:00:09. > :00:14.Inside Aleppo. A BBC team gains exclusive access to the Syrian city
:00:15. > :00:17.living in danger and fear every day. We have a special report on the
:00:18. > :00:25.effects of months of indiscriminate bombing which has left thousands of
:00:26. > :00:29.people dead or maimed. The Syrian government insists when
:00:30. > :00:32.it drops these bombs it is targeting rebel positions, attacking those who
:00:33. > :00:38.have chosen to try to take over the country. What they called
:00:39. > :00:42.terrorists. Human rights organisations say these devices are
:00:43. > :00:45.completely indiscriminate. We'll be getting the latest from
:00:46. > :00:49.reporter Ian Pannell who's spent four days in Aleppo.
:00:50. > :00:52.Also this lunchtime: Police identify "a number of suspects" in an
:00:53. > :00:57.investigation into alleged sexual abuse at a school linked to the late
:00:58. > :01:01.MP Cyril Smith. We have identified a number of
:01:02. > :01:05.suspects from our own investigation, the victims have come
:01:06. > :01:07.forward, there are a number of new suspects and a wider group of people
:01:08. > :01:12.we are trying to trace. Five people, including two children
:01:13. > :01:15.and a nine-week-old baby, have died in a house fire in Sheffield.
:01:16. > :01:17.US drugs giant Pfizer confirms it has contacted the UK's AstraZeneca
:01:18. > :01:26.over a possible ?65 billion takeover.
:01:27. > :01:29.Fresh questions about the economic case for the HS2 rail link, as David
:01:30. > :01:37.Cameron faces a backbench rebellion in the Commons.
:01:38. > :01:40.Your name will also go on the list! What is it?
:01:41. > :01:42.Don't tell him, Pyke, but Dad's Army is to make a return, to the big
:01:43. > :01:49.screen. Later on BBC London: Talks break
:01:50. > :01:53.down at ACAS. Will tonight's proposed Tube strike go ahead?
:01:54. > :01:56.The family who lost a daughter in a crash they now know was staged to
:01:57. > :02:11.defraud insurance companies speak of their loss.
:02:12. > :02:20.Good afternoon, and welcome to the BBC News At One.
:02:21. > :02:22.A BBC team has witnessed the devastating effects of air
:02:23. > :02:25.bombardment on Syrian civilians, after gaining rare access to
:02:26. > :02:28.rebel-held areas of Aleppo. Months of attacks with makeshift barrel
:02:29. > :02:31.bombs have done a huge amount of damage, and Human Rights Watch has
:02:32. > :02:33.accused President Assad's forces of terrorising the city with what it
:02:34. > :02:45.says is an "indiscriminate and unlawful air war against civilians".
:02:46. > :02:48.The ceiling government says the action is targeting terrorists. Our
:02:49. > :02:51.correspondent Ian Pannell and cameraman Darren Conway spent four
:02:52. > :02:54.days there, the only western broadcasters to have visited the
:02:55. > :03:03.city since last year. Ian is now in Hatay in Turkey.
:03:04. > :03:07.Thank you. It is 12 months since we were able to get into Aleppo City
:03:08. > :03:14.partly because of the dangers on the ground but primarily because of the
:03:15. > :03:18.situation with foreign jihadi 's. It has been a while since we were able
:03:19. > :03:21.to see the destruction we were hearing was taking place. We have
:03:22. > :03:23.seen the reports but this was a chance to see quite what had
:03:24. > :03:38.happened for ourselves. Engels to buy darkness and fear. The
:03:39. > :03:42.heart of Serie A's biggest city. It has become so dangerous drivers must
:03:43. > :03:51.turn off their lights to avoid attack from above. And even in the
:03:52. > :03:55.dead of night, the war grinds on. The government insists it is
:03:56. > :04:01.protecting people, targeting terrorists based in residential
:04:02. > :04:07.areas. But, often, it is civilians who are hit. Everyone keeps an eye
:04:08. > :04:15.on the sky, looking for helicopters armed with barrel bombs which are
:04:16. > :04:19.tossed to the ground. In the last few minutes, another barrel bomb,
:04:20. > :04:24.perhaps two of them, have been dropped on this neighbourhood. You
:04:25. > :04:29.can see the incredible amount of damage from months of bombardment in
:04:30. > :04:33.civilian areas. Many buildings are unoccupied because people have left
:04:34. > :04:37.the area. Tens of thousands of people are thought to have fled over
:04:38. > :04:41.the last few months, in a campaign of relentless bombing by the
:04:42. > :04:47.government, in particular with the use of barrel bombs, oil drums
:04:48. > :04:52.packed with explosives, shards of metal, dropped from helicopters.
:04:53. > :04:56.Most of the people who live in these areas have now fled, whole
:04:57. > :05:00.neighbourhoods are abandoned. Every now and then we see the odd person
:05:01. > :05:05.running down the road, small children going through rubbish.
:05:06. > :05:08.Otherwise, people have run to the countryside for safety. The Syrian
:05:09. > :05:13.government insists when it drops these bombs it is targeting rebel
:05:14. > :05:19.positions, attacking those who have chosen to taken over the country.
:05:20. > :05:24.The human rights organisations have said these devices are
:05:25. > :05:28.indiscriminate, dropped out of helicopters, there is no way of
:05:29. > :05:32.guaranteeing where they will land. We have spent the last few days
:05:33. > :05:36.inside this city and what you are struck by is the fact the campaign
:05:37. > :05:43.pretty much doesn't stop day and night. The truth is, there is almost
:05:44. > :05:46.nowhere in Aleppo that could be described as safe, on the government
:05:47. > :05:55.side, certainly not on opposition side.
:05:56. > :06:00.There is no sign of any end to this. No, if anything, part of the
:06:01. > :06:07.conflict has got worse. We have heard of the advance of forces in
:06:08. > :06:12.the south of the country by the Shia militia based in Lebanon. The north
:06:13. > :06:16.of the country is different. Rebels have started to work together,
:06:17. > :06:21.setting up a joint operations Centre, launching a concerted attack
:06:22. > :06:27.against government positions inside the city, particularly in key
:06:28. > :06:31.government positions. The bombardment has increased. It is
:06:32. > :06:37.civilians who pay the price of that. What I detected on the ground was a
:06:38. > :06:41.sense of despair. One man put it to me he now blamed both sides. He had
:06:42. > :06:46.supported the revolution but he wished both would stop because it
:06:47. > :06:51.was driving people out of Aleppo and destroying his hometown.
:06:52. > :06:54.Thank you for that. And you can see much more of that
:06:55. > :06:57.special report from Ian Pannell on tonight's BBC News At Six.
:06:58. > :07:01.Rochdale Council has announced an independent review into whether or
:07:02. > :07:04.not there was a cover-up of allegations of child abuse linked to
:07:05. > :07:07.the town's former MP, the late Cyril Smith. The claims focus on a
:07:08. > :07:12.residential school run by the council where several former pupils
:07:13. > :07:15.say they were abused. The police are already investigating events at
:07:16. > :07:20.Knowl View School in the 1980s and 1990s, and say that at least ten new
:07:21. > :07:28.suspects are being investigated. Our political correspondent, Alex
:07:29. > :07:33.Forsyth, reports. He was a prominent politician and
:07:34. > :07:37.Rochdale's MP for 20 years. For decades, there have been claims Sir
:07:38. > :07:42.Cyril Smith sexually abused children. Since his death in 2010,
:07:43. > :07:47.police have been investigating an allegation he abused boys at this
:07:48. > :07:52.residential school, Knowl View. Today, they announced they had 11
:07:53. > :07:57.new suspects and a number of new victims as a result of their
:07:58. > :08:02.enquiries. They say they will be reviewing evidence of possible
:08:03. > :08:27.cover-up by the authorities. We are determined to do a thorough
:08:28. > :08:30.investigation. When we will look at the liability of those who may have
:08:31. > :08:32.been involved in running those institutions. Rochdale Council has
:08:33. > :08:34.launched its own review of its role in handling the alleged abuse. They
:08:35. > :08:37.said that review would be widened stretching from the 1960s up to the
:08:38. > :08:40.1990s with a new independent QC. He will seek to identify whether there
:08:41. > :08:41.was a pattern to such abuse, whether the abuse of children was
:08:42. > :08:47.tolerated, facilitated or promoted by the council or its officers or
:08:48. > :08:55.staff. The enquiries will focus on alleged long do -- wrongdoing and on
:08:56. > :09:02.who knew what and when. The same questions are being asked of the
:09:03. > :09:05.Liberal party. So far, Lib Dem leaders in Westminster have resisted
:09:06. > :09:10.calls for their own internal investigation.
:09:11. > :09:14.The police may have said they are opening up a wider investigation
:09:15. > :09:17.looking decades back into local government, to consider whether
:09:18. > :09:21.things were hidden. It is appropriate to leave these matters
:09:22. > :09:26.to the police. Cyril Smith may be a figure from the past but the
:09:27. > :09:29.speculation surrounding him is very much in the present.
:09:30. > :09:35.Two women and three children have died in a fire at a house in
:09:36. > :09:38.Sheffield. The police and fire brigade are trying to find out what
:09:39. > :09:46.caused the blaze. Our correspondent, Ed Thomas, is at the scene. Ed.
:09:47. > :09:50.There were no survivors from inside this house. This fire spread
:09:51. > :09:54.quickly, killing all five people inside. At the moment, police and
:09:55. > :10:00.investigators have no idea how it started.
:10:01. > :10:04.Three generations of the same family lost their lives. The blaze ripped
:10:05. > :10:09.through the terraced home killing two women and three young children.
:10:10. > :10:14.Neighbours took these pictures as fire fighters were called just after
:10:15. > :10:19.midnight. The oldest to die here was Shabbina Begum, a grandmother. She
:10:20. > :10:26.died trying to save her 20-year-old daughter and three grandchildren,
:10:27. > :10:31.who were nine and seven and died in the blaze that their baby sister who
:10:32. > :10:37.was just nine weeks old. Hardly can control the emotions. This is a
:10:38. > :10:42.cousin of the family and said the children's mother and father cannot
:10:43. > :10:47.compared what has happened. It is a tragedy that will take many years to
:10:48. > :10:55.raise from our memory. Maybe for some of us they'd be a lifetime we
:10:56. > :10:58.will not forget. Teams have spent the day looking for clues. Police
:10:59. > :11:04.officers have searched alleyways and gardens close to the house. This is
:11:05. > :11:09.a tragic reminder of the devastating effects of fire. Our thoughts are
:11:10. > :11:13.with the families of those involved in this incident. This morning,
:11:14. > :11:18.prayers were said in a local mosque for all five who died. Police say
:11:19. > :11:25.they are keeping an open mind as to how the fire started.
:11:26. > :11:28.We have also been told the grandmother actually escaped from
:11:29. > :11:31.the blaze before going back inside the house to rescue her
:11:32. > :11:36.grandchildren. It was a decision which cost her her life. The
:11:37. > :11:38.challenge for investigators is to find out what caused the blaze and
:11:39. > :11:45.caused all this devastation. If it goes through, it would be the
:11:46. > :11:50.biggest foreign takeover of a UK business. The American drugs
:11:51. > :11:52.company, Pfizer has confirmed that it's considering making a ?65
:11:53. > :11:59.billion bid for its British rival, AstraZeneca. Our business editor,
:12:00. > :12:05.Kamal Ahmed, is here. Why do they want it? There are two
:12:06. > :12:10.reasons. First, the battle for drugs. AstraZeneca has some very
:12:11. > :12:15.interesting new cancer treatments, in particular, breast and lung
:12:16. > :12:20.cancer, which could be very valuable for Pfizer. The second reason is
:12:21. > :12:24.more complicated, it is about tax. Pfizer is an American company that
:12:25. > :12:28.makes a huge amount of profit outside America that it does not
:12:29. > :12:34.want to move back to America and get it taxed in America. A boatload of
:12:35. > :12:37.money and it thinks, much better to spend that money buying good
:12:38. > :12:45.businesses around the world rather than take it back to the US and let
:12:46. > :12:49.it be taxed. A huge amount of money. At the moment, the shareholders in
:12:50. > :12:55.AstraZeneca I think will be quite positive. Finding new drugs is a
:12:56. > :13:01.risky business. If Pfizer is saying we will pay you up front for those
:13:02. > :13:04.new drugs, they will say, I might take the jam today rather than
:13:05. > :13:12.promises of jam at some point next week. For the politicians, it is
:13:13. > :13:15.more difficult. AstraZeneca is a British business, Pfizer is an
:13:16. > :13:23.American takeover. It raises the issue of Cadbury. Will politicians
:13:24. > :13:26.say they need to protect our research and jobs in this country?
:13:27. > :13:27.We haven't heard from the politicians yet but it is a matter
:13:28. > :13:33.of time. Millions of people face travel
:13:34. > :13:36.disruption, after last-minute talks failed to prevent a 48-hour stoppage
:13:37. > :13:39.on the London Underground. RMT members will walk out at nine
:13:40. > :13:40.o'clock tonight, in the on-going dispute with managers over plans to
:13:41. > :13:51.close ticket offices. The mayor of the Ukrainian city of
:13:52. > :13:54.Kharkiv has been shot and seriously wounded. He has undergone emergency
:13:55. > :13:57.surgery, and is said to be fighting for his life. This morning,
:13:58. > :13:59.President Obama said that the United States will impose further economic
:14:00. > :14:01.sanctions against Russia, following the detention of international
:14:02. > :14:09.military observers by pro-Russia militants. Emily Buchanan has the
:14:10. > :14:16.latest. A warm, spring day in savvy aunts,
:14:17. > :14:21.it looks so peaceful. But this town in eastern Ukraine is on the front
:14:22. > :14:24.line of the deepening battle, pro-Russian separatists are
:14:25. > :14:27.entrenched in the demonstration building. And in the streets, there
:14:28. > :14:31.is defiance against the government in Kiev.
:14:32. > :14:35.This woman says, we will take up arms if we need to come if they
:14:36. > :14:39.pressured the locals, we will stand up for ourselves.
:14:40. > :14:48.Another feels Kiev doesn't want to make an agreement. She says, I am
:14:49. > :14:52.really afraid of war. Already turned prisoners of war by Russian TV,
:14:53. > :14:57.seven international monitors are being held hostage in the city, one
:14:58. > :15:02.was earlier released on health grounds but the Ukrainians have
:15:03. > :15:08.disappeared. The US has announced new sanctions against some
:15:09. > :15:13.influential in Russians. There is a path to resolving this, Russia has
:15:14. > :15:18.not yet chosen to move forward, and these sanctions represent the next
:15:19. > :15:25.stage in a calibrated effort to change its behaviour.
:15:26. > :15:30.Frustration is also building inside Ukraine, amongst supporters of the
:15:31. > :15:33.Kiev government. This was in the east at the weekend. Now, unknown
:15:34. > :15:39.gunmen have shot and critically wounded the mayor. Once
:15:40. > :15:46.pro-Russian, he has become largely loyal to Kiev. Indoor nets, the
:15:47. > :15:50.local TV station was seized by separatists and is once again
:15:51. > :15:56.showing Russian programmes. They had been blocked by Kiev. The rebels
:15:57. > :16:01.appear unstoppable, armed gunmen have taken over the town hall and
:16:02. > :16:06.police headquarters of another city. Each day, their grip on
:16:07. > :16:12.eastern Ukraine strengthens and worries grow of a full-scale Russian
:16:13. > :16:17.incursion. For RAF Typhoon aircraft were deployed today to Lithuania,
:16:18. > :16:20.they will boost NATO patrols with the aim of reassuring anxious allies
:16:21. > :16:27.at a time of rising tensions with Russia.
:16:28. > :16:37.Our main headline... Inside Aleppo - a BBC team gains exclusive access to
:16:38. > :16:41.the Syrian city where months of bombing has left thousands of people
:16:42. > :16:45.dead or maimed. And still to come... 17 people die in the US as a tornado
:16:46. > :16:54.carves an 80-mile swathe of destruction through Arkansas. Later
:16:55. > :16:58.on BBC London, the number of people using electronic cigarettes has
:16:59. > :17:07.troubled in two years. But there are concerns about their safety. And
:17:08. > :17:10.London film-makers show casing their work in New York.
:17:11. > :17:15.Despite all the stories on the public's anger over the rises in
:17:16. > :17:18.fuel bills, it seems only half of us have switched energy companies in
:17:19. > :17:21.the past five years. A BBC survey found that even though the regulator
:17:22. > :17:24.Ofgem has forced suppliers to simplify bills, many of us still
:17:25. > :17:26.don't understand how they are calculated. Steph McGovern has more
:17:27. > :17:37.details. The UK energy market has been
:17:38. > :17:40.dominated by six companies for the past decade. All of them have faced
:17:41. > :17:44.criticism about the rising cost of bills and whether they make it easy
:17:45. > :17:50.enough for customers to understand them. The survey, commissioned for
:17:51. > :17:58.BBC Breakfast, found that 51% of people in the UK have not switched
:17:59. > :18:04.energy supplier 76% thought bills were unnecessarily complicated. And
:18:05. > :18:09.44% do not understand how their bill is calculated. It is here where you
:18:10. > :18:13.can see how much you have used and how much you are being charged for
:18:14. > :18:17.it. It is measured in kilowatt-hours. When you are trying
:18:18. > :18:20.to compare prices between providers, you can look at what you are being
:18:21. > :18:22.charged per kilowatt hour. you can look at what you are being
:18:23. > :18:25.charged per On your bill you should also see where your money goes, so
:18:26. > :18:30.some of it will go to the wholesale cost, the money the companies pay
:18:31. > :18:34.for the energy. Then there is the cost to transmit it to your house or
:18:35. > :18:39.business. The Government gets its slice of money in taxes, and that
:18:40. > :18:44.leaves, give or take some other bits and bobs, the profit. So, let's have
:18:45. > :18:51.a look at the average profit figure, for the average and bill of ?1300.
:18:52. > :18:55.Around ?65 of that is profit. The body which represents the suppliers
:18:56. > :19:00.says the industry is working hard to make it easier to switch suppliers
:19:01. > :19:04.and find the best deal, with new simplified bills and tariff
:19:05. > :19:07.structures, and smart metres. At the same time, the regulators are
:19:08. > :19:12.independently looking at whether the energy market is working.
:19:13. > :19:15.The Australian Prime Minister, Tony Abbott, says the search for the
:19:16. > :19:19.Malaysia Airlines plane that disappeared 52 days ago is entering
:19:20. > :19:22.a new phase. He says there is unlikely now to be any debris on the
:19:23. > :19:25.sea surface - and the underwater hunt for the missing airliner will
:19:26. > :19:27.be expanded to include a massive area of the ocean floor that may
:19:28. > :19:34.take up to eight months. A judge in Egypt has recommended the
:19:35. > :19:38.death penalty for nearly 700 people - including the leader of the Muslim
:19:39. > :19:40.Brotherhood, Mohammed Badie. At a mass trial, Mr Badie and other
:19:41. > :19:43.supporters of the ousted president, Mohammed Morsi, faced charges
:19:44. > :19:49.relating to an attack on a police station last year. However, the same
:19:50. > :19:52.court also reversed most of another group of more than 500 death
:19:53. > :19:58.sentences it had passed in March, commuting them to life imprisonment.
:19:59. > :20:00.The United Nations had condemned the trials.
:20:01. > :20:04.Victims of crime and vulnerable witnesses will be able to give
:20:05. > :20:08.pre-recorded evidence in court from today, as part of a pilot scheme.
:20:09. > :20:13.The Justice Minister, Damian Green, says the measures are aimed at
:20:14. > :20:14.making the process less traumatic. Our legal affairs correspondent
:20:15. > :20:28.Clive Coleman reports. This lady was a victim of a violent
:20:29. > :20:32.sexual assault when she was 17. She faced two trials, with days of
:20:33. > :20:36.cross-examination in court before her attacker was eventually
:20:37. > :20:41.convicted. Standing in front of a group of people, answering questions
:20:42. > :20:47.over small details, at that time it put so much pressure on me that I
:20:48. > :20:52.even passed out. How did you manage to see the person who pushed you,
:20:53. > :20:57.his face? Now, the Government has set up a scheme aimed to protect
:20:58. > :21:03.people from what could be aggressive questioning from a jury, judge and a
:21:04. > :21:09.leg attacker. This is unprecedented. -- alleged attacker.
:21:10. > :21:13.In this mock trial, for the first time ever, a jury will be able to
:21:14. > :21:17.listen to the pre-recorded cross-examination of an alleged
:21:18. > :21:23.victim, which means that that victim may never have to attend the actual
:21:24. > :21:30.trial at all. The pilot will cover of vulnerable adults and child
:21:31. > :21:33.witnesses under 16. This scheme gives vulnerable witnesses the
:21:34. > :21:36.protection of going through the normal cross-examination, but doing
:21:37. > :21:40.it in an environment which is much more controlled, much less
:21:41. > :21:43.stressful. If the pilot is successful, the Government will roll
:21:44. > :21:46.it out more widely. For victims, that should make the justice system
:21:47. > :21:52.less intimidating. At least 16 people have been killed
:21:53. > :21:54.in America after a powerful tornado carved an 80-mile path of
:21:55. > :21:57.destruction through the state of Arkansas. The tornado was the
:21:58. > :22:00.largest of several produced by a powerful storm system sweeping
:22:01. > :22:03.through the central and southern states. Cars, trucks and 18-wheel
:22:04. > :22:09.lorries were left shredded in its path. Another twister in Oklahoma
:22:10. > :22:16.killed one person. Jon Brain reports.
:22:17. > :22:24.The tornado had been predicted days in advance, but that did little to
:22:25. > :22:27.lessen its impact. The town of Mayflower was flattened in moments.
:22:28. > :22:34.The rest of the night was spent searching for those trapped and
:22:35. > :22:38.tending to the injured. It was the scariest thing I have ever been
:22:39. > :22:44.through in my wife. Me and my wife and dog were in the bathroom. We
:22:45. > :22:50.Americans are resilient but this is about as bad as it gets. The storm
:22:51. > :22:57.left a daylight revealed the extent of the damage at Quapaw in Oklahoma.
:22:58. > :23:03.The US president has pledged help for devastated communities. I want
:23:04. > :23:08.everybody affected by this tragedy to know that the federal government
:23:09. > :23:12.is on the ground to help Americans in the com working with state and
:23:13. > :23:16.local officials. I want everybody to know that your country will be
:23:17. > :23:26.helping you to rebuild, as long as it takes. This is just the start of
:23:27. > :23:31.the tornado system. Some states are already taking a severe battering.
:23:32. > :23:35.The fear is that things will get worse before they get better.
:23:36. > :23:38.MPs are set to vote on the second reading of the High Speed Rail Bill
:23:39. > :23:42.in the Commons today. The bill is expected to go through with support
:23:43. > :23:44.from the Labour Party - but the Government could face a backbench
:23:45. > :23:47.rebellion. Fresh questions have also been raised about the economic case
:23:48. > :23:50.for the rail link - after a think-tank questioned how much
:23:51. > :23:53.benefit it could bring to the north of England. Our chief political
:23:54. > :24:02.correspondent, Norman Smith, is in Westminster. How worried are they in
:24:03. > :24:06.Downing Street? There is no doubt there will still be a humdinger of a
:24:07. > :24:13.tussle for years to come over HS2. But I think we are moving from the
:24:14. > :24:16.Will it happen to the when will it happen question. The Government will
:24:17. > :24:19.win tonight, and although there is still the prospect of a legal
:24:20. > :24:23.challenge, and although critics in this place can still play all sorts
:24:24. > :24:28.of Parliamentary shenanigans to try to derail the scheme, what has
:24:29. > :24:33.changed is that there is now a political consensus behind HS2, with
:24:34. > :24:37.Labour, who, only a few months ago were decidedly iffy because of the
:24:38. > :24:40.cost, now fully signed up, in part because the big Labour council
:24:41. > :24:46.chiefs in the north of England have said, we want this line to go ahead.
:24:47. > :24:50.What that all means is that after the next election, whatever the
:24:51. > :24:56.result, there will be a government in power which wants to press ahead
:24:57. > :25:01.with HS2. That means, although HS2 may still be a long way down the
:25:02. > :25:04.line, years away, it does now seem to be coming down the track.
:25:05. > :25:08.The Green Party has launched its campaign for May's local and
:25:09. > :25:11.European elections. The party's leader, Natalie Bennett, said the
:25:12. > :25:13.Greens were serious contenders - with their largest number of
:25:14. > :25:15.candidates standing to be local councillors. Ms Bennett also said
:25:16. > :25:21.she was confident that the party would increase its current tally of
:25:22. > :25:22.two MEPs. The party is putting up a candidate for every available UK
:25:23. > :25:38.seat. Plaid Cwmru also launched its
:25:39. > :25:41.manifesto for the European elections - calling for the Welsh Government
:25:42. > :25:43.to target skilled migrants from other countries. University
:25:44. > :25:46.lecturers and doctors could be attracted to Wales as part of a
:25:47. > :25:48."migration policy that meets Welsh needs", Plaid Cymru leader Leanne
:25:49. > :25:51.Wood said. The party's manifesto pledges include the creation of
:25:52. > :25:53.50,000 Welsh jobs and improvement in public transport links. Recent polls
:25:54. > :25:57.suggest Plaid Cymru could face losing its only European seat.
:25:58. > :25:59.They were the Home Guard of Warmington-on-Sea, whose phrases
:26:00. > :26:03.such as "Don't panic, Mr Mainwaring" and "Don't tell him, Pyke" made
:26:04. > :26:11.Dad's Army one of Britains greatest TV comedies. And now the likes of
:26:12. > :26:15.Captain Mainwaring, Sergeant Wilson, and Corporal Pike could be making a
:26:16. > :26:23.comeback - this time on the big screen. Here's our arts
:26:24. > :26:30.correspondent David Sillito. Some fall set a booby-trapped up
:26:31. > :26:37.there, sir! IDD, corporal. We first met Captain Mainwaring and the rest
:26:38. > :26:45.of the Home Guard 46 years ago. At its peak, 18 million would be
:26:46. > :26:53.watching. What is it? Don't tell him, Pike. Even today's repeats will
:26:54. > :26:59.always draw an audience. However, Dad's Army without Arthur Lowe or
:27:00. > :27:05.the original scriptwriters? People are interested, but wary. Because
:27:06. > :27:09.Jimmy Perry is not going to have much involvement in it, there is a
:27:10. > :27:13.little bit of trepidation in how it is going to be written, but the
:27:14. > :27:16.producers and scriptwriters all seem to have a pedigree, so we are
:27:17. > :27:23.hopeful that it will be done to the right degree of gravitas. So, who
:27:24. > :27:27.will we be watching in praise of the original cast? Tony Jones is
:27:28. > :27:33.reported to be in line to be Captain Mainwaring. Till night he could be
:27:34. > :27:39.the posh but vague Sergeant Wilson. The challenge will be convincing the
:27:40. > :27:44.fans. No, I do not think it would be a good idea, but I would watch it, I
:27:45. > :27:47.suppose. It would be very interesting, I would like to see
:27:48. > :27:51.somebody played Captain Mainwaring, and also Sergeant Wilson, it would
:27:52. > :28:02.be interesting to see how somebody could replace them. You stupid boy!
:28:03. > :28:05.Of course, Dad's Army is not alone. Various other classics have been
:28:06. > :28:11.revived, with varying degrees of success. Classic comedies are
:28:12. > :28:15.usually classic because of that rare conflagration of script, cast and
:28:16. > :28:21.all done at the right moment. Capturing that a second time will
:28:22. > :28:29.always be challenging. Time for a look at the weather.
:28:30. > :28:41.A variable mix across the British Isles this morning. A lot of low
:28:42. > :28:45.cloud in many areas. As we come further south, there is the chance
:28:46. > :28:53.of seeing a bit of sunshine for some. We have already seen some
:28:54. > :28:58.pretty hefty showers. And I think it will be parts of the south Midlands
:28:59. > :29:01.and the southern coastal counties, especially down towards Devon and
:29:02. > :29:05.Cornwall, where there is already a Met Office warning in force, for the
:29:06. > :29:11.most intense downpours. But as we come further north, northern parts
:29:12. > :29:15.of Wales, there are a few showers to be had. Also in Northern Ireland.
:29:16. > :29:20.But not without the prospect of a bit of sunshine. Temperatures across
:29:21. > :29:25.parts of the Highlands already responding to that sunshine. We
:29:26. > :29:29.could see the warmest day of the year thus far. In further south,
:29:30. > :29:38.back underneath that cloud that I was talking about. Some intense
:29:39. > :29:45.downpours could be around in the first part of the night, but those
:29:46. > :29:50.will be fading. And then around the coasts surrounding the Irish Sea and
:29:51. > :29:59.other areas, further inland, there could be some mist and fog. Moving
:30:00. > :30:04.into Tuesday, grey skies for many, watch out for the visibility. But
:30:05. > :30:07.then, as we get going, there is a chance of sunshine across central
:30:08. > :30:16.and Westerns parts, but again, a chance of showers. Again, with some
:30:17. > :30:19.sunshine, those temperatures will be pretty much close to what we expect
:30:20. > :30:26.for this time of the year. The middle part of the week is dominated
:30:27. > :30:29.by low pressure on there will be some fronts around, especially on
:30:30. > :30:43.Thursday, which is looking to be particularly wet. But that will be
:30:44. > :30:47.the last of the wet days, because the low pressure then quits, high
:30:48. > :30:52.pressure comes in from the north, ringing marked changes by the end of
:30:53. > :30:56.the week. Feeling colder, especially out towards the east. And growers
:30:57. > :31:05.take note, there will be overnight frosts.
:31:06. > :31:12.Our main headlines... Inside Aleppo, a BBC team has gained exclusive
:31:13. > :31:17.access to the Syrian rebel held city, where months of bombing has
:31:18. > :31:20.left thousands of people dead or maimed. And police have identified a
:31:21. > :31:26.number of suspects in an investigation into alleged sexual
:31:27. > :31:27.abuse at a school linked to the late MP Cyril Smith.