:00:09. > :00:14.Frantic efforts in Turkey to rescue hundreds of miners trapped below
:00:15. > :00:17.ground. At least 200 are already known to have died, as Turkey calls
:00:18. > :00:21.for three days of national mourning. We'll be live from the scene with
:00:22. > :00:27.the latest on the disaster. Also this lunchtime: Unemployment falls
:00:28. > :00:32.to its lowest level for five years. The news comes with a warning for
:00:33. > :00:35.borrowers from the Bank of England. The economy has edged closer to the
:00:36. > :00:44.point at which bank rates will need gradually to rise.
:00:45. > :00:46.What do you do when life gives you cancer?
:00:47. > :00:49.Stephen Sutton, who raised more than ?3 million for a cancer charity, has
:00:50. > :00:53.died. His mother says her heart is bursting with pride but breaking
:00:54. > :00:56.with pain. A delay in the Oscar Pistorius
:00:57. > :01:03.murder trial after the judge calls for a psychiatric evaluation.
:01:04. > :01:04.And chaos ahead of the Commonwealth Games as organisers apologise
:01:05. > :01:09.unreservedly after the ticketing website and phone lines break down.
:01:10. > :01:13.Later on BBC London: A paedophile from Peckham who escaped prison
:01:14. > :01:20.could have his sentence reviewed by the Court of Appeal.
:01:21. > :01:21.And the campaign to help pupils from the East End find jobs in the
:01:22. > :01:42.booming tech sector. Good afternoon and welcome to the
:01:43. > :01:45.BBC News at One. Turkey has declared three days of national mourning
:01:46. > :01:49.after at least 200 miners were killed in an explosion at a coal
:01:50. > :01:51.pit. With rescue teams working frantically against time, hopes of
:01:52. > :02:00.finding alive another 200 trapped underground are fading. The mine is
:02:01. > :02:06.privately owned and situated in Soma in Manisa province, 280 miles west
:02:07. > :02:09.of the capital Ankara. The Soma district is one of the key centres
:02:10. > :02:10.for lignite coal mining in Turkey. Our world affairs correspondent Mike
:02:11. > :02:20.Wooldridge reports. A rescued workwer emerges alive from
:02:21. > :02:24.the mine to the cheers and applause of onlookers. But it was as hopes
:02:25. > :02:26.were fading further for the scores still trapped in the mine the after
:02:27. > :02:32.the explosion and fire. Emotions were running high, as they
:02:33. > :02:37.did throughout the night, emergency operations continued and
:02:38. > :02:43.ambulances carried away a rising number of bodies.
:02:44. > :02:53.Officials said many of the dead fell victim to carbon monoxide poisoning.
:02:54. > :02:55.The accident had victim to carbon monoxide poisoning.
:02:56. > :02:57.miners were preparing for a victim to carbon monoxide poisoning.
:02:58. > :02:59.change, meaning there was a particularly large number in
:03:00. > :03:02.change, meaning there was a mind, 787, according to the
:03:03. > :03:05.authorities. The Turkish government has declared three days of national
:03:06. > :03:09.mourning. TRANSLATION: May God wish mercy upon
:03:10. > :03:11.our brothers who lost their lives, and I hope our brothers will get
:03:12. > :03:19.well soon. The energy minister visited the
:03:20. > :03:22.scene as rescue workers continued to pump oxygen into the mine in the
:03:23. > :03:31.hope of keeping trapped miners alive. The mine owners said the
:03:32. > :03:33.accident happened despite what they call the highest safety measures.
:03:34. > :03:36.The minister also said the government would not turn a blind
:03:37. > :03:38.eye if negligence was revealed. These CCTV pictures showing rescuers
:03:39. > :03:43.moving underground, the air thick with smoke and soot.
:03:44. > :03:45.moving underground, the air thick passed and the gravity of the
:03:46. > :03:49.tragedy becomes ever clearer, the distress of relatives only deepens.
:03:50. > :03:52.Paramilitary police guarding the entrance to the mine to enable the
:03:53. > :04:02.rescue efforts to continue unhindered. And teams of
:04:03. > :04:05.psychiatrists have been organised to counsel the families of the victims.
:04:06. > :04:07.Workers, rescuers and relatives, we are all a family here, one of the
:04:08. > :04:19.miners said. Let's speak to our correspondent
:04:20. > :04:23.James Reynolds who's in Soma. As we have been hearing, it is a race
:04:24. > :04:29.against time, a frantic effort to get to those still underground. It
:04:30. > :04:32.is, and that explosion happened is now 24 hours ago, which will make
:04:33. > :04:38.relatives extremely concerned. They will worry about how on earth their
:04:39. > :04:46.fathers, brothers and sons will have managed, if at all, to survive. The
:04:47. > :04:49.Prime Minister has just been here, and he says 232 people were killed,
:04:50. > :04:58.but that still leaves more than 100 missing. 20 Minutes Drive away is
:04:59. > :05:02.the main hospital in Soma. Relatives have effectively taken over the
:05:03. > :05:05.grounds, sitting waiting for news. One elderly woman started sobbing,
:05:06. > :05:11.saying her son was just two months from retirement. Turkey has a pretty
:05:12. > :05:18.poor record when it comes to mining. What caused this? 95 people were
:05:19. > :05:22.killed in 2013 in a mining accident in this country, so yes it has a
:05:23. > :05:27.poor safety record. The initial supposition is that a power unit
:05:28. > :05:33.inside the mine exploded. That may have cut off the electricity and
:05:34. > :05:35.started a fire. It meant the miners were trapped underneath the ground
:05:36. > :05:40.with a fire with no way of getting out, and many of them died from
:05:41. > :05:43.carbon monoxide poisoning. The company says that this mine was very
:05:44. > :05:47.safe, but one former leader of the miners union has dead that what
:05:48. > :05:52.happened here was workplace murder of the highest order. James Reynolds
:05:53. > :05:55.in Soma, thank you very much. There'll be more on that story
:05:56. > :05:58.throughout the afternoon on the BBC News Channel Unemployment has fallen
:05:59. > :06:01.to its lowest level for five years. The number of people out of work
:06:02. > :06:07.dropped by 133,000 in the first three months of the year to 2.2
:06:08. > :06:12.million. Latest figures show the total in work has reached a record
:06:13. > :06:15.high. The Bank of England says it expects unemployment to fall more
:06:16. > :06:21.quickly than previously thought. Our chief economics correspondent Hugh
:06:22. > :06:25.Pym reports. The clouds are lifting, the outlook
:06:26. > :06:29.is bright. That was the message today from the Bank of England with
:06:30. > :06:33.its latest set of forecasts on how the economic climate is likely to
:06:34. > :06:40.look. Output is now close to regaining its weak prices level.
:06:41. > :06:44.700,000 more people are work. Inflation is below or close to the
:06:45. > :06:49.2% target. Short, the economy has started to head back to normal. So
:06:50. > :06:54.what does that mean for interest rates, expected by the markets to
:06:55. > :06:59.start rising in one year's time? When the bank rate does begin to
:07:00. > :07:02.rise, increases are expected to be gradual and limited, meaning that
:07:03. > :07:10.the bank rate may stay at historically low levels for some
:07:11. > :07:15.time. We also learned today that the unemployment rate has fallen from
:07:16. > :07:20.7.2% of the workforce to 6.8% in the first quarter of this year, the
:07:21. > :07:23.lowest for more than five years. The employment market is certainly
:07:24. > :07:28.improving, with more opportunities opening up for those who want to
:07:29. > :07:31.take them. Jobs are being created, but in some cases, getting people to
:07:32. > :07:35.a position where they can take them remains a challenge. That's why
:07:36. > :07:39.colleges like this one see it as their mission to help people prepare
:07:40. > :07:46.for the world of work, whatever their age educational background.
:07:47. > :07:50.Here at Reading College, a group of people out of work are being trained
:07:51. > :07:53.before they start a week's work experience at a leading supermarket.
:07:54. > :08:01.If they do well, a permanent jobs on offer. Fort Lucrecia, 21, it is a
:08:02. > :08:05.much-needed boost after not much luck with her job-seeking. I don't
:08:06. > :08:09.feel too good about putting myself out there and looking for jobs,
:08:10. > :08:15.because nine times out of ten, I don't get anywhere, because jobs are
:08:16. > :08:20.hard to find. But I do think this will help us a lot. And for Tony,
:08:21. > :08:26.the chance to get back into work has given him new-found confidence. It
:08:27. > :08:31.gives you a steam. There is nothing worse than sitting in the house with
:08:32. > :08:39.no money, staring out of the window. Offer after offer is rejected,
:08:40. > :08:43.application after application. Today's figures also showed that the
:08:44. > :08:47.number of workers in the UK from other parts of the European Union
:08:48. > :08:52.rose in the first three months of this year compared to the final
:08:53. > :08:56.quarter of 2013, but the number from Romain yet and Bulgaria fell
:08:57. > :08:58.slightly, even though employment restrictions were lifted on January
:08:59. > :09:00.one. Well, let's speak to our
:09:01. > :09:07.correspondent at Westminster Norman Smith. That was something the prime
:09:08. > :09:10.ministers seized on in the House of Commons.
:09:11. > :09:15.Yes, he did, but it seems in truth they are something of a double-edged
:09:16. > :09:18.sword for the prime minister. While it is absolutely the case it enables
:09:19. > :09:23.him to rebuff the claims of those like Nigel Farage and some on the
:09:24. > :09:27.right in his own party you said lifting of border controls would
:09:28. > :09:30.suddenly lead to vast numbers of remaining and barbarians coming to
:09:31. > :09:33.Britain, because actually, when you look at the figures, you see that
:09:34. > :09:37.far from the number going up, they have actually gone down by 4000 over
:09:38. > :09:42.the first three months of this year. However, you turn over the page, and
:09:43. > :09:46.you find today's figures also confirmed that overall, the number
:09:47. > :09:52.of people coming from Eastern Europe to work in Britain is steadily and
:09:53. > :09:57.remorselessly and rapidly rising. It is gone up by something like 17%
:09:58. > :10:04.over the past year, 74,000 over the past three months, and now stands at
:10:05. > :10:08.more than 800,000. That absolutely plays to Nigel Farage's narrative
:10:09. > :10:14.about the Government losing control of our borders. But more than that,
:10:15. > :10:17.it matters, because it makes it increasingly difficult Mr Cameron to
:10:18. > :10:22.meet his objective of getting net migration down to the tens of
:10:23. > :10:25.thousands by the next election. Indeed, Vince Cable this morning
:10:26. > :10:29.said that pledge was now looking increasingly unlikely. Norman Smith,
:10:30. > :10:32.thank you very much. Stephen Sutton, the teenage cancer
:10:33. > :10:36.sufferer who raised more than ?3 million for charity, has died.
:10:37. > :10:38.Stephen had aimed to raise ?10,000, but his high-profile campaign caught
:10:39. > :10:43.the public imagination and went viral on the internet. Today his
:10:44. > :10:46.mother said "My heart is bursting with pride but breaking with pain
:10:47. > :10:49.for my courageous, selfless, inspirational son." Andy Moore
:10:50. > :11:02.reports. The old saying goes, when life gives
:11:03. > :11:07.you lemons, make lemonade. What do you do when life gives you cancer?
:11:08. > :11:15.This is not a sob story. This is my story. And it was a story that moved
:11:16. > :11:17.and motivated nation. A teenager diagnosed with bowel cancer at 15
:11:18. > :11:22.who decided to use the last few years of his life to raise money for
:11:23. > :11:28.other young cancer victims. But Stephen said he wanted to put the
:11:29. > :11:31.fun in fundraising, and so he did. He served in a rubber dinghy on a
:11:32. > :11:41.cloud. He went skydiving. He played a drum in front of a vast cloud at
:11:42. > :11:44.Wembley, and he got a tad too. While he was busy completing his bucket
:11:45. > :11:52.list of things to do before he died, he was raising money. He said, I
:11:53. > :11:58.might have cancer, but cancer doesn't have me. His initial
:11:59. > :12:00.fundraising target was ?10,000, but his campaign attracted celebrity
:12:01. > :12:06.endorsement, and the money kept rolling in. In April, he thought it
:12:07. > :12:10.was his final days, and he posted what he thought was his final
:12:11. > :12:18.picture. I don't do what I do for recognition. I love nice comments,
:12:19. > :12:21.but I find the best way to help myself is to fundraiser. I'm proud
:12:22. > :12:25.of the feeling I get for raising the money. That money has been used by
:12:26. > :12:30.the teenage Cancer trust to provide expert help and support that teenage
:12:31. > :12:34.units across the country. It is the legacy that Stephen would have been
:12:35. > :12:39.most proud of. I don't really want to die, but if my story teaches
:12:40. > :12:44.others not take life for granted, then so be it. In the meantime, I
:12:45. > :12:55.will try to enjoy every second. Cancer sucks, but life is grey. --
:12:56. > :12:57.great. Well, let's speak to our
:12:58. > :13:05.correspondent Sian Lloyd who's outside the hospital where Stephen
:13:06. > :13:08.died. Stephen Sutton's mother broke the news to his followers on social
:13:09. > :13:13.media sites just before midday that her son had passed away peacefully
:13:14. > :13:17.here at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham in the early hours of
:13:18. > :13:21.this morning. The 19-year-old had used social media so successfully to
:13:22. > :13:26.reach out to millions of people right across the world who helped
:13:27. > :13:30.him follow his dream of raising money for the teenage Cancer trust.
:13:31. > :13:36.That target initially was ?10,000. It became ?1 million, and now the
:13:37. > :13:38.more ?3 million has been raised in a campaign that has been backed by
:13:39. > :13:43.celebrities and by the Prime Minister. And on hearing the sad
:13:44. > :13:49.news of Stephen Sutton's death, David Cameron said he was deeply
:13:50. > :13:54.saddened, and that Stephen's spirit and fundraising were an inspiration.
:13:55. > :13:59.In her tribute, Stephen's mother said, my heart is bursting with
:14:00. > :14:03.pride but breaking with pain. She has thanked everybody for all the
:14:04. > :14:07.support that they have given. She said it has been an immense help to
:14:08. > :14:11.the family at this difficult time in the same way that it helped Stephen
:14:12. > :14:13.on his journey. Sian Lloyd, thank you very much.
:14:14. > :14:16.The murder trial of South African athlete Oscar Pistorius could face a
:14:17. > :14:19.lengthy delay after the judge ordered he should undergo a mental
:14:20. > :14:21.health evaluation. She ruled that psychiatric evidence before the
:14:22. > :14:24.court could not replace "a proper enquiry" into his state of mind.
:14:25. > :14:27.Pistorius denies murdering his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp. Our
:14:28. > :14:40.correspondent Andrew Harding is in Pretoria.
:14:41. > :14:47.Earlier this week, Oscar Pistorius told me the idea he needed further
:14:48. > :14:54.psychiatric evaluation was a joke. Today, the judge found nothing funny
:14:55. > :14:55.in the request by the prosecution. The decision took many
:14:56. > :15:03.in the request by the prosecution. by surprise. A big twist in a long
:15:04. > :15:06.trial. The psychiatrist of Oscar Pistorius has told the court he
:15:07. > :15:10.suffers from a general anxiety disorder which could have influenced
:15:11. > :15:17.his behaviour on the night he killed his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp. The
:15:18. > :15:23.prosecution has hit back, the clip -- accusing the athlete of changing
:15:24. > :15:27.his story and for an assessment of his mental health. No one was
:15:28. > :15:34.suggesting the athlete was mentally ill, it is claimed. Today she told
:15:35. > :15:40.him he must undergo 30 days of evaluation. I am satisfied a case
:15:41. > :15:48.has been made out for the application as sort by the state.
:15:49. > :15:52.The defence team of Oscar Pistorius did not expect this to happen. It
:15:53. > :15:59.means another long delay in an already extended trial. As a family,
:16:00. > :16:08.we are comforted by the narrowness and detail of this judgment. And,
:16:09. > :16:16.the commitment by the judge, using every avenue, to ensure a fair
:16:17. > :16:24.trial. It is about a fair trial. It reaffirms our confidence in the
:16:25. > :16:34.South Africa -- South African justice system. I two with that, a
:16:35. > :16:39.pause in this trial. -- with that, a pause in the trial. The judge said
:16:40. > :16:43.she did not want him to be punished twice. Rather than sending him for
:16:44. > :16:50.30 days to an institution, she recommended that he be treated as an
:16:51. > :16:55.outpatient. Thank you very much. Our top story: Turkey has declared three
:16:56. > :17:00.days of national mourning after more than 230 miners were killed in an
:17:01. > :17:09.explosion. Still to come, we will be live inside and Astra Zeneca
:17:10. > :17:15.laboratory as the battle over the takeover of the UK drugs firm
:17:16. > :17:16.continues. Could a house in a cube BD solution to the capital 's
:17:17. > :17:28.housing crisis? -- be the solution. The Foreign Office minister, Mark
:17:29. > :17:30.Simmonds, is holding talks in Nigeria today about how Britain can
:17:31. > :17:34.support efforts to find the abducted school girls. The Nigerian
:17:35. > :17:37.government has said it will negotiate with Boko Haram, the
:17:38. > :17:41.Islamic militant group responsible for taking the girls from a boarding
:17:42. > :17:45.school last month. Our correspondent, Mark Doyle, has been
:17:46. > :17:52.to a school in Abuja to see how the situation is affecting other
:17:53. > :17:56.Nigerian schoolchildren. A secondary school in the Nigerian capital,
:17:57. > :18:03.Abuja. It is relatively safe here. The children's thoughts are with the
:18:04. > :18:11.kidnapped girls. I feel really terrible because they are girls like
:18:12. > :18:16.me. No-one knows how they are. I always pray for them so God will
:18:17. > :18:20.protect them. Nigeria is a very big country and schools like this are
:18:21. > :18:23.part of the reality. The mass kidnapping in the north-east has
:18:24. > :18:30.served to highlight the vicious war that is taking place between Boko
:18:31. > :18:35.Haram and the Nigerian government. Boko Haram have attacked targets
:18:36. > :18:38.here in Abuja as well. So the head of the school says she follows the
:18:39. > :18:40.Government's security advice with maintaining a firm perimeter of
:18:41. > :18:46.walls and fencing around her charges. The schools are fenced,
:18:47. > :18:51.unlike before, schools are not fenced. Now, almost all the schools
:18:52. > :19:02.are fenced and have security added with gates to check in and out every
:19:03. > :19:05.movement of the student and parent. The boarding school that was
:19:06. > :19:10.attacked in north-eastern Nigeria with girls taken away would have
:19:11. > :19:15.needed more than good fencing. It is in the middle of a war zone. Boko
:19:16. > :19:18.Haram means Western education is a sin and the leader of the Nigerian
:19:19. > :19:29.union of teachers said over 170 of its members have been killed by the
:19:30. > :19:34.Islamist group. The way and manner it happened. These people just came
:19:35. > :19:37.from nowhere and began to shoot. Teachers are their target because
:19:38. > :19:40.they are the educators, they are the ones that preach the gospel of
:19:41. > :19:48.education and these people do not want that. What they want is Arabic
:19:49. > :19:55.education, nothing more, nothing less. You want to give this
:19:56. > :20:01.education to the young ones. You are their target and enemy number one.
:20:02. > :20:02.It has come to this. Parts of Nigeria are not safe for school
:20:03. > :20:14.children or their teachers. At the trial of Rolf Harris, a
:20:15. > :20:17.former school friend of one of his alleged victims has told the court
:20:18. > :20:23.that she confided in her that he had sexually abused her over many years,
:20:24. > :20:25.since she was 13 or 14. Harris, who's 84, denies 12 charges of
:20:26. > :20:30.indecent assault between 1968 and 1986. Our correspondent, Sarah
:20:31. > :20:43.Campbell, is at Southwark Crown Court. Today, the jurors heard more
:20:44. > :20:51.about the prosecution 's alleged main victim of home the seven counts
:20:52. > :20:56.of indecent assaults occur. Earlier this morning, they heard from a
:20:57. > :20:59.friend from school. Arriving at Southwark Crown Court, it
:21:00. > :21:03.friend from school. Arriving at third day of evidence and the first
:21:04. > :21:08.time the veteran entertainer 's wife has not been with him. His daughter
:21:09. > :21:17.was holding his hand. This week, the jury has heard from the childhood
:21:18. > :21:21.friend of Bindi. Today, he listened in court through a hearing loop, as
:21:22. > :21:26.a school friend of the woman recalled a conversation when they
:21:27. > :21:29.were both about 16 years old. She said the alleged victim had
:21:30. > :21:33.described Harris as a dirty old man and that he used to get her to sit
:21:34. > :21:39.on his lap and then touch her up. When asked why he -- she had
:21:40. > :21:46.remembered the talk, she said it was a shocking conversation. This was
:21:47. > :21:51.around the late 1970s when Harris was one of the best-known names in
:21:52. > :21:58.show business, a regular on prime-time television. He denies 12
:21:59. > :22:00.charges of indecent assault. After the school friend, the court heard
:22:01. > :22:06.from both the parents of the school friend, the court heard
:22:07. > :22:11.victim. The court has been told she had a problem with alcohol and in
:22:12. > :22:16.1997 they both confronted her about it. She said she had been abused or
:22:17. > :22:19.her life. Initially she would not say who buy. Her mother pushed her
:22:20. > :22:23.her life. Initially she would not on this and she said it was role.
:22:24. > :22:24.Her father told the court he was absolutely devastated and he could
:22:25. > :22:32.not believe it. David Cameron absolutely devastated and he could
:22:33. > :22:40.told MPs that the Government absolutely devastated and he could
:22:41. > :22:46.its British rival, AstraZeneca. The boss of the American pharmaceutical
:22:47. > :22:50.giant told MPs there was no truth in the allegation a merger with delay
:22:51. > :22:55.the development of cancer drugs. It said the company would ring fence
:22:56. > :23:00.the growth of important products. Our science correspondent, Pallab
:23:01. > :23:06.Ghosh, reports. This is AstraZeneca' vision of the future.
:23:07. > :23:10.Nestled inside a science city alongside leading scientific
:23:11. > :23:16.institutes, it plans to build a ?330 million lab in 2016. It will be a
:23:17. > :23:22.continuation of the pioneering research it is already carrying out
:23:23. > :23:27.in Cambridge. I was shown how the researchers here are developing a
:23:28. > :23:32.new generation of better medicines, which harness a body 's immune
:23:33. > :23:35.system to combat heart disease, diabetes and cancer. Pfizer has
:23:36. > :23:39.promised to continue with the investment plan for these
:23:40. > :23:44.laboratories. It says it will protect the science here.
:23:45. > :23:46.AstraZeneca warns any takeover would disrupt research and slow down the
:23:47. > :23:55.development of much-needed medicines. This morning, Pfizer 's
:23:56. > :23:59.executives came to face the science select committee, to answer charges
:24:00. > :24:04.that the development of cancer drugs in particular would be delayed by
:24:05. > :24:07.the takeover. There is absolutely no truth to any comment that some
:24:08. > :24:12.products of a truth to any comment that some
:24:13. > :24:19.be delayed. If anything, we will accelerate that. Yet the concern of
:24:20. > :24:23.AstraZeneca is that Pfizer has its own drug deferment programme in the
:24:24. > :24:28.US and it could be the research in Cambridge that closes.
:24:29. > :24:32.US and it could be the research in development. We have a very
:24:33. > :24:36.substantial group in the UK and Pfizer has substantial groups in
:24:37. > :24:41.California. How do you bring the groups together? Do you have a
:24:42. > :24:49.consolidation? Which projects survive and which start? Pfizer says
:24:50. > :24:53.the UK company, without its muscle, will not be able to realise the full
:24:54. > :24:56.potential of its promising research. Next week, some voters in England
:24:57. > :25:02.and Northern Ireland will be voting in local elections. Well, our local
:25:03. > :25:05.government correspondent Mike Sergeant has been to the West
:25:06. > :25:08.Midlands to find out what people's priorities are when they head to the
:25:09. > :25:10.ballot box. The annual ritual of local elections. Weeks of pounding
:25:11. > :25:13.streets, posting leaflets and pleading for votes. While national
:25:14. > :25:17.politicians slug it out, those on the ground focus relentlessly on
:25:18. > :25:24.local problems. So, how much of the campaign is getting through?
:25:25. > :25:29.Mothers at this baby yoga club have some firm views and yet seem pretty
:25:30. > :25:37.flexible about who they'll vote for, if they vote at all. What's more
:25:38. > :25:41.interesting to you - local issues or national politics? National politics
:25:42. > :25:47.is probably of more interest to me, if I am honest, rather than local.
:25:48. > :25:51.There is a lot that goes on nationally that I think affects us.
:25:52. > :25:55.We have got some local elections going on at the moment. Are you
:25:56. > :25:58.interested in that at all? Yes, absolutely. Especially now I have
:25:59. > :26:04.Poppy, it is much more important to me nowadays. There are issues you
:26:05. > :26:07.care about now that you did not care about before you had children? I
:26:08. > :26:10.would say so. Walsall is on a political knife edge. Like the
:26:11. > :26:13.national government, it is a Tory-Lib Dem coalition with Labour
:26:14. > :26:18.hoping to take control and UKIP an increasing presence. For the
:26:19. > :26:21.parties, the local elections may be a sparring session ahead of the
:26:22. > :26:24.bigger fight next year. The owner of this boxing club says solving local
:26:25. > :26:32.problems is more important than the national political contest. I do not
:26:33. > :26:37.care about Westminster or Europe, it is local issues. Such as? Policing,
:26:38. > :26:41.schooling, hospitals. Funding for places like this which keep kids off
:26:42. > :26:44.the streets. Political parties believe this is the time to show
:26:45. > :26:45.ambition. For ultimate success at Westminster, they need to stand
:26:46. > :26:55.their ground in local government. There are eight parties fielding
:26:56. > :27:04.candidates in the local elections in Walsall. These are their details
:27:05. > :27:06.which you can see now. After the fiasco surrounding early ticketing
:27:07. > :27:12.for the London Olympics, they said it wouldn't happen again. Well, it
:27:13. > :27:14.has. The website and phone line for the 2014 Commonwealth Games in
:27:15. > :27:18.Glasgow has remained closed this morning after technical problems
:27:19. > :27:21.took the site down yesterday. Organisers are yet to say when they
:27:22. > :27:30.think tickets will be available again. Our Scotland correspondent,
:27:31. > :27:36.Lorna Gordon, is in Glasgow. How big a problem is this? I think it has
:27:37. > :27:41.been a pretty big problem quite a big embarrassment as well. The
:27:42. > :27:46.organisers of this summer 's Glasgow Commonwealth Games have been keen to
:27:47. > :27:50.the embarrassing image which happened at the London Olympic Games
:27:51. > :27:55.where there was row upon row of empty seats which were handed back.
:27:56. > :28:00.They decided to release this final batch to the public. They called it
:28:01. > :28:05.a final sprint to the final tickets. It turned into a bit of a marathon
:28:06. > :28:09.many of those trying to log on to the ticketing website. Some people
:28:10. > :28:14.reported trying for upwards of 24 hours to buy tickets for these
:28:15. > :28:19.different sporting event as well as the opening and closing ceremonies.
:28:20. > :28:23.What some of them found was that as they were logging on to get to the
:28:24. > :28:27.top of the queue to pay for the tickets, they were booted off the
:28:28. > :28:31.system and had to try again. There have been a lot of cutting comments
:28:32. > :28:35.on social media websites. One person is calling it hit the asker, another
:28:36. > :28:38.a farce. And had to try again. There have been a lot of cutting comments
:28:39. > :28:41.on social media websites. One person is calling it hit the asker, another
:28:42. > :28:45.a farce. Another saying it was an absolute joke. -- calling it a
:28:46. > :28:48.fiasco. The organisers have issued a very strong apology, saying the
:28:49. > :28:53.situation has been completely unacceptable and they have taken the
:28:54. > :28:58.decision to take down the website. When will it be backed up and
:28:59. > :29:01.running? They say they will not have the website up and running until
:29:02. > :29:07.they know all the problems have been resolved. There seems to have been
:29:08. > :29:11.an intermittent fault. It will probably not be today, possibly not
:29:12. > :29:14.tomorrow. We could have to wait until after the weekend before we
:29:15. > :29:20.see the final tickets being released. They managed to sell just
:29:21. > :29:24.over 60,000 of the 100,000 tickets. There are tens of thousands of
:29:25. > :29:31.tickets waiting to be bought. Time for a look at the weather.
:29:32. > :29:37.You can see how cloudy it was in Glasgow. For many, there has been a
:29:38. > :29:41.big improvement in the weather today. All the cold and showery air
:29:42. > :29:45.we have seen is getting squeezed away. We are wafting in from the
:29:46. > :29:48.Atlantic some much warmer air across the whole of the country.
:29:49. > :29:54.Temperatures will be rising. By Friday, they could be up to 23, 20
:29:55. > :29:59.four degrees. The warmer air is coming courtesy of this area of high
:30:00. > :30:07.pressure. It is bringing much drier conditions. The spoiler in the North
:30:08. > :30:13.West which have already brought a cloudy day across Northern Ireland.
:30:14. > :30:17.We will see cloudy skies spilling their way into the West. Sunny skies
:30:18. > :30:22.will continue further south and east. A bit of light rain or drizzle
:30:23. > :30:26.from the cloud. Still dry and bright for eastern Scotland. No more than a
:30:27. > :30:31.spot or two of rain for Northern Ireland but we will keep the cloud.
:30:32. > :30:37.The cloud is moving over the Irish Sea into England and Wales. Sunny
:30:38. > :30:41.skies and brighter conditions. In East Anglia and the south-east of
:30:42. > :30:45.England, it will be warmer. A fine looking afternoon also for the
:30:46. > :30:50.south-west of England. Under clearer skies overnight in the South, it
:30:51. > :30:55.will turn chilly in rural areas. The tendency is to push the cloud
:30:56. > :30:59.further south. Quite a bit of low cloud around the Irish Sea coasts
:31:00. > :31:06.and onto the hills. My love for most but a bit chilly in the South. --
:31:07. > :31:12.milder foremost. For many parts of England and Wales, it will be
:31:13. > :31:17.cloudier than today. Temperatures will be rising. Any rain restricted
:31:18. > :31:20.to the north of Scotland. With brighter skies developing in
:31:21. > :31:25.Scotland and Northern Ireland, Tim Burgess will be higher. 19 degrees
:31:26. > :31:29.in Belfast. -- temperatures will be higher. By the end of the week I
:31:30. > :31:36.pressure will sit right over the UK. Some early mist and fog possible.
:31:37. > :31:40.Later on we will see the weather front bringing rain into the far
:31:41. > :31:46.north and west. Ahead of that, temperatures will continue to climb.
:31:47. > :31:49.We will find temperatures of 23, 24 in the Midlands. The rain in the
:31:50. > :31:54.north-west will be a spoiler again in the weekend. In the north of the
:31:55. > :32:00.UK, there will be increasing amounts of cloud and some patchy rain. On
:32:01. > :32:01.Saturday, a lot of dry weather and some sunshine. It will be very