us to places and got us closer to nature than we ever
:18:07. > :18:10.imagined possible. And almost all his hit programmes have been made by
:18:11. > :18:16.the BBC natural history unit in Bristol. He has the ability to
:18:17. > :18:20.connect to all ages, from three-year-olds to a -year-olds, in
:18:21. > :18:26.all territories around the world, because he just draws you into the
:18:27. > :18:31.fascination of the natural world. Now 87, this freeman of the city of
:18:32. > :18:36.Bristol says he has no plans to retire. Is there one thing you
:18:37. > :18:42.haven't done yet? I would love to go to the centre, there are terrific
:18:43. > :18:46.fossils, it would be extremely unproductive and bad use of the
:18:47. > :18:51.licence payers money to send me to the centre of the Gobi Desert! From
:18:52. > :18:56.here come he is filming again for a new series next year.
:18:57. > :18:59.Police are investigating a suspected terrorist attack in Belfast last
:19:00. > :19:04.night, when a man was seen running through the city centre with his
:19:05. > :19:07.clothes on fire. It's thought he may have been carrying an incendiary
:19:08. > :19:12.device, which caught fire prematurely. Chris Buckler reports.
:19:13. > :19:17.The middle of Belfast just before Christmas. Filled not with shoppers
:19:18. > :19:21.but security. Stores had to be evacuated and part of the city
:19:22. > :19:25.centre closed, all as a result of the latest attack by dissident
:19:26. > :19:28.republicans. In recent weeks the police had been warning people to be
:19:29. > :19:34.vigilant and last night in one shop, they watched a man bring a firebomb
:19:35. > :19:40.through its doors. This guy came in and unbelievably burnt into flames,
:19:41. > :19:44.just went into flames, we thought there was something going on, he
:19:45. > :19:47.just ran out of the shop and it turns out there was an incendiary
:19:48. > :19:54.device he had been hiding under his coat, which inadvertently had gone
:19:55. > :19:58.off. So-called firebombs word used during the worst years of Ireland's
:19:59. > :20:02.troubles and the police have returned to old tactics to try and
:20:03. > :20:05.combat increased threats. Checkpoints are back, but despite
:20:06. > :20:10.that they are having attacks. On Friday evening, a small bomb
:20:11. > :20:14.exploded in a part of Belfast busy with people, many of them at bars
:20:15. > :20:17.and restaurants for Christmas parties. At the end of last month a
:20:18. > :20:23.substantial car bomb was left outside one of the city's main
:20:24. > :20:26.shopping centres. When you look at that capability of people who have
:20:27. > :20:31.the technical knowledge to know how to explode a car bomb, of course we
:20:32. > :20:36.are concerned about that. But we are also concerned about a new
:20:37. > :20:38.generation of young, active and violent republican terrorists who
:20:39. > :20:43.are determined to keep his campaign going. In recent weeks and months,
:20:44. > :20:47.Republicans opposed to the peace process have fired shots at police
:20:48. > :20:51.and sent letter bombs to police officers but this Christmas they
:20:52. > :20:55.seem intent on simply causing widespread fear and disruption. Cars
:20:56. > :20:57.have now been searched as they going to shopping centres, images that
:20:58. > :21:04.could be from Christmas in a different occasion in Belfast.
:21:05. > :21:08.Large-scale gas production or fracking could boost in Britain's
:21:09. > :21:12.energy security and create thousands of jobs, that's the view of a report
:21:13. > :21:14.commissioned the government which sets out the economic and
:21:15. > :21:20.environmental effects of oil and gas at unity. Consultation on it
:21:21. > :21:26.findings will run into March of next year. One of Britain's largest drug
:21:27. > :21:33.company 's Glaxo Smith client as it will stop paying doctors to attend
:21:34. > :21:36.its medical conferences. It was the first big pharmaceutical companies
:21:37. > :21:40.to take that decision. The decision comes months after the Chinese
:21:41. > :21:45.authorities opened an investigation into alleged bribery by some of its
:21:46. > :21:48.employees. The former Conservative peer Lord Henning field is claimed
:21:49. > :21:52.half the numbers of the House of Lords clock in and out of Parliament
:21:53. > :21:56.for a few minutes a day in order to claim the ?300 daily attendance
:21:57. > :22:00.allowance. He made the claim when challenged to explain his own
:22:01. > :22:05.attendance record. The Daily Mirror alleges that only 11 of 19 occasions
:22:06. > :22:12.he attended the Lords in July, he spent less than 40 minutes there. A
:22:13. > :22:14.former personal assistant accused of defrauding Charles Saatchi and
:22:15. > :22:20.Nigella Lawson has told the court she regularly found white powder and
:22:21. > :22:23.rolled up banknotes in the TV chef's handbag. Francesca Grillo
:22:24. > :22:35.told court she found evidence of cannabis being smoked in the
:22:36. > :22:41.couple's house. Both the sisters today attended court but it was, as
:22:42. > :22:45.you say, the younger sister Francesca Grillo who today continued
:22:46. > :22:48.her evidence. She told the court she had never actually seen Nigella
:22:49. > :22:52.Lawson ever take drugs but she had found remnants of both cannabis and
:22:53. > :22:56.cocaine in the house. She said that the cannabis she had found after
:22:57. > :23:00.parties held there, she found some in Nigella Lawson's study and also
:23:01. > :23:05.in the kitchen. She went on to say she never felt comfortable asking
:23:06. > :23:08.her about drug use but did ask the children about the cannabis and they
:23:09. > :23:13.said they had cemented with their mother to help them all get to
:23:14. > :23:17.sleep. In relation to the cocaine, she told the court that a packet of
:23:18. > :23:22.cocaine had been found in Miss Lawson's jewellery box, and she
:23:23. > :23:28.frequently found rolled up banknotes with remnants of cocaine on it. She
:23:29. > :23:30.went on to say there was one occasion when Miss Lawson came down
:23:31. > :23:34.into the kitchen and she saw some white powder on her nose. She asked
:23:35. > :23:45.Mr Lawson what it was, she did was make up.
:23:46. > :23:48.Australia's cricketers have regained the Ashes after beating England by
:23:49. > :23:52.150 runs in the third Test. They're now 3-0 up, with two Tests still to
:23:53. > :23:55.play. And the real danger is that England might be 'whitewashed' and
:23:56. > :23:58.come home without a single Test victory. The only bright spot was
:23:59. > :24:03.Ben Stokes scoring his maiden Test century, as Joe Wilson reports from
:24:04. > :24:08.Perth. Want to see what it means to win the
:24:09. > :24:12.Ashes after three East great series defeat? Four hours after play
:24:13. > :24:15.finished, Australia's cricketers out in the middle, sharing the jury that
:24:16. > :24:20.can only come with overwhelming England. They were held up briefly
:24:21. > :24:26.on the fifth day in Perth. England's defiance was left to a
:24:27. > :24:30.22-year-old injustice second Test match, the pillar in England's
:24:31. > :24:34.rubble. Then Stokes, the first England batsmen to make 100 in the
:24:35. > :24:43.series. Maybe England have a new all-rounder. He was out for 120, and
:24:44. > :24:46.the rest followed rapidly. 17 runs and three wickets later, England
:24:47. > :24:52.were all out, James Anderson the last to go. Mitchell Johnson taking
:24:53. > :24:55.the wicket, quite appropriately. And England's captain was left to try
:24:56. > :25:03.and explain how it could go so badly wrong so soon. We haven't had enough
:25:04. > :25:07.players in form, that is the simple fact, you can't put any more honest
:25:08. > :25:11.than that. People in the dressing room know that, it hurts like hell
:25:12. > :25:16.when you say it, when you come into a contest and end up second best, as
:25:17. > :25:21.a sportsman and especially to admit that it is quite hard. The first
:25:22. > :25:26.wicket looks like it has been in a Test match. Cracked, torn, maybe
:25:27. > :25:29.that's goes for England's players too, and there is one school of
:25:30. > :25:33.thought that suggests, with their squad, they should rip it up and
:25:34. > :25:38.start again. But there is little point in dropping players if there
:25:39. > :25:41.is no one better to replace them. It's not easy for Andy flower author
:25:42. > :25:47.Alastair Cook, his performance has been poor, it looks like his
:25:48. > :25:51.performance was affected by his batting. There are not a huge amount
:25:52. > :25:56.of answers, I don't see many waiting from outside this group who could
:25:57. > :26:00.make a big difference. England's immediate task is to try and stop
:26:01. > :26:09.this series becoming 5-0. Australia have had to wait a long time to win
:26:10. > :26:13.again and they rather like it. It's a Christmas tradition enjoyed
:26:14. > :26:16.by millions the world over. Most associated with the famous carols
:26:17. > :26:19.from Kings College, Cambridge - the festival of nine lessons and carols
:26:20. > :26:22.is actually a Cornish invention - and tonight at Truro Cathedral, the
:26:23. > :26:25.very first service from 1880 will be recreated, as our reporter Nick
:26:26. > :26:43.Beake reports from England's most westerly Cathedral.
:26:44. > :26:46.The eyes of millions are on the soloist who has the nerve wracking
:26:47. > :26:53.honour of starting it off. The choir of King's College Cambridge have
:26:54. > :26:57.made this festive spectacle their own but it was Cornwall in 1880 that
:26:58. > :27:01.started this most British Christmas tradition, and today's choir at
:27:02. > :27:15.Truro Cathedral are bringing the first service pack to life. Back to
:27:16. > :27:22.life. This is one of the orders of service from 1880 devised by Bishop
:27:23. > :27:33.Benson. And it is a curious mix. Some pieces are more like musicals
:27:34. > :27:36.of the time. I know from reading articles from the press at the
:27:37. > :27:43.time, choral singing was not distinguished in Cornwall at the
:27:44. > :27:51.time in churches, so we would soon -- weren't seen as too authentic.
:27:52. > :28:00.Let's see what happens! They may not have recognised this vocal one in
:28:01. > :28:03.1880, but probably this one. The Truro choristers practice 12 hours a
:28:04. > :28:10.week. And learning these old pieces has been a rewarding and
:28:11. > :28:13.challenging. We have two pronounced the edge instead of just saying
:28:14. > :28:18.rejoiced, and there are odd gaps between the words sometimes. I'm
:28:19. > :28:23.glad we are doing Handel 's Messiah because I have got a solar but also
:28:24. > :28:28.because the music is very good. The first service was about getting the
:28:29. > :28:35.people out of the pubs of Truro and into here. But now their research
:28:36. > :28:37.suggests this service was a bit like a Christmas present to some very
:28:38. > :28:43.disgruntled local table who have had their houses knocked down to make
:28:44. > :28:47.way for the new Cathedral -- local people. They will be hoping there
:28:48. > :28:52.was no rebellion in the air tonight walloped in 1000 pack the pews to
:28:53. > :28:58.celebrate this often forgotten Cornish tradition. Time to take you
:28:59. > :29:08.to the weather now. A lovely day today, a little bit
:29:09. > :29:13.cooler than of late, but nevertheless, sunny spells out there
:29:14. > :29:17.and mostly dry. We have some cloud upping and tailing the country as we
:29:18. > :29:24.speak, but the crowd up into the far North-West, a few showers which will
:29:25. > :29:28.die back. The cloud in the South-East, a bit of a nuisance,
:29:29. > :29:32.maybe some more rain through the latter stages of the day. Some sunny
:29:33. > :29:39.spells coming through, pleasant enough for many. Through this
:29:40. > :29:43.evening, we start to see the potential for a little more rain
:29:44. > :29:46.across the South-East and into East Anglia for a time. An early frost,
:29:47. > :29:51.but only just because some wet and windy weather. To push in from the
:29:52. > :29:54.west. And that because the southerly wind will lift temperatures in the
:29:55. > :30:04.South-East towards the end of the night. The talking point will be the
:30:05. > :30:10.strength of the wind and the rain is the day continues through Wednesday.
:30:11. > :30:14.Showery outbreaks of rain to start with across Scotland, rather breezy
:30:15. > :30:21.and temperatures around seven to nine degrees. Rain across the
:30:22. > :30:24.North-West and down into Wales, the Midlands, eastern England starting
:30:25. > :30:31.off overcast but largely fine and dry. A mild but windy start in the
:30:32. > :30:36.south-west and some showery out books of rain steadily pushing their
:30:37. > :30:39.way east. The main course arrives through the latter stages of
:30:40. > :30:42.Wednesday, there will be some rain pushing erratically eastwards
:30:43. > :30:49.through the day and the wind starting to be a feature. The
:30:50. > :30:56.heavy, intense rainfall arrives through Wednesday afternoon and into
:30:57. > :30:58.Wednesday evening. As the rain continues to travel further east and
:30:59. > :31:04.the low-pressure drifts further north, the ice bars squeezing to the
:31:05. > :31:12.south of that, the potential for 80, even more gusts of wind. That may
:31:13. > :31:16.well cause some disruption. It's all moved out of the way by Thursday, a
:31:17. > :31:24.cooler, breezy day with a few showers. No chance to rest on our
:31:25. > :31:28.laurels as we move towards Friday, the potential for yet more wet and
:31:29. > :31:34.windy weather to return towards the end of the working week.
:31:35. > :31:41.Our main story: Options for Britain's airports expansion. New
:31:42. > :31:45.options for Heathrow and Gatwick are on offer and a ten gesture earbud
:31:46. > :31:47.hasn't been ruled out. Time to