:00:09. > :00:13.Britain's membership of the EU. Ed Miliband says a future Labour
:00:14. > :00:24.government would only hold an in/out referendum if more powers were
:00:25. > :00:28.transferred to Brussels. From climate change to crime and
:00:29. > :00:32.terrorism to promoting democracy around the world, I believe Britain
:00:33. > :00:43.is stronger as part of the European Union. Also this lunchtime... It
:00:44. > :00:46.made a physical match with the door. Drama at the Oscar Pistorius trial
:00:47. > :00:49.as a forensic expert re-enacts how the athlete broke down the toilet
:00:50. > :00:52.door using a cricket bat. The hunt for Flight 370, the plane's last
:00:53. > :00:56.communication is revealed as the search area is expanded to cover
:00:57. > :00:59.27,000 nautical miles. The court of appeal rules that the publication of
:01:00. > :01:04.frank letters from Prince Charles to government ministers should not have
:01:05. > :01:07.been blocked. A man who spent 30 years on death row in America walks
:01:08. > :01:14.free after new evidence finally proves he wasn't even at the scene
:01:15. > :01:16.of the crime. And transformed. The Olympic champion Jessica Ennis helps
:01:17. > :01:19.unveil the new athletics track for the Commonwealth Games at Hampden
:01:20. > :01:27.Park Good afternoon and welcome to the BBC News at One.
:01:28. > :01:36.Later on BBC London: Talks over cheap ticket office closures are put
:01:37. > :01:37.on hold after the death of Bob Crow. The Olympic velodrome reopens as a
:01:38. > :01:56.new cycling centre. Good afternoon and welcome to the
:01:57. > :01:58.BBC News at One. The Labour leader, Ed Miliband, has effectively ruled
:01:59. > :02:04.out an automatic in/out vote on membership of the EU, if Labour wins
:02:05. > :02:06.the next election. In a speech this morning, he said the case for
:02:07. > :02:10.Britain's membership was overwhelming. But he said he would
:02:11. > :02:14.put EU membership to the vote if Brussels planned to transfer more
:02:15. > :02:17.power from the UK. The Prime Minister said the plan gave the
:02:18. > :02:27.British people no choice and only the Conservatives would guarantee a
:02:28. > :02:32.referendum. Here's Vicki Young. European elections are on the
:02:33. > :02:35.horizon. It has focus the minds of the three party leaders, trying to
:02:36. > :02:40.deal with the growing clamour for Britain to loosen its ties with the
:02:41. > :02:43.rest of the EU. Today the Labour leader argued the case for EU
:02:44. > :02:47.membership was overwhelming. Politicians had to address the
:02:48. > :02:51.gender in causes of public scepticism. A Labour government
:02:52. > :02:57.would introduce this safeguard. There will be no transfer of powers
:02:58. > :03:03.without an in/ out referendum, without a clear choice about whether
:03:04. > :03:09.Britain will stay in the EU. Housing does Mr Miller fans think this will
:03:10. > :03:16.happen? I believe it will be in the next Parliament. -- how soon does Mr
:03:17. > :03:20.Miliband think? He has been very reluctant to promise a referendum.
:03:21. > :03:24.He believes Britain should stay in the EU and thinks business is
:03:25. > :03:35.damaged by the uncertainty. He also knows a referendum is a very popular
:03:36. > :03:38.idea with voters. He is going to try and have it both ways. Where did the
:03:39. > :03:43.other parties now stand on holding and in/out EU referendum? The
:03:44. > :03:49.pro-European Liberal Democrats think of referendum should happen if more
:03:50. > :03:55.powers are transferred to Brussels. The Conservatives are committed to a
:03:56. > :03:59.vote in 2017. It is only the Conservative Party that has the
:04:00. > :04:05.courage to say we want reform in Europe and, at the end of the reform
:04:06. > :04:09.by the end of 2017, there will be out in /out referendum. It has been
:04:10. > :04:16.missed 40 years since voters last had a say on Britain 's relationship
:04:17. > :04:19.with Europe. Someone is firm commitment. Shoddy compromise is how
:04:20. > :04:30.one described his announcement. Business leaders are more sceptical.
:04:31. > :04:34.The more uncertainty we have, the greater opportunities for investment
:04:35. > :04:37.and business growth and driving the economy forward. The main parties
:04:38. > :04:45.are feeling the pressure from UKIP. Promises of random years down the
:04:46. > :04:48.track -- promises of a referendum years down the track may not be
:04:49. > :04:52.enough. Let's get more from our chief political correspondent,
:04:53. > :04:58.Norman Smith. This opens up a clear divide. We have seen Ed Miliband
:04:59. > :05:02.closing the door and the option of a future Labour government offering
:05:03. > :05:09.voters and EU referendum. He has left it tiny sliver of a crack open.
:05:10. > :05:15.He has been under huge pressure. He has come up with this carefully
:05:16. > :05:19.crafted formulation that there might be an EU referendum if more powers
:05:20. > :05:24.are transferred to Brussels. By the way, it is not very likely. He is
:05:25. > :05:29.not ruling one out or ruling one in. He is not saying yes or no. You
:05:30. > :05:34.could say, that is a very clever compromise. The real danger is it is
:05:35. > :05:38.seen as a fudge. Although it is clever as it keeps the party
:05:39. > :05:43.together, it means that voters at the next election when they ask
:05:44. > :05:48.Labour candidates, when I get the referendum under a Labour
:05:49. > :05:51.government, the answer has to be, well, it all depends. There have
:05:52. > :05:54.been dramatic scenes at the Oscar Pistorius murder trial. A forensics
:05:55. > :05:57.expert has been re-enacting how the Olympian broke down the toilet door
:05:58. > :06:00.with a cricket bat after he'd shot his girlfriend. The athlete denies
:06:01. > :06:03.murdering Reeva Steenkamp and says he fired through the door thinking
:06:04. > :06:11.she was an intruder. Andrew Harding is outside the court in Pretoria.
:06:12. > :06:19.This week we have heard about the terrible injuries of Reeva Steenkamp
:06:20. > :06:23.and the reckless character of Oscar Pistorius. Today we moved to the
:06:24. > :06:27.crime scene itself, the focus shifting to the bathroom and toilet
:06:28. > :06:31.where Reeva Steenkamp died. A forensic expert has been called to
:06:32. > :06:37.give evidence. In the courtroom itself, some rather theatrical
:06:38. > :06:41.re-enactments of what have happened. In court today, aid to war. The same
:06:42. > :06:53.one that Oscar this story shot through, killing Reeva Steenkamp. --
:06:54. > :06:57.a door. A forensics expert, who produced Oscar Pistorius 's cricket
:06:58. > :07:09.bat. It was used to smash down the door that night. At issue today, the
:07:10. > :07:14.marks left by the bat. It made a physical match with the door in this
:07:15. > :07:17.position. This man said it showed that Oscar this man said it showed
:07:18. > :07:24.that Oscar the stories must have been low-down, on his stumps and not
:07:25. > :07:28.the Olympic athletes insists he was wearing his blades. He had gone to
:07:29. > :07:34.put them on when he realised he had shot his girlfriend and not an
:07:35. > :07:40.intruder. Pistorius seemed relaxed, smiling earlier at one point when a
:07:41. > :07:44.witness seem to stumble. Then his lawyer sought to challenge the
:07:45. > :07:52.forensic expert. He got him to try and balance on his knees and hit the
:07:53. > :08:00.door at the same time. Are you losing your balance? I am. Not so
:08:01. > :08:08.easy. The forensic lawyer -- the lawyer said that the forensic expert
:08:09. > :08:18.was taken. He also got the expert to concede the parts of the damaged
:08:19. > :08:25.door were missing. Uses are gone and missing. -- pieces are gone and
:08:26. > :08:31.missing. The information I have, with the understanding I have, it is
:08:32. > :08:38.that the pieces are not available. For now, the toilet door remains the
:08:39. > :08:43.focus of this trial. It has just adjourned for the day. The defence
:08:44. > :08:48.has continued to hammer at the credibility of the police and the
:08:49. > :08:52.friends it teams. -- the forensic teams. You can watch updates of the
:08:53. > :08:55.Oscar Pistorius trial throughout the day on the BBC News channel There
:08:56. > :08:58.will also be a special programme with the key moments from today,
:08:59. > :09:01.that's this evening at 7:30pm. The last communication with the crew of
:09:02. > :09:04.the missing Malaysia airlines plane has been made public. Just minutes
:09:05. > :09:08.before it vanished, the crew responded to air-traffic control and
:09:09. > :09:10.there seemed to be no problems. Five days after the plane went missing,
:09:11. > :09:15.the search area now stretches across 27,000 nautical miles. From Kuala
:09:16. > :09:26.Lumpar, Jonathan Head sent this report. Nearly 40 planes and an even
:09:27. > :09:31.greater number of ships are into their big day of a massive search.
:09:32. > :09:37.They found no trace of the missing airliner. That is down to one thing.
:09:38. > :09:40.They have no idea where to look. The Malaysian authorities are under
:09:41. > :09:44.increasing pressure to be clearer about what they know. Today they
:09:45. > :09:50.came clean. They have almost no information. The flight disappeared
:09:51. > :09:54.from civilian radar early on Saturday morning. Military radar
:09:55. > :10:11.records showed an unidentified object hundreds of miles west of its
:10:12. > :10:14.flight path. That is it. There is a possibility -- we are not sure
:10:15. > :10:24.whether what we have found is the same aircraft. It is the total lack
:10:25. > :10:28.of information which is so painful. There is no news whatsoever. It has
:10:29. > :10:33.disappeared off the face of the earth. If we could just find some
:10:34. > :10:41.wreckage or something, it would be a help probably. What we have learned
:10:42. > :10:45.almost five days after the flight vanish must be of concern to the
:10:46. > :10:49.millions of passengers passing through this and other airports in
:10:50. > :10:52.the region. The authorities know almost nothing about what happened
:10:53. > :10:57.to the airliner and, in the search for it, they are just guessing. The
:10:58. > :11:00.Court of Appeal has ruled that letters written by Prince Charles to
:11:01. > :11:03.government ministers should be released. It said the Attorney
:11:04. > :11:07.General, Dominic Grieve, had acted unlawfully when he stopped them from
:11:08. > :11:10.being published. The Guardian newspaper has tried for nine years
:11:11. > :11:19.to have the letters released, using Freedom of Information legislation.
:11:20. > :11:24.Nicholas Witchell is with me. Do we know how many letters there are and
:11:25. > :11:32.how sensitive the information in them is? 27 letters written years
:11:33. > :11:38.ago in the Government of Tony Blair. They are potentially sensitive. The
:11:39. > :11:41.views of the prints were particularly frank. The letters
:11:42. > :11:46.contained his deeply held and private views. The Guardian has been
:11:47. > :11:50.fighting for years to have these brought into the public domain on
:11:51. > :11:55.the basis of public has the right to know whether the Prince does attempt
:11:56. > :11:59.to influence government policy. Dominic Grieve said it was part of
:12:00. > :12:04.his preparation to be monitored to be in touch with ministers. It is
:12:05. > :12:07.argued he has a duty and responsibility to reflect the views
:12:08. > :12:12.of people the prince meets and causes he encounters as he goes
:12:13. > :12:19.around the country, for example in flood hit areas. He wrote this with
:12:20. > :12:23.the expectation of privacy. It will now be for the Supreme Court to
:12:24. > :12:26.decide whether the letter should be published. It has been referred to
:12:27. > :12:30.the Supreme Court and they will have to decide. The jury at the trial of
:12:31. > :12:34.the publicist Max Clifford has been hearing how he invited a 15-year-old
:12:35. > :12:37.to his office and persuaded her to take off her bra after telling her
:12:38. > :12:41.she could be a star. The woman, who is now in her 50s, says she met him
:12:42. > :12:44.on a family holiday in Spain. Max Clifford is accused of 11 counts of
:12:45. > :12:47.indecent assault against seven women and girls. He denies all the
:12:48. > :12:55.charges. Richard Lister has been in court and joins me now. The women
:12:56. > :13:00.who has been on the stand for several hours this morning cannot be
:13:01. > :13:05.named for legal reasons. She has made four of the 11 indecent assault
:13:06. > :13:11.allegations against Max Clifford and she is an essential part of the case
:13:12. > :13:15.against him. Max Clifford arrived at court to hear some of the most
:13:16. > :13:18.serious accusations of the trial. From the dock he had the account of
:13:19. > :13:24.the women, concealed behind a screen, who had said he had sexually
:13:25. > :13:32.abused her multiple times since she was 15. She said she met him by
:13:33. > :13:36.chance in Tara Milli Naas. He told her parents she was very pretty and
:13:37. > :13:41.he could get her into promotional work. When she went to his offices,
:13:42. > :13:46.he said she made her strip from the waist up and suggested she could be
:13:47. > :13:51.the next Jodie Foster. She was unhappy and too ashamed to tell her
:13:52. > :13:56.parents what had happened. The woman told the court that Max Clifford had
:13:57. > :14:00.come to her family 's home several times in a yellow Jaguar. He took
:14:01. > :14:05.her out on the pretext of furthering her career. Instead, he drove around
:14:06. > :14:09.London, stopping after dark, to sexually assault her. She described
:14:10. > :14:17.sitting in the passenger seat of the car and said that Max Clifford was
:14:18. > :14:22.very aggressive, very rough. I did not say anything, I was at a loss. I
:14:23. > :14:29.did not know how to make it stop. I was frightened, very frightened. One
:14:30. > :14:34.thing the prosecution says, we can expect to hear more about later, is
:14:35. > :14:39.a letter allegedly written by the witness to Max Clifford, which the
:14:40. > :14:45.prosecution says was found in a bedside table at the house of Max
:14:46. > :14:48.Clifford. Our top story... Labour effectively rule out a referendum on
:14:49. > :14:54.Britain's membership of the EU, if it wins the next election. And still
:14:55. > :14:57.to come: Hamden Park is transformed. How to turn a football stadium into
:14:58. > :15:04.a Commonwealth Games athletics venue. Later on BBC London, the
:15:05. > :15:10.award-winning film inspired by the scriptwriters work inside Wandsworth
:15:11. > :15:20.prison. Plenty of spring sunshine. Will we have temperatures to match?
:15:21. > :15:26.It's 25 years now since three letters - www - changed the world we
:15:27. > :15:29.live in. Now the Briton who invented the world wide web - Sir Tim
:15:30. > :15:33.Berners-Lee - has told the BBC that more needs to be done to protect
:15:34. > :15:35.online privacy. His comments follow criticism that governments are
:15:36. > :15:42.increasingly using the internet to gather intelligence. He says the
:15:43. > :15:44.time may have come for an online bill of rights to protect users.
:15:45. > :15:53.Here's our science correspondent, Pallab Ghosh.
:15:54. > :15:58.25 years ago, Sir Tim Berners-Lee thought up the world wide web.
:15:59. > :16:02.Initially created for a few scientists at the Centre for nuclear
:16:03. > :16:08.research, billions now use it to communicate, shop and socialise. The
:16:09. > :16:14.Web's creator is worried that is now his baby has grown up, it is taking
:16:15. > :16:19.a wrong turn. The web itself should be something you and I can use to
:16:20. > :16:22.communicate and just feel that you and I can indicating, without the
:16:23. > :16:27.feeling that we know somebody is looking our shoulder. People of the
:16:28. > :16:32.world have to be constantly aware, constantly looking out for it.
:16:33. > :16:37.Constantly making sure through action, protest, that it doesn't
:16:38. > :16:41.happen. The technology worked with is now a piece of history at the
:16:42. > :16:46.science Museum. This is the very computer that Tim Berners-Lee used
:16:47. > :16:52.to create the world's first website all those years ago. Back then, his
:16:53. > :16:54.intention was for the web to be a force for good, spreading
:16:55. > :17:00.information, knowledge and power to all. In recent years, he says the
:17:01. > :17:07.web has become subverted by what he describes as dark forces. There is
:17:08. > :17:12.particular concern about revelations by Edward Snowden. Of government
:17:13. > :17:19.spying on an unprecedented scale. Here, speaking to a packed audience
:17:20. > :17:28.in Texas just a few days ago. Certain once unnecessary online
:17:29. > :17:32.spying stopped. -- Sir Tim wants. Are we going to set up a bunch of
:17:33. > :17:37.values, something like a Magna Carta for the world wide web, to say,
:17:38. > :17:42.actually, it is so much part of our lives that it becomes on a level
:17:43. > :17:45.with human rights. Sir Tim has launched a campaign to stop
:17:46. > :17:48.governments and corporations hijacking a technology that he
:17:49. > :17:52.created to serve the public rather than spy on it.
:17:53. > :17:57.David Cameron has arrived in Israel for his first official visit as
:17:58. > :18:00.Prime Minister. He's just begun an address to the Israeli parliament -
:18:01. > :18:08.and later will also hold talks with the Palestinian President, Mahmoud
:18:09. > :18:12.Abbas. Let's speak to our deputy political editor, James Landale,
:18:13. > :18:18.who's in Tel Aviv. What is David Cameron hoping to achieve? On one
:18:19. > :18:21.level, to turn up and be here. He has been Prime Minister for four
:18:22. > :18:24.years and it is the first time he has come to Israel in office. I
:18:25. > :18:29.think it was becoming a slightly embarrassing fixture that Downing
:18:30. > :18:33.Street wanted to make happen. On a broader level, they want to inject a
:18:34. > :18:37.bit more diplomatic encouragement to a US led diplomatic process called
:18:38. > :18:41.the framework agreement. It is essentially an agreement where they
:18:42. > :18:49.are trying to get Israelis and Palestinians to sign up to, to have
:18:50. > :18:52.talks about talks, sometime in the future. David Cameron is the latest
:18:53. > :18:57.in a series of leaders to encouragement meant to that
:18:58. > :19:01.process. He is also here to try to boost trade links coming he doesn't
:19:02. > :19:04.go anywhere these days without a trade delegation and he will be
:19:05. > :19:08.trying to increase investment in high-technology companies in Israel
:19:09. > :19:12.and back in the UK, as well as trying to do more to encourage the
:19:13. > :19:14.economy in Palestinian territories. The Formula 1 champion, Michael
:19:15. > :19:20.Schumacher is showing some "small, encouraging signs" according to his
:19:21. > :19:23.family. They've issued an update about his condition, but say they
:19:24. > :19:26.have to remain patient. Doctors in France have been working to bring
:19:27. > :19:29.the seven-time champion out of a medically induced coma, after he
:19:30. > :19:35.suffered a severe head injury in a skiing accident last December.
:19:36. > :19:39.??NEWLIE The minimum wage is going up by 19 pence an hour - to ?6.50 -
:19:40. > :19:42.in October. The Business Secretary, Vince Cable, said the Government had
:19:43. > :19:47.accepted the recommendation of the Low Wage Commission for a 3% rise.
:19:48. > :19:50.Scotland's public finances went deeper into the red last year,
:19:51. > :19:54.according to the latest official estimate. The public spending
:19:55. > :19:57.deficit rose to more than ?12 billion pounds, partly as a result
:19:58. > :20:02.of a sharp fall in North Sea oil and gas revenues. Let's speak to our
:20:03. > :20:06.Scotland Correspondent, James Cook, who's in Edinburgh. This will fuel
:20:07. > :20:13.the arguments of anti-independence campaigners?
:20:14. > :20:21.It certainly shapes the battle ground. This document is the last
:20:22. > :20:24.snapshot of Scotland's economy that we will see before the referendum in
:20:25. > :20:28.September. It shows that Scotland went further into the red. Its
:20:29. > :20:33.deficit, the difference between the money it raises in taxes and the
:20:34. > :20:39.money it spends and invests, rose by ?3.5 billion in the last financial
:20:40. > :20:48.year. To compare it to the rest of the UK, it is a .3% of Scotland's
:20:49. > :20:51.GDP, as opposed to 7.3 percent of the UK deficit. This is partly
:20:52. > :20:58.because they fall in revenue from oil gas. The -- because of a fall.
:20:59. > :21:03.The big question is, what difference will it make to the debate on
:21:04. > :21:07.independence? Opponents say it is a nail in the coffin for independence
:21:08. > :21:11.and they say it proves an independent Scotland would have to
:21:12. > :21:16.raise taxes or cut spending. Alex Salmond says, no, it underlines the
:21:17. > :21:21.strength of Scotland's economy, because even with a big fall in oil
:21:22. > :21:26.and gas revenue, he says, Scotland is raising more tax per person than
:21:27. > :21:29.the UK average. This battle ground will be fiercely fought over.
:21:30. > :21:32.He was sentenced to death in 1984 for a murder he didn't commit. For
:21:33. > :21:36.the last 30 years, Glenn Ford has been on death row as one of the
:21:37. > :21:39.longest-serving death row inmates in US history. But now, at the age of
:21:40. > :21:42.64, he's finally free after new evidence implicated another man in
:21:43. > :21:50.the killing. Ben Moore has the story.
:21:51. > :21:59.Finally free from the shadow of death row. 64-year-old Glenn Ford
:22:00. > :22:02.walked free from Louisiana's notorious Angola Prison. His first
:22:03. > :22:09.thoughts of a life wasted behind bars. 30 years. 30 years of my
:22:10. > :22:14.life, that's not all of it. I can't go back and do anything that I
:22:15. > :22:20.should have been doing when I was 35, 38, 40, stuff like that. Glenn
:22:21. > :22:26.Ford was 33 when he was convicted of the shooting of a jeweller, Isadore
:22:27. > :22:28.Rozeman, in 1983. An all-white jury found him guilty and he was
:22:29. > :22:35.sentenced to die in the electric chair. Now the Louisiana Supreme
:22:36. > :22:40.Court has overturned the conviction on several grounds. Firstly, Mr Ford
:22:41. > :22:44.had an inexperienced defence team during the original trial. There was
:22:45. > :22:49.no eyewitness or murder weapon, and the main witness has admitted lying
:22:50. > :22:52.in her testament. Certainly, I feel bad for him and I am sorry it
:22:53. > :22:59.happened. Also, when you look at the case, everybody had good intentions.
:23:00. > :23:04.And it was a mistake. It is a wonderful day, we have been working
:23:05. > :23:11.on this for decades, literally. We hope it will be the first day for
:23:12. > :23:16.Glenn to start a new life. Mr Ford could now receive a quarter of $1
:23:17. > :23:21.million in compensation. Little redress, he says, for what he has
:23:22. > :23:27.missed. My son, when I left, was a baby, he's now a grown with a baby.
:23:28. > :23:30.For now, he has another fight. Starting his life again, 30 years
:23:31. > :23:33.too late. The British skier Jade Etherington
:23:34. > :23:37.has won her third medal of the Winter Paralympics with silver in
:23:38. > :23:40.the visually impaired slalom. The 23-year-old and her guide, Caroline
:23:41. > :23:43.Powell, led by half a second after the first run, but were beaten by
:23:44. > :23:48.the Russian team in the second round. Etherington has already won a
:23:49. > :23:59.silver in the downhill and a bronze in the super-G. It is best known as
:24:00. > :24:02.the home of Scottish football, but now Hampden Park has been
:24:03. > :24:09.transformed into one of the main venues for this summer's
:24:10. > :24:12.Commonwealth Games. Our Commonwealth Games reporter, Chris McClaughlin,
:24:13. > :24:16.now explains. There is flash photography.
:24:17. > :24:20.Just over three months ago, the diggers moved in, the pitch was
:24:21. > :24:24.ripped up and an ambitious project got underway, to turn a football
:24:25. > :24:28.stadium into an athletics track by raising the surface almost two
:24:29. > :24:32.metres. Today, the organisers turned to a very special guest for her seal
:24:33. > :24:37.of approval. Expecting her first child, she will be watching from
:24:38. > :24:41.home. It is great to come here and experience a bit of the Commonwealth
:24:42. > :24:44.Games before they start. Not being part of it this year. Feeling really
:24:45. > :24:49.good and looking forward to my personal year this year. What those
:24:50. > :24:56.watching at home will not be able to see is this, the magic ingredient
:24:57. > :24:59.behind the vamp of Hamdan. -- the revamp of Hampden Park. Thousands of
:25:00. > :25:05.stilts that support this new service. A massive change year, but
:25:06. > :25:09.not just at Hampden Park. In the East End of the city, in the shadow
:25:10. > :25:14.of the athletes village, the Commonwealth affect is being felt in
:25:15. > :25:17.local business. This printing firm, something of a regeneration success
:25:18. > :25:22.story in an area synonymous with social deprivation. We had tough
:25:23. > :25:26.times a year and a half ago and we managed to get through those. There
:25:27. > :25:31.was a great focus on redeveloped in the area which you kind of feel part
:25:32. > :25:36.of, for your own business to keep going, things are getting better.
:25:37. > :25:40.The Games have kick-started a plan with ambitious targets. Over 20
:25:41. > :25:47.years, organisers want 20,000 new jobs, 10,000 new homes and inward
:25:48. > :25:51.investment of ?1.5 billion. Some of the new homes are ready up in the
:25:52. > :25:55.form of the athletes village. Mo Farah and Usain Bolt could be
:25:56. > :26:05.bedding down here in July. After that, they go to the highest bidder.
:26:06. > :26:08.And the Olympic gold medallist Jessica Ennis-Hill joins me now from
:26:09. > :26:12.the athletes' village - what do you make of it all? Are you impressed?
:26:13. > :26:18.Definitely, it looks fantastic. We have had a walk around and a look at
:26:19. > :26:23.some of the bedrooms and where the dining will be. It looks really
:26:24. > :26:29.great. It is brand-new but feels really homely so it will be great
:26:30. > :26:33.once it is filled with athletes. It is a massive transformation for
:26:34. > :26:38.Hampden Park. It is. Just to see some of the footage of how it has
:26:39. > :26:43.transformed over the past few months, it is incredible. All of the
:26:44. > :26:47.work that has gone into it. It looks fantastic, the track is still to be
:26:48. > :26:51.late but it feels like an athletics arena. Once the crowd is in there,
:26:52. > :26:55.the atmosphere will be magical. We are not going to get to see you
:26:56. > :26:59.compete because you are pregnant, but I guess you will be able to sit
:27:00. > :27:01.back and enjoy it for once like the rest of us. Thank you for joining
:27:02. > :27:04.us. It's day two of the Cheltenham
:27:05. > :27:08.Festival and that means it's Ladies' Day. Tens of thousands of people are
:27:09. > :27:11.there to enjoy the racing - among them, the Duchess of Cornwall. But
:27:12. > :27:14.after an opening day which featured both sadness and excitement, the
:27:15. > :27:19.festival is looking for a new star horse today - as Joe Wilson reports
:27:20. > :27:28.from Cheltenham. By the stable doors, a Usain Bolt in
:27:29. > :27:31.horse terms. The sensational sprinter Sacre was supposed to start
:27:32. > :27:36.today, he is injured and without him it might seem a bit there. Not if
:27:37. > :27:43.you own a horse in the big race. It is an opportunity for a family-owned
:27:44. > :27:47.underdog in a millionaire sport. The breeder is not well-known, the
:27:48. > :27:51.trainer has only had one winner here, it is our first ever horse,
:27:52. > :27:55.the only one we have ever had. You combine those things and people say
:27:56. > :28:00.it can't happen. We hope that we can change the record books. Cheltenham
:28:01. > :28:06.also hopes for a safe race in the big race, following the death of Our
:28:07. > :28:10.Connor in yesterday's Champion hurdle. For many, that raise the
:28:11. > :28:16.ethical challenge of following and loving jump racing. In the view of
:28:17. > :28:20.leading jockey Ruby Walsh, welfare of the horse should be of secondary
:28:21. > :28:24.importance to that of the jockey. Others would not separate the two.
:28:25. > :28:29.It is a partnership between jockey and horse. We believe you must
:28:30. > :28:36.protect the horse as far as you can, you can't Jews risk to zero but you
:28:37. > :28:41.must House you can't reduce -- you can't reduce risk to zero.
:28:42. > :28:45.Cheltenham sex out to seek a broader audience. Part of the experience is
:28:46. > :28:47.that you arrive never knowing exactly what you will see. Through
:28:48. > :28:55.human or equine eyes. Time for a look at the weather.
:28:56. > :28:58.Here's Stav Danaos. High pressure is dominating the
:28:59. > :29:03.scenes so we are looking at scenes like this across the country. Gloria
:29:04. > :29:07.spells of near unbroken sunshine. Essentially it is dry for most areas
:29:08. > :29:12.-- glorious spells. It is not like this everywhere. Through central
:29:13. > :29:17.areas, particularly through the Midlands and in towards eastern
:29:18. > :29:22.Wales, we are plagued with fog and low cloud. It is thinning and
:29:23. > :29:26.burning to become patchy as we head into the middle part of the
:29:27. > :29:30.afternoon. A veil of cloud will bring outbreaks of rain to the
:29:31. > :29:33.Hebrides and at the far north-west of Scotland as we head into the
:29:34. > :29:39.latter part of the day # and perhaps the far north-west.
:29:40. > :29:44.Glorious sunshine for Northern Ireland. For much of England and
:29:45. > :29:51.Wales, too, albeit patchy cloud and fog in the -- lingering on. A nice,
:29:52. > :29:55.warm day to come across the South East. It is Ladies' Day at
:29:56. > :29:59.Cheltenham, it has been a chilly and grey start but where we get breaks,
:30:00. > :30:05.hopefully temperatures moving into double figures. It stays dry through
:30:06. > :30:09.the week for Gold cup day on Friday. A lovely end to the day, some
:30:10. > :30:13.glorious spells of sunshine. We will start to see thicker cloud, the
:30:14. > :30:17.breeze and rain pushing towards the north-west Scotland. The fog makes a
:30:18. > :30:19.comeback and it will be particularly dense by the end of the night
:30:20. > :30:25.through central, southern and eastern parts. Into tomorrow morning
:30:26. > :30:31.we will see thick fog around, it could be disruptive. Travelling into
:30:32. > :30:34.work, some of the roads could be treacherous and disruption to
:30:35. > :30:39.transport, particularly for the airports. Hopefully that fog should
:30:40. > :30:45.Badgley thin and burn through the course of the evening -- gradually
:30:46. > :30:49.thin and burn. There should be more sunshine. The North, north-west
:30:50. > :30:54.corner of Scotland seeing a week weather front so thick it cloud and
:30:55. > :30:57.outbreaks of rain. It will be light winds and temperature is creeping up
:30:58. > :31:02.into the mid-teens. On Friday, another pretty decent day, variable
:31:03. > :31:10.amounts of cloud, good spells of sunshine. The North being plagued by
:31:11. > :31:12.a weather front. Light winds for England and Wales. That is the
:31:13. > :31:17.weather front which has been producing the cloud and rain across
:31:18. > :31:21.the North of Scotland. It sinks south as we head into the weekend,
:31:22. > :31:25.introducing more cloud. The North of Scotland always sees a few outbreaks
:31:26. > :31:28.of rain but look how much sunshine there is through the weekend.
:31:29. > :31:37.Now a reminder of our top story this lunchtime: Ed Miliband has explained
:31:38. > :31:38.why he won't commit Labour to a referendum on Britain's