:00:00. > :00:14.after possible debris from the missing plane is spotted. The
:00:15. > :00:17.satellite images show two objects in the sea around 1,500 miles off the
:00:18. > :00:28.Australian coast - officials says it's probably the best lead so far.
:00:29. > :00:31.The largest image I have seen is assessed as being 24 metres. There
:00:32. > :00:37.is another that is smaller than that. We'll hear from a reporter on
:00:38. > :00:42.board the first plane to search the remote area. We'll have the latest
:00:43. > :00:44.as the hunt for MH370 intensifies. Also this lunchtime:
:00:45. > :00:47.The Chancellor dismisses fears pensioners could blow their pension
:00:48. > :00:50.pot under reforms he unveiled. The death of a deportee - three
:00:51. > :00:55.security guards face manslaughter charges after Jimmy Mubenga died on
:00:56. > :00:58.a flight to Angola. The fashion retailer Next looks set
:00:59. > :01:03.to overtake M for the first time in its history - as it announces
:01:04. > :01:06.bumper profits. And the royal protection officer
:01:07. > :01:11.shot three times - 40 years ago today - during an attempt to abduct
:01:12. > :01:14.Princess Anne. Later on BBC London:
:01:15. > :01:18.Fragmented and unravelling - the verdict of a report into the NHS in
:01:19. > :01:22.London. And 44,000 mobiles a year are stolen
:01:23. > :01:40.in London. The Met joins forces with Europe to target thieves.
:01:41. > :01:45.Good afternoon and welcome to the BBC News at One.
:01:46. > :01:48.Aircraft and ships are scouring a remote part of the Indian Ocean
:01:49. > :01:53.after Australian satellite images appear to show two large objects
:01:54. > :01:56.floating in the sea. The location is more than 1,500 miles south-west of
:01:57. > :02:02.Perth in remote waters that often are stormy. The largest item is
:02:03. > :02:07.thought to be 24 metres in size but authorities are warning it may be
:02:08. > :02:10.unrelated to the missing plane. Australian officials say the first
:02:11. > :02:13.plane to reach the area this morning was unable to locate the debris
:02:14. > :02:16.through clouds and rain, but other planes will continue the hunt for
:02:17. > :02:24.MH370, which went missing almost two weeks ago with 239 people on board.
:02:25. > :02:32.Our first report is from Nick Higham - who has the latest on the search.
:02:33. > :02:37.To the untrained eye they could be anything. Two objects, one is 24
:02:38. > :02:41.metres long, one is five metres, floating in the ocean. In Australia
:02:42. > :02:46.they were taking these latest satellite pictures seriously.
:02:47. > :02:49.Following specialist analysis of this imagery, two possible objects
:02:50. > :02:55.related to the search have been identified. Four Australian military
:02:56. > :02:58.aircraft are now searching for the debris in one of the remotest spots
:02:59. > :03:03.on earth, where winter is approaching and the waves are up to
:03:04. > :03:06.17 metres high. The first plane on the scene could see nothing through
:03:07. > :03:12.the clouds and rain. Unfortunately with the weather conditions, we are
:03:13. > :03:17.unable to locate any wreckage or debris. Other aircraft are
:03:18. > :03:21.continuing the search. Today's search area is in the southern
:03:22. > :03:26.Indian Ocean, more than 2000, to south-west of Perth. Yesterday they
:03:27. > :03:29.searched a wider area at the extreme end of the missing plane Rose
:03:30. > :03:33.wrench, but the debris will have drifted hundreds of calamitous since
:03:34. > :03:38.the pictures were taken. Australian officials are cautious. This is a
:03:39. > :03:44.lead, probably the best lead we have right now but we need to get there,
:03:45. > :03:48.find them, see them, assess them, to know whether it is meaningful or
:03:49. > :03:53.not. I caution again, they will be difficult to find. They may not be
:03:54. > :03:59.associated with the aircraft, and we have plenty of experience of that
:04:00. > :04:05.is. This Norwegian container ship is the first vessel to reach the search
:04:06. > :04:08.area. An Australian Navy ship is two days away. A British survey ship is
:04:09. > :04:13.also on its way. What if it is the plane? You're talking about the
:04:14. > :04:20.great Southern Ocean, very wild seas. You are talking about a depth
:04:21. > :04:23.of about 10,000 feet. It will probably be the most difficult
:04:24. > :04:33.recovery of an aeroplane ever, if that is what it turns out that is
:04:34. > :04:36.where it is. It is now 13 days since flight MH370 went missing on its
:04:37. > :04:40.fight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. We know it turned west back over the
:04:41. > :04:45.Malaysian peninsular after most comedic case and systems were
:04:46. > :04:51.switched off. After that -- communication systems were switched
:04:52. > :04:56.off. Why it travelled where it did still remains a total mystery. 29
:04:57. > :05:00.aircraft and 18 ships are involved in the wider search area, stretching
:05:01. > :05:04.from the shores of Burma to the far south. Since the plane went missing,
:05:05. > :05:08.oil slicks and debris have been spotted several times but
:05:09. > :05:14.discounted. These latest images may also be a full salaam. -- false
:05:15. > :05:17.alarm. The search area is a three hour
:05:18. > :05:21.flight away from Perth - on board the first plane to get there today
:05:22. > :05:27.was a reporter from ABC News, David Wright. We are on board a US Navy
:05:28. > :05:36.search and rescue vessel. The callsign for this flight is rescue
:05:37. > :05:40.74. We are headed towards the South Pole, almost juice out of Kuala
:05:41. > :05:44.Lumpur. What we are being told by the flight crew is they have some
:05:45. > :05:50.intelligence that there is some sort of debris in the water. They are not
:05:51. > :05:55.clear what. We will be the first plane on site. We are descending
:05:56. > :05:59.through the clouds right now. This plane has some of the highest
:06:00. > :06:04.technology available, much of it classified. If anybody is likely to
:06:05. > :06:09.find something down there, this plane has a very good opportunity to
:06:10. > :06:13.do so. It is a serious enough sighting of debris that not only is
:06:14. > :06:18.this plane heading into the area, but two Australian planes are also
:06:19. > :06:23.heading this way. They will be combing the waters for several
:06:24. > :06:26.hours, looking visually from the plane and also with all of the
:06:27. > :06:31.high-tech that they have on-board, to see what this might be in the
:06:32. > :06:40.water. It may be a false alarm but they seem to be treating it as a
:06:41. > :06:51.very promising sign. David Wright on board a search plane. Desperate
:06:52. > :06:56.relatives are still having to wait for information, almost two weeks
:06:57. > :07:00.after the plane went missing. Jonah Fisher reports from Kuala Lumpa.
:07:01. > :07:05.The wait has been frustrating, the news is likely to be devastating. In
:07:06. > :07:08.Beijing, meetings between airline officials and the relatives of the
:07:09. > :07:16.Chinese officials on board have turned into daily shouting matches
:07:17. > :07:21.-- Chinese passengers on board. Some greeted the satellite images with
:07:22. > :07:24.disbelief. This man's son was on the plane. He said he won't believe the
:07:25. > :07:30.plane crashed until it has been officially confirmed. Why should I
:07:31. > :07:35.believe my family is gone, he says? Why should I believe they are under
:07:36. > :07:41.the sea? In these desperate times, many had been holding out hope that
:07:42. > :07:46.MH370 had been hijacked. And just might have landed somewhere. These
:07:47. > :07:59.were the sad scenes yesterday here in Kuala Lumpur, when a Chinese
:08:00. > :08:06.family demanded some answers. It looked bad, but with few facts to go
:08:07. > :08:11.on, the Malaysians have been in and -- and almost impossible situation.
:08:12. > :08:15.The one piece of information that we want most, that they want most, is
:08:16. > :08:21.the information that we do not have, the location of MH370. The
:08:22. > :08:26.Malaysians are now constantly briefing the families, in Kuala
:08:27. > :08:30.Lumpur and also Beijing. The next update may mark the start of some
:08:31. > :08:39.sort of closure. After almost 13 days of anguish and uncertainty.
:08:40. > :08:40.You can keep up to the date with all of the latest developments on our
:08:41. > :08:50.website. The Chancellor - George Osborne -
:08:51. > :08:53.has dismissed fears that pensioners could "blow" their pension pots
:08:54. > :08:56.under reforms announced in the Budget. The Shadow chancellor, Ed
:08:57. > :08:58.Balls, has questioned whether there'd be proper protections and
:08:59. > :09:03.financial education so pensioners don't make the wrong choices.
:09:04. > :09:10.Radical pension changes were among a series of measures that Mr Osborne
:09:11. > :09:15.has unveiled. Here's our political correspondent, Chris Mason.
:09:16. > :09:20.Move over, Bob the builder, George is here. The Chancellor is rather
:09:21. > :09:25.partial to a spot of bricklaying and wandering around building sites.
:09:26. > :09:28.They are fluorescent yellow backdrops that scream the economy is
:09:29. > :09:36.growing again. What is Mr Osborne talking up from the Budget? An
:09:37. > :09:41.extension of the Help to Buy scheme to boost the construction industry,
:09:42. > :09:43.being able to save ?15,000 a year tax-free, and pensioners will have
:09:44. > :09:48.far greater control over their pension pot. I want to do help
:09:49. > :09:53.people who have worked hard and save time. These pension changes and the
:09:54. > :09:58.support for savers throughout their lives, they are all about building a
:09:59. > :10:03.stronger, more resilient economy. As you would expect, the Budget was
:10:04. > :10:07.laden with economics but also groaning with politics with local
:10:08. > :10:13.and European elections coming up, the general election just over a
:10:14. > :10:17.year away. There was a captivated pitch from George Osborne to try to
:10:18. > :10:22.woo back people who may have drifted to Labour or the UK Independence
:10:23. > :10:25.Party. But enter Grant Shapps and a tweet from the Conservative Party
:10:26. > :10:31.chairman about the halving of bingo tax and the penny off a pint of
:10:32. > :10:36.beer. He uses the word "they" to describe hard-working people,
:10:37. > :10:39.something that George Osborne's Lib Dem deputy among others said was
:10:40. > :10:46.patronising. How has this gone down with workers at this types factory
:10:47. > :10:49.in Dub ship? People don't play bingo all day and single day. There are a
:10:50. > :10:55.lot more things they could have looked down. I smack in Derbyshire.
:10:56. > :11:01.Labour were criticised for having nothing to say on the Budget. The
:11:02. > :11:06.Shadow Chancellor was not tongue tied this morning. The idea working
:11:07. > :11:08.people can be fobbed off and patronised because they like things
:11:09. > :11:14.like bingo and beer, the Conservative Party, it is of the
:11:15. > :11:18.past, it shows how out of touch they are. Of the past budgets George
:11:19. > :11:27.Osborne has needed a political hard hat to survive the issues. If this
:11:28. > :11:33.is as bad as it gets this year, you will be able to live with that. The
:11:34. > :11:36.Institute for fiscal studies has been crunching the numbers since the
:11:37. > :11:38.Chancellor unveiled his budget yesterday. And they're giving their
:11:39. > :11:41.assessment now on what it all means. Our Chief Economics Correspondent,
:11:42. > :11:47.Hugh Pym is there now. What is their verdict? The briefing has just
:11:48. > :11:51.begun. We have got the headline from the Institute for Fiscal Studies.
:11:52. > :11:55.They emphasise what others have been saying, that these changes are
:11:56. > :12:00.radical and dramatic and because of that alone, the budget will reveal
:12:01. > :12:06.remembered almost more than any other -- will be membered almost
:12:07. > :12:14.more than any other of George Osborne's Budgets. People who want
:12:15. > :12:17.to continue with annuities will find the whole thing more expensive. On
:12:18. > :12:24.the broad thrust of the budget they say we don't learn much more about
:12:25. > :12:30.the extent of the austerity that will be required. It is not always
:12:31. > :12:36.totally clear where the money is coming from. This is where the --
:12:37. > :12:41.what the IFS director Paul Johnson had to say. The Chancellor has tried
:12:42. > :12:48.to pay for some permanent tax cuts, Herman and spending increases, by --
:12:49. > :12:50.permanent spending increases by one or two small things that are
:12:51. > :12:55.bringing money forward a bit, or look a bit less permanent. The
:12:56. > :12:58.long-running effect of yesterday's budget will be to have a small but
:12:59. > :13:04.negative impact on the public finances.
:13:05. > :13:07.One final headline from the IFS, they say the number of higher rate
:13:08. > :13:11.taxpayers will rise above 5 million next year, up from just over 3
:13:12. > :13:14.million in the year after the general election.
:13:15. > :13:17.European leaders are meeting in Brussels to discuss new sanctions
:13:18. > :13:25.against Russia following its seizure of Crimea. The German Chancellor,
:13:26. > :13:28.Angela Merkel, told the German parliament that Russia's actions in
:13:29. > :13:31.Ukraine meant the G8 group of nations - of which Russia currently
:13:32. > :13:34.holds the presidency - no longer existed. Our Europe correspondent,
:13:35. > :13:40.Matthew Price, reports from Brussels: this is the worst crisis
:13:41. > :13:44.Europe has faced since the end of the Cold War.
:13:45. > :13:50.A crisis that is shaking the very foundations of the international
:13:51. > :13:53.order. In Berlin today, Germany's leader suggested her initial
:13:54. > :13:58.reluctance to punish Russia is weakening. That leading
:13:59. > :14:04.industrialised countries will shut Russia out of their club of eight.
:14:05. > :14:07.TRANSLATION: It is obvious, as long as the boat or context for such an
:14:08. > :14:13.important format like the G8 does not apply, as political context.
:14:14. > :14:24.-- the G8 does not exist any more. So to Brussels, where the EU will
:14:25. > :14:29.likely put in place more sanctions against EU officials -- against
:14:30. > :14:32.Russian officials. It will also likely consider more serious
:14:33. > :14:36.long-term economic and trade measures against Moscow. The most
:14:37. > :14:40.important of those is in the energy sector. Russia supplies a third of
:14:41. > :14:45.Europe's gas needs. What we are likely to see today is the first
:14:46. > :14:48.phase of what some believe will be a seismic shift in EU - Russian
:14:49. > :14:53.relations. It is going to take years, not days, and yet if the
:14:54. > :14:57.leaders are serious, they will start to wean the Europe of its reliance
:14:58. > :15:03.on Russian energy, they will start to reassess its whole partnership
:15:04. > :15:09.with Moscow. They have been here before. After the brief Russian -
:15:10. > :15:12.Georgian war in 2008, the EU toyed with similar ideas. They never
:15:13. > :15:19.followed through. Will they this time? Yet in parts of the U, with
:15:20. > :15:26.large ethnic Russian populations, there is concerned this is all too
:15:27. > :15:30.late. -- in parts of the EU. In the Baltic states especially, they fear
:15:31. > :15:38.if Russia is not punished properly now, they could be picked off next.
:15:39. > :15:43.Our correspondent is in Moscow. Be you is probably bad top trading
:15:44. > :15:47.partner. How worried are they about the impact of possible sanctions?
:15:48. > :15:53.We've just had a speech from the Russian Foreign Minister in which he
:15:54. > :15:56.has referred to the sanctions. He is trying to say sanctions imposed by
:15:57. > :16:01.the West are illegal because they can only be imposed by the UN
:16:02. > :16:05.Security Council. What he is saying is fairly legally dubious but it may
:16:06. > :16:09.point to the fact that Russia is getting worried about these
:16:10. > :16:15.sanctions. It is not so much the current sanctions targeting
:16:16. > :16:19.individuals. They are being described as an inconvenience. What
:16:20. > :16:23.they are worried about are the trade and financial sanctions which could
:16:24. > :16:27.have a devastating impact on the economy. One analyst said it could
:16:28. > :16:36.tip the Russian economy, which is already weak, into recession.
:16:37. > :16:47.Three men who worked as custody officers for the security firm G4S
:16:48. > :16:54.will face charges following the death of a man being deported. This
:16:55. > :16:59.was not just the tragic death of a father of five. An inquest found he
:17:00. > :17:03.had been unlawfully killed when he was forcibly restrained on that
:17:04. > :17:07.British Airways plane by three security guards working for G4S,
:17:08. > :17:11.which was contracted by the Home Office. There had already been
:17:12. > :17:19.long-running criticism at the time by campaigners about the way force
:17:20. > :17:23.was being used. Jimmy Mubenga had spent years living legally but
:17:24. > :17:32.because he was convicted of assault the decision was being made to
:17:33. > :17:38.deport him. His widow says she welcomes the decision to charge
:17:39. > :17:43.these men with manslaughter. Those security guards will appear in court
:17:44. > :17:47.on April the 7th. Their lawyer says they will vigorously defend
:17:48. > :17:51.themselves against the Chargers. There is insufficient evidence to
:17:52. > :17:55.prosecute their employer, G4S. That employer today released a statement
:17:56. > :18:03.saying they believed they had acted appropriately at all times.
:18:04. > :18:06.Our top story this lunchtime: Search planes and ships are scouring a
:18:07. > :18:08.remote part of the Indian Ocean after possible debris from the
:18:09. > :18:10.missing Malaysia Airlines plane is spotted - around 1,500 miles off the
:18:11. > :18:13.Australian coast. And still to come... A rare
:18:14. > :18:16.interview with the bodyguard who was shot three times while preventing
:18:17. > :18:25.the abduction of Princess Anne 40 years ago. She was called, calm and
:18:26. > :18:37.collected. In fact, she did everything we would tell people to
:18:38. > :18:40.do. She didn't panic. And London's first community land
:18:41. > :18:47.trust development brings affordable homes to the east of the capital.
:18:48. > :18:49.And on show to the world. We join the Household Cavalry as it builds
:18:50. > :18:53.up for one of its busiest years ever.
:18:54. > :18:56.For the first time in its history, Next looks set to overtake its
:18:57. > :19:01.high-street rival Marks Spencer - after reporting a big increase in
:19:02. > :19:05.its annual profits. They're up by 12% to nearly ?700 million. It's now
:19:06. > :19:09.firmly on course to make more money than M for the first time since
:19:10. > :19:21.its launch in 1982. Our business correspondent Emma Simpson reports.
:19:22. > :19:27.It used to be king of the high street. It still is -- sells more
:19:28. > :19:33.clothes than anyone else. But when it comes to making more money, Next
:19:34. > :19:38.is emerging as the winner. What is it cigarette? One fashion editor
:19:39. > :19:41.told me it is simple. They absolutely know their customer. They
:19:42. > :19:45.produce the clothes that they will love and they will buy.
:19:46. > :19:51.Interestingly, this is the area Marks Spencer have been struggling
:19:52. > :19:57.in recently. It may not be cutting edge, but it is popular. It's good
:19:58. > :20:05.quality and they have things the children. M is classed as
:20:06. > :20:10.old-fashioned, though it's not. The business only started in the early
:20:11. > :20:14.1980s but managed to tap into a new generation of aspirational shoppers,
:20:15. > :20:21.adapting to their every need. Here is what has been preventable --
:20:22. > :20:24.pivotal, the directory. It was ground-breaking and it meant that
:20:25. > :20:34.when the business moved online, that know-how came in handy. Next has
:20:35. > :20:41.powered ahead. All did tonight, get it delivered tomorrow. Logistics
:20:42. > :20:44.certainly gave Next an edge over Christmas. That sort of investment
:20:45. > :20:49.takes a lot of forward thinking and planning. That is the beautiful
:20:50. > :20:54.thing about Next. The forward-thinking from management
:20:55. > :20:59.really stands them in good stead. So, what next for Next? It doesn't
:21:00. > :21:03.like to shout about its success. It doesn't have too, especially as it
:21:04. > :21:09.is making so much money it is handing millions of pounds to
:21:10. > :21:13.shareholders this year. A man who claims he was raped by the
:21:14. > :21:16.former Commons Speaker Nigel Evans has been cross-examined. He's told
:21:17. > :21:20.the jury that he woke up to find the MP on top of him. But Mr Evan's
:21:21. > :21:24.barrister alleged that the incident - said to have taken place last year
:21:25. > :21:26.after a dinner party at Mr Evan's home - had been consensual. Nigel
:21:27. > :21:31.Evans denies all the charges. Danny Savage reports from Preston Crown
:21:32. > :21:36.Court. He came to court to listen to the
:21:37. > :21:41.man who claims the MP braked him. The witness, who are legal reasons
:21:42. > :21:44.cannot be seen, has already described how he was allegedly
:21:45. > :21:49.sexually assaulted at the bed of the MP, and later woke up with the
:21:50. > :21:53.former deputy speaker on top of them. The 22-year-old had been
:21:54. > :21:59.drinking champagne, wine and Jane in the MP's local pub and home in his
:22:00. > :22:02.constituency, before getting into bed with him. The openly gay man
:22:03. > :22:07.said he left the bedroom and number of times during the night, but
:22:08. > :22:12.returned each time. This morning, he was cross-examined by the defence
:22:13. > :22:17.barrister. He said, you made a conscious decision to get into bed
:22:18. > :22:21.with him. Yes, the man admitted. Having got into bed, it became clear
:22:22. > :22:25.to you that there were sexual overtures being made towards you.
:22:26. > :22:31.You have not said no, you have not said leave me alone, you have not
:22:32. > :22:35.said, I don't want to do this. The witness agreed that was the case but
:22:36. > :22:38.said he had rolled away from the MP. He also admits he missed an
:22:39. > :22:44.opportunity to go and sleep in a different room when they retired to
:22:45. > :22:48.bed that night. Nigel Evans sat in the dock making notes and listening
:22:49. > :22:53.to be evidence. He denies all the charges. But the witness said he did
:22:54. > :22:59.not willingly engage in sexual activity with Mr Evans.
:23:00. > :23:02.Police in Greater Manchester are hunting thieves who dug a 50-foot
:23:03. > :23:05.tunnel under a Tesco store to steal a substantial sum from a cash
:23:06. > :23:08.machine. Officers say the gang may have spent months digging the
:23:09. > :23:11."complex structure". They're appealing for witnesses who may have
:23:12. > :23:17.seen anyone "covered in soil" in Salford between midnight and 6am on
:23:18. > :23:20.Friday. The Japanese firm Hitachi is moving
:23:21. > :23:23.the headquarters of its global rail business to Britain. The company won
:23:24. > :23:26.a multi-billion pound contract last year to build new intercity trains
:23:27. > :23:29.and will open a plant at Newton Aycliffe in County Durham next year,
:23:30. > :23:32.employing 750 workers. The government called the move a huge
:23:33. > :23:39.vote of confidence in Britain. Here's our industry correspondent,
:23:40. > :23:44.John Moylan. It is the company that brought the
:23:45. > :23:51.bullet train to Britain. Shipped from Japan, they run on the
:23:52. > :23:55.high-speed link in Kent. Now, Hitachi is going further and moving
:23:56. > :24:00.its headquarters here. Europe is the biggest market in the world. So we
:24:01. > :24:04.want to move our decision-making closer to the marketplace. Clearly,
:24:05. > :24:09.the UK is important to us. We are investing a huge amount of money in
:24:10. > :24:17.County Durham to in -- to build trains not just for Britain but
:24:18. > :24:23.Europe. Construction started last year. The first locomotives will
:24:24. > :24:27.leave the planned in 2016. This building in central London is where
:24:28. > :24:31.Hitachi runs its European operations and will now become its global
:24:32. > :24:37.headquarters. From here, the company will go after lucrative contracts
:24:38. > :24:42.for trains and rolling stock right across Europe, but particularly in
:24:43. > :24:49.Britain. Hitachi is already advising on the HS2 project. It wants to take
:24:50. > :24:54.on Europe's big rail giants. In the wake of the row about bombarding a
:24:55. > :24:58.witch faces closure after losing out on a major contract, it knows moving
:24:59. > :25:09.its headquarters will boost its British credentials. We like to see
:25:10. > :25:12.companies producing here. They used to be imported, we are changing
:25:13. > :25:19.that. I want to see more British procurement. Hitachi is creating 750
:25:20. > :25:23.jobs to build these new trains. More are expected to follow. An industry
:25:24. > :25:28.which almost fell off the rails looks like it is back on track.
:25:29. > :25:31.40 years ago today, there was a failed attempt to kidnap Princess
:25:32. > :25:33.Anne. In a rare interview, the former royal protection officer
:25:34. > :25:38.Inspector Jim Beaton has spoken about what happened that day as she
:25:39. > :25:43.was being driven along the Mall. Here's our Royal correspondent,
:25:44. > :25:48.Nicholas Witchell. It was one of the most audacious
:25:49. > :25:52.threats to a member of the Royal family. The night an armed man
:25:53. > :25:55.attempted to kidnap the princess from her royal limousine, if you
:25:56. > :26:01.hundreds meters from Buckingham Palace. A threat ported notably by
:26:02. > :26:09.the courage of this man, inspected Jim Beaton. He was the Princess's
:26:10. > :26:16.police God -- bodyguard. He was shot three times. The whole thing was
:26:17. > :26:20.very quick. I didn't have time to think, which is just as well,
:26:21. > :26:26.because thinking is not one of my specialities. In the 40 years since
:26:27. > :26:30.the incident here, Jim Beaton has seldom spoken publicly about what
:26:31. > :26:35.happened. He became the only royal protection officer in recent memory
:26:36. > :26:40.to be forced to draw his firearm, to try to protect a member of the Royal
:26:41. > :26:50.family from an armed attack. The royal limousine had been driving up
:26:51. > :26:56.the mole -- the Mall. Jim Beaton thought it was an angry motorist and
:26:57. > :27:01.got out to investigate. Just as I came out, he shot at me. Until then,
:27:02. > :27:07.nothing had been further from my mind. Even then, I had to think
:27:08. > :27:15.twice about what had happened. I went back behind the car and took my
:27:16. > :27:19.gun out. I was authorised to carry a gun on duty and I tried to shoot at
:27:20. > :27:23.him but because I'd already been hit in the chest, which was not very
:27:24. > :27:31.painful but obviously made my arm flopped a bit, I wasn't able to hit
:27:32. > :27:39.him. I thought, well, there is a proper method, using two hands. I
:27:40. > :27:43.tried to lands, but the gun jammed. He was shot twice more as he tried
:27:44. > :27:47.to protect the Princess. The attacker attempted to drag her out
:27:48. > :27:54.of the vehicle. His plan was to hold the Princess for ransom. One of the
:27:55. > :27:59.things she was saying was, why do you want me? And he said something
:28:00. > :28:04.to the effect of two or ?3 million. Her actions were very good. She was
:28:05. > :28:10.cool, calm and collected and she did everything we would tell people to
:28:11. > :28:16.do now. She spoke to him, she didn't panic or scream wash-out. Other
:28:17. > :28:23.police arrived at the scene and he was overpowered. At his trial, you
:28:24. > :28:29.was ordered to be in danger -- he was ordered to be detained
:28:30. > :28:33.indefinitely. For those actions that night, Jim Beaton received the
:28:34. > :28:40.highest civilian award for bravery, George Cross.
:28:41. > :28:44.Dame Vera Lynn - "the forces' sweetheart" - is to release a new
:28:45. > :28:47.album at the age of 97. Dame Vera, who celebrates her birthday today,
:28:48. > :28:51.already holds the record as the only artist over the age of 90 to top the
:28:52. > :28:52.UK album charts. The new collection will contain unreleased songs which
:28:53. > :29:16.have recently been discovered. Now, a look at the weather. It
:29:17. > :29:22.depends where you are in relation to this weather front. We have quite a
:29:23. > :29:29.number of ice bars on the charts, there have been gusts of up to 70
:29:30. > :29:35.miles an hour. We're looking at easily ten or 20 millimetres of rain
:29:36. > :29:41.higher ground. It is on the move though, so if you had it first
:29:42. > :29:44.thing, as you did in Northern Ireland and Scotland, it will be
:29:45. > :29:49.brighter in the afternoon. Look at those temperatures though. A cooler,
:29:50. > :29:54.fresh appeal across the northern end of the British Isles with a mixture
:29:55. > :29:59.of showers. Increasingly across Wales and the South West of England,
:30:00. > :30:05.a wet spell of weather here. Difficult driving conditions given
:30:06. > :30:09.the strength of the wind as well. So the roads through Devon and Cornwall
:30:10. > :30:14.will be quite tricky. Fine weather towards the south-east and East
:30:15. > :30:24.Anglia. Make the most of the temperatures here as they will not
:30:25. > :30:26.last. The cold air already lurking across Scotland and Northern Ireland
:30:27. > :30:32.eventually head south across the rest of the British Isles. There is
:30:33. > :30:37.the mechanism for change. In the small hours it does push onto the
:30:38. > :30:41.continent. The hind, look at the wintry showers in Scotland. Some ice
:30:42. > :30:45.on higher roots and there are some weather warnings about that. A cold
:30:46. > :30:53.night, less perhaps in the south-east who just hold onto McLeod
:30:54. > :31:03.and rain for a bit longer. Some quite heavy showers on Friday with a
:31:04. > :31:06.rumble of Bunder. -- thunder. Only the favoured few will see
:31:07. > :31:13.temperatures into double figures, let alone teens. On Saturday,
:31:14. > :31:18.showers for the western portion of the British Isles and on Sunday it
:31:19. > :31:21.is the ease that sees the bulk of the rainy activity. So the weekend
:31:22. > :31:27.will be chilly in the day with wintry showers, and some frosty
:31:28. > :31:34.nights to come as well. That goes on into the start of next week.
:31:35. > :31:39.A remote part of the Indian Ocean is being searched for the missing plane
:31:40. > :31:41.after new satellite