:00:00. > :00:08.The Co-op bank announces losses of ?1.3 billion for last year.
:00:09. > :00:12.The bank said it did not expect to make a profit this year or
:00:13. > :00:17.the next and apologises to its 4.7 million customers.
:00:18. > :00:19.We'll be assessing the latest blow to trouble the Co-op Group.
:00:20. > :00:24.Nearly 16 years after Northern Ireland?s worst act
:00:25. > :00:27.of terrorism left 29 dead in Omagh, murder charges are brought
:00:28. > :00:33.Oscar Pistorius speaks in detail for the first time about what happened
:00:34. > :00:36.on the night he shot dead his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, and
:00:37. > :01:10.She did not do that. ??PREVSUB ??NEWSUB It's time I fell in love.
:01:11. > :01:27.Sue Townsend has died after a short illness. She was 68. Magistrates
:01:28. > :01:31.courts go paperless to speed up cases. And a new study finds small
:01:32. > :01:49.business is booming in the capital, as confidence returns.
:01:50. > :01:52.The troubled Co-operative Bank has announced losses of ?1.3 billion
:01:53. > :01:58.The bank, which has almost 300 branches, has confirmed that it will
:01:59. > :02:02.not pay deferred bonuses to former executives who left the company when
:02:03. > :02:07.It has also revealed details of the pay package of
:02:08. > :02:15.Our business correspondent Joe Lynam reports.
:02:16. > :02:18.It's been a year which the Co-op Group and especially its banking
:02:19. > :02:22.Today the bank posted a record loss and warned there'd be further
:02:23. > :02:26.Including last year's loss of ?1.3 billion, there's a figure
:02:27. > :02:29.of over half a billion for bad debts, or loans which the
:02:30. > :02:35.It?s also setting aside ?412 million for fines and repayments
:02:36. > :02:42.for mis-selling products like PPI to some customers.
:02:43. > :02:44.Just over a year ago, the Co-op Bank was talking about
:02:45. > :02:47.tripling in size by taking over part of the Lloyds branch network.
:02:48. > :02:50.But it had seriously overreached itself.
:02:51. > :02:51.Now it's talking about rehabilitation
:02:52. > :02:57.That, unfortunately, means further job cuts
:02:58. > :03:04.In a statement the Co-op Bank said, ?There are still major hurdles to
:03:05. > :03:07.The level of change required in improvement in processes,
:03:08. > :03:12.We are determined to rebuild trust in the Bank after the events
:03:13. > :03:15.of the past year and reward the loyalty our customers
:03:16. > :03:22.The Co-op woes began last year when it emerged that its bank had
:03:23. > :03:30.And its disgraced former chairman, Paul Flowers,
:03:31. > :03:34.quit amid a drugs scandal and the revelation that he lacked
:03:35. > :03:37.Only last month the Co-op also lost its group chief executive Euan
:03:38. > :03:39.Sutherland, who resigned describing the Co-op as ?ungovernable?.
:03:40. > :03:43.He and other top executives will not be getting planned bonuses,
:03:44. > :03:50.??YELLOW ??CAPNEXT I think bonuses are probably a bit of a PR stunt.
:03:51. > :03:55.Obviously it is pushing home again today the fact that it wants to
:03:56. > :04:00.stick to the ethical standards of the Co-operative Group, and this
:04:01. > :04:04.clearly, given the losses they've taken today, is a way of trying to
:04:05. > :04:06.say that we are very aware of our responsibilities
:04:07. > :04:13.On top of today's posted losses,
:04:14. > :04:16.the bank still needs to find another ?400 million from somewhere.
:04:17. > :04:19.That could put even more pressure on the rest of the Co-op
:04:20. > :04:21.businesses, such as its supermarkets and funeral divisions.
:04:22. > :04:35.In terms of what the bank has to do to move forward, can it achieve what
:04:36. > :04:39.it wants to achieve? So far so good on the retention of customers. The
:04:40. > :04:43.high street customers have stayed with the bank and remained loyal.
:04:44. > :04:47.They are losing business customers. The bank probably want that, as they
:04:48. > :04:50.shrink towards a more ethical, retail high street customers have
:04:51. > :04:56.stayed with the bank and remained loyal. They are losing business
:04:57. > :05:09.customers. The bank probably want that, as they shrink towards a more
:05:10. > :05:17.ethical, retail high-street bank. As for the 4 million, that's a lot of
:05:18. > :05:23.money. It is only 30% owned by the group. The rest of it is by US hedge
:05:24. > :05:28.funds. That money is for capitalists, a rainy day fund in
:05:29. > :05:32.case of emergencies, which they've had quite a few of late. If these
:05:33. > :05:35.hedge funds and the Co-op Group don't stump up the money, then the
:05:36. > :05:37.Co-op Group is in trouble. I be optimistic because the UK economy is
:05:38. > :05:40.recovering, which means a bank should do well as it lends money to
:05:41. > :05:43.a growing economy. If it lends money and gets more profits, it can pay
:05:44. > :05:46.off its debts and raise the capital. I'd be slightly more optimistic than
:05:47. > :05:46.I would have been two or three years ago.
:05:47. > :05:47.An Irish Republican has appeared in court in County Tyrone charged
:05:48. > :05:50.with murdering the 29 people killed in the Omagh bombing.
:05:51. > :05:52.Seamus Daly, who is 43 and from County Monaghan
:05:53. > :05:54.in the Irish Republic, has always denied any involvement.
:05:55. > :05:56.Our Ireland correspondent Chris Buckler is in Dungannon.
:05:57. > :06:02.The prosecutor in the Oscar Pistorius murder trial has
:06:03. > :06:14.Seamus Daly?s lawyer argued there were weaknesses in the case. Amid
:06:15. > :06:19.high security, Seamus Daly was driven to court to be charged with
:06:20. > :06:24.murdering 29 people. He appeared handcuffed in the dock, as details
:06:25. > :06:30.of 33 offences were read out. The vast majority of them connected to
:06:31. > :06:36.the explosion in Omagh. It is a bombing that stands out. Even among
:06:37. > :06:40.Northern Ireland?s bloody years of violence and atrocity. It up to now,
:06:41. > :06:48.no one has been convicted of it. But these remain scolding memories. The
:06:49. > :06:51.BBC?s panorama programme named Seamus Daly as someone who played a
:06:52. > :06:55.role in the attack, although he's always denied any involvement. The
:06:56. > :07:00.explosion happened on a busy Saturday afternoon in August 1998.
:07:01. > :07:04.Five years later, Seamus Daly was charged with being a member of the
:07:05. > :07:10.Real IRA in Dublin. He pleaded guilty. In 2009, he was one of four
:07:11. > :07:14.men fined by a civil court to be responsible for what happened at
:07:15. > :07:18.Omagh. Today he appeared in court to face criminal charges. Michael
:07:19. > :07:25.Gallagher was in the courtroom during the short hearing. His son
:07:26. > :07:29.was killed in the bombing. Over the past 15 years I've spent a lot of
:07:30. > :07:33.time in courts in Dublin and Belfast. With the civil action
:07:34. > :07:40.taking almost ten years, it can be soul destroying. Seamus Daly was
:07:41. > :07:45.refused bail. His next court appearance will be in a month?s
:07:46. > :07:49.time. Mirrors have been built in a memorial garden to reflect light
:07:50. > :07:54.into the town, but this is a place that is always aware of the shadows
:07:55. > :07:59.cast by the bombing. During today?s proceedings, more details were
:08:00. > :08:04.revealed about how Seamus Daly was taken into custody. He was taken
:08:05. > :08:08.into custody in the car park of a maternity hospital, his wife is due
:08:09. > :08:12.to give birth today. He faces trial and is remanded in custody. That is
:08:13. > :08:14.a trial that will be watched very closely to -- by the families of the
:08:15. > :08:18.victims. The prosecutor in the
:08:19. > :08:21.Oscar Pistorius murder trial has told the court that the athlete shot
:08:22. > :08:37.his girlfriend through the bathroom Gerrie Nel said this was the only
:08:38. > :08:46.possible outcome. The story is facing Mr Reeva Steenkamp for an
:08:47. > :08:50.intruder. The focus today has been on the lead
:08:51. > :08:56.up to the moment Reeva Steenkamp died, and why Pistorius didn't check
:08:57. > :09:04.she was in bed beside him. Why then did he rushed towards danger? He
:09:05. > :09:09.insisted he was acting on instinct. Instead of cowering and running
:09:10. > :09:14.away, at that moment I wanted to put myself between the danger, perceived
:09:15. > :09:24.danger and Reeva, I cannot explain why. I wish I did all these other
:09:25. > :09:34.things that are put to me. So you wanted to confront them. That's
:09:35. > :09:47.correct. I wanted to go and shoot them. That's not what I said. The
:09:48. > :09:51.prosecutor then asked Oscar Pistorius about the moment he fired
:09:52. > :09:55.those shots through the toilet door. He insisted the athlete must
:09:56. > :09:59.be lying. That surely, Reeva Steenkamp would have called out
:10:00. > :10:05.either before the shooting had started or at least after that first
:10:06. > :10:10.shot was fired. At no point did reverse shout out or scream. I wish
:10:11. > :10:20.she had let me know she was there, she did not do that. After you fired
:10:21. > :10:26.the first shot, did she scream? No. Are you sure? Would you have heard
:10:27. > :10:32.her? I'm not sure, after the gun went off my ears were ringing. How
:10:33. > :10:39.could you exclude the fact that she was screaming if you couldn't hear?
:10:40. > :10:44.If I couldn't hear... You said, Mr Pistorius, she never screamed. You
:10:45. > :10:50.couldn't hear, you are just saying that. That is what I'm saying. No,
:10:51. > :10:55.that's not what you are saying. You are saying she didn't scream, and
:10:56. > :11:01.that's why I tested you on it. It's been a very dramatic morning in
:11:02. > :11:06.court. It has. Oscar Pistorius sticking strongly to his story, his
:11:07. > :11:10.version of events about what happened that night. Really pushing
:11:11. > :11:14.back quite hard against the prosecutor, but it has been this
:11:15. > :11:20.extraordinary week. It began with Pistorius understand howling with
:11:21. > :11:24.grief and regret, when he was first asked to give evidence about what
:11:25. > :11:27.happened that night. Then the prosecutor coming in so
:11:28. > :11:32.aggressively, confronting him with that graphic image of Reeva?s dead
:11:33. > :11:38.body. And now this very, very aggressive counter cross-examination
:11:39. > :11:45.that is really getting, at times, Oscar Pistorius into some trouble.
:11:46. > :11:48.There'll be updates on the trial throughout the day,
:11:49. > :11:50.Plus a special programme each evening
:11:51. > :11:59.That's at 7.30pm on the BBC News Channel.
:12:00. > :12:01.The Director of Public Prosecutions, Alison Saunders,
:12:02. > :12:03.has defended the decision to bring recent sex abuse cases involving
:12:04. > :12:06.to court. Yesterday, the former Deputy Commons Speaker, Nigel Evans,
:12:07. > :12:21.said he had been through hell after being cleared of rape and other
:12:22. > :12:31.Sexual offences. How has Alison Saunders been defending her work?
:12:32. > :12:34.She said they only brought cases to trial where there was a reasonable
:12:35. > :12:38.prospect of conviction, and they would assemble their evidence
:12:39. > :12:41.thoughtfully and carefully. But she set out that there is a very
:12:42. > :12:45.different role for a jury in any case. They have to decide whether
:12:46. > :12:51.they can convict beyond all reasonable doubt. She said that is a
:12:52. > :12:55.far higher bar. One statistic for you from the director of public
:12:56. > :13:05.prosecutions, she says there are over 700,000 prosecutions every
:13:06. > :13:07.year, and 86% of them reach a conviction. She said many of the
:13:08. > :13:09.high-profile cases that we hear about in the news are not
:13:10. > :13:13.representative of the broad range of cases that come before the court.
:13:14. > :13:16.Stepping back from the Nigel Evans case, there have been questions
:13:17. > :13:20.about the general culture in Westminster. A good number of
:13:21. > :13:23.questions about the culture in Parliament, how people behave.
:13:24. > :13:26.Plenty of people will tell you there's a culture that leads people
:13:27. > :13:31.to drink too much at Westminster, working practices, in the slightly
:13:32. > :13:35.bizarre nature of Parliament, means that can happen, it can lead to
:13:36. > :13:39.inappropriate behaviour. The weird and wonderful hours, the way that
:13:40. > :13:43.people are away from their families in London during the week and might
:13:44. > :13:46.be waiting for a late vote and hanging around in the bars. There's
:13:47. > :13:50.a recognition that the culture needs to change. The Speaker of the House
:13:51. > :13:55.of Commons says the Commons needs to modernise. He has set up a telephone
:13:56. > :13:58.hotline allowing people to complain if they feel inappropriate behaviour
:13:59. > :14:03.is going on. The Conservatives have issued a code of conduct to their
:14:04. > :14:08.MPs. What is odd about Westminster is you have lots of MPs who are
:14:09. > :14:22.effectively self-employed, employing their own staff, who are directly
:14:23. > :14:24.accountable just to them. There isn't the structures you would get
:14:25. > :14:27.in many workplaces with human resources departments and that kind
:14:28. > :14:29.of thing. That is the challenge that the Parliamentary authorities now
:14:30. > :14:30.place. There seems to be recognition that they do need to face up to that
:14:31. > :14:33.and change needs to come. The writer Sue Townsend has died
:14:34. > :14:36.at the age of 68. She'll be best remembered by many
:14:37. > :14:39.for her series of books about the The novelist said that it was her
:14:40. > :14:43.own children who had inspired Our correspondent David Sillito
:14:44. > :14:56.looks back at her life. There's a new girl in my class, she
:14:57. > :15:01.sits next to me in geography. At age 13 and three quarters, it was all
:15:02. > :15:06.about spots, poetry and a desperate passion for Pandora Braithwaite.
:15:07. > :15:12.It's time I fell in love, after all, I am 13 and three quarters years
:15:13. > :15:17.old. You are so beautiful! 20 years on, Adrian is still struggling,
:15:18. > :15:20.still a bit desperate. Adrian Mole, the most successful failure in
:15:21. > :15:29.modern British literature wasn't just the creation of Sue Townsend,
:15:30. > :15:37.it was part of her. In a sense, he's my worst side. Spots on my chin for
:15:38. > :15:46.the first day of the New Year. If people realised that I was so near
:15:47. > :15:51.to him, to Adrian Mole, they would be less... They wouldn't at Miami.
:15:52. > :15:57.She was joking, of course. Sue Townsend only learn to read at
:15:58. > :16:01.eight, left school at 16 and a 23 was working in a petrol station
:16:02. > :16:06.bringing up three children. In her 30s she wrote the most successful
:16:07. > :16:11.British novel of the 1980s. And when it came to actors, she had strong
:16:12. > :16:16.views on what made a good Adrian. When I auditioned to play Adrian,
:16:17. > :16:20.she told me that Adrian couldn't be too good looking. She pulled out a
:16:21. > :16:25.huge magnifying glass, came right up to my face, I was in the last stages
:16:26. > :16:30.of going, scanned me all over and said I was indeed not good-looking
:16:31. > :16:35.enough to play the part. That failing sight was only one of many
:16:36. > :16:38.health problems linked to diabetes. But it didn't stop her writing.
:16:39. > :16:43.Beyond Adrian Mole?s live there were many other plays and novels, but she
:16:44. > :16:48.was happy to be remembered for Adrian. The underdog history of
:16:49. > :17:04.modern Britain. Growing up can be painful. Sue Townsend made it funny.
:17:05. > :17:09.Our main story, the corporate bank has announced losses of ?1.3 billion
:17:10. > :17:11.for last year and has apologised to its 4.7 million customers.
:17:12. > :17:15.And still to come, the man who led British Cycling to a golden decade
:17:16. > :17:19.Later on BBC London, technology on trial,
:17:20. > :17:22.the magistrates courts going paperless to speed up cases.
:17:23. > :17:27.And a new study finds small business is booming in the capital
:17:28. > :17:38.Russia's been accused of using energy
:17:39. > :17:42.as a tool of coercion after President Putin threatened
:17:43. > :17:44.to cut off his country's gas supplies
:17:45. > :17:59.unless Ukraine pays more than ?1.3 billion in debts.
:18:00. > :18:04.comes as Ukraine's interim Prime Minister
:18:05. > :18:06.is meeting regional leaders in the east of the country
:18:07. > :18:09.on a mission to end a stand-off with pro-Russia protesters.
:18:10. > :18:13.of Russian armour and advanced warplanes,
:18:14. > :18:17.of a Russian military build-up on Ukraine's eastern border
:18:18. > :18:22.or even to provide Moscow with a military option.
:18:23. > :18:25.Russia says the images are old, the alliance insists they are recent.
:18:26. > :18:27.And this is potentially the next flash point
:18:28. > :18:32.Behind barricades, pro-Russians occupying a government building
:18:33. > :18:36.The country's interim Prime Minister is visiting the region
:18:37. > :18:45.TRANSLATION: I would like to state clearly
:18:46. > :18:51.is not only ready for dialogue with the regions but is ready to fulfil
:18:52. > :18:59.of all of the citizens of our country.
:19:00. > :19:02.Whether that will satisfy the separatists
:19:03. > :19:10.Kiev and Moscow continue to blame each other for fomenting trouble.
:19:11. > :19:12.And the Russian president, Vladimir Putin,
:19:13. > :19:15.has turned up the heat in another way,
:19:16. > :19:20.warning that Russian gas supplies to Ukraine could be cut
:19:21. > :19:22.with a potentially serious knock-on effect elsewhere in Europe.
:19:23. > :19:25.Moscow says Ukraine owes the Russian energy giant Gazprom $2.2 billion,
:19:26. > :19:28.and it's nearly doubled prices to Ukraine.
:19:29. > :19:32.But Mr Putin has sent his warning to 18 European countries who rely
:19:33. > :19:39.on Russian gas imports, saying their supplies could be affected.
:19:40. > :19:42.Russia currently meets some 30% of Europe's natural gas needs,
:19:43. > :19:45.with about half of that flowing through Ukraine.
:19:46. > :19:51.Mr Putin's intervention prompted this new rebuke from Washington.
:19:52. > :19:53.We condemn Russia's efforts to use energy
:19:54. > :19:56.as a tool of coercion against Ukraine.
:19:57. > :20:00.Ukraine is now paying $485, a price clearly not set by market forces.
:20:01. > :20:03.It's all a volatile backdrop as diplomats plan
:20:04. > :20:05.new international talks for next week
:20:06. > :20:08.to try to de-escalate this high-stakes stand-off.
:20:09. > :20:27.Ten people have died in a crash involving a school bus in California
:20:28. > :20:32.when a bus collided with a delivery truck.
:20:33. > :20:34.The NHS in England continues to perform marginally better than
:20:35. > :20:36.the services in Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland,
:20:37. > :20:39.but according to a new report, the gap is narrowing.
:20:40. > :20:42.The Nuffield Trust and the Health Foundation
:20:43. > :20:44.say that life expectancy and death rates have all improved,
:20:45. > :20:46.but they're concerned about budget cuts
:20:47. > :20:49.and waiting times for some operations in Wales.
:20:50. > :21:05.Our health correspondent Dominic Hughes reports.
:21:06. > :21:11.At this hospital in Northumberland, Rose is recovering from breaking her
:21:12. > :21:16.hip. She had an operation within 24 hours and hopes to be getting home
:21:17. > :21:21.soon. Getting patients home quickly improves their chances of a
:21:22. > :21:24.recovery, but this has required an injection of cash across the
:21:25. > :21:28.service. The investment we have seen has been incredibly important in
:21:29. > :21:31.terms of patient care, from a quality and safety perspective, and
:21:32. > :21:36.it is something we have seen across the board from general practice and
:21:37. > :21:41.community service. So it is very important. In the early 1990s, life
:21:42. > :21:45.expectancy here in the north-east of England was pretty much the same as
:21:46. > :21:49.in Scotland, but after a couple of decades of investment in the health
:21:50. > :21:53.service, the region are starting to pull ahead, so people here can
:21:54. > :21:56.expect to live up to a year longer than their Scottish neighbours just
:21:57. > :22:00.north of the border. That improvement can be seen across the
:22:01. > :22:10.English NHS. Death rates and life expectancy are improving, but
:22:11. > :22:13.progress in Scotland - waiting times for operations have gone down. And
:22:14. > :22:16.care for people who have had strokes has improved in Northern Ireland.
:22:17. > :22:17.But in Wales, there have been cut to the budget and sharp increases in
:22:18. > :22:22.waiting times. Welsh patient Athena Williams,
:22:23. > :22:24.an NHS nurse for 40 years, was told she might not get
:22:25. > :22:27.a hip replacement for 18 months As far as I was concerned,
:22:28. > :22:31.I thought the NHS was there for everyone who lived
:22:32. > :22:33.in the United Kingdom. It wasn't meant to be
:22:34. > :22:35.a two-tier system, so you needed treatment,
:22:36. > :22:49.then you should get the treatment. Devolution means that each
:22:50. > :22:54.government can set its own priorities. We listened to what the
:22:55. > :22:58.public told us, he sees in terms of waiting for treatment, for both
:22:59. > :23:02.appointments and procedures, and we put in measures to ensure that those
:23:03. > :23:06.were tackled. More all the differences in how the four health
:23:07. > :23:11.services are run and organisers, the research suggests it is the funding
:23:12. > :23:11.of the NHS that is the key factor in how it works.
:23:12. > :23:16.Dominic Hughes, BBC News, Newcastle. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge
:23:17. > :23:19.have taken part in a yacht race on the latest stage
:23:20. > :23:22.of their tour of New Zealand. and our royal correspondent Nicholas
:23:23. > :23:25.Witchell was watching. Take a pair of highly sophisticated
:23:26. > :23:28.America's Cup racing yachts, of a pair of ultracompetitive
:23:29. > :23:34.sporty types, and you have a race. was the Duchess of Cambridge,
:23:35. > :23:39.who certainly looked the part and, what's more, showed that she
:23:40. > :23:43.knows what she's doing. William, by contrast,
:23:44. > :23:46.has never really taken to the sea, rather to the disappointment
:23:47. > :23:48.of the Royal Navy. It wasn't long before Kate's
:23:49. > :23:52.boat was surging ahead. Local skippers said her knowledge
:23:53. > :23:56.of sailing showed. We're told she has have experience,
:23:57. > :23:59.and it looks like it, too, you know. You can just tell by the way she's
:24:00. > :24:05.steering the boat, it looks great. They had two races -
:24:06. > :24:07.Kate's boat won both of them. A somewhat rueful
:24:08. > :24:10.William came ashore. His wife was feeling very pleased,
:24:11. > :24:13.he was told. She tried not to look too pleased
:24:14. > :24:25.when they met, but glory was hers,
:24:26. > :24:28.the somewhat battered pride he is. whose citizens had lined the
:24:29. > :24:34.waterfront to watch the race? This is New Zealand's biggest city,
:24:35. > :24:38.a good place to judge the extent to which people have
:24:39. > :24:42.really engaged with this visit. The evidence, though,
:24:43. > :24:46.is conflicting. Once again, the welcome for William
:24:47. > :24:49.and Kate was warm, the crowds over the short
:24:50. > :24:52.distance of the walkabout were of a good size,
:24:53. > :25:00.but not massive. And at one point in the skies
:25:01. > :25:03.overhead there was an aircraft towing a banner calling for an end
:25:04. > :25:06.to the monarchy in New Zealand. Supporters of a republic
:25:07. > :25:08.say there's a for change. In a contemporary,
:25:09. > :25:10.diverse country like New Zealand, it's important that a head of state
:25:11. > :25:13.reflect New Zealand culture, and so we need to change to
:25:14. > :25:15.something better. Yet as Republicans know, almost
:25:16. > :25:28.certainly the majority of people still feel comfortable
:25:29. > :25:30.with the present arrangements and have no great wish
:25:31. > :25:32.to change them. Nicholas Witchell, BBC News,
:25:33. > :25:39.Auckland. The man who led Great Britain
:25:40. > :25:42.to eight gold medals at both the Beijing and
:25:43. > :25:45.London Olympics is standing down. Sir Dave Brailsford has quit
:25:46. > :25:47.as performance director to concentrate on running the
:25:48. > :25:52.professional cycling team Team Sky. The 50-year-old transformed the
:25:53. > :25:54.sport during his ten-year reign. Well, our sports correspondent
:25:55. > :25:56.Richard Conway is at Mr Brailsford's second home,
:25:57. > :26:10.the Manchester velodrome. Richard. This is the national cycle centre in
:26:11. > :26:13.Manchester, described as the house that they've built, because under
:26:14. > :26:16.his leadership British Cycling has enjoyed an unparalleled decade of
:26:17. > :26:21.success, but now they must face up to a future without him.
:26:22. > :26:27.British Cycling has never been more successful.
:26:28. > :26:33.Led by Sir Dave Brailsford, Great Britain has amassed an incredible 30
:26:34. > :26:37.Olympic medals under his guidance, eight of them gold. The first at the
:26:38. > :26:47.Beijing games in 2008, then London in 2012.
:26:48. > :26:52.But with Sir Dave also responsible for Team Sky, who will this summer
:26:53. > :26:57.bid for a third successive to the France title, he has decided to step
:26:58. > :27:02.aside for his responsibilities with the British team. In a statement, he
:27:03. > :27:05.said, since London 2012, we have worked hard on succession planning,
:27:06. > :27:09.and that has meant we have got to a point where I can move on knowing
:27:10. > :27:13.the team will go from strength to strength. The first thing he will
:27:14. > :27:17.say is that it has been a team effort, everybody has been involved
:27:18. > :27:21.in the whole journey from 1998 onwards. Obviously, the medal
:27:22. > :27:25.success is something that stands out, London 2012 will be in
:27:26. > :27:30.everybody's memories for hundreds of years to come, really. Awarded a
:27:31. > :27:34.knighthood for services to cycling, Sir Dave Brailsford is known for
:27:35. > :27:37.meticulous preparation and attention to detail. They now face a future
:27:38. > :27:41.without him, but the man who leaves nothing to chance is confident he
:27:42. > :27:47.has left a structure and a winning formula in place.
:27:48. > :27:50.Well, all day we have seen riders of all ages coming down to use the
:27:51. > :27:54.facilities here, and it is that level of inspiration that British
:27:55. > :27:58.Cycling hope will continue through the performances on the track,
:27:59. > :28:01.through the Olympics and the Paralympics that we have seen. Under
:28:02. > :28:02.that leadership, they are hoping that will continue.
:28:03. > :28:07.Richard, thank you very much indeed. Kylie Minogue is leaving BBC One's
:28:08. > :28:10.talent show The Voice. She's been on the show
:28:11. > :28:12.for one series but says in a tweet this morning,
:28:13. > :28:15.due to timing of my tour I won't be back next season
:28:16. > :28:18.for The Voice UK. The programme makers said
:28:19. > :28:29.Kylie had been an awesome judge. Let's find out how the weather is
:28:30. > :28:35.looking, could you describe it as awesome?
:28:36. > :28:44.Yes, you could, some sunny spells around, and we have been talking
:28:45. > :28:49.about a weather front lurking across southern parts of Scotland, and that
:28:50. > :28:52.is the remnants of it, it has been the focus for the possibility of one
:28:53. > :28:59.or two showers this afternoon across the southeastern quarter. I have got
:29:00. > :29:03.money on more rain and wind getting into the corner of Scotland with one
:29:04. > :29:08.or two showers and head of that. This is the introduction to quite a
:29:09. > :29:13.wet spell of weather, quite a windy spell of weather for a good part of
:29:14. > :29:14.Scotland over the next few days. But those are the two exceptions to
:29:15. > :29:18.Scotland over the next few days. But those are the two exceptions an
:29:19. > :29:22.otherwise dry and fine rule. Plenty of sun to go around, the temperature
:29:23. > :29:28.is responding to that spring sunshine, at best 17 or so.
:29:29. > :29:34.Elsewhere, just a fraction cooler around the coasts. During the course
:29:35. > :29:38.of the night, the weather front does not go very far very fast, tails in
:29:39. > :29:45.locations across the North West of Scotland. Elsewhere, not a problem
:29:46. > :29:50.on the temperature front, but if the skies stay clear, there might be
:29:51. > :29:54.mist around, and there may be two or three degrees on the thermometer by
:29:55. > :29:58.the time you wake up. It does convert to a pretty decent start
:29:59. > :30:01.across the southwestern quarter. The weather front gets a move on through
:30:02. > :30:08.Scotland and Northern Ireland, blustery showers following on
:30:09. > :30:13.behind. More cloud across the South, so I suspect the get 17 or 18,
:30:14. > :30:17.closer to 15 or so. The weather front continues its journey to the
:30:18. > :30:25.near constant, noticed the isobars, with another weather front too. A
:30:26. > :30:33.cool start for the marathon, if you are off the course fairly quickly,
:30:34. > :30:38.it will be cool, but if you are on the course for longer, it will be
:30:39. > :30:46.warm work. See what I mean about the weather front? Some of you on
:30:47. > :30:51.holiday next week, quite a lot of dry weather around, sunny spells,
:30:52. > :30:52.but gardeners take note! There may well be some frost around underneath
:30:53. > :31:06.the clear skies. A reminder of the top stories: the
:31:07. > :31:14.Co-op Bank has announced losses of ?1.3 billion for last year and has
:31:15. > :31:15.apologised to its 4.7 million customers. That is all