:00:15. > :00:16.In London, smog-like conditions, as government data shows pollution
:00:17. > :00:23.hitting the maximum level, ten, meaning very high. We will be
:00:24. > :00:30.looking at which parts of the UK have been worst hit.
:00:31. > :00:33.Also this lunchtime: plain packaging on cigarettes comes a step closer as
:00:34. > :00:35.the government pushes through plans to ban branding on all tobacco
:00:36. > :00:38.products. A shake-up of GCSEs in England -
:00:39. > :00:40.grades will be replaced with numbers, and a new target for the
:00:41. > :00:43.brightest pupils. The Culture Secretary, Maria Miller,
:00:44. > :00:49.apologises after she's told to repay nearly ?6000 in expenses.
:00:50. > :00:55.Bringing the house down - the explosive opening planned for the
:00:56. > :01:03.Commonwealth Games in Glasgow. On BBC London: a cyclist dies in
:01:04. > :01:07.central London after being hit by a lorry.
:01:08. > :01:08.And Chelsea are left disappointed in France after fielding a team without
:01:09. > :01:30.a striker. Good afternoon and welcome to the
:01:31. > :01:33.BBC News at One. Air pollution has hit maximum highs in some parts of
:01:34. > :01:36.the UK as an oppressive mix of Saharan dust and emissions from
:01:37. > :01:46.Europe spreads across the country. London has reached the maximum
:01:47. > :01:49.level, ten. Levels in eastern England have reached nine, with the
:01:50. > :01:51.Southeast and north-west England, the Midlands and north Wales also
:01:52. > :01:54.affected. Yesterday, London Ambulance saw a 14% rise in 999
:01:55. > :01:57.calls for patients with breathing problems. They say they are
:01:58. > :02:05.expecting a similar increase today. Sarah Campbell reports.
:02:06. > :02:09.Cities and towns across England and Wales are once again blanketed in
:02:10. > :02:13.smog. Some of London's landmarks were barely visible today. This was
:02:14. > :02:17.the scene, late morning. It is another difficult day for asthma
:02:18. > :02:21.sufferers, who are particularly vulnerable to the effects of air
:02:22. > :02:25.pollution. That night, I just had to keep up all night. Could not sleep.
:02:26. > :02:32.I had to come and get some medication. It is waking me up. It
:02:33. > :02:38.is really debilitating. The effects were felt across London today. My
:02:39. > :02:42.throat and nose are getting a bit dry. I have a dog, and it was
:02:43. > :02:49.sneezing. All of a sudden, I felt something was not quite right. In
:02:50. > :02:53.the evening, you actually felt and tasted the sandy things in your
:02:54. > :02:58.throat. It has not affected me, but I know a lot of people who are
:02:59. > :03:01.affected, those with respiratory problems. So why is the air
:03:02. > :03:05.polluted? It is being called a perfect storm. Home-grown pollution
:03:06. > :03:09.from the UK's traffic and power stations. The rest has built up over
:03:10. > :03:13.European towns and cities and loan over the Channel. Then there are the
:03:14. > :03:18.sandy deposits on cars, evidence of a massive amount of dust alone up
:03:19. > :03:25.from the Sahara . It all makes for an pleasant conditions. This
:03:26. > :03:29.cocktail of chemical particles and gases and biological particles all
:03:30. > :03:33.affect human health. Those with heart and lung conditions are being
:03:34. > :03:37.advised to avoid strenuous outdoor activity . Even the prime minister
:03:38. > :03:40.chose to stay indoors today. I did not go for my morning run this
:03:41. > :03:46.morning. I chose to do some work instead. You can feel it, but it is
:03:47. > :03:49.a naturally occurring weather phenomenon. Sounds extraordinary,
:03:50. > :03:53.but that is what it is. The worst affected areas have been London and
:03:54. > :03:56.much of the south-east. Air pollution is measured on a scale of
:03:57. > :04:01.one to ten, and here it is a ten, the highest possible level. The good
:04:02. > :04:05.news is that the skies tomorrow should be clear, with south-westerly
:04:06. > :04:07.winds due to blow the dust and pollution away.
:04:08. > :04:16.Our science correspondent, Rebecca Morelle, is here. So is it going to
:04:17. > :04:21.clear up soon? Yes, hopefully. When is it going to end? It is pretty
:04:22. > :04:26.grim out there. For the last few days, the problem is that we have
:04:27. > :04:31.had still conditions, which has left a horrible mixture of dust from the
:04:32. > :04:35.Sahara, pollutants from North Africa and the continent and are nasty car
:04:36. > :04:39.emissions in the UK, just hanging in a sort of stagnant haze over us. It
:04:40. > :04:44.is in the lower part of the atmosphere, the bit we read. What
:04:45. > :04:48.makes this unusual is the Sahara dust, which has made it visible. But
:04:49. > :04:52.some of the more invisible pollutants are the ones we have to
:04:53. > :04:56.be worried about. We need a change of weather conditions. I have spoken
:04:57. > :05:02.to the Met Office and the good news is that they are on their way. The
:05:03. > :05:05.rain will draw some particles out of the atmosphere. Also winds coming in
:05:06. > :05:11.from the Atlantic, where the air is much clearer. So hopefully, fresh
:05:12. > :05:14.air is on its way. We will have a full weather forecast
:05:15. > :05:18.at the end of the programme and you can see details of the pollution
:05:19. > :05:21.affecting the UK on the BBC website. The Government says it plans to
:05:22. > :05:25.introduce plain, standardised packaging for all tobacco products
:05:26. > :05:29.in England as soon as possible. The change is also expected to go ahead
:05:30. > :05:31.in other parts of the UK. The decision follows an independent
:05:32. > :05:35.review of the likely impact on public health of removing all
:05:36. > :05:42.branding. Our medical correspondent, Fergus Walsh, is at the Department
:05:43. > :05:48.of Health in central London. So what exactly is the proposal?
:05:49. > :05:53.This follows a review by a former paediatrician, Sir Cyril Chandler,
:05:54. > :05:58.who has concluded today that lane or standardised packaging of tobacco
:05:59. > :06:03.would lead to a modest, but definite reduction in the number of children
:06:04. > :06:13.taking up smoking. Every year in the UK, 200,000 children between 11 and
:06:14. > :06:19.15 take up smoking, 600 a day. Even a 2% reduction would lead to 4000
:06:20. > :06:25.fewer children taking up smoking. Sir Cyril concluded that by
:06:26. > :06:28.introducing plain packaging, I have an example here of what he's talking
:06:29. > :06:34.about, with a very dominant health warning and no branding. He said
:06:35. > :06:39.this sort of pack, which has been introduced in Australia, would give
:06:40. > :06:45.a more negative impression to smokers and would-be smokers. It
:06:46. > :06:49.would be likely to have a positive impact in terms of reducing smoking
:06:50. > :06:52.among children. The families of the 96 victims of
:06:53. > :06:55.the Hillsborough disaster have begun reading a series of short
:06:56. > :06:58.biographies about their loved ones to an inquest jury. The court will
:06:59. > :07:02.hear about nine of the victims today as their friends recall the details
:07:03. > :07:14.of their lives. Our correspondent, Judith Moritz, is in Warrington.
:07:15. > :07:18.Yes. So far, seven of the 96 Hillsborough victims have been
:07:19. > :07:25.described by their relatives to the jury. The family members stepping up
:07:26. > :07:29.to the witness box one by one, speaking about their personal
:07:30. > :07:33.recollections and memories. It has been an emotional morning. At one
:07:34. > :07:40.point, the coroner stopped to gently reassuring widow who had become
:07:41. > :07:45.tearful describing her late husband. The Hillsborough disaster is set to
:07:46. > :07:50.have encompassed many individual human tragedies. Today, the families
:07:51. > :07:54.of the 96 people who died came to court to begin telling the jury
:07:55. > :07:59.about their loved ones. The first was John Horrocks, who was seven in
:08:00. > :08:04.1989 when his father went to Hillsborough and did not come back.
:08:05. > :08:08.Arthur Horrocks was a huge music fan who loved going to Liverpool's
:08:09. > :08:13.famous cavern club. His widow Susan wrote the words to be read out in
:08:14. > :08:18.court. Arthur Horrocks was born in Liverpool on the 19th of January,
:08:19. > :08:23.1948. Afterwards, his son John read them again for our cameras. It is
:08:24. > :08:26.the hardest thing I have ever had to write, but I hope it goes some way
:08:27. > :08:31.towards a water wonderful husband and best friend he was for me as
:08:32. > :08:35.well as a devoted dad, brother, uncle and friend, and how much we
:08:36. > :08:40.miss him every day. As John Horrocks spoke about his dad, the court was
:08:41. > :08:46.silent. Later, he told the BBC about his experience of speaking to the
:08:47. > :08:51.jury. It is very important. It is the start of a long process, but we
:08:52. > :08:54.will get through it. Each of the 96 Hillsborough victims will be
:08:55. > :08:58.described to the court. The process will take until the end of the
:08:59. > :09:02.month. It has been designed to put those who died at the heart of these
:09:03. > :09:06.inquests. Hopefully, families will be able to cope with what they say
:09:07. > :09:11.when they are on the witness stand, talking about the person they have
:09:12. > :09:14.loved and lost. It will be a very difficult day for many families as
:09:15. > :09:18.we go through the next few weeks. The Hillsborough victims were
:09:19. > :09:23.fathers and mothers, brothers and sisters. Their interest is,
:09:24. > :09:28.personalities, hopes and dreams are being laid out in court for everyone
:09:29. > :09:31.to hear. To give you a flavour of the sort of
:09:32. > :09:38.things we heard in court this morning, Christine Magnuson up about
:09:39. > :09:41.her daughter Marion, who died at Hillsborough, saying she was a
:09:42. > :09:47.giver, not a taker. She was a good and generous person. No words will
:09:48. > :09:52.ever do her justice. We also heard from Wilf Whelan, the father of Ian
:09:53. > :09:56.Whelan, who died at Hillsborough. He told a story about how on the
:09:57. > :10:00.morning of that fateful match, he had gone to his girlfriend's house
:10:01. > :10:05.before going to Sheffield, and Ian Whelan had left two red roses for
:10:06. > :10:08.her as a mark of his love. A new top-level GCSE grade will be
:10:09. > :10:13.awarded to the most talented 50,000 pupils each year in proposals for a
:10:14. > :10:15.shake-up of England's exam grades. The Ofqual exam regulator has
:10:16. > :10:19.launched a consultation on a grading system that will rank from nine at
:10:20. > :10:23.the very top down to one for the poorest performers. The changes, to
:10:24. > :10:25.be introduced from 2017, will compare students to those from the
:10:26. > :10:30.highest performing countries like China and South Korea. Our education
:10:31. > :10:41.correspondent, Gillian Hargreaves, reports.
:10:42. > :10:46.I got a B! This is what we have become used to, euphoric teenagers
:10:47. > :10:52.with a clutch of top marks. But in future, it might be much harder to
:10:53. > :10:56.get the best grade. The new scores, from one to nine, will be introduced
:10:57. > :11:02.for students sitting GCSE exams from 2017. One will be the lowest, with
:11:03. > :11:05.nine the top grade. The exams regulator proposes that grade nine
:11:06. > :11:11.will only be awarded to half the pupils now achieving an A*. That is
:11:12. > :11:16.around 20,000 students in any given year. Under the new system, and A
:11:17. > :11:22.grade would equate to a grade seven and the current grade C, regarded as
:11:23. > :11:26.the pass mark at GCSE, will be replaced by a great four. Students
:11:27. > :11:30.in Shanghai are years ahead of many of their European counterparts in
:11:31. > :11:33.maths, and ambition the government wants for pupils here. So these
:11:34. > :11:36.proposals will include, for the first time, a link between GCSE
:11:37. > :11:41.grades and international league tables. It is hoped it will give a
:11:42. > :11:47.clearer picture of how well England fares. We are trying to raise our
:11:48. > :11:50.ambitions so that we are looking more at the good achievers. That is
:11:51. > :11:55.not to say we are aiming to be number one in the pecking order. It
:11:56. > :11:59.is just lifting our aspirations. The new grade five at GCSE would
:12:00. > :12:03.represent the average score of high performing countries like South
:12:04. > :12:07.Korea, but teaching unions fear that that is a crude way to measure
:12:08. > :12:11.success. Young people need to be well prepared to go into the world
:12:12. > :12:15.of employment. We do need to raise the bar, but that is not only done
:12:16. > :12:23.by exams, it is done by good teaching and learning. Students who
:12:24. > :12:27.begin their GCSE courses next year and take there are tonnes in 2017
:12:28. > :12:31.will be affected. Initially, it would apply to English and maths
:12:32. > :12:35.papers only and be introduced for other subjects the following year.
:12:36. > :12:39.Gillian is here with me now. This is England only, and they want
:12:40. > :12:45.to bring it in quickly? Yes, England only. Northern Ireland and Wales are
:12:46. > :12:49.sticking with the old system. That might be baffling if you are an
:12:50. > :12:55.employer on the Welsh border, with candidates coming from England and
:12:56. > :13:01.Wales. You may be thinking, grade C, great four, has this person done
:13:02. > :13:03.well or not? It might be confusing. But the greater controversy lies
:13:04. > :13:08.with the speed with which this is being done. It will affect
:13:09. > :13:11.candidates who are going to study GCSEs next year and will take their
:13:12. > :13:20.X and will take there X and Z 2017. Teaching unions say it is far too
:13:21. > :13:26.quick -- it affects those who will take their exams in 2017. They are
:13:27. > :13:32.arguing that it is too quick. The reason why it is only English and
:13:33. > :13:36.maths in 2017 is because Ofqual has introduced tougher exams in those
:13:37. > :13:38.subjects, but they are the only subjects where the specification has
:13:39. > :13:43.already been laid out. Other subjects like science, geography and
:13:44. > :13:46.other humanities will not see this numeric grade until 2018.
:13:47. > :13:49.The Commons Committee on Standards has ordered Culture Secretary Maria
:13:50. > :13:55.Miller to repay ?5800 and apologise to MPs. The money is to cover for
:13:56. > :13:58.overclaiming of expenses on her mortgage after she failed to reduce
:13:59. > :14:03.the amount claimed as interest rates and her repayments fell. But the MPs
:14:04. > :14:06.have cleared her of the central charge of deliberately submitting
:14:07. > :14:09.claims for expenses to which she was not entitled.
:14:10. > :14:17.Our chief political correspondent, Norman Smith, is in Westminster. How
:14:18. > :14:23.damaging is this for her? My sense is that this report does not do Ms
:14:24. > :14:29.Miller, but it does damage her. It does not terminate her political
:14:30. > :14:32.career, but it punishes the. Why? She is cleared off the central
:14:33. > :14:35.charge of fiddling her expenses to provide a home for her parents, but
:14:36. > :14:39.the committee are scathing about the way she responded to their enquiry,
:14:40. > :14:43.in effect accusing her of being struck with an difficult and
:14:44. > :14:46.legalistic. For that reason, they judge her to be in breach of the
:14:47. > :14:52.MPs' code of conduct, which is meant to govern how MPs behave. For that
:14:53. > :14:56.reason, she was forced to make an apology in the House of Commons. In
:14:57. > :15:00.other times, potentially, that alone could have insufficient to lead to
:15:01. > :15:04.her political demise. But this morning, the prime minister came out
:15:05. > :15:09.and in effect said, she is going nowhere. More significant is the
:15:10. > :15:13.fact that yesterday, even before the prime minister had seen the report,
:15:14. > :15:17.Number Ten was putting a pre-emptive protective arm around Ms Miller,
:15:18. > :15:23.saying the prime minister had full confidence in her. That tells us
:15:24. > :15:29.that Mr Cameron was absolutely love to lose her. Why? One suspects in
:15:30. > :15:32.part because Ms Miller is a woman and Mr Cameron absolutely did not
:15:33. > :15:43.want to lose one of the four female members of his cabinet. High levels
:15:44. > :15:47.of pollution once again hit parts of the UK. Health warnings are issued
:15:48. > :15:52.for people with lung and heart conditions and people with asthma.
:15:53. > :15:58.Coming up, I will be live in Portsmouth for the grand opening of
:15:59. > :16:04.the Royal Navy's new national news. Later on BBC London, the school in
:16:05. > :16:07.Enfield that is keeping some pupils endorse as pollution levels hit
:16:08. > :16:09.high. And updating the past, how Chelsea pensioners are being moved
:16:10. > :16:25.into the 21st century. Organisers of this year's
:16:26. > :16:29.Commonwealth Games' opening ceremony in Glasgow are hoping to bring the
:16:30. > :16:33.house down. Hundreds of them, as the demolition of a series of high rise
:16:34. > :16:37.flats will form part of the official launch of the event. The Red Road
:16:38. > :16:41.flats, a feature of the Glasgow skyline for almost 50 years will be
:16:42. > :16:44.blown up and the images beamed live into the opening ceremony. James
:16:45. > :16:50.Cook has the full story. It was a city in the sky, 4000
:16:51. > :16:54.people used to live here in the highest tower blocks in Europe. The
:16:55. > :16:58.Red Road flats were built in the 1960s, but they have long since had
:16:59. > :17:05.their day and now they will come down in front of a watching world.
:17:06. > :17:09.What a finance for Red Road blocks, to come down in a blaze of glory,
:17:10. > :17:16.the Commonwealth Games getting shown to over 1 billion people. They could
:17:17. > :17:22.not have picked a better way to see these blocks come down. And we have
:17:23. > :17:26.some idea of what it will look like. Two of the blocks have already been
:17:27. > :17:32.demolished, but they went down a year apart. This time, five will
:17:33. > :17:35.turn to dust at once. For the Games' organisers it is a way of
:17:36. > :17:39.competing with the extravagant Olympics ceremony, on a smaller
:17:40. > :17:43.budget. We will spend it very wisely. It is just below 21 million
:17:44. > :17:50.for both opening and closing ceremonies, which is a fraction of
:17:51. > :17:53.Sochi, but we're not trying to be the Olympic Games or Sochi. We are
:17:54. > :17:57.Glasgow, Scotland's Commonwealth Games, and we will give a
:17:58. > :18:01.spectacular show. A tonne of explosives be used to bring these
:18:02. > :18:05.buildings down. It will all be over in just 15 seconds and those who
:18:06. > :18:09.have lived here for years are preparing for an emotional moment.
:18:10. > :18:13.To be honest, I don't want to believing this. I really want to
:18:14. > :18:17.stay until the last moment, but I guess I don't have any option so I
:18:18. > :18:22.will be moved but my first priority will be to stay in this area so I
:18:23. > :18:26.will always live next to the memories. It is an iconic moment.
:18:27. > :18:29.The flats have meant so much to Glasgow and they are so much a part
:18:30. > :18:35.of the Glasgow skyline for so many years. To see them coming down and a
:18:36. > :18:38.host of them coming down in one go is going to be a big thing to a lot
:18:39. > :18:42.of people. These flats have dominated Glasgow's skyline for
:18:43. > :18:47.decades. They provoke mixed emotions. Life here was not always
:18:48. > :18:54.easy. But they are still held in great affection and fair and will be
:18:55. > :18:58.spectacular. An American soldier has shot dead
:18:59. > :19:03.three colleagues at an army base in Texas. The gunman also wounded 16
:19:04. > :19:07.others before killing himself at Fort Hood. The base was the scene of
:19:08. > :19:13.another shooting in 2009, when 13 people died. The gunman, who has
:19:14. > :19:17.been named in the US media is army truck driver Ivan Lopez, had served
:19:18. > :19:19.in Iraq and was being treated for mental health problems. Philippa
:19:20. > :19:24.Thomas reports. In the space of 15 minutes the
:19:25. > :19:28.soldier had only arrived at Fort Hood in February, had shot dead
:19:29. > :19:33.three colleagues, before faced with a military policewoman he turned his
:19:34. > :19:39.gun on himself. Good Morning America. Breaking overnight, a
:19:40. > :19:43.shooting in Fort Hood. I gunman opens fire in America's largest army
:19:44. > :19:48.post. The Army has confirmed the gunman had served in Iraq, reported
:19:49. > :19:51.a brain injury and was being assessed for post-traumatic stress
:19:52. > :19:57.disorder. We are digging deep into his background, any criminal
:19:58. > :20:00.history, psychiatric history, his experiences in combat, all of the
:20:01. > :20:05.things you would expect as are being done right now. This is not believed
:20:06. > :20:10.to be a terrorist act. It is being noted that Ivan Lopez bought the gun
:20:11. > :20:14.locally and carried it into the base unregistered. Many of the people
:20:15. > :20:19.there have been through multiple tours in Iraq and Afghanistan. They
:20:20. > :20:26.served with valour and they served with distinction. When they are at
:20:27. > :20:30.their home base they need to feel safe. But this incident has brought
:20:31. > :20:35.back memories of the mass shooting their only five years ago, the worst
:20:36. > :20:39.ever such event on a domestic army base. In which an Army psychiatrist
:20:40. > :20:46.about to be deployed to Afghanistan, no Hasan, killed 13 and injured 32
:20:47. > :20:51.more. -- Nangel Hassan. The question today, what drove this soldier to
:20:52. > :20:55.open fire on his colleagues on home ground.
:20:56. > :20:58.Ukraine's special police shot dead dozens of anti-government protesters
:20:59. > :21:03.in Kiev in February, according to an initial government enquiry. The
:21:04. > :21:07.Interior Ministry said 12 members of the Berkut police had been
:21:08. > :21:11.identified as snipers and three of them had been arrested. More than
:21:12. > :21:15.100 people were killed in the fabric protests that led to the ousting of
:21:16. > :21:19.President and -- President Viktor Yanukovych. The Queen is in Rome for
:21:20. > :21:23.her first meeting with Pope Francis. She and Prince Philip had been
:21:24. > :21:26.invited by the Italian president. It is her third visit to the Vatican
:21:27. > :21:30.during her reign and her first foreign trip in three years. As head
:21:31. > :21:33.of the Church of England, the Queen has supported moves to improve
:21:34. > :21:38.Anglican and Roman Catholic relations.
:21:39. > :21:41.The education watchdog has warned that nurseries and childminders in
:21:42. > :21:44.England are failing to teach thousands of young children the
:21:45. > :21:48.skills they need to start primary school. Ofsted's Chief Inspector Sir
:21:49. > :21:52.Michael Wilshaw has this morning called for a radical shake-up of
:21:53. > :21:57.early years education, with more emphasis on learning words and
:21:58. > :22:02.numbers. Luke Walton reports. A chance to have fun with your
:22:03. > :22:06.friends, but Ofsted says early years education is also about learning
:22:07. > :22:11.basic language and number skills. And though this nurseries rated
:22:12. > :22:14.outstanding, others do less well. We are concerned about the quality of
:22:15. > :22:19.provision in early years because we know it is one of the most vital
:22:20. > :22:23.times in a child's life. If they don't have the basic skills, social
:22:24. > :22:28.skills, emotional skills and learning skills that are necessary
:22:29. > :22:33.before four and five, they don't start school well. Under the Chief
:22:34. > :22:36.Inspector's plans nurseries and childminders would be asked to put
:22:37. > :22:40.more emphasis on structured learning. There is a call for more
:22:41. > :22:44.primary schools to open nurseries on site. Move Sir Michael says would
:22:45. > :22:48.increase quality, particularly for low-income families. Watching the
:22:49. > :22:51.children here it is clear they are having fun as well as learning. But
:22:52. > :22:55.some worry that an increased emphasis on structured teaching to
:22:56. > :23:00.the under fives could lead to too much pressure, too young. The fear
:23:01. > :23:04.is we are removing their opportunity to learn through discovery, learn
:23:05. > :23:08.through play, be creative and that worries me, that we are removing the
:23:09. > :23:12.opportunity for some of our very youngest children to be children, to
:23:13. > :23:17.play, to enjoy life. At this nursery play and learning do appear to go
:23:18. > :23:21.hand-in-hand, but with the government also putting the focus on
:23:22. > :23:29.the skills of the under fives, the balance between their care and their
:23:30. > :23:31.education remains contentious. The Environment Secretary Owen
:23:32. > :23:34.Paterson has announced that the pilot badger culls in
:23:35. > :23:38.Gloucestershire and Somerset will continue this year, but the practice
:23:39. > :23:42.will not be rolled out to other areas. Our science correspondent
:23:43. > :23:46.Pallab Ghosh is here. What has he said? Mr Paterson published his
:23:47. > :23:51.independent scientific assessment of his own trials and quite simply this
:23:52. > :23:54.assessment shows the trials failed and failed spectacularly. They
:23:55. > :24:00.failed to kill enough badgers. They were supposed to kill 70% and they
:24:01. > :24:04.killed 50%. There were too many that were killed in an inhumane way, with
:24:05. > :24:11.more than 20% taking more than five minutes to die. How embarrassing is
:24:12. > :24:13.this for the government? It is embarrassing, particularly for Owen
:24:14. > :24:18.Paterson, who has associated himself with this policy. He said regardless
:24:19. > :24:21.of what the pilot trials were like and the scientific assessment said,
:24:22. > :24:26.he would roll out ten cull areas each year for the next four years.
:24:27. > :24:29.Today, he has not been able to roll out a single one and one wonders
:24:30. > :24:34.what the future of the policy is going forward.
:24:35. > :24:38.As museum exhibits go they don't get any bigger than this. The height of
:24:39. > :24:42.a four-storey house, a World War II submarine is the centrepiece of a
:24:43. > :24:46.major new exhibition looking at the story of naval life over the last
:24:47. > :24:51.century. It is at the Royal Navy's National Museum in Portsmouth and
:24:52. > :24:56.Duncan Kennedy is there now. You join us at the opening of this
:24:57. > :25:00.brand-new navy museum here in Portsmouth and we are at the moment
:25:01. > :25:05.the military wives are taking part in that opening ceremony. Let's
:25:06. > :25:14.listen to them for a few seconds. # You fill up my senses
:25:15. > :25:20.# Console me again #. The museum has been planned for ten
:25:21. > :25:24.years and charts 100 years of naval history. 500 unique artefacts,
:25:25. > :25:32.including World War II era submarine. All hoping to tell the
:25:33. > :25:35.personal stories of those who serve. From the actual trigger of a nuclear
:25:36. > :25:40.missile to the hulking presence of a submarine. HMS Alliance spent
:25:41. > :25:49.decades above and below the waves and is now the giant centrepiece of
:25:50. > :25:51.this unique exhibition. It is so big Alliance is the height of a
:25:52. > :25:54.four-storey building, the biggest exhibit in the new museum set-up and
:25:55. > :26:01.it remains the only British ocean-going submarine that has
:26:02. > :26:05.survived since the Second World War. Moving into the control room now.
:26:06. > :26:07.The museum isn't just about the hardware, it's the people like Rob
:26:08. > :26:14.Forsyth, who skippered the Alliance and now a keen champion of
:26:15. > :26:20.submariners' stories. We were hidden. We were underwater. It's not
:26:21. > :26:22.a case of needing to pop oneself up but all the years spent doing
:26:23. > :26:31.important things underwater deserve to be known about. Navy women are
:26:32. > :26:35.not forgotten. In film and photos their lives are chronicled. They
:26:36. > :26:43.include Dorrie Thomas, one of the first to join the Wrens in World War
:26:44. > :26:51.II. She trained as Morse code operator and even at 90 it's a skill
:26:52. > :26:59.she has never lost. D is da-diddy. O is dar-dar-dar. But it's one highly
:27:00. > :27:04.memorable message to the Atlantic Fleet that has always stayed with
:27:05. > :27:07.her. The group came up, 4-4-7-4, and believe it or not in Morse that is
:27:08. > :27:27.diddy -diddy dar, diddy-diddy dar, dar-dar diddy, diddy-diddy dar. You
:27:28. > :27:30.could almost dance to that. From a captured German Enigma code machine
:27:31. > :27:33.to a list of simple instructions to sailors on how to address prisoners
:27:34. > :27:42.of war, the museum traces the Navy's rise and decline, its successes and
:27:43. > :27:43.failures. A service served by people like Dorrie Thomas, who has the last
:27:44. > :28:01.word. Fantastic. Let's have a look at the
:28:02. > :28:05.weather. We have been talking about the pollution levels. A prediction
:28:06. > :28:10.that it is not here forever? That is right, there is some respite on the
:28:11. > :28:13.way. We will start to see a slow improvement but at least for the
:28:14. > :28:16.rest of this afternoon and into this evening we have those high or very
:28:17. > :28:20.high pollution levels. Over the next couple of days we will start the
:28:21. > :28:23.season cleaner, clearer air coming in from the Atlantic, so few
:28:24. > :28:28.problems with pollution. There will be some rain and it will help to
:28:29. > :28:31.bring particles to the surface. The rain has been heading in across the
:28:32. > :28:35.Channel Islands, the south-west of England into Wales and into parts of
:28:36. > :28:39.Scotland. Some and patchy rain through the rest of the afternoon.
:28:40. > :28:43.Central and eastern parts of England staying dry. Quite mild and muddy in
:28:44. > :28:47.the south-east. Further north, the air coming in from the north Sea
:28:48. > :28:52.making it feel cool. We start with the rain at about 4pm, affecting
:28:53. > :28:58.Devon, Somerset, south Wales. Towards the east, a drier story. We
:28:59. > :29:03.can't rule out sharp showers but 18-20dC in the south-east. Cooler in
:29:04. > :29:06.the north-east of England. The air coming in from an North Sea.
:29:07. > :29:12.Outbreaks of rain brightening up across Northern Ireland but for
:29:13. > :29:14.Scotland, damp, hill fog and temperatures 8-9d. Through the
:29:15. > :29:20.latter part of the afternoon and into this evening we will see the
:29:21. > :29:24.rain heading out, pushing out across Wales, clipping Northern Ireland so
:29:25. > :29:28.perhaps some surface water issues. The rain pushes into Scotland and
:29:29. > :29:32.drying up to the south of that. It is not going to be a cold night.
:29:33. > :29:36.Frost free wherever you are on Friday morning. A cloudy, murky
:29:37. > :29:39.start but crucially we will start to see the wind coming in from the
:29:40. > :29:43.south-west. That means an improving day in terms of equality and
:29:44. > :29:47.pollution. Some outbreaks of rain through tomorrow is still lingering
:29:48. > :29:51.across parts of Scotland. Elsewhere, a drier story. A few showers towards
:29:52. > :29:57.Wales and the south-west by the afternoon. Not as warm as weak
:29:58. > :30:00.recent days. 10-14dC in the north, 17-18 at the south. If you are
:30:01. > :30:06.heading to Aintree for the Grand National Festival, for Friday are
:30:07. > :30:10.predominantly dry day. On Saturday, more spots of light rain. The rain
:30:11. > :30:13.is courtesy of a weather front that is heading in from the Atlantic,
:30:14. > :30:17.pushing its way across the UK and bringing some outbreaks of rain. Not
:30:18. > :30:21.a particularly heavy. The next weather system is looking for
:30:22. > :30:25.Sunday. In terms of the weekend, things are that bit fresher. There
:30:26. > :30:30.will be rain around at times. Also a few sunny spells. Crucially, there
:30:31. > :30:33.will be an improvement in the air pollution that we have at the
:30:34. > :30:39.moment, so good news in terms of the weekend weather. More details
:30:40. > :30:43.online. Our top story this lunchtime. As we
:30:44. > :30:46.have been hearing, high levels of pollution once again hit parts of
:30:47. > :30:51.the UK. Health warnings are issued for people with lung and heart
:30:52. > :30:55.conditions and those with asthma. Plain packaging on cigarettes has
:30:56. > :31:01.come a step closer. The government is pushing through plans to ban
:31:02. > :31:04.branding on all tobacco products. On BBC News channel throughout the
:31:05. > :31:07.afternoon reaction to the News the European Parliament has voted to
:31:08. > :31:10.scrap the roaming fees charged for using a mobile phone whilst abroad.
:31:11. > :31:11.That is