:00:07. > :00:12.to the damning report on the Stephen Lawrence case. Sir Bernard Hogan
:00:13. > :00:18.Howe says claims of police corruption will have to be met head
:00:19. > :00:21.on and pledges to reform the force. But with the Met under such scrutiny
:00:22. > :00:26.we'll assess how he intends to do just that. We'll have reaction. Also
:00:27. > :00:29.this lunchtime. Russia has dismissed pleas from the White House to accept
:00:30. > :00:36.the terms of a diplomatic solution to the crisis in Ukraine. A former
:00:37. > :00:40.girlfriend of Oscar Pistorius tells his murder trial he carried a gun
:00:41. > :00:47.all the time, once firing it in anger after being stopped by the
:00:48. > :00:50.police. Accused of a callous disregard to suffering, Network Rail
:00:51. > :00:57.offers an unreserved apology to the families of victims killed at level
:00:58. > :01:04.crossings. Halting trials. Barristers and solicitors walk out
:01:05. > :01:07.in protest over cuts to legal aid. And the replica World War One
:01:08. > :01:16.battlefield discovered in the Hampshire countryside. This training
:01:17. > :01:20.area was intended to give soldiers an idea of what they would face on
:01:21. > :01:26.the battlefield. The reality, of course, was rather different. Later
:01:27. > :01:31.on BBC London, a construction worker has died in a tunnel at Holden. The
:01:32. > :01:36.first fatality during building work for crossrail and legends say
:01:37. > :01:39.regeneration for Tottenham will rip the heart out of the community. --
:01:40. > :01:57.residence. Hello. Good afternoon and welcome to
:01:58. > :01:59.the BBC News At One. The head of the Metropolitan Police says the damning
:02:00. > :02:07.report into the Stephen Lawrence case was the worst day of his
:02:08. > :02:09.career. Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe has pledged to restore trust and
:02:10. > :02:12.confidence in the police and says the force will co-operate fully with
:02:13. > :02:16.a public inquiry that was ordered after a review found that police had
:02:17. > :02:19.spied on the Lawrence family. The mother of the murdered teenager,
:02:20. > :02:26.Doreen Lawrence, says she wants heads to roll. Our home affairs
:02:27. > :02:30.correspondent June Kelly reports. His force's reputation is on the
:02:31. > :02:34.floor. Yesterday, Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe left to do his deputy to
:02:35. > :02:37.face the cameras. Today, in his first public comment on the scandal,
:02:38. > :02:41.engulfing Scotland Yard, he said he had gone through the worst day of
:02:42. > :02:45.his career. He was speaking in a newspaper interview. This case
:02:46. > :02:51.lifted the lid on racism and incompetence in the Metropolitan
:02:52. > :02:54.Police. Now new questions for former senior officers at like Paul Condon,
:02:55. > :03:00.the Met commissioner at the time of the public and quiet, into Stephen
:03:01. > :03:03.Lawrence's murder. It was after his family saw two men convicted of
:03:04. > :03:08.killing, that allegations emerged and have now been confirmed that
:03:09. > :03:13.they were spied on by the police. Doreen Lawrence and I will sit down
:03:14. > :03:16.and identify officers that we think have been identified in the report
:03:17. > :03:19.is being culpable in some sort of way. We will write to the
:03:20. > :03:26.Commissioner, asking him to take appropriate action. This is because
:03:27. > :03:30.the family have also learned that potential evidence on corruption was
:03:31. > :03:32.withheld from the public enquiry. One ex-officer in the Metropolitan
:03:33. > :03:37.Police for 30 years is not surprised by this. I think it's to protect the
:03:38. > :03:42.organisation. It is damage limitation. And that would have
:03:43. > :03:46.massive consequences, like it's going to have now. It's finally come
:03:47. > :03:50.out and it's going to be even worse now. The corruption allegations
:03:51. > :03:53.centre on former detective Sergeant John Davidson, tracks down in Spain
:03:54. > :03:58.by the BBC eight years ago, he worked on the Lawrence enquiry and
:03:59. > :04:03.claims he had links to the father of one of the murderers. No sign of him
:04:04. > :04:08.at his Spanish bar since the story blew up yesterday. In the fallout
:04:09. > :04:12.from this case, the Home Secretary announced an enquiry into undercover
:04:13. > :04:18.police in general. And spoke about possible miscarriages of justice.
:04:19. > :04:21.Today, two animal-rights activists jailed for firebombing department
:04:22. > :04:24.stores in the 80s, said they would be appealing against their
:04:25. > :04:32.convictions because of the alleged role of an undercover officer. Mark
:04:33. > :04:37.Easton is with us. Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe wants us to have
:04:38. > :04:41.confidence, but this is going to be an uphill struggle, isn't it? I
:04:42. > :04:46.think the massive problem he's got is this going to be a drip drip drip
:04:47. > :04:49.of really awful headlines potentially for months and years to
:04:50. > :04:54.come. And it's going to be incredibly difficult for him to say,
:04:55. > :04:59.all is fine now, when you're still going to be having these stories,
:05:00. > :05:03.the reputation of the Metropolitan Police, you know, have been severely
:05:04. > :05:07.damaged by this review which is making the point that, not only was
:05:08. > :05:10.there potential corruption at the heart of the Metropolitan Police, 20
:05:11. > :05:14.years ago, that maybe some of the echoes of that eruption are still
:05:15. > :05:19.there today. The review published yesterday to not believe they were
:05:20. > :05:22.necessarily seeing all the documentation that the Metropolitan
:05:23. > :05:28.Police hold. Public confidence in the police remains remarkably high.
:05:29. > :05:32.Two thirds of people say they trust the police officers to tell the
:05:33. > :05:35.truth, and that is as hired has been since the early 80s, so a massive
:05:36. > :05:43.job for Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe to do. It's vitally important we do
:05:44. > :05:47.trust our police said everybody will hope it can work but it won't be an
:05:48. > :05:50.easy job. Thank you. Russia's President Vladimir Putin has
:05:51. > :05:53.dismissed a warning from Barack Obama calling on him to seek a
:05:54. > :05:57.diplomatic solution to the crisis in Ukraine. The two Presidents spoke
:05:58. > :06:00.for over an hour last night in their second phone call this week but
:06:01. > :06:04.after Crimean MPs voted to ask to leave Ukraine and join Russia.
:06:05. > :06:05.Vladimir Putin said Moscow could not ignore their calls for help. Ben
:06:06. > :07:12.Brown reports from the Crimea. When a young mother arrives and says
:07:13. > :07:14.she has a different point of view, she is chased away by the
:07:15. > :07:21.demonstrators and we are stopped from filming. Passions are running
:07:22. > :07:26.high here and so is tension. Some fear what will happen to them if
:07:27. > :07:34.Crimea becomes a Russian. Take this family. TRANSLATION: We have become
:07:35. > :07:39.used to living in a free country. We will not live in a dictatorship.
:07:40. > :07:43.Today a Crimean delegation were given a standing ovation when they
:07:44. > :07:46.went to the Russian parliament in Moscow. Ukraine says that the
:07:47. > :07:55.forthcoming referendum here is illegal. But Russia says it is
:07:56. > :08:01.Crimea's democratic right. So, as Russia says it would welcome
:08:02. > :08:08.Crimea, fears have been sparked that other cities, like the divided done
:08:09. > :08:13.yet, could follow suit. -- Donetsk. James Reynolds reports on how the
:08:14. > :08:17.battles have been playing out. This is the main government
:08:18. > :08:20.headquarters in Donetsk and this has been the centre of protest and
:08:21. > :08:26.counter protest in recent days. Pro-Russian demonstrators came here
:08:27. > :08:30.and swept their way in, even raising the Russian flag, but they've been
:08:31. > :08:36.kicked out and the building has been retaken by Ukraine's authorities, as
:08:37. > :08:44.you can tell by this line of riot police. The line is thinly spaced at
:08:45. > :08:48.the moment but at some point is two offices deep. There aren't any
:08:49. > :08:52.protesters here at the moment but just as a precaution, have a look
:08:53. > :08:56.there and you will see two trucks guarding the entrance. The Deputy
:08:57. > :09:02.Mayor of this city has told the BBC he thinks a referendum may be a
:09:03. > :09:05.chance to calm tensions here and give the pro-Russian population
:09:06. > :09:09.chance to decide its own status. There's still a lot of scepticism
:09:10. > :09:12.about the aims and ambitions of the authorities in Kiev but for now,
:09:13. > :09:19.these officers have their orders - they won't let anyone through.
:09:20. > :09:23.A former girlfriend of Oscar Pistorius has been giving evidence
:09:24. > :09:26.at his trial. He said he carried a gun all the time and descriptive as
:09:27. > :09:32.a man getting very angry, once firing after the police car had
:09:33. > :09:40.stopped him. Our correspondent is outside the High Court in Pretoria.
:09:41. > :09:46.Another uncomfortable day in court. The prosecution is bringing in a
:09:47. > :09:50.separate gun handling charge to raise questions about Oscar
:09:51. > :09:54.Pistorius, about whether or not he is somehow reckless and
:09:55. > :10:00.trigger-happy. We briefly met at a rugby game.
:10:01. > :10:06.Oscar Pistorius's character came under fire today, this time with a
:10:07. > :10:12.former girlfriend, Samantha Taylor, who described an incident in 2012,
:10:13. > :10:16.reconstructed here, when her then boyfriend fired his pistol from a
:10:17. > :10:22.car sunroof after being pulled over for speeding. He was angry at the
:10:23. > :10:29.police after being stopped. Thereafter, when they wanted to fire
:10:30. > :10:36.shots, they found it funny. They fired the shot and then they
:10:37. > :10:40.laughed. That won't help Pistorius. It suggests he fired a gun in anger
:10:41. > :10:45.before the night he shot dead his new girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp and,
:10:46. > :10:53.Taylor said, he got angry with a lot of people. My sister, my best
:10:54. > :11:02.friend, another friend of ours. His name? His best friend, Alex.
:11:03. > :11:07.Samantha Taylor portrayed Pistorius as a man with a violent temper, who
:11:08. > :11:11.kept a pistol with him at all times. But she was also asked specifically
:11:12. > :11:15.about matters relating to the night Reeva Steenkamp was killed, about
:11:16. > :11:20.where Oscar Pistorius slept in bed, what he sounded like when he
:11:21. > :11:25.screamed. If he screams and is very anxious, he sounds like a woman.
:11:26. > :11:33.That is not true. He sounds like a man. Again, this is important
:11:34. > :11:36.because Pistorius's defence argues that he sounded like a woman when he
:11:37. > :11:40.screamed that night and that neighbours were mistaken when they
:11:41. > :11:46.thought it was Reeva Steenkamp screaming. So when you heard him
:11:47. > :11:50.screaming, it was out of anger but not in situations where he perceived
:11:51. > :11:56.his life to be threatened? No, my lady. Pistorius appeared to show no
:11:57. > :12:02.emotions as his former girlfriend stepped down and left the courtroom.
:12:03. > :12:06.Within the last few minutes, the trial has wrapped up for this week
:12:07. > :12:10.but there was one last witness, a security guard who said he'd spoken
:12:11. > :12:14.by phone to Oscar Pistorius after firing gunshots and the athlete had
:12:15. > :12:19.told him everything was fine, though he could hear that the athlete was
:12:20. > :12:22.also crying. Network Rail has offered a full and unreserved
:12:23. > :12:26.apology to the families of people who have been killed on level
:12:27. > :12:29.crossings. A report by MPs found the company had not done enough to
:12:30. > :12:35.prevent the deaths and had displayed a "callous disregard" for bereaved
:12:36. > :12:38.relatives on too many occasions. Danny Savage reports. Near misses at
:12:39. > :12:47.level crossings have been going on for years. But MPs say too many
:12:48. > :12:51.people are still dying on the lines. Network Rail has now been given a
:12:52. > :12:55.deadline to cut crossing fatalities to zero. This is my grandson,
:12:56. > :12:58.Michael. On top of that, the transport committee says Network
:12:59. > :13:00.Rail has shown a callousness regard to people like Lawrence Hoggard. His
:13:01. > :13:06.wife Jean and seven-year-old grandson Michael were killed in a
:13:07. > :13:10.crossing in Hucknall in 2008. He was appalled by Network Rail's attitude.
:13:11. > :13:15.There was no sympathy towards me and my family. Nothing. I've not
:13:16. > :13:21.received any letter of apology from them. Even now. To this day. This is
:13:22. > :13:25.the crossing where Lawrence Hoggard's wife and grandson were
:13:26. > :13:29.killed. As you can see, the foot crossing is now been replaced with a
:13:30. > :13:32.bridge. Afterwards, he issued legal proceedings against Network Rail
:13:33. > :13:35.claiming they knew about the dangers here. But before the case came to
:13:36. > :13:40.court, they paid him undisclosed damages. Today Network Rail's new
:13:41. > :13:47.boss signalled a new era by issuing an apology for their past behaviour
:13:48. > :13:51.towards bereaved families. I want to say that I give a complete apology
:13:52. > :13:54.as well for the behaviour of Network Rail and the sometimes insensitive
:13:55. > :13:59.way we behaved with respect to these bereaved people. Network Rail has
:14:00. > :14:05.also issued a full and unreserved policy for past failings in managing
:14:06. > :14:07.public safety at level crossings. But there's something else the
:14:08. > :14:13.transport committee of MPs wants to see. Only two months ago, there was
:14:14. > :14:15.a court ruling that Network Rail should be fined half a million
:14:16. > :14:21.pounds because of a preventable death. In those circumstances, I
:14:22. > :14:26.don't think it's right that senior executives should take bonuses this
:14:27. > :14:30.year. The committee is now calling for the number of level crossing
:14:31. > :14:40.fatalities per year to drop to zero by 2020.
:14:41. > :14:46.Police have said a two-year-old girl could have been given the heroin
:14:47. > :14:49.substitute methadone before her death. Sophie Jones died on Tuesday
:14:50. > :14:58.night after being rushed to hospital in Blackpool. Kate, paramedics were
:14:59. > :15:04.called here on Tuesday night to report that Sophie Jones had gone
:15:05. > :15:06.into cardiac arrest. Today, police had one significant line of
:15:07. > :15:09.enquiry, that you was given methadone that night to help her
:15:10. > :15:14.sleep. Detectives also went on to say they cannot be sure and have
:15:15. > :15:18.ruled out the possibility that she somehow accidentally took the heroin
:15:19. > :15:22.substitute herself. What we do know is that her drinking bottle is being
:15:23. > :15:28.tested to date and toxicology tests are under way to help detectives
:15:29. > :15:31.understand exactly how she died. There was another warning from
:15:32. > :15:35.Blackpool today, police believe heroin was removed from this house
:15:36. > :15:39.on Tuesday night and has been hidden somewhere in this part of Blackpool.
:15:40. > :15:44.One big worry for police is that this heroin could fall into the
:15:45. > :15:48.hands of children. That's what this police investigation, to people when
:15:49. > :15:54.has the time of her death, and they are still being questioned by
:15:55. > :16:01.police. This is a 29-year-old woman and 41-year-old man, detained on of
:16:02. > :16:05.manslaughter. OK, thank you. Our top story this lunchtime: "The
:16:06. > :16:08.worst day of my career". The head of the Metropolitan Police says claims
:16:09. > :16:11.of police corruption in the Stephen Lawrence case will have to be met
:16:12. > :16:15.head-on. And still to come: How safe is the
:16:16. > :16:17.information on your phone? A warning to be aware in public Wi-Fi
:16:18. > :16:23.hotspots. Coming up on BBC London: We look at
:16:24. > :16:27.ahead at Charlton's FA Cup quarter final - what it means to the
:16:28. > :16:32.Championship side as they prepare to take on the Blades.
:16:33. > :16:36.And why the way we collect art is changing - how more of us are buying
:16:37. > :16:43.Banksys in an art fair than at a gallery.
:16:44. > :16:46.Britain's most famous criminal court, the Old Bailey, was virtually
:16:47. > :16:52.shut down today after lawyers walked out. Hundreds of them are staging
:16:53. > :16:55.rallies across England and Wales against government cuts to legal
:16:56. > :16:59.aid, which they say will force experienced lawyers to leave the
:17:00. > :17:02.profession. Ministers say that England and Wales has one of the
:17:03. > :17:07.most expensive legal-aid systems in the world. Legal aid costs taxpayers
:17:08. > :17:13.about ?2 billion every year - half of that goes on criminal cases. The
:17:14. > :17:19.Ministry of Justice wants to cut the legal-aid budget by ?215 million a
:17:20. > :17:22.year. But lawyers say that will hit junior criminal barristers, who they
:17:23. > :17:27.say can make a little as ?20 per day once preparation and expenses are
:17:28. > :17:31.factored in. They also say the cuts are likely to deprive the less well
:17:32. > :17:40.off of a fair defence. Here's our legal correspondent Clive Coleman.
:17:41. > :17:46.Barristers and solicitors on strike and on the streets over cuts to
:17:47. > :17:51.become aid. There are 18 courts at the Old Bailey. Today, only one
:17:52. > :17:56.trial was taking place there. Others were halted by the walk-out,
:17:57. > :18:00.including that of Nicholas Jacobs, accused of the murder of PC Keith
:18:01. > :18:05.Blakelock during the Broadwater farm riots in 1985. But lawyers say the
:18:06. > :18:12.cuts won't just affect high-profile cases. In 2011, Francis Neckles was
:18:13. > :18:16.attacked by a youth near his home in south London but, to his surprise,
:18:17. > :18:22.he was the one charged with assault. He was represented by a solicitor
:18:23. > :18:27.funded with legal aid and acquitted. Had I not been able to get the legal
:18:28. > :18:31.funding that made a difference in terms of getting proper
:18:32. > :18:36.representation that I needed, my life would have been destroyed.
:18:37. > :18:41.There's no doubt about that. Lawyers are protesting against government
:18:42. > :18:45.plans for a 70 15% cut fees for solicitors. Fewer legal aid
:18:46. > :18:54.contracts for work at police stations. And an average 6% the cut
:18:55. > :18:56.for barristers. -- 17.5% cut. Barristers already face a fee
:18:57. > :19:01.reduction of their work in the most complex cases. In what is becoming
:19:02. > :19:04.an increasingly bitter dispute between the normally conservative
:19:05. > :19:09.legal profession and the government, what lawyers say is at stake is
:19:10. > :19:13.nothing more or less than a battle for the heart and soul of a criminal
:19:14. > :19:18.justice system that is respected throughout the world. There will be
:19:19. > :19:22.nobody coming into the criminal justice system to represent those
:19:23. > :19:25.that need representation and, just as importantly, there will be nobody
:19:26. > :19:31.there to prosecute the most serious criminals. The Government says that
:19:32. > :19:35.at around ?2 billion a year, we have one of the most expensive legal aid
:19:36. > :19:43.systems in the world and in the current financial crisis, legal aid
:19:44. > :19:48.must be cut. But anyone charged with a crime will continue to be funded
:19:49. > :19:51.with a lawyer by legal aid. The protesters delivered a copy of the
:19:52. > :19:55.Magna Carta to the ministry of justice, a historical message to the
:19:56. > :20:01.government in a legal dispute where neither side seems prepared to back
:20:02. > :20:05.down. Birmingham City owner Carson Yeung
:20:06. > :20:07.has been jailed for six years by a court in Hong Kong for money
:20:08. > :20:10.laundering. The former hairdresser turned tycoon was convicted on
:20:11. > :20:13.Monday of laundering more than ?55 million between 2001 and 2007. Jon
:20:14. > :20:16.Brain reports. Carson Yeung being driven away from
:20:17. > :20:21.a Hong Kong court this morning to begin his jail sentence. The final
:20:22. > :20:25.humiliation for the former hairdresser turned millionaire
:20:26. > :20:32.businessman turned English football club owner. It was all right the
:20:33. > :20:36.different three years ago as Yeung celebrated Birmingham City's League
:20:37. > :20:39.Cup victory at Wembley. It seemed his takeover of the club was
:20:40. > :20:43.delivering on the bold promise of glory and financial investment. The
:20:44. > :20:48.reality became relegation, cost-cutting and disillusionment. We
:20:49. > :20:54.were on the crest of a wave at a time and it was all fantastic but we
:20:55. > :20:57.were brought back down to work very quickly and it was extremely
:20:58. > :21:01.disappointing and extremely frustrating to be a supporter.
:21:02. > :21:05.Carson Yeung isn't the first foreign owner to be seduced by the potential
:21:06. > :21:09.riches on offer in English football, though his fall from grace
:21:10. > :21:12.has been dramatic. Birmingham City insists his conviction would have
:21:13. > :21:17.any impact on the running of his club but not everyone is convinced.
:21:18. > :21:22.Yeung himself stepped down from the club last month but three of the
:21:23. > :21:28.four remaining directors are his relatives, including his son Ryan,
:21:29. > :21:33.seen here on the right. He's still a major shareholder and owns about a
:21:34. > :21:40.team % of the stock so he's going to have an influence, irrespective of
:21:41. > :21:43.the fact that he's resigned. -- 18%. But the club says it fully complies
:21:44. > :21:46.with its ownership regulations. Supporters just hope the club has
:21:47. > :21:50.moved on from the man who promised so much.
:21:51. > :21:53.If you are used to accessing public Wi-Fi networks when you're away from
:21:54. > :21:59.home and want to get onto the internet, beware. There's a warning
:22:00. > :22:02.that hackers could get access to your sensitive information. Our
:22:03. > :22:11.technology correspondent Rory Cellan Jones is here. Explain. , well, my
:22:12. > :22:16.colleagues on Click have been investigating the security of public
:22:17. > :22:20.Wi-Fi and have found some problems. One scam involves fraudsters setting
:22:21. > :22:26.up their own hotspots with an aim users will recognise, so they join
:22:27. > :22:30.it thinking it's legitimate. A more sophisticated one involves
:22:31. > :22:34.fraudsters effectively directing all traffic from a legitimate hotspot
:22:35. > :22:39.via their phones or computers, stripping out security and gaining
:22:40. > :22:42.access to whatever you're doing. Europe's top cyber crime police
:22:43. > :22:47.officer has warned that we all need to look at this and change our
:22:48. > :22:50.behaviour. We try to see if we can build in more security, together
:22:51. > :22:57.with the mobile phones on the application providers, but also by
:22:58. > :23:02.teaching users that they should not address sensitive information while
:23:03. > :23:08.being in insecure Wi-Fi internet. They should do this from home where
:23:09. > :23:12.they know that the Wi-Fi is secure but not if you are in a coffee shop
:23:13. > :23:15.somewhere. You shouldn't access your bank or do all these things that
:23:16. > :23:20.actually transfer very sensitive information. There is one tip,
:23:21. > :23:26.though, if you are using your phone or computer in one of those
:23:27. > :23:32.hotspots. Always go to sites if you are doing anything sensitive that
:23:33. > :23:36.have https at the beginning, with the S standing for secure. But be
:23:37. > :23:41.very careful about transactions from a Wi-Fi spot in public.
:23:42. > :23:43.With just 138 days to go until the Commonwealth Games, thousands of
:23:44. > :23:46.volunteers and staff have descended on Glasgow. The Clydesiders, as
:23:47. > :23:56.they're being called, will take part in two days of orientation ahead of
:23:57. > :24:02.the event. Lorna Gordon is there. Yes, Kate, more than 50,000 people
:24:03. > :24:06.applied to be volunteers. Those who were successful have been attending
:24:07. > :24:13.an event in the East End of Glasgow to come together for the very first
:24:14. > :24:16.time. They turned up in their thousands. For these volunteers,
:24:17. > :24:23.their Commonwealth Games experience starts here. Sorry about the rain.
:24:24. > :24:31.It is glass! Even the typically Scottish weather failed to dampen
:24:32. > :24:35.their spirits. -- it is Glasgow. My mum was inspired and said that I
:24:36. > :24:42.should take part in the opening ceremonial. She's really keen to be
:24:43. > :24:48.involved. My dad has been selected as one of the drivers, so it's a
:24:49. > :24:54.family affair. The games makers at the London 2012 Olympics played a
:24:55. > :24:59.big part in its success. Some are volunteering again while, for
:25:00. > :25:03.others, it's their first experience. I also volunteered at the London
:25:04. > :25:09.Olympics and I enjoyed the experience in London, and I'm coming
:25:10. > :25:13.here to continue with the enjoyment. Too good an opportunity to miss. A
:25:14. > :25:20.once in a lifetime chance to do something. Today's event was more
:25:21. > :25:22.about razzmatazz and foreign and thanking the volunteers ahead of
:25:23. > :25:27.their hard work but this purpose-built arena has a serious
:25:28. > :25:33.side and will stage the badminton during the Games itself. There is
:25:34. > :25:36.going to be a lasting legacy, like the building we're standing in now,
:25:37. > :25:42.which is currently being used by youngsters. It will be used for the
:25:43. > :25:45.Commonwealth Games and will be there afterwards. So with many facilities
:25:46. > :25:51.in place already and others nearing preparation, preparations are well
:25:52. > :25:57.advanced and the thousands of volunteers who will be helping out
:25:58. > :26:00.are getting ready for the games. Well, the volunteer event that has
:26:01. > :26:04.been taking place here has just wrapped up in the last few moments.
:26:05. > :26:09.The volunteers got to see the uniformed they'll be wearing for the
:26:10. > :26:13.very first time. Their training proper will start in about a month.
:26:14. > :26:17.Archaeologists have found hundreds of yards of trenches in an area of
:26:18. > :26:21.open land in Hampshire. They're thought to be exact copies of those
:26:22. > :26:23.used in the French and Belgium battlefields during the First World
:26:24. > :26:27.War and it's believed they were used in training troops before they
:26:28. > :26:30.embarked for the western front. Historians say it could be hugely
:26:31. > :26:34.significant in shedding light on what life was like on the home
:26:35. > :26:46.front. Our correspondent Robert Hall has more.
:26:47. > :26:50.Nowadays, we call it pre-deployment training. Final rehearsals for the
:26:51. > :26:58.task ahead in an environment designed to be as realistic as
:26:59. > :26:59.possible. A century ago, another army was preparing for service
:27:00. > :27:12.overseas. This aerial photo of army land near
:27:13. > :27:17.Gosport shows numerous traces of its use as a training area but an
:27:18. > :27:21.observant conservation officer noticed something else - the
:27:22. > :27:27.distinct shape of two trench systems identical to those seen in France
:27:28. > :27:30.and Belgium. This is a 1951 aerial photographs that the regional
:27:31. > :27:33.archaeologist was examining for Second World War features. As he
:27:34. > :27:38.looked at it more closely, he realised that the these were
:27:39. > :27:42.atypical First World War trench system. He realised that this is
:27:43. > :27:51.almost certainly a First World War period training trench.
:27:52. > :27:59.It's a very accurate model of what the front line was like in France.
:28:00. > :28:05.It almost mimics the 1917 trench textbook on warfare that would allow
:28:06. > :28:11.troops to spend time within the trenches here and get used to the
:28:12. > :28:14.day-to-day routines. They're a fantastic resource the people who
:28:15. > :28:19.can't get across to see front-line trenches in France. One secret
:28:20. > :28:23.uncovered among so many - this miniature battlefield in
:28:24. > :28:28.Staffordshire, buried after the war, was another recent fine. And there
:28:29. > :28:31.are more mysteries to solve. People should be looking for anything
:28:32. > :28:36.unusual to stop report it, take pictures of it, send pictures into
:28:37. > :28:40.the website. But local church halls, community centres, buildings
:28:41. > :28:45.that were requisitioned and used by American troops. There is hardly an
:28:46. > :28:50.inch of this country that wasn't touched by the First World War. This
:28:51. > :28:54.training area was intended to give soldiers an idea of what they would
:28:55. > :28:58.find on the battlefield. The reality, of course, was rather
:28:59. > :29:02.different. War games on the coast of Hampshire would soon be a distant
:29:03. > :29:09.memory as recruits faced the mud and the bloodshed of the Western front.
:29:10. > :29:16.Time to take you to the weather with Susan Powell. Hello, Susan.
:29:17. > :29:20.After a gloomy start, the weather has done a good turn around of late
:29:21. > :29:24.and this afternoon, sunshine to come for many. If we take a look at the
:29:25. > :29:28.satellite picture for a little earlier, you can see the band of
:29:29. > :29:31.cloud that covered most of us first thing. This weather front is heading
:29:32. > :29:36.off towards the continent, brighter skies following on, but quite a few
:29:37. > :29:40.showers across northern England and Scotland but those will fade into
:29:41. > :29:44.the evening. Still some in the evening across Scotland and some
:29:45. > :29:47.ice, as temperatures dipped away. For the South, after a clear
:29:48. > :29:51.evening, we expect things to get mystique, murky and damp with low
:29:52. > :29:55.cloud and Fog drifting into the South of England and South Wales.
:29:56. > :29:58.For Northern Ireland, after a clear evening, by the end of the night
:29:59. > :30:02.some rain along with some milder air. The rain and milder air will
:30:03. > :30:10.move its way on Saturday morning into Scotland. There will be snow
:30:11. > :30:14.for a while but just very briefly across the highest ground.
:30:15. > :30:18.Temperatures not too much of a problem. A wet start for much of
:30:19. > :30:21.Scotland, although the Moray Firth could do quite well with some
:30:22. > :30:26.shelter. Northern Ireland quite grey and dank for first thing but drier
:30:27. > :30:31.than it will be by the end of the night. For the South of England and
:30:32. > :30:35.Wales, very grey but as we get down into the south-west, we can see
:30:36. > :30:39.clear skies starting to show. That's clearer air coming up from the
:30:40. > :30:43.continent. The southerly wind will feed that further north so most
:30:44. > :30:45.areas will brighten significantly through the morning. Northern
:30:46. > :30:50.Ireland will dry up for the afternoon. Not too much sunshine.
:30:51. > :30:54.Scotland a lot drier for the second half of the day. Best chance of
:30:55. > :30:59.sunshine in the Borders. A milder day for Scotland. We could see 16 or
:31:00. > :31:03.17 across central and eastern England. Promising weather for
:31:04. > :31:07.central and eastern England on Sunday but a different story further
:31:08. > :31:10.north. A weather front slides out of Scotland into northern England and
:31:11. > :31:15.North Wales so more cloud and outbreaks of rain. Clearer skies
:31:16. > :31:20.into the far North. For next week, it looks like we're set to be almost
:31:21. > :31:24.free of rain. High-pressure will build, which means a lot of dry
:31:25. > :31:26.weather. Chilly nights so gardeners looking to get the bedding plants
:31:27. > :31:31.in, keep that in the back of your mind. Can't promise wall-to-wall
:31:32. > :31:34.sunshine. There could be mist and murk and that will linger in some
:31:35. > :31:37.areas but when the sun does come out, temperatures that should shut
:31:38. > :31:41.up. Pretty springlike and pretty promising.
:31:42. > :31:48.A reminder of our main story: The worst day of my career - them ahead
:31:49. > :31:51.of the Metropolitan Police says claims of corruption in the Stephen
:31:52. > :31:53.Lawrence case must be met head-on. The Prime Minister says the Lawrence
:31:54. > :31:55.family deserve justice.