:00:00. > :00:00.Royal controversy as Prince Charles appears to liken the behaviour
:00:00. > :00:11.of Russia's Vladimir Putin to some Nazi actions during the war.
:00:12. > :00:14.He reportedly made his comment to a former Polish war refugee who met
:00:15. > :00:16.the Prince during his tour of Canada.
:00:17. > :00:19.We'll be getting the latest from our royal correspondent.
:00:20. > :00:22.Not a penny more - the Home Secretary tells the
:00:23. > :00:26.Police Federation they won't receive any public money
:00:27. > :00:31.The Ministry of Defence sends a plane to join in the search
:00:32. > :00:35.for four British sailors missing in the Atlantic since Friday.
:00:36. > :00:38.A seven-day package - the Royal Mail is to trial a Sunday delivery
:00:39. > :00:44.service for parcels in response to the rise in online shopping.
:00:45. > :00:47.And wave in the hills - the revolutionary engineering
:00:48. > :00:52.project bringing the power of the ocean to the mountains.
:00:53. > :00:56.Criticism after a luxury hotel in Vauxhall gets approval at the
:00:57. > :01:00.And tributes to the London youth worker who died
:01:01. > :01:25.Good afternoon, and welcome to the BBC News at One.
:01:26. > :01:28.The Prince of Wales has criticised the Russian
:01:29. > :01:30.president, Vladimir Putin, appearing to draw a comparison between Russia
:01:31. > :01:35.today and its actions in Ukraine and Germany under the Nazis.
:01:36. > :01:37.He mentioned Mr Putin after hearing about
:01:38. > :01:40.the experience of a woman who fled Germany in 1939 and lost members
:01:41. > :01:45.They met earlier this week at a museum
:01:46. > :01:50.Clarence House said it would not comment on a private conversation.
:01:51. > :01:59.Our royal correspondent Nicholas Witchell reports.
:02:00. > :02:07.His visit to Canada has been hectic with numerous engagements. It was in
:02:08. > :02:09.Halifax where Prince Charles had a brief and supposedly private
:02:10. > :02:10.Halifax where Prince Charles had a conversation with a woman who had
:02:11. > :02:20.fled from Canada conversation with a woman who had
:02:21. > :02:26.The Prince apparently compared events then to Vladimir Putin's
:02:27. > :02:34.actions in the UK. The events then to Vladimir Putin's
:02:35. > :02:39.wish to be quoted. But the Daily Mail, whose reporter witnessed the
:02:40. > :02:44.exchange, claims the Prince said in relation to the Ukraine, now Putin
:02:45. > :02:52.is doing just about the same as Hitler. That has no backtracked not
:02:53. > :03:03.been a reaction from Vladimir Putin's spokesman. But it is likely
:03:04. > :03:07.to be seen as deeply offensive. You cannot be much more insulting than
:03:08. > :03:11.comparing the Russians to Hitler, because Hitler of course killed 26
:03:12. > :03:16.million Russians. I suspect privately he will be angered by it.
:03:17. > :03:23.Here, politicians are divided about whether the Prince is entitled to
:03:24. > :03:26.express such views. I would've thought Prince Charles is free to
:03:27. > :03:31.express himself. I don't know exactly what he did or did not say,
:03:32. > :03:34.because he thought it was a private conversation. The leader of the
:03:35. > :03:39.opposition said the prince had point. I think he has got a point
:03:40. > :03:44.about President Putin's actions and he is entitled to say there are
:03:45. > :03:47.concerns about that. But Nigel Farage
:03:48. > :03:52.concerns about that. But Nigel quiet. Sometimes there are issues it
:03:53. > :03:57.would be better for the elected officials to deal
:03:58. > :04:03.would be better for the elected Prince has made his views known on
:04:04. > :04:11.foreign affairs. Charles boycotted an official dinner when the Chinese
:04:12. > :04:18.president visited the country. Given that he is taking on a greater share
:04:19. > :04:32.of his mother's workload now, such interventions pose obvious risks.
:04:33. > :04:35.Just how controversial is this? This is very sensitive ground. There is
:04:36. > :04:40.no comment more wounding to a Russian leader than to compare them
:04:41. > :04:45.to the Nazis, explicitly or implicitly, to express a comparison
:04:46. > :04:51.with Adolf Hitler. We are just a couple of weeks short of the D-day
:04:52. > :04:56.commemoration when both Mr Putin and Prince Charles will be in Normandy
:04:57. > :04:59.although they are not due to meet. One view would suggest Prince
:05:00. > :05:04.Charles is merely articulating what many people are thinking or saying
:05:05. > :05:08.in private, but was it wise, was that appropriate for the future king
:05:09. > :05:15.of the United Kingdom to be expressing those views, albeit in
:05:16. > :05:17.what works backtracked was coming he thought, a private conversation to a
:05:18. > :05:23.complete stranger? Thank you. The Police Federation has been
:05:24. > :05:26.told that its public funding is After criticism of the organisation
:05:27. > :05:30.over its financial management, the Home Secretary Theresa May told
:05:31. > :05:32.the Federation's annual conference that is was not acceptable
:05:33. > :05:35.for it to receive public funds. The ?190,000 the Federation receives
:05:36. > :05:54.a year will stop in August. Make no mistake. If you do not make
:05:55. > :05:57.significant progress towards the implementation of reforms, if the
:05:58. > :06:00.federation does not begin to turn itself around, you must not be under
:06:01. > :06:09.the impression that the government will let things remain as they are.
:06:10. > :06:16.Our correspondent is at that conference. Just how significant is
:06:17. > :06:22.this? Well, it is, because although to reason may have said, I will make
:06:23. > :06:26.reforms from without the Police Federation unless you reform
:06:27. > :06:33.yourselves, effectively she has applied them already. She's given
:06:34. > :06:36.them an ultimatum, also saying she. The salary is the public pays for
:06:37. > :06:44.the chairman, the general secretary and the Treasurer. It has already
:06:45. > :06:47.been reduced, and did. Altogether. Another significant change, every
:06:48. > :06:50.single officer in England and Wales will not automatically become a
:06:51. > :06:56.member of the Police Federation, they will have two opt in. That will
:06:57. > :06:59.apply also to deductions from their salaries which are used to pay for
:07:00. > :07:04.the running of the Police Federation. She also says she wanted
:07:05. > :07:08.to be more accountable, she is talking about finances here. So she
:07:09. > :07:12.has said from now on the Home Office will have access to the Police
:07:13. > :07:16.Federation central accounts. We learned last week they are sitting
:07:17. > :07:22.on assets of ?70 million. She is also changing the law to allow the
:07:23. > :07:26.Home Office to access the so-called number two accounts, described as
:07:27. > :07:30.some by hidden or murky accounts kept by local Police Federation 's.
:07:31. > :07:37.They will be brought under the scrutiny of the Home Office. So she
:07:38. > :07:40.has by a significant shot. These are major significant changes the
:07:41. > :07:48.government is making even before the Police Federation has started.
:07:49. > :07:50.Six police officers have been served with gross misconduct notices,
:07:51. > :07:52.following an investigation into the handling of allegations
:07:53. > :07:55.against the lead singer of the rock band the Lostprophets.
:07:56. > :07:58.Ian Watkins was jailed last year for serious child sex offences.
:07:59. > :08:00.The Independent Police Complaints Commission says it's continuing to
:08:01. > :08:03.gather and analyse information to establish if Mr Watkins could have
:08:04. > :08:05.been brought to justice sooner and whether his celebrity status had
:08:06. > :08:11.The RAF has sent a plane to join in the search for four British
:08:12. > :08:16.The military aircraft took off this morning and is expected to reach
:08:17. > :08:20.The 40ft Cheeki Rafiki was sailing back to the UK from a regatta
:08:21. > :08:22.in Antigua when it got into difficulties.
:08:23. > :08:25.The US Coast Guard has resumed the search following an official
:08:26. > :08:27.request from the British government and pressure from relatives.
:08:28. > :08:41.Our correspondent Duncan Kennedy has more.
:08:42. > :08:50.At James Male's home, this dining room has become the operation room.
:08:51. > :08:57.Family, friends and neighbours have gathered with laptops to amass the
:08:58. > :09:00.social media and other information regarding the missing men. It is
:09:01. > :09:09.relentless, but it is keeping them busy. You do what you can for your
:09:10. > :09:13.family. Mum Lorraine has become chief tea maker. An open ended
:09:14. > :09:20.succession of cups in the never ending search for her son. It is
:09:21. > :09:29.horrible. We will hear soon, we know that much. Dad Graham has become the
:09:30. > :09:33.voice of the family. The object is to bring the boys back. Now we know
:09:34. > :09:37.that it's happening, it has taken the stress off in some respects, but
:09:38. > :09:47.now it is back on. Research has to work and is going to find them.
:09:48. > :09:51.James, who is years old, and his friends Andrew, Steve and Paul have
:09:52. > :09:58.now been missing for six days. It was last Thursday that they reported
:09:59. > :10:03.missing water. A day later, contact was lost. This is since become the
:10:04. > :10:10.huge search area, today boosted by an RAF Hercules which left this
:10:11. > :10:16.morning. Families are watching every development closely. Whether it is
:10:17. > :10:22.people or pizza, this is now a huge operation running on optimism. It is
:10:23. > :10:32.a feeling shared by all the other families, like the sister of Steve
:10:33. > :10:39.Warren. I couldn't tell you what day of the week it is even. And just
:10:40. > :10:43.going from more -- from one minute to the next, waiting for the phone
:10:44. > :10:49.to ring. It could be the call we all want to hear. Online or offshore,
:10:50. > :10:51.the search for the men of the Cheeki Rafiki is now transplanted in scale,
:10:52. > :11:00.ambition and hope. A woman who claims she was assaulted
:11:01. > :11:02.by the entertainer Rolf Harris as a teenager has denied making up
:11:03. > :11:05.the story. The former BBC presenter is accused
:11:06. > :11:07.of three counts of indecent assault against Tonya Lee,
:11:08. > :11:10.who is now 43 and from Australia. He denies 12 counts of indecently
:11:11. > :11:11.assaulting teenage girls. Our correspondent Sangita
:11:12. > :11:25.Myska sent this report. Hello there. Welcome to the summer.
:11:26. > :11:30.In 1986, Rolf Harris was a mainstay of children's television. In the
:11:31. > :11:34.year he made this programme, his for allegedly to claims that when she
:11:35. > :11:39.was 15 she was indecently assaulted by the entertainer in London. Now
:11:40. > :11:45.43, she has waived her right to anonymity after selling her story to
:11:46. > :11:53.be Australian media for 60,000 Australian dollars, around ?33,000.
:11:54. > :11:58.Rolf Harris's defence lawyer today entered a heated exchange with Mr
:11:59. > :12:02.Lee about the legal action she is taking about the publicist who
:12:03. > :12:07.brokered media deals for her. She said, you say you were not motivated
:12:08. > :12:14.by money. No, I wasn't, said Tonya Lee. But you instructed a Solicitor
:12:15. > :12:20.to get the money you are owed. She said, it is the principle. What I've
:12:21. > :12:31.learned now is the man will do anything to earn money. You were
:12:32. > :12:34.quite content for the publicity and to pose for photos, Rolf Harris's
:12:35. > :12:39.lawyer said. quite content for the publicity and
:12:40. > :12:44.to pose for photos, Rolf Tonya Lee replied, it was blood money. I'm not
:12:45. > :12:48.perfect, I don't think anyone is. Under cross-examination, she
:12:49. > :12:51.admitted she'd got the day of the allegedly offence wrong by at least
:12:52. > :12:55.one month. The defence went on to put it to where that there had never
:12:56. > :13:00.been any physical contact of any kind between herself and Mr Harris.
:13:01. > :13:02.Rolf Harris is accused of a total of 12 counts of indecent assault. He
:13:03. > :13:06.denies the charges. The Court
:13:07. > :13:08.of Appeal has overturned a decision to halt a major fraud trial which
:13:09. > :13:11.was stopped when defendants claimed legal aid cuts meant they couldn't
:13:12. > :13:14.find barristers to represent them. Appeal court judges said the case
:13:15. > :13:17.should have been postponed instead. Barristers had refused to work
:13:18. > :13:20.on the trial because of a 30% cut Delivering the judgement,
:13:21. > :13:24.Sir Brian Leveson said the Court of Appeal shouldn't become involved
:13:25. > :13:31.in political rows. At least 17 people have been killed
:13:32. > :13:34.in an attack on a town The town is close to where more than
:13:35. > :13:38.200 schoolgirls were abducted by Islamist militants
:13:39. > :13:40.from the group Boko Haram. Yesterday two bomb attacks
:13:41. > :13:42.in the city of Jos killed The authorities suspect Boko Haram
:13:43. > :13:48.of planting those bombs. The President, Goodluck Jonathan,
:13:49. > :13:50.has condemned the bombings Our correspondent Will Ross sent
:13:51. > :14:00.this report from the capital Abuja. Scenes of panic in Jos
:14:01. > :14:05.when the two bombs were detonated. Terrified, they run for
:14:06. > :14:12.their lives in search of safety. These were two extremely powerful
:14:13. > :14:19.blasts, the aim clearly to kill An indiscriminate attack which
:14:20. > :14:24.killed Christians and Muslims. Among the chaos,
:14:25. > :14:27.the emergency services tried to help Many had open wounds,
:14:28. > :14:34.fractures and burns. Although it is not known who carried
:14:35. > :14:37.out the attack, the extremist group Boko Haram has targeted
:14:38. > :14:40.the city before, bombing churches in what was then seen as an effort
:14:41. > :14:50.to ferment religious violence. They are often described
:14:51. > :14:56.as religious clashes, but are in fact rooted in competition to
:14:57. > :15:02.land resources and political power. These blasts follow other
:15:03. > :15:06.recent attacks in other cities. The Islamist extremists are still
:15:07. > :15:08.holding more than 200 schoolgirls Just hours after the bombings
:15:09. > :15:19.in the city, another attack took place, this time
:15:20. > :15:23.in a village in the north-east. There, militarist fighters went in,
:15:24. > :15:27.looted, killed at least 17 people, and then set
:15:28. > :15:30.fire to the entire village. They were there for several
:15:31. > :15:33.hours throughout the night. They left
:15:34. > :15:39.in vehicles that they stole. There is no sign that
:15:40. > :15:41.the authorities have the capacity to turn the tide against this
:15:42. > :15:44.brutal campaign of violence. That is what terrifies
:15:45. > :15:52.many Nigerians. Retail sales growth
:15:53. > :15:55.in the UK hit a 10 year high in April helped by food sales
:15:56. > :15:59.during the late Easter holiday. The office said the annual rise
:16:00. > :16:02.in food sales was the biggest since January 2002 and were helped
:16:03. > :16:05.by a combination of better weather Let's get more from our economics
:16:06. > :16:31.correspondent Simon Jack. this year than last year. Even if
:16:32. > :16:38.you strip out that effect, we bought more in the three-month period to
:16:39. > :16:43.April. The increase in that the man was the highest over a decade.
:16:44. > :16:47.Adding back to the lending figures, we saw a 36% increase in mortgage
:16:48. > :16:52.lending. Think about where we were in April of last year. We were down
:16:53. > :16:56.in the doll drums and talking about a triple-dip recession. We are
:16:57. > :17:03.comparing to some gloomy times but it appears confident is returning.
:17:04. > :17:06.The Bank of England voted to keep interest rates on hold last time but
:17:07. > :17:11.more of them are saying the decision whether to raise or hold is getting
:17:12. > :17:15.more difficult. They are saying if we want the gradual rate of
:17:16. > :17:19.increased rate rises we may have to start sooner which means we do not
:17:20. > :17:23.know when interest rates will go up after five years of record lows but
:17:24. > :17:24.that point in time the team to be coming towards us rather than away
:17:25. > :17:28.from us. Comments from Prince Charles
:17:29. > :17:31.on a Royal tour cause controversy. It appears he likened the behaviour
:17:32. > :17:34.of Russia's Vladimir Putin to some Mum-to-be Jessica Ennis-Hill is
:17:35. > :17:39.determined to defend her Olympic Would you give up your Friday
:17:40. > :17:52.nights to volunteer for the Met ? We speak to one special inspector
:17:53. > :17:55.who's been given an award. And treading the boards
:17:56. > :17:57.in the fresh air. The Regents Park Open Air theatre
:17:58. > :18:00.prepares for the summer season. Royal Mail is to begin delivering
:18:01. > :18:02.parcels seven days a week in an attempt to serve the growing
:18:03. > :18:10.demand for online shopping. Royal Mail is to begin delivering
:18:11. > :18:13.parcels seven days a week in an attempt to serve the growing
:18:14. > :18:18.demand for online shopping. The company, which was partly
:18:19. > :18:19.privatised last October, also plans to open some of its
:18:20. > :18:24.busiest delivery offices on Sundays Our business correspondent,
:18:25. > :18:41.Emma Simpson, has more. We may be sending fewer letters but
:18:42. > :18:45.the number of parcels is soaring. Royal Mail needs to grow this
:18:46. > :18:49.increasingly important bit of its business. It will trial Sunday
:18:50. > :18:54.parcel deliveries in and around London, as well as open 100 of its
:18:55. > :18:59.busiest delivery offices for customers who need to collect. We
:19:00. > :19:05.are responding to customers asking for more efficient services. We are
:19:06. > :19:13.being told to have collections and deliveries on Sundays. Royal Mail is
:19:14. > :19:20.having to respond to the change in our sales patterns. I am a
:19:21. > :19:25.fisherman. We need it delivered on a Sunday. If Royal Mail is doing that,
:19:26. > :19:32.it is a bonus. I think it will be really helpful. I am still trying to
:19:33. > :19:40.contact Royal Mail goes I missed something last week. It would make
:19:41. > :19:42.it so much easier. This is one of the biggest battle grounds for
:19:43. > :19:47.retailers and parcel companies. Royal Mail is the biggest but it is
:19:48. > :19:50.playing catch up. For some time now, why was happy making it easier for
:19:51. > :19:58.customers to drop off and collect packages on a Sunday from
:19:59. > :20:02.newsagents. Here is one competitor motoring ahead. UK mail said today
:20:03. > :20:10.that annual profits were up nearly 30%. We are investing in the ability
:20:11. > :20:14.of a one-hour window for delivery and even the text when you are next
:20:15. > :20:19.will be launched later in the summer. Royal Mail made the
:20:20. > :20:23.delivering good news for consumers today but with parcel such a key
:20:24. > :20:27.area for the business, it knows it also has two impress investors when
:20:28. > :20:31.it posts its annual results tomorrow.
:20:32. > :20:34.Letters are being sent to thousands of single parents in England,
:20:35. > :20:37.Scotland and Wales, warning them to agree amicable child maintenance
:20:38. > :20:39.arrangements, or risk being charged more. The Child Support Agency is
:20:40. > :20:42.being replaced by the Child Maintenance Service. The Government
:20:43. > :20:45.says the changes are necessary as the old set-up was costly for
:20:46. > :20:47.taxpayers. But one charity said the changes could force some parents
:20:48. > :20:50.into unstable arrangements. More details from our social affairs
:20:51. > :21:03.More than 50,000 letters are being sent out this week. A crucial stage
:21:04. > :21:07.in changing child maintenance arrangements. Parents are being
:21:08. > :21:12.encouraged to come to an amicable agreement to avoid needing
:21:13. > :21:15.government help. We think the old system is inefficient and
:21:16. > :21:19.ineffective. It cost 400 million has a year and took money from one
:21:20. > :21:22.person and gave it to another. In many cases, families could have
:21:23. > :21:28.sorted it out for themselves to the benefit of them and their children.
:21:29. > :21:32.Spike Robinson would agree. He says the Child Support Agency has delayed
:21:33. > :21:37.his payments beaching his ex-wife and twin girls. He was doubted
:21:38. > :21:40.whether she was seriously out of pocket. It is not in the interests
:21:41. > :21:44.whether she was seriously out of pocket. It is not in of the children
:21:45. > :21:50.or the parent to ignore the CSA. I would be very glad if and when we're
:21:51. > :21:56.out of the agency. I have owned the to say, can I get out? For those
:21:57. > :22:01.families who cannot agree over money, the new system will charge
:22:02. > :22:06.them. The parent with the child, usually the month, will pay ?20 to
:22:07. > :22:10.make an application. The dad will then be charged a 20% fee on top of
:22:11. > :22:16.the maintenance payment while the man will have to pay 4% to get the
:22:17. > :22:20.money. Single-parent charities are not impressed. The concern is that
:22:21. > :22:23.by charging parents who really need the service, single parents who are
:22:24. > :22:27.struggling in raising children on their own, at a time when money is
:22:28. > :22:34.very tight, electricity bills have gone up, council tax charges, rents,
:22:35. > :22:38.having to find ?20 up front to use the service may put some parents.
:22:39. > :22:42.More than 1 million people be moved onto the new job maintenance system
:22:43. > :22:45.over the next three years as the Government gets rid of the much
:22:46. > :22:52.criticised and often hated Child Support Agency.
:22:53. > :22:55.The jury at the inquests of the 96 Liverpool fans who died
:22:56. > :22:57.at the Hillsborough Disaster have been seeing footage of the moments
:22:58. > :23:01.The video, some of which has never been broadcast before,
:23:02. > :23:10.Our correspondent, Judith Moritz, is in Warrington.
:23:11. > :23:19.The Hillsborough disaster was filmed on the day by BBC cameras, by police
:23:20. > :23:23.evidence gathering cameras and by police and football clubs CCTV
:23:24. > :23:28.cameras. Inquest had been told around 2000 items of video now exist
:23:29. > :23:31.and 7000 stills, which have been collected together to provide a
:23:32. > :23:38.chronology of events that day. This morning, the jury was shown a small
:23:39. > :23:41.selection of that material to piece together the way things unfolded.
:23:42. > :23:46.Sitting just yards away from them by some of the families of those who
:23:47. > :23:54.died, who were told beforehand that the footage may be distressing to
:23:55. > :23:56.them, capturing as it has the last moments of some of their relatives.
:23:57. > :24:00.They were told they could leave the court if they wanted but none of
:24:01. > :24:07.them did. We can show you some of the footage. We saw the pens, pen
:24:08. > :24:11.three and pen four, 11 minutes before kick-off, where the crowd was
:24:12. > :24:16.swaying. The court has been told it has been impossible to identify a
:24:17. > :24:23.large none of those who died through combing the video footage. We also
:24:24. > :24:30.saw CCTV of gate the opening. That opened at 2:52pm that afternoon. The
:24:31. > :24:35.jury was told around 2000 fans went through it and into the stadium. The
:24:36. > :24:38.court has now broken for lunch. The jury will continue looking at some
:24:39. > :24:42.of the film material this afternoon. On Friday, the court will
:24:43. > :24:46.be taken from Warrington over to Sheffield so that the jury can see
:24:47. > :24:52.the Hillsborough stadium for themselves.
:24:53. > :24:54.Olympic champion Jessica Ennis-Hill says she's enjoying her pregnancy
:24:55. > :24:56.but remains determined to defend her heptathlon title
:24:57. > :24:59.And with sexism allegations in sport dominating
:25:00. > :25:02.the headlines recently, she said she hasn't experienced sexism in her
:25:03. > :25:07.She told our sports correspondent Joe Wilson she hopes there will be
:25:08. > :25:11.a sporting opportunity for her child, regardless of gender.
:25:12. > :25:14.This is Jessica Ennis Hill's primary concern at the moment.
:25:15. > :25:17.She is enjoying the latter stages of pregnancy, reminding herself she
:25:18. > :25:24.is not competing in the Commonwealth Games this summer.
:25:25. > :25:27.Defending her Olympic heptathlon title in Rio
:25:28. > :25:33.in two years' time remains a goal but it is not the only one.
:25:34. > :25:37.I want to make sure I spend as much time with my baby once they're here
:25:38. > :25:41.Then I will build back into training.
:25:42. > :25:47.I have a fantastic team, a great coach.
:25:48. > :25:52.Jessica Ennis Hill is in London today to hopefully launch
:25:53. > :25:54.a series of half marathon races across England.
:25:55. > :25:58.For the organisers she is the perfect choice, in their words,
:25:59. > :26:05.The big talking point in British sport for days has been sexism.
:26:06. > :26:09.The content and tone by Richard Scudamore, the head of the Premier
:26:10. > :26:13.League, has questioned football 's commitment to gender equality.
:26:14. > :26:22.Jessica Ennis Hill believes athletics does not discriminate.
:26:23. > :26:25.I think sport is great thing to get involved in.
:26:26. > :26:29.There are unfortunately areas of sexism you run into.
:26:30. > :26:31.I have been very fortunate and had some great experiences
:26:32. > :26:50.I would definitely encourage my child to be a sporty as they can.
:26:51. > :27:01.Revolutionary engineering is bringing the power of the ocean
:27:02. > :27:06.The go-ahead has been given to build the UK's first inland surf lake
:27:07. > :27:10.The giant wave lagoon will be three times the size of a football pitch.
:27:11. > :27:13.Our correspondent, Claire Marshall, has been to the Spanish city of
:27:14. > :27:15.San Sebastian where a much smaller prototype
:27:16. > :27:18.Riding the energy of the ccean takes exceptional skill.
:27:19. > :27:27.So could it be here on an industrial wasteland in the Welsh mountains?
:27:28. > :27:32.We have now got permission to break up the concrete.
:27:33. > :27:35.That's the plan now being put into action.
:27:36. > :27:37.Work has just started on an inland surf lake.
:27:38. > :27:43.It will be the first in Britain and the first of its type in the world.
:27:44. > :27:46.The waves will go in this direction, towards the mountain.
:27:47. > :27:57.The machinery then turns around, goes back in the
:27:58. > :28:06.You book your hour online, you turn up, you know you get in.
:28:07. > :28:07.They are using revolutionary technology.
:28:08. > :28:10.Just outside Bilbao, professional surfers are having a go.
:28:11. > :28:12.The engineering is unique and secret.
:28:13. > :28:15.Here it is, the perfect, mechanical wave.
:28:16. > :28:18.Over a metre high and you get one every minute of these.
:28:19. > :28:21.The signs on display here could be changing the nature of surfing.
:28:22. > :28:23.An underwater foil operates like a snow plough,
:28:24. > :28:31.With the lagoon shape, we are able to create perfect waves.
:28:32. > :28:49.This could even make surfing an Olympic sport.
:28:50. > :28:52.You are watching the coach of the British surf team.
:28:53. > :28:54.Especially coming from the UK where we get inconsistent
:28:55. > :29:02.To be able to come and surf a wave every minute, it will be of huge
:29:03. > :29:05.benefit, not just to UK surfers but anybody who wants to improve their
:29:06. > :29:09.Purists may say the natural soul of surfing is lost by riding
:29:10. > :29:19.a fake wave but it is fun and isn't that what it is all about?
:29:20. > :29:37.A very decent picture behind me. I can almost hear the clamour from the
:29:38. > :29:41.North of Scotland where it is a different kettle of fish. We have to
:29:42. > :29:46.talk about the cloud coming from France. That would be a major player
:29:47. > :29:51.in the next 24 hours. In between, a decent slab of sunny weather.
:29:52. > :29:59.Temperatures about 20 degrees or so on the bank of the Humber. In
:30:00. > :30:12.Stornoway, 17.5. A lot of cloud and rain. For Northern Ireland, the
:30:13. > :30:16.Queen 's Batten Relay is here at the moment. Then we're into the great
:30:17. > :30:21.swathe of decent, fine weather. One or two heavy showers ahead of the
:30:22. > :30:26.rain band may just get into some of the southern counties. Temperatures
:30:27. > :30:30.19, 20. All change for the here comes the cloud and rain. Just in
:30:31. > :30:34.time for the rush hour through Kent and coming up into London. Some
:30:35. > :30:39.vivid colours with heavy downpours. No escape. These are not showers,
:30:40. > :30:44.they are persistent rain. Some of them are heavy. There are Met Office
:30:45. > :30:47.weather warnings on the website. At eight a.m., just when you are
:30:48. > :30:52.thinking about Thursday, called to the north of it. Something dry in
:30:53. > :30:56.East Anglia and the south-east. While the rain is around, a couple
:30:57. > :31:00.of things to bear in mind, quite persistent in the eastern side of
:31:01. > :31:05.Scotland. In the West, I'm not sure. It could get to Glasgow or farther
:31:06. > :31:12.west. The southern portion turns more showery. The of survey -- a
:31:13. > :31:17.mixture of sunny spells. There is a warning in the southern half of
:31:18. > :31:20.Britain about the intensity. Sunny spells and showers with rain tending
:31:21. > :31:26.to fizzle away in the northern part of Scotland. Some of them are heavy
:31:27. > :31:32.in the own right. In the weekend, Saturday will have heavy showers.
:31:33. > :31:35.Less so on Sunday. There will be some sunshine. Generally speaking,
:31:36. > :31:36.it will be getting