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I take full responsibility for my desire to resign. I want to remove | :00:24. | :00:31. | |
and an helpful and difficult distraction. | :00:32. | :00:36. | |
During Prime Minister's Questions Labour said it was David Cameron's | :00:37. | :00:39. | |
handling of the situation that is the real issue. He said six days ago | :00:40. | :00:44. | |
she had done right thing and we should leave it at that. Does he now | :00:45. | :00:48. | |
recognise this was a terrible error of judgement? It was right to allow | :00:49. | :00:54. | |
her the chance to get on with her job. There is one weakness in his | :00:55. | :01:00. | |
argument, if he thinks this was the case, why didn't he: Her to resign? | :01:01. | :01:04. | |
We'll be speaking to our political editor Nick Robinson. Also this | :01:05. | :01:07. | |
lunchtime: Oscar Pistorius breaks down again as he faces fierce | :01:08. | :01:09. | |
prosecution questioning about the night he shot his girlfriend. | :01:10. | :01:20. | |
I have taken responsibility but I will not look at a picture where I | :01:21. | :01:24. | |
am tormented by what I felt. My fingers touched her head. I | :01:25. | :01:28. | |
remember, I don't have to look at a picture, I was there. | :01:29. | :01:31. | |
New hope of finding the missing Malaysian plane as search teams | :01:32. | :01:34. | |
re-acquire a signal which could come from its black box. | :01:35. | :01:37. | |
And a Royal crawl-about - as Prince George meets other eight-month olds | :01:38. | :01:39. | |
during his parent's tour of New Zealand. | :01:40. | :01:44. | |
Later on BBC London. The Government reveals its | :01:45. | :01:46. | |
compensation package for the thousands living on the route of | :01:47. | :01:49. | |
HS2. And the Met is criticised for how it | :01:50. | :01:55. | |
records crime. The Home Office is told it should take more | :01:56. | :01:56. | |
responsibility. Good afternoon, and welcome to the | :01:57. | :02:18. | |
BBC News at One. The Prime Minister has said he is | :02:19. | :02:23. | |
saddened by the resignation of Maria Miller as Culture Secretary, but | :02:24. | :02:26. | |
defended his handling of the row over her expenses. After days of | :02:27. | :02:31. | |
damaging headlines she announced she was stepping down, but insisted she | :02:32. | :02:36. | |
was cleared of the main allegation against her. She felt she had to | :02:37. | :02:40. | |
resign, because the argument about her had become a distraction for the | :02:41. | :02:44. | |
government. Labour says Mr Cameron's judgement has become the | :02:45. | :02:50. | |
issue. A week of bad headlines has finally | :02:51. | :02:56. | |
led to the story many of the papers wanted, Maria Miller's resignation. | :02:57. | :03:01. | |
I hoped that I could stay, but it has become clear to me over the last | :03:02. | :03:06. | |
few days this has become an enormous distraction and it is not right that | :03:07. | :03:10. | |
I am distracting from the incredible achievements of this government. But | :03:11. | :03:15. | |
it is a political harassment for David Cameron who had offered her | :03:16. | :03:19. | |
strong support into the report into her expenses was published last | :03:20. | :03:24. | |
week. She shall make a full apology and people will leave it at that. | :03:25. | :03:28. | |
She apologised unreservedly for. We should leave it there. She should | :03:29. | :03:31. | |
get on with the job of being Culture Secretary. It was hardly surprising | :03:32. | :03:37. | |
that the Prime Minister's judgement was called into question by Ed | :03:38. | :03:42. | |
Miliband. He said six days ago she had done the right thing and we | :03:43. | :03:45. | |
should leave it at that. Does he now recognise this was a terrible error | :03:46. | :03:50. | |
of judgement? The Prime Minister then called into question Ed | :03:51. | :03:55. | |
Miliband's judgement. He seems to be the first leader of the opposition, | :03:56. | :03:59. | |
probably in history, to come to this house, and make the first suggestion | :04:00. | :04:02. | |
that somebody should resign, after they have already resigned. He needs | :04:03. | :04:08. | |
to learn profound lessons about how he runs his government. The Culture | :04:09. | :04:11. | |
Secretary went, not because of her bad conduct, but because of her bad | :04:12. | :04:16. | |
press. David Cameron said it was time for party leaders to get | :04:17. | :04:21. | |
together to discuss further reforms in the expenses system. Let us do | :04:22. | :04:24. | |
more to reassure the public about the scandal of expenses and how we | :04:25. | :04:27. | |
are dealing with it. Many conservative colleagues were | :04:28. | :04:33. | |
concerned about putting the toxic issue of expenses back on the agenda | :04:34. | :04:38. | |
ahead of elections. At a meeting to be held tonight some backbenchers | :04:39. | :04:41. | |
were prepared to grill David Cameron for why he had decided to hold onto | :04:42. | :04:47. | |
and the damage she was doing to the Conservative party. What did she do | :04:48. | :04:51. | |
wrong? Is 16 month parliamentary investigation looked into | :04:52. | :04:54. | |
allegations she funded this home in limbo -- Wimbledon where her parents | :04:55. | :05:00. | |
lived at the taxpayers expense. She was cleared of wrongdoing. The | :05:01. | :05:05. | |
commissioner said she should pay back ?45,800 but the standards | :05:06. | :05:09. | |
committee consisting mainly of MPs asked her to pave just over ?5,000. | :05:10. | :05:19. | |
The committee has recommended... That apology last week was condemned | :05:20. | :05:24. | |
as graceless by some of her colleagues and the man who lodged | :05:25. | :05:27. | |
the initial complaint against said she should have resigned soon. He | :05:28. | :05:32. | |
should have happened 60 days ago, it is astonishing that the Prime | :05:33. | :05:37. | |
Minister didn't get what the rest of the country got, her behaviour was | :05:38. | :05:41. | |
unacceptable. The Prime Minister acknowledged she had powerful | :05:42. | :05:45. | |
enemies in her party under press, handling two of the most | :05:46. | :05:50. | |
controversial issues in government, it gay marriage and press | :05:51. | :06:02. | |
regulation. Maria Miller is clearly leaving office reluctantly. I can | :06:03. | :06:13. | |
move on. In a moment we will get the thoughts | :06:14. | :06:19. | |
of our correspondent in her constituency base in Basingstoke. | :06:20. | :06:22. | |
Let's hear from Nick Robinson in Westminster. The Prime Minister | :06:23. | :06:26. | |
spent the week backing her, where does this leave him? | :06:27. | :06:29. | |
Clearly it leaves him under attack from Ed Miliband, others, from | :06:30. | :06:35. | |
newspapers tomorrow, who will say he took the wrong decision. I thought | :06:36. | :06:39. | |
what was striking about prime ministers questions is he was | :06:40. | :06:42. | |
totally unapologetic for that, he said it was not leadership to push | :06:43. | :06:47. | |
somebody out of a job at the first whiff of gunfire, that he thought it | :06:48. | :06:51. | |
was right, given his minister had been cleared on the original charge, | :06:52. | :06:56. | |
a charge she had funded a home for her parents at the taxpayers | :06:57. | :06:59. | |
expense, that it was right to let her apologise, to do that and let | :07:00. | :07:04. | |
her try to get on with her job. He will face criticism but I thought it | :07:05. | :07:09. | |
was striking that he is not only not attacking her, but he went further | :07:10. | :07:13. | |
and actually described Parliament as a good and honest parliament. He | :07:14. | :07:17. | |
didn't not once but twice. It is a phrase that may stick in the call | :07:18. | :07:21. | |
for many voters who are still angry about the expenses system, it will | :07:22. | :07:25. | |
mean that phrase is tested against the evidence, but that is what he | :07:26. | :07:28. | |
has chosen to do. This issue has shown how toxic the | :07:29. | :07:32. | |
issue of expenses is. Where do we go with that for now? | :07:33. | :07:38. | |
David Cameron did not feel the need to promise any great further reform. | :07:39. | :07:43. | |
His argument essentially was this is a case about the past and it was | :07:44. | :07:48. | |
about expenses that would not be allowed under the current rules and | :07:49. | :07:51. | |
a system of enquiry that wouldn't happen under current rules. What he | :07:52. | :07:55. | |
is 20 Zeta voters is that was them, now is different, the system is | :07:56. | :08:02. | |
better -- that is what he is trying to say to voters. He is hoping to | :08:03. | :08:09. | |
surf the wave of public anger, as will other politicians, Nigel Farage | :08:10. | :08:15. | |
heading to that sees of Basingstoke -- seat of Basingstoke tonight. The | :08:16. | :08:19. | |
hope is now people will focus on other matters they care about more, | :08:20. | :08:23. | |
however angry they might be for a day or two. | :08:24. | :08:30. | |
Let's code to our correspondent in Basingstoke. | :08:31. | :08:33. | |
What has the reaction there been? It is very interesting. I am | :08:34. | :08:38. | |
standing outside her house, no sign of her here today. It is interesting | :08:39. | :08:42. | |
what Nick was saying, something changed in Westminster yesterday | :08:43. | :08:45. | |
that brings focus here, something that the MPs had not been said | :08:46. | :08:48. | |
before, they were starting to talk about the reaction of the Elektra, | :08:49. | :08:54. | |
telling Number ten this is killing us on the doorstep. On her road | :08:55. | :08:59. | |
doorstep spoke to a Tory councillor who said not only should she have | :09:00. | :09:03. | |
not have resigned, it is a misunderstanding, she is a truly | :09:04. | :09:08. | |
popular and has local party support. You talk to the electorate, voters, | :09:09. | :09:12. | |
what is interesting is they will acknowledge she is a good local MP, | :09:13. | :09:17. | |
she had a healthy majority up the last election, but not only do they | :09:18. | :09:20. | |
think she should have resigned, but she should have resigned sooner and | :09:21. | :09:24. | |
this would have saved a whole lot of embarrassment for her and the | :09:25. | :09:27. | |
constituency, and that is quite powerful. The fact is as Nick | :09:28. | :09:31. | |
mentioned, Nigel Farage is coming down here tonight to speak, and all | :09:32. | :09:36. | |
the parties that are going to challenge it will want to make use | :09:37. | :09:40. | |
of that idea of a disconnect between Westminster and the wider world, and | :09:41. | :09:45. | |
that huge sum of money, ?45,000, coming down to ?5,000, people don't | :09:46. | :09:49. | |
understand it and they think if you can save the embarrassment by going | :09:50. | :09:54. | |
sooner, if she wants to rehabilitate herself that will have to stop right | :09:55. | :10:00. | |
here now. Oscar Pistorius has faced tough | :10:01. | :10:03. | |
questioning from the prosecution about his version of events on the | :10:04. | :10:08. | |
night he shot and killed his girlfriend. Asked repeatedly whether | :10:09. | :10:12. | |
he took was Bob 's ability for his actions he first said he had made a | :10:13. | :10:17. | |
mistake but later said he had killed her. He faces life in prison if | :10:18. | :10:26. | |
convicted of the murder. That dramatic change of tone here to | :10:27. | :10:33. | |
day in court. Oscar Pistorius being confronted and voracious | :10:34. | :10:34. | |
cross-examination with graphic details of what he had done to Reeva | :10:35. | :10:39. | |
Steenkamp. The prosecution team to show the court she is the victim | :10:40. | :10:44. | |
here, not him. You may find some details in this report upsetting. | :10:45. | :10:51. | |
Yesterday we heard a lot about Oscar Pistorius's fragile emotional state. | :10:52. | :10:55. | |
Today the prosecution sought an abrupt change of tone. | :10:56. | :11:01. | |
Cross-examining the athlete, they went straight on the attack, no | :11:02. | :11:05. | |
images of him giving evidence can be shown. What was your mistake? My | :11:06. | :11:14. | |
mistake was that I took her life. You killed her, you shot and killed | :11:15. | :11:20. | |
her. Will you not take responsibility for that? Say yes. I | :11:21. | :11:27. | |
shot and killed Reeva Steenkamp. I did, my lady. That was just the | :11:28. | :11:36. | |
start. Next up amateur video footage of Oscar Pistorius with friends at a | :11:37. | :11:41. | |
firing range. What we can see their is the effect the ammunition had on | :11:42. | :11:49. | |
a watermelon. It exploded. The prosecutor compared that with the | :11:50. | :11:54. | |
headwinds sustained by Reeva Steenkamp, a photo of her injury was | :11:55. | :11:59. | |
shown to the court. The athlete's relatives reacted. Reeva | :12:00. | :12:05. | |
Steenkamp's mother Jean bowed her head. Pistorius himself was | :12:06. | :12:10. | |
challenged when he refused to look at the image. I will not look at a | :12:11. | :12:15. | |
page where I am commended by what I saw and felt that night. I remember, | :12:16. | :12:19. | |
I don't have to look at the picture, I was there. As his lawyer objected. | :12:20. | :12:26. | |
It is uncalled for. The athlete broke down sobbing and the court was | :12:27. | :12:33. | |
briefly adjourned. A highly controversial and confrontational | :12:34. | :12:35. | |
start to this cross-examination, but there have been some other | :12:36. | :12:38. | |
interesting developments here this morning, with the defence saying | :12:39. | :12:45. | |
some of his closest neighbours will contradict state witnesses who | :12:46. | :12:49. | |
claimed they heard a woman screaming that might be for gunshots. | :12:50. | :12:57. | |
-- that night before gunshots. There will be highlights throughout the | :12:58. | :13:00. | |
day plus a special programme each evening with the key moments of the | :13:01. | :13:06. | |
day at 7:30pm. Teams searching for the missing | :13:07. | :13:11. | |
flight MH370 said a ship has detected two more signals which | :13:12. | :13:14. | |
could have come from the plane's flight recorders. The size of the | :13:15. | :13:19. | |
search area is being reduced and a submersible is on stand-by ready to | :13:20. | :13:25. | |
be deployed to check the sea bed. Deep beneath the Indian Ocean and | :13:26. | :13:31. | |
Australian Navy ship has again made what could be a critical | :13:32. | :13:35. | |
breakthrough. The Ocean Shield has heard two more acoustic noises, in | :13:36. | :13:39. | |
the same board area where other stronger transmissions were recorded | :13:40. | :13:44. | |
over the weekend. Engineers say the early signals were consistent with | :13:45. | :13:48. | |
those from an aircraft black box flight recorder. They 33 of the hunt | :13:49. | :13:52. | |
for the lost Malaysian jet and Australia believes it is getting | :13:53. | :13:57. | |
closer to finding its resting place -- day 33. | :13:58. | :14:05. | |
I am optimistic we will find the aircraft, or what is left of the | :14:06. | :14:09. | |
aircraft, in the not too distant future. Earlier this week recovery | :14:10. | :14:14. | |
teams was carrying a stretch of ocean almost twice the size of Great | :14:15. | :14:18. | |
Britain. The new target zone is about two thirds smaller. The | :14:19. | :14:23. | |
challenge for investigators is to re-establish contact with those | :14:24. | :14:28. | |
signals, far of Australia's West Coast. If and when the location of | :14:29. | :14:32. | |
those unknown pulses is sufficiently narrowed it down will deep sea drone | :14:33. | :14:36. | |
be deployed. Only then will the underwater search for wreckage | :14:37. | :14:40. | |
began. Australian authorities to warn, however, more days of slow and | :14:41. | :14:48. | |
painstaking work are still to come. 239 passengers and crew were on | :14:49. | :14:52. | |
board the flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. Most were from China. | :14:53. | :14:56. | |
Some of their families believe there has been a cover-up by Malaysian | :14:57. | :15:02. | |
authorities. Our search for the truth is not just for ourselves, | :15:03. | :15:06. | |
said a representative of the Chinese families. But also so that this kind | :15:07. | :15:09. | |
of disaster can be avoided in the future. The mood within the | :15:10. | :15:14. | |
Australian led recovery mission has never been more positive, but the | :15:15. | :15:20. | |
batteries from flight MH370 rack boxes are almost certainly starting | :15:21. | :15:24. | |
to fail, if they haven't already. Far out to seek the search continues | :15:25. | :15:28. | |
for any trace of the brain that simply vanished stop Bacharach. | :15:29. | :15:35. | |
Toyota is recalling more than 35,000 cars in Britain after faults were | :15:36. | :15:39. | |
discovered. The problems could deactivate airbags, cause seats to | :15:40. | :15:41. | |
move while driving and break steering columns. Six 6.5 million | :15:42. | :15:45. | |
vehicles are being recalled around the world. | :15:46. | :15:50. | |
Kent Police say a postmortem examination on Peaches Geldof has | :15:51. | :15:53. | |
proved inconclusive pending the results of toxicology tests. The | :15:54. | :15:57. | |
25-year-old daughter of Bob Geldof and Paula Yates was found dead at | :15:58. | :16:01. | |
her home in Wrotham in Kent on Monday. Let's speak to our | :16:02. | :16:07. | |
correspondent Duncan Kennedy. What happens now? Well, the toxicology | :16:08. | :16:15. | |
tests take place. We are told by Kent police it could take several | :16:16. | :16:20. | |
weeks. We are none the wiser as a result of the statement this | :16:21. | :16:25. | |
morning. It follows a postmortem which has taken place here at the | :16:26. | :16:30. | |
hospital in Dartford. A few moments ago, the hospital issued this | :16:31. | :16:35. | |
statement saying simply, a postmortem examination following the | :16:36. | :16:40. | |
death of Peaches Geldof has proved inconclusive pending the results of | :16:41. | :16:44. | |
toxicology analysis tests. They said yesterday this was a non-suspicion | :16:45. | :16:53. | |
-- a non-suspicious unexplained death. They said the police | :16:54. | :16:58. | |
enquiries are continuing in order to compile a report for the coroner. It | :16:59. | :17:04. | |
was about 24 hours ago at her home in a place called Wrotham but | :17:05. | :17:11. | |
Peaches Geldof's body was found yesterday by police. She was | :17:12. | :17:15. | |
declared dead at the scene. Her body was removed and a postmortem has | :17:16. | :17:18. | |
been carried out at the hospital this morning. No further details. | :17:19. | :17:24. | |
One suspects that are not any more details they can give without the | :17:25. | :17:28. | |
toxicology reports. No more statement from the police. This will | :17:29. | :17:33. | |
prolong the questions and discomfort for the Geldof family. Statements | :17:34. | :17:40. | |
from Bob Geldof yesterday and Peaches Geldof's husband telling us | :17:41. | :17:46. | |
about how distraught they were. Today's statement from the hospital | :17:47. | :17:51. | |
will not enlighten them any further. Everyone interested in this story | :17:52. | :17:54. | |
will have to wait until the toxicology reports come through. | :17:55. | :18:01. | |
That could take a few more weeks. Thank you very much. | :18:02. | :18:04. | |
Our top story this lunchtime: The Culture Secretary Maria Miller has | :18:05. | :18:07. | |
resigned after days of damaging headlines over her expense claims. | :18:08. | :18:10. | |
She denies being forced to stand down and says she resigned to | :18:11. | :18:15. | |
prevent further damage to her party. And still to come: Bowled over - | :18:16. | :18:18. | |
England's Charlotte Edwards is named as a Cricketer of the Year. | :18:19. | :18:22. | |
Later on BBC London: Why London's lost and hidden waterways should be | :18:23. | :18:27. | |
brought back to prevent homes flooding. | :18:28. | :18:29. | |
And on board a tall ship on the Thames - the first river regatta of | :18:30. | :18:31. | |
its kind in a quarter of a century. Prince George's only official | :18:32. | :18:48. | |
engagement in New Zealand took place this morning, a royal crawl about | :18:49. | :18:53. | |
with other babies. The eight-month-old met the babies at | :18:54. | :18:56. | |
Government House in Wellington. The visit was part of the Duke and | :18:57. | :18:59. | |
Duchess of Cambridge's tour of the country. Our royal correspondent | :19:00. | :19:07. | |
Nicholas Witchell sent this report. He was not afraid to assert himself | :19:08. | :19:12. | |
but that is perfectly normal for an eight-month-old boy. He is crawling | :19:13. | :19:16. | |
and people watching said there were moments when he seemed to be not far | :19:17. | :19:20. | |
short of walking. For George, it was something new, a brief but | :19:21. | :19:23. | |
boisterous start to what will potentially be the a lifetime of | :19:24. | :19:29. | |
being the centre of attention. He had been brought by his mother to a | :19:30. | :19:31. | |
specially arranged playgroup at government house. Ten babies of | :19:32. | :19:37. | |
roughly the same age as him. At first he seemed a little bashful, | :19:38. | :19:45. | |
more interested in his mother's hair. George tried again with | :19:46. | :19:57. | |
another child. He spotted a toy he wanted so he reached out and grabbed | :19:58. | :20:02. | |
it. Once again, mum had to come to the rescue. For an occasion which | :20:03. | :20:06. | |
was fraught with all kinds of possible pitfalls, it had gone | :20:07. | :20:09. | |
smoothly. Nobody had any major tantrums and the special guest had | :20:10. | :20:15. | |
not really misbehave. Witty good for a royal meet and greet. Other | :20:16. | :20:18. | |
parents were impressed. -- pretty good. He was his own little man. He | :20:19. | :20:26. | |
went into the middle of the circle of toys. He propped himself up and | :20:27. | :20:35. | |
owned the place, basically. George at eight months, starting to learn | :20:36. | :20:38. | |
about the world around him, though still oblivious to what his own | :20:39. | :20:44. | |
future holds. For now, he seemed happiest playing with his rattle. | :20:45. | :20:49. | |
Now he has completed his sort of semi-1st public engagement, he can | :20:50. | :20:55. | |
relax. He will not be seen again in public until he leaves New Zealand | :20:56. | :20:58. | |
with his mother and father in about a week's time. | :20:59. | :21:13. | |
The Government's announced plans for more rigorous GCSEs and A-Levels in | :21:14. | :21:16. | |
England. From 2018, science GCSE students will be expected to learn | :21:17. | :21:19. | |
about the human genome and nanoparticles. Arts subjects, | :21:20. | :21:21. | |
including music, drama, art and dance, are to be made more rigorous | :21:22. | :21:23. | |
and demanding. Our education correspondent Luke Walton reports. | :21:24. | :21:30. | |
Exam time is always stressful but the government believes key | :21:31. | :21:32. | |
qualifications are failing to stretch bright students. Today it | :21:33. | :21:36. | |
unveils its blueprint for what it says will be a more rigorous | :21:37. | :21:41. | |
system. Among the changes that GCSE, science will include more | :21:42. | :21:47. | |
cutting-edge topics such as the human genome. In modern languages, | :21:48. | :21:50. | |
there will be more questions asked in a foreign tongue. History will | :21:51. | :21:55. | |
require students to study longer periods of time and put more | :21:56. | :21:58. | |
emphasis on British history. A-level changes include a shift towards more | :21:59. | :22:02. | |
mathematical content in sciences. More focus on pre-1900 works in | :22:03. | :22:09. | |
English literature. The Education Secretary says the aim is to instil | :22:10. | :22:13. | |
greater confidence in the integrity and reliability of our qualification | :22:14. | :22:18. | |
system. The Government says its reforms will bring schools like this | :22:19. | :22:22. | |
one into line with others in high performing countries such as China | :22:23. | :22:25. | |
and South Korea. But critics fear the changes will leave less able | :22:26. | :22:31. | |
pupils binder may say they are being brought in too fast. The major | :22:32. | :22:36. | |
concern we have is over the pace of the change and what teachers need is | :22:37. | :22:41. | |
information early in order to help them prepare. Not only the content | :22:42. | :22:48. | |
of exams is changing in England, but also the structure with a shift from | :22:49. | :22:53. | |
modules to end of course exams. But students in Wales and Northern | :22:54. | :22:55. | |
Ireland will not be affected. Their administrations have chosen not to | :22:56. | :23:06. | |
adopt the coalition's reforms. At least 18 people have been killed | :23:07. | :23:10. | |
in an explosion on the outskirts of Pakistan's capital, Islamabad. It | :23:11. | :23:12. | |
happened at a busy fruit and vegetable market early this morning. | :23:13. | :23:15. | |
Dozens of people were injured. Our correspondent Mike Wooldridge | :23:16. | :23:19. | |
reports. Whoever carried out the attacks | :23:20. | :23:21. | |
struck at one of the busiest times in the congested fruit and vegetable | :23:22. | :23:26. | |
market. From early morning, trucks arrive with produce from areas | :23:27. | :23:29. | |
surrounding the capital and trading was under way. The blast thought to | :23:30. | :23:35. | |
be from around five kilograms of explosives left a crater. It was | :23:36. | :23:40. | |
heard over a wide area. TRANSLATION: Be blast took lace at 8:15am. Five | :23:41. | :23:49. | |
kilograms of explosive was used. It was hidden in a carton. -- the blast | :23:50. | :23:57. | |
took place. The deadliest attack in Islamabad since the bombing of the | :23:58. | :24:01. | |
Marriott hotel in 2008. Security personnel began investigations. The | :24:02. | :24:06. | |
Pakistani Taliban issued a statement condemning the attack. Attacks in | :24:07. | :24:13. | |
which innocent people are the sole target is contrary to Islamic laws, | :24:14. | :24:17. | |
the statement said. Efforts are under way to negotiate an end to the | :24:18. | :24:23. | |
insurgency. The Prime Minister's office has not yet pointed the | :24:24. | :24:27. | |
finger of blame at any group. They described it as an effort by | :24:28. | :24:31. | |
Pakistan's enemies to destabilise the country and the government would | :24:32. | :24:36. | |
willing resolute in its efforts for peace. -- would remain resolute. | :24:37. | :24:40. | |
There was an attack in this Court complex last month in which 11 | :24:41. | :24:45. | |
people died. A splinter group of the Taliban admitted responsibility for | :24:46. | :24:50. | |
it. The deep crater in the market here, the only evidence now of the | :24:51. | :24:56. | |
bombing. It could hardly have time a more sensitive time -- it could | :24:57. | :25:00. | |
hardly have come at a more sensitive time. The question is whether that | :25:01. | :25:06. | |
could now be put in jeopardy and if so who wanted it to happen? | :25:07. | :25:18. | |
David Cameron's coming under pressure to change the laws around | :25:19. | :25:21. | |
pensions for the wives and husbands of dead servicemen and women. Under | :25:22. | :25:24. | |
the law as it stands, if a soldier dies off duty then his or her spouse | :25:25. | :25:28. | |
loses the pension if they re-marry or move in with a new partner. Now a | :25:29. | :25:31. | |
group called Justice for Widows, which is backed by Joanna Lumley, | :25:32. | :25:34. | |
Kate Adie and Martin Bell, has written an open letter to the Times, | :25:35. | :25:43. | |
trying to get that overturned. Now, in recent months, the only | :25:44. | :25:46. | |
England cricket team capable of consistently winning matches has | :25:47. | :25:49. | |
been the women. They reached the final of the World Twenty20 where | :25:50. | :25:52. | |
they were beaten by Australia, but England still hold the women's | :25:53. | :25:54. | |
version of the Ashes. And today there's further recognition for | :25:55. | :25:56. | |
their captain, Charlotte Edwards. She's been named as one of Wisden's | :25:57. | :26:00. | |
Cricketers of the Year. Our sports correspondent Joe Wilson reports. | :26:01. | :26:06. | |
Cricket's long history has generally been told through the achievements | :26:07. | :26:10. | |
of great men, recorded and pored over in the pages of Wisden. It has | :26:11. | :26:16. | |
chosen its players of the year since the 19th century. Time waits for no | :26:17. | :26:21. | |
man and this is a female era with professional women cricketers. | :26:22. | :26:26. | |
Charlotte Edwards led her happy England to victory in Australia over | :26:27. | :26:30. | |
the winter. Her award comes after nearly a decade as England's | :26:31. | :26:35. | |
captain. really shocked. I was not expecting it. Really honoured to | :26:36. | :26:40. | |
think I am in an illustrious list of players. I never thought I would be | :26:41. | :26:43. | |
stood here as a professional woman's cricketer. I am proud of how | :26:44. | :26:52. | |
the game has come along. The irrepressible Enid Bakewell, still | :26:53. | :26:55. | |
playing at 73, one of England's greatest cricketers from a very | :26:56. | :27:01. | |
different era. In 1973, came a novelty which attracted royalty, a | :27:02. | :27:06. | |
cricket World Cup for women. In the final, England won thanks to 100 | :27:07. | :27:13. | |
from Bakewell. I don't run as quickly now! This field was worth | :27:14. | :27:20. | |
she learnt cricket, cutting the grass with her own scissors. She | :27:21. | :27:24. | |
raised three children and raise money just to play for England. We | :27:25. | :27:32. | |
really had quite a fight. It was not until 1976 that Lord's let us have a | :27:33. | :27:40. | |
televised match there. When we first went there, we did not know whether | :27:41. | :27:45. | |
we could use the changing rooms and we certainly did not know whether we | :27:46. | :27:49. | |
could go through the long room. The Australians did not know about the | :27:50. | :27:52. | |
tradition so they marched through so we followed. The ornately decorated | :27:53. | :27:58. | |
dimensions of the Long room worth a men only on match days. Now | :27:59. | :28:05. | |
Charlotte Edwards sits on the mend's benches unencumbered by | :28:06. | :28:09. | |
history. Some of the history might well reflect that towards a woman | :28:10. | :28:15. | |
who helped cut the path others have followed. | :28:16. | :28:17. | |
Time for a look at the weather. No adverse comments from Paul who | :28:18. | :28:33. | |
obviously was enjoying some of the fine weather many of us have | :28:34. | :28:36. | |
experienced. This afternoon, sunny spells, mainly dry. There is or is a | :28:37. | :28:44. | |
but. It is completely different across the western side of Scotland | :28:45. | :28:49. | |
-- there is always a but. A fair amount of rain. Doors 20 | :28:50. | :28:55. | |
millimetres. -- towards 20 millimetres. There could be more in | :28:56. | :28:59. | |
that neck of the woods. The other side of Scotland, quite nice. Gusty | :29:00. | :29:05. | |
winds. 15 degrees on the thermometers. Further south, | :29:06. | :29:10. | |
high-pressure doing it stuff. Just one or two showers. You will be | :29:11. | :29:16. | |
really unfortunate to see them. Both in the south-west and across Wales. | :29:17. | :29:20. | |
Further east, already 16 degrees. We will possibly make 17. More cloud | :29:21. | :29:27. | |
further north. We have all ready highlighted the problems there | :29:28. | :29:29. | |
thanks to the weather front across north-western parts of Scotland. | :29:30. | :29:34. | |
Through the course of the night, it will be fairly quiet. The weather | :29:35. | :29:38. | |
front eases a little bit further south with time. Not a particularly | :29:39. | :29:43. | |
cold night. As was the case last night, rural spots might get down to | :29:44. | :29:51. | |
frost levels. Thursday, the front such as it is easing its way further | :29:52. | :29:56. | |
south. Bit of rain on the western slopes of the Pennines. Clear skies | :29:57. | :30:05. | |
behind. The chance of one or two quite hefty showers. Isolated | :30:06. | :30:07. | |
showers further south. Temperatures on a par with where we are at the | :30:08. | :30:15. | |
moment. High-pressure the dominant feature across a good part of the | :30:16. | :30:19. | |
British Isles. Saturday, squeezing the isobars across northern parts of | :30:20. | :30:24. | |
Scotland. Another weather front affecting the north-western parts. | :30:25. | :30:29. | |
Gradually easing into Northern Ireland with time. Saturday for | :30:30. | :30:36. | |
many, a dry and fine day. It will feel very springlike indeed. Then on | :30:37. | :30:42. | |
into Sunday. Not a great deal of change. Still quite windy across | :30:43. | :30:46. | |
northern parts. Bits of pieces of rain. The London Marathon of course, | :30:47. | :30:51. | |
coolish start. I would have thought those conditions would suit many for | :30:52. | :30:55. | |
a pretty fast time. Now a reminder of our top story this | :30:56. | :31:01. | |
lunchtime. The Culture Secretary Maria Miller has resigned after days | :31:02. | :31:04. | |
of damaging headlines over her expense claims. She denies being | :31:05. | :31:10. | |
forced to stand down and says she resigned to prevent further damage | :31:11. | :31:13. | |
to her party. And there will be full coverage of the Prime Minister's | :31:14. | :31:15. | |
reshuffle and more reaction to the resignation of Maria Miller | :31:16. | :31:18. | |
throughout the afternoon on the BBC News Channel. Now on BBC One it's | :31:19. | :31:22. | |
time for the news where you | :31:23. | :31:23. |