:00:19. > :00:21.of England's target. Also this lunchtime:
:00:22. > :00:24.The Alps murders - a Frenchman is arrested in connection with the
:00:25. > :00:28.deaths of a British family and a cyclist in 2012.
:00:29. > :00:30.Whole-life sentences can still be imposed on the most serious
:00:31. > :00:36.offenders, says the Court of Appeal, defying a European ruling.
:00:37. > :00:42.Police have seized a family dog after the sudden death of a baby in
:00:43. > :00:45.Carmarthenshire this morning. It was not a banned breed.
:00:46. > :00:48.Mopping up the floods - insurance bosses head to Downing Street as
:00:49. > :00:51.ministers demand a stepped national effort to help victims.
:00:52. > :00:58.And the giant Asian carp threatening North America's Great Lakes.
:00:59. > :01:01.Later on BBC London: Counting the cost - now Surrey's
:01:02. > :01:05.flood victims ask how much insurance will be in future.
:01:06. > :01:06.We're live in Chertsey, where defences against the water are
:01:07. > :01:31.starting to be removed. Good afternoon and welcome to the
:01:32. > :01:34.BBC News at One. The rise in the cost of living is slowing down,
:01:35. > :01:37.according to official figures. For the first time in more than four
:01:38. > :01:43.years, inflation has fallen below the Bank of England's target of 2%,
:01:44. > :01:47.to 1.9%. It's hoped it will bring some relief for cash-strapped
:01:48. > :01:50.households. If the rate of inflation continues to fall, it means wages
:01:51. > :01:55.could start rising faster than inflation by the end of this year.
:01:56. > :02:03.Here's our chief economics correspondent, Hugh Pym.
:02:04. > :02:07.Cost of living increases have been putting the squeeze on consumer
:02:08. > :02:11.budgets but the pressure's now easing. Most prices haven't fallen,
:02:12. > :02:16.but they are not rising as rapidly as they were so the inflation rate
:02:17. > :02:20.has dropped. The question now is when people's pay packets will start
:02:21. > :02:24.to rise faster than prices. That depends on the health of the
:02:25. > :02:28.economy. This company makes equipment for the oil and gas
:02:29. > :02:33.industry. After a difficult year in 2012, it's now growing fast and can
:02:34. > :02:38.afford to increase wages by 3% this year, well above inflation. I think
:02:39. > :02:41.that's testament to the fact that the way we're looking at the world
:02:42. > :02:46.and our business in the UK is much more positive than it has been for
:02:47. > :02:48.some time. The ups and downs of inflation have created some big
:02:49. > :02:53.headaches for the economy in the last few years. Going back a
:02:54. > :02:58.decade, inflation was not far off its 2% target but soared above 5% in
:02:59. > :03:05.September 2008. Because of the recession, it plunged to 1% but then
:03:06. > :03:12.rocketed above 5% again. Since then it's been in decline but above
:03:13. > :03:17.average wage rises. Most economists expect inflation to stay around 2%
:03:18. > :03:21.for the rest of this year, with wage rises moving ahead of that, ending
:03:22. > :03:25.the squeeze on household budgets. Many shoppers will feel they will
:03:26. > :03:28.only believe it when they see it. We asked people in Oxfordshire if
:03:29. > :03:33.they'd noticed the drop in inflation. Things have become much
:03:34. > :03:40.more expensive. I'm not seeing a fall. Maybe a bit in fuel, to be
:03:41. > :03:44.honest. I haven't noticed in my actual weekly shop a great amount of
:03:45. > :03:51.difference than previously. Clothes and things, yes, but not day-to-day
:03:52. > :03:55.eating. Retailers want customers to feel better off so that takings at
:03:56. > :03:58.the tills gather momentum but there's caution in the industry
:03:59. > :04:03.about how quickly the pressure on family budgets will be reduced. I
:04:04. > :04:07.think we're more stable than we've been and I think that's an
:04:08. > :04:12.improvement and that's positive. It's difficult to call it an upturn
:04:13. > :04:16.yet and I don't see that. I think we've just got to be very smart and
:04:17. > :04:22.listen very hard as to what customers need from us. Low
:04:23. > :04:26.inflation, of course, makes it easier for the Bank of England to
:04:27. > :04:30.keep interest rates on hold. Borrowers will applaud that. Savers
:04:31. > :04:34.will see things very differently. Hugh Pym is with me now.
:04:35. > :04:40.Going in the right direction but can it last? Well, Sophie, some
:04:41. > :04:45.economists expect inflation to fall from here. One group is expecting 1%
:04:46. > :04:49.inflation by the end of this year. An indication of the way they see
:04:50. > :04:53.things. It all depends on events over the next few months and the
:04:54. > :04:57.Chancellor has said he thinks it's partly because of his long-term
:04:58. > :05:02.economic plan. He says it is now giving families equal security.
:05:03. > :05:12.Labour are saying, "Hang on a minute, wage rises have still not
:05:13. > :05:17.overtaken price rises". Better news expected tomorrow? Better news on
:05:18. > :05:21.unemployed had expected tomorrow. But Wolverhampton City Council has
:05:22. > :05:26.announced 2000 jobs will go. They blame cuts imposed by central
:05:27. > :05:30.government. Tomorrow we'll learn the extent to which the private sector
:05:31. > :05:33.can continue to take up the slack of cutbacks. More figures then on jobs
:05:34. > :05:35.and wage rises. Police in France have arrested a
:05:36. > :05:39.48-year-old man in connection with the murders in 2012 of three members
:05:40. > :05:42.of a British family and a French cyclist in the Alps. Saad al-Hilli
:05:43. > :05:45.was shot dead along with his wife and her mother, in the hills above
:05:46. > :05:49.Lake Annecy. Prosecutors said the man arrested is French. Let's get
:05:50. > :05:57.more from our Europe correspondent Matthew Price.
:05:58. > :06:02.A surprise development - what more can you tell us? In the last 20
:06:03. > :06:07.minutes, we've managed to speak to a prosecutor involved in this case. He
:06:08. > :06:11.has confirmed that 48-year-old man is believed to have been in the area
:06:12. > :06:15.of the killing at the time it took place. His house is being searched
:06:16. > :06:22.at the moment and, under French law, they have up to question him. The
:06:23. > :06:28.prosecutor wanted to stress that at this stage, this individual is not
:06:29. > :06:31.formally a suspect. They've arrested him simply because, under French
:06:32. > :06:37.law, they have to do that in order to search is home and question him.
:06:38. > :06:43.A reminder of this particularly brutal and shocking crime - a
:06:44. > :06:47.British - Iraqi family on holiday in France killed, apparently in cold
:06:48. > :06:52.blood, on a Ramon DeForest Road. Saad al-Hilli, the father, slumped
:06:53. > :07:00.in the driver's seat of his BMW, shot dead. His wife and her mother
:07:01. > :07:02.also dead on the back-seat. Police discovered the four-year-old
:07:03. > :07:07.daughter alive, hiding under the body of third mother, and
:07:08. > :07:12.seven-year-old daughter shot through the soldier but still alive after
:07:13. > :07:17.badly beaten, lying in the road. Under French cyclist also killed
:07:18. > :07:20.nearby. This is apparently quite a big development happening right now,
:07:21. > :07:24.down in the Alps region of France, where this arrest has been made.
:07:25. > :07:27.Thank you very much. The Court of Appeal has directed
:07:28. > :07:29.that judges can continue to hand down whole-life sentences for the
:07:30. > :07:33.most serious crimes in England and Wales. That's despite a ruling last
:07:34. > :07:36.year by the European Court of Human Rights that offenders imprisoned for
:07:37. > :07:38.life should be able to have their sentences reviewed. Since then,
:07:39. > :07:41.sentencing for a number of high-profile criminal cases -
:07:42. > :07:44.including the men responsible for the murder of Fusilier Lee Rigby in
:07:45. > :07:59.London - have been on hold pending the judgment. Our home affairs
:08:00. > :08:05.correspondent June Kelly reports. These are three of the 53 real
:08:06. > :08:08.lifers in England and Wales. Convicted of the worst crimes, this
:08:09. > :08:13.no Tory is group have been told they will die as prisoners. The European
:08:14. > :08:17.court was asked to look of the issue of these whole-life sentences.
:08:18. > :08:21.Judges here were unclear whether they could still impose them. This
:08:22. > :08:27.morning, the Court of Appeal made it plain they could. Judges should
:08:28. > :08:31.therefore continue, as they have done, to impose whole-life terms in
:08:32. > :08:37.those rare and exceptional cases which fall within the statutory
:08:38. > :08:40.scheme. Maria Stubbings was strangled with a dog lead by a man
:08:41. > :08:44.with whom she'd had a brief relationship. Her murderer, Mark
:08:45. > :08:48.Chivers, had already killed a previous girlfriend. He is one of
:08:49. > :08:55.those serving a whole-life term and her family are believed at the court
:08:56. > :09:00.ruling. We've been horrified by the possibility that someone taking
:09:01. > :09:05.someone else's life - in his case, taking two people's lives - could be
:09:06. > :09:11.released. What message does that send to everybody else perpetrating
:09:12. > :09:14.such healers crimes? The European Court of Human Rights didn't say
:09:15. > :09:16.such whole-life terms should be banned but it did say these
:09:17. > :09:22.prisoners should be entitled to have their sentences reviewed. The appeal
:09:23. > :09:27.judges here disagreed. A setback for defence lawyers who deal with these
:09:28. > :09:30.cases. This really goes to the heart of the criminal justice system, to
:09:31. > :09:33.decide whether prison sentences should have an element of
:09:34. > :09:40.rehabilitation built in from the very outset. The sentencing of Lee
:09:41. > :09:44.Rigby's killers, Michael Adebolajo and Michael Adebowale, had been
:09:45. > :09:46.postponed until today's ruling. The judge in their case could now hand
:09:47. > :09:49.down whole-life terms. Police have seized a family dog in
:09:50. > :09:53.Carmarthenshire this morning after the sudden death of a baby. They
:09:54. > :09:58.were called to a house in the village of Pont-uh-berem at 8.30
:09:59. > :10:01.this morning. -- the village of Pontyberem. Police have confirmed
:10:02. > :10:06.that the dog was an Alaskan Malamute - which is not a banned breed. Our
:10:07. > :10:13.correspondent Hywel Griffith is there. Police are releasing very few
:10:14. > :10:17.details but what more do you know? This seems to have been an horrific
:10:18. > :10:21.family tragedy. The family rang the emergency
:10:22. > :10:24.services just before 8:30am. First on the scene was a paramedic,
:10:25. > :10:29.followed by an ambulance, followed by a Helimed helicopter which
:10:30. > :10:35.airlifted to the baby to the University Hospital in Cardiff. The
:10:36. > :10:39.baby's life could not be saved. The police have a very clear presence on
:10:40. > :10:43.the street. The house in question is about two thirds of the way down the
:10:44. > :10:46.street and they have erected a forensic search tent there, so they
:10:47. > :10:49.will be going through the contents of the house. One key piece of
:10:50. > :10:53.information they've told us is that they have taken away the family
:10:54. > :10:59.dog, which is one of their lines of inquiry. We understand that dog is
:11:00. > :11:05.an Alaskan Malamute. It's not a registered dangerous to under the
:11:06. > :11:14.dangerous to -- a registered dangerous dog under the Dangerous
:11:15. > :11:18.To. They're not generally seen as being dangerous to children or
:11:19. > :11:23.adults and have become increasingly popular as a breed for family pets.
:11:24. > :11:28.They were bred because of their strength and ability to carry in
:11:29. > :11:33.cold weather. However, they have become a popular pet. We're awaiting
:11:34. > :11:35.more information from the police and we expect to hear from them later
:11:36. > :11:38.this afternoon. Insurance bosses are meeting in
:11:39. > :11:41.Downing Street to discuss their response to the severe flooding
:11:42. > :11:43.across parts of the UK. The Government's urging them to deal
:11:44. > :11:47.with claims from flood victims as quickly as possible. But there have
:11:48. > :11:50.already been complaints that some companies are making the process
:11:51. > :11:54.difficult. The Environment Agency says it could be months before water
:11:55. > :12:03.levels return to normal. Our personal finance correspondent Simon
:12:04. > :12:07.Gompertz reports. When the waters recede, what do you
:12:08. > :12:13.do about house which was under nearly two feet of water? Ministers
:12:14. > :12:19.want to make sure insurers pay out as quickly as they can. The water
:12:20. > :12:24.came out through the house, into the hallway, and it was well above the
:12:25. > :12:29.second step. If only they did pay, says Jeanette, whose home was
:12:30. > :12:34.flooded on Christmas Eve. At first, her insurer put her family up in a
:12:35. > :12:37.hotel but then decided that because she was within 200 metres of the
:12:38. > :12:43.river, they wouldn't cover her after all. That was after restorers from
:12:44. > :12:48.the insurer had thrown furniture and other belongings out of the house,
:12:49. > :12:53.where it was pilfered by passers-by. I just said that I couldn't believe
:12:54. > :12:56.it to the loss adjuster. I'd paid my insurance for so many years but
:12:57. > :13:02.there was no discussion, just a statement, and then they put the
:13:03. > :13:06.phone down. It's piling misery upon misery if an insurance company
:13:07. > :13:09.delays paying or doesn't pay at all but the insurance industry as a
:13:10. > :13:14.whole says it is on the ground helping and trying to get people
:13:15. > :13:17.back on their feet. Insurance bosses representing 60% of the industry sat
:13:18. > :13:22.down for talks at Downing Street today. On the agenda - stepping up
:13:23. > :13:29.the help and making sure families continue to get support. Which is
:13:30. > :13:33.what claims experts from Aviva insurance are trying to do in
:13:34. > :13:39.Wraysbury on the Thames. This is on top of 5000 visits insurers say
:13:40. > :13:42.their loss adjusters have made. Nobody at home in most cases but the
:13:43. > :13:47.aim is to find customers who haven't managed to claim. The primary goal
:13:48. > :13:53.is to make sure they're safe, arranging internal -- alternative
:13:54. > :13:57.accommodation, looking at drying regimes to get them back on the
:13:58. > :14:02.property as quickly as possible. That stealing with the devastation
:14:03. > :14:05.from these floods. The other worry for families who now know they're
:14:06. > :14:11.vulnerable is whether they will be able to get affordable insurance to
:14:12. > :14:15.protect them next time. Our chief political correspondent,
:14:16. > :14:18.Norman Smith, is in Downing Street, where the floods summit is taking
:14:19. > :14:22.place stop the government is clearly very aware of the need get this
:14:23. > :14:26.under control. Quite so and the reason is simple -
:14:27. > :14:31.they know they have to be seen to be addressing people's concerns and,
:14:32. > :14:36.for Mr Cameron, this is fades two of the floods crisis. Phase one was a
:14:37. > :14:41.ensuring people had sandbags, getting the Army involved. Phase two
:14:42. > :14:45.is helping people put their lives back together again, which means
:14:46. > :14:50.ensuring that the insurance industry responds so badly and swiftly. In
:14:51. > :14:54.other words, Mr Cameron has to ensure he is not perceived as
:14:55. > :14:58.picking up his metaphorical tool bag, wiping his hands and going off
:14:59. > :15:02.into the middle distance thinking the job is done. He has to remain
:15:03. > :15:05.focused on the difficulties and the upset people are going to face four
:15:06. > :15:09.months ahead, and that means waving a stick at the insurance industry to
:15:10. > :15:14.make sure they respond quickly. But he is the difficulty - whereas he
:15:15. > :15:18.can tell the local authorities, the environment agencies, the soldiers
:15:19. > :15:24.what to do, he can't order the insurance industry to do anything.
:15:25. > :15:27.Ben Brown is in Chertsey in Surrey. We can see what people are having to
:15:28. > :15:38.deal with and the problem is, for so many flood victims, it is far from
:15:39. > :15:42.over. Very far from over. The flood warnings have been lifted around the
:15:43. > :15:46.Thames Valley, but the homes around me are very badly flooded. The water
:15:47. > :15:51.level has dropped considerably, but it is still waist deep in places, so
:15:52. > :15:57.very hard to approach some of the properties. People in real
:15:58. > :16:00.distress, traumatised people are staying with relatives having been
:16:01. > :16:04.evacuated from their homes, or they are staying in bed-and-breakfast
:16:05. > :16:07.accommodation or hotels. People are worried about the insurance
:16:08. > :16:10.situation, whether they will get their complete claims, and worried
:16:11. > :16:17.about whether their premiums will shoot up because of the prices --
:16:18. > :16:22.crisis, or even if they will get any insurance at all in the future.
:16:23. > :16:27.And you can find out more about how the flooding is affecting your area
:16:28. > :16:30.on the BBC news website. That's bbc.co.uk/news. And there are, of
:16:31. > :16:37.course, updates on your BBC local radio station. The time is 1:16pm.
:16:38. > :16:40.Our top story this lunchtime: The squeeze on households begins to ease
:16:41. > :16:45.as inflation drops below the Bank of England's target to 1.9%.
:16:46. > :16:50.Coming up, I'm at the Winter Olympics in Sochi where it's been
:16:51. > :16:52.another dramatic day for Britain's curling team.
:16:53. > :17:00.Later on BBC London: The gift of life. Patients who've received
:17:01. > :17:03.kidneys at St George's Hospital say thank you to their donors. Beyond
:17:04. > :17:06.the catwalk. Cara Delevigne tells us about her new acting career. We
:17:07. > :17:17.catch up with her at London Fashion Week. At least three people have
:17:18. > :17:19.been killed, and dozens of others wounded, in clashes between police
:17:20. > :17:23.and anti-government protesters in Thailand's capital, Bangkok.
:17:24. > :17:26.Violence erupted when riot police tried to retake ministries occupied
:17:27. > :17:35.by demonstrators since December. Jonathan Head reports from Bangkok.
:17:36. > :17:42.Outside the Prime Minister's office in Bangkok, an uneasy lull. The
:17:43. > :17:47.police are trying to negotiate. No deal.
:17:48. > :17:55.The protest movement would not give up the ground it has held here for
:17:56. > :18:00.more than two months. A short distance away, the police try to
:18:01. > :18:08.push forward and faced -- face fierce resistance. They briefly
:18:09. > :18:15.captured a protest leader. That brought rocks. They responded with
:18:16. > :18:23.tear gas. But still the crowd refused to retreat. It was hard to
:18:24. > :18:28.know who was shooting who. This policeman survived a shot in the
:18:29. > :18:35.head. One of his colleagues died from a chest wound. The police tried
:18:36. > :18:40.to hold their ground. They fired repeatedly with rubber bullets. Then
:18:41. > :18:46.this, a grenade arced into the police line, landing at their feet.
:18:47. > :18:59.One officer realised the danger. But too late. Four police officers were
:19:00. > :19:04.injured, and one lost his leg. More volleys of gunfire from the police,
:19:05. > :19:09.this time with live rounds, left many protesters with serious gunshot
:19:10. > :19:13.wounds. Some of them fatal. This has now become a very tense front line.
:19:14. > :19:17.There is a lull at the moment, but what we saw a few moments ago shows
:19:18. > :19:21.how easily violence can erupt when tension is this bad. The police say
:19:22. > :19:24.they will pull back, but the protesters are still very angry. The
:19:25. > :19:30.police do not want them to advance as there is still the potential for
:19:31. > :19:32.trouble here. As the police withdrew, the protesters dragged up
:19:33. > :19:38.their barricades and reclaimed the street. It has been one of the
:19:39. > :19:40.bloodiest days of this long conflict. And, in the end, little
:19:41. > :19:52.had changed. The trial is under way five men
:19:53. > :19:57.accused of involvement in a multi-million pound scam targeting
:19:58. > :20:00.Barclays and Santander banks. The men are accused of intercepting
:20:01. > :20:03.credit cards and directly transferring money from branches in
:20:04. > :20:12.London by planting electronic devices on computers. Sophie is at
:20:13. > :20:17.Southwark Crown Court for us. The jury has been told this morning that
:20:18. > :20:19.the case sentences -- centres on what was a sophisticated and
:20:20. > :20:22.organised attack on the banking system in this country. The
:20:23. > :20:27.prosecution told them that between April and September of last year,
:20:28. > :20:31.members of a gang tried to submit -- steal millions of pounds from the
:20:32. > :20:38.bank 's ear. One of the five defendants, Barclays Bank employee,
:20:39. > :20:41.accused of trying to plant electrical device in Berkeley 's
:20:42. > :20:46.meaning he could transfer money out of the branch. -- in a Barclays
:20:47. > :20:50.Bank. The police also said the gang was linked to a criminal network who
:20:51. > :20:56.were using stolen credit cards and one of the cards that was stolen was
:20:57. > :21:01.used in Selfridge's to buy a watch worth around ?24,000. All five
:21:02. > :21:03.defendants here today denied the charges against them. Sophie, thank
:21:04. > :21:09.you. They're giant fish that grow up to
:21:10. > :21:12.four feet long. And now the Amercian city of Chicago is considering
:21:13. > :21:15.spending billions of dollars to try to stop the Asian carp from
:21:16. > :21:18.infesting North America's Great Lakes. They've been swimming up the
:21:19. > :21:21.Mississipi from southern states in America, where they were first
:21:22. > :21:24.introduced more than 30 years ago. Now Chicago is thinking of closing
:21:25. > :21:26.its canal system to stop them getting any further. Our science
:21:27. > :21:38.correspondent Pallab Ghosh reports. Giant jumping fish. It's a familiar
:21:39. > :21:43.sight here of the waters leading towards Lake Michigan. They are
:21:44. > :21:49.called Asian carp and can grow up to four foot long. The fish have
:21:50. > :21:53.infested the Mississippi River and are now not far from the great
:21:54. > :21:58.Lakes. This canal is all that stands in the way between the Asian carp
:21:59. > :22:02.and the Great Lakes. That is why they have built this control centre
:22:03. > :22:07.to send electrical pulses into the water to stop the carp from getting
:22:08. > :22:10.further. But some say that on its own this electrical barrier will not
:22:11. > :22:16.be enough. They are calling for more drastic measures. The US Army Corps
:22:17. > :22:22.of engineers has proposed blocking the canal system at various points,
:22:23. > :22:28.here. It could cost up to $18 billion. There are 9.1 million
:22:29. > :22:33.people in Chicago in the matter of a hundred years the canal has been
:22:34. > :22:39.there, the economic impact is considerable. The carp invasion of
:22:40. > :22:44.the Great Lakes is a problem that will affect the rest of the world.
:22:45. > :22:50.20% of the world's freshwater is in those Lakes. It has led to the
:22:51. > :22:56.effects of climate change, and we want to protect this one time
:22:57. > :23:00.natural resource. Another option is to mince up the fish and eat them
:23:01. > :23:11.out of existence. This fishmonger is making burgers out of the carp. Our
:23:12. > :23:16.world-famous carp burger. That is the cheese stuffed in it. That's
:23:17. > :23:20.really nice. The city and neighbouring states will have to
:23:21. > :23:23.find a solution soon, but some believe that the fish are
:23:24. > :23:28.unstoppable and that it's only a matter of time before these
:23:29. > :23:33.monstrous creatures make the Great Lakes their new home.
:23:34. > :23:38.She was one of thousands of unmarried mothers in Ireland forced
:23:39. > :23:41.to give up her child, and her search for her son inspired a film that's
:23:42. > :23:45.been nominated for the Oscars. Now, Philomena Lee is using the film's
:23:46. > :23:48.success to push for a change in the law that she hopes will make it
:23:49. > :23:49.easier for families to be reunited. Our Ireland Correspondent Chris
:23:50. > :23:58.Buckler has been to meet her. Children taken from their mothers
:23:59. > :24:03.because they weren't married. It is a scandal that has hung over
:24:04. > :24:06.Ireland. But at the time it was those birds that were seen as
:24:07. > :24:12.shameful and something the country try to hide -- those births. They
:24:13. > :24:19.say you abandoned him as a baby. I did not abandon my child. Philomena
:24:20. > :24:23.tells of one woman's battle to find out what happened to her son. He was
:24:24. > :24:26.given up for adoption without her consent in an institution run by the
:24:27. > :24:33.Catholic Church. The film is based on a true story. The family believed
:24:34. > :24:37.we had committed a mortal sin by having a baby out of wedlock. Times
:24:38. > :24:39.are different today, thank goodness, but we were led to believe that we
:24:40. > :24:45.were sinners and that was it. Her but we were led to believe that we
:24:46. > :24:48.story has had a huge impact in Ireland. Even in the Irish
:24:49. > :24:53.parliament they are talking about the Philomena effect. I have been
:24:54. > :24:55.advised by the adoption authority that they've already seen a
:24:56. > :24:59.significant increase in the number of people who are calling the
:25:00. > :25:05.authority in regard to information and tracing. Philomena's story is
:25:06. > :25:10.not unusual. The decades there was a shame associated with unmarried
:25:11. > :25:13.mothers, and so children were taken away and in many cases sent
:25:14. > :25:16.overseas. Even now there are still people trying to look at their
:25:17. > :25:21.family. But that's extremely difficult in Ireland. The adoption
:25:22. > :25:25.rights Alliance is campaigning for people to be given the right to see
:25:26. > :25:29.their adoption files. The law in Ireland currently prevents them from
:25:30. > :25:35.having access to those records. That campaign has been called the
:25:36. > :25:38.Philomena Project. Philomena Lee has been fantastic, she is appealing,
:25:39. > :25:41.particularly to those older women to get rid of the shame and guilt and
:25:42. > :25:47.she has pointed out that the shame and guilt is not with them, it is
:25:48. > :25:50.with Irish society. And Philomena believes opening up the adoption
:25:51. > :25:56.files will allow some other parents to be given the chance to meet their
:25:57. > :26:00.children. To know that the film and myself telling the story is going to
:26:01. > :26:04.help a lot of people, especially women my age group, is still a lot
:26:05. > :26:09.of them are reluctant to come out with those stories. The morality of
:26:10. > :26:13.the past is being questioned, but any change comes too late for some
:26:14. > :26:16.mothers who lost their children forever.
:26:17. > :26:20.At the Winter Olympics, Team GB's men's curlers have reached the
:26:21. > :26:23.semi-finals after beating Norway 6-5 in a nail-biter this morning in
:26:24. > :26:28.Sochi. Elsewhere, speed skater Elise Christie has qualified, this time
:26:29. > :26:29.trouble-free, in the 1,000 metres. Live now to Sochi, and our
:26:30. > :26:40.Correspondent, Andy Swiss. Yes, it has been another dramatic
:26:41. > :26:44.morning here in Sochi, especially for Britain's men's curlers. They
:26:45. > :26:50.had to beat Norway to reach the semifinals and they did it on the
:26:51. > :26:57.very final stone. It is one of sport's eternal questions. Do you
:26:58. > :27:02.play safe, or do you go for glory? With Norway leading 5-4, that was
:27:03. > :27:06.the dilemma facing David Murdoch. Should he play a simple shot for one
:27:07. > :27:11.point and a tie-break, or a risky ricochet for victory, if it worked,
:27:12. > :27:18.or defeated it didn't. After an agonising wait, it was or nothing.
:27:19. > :27:24.-- all for nothing? Is it right? He's done it! Under the greatest
:27:25. > :27:28.pressure, he produced one of his greatest shots. Britain through to
:27:29. > :27:32.the semifinals and left reflect on a moment of magic. It was a chance to
:27:33. > :27:37.win the game, and we're not scared of going for a big shot. If it comes
:27:38. > :27:43.off, we are free. We did it perfect, and here we go -- we are through.
:27:44. > :27:46.After two disqualifications in the short track speed skating, would it
:27:47. > :27:55.be third time lucky for Lee's Christie? -- Elise Christie. The
:27:56. > :27:59.1000 metres is our best event, and she showed why, cruising through the
:28:00. > :28:02.heat, this time without any mishaps. She said she had considered pulling
:28:03. > :28:11.out of the event after receiving threats on Twitter. My training
:28:12. > :28:15.having gone so well with everything, but as I crossed the line, I looked
:28:16. > :28:21.across, and I was quite pleased with that. But the day's most unlikely
:28:22. > :28:30.sight came in the giant slalom. Along the skiers was the classical
:28:31. > :28:34.violinist Mae. -- Vanessa Mae. She finished last, some 50 seconds
:28:35. > :28:37.behind the winner will stop but at least she proved she has another
:28:38. > :28:43.string to her bow. -- behind the winner. But at least proved she had
:28:44. > :28:51.another string to her bow. Finally, to give you an update about the
:28:52. > :28:55.British skier Rowan Cheshire, who was injured in an accident, Team GB
:28:56. > :28:57.says she will not be able to compete in her event on Thursday.
:28:58. > :29:03.Time for a look at the weather. Here's Stav Danaos.
:29:04. > :29:10.Things, the moment, although it does go unsettled later in the week. --
:29:11. > :29:15.relatively quiet at the moment. You can see how much quieter there is in
:29:16. > :29:19.the forecast. The white spots showing heavy showers, and
:29:20. > :29:22.unfortunately across much of Scotland is producing outbreaks of
:29:23. > :29:26.rain. The theme for the afternoon is Sunny spells with some showers
:29:27. > :29:30.around and a little bit wetter across Scotland. This is the radar
:29:31. > :29:33.picture from earlier. Brighter colours across the south-east where
:29:34. > :29:38.we have heavy showers and hail and even thunder affecting southern
:29:39. > :29:42.Scotland and the far north. Running the sequence through the afternoon,
:29:43. > :29:46.a scattering of showers across England and Wales, but decent spells
:29:47. > :29:50.of sunshine. For the northern half of mainland Scotland, cloudy with
:29:51. > :29:54.outbreaks of rain and some mountain snow, but for Orkney and Shetland, a
:29:55. > :29:59.decent afternoon, but feeling chilly. For Northern Ireland, more
:30:00. > :30:02.sunshine and showers, scattered showers across the North of England
:30:03. > :30:06.and a scattering of showers through much of England and Wales. The focus
:30:07. > :30:09.of the heaviest are in the south-east corner with the risk of
:30:10. > :30:13.hail and thunder through the afternoon. Temperatures in double
:30:14. > :30:17.figures for many and the winds are lighter, so in the sunshine it will
:30:18. > :30:21.feel almost like spring. If we run the sequence through the evening,
:30:22. > :30:25.the heavier showers clear from the south-east. It turns dry for England
:30:26. > :30:30.and Wales before fragmented patchy rain comes in, then into the
:30:31. > :30:35.Midlands. For Scotland, we hold onto cloud and showers with snow in the
:30:36. > :30:39.hills. Generally free of frost, but another chilly wonder, the Northern
:30:40. > :30:43.Isles. That takes us into Wednesday morning with a misty, murky note
:30:44. > :30:47.across the North with fog around. The showers clear away, and then
:30:48. > :30:51.foremost, Wednesday looking like being a dry day apart from some
:30:52. > :30:58.showers across Scotland, but the mist will be up and the mist is
:30:59. > :31:02.there a cross Northern Ireland as other weather fronts pushing from
:31:03. > :31:05.the Atlantic thanks to the area of low pressure. Tightly packed ice
:31:06. > :31:11.bars the Thursday and we are looking at a fairly windy day with a band of
:31:12. > :31:14.rain spreading West -- isobars. We could see gale force winds.
:31:15. > :31:17.Following the rain, blustery showers and they could turn wintry across
:31:18. > :31:22.the mountains of the north-west corner, but across the South,
:31:23. > :31:25.looking relatively mild. For Friday, a mixture of sunshine and blustery
:31:26. > :31:29.showers, more frequent in the West. You could see coastal gales, but
:31:30. > :31:31.good spells of sunshine, particularly in the East.
:31:32. > :31:39.Now a reminder of our top story this lunchtime: the squeeze on households
:31:40. > :31:42.begins to ease with inflation falling to 1.9%, the lowest level in
:31:43. > :31:43.more than four years. That's all from