:00:11. > :00:15.raped twice by the Coronation Street star William Roache at his home when
:00:16. > :00:20.she was 15. The jury heard he was cold and calculated during the
:00:21. > :00:24.attacks, in 1967. The woman says she told no one because she blamed
:00:25. > :00:28.herself. She will have the latest from our correspondent in court. A
:00:29. > :00:32.major police search is under way in Edinburgh for a three-year-old boy,
:00:33. > :00:34.who has gone missing from his home. The Chief Constable of Greater
:00:35. > :00:38.Manchester Police is to be prosecuted for safety breaches after
:00:39. > :00:43.an unarmed man was shot dead in Cheshire. The pioneering surgery
:00:44. > :00:48.that it has improved the sight of six patients, who would have
:00:49. > :00:51.otherwise gone blind. I sat outside and looked at the night sky and saw
:00:52. > :00:57.the stars for the first time in about ten or 15 years. Which was
:00:58. > :01:00.quite something for me because I always liked looking at the night
:01:01. > :01:06.sky. Another scorcher at the Australian Open as temperatures of
:01:07. > :01:12.more than 43 degrees halt play. She will have to get used to calling you
:01:13. > :01:17.Rodney. Are you going to get this meeting started? Me and Dave haven't
:01:18. > :01:20.got all night. And Farewell to Trigger, Roger Lloyd-Pack, star of
:01:21. > :01:27.Only Fools And Horses, has died of cancer at the age of 69.
:01:28. > :01:31.Later on BBC London, David Cameron defence delaying a decision about
:01:32. > :01:34.Heathrow expansion until after the general election. And the East
:01:35. > :01:52.London primary, which has banned fruit juice. We find out why.
:01:53. > :01:59.Good afternoon and welcome to the BBC News At One. A jury has been
:02:00. > :02:03.hearing from a woman who says she was raped twice by the Coronation
:02:04. > :02:06.Street star William Roache when she was 15. In video taped evidence
:02:07. > :02:10.played to the court the woman, who is now 62, said there had been no
:02:11. > :02:14.warning of what was about to happen and he had been cold and
:02:15. > :02:18.calculating. Mr Roache, 81, denies five counts of indecent assault and
:02:19. > :02:22.two counts of rape against five girls aged 16 and under. Our
:02:23. > :02:27.correspondent Judith Moritz is outside the court for as now.
:02:28. > :02:31.Yes, that is right and this morning the jury here in court room number
:02:32. > :02:35.one has been listening to evidence about two rapes, which are said to
:02:36. > :02:39.have happened nearly 50 years ago. The woman who says that William
:02:40. > :02:44.Roache raped her back then didn't tell anyone at the time she says
:02:45. > :02:48.because she blamed herself. She came forward to the police last year in
:02:49. > :02:52.the wake of the Jimmy Savile scandal.
:02:53. > :02:56.William Roache arrived at court for the third day of his trial knowing
:02:57. > :03:01.that the jury would be hearing from the woman who says he raped her
:03:02. > :03:04.twice. He walked into court with his daughter and two of his sons, who
:03:05. > :03:08.sat in the public gallery watching the evidence. The actor began
:03:09. > :03:13.playing Coronation Street's Ken Barlow in the soap's first episode
:03:14. > :03:18.in 1960. Seven years later he is accused of raping the woman, who was
:03:19. > :03:22.then a teenage girl. At the time William Roache owned properties in
:03:23. > :03:25.the Lancashire town of Haslingden. The first rape is alleged to have
:03:26. > :03:30.happened at his bungalow, the second is said to have been a few months
:03:31. > :03:34.later at a cottage he owned nearby. Now aged 62, the woman whose
:03:35. > :03:38.identity is protected appeared by video link. The court was shown tape
:03:39. > :03:42.of an interview she did with police last year. Of the first rape, she
:03:43. > :03:46.said, I can just remember thinking, God, I just want to get out of here.
:03:47. > :03:53.I didn't know what to make of it. I was just so scared. The woman says
:03:54. > :03:56.she didn't tell anyone, adding, I thought it must be my fault. I
:03:57. > :04:00.didn't know why it had happened, I had gone round there in all
:04:01. > :04:03.innocence. William Roache is also accused of indecently assaulting
:04:04. > :04:08.four other women under the age of 16. He denies all the charges
:04:09. > :04:12.against him. The woman also told the court that
:04:13. > :04:17.her memory has been affected by a series of strokes and she described
:04:18. > :04:22.William Roache as making her skin crawl, telling the court that she
:04:23. > :04:28.had been particularly upset by an interview the actor did with Piers
:04:29. > :04:31.Morgan in recent years about his love life. Her evidence is expected
:04:32. > :04:35.to continue this afternoon before the defence go on to cross-examine
:04:36. > :04:40.her. Judice, thank you very much. Police
:04:41. > :04:44.have launched a major search for a three-year-old boy, who has gone
:04:45. > :04:47.missing from his home in Edinburgh. Mikaeel Kular hasn't been seen since
:04:48. > :04:51.he went to bed last night, when his family woke this morning they
:04:52. > :04:55.couldn't find him. That speaks our correspondent Lorna Gordon in
:04:56. > :04:58.Edinburgh. What are the police saying?
:04:59. > :05:03.Mikaeel lives in this estate in the north of Edinburgh with his mother
:05:04. > :05:06.and four siblings. All morning police have been conducting
:05:07. > :05:11.door-to-door enquiries in this area. They want to find the little boy and
:05:12. > :05:14.get him back to his family. Mikaeel Kular, three years old,
:05:15. > :05:20.missing and now the focus of a big police search. The toddler was last
:05:21. > :05:23.seen by his mother when she put him to bed around 9pm yesterday evening.
:05:24. > :05:28.When she woke he had disappeared from his room and from the family
:05:29. > :05:32.home. A police helicopter, sniffer dogs and a significant number of
:05:33. > :05:35.officers are now looking for the young child. Temperatures were low
:05:36. > :05:40.overnight and they are appealing for help in trying to find him. He's a
:05:41. > :05:43.three-year-old boy who if he is wondering will be cold and hungry
:05:44. > :05:47.and looking for shelter, no doubt. You might have crawled in somewhere
:05:48. > :05:50.and fall asleep if he has been out wandering early this morning, so
:05:51. > :05:55.have a look in your own areas, have a look in your garage is, your
:05:56. > :05:58.outhouses, your common stair, any cupboards in the common stair,
:05:59. > :06:03.anywhere a three-year-old could climb into to seek some shelter to
:06:04. > :06:06.try and get warm. Mikaeel is said to be a friendly and playful young boy
:06:07. > :06:11.and neighbours are shocked at his disappearance. The first thing my
:06:12. > :06:16.wife said this morning, she said where do you start looking? It is
:06:17. > :06:21.quite a scary thing, actually, you know. The three-year-old is of Asian
:06:22. > :06:25.appearance. He could be wearing a beige jacket, blue jogging trousers
:06:26. > :06:29.and brown shoes. Police are keeping an open mind as to what has happened
:06:30. > :06:33.to him. They just want to get him home safe to his mother, who is said
:06:34. > :06:37.to be distraught. Of course, police are also going to
:06:38. > :06:41.be trying to work out how exactly he left his home. These are modern
:06:42. > :06:45.flats with apparently good security. In the last few moments we've seen
:06:46. > :06:50.police forensic officers enter this street and go round to the back of a
:06:51. > :06:55.block of flats here. They'll be assisting with this investigation.
:06:56. > :06:57.Lorna, thank you very much. The Chief Constable of Greater
:06:58. > :07:02.Manchester Police has been prosecuted over the shooting dead of
:07:03. > :07:05.an unarmed man. Sir Peter Fahy is being charged under the health and
:07:06. > :07:09.saved the laws because of what prosecutors called serious
:07:10. > :07:13.deficiencies in preparations for the operation in which Anthony Grainger
:07:14. > :07:16.died in 2012. Our home affairs correspondent Matt Prodger is with
:07:17. > :07:21.me now. Explain the background to this and just how serious this is
:07:22. > :07:24.also Peter. Anthony Grainger was travelling in a car which was
:07:25. > :07:26.stopped by officers from Greater Manchester Police who were
:07:27. > :07:32.investigating a suspected armed robbery. He was shot in the chest
:07:33. > :07:35.and as a result of that he died. Now the decision today by the
:07:36. > :07:38.pro-prosecution service to prosecute Greater Manchester Police and in
:07:39. > :07:42.particular Sir Peter Fahy is not on charges of murder or manslaughter
:07:43. > :07:46.but in fact for alleged breaches of health and save the they say in
:07:47. > :07:51.their statement it is alleged that an unnecessary exposure to risk was
:07:52. > :07:55.caused by serious deficiency in the preparation of the police operation.
:07:56. > :07:58.And in accordance with the health and safety law its senior officers
:07:59. > :08:02.and in this case no more senior than the Chief Constable and self, who
:08:03. > :08:05.face criminal liability. Now no charges will however be brought
:08:06. > :08:12.against the firearms officers who shot dead Mr Granger. The CPS
:08:13. > :08:13.decided that if that was to be a successful prosecution the jury
:08:14. > :08:18.would have to believe his actions were unreasonable and unnecessary
:08:19. > :08:22.and that that officer believed them to be so they didn't believe a jury
:08:23. > :08:26.would find that to be the case. Now this is not without precedent. There
:08:27. > :08:31.have been cases before where forces have been prosecuted, notably back
:08:32. > :08:35.in 2007 the Metropolitan Police had to pay fines and costs in relation
:08:36. > :08:42.to the shooting of John Charles to ministers at Jock -- at Stockwell
:08:43. > :08:46.Tube station. The former US Defence Secretary Robert Gates has told the
:08:47. > :08:49.BBC that cuts to Britain's armed forces could prevent it from being a
:08:50. > :08:53.full partner with the US in future military operations. He said that
:08:54. > :08:56.reductions in spending threatened to limit the UK's position in the world
:08:57. > :09:01.but is this morning David Cameron insisted that Britain is still a
:09:02. > :09:05.first-class player in defence. I don't agree with him. I think he's
:09:06. > :09:09.got it wrong. We have the fourth largest defence budget anywhere in
:09:10. > :09:14.the world. We are actually investing in future capabilities, so we're
:09:15. > :09:17.building two new aircraft carriers, replacement for our Trident
:09:18. > :09:23.submarines, type 45 destroyers, the new type of frigate will stop we've
:09:24. > :09:26.got a massive investment programme of ?160 billion in our defence
:09:27. > :09:31.industries, in our equipment. We are first-class player in terms of
:09:32. > :09:34.defence and as long as I'm prime minister that is the way it will
:09:35. > :09:38.stay. David Cameron speaking this morning. Let's speak to our defence
:09:39. > :09:41.correspondent who is outside the Ministry of Defence. Explain what
:09:42. > :09:47.the US Defence Secretary William Gates says we are lacking? He used
:09:48. > :09:49.the example of no aircraft carrier. No aircraft carrier of the 10-year
:09:50. > :09:53.is even though the Prime Minister pointed out two are being built and
:09:54. > :09:56.one will be operational by the end of the decade but we don't have
:09:57. > :10:01.maritime patrol aircraft after they scrapped the Nimrod. I think here at
:10:02. > :10:05.the MoD there will be a mixture of first of all hurt, wounded pride,
:10:06. > :10:08.because professional soldiers, sailors and airmen like to look
:10:09. > :10:12.their American colleagues in the eye and say we are as good as you. I
:10:13. > :10:16.think also though there will be a sense this is helpful to them
:10:17. > :10:19.because remember they are arguing both the defence secretary and the
:10:20. > :10:22.chief of the defence staff against further cuts. They will be able to
:10:23. > :10:26.go to the Treasury to George Osborne and say look, this is what our
:10:27. > :10:29.closest ally as saying. Whether it will work is another matter of
:10:30. > :10:33.course. Jonathan Beale, thank you very
:10:34. > :10:36.much. An 84-year-old man from Canada who was being held at an immigration
:10:37. > :10:41.centre in the UK died in handcuffs after he was taken to hospital. He
:10:42. > :10:46.was suffering from dementia. Prison inspectors say his was one of a
:10:47. > :10:48.series of shocking cases at the privately run Harmondsworth
:10:49. > :10:50.immigration removal Centre near Heathrow. Their report said that
:10:51. > :10:55.management has created an environment in which a sense of
:10:56. > :10:58.humanity had been lost. Here is our home affairs correspondent, Tom
:10:59. > :11:03.Symonds. Harmondsworth immigration centre is
:11:04. > :11:06.the place where people do UK Border Agency intends to remove from
:11:07. > :11:12.Britain are detained. And that makes it a difficult place to manage. As
:11:13. > :11:16.its troubled history demonstrates. In 2006 the centre was badly damaged
:11:17. > :11:21.in disturbances. It had been improving but today's report says
:11:22. > :11:25.it's in a state of drift. There are particular concerns about the times
:11:26. > :11:30.when staff have to move vulnerable detailing these, using handcuffs in
:11:31. > :11:35.what the report describes as, an excessive and an acceptable manner.
:11:36. > :11:40.These men were so ill that one died shortly after his handcuffs were
:11:41. > :11:45.removed. In one case last February, where a man who had arrived here
:11:46. > :11:48.from Canada who was known to the institution to have Alzheimer's, who
:11:49. > :11:53.was taken to hospital and died while still in handcuffs, in our view that
:11:54. > :11:58.was inhumane and completely lacking in any proportionality. Doctors had
:11:59. > :12:02.declared this so unwell he shouldn't have been detained at all. The
:12:03. > :12:07.report, resulting from a surprise inspection, and blames a lack of
:12:08. > :12:12.intelligent assessments of the risks hosed by detainees. There is no need
:12:13. > :12:15.to dehumanise them in this way and even if you are taken into detention
:12:16. > :12:21.remember, these are not criminals. You are entitled to a good quality
:12:22. > :12:24.degree of health care and you are entitled to be treated like a human
:12:25. > :12:29.being and that is not is what is happening. The private GEO group
:12:30. > :12:34.which runs Harmondsworth says it only uses handcuffs when there's a
:12:35. > :12:37.risk that a detainee might abscond but says managers have to use their
:12:38. > :12:39.discretion to take difficult decisions and we've eschewed them
:12:40. > :12:44.with additional guidance. The government says that this incident
:12:45. > :12:50.is completely unjustified and must not be repeated. Labour wants the
:12:51. > :12:52.government to review the contract it has for Harmondsworth. Ministers say
:12:53. > :13:00.they are monitoring the performance of this place closely.
:13:01. > :13:05.Britain's National Crime Agency says it has broken up and organised crime
:13:06. > :13:09.group that was abusing children to order over the Internet. The NCA
:13:10. > :13:13.says five people have gone to prison in the UK after using webcams to
:13:14. > :13:18.direct the abuse of children in the Philippines. The agency says it has
:13:19. > :13:22.identified more than 120 other British men suspected of being
:13:23. > :13:24.involved by paying for the live streaming of sexual abuse. Angus
:13:25. > :13:29.Crawford reports. A small house in a quiet road in
:13:30. > :13:35.Northamptonshire. The heart of an international online paedophile
:13:36. > :13:41.network. From here Timothy Ford directed the sexual abuse of
:13:42. > :13:44.children thousands of miles away. What the National Crime Agency found
:13:45. > :13:49.on his computer led police to this house in the Philippines were 12
:13:50. > :13:55.children were rescued. One was just six years old. The NCA discovered
:13:56. > :14:00.Ford offered other paedophiles the chance to watch the abuse to. Men
:14:01. > :14:07.like Thomas Owen from Merseyside. Their conversations online show Ford
:14:08. > :14:13.offering a win what he calls live shows. And that some of the children
:14:14. > :14:16.in his words are really cute. We traced the house that was rated as
:14:17. > :14:22.part of what the National Crime Agency called Operation Endeavour.
:14:23. > :14:26.This was the first successful joint operation by police from the
:14:27. > :14:30.Philippines, from Australia and from Britain. Policing the UK say there
:14:31. > :14:37.will be more raids like this in the future. There are over 700 suspects
:14:38. > :14:42.around the world, over 100 of which of that figure are here in the UK.
:14:43. > :14:47.That shocking, isn't it? Very shocking and people need to
:14:48. > :14:52.realise, let's call this what it is. This is not an Internet crime,
:14:53. > :14:56.this is a crime which is facilitated by the Internet. This is child
:14:57. > :15:01.sexual you is. Philippine police raid another house where girls were
:15:02. > :15:04.forced to perform in front of computers. Despite these operations
:15:05. > :15:12.there is criticism authorities are round -- around the world still not
:15:13. > :15:16.doing enough. do we like all men? No, we don't. Last year researchers
:15:17. > :15:20.from a Dutch charity posed online is a ten-year-old Filipino goal. They
:15:21. > :15:25.used an avatar and called her sweetie. 20,000 men offered her
:15:26. > :15:29.money to perform sex acts in front of a webcam. The man behind the
:15:30. > :15:34.operation believes police should follow the charity's tactics. These
:15:35. > :15:38.children are, will be scarred for life once the crime takes place so
:15:39. > :15:43.obviously we are in favour of a more proactive approach which allows the
:15:44. > :15:48.law enforcement intervene before the crime takes place. The children
:15:49. > :15:50.abused by Ford are now safe but charities say tens of thousands of
:15:51. > :16:03.others remain at risk. The top stories: The William Roache
:16:04. > :16:07.trial has heard from the woman who alleges she was raped twice by the
:16:08. > :16:16.Coronation Street star - at his home when she 15. Still to come: For
:16:17. > :16:18.decades we've been causing ourselves problems by draining the uplands and
:16:19. > :16:23.making it flood downstream. Now there's a new idea, working with
:16:24. > :16:26.nature instead of against it. Later on BBC London. The NBA has landed -
:16:27. > :16:30.players call for the capital to launch its own team as they prepare
:16:31. > :16:32.for tonight's game at the O2. And an independent film about life in
:16:33. > :16:45.Tooting has won international acclaim - we talk to its director.
:16:46. > :16:49.For more than a decade Wayne Thompson had looked up into the
:16:50. > :16:53.night sky but his sight was so bad he was unable to see the stars above
:16:54. > :16:56.him. Now though, after pioneering work by surgeons in Oxford, he's one
:16:57. > :16:59.of six patients whose sight has been improved by using gene therapy.
:17:00. > :17:02.Their findings have now been published in the medical journal,
:17:03. > :17:04.the Lancet. As our Science Correspondent Palab Ghosh reports,
:17:05. > :17:07.doctors are hopeful the procedure could be used to treat age-related
:17:08. > :17:22.blindness which affects 300,000 people in the UK and millions across
:17:23. > :17:27.the world. Wayne Thompson has a rare genetic condition. He was told he
:17:28. > :17:31.would lose his sight in ten years. He was among those who had a
:17:32. > :17:38.pioneering gene therapy operation which BBC News reported two years
:17:39. > :17:42.ago. It has improved his vision. I sat outside and looked up at the
:17:43. > :17:49.night sky and saw stars for the first time in ten years. It was
:17:50. > :17:55.quite something. Because of a faulty gene, it sells at the back of
:17:56. > :17:59.Wayne's I have been dying. Doctors stopped these from dying by
:18:00. > :18:04.injecting new working copies of the gene. They also believe that some of
:18:05. > :18:07.the cells they thought were dead have been revitalised and have
:18:08. > :18:13.improved his vision. The doctors have been amazed by how much the
:18:14. > :18:19.vision has improved. They have shown that the gene therapy is safe and
:18:20. > :18:28.effective, and believe it could be used to treat more common forms of
:18:29. > :18:30.blindness. More common forms, such as age related blindness, which
:18:31. > :18:36.affects millions of people worldwide, involves many genes so
:18:37. > :18:42.will be more complex to cure. Patient groups leave it will be
:18:43. > :18:53.possible. It is at an early stage but it does offer hope for
:18:54. > :19:00.conditions with a genetic basis. It offers help for Blau coma. As the
:19:01. > :19:02.process advances, there is hope it could be transferred across and
:19:03. > :19:08.provide cures for those common illnesses. When he was first
:19:09. > :19:13.diagnosed, doctors told Wayne he would not see his daughter grow up.
:19:14. > :19:18.Following his gene therapy, he now hopes to see his grandchildren.
:19:19. > :19:20.Three of the high street's big names say they've had an excellent
:19:21. > :19:23.Christmas. Argos, Currys PC World and Primark all reported strong
:19:24. > :19:26.sales with one boss saying their business took off "like a rocket"
:19:27. > :19:33.once the sales had begun. Here's our business correspondent, Emma
:19:34. > :19:44.Simpson. It has been a challenging few years for Currys PC World.
:19:45. > :19:49.Christmas has been good with sales 5% higher than last year. The boss
:19:50. > :19:57.told me that he found it more nerve wracking than usual. We kicked off
:19:58. > :20:02.with this new American holiday, Thanksgiving, a huge promotional
:20:03. > :20:05.period, and then we went into two or three weeks which were a bit
:20:06. > :20:13.quieter, wondering when Christmas would start. It then took off like a
:20:14. > :20:16.rocket. We had a massive Boxing Day with ?100,000 a minute going through
:20:17. > :20:27.the tills. It was not that long ago that Dixons was believed to be
:20:28. > :20:31.ending. Many customers are now browsing in the shops before
:20:32. > :20:37.browsing online. Argos is also reinventing itself. Strong demand
:20:38. > :20:43.for gaming consoles and tablets have helped deliver its strongest
:20:44. > :20:48.Christmas period in a decade. Half of its sales were online with many
:20:49. > :20:55.collecting in-store. Here is another retailer that has had a good
:20:56. > :21:00.Christmas. How is Primark able to get the sales without being online?
:21:01. > :21:09.Primark is an exception that proves the rule. Shoppers flock to Primark
:21:10. > :21:15.and they like the style of Primark. The other issue is that they sell at
:21:16. > :21:19.such low prices and it is not economic for them to sell online.
:21:20. > :21:24.Online has been a central for the rest of the High Street. These last
:21:25. > :21:28.few weeks have proved that customers want to shock in store and have the
:21:29. > :21:35.convenience of browsing and buying on the Internet as well. More rain
:21:36. > :21:39.is forecast across the UK over the next few days and The next few days
:21:40. > :21:42.look like turning rainy again and there are still 19 flood warnings in
:21:43. > :21:48.force across the UK. The recent spate of bad weather is estimated to
:21:49. > :21:51.have cost insurers ?400 million. Now there are calls to invest more money
:21:52. > :21:54.in schemes which protect properties close to a river by deliberately
:21:55. > :22:00.flooding hilly areas upstream. Our Environment Analyst Roger Harrabin
:22:01. > :22:07.has been to see how they work. Fallen trees block a scream in
:22:08. > :22:15.Northumberland. -- a stream. They were pushed into the water to block
:22:16. > :22:22.flooding. In heavy rain, the water spills over into surrounding
:22:23. > :22:26.woodland, creating floods up here. For decades we have been causing
:22:27. > :22:30.ourselves problems by draining the upper limbs and making it floods
:22:31. > :22:35.downstream. Now there is a new idea, working with nature instead of
:22:36. > :22:45.against it. Branches strewn across the wooden floor help to stop the
:22:46. > :22:51.flow of water. On the open ground is another experiment. This leaky dam
:22:52. > :22:55.catches water flowing off the fields and allows it to soak into the
:22:56. > :23:01.ground, instead of swelling the river. We need to change our
:23:02. > :23:05.thinking on how we deal with rivers. We have dealt with problems where it
:23:06. > :23:13.has occurred but we should look upstream and how the water runs off
:23:14. > :23:18.the land. In this pub they are drinking to the apparent success of
:23:19. > :23:23.the flood prevention scheme. Life was fairly miserable. We had five
:23:24. > :23:29.floods over two years and every time it's happened, people were knee deep
:23:30. > :23:36.in water, carpets were soaked, it was dreadful. We needed an answer.
:23:37. > :23:41.The flooding has stopped altogether and transform everything for
:23:42. > :23:45.everybody here. Work has begun on another prevention scheme in
:23:46. > :23:51.Yorkshire. Here they plan to force the river into a concrete pipe and
:23:52. > :23:55.then capture the overflow with a steel wall covered in soil.
:23:56. > :23:59.Engineers are frustrated that low-cost projects have struggled to
:24:00. > :24:06.get funding. We know schemes like this work. Slowing down the flow
:24:07. > :24:11.really does work. What we need is more of these schemes and we need to
:24:12. > :24:16.be able to do it more quickly and in order to do that we need the
:24:17. > :24:22.political commitment to make things happen. The government says it is
:24:23. > :24:30.providing leadership on flooding but that land management is complicated
:24:31. > :24:33.and needs to be done right. The extreme heat in Australia has been
:24:34. > :24:35.taking its toll on players again today. Andy Murray's brother Jamie
:24:36. > :24:38.had to be treated for heatstroke after winning his doubles match at
:24:39. > :24:42.the Australian Open in Melbourne. Play had to be halted as
:24:43. > :24:46.temperatures exceeded 43 degrees. Meanwhile Andy Murray has been on
:24:47. > :24:51.court in the second round as Jon Donnison reports. Even the violent
:24:52. > :24:57.thunderstorms over Melbourne failed to clear the air on court today.
:24:58. > :25:08.Temperatures were in the 40s, leaving many players struggling and
:25:09. > :25:13.unhappy. How was that? So hard! By early afternoon, for the first time
:25:14. > :25:17.this week, officials announced matches would be suspended because
:25:18. > :25:24.of the heat. On the two principal courts, the roots were closed and
:25:25. > :25:32.the air conditioning was turned on. -- roof. The tournament's manager
:25:33. > :25:38.defended the decision to allow players to play in the heat. Nobody
:25:39. > :25:43.is saying it is comfortable to play under these conditions, but from my
:25:44. > :25:49.perspective, we know that man is well adapted to exercising in the
:25:50. > :25:54.heat. It is not just the players who are suffering. Fans have been doing
:25:55. > :26:03.their best to keep cool. Someone just poured a bucket of water over
:26:04. > :26:09.us. I got out of the plane yesterday and I felt like I was walking into a
:26:10. > :26:16.sauna. Today it was several hours before the heat relented. Today has
:26:17. > :26:20.been a day where the weather got the better of the tennis. It has been
:26:21. > :26:27.frustrating for fans. Play was allowed to resume briefly after some
:26:28. > :26:32.respite from the heat. It is still around about 100 Fahrenheit. As you
:26:33. > :26:38.can see, the dark storm clouds have come, and play has been interrupted
:26:39. > :26:46.again. The delays meant it was almost 10pm before Andy Murray began
:26:47. > :26:50.his second round match. Andy Murray seemed to enjoy playing at a cooler
:26:51. > :26:56.time of day, winning in straight sets. His brother Jamie is suffering
:26:57. > :27:03.from heat stroke after his doubles match. The hot weather is set to
:27:04. > :27:05.continue until Friday. The Only Fools and Horses star, Roger
:27:06. > :27:11.Lloyd-Pack, has died of pancreatic cancer at the age of 69. In a career
:27:12. > :27:19.that began in the 1960s, he'd also appeared in dozens of films and TV
:27:20. > :27:34.shows including The Vicar Of Dibley. I think we are on a winner here.
:27:35. > :27:39.Play it is nice and cool. As the hapless Trigger, his character was
:27:40. > :27:50.one of the most essential characters on the show. Nobody has doubled with
:27:51. > :27:55.live puppies before! -- juggled. Equally well loved was his portrayal
:27:56. > :28:02.as a farmer in the long-running show The Vicar of Dibley. Christmas is
:28:03. > :28:09.all about the baby Jesus, isn't it? I would warn you to be very careful
:28:10. > :28:16.before you suggest juggling babies! An appearance in the fourth film of
:28:17. > :28:27.the Harry Potter series brought him to a new generation of viewers. Mr
:28:28. > :28:32.Potter has no choice. Although best known for his film and TV work, he
:28:33. > :28:37.was a classically trained actor and during his career, he performed at
:28:38. > :28:42.venues across the UK including London's Globe. He was politically
:28:43. > :28:48.active and a prominent campaigner for causes he felt passionately
:28:49. > :28:53.about. He was an entirely intelligent performer. Basil, are
:28:54. > :28:59.you going to get this meeting started? Me and Dave have not got
:29:00. > :29:09.all night. He loved making people laugh. Roger Lloyd-Pack, who has
:29:10. > :29:14.died at the age of 69. Now I look at the weather. Good afternoon. So far
:29:15. > :29:22.today it has been a lottery with the weather. A few breaks in the cloud
:29:23. > :29:27.but the further west it is, the more disappointing. You can see the
:29:28. > :29:31.shower clouds spiralling around in an anticlockwise direction towards
:29:32. > :29:36.the West. Some breaks, the further east you are. Very wet and windy in
:29:37. > :29:42.the north, perhaps severe gales across the northern isles. The
:29:43. > :29:49.showers will push inland, although sheltered eastern areas should
:29:50. > :29:54.escape any trouble. Seven degrees the overall high. A strong
:29:55. > :29:59.south-westerly winds driving the showers across England and Wales,
:30:00. > :30:05.some of them heavy. Further north, clearer skies and patchy frost and
:30:06. > :30:09.fog. Maybe icy patches. Overnight lows, a little cooler in the North
:30:10. > :30:14.West, but generally around five or seven degrees. The rain lingers in
:30:15. > :30:19.the northern isles. A disappointingly wet day tomorrow.
:30:20. > :30:24.Some patchy fog for Northern Ireland and Scotland. Some rumbles of
:30:25. > :30:29.thunder as well. Showers across England and Wales will be heavy. You
:30:30. > :30:37.can see, quite clearly, a rash of showers across Scotland's, England
:30:38. > :30:41.and Wales. -- Scotland. The difference with Friday is that the
:30:42. > :30:45.winds will become lighter in the afternoon and the showers will ease
:30:46. > :30:50.in the West. The strongest of the winds will be in the Shetland
:30:51. > :30:56.Isles. The showers may linger for much of the afternoon. If we look
:30:57. > :31:02.down to the south west, you can see the greens and yellows, an
:31:03. > :31:07.indication of what is to come. The low pressure is never too far away.
:31:08. > :31:13.The rain drives up from the south, and it looks like it will be a wet
:31:14. > :31:18.day in prospect on Saturday. The front eases off into the North Sea.
:31:19. > :31:22.The latter stages of the weekend, perhaps showers here. On Saturday,
:31:23. > :31:29.you will be very lucky if you escape the rain. All of us seeing some rain
:31:30. > :31:32.at some point on Saturday. Sunday will be a slightly quieter day. A
:31:33. > :31:40.case of sunny spells and scattered showers. Thank you. Now at half past
:31:41. > :31:46.one a reminder of our top story... The William Roache trial has heard
:31:47. > :31:52.from the woman who alleges she was raped twice at his home when she was
:31:53. > :31:53.15. Still to come: Nominations for this