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